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Jun. 18, 2019 Week: 25 \ Day: 169
86004: H 75° \ L 40° \ Average
Sky Cover: 20%
Nearest wildfire: 11mi. Nearest lightning: 91mi
Wind: 4mph\Gusts: 15mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 92°[1940] Record
Low: 24°[1995]
Jun Averages: 78°\42° (1 day with rain)
Today’s Quote
Man - a being in search of meaning.
Plato
Random Tidbits
The
ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras taught the number 12 had
divine, mystical meanings, and he might have been right, because we are
practically drowning in examples of use of the number 12.
The
United States of America is divided into 12 Federal Reserve Districts (Boston,
New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Richmond, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis,
Minneapolis, Kansas City, Dallas, and San Francisco).
Observances This Week
National Hermit
Week: 13-20
Animal Rights Awareness Week: 16-22 Link Link
National Craft Spirits Week: 16-22 Link
National Play Catch Week: 16-22
Old Time Fiddlers Week: 16-22
Universal Father's Week: 16-22
Animal Rights Awareness Week: 16-22 Link Link
National Craft Spirits Week: 16-22 Link
National Play Catch Week: 16-22
Old Time Fiddlers Week: 16-22
Universal Father's Week: 16-22
Observances for Today
My Rambling Thoughts
I
got a Facetime call from my brother yesterday. He is in Oregon, meeting with
his step-brothers and step-sisters for a reunion. One more brother was recently
found. My brother and his wife are having a great time and invited me to the
next reunion. Cool. They are all very cool and I am friends with most of them
on FB. I asked when the next reunion was, and one of the brothers said…’well
soon, not more than 25 years from now’. We all laughed, and I said I’d be
there. The first search took about 25 years, and my brother was found about 5
years ago.
I’ve
had a high white blood cell count for about a year. I was set up for 2
treatments to fix it. Lucky for me the first treatment last month did an
exceptional job. I was scheduled to have the second treatment today, but after
seeing the doc he said there was no problem is delaying the 2nd treatment
until I return from Siberia. While the treatment was not that hard, I was
sluggish for about 2 weeks. I’ve been dreading having the 2nd one so
close to the trip. He agreed and said to enjoy the trip. I’m a very happy
camper.
The
doc is from Eastern Europe and has traveled Russia quite a bit. Here’s his
story: Do you know why Moscow’s cockroaches don’t light up? If they did, Moscow
would be brighter than Las Vegas. Hmmm. He also said to expect lots of mosquito around that area.
This
morning I needed to put my newspaper on vacation hold. I tired with their
answering system, wouldn’t let me be on vacation more than 2 weeks. Hmmm. Tried
the website, same thing. I finally called and had to wait 20 minutes to talk to
a human. Finally got it done, complained about not being able to do it on line.
I must stop the paper a day early because they are famous for not honoring the
request, and I don’t want to arrive home again with lots of papers on my
doorstep.
Not
now, please! Iran and US are escalating. Chill out while we are traveling.
Thanks. As for Hong Kong issue, I’ll deal with that one.
PUZZLE OF THE DAY
Answer at the bottom of this page
I give you a pen and paper and ask you to
write the numbers from 1 to 100 in succession so that there are no three
numbers such that twice the second one is equal to the sum of the first and the
third one. The three numbers do not need to be successive in the sequence.
You have 5 minutes, what do you do?
Remark: The sequence 3, 1, 2, 5, 4
works, but the sequence 1, 4, 2, 5, 3 does not because of the numbers 1, 2, and
3.
Today’s Significant Historical Events
1200’s
1264 The Parliament of Ireland meets at
Castledermot in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this
Irish legislature
1500’s
1541 Irish parliament selects Henry VIII of
England as King of Ireland
1600’s
1682 William Penn founds Philadelphia, US
1700’s
1767 Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain,
sights Tahiti, considered the first European to reach the island
1800’s
1812 War of 1812 begins as US declares war
against Britain
1815 Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon and France
defeated by British forces under Wellington and Prussian troops under Blucher
1873 Susan B. Anthony fined $100 for voting
for US President
1879 W. H. Richardson, an African-American
inventor, patents the children's carriage (Patent no. 405599)
1892 Macadamia nuts 1st planted in Hawaii
1900’s
1909 Nannie Burroughs forms national training
School for Women
1928 American aviator Amelia Earhart becomes
the 1st woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean landing at Burry Port, Wales
1940 Winston Churchill's "this was their
finest hour" speech urging perseverance during Battle of Britain delivered
to British House of Commons
1945 William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) charged with
treason
1959 1st telecast transmitted from England to
US
1981 Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart
retires (replaced by Sandra Day O'Connor, 1st woman on US Supreme Court)
1981 The AIDS epidemic is formally recognized
by medical professionals in San Francisco, California
1983 7th Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 launches
Sally Ride as 1st US woman in space
1996 Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the
Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminal counts
2000’s
2013 Russia passes a law banning foreign
same-sex couples from adopting children
2015 Pope Francis blames human selfishness for
global warming in his encyclical, named "Laudato Si (Be Praised), On the
Care of Our Common Home"
2018 President Trump orders US military to set
up sixth branch of the military - a space force
Birthdays Today
1857 Henry Clay Folger, American CEO of
Standard Oil and founder of the Folger Shakespeare Library, born in New York
City (d. 1930: 72: prostate surgeries)
1886 George Mallory, English mountain climber
("because it is there"), born in Mobberley, England (d. 1924: @37:
while climbing Everest)
1905 Kay Kyser, American bandleader and radio
personality (Kay Kyser's Kollege), born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina (d. 1985:
@80)
1908 Bud Collyer, American TV emcee (Beat the
Clock, To Tell the Truth), born in NYC, (d. 1969@ @61: blood disorder)
1910 E G Marshall [Everett Eugene Grunz],
American actor (12 Angry Men, The Defenders), born in Owatonna Minnesota (d.
1998: @84)
1917 Richard Boone, American actor (The
Richard Boone Show, Have Gun Will Travel), born in Los Angeles, California (d.
1981: @63: throat cancer)
70’s
77- Paul McCartney, English musician and
member of The Beatles, born in Liverpool, England
60’s
67- Carol Kane, actress (Dog Day Afternoon,
Simka-Taxi), born in Cleveland, Ohio
40’s
43- Blake Shelton, American Country Singer
(Doin' What She Likes), born in Ada, Oklahoma
Historical Obits Today
80’s
@85-2014 Johnny Mann, American music director
(Johnny Mann Stand Up & Cheer)
70’s
@71-2000 Nancy Marchand, American actress (The
Sopranos, Beacon Hill, Margaret-Lou Grant), dies of lung cancer
60’s
@68-1936 Maxim Gorky, [Alexei M Peshkov],
Russian writer (Mother), (Gorky Park named for him)
@66-1673 Jeanne Mance, French Canadian settler
and founder of the first hospital in North America
50’s
@55-1928 Roald Amundsen, Norwegian polar
explorer who led the 1st expedition to the South Pole, dies in a plane crash
while flying on a rescue mission in the Arctic
Puzzle answer:
Start with the following sequences:
1 → 1, 2 → 2, 4, 1, 3
→
4, 8, 2, 6, 3, 7, 1, 5 → 8, 16, 4, 12, 6, 14, 2, 10, 7, 15, 3, 11, 5,
13, 1, 9
and keep iterating until you get a sequence
with all numbers from 1 to 128. On each step you take the previous sequence, multiply
all elements by 2, and then add the same result but with all elements decreased
by 1. This will ensure that the first half contains only even numbers and the
second half contains only odd numbers. Since the sum of an odd and an even
number is not divisible by 2, if some sequence violates the property, then the
previous sequence would have violated it as well.
Once you construct a sequence with 128
numbers, simply remove the numbers from 101 to 128 and you are done. To speed
up the process, you can reduce the sequence 8, 16, 4, 12, 6, 14, 2, 10, 7, 15,
3, 11, 5, 13, 1, 9 to 8, 4, 12, 6, 2, 10, 7, 3, 11, 5, 13, 1, 9 and then
continue the process.
