Nov 13

 

 

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Nov 13, 2020  Week: 46 Day: 318	Local:  H 55°\ L 25°\Average Sky Cover: 15%
Wind:   7mph\Gusts:  11mph	Nearest lightning:  1610mi.; active fire:  59mi
Moderate Risk of Fire	Visibility:  10mi
Record: 72°[1967]   Record: -3°[2000]	Nov Averages: 53°\23° (3 days with moisture)

 

Today’s  Quote

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today,

and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Melody Beattie

 

Random Tidbits

 Did anyone tell you when you were a kid that too many carrot sticks would turn your skin orange? It's true! (Sort of). Hypercarotenemia, or carotenosis, is a yellowy orange discoloration of the skin caused by high levels of carotene in the blood, the result of eating a LOT of vitamin A.

 

A little humor

Seen during a conference:

FOR ANYONE WHO HAS CHILDREN AND DOESN'T KNOW IT,

THERE IS DAY CARE ON THE 1ST FLOOR.

 

True Things

A British TV channel said it achieved a Guinness World Record when more than 9,000 people tuned in to watch the "world's largest live streamed séance."
The attempt, organized by digital TV channel Really, featured Penny West "The Wiccan Witch," podcaster Nick Stoppani and paranormal investigators Alex Duggan and Miki York of U.K.-Haunted attempting to contact the spirits of the deceased at Guy's Cliffe House in Warwick, England.
The séance was live streamed on Facebook, and Really announced more than 9,000 people watched along, surpassing the channel's goal and earning the Guinness record for world's largest live streamed séance.
"We have reached out to the spiritual world many times before but we have never been more excited than this time in which we set a Guinness World Records title," Duggan told local news.

 

Observations This Week

Nat’l Nurse Practioner's Week: 8-14 Link Link	Nat’l Book Awards Week: 8-14
Nat’l Radiologic Technology Week: 8-14 Link	Children’s' Book Week: 9-15 Link Nat’l Seat Belt Reinforcement Week: 9-29 Link
Perioperative Nurse Week: 8-14 Link	Nat’l Split Pea Soup Week: 9-15 Link
Snowcare For Troops Awareness Week: 8-14 World Kindness Week: 8-14 Link	Nat’l Young Readers Week: 9-15 Link Nat’l Donor Sabbath: 13-15  World Antibiotic Awareness Week: 13-19

 

Observations for Today

Caregiver Appreciation Day

Domino Day

Feast of St. Diego Alacala

Friday the 13th

National Indian Pudding Day

World Kindness Day

 

My Rambling Thoughts

It’s a nice day that started out cold, but the sun warmed nicely.

Our local school district announced that in-person classes will not begin until January 2021 at the earliest.

The HOA guy came back today to cut my overhanging branches and even apologized for not doing it the last time they were here. I can now get in and out of my door without having to bend over or knock snow off the overhanging branches so I can bend over. Bonus: I have more sunlight through my front window. Nice.

My CPAP machine also has an Oxygen concentrator…not a tank, but a machine that ‘makes’ oxygen somehow. He replaced the filter, cleaned the machine, so now I am set. Nice.

Doctors without Borders announced that they are sending medical personnel to the United States to assist in the Covid outbreak. Thank you and wear a mask.

The current administration is not releasing funds or allowing the incoming administration to get top secret briefings. We all remember 9/11. What many have forgotten in the in November of 2000 there was a long, drawn out count to determine if it was going to Bush or Gore. This caused Bush to also get a late start on briefings. After that horrific day in September 2001, the 9/11 commission was formed to determine how to avoid another attack…listing what the US did correctly and what needed lots of improvement. One of their conclusions was that the delay in naming a winner led to a much shorter time for Bush to be brought up to speed in many areas. I certainly hope the our government learned a valuable, yet costly, lesson and doesn’t let it happen again. Trump’s last National Security in-person briefing was Oct. 2, 2020. Very frightening.

 

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

What makes this number unique: 8,549,176,320?

 

Historical Events

1789 – Ben Franklin wrote “nothing is certain, but death and taxes” in a letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy.

1839 Last bull run in Britain as the Stamford bull run ends after 700 years

1841 – James Braid first saw a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnotism.

1855 – A proposal for a tunnel under the English Channel was announced by French engineer M. Loèpold Favre, to connect Boulogne to Dover.

1902 "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad is first published in one volume (previously serialized) by William Blackwood in Edinburgh

1940 – Walt Disney released Fantasia, an film experience mixing animation and classical music, at New York’s Broadway Theatre.

1942 – US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lowered the minimum draft age from 21 to 18.

1947 – The Soviet Union completed the development of the AK-47.

1956 – The US Supreme Court of the United States declared Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, thus ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

1971 – Mariner 9 was the first spacecraft to orbit another planet, reaching Mars.

1980 – US spacecraft Voyager 1 sent back first close-up pictures of Saturn.

1982 – The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, a monument consisting of two black granite walls engraved with the names of 58,272 US soldiers that did not return from Vietnam, was dedicated in Washington D.C.

1994 – Sweden agreed to join the European Union

2001 War on Terrorism: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States.

2015 – Terrorist attacks in Paris killed 130 people and injured hundreds

2018 Trial of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán begins in New York

2019 First day of public testimony in Donald Trump's impeachment inquiry held in Washington, D.C.

2019 Rediscovered painting "Lucretia" by female baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi sells for $4.1 million at auction in Paris.

 

Birthdays Today

@84 – Louis Brandeis, American lawyer, jurist ‘right to privacy’ (d. 1941)

@81 – Garry Marshall, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2016)

73 – Joe Mantegna, American actor, and voice artist

67 -- Andrés Manuel López Obrador, President of Mexico

65 – Whoopi Goldberg, American actress, comedian, and talk show host

53 – Jimmy Kimmel, American comedian, actor, and talk show host

51 – Gerard Butler, Scottish actor

@44 – Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, poet, essayist (d. 1894; stroke)

 

Puzzle Answer

It contains each number, zero through nine, in alphabetical order.