Feb 13

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Feb 13, 2018 Week: 07\ Day: 44

86004 Today: H 44° \ L 29° \ Average Sky Cover: 90% 

Wind ave.:   9mph\Gusts:  26mph Visibility: 7 mi

Light snow showers!!!!!

Record High: 68°[1977]   Record Low: -18°[1905]

Feb Averages: 46°\19°

Feb Records: H: 71° (1986) L: -23° (1985)

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Today’s Quote

It is the dim haze of mystery

that adds enchantment to pursuit.

   Antoine Rivarol
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Observances This Week

11-17

Celebration of Love Week Link
Children of Alcoholics Week Link
International Friendship Week Link
Jell-O Week
National Secondhand Wardrobe Week
Random Acts of Kindness Week Link 

International Flirting Week

12-16

National Green Week Link

12-18

Love a Mensch Week

13-15

World AG Expo

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Observances for Today

Desperation Day Link
Employee Legal Awareness Day
Galentine's Day  Link
Get a Different Name Day
International Condom Day Link
International Pancake Day (aka Shrove Tuesday)
Pancake Day Race (Between US and England)  Link  
Madly In Love With Me Day
Mardi Gras  / Fat Tuesday

Paczki Day
World Radio Day Link

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s                                          

1633 Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun

1692 Glencoe Massacre: about 78 MacDonald’s killed early in the morning by rival Campbell clan members, allegedly for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king, William of Orange

1693 College of William & Mary opens in Williamsburg, Virginia

1700’s                                          

1777 Marquis de Sade arrested without charge, imprisoned in Vincennes fortress

1795 1st state university in US opens, University of North Carolina

1800’s                                          

1826 American Temperance Society forms in Boston

1837 Riot in New York due to a combination of poverty and increase in the cost of flour

1861 First military action to result in Congressional Medal of Honor, Arizona

1867 Johann Strauss' "Blue Danube" waltz premieres in Vienna

1881 The feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is first published in Paris by activist Hubertine Auclert

1900’s                                          

1937 "Prince Valiant" comic strip appears; known for historical detail

1943 Women's Marine Corps created

1961 Frank Sinatra launches Reprise label under Warner Bros Records
1965 Peggy Fleming, 16, wins ladies senior figure skating title

1971 US Vice President Spiro Agnew hits 2 tee shots into crowd while golfing, injuring 2

1972 "1776" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 1,217 performances

1972 The Musical "Grease" 1st opens on Broadway

1972 11th Winter Olympic games close at Sapporo, Japan

1972 "Cabaret", directed by Bob Fosse, based on the musical of the same name and starring Liza Minnelliand Michael York, is released

1974 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist and historian, is deported from the Soviet Union to Frankfurt, West Germany and stripped of his Soviet citizenship

1976 American Dorothy Hamill wins Olympic figure-skating gold in Innsbruck, Austria

1981 Longest sentence published by "The New York Times" - 1286 words

1982 Pink Floyd's album "Dark Side of the Moon" marks 402 weeks in the album charts

1988 15th Winter Olympic games opens at Calgary, Canada

1992 Jose Canseco repeatedly rams his Porsche into wife Esther's BMW

1996 British boy band Take That officially announce that they are disbanding, prompting UK government to set up counselling phone lines

1997 Discovery captures Hubble Space Telescope

2000’s                                          

2000 The last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies.

2017 Harrison Ford involved in a near miss while flying a plane at John Wayne Airport, Orange County

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My Rambling Thoughts

Headed out to eye exam in snow! Only flurries, but nice.

Had my eyes dilated so things have been a little blurry since I got home. Good report, only minor changes to my script. I’ll wait until I can actually see again to order my new glasses. Haven’t had new glasses for at least 5 years, so this will be nice. The current glasses used to have a non-glare coating, but it has disappeared with age.

Got a call from Ellie with Focus. The blowout was another success with about 45 people and it was snowing up there. She emailed me the latest updates for the website, so tomorrow will be spent updating and adding new stuff. I’ll see if I can design a new look. Can’t do it today as blurry doesn’t work when updating.

After a few news interviews on several different outlets, I am becoming concerned about the number of WH employees who still don’t have a security clearance but have access to America's secrets. My job was low on the totem pole of security, but it was still done. After filling out several pages, an interview and questionnaires sent to my friends and neighbors it took about a year to get my clearance. According to the interviews, the WH has top priority to get these done, and still over a year later, many have not received them. Seems to me that anyone without the clearance in the WH should be sent to an office with no contact until it is approved. Over the years, at low-level clearance, I did have three employees who were sent to the agency to answer phones until their clearance was approved. And these employees had never had access to ‘sensitive’ information, let alone ‘secret’ or ‘top secret’ like the people in the WH. Other administrations have hired people who didn't get quick security clearance from the FBI. Those administrations were told of the possible issue with the clearance and those people were quickly and quietly removed from their job. This administration is soooooo  different. When the FBI notifies them of a problem, they simply ignore it, let the person keep working, and wait. So dangerous for our country. 

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@97- Bess Truman, 

US First Lady (1945-52),

born in Independence, Missouri

(d. 1982)

95- Chuck Yeager,

American test pilot

1st man to break the sound barrier,

born in Myra, WV

80’s

85- Kim Novak, [Marilyn],

American actress (Vertigo, Of Human Bondage),

born in Chicago

84- George Segal,

actor/banjo player (Carbon Copy, Fun with Dick & Jane)

70’s

@76- Alfred Carlton Gilbert,

American athlete, inventor, and businessman

(invented the Erector Set),

born in Salem, Oregon

(d. 1961)

76- Peter Tork,

American musician and actor (The Monkees)

74- Jerry Springer,

talk show host (Jerry Springer Show),

born in London, England

74- Stockard Channing,

American actress (Grease, Big Bus, Without a Trace),

born in NYC

@72- Tennessee Ernie Ford,

American country music singer and actor (Sixteen Tons),

born in Bristol, Tennessee

liver failure: alcoholism

(d. 1991)

71-Mike Krzyzewski,

Duke B-ball coach

60’s

68- Peter Gabriel,

singer (Genisis)

20’s

28- El Rubius [Rubén Doblas Gundersen],

Spanish YouTube star (6th most subscribed channel),

born in Mijas, Spain

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Historical Obits Today

80’s

@85-2014 Ralph Waite,

American actor, director and political candidate

(John Walton Sr. in The Waltons)

70’s

@79-2016 Antonin Scalia,

American 105th Supreme Court Justice (1986-2016),

natural causes

60’s

@69-1883 Wilhelm Richard Wagner,

composer

heart attack

@64-2002 Waylon Jennings,

American country singer and guitarist (Ramblin' Man),

diabetic complications

40’s

@48- David Janssen, [Meyer],

actor (Fugitive, Harry O),

heart attack

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Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.

All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site contains mistakes and sadly once the information is out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.

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