I got my absentee ballot. As I don’t have a stamp I plan to walk to the Early Vote place down the street when it opens and drop it off there. 🗳 #voteplan
October 5, 2020 Night
Good evening! Mostly cloudy and 54 degrees in Delmar, NY. ☁ Calm wind. The dew point is 50 degrees. The skies will clear tomorrow around 5 am.
Remarkably warm for second week of August. ♨ I sat out back for a while after my evening walk 🚶🏻 and it was quite pleasant. A fairly busy day at work but I did get down to Hannaford 🏪 for the essentials. Tomorrow it’s back downtown for work.
Tonight will have patchy fog after midnight. Otherwise, mostly cloudy 🌥, with a low of 47 degrees at 3am. Four degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 27th. Calm wind. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 41 degrees. The record low of 24 occurred back in 1965.
Tonight will have a Waining Gibbous 🌖 Moon with 84% illuminated. At 10 PM, the moon was in the east-northeast (79°) at an altitude of 15° from the horizon, some 249,997 miles away from where you are looking up from the earth. 🚀 At the state speed limit of 55 mph, you’ll make it there by April 13th. Buckle up for safety! 💺 The New Moon 🌚 is on Wednesday, October 21. The darkest hour is at 12:44 am, followed by dawn at 6:30 am, and sun starting to rise at 6:58 am in the east (96°) and last for 2 minutes and 55 seconds. Sunrise is one minute and 7 seconds later than yesterday. 🌄 The golden hour ends at 7:36 am with sun in the east-southeast (102°). Tonight will have 12 hours and 29 minutes of darkness, an increase of 2 minutes and 51 seconds over last night.
Tomorrow will have patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly sunny 🌞, with a high of 70 degrees at 4pm. Six degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 22nd. Maximum dew point of 53 at 10am. Light south wind increasing to 8 to 13 mph in the morning. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 65 degrees. The record high of 90 was set in 1900. There was a dusting of snow in 1954.❄
Going to be a really nice day tomorrow ☀ and in some ways I’m bummed out that I’ll be working downtown. I guess I could do the meeting remotely 📱 but it’s so much more productive to have the in person meeting and plus I’m planning on going to John Wolcott’s house later. 🏡
In four weeks on November 2 the sun will be setting in the west-southwest (250°) at 4:46 pm (Standard Time),🌄 which is one hour, 42 minutes and 47 seconds earlier then tonight. In 2019 on that day, we had mostly cloudy and temperatures between 50 and 35 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 53 and 35 degrees. The record high of 82 degrees was set back in 1950.
Looking ahead, Cyber Monday 🛍️ and Beaver Moon 🎑 is in 8 weeks, Repeal of Prohibition Day 🍺 is in 2 months, First Day of Winter ☃️ is in 11 weeks, 4:30 PM Sunset 🌆 is in 12 weeks, National Bird Day 🐧 is in 3 months, Winnie the Pooh Day 🍯 is in 15 weeks, Martin Luther King Day 🖤 is in 15 weeks, 5 PM Sunset 🌆 is in 16 weeks and February 🌧 is in 17 weeks.
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Why Do Such Elderly People Run America? – The Atlantic
he most obvious reason America’s presidential candidates are so old might be that Americans are getting older. Voters over 65 routinely go to the polls more often than young voters do, and political-science research has found that voters typically prefer candidates “who are closest to themselves in age.” This sounds like a universal formula: Older countries produce older politicians.
But since the 1980s, almost every European country has gotten older, while the typical European Union leader has actually gotten younger. In the United Kingdom, although people over 55 outvote people under 30 by one of the widest margins in the world, the current prime minister, Boris Johnson, is “only” 55. Biden, Sanders, and Trump are all older right now than the U.K.’s five previous prime ministers, going back to Tony Blair.
So the preference for very old candidates seems to be weirdly, specifically American. What’s that about?
Maybe it’s about decades of youth disengagement from politics. According to The Economist, older Americans have outvoted younger Americans by a wider margin than in the typical OECD country. This is particularly true at the local level. As Timothy Noah writes in Politico, studies have found that the median voter age in America’s municipal elections is 57—“nearly a generation older than the median age of eligible voters.”
Arterial Series | Historic Amsterdam League
In February of 1960 Amsterdam’s Evening Recorder newspaper ran a series of, ironically, thirteen photos and captions describing what were then the tentative plans for the state arterial system that was going to lead to the rebirth of the downtown area and create the “New Amsterdam”. Talk of a new arterial system had been floating around for a couple of years by then and it was a foregone conclusion that it would soon be a done deal. Little did anyone realize at that point that it would be well more than a decade before the project was completed, nor the devastating effect it would ultimately have on the city’s traditional business district. Beyond the general east-west and north-south arterial corridors, little of the original proposal made the translation from paper to reality intact – Division Street did not become the westbound arterial, the southbound arterial did not cross the Mohawk on the rebuilt 1916 river bridge, East and West Main Streets did not remain a main artery through the city.
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