Nov 10



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Nov. 10, 2019 Week: 45  Day: 314
86004:   H 61° \ L 29° \ Average Sky Cover: 10%

Nearest active fire:  181mi.  Nearest lightning:  1675mi
Wind:   5mph\Gusts:  5mph  Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 71°[1993]   Record Low:[1946]
Nov. Averages: 53°\23° (3 days with moisture)

Today’s Quote

I am pieces of all the places I have been,
and the people I have loved.
I’ve been stitched together by song lyrics,
book quotes, adventure,
late night conversations, moonlight,
& the smell of coffee.
~ Brooke Hampton

Random Tidbits

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.

Red hair is a recessive trait, which means that a child must inherit one red hair gene from each parent. Recessive traits often come in pairs, and redheads are more likely than other people to be left handed.

Observances This Week

10/25-11/11
World Origami Days

7-13
Dear Santa Letter Week

8-14
Geography Awareness Week 
National Nurse Practioner's Week
National Radiologic Technology Week
National Split Pea Soup Week
Perioperative Nurse Week
Snowcare For Troops Awareness Week
World Kindness Week
National Book Awards Week

9-13
National Young Readers Week Link

Observances for Today

American Frog Day Link
Area Code Day
Forget-Me-Not Day
International Accounting Day  Link
National Young Readers Day Link 
National Vanilla Cupcake Day
NET Cancer Awareness Day  Link
Marine Corps Birthday
Sesame Street Day

USMC Day
Windows Day (Microsoft)
World Science Day for Peace and
Development Link

My Rambling Thoughts

Beautiful day for a nice walk. So, I took one.

Using the internet machine, I made the final payment for my Tahiti trip in March and paid my auto insurance.

Here is an interesting story from Newsweek:
Berliners are trolling Trump by shipping him a 2.7-ton piece of the Berlin Wall
 “We would like to give you one of the last pieces of the failed Berlin Wall to commemorate the United States’ dedication to building a world without walls,” says a message painted on the concrete slab, which is signed by “Citizens of Berlin.”

I’ve been with the current Chase bank since they bought out the last bank and since that bank bought out the original bank…a local AZ bank called Valley National. Thankfully none of my account numbers have changed since I went to Valley National in the early 1980’s. Now I’m having issues with the Chase ATM drive thru at MY bank. The last four times I punched in everything and got a receipt that said there were technical difficulties. The first time it messed up I just drove around to the outside ATM and go my cash. The 2nd time I went inside and told them and they reported it. The 3rd time I reported it again to the Lead Bank Assistant. She told me that the code on my receipt means my card may have a fraud issue. I asked why the card worked at the inside ATM? She said she didn’t know but I should call customer service. After 2 people and a supervisor, I was assured by customer service that my card had no problems and that it must be the outside ATM. The last time the card failed I went inside and waited 15 minutes to see the real Bank Manager. She agreed that her assistant should not have used the word ‘fraud’ to a customer, told me that the outside ATM was one of the oldest ones in AZ and was ‘quirky’. She also said they get daily complaints and the company that services the machine is out almost daily to ‘fix’ it, but the ‘fix’ never lasts long. She said the bank is so old they can’t even have piped in music anymore. It is up for a complete ‘revamp’ but she has no idea when that will happen. I asked her if she had considered ‘Twitter’ to get the revamp. She said she had but knew that would get her fired. My dilemma is: do I give up on the ATM or try it, then go inside, complain, and get my cash inside, or do I drive to the other side of town (about 6 miles away) to use the drive thru at another branch? I think I’ll just skip the ATM for a time.

Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of this page

Each letter represents a different digit. Any digit can be used, but zero can never start a word. Given W = 2 and R = 6, what do the rest of the letters represent?

                                             TWO
                                          + TWO
                                              ------
                                              FOUR

Historical Events

1619 - René Descartes had the dreams that inspired his Meditations on First Philosophy.

1775 - The United States Marine Corps Was Born:
"That two battalions of Marines be raised consisting of one Colonel, two lieutenant-colonels, two majors and other officers, as usual in other regiments; that they consist of an equal number of privates as with other battalions, that particular care be taken that no persons be appointed to offices, or enlisted into said battalions, but such as are good seamen, or so acquainted with maritime affairs as to be able to serve for and during the present war with Great Britain and the Colonies; unless dismissed by Congress; that they be distinguished by the names of the First and Second Battalions of Marines."

1871 - Henry Morton Stanley in Ujiji, Central Africa, encountered David Livingstone with the immortal words: 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?'

1885 - The world's first motorcycle, designed by Gottlieb Daimler, made its first announced test-run.

1908 - The first Gideon Bible put in hotel rooms at the Superior Hotel in Superior, Montana.

1911 Andrew Carnegie forms Carnegie Corporation for scholarly and charitable works

1919 - The American Legion's first national convention (Minneapolis). The American Legion is an organization of U.S. war veterans that formed in Paris on March 15-17, 1919.

1950 Nobel for literature awarded to William Faulkner

1951 - The first direct-dial, coast-to-coast telephone service in North America began as Mayor M. Leslie Denning of Englewood, NJ called Mayor Frank Osborn in Alameda, CA.

1954 "Marine Corps War Memorial" unveiled in Arlington County, Virginia, dedicated to US Marine Corps who died in defense of US since 1775 (inspired by 1945 Iwo Jima photo of servicemen raising US flag)

1958 - #1 Hit: Conway Twitty - It's Only Make Believe


1974 - The discovery of the "charmed quark" subatomic particle was announced simultaneously by an MIT group at Brookhaven National Laboratory, and a SLAC-Berkeley group on the west coast at Stanford Linear accelerator center.

1975 - The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.

1977 - The Incredible Hulk (made for TV movie) was shown on CBS. Bill Bixby starred as David Banner, but the comics (and current films) refer to the character as Bruce Banner.


1983 - Bill Gates introduced Windows 1.0.

1984 - The first Breeders' Cup took place at Hollywood Park Racetrack.

1989 - German citizens began to bring the Berlin Wall down.


1997 - WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time). It is now part of Verizon.

1999 - Sesame Street celebrated its 30th anniversary. The series created by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett.

2007 ¿Por qué no te callas? ("Why don't you shut up?" )incident between King Juan Carlos of Spain and Venezuela's president Hugo Chávez.

2008 - NASA declared the Phoenix Mission concluded after communications with the lander were lost.

2014 Ethel Kennedy is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom

Birthdays Today

@94 – Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian general and engineer          designed the AK-47,
(died in 2013)

@75 – John Bevis, English physician and astronomer
discovered The Crab Nebula,
(died in 1771)

74 – Donna Fargo, American Singer/Songwriter and guitarist

72 – Dave Loggins, American Singer/Songwriter and guitarist

@71 – George Jennings, English plumber and engineer
(invented the flush toilet, died in 1882)

@62 – Martin Luther, German monk and priest;
leader of the Protestant Reformation,
(died in 1546; stroke)

@69 – Greg Lake, English Singer/Songwriter, guitarist
and producer (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)
(died in 2016; cancer)

63 – Sinbad (David Adkins), American comedian, actor

@58 – Richard Burton, Welsh actor and singer
(died in 1984; brain hemorrhage)

51 – Tracy Morgan, American comedian, actor and producer

41 – Eve, American rapper and producer

36 – Miranda Lambert, American Singer/Songwriter, guitarist

@25 – Michael Strank, American sergeant;
flag raiser at the Battle of Iwo Jima,
(died in 1945; friendly fire)

Puzzle answer:

F = 1
O = 8
R = 6
T = 9
U = 5
W = 2

   928
+ 928
  -----
  1856



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