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Nov
18, 2020 Week: 47 Day:323 |
Local:
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65°\ L 37°\Average Sky Cover: 5% |
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Wind: 6mph\Gusts: 15mph |
Nearest
lightning: 1182mi.; active fire: 59mi |
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High Risk of Fire |
Visibility: 10mi |
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Record: 68°[2009] Record: -13°[1958] |
Nov
Averages: 53°\23° (3
days with moisture) |
Today’s Quote
Thank
you for life,
and
all the little ups and downs that make it worth living.
Travis
Barker
Random Tidbits
Mercury, which becomes solid at
-40 degrees F, is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature.
A little humor
Imitation is the sincerest form of crabmeat.
Q: What do you
call a mean Potato?
A Dictator..
True Things
Oregon authorities have released a video of a man who
claimed to have been assaulted by detectives punching himself in the face in
his jail cell. The Lane County Sheriff's Office said Aleksander Robin
Tomas-zewski, 33, claimed to have been physically assaulted by detectives while
being questioned on charges of including stalking and first-degree sexual
abuse, but deputies reviewed security tapes from the county jail and saw
Tomas-zewski repeatedly punch himself in the face to give himself black eyes.
Sgt. Carrie Carver, a sheriff's office spokeswoman, said Tomas-zewski appeared
to strike himself in the face 45 times in the four-minute video. Tomas¬-zewski
pleaded guilty to attempted coercion and filing a false report in connection
with the incident.
Observations This Week
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Nat’l
Seat Belt Reinforcement Week: 9-29 Link |
InterNat’l Restorative
Justice Week: 16-22 Link |
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Geography Awareness
Week: 15-21 Link |
Random Acts of Kindness Week: 16-23 Link |
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Internat’l Fraud
Awareness Week: 15-21 Link |
American Education Week: 16-20 Link |
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Nat’l Hunger & Homeless Awareness
Week: 15-22 Link |
Nat’l Drone Safety
Awareness Week: 16-22 Link |
Observations for Today
European
Antibiotic Awareness Day
GIS
Day (Geographic Information Systems)
Guinness
World Record Day
Married
to A Scorpio Support Day
Mickey
Mouse Day
National
Educational Support Professionals Day
National
Princess Day
National Vichyssoise Day
My Rambling Thoughts
It
is a great warm weather day. Nice walk in the forest. The good weather should
continue until the weekend, then a few days that will be a tad cooler.
I
did spend some time this morning listening to the Senate Hearing with the heads
of Facebook and Twitter. I’m not a Twitter person anymore. I am a FB patron. This
hearing was interesting and somewhat informative. Both guys are getting better
about their responses to the Senate…proving practice makes perfect. My only
problem with these hearings is that these Senators spend hours at the hearings
and yet provide no legislation to fix the issues. At some point, soon I hope,
they will have enough information to decide it laws need to be changed or if
things will remain as they are. It is time. No, it is past time.
In
the parking lot at my place, there is a long row of about 15 parking spaces. Yesterday,
the guy in the first space parked, taking up ½ of the next space…guess he
thought the white line was supposed to line up with the center of his vehicle
hood. The next four parking spaces followed the new rule. I’m sure it will take
a week or so to fix this parking mess.
I
had a good conversation with Mary this morning and Cheryl last Friday. We are
all dealing with this Covid mess. Cheryl is considering going to her son’s
place in CA for Thanksgiving. She can drive there without having to get gas or
stopping to eat. Her CA family is incredibly careful about Covid. Mary has
decided to stay home and cook a turkey for her and Mike rather than going to
Phoenix to see family. I suggested buying
a turkey breast, as it is easier to roast. Mike works at NAU in facilities and
has been teased for months for wearing a mask while working…even though it is
NAU policy. Now all these months later, 3 of the 4 non-masking workers have
tested positive. Sad.
Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page
What can travel around the world while staying in one
corner?
Historical Events
1626
St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated, replacing an earlier basilica on the same
site and becoming the world's largest Christian basilica
1865
Mark Twain publishes "Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
1872
Suffragette Susan B. Anthony is arrested by a U.S. Deputy Marshal and charged
with illegally voting
1926
George Bernard Shaw accepts the Nobel Prize for Literature but refuses the
prize money, saying "I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite,
but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize."
1941
Mussolini's forces leave Abyssinia/Ethiopia
1956
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev says the phrase "we will bury you!"
to Western ambassadors at a reception at the Polish embassy in Moscow
1961
JFK sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam
1963
Bell Telephone introduces the touch-tone telephone to customers in Pennsylvania
1964
J. Edgar Hoover describes Martin Luther King as "most notorious liar"
1970
Linus Pauling declares large doses of Vitamin C could ward off colds
1978
In Jonestown, Guyana, 918 members of the Peoples Temple are murdered or commit
suicide under the leadership of cult leader Jim Jones
2019
Book written by Charlotte Bronte aged 14 for her toy soldiers bought by the
Bronte Society for €600,000 at auction in Paris
2019
Deforestation of Brazil's Amazon rainforest worst since 2008, has lost 9,762 sq
km (3,769 sq miles) of vegetation in 12 months according to country's Space
Agency
2019
World wind speeds have risen, 3x faster since 2010 than previous decades of
decline, according to Princeton study published in "Nature Climate
Change"
Birthdays Today
@92 Imogene Coca, American comedienne (Your
Show of Shows), (d. 2001)
@86 Sojourner Truth [Isabella Baumfree],
African-American abolitionist and feminist, (d. 1883) [birth date is
approximate]
@82 George Gallup, American survey sampling
pioneer and inventor of the Gallup poll, (d. 1984)
81 Margaret Atwood, Canadian author/poet, born
in Ottawa, Ontario
@74 William Schwenck Gilbert, English
dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator (Gilbert & Sullivan), (d. 1911;
heart attack)
@74 Alan Shepard, American astronaut and 1st
American in space, (d. 1998; leukemia)
@64 Wilma Mankiller, Native American activist,
1st woman chief of the Cherokee Nation, (d. 2010; pancreatic cancer)
@63 Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French inventor, photographer
(daguerreotype), (d. 1851; heart attack)
51 Owen Wilson, actor
50 Mike Epps, comedian
50 Megan Kelly, Fox news host
Puzzle Answer
A stamp
