"LUDINGTON, MI - ...The Armistice Day Storm of 1940 was a freak weather event that killed more than 150 people, including 64 sailors on Lake Michigan.
And while many ships ran aground and others were damaged that day, only three freighters sank.
All three met their end along the same stretch of the lake, in an arc from Little Sable Point south of Pentwater up to Big Sable Point north of Ludington.
The lost ships on that Nov. 11 holiday included the Novadoc, an English-built 252-foot steel freighter that had left Chicago hours before dawn and was bound for Ontario with a load of powdered coal. It carried 19 Canadian crewmen.
The second ship was the 420-foot William B. Davock, ferrying a load of coal from Erie, Pennsylvania to Chicago.
Trailing the Davock downbound on Lake Michigan was the slightly smaller Anna C. Minch. The 380-foot freighter was carrying cargo from Ontario to Chicago. The Minch’s Canadian crew included the wheelsman’s 15-year-old son brought on to work as a deckhand and a married couple working as stewards...Read all.
"LONDON, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Many COVID-19 survivors are likely to be at greater risk of developing mental illness, psychiatrists said on Monday, after a large study found 20% of those infected with the coronavirus are diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder within 90 days.
Anxiety, depression and insomnia were most common among recovered COVID-19 patients in the study who developed mental health problems, and the researchers also found significantly higher risks of dementia, a brain impairment condition.
"People have been worried that COVID-19 survivors will be at greater risk of mental health problems, and our findings ... show this to be likely," said Paul Harrison, a professor of psychiatry at Britain's Oxford University...Read all.
Demand mandatory course on university’s role in genocide, land theft
"Native American students at Cornell University recently accused the school of “profiting from acts of colonial violence” and demanded the Ivy League university take steps to atone for its past actions.
...For the university to “rectify these crimes,” the students want Cornell to meet 10 different demands...Read all.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 - Novelist, short story writer, journalist
1620 - The Mayflower Compact was signed by the 41 men on the Mayflower when they landed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod. The compact called for "just and equal laws."
1918 - World War I came to an end when the Allies and Germany signed an armistice. This day became recognized as Veteran's Day in the United States.
1921 - The Tomb of the Unknowns was dedicated at Arlington Cemetery in Virginia by U.S. President Harding.
1938 - Kate Smith first sang Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" on network radio.
1940 - The Jeep made its debut.
1993 - In Washington, DC, the Vietnam Women's Memorial was dedicated to honor the more than 11,000 women who had served in the Vietnam War.
1997 - The Eastman Kodak Company announced that they were laying off 10,000 employees.
The FOX hit comedy Family Guy imagined President Donald Trump, his wife Melania, and Vice President Mike Pence hanging themselves in prison in an episode that aired just after Tuesday’s presidential election.
The November 8th episode of Family Guy, titled “La Famiglia Guy,” began with Peter and Lois Griffin reading newspapers announcing Trump’s suicide.
“God, can you believe Trump hung himself in prison?” Peter asks, before the words “We wrote this in February 2019. Were we right?” flash at the bottom of screen.
“I know! And that Chris Christie lost all that weight,” adds Lois. “He still looks terrible, though.”...
Family Guy is not the only FOX comedy to depict president Trump’s allies hanging themselves. In an April 2017 episode, then-White House press secretary Sean Spicer was seen hanging in the briefing room...Read all.
"Pollsters were widely wrong in 2016, yet learned nothing about their flawed methodologies.
So how do they remain credible after 2020?
A republic is not just a nation of laws.
It also relies on its good-faith watchdogs, such as honest pollsters, the media, and bipartisan institutions.
...But there are lots of reasons to worry that something in America has gone terribly wrong.
Many of the mainstream pre-election polls predicted that Donald Trump would lose in a landslide.
He did not — to the shock of a host of propagandists.
...What do all these power players — big polling, big money, big tech, and big media — have in common other than their partisanship and their powerful reach?
One, they stereotypically represent a virtue-signaling coastal elite that feels its own moral superiority allows it to destroy its own professional standards.
Two, they worry little about popular pushback because they assume that their money, loaded surveys, and Internet and media cartels create, rather than reflect, public opinion.
Three, while these elite cadres have enormous resources, they still are relatively unpopular.
Despite being outspent 2 to 1, pronounced doomed by pollsters, often censored on social media, and demonized in print and on television, Trump was neck and neck with Biden — a fact that a few days ago was deemed impossible...Read all.
Former Hope College president Gordon Van Wylen dies after contracting coronavirus - mlive.com
"GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- A former Hope College president who helped transform the school in the 1970s and 1980s -- and who also was a World War II Navy veteran -- has died at age 100.
Gordon Van Wylen died Thursday, Nov. 5 after battling coronavirus, according to Hope College officials.
Van Wylen is recognized not only for his efforts to improve and grow Hope College, but also his attention to the revitalization of downtown Holland...Read all.
Target 8: Fatal ODs doubled in parts of W. MI at COVID-19’s spring peak GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Death records obtained by Target 8 show a significant spike in fatal overdoses in West Michigan, particularly in April, May and June. Those three months corresponded roughly with the state’s stay-at-home order, which began March 23 and ended June 1...Read all.
"The UK Health Alliance on Climate Change (UKHACC) urges the UK government to impose a climate tax on food producers by 2025 - unless private industry takes voluntary measures to limit their carbon emissions.
"In particular, red meat consumption will need to be cut by half if the food system is to stay within sustainable environmental limits," UKHACC wrote in the report.
Adding that, "changing our diets in this way will not only help to mitigate climate change but will also improve our health: there is also clear evidence that is replacing animal protein with plant-based protein results in lower rates of stroke, heart disease, diabetes, and overall death rates."
UKHACC represents doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals from ten Royal Colleges of medicine and nursing, the British Medical Association, and The Lancet...Read all.
Asylum Seekers Massed on US-Mexico Border Celebrate Reports of Joe Biden Victory - Big League Politics
Biden has pledged to open the borders to asylum seekers.
"Buzzfeed has reported that asylum seekers camped out on the US-Mexico border are celebrating reports of Joe Biden’s supposed victory, even though he’s yet to be certified as the winner of the 2020 presidential election.
The Trump administration has introduced a game-changing ‘Stay in Mexico’ rule which requires asylum seekers from third-party countries who travel to the southern border-usually Central American nations such as Honduras and El Salvador- to await the adjudication of their cases in Mexico.
These migrants refuse to accept offers of legal residence from Mexico, insisting on entering the United States...Read all.
"The bar keeps getting lower in New York City’s public schools, writes Erika Sanzi on Project Forever Free.
"LONDON, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Many COVID-19 survivors are likely to be at greater risk of developing mental illness, psychiatrists said on Monday, after a large study found 20% of those infected with the coronavirus are diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder within 90 days.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1821 - Novelist, short story writer, journalist
