Saturday 9/28/24
Sunday 9/29/24
Celebrate:
Saturday
Family Health and Fitness Day USA
Fish Amnesty Day
Fish Tank Floorshow Night
Gold Lining Day
International Lace Day
International Rabbit Day
International Right to Know Day
Museum Day
National Drink Beer Day
National Ghost Hunting Day
National Good Neighbor Day
National Hunting and Fishing Day
National Public Lands Day
National Seat Check Saturday
National Strawberry Cream Pie Day
National Wildlife Ecology Day
R.E.A.D in America Day
Read a Child a Book You Like Day
Save Your Photos Day
World Rabies Day
Sunday
Broadway Musicals Day
Confucius Day
Goose Day
International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste
National Attend Your Grandchild's Birthday Day
National Biscotti Day
National Coffee Day
National Mocha Day
VFW Day
World Deaf Day
World Heart Day
World Rivers Day
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Maggie Smith, the masterful, scene-stealing actor who won an Oscar for “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” in 1969 and gained new fans in the 21st century as the dowager Countess of Grantham in “Downton Abbey” and Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter films, died Friday. She was 89.
Smith was frequently rated the preeminent British female performer of a generation that included Vanessa Redgrave and Judi Dench, with a clutch of Academy Award nominations and a shelf full of acting trophies.
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How many of you aim for 10k steps per day?
The 10k steps myth was originally a marketing tool, dating back to 1965, when a Japanese company made a device named Manpo-Kei, translating as the ’10,000 steps meter’.
There's a study that followed 2.1k adults who used a step counting fitness device for 11 years, it found that there really is nothing special about 10k. Instead, it simply showed that the more exercise you do, the better. (um...duh) 5k steps could yield better results than 4k, 6k could top 5k, and so on. In the same vein, other research found that walking just 3.8k steps per day is enough to reduce cognitive decline by 25%.
A writer at Women's Health says that her stress is down by not having to hit the mark, productivity is higher, and she has so much more time in her day.
Read the full article here
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How big a deal is Hurricane Helene? Really Big!!!
Let's just say that the Waffle House in Tallahassee closed!
There is the informal "Waffle House Storm Index"
Restaurant locations have three code tiers:
Yellow: Restaurants will be open, but the menu or power may be limited.
Red: The restaurant will be closed.
It's not surprising that they don't close often, even in an emergency as they often providing food and resources to first responders during natural disasters.
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Hoda Kotb is leaving the "Today" show early next year. She'll stay with NBC in some capacity, but she didn't elaborate.
On the show yesterday, she said her 60th birthday celebration this summer made her realize it was time to move on.
Quote, "Obviously I had my kiddos late in life, and I was thinking that they deserve a bigger piece of my time pie that I have. I feel like we only have a finite amount of time.
"And so, with all that being said, this is the hardest thing in the world."
Hoda joined NBC News as a correspondent in 1998, and became the inaugural host of the fourth hour of "Today" in 2007.
The announcement caused Savannah Guthrie to cry off one of her false eyelashes.
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A 24-year-old man in Pennsylvania named Joshua Kiser spent the past four years attempting to break the record for the world's tallest hat, and he's finally done it.
Joshua first decided to do it when he was browsing the internet during the pandemic quarantine, and he saw the record for the world's tallest hat had been set a couple years before . . . and that it was 15 feet and nine inches.
He set out to beat that record, but it wasn't easy.
His first effort . . . using stacked cardboard blocks and Velcro . . . was an "utter failure." So was his second one, which involved wooden dowels. He also tried creating one with chicken wire in a tall cone shape.
Eventually, he found success using a couple of 10-foot-long aluminum gutters from Home Depot and a modified metal Philadelphia Eagles trash can.
Joshua's final design was 17 feet, 9.5 inches . . . and weighed more than 26 pounds. But he was able to wear the hat and walk the minimum distance to get the record, which was 10 meters or about 33 feet.
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At the New York City premiere of Travis Kelce's scripted TV debut, Grotesquerie, Travis' mom, Donna Kelce, was on hand to represent him, which was fitting considering she's also making her acting debut this year.
Donna, 71, will appear in two upcoming Hallmark Christmas movies, Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story and Christmas on Call. But when asked whether Travis, 34, had any advice for her, she tells PEOPLE, "No. I don't even think he knew I was doing it."
"He was like, 'Really, mom?' " she says of Travis' learning that she'll be making small appearances in both movies. "I'm like, 'Yeah, I just dipped my toe in it.' "
Both of the movies have a sports theme so it's not that far from Donna's real life.
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Parents, are your kids picky eaters? You could be to blame! It could be in their DNA.
The experts defined “food fussiness,” or “FF,” as, “the tendency to eat a small range of foods, due to pickiness and/or reluctance to try new foods.”
Academics recently warned that allowing a tot to omit certain fare, and only consume their preferred snacks — typically hot dogs, Mac and cheese, and pizza — can prompt a condition known as Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder, or ARFID. The disorder causes a fear of the act or sensation of eating certain foods.
Nature Mental Health, a UK Biobank, also found that youngsters who carry their restrictive regimens into adulthood have worse cognitive function than folks with broader tastes for all of the food groups.
Genetic differences in kids accounted for 60% of the variation in food fussiness at 16 months, rising to over 74% between the ages of 3 and 13.
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Since Sunday is National Coffee Day, we thought we'd caution you so you don't go overboard celebrating . . .
Just how much caffeine is TOO MUCH caffeine? According to one cardiologist, caffeine consumption is safe up to a point for most people who don't have a heart condition.
The American Heart Association and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration say that point is around three to four cups of coffee per day for most people.
Depending on the strength of your coffee, three to four cups is somewhere between 300 to 400 milligrams of caffeine.
To hit that level with other drinks, you'd need to drink one to three energy drinks . . . four to five cans of Coke . . . or 10 to 15 cups of green tea.
And some of the signs we've had too much caffeine include: insomnia, jitteriness, heart palpitations, excessive sweating, nausea, and headaches.
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