Feb 21

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Feb. 21, 2020 Week: 8  Day: 52

86004:   H 51° \ L 31° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%

Nearest lightning:  2718mi.; Nearest active fire:  220mi.  

Wind:   7mph\Gusts:  14mph  Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 60°[1995]   Record Low: -9°[1955]

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

Today’s LOVE Quote

They wouldn't call it falling in love

if you didn't get hurt sometimes,

but you just pick yourself up and move on.

Gregory Thomas Garcia

Random Tidbits

Four presidents have received the Nobel Peace Prize including Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama.

Roosevelt received his in 1906 for his many efforts toward international peace, including his role in formulating the 1905 peace treaty between Russia and Japan. Wilson was awarded the Nobel in 1919 for founding the League of Nations after World War I.

Observations This Week

Date (Fruit) Week: 14-23
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

Through With The Chew: 17-21 Link
American Birkenbreiner Race: 20-23
Texas Cowboy Poetry Gathering: 21-22

Observations for Today

Card Reading Day

International Mother Language Day
National Caregivers Day Link 
National Grain Free Day Link
National Pancake Day

National Sticky Bun Day

World Information Architecture Day Link  Link

My Rambling Thoughts

I did a run to Sam’s Club, then had lunch with our retirement group. Went to Mongolian Grill, good food, good conversation.

I read an article about youth in detention centers for immigration violations are assigned a therapist to assist in their transition during their incarceration. This has been going on for years. Now the Trump Administration is using the therapist notes to find out their previous coerced drug activity to determine if the young person should be admitted to the US. About 90% of those who were coerced to sell drugs are denied entry. Somehow this doesn’t seem right.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

The rungs of a 10 foot ladder attached to a ship are 1 foot apart. If the water is rising at the rate of one foot an hour, how long will it take until the water covers over the ladder?

Historical Events

1173 Pope Alexander III canonizes Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury

1746 Jacobite Rising 1745: British forces surrender Inverness Castle to Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobite forces

1848 - The Communist Manifesto, written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, was published in London by a group of German-born revolutionary known as the Communist League.

1862 Texas Rangers win Confederate victory at Battle of Valverde, Confederate Arizona (now New Mexico)

1866 - Lucy B. Hobbs became the first woman to graduate from a dental school.

1878 - The first telephone directory in the US, listing about 50 names, was issued by the New Haven Telephone Company, in New Haven, Connecticut.

1885 - The Washington Monument was dedicated. It was opened to the public about three years later. At 555 feet 5 1/8 inches, it was the tallest structure in the world until the Eiffel Tower was completed in 1889. The 555-foot-high marble obelisk was first proposed in 1783, and had countless delays, including the American Civil War.

1925 - The New Yorker magazine began publication.

1947 - A year before commercially available, Edwin Land demonstrated the Polaroid Land Camera to the Optical Society of America in New York City.

1948 - The National Association for Stock Car Racing - NASCAR - was founded.

1953 - The structure of the DNA molecule was discovered by Francis Crick and James D. Watson

1958 - The internationally recognized peace symbol was designed by Gerald Holtom as the logo for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

1965 - Malcom X was assassinated by (reputedly) members of the Nation of Islam in the Audubon Ballroom in New York City.

1972 Richard Nixon becomes the first US President to visit China, normalizing relations between the countries in a meeting with Chinese leader Mao Zedong in Beijing

1997 - The all digital Wheel of Fortune board was introduced.

2014 US President Barack Obama meets with the Dalai Lama

2018 Laykyun Sekkya, the world's third tallest statue at 116 meters (381 ft) depicting Gautama Buddha completed in Khatakan Taung, Myanmar

Birthdays Today

@52- Christian Dior, French Fashion designer (d.1957; heart attack)

@95- Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean politician, 2nd President of Zimbabwe (died in 2019)

@52- Erma Bombeck, American journalist and author (died in 1996; kidney disease)

@70- Eunice Kathleen WaymonNina Simone, American singer-songwriter (died in 2003; breast cancer)

@76- Rue McClanahan, American actress (died in 2010; strokes)

77- David Geffen, American businessman, co-founded DreamWorks and Geffen Records

@69- Alan Rickman, English actor (died in 2016; cancer)
65- Kelsey Grammer, American actor
62- Mary Chapin Carpenter, American singer-songwriter
57- William Baldwin, American actor
42- Jennifer Love Hewitt, American actress
31- Corbin Bleu, American actor, model, dancer

Puzzle Answer:

It will never cover the ladder because as the water rises, so will the floating ship.