Feb 10

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Feb. 10, 2020 Week: 7  Day: 41

86004:   H 52° \ L 29° \ Average Sky Cover: 20%

Nearest lightning:  1710mi.; Nearest active fire:  165mi. 

Wind:   8mph\Gusts:  18mph  Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 65°[1951]   Record Low: -17°[1933]

Feb. Averages: 47°\19° (5 days with moisture)

Today’s LOVE Quote

It is the caring and sharing that count—

love is not prevented by the things

and the time that you haven’t shared.

Claudia Jewett Jarrett

Random Tidbits

Japan has the second lowest homicide rate in the world, but it also home to the spooky "suicide forest" Aokigahara at the base of Mt. Fuji.

It is the second most popular place in the world for suicides after San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.

Observations This Week

Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week: 7-14 Link
Have A Heart for A Chained Dog Week: 7-14  Link
National Marriage Week: 7-14  Link  Link
Risk Awareness Week: 7-14
Solo Diners Eat Out Weekend: 7-12
Love Makes the World Go Round; But, Laughter Keeps Us From Getting Dizzy Week: 8-14
Children of Alcoholics Week: 9-15 Link 
International Flirting Week: 9-15 
Jell-O Week: 9-15 
Love a Mensch Week: 9-15
National Secondhand Wardrobe Week: 9-15
Freelance Writer Appreciation Week: 10-15
Westminster Dog Show: 10-11

Observations for Today

All The News That's Fit To Print Day
Clean Out Your Computer Day Link
Meal Monday Link
National Cream Cheese Brownie Day

National “Have a Brownie” Day

National Home Warranty Day  Link
Plimsoll Day
Tu B'Shvat

Umbrella Day
World Pulses Day

My Rambling Thoughts

A warm-er Sunday and was able to take a walk before the wind started. Then watched my Sunday morning News shows. Watching Face the Nation, they interviewed the Chinese Ambassador. He reminded me of the Trump friend who said “I am not under oath when I talk to the press”. As he did his job of repeating the Chinese government position on the Coronavirus, it was really difficult to believe him.

Sunday paper, cleaning the kitchen and a couple of loads of laundry on today’s agenda. Such fun.

If we are to keep our two-party system, one party better get its act together pretty quickly or the other party is going to have a great re-election celebration. My suggestion is to quickly pick a candidate and have every other candidate back that person with their voice, their money, and their followers.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

A man builds a rectangular house. All the sides of the house have southern exposure. A bear walks past the house. What color is the bear?

Historical Events

1355 - In Oxford, England, a dispute between 2 Oxford students and a Tavern Keeper over the quality of his drinks escalated into the St Scholastica Day riot between Oxford students and local citizens where 63 students and 30 locals were killed.

1763 - The Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War and France ceded Canada to England.

1840 - Queen Victoria and her cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg-Gotha, married. They had 9 children - Victoria, Bertie, Alice, Alfred, Helena, Louise, Arthur, Leopold, and Beatrice.

1863 - General Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren were married in NYC.

1870 - The YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) was formally founded in New York City.

1897 - All The News That's Fit To Print Day - the phrase began permanently on the front page of The New York Times.

1933 - The singing telegram was introduced by the Postal Telegraph Company of New York City.

1942 - The first gold record was presented to Glenn Miller for Chattanooga Choo Choo for selling 1.2 million copies. There was no official rule set at the time to qualify.

1949 - Death of a Salesman by American playwright Arthur Miller, opened at the Morocco Theatre in New York City.

1953 - Romper Room premiered, in syndication.

1956 - My Friend Flicka debuted on CBS

1962 - Roy Lichtenstein's first solo art exhibition opened at the Castelli Gallery in NYC.

1962 - The Soviet Union exchanged captured American U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for the Soviet spy Rudolph Ivanovich Abe with the US.

1966 - Ralph Nader, the author of Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile, testified before Congress for the first time about unsafe practices in the auto industry.

1968 - # 1 Hit: Paul Mauriat - Love Is Blue

1976 - Sesame Street episode #847 featured Margaret Hamilton reprising her role as the Wicked Witch of the West from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. It scared children so badly that the episode has never been re-aired.

1979 - # 1 Hit: Rod Stewart - Da Ya Think I'm Sexy

1990 South African President F. W. de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be freed on February 11th

1990 - # 1 Hit: Paula Abdul & The Wild Pair - Opposites Attract

1992 - Mike Tyson was convicted in Indianapolis of raping Desiree Washington, Miss Black American contestant.

1993- Oprah Winfrey interviewed Michael Jackson at his home The Neverland Ranch. It was Jackson's first televised interview since 1979.

1996 - World chess champion Gary Kasparov lost the first game of a six-game match against Deep Blue. He won three, and tied twice in the matchup.

2005 His Royal Highness Charles, Prince of Wales announces engagement to Camilla Parker Bowles

2019 Sexual abuse investigation into US Southern Baptist churches reveals 400 church members implicated with over 700 victims, according to The Houston Chronicle and the San Antonio Express-News

2019 Insect populations are collapsing worldwide threatening a “catastrophic collapse of nature’s ecosystems” according to a global review saying 40% declining, 30% endangered

Birthdays Today

90-Robert Wagner, actor

Jimmy Durante, comedian, singer, pianist, actor (d. 1980@86)

83-Roberta Flack, singer

53-Laura Dern, movie actress

Puzzle Answer:

White. It is a polar bear as the house must be built on the north pole else not all sides would face south.