Aug 22


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Aug. 22, 2019 Week: 34  Day: 234
86004:   H 87° \ L 53° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Nearest wildfire:  21mi.  Nearest lightning:  150mi
Wind:   12mph\Gusts:  23mph  Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 88°[1938]   Record Low: 32°[1968]
Aug Averages: 79°\50° (9 day with rain)

Today’s Quote

Nobody roots for Goliath.
Wilt Chamberlain

Random Tidbits

Aristotle believed that the heart collected sensory input from the peripheral organs through the blood vessels. It was from those perceptions that thought and emotions arose. That is how the term "heartfelt" originated.

The average adult heart beats 72 times a minute; 100,000 times a day; 3,600,000 times a year; and 2.5 billion times during a lifetime.

Observances This Week

15-25
Little League World Series

18-24
Minority Enterprise Development Week
National Chef's Appreciation Week 
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Observances for Today

National Bao Day Link
National “Eat a Peach” Day
National Surgical Oncologist Day Link
Southern Hemisphere Hoodie Hoo Day
Take Your Cat To The Vet Day

My Rambling Thoughts

A friend and his ex-wife stopped by for a visit about 9a this morning. She had an eye appointment and they got to town early. Nice visit. Caught up on lots of stuff.

Good news for permanently and totally disabled vets: The President signed an Executive Order to speed the discharge of federal student loan debt for them. Good move.

I have used Google for all my internet searches sine it was first introduced. I’m not happy with the way they use my data, so I have switched to DuckDuckGo, that doesn’t save or share information from any search. It works very well on PC’s and iPhone, and is fast. Glad I found it. Downloaded the app in my phone, set it as my default search on Edge and Chrome. Protecting my data.

The Rain forests of the world are amazing. I grew up calling them jungles, but the rain forest is a much better name.  I’ve been fortunate enough to visit the Amazon Rain forest in Peru, a rain forest in Borneo, and others. The Amazon Rain forest is suffering from a huge fire. So sad. As if the human devastation from logging was not enough, now fire?

Our local school district announced that there was a data breech exposing names, ID numbers, and family for over 5000 students and staff. It has been happening since 2012 but was just discovered. They have notified all concerned and gave them free credit monitoring for a year.  If the hackers have stolen the data and held on to some of it since 2012, the one year ‘free’ credit monitoring seems a little absurd.

I enjoy all the current technology. I’m getting to the point that company policies are not protecting my data; it is time for the government to step in with some restrictions on data use and huge fines for those who don’t follow the rules and real $$$ for those who have their data stolen because the company didn’t follow the rules.

Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of this page

A serial killer kidnapped five different people and sat them down each with two pills in their hand and a glass of water. He told them each to take one pill but warned them that one was poisonous and the other was harmless. Whichever pill the victim didn’t take, the serial killer would take.

Every victim somehow chose the poisonous pill and died.

How did the serial killer get them all to take the poisonous pill?

Historical Events

565 - Columba, an Irish missionary, reported seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland.

1791 - Haitian Slave Revolution in Saint-Domingue began. It ended with the founding of the Republic of Haiti in 1804.

1831 - Nat Turner's slave rebellion began just after midnight in Southampton County, Virginia, leading to the deaths of more than 50 whites and several hundred African Americans who were killed in retaliation for the uprising.

1851 - The first America's Cup was won by the yacht 'America.'

1865 - The first patent for making liquid soap was granted to William Sheppard.

1878 - The first telephone book ever issued contained only 50 names, all New Haven CT businesses (that had phones).

1902 - Cadillac Motor Company was founded.

1952 - The French penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed.

1963 - American Joe Walker reached an altitude of 66 miles in an X-15 test plane.

1964: #1 Hit: The Supremes - Where Did Our Love Go

1970 - #1 Hit: Bread - Make It with You

1987 - #1 Hit: Madonna - Who's That Girl

1989 - Nolan Ryan struck out Rickey Henderson to become the first Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.

2003 - Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore was suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building.

2004 The Edvard Munch Museum's versions of 'Madonna' and 'The Scream' were stolen by masked men wielding firearms. The thieves forced the museum guards to lie down on the floor while they snapped the cable securing the paintings to the wall and escaped in a black Audi A6 station wagon, which police later found abandoned. Both paintings were recovered by the Oslo Police on August 31, 2006.

2007 - The Texas Rangers beat the Baltimore Orioles 30-3, the most runs scored by a team in modern MLB history.

Birthdays Today

Ray Bradbury, author, screenwriter
(d. 2012 @91)

Bill Parcells, football coach NFL-Giants (78)

Martha Raye, comedic actor, singer
(d. 1974 @ 78)

Giada De Laurentiis, Chef, TV chef (49)

Howie D [Howard Dwaine Dorough], singer Backstreet Boys (46)

James Corden, Talk show host, comedian (41)

Puzzle answer:

Neither of the pills was poisonous. The poison was in the water that all the victims used to swallow their pill.


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