Nov 13

 

Week: 46 Day: 317 Ave. Sky Cover:  5%\Visibility: 10 miles Local Temp:   55°\ 27° Wind: 11mph\ Gusts: 14mph Moderate risk of fire Active fire: 88mi. \ Lightning: 1192mi. 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
8-14	Childrens' Book Week: Link  National Global Entrepreneurship Week Link
12-14	National Donor Sabbath
13-19	World Antibiotic Awareness Week
13-21	National Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week: Link

 

Daily Observations

 

Favorite Memes

 

Trivia

The most rare hair color in humans is red. Approximately 1-2 percent of humans in the world have red hair. Lilith, the supposed first wife of Adam, is said to have had red hair. She was ultimately kicked out of the Garden of Eden because she refused to be subordinate to Adam. Because redheads have thicker hair than people with other hair colors, they have fewer strands of hair. For example, while blondes have on average 140,000 hairs, redheads have approximately 90,000.

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Windy fall day…time for a laundry day. Two loads of clothes…will fold and put away later. The Beijing Olympics are in the news. Will the US attend? Will the President or a delegate or no US dignitary attend? I followed the 1980 Olympics when the US refused to attend, and I attended the 1984 Olympics in LA when the USSR didn’t attend. I am appalled by the Chinese government human rights violations. I also know there are hundreds of young American athletes who have been training for years to attend the games in Beijing. I hope that the American athletes can compete on the field with athletes from all the Olympic countries. The US dignitaries would be missed, but it would allow the games to continue. If the best athletes, from any boycotting countries are kept out of the games, it will hurt the Olympic dream, but I seriously doubt that China will suddenly follow the UN Human Rights guidelines. Now I’m climbing down from my soapbox.

 

 

Historical Events

James Braid saw a demonstration of animal magnetism, which lead to his study of a subject he eventually named hypnotism (1841) The Holland Tunnel opened to traffic, being the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City (1927). Walt Disney’s animated musical film Fantasia was first shown at New York’s Broadway Theatre. (1940) The Supreme Court of the United States declared Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, ending the 1956 Montgomery Bus Boycott. On November 13, 1974, Ronald DeFeo, Jr. murdered his entire family in Amityville, Long Island in the house (112 Ocean Avenue) that would become known as The Amityville Horror. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, DC in 1982.

 

Birthdays Today

@81 75 68 66 58 54 52 @44

– Garry Marshall, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2016) – Joe Mantegna, American actor, and voice artist -- Andrés Manuel López Obrador, 58th President of Mexico – Whoopi Goldberg, American actress, comedian, and talk show host – Vinny Testaverde, American football player – Jimmy Kimmel, American comedian, actor, and talk show host – Gerard Butler, Scottish actor – Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, poet, essayist (d. 1894; stroke)