Jun 18


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Jun. 18, 2019 Week: 25 \ Day: 169
86004:   H 75° \ L 40° \ Average Sky Cover: 20% 

Nearest wildfire:  11mi. Nearest lightning:  91mi
Wind:   4mph\Gusts:  15mph
Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 92°[1940]   Record Low: 24°[1995]
Jun Averages: 78°\42° (1 day with rain)

Today’s Quote

Man - a being in search of meaning.
Plato

Random Tidbits

The ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras taught the number 12 had divine, mystical meanings, and he might have been right, because we are practically drowning in examples of use of the number 12.

The United States of America is divided into 12 Federal Reserve Districts (Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Richmond, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Dallas, and San Francisco).

Observances This Week

National Nursing Assistants Week: 13-19  Link
National Hermit Week: 13-20

Animal Rights Awareness Week: 16-22 
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National Craft Spirits Week: 16-22 
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National Play Catch Week: 16-22 
Old Time Fiddlers Week: 16-22 

Universal Father's Week: 16-22

Bartender of The Year Week: 17-20  
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National Week of Making: 17-23  
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Meet A Mate Week: 17-23
National Pollinator Week: 17-23  
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Observances for Today

Autistic Pride Day  Link
Clark Kent's Birthday (Superman)   
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Go Fishing Day
National Splurge Day (Since 1994)
Sustainable Gasteronomy Day

My Rambling Thoughts

I got a Facetime call from my brother yesterday. He is in Oregon, meeting with his step-brothers and step-sisters for a reunion. One more brother was recently found. My brother and his wife are having a great time and invited me to the next reunion. Cool. They are all very cool and I am friends with most of them on FB. I asked when the next reunion was, and one of the brothers said…’well soon, not more than 25 years from now’. We all laughed, and I said I’d be there. The first search took about 25 years, and my brother was found about 5 years ago.

I’ve had a high white blood cell count for about a year. I was set up for 2 treatments to fix it. Lucky for me the first treatment last month did an exceptional job. I was scheduled to have the second treatment today, but after seeing the doc he said there was no problem is delaying the 2nd treatment until I return from Siberia. While the treatment was not that hard, I was sluggish for about 2 weeks. I’ve been dreading having the 2nd one so close to the trip. He agreed and said to enjoy the trip. I’m a very happy camper. 

The doc is from Eastern Europe and has traveled Russia quite a bit. Here’s his story: Do you know why Moscow’s cockroaches don’t light up? If they did, Moscow would be brighter than Las Vegas. Hmmm. He also said to expect lots of mosquito around that area.

This morning I needed to put my newspaper on vacation hold. I tired with their answering system, wouldn’t let me be on vacation more than 2 weeks. Hmmm. Tried the website, same thing. I finally called and had to wait 20 minutes to talk to a human. Finally got it done, complained about not being able to do it on line. I must stop the paper a day early because they are famous for not honoring the request, and I don’t want to arrive home again with lots of papers on my doorstep.

Not now, please! Iran and US are escalating. Chill out while we are traveling. Thanks. As for Hong Kong issue, I’ll deal with that one.

PUZZLE OF THE DAY
Answer at the bottom of this page

I give you a pen and paper and ask you to write the numbers from 1 to 100 in succession so that there are no three numbers such that twice the second one is equal to the sum of the first and the third one. The three numbers do not need to be successive in the sequence.
You have 5 minutes, what do you do?
Remark: The sequence 3, 1, 2, 5, 4 works, but the sequence 1, 4, 2, 5, 3 does not because of the numbers 1, 2, and 3.

Today’s Significant Historical Events
1200’s
1264 The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish legislature

1500’s
1541 Irish parliament selects Henry VIII of England as King of Ireland

1600’s
1682 William Penn founds Philadelphia, US

1700’s
1767 Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sights Tahiti, considered the first European to reach the island

1800’s
1812 War of 1812 begins as US declares war against Britain

1815 Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon and France defeated by British forces under Wellington and Prussian troops under Blucher

1873 Susan B. Anthony fined $100 for voting for US President

1879 W. H. Richardson, an African-American inventor, patents the children's carriage (Patent no. 405599)

1892 Macadamia nuts 1st planted in Hawaii

1900’s
1909 Nannie Burroughs forms national training School for Women

1928 American aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the 1st woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean landing at Burry Port, Wales

1940 Winston Churchill's "this was their finest hour" speech urging perseverance during Battle of Britain delivered to British House of Commons

1945 William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) charged with treason

1959 1st telecast transmitted from England to US

1981 Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart retires (replaced by Sandra Day O'Connor, 1st woman on US Supreme Court)

1981 The AIDS epidemic is formally recognized by medical professionals in San Francisco, California

1983 7th Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 launches Sally Ride as 1st US woman in space

1996 Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminal counts

2000’s
2013 Russia passes a law banning foreign same-sex couples from adopting children

2015 Pope Francis blames human selfishness for global warming in his encyclical, named "Laudato Si (Be Praised), On the Care of Our Common Home"


2018 President Trump orders US military to set up sixth branch of the military - a space force

Birthdays Today

1857 Henry Clay Folger, American CEO of Standard Oil and founder of the Folger Shakespeare Library, born in New York City (d. 1930: 72: prostate surgeries)

1886 George Mallory, English mountain climber ("because it is there"), born in Mobberley, England (d. 1924: @37: while climbing Everest)

1905 Kay Kyser, American bandleader and radio personality (Kay Kyser's Kollege), born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina (d. 1985: @80)

1908 Bud Collyer, American TV emcee (Beat the Clock, To Tell the Truth), born in NYC, (d. 1969@ @61: blood disorder)

1910 E G Marshall [Everett Eugene Grunz], American actor (12 Angry Men, The Defenders), born in Owatonna Minnesota (d. 1998: @84)

1917 Richard Boone, American actor (The Richard Boone Show, Have Gun Will Travel), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1981: @63: throat cancer)

70’s
77- Paul McCartney, English musician and member of The Beatles, born in Liverpool, England

60’s
67- Carol Kane, actress (Dog Day Afternoon, Simka-Taxi), born in Cleveland, Ohio

40’s
43- Blake Shelton, American Country Singer (Doin' What She Likes), born in Ada, Oklahoma

Historical Obits Today

80’s
@85-2014 Johnny Mann, American music director (Johnny Mann Stand Up & Cheer)

70’s
@71-2000 Nancy Marchand, American actress (The Sopranos, Beacon Hill, Margaret-Lou Grant), dies of lung cancer

60’s
@68-1936 Maxim Gorky, [Alexei M Peshkov], Russian writer (Mother), (Gorky Park named for him)

@66-1673 Jeanne Mance, French Canadian settler and founder of the first hospital in North America

50’s
@55-1928 Roald Amundsen, Norwegian polar explorer who led the 1st expedition to the South Pole, dies in a plane crash while flying on a rescue mission in the Arctic

Puzzle answer:

Start with the following sequences:
1    1, 2    2, 4, 1, 3    4, 8, 2, 6, 3, 7, 1, 5    8, 16, 4, 12, 6, 14, 2, 10, 7, 15, 3, 11, 5, 13, 1, 9
and keep iterating until you get a sequence with all numbers from 1 to 128. On each step you take the previous sequence, multiply all elements by 2, and then add the same result but with all elements decreased by 1. This will ensure that the first half contains only even numbers and the second half contains only odd numbers. Since the sum of an odd and an even number is not divisible by 2, if some sequence violates the property, then the previous sequence would have violated it as well.
Once you construct a sequence with 128 numbers, simply remove the numbers from 101 to 128 and you are done. To speed up the process, you can reduce the sequence 8, 16, 4, 12, 6, 14, 2, 10, 7, 15, 3, 11, 5, 13, 1, 9 to 8, 4, 12, 6, 2, 10, 7, 3, 11, 5, 13, 1, 9 and then continue the process.



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I retired in '06--at the ripe old age of 57. I enjoy blogging, photography, traveling, and living life to it's fullest.