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Feb 24, 2018 Week: 08\ Day: 56
86004 Today: H
39° \ L 6° \ Average Sky Cover: 100%
Feel like: 18°
Wind ave.: 17mph\Gusts:
0mph Visibility: 525 yards
Record High: 66°[1904] Record Low: -4°[1909]
Feb Averages: 46°\19°
Feb Records: H: 71° (1986) L: -23° (1985)
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Today’s Quote
If you can't describe what you are
doing as a process,
you don't know what you're doing.
W. Edwards Deming
Harper’s Index
11-Factor by
which the director of the Australian postal service earned more in 2016 that
the Prime Minister
$167,000,000-Net
loss the service reported in 2015
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Observances This Week
16-25
Date
(Fruit) Week
17-24
18-24
Bird
Health Awareness Week Link
Build A Better Trade Show Image Week
National Engineers Week
Through With The Chew Link
Brotherhood / Sisterhood Week Link
Build A Better Trade Show Image Week
National Engineers Week
Through With The Chew Link
Brotherhood / Sisterhood Week Link
20-23
22-25
American
Birkenbreiner Race
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Observances for Today
Forget Me Not Day Link
International Sword Swallowers Day
National Dance Day
National Tortilla Chip Day
World Bartender Day Link
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
≈Today’s Significant International
Historical Events
1800’s
1803 US
Supreme Court 1st rules a law unconstitutional (Marbury v Madison)
≈1804 London's
Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan
destitute
1857 1st
perforated US postage stamps delivered to government
1863 Arizona
Territory created
1868 1st US
parade with floats (Mardi Gras-Mobile, Alabama)
1888 Louisville,
Kentucky, becomes 1st government in US to adopt Australian ballot (i.e. secret
ballot on standard voting forms)
1893 The
American University is chartered by an act of the Congress of the United States
of America
1899 Western
Washington University is established
1900’s
1909 The
Hudson Motor Car Company is founded.
≈1917 German
plan to get Mexican help in WW I exposed (Zimmerman telegram)
1925 Thermite
explosive 1st used to break up ice jam, Waddington, NY
1938 Du Pont
begins commercial production of nylon toothbrush bristles
≈1942 Voice
of America begins broadcasting (in German)
≈1977 US
President Jimmy Carter announces US foreign aid will consider human
rights
≈1981 Britain's Prince
Charles announces engagement to Lady Diana Spencer
1985 Yul
Brynner reprised his role in "The King & I"
1987 LA
Laker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scores his 36,000th NBA point
1989 150
million year old fossil egg found in Utah with a fossilized dinosaur embryo
inside, the oldest dinosaur egg yet found in the Northern Hemisphere
≈1997 Qatar
inaugurates the world's largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporting facility
and formally launches Qatar Liquefied Gas Co.
≈1999 The
State of Arizona executes Karl LaGrand, a German national involved in an armed
robbery, in spite of Germany's legal action to attempt to save him.
2000’s
2002 19th
Winter Olympic Games close at Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
≈2010 Europe
risks a double-dip recession after bad results emerge from France, Germany and
Italy, it is reported today; the Eurozone only grew by 0.1% in the last quarter
of 2009
≈2013 Raúl
Castro is elected to a second term as the President of Cuba
≈2014 Pope Francis creates
a second Secretariat with the power to audit any Vatican agency at any time
≈2016 Oldest
Muslim graves in Europe, from the 8th century, identified at a buriel site in
Nimes, France
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Our retirement
group met for lunch and talking. Lasted longer than expected, but well worth
it. Didn’t have time to post yesterday.
Woke up to snow
this morning. For the first time in forever, it is actually accumulating on the
ground, trees, sidewalks, etc. Glad I can stay home and not have to deal with
the bad road conditions. By late afternoon, looks like the HOA will have to
bite the bullet and bring in the snow removal crew. We now have a good 4” and
it’s still coming down and still piling up. If this keeps up, I’ll have to know
the snow off my blue spruce as the branches will be bent to the sidewalk.
I began a great
teaching career just as the world was switching from quill pens to fountain
pens. Tee Hee. Since the beginning of teaching in the US, teachers have always
had ‘other duties as assigned.’ For many it was stoking the fire every morning
so the classroom would be warm. When I started it was raising the flag on
campus every day of the week. Teachers now have after school conferences,
before school meetings, training beyond the regular school day, recess duty,
morning bus duty, afternoon bus duty, … Now 45 wants to add conceal/carry to
some teacher’s duty. While this is a dumb idea, he at least is suggesting ‘bonus’
pay will suddenly appear from the magic money pit. Every military person and
every educator and most gun enthusiasts will say that ‘the good guy with the
gun has one job…stop the perp.’ What happens to the students under that teacher’s
care? Are they now on their own? Then I heard about ‘the safest school in
America’ on the news. It is in middle America. Every classroom has bullet-proof
glass, every teacher has a panic button, every hallway has security cameras
that have a live feed to the local police department. And to top it off, every
hallway has smoke bombs that can be detonated to confuse the shooter. So happy
to be retired after a great career.
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Birthdays
Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
@94- Abe
Vigoda,
American
actor (Barney Miller, The Godfather),
born in
NYC
(d. 2016)
70’s
76- Joe
Lieberman,
(Sen-D
Connecticut)
@74- Winslow
Homer,
American
painter (Gulfstream)
@73- Wilhelm
Karl Grimm,
German
story teller (Grimm's Fairy Tales),
born in
Hanau, Hesse-Cassel, Holy Roman Empire
infection (d.
1859)
71- Edward
James Olmos,
actor
(Miami Vice, Stand & Deliver, Triumph)
60’s
68- George
Thorogood,
American singer and guitarist
(The
Delaware Destroyers-Bad to the Bone),
born in
Wilmington, Delaware
67- Debra Jo
Rupp,
American
actress (That 70’s Show)
62- Paula
Zahn,
news
anchor (ABC, CBS This Morning)
60- Sammy
Kershaw,
country
vocalist (Cadillac Style)
50’s
@56- Steve
Jobs,
American
computer entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple,
born in
San Francisco, California
cancer (d.
2011)
52- Billy
Zane,
actor
(Titanic, Dead Calm),
born in
Chicago, Illinois
40’s
41- Floyd
Mayweather,
featherweight boxer(Olympic
bronze 1996),
born in
Grand Rapids Michigan
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Historical
Obits Today
90’s
@91-1998 Henny
Youngman,
American
comedian and violinist (Take my wife ... please)
80’s
@88-2012 Jan
Berenstain [Janice Marian Grant],
American
author (The Berenstain Bears)
@81-2006 Don
Knotts,
American
actor (Andy Griffth Show, 3's Company)
@81-2006 Dennis
Weaver,
American
actor (Chester-Gunsmoke, Duel, Battered)
@81-1986 Tommy
Douglas,
Canadian
politician
"Father
of Medicare"
70’s
@76-1994 Dinah
Shore,
singer
(Chevrolet),
cancer
@71-1991 George
Gobel,
comedian
(George Gobel Show),
following
heart surgery
@70-1990 Malcolm
Forbes,
American
publisher of Forbes Magazine,
heart
attack
40’s
@49-1815 Robert
Fulton,
American
inventor and engineer
(first
commercial steamboat),
TB
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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.
☼☼☼☼…And That Is All
for Now…☼☼☼☼
