Nov 12

 

Week: 46 Day: 316
Ave. Sky Cover:  5%\Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:   51°\ 25° Wind: 9mph\ Gusts: 20mph
Moderate risk of fire Active fire: 47mi. \ Lightning: 1000mi.
Nov Averages: 51°\23° (3 days w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

 


Weekly Observations

 

7-13

International Games Week (Libraries) Link

Drowsy Driving Prevention Week Link

National Radiologic Technology Week Link  
National Book Awards Week
National Nurse Practioner's Week
Link  Link
Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week   
Link

World Kindness Week   Link    

7-14  

Dear Santa Letter Week

Give Wildlife A Brake! Week Link 
National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week  Link   

Polar Bear Week

8-12 

National Young Reader’s Week  Link

8-14 

Childrens' Book Week: Link 
National Global Entrepreneurship Week Link

12-14 

National Donor Sabbath

 

Daily Observations


 

 

 

Favorite Memes

 





 

 



 

 

Trivia

 

A 15.2 oz. bottle of Minute Maid 100 percent Apple Juice contains 49 grams of sugar. This is about the same amount of sugar in 10 Oreos. While sugar occurs naturally in fruit, the body processes both types of sugar in the same way. One benefit of eating whole fruit is eating fiber, which is generally lost in the process of making juice.

According to brain scans, sugar is as addictive as cocaine.

Two hundred years ago, the average American ate only 2 pounds of sugar a year. In 1970, Americans ate 123 pounds of sugar per year. Today the average American consumes almost 152 pounds of sugar in one year. This is equal to 3 pounds (or 6 cups) of sugar consumed in one week.

 

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

It’s a cool fall day. Wind is very chilly.

I had a quarterly doctor appointment this morning…all is well. I even lost a little weight since the last visit.

The Focus Travel Club website has been updated. Check out the trip to Ireland and of course the February Blowout’s return.

There are two trials that are taking the pulse of the nation…one is a kid who killed 2 and wounded one in Wisconsin. The other is two guys who killed one man. None of the defendants believed that law enforcement was doing a good job, so they brought rifles in a kind of vigilante justice. The kid has become a far-right wing hero. The outcome will be tenuous with either outcome. Innocent…he will become a hero to the right and encourage others to do the same, guilty…he will become a martyr to the far right. In the other case, an innocent black man is dead by white vigilantes. I pay taxes to ensure that we have professional law enforcement personnel to protect all the citizens. I do wish law enforcement had more training, especially in dealing with the mentally ill. I do not want private citizens carrying guns to decide who has broken the law and then kill that person. Our court system needs to be updated, not ignored.

 

 

 

Historical Events

 

1892 – William ‘Pudge’ Heffelfinger became the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid ($250) game for the Allegheny Athletic Association

1927 – Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Soviet Communist Party.

1936 Nobel Prize for literature awarded to American playwright Eugene O'Neill

1974 South Africa suspended from UN General Assembly over racial policies

1980 – The NASA space probe Voyager I made the closest approach to Saturn and took the first clear images of its rings.

2019 550th anniversary of the birth of Guru Nanak - the founder of Sikhism celebrated in India and Pakistan

John Lennon and Yoko Ono released the 1968 album Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins with a cover photo of the pair, both naked. Most of the albums were sold with a brown paper bag over the cover.

 

 

Birthdays Today

 

@91 – DeWitt Wallace, American publisher, philanthropist, co-founded Reader’s Digest, (d. 1981)

@83 – Charles Manson, American cult leader (d. 2017)

@77 – Auguste Rodin, French sculptor, created The Thinker (d. 1917)

77 – Al Michaels, American sportscaster

76 – Neil Young, Canadian Singer/Songwriter, guitarist, and producer

63 – Megan Mullally, American actress, singer

60 – Nadia Comaneci, Romanian Olympic Gymnast

53 – Sammy Sosa, Dominican-American baseball player

@52 – Grace Kelly, actress, later Princess Grace of Monaco (d. 1982; stroke)

51 – Tonya Harding, American figure skater

41 – Ryan Gosling, Canadian actor, producer, and singer

39 – Anne Hathaway, American actress

 

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