Nov 13

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Nov. 13, 2019 Week: 46  Day: 317

86004:   H 60° \ L 24° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%

Nearest active fire:  181mi.  Nearest lightning:  746mi

Wind:   7mph\Gusts:  13mph  Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 72°[1967]   Record Low: -3°[2000]

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

Today’s Quote

There is nothing weak about kindness and compassion.

There is nothing weak about looking out for others.

There is nothing weak about being honorable.

You are not a sucker to have integrity

and to treat others with respect.”

~ Barack Obama

Observances This Week

7-13

Dear 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

9-13

National Young Readers Week Link

13-19

World Antibiotic Awareness Week

Observances for Today

Caregiver Appreciation Day

Domino Day Link 
National Indian Pudding Day

World Kindness Day

My Rambling Thoughts

Nice fall day.

It’s been a day of catching up…on internet technology.

About a month ago I had my Old Person Wellness Checkup. Today I got my BC/BS EOB. It stated that I might owe my doctor some $350. Since joining Medicare a few years ago, I’ve never gotten an EOB like this. So I called the doctor’s office…nope, don’t owe anything. She wasn’t sure why BC/BS was billed along with Medicare. Oh well. Good news. Then I opened my cable bill from Suddenlink. It said I hadn’t paid last month’s bill and that my service would be cut-off on Nov. 16, if I didn’t pay…I’m on Auto-Pay. So, I called. There was a 30-minute wait, or they would call back. I opted for the call back. Ninety minutes later a lady from Texas called. It seems that they recently ‘migrated’ to a new system, and my card wasn’t billed. Not my fault. Then, after some discussion, she said I could pay the back amount (1 month) and asked if I wanted to use my same card. I said yes. She ran it twice, on the ‘new and improved migrated system, and the card was declined. She pulled up my card on her magic computer and said that the information they had said my card expired in 2017 and I never updated the information when I got my new card. Hmmm.  I’ve been on auto pay for over a decade, so why did the card work during 2018 and 2019? I must have updated the card, right? She didn’t know. She took my card information, paid the bill, and said I was still on auto-pay. I asked for her supervisor and she said that her supervisor wasn’t there. I said it was 11am her time in Texas, so where was the supervisor. She said she was on other calls and she would put me on ‘the list’ and I would be called back within 24-48 hours. Crazy!

There is a very nice obituary for Bob from her daughter Lorie. The obituary is the official Olinger one.

Immigration at our southern border has been in the news. A group in Texas has had Federal Felony charges against them for leaving water jugs and food at various points along commonly used routes. The group ‘No More Deaths’ is a humanitarian organization, trying to stop needless deaths by illegal border crossers. While here in AZ the state has put up portable ‘beacon lights’ that run on solar power. These lights are placed on much used routes. They have a big red button, that activates a bright beacon light that can be seen for 5 miles, with information in English, Spanish, and graphic pictures to show how to use it.  The have been around for years. So far this year the beacons have been activated some 30 times and saved many lives. I like the AZ policy.  

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of this page

I was not born, but I am here.

I have no name, but I am given many.

I was made by science and life.

What am I?

Historical Events

1789 - Ben Franklin wrote "nothing is certain, but death and taxes" in a letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy.

1841 - James Braid first saw a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls Hypnotism.

1855 - A proposal for a tunnel under the English Channel was announced by French engineer M. Loèpold Favre, to connect Boulogne to Dover.

1902 "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad is first published in one volume (previously serialized) by William Blackwood in Edinburgh

1927 - The Holland Tunnel opened to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.

1940 - Walt Disney released Fantasia, a  film experience mixing animation and classical music, at New York's Broadway Theatre.

1942 - US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lowered the minimum draft age from 21 to 18.

1947 - The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47.

1954 - #1 Hit: Eddie Fisher - I Need You Now

1956 - The US Supreme Court of the United States declared Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, thus ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

1970 (Cyclone) East Pakistan (Bangladesh) killed approximately 500,000 people.

1971 - Mariner 9 was the first spacecraft to orbit another planet, reaching Mars.

1976 - #1 Hit: Rod Stewart - Tonight's the Night

1980 - US spacecraft Voyager 1 sent back first close-up pictures of Saturn.

1982 - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, a monument consisting of two black granite walls engraved with the names of 58,272 US soldiers that did not return from Vietnam, was dedicated in Washington D.C.

1985 (Volcano Eruption) Nevado del Ruiz, Columbia - over 23,000 people were killed.

1994 - Sweden agreed to join European Union

1997 - Broadway Show - The Lion King (Musical) opened at the New Amsterdam Theater on Broadway.

2001 War on Terrorism: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States.

2017 World's earliest wine-making uncovered from Khramis Didi Gora, Georgia, in clay pots from 6,000BC

2018 Trial of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán begins in New York

Birthdays Today

@84 – Louis Brandeis, American lawyer and jurist 'right to privacy'

(died in 1941)

@84 – Fred Phelps, American lawyer, pastor and activist;

founded & excommunicated from the Westboro Baptist

Church,

(died in 2014)

@81 – Garry Marshall, American actor, director and producer

(died in 2016)

78-– David Green, American businessman and philanthropist

(founded Hobby Lobby)

72 – Joe Mantegna, American actor and voice artist

@67 – Richard Mulligan, American actor

(died in 2000; cancer)

66- Andrés Manuel López Obrador, President of Mexico

64 – Whoopi Goldberg, actress, comedian and talk show host

56 – Vinny Testaverde, American football player

52 – Jimmy Kimmel, comedian, actor and talk show host

50 – Gerard Butler, Scottish actor

@44 – Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, poet,

and essayist

(died in 1894; stroke)

Puzzle answer:

A clone