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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
23-31
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
Observances for Today
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.
