FYI August 21, 2020

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On This Day

1883 – An F5 tornado strikes Rochester, Minnesota, leading to the creation of the Mayo Clinic.
ayo Clinic is an American nonprofit academic medical center currently based in three major locations: Rochester, Minnesota; Jacksonville, Florida; and Scottsdale, Arizona, focused on integrated patient care, education, and research.[6] It employs over 4,500 physicians and scientists, along with another 58,400 administrative and allied health staff.[7][8] The practice specializes in treating difficult cases through tertiary care and destination medicine. It is home to the top-ten ranked Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine in addition to many of the highest regarded residency education programs in the United States.[9][10][11] It spends over $660 million a year on research and has more than 3,000 full-time research personnel.[12][13]

William Worrall Mayo settled his family in Rochester in 1864 and opened a sole proprietorship medical practice that evolved under his sons, Will and Charlie Mayo, along with practice partners Drs. Stinchfield, Graham, Henry Plummer, Millet, Judd, and Donald Balfour, into Mayo Clinic. Today, in addition to its flagship hospital in Rochester, Mayo Clinic has major campuses in Arizona[14] and in Florida.[15] The Mayo Clinic Health System also operates affiliated facilities throughout Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa.[16]

Mayo Clinic is ranked number 1 in the United States for 2019-20 U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals Honor Roll,[17] maintaining a position at or near the top for more than 27 years.[18] It has been on the list of “100 Best Companies to Work For” published by Fortune magazine for fourteen consecutive years, and has continued to achieve this ranking through 2017.[19][20] Drawing in patients from around the globe, Mayo Clinic performs near the highest number of transplants in the country, including both solid organ and hematologic transplantation.

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Born On This Day

1886 – Ruth Manning-Sanders, Welsh-English author and poet (d. 1988)
Ruth Manning-Sanders (21 August 1886 – 12 October 1988) was a Welsh-born English poet and author, well known for a series of children’s books in which she collected and related fairy tales from all over the world. All told, she published more than 90 books during her lifetime.

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FYI

By Laura J. Nelson, Maya Lau, Los Angeles Times: ‘Like Armageddon’: Rotting food, dead animals and chaos at postal facilities amid cutbacks
At the Santa Clarita processing and distribution center, two delivery bar code sorters were padlocked and gutted of their cameras and computers in July so that workers couldn’t plug them in and start using them again.

For an unknown reason, the devices came back online Wednesday, but a third delivery bar code sorter was missing from the facility, according to a worker who did not want to be named because they were not authorized to speak on behalf of the agency.
 
 
By Reed Abelson, The New York Times: U.S. Mail Delays Slow Delivery of Medicines In addition to concerns over mail-in voting, the cost-cutting at the Postal Service affects the millions of people who get their prescriptions by mail.

 
 
 
 
The Passive Voice: 10 Books About the Importance of the Postal Service
 
 
 
 
Atlas Obscura: A virtual road trip across the United States
 
 
 
 
By Colin Marshall, Open Culture: Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock & Other Jazz Musicians Sell Whisky & Spirits in Classic Japanese TV Commercials
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 

Recipes

Little House Big Alaska: Salt and Pepper Zucchini Chips
 
 
A Taste of Alaska: Cauliflower “Mac” and Cheese and Putting up the Garden
 
 
A Taste of Alaska: Winning the Sweepstakes & Strawberry Shortcake Mug Cake
 
 
By Jesse Szewczyk, The Kitchn: I Tried the Broiled Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe That’s Racked Up Millions of Views on YouTube