Nov 8

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Nov. 8, 2019 Week: 44  Day: 312

86004:   H 60° \ L 28° \ Average Sky Cover: 15%

Nearest active fire:  87mi.  Nearest lightning:  972mi

Wind:   5mph\Gusts:  16mph  Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 74°[1973]   Record Low: 7°[2011]

Nov. Averages: 53°\23° (3 days with moisture)

Today’s Quote

“The wise man doesn’t give the right answers,

he poses the right questions.”

~ Claude Levi-Strauss

Random Tidbit

Teachers have an equal turnover rate to police officers and less than child care workers, secretaries, and paralegals. Teaching has a higher turnover rate than nursing and a far higher turnover than "traditionally respected professions" such as law, engineering, architecture, and academia.

Observances This Week

10/25-11/11

World Origami Days

1-7

Drowsy Driving Prevention Week Link   
Give Wildlife A Brake! Week Link 
National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week Link   
National Fig Week
Polar Bear Week

World Communication Week

2-6

National Patient Accessibility Week 

6-8

National Farm Toy Show Days 
Sherlock Holmes Weekend LINK

7-13Dear Santa Letter Week

8-14

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

Observances for Today

Abet and Aid Punsters Day
Cook Something Bold Day

Dunce Day Link
Intersex Day of Remembrance  Link
National Cappuccino Day

National Parents As Teachers Day
National S.T.E.M./S.T.E.A.M. Day   Link
Tongue Twister Day

Shakespeare Authorship Mystery Day
X-ray Day

My Rambling Thoughts

The rain has ended for the foreseeable future. Nice to get the moisture, but we need so much more.

Headed out to do some necessary shopping. Only took about an hour and got almost everything I needed. Couldn’t find a couple of items but will get them the next time out. Such a nice day to be out and about.

Just talked to Lori, Bob is on heavy meds and basically non-responsive. So sad.

I have an Apache friend from San Carlos Rez. We were in grad school together. He went on to get his doctorate, first in his tribe. He served as a Superintendent for decades, then as VP for the tribe. Now he serves on the Tribal Council. The council just passed a resolution that prevents anyone arrested for violence will have their tribal benefits cut off until they are found not guilty or they serve their term. This includes their per cap and their EBT. This is a bold move that will hopefully help with cutting down on domestic violence and alcohol related violence.

I’ve been keeping up with the horrible murder of women and children in Mexico. There has to be a whole lot more to the story. Turns out there are three compounds in Mexico that are inhabited by break-away Mormons who left the LDS church decades ago because the LDS church denounced polygamy. These break-away groups also believe that it is OK to kill sinners. Over the years there have been incidents where members of these groups did kill locals that they believed had sinned. So far, my reading suggests that this is a cult. This does not excuse the violence.  

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of this page

There are three numbers. The first two are 2/3 and 3/4.

What does the third number have to be to make the average of all three be 2?

Historical Events

392 - Roman Emperor Theodosius declared the Christian religion the official state religion. He also dissolved the order of the Vestal Virgins in Rome, which had been in place for almost 400 years.

1519 - First meeting of Moctezuma II & Hernán Cortés in Tenochtitlan, Mexico. Little is known about him, except that he was the leader of the Aztecs and was killed in the Spanish conquest of Mexico. "Montezuma's Revenge' is named after him.

1601 -The Bodleian Library was established in Oxford, England.

1623 - Shakespeare's First Foio was published.

1731 - In Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin (with members of his Junto Club) opened the first US library. Plans had begun in earnest in July, and Ben retired as the Librarian in 1734.

1789 - Bourbon Whiskey was first distilled from corn (by Elijah Craig, Bourbon Ky). That's what his namesake's website says.

1895 - Wilhelm Röntgen observed X-rays for the first time during an experiment at Würzburg University, Germany. It earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901, and element 111, roentgenium, was named after him.

1904 - U.S. patent (#774,250) for a separable electric attachment plug was issued to inventor and manufacturer Harvey Hubbell of Bridgeport, Connecticut. It is essentially the plug we use today.

1910 - The first US patent (#974,785) for an "electric insect destroyer" (Bug Zapper) was issued to William H. Frost of Spokane, Washington.

1960 - John F. Kennedy defeated Richard Nixon to become the 35th president of the United States.

1965 - Days of Our Lives premiered on NBC. The original title sequence voiced by MacDonald Carey is still used.

1966 Edward W. Brooke (Rep-R-Mass) becomes 1st African American popularly elected to the US Senate

1966 - Ronald Reagan was elected Governor of California. His career path also included lifeguard, actor, cheerleader and US President.

1969 - #1 Hit: The 5th Dimension - Wedding Bell Blues

1972 - Home Box Office (HBO) was launched, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The first broadcast was a 1971 film, Sometimes a Great Notion, starring Paul Newman and Henry Fonda.

1979 - Nightline premiered on ABC. Frank Reynolds was the original presenter, Ted Koppel too over shortly after the program began.

1980 - Voyager 1 space probe discovered the 15th moon of Saturn. We've counted 62 moons and dozens of moonlets around the planet to date.

1986 - #1 Hit: Boston - Amanda

1999 - Bruce Miller was killed near Flint, Michigan. His wife, Sharee Miller, convinced her online lover Jerry Cassaday to kill him, was convicted of the crime, in what became the world's first Internet murder.

2002 Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council under Resolution 1441 unanimously approves a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face "serious consequences"

2010 - Conan debuted on TBS

2014 Mikhail Gorbachev warns that tensions between America and Russia over Ukraine have put the world on the brink of a new Cold War

2014 US President Obama authorizes deployment of 1,500 additional troops to help train and advise Iraqi and Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State militants

2017 Louvre Abu Dhabi is inaugurated, largest art museum on Arabian Peninsula

2018 Deadliest fire in Californian history, the Camp Fire starts at Plumas National Forest spreads in Butte County destroying town of Paradise, more than 13,000 buildings and killing at least 88

2018 Qatar delivers $15 million in cash to pay civil servants in Gaza after earlier sending fuel to increase electricity from 4 to 8 hours a day

Birthdays Today

@85 – Edmond Halley, English astronomer/ mathematician

(died in 1742)

@84 – Morley Safer, Canadian-American journalist and author

(died in 2016)

@78 – Esther Rolle, American actress

(died in 1998; diabetes)

@78 – Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon/ academic

(died in 2001; asthma attack)

@74 – Milton Bradley, American businessman; founded

Milton Bradley Company,

(died in 1911)

70 – Wayne LaPierre, American businessman, author and

NRA activist

70 – Bonnie Raitt, American Singer/Songwriter and guitarist

69 – Mary Hart, American journalist and actress

65 – Rickie Lee Jones, American Singer/Songwriter

@64 – Bram Stoker, Irish novelist/critic (created Count

Dracula,

(died in 1912; stokes, syphilis)

58 – Leif Garrett, American singer, actor, and TV personality

53 – Gordon Ramsay, British chef, restaurateur, TV host

@49 – Joe Flynn, American actor

(died in 1974; heart attack)

49 – Tom Anderson, American businessman

(co-founded Myspace)

@48 – Margaret Mitchell, American journalist and author

(died in 1949; hit by car)

46- David Muir, journalist

44 – Tara Reid, American actress

@37 – Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist/psychoanalyst

(died in 1922; peritonitis)

Puzzle answer:

4 7/12

In order for the average of three numbers to be 2, they must all add up to 6. That gives you this equation:

2/3 + 3/4 + n = 6

Solve for n = 55/12, or 4 7/12.