Successful Defense

     

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Yesterday I spent the morning at the University of Arizona attending the public portion of my grandson's Ph,D. Dissertation Defense.

Timothy

The defense was a success

More after graduation late in December.

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The PBS show The News Hour downloads to me The Morning Line, a daily roundup of the day's news. Yesterday it presented a quite interesting commentary. Below is the first paragraph:

In the face of falling public support for his job performance and signature health care law, President Barack Obama on Tuesday tried to shift some of the blame to a group of lawmakers with ratings even lower than his: Republicans in Congress.

You can read the whole thing (and much, much more) at:

The Rundown - a Blog Of News And Insight

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Did You Know . . .?

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

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HISTORICAL EVENT

On this day, November 21 in 1877, the American inventor, Thomas Edison announced his invention of the phonograph, a way to record and play back sound.

Edison stumbled on one of his great inventions while working on a way to record telephone communication at his laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. His work led him to experiment with a stylus on a tinfoil cylinder, which, to his surprise, played back the short song he had recorded, "MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB". Public demonstrations of the phonograph made the Yankee inventor world famous, and he was dubbed the "Wizard of Menlo Park."

Edison, who acquired an astounding 1,093 patents in his 84 years, died in 1931.

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WORD FOR TODAY

dissertation
noun
A lengthy, formal treatise, especially one written by a candidate for the doctoral degree at a university; a thesis.

A dissertation, or thesis, is a document submitted in support of candidature for an academic degree or professional qualification presenting the author's research and findings. In some contexts, the word "thesis" or a cognate is used for part of a bachelor's or master's course, while "dissertation" is normally applied to a doctorate, while in others, the reverse is true.

The word dissertation can at times be used to describe a treatise without relation to obtaining an academic degree. The term thesis is also used to refer to the general claim of an essay or similar work.

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CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS

Goldie Jeanne Hawn

(born November 21, 1945)

Goldie Hawn is an American actress, film director, producer, and occasional singer. Hawn is known for her roles in television's Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In and films like The Sugarland Express, Private Benjamin, Foul Play, Shampoo, Overboard, Bird on a Wire, Death Becomes Her, The First Wives Club, and Cactus Flower, for which she won the 1969 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She is the mother of actors Oliver and Kate Hudson. Hawn has maintained a relationship with actor Kurt Russell since 1983.

Harold Allen Ramis

(born November 21, 1944)

Harold Ramis is an American actor, director, and writer, specializing in comedy. His best-known film acting roles are as Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters (1984) and Russell Ziskey in Stripes (1981), both of which he co-wrote. As a writer/director, his films include the comedies Caddyshack (1980), Groundhog Day (1993), and Analyze This (1999). Ramis was the original head writer of the television series SCTV (in which he also performed), and one of three screenwriters for the film National Lampoon's Animal House (1978). 

Margaret Julia "Marlo" Thomas

(born November 21, 1937)

Marlo Thomas is an American actress, producer, and social activist known for her starring role on the TV series That Girl (1966–1971) and her award-winning feminist children's franchise, Free to Be... You and Me. For her work in television, she has received four Emmys, a Golden Globe, the George Foster Peabody Award and has been inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame. She also received a Grammy award for her children’s album Thanks & Giving All Year Long. Ms. Thomas serves as National Outreach Director for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital which was founded by her father, Danny Thomas in 1962.

Cynthia Rhodes

(born November 21, 1956)

Cynthia Rhodes is an American actress, singer and dancer most noted for her roles in Dirty Dancing, Flashdance and Staying Alive.

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Games People Play

     

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Potentially Fatal ‘Knockout’ Game

A terrifying new game that’s already caused deaths in Syracuse, St. Louis and New Jersey is sweeping the nation, and it preys upon unsuspecting people walking the streets, anywhere.

Kids are running around and punching innocent pedestrians for no reason, a behavior many who have played Grand Theft Auto 5 have witnessed as they punch the buttons of their controller.

A Pittsburgh-area teacher survived such an attack and said he doesn’t remember the incident. The 15-year-old who knocked him unconscious is charged with simple assault. He has not been identified because he is a juvenile.

Two and a half minute video

Three teens have been arrested in New Jersey for punching and killing a homeless man. A man interviewed there says teens call the fad ‘Knockout’ and dare each other to perform a “one hitter quitter,” which means knocking out a random pedestrian with one punch.

Laughing teens interviewed by CBS, whose faces are blurred because they are minors, said Knockout is not about “anger,” it’s about fun.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

KNOCKOUT

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Did You Know . . .?

A rat can last longer without water than a camel.

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HISTORICAL EVENT

On this day, November 20 in 1820, the American whaler Essex, which hailed from Nantucket, Massachusetts, was attacked by an 80-ton sperm whale 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America.

The 238-ton Essex was in pursuit of sperm whales, specifically the precious oil and bone that could be derived from them, when an enraged bull whale rammed the ship twice and capsized the vessel. The 20 crew members escaped in three open boats, but only five of the men survived the harrowing 83-day journey to the coastal waters of South America, where they were picked up by other ships. Most of the crew resorted to cannibalism during the long journey, and at one point men on one of the long boats drew straws to determine which of the men would be shot in order to provide sustenance for the others. Three other men who had been left on a desolate Pacific island were saved later.

The first capture of a sperm whale by an American vessel was in 1711, marking the birth of an important American industry that commanded a fleet of more than 700 ships by the mid 18th century. Herman Melville's classic novel Moby Dick (1851) was inspired in part by the story of the Essex.

From HISTORY

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WORD FOR TODAY

potential
adjective
having or showing the capacity to become or develop into something in the future.
noun
1. latent qualities or abilities that may be developed and lead to future success or usefulness.
2. PHYSICS the quantity determining the energy of mass in a gravitational field or of charge in an electric field.

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CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS

Robert Francis Kennedy

(Nov 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968)

Robert F. Kennedy, commonly known as "Bobby" or by his initials RFK, was an American politician, who served as a Senator for New York from 1965 until his assassination in 1968. He was previously the 64th U.S. Attorney General from 1961 to 1964, serving under his older brother, President John F. Kennedy and his successor, President Lyndon B. Johnson. An icon of modern American liberalism and member of the Democratic Party, Kennedy was a leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in the 1968 election.

Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden, Jr.

(born November 20, 1942)

Joe Biden is the 47th and current Vice President of the United States, jointly elected with President Barack Obama. He is a member of the Democratic Party and was a United States Senator from Delaware from January 3, 1973, until his resignation on January 15, 2009, following his election to the Vice Presidency. In 2012, Biden was elected to a second term alongside Obama.

Richard Remick "Dick" Smothers

(born November 20, 1939)

Dick Smothers is an American actor, comedian, composer and musician. He is best known for being half of the musical comedy team the Smothers Brothers, with his older brother Tom.

Bo Derek

(born November 20, 1956)

Bo Derek is an American film and television actress, movie producer, and model perhaps best known for her role in the 1979 film 10. The film also launched a bestselling poster for Derek in a swimsuit, and subsequently she became one of the most popular sex symbols in the 1980s. Her later films were not well-received, either critically or at the box office. She makes occasional film, television and documentary appearances.

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When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top.
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Exact Definitions Of Words

    

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Exact definitions of words is extremely important for accurate reporting.

I have believed that for a long time, even in the face of those who laugh at the statement and tell me that English is a 'living langauage' and should change with the times.

I still maintain that a word should have an exact definition and that the definition should be learned and then observed by all (every one) of its users.

For example:

The police stormed in with helmets, face shields, and automatic rifles and decimated 30% of the 90 demonstrators.

The meaning of the above sentence will depend upon the individual reader's definition of the word 'decimated.'

Originally' decimate' meant "to kill one in every ten of (a group of soldiers or others) as a punishment for the whole group." But over time, misuse of the word by the uneducated masses has reduced the meaning to "kill, destroy, or remove a large percentage or part of."

From Wikipedia: Decimation (Latin: decimatio; decem = "ten") was a form of military discipline used by senior commanders in the Roman Army to punish units or large groups guilty of capital offences such as mutiny or desertion. The word decimation is derived from Latin meaning "removal of a tenth". The procedure was a pragmatic attempt to balance the need to punish serious offences with the practicalities of dealing with a large group of offenders.

The word decimation is currently (counter to historical use) used to refer to an extreme reduction in the number of a population or force, much greater than the one tenth defined by the "deci" (as in "decimal") root. It is frequently used as a synonym for the word "annihilation" (the OED lists "annihilation" as meaning "to reduce to non-existence, blot out of existence", or for "devastation"...

30% of 90 demonstrators is 30 demonstrators.

So, in the original statement, it could be construed that most of the 30 demonstrators were killed, or it could mean that only 3 of the demonstrators (10% of 30) were killed.

Exact definitions of words is extremely important for accurate reporting.

Note: If my math is faulty let me know.

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Did You Know . . .?

A raisin dropped in a fresh glass of soda will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.

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HISTORICAL EVENT

On this day in 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered what became one of the most famous speeches in American history, at the dedication of the military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Using just 272 words, Lincoln articulated the meaning of the Civil War for a public that had grown weary of the conflict.

Today, the words of the Gettysburg Address are carved into a wall of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.




WORD FOR TODAY

dictionary
noun
a reference book that consists of an alphabetical list of words with their meanings and parts of speech, and often a guide to accepted pronunciation and syllabification, irregular inflections of words, derived words of different parts of speech, and etymologies.

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CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS

Jodie Foster
(born November 19, 1962)

Jodie Foster is an American actress, film director, and producer. Foster began acting in commercials at the age of three, and rose to prominence at the age of 13 in the 1976 film Taxi Driver as the preteen prostitute Iris, for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1989, for playing a rape victim in The Accused. In 1991, she starred in The Silence of the Lambs, receiving international acclaim and her second Academy Award for Best Actress. She received her fourth Academy Award nomination for playing a hermit in Nell (1994).

Foster's other best-known work includes Contact (1997), The Brave One (2007), and Carnage (2011). She made her directorial debut in 1991 with Little Man Tate; she also directed the films Home for the Holidays (1995) and The Beaver (2011).

Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III
(born November 19, 1938)

Ted Turner is an American media mogul and philanthropist. As a businessman, he is known as founder of the cable news network CNN, the first 24-hour cable news channel. In addition, he founded WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television. As a philanthropist, he is known for his $1 billion gift to support the United Nations, which created the United Nations Foundation, a public charity to broaden support for the UN.

Meg Ryan
(born November 19, 1961),

Meg Ryan is an American actress and producer. After playing several minor roles in film and television, Ryan became a star in 1989, when she appeared in When Harry Met Sally.... Over the next 15 years, she played leading roles in several romantic-comedy films, including Sleepless in Seattle (1993), French Kiss (1995), Addicted to Love (1997), City of Angels (1998), You've Got Mail (1998), and Kate & Leopold (2001), films which together grossed a total of more than $870 million worldwide.

Allison Brooks Janney
(born November 19, 1959)

Allison Janney is an American actress. She played White House Press Secretary (later Chief of Staff) C.J. Cregg on the television series The West Wing (1999–2006). Her films include Big Night (1996), Primary Colors (1998), Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999), 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), American Beauty (1999), The Hours (2003), Finding Nemo (2003), Hairspray (2007), Juno (2007), The Help (2011) and The Way Way Back (2013).

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How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
--Abraham Lincoln

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"Oh GOD!"

    
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I was surprised to find how many accepted Catholic practices are forbidden in the King James Bible.

For example:

And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
--Matthew 23:9  (King James Version)

This seems straightforward enough to me. Don't call any man by the title, Father. But the Catholic church does just that. They have a priesthood wherein all priests are hailed using the honorific, Father.

I am not the only one who has called attention to this fact; the Catholic church has set up a website to answer such anomalies.

Catholic Answers

When reading from these Catholic Answers it is immediately obvious that they were written by relatively modern day scribes and apologists who by clever twisting of words add foolish complexity to the original statement.

I am not attempting to compare the Protestant religion with the Catholic faith, and not proclaiming one as being superior to the other.

After all . . .

Organized religion is nothing more than man made foolishness.

As in:

When Joseph Smith was 21 years old, an angel named Moroni gave him the ancient records. Joseph had little formal education and was unfamiliar with the ancient language written on the metal sheets of gold, but he was able to translate them because God gave him the gift and power to do so. The translation took less than three months, and in 1830, 5,000 copies of the Book of Mormon were published in Palmyra, New York.

God chose Joseph as a prophet, seer, revelator and translator to restore The Church of Jesus Christ in modern time, and the Book of Mormon was essential to this restoration. Joseph Smith was given an extraordinary calling, and because he kept himself worthy of the blessings of heaven, he was able to bring the Book of Mormon to the world.

Now that's ridiculous.

After all, here in the United States of America all citizens have the right to worship as they please.

And, after all, I could be wrong.

. . . but I'm not.


The phone rang while I was typing the above, and I hurried into the far bedroom to screen the call on the answering machine. There was no message. It was probably just one of those pesky telemarketers.

I wonder what Eva thinks about my hurrying through the house every time that bell rings.

I wonder if Eva has a religion.

 

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Did You Know . . .?

Since 1815, more than 2.5 billion copies of the Bible have been sold worldwide. It has been translated into more than 2,200 languages and dialects.

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HISTORICAL EVENT

On this day, November 18 in 1978, Peoples Temple founder Jim Jones led hundreds of his followers in a mass murder-suicide at their agricultural commune in a remote part of the South American nation of Guyana. Many of Jones’ followers willingly ingested a poison-laced punch while others were forced to do so at gunpoint. The final death toll at Jonestown that day was 909; a third of those who perished were children.

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WORD FOR TODAY

anomaly
noun
1. Deviation or departure from the normal or common order, form, or rule.
2. One that is peculiar, irregular, abnormal, or difficult to classify.

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CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS

Linda Evans
(born on November 18, 1942)

Linda Evans is an American actress known primarily for her roles on television. In the 1960s, she first gained fame after playing Audra Barkley in the Western television series, The Big Valley (1965–1969). However she is most prominently known for the role of Krystle Carrington in the 1980s ABC prime time soap opera Dynasty, a role she played from 1981 to 1989.

Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr.
(Nov 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998)

Alan Shepard was an American naval aviator, test pilot, flag officer, NASA astronaut, and businessman, who in 1961 became the second person, and the first American, to travel into space. This Mercury flight was designed to enter space, but not to achieve orbit. Ten years later, at age 47 the oldest astronaut in the program, Shepard commanded the Apollo 14 mission, piloting the lander to the most accurate landing of the Apollo missions. He became the fifth person to walk on the Moon, and the only astronaut of the Mercury Seven to walk on the Moon. During the mission, he hit two golf balls on the lunar surface.

 

Megyn Marie Kelly
(born November 18, 1970)

Megyn Kelly is a news anchor on the Fox News Channel. Kelly currently hosts The Kelly File on weekdays at 9–10 PM Eastern time from the network's New York City headquarters. She previously hosted America Live. Prior to that, Kelly co-hosted America's Newsroom along with Bill Hemmer. Since 2007, the two have hosted Fox News Channel's New Year's Eve special every year.

Owen Cunningham Wilson
(born November 18, 1968)

Owen Wilson is an American actor and screenwriter. Wilson is known for the films Bottle Rocket (1996) which was his acting début and The Royal Tenenbaums (2001 as well as acting in Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), Cars (2006) and The Darjeeling Limited (2007).

Wilson is also known for his collaborations with Ben Stiller, appearing in eight films together including Meet the Parents (2000) and the cult classic Zoolander (2001) and for starring on his own in other popular comedies such as Shanghai Noon (2000) and Wedding Crashers (2005). More recently he has starred in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris (2011).

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Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
--Napoleon Bonaparte

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The Jungle by Guest Blogger

    

The Jungle That Is Women's Clothing

I finally made a major work decision. As part of this decision (one that's been almost two years in the making) I've purchased some new clothes.

I dragged Harry to Dillard's and told the woman there that I had no clue what I wanted, and that I truly have no fashion sense. (As if she couldn't tell by my no-zipper jeans and hiking boots.)

The next hour or so I tried on clothes. Into this and out of that, try this and wait, put that one back on and add this. After this grueling exercise, I came away with three pretty nice outfits, where almost all items are interchangeable.

What I didn't get was instructions.

Women's clothing is full of snaps, zippers, buttons, and hidden surprises. For instance:

There's a gap between the third and fourth buttons of each shirt which will pop open when I sit down. This allows a great view of my bra. Shouldn't these shirts come with safety pins?

One pair of pants has a zipper, a button, and two snaps. When I wear that one I need to carefully plan my bathroom trips.

The white shirt I have allows for a clear vision of any underclothing. I still need to buy a slippy-thing for it. What's up with that? I gotta buy a shirt in order to wear the shirt I bought?

Overall, though, the purchase was a good move. I still feel a little like a clown in these clothes, but I'm getting lots of compliments. (And one startled look from a nephew.) Those things make it worth the learning.

Now if I could just get the new shoes to let go of my feet....


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Comet ISON

    

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The much-anticipated Comet ISON is now visible to the naked eye, according to reports from many observers.

 

Astrophotographer Mike Hankey sent in a photo of Comet ISON, taken through his telescope on Sunday from Auberry, Calif., near Fresno. He has been imaging ISON regularly since Sept 21 and noticed a more prominent jet in recent days.

MORE . .

Note: A close solar approach will bring the icy wanderer within 724,000 miles of the sun's surface on Nov. 28 -- if the comet does not explode into millions of pieces... or simply fizzle out.

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Did You Know . . .?

The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.

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HISTORICAL EVENT

On this day,  November 16 in 1901, a spare, low-slung car called the "Torpedo Racer" -- basically a square platform on bicycle wheels -- broke the world speed record for electric cars in Coney Island, New York.

The car's builder and pilot, an engineer named Andrew Riker, managed to coax his machine one mile down the straight dirt track in just 63 seconds (that's about 57 mph.) The battery-powered Torpedo Racer held onto its record for ten years.

Today, by contrast, the world speed record for an electric vehicle is about 245 mph.

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WORD FOR TODAY

comet
noun
a celestial object consisting of a nucleus of ice and dust and, when near the sun, a “tail” of gas and dust particles pointing away from the sun.

A comet is an icy small Solar System body that, when passing close to the Sun, heats up and begins to outgas, displaying a visible atmosphere or coma, and sometimes also a tail. These phenomena are due to the effects of solar radiation and the solar wind upon the nucleus of the comet.

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CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS

Oliver Burgess Meredith
(Nov 16, 1907 – Sep 9, 1997)

Burgess Meredith was an American actor in theatre, film, and television. Early in his career, Meredith attracted favorable attention, especially for playing George in a 1939 adaptation of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men and as war correspondent Ernie Pyle in The Story of G.I. Joe (1945).

Meredith was a favorite of director Otto Preminger, who cast him in Advise and Consent (1962), In Harm's Way (1965), Hurry Sundown (1967), Skidoo (1968) and Such Good Friends (1971). He was the Penguin in the Batman movie of 1966 based on the TV series, and in Stay Away Joe (1968) appeared as Elvis Presley's character's father.

Meredith played Rocky Balboa's trainer, Mickey Goldmill, in the first three Rocky films (1976, 1979 and 1982). Even though his character died in the third Rocky film, he returned briefly in a flashback in the fifth film, Rocky V (1990).

Lisa Michelle Bonet
(born November 16, 1967)

Lisa Bonet is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Denise Huxtable Kendall on the long-running NBC sitcom The Cosby Show, and originally starring in its spinoff A Different World.

Clu Gulager
(born November 16, 1928)

Clu Gulager is an American television and film actor and director, particularly noted for his co-starring role as William H. Bonney (Billy The Kid) in the 1960–1962 NBC television series, The Tall Man and for his role as Emmett Ryker in another NBC western series, The Virginian. He also appeared in Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show and the racing film Winning. Gulager was the protagonist Burt in The Return of the Living Dead, starred in McQ with John Wayne, Lee Marvin, and Angie Dickinson in director Don Siegel's The Killers. Gulager's short film A Day with the Boys was nominated for the prestigious Palme d'Or for best short film at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival.

 

Mary Marg Helgenberger
(born November 16, 1958)

Marg Helgenberger is an American film and television actress known for her roles as Catherine Willows in the CBS drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and as K.C. Koloski in the ABC drama China Beach, which earned her the 1990 Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series.

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"Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretenses to foretell events"
--Jonathan Swift

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Rincon Sunrise

    

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Earlier this morning I stepped outside and snapped a couple of shots of the sun rising over the Rincon Mountains in the East. This is how the first one of them came out.

 

Here is another one

 

When I came back inside I was greeted by Eva inviting me to play fetch with a tennis ball.

 

As I tried to get the ball from her, she took off and sped around the area from room to room. I managed to catch a part of her in full gallop.

 

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Did You Know . . .?

Coca-Cola was originally green.

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HISTORICAL EVENT

On November 15 in 1965 at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, 28-year-old Californian Craig Breedlove set a new land-speed record -- 600.601 miles per hour -- in his car, the Spirit of America, which cost $250,000 and was powered by a surplus engine from a Navy jet.

Breedlove held the title for nearly five years, until Gary Gabelich coaxed his rocket-powered Blue Flame to an average speed of 622.4 mph. In 1997.

Britain's Andy Green in 1997 set a new land-speed record of 763 mph, faster than the speed of sound.

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WORD FOR TODAY

tantamount
adjective
-  as good as; equivalent in effect to; his statement was tantamount to an admission of guilt.
-  equivalent in effect or value: a request tantamount to a demand.

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CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS

Samuel Atkinson "Sam" Waterston
(born November 15, 1940)

Sam Waterston is an American actor, producer and director. Among other roles, he is noted for his Academy Award-nominated portrayal of Sydney Schanberg in The Killing Fields (1984), and his Golden Globe-nominated and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning portrayal of Jack McCoy on the NBC television series Law & Order.

Shailene Diann Woodley
(born November 15, 1991)

Shailene Woodley is an American actress. She is best known for portraying Amy Juergens in the ABC Family series The Secret Life of the American Teenager and for co-starring alongside George Clooney in the critically acclaimed 2011 film The Descendants. For her performance in the film The Spectacular Now, she won the Dramatic Special Jury Award for Acting at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.

Curtis Emerson LeMay
(Nov 15, 1906 - Oct 1, 1990)

Curtis LeMay was a general in the United States Air Force. He is credited with designing and implementing an effective systematic strategic bombing campaign in the Pacific theater of World War II. During the war, he was known for planning and executing a massive bombing campaign against cities in Japan and a crippling minelaying campaign in Japan's internal waterways. After the war, he reorganized the Strategic Air Command (SAC) into an effective instrument of nuclear war.

 

General LeMay served as Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force from 1961 until his retirement in 1965.

Petula Sally Olwen Clark
(born 15 November 1932)

Petula Clark is an English singer, actress, and composer whose career has spanned seven decades. Clark's professional career began as an entertainer on BBC Radio during World War II. During the 1950s she started recording in French and having international success in both French and English, with such songs as "The Little Shoemaker", "Baby Lover", "With All My Heart", and "Prends Mon Cœur". During the 1960s she became known globally for her popular upbeat hits, including "Downtown", "I Know a Place", "My Love", "Colour My World", "A Sign of the Times", and "Don't Sleep in the Subway". She has sold more than 68 million records throughout her career.

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Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
--Buddha

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