10 Jan

 

Week 2  Day  9  Flag Today  41°/3° Sky cover:  5% Wind 2mph Gusts 6mph Active Fire:  278miles away Risk of fire: Low  Nearest Lightning:  1544 miles away Air Quality: Fair Sunshine Jan. Daily Averages: Temps: 44°\16° Moisture:  5 Days

Today’s Quote                                                                                                Today’s Meme

Weekly Observations

6-2/13 Carnival 6-12 National Folic Acid Awareness Week Link 6-13 National Personal Trainer Awareness Week 7-13 Dating & Life Coaches Recognition Week National Lose Weight/Feel Great Week Elvis' Birthday Celebration Week Home Office Safety & Security Week National Mocktail Week

9-12 International Consumer Electronics Show 10-14 National Soccer Coaches of America Week Link

Daily Observations

Houseplant Appreciation Day Link  League of Nations Day National Bittersweet Chocolate Day National Cut Your Energy Costs Day National Oysters Rockefeller Day  Link

National Save The Eagles Day Link Oysters Rockefeller Day Peculiar People Day Save The Eagles Day

Today’s Thoughts

Today started cold but is warming up. DOD Secretary Austin and his family and coworkers really blew it when he didn’t inform the President that he was hospitalized in ICU after his elective surgery. I don’t think he should be fired, but a verbal or written reprimand seems appropriate. An commercial unmanned moon flight has developed fuel loss issues. It may prevent the mission from actually safely landing on the moon. Very unfortunate, for sure. It is on the heels of a request from the Navajo Nation President to not allow the flight to carry human remains to the moon. The moon is considered sacred to the Navajo and not a place for human remains. The tribe lost its argument when NASA said it was a commercial flight and not under NASA the agreement with the tribe.  Karma…maybe?

Important inventions…

1973: MRI Everyone agrees that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a brilliant invention—but no one agrees on who invented it. The physical effect that MRIs rely on—nuclear magnetic resonance—earns various scientists Nobel Prizes for physics in 1944 and 1952. Many believe that Raymond Damadian establishes the machine’s medical merit in 1973, when he first uses magnetic resonance to discern healthy tissue from cancer. Yet, in 2003, the Nobel Prize for medicine goes to Peter Lauterbur and Peter Mansfield for their “seminal discoveries.” The topic of who is the worthiest candidate remains hotly debated.

States that never made the map

Tri-Insula While Scott County was loyal to the Union, Fernando Wood, the slavery-supporting mayor of New York, aligned with the Confederate South. In January 1861, he announced that the boroughs of Manhattan, Long Island, and Staten Island would secede to form the Free City of Tri-Insula. The plans to secede drew some support from the New York elites who were cashing in on the slave trade, but wider support was lacking, particularly after the brutal Confederate bombing of Fort Sumter in April 1861. Wood's secession project was ditched later that year.

Untrue myths about Colonial America…States that never made the map

Thanksgiving Was First Established On A Day Late In November As of today, there is still only one account of the first Thanksgiving, which was found in a letter written by a man named Edward Winslow. However, Winslow's account of the first Thanksgiving had little to do than the tradition of Thanksgiving that we recognize today. In the beginning, it was was a harvest festival that lasted from three days in either September or November, consisting mostly of male settlers and Native Americans. The holiday was officially established in 1863 by Sarah Josepha Hale, a writer and editor, who campaigned for the creation of the holiday to Abraham Lincoln. Britain Underestimated The Colonists During The Revolutionary War

Historic Events

1776 – “Common Sense” by Thomas Paine was published. 1870 – John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil. 1878 – The first (Susan B. Anthony Woman) Woman’s Suffrage Amendment was offered to congress by Senator Arlen A. Sargent of California. 1927 – Fritz Lang’s futuristic film Metropolis was released in Germany. 1946 – The United Nations’ General Assembly (51 countries) met for the first time in London.

Birthdays with some quotes

@91 – Jerry Wexler, American music producer (d. 2008) @87 – Philip Levine, American poet (d. 2015) 85 – David Horowitz, American activist and author @83 – Ray Bolger, American actor (d. 1987) I was brought up on the books of The Wizard of Oz and my mother told me that these were great philosophies. It was a very simple philosophy, that everybody had a heart, that everybody had a brain, that everybody had courage. These were the gifts that are given to you when you come on this earth, and if you use them properly, you reach the pot at the end of the rainbow. And that pot of gold was a home. And home isn’t just a house or an abode, its people, people who love you and that you love. That’s a home. @83 – Max Roach, American drummer and composer (d. 2007) @79 – Roy E. Disney, American businessman (d. 2009; stomach cancer) It’s not hard to make decisions once you know what your values are. 79 – Rod Stewart, English singer-songwriter 76 – Donald Fagen, American singer-songwriter and musician (Steely Dan) It’s great to know that our old stuff still sounds good to our fans, just as it’s wonderful to think that we’ve turned a few people on to jazz over the years. @75 – (John) Robinson Jeffers, American poet (d. 1962) 75 – George Foreman, Boxer 74 – Roy Blunt, American politician @73 – Scott McKenzie (Philip Wallach Blondheim III), singer-songwriter (d. 2012; Guillain–Barré syndrome) @72 – Frank Sinatra, Jr., American singer and actor (d. 2016; cardiac arrest) 71 – Pat Benatar, American singer-songwriter You can’t change the past so don’t let it haunt you. You can change the future but first you’ve got to want to. @66 – Charles Phillip Ingalls, the father of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1902; cardiac arrest) @63 – Johnnie Ray, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1990; liver failure) 63 – Janet Jones, American actress @53 – Linda Lovelace, American actress (d. 2002; auto accident) 43 – Jared Kushner, American businessman and political figure @39 – Sal Mineo, American actor (d. 1976; murdered) 35 – Emily Meade, American actress

…The End for today…