Nov 14

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Nov. 14, 2019 Week: 46  Day: 318

86004:   H 66° \ L 26° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%

Nearest active fire:  55mi.  Nearest lightning:  1178mi

Wind:   6mph\Gusts:  12mph  Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 70°[1967]   Record Low: -5°[1987]

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

Today’s Quote

“My future starts when I wake up every morning.

Every day I find something creative

to do with my life.”

~ Miles Davis

Observances This 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

13-19

World Antibiotic Awareness Week

Observances for Today

Do Dah Day (Pasadena) Link 

(Note: Many towns have one. Pasadena originated it.)
Hindu Diwali Day

International Girls Day
International Selfie Day (Diabetes Foundation) Link  Link
Loosen Up, Lighten Up Day
National American Teddy Bear Day Link
National Block It Out Day
National Pickle Day
National Spicy Guacamole Day
Operating Room Nurse Day

Pickle Appreciation Day

Spicy Guacamole Day

Spirit of NSA (National Speakers Association) Day
World Diabetes Day

My Rambling Thoughts

I’m busy today getting ready for my quick trip to Denver. I’ll leave tomorrow morning and return on Monday. I’ll be driving, since a flight was way to expensive. It will be nice to be with Bob’s daughters and my friends.  That being the case, no blogs until mid-week next week.

It’s a nice fall day and I’m hoping it is like this on the drive tomorrow.

I watched much of today’s hearing. The best was that there was very little grandstanding by either side when their turn was at hand. It will be interesting to see how the general voting public responds. Both witnesses were obviously career diplomats. They remained calm and spoke in coherent language.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of this page

I flex my jaws when you use me,

My only purpose is to damage,

Yet I’m used by small children.

What am I?

Historical Events

India celebrates Children's Day on November 14th, exactly 9 months after Valentine’s Day.

1851 - Moby-Dick by Herman Melville was published.

1856 American Gail Borden is issued a patent for technology related to his invention of condensed milk

1883 "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson is first published as a book by Cassell & Co.

1889 - New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) began her attempt to duplicate the literary journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around world in less than 80 days. She succeeded, finishing the trip in January in 72 days and 6 hours.

1906 US President Theodore Roosevelt visits Panama

1908 Albert Einstein presents his quantum theory of light

1922 - The BBC (The British Broadcasting Company) officially began its daily domestic radio service broadcasting with the 6:00pm news, read by announcer Arthur Burrows.

1956 - Love Me Tender, starring Elvis Presley was released in US theaters.

1960 - #1 Hit: Ray Charles - Georgia on My Mind

1960 - OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries), was formed by Iraq, Kuwait, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.

1967 - The patent for "Ruby Laser Systems" was issued to Theodore Maiman (Patent #3,353,115). His first ruby laser was tested in 1960.

1968 - National Turn in Your Draft Card Day featured the burning of draft cards on US college campuses.

1979 - US President Jimmy Carter issued Executive order 12170, which froze all Iranian assets in the United States, in response to the hostage crisis.

1986 - FCC issued a Notice of Apparent Liability to WYSP in Philadelphia for broadcasting The Howard Stern Show, with material that the FCC believe contained "indecent" material.

1991 - Michael Jackson's Black Or White video was aired on FOX (and MTV, BET, VH1) right after an episode of The Simpsons.

1992 - #1 Hit: The Heights - How Do You Talk To An Angel

1994 - First trains for the general public ran in Channel Tunnel (Chunnel) under the English Channel.

1998 - #1 Hit: Lauryn Hill - Doo Wop (That Thing)

2008 - The first G-20 economic summit convened in Washington, DC.

2009 - #1 Hit: Jason Derulo - Whatcha Say

2015 - #1 Hit: Adele - Hello

2017 Zimbabwe Army seizes key sites in capital Harare following tensions over Robert Mugabe's dismissal of vice-president Emmerson Mnangagwa

2018 Astronomers announce discovery of Super-Earth planet (3.2x bigger than Earth) orbiting red dwarf Barnard's star, 6 light years away

Birthdays Today

@94 – Sherwood Schwartz, American screenwriter and producer

(died in 2011)

@90 – Aaron Copland, composer, conductor, and educator

(died in 1990)

@86 – Claude Monet, French painter

(died in 1926)

@75 – Brian Keith, American actor and director

(died in 1997; lung cancer)

72 – P. J. O'Rourke, American political satirist and journalist

71 – Charles Philip Arthur George (Prince of Wales)

@68 – McLean Stevenson, American actor and screenwriter

(died in 1996; heart attack)

65 – Yanni,

Yiannis Chryssomallis

(Greek: Γιάννης Χρυσομάλλης)

Greek-American pianist, composer and producer

53 – Curt Schilling, American baseball player; sportscaster

@48 – Joseph McCarthy, Captain, lawyer, and politician

(died in 1957; hepatitis)

47 – Josh Duhamel, American model and actor

Puzzle answer:

Scissors

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