Feb 10

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Feb. 10, 2020 Week: 7  Day: 41

86004:   H 52° \ L 29° \ Average Sky Cover: 20%

Nearest lightning:  1710mi.; Nearest active fire:  165mi. 

Wind:   8mph\Gusts:  18mph  Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 65°[1951]   Record Low: -17°[1933]

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

Today’s LOVE Quote

It is the caring and sharing that count—

love is not prevented by the things

and the time that you haven’t shared.

Claudia Jewett Jarrett

Random Tidbits

Japan has the second lowest homicide rate in the world, but it also home to the spooky "suicide forest" Aokigahara at the base of Mt. Fuji.

It is the second most popular place in the world for suicides after San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.

Observations This Week

Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week: 7-14 Link
Have A Heart for A Chained Dog Week: 7-14  Link
National Marriage Week: 7-14  Link  Link
Risk Awareness Week: 7-14
Solo Diners Eat Out Weekend: 7-12
Love Makes the World Go Round; But, Laughter Keeps Us From Getting Dizzy Week: 8-14
Children of Alcoholics Week: 9-15 Link 
International Flirting Week: 9-15 
Jell-O Week: 9-15 
Love a Mensch Week: 9-15
National Secondhand Wardrobe Week: 9-15
Freelance Writer Appreciation Week: 10-15
Westminster Dog Show: 10-11

Observations for Today

All The News That's Fit To Print Day
Clean Out Your Computer Day Link
Meal Monday Link
National Cream Cheese Brownie Day

National “Have a Brownie” Day

National Home Warranty Day  Link
Plimsoll Day
Tu B'Shvat

Umbrella Day
World Pulses Day

My Rambling Thoughts

A warm-er Sunday and was able to take a walk before the wind started. Then watched my Sunday morning News shows. Watching Face the Nation, they interviewed the Chinese Ambassador. He reminded me of the Trump friend who said “I am not under oath when I talk to the press”. As he did his job of repeating the Chinese government position on the Coronavirus, it was really difficult to believe him.

Sunday paper, cleaning the kitchen and a couple of loads of laundry on today’s agenda. Such fun.

If we are to keep our two-party system, one party better get its act together pretty quickly or the other party is going to have a great re-election celebration. My suggestion is to quickly pick a candidate and have every other candidate back that person with their voice, their money, and their followers.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

A man builds a rectangular house. All the sides of the house have southern exposure. A bear walks past the house. What color is the bear?

Historical Events

1355 - In Oxford, England, a dispute between 2 Oxford students and a Tavern Keeper over the quality of his drinks escalated into the St Scholastica Day riot between Oxford students and local citizens where 63 students and 30 locals were killed.

1763 - The Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War and France ceded Canada to England.

1840 - Queen Victoria and her cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg-Gotha, married. They had 9 children - Victoria, Bertie, Alice, Alfred, Helena, Louise, Arthur, Leopold, and Beatrice.

1863 - General Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren were married in NYC.

1870 - The YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) was formally founded in New York City.

1897 - All The News That's Fit To Print Day - the phrase began permanently on the front page of The New York Times.

1933 - The singing telegram was introduced by the Postal Telegraph Company of New York City.

1942 - The first gold record was presented to Glenn Miller for Chattanooga Choo Choo for selling 1.2 million copies. There was no official rule set at the time to qualify.

1949 - Death of a Salesman by American playwright Arthur Miller, opened at the Morocco Theatre in New York City.

1953 - Romper Room premiered, in syndication.

1956 - My Friend Flicka debuted on CBS

1962 - Roy Lichtenstein's first solo art exhibition opened at the Castelli Gallery in NYC.

1962 - The Soviet Union exchanged captured American U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for the Soviet spy Rudolph Ivanovich Abe with the US.

1966 - Ralph Nader, the author of Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile, testified before Congress for the first time about unsafe practices in the auto industry.

1968 - # 1 Hit: Paul Mauriat - Love Is Blue

1976 - Sesame Street episode #847 featured Margaret Hamilton reprising her role as the Wicked Witch of the West from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. It scared children so badly that the episode has never been re-aired.

1979 - # 1 Hit: Rod Stewart - Da Ya Think I'm Sexy

1990 South African President F. W. de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be freed on February 11th

1990 - # 1 Hit: Paula Abdul & The Wild Pair - Opposites Attract

1992 - Mike Tyson was convicted in Indianapolis of raping Desiree Washington, Miss Black American contestant.

1993- Oprah Winfrey interviewed Michael Jackson at his home The Neverland Ranch. It was Jackson's first televised interview since 1979.

1996 - World chess champion Gary Kasparov lost the first game of a six-game match against Deep Blue. He won three, and tied twice in the matchup.

2005 His Royal Highness Charles, Prince of Wales announces engagement to Camilla Parker Bowles

2019 Sexual abuse investigation into US Southern Baptist churches reveals 400 church members implicated with over 700 victims, according to The Houston Chronicle and the San Antonio Express-News

2019 Insect populations are collapsing worldwide threatening a “catastrophic collapse of nature’s ecosystems” according to a global review saying 40% declining, 30% endangered

Birthdays Today

90-Robert Wagner, actor

Jimmy Durante, comedian, singer, pianist, actor (d. 1980@86)

83-Roberta Flack, singer

53-Laura Dern, movie actress

Puzzle Answer:

White. It is a polar bear as the house must be built on the north pole else not all sides would face south.

Feb 9

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Feb. 9, 2020 Week: 6  Day: 34

86004:   H 53° \ L 25° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%

Nearest lightning:  2823mi.; Nearest active fire:  316mi. 

Wind:   7mph\Gusts:  15mph  Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 64°[2015]   Record Low: -21°[1929]

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

Today’s LOVE Quote

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances:

if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

Random Tidbits

Home to 33 million people, the Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan area is the largest populated metropolitan region in the world.

Twenty-one percent of the Japanese population is elderly (over the age of 65), the highest proportion in the world. There are more elderly than there are children in Japan today.

Observations This Week

Children's Mental Health Week: 3-9 Link
Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week: 7-14 Link
Have A Heart for A Chained Dog Week: 7-14  Link
National Marriage Week: 7-14  Link  Link
Risk Awareness Week: 7-14
Solo Diners Eat Out Weekend: 7-12
Love Makes the World Go Round; But, Laughter Keeps Us From Getting Dizzy Week: 8-14
Children of Alcoholics Week: 9-15 Link 
International Flirting Week: 9-15 
Jell-O Week: 9-15 
Love a Mensch Week: 9-15
National Secondhand Wardrobe Week: 9-15 

Observations for Today

Academy Awards Oscar Night

Autism Sunday Link 
Bagel and Lox Day

Gwyl Mabsant Link
Man Day 
National Pizza Day Link
Read in the Bathtub Day
Toothache Day Link
World Marriage Day  Link

My Rambling Thoughts

A nice Saturday. Good day to clean the bathrooms. Ugh. The wind makes it hard to be outside. One gust about 7a this morning was a big dust devil with what looked like 40mph whirls, dropped off the mountain and over one of the buildings, then coming down near the trash bin and across the parking lot and my buildings units. Only lasted about 15 seconds but was weird for sure.

I must admit I am very confused about all the political talk about how Amazon and others pay no Federal taxes. While nearly 100 of the Fortune 500 paid no Federal taxes in 2018 and thanks to the tax cuts paid $74 billion less in corporate taxes. What does that mean? And why did Congress pass this? It’s all a game.

I must have a new newspaper delivery guy. Tues morning was very cold, no paper. I guess I can deal with that. Wed. morning, I got Tues & Wed. paper. OK. Thursday no paper…really cold again. Friday I got Friday paper. Today I got the Friday and Saturday paper. Never got Thursday paper. Tired of calling somebody in another state to complain. We have a small-town newspaper that is owned by some super conglomerate and I’m to the point that whatever I get, whenever I get it is better than nothing. I could just pay and get it on line, but I really like holding the news in my hot little hands.

Last Sunday night, some tagger hit 15 storefronts in one section of this town. It is an area that has many medical buildings including the hospital. While the hospital didn’t get hit, I have doctors in each of the medical building that were hit. Then the tagger moved a couple of blocks and hit restaurants, a dispensary, and several local small retail stores. Police say it is the work of one tagger. Very few leads to find the idiot. I’m sure the tagger will hit again, and have faith in our police and citizens will find the perp. Some building in the area has to have security cameras.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

There are five oranges in a basket, how can you distribute the oranges to five different people such that one orange is still in the basket?

Historical Events

1825 - The U.S. House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams president since no candidate had received a majority of electoral votes.

1870 - The weather service, now named the National Weather Service (NWS) was authorized by Congress.

1889 - The United States Department of Agriculture was established

1895 - William G. Morgan, a Holyoke, MA, YMCA physical education director, invented the game of volleyball.

1900 - The Davis Cup tennis competition was established.

1902 - Doctor Eugène-Louis Doyen of Paris, performed a successful operation separating Siamese freakshow twins (Radika and Dodika), from the Barnum and Bailey Circus, apart.

1913 - The 1913 Great Meteor Procession took place over the eastern section of North America.

1942 - 'War Time' Daylight-savings went into effect in the US.

1957 - # 1 Hit: Elvis Presley - Too Much

1960 - Adolph Coors III was kidnapped and later killed by Joe Corbett while driving to work from his Morrison, Colorado, home.

1961 - The Beatles debuted at Liverpool's Cavern.

1963 - # 1 Hit: Paul & Paula - Hey Paula

1964 - The Beatles appeared in the Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.

1969 - The Boeing 747 flew its inaugural flight.

1971 - Satchel Paige became the first Negro League player to be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

1974 - # 1 Hit: Love Unlimited Orchestra - Love's Theme

1995 Irish music and dance show "Riverdance" first opens in Dublin, Ireland with lead dancer Michael Flatley

1997- The Simpsons made television history with their episode "The Itchy, Scratchy and Pootchie Show" which they then surpassed the Flintstones as the longest running prime-time cartoon series in terms of episodes aired.

2001 American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally strikes and sinks the Ehime-Maru, a Japanese training vessel operated by the Uwajima Fishery High School; nine the Ehime-Maru's crew members were killed, including four high school students.

2016 US primary elections: New Hampshire Primary, In Republican race Donald Trump wins (35%), John Kasich 2nd (16%), and Bernie Sanders (60%) defeats Hillary Clinton (38%) in Democratic race

2019 Elizabeth Warren officially announces her 2020 presidential campaign in Lawrence, Massachusetts

Birthdays Today

77-Carole King, singer songwriter, most successful female musician in latter half of 20^th century.

75-María de Lourdes Villiers ‘Mia’ Farrow, actress, activist

William Henry Harrison, 9^th US President (d. 1841@68)

65- Charles Shaughnessy, actor

57- James Travis Tritt, singer, songwriter, actor

Puzzle Answer:

Give the last person the basket with the last orange in it.