President's Day
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Feb. 17, 2020 Week: 8 Day: 48
86004: H 60° \ L 28° \ Average Sky Cover: 15%
Nearest lightning: 1961mi.; Nearest active fire: 496mi.
Wind: 9mph\Gusts: 17mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 66°[1996] Record Low: -8°[1956]
Feb. Averages: 47°\19° (5 days with moisture)
Today’s LOVE Quote
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?
Friedrich Nietzsche
Random Tidbits
As the earth cooled after it had finished growing, the lithosphere--the hard, outermost layer between the mantle and the Earth's crust cracked like an eggshell and split into seven large and twelve small floating islands with jagged edges. These islands are the tectonic plates that move continuously over the viscous mantle, rubbing, pushing, and trying to mount one over the other.
Earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountains are all formed by Earth's moving plates. Hidden from human sight under the oceans, there are the earth's largest mountain ranges that circle the planet like the stitching on a baseball.
Observations This Week
Date (Fruit) Week: 14-23
Great Backyard Bird Count: 14-17 Link
National Condom Week: 14-21 Link
National Nestbox Week: 14-21
NCCDP Alzheimer's & Dementia Staff Education Week: 14-21
National Entrepreneurship Week: 15-22 Link
National FFA Week: 15-22 Link
Build A Better Trade Show Image Week: 16-23
National Engineers Week: 16-22
Brotherhood / Sisterhood Week: 16-22 Link
Random Acts of Kindness Week: 16-23 Link
Great Backyard Bird Count: 14-17 Link
National Condom Week: 14-21 Link
National Nestbox Week: 14-21
NCCDP Alzheimer's & Dementia Staff Education Week: 14-21
National Entrepreneurship Week: 15-22 Link
National FFA Week: 15-22 Link
Build A Better Trade Show Image Week: 16-23
National Engineers Week: 16-22
Brotherhood / Sisterhood Week: 16-22 Link
Random Acts of Kindness Week: 16-23 Link
Observations for Today
Analog to Digital TV Day
Human Spirit Day
Human Spirit Day
My Way Day
National PTA Founders Day Link
President's Day
Random Acts of Kindness Day Link
World Human Spirit Day
President's Day
Random Acts of Kindness Day Link
World Human Spirit Day
My Rambling Thoughts
A nice Sunday, but too much wind for a long walk, so just around the block.
Monday is President’s Day. As teachers, we switched from the Feb. Lincoln, Washington theme to one of all the Presidents. Take a few minutes and learn something new about a few presidents. It’s really easy just Google Facts about President ______. You fill in the blank. Haha.
Sunday news shows were talking about the release of the passengers on the quarantined ship in Hong Kong. Glad they are getting off, but still have more quarantine ahead. I’m sure it has been a frightening ordeal for them.
I updated the Focus Website with some new trips that were announced at the Blowout. Some great trips ahead. Check it out. FocusTravelClub.
Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page
Returns tomorrow.
Historical Events
1859 - Dmitri Mendeleev began creating what we now call The Periodic Table.
1863 - A group of citizens of Geneva, Switzerland, founded an International Committee for Relief to the Wounded, which later became known as the International Committee of the Red Cross.
1904 - Giacomo Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly premiered at the La Scala theatre in Milan, Italy. It was one of the first world-wide pop culture event 'hits'.
1933 - The magazine Newsweek was published for the first time. Newsweek ceased print publication with the December 31, 2012 issue.
1933 - Blondie Boopadoop married Dagwood Bumstead in Chic Young’s popular comic strip, Blondie.
1958 - Pope Pius XII designated St. Clare of Assisi the patron saint of television.
1959 - Vanguard 2 - The first weather satellite, was launched to measure cloud-cover distribution.
1972 - With the 15,007,034th Volkswagen Beetle coming off the assembly line, the VW Beetle broke the world car production record held for more than four decades by the Ford Motor Company's Model T, which was in production from 1908 and 1927.
1979 - A Prairie Home Companion premiered on Minnesota Public Radio.
1996 - In the final game of a six-game match, world chess champion Garry Kasparov defeated Deep Blue, IBM’s chess-playing computer, and won the match, 4-2. But in 1997, Deep Blue defeated Kasparov in a rematch.
2009 - 368 US Television stations permanently shut off their analog transmission signals, becoming digital.
2014 US Secretary of State John Kerry claims climate change requires urgent action and that only a small "window of time" remained open
2016 Chief executive Tim Cook confirms Apple will contest an FBI order to unlock the phone of San Bernardino gunman Syed Rizwan Farook
Birthdays Today
95- Hal Holbrook, American actor
@75- Clarence Linden Buster Crabbe, American Olympian and actor (died in 1983)
58- Lou Diamond Phillips, American actor
57- Michael Jordan, American basketball player
@47- Huey P. Newton, American activist, co-founded the Black Panther Party (died in 1989; murdered)
46- Jerry O'Connell, American actor
39- Joseph Gordon-Levitt, American actor, director, and producer
39- Paris Hilton, American model, media personality
37- Kevin Rudolf, American singer-songwriter
29- Ed Sheeran, English singer-songwriter
