Today in history, greetings, and social banter here. (More)
Louis XII named Cesare Borgia Duke of Valentinois, making Borgia the first Catholic cardinal to resign that church office, today (1498). Also, the Scottish Reformation Parliament signed the new confession of faith, displacing the Catholic Church as the official state religion (1560), 8000 people died as a magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck the Anatolia region of what is now Turkey (1668), James Robertson made the first ascent of Scotland’s Ben Nevis (1771), the commercial steamboat era began as Robert Fulton’s North River Steamboat left New York City for Albany today (1807), the Dominican Republic’s national anthem, Himno National, was performed in public for the first time (1883), Seattle’s Pike’s Place Market opened (1907), 400 people died as a category 4 hurricane struck Galveston (1915), Indonesia declared independence (1945), Britain announced the Radcliffe Line dividing the then-dominions of India and Pakistan (1947), the first Narcotics Anonymous meeting was held (1953), a magnitude 7.5 earthquake in Yellowstone National Park formed Quake Lake, on the same day Miles Davis’ landmark jazz album Kind of Blue was released (1959), Gabon gained independence (1960), East German border guards killed 18-year-old Peter Fletcher as he attempted to cross the Berlin Wall into West Berlin (1962), 265 people died as Hurricane Camille struck the U.S. Gulf Coast (1969), Venera 7 was launched (1970), the Soviet icebreaker Arktika became the first surface ship to reach the North Pole (1977), the Double Eagle II landed in Miserey, France after her 137-hour journey from Presque Isle, Maine, making her the first hot air balloon to cross the Atlantic (1978), two-month-old Azaria Chamberlain was taken by a dingo during a family camping trip, a disappearance that would spark the most publicized criminal trial in Australia’s history (1980), the world’s first compact discs were released in Germany (1982), Pakistani President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Akhtar Abdur Rehman died in a plane crash along with U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel and U.S. general Herbert Wassom (1988), President Bill Clinton admitted to his affair with intern Monica Lewinsky (1998), 17,000 people died as a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck İzmit, Turkey (1999), two people were killed as terrorists detonated over 500 bombs in a half-hour across Bangladesh (2005), and U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps won a record eighth gold medal in a single Olympic Games (2008). And 75 people died when a defective turbine at Russia’s Sayano–Shushenskaya hydroelectric station tore apart, allowing a flood that filled several work rooms inside the dam (2009).
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Good morning! ::hugggggs::
The night before last, my Nook Tablet stopped charging. Horrors. I depend on that thing. Several calls to B&N technical support offered suggestions that didn’t work, such as rebooting, using other chargers (no dice) and changing out the USB cable. My son and I tried that with two cables, no charging. The suggestion that it might be my cable seemed hopeless anyway, as charger cables for the Tablet are no longer available anywhere. I even asked about that and heard, “We’re sorry, but we don’t make them anymore.”
Well, since I can’t drive yet, my youngest son marched off to the local B&N store, Tablet in hand. They plugged it into a Nook Color charger and… success.
Chargers for the Nook Color are everywhere, and inexpensive. I wish technical support over the phone had known about this. I could have saved hours of time searching for replacements and solutions
I guess I got the B Team. Heh. Usually B&N technical support do a stellar job.
Anyway, long story, long struggle, all to be easily answered at the store where the saleswoman knew something the techies at phone support didn’t know. 🙂 Color me happy, and grateful to my son who said, “Sometimes it works better face-to-face.”
Hugggs and good morning!
Did you email B&N or post the solution on-line so others could learn from your experiences? I am sorry to hear that the on-line people didn’t know about the fix. How frustrating and how neat that your son could help.
Yes, I posted the solution in their forum. 🙂
I thought they were discontinuing the Nook Tablet. Anyway, terrific that you got it charged. I agree with the face-to-face experience. I was at Fed Ex yesterday and the FE employee there was very helpful to the customers.
Yes, it’s been discontinued, but when you buy electronics that expensive, you expect it to be supported for a while. Being told that replacement cords were no longer available wasn’t what you expect with a device only 2 years old.
However, the solution was at hand. Tech support just needs to know it. Another readily available charger works and voila! 🙂
Good Morning. This from today in history, “a magnitude 7.5 earthquake in Yellowstone National Park formed Quake Lake, on the same day Miles Davis’ landmark jazz album Kind of Blue was released (1959),” brought back memories. I spent a summer working in Yellowstone in 2006. I had just visited the Earthquake Museum and learned about the campers who were buried in the quake. 14 trailers and RV’s, lots of tent campers were buried and died. I was driving into the park on my day off and 5 or 6 white trucks with the USGS (Geological Survey) with sirens blaring pass the rest of us. I had a brief moment of panic followed by a moment of “whatever happens, happens.”
I find it easier to adopt the “whatever happens” with regard to nature’s events than I do with the events we humans inflict upon ourselves. Missouri is heartbreaking.
Missouri is heartbreaking, Linda. We’ve truly regressed as a society. I was reading Truthout yesterday and the writer reminisced about the day MLK was assassinated. Indianapolis was one of the few big cities not to explode, and the peace there was attributed to RFK’s consoling and heartfelt speech. He was able to connect at a human level that was sincere and empathetic.
Somehow I put this in yesterday’s Campus Chatter instead of today’s. *facepalm*
Yesterday on Campus
Morning Feature – Inequality and ‘The Greater Good’ Part III: A Better Game (Non-Cynical Saturday)
CampusQuestion – Weird News: Can being too efficient cause dragon attacks?
Today on Campus
Morning Feature – A Farce? (Ask Ms. Crissie)
Campus Question at 6pm ET
Our Earth at 8pm ET – Eco News Roundup
Welcome to the club! I did this a couple of days ago and confused Morning Feature and Campus Chatter.
I still found it. 🙂
Good morning! Through a series of strange events, I thought I needed to go out at 1:00 this morning to pick up The Younger W. I didn’t. Now I’m trying to wake up from the fog I’m in from the lack of sleep.
Are you good at taking a nap? I hope so. Just pushing through the day can be done but naps are restorative.
Oh I excel at taking naps, and I’ll take one later.
I forgot to mention that the house is now finally up for sale. We’ll see how long it takes to get it sold now. I’m hoping that we get to close by Halloween or so.
Good soggy morning!
We’ve rain, the gentle sleeping-in kind, and 72 degrees. Today is the first day of Sunday School, so I cannot tarry… I am the “greeter” you know, bailing the kiddos outta the vehicles, looks like I’ll be holding a bumbershoot this morning as well! We can still use the rain… I like it! PW and I will take SubWay to Gas Girl et a,l for lunch, and play with Adler. Hope all are well!
Best, G
Enjoy your day, Gardener. Do you have a favorite SubWay? Just curious as we have a SubWay in town.
Give Adler a big hug for all of us if you can catch him. 🙂
Haha! Yes, he’s a human dynamo, that’s for sure. He gets tired, but fights a nap until his last ounce of strength… I like tuna, because I figure we ought to eat it now, while we still can! Isn’t that awful?