Oct 28

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Oct. 28, 2019 Week: 44  Day: 301

86004:   H 58° \ L 25° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Nearest active fire:  119mi.  Nearest lightning:  1359mi

Wind:   6mph\Gusts:  16mph  Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 74°[1950]   Record Low: 13°[1954]

Oct. Averages: 63°\32° ( 4 days with moisture)

Today’s Quote

A promise must never be broken.

Alexander Hamilton

Random Tidbits

Worldwide, people consume 500 extra calories a day from sugar, which is roughly the amount of calories needed to gain a pound a week.

A 15.2 oz. bottle of Minute Maid 100 percent Apple Juice contains 49 grams of sugar. This is about the same amount of sugar in 10 Oreos. While sugar occurs naturally in fruit, the body processes both types of sugar in the same way. One benefit of eating whole fruit is eating fiber, which is generally lost in the process of making juice.

Two hundred years ago, the average American ate only 2 pounds of sugar a year. In 1970, Americans ate 123 pounds of sugar per year. Today the average American consumes almost 152 pounds of sugar in one year. This is equal to 3 pounds (or 6 cups) of sugar consumed in one week.

Observances This Week

21-27

Freedom of Speech Week  Link    

23-31

Red Ribbon Week Link  

24-30

Disarmament Week

24-31

Prescription Errors Education & Awareness Week

25-11/11

World Origami Days

25-31

International Magic Week

27-11/2

Give Wildlife a Brake! Week  Link
Kids Care Week

Observances for Today

Birth of the Bab
Champagne Day   Link
International Animation Day

National Chocolate Day  Link
Plush Animal Lover's Day

St. Jude's Day
World Stroke Day Link

My Rambling Thoughts

A cool and windy day. Spent the morning on laundry. All linens are washed, dried, and put away.

I remember the announcement made when bin Laden had been killed. A simple announcement. Then there is the speech/press conference of Trump when Al- Baghdadi died from a bomb strapped to his body. It was long, very too graphic, and was followed by the question/answer session. With all the tweets, comments, exaggerations, and outright lies, it was hard to listen to and somewhat hard to believe. Note: The military would never issue a statement using that kind of language. The death should be good for the people living in the region.

Our discussion group had a good meeting last night. It left us all with a lot to think about regarding AI…Artificial Intelligence.

1. Do humans have an innate need to work?

2. Is the push for more AI just a fast moving train that can’t be slowed or stopped?

3. Are there preparations being made for the millions who will no longer have jobs/careers?

Are we ready for or even want self-driving vehicles instead of humans operating vehicles, especially big rigs, planes, and trains?

Should the world pay people not to work, much like we pay farmers for NOT growing crops? How would you feel if you had become educated with a doctorate and your career was taken over by AI? How would you feel is you were a high school grad who lost your career to AI? And finally, should both these people be paid the same for not working? Lots to think about for sure.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of this page

A man wanted to work, but he could not log in to his computer terminal successfully. He tried twice, but still his password did not work. He suddenly remembered that the passwords are reset every month for security purposes. So, he called his boss and said, “Hey boss, my password is out of date.”

His boss replied, “Yes, that’s right. The password is different. Listen carefully. I am sure, you can figure out the new one. The new one has the same amount of letters as your old password, but only four of the letters are the same.” 

”Thanks boss.” With that, the man could correctly log into his station. What are both the new and old passwords?

Historical Events

1420 - Beijing became the officially designated the capital of the Ming dynasty on the same year that the Forbidden City, the seat of government, was completed.

1492 - Christopher Columbus discovered Cuba.

1636 - The Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony established the first college in what would become the United States, now known as Harvard University.

1726 "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift is published by Benjamin Motte in London

1793 Eli Whitney applies for a patent on cotton gin

1811 First known purchase of Jane Austen's novel "Sense and Sensibility" by the Prince Regent (later George IV), a fan

1886 - President Grover Cleveland dedicated the Statue of Liberty, in New York Harbor.

1919 Volstead Act passed by US Congress, establishing prohibition, despite President Woodrow Wilson's veto

1924 Miner M.de Bruin discovers the infant fossil skull, "Taung child" in a lime quarry in Taung, South Africa. Paleoanthropologist Raymond Dart identifies the fossil as a new hominin species, Australopithecus africanus.

1929 - "Black Monday" on Wall Street, preceding the Great Depression.

1943 - The supposed 'Philadelphia Experiment,' involving teleportation or invisibility by the US Navy, took place with the destroyer escort ship, the USS Eldridge. The US Navy maintains that no such experiment occurred and details of the story contradict 'well-established facts about the Eldridge.'

1948 - Paul Müller was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane).

1950 - The Jack Benny Show premiered on CBS.

1962 - Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ordered the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba, ending the "Cuban Missile Crisis."

1965 - Construction on the 650 foot high St. Louis Arch was completed.

1965 Pope Paul VI proclaims Jews not collectively guilty for crucifixion

1978 - #1 Hit: Nick Gilder - Hot Child in the City

2006 - #1 Hit: Ludacris featuring Pharrell Williams - Money Maker

2015 World Health Organization ranks Tuberculosis alongside HIV as world's deadliest infectious diseases, killing 1.2 million (2014)

Birthdays Today

Charlie Daniels, singer, songwriter (83)

Jonas Salk, medical researcher [polio]

(d. 1995 @80)

Dennis Franz [Schlachta], actor (75)

Bruce-Caitlin Jenner, transgender Olympic athlete (70)

Annie Potts, TV actress (68)

Bill Gates, computer guru (63)

Julia Roberts, actor (52)

Brad Paisley, country singer (48)

Joaquin Phoenix, actor (45)

Puzzle answer:

Answer: The old one was “outofdate.” The new one is “different.” Both passwords contain the letters d, f, e, and t. Note: neither one is a very secure password. Never us words you can find in a dictionary, always us upper and lower case letters, always use at least one symbol. Think of a sentence you remember and use the first letter of each word, use a symbol to separate phrases: 2b*oN2B*titq.