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• Undomesticated feral hogs have made such a name for themselves that October has been proclaimed Feral Hog Month, also called Hog Out Month. Feral hogs are much meaner than farmyard hogs and are well-adapted to living in the wild. These tusked pests destroy millions of dollars of property, livestock, and crops and are also carriers of cholera, tuberculosis, salmonella, and anthrax. There are more than 500,000 wild hogs in Florida, and a staggering 2.6 million in the state of Texas. Many states sponsor a cam-paign each October to eliminate as many as pos-sible.

• Since there are more than 1,200 species of bats, perhaps they deserve some recognition. Octo-ber is Bat Appreciation Month, honoring this group that comprises one-fifth of all mammals. Although to many, bats seem scary and creepy, they are vital to the ecosystem in controlling

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• It’s estimated that more than 20 million Ameri-cans are philatelists, that is, they collect stamps! Because it’s one of the world’s most popular hobbies, October is National Stamp Collecting Month. It’s unlikely there are many collectors who own any of the first two U.S. stamps ever printed, stamps featuring Benjamin Franklin and George Washington, in 1847. However, there were 120 million copies made of the most popu-lar stamp, a 1993 stamp of Elvis Presley. Famous folks who have enjoyed this hobby include Fran-klin Roosevelt, Warren Buffet, James Earl Jones, James Michener, and John Lennon.

• In 1983, President Ronald Reagan declared Oc-tober as National Roller Skating Month. Al-though the first known roller skates were in-vented in the 1760s with a single line of wheels, James Plimpton is considered the “father of modern roller skating” due to his 1863 invention of a four-wheel skate. In 1935, a Chicago restau-rant owner devised a scheme for a roller derby marathon. Fifty skaters teamed up in 25 male/fe-male teams and took their starting positions in front of 20,000 fans at the Chicago Coliseum. They were prepared for a 3,000-mile (4,828-km) jaunt around the track, the distance equivalent between San Diego and New York City. The marathon began on August 13 and wrapped up on September 22, with just nine teams finishing. Roller derbies became a craze, and before long, 50 major cities were hosting them before five million spectators. When World War II began, the majority of the skaters enlisted and the fad died down.

• It’s Spinach Lovers’ Month! This would be a good time to reap the health benefits of this iron- and nutrient-rich vegetable. This member of the goosefoot family (along with beets and Swiss chard) is a powerhouse of daily require-ments, aiding in red blood cell production, bone strength, prevention of anemia, and slow-ing down damage to neurons in the brain. And because there are only seven calories in a cup of raw spinach, it’s also a great contribution to weight loss programs. Most of America’s spinach is grown in California and Texas. Crystal City, Texas makes the claim as the spinach capital of the world. In 1936, the community (present-day population 7,200) established its first annual spinach festival, and erected a statue of famous spinach consumer Popeye the Sailor Man across from City Hall the following year. Back in the 1930s, the Crystal City Cannery was producing 10,000 cans of spinach every day

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United Nations was founded on October 16, 1945, and to commemorate the date, World Food Day is now celebrated every year on that day. It’s a worldwide event that aims to increase the public’s awareness of world hunger. National Food Bank Week is observed October 14-20 in correspondence with World Food Day, with all citizens urged to contribute to their local food banks.

• Nothing is more devastating than the death of an infant, and many organizations have been formed to educate parents and caregivers on how to reduce the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. October is National SIDS Aware-ness Month, a time to learn more about the leading cause of death in children between the ages of one month and one year. About 2,500 SIDS deaths occur per year in the United States. Research indicates that African-American babies are more than twice as likely to die of SIDS than Caucasian babies, while American Indian and Alaska Native babies are nearly three times as likely. Studies show that infants who sleep on their stomach have a much higher risk, as do those whose mothers smoked during pregnancy. An elevated body temperature contributes to the danger, as does sleeping on a soft mattress. Some scientists think that defects in an infant’s nervous system, where breathing and heart rate are regulated, contribute to the likelihood, as do less-developed brain stems, where respiratory functions are controlled. The good news is that since physicians began instructing parents to put babies to sleep on their backs around 1994, the number of SIDS deaths has declined by more than half.

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• About 15,000 visitors tour the Louvre every day! Its 652,000 square feet (60,600 square meters) are filled with more than 380,000 objects, including 35,000 works of art, sculptures, and archaeologi-cal finds. There are more than 7,500 paintings dating from the 13th century up to 1848.

• The Louvre began as a towered fortress and arsenal to protect Paris, Europe’s largest city, from Anglo-Norman threat around the year 1200. In the mid-1300s, King Charles V ordered the transformation of the fortress into a royal residence. Its interior was filled with tapestries, ornate paneling, and art, while elaborate gardens were created in the courtyard. Two kings called it home until 1422, when it was abandoned for over 100 years.

• The Louvre once again became home to royalty in the mid-1500s, when more wings were added as well as a corridor connecting the structure with the Tuileries, a newer palace that had been built nearby. Further construction was complet-ed by Louis XIII, and the Louvre was dramati-cally enlarged.

• When Louis XIV decided to build a permanent home at Versailles, all work was halted at the

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• When World War II broke out in 1939, the majority of the art was evacuated, hidden across France in various sites, and moved several times for security purposes. In early 1945, the master-pieces began their journey back to their perma-nent home.

• In 1986, the art collection was divided, with all pieces completed after 1848 moved to the Musee d’Orsay, a converted train station.

• It should be no surprise that the Louvre’s most popular attraction is the Mona Lisa. Painted by Leonardo da Vinci sometime between 1503 and 1506, the subject is thought to be Lisa Gherar-dini, the wife of a Florentine cloth merchant. It’s believed that da Vinci was invited by King Francois I to work near the king’s castle around 1516, and that da Vinci took the painting with him. The artwork was eventually returned to Italy when da Vinci bequeathed it to his assist-ant, who possibly sold it to the king around 1518. Before taking up permanent residence in the Louvre, the Mona Lisa hung in Francois I’s Palace of Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, and in Napoleon’s bedroom in the Tuileries Palace.

• The Louvre is also home to the armless Venus de Milo, a marble statue discovered in 1820 on a Greek island in the Aegean Sea. It was presented to Louis XVIII, who donated it to the museum.

• There is a small remnant of the original for-tress walls still standing in the basement of the current structure, dating back to the late 12th century.

• When the Da Vinci Code was produced in 2006, many of its scenes were filmed in the Louvre. The museum was paid $2.5 million for allowing the filming to take place in its galleries.

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Some short office jokes to en-tertain you......Laurel: How’s your job at the watch company?Hardy: Only time will tell.

Tom: How’s your job at the banana company?Jerry: I keep slipping up.

Santa: How’s your job on the new highway?Banta: I’m so busy I don’t know which way to turn.

Turner: How’s your job at the travel agency?Hooch: I’m going nowhere.

Beavis: How’s your job at the swivel chair com-pany?Butthead: It makes my head spin!Calvin: How’s your job at the lemon juice com-pany?

Hobbes: I’ve had bitter jobs.Garfield: How’s your job at the pie company?Odie: It didn’t pan out.

Laurel: How’s your job at the balloon factory?Hardy: We can’t keep up with inflation.

Tom: How’s your job at the crystal ball company?Jerry: I’m making a fortune.

Santa: How’s your job at the history book com-pany?Banta: There’s no future in it.

Turner: How’s your job at the clock company?Hooch: I’m having second thoughts about it.

Beavis: How’s your job on the farm?Butthead: Problems keep cropping up.

Calvin: How’s your job at the sewing shop?Hobbes: Hanging on by a thread.

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• It was 20th-century American author and actress Cornelia Otis Skinner who made the following sage observation: “One learns in life to keep silent and draw one’s own confusions.”

• If you grew up during a certain era in the United States, you are probably familiar with the board game Parcheesi. If you have a par-ticularly good memory, you may recall that the game’s subtitle is “The Royal Game of India.” You may not realize, though, that the game is so-called because royalty in India used to play a life-size version of the game in gardens spe-cially designed for the pursuit. Centuries ago, rajas would dress members of their harems in brightly colored costumes and use them as game pieces.

• Everyone knows that a sophomore is some-one in his or her second year of high school or college. Most people don’t realize, though, that the word is derived from the Greek words “sophos,” which means “wise,” and “moros,” which means “stupid.”

• It’s not unusual for music critics and the artists they critique to butt heads, but they usually do it in print, not in person. In 1978, though, the staff of Rolling Stone magazine and the band the Eagles went head-to-head in a softball match. The writers ended up losing to the rock stars.

• The creator of the ubiquitous smiley face earned a grand total of $45 for his creative ef-fort.

• Having trouble with your teenager? It’s a worldwide problem, it seems -- though not al-ways for the same reasons. In 2004, a 13-year-old boy in India ran away from home, declared that he was a Hindu holy man and founded a monastery. His parents arranged for him to be kidnapped and brought back home.

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Graveyards just aren’t what they used to be. Many no longer allow engraved upright monu-ments of varying shapes and sizes, probably be-cause they are way too much work to maintain. They want everything to be flat on the ground so they can quickly dash through the graveyard with their lawnmowers. They call this new style a “flat marker cemetery”. To be honest, I’m not that impressed at flat marker cemeteries and I’m glad to hear the old-style cemetery is back on the rise today.

There’s a very old cemetery just off I-25 at historic Idaho Springs, Colorado that has some of the most interesting gravestones you will ever see. My wife and I stopped there one afternoon and strolled around the ancient grave markers and read their fascinating and curious en-gravings.

I know it sounds weird, but we like graveyards. We never pass Julesburg, Colorado on I-76 without taking a few mo-ments to stop by the graveside of my paternal grandparents. You can actually see their gravestones from the Interstate if you know where to look.

You can learn a lot in a graveyard. Some years ago in the Silver Creek, Nebraska cemetery I found the gravestone of my maternal great grandfather, George Washington Merrill. Imag-ine my surprise when I read on his headstone that we were both born on October 3rd.

But, where you are buried and what kind of headstone you have, in the final analysis, is not what’s important. Here’s why: the stone on a grave may be the marker of a life, but it is not the


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mark of a meaningful life.One of my favorite authors, the late Steven

Covey, writes about leaving a legacy. In one of his books he suggests you imagine your funeral where four speakers are featured. One is from you family, one is a good friend, one is a mem-ber of your community and another is from your work. What would you like them to say about you?

Few of us would want them to talk about what a nice house we lived in or how many re-ally nifty toys we had in our garage. We wouldn’t want them to review our stock portfolio or even to discuss all the nice awards we had hanging on

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them to tell folks that we stood for something, or did something important, or made some kind of difference while we were here.

That’s the legacy that is far more important than the size of your headstone. It’s the legacy of significance and usefulness. It’s the legacy of

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Wouldn’t you love to do something that might strike a beautiful chord that will “vibrate in eternity”?

You can if you launch your legacy, but you must start today. What’s your “Kick in the pants” for this week? You guessed it, “Launch your legacy.”

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• On Oct. 18, 1767, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon complete their survey of the bound-ary between the colonies of Pennsylvania and Maryland, as well as areas that would become Delaware and West Virginia. The Mason-Dixon line created the boundary at a northern latitude of 39 degrees and 43 minutes.

• On Oct. 21, 1797, the USS Constitution, a 44-gun U.S. Navy frigate built to fight Barbary pirates off the coast of Tripoli, is launched in Boston Harbor. During the War of 1812, the Constitution won its enduring nickname “Old Ironsides” after witnesses claimed that the British shots merely bounced off the Constitu-tion’s sides.

• On Oct. 19, 1931, David Cornwell, later

known as spy novelist John le Carre, is born in Poole, England. He published his first spy novel, “Call for the Dead,” in 1961. The novel, like his second, “A Murder of Quality” (1962), featured spy George Smiley.

• On Oct. 15, 1946, Herman Goering, com-mander in chief of the Luftwaffe and head of the Gestapo, dies by his own hand. He was found guilty at Nuremberg and committed suicide by swallowing a cyanide tablet he had hidden from his guards.

• On Oct. 20, 1968, 21-year-old Oregonian Dick Fosbury wins gold medal and sets an Olympic record when he high-jumps 7 feet, 4 1/4 inches at the Mexico City Games. It was the interna-tional debut of Fosbury’s unique jumping style, known as the “Fosbury Flop,” which, according to one journalist, “looked like a guy falling off the back of a truck.”

• On Oct. 17, 1973, the Arab-dominated Or-ganization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) announces a decision to cut oil ex-

ports to the United States. In December, a full oil embargo was imposed, prompting a seri-ous energy crisis and gasoline rationing in the United States.

• On Oct. 16, 1987, 18-month-old Jessica Mc-Clure is rescued after being trapped for 58 hours in an abandoned water well in Midland, Texas. McClure had fallen through the 8-inch-wide opening of an abandoned well in the backyard of her aunt’s home day-care center. After dropping about 22 feet into the well, the little girl became stuck.

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