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Jan 12, 2019
Week: 01 \ Day: 12
86004 Today: H 43° \ L 14° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind: 7mph\Gusts:
9mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 59°[2002]
Record Low: -20°[1963]
Jan Averages: 43°\11°
Today’s
Quote
We cannot put
off living until we are ready.
Jose Ortega y
Gasset
Random
Tidbits
Archaeological surveys show that cheese was
being made from the milk of cows and goats in Mesopotamia before 6000 B.C.
Travelers from Asia are thought to have
brought the art of cheese making to Europe, where the process was adapted and
improved in European monasteries.
France was the first country to cultivate
mushrooms, in the mid-17th century. From there, the practice spread to England
and made its way to the United States in the 19th century.
Observances
This Week
6-12
Home Office Safety and Security Week
National Folic Acid Awareness Week
Dating & Life Coaches Recognition Week
National Lose Weight/Feel Great Week
9-13
National Soccer Coaches of America Week
11-17
Cuckoo Dancing Week
Observances
for Today
Eagle Day
Kiss A Ginger Day (Red Heads)
National Glazed Doughnut Day
National Hot Tea Day
National Marzipan Day
National Vision Board Day
My
Rambling Thoughts
Our
little retirement group had a lunch at Culvers, a new hamburger joint in town. Décor
was nice, staff was very friendly. Food was a tad greasy to our old-er palates.
Good conversation, good place, eatable food. I’m going back to try their frozen
custard…that can’t be greasy.
No
response on my recent email to my elected National officials regarding the
shut-down. Guess they are all too busy digging in or getting ready to head home
for the weekend.
After
the second shut-down, the education side of the BIA figured out a way to do ‘forward-funding’
which means that schools are not affected by this shut-down. And since the 1980’s
I always had a hard time why a principal was the only one at a school who was
considered ‘essential’ and got to work while teachers were sent home. Now that
this shut-down has broken all records I am finally learning that even ‘essential’
employees who must show up and work are NOT getting paid. Those early
shut-downs, it turns out, were just a prelude for long term idiocy in 2019.Don’t
the 45-supporters realize that with all these workers at home, the backlog is
just piling up. In the end, the government workers will get their pay and have
to figure out how to ‘catch-up’ on all the reports, inspections, concerns, etc.
that were addressed while they sat at home. The ‘essential’ workers who are
working for no pay are doing the job (or calling in sick) and hoping their
coworkers will get back soon.
AZ,
or at least PHX, are in national headlines…again. This time a comatose San
Carlos Apache woman is in a care facility where she was raped 9 months ago and
gave birth to a baby boy. While I am a liberal, I was shocked that the LA Times
had an editorial, that was reprinted in our local paper, saying that collecting
DNA from every male employee/contractor was unconstitutional. OK, fine. Collect
DNA from every employee/contractor regardless of sexual identity and find out
who did this despicable act.
Today’s
Significant Historical Events
1600’s
1616
Brazilian city Belem (the entrance gate to the Amazon)
founded by Captain Major Francisco Branco
1700’s
1773
First public museum established in north American
colonies (Charlestown, SC)
1800’s
1896
1st X-ray photo in US (Dr Henry Smith, Davidson NC)
1900’s
1913
After using other pseudonyms over the years, Josef
Dzhugashvili signs himself as Stalin
("man of steel") in
a letter to the paper, Social
Democrat
1952
University of Tennessee admits it's 1st black student
1957
Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC) founded
1959
American record company Motown is founded by
Berry Gordy Jr. as Tamla Records
1975
Chrysler Corp offers 1st car rebates
1976
UN Security Council votes 11-1 to seat Palestine
Liberation Organization
1989
Ex-dictator of Uganda Idi Amin expelled from Zaire
2000’s
2013
Beijing’s level of air pollution is declared to be at
levels that are hazardous to human
health
2017
US President Barack Obama in surprise presentation
awards Vice President Joe Biden with
the Presidential
Medal of Freedom
Birthdays
Today
1628
Charles Perrault,
French author and fairy tale writer (Tales of Mother
Goose), born in Paris, France (d. 1703)@75
1876
Jack London,
American writer/socialist (Call of the Wild), born in
San Francisco (d. 1916)@40-dysentary
1893
Hermann Goering,
Nazi Party leader, Vice-Chancellor of Germany (1941-45)
and World War I fighter pilot ace, born in Rosenheim,
Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire (d. 1946)@53-
suicide
1906
Tex Ritter,
American country singer (5 Star Jubilee, Wayward Wind),
born in Murvaul, Texas (d. 1974)@68-heart attack
1916
P. W. Botha,
President of South Africa (1984-89) and Prime Minister
(19778-84), born in Paul Roux, Orange Free State
Province, South Africa (d. 2006)@90
1923
Ira Hayes,
Pima Native American soldier, born in Sacaton, Arizona
(d. 1955)@32-exposure/alcohol poisoning
1926
Ray Price,
American country singer (Good Times), born in
Perryville, Texas (d. 2013)@87
1928
Ruth Brown,
American actress & singer sometimes known as the
"Queen of R&B" (So Long, Teardrops from My Eyes),
born in Portsmouth, Virginia (d. 2006)@78-stroke
1930
Glenn Yarborough,
American folk singer & guitarist (Limeliters-Honey &
Wine, Jubilee), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
(d. 2016)@86
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68-
Rush Limbaugh,
American far right wing radio personality, born in Cape
Girardeau, Missouri
68-Kristie
Alley,
actress (Cheers)
67-
Ricky Van Shelton,
American country musician, born in Danville, Virginia
65-
Howard Stern,
American radio personality & "Radio's Bad Boy"
(WKRK,
WYSP, WJFK), born in Queens
55-
Jeff Bezos,
American entrepreneur and founder of Amazon, born in
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Historical
Obits Today
@89-2018
Keith Jackson,
American sportscaster (ABC Monday Night Football,
college football)
@89-2017
William Peter Blatty,
American scriptwriter and author of The Exorcist
@85-1976
Agatha Christie,
British crime writer ("10 Little Indians")
@84-2002
Cyrus Vance,
57th U.S. Secretary of State (1977-80)
@53-2003
Maurice Gibb,
guitarist of the Bee Gees, dies of cardiac arrest
@42-1962
Ernie Kovacs,
comedian (Ernie Kovacs Show), killed in auto crash
