I promised you all this morning that I would finish with Wikipedia's explanation
and history of the telephone party line today so we could get back on the road
tomorrow. It's surely going to be longer than usual....
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
"By the 1980s, party lines were displaced in most localities as they could not
support subscriber-owned equipment such as answering machines and
computer modems. The electro-mechanical switching equipment required
for their operation was rapidly becoming obsolete, supplanted by
electronic and digital switching equipment. The new telephone exchange
equipment offered vertical service code calling features such as call
forwarding and call waiting, but often was incompatible with multi-party
lines.
In 1971, Southern Bell had announced plans for phase-out of party lines in
North Carolina.... In 1989, the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone
Company replaced party lines with private lines in Talcott, West Virginia,
a rural area which once had as many as sixteen subscribers on one line....
In 1991, Southwestern Bell set out to replace all of its party lines in
Texas with private lines by 1995.... Woodbury, Connecticut's
independent telephone company abandoned its last party lines in 1991,
the last in that state to do so....
Party lines in the United States were ineligible for Universal Service Fund
subsidies and telephone companies converted them to private lines to
benefit from the subsidies. Universities also phased out the systems,
which were once common in student dormitories. Illinois State University
terminated its last party line in 1990....
One of the last manual telephone exchanges with party lines in Australia
was closed down in 1986 in the township of Collarenebri, where most
town residents had a telephone number of only three digits, and to make
a call outside the exchange area it was necessary to call the exchange to
place a call. For rural residents, many were on a single telephone line
identified by a number and a property name, for example one party line
was called Gundabluie 1 line. Each party on that single line was identified
by a letter, and so to call that party, the exchange would be called and
the number asked for would be Gundabluie 1 S for example. The exchange
rang a distinct rings down the Gundabluie 1 line, signalling the party's
corresponding letter in Morse code. This distinctive ring would alert all
parties on the line who the call was for. Three short rings signified the call
was for the party with the S letter and so on.
Selective ringing...."
Well, I sure sorry, I'm not going to be able to finish this tonight like I
promised. Too many other important things to talk about. Hillary Clinton
and Donald Trump are still bad mouthing each and that is all I need to say
on that.
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Mother Teresa
"Affectionately called the "saint of the gutters" during her lifetime,
Mother Teresa of Calcutta will be made an official saint of the Roman
Catholic Church on Sunday, just 19 years after her death.
A Nobel peace prize winner, Mother Teresa was one of the most
influential women in the Church's 2,000-year history, acclaimed for
her work amongst the world's poorest of the poor in the slums of the
Indian city now called Kolkata.
Hundreds of thousands of faithful are expected to attend the canonisation
service for the tiny nun, which will be led by Pope Francis in front of St.
Peter's basilica.
Although criticised both during her life and following her death, Mother
Teresa is revered by Catholics as a model of compassion who brought
relief to the sick and dying, opening branches of her Missionaries of
Charity (MoC) order around the world. "Even in popular culture she's
identified with goodness, kindness, charity," said Father Brian
Kolodiejchuk, the MoC priest who campaigned for her sainthood.
In novels or movies often characters say, "'Oh, who do you think I am?
Mother Teresa?'" he told Reuters.
Her critics view her differently, arguing she did little to alleviate the
pain of the terminally ill and nothing to stamp out the root causes of poverty.
In 1991, the British medical journal the Lancet visited a home she ran in
Kolkata for the dying and said untrained carers failed to recognise when
some patients could have been cured.
Kolodiejchuk said her detractors missed the point of her mission, arguing
that she had created a place to comfort people in their final days rather
than establish hospitals.
"We don't have to prove that saints were perfect, because no one is perfect,"
he said...."
TO BE CONTINUED....
(CNN) "Much of the Carolinas was being drenched by rain Friday afternoon
as Tropical Hermine slid up the East Coast after leaving hundreds of
thousands without power in Florida.
Forecasters with the National Weather Service said as many as 7 inches
of rain could fall, and in isolated areas it could be more than that.
A flash flood watch was issued for northeast South Carolina and southeast
North Carolina though Saturday morning. The path of the storm, which
smashed into Florida's Panhandle as a Category 1 hurricane Friday
morning, is projected to move through coastal South Carolina during
the day, through the North Carolina coast Friday night and head into
the Atlantic Ocean on Saturday.
The Labor Day weekend worry? Rough seas, dangerous surf and strong
storm surge up the coast as far north as Connecticut. The New York City
Emergency Management office said no swimming will be allowed on
beaches Sunday.
Late-night arrival - Hermine ripped into St. Marks in Florida's Big Bend
region as a Category 1 storm just before 2 a.m., becoming the first
hurricane to come ashore in the state since Wilma struck 11 years ago.
"There's nothing open in our county right now," sheriff's Maj. Trey
Morrison said Friday in Wakulla County, where Hermine made landfall.
He said he heard a report of a driver crashing early Friday into a fallen
tree."If it's not an emergency, we don't need people out," he said.
The storm's outer bands may have killed at least one person. John Mayes,
56, was sleeping in a tent behind a gas station in Ocala, about 65 miles
northwest of Orlando, when a tree fell onto him Thursday night, the
Marion County Sheriff's Office said. A medical examiner's office has yet
to determine whether the storm was the cause, Gov. Rick Scott said. About
70,000 homes and businesses were left without power in the Tallahassee
area, where sustained winds of up to 80 mph toppled utility poles onto
ground saturated by inches of rain. Videos and pictures shared on social
media showed damaged streets near the landfall point and downed trees
throughout much of the state. Hermine's outer bands also dropped more
rain in the Tampa and St. Petersburg areas, which could ill afford it.
Floodwater lapped cars' hubcaps in parts of St. Petersburg, which received
more than 9 inches of rain from Tuesday, before Hermine arrived, into
Friday morning. More than 22,000 customers were without power in the
area Friday morning, utility Duke Energy said. Power to many was restored
by the afternoon, the utility said. Flooding also was a problem in Pasco
County, north of Tampa. At least 18 people were rescued from rising
floodwater there, Scott said. St. Pete Police @StPetePD
Flooding in Shore Acres. Stay off the roads - 8:15 AM - 2 Sep 2016
Downgraded but dangerous
Are we prepared for a major hurricane?
Tropical storm watches and warnings were declared along the East Coast,
from Georgia to Connecticut. "I don't want folks to take the weakening of
the winds to mean the hazards have gone away," hurricane center Director
Rick Knabb told CNN's "New Day" on Friday. "The most frequent cause of
loss of life (from tropical cyclones in recent decades) is from inland flooding
due to heavy rainfall."
It is also possible Hermine will gain strength once it reaches the warm
water in the Atlantic.
Female hurricanes are deadlier than male hurricanes, study says....
In Panama City, a popular Labor Day destination, organizers canceled one
of the major tourist draws, the Gulf Coast Jam. Officials said the stage for
the three-day country music event had to be taken down as the winds
picked up. The governor had declared a state of emergency in 51 of the
state's 67 counties. Scott told residents not to drive into standing water
and to avoid downed power lines, saying crews were working hard to
ensure limited disruptions. "We have a hurricane. You can rebuild a home.
You can rebuild property. You cannot rebuild a life," he said.
In Georgia, Gov. Nathan Deal declared a state of emergency for 56
counties. And in North Carolina, Gov. Pat McCrory declared a state of
emergency for 33 eastern counties.
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe warned Friday that people faced a strong
possibility of "life-threatening" storm surges in Hampton Roads and other
coastal areas over the weekend. The governor was briefed by hurricane
center officials, who showed him a map with storm surge projections.
"It is a chilling map in that it shows storm surges going all the way up
the Chesapeake Bay," McAuliffe said. "We have been told of a very strong
likelihood of a life-threatening storm."
The National Weather Service issued a new online product to help people
prepare for the storm. The storm surge watch/warning graphic highlights
spots with the highest risk for "life-threatening inundation from storm surge,"
the service said."
CNN's Faith Robinson, Sheena Jones, John Murgatroyd, Steve Visser, Brian Todd, Joe
Sutton, Brandon Miller, AnneClaire Stapleton, Eliott C. McLaughlin, Debra
Goldschmidt, Ralph Ellis, Madison Park and Mayra Cuevas contributed to this report.
CONTINUED FROM THIS MORNING....
Mother got to the point that she could not remember the names of any of us
kids, but she always knew whoever was sitting across from her at the breakfast
table was the one who would take care of her for that day. After breakfast I
helped her up to her walker, if she needed help, the she would go over to the
card table and set down (I helped her here too if she needed help). I took
her blood pressure and heart rate, the recorded it on a sheet that had all the
days of one month. Then she and her helper for that day went into the recreation
room where just to the right there was a flat marble base under the fireplace
where we kept the digital weight scales. I had to steady her as Mother stepped
on the scales and the I watched for the readout and then helped her to her chair.
I then recorded it on the same sheet on the card table in the dinning room....
TO BE CONTINUED....
"Someone who overly friendly like myself, is considered to be manic and bi-polar"
Forrest Caricofe
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CONTINUED FROM THIS MORNING....
Dr. Kwok has a chart on the South wall of his patient offices that shows
the best poop from 1st place to last place (maybe 4 or five illustrations
of poop) and guess what? I came in 1st place. My own poop looks like
a large hot dog with tapered ends, light brown in color and soft as a pin
cushion thru and thru. It almost looks edible if you had the 100% whole
hot dog bun and the mustard (no calories). chopped onions and ketchup
to flavor it some.
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