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(I don't show the COVID-19 new cases on Sundays and Mondays because they are always incorrectly low.)

Several people who came from the original Planet Earth and Humanity blog site wandered why I did not include some of the useful items that were provided in the right column in this new version of Planet Earth and Humanity. Actually, they're there, and sometimes they show up, but if you don't see it, CLICK on those three parallel lines in the right-hand corner at the top.

When you do, you will be better able to search this site, or, if necessary, translate it to your language. Also, and this is important, you should note that the time is that of Honolulu. If you are from any U.S. state, except Arizona and Hawaii, make sure if you're from the East Coast that your time should be only five hours ahead instead of six because daylight savings time ended last night. For the West Coast, the difference should be two hours, not three.

Then there is something about most popular postings, followed by visitors to this site. If you click on that map, you can see that 221 countries have registered. So you say, if the United Nations has only 193 members, why is the number so high? That's because locations like Antarctica are domain sites. I never corrected this, but the other graphs are not correct. I quit paying Google $30/year, and the number of visitors dropped by a factor of ten because they stopped counting most of them.

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Song # 59 will come from:

How are Things in Glocca Mora ?: Finian's Rainbow
Don't Cry for Me Argentina: Evita
Hi-Lili Hi-Lo: Lili

Finian's Rainbow was a Broadway production in 1947. The song was sung by Ella Logan of this fictional village in Ireland. The lyrics were by Yip Harburg, who also wrote Over the Rainbow, Brother Can You Spare a Dime (which became the anthem of the 1929 depression), April in Paris, It's Only a Paper Moon and Old Devil Moon, plus many others. The 1968 film (RT: 53/53) involved Fred Astaire and Petula Clark, who sang How are Things in Glocca Mora, with a rainbow at the end. There is a Glockamara in Ireland.

Don't Cry for Me Argentina was released by Julie Covington in 1976 as a concept for the musical Evita (RT: 63/68)in 1978. Written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, this is a story of Argentina's Eva Peron. Elaine Paige sang the original London cast recording in 1978, while Patti LuPone did the same for the 1979 Broadway version. In 1996 Madonna was in the title role.

The movie Lili was released in 1953 with Leslie Caron and Mel Ferrer. Rotten Tomatoes reviewers gave it a 100% rating, with 81% from the audience. The song Hi-Lili Hi-Lo was written by Bronislaw Kaper for the film, and the performance by Caron and Ferrer only reached #30 on Billboard. The production won six Academy Award nominations, with the music gaining an Oscar. Mostly for nostalgic reasons, Hi-Li Hi-Lo is my #59

Once super typhoon Goni, only yesterday at 195 MPH, made landfall over Luzon in the Philippines at Category 5 strength and caused considerable damage and deaths. Now only barely at hurricane strength, the future track again will be south of Danang, Vietnam, which will be the sixth landfall this month.

A NEXT COVID SUBVARIANT?

By now most know that the Omicron BA.5 subvariant has become the dominant infectious agent, now accounting for more than 80% of all COVID-19 cases. Very few are aware that a new one, BA.4.6, is sneaking in and steadily rising, now accounting for 13% of sequenced samples . However, as BA.4.6 has emerged from BA.4, while there is uncertainty, the scientific sense is that the latest bivalent booster targeting BA.4 and BA.5 should also be effective for this next threat. One concern is that Evusheld--the only monoclonal antibody authorized for COVID prevention in immunocompromised individuals--is not effective against BA.4.6. Here is a reference as to what this means. A series of two injections is involved. Evusheld was developed by British-Swedish company AstraZeneca, and is a t ixagevimab co-packaged with cilgavimab . More recently, Los Angeles County reported on subvariant BA.2.75.2 . which Tony Fauci termed suspicio...

Part 3: OUR NEXT AROUND THE WORLD ODYSSEY

Before I get into my third, and final, part of this cruise series, let me start with some more newsworthy topics. Thursday was my pandemic day for years. Thus, every so often I return to bring you up to date on the latest developments. All these subvariants derived from that Omicron variant, and each quickly became dominant, with slightly different symptoms. One of these will shock you. There has been a significant decline in the lost of taste and smell. From two-thirds of early patients to now only 10-20% show these symptoms. JN.1, now the dominant subvariant, results in mostly mild symptoms. However, once JN.1 infects some, there seem to be longer-lasting symptoms. Clearly, the latest booster helps prevent contracting Covid. A competing subvariant, BA.2.86, also known as Pirola , a month ago made a run, but JN.1 prevailed. No variant in particular, but research has shown that some of you will begin to lose hair for...

HONOLULU TO SEATTLE

The story of the day is Hurricane Milton, now a Category 4 at 145 MPH, with a track that has moved further south and the eye projected to make landfall just south of Sarasota. Good news for Tampa, which is 73 miles north. Milton will crash into Florida as a Category 4, and is huge, so a lot of problems can still be expected in Tampa Bay with storm surge. If the eye had crossed into the state just north of Tampa, the damage would have been catastrophic. Milton is a fast-moving storm, currently at 17 MPH, so as bad as the rainfall will be over Florida, again, a blessing. The eye will make landfall around 10PM EDT today, and will move into the Atlantic Ocean north of Palm Bay Thursday morning. My first trip to Seattle was in June of 1962 just after I graduated from Stanford University. Caught a bus. Was called the Century 21 Exposition . Also the Seattle World's Fair. 10 million joined me on a six-month run. My first. These a...

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