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)

 

Nov 12

 

Week: 46 Day: 316 Ave. Sky Cover:  5%\Visibility: 10 miles Local Temp:   51°\ 25° Wind: 9mph\ Gusts: 20mph Moderate risk of fire Active fire: 47mi. \ Lightning: 1000mi. 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
8-12	National Young Reader’s Week  Link
8-14	Childrens' Book Week: Link  National Global Entrepreneurship Week Link
12-14	National Donor Sabbath

 

Daily Observations

 

Favorite Memes

 

Trivia

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

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

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

@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