Dear Fellow Library Lovers,
Below please find the press release which was
sent out yesterday announcing today's amazing
happening.
In consultation with the many learned reference
librarians at the LA Public Library we found it
didn't have a name. Thus was born:
"SCA, Sequential Chronological Anomaly."
Each of you, please take professional pride in
your assistance to each patron, young and old,
for you never know what you are stimulating in
their minds! In this case, the results herein, we
hope, will allow this phrase to go down in
history in a dictionary near you!!! Like many
things, all because of a Librarian! :) [And
hopefully there are 'teachable moments' in this
from the science and math fields... If you'd like
HS curricula about this I expect my ex, a
planetary space scientist, an HS teacher will
share his imaginative items and multiplicity of
web links.] Thanks again, from the thousands of
deliriously happy patrons who are too shy to say
"thanks!"
Best wishes and Happy SCA Day!
Jane Lowenthal
Library of California Board
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"At precisely 1 hour, 2 minutes and 3 seconds
after both, midnight and noon on Tuesday April
4th, 2006, we shall enjoy an extremely rare
chronological occurrence" shared Los Angeles
based Mediator, Jane Lowenthal. "The date when
written out will be 01-02-03 04-05-06." "You
have to fudge a little," added Geoff Chester,
Public Affairs Officer at the US Navy Observatory
in Washington, D.C, as we use the abbreviation of
'06 for 2006.
The pair researched this anomaly and found there
had not been a name for it or a definition and
thus was born: "SCA, Sequential Chronological
Anomaly." Spelled S-C-A and pronounced "SKAY"
Ms. Lowenthal explains it as "a sequence of
numbers, which specify a moment in time." This
exact SCA will not happen for another 100 years,
but the next SCA, 02-03-04 05-06-07, will occur
in 13 months!
Mr. Chester suggests also celebrating universal
time, the standard scientific time.
This begins four hours ahead of eastern daylight time. So 01-02-03-04-05-06 can
be celebrated at 9:02 p.m. EDT (Monday eve) by
calling 202-762-1401 and waiting for the
universal time pronouncement from the U.S. Naval
Observatory's
"master clock."
The clock is also available at: http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/what1.html.
As the rest of the world uses the convention of
number of the day first then the month, Europe
will enjoy a SCA Day next month.
Wishing you "Happy SCA Day!!!" 01-02-03 04-05-06
For more information, contact:
Jane Lowenthal, Los Angeles based Mediator/Arbitrator (818) 366-5009
Geoff Chester, Public Affairs Officer, US Navy Observatory, D.C. (202) 762-1438
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THE LOWENTHAL GROUP
Arbitration, Mediation, Conflict Management Services
& Conflict Resolution Training
Los Angeles, California USA 91326-1607
Phone:(818) 366-5009 * Fax: (818) 360-1929 *
e-mail:mediator@lafn.org
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