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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
Observances for Today
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.
