<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National Deviled Egg Day'. . A.K.a. eggs mimosa, stuffed egg, salad
eggs,dressed egg.
- From Wikipedia (Deviled egg):
'Deviled eggs (US) or devilled eggs (UK), also known as stuffed eggs, angel
eggs, eggs mimosa, Russian eggs, dressed eggs, or picnic eggs are
hard-boiled eggs that have been shelled, cut in half, and filled with a
paste made from the egg yolks mixed with other ingredients such as
mayonnaise and mustard. They are generally served cold as a side dish,
appetizer or a main course, often for holidays or parties.
The term deviled, in reference to food, was in use in the 18th century,
with the first known print reference appearing in 1786. In the 19th
century, it came to be used most often with spicy or zesty food, including
eggs prepared with mustard, pepper or other ingredients stuffed in the yolk
cavity.
In parts of the Southern and Midwestern United States, the terms stuffed
eggs, salad eggs, dressed eggs, or angel eggs are also used, particularly
when served in connection with church functions, avoiding the Devil's name.
The term angel eggs has also been used in association with deviled eggs
stuffed with healthier (less fat and cholesterol) alternatives.
Cooled hard-boiled eggs are peeled and halved lengthwise, and the yolks are
removed. The yolks are then mashed and mixed with a variety of other
ingredients, such as mayonnaise and mustard. Tartar sauce or Worcestershire
sauce are also frequently used. Other common flavorings include: diced
pickle or pickle relish, salt, ground black pepper, powdered cayenne pepper
or chipotle chillies, turmeric, vinegar, ketchup, green olives, pimentos,
poppyseed, thyme, cilantro, minced onion, pickle brine, caviar, cream,
capers, and sour cream.
The yolk mixture is then scooped into each egg cup made from the firm egg
whites. Old Bay, paprika, curry powder, cayenne, chives, or dill may be
sprinkled on top as a garnish. The finished eggs may be further decorated
with caviar, anchovy, bacon, shrimp or herring'.
[The Hankster says] Love 'um. My daughter-in-law makes some of the best.
* 'National Eating Healthy Day'. . First Wednesday in November by the
American Heart Association.
[The Hankster says] OK, I'll just eat a few deviled eggs.
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'Traffic Directors Day'.
On a Monday if the 2rd falls on a weekend day.
[The Hankster says] Someone has got to make sense of it all.
* 'Look for Circles Day'.
Look for the circles in nature.
[The Hankster says] I've tried it, but round things keep getting in the way.
* 'Job Action Day'.
A day to review and take action if necessary if you are not happy with your
current job.
[The Hankster says] The action I liked was retirement.
* 'Plan Your Epitaph Day'.
You don't want some else to do it for you.
[The Hankster says] I made one, but I am making a synopsis of it, so it will fit on the gravestone.
<> Awareness / Observances:
o Other:
* 'International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists'. A
U.N. observance.
- From Wikipedia (International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against
Journalists):
'The International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists is a
UN-recognized day observed annually on 2 November.
The day draws attention to the low global conviction rate for violent
crimes against journalists and media workers, estimated at only one in
every ten cases. As these individuals play a critical role in informing and
influencing the public about important social issues, impunity for attacks
against them has a particularly damaging impact, limiting public awareness
and constructive debate.
On 2 November, organizations and individuals worldwide are encouraged to
talk about the unresolved cases in their countries, and write to government
and intra-governmental officials to demand action and justice. UNESCO and
civil society groups throughout the world use 2 November as a launch date
for reports, events and other advocacy initiatives relating to the problem
of impunity for crimes against freedom of expression, including the
publication of UNESCO’s bi-annual Director-General’s report , which
catalogues the responses of states to UNESCO’s formal request for updates
on progress in cases of killings of journalists and media workers'.
<> Historical events on November 2
* 'In 1889, North and South Dakota are admitted to the U.S. as 39th and
40th state. .
- From Wikipedia: 'North Dakota is the 39th state of the United States,
having been admitted to the union on November 2, 1889.
It is located in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States, bordered
by the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the north,
Minnesota to the east, South Dakota to the south, and Montana to the west.
The state capital is Bismarck, and the largest city is Fargo. North Dakota
is the 19th most extensive but the 4th least populous and the 4th least
densely populated of the 50 United States.
North Dakota has weathered the Great Recession of the early 21st century
with a boom in natural resources, particularly a boom in oil extraction
from the Bakken formation, which lies beneath the northwestern part of the
state. The development has driven strong job and population growth, and low
unemployment'.
- From Wikipedia: 'South Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region
of the United States. It is named after the Lakota and Dakota Sioux Native
American tribes, who comprise a significant portion of the population and
historically dominated the entire territory. South Dakota is the 17th most
expansive, but the 5th least populous and the 5th least densely populated
of the 50 United States. Once the southern portion of the Dakota Territory,
South Dakota became a state on November 2, 1889, simultaneously with North
Dakota. Pierre is the state capital and Sioux Falls, with a population of
about 171,000, is South Dakota's largest city'.
* 'In 1898, Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with
Johnny Campbell. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Cheerleading ranges from yelling to intense physical
activity for sports team motivation, audience entertainment, or competition
based upon organized routines. The routines usually range anywhere from one
to three minutes, which may contain many components of tumbling, dance,
jumps, cheers, and stunting in order to direct spectators of events to
cheer for sports teams at games or to participate in cheerleading
competitions. The yellers, dancers, and athletes involved in cheerleading
are called cheerleaders. Cheerleading originated in the United States, and
remains predominantly American, with an estimated 1.5 million participants
in all-star cheerleading. The presentation of cheerleading as a sport to a
global audience was led by the 1997 start of broadcasts of cheerleading
competition by ESPN International and the worldwide release of the 2000
film Bring It On. Due in part to this recent exposure, there are now an
estimated 100,000 participants scattered around the rest of the world in
countries including Australia, Canada, China, Colombia, Finland, France,
Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.
Organized cheerleading started as an all-male activity. As early as 1877,
Princeton University had a Princeton Cheer, documented in the February 22,
1877, March 12, 1880, and November 4, 1881, issues of The Daily
Princetonian. This cheer was yelled from the stands by students at games,
as well as by the baseball and football athletes themselves. The cheer,
Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! Tiger! S-s-s-t! Boom! A-h-h-h! remains in use with
slight modifications today and is now referred to as the Locomotive
Princeton class of 1882 graduate Thomas Peebles moved to Minnesota in 1884.
He transplanted the idea of organized crowds cheering at football games to
the University of Minnesota. The term Cheer Leader had been used as early
as 1897, with Princeton's football officials having named three students as
Cheer Leaders: Thomas, Easton, and Guerin from Princeton's classes of 1897,
1898, and 1899, respectively, on October 26, 1897. These students would
cheer for the team also at football practices, and special cheering
sections were designated in the stands for the games themselves for both
the home and visiting teams.
It was not until 1898 that University of Minnesota student Johnny Campbell
directed a crowd in cheering Rah, Rah, Rah! Ski-u-mah, Hoo-Rah! Hoo-Rah!
Varsity! Varsity! Varsity, Minn-e-So-Tah!, making Campbell the very first
cheerleader and November 2, 1898 the official birth date of organized
cheerleading. Soon after, the University of Minnesota organized a yell
leader squad of six male students, who still use Campbell's original cheer
today. In 1903, the first cheerleading fraternity, Gamma Sigma, was
founded'.
* 'In 1920, KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania broadcasts as first commercial
radio station. Frank Conrad broadcast records from a local music store for
promotional advertisement. .
- From Wikipedia: 'KDKA (1020 kHz AM) is a Class A (clear channel) radio
station, owned and operated by CBS Radio and licensed to Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. Its studios are located at the combined CBS Radio Pittsburgh
facility in the Foster Plaza on Holiday Drive in Green Tree, and its
transmitter site is at Allison Park. The station's programming is also
carried over KDKA-FM's 93.7 HD2 digital subchannel.
KDKA features a News/Talk format. Operating with a transmitter power output
of 50,000 watts, the station can be heard during daylight hours throughout
central and western Pennsylvania, along with portions of the adjacent
states of Ohio, West Virginia and New York, plus the Canadian province of
Ontario. Its nighttime signal covers much of eastern North America.
KDKA has described itself as the Pioneer Broadcasting Station of the World,
and traces its beginning — initially using the' temporarily assigned
special amateur call sign of 8ZZ — to its broadcast of the 1920 Harding-Cox
presidential election results on the evening of November 2, 1920'.
* 'In 1936, The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (French: Société
Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian crown corporation
that serves as the national public radio and television broadcaster. The
English- and French-language services units of the corporation are commonly
known as CBC and Radio-Canada respectively, and both short-form names are
also commonly used in the applicable language to refer to the corporation
as a whole.
Although some local stations in Canada predate CBC's founding, CBC is the
oldest existing broadcasting network in Canada, first established in its
present form on November 2, 1936. Radio services include CBC Radio One, CBC
Radio 2, Ici Radio-Canada Première, Ici Musique and the international radio
service Radio Canada International. Television operations include CBC
Television, Ici Radio-Canada Télé, CBC News Network, Ici RDI, Ici Explora,
documentary (part ownership), and Ici ARTV. The CBC operates services for
the Canadian Arctic under the names CBC North and Radio-Canada Nord. The
CBC also operates digital services including CBC.ca/Ici.Radio-Canada.ca,
CBC Radio 3, CBC Music/ICI.mu and Ici.TOU.TV, and owns 20.2% of satellite
radio broadcaster Sirius XM Canada, which carries several CBC-produced
audio channels.
In 1929, the Aird Commission on public broadcasting recommended the
creation of a national radio broadcast network. A major concern was the
growing influence of American radio broadcasting as U.S.-based networks
began to expand into Canada. Meanwhile, Canadian National Railways was
making a radio network to keep its passengers entertained and give it an
advantage over its rival, CP. This, the CNR Radio, is the forerunner of the
CBC. Graham Spry and Alan Plaunt lobbied intensely for the project on
behalf of the Canadian Radio League. In 1932 the government of R.B. Bennett
established the CBC's predecessor, the Canadian Radio Broadcasting
Commission (CRBC)'.
* 'In 1947, Howard Hughes conducts the only flight of the Spruce Goose, the
largest fixed-wing aircraft in history. This was it's only flight. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Hughes H-4 Hercules (also known as the Spruce Goose
registration NX37602) is a prototype strategic airlift flying boat designed
and built by the Hughes Aircraft Company. Intended as a transatlantic
flight transport for use during World War II, it was not completed in time
to be used in the war. The aircraft made only one brief flight on November
2, 1947, and the project never advanced beyond the single example produced.
Built from wood because of wartime restrictions on the use of aluminium and
concerns about weight, it was nicknamed by critics the Spruce Goose,
although it was made almost entirely of birch. The Hercules is the largest
flying boat ever built and has the largest wingspan of any aircraft in
history. It remains in good condition and is on display at the Evergreen
Aviation and Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, United States'.
* 'In 1957, The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national
publicity. On separate occasions, eyewitnesses say they saw lights and an
egg shaped object. The government says it was natural occurrences. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Levelland UFO Case occurred on November 2–3, 1957 in
and around the small town of Levelland, Texas. Levelland, which in 1957 had
a population of about 10,000, is located west of Lubbock on the flat
prairie of the Texas South Plains. The case is considered by ufologists to
be one of the most impressive in UFO history, mainly because of the large
number of witnesses involved over a relatively short period of time.
However, both the US Air Force and UFO skeptics have labeled the incident
as being caused by either ball lightning or a severe electrical storm.
On the evening of November 2, 1957, two immigrant farm workers, Pedro
Saucedo and Joe Salaz, called the Levelland police department to report a
UFO sighting. Saucedo told police officer A.J. Fowler, who was working the
night desk at the police station, that they had been driving four miles (6
km) west of Levelland when they saw a blue flash of light near the road.
They claimed their truck's engine died, and a rocket-shaped object rose up
and approached the truck. According to Saucedo, I jumped out of the truck
and hit the dirt because I was afraid. I called to Joe but he didn't get
out. The thing passed directly over my truck with a great sound and rush of
wind. It sounded like thunder and my truck rocked from the flash...I felt a
lot of heat. As the object moved away the truck's engine restarted and
worked normally. Believing the story to be a joke, Fowler ignored it. An
hour later, motorist Jim Wheeler reported a brilliantly lit, egg-shaped
object, about 200 feet long was sitting in the road, four miles (6 km) east
of Levelland, blocking his path. He claimed his vehicle died and as he got
out of his car the object took off and its lights went out. As it moved
away, Wheeler's car restarted and worked normally.
At 10:55 pm a married couple driving northeast of Levelland reported that
they saw a bright flash of light moving across the sky and their headlights
and radio died for three seconds. Five minutes later Jose Alvarez claimed
he met a strange object sitting on the road 11 miles (18 km) north of
Levelland, and his vehicle's engine died until the object departed. At
12:05 am (November 3), a Texas Technological College (now Texas Tech
University) student named Newell Wright was surprised when, driving 10
miles (16 km) east of Levelland, his car engine began to sputter, the
ammeter on the dash jumped to discharge and then back to normal, and the
motor started cutting out like it was out of gas...the car rolled to a stop
then the headlights dimmed and several seconds later went out. When he got
out to check on the problem, he saw a 100-foot-long egg-shaped object
sitting in the road. It took off, and his engine started running again. At
12:15 am Officer Fowler received another call, this time from a farmer
named Frank Williams who claimed he had encountered a brightly glowing
object sitting in the road, and as his car approached it, its lights went
out and its motor stopped. The object flew away, and his car's lights and
motor started working again. Other callers were Ronald Martin at 12:45 am
and James Long at 1:15 am, and they both reported seeing a brightly lit
object sitting in the road in front of them, and they also claimed that
their engines and headlights died until the object flew away.
By this time, several Levelland police officers were actively investigating
reports. Among them was Sheriff Weir Clem, who saw a brilliant red object
moving across the sky at 1:30 am. At 1:45 am Levelland's Fire Chief, Ray
Jones, also saw an object and his vehicle's lights and engine sputtered.
The reports apparently ended soon after. During the night of November 2–3,
the Levelland police department received a total of 15 UFO-related reports,
and Officer Fowler noted that everybody who called was very excited.'.
* 'In 1959, The TV game show 'Twenty One' contestant Charles Van Doren
admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and
answers in advance. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The American quiz show scandals of the 1950s were a
series of revelations that contestants of several popular television quiz
shows were secretly given assistance by the show's producers to arrange the
outcome of an ostensibly fair competition. The quiz show scandals were
driven by a variety of reasons. Some of those reasons included the drive
for financial gain, the willingness of contestants to play along with the
assistance, and the lack of current regulations prohibiting the rigging of
game shows.
In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Federal Communications Commission
v. American Broadcasting Co., Inc. 347 U.S. 284, that quiz shows were not a
form of gambling this paved the way for their introduction to television.
The prizes of these new shows were unprecedented. The $64,000 Question
became the first big-money television quiz show during the 1950s. In 1955,
Joyce Brothers first earned fame by becoming the first woman to earn the
$64,000 prize. It was revealed later that the show was controlled the
producers did not want her to win and deliberately gave her questions
perceived to be beyond her ability, which she answered correctly anyway.
The $64,000 Question was one of the game shows ultimately implicated to be
fixed in some fashion.
In 1956, the Jack Barry-hosted game show Twenty One featured a contestant,
Herb Stempel, who had been coached by producer Dan Enright to allow his
opponent, Charles Van Doren, to win the game. Stempel took the fall as
requested of him. A year later, Stempel told the New York
Journal-American's Jack O'Brien that his run as champion on the series had
been choreographed and that he had been ordered to purposely lose his
championship to Van Doren. With no proof, an article was never printed.
Stempel's statements gained more credibility when match fixing in another
game, Dotto, was publicized in August 1958. Quiz show ratings across the
networks plummeted. The revelations were sufficient to initiate a nine
month long County of New York grand jury. No indictiments were handed down,
but the findings of the grand jury were sealed by judge's order.
A formal congressional subcommittee investigation began in Summer 1959.
Enright was revealed to have rigged Twenty One Charles Van Doren also
eventually came forth with revelations about how he was persuaded to accept
specific answers during his time on the show. These elements of the scandal
were portrayed in the 1994 movie Quiz Show.
As a result, many contestants' reputations were tarnished. In 1960, the
United States Congress amended the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit
the fixing of quiz shows. As a result of that action, many networks
canceled their existing quiz shows and replaced them with a higher number
of public service programs. Most networks also imposed a winnings limit on
their existing and future game shows, which would eventually be removed by
inflation and the rise of the million-dollar jackpot game shows starting in
1999'.
* 'In 1988, Morris worm, first major internet-distributed computer worm, is
launched. The program was not meant to be malicious. The idea was to see
how big the Internet was, it being mostly university and government
computers. However it had an unintential bug in it's code and did cause
some computers to crash.
- From Wikipedia: 'The Morris worm or Internet worm of November 2, 1988 was
one of the first computer worms distributed via the Internet. It was the
first to gain significant mainstream media attention. It also resulted in
the first felony conviction in the US under the 1986 Computer Fraud and
Abuse Act. It was written by a graduate student at Cornell University,
Robert Tappan Morris, and launched on November 2, 1988 from the computer
systems of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
According to its creator, the Morris worm was not written to cause damage,
but to gauge the size of the Internet. The worm was released from MIT in
the hope of suggesting that its creator studied there, which Morris did not
(though Morris later became a tenured professor at MIT in 2006). It worked
by exploiting known vulnerabilities in Unix sendmail, finger, and
rsh/rexec, as well as weak passwords. Due to reliance on rsh (normally
disabled on untrusted networks), fixes to sendmail, finger, the widespread
use of network filtering, and improved awareness of the dangers of weak
passwords, it should not succeed on a recent, properly configured system.
A supposedly unintended consequence of the code, however, caused it to be
more damaging: a computer could be infected multiple times and each
additional process would slow the machine down, eventually to the point of
being unusable. This would have the same effect as a fork bomb and crash
the computer several times. The main body of the worm could only infect DEC
VAX machines running 4BSD, and Sun-3 systems. A portable C grappling hook
component of the worm was used to pull over (download) the main body, and
the grappling hook could run on other systems, loading them down and making
them peripheral victims'.
* 'In 2001, The computer-animated movie 'Monsters, Inc.' opened. The film
recorded the best debut ever for an animated film and the 6th best of all
time. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Monsters, Inc. is a 2001 American computer-animated
comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney
Pictures. Featuring the voices of John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Steve
Buscemi, James Coburn and Jennifer Tilly, the film was directed by Pete
Docter at his directorial debut, co-directed by Lee Unkrich and David
Silverman, and executive produced by John Lasseter and Andrew Stanton.
The film centers on two monsters employed at the titular Monsters, Inc.:
top scarer James P. Sulley Sullivan (John Goodman) and his one-eyed partner
and best friend Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal). Monsters, Inc. employees
generate their city's power by targeting and scaring children, but they are
themselves afraid that the children may contaminate them when one child
enters Monstropolis, Mike and Sulley must return her.
Docter began developing the film in 1996 and wrote the story with Jill
Culton, Jeff Pidgeon, and Ralph Eggleston. Fellow Pixar director Andrew
Stanton wrote the screenplay with screenwriter Daniel Gerson. The
characters went through many incarnations over the film's five-year
production process. The technical team and animators found new ways to
render fur and cloth realistically for the film. Randy Newman, who composed
the music for Pixar's three prior films, returned to compose its fourth.
Monsters, Inc. was praised by critics and proved to be a major box office
success from its release on November 2, 2001, generating over $577 million
worldwide. Monsters, Inc. saw a 3D re-release in theaters on December 19,
2012. Twelve years later, a prequel, Monsters University, directed by Dan
Scanlon, was released on June 21, 2013'.
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Monthly holiday / awareness days in November
Food
Banana Pudding Lovers Month
Diabetic Eye Disease Month
Epilepsy Awareness Month
Gluten-Free Diet Awareness Month
National Georgia Pecan Month
National Peanut Butter Lovers Month
National Pomegranate Month
Health
American and National Diabetes Month
Lung Cancer Awareness Month
MADD's Tie One On For Safety Holiday Campaign
National PPSI AIDS Awareness Month
National Alzheimer's Disease Month
National COPD Month
National Diabetes Month
National Family Caregivers Month
National Healthy Skin Month
National Home Care and Hospice Month
National Impotency Month
National Long-term Care Awareness Month
National PPSI Aids Awareness Month
NET Cancer Awareness Month
Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month
Stomach Cancer Awareness Month
Vegan Month
Animal and Pet
Adopt A Senior Pet Month
Adopt A Turkey Month
Manatee Awareness Month
National Pet Cancer Awareness Month
Pet Diabetes Month
Other
American Indian Heritage Month
Aviation History Month
Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month
Family Stories Month
Historic Bridge Awareness Month
Military Family Appreciation Month
National Entrepreneurship Month
National Inspirational Role Models Month
National Memoir Writing Month
National Native American Heritage Month
National Family Literacy Month
National Novel Writing Month
National Runaway Prevention Month
National Scholarship Month
Picture Book Month
November is:
November origin (from Wikipedia): 'November is the eleventh month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian
Calendars and one of four months with the length of 30 days. November was
the ninth month of the ancient Roman calendar. November retained its name
(from the Latin novem meaning 'nine') when January and February were added
to the Roman calendar.
'
'November is a month of spring in the Southern Hemisphere and autumn in
the Northern Hemisphere. Therefore, November in the Southern Hemisphere
is the seasonal equivalent of May in the Northern Hemisphere and vice
versa.'
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