Nov 18

 

 

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Nov 18, 2020  Week: 47 Day:323    

Local:  H 65°\ L 37°\Average Sky Cover: 5%

Wind:   6mph\Gusts:  15mph                       

Nearest lightning:  1182mi.; active fire:  59mi

High Risk of Fire          

Visibility:  10mi

Record: 68°[2009]   Record: -13°[1958]              

Nov Averages: 53°\23° (3 days with moisture)

 

Today’s  Quote

Thank you for life,

and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living.

Travis Barker

 

Random Tidbits

Mercury, which becomes solid at -40 degrees F, is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature.

 

A little humor

Imitation is the sincerest form of crabmeat.


Q: What do you call a mean Potato?

A Dictator..

 

True Things

Oregon authorities have released a video of a man who claimed to have been assaulted by detectives punching himself in the face in his jail cell. The Lane County Sheriff's Office said Aleksander Robin Tomas-zewski, 33, claimed to have been physically assaulted by detectives while being questioned on charges of including stalking and first-degree sexual abuse, but deputies reviewed security tapes from the county jail and saw Tomas-zewski repeatedly punch himself in the face to give himself black eyes. Sgt. Carrie Carver, a sheriff's office spokeswoman, said Tomas-zewski appeared to strike himself in the face 45 times in the four-minute video. Tomas¬-zewski pleaded guilty to attempted coercion and filing a false report in connection with the incident.

 

Observations This Week

Nat’l Seat Belt Reinforcement Week: 9-29 Link

InterNat’l Restorative Justice Week: 16-22 Link 

Geography Awareness Week: 15-21 Link

Random Acts of Kindness Week: 16-23 Link

Internat’l Fraud Awareness Week: 15-21 Link

American Education Week: 16-20 Link
Medical Cannabis Week: 16-20 Link

Nat’l Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week: 15-22 Link

Nat’l Drone Safety Awareness Week: 16-22 Link
Nat’l Global Entrepreneurship Week: 16-22 Link

 

Observations for Today

European Antibiotic Awareness Day

GIS Day (Geographic Information Systems)

Guinness World Record Day

Married to A Scorpio Support Day

Mickey Mouse Day

National Apple Cider Day

National Educational Support Professionals Day

National Princess Day

National Vichyssoise Day

Occult Day

Push Button Phone Day

 

My Rambling Thoughts

It is a great warm weather day. Nice walk in the forest. The good weather should continue until the weekend, then a few days that will be a tad cooler.

I did spend some time this morning listening to the Senate Hearing with the heads of Facebook and Twitter. I’m not a Twitter person anymore. I am a FB patron. This hearing was interesting and somewhat informative. Both guys are getting better about their responses to the Senate…proving practice makes perfect. My only problem with these hearings is that these Senators spend hours at the hearings and yet provide no legislation to fix the issues. At some point, soon I hope, they will have enough information to decide it laws need to be changed or if things will remain as they are. It is time. No, it is past time.

In the parking lot at my place, there is a long row of about 15 parking spaces. Yesterday, the guy in the first space parked, taking up ½ of the next space…guess he thought the white line was supposed to line up with the center of his vehicle hood. The next four parking spaces followed the new rule. I’m sure it will take a week or so to fix this parking mess.

I had a good conversation with Mary this morning and Cheryl last Friday. We are all dealing with this Covid mess. Cheryl is considering going to her son’s place in CA for Thanksgiving. She can drive there without having to get gas or stopping to eat. Her CA family is incredibly careful about Covid. Mary has decided to stay home and cook a turkey for her and Mike rather than going to Phoenix to see family.  I suggested buying a turkey breast, as it is easier to roast. Mike works at NAU in facilities and has been teased for months for wearing a mask while working…even though it is NAU policy. Now all these months later, 3 of the 4 non-masking workers have tested positive. Sad.

 

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

What can travel around the world while staying in one corner?

 

Historical Events

1626 St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated, replacing an earlier basilica on the same site and becoming the world's largest Christian basilica

1865 Mark Twain publishes "Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"

1872 Suffragette Susan B. Anthony is arrested by a U.S. Deputy Marshal and charged with illegally voting

1926 George Bernard Shaw accepts the Nobel Prize for Literature but refuses the prize money, saying "I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize."

1941 Mussolini's forces leave Abyssinia/Ethiopia

1956 Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev says the phrase "we will bury you!" to Western ambassadors at a reception at the Polish embassy in Moscow

1961 JFK sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam

1963 Bell Telephone introduces the touch-tone telephone to customers in Pennsylvania

1964 J. Edgar Hoover describes Martin Luther King as "most notorious liar"

1970 Linus Pauling declares large doses of Vitamin C could ward off colds

1978 In Jonestown, Guyana, 918 members of the Peoples Temple are murdered or commit suicide under the leadership of cult leader Jim Jones

2019 Book written by Charlotte Bronte aged 14 for her toy soldiers bought by the Bronte Society for €600,000 at auction in Paris

2019 Deforestation of Brazil's Amazon rainforest worst since 2008, has lost 9,762 sq km (3,769 sq miles) of vegetation in 12 months according to country's Space Agency

2019 World wind speeds have risen, 3x faster since 2010 than previous decades of decline, according to Princeton study published in "Nature Climate Change"

 

Birthdays Today

@92 Imogene Coca, American comedienne (Your Show of Shows), (d. 2001)

@86 Sojourner Truth [Isabella Baumfree], African-American abolitionist and feminist, (d. 1883) [birth date is approximate]

@82 George Gallup, American survey sampling pioneer and inventor of the Gallup poll, (d. 1984)

81 Margaret Atwood, Canadian author/poet, born in Ottawa, Ontario

@74 William Schwenck Gilbert, English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator (Gilbert & Sullivan), (d. 1911; heart attack)

@74 Alan Shepard, American astronaut and 1st American in space, (d. 1998; leukemia)

@64 Wilma Mankiller, Native American activist, 1st woman chief of the Cherokee Nation, (d. 2010; pancreatic cancer)

@63 Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French inventor, photographer (daguerreotype), (d. 1851; heart attack)

51 Owen Wilson, actor

50 Mike Epps, comedian

50 Megan Kelly, Fox news host

 

Puzzle Answer

A stamp

 

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