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Aug.
24, 2019 Week: 34 Day: 236
86004: H 82° \ L 54° \ Average Sky
Cover: 5%
Nearest
wildfire: 23mi. Nearest lightning: 161mi
Wind: 11mph\Gusts:
11mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record
High: 91°[1985] Record Low: 30°[1968]
Aug Averages: 79°\50° (9 day with rain)
Today’s Quote
People
are not disturbed by things,
but
by the view they take of them.
Epictetus
Random Tidbits
President Trump
and congress are on track to create the biggest budget deficit in an expanding
economy. But the U.S. is no stranger to debt.
The U.S. was in
debt even in its first yearly report on January 1, 1791, in the amount of
$75,463,476.52. Every president since Truman has added to the national debt.
When Reagan took
office, U.S. debt was under $1 trillion. After he left eight years later, debt
was $2.6 trillion and the U.S. had moved from being the world's largest
international creditor to the world's largest debtor nation.
Observances This Week
15-25
Little League World Series
18-24
24-9/1
Chuckwagon Races:
Observances for Today
Knife Day Link
International Bat Night: thru-25
National Waffle Iron
Day Link
Sand Castle Day Link
Wayzgoose Day Link
William Wilberforce Day
My Rambling Thoughts
There are
currently about a half-dozen small wildfires…all contained…in N. AZ. The big
Museum fire, which effected so many of us in Flag, has a price tag for suppression
of over $12million from a variety of resources and the cost continues to grow.
Thank goodness for the first responders who are keeping things under control.
We need moisture NOW!
I have a
neighbor, about 2 units away who is a flutist. For the past few weeks, she
practices with her door/window open. It’s a nice sound and relaxing. I just
wish she would play longer tunes. She only plays about 20 minutes/session.
As the horrific
fires in the Amazon continue to grow, finally there is talk about the various
indigenous tribes that are being affected by the devastation. In the past 3 months, 500million bees have
died in Brazil. These fires are a world-wide emergency. 20% of the earth’s
oxygen comes from the Amazon. Most if not all the fires are started by humans
who want to clear the Amazon of tribes for big farming and mineral searches, an
idea the dictator of Brazil is pushing.
I finally got on
line to pick my Focus Tahiti excursions. Quite a list and have to review
several emails to see what others are doing. The plan is to decide on Sunday.
On Saturday our
discussion group meets to discuss ‘Cyber Threats’. Should be interesting, after
I do all the readings.
Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of this page
A chemist was
murdered in his own lab. The only evidence was a piece of paper that had the
names of chemical substances written on it. The substances were nickel, carbon,
oxygen, lanthanum, and sulfur.
The chemist only
had three people come by his lab on the day of the murder: fellow scientist
Claire, his nephew Nicolas, his wife, and his friend Marc.
The police
arrested the murderer right away. How did they know who it was?
Historical Events
79 (Volcano
Eruption) Mount Vesuvius erupted. The cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and
Stabiae were buried in volcanic ash, although some scholars believe it was
October 24th.
1215 - Pope
Innocent III declared Magna Carta invalid.
1456 - The
printing of the Gutenberg Bible was completed.
1635 - Great
Colonial Hurricane of 1635, Colonial USA
1662 - The Act of
Uniformity requires England to accept the Book of Common Prayer.
1682 - William
Penn received the area that is now the state of Delaware, and added it to his
colony of Pennsylvania.
1690 - Job
Charnock of the East India Company establishes a factory in Calcutta,
essentially founding the city.
1875 - Navy
Captain Matthew Webb began his swim as the first person to swim the English
Channel without a life preserver
1891 - Thomas
Edison applied for his patent (#589,168) the motion picture projector
(kinetograph). It was approved on August 31.
1932 - Amelia
Earhart became the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop, from
Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey.
1959 - #1 Hit:
The Browns - The Three
Bells
1974 - #1 Hit: Paul
Anka and Odia Coates - (You're) Having My Baby
1979 - The Facts
of Life premiered on NBC.
1985 - #1 Hit:
Huey Lewis and the News - The
Power of Love
1989 - Pete Rose
was banned from baseball for life.
1995 - Microsoft
Windows 95 was released.
1998 - First
radio-frequency identification (RFID) human implantation was tested in the
United Kingdom.
Birthdays Today
Kenny Baker, actor
(R2D2 in Star Wars) (d. 2016 @81)
Vince McMahon, wrestling
promoter (74)
Steve Guttenberg,
actor, author (61)
Cal Ripken Jr,
MLB star (59)
Craig Kilborn,
actor, commentator (57)
Marlee Matlin,
movie/TV actor (54)
Dave Chappelle,
comedian (46)
Chad Michael
Murray, actor (38)
Rupert Grint,
British actor (Harry Potter: Ron Weasley) (31)
Puzzle answer:
There was a very
obvious clue on the piece of paper. If you combine the abbreviations of the
chemical substances on the paper, you’ll get a name: Ni-C-O-La-S.
