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Dec. Averages: Temps: 43°\20° Moisture:4 Days moisture 0.7” Flagstaff Today 59°: 33° Week 50 Day 344 Wind: 1 mph Gusts 5 mph Nearest lightning: 1147 miles away Active Fire: 75 miles away Risk of
Fire: High Air Quality: Fair Sunshine |
Weekly Observations
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Clerc-Gallaudet Week 4-24 Andisop (Meterological
Fiddling Link 7-13 National Hand Washing Awareness
Week Link |
8-14 Computer Science Education Week Link ) 10-17 Human Rights Week |
Daily Observations
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Dewey
Decimal System Day |
Jane
Addams Day
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Today’s Quotes
Today’s Memes
My Thoughts for the day
A warm fall day here. Nice!
Technology is moving fast, I’m not happy with some of it. I live in a small town and used to be able to call any of my doctor’s offices with no problem. Now every doctor’s office has a complicated system and one can rarely get to a human voice. The latest: my fairly new PA was to call in a script for my itching. It is nothing serious, no rash, just various itches on my torso and legs. The OTC itch cream isn’t working very well. She said she could give me a strong one. I called the pharmacy this morning about it since I hadn’t gotten a text. I called the office and after numerous prompts I ended up leaving a message at 9:05a. I got a call back just after noon. The lady said the PA had just sent in my script. I also was told by the PA that I didn’t need a phlebotomy, but last night at 5:30p I got a call for an appointment on Wednesday. When I was talking to the clerk, she said ‘I guess she didn’t delete that appointment. I think I’ll ask for another PA on my next visit, as this is two strikes and I don’t like it. There is another PA that I’ve seen for several years, and she never messed up. I’m just tired of being a guinea pig for the new PA.
Wild West Myths that never happened…
Everyone
Rode Horses Everywhere
It’s easy
to imagine every Westerner galloping across the plains, but horses were not the
universal mode of transport. Many people walked, especially poorer settlers who
couldn’t afford a horse, as pointed out by C Lazy U Ranch.
Wagons,
pulled by oxen or mules, were the main vehicles for long journeys. Horses were
valuable and often reserved for specific tasks like cattle herding or mail
delivery. Owning one was a sign of wealth, not an everyday convenience.
In towns, people often traveled on foot, just as they did in Eastern cities. The romantic image of everyone mounted on horseback was largely a cinematic embellishment. In fact, horses were often too costly to maintain for daily use.
Cities that changed their names…
Madras →
Chennai (India)
On
India’s southeastern coast, the city once known as Madras had grown from a
colonial trading post into a cultural powerhouse. In 1996, Tamil Nadu’s
government reinstated its pre-colonial name, Chennai, reflecting the Tamil
language and heritage that predated British rule by centuries. The change
represented linguistic pride and cultural accuracy, and for locals, it felt
right.
Madras still lingers in old businesses, in the famous “Madras filter coffee,”
but Chennai now stands proudly in official maps and hearts alike. The sea
breeze feels the same; only the name tells a new story.
Random Thoughts…
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Maybe it’s best not to kill the spider because if I do, his
relatives and friends will show up to his burial, and I’ll wind up calling even
more spiders.
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Who came up with the terms and names for various items, and
how did it occur to someone to simply call a chair “chair”?
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What does our inner voice sound like?
· It’s important to have someone who accepts you for who you are and feeds your mind and soul rather than your ego.
Historic Events
1817 - Mississippi was
admitted to the Union as the 20th American state.
1830 - Emily Dickinson was born in
Amherst, MA.
Only seven of her works were published while she was alive.
1845 - British civil engineer Robert
Thompson patented the first pneumatic tires.
1851 - American librarian Melvil Dewey was
born. He created the "Dewey Decimal Classification" system.
1869 - Women were granted the right to vote
in the Wyoming Territory.
1901 - The first Nobel prizes were awarded.
1906 - U.S.
President Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to be awarded
the Nobel Peace Prize, for helping mediate an end to the Russo-Japanese War.
1939 - The National Football League's
attendance exeeded 1 million in a season for the first time.
1948 - The United Nations General Assembly
adopted its Universal Declaration on Human Rights.
1953 - Hugh Hefner published the first
"Playboy" magazine with an investment of $7,600.
1993 - The crew of the space shuttle Endeavor deployed
the repaired Hubble Space Telescope into Earth's orbit.
1996 - South Africa's President Mandela
signed into law a new democratic constitution, completing the country's
transition from white-minority rule to a non-racial democracy.
2007 - Cristina Fernandez was sworn in as
Argentina's first elected female president.
Birthdays
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Susan Dey (73 years
old), American actress (1st Love, Partridge Family, LA Law), born in Pekin,
Illinois ************************ Rod Blagojevich (69
years old), American politician (Governor of Illinois, 2003-09 - impeached
and removed), and convicted felon (corruption and solicitation of bribes),
born in Chicago, Illinois ************************ 1960 Northern
Irish actor and director (High
Season, Dead Again), born in Belfast, Northern Ireland ************************ Nia
Peeples (64 years old), American dancer and host (Fame; Party Machine), born
in Hollywood, California ************************ American
celebrity chef, restaurateur and TV personality (Iron
Chef America; Bobby Flay's Barbecue Addiction), born in New York City ************************ American actress (The Cosby
Show, 1989-92 -"Olivia"; That's So Raven, 2003-07), singer, and TV
personality (The View, 2012-16), born in Atlanta, Georgia
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Thomas Hopkins
Gallaudet, American pioneer of educating the deaf, born in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania (d. 1851@63) ************************ William Lloyd
Garrison(d.1879;@73 pnuemonia) American abolitionist, and
publisher ("The Liberator"), born in Newburyport, Massachusetts ************************ Ada Lovelace(d.1852; @36, cervical
cancer) English mathematician considered
the first computer
programmer, born in London ************************ American poet (Collected
Poems), born in Amherst, Massachusetts ************************ Melvil Dewey, American
librarian and educator (created Dewey Decimal System for libraries), born in
Adams Center, New York (d. 1931; @80) ************************ German-Swedish poet and playwright (O
the Chimneys - Nobel Prize for Literature 1966), born in Berlin, Germany ************************ Chet
Huntley, American newscaster (NBC Huntley-Brinkley Report), born in Cardwell,
Montana (d. 1974; @62, cancer) ************************ Dorothy
Lamour [Mary Kaumeyer], American actress and singer (Road to Bali; My
Favorite Brunette), born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1996; @81) ************************ 1923 Harold
Gould, American character actor (The Sting, The Golden Girls, Rhoda, Big
Bus), born in Schenectady, New York (d. 2010; @86) ************************ 1927 Agnes
Nixon, American television producer, director and writer (One Life to Live,
All My Children), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2016; @93) ************************ Dan
Blocker, American actor Cimarron City - "Tiny"; Bonanza -
"Hoss"), born in DeKalb, Bowie County, Texas (d. 1972; @43,
embolism) ************************ Chad
Stuart [David Stuart Chadwick], English pop-rock vocalist and guitarist (Chad
& Jeremy - "Yesterday's Gone", "A Summer Song"), born
in Windermere, Cumberland, England (d. 2020; @79, pneumonia) ************************ Tommy
Kirk, American actor (Old Yeller), born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 2021; @79)
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