Week: 46
Day: 316
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Today’s Quote
Weekly Observations
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7-13 |
International Games Week (Libraries) Link Drowsy Driving Prevention Week Link National Radiologic Technology Week Link World Kindness Week Link |
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7-14 |
Dear Santa Letter Week Give Wildlife A Brake! Week Link Polar Bear Week |
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8-12 |
National Young Reader’s Week Link |
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8-14 |
Childrens' Book Week:
Link |
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12-14 |
National Donor Sabbath |
Daily Observations
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Favorite Memes
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Trivia
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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
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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
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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
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@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 |
