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Nov
10, 2020 Week: 46 Day:315 |
Local:
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32°\ L 7°\Average Sky Cover: 20% |
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Wind: 11mph\Gusts: 18mph |
Nearest
lightning: 2148mi.; active fire: 59mi |
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low Risk of Fire |
Visibility: 10mi |
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Record: 71°[1973] Record: 5°[1946] |
Nov
Averages: 53°\23° (3
days with moisture) |
Today’s Quote
Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
Karl Barth
A little humor
Outside a second-hand shop:
WE EXCHANGE ANYTHING - BICYCLES, WASHING MACHINES, ETC.
WHY NOT BRING YOUR WIFE ALONG AND GET A WONDERFUL
BARGAIN?
True Things
That's a mouthful
Two kayakers escaped uninjured when they
briefly ended up in the mouth of a humpback whale that surfaced beneath them.
Julie McSorley and Liz Cottriel said they were kayaking and whale watching off
the coast of Avila Beach when the whale surfaced from underneath their boat. A
video recorded by a witness shows the women and the kayak in the whale's mouth
before they all disappeared under the surface of the water. "I saw the big
pool of fish, the big bait ball come up out of the water," McSorley said.
"I saw the whale come up. I thought, 'Oh, no! It's too close.'"
"All of a sudden, I lifted up, and I was in the water," she said. The
pair said they ended up capsized in the water as the whale left them behind.
The video makes it appear as though the women are being swallowed by the whale,
but they are considerably larger than the animal's usual diet of krill and
small fishes.
Observations This Week
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World Origami Days: 24-11/11 |
Snowcare For Troops Awareness Week: 8-14 |
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World Kindness Week: 8-14 Link Nat’l Book Awards Week: 8-14 |
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Nat’l Radiologic
Technology Week: 8-14 Link |
Childrens' Book Week:
9-15 Link |
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Perioperative Nurse Week: 8-14 Link |
Nat’l Split Pea Soup Week: 9-15 Link |
Observations for Today
Area
Code Day
International
Accounting Day
National
Young
Readers Day
NET
Cancer Awareness Day
USMC
Day
Sesame
Street Day
Windows
Day (Microsoft)
World
Science Day for Peace and Development
My Rambling Thoughts
Another
bust on the moisture…I had about an 1” of snow on the sidewalk, not the
forecast 6-10”. As the drought continues, my biggest thing this morning was
locating my snow shovel. I only used it twice last year and then stored it. It
was in the closet under the stairs but somehow the handle got inside a jacket
and I couldn’t find it. I searched all the other closets. After about 15
minutes of searching I went back to the first closet, and slowly slide the
jackets around. Eureka! There it was. It took less time to shovel the walk than
to find the darn shovel. I got a text this morning that Flagstaff schools…which
are only meeting virtually…were on a 2hour delay due to the snow. It also said
that the ‘grab & go’ breakfast and lunch would be 2 hours late today.
Both
my football teams lost yesterday…Seeing the Broncos score was tough, but
watching the Card loss was much worse.
WOW!
A vaccine is really on the horizon. Still need to know how long it will remain
effective. This is great news, something that has been woefully lacking in
2020.
Alex
Trebek will be greatly missed. I’ve watched Jeopardy! since I was a child…only
when I was too sick to go to school, but well enough to lay on the couch in the
living room to watch it.
I
heard an interesting interview yesterday saying that cable news brings the
death of expertise. So many times, cable news channels hire ‘experts’ as ‘paid
consultants’. Many times, these paid consultants are asked to pontificate in
many areas outside their area of expertise. Many times, they are giving their
opinions on things they have no real expertise. I’m watching more closely now
when any channel has an ‘expert’.
The
head of GSA has not yet signed the letter that releases funds to the transition
team. This makes a transition much more difficult. Sec. Esper, Defense Dept.
head has been fired by Trump. The Defense Dept. oversees COVID vaccine
distribution as well as the many foreign adversaries we are watching. Hopefully
this is Trump’s only vindictive move. Crazy.
Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page
A woman stands on one
side of a river, her dog on the other. There is no bridge. The woman calls her
dog, who immediately crosses the river without getting wet. How did the dog do
it?
Historical Events
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1619
– René Descartes had the dreams that inspired his Meditations on First
Philosophy.
1775
– The United States Marine Corps Was Born:
“That two battalions of Marines be raised
consisting of one Colonel, two lieutenant-colonels, two majors and other
officers, as usual in other regiments; that they consist of an equal number of
privates as with other battalions, that particular care be taken that no
persons be appointed to offices, or enlisted into said battalions, but such as
are good seamen, or so acquainted with maritime affairs as to be able to serve
for and during the present war with Great Britain and the Colonies; unless
dismissed by Congress; that they be distinguished by the names of the First and
Second Battalions of Marines.”
1871
– Henry Morton Stanley in Ujiji, Central Africa, encountered David Livingstone
with the immortal words: ‘Dr. Livingstone, I presume?’
1885
– The world’s first motorcycle, designed by Gottlieb Daimler, made its first
announced test-run.
1908
– The first Gideon Bible put in hotel rooms at the Superior Hotel in Superior,
Montana.
1919
– The American Legion’s first national convention (Minneapolis). The American
Legion is an organization of U.S. war veterans that formed in Paris on March
15-17, 1919.
1951
– The first direct-dial, coast-to-coast telephone service in North America
began as Mayor M. Leslie Denning of Englewood, NJ called Mayor Frank Osborn in
Alameda, CA.
1974
– The discovery of the “charmed quark” subatomic particle was announced
simultaneously by an MIT group at Brookhaven National Laboratory and a
SLAC-Berkeley group on the west coast at Stanford Linear accelerator center.
1975
– The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund
Fitzgerald sank during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on
board.
1983
– Bill Gates introduced Windows 1.0.
1989
– German citizens began to bring the Berlin Wall down.
1997
– WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest
merger in US history at the time). It is now part of Verizon.
1999
– Sesame Street celebrated its 30th anniversary. The series created by Joan
Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett.
2008
– NASA declared the Phoenix Mission concluded after communications with the lander
were lost.
2012
The final US presidential election results are declared after Barack Obama wins
Florida to defeat Mitt Romney 332-206 in Electoral College votes
2014
Ethel Kennedy is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
2019
Bolivian President Evo Morales resigns amid widespread protests after national
election considered irregular and manipulated
2019
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announces the discovery of a new oil field
with an estimated 53 million barrels of oil in Khuzestan province
Birthdays Today
@94 –
Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian general and engineer: designed the AK-47, (d.
2013)
@75 – Roy
Scheider, American actor (d.2008; cancer)
75 –
Donna Fargo, American Singer/Songwriter, and guitarist
73 – Dave
Loggins, American Singer/Songwriter, and guitarist
@71 –
George Jennings, English plumber and engineer: invented the flush toilet, (d.
1882)
64 –
Sinbad (David Adkins), American comedian, actor, and producer
@62 –
Martin Luther, German monk, and priest, leader of the Protestant Reformation, (d.
1546)
@59 –
Richard Burton, Welsh actor, and singer (d. 1984; stroke)
52 –
Tracy Morgan, American comedian, actor, and producer
42 – Eve,
American rapper and producer
37 –
Miranda Lambert, American Singer/Songwriter, and guitarist
Puzzle Answer
The river was frozen.
