Jan 14

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Jan 14, 2019 Week: 02  \ Day: 14

86004 Today: H 32° \ L 19° \ Average Sky Cover: 90% 

Wind:   4mph\Gusts:  7mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 65°[1943]   Record Low: -15°[2007]

Jan Averages: 43°\11°

Today’s Quote

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. Malcolm X

Random Tidbits

In the wild, mushroom spores are spread by wind. On mushroom farms, spores are collected in a laboratory and then used to inoculate grains to create "spawn," a mushroom farmer's equivalent of seeds.

Mushroom spores are so tiny that 2,500 arranged end-to-end would measure only an inch in length.

The process of cultivating mushrooms - from preparing the compost in which they grow to shipping the crop to markets - takes about four months.

Observances This Week

11-17

Cuckoo Dancing Week

13-19

National Mocktail Week

Observances for Today

Caesarean Section Day

Dress Up Your Pet Day 

International Kite Day

National Clean Off Your Desk Day

National Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day

Organize Your Home Day

Ratification Day

My Rambling Thoughts

Awoke to about 6” on snow. Nice! Street and sidewalk guys didn’t arrive till almost 10a but all is clear now. After they left, I un-buried my vehicle. Lots of moisture in this one so snow was heavy. Usually it snows, then clears up and the sun shines. Not today. It’s been cloudy all day so not a lot of melting, but no new snow is falling.

Not that excited about the playoffs, so I only watch them intermittently when nothing else is watchable.

I wonder if the Senate and House enjoyed their weekend while government employees were trying to figure out which bills to pay and which not to pay. Hopefully the new week will bring some compromise.

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1700’s

1799 Eli Whitney receives government contract

        for 10,000 muskets

1800’s

1873 "Celluloid" registered as a trademark by

        its inventor, John Wesley Hyatt

1900’s

1932 1st totalisator (to record racetrack bets)

        in US installed, Hialeah

1943 World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt travels

        from Miami to Morocco to meet with Winston

        Churchill, becoming the first American

        president to travel by airplane

1954 The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with

        Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the

        American Motors Corporation.

1956 Little Richard releases "Tutti Frutti"

1963 George Wallace sworn in as Governor of

        Alabama, his address states "segregation

        now; segregation tomorrow; segregation

        forever!"

1967 Sonny & Cher release single "The Beat Goes On"

1979 US President Jimmy Carter proposes Martin

        Luther King's birthday be a holiday

1985 16 indicted by US for granting sanctuary to

        Central American refugees

1995 Mexico pledges profits from state-owned

        Pemex's $7-billion-per-year oil revenues in an

        effort to secure US congressional approval of

        loan guarantees; President Clinton approves a

        $20-billion U.S. aid package for Mexico

2000’s

2016 Sixth republican presidential candidates’

        debate hosted by Fox, held in North

        Charleston, South Carolina

Birthdays Today

83 BC Mark Antony [Marcus Antonius],

Roman politician & general (Battle of Actium),

 born in Rome (d. 30 BC)@53-suicide

1741 Benedict Arnold,

American general & turncoat (American

Revolutionary War), born in Norwich,

Connecticut (d. 1801)@60-dropsy, delirium

1915 Mark Goodson,

American game show producer, born in

Sacramento, California (d. 1992)@77-cancer

1940 Julian Bond,

American civil rights leader & politician (D-Ga),

born in Nashville Tennessee (d. 2015)@75-

vascular disease

1906 William Bendix,

American actor (Lifeboat, Babe Ruth Story, Life

of Riley), born in New York City, New York

(d. 1964)@58-pneumonia

1919 Andy Rooney,

American CBS news correspondent

(60 Minutes), born in Albany, New York

(d. 2011)@92

1924 Guy Williams [Armando Joseph Catalano],

American actor (Zorro, Lost in Space),

born in NYC, New York (d. 1989)@65

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81- Jack Jones,

American singer (Love Boat Theme),

born in Los Angeles, California

78- Faye Dunaway,

American actress (Chinatown, Bonnie & Clyde),

born in Bascom, Florida

76- Holland Taylor,

American actress (Bossom Buddies, Camilla-

Naked Truth), born in Philadelphia

71- Carl Weathers,

American actor (Apollo Creed-Rocky),

born in New Orleans, Louisiana

56- Steven Soderbergh,

American producer, director, writer

(Ocean's Eleven, Traffic), born in Atlanta

55- Shepard Smith,

American news anchor, born in Holly Springs,

Mississippi

51- LL Cool J (James Todd Smith),

American rapper (Bigger & Deffer),

born in Bay Shore, New York

50- Dave Grohl,

American drummer (Nirvana, Foo Fighters),

born in Warren, Ohio

Historical Obits Today

@89-2013 Conrad Bain,

Canadian actor (Maude, Diff'rent Strokes)

@85-1742 Edmond Halley,

English mathematician and astronomer

(Halley's comet)

@85-2006 Shelley Winters [Schrift],

American actress (Lolita, A Place in the Sun,

A Patch of Blue & Poseidon Adventure)

@81-1984 Ray Kroc,

American fast food entrepreneur (McDonald's)

and owner of baseball's San Diego Padres

@81-1978 Blossom Rock [Edith Marie Blossom

          MacDonald],

American actress (Grandmamma-Addams

Family)

@73-1977 Anaïs Nin,

French-American author, dies of cancer

@69-2016 Alan Rickman,

English actor (Die Hard, Harry Potter

franchise), dies of cancer

@65-1898 Lewis Carroll,

English writer (Alice's Adventures in

Wonderland), dies pf pneumonia

@64-1986 Donna Reed,

actress (Donna Reed Show, Dallas), dies of

cancer

@60-1977 Peter Finch,

 actor (Network, The Nun's Story, Judith), dies

 of heart attack

@57-1957 Humphrey Bogart,

American actor (Casablanca, Caine Mutiny),

dies of cancer of the esophagus

Jan 13

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Jan 13, 2019 Week: 02  \ Day: 13

86004 Today: H 34° \ L 14° \ Average Sky Cover: 30% 

Wind:   11mph\Gusts:  18mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 59°[2000]   Record Low: -7°[2013]

Jan Averages: 43°\11°

Today’s Quote

The rose and the thorn,

and sorrow and gladness

are linked together.

 Saadi

Random Tidbits

Ancient Egyptians believed mushrooms were the plant of immortality. Pharaohs decreed them a royal food and forbade commoners to even touch them.

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Most edible mushrooms have poisonous look-alikes in the wild. For example, the dangerous "yellow stainer" closely resembles the popular white agaricus mushroom.

Observances This Week

9-13

National Soccer Coaches of America Week

11-17

Cuckoo Dancing Week

13-19

National Mocktail Week

National Gluten-Free Day

National Peach Melba Day

Observances for Today

Bodhi Day (Rohatsu)-- Korean American Day 

Make Your Dream Come True Day

National Gluten-Free Day
National Peach Melba Day

National Sticker Day 

National Sunday Supper Day  

Make Your Dreams Come True Day

Public Radio Broadcasting Day

My Rambling Thoughts

The weatherman says to expect 1”-4” of the white stuff tonight. I’ll wait and see. Not expecting that much.

I tried out my new indoor smokeless grill last night. I grilled an excellent seasoned chicken breast and the air-fryer French Fries were delicious. Clean up was very easy. Yeah. Next time it’s steak & shrimp to try out.  

I have talked about how BIA schools remain open during the shutdown. However, even that is not the whole story. The other parts of the BIA are closed due to the shutdown. That means the 2000 miles of paved rez roads and the 6000 miles of non-paved rez roads are not being maintained.  Hello! It’s winter and there is SNOW, that melts and turns dirt roads into mud bogs. At Tonalea, even without the shutdown, when it snowed our drivers started out at 5a picking up students because the roads were frozen. I remember days that we had to dismiss at noon, because as the snow melted, the roads became impassible by our normal 3:15 dismissal. Since, during this shutdown, schools are closing early because there is no road maintenance. Therefore they are not getting a full day of education.

So sad to see the destruction taking place at various National Parks and Monuments by visitors who are showing no respect to their land. And no Federal employees there to stop it. The shutdown is a disgrace.

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1400’s

1404 The Act of Multipliers is passed by the English Parliament forbidding alchemists to use their knowledge to create precious metals (it was feared that if any alchemist should succeed it would bring ruin upon the state)

1700’s

1794 Congress changes US flag to 15 stars & 15 stripes

1800’s

1849 Vancouver Island granted to Hudson's Bay Company

1900’s

1920 NY Times editorial (falsely) reports rockets can never fly

1938 The Church of England accepts the theory of evolution

1942 Henry Ford patents a method of constructing plastic auto bodies

1966 1st black selected for presidential cabinet (LBJ selects Robert C Weaver-HUD)

1981 Barbara Sonntag, Colo, crochets record 147 stitches/min for 1/2 hour

1988 Supreme Court rules (5-3) public school officials have broad powers to censor school newspapers, plays & other expressive activities

2000’s

2000 Microsoft chairman Bill Gates steps aside as chief executive and promotes company president Steve Ballmer to the position

2007 Two thirds of the Venus's southern hemisphere suddenly brightened as something triggered aerosols to form at a furious rate.

2016 Record Powerball lottery held in America - $1.6 billion, (3 winning tickets)

2018 Chelsea Manning, former soldier responsible for Wikileaks announces her bid to run for US Senate

Birthdays Today

1884 Sophie Tucker, [Kalish]

"last of red hot mammas", Russian-born

 American singer, born in Tulchyn, Russian

 Empire (d. 1966)@80

1919 Robert Stack,

American actor (The Untouchables, Unsolved

Mysteries, Written on the Wind), born in Los

Angeles, (d. 2003)@84

1931 Charles Nelson Reilly,

American actor, comedian and gameshow

panelist (Match Game, Ghost & Mrs Muir), born

in NYC, (d. 2007)@76-pneunomia

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84 Rip Taylor,

American actor and comedian (Gong Show,

 $1.98 Beauty Show), born in Washington, D.C.

76- Richard Moll,

American actor (Night Court, House,

Dungeonmaster, Survivor), born in Pasadena,

California

58- Julia Louis-Dreyfus,

American comedienne and actress (Elaine

Benes-Seinfeld, SNL, Veep), born in NYC

53- Patrick Dempsey,

American actor (Grey's Anatomy),born in

Lewiston Maine

42- Orlando Bloom,

English actor (Pirates of the Caribbean, The

Lord of the Rings), born in Canterbury, England

38- Ginger Zee,

TV show host

29- Liam Hemsworth,

Australian actor (Hunger Games films), born in

Melbourne

Historical Obits Today

@86-2017 Anthony Armstrong-Jones

[Lord Snowdon],

British photographer and ex-husband of

Princess Margaret

@85-2017 Dick Gautier,

American stage and screen actor (Get Smart,

Bye Bye Birdie)

@80-1929 Wyatt Earp,

US marshal(OK Corral)

@66-1691 George Fox,

founder of Quakers

@59-2010 Teddy Pendergrass,

American R&B singer dies of respiratory failure

@58-1941 James Joyce,

novelist (Ulysses), dies perforated ulcer

@42-1985 Carol Wayne,

Johnny Carson's teatime movie hostess, dies in

‘accidental’ drowning

@37-1864 Stephen Foster,

American composer (My Old Kentucky Home),

dies from fall