Monday OT: Oct 5 - World Teachers' Day

October 5 is day 279 of the Gregorian Calendar year,
Pungenday, Bureaucracy 59, 3186 YOLD (Discordian)
And let us not forget 13.0.7.16.5 mlc (the Mayan Long Count)

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Raphael - School of Athens

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“When we were little," the Mock Turtle went on at last, more calmly, though still sobbing a little now and then, "we went to school in the sea. The master was an old Turtle - we used to call him Tortoise -"
"Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't one?" Alice asked.
"We called him Tortoise because he taught us," said the Mock Turtle angrily: "really you are very dull!”

Lewis Carroll

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On this day in history:

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1143 – King Alfonso VII of León and Castile recognised Portugal as a Kingdom. (but see 1910)
1607 – The Pope's assassins tried to kill Venetian statesman and scientist Paolo Sarpi.
1665 – The University of Kiel was founded.
1789 – The Women's March on Versailles effectively terminated royal authority.
1857 – The city of Anaheim was founded even though neither Disney nor Gene Autry was born yet.
1877 – The Nez Perce War  ended. The wrong side won.
1910 – The Portuguese monarchy was overthrown and a republic was declared.
1911 – The Kowloon–Canton Railway began service.
1944 – The Provisional Government of the French Republic enfranchised women.
1947 – President Truman made the first televised Oval Office address.
1966 – A reactor at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station  had a partial meltdown.
1970 – The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) was founded.
1986 – Mordechai Vanunu revealed Israel's secret nuclear weapons.
1988 – A Chilean opposition coalition defeated Pinochet in his re-election attempt.
2000 – Mass demonstrations in Serbia forced the resignation of Slobodan Miloševic.

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Born this day in:

Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.

Denis Diderot

1713 – Denis Diderot, philosopher and critic
1715 – Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, Physiocratic economist and educator
1728 – Chevalier d'Éon, diplomat, soldier, and spy , Go Read About ...
1781 – Bernard Bolzano,  mathematician and philosopher
1795 – Alexander Keith,  brewer and politician
1817 – Catherine Cooper Hopley, author and naturalist
1824 – Henry Chadwick, historian and author(
1858 – Helen Churchill Candee, journalist and author
1879 – Francis Peyton Rous, pathologist and virologist
1882 – Robert H. Goddard, physicist, engineer, and academic
1887 – René Cassin, judge and academic,
1892 – Remington Kellogg, zoologist and paleontologist
1899 – Elda Anderson, physicist and health researcher
1900 – Bing Xin, author and poet, known for her contributions to children's literature
1902 – Ray Kroc, invented  modern US culture
1903 – M. King Hubbert, geophysicist and academic
1907 – Mrs. Miller, novelty singer
1911 – Pierre Dansereau, ecologist and academic
1923 – Philip Berrigan, priest, activist, and hero
1923 – Stig Dagerman,  journalist and author
1928 – Louise Fitzhugh, author and illustrator
1932 – Michael John Rogers, ornithologist
1933 – Billy Lee Riley, rockabilly musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer
1936 – Václav Havel, poet, playwright, and politician,
1937 – Carlo Mastrangelo,  doo-wop singer
1938 – Johnny Duncan, country singer
1941 – Roy Book Binder, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1942 – Billy Scott, singer and songwriter
1942 – Richard Street, singer, songwriter
1943 – Steve Miller, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1945 – Brian Connolly, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1945 – Geoff Leigh, saxophonist and flute player
1947 – Brian Johnson, singer and songwriter
1948 – Carter Cornelius, singer
1948 – Russell Mael, vocalist
1948 – Tawl Ross, guitarist
1949 – B. W. Stevenson, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1949 – Yashiki Takajin, singer and television host
1950 – "Fast" Eddie Clarke, rock guitarist
1951 – Bob Geldof, singer, songwriter, and actor
1952 – Harold Faltermeyer, keyboard player, composer, and producer
1955 – Jean-Jacques Lafon, singer and songwriter
1957 – Lee Thompson, singer, songwriter, and saxophonist
1958 – Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist, cosmologist, and author
1959 – Maya Lin, architect and sculptor
1959 – Kelly Joe Phelps, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1961 – Pato Banton, singer and songwriter
1961 – David Bryson, singer, guitarist, and songwriter
1961 – Sharon Cheslow, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1964 – Dave Dederer, guitarist and singer
1966 – Sean M. Carroll, physicist, cosmologist, and academic
1970 – Audie Pitre, singer and bass player
1970 – Tord Gustavsen, pianist and composer
1978 – James Valentine, guitarist
1978 – Steinar Nickelsen, organist and composer
1980 – Paul Thomas, bass player

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Died this day in:

The remembrance of the past is the teacher of the future.

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1714 – Kaibara Ekken, botanist and philosopher (b. 1630)
1740 – Jean-Philippe Baratier, astronomer and scholar (b. 1721)
1777 – Johann Andreas Segner, mathematician, physicist, and physician (b. 1704)
1802 – Sanité Bélair, freedom fighter (b. 1781)[12]
1813 – Tecumseh, tribal leader (b. 1768)
1880 – Jacques Offenbach, cellist and composer (b. 1819)
1940 – Silvestre Revueltas, violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1889)
1942 – Dorothea Klumpke, astronomer (b. 1861)
1943 – Leon Roppolo, clarinet player and composer (b. 1902)
1985 – Karl Menger, mathematician from the Vienna Circle (b. 1902)
1986 – James H. Wilkinson, mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1919)
1992 – Eddie Kendricks, singer and songwriter
1996 – Seymour Cray, American engineer and businessman, founded CRAY Inc (b. 1925)
2009 – Mike Alexander, English singer-songwriter and bass player (b. 1977)
2010 – Steve Lee, singer and songwriter
2011 – Bert Jansch, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
2011 – Fred Shuttlesworth, activist, co-founded the SCLC
2013 – Ruth R. Benerito, chemist and academic
2015 – Grace Lee Boggs, philosopher, author, and activist

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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
World Space Week, so go space out 
International Day of No Prostitution (presumably excludes politicians, press, PR and Advertising persons, etc.)
World Teachers' Day
Apple Betty Day
Do Something Nice Day
National Story Telling Day (Isn't every day, with our media, govt., press, and "historians" all telling us tall tales?)
World Architecture Day

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Music goes here, iirc, well, With apologies Wink

Teachers' Day (heh)

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Billy Lee Riley

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Carlo Mastrangelo

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Roy Bookbinder

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Billy Scott

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Richard Street

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Steve Miller

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Carter Cornerlius

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Tawl Ross

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Bob Geldoff

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 Jacques Offenbach
 

 

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 Eddie Kendricks
 

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Lookout's picture

Many are coming down with COVID. Plus they have lessons on multiple platforms - tripling their work load. If I was still in the classroom I would have taken a years sabbatical leave. I hope and think we'll be over the pandemic this time next year.

Another nice fall day here, but another hurricane is brewing in the Caribbean headed our way. Currently they're predicting 3-4 inches of rain in our area. After a week and a half of dry weather it will be nice to get it. Having to water the garden, but it is really growing well this fall.

Hope everyone has a nice day!

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

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@Lookout @Lookout
pandemic either way. Makes me leery of leaving our little bubble. I don't at all wish to become part of the 60%+ of the population that needs to become infected for the much vaunted herd immunity to kick in, don't trust pharma to come up with a vaccine and don't trust the populace to take it if they do. WE get, and can ramp up our D, but my feeble understanding is that the asymptomatic who have the activated T cells got them from 1) enough D to allow them to activate, and 2) Sufficient previous exposure to other covid virii and the needed intersection of 1 & 2 and undertainty as to the details leaves, for me, gaps in my confidence level. Plus, of course, that isn't a sure fire thing anyway, just one positive.

Hope you get the rain you want and need without excess, road damage, and all the other things that can go with it.

be well and have a good one

edited to fix typo, whereupon the software decided that my untouched title was too long,so I fixed that too. Wink

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@enhydra lutris

Take care and be well!

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

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@enhydra lutris
who thinks that caution is very much in order here. My wife and I will be isolating harder than ever as the flu season ramps up. We now have both had our flu shots, and we both had Covid antibody tests that came back negative. So it would appear that we are still in the firing line for whatever the next wave will be.

It is going to be an unpleasant winter...

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Twice bitten, permanently shy.

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@usefewersyllables
a disease to risk unlike some one or two week illnesses, even when not lethat this can be very debilitating for a very long time. They are even describing certain types of cases as "long covid".

be well and have a good one

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@Lookout are staying off the job today because of Covid. They say it is not safe to have in person classes.

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@Granma
the populace supports them and they don't get fired for doing so. If nothing else, the children will learn something from it that isn't part of the regular curriculum.

be well and have a good one.

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Seems like the hits keep coming. Wonder what the press pool thought about protecting their own health after hearing this?

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There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier

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"That Presidential SUV is not only bulletproof, but hermetically sealed against chemical attack. The risk of COVID19 transmission inside is as high as it gets outside of medical procedures. The irresponsibility is astounding. My thoughts are with the Secret Service forced to play," tweeted James Phillips, who is also the chief of disaster medicine at the George Washington University Department of Emergency Medicine.

"Every single person in the vehicle during that completely unnecessary Presidential 'drive-by' just now has to be quarantined for 14 days. They might get sick. They may die. For political theater. Commanded by Trump to put their lives at risk for theater. This is insanity," .

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@Anja Geitz
away, I suspect. I would think that his entire cabinet and entourage is, if not infected, at least suspect.

So, is it China's fault, or Putin's?

be well and have a good one.

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@enhydra lutris

Exactly.

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There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier

is getting hit hard by Covid. It just looks like we're not being careful enough.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/03/midw-o03.html

Thanks for the OT el. I plan to read more about Kaibara Ekken this evening. He was a botanist (among other things) from Japan and according to Wikipedia,

Ekken became as famous in Japan as Darwin in the West. He advanced the study of botany in Japan when he wrote Yamato honzo (Medicinal herbs of Japan) which was a seminal study of Japanese plants.

Today I'm looking for a spot to put my hyssop seedlings. I had good luck with the plant over the summer and hopefully it reseeded itself, but I have some new little ones to start elsewhere.
Hyssop makes a very nice tea, it's one of my favorites. It is also a great pollinator plant.

Take care and have a good one.

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@randtntx
being careful as it is of ideology. Those who wish to be careful no doubt try, but there are a lot of true believers up there who think that being careful is politically incorrect. Note this PP from the linked article:

Amid the rapid spread of the virus in the state and dire warnings from health officials, Republican leaders appeared in court this week to support a lawsuit from the right-wing Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty against Democratic Governor Tony Evers’ statewide mask mandate. The state’s Republican-dominated Supreme Court struck down statewide social distancing restrictions in May.

I seem to recall that there was a superspreader type of event up there not too long ago, maybe more than one.

Enjoy your reading on Ekken.

be well and have a good one.

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et al

just finished the local climate meeting

here are some interesting links

The Great Green Wall
https://www.greatgreenwall.org/results

Give Power
https://givepower.org/

PROJECT IN PROGRESS
LIKONI, KENYA
Construction of GivePower’s next BLU Drop Max is nearly complete in Likoni, Mombasa, Kenya. Like Haiti, this new installation will provide much needed relief and help for this water-starved community to combat COVID-19 as it spreads.

Plant Rich Diet
https://climatecrisispolicy.org/topics/3/#subtopic-24

The heat is back but rain predicted for this weekend. I will see how the bioswale works.
Still digging on the dispersion chamber.

onwards. take good care, all.

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@magiamma

you have there. Here's hoping that your bioswale does its job well, every little bit helps.

be well and have a good one

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