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• It’s BIG! Death Valley National Park is the largest national park outside Alaska. The valley is about 130-140 miles long, and the valley floor averages 5 miles wide. The national park contains nearly 3.4 million acres. The state of Rhode Island could fit inside Death Valley National Park more then three times over. It’s twice the size of Delaware, and nearly the same size as Connecticut.

• It’s LOW! A parking lot at a place called Badwa-ter is 279 feet below sea level. Several miles away in a desolate salt pan, there are a few dips that are 282 feet below sea level. Death Valley is the

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lowest spot in the Western Hemisphere, but the Dead Sea (between Jordan and Israel) is 1,360 feet below sea level.

• Only six places on earth are deeper than Death Valley, and they are all desert valleys. If these valleys received more rain, erosion would even-tually fill them with sediments and they would no longer be below sea level. Also, they’d be lakes instead of valleys.

• It’s HOT! The heat is partly caused by the low elevation. With every thousand feet you lose in elevation, the temperature rises by about 5 degrees F. Death Valley’s topography—a deep valley sandwiched between two steep mountain ranges—also magnifies the heat. Hot air ris-ing from the valley floor gets trapped between mountain ranges. The hot air re-circulates and gets hotter. The dryness also contributes to the heat. Death Valley has no clouds for shade, no rain for cool-ing, and little vegetation to stop rocks from absorbing heat all day. In turn, the heat reinforces the dryness, evaporating rain before it reaches the ground.

• The hottest temperature ever recorded in Death Valley was 134 F on July 13, 1913. By comparison, the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth was 136 F, recorded in the Sahara Desert in Libya in 1922.

• When it comes to average highs, Death Valley beats the Sahara. In 2001, Death Valley hit 100 F or higher on 154 days in a row. It’s hit 100 F or higher in every month except November, December, January, and February. It’s hit 110 F on (coincidentally) 110 days in a row, in 1996. And it hit 120 F on 43 days in a row, in 1917.

• July is the hottest month on average, with a daily high of 115 F. August is second, with an average daily high of 113 F. June is third, at 109 F.

• In July, when the average daily high is 115 F, the daily average LOW temperature is 88 F.

• Things cool off in winter. In November the aver-age daily high is 76 F. In February it’s 72 F, and in January and December it’s 65 F.

• Death Valley’s official temperature is recorded at a weather station five feet above the ground. But the ground gets hotter than the air. The hottest ground temperature ever recoded in Death Val-ley was 201 F in 1972.

• The record low temperature in Death Valley is 15 F, set in 1913, which was the same year that set the record high of 134 F. Death Valley’s all-time low is about the same as the all-time lows of Phoenix or Houston.

• It’s DRY! Why is Death Valley so hot and dry? Don Lago describes the science behind it in his book, Death Valley Trivia. The main factor is

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called the “rain shadow” effect. When storms come out of the Pacific Ocean and head inland, they have to cross a series of mountain ranges, which force clouds to rise, condense, and drop their moisture. With every mountain range they cross, the clouds have less moisture left for the next one. The Sierras can get 34 feet of snow per year, but then the clouds have little moisture left for the Owens Valley just west of the Sierras; the Owens Valley gets less than 6 inches of rain per year. Clouds that make it past the Sierras then hit the Panamint Mountains and lose most of their remaining moisture. This leaves little rain for Death Valley, or for the Amargosa Range on the east side of Death Valley. While the Panamints get 15 inches of annual precipitation, the Amar-gosa Range gets only 3-5 inches.

• The average annual rainfall in Death Valley is only 1.94 inches. By comparison, New York City receives an average of 49.64 inches of rain per year. In some years, Death Valley has recorded no rain-fall at all, such as 1929 and 1953.• With so little rainfall and so much evaporation, the humidity level in Death Valley sometimes falls to 2 percent. With humidity this low, even when the tempera-ture is a pleasant 70 F, people can become seriously dehy-drated. • Even in the summer heat, people in Death Valley may not get sweaty. The human skin often remains dry. But this doesn’t mean you aren’t perspiring: it means that perspiration is evaporating

instantly. For people from humid climates, who are accustomed to skin and clothes drenched with sweat, this can trick them into seriously un-derestimating how much water they are losing.

Finding Water• There is no place in Death Valley more than

15 miles away from a spring. Natives knew all the water sources in Death Valley, but prospec-tors and tourists have died of thirst even when springs were nearby because they didn’t know where they were.

• Death Valley has over 350 seeps and springs. Some are barely large enough to keep the ground damp, but the largest, Travertine Spring, can pour out up to 2,000 gallons per minute. If Death Valley wasn’t so dry, its springs would start building a lake on the valley floor.

• The water that pours from these springs comes from the mountains of central Nevada. Snow-melt flows underground for hundreds of miles until water reaches the surface. This water can take thousands of years to arrive in Death Valley. This means that the tap water you are drinking in Death Valley may have fallen as rain when the Egyptian pyramids were being built.

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a spot 100 yards away would make 10 turns in 15 seconds, but those returning from 2 miles away would make only 3 turns in 15 seconds. If the food was in the direction of the sun, the bee danced with its head up. If it was away from the sun, the head was down. If it was at a 45-degree angle to the sun, the bee danced in a correspond-ing angle to the hive.

• Researchers once did an interesting experiment with bees. They brought two groups of bees from their home hive to Carnegie Lake in Princeton, New Jersey. One group of bees was taken to a bunch of pollen-laden flowers in a rowboat that was anchored close to shore; the other group was taken to a bunch of flowers in a rowboat way out in the middle of the lake. After sampling the flowers, the bees flew home to their hive and both groups did a waggling dance indicat-ing a source of pollen had been found. The bees at home evidently refused to believe that there could be flowers in the middle of the lake, because whereas lots of bees returned to harvest pollen from the flowers close to shore, almost none came to the boat in the middle of the lake.

• Number of flowers a bee must visit to make one pound of honey: 2 million.

• Number of miles flown by a hive of bees in order to make 1 pound of honey: 55,000.

• Amount of honey made by a worker honey bee in a lifetime: 1/12 teaspoon

• Average speed of a honey bee: 15 mph• Average number of flowers visited during a sin-

gle collection trip: 50-100• Average lifespan of a worker bee: 28-35 days• Average lifespan of a queen bee: 2 years• Percent of the time bees spend sleeping: 0• Number of bees in a hive: up to 60,000• Percent of body weight an average bee can carry

in its nectar load: 50%• Number of eggs an average queen bee lays per

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The skinny lumberjack replies, “Give me a chance to show you what I can do.”

The boss replies, “Ok, see that giant tree over there, go cut it down.”

The skinny lumberjack cuts it down without breaking a sweat.

“Wow!” says the boss, “Where did you learn how

to cut trees like that?”

“In the Sahara Forest.” the lumberjack replies.

“You mean the Sahara Desert?” says the boss.

“Well sure, that’s what they call it now!” laughs the lumberjack.

A drunk goes over to a pretty lady at a bar and kisses her.

She stands up and slaps him across the face.

“I’m sorry,” he says “You look just like my wife. I though you were her.”

Furious, she yells at him, “Why you blasted no good drunk. How dare you touch me. You disgust-ing pervert!”

“Wow, you even sound like her.” replies the drunk.

The oil and gas industries are investing millions of dollars developing oil and gas resources in Weld County. This activity is creating good-paying jobs.

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My granddaughter has a guinea pig. Recently I spent several minutes looking at and talking with her about the little creature. He has a very soft furry coat, a cute little nose, and he doesn’t mind if you hold him. He has quite a lovely cage with a variety of things to play with. He even has a little house he can go into when the stresses of life be-come so great he needs a place of escape.

“What does he do all day?” I asked her. “I don’t think he does anything. He mostly just

eats and sleeps.”“Sounds like a pretty good life to me!” I said.“Yeah, really,” she responded. “No homework.”“The guinea pig has it all,

doesn’t he?” I said. “Nice house, toys to play with and every day someone drops some lettuce on him and replaces his water bottle with fresh water.”

I thought about the variety of problems I face compared to the little furry creature in the cage. My problems are much greater than wondering when the next time someone will drop some fresh vegetables on my head. But do I want to spend my days alone in a glass cage surrounded by everything I need to survive? Do I want a life without problems?

Problems are what life is made up of. If we faced no problems and everyday our every need was provided for without calling forth any effort on our behalf why would we ever get out of bed? We would have no more use for living than that guinea pig. He sits in his nice little glass cage, is fed fresh food and water every day and cares nothing about shifting tectonic plates, nuclear proliferation, diminishing bank balances, or the increasing arthritis pain in my left knee. He has no problems and therefore no reason for existence.

Problems are not our problem; how we face

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them and what we do with them is.The first and most important step to solving

the problems we have is to realize that they are indeed OUR problems. We must come to terms with the fact that we are in the situation we are today because of decisions and actions we made yesterday. And wherever we will be tomorrow will be the direct result of the decisions and actions we make today.

Like you, I find it much easier to blame my mother, or the economy, or global warming for my situation, but blaming does not solve prob-lems, it exacerbates them. As long as we spend our time blaming everything and everyone else for our problems, we dribble away the energy and

resources we need to find solutions. Blaming focuses on the problem and those people and events we believe interacted to create our miserable plight. It does nothing to help us unearth a solution.

It is not easy to admit, “This is my problem. I created it, or at least I let it happen. Now I must find a solution.” Yet accepting responsibil-ity for our problems moves us to-

wards a solution; it directs the mind to find a way out, and our minds are incredibly good at solving problems.

Solution oriented people find ways to improve their predicament; they believe that tomorrow is bright because they are working today to resolve their problems. Problem oriented people find themselves deeper and deeper into their tribula-tions with no end in sight.

This leads me to the question you probably knew I would ask: Are you problem oriented or are you solution oriented? Either way, I’m sure you’re glad you are not a guinea pig living com-fortably in a glass cage with absolutely no prob-lems and therefore, no real reason to live?

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• On Nov. 16, 1901, a low-slung car called the “Torpedo Racer” -- basically a square platform on bicycle wheels -- breaks the world speed record for electric cars in Coney Island, N.Y., by going 1 mile down the straight dirt track in just 63 seconds. That’s about 57 mph. Today the world speed record for an electric vehicle is about 245 mph.

• On Nov. 14, 1914, in Constantinople, capital of the Ottoman Empire, the religious leader Sheikh-ul-Islam declares an Islamic holy war on behalf of the Ottoman government, urging his Muslim followers to take up arms against Britain, France, Russia, Serbia and Montene-gro.

• On Nov. 15, 1943, Heinrich Himmler makes public an order that Gypsies are to be put on “the same level as Jews and placed in con-centration camps.” Himmler was determined to prosecute Nazism racial policies, which dictated the elimination of all races deemed “inferior” and “asocial.”

• On Nov. 13, 1953, a member of the Indiana Textbook Commission calls for the removal of references to the book “Robin Hood” from textbooks used by the state’s schools. She claimed that Robin Hood was a communist because he robbed the rich and gave it to the poor.

• On Nov. 17, 1968, the Oakland Raiders score

two touchdowns in nine seconds to beat the New York Jets -- and no one sees it. In a de-bacle which would become known as “Heidi Bowl,” with just 65 seconds left to play, NBC broke away from the game to air its previously scheduled programming, the movie “Heidi.”

• On Nov. 18, 1987, a fire in a London subway station kills 30 commuters and injures scores of others. At the King’s Cross station in Lon-don, people began to smell smoke coming from beneath one of the station’s escalators. It was later revealed that debris and grease had built up under the escalator.

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Harry JohnstonNo...I’m not retired! I’m now the General Manager of Loveland Ford & Lin-coln! Stop in and I’ll show you a great line of made-in-America Fords and Lin-colns and some exception-ally well-priced used cars, vans and trucks.

New General Manager