United States Crime Rates 1960 – 2016
Unless you were born before 1964, you have never lived in an era with so little violent crime. America is getting stronger and better every year.
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The Weather Channel
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February 16, 2018 Evening
Happy President’s Day Weekend! Partly cloudy and 35 degrees in City of Albany.⛅ Breezy, 17 mph breeze from the west northwest. Cold and blustery but I promise that if the forecast doesn’t change it will be quite nice by mid-next week.
Tonight will be mostly clear, with a low of 21 degrees at 5am. 🌒Two degrees above normal. Northwest wind 8 to 15 mph. In 2017, we had light snow in the evening with a few breaks in clouds by early morning.🌃 It got down to 21 degrees. The record low of -16 occurred back in 1973.🌌
Tonight will have a Waxing Crescent Moon with 2% illuminated with the moon setting at 6:23 pm. 🌒Look to the west for the very slender moon as it starts to get dark. The First Quarter Moon is on Thursday night with a chance of showers. The Snow Moon is on Wednesday, February 28th.🌕 The sun will rise at 6:49 am with the first light at 6:20 am, which is one minute and 26 seconds earlier than yesterday. Tonight will have 13 hours and 18 minutes of darkness, a decrease of 2 minutes and 44 seconds over last night.🌆
Tomorrow will have increasing clouds, with a high of 37 degrees at 2pm.⛅ Two degrees above normal. Light and variable wind becoming south 5 to 9 mph in the afternoon. A year ago, we had mostly cloudy skies with some clearing in the afternoon. The high last year was 34 degrees. The record high of 60 was set in 1981. 11.9 inches of snow fell back in 2003.
Looking ahead to Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 43. 🌞Light southwest wind becoming west 6 to 11 mph in the morning. Typical average high for the weekend is 35 degrees.
Traffic heading out of the city is exceptionally light🚗🚙🚚 but then again it’s the Friday evening before the long weekend. So that is to be expected. I wish it was a summer long weekend but that is not to be.
I’m hoping if at least part of the weekend is decent, I will crawl under my truck and rehook up the ground wire for the truck cap🚗. I do want to have light and power for the next few it gets nice enough to do some truck cap camping. I’d love to get the solar panel hooked up but that’s not to be until the weather gets nicer.
I also have the various electronics projects to work on this weekend.📺 It’s nice coming home and having the lights come on automatically to a nice light yellow color when you walk into the bedroom:idea:. But I have a lot more projects I want to permanently build too.
That said, tonight I’m fairly tired so I may just retire early to bed💤. Or maybe I’ll spend some time working with the soldering iron. Although maybe I’ll decide to go for a walk to the library for a while. I’m planning on a quiet Friday night.
In four weeks on March 16 the sun will be setting at 7:03 pm (Daylight Savings Time), 💛which is one hour, 34 minutes and 18 seconds later then today. In 2017 on that day, we had partly cloudy skies and temperatures between 32 and 18 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 44 and 26 degrees. The record high of 82 degrees was set back in 1990.
Looking ahead, Read Across America Day is in 2 weeks, Good Friday is in 6 weeks, Arbor Day is in 10 weeks, 8 PM Sunset is in 11 weeks, Average High is 70 is in 3 months, Memorial Day Weekend Starts is in 14 weeks, Average High is 80 is in 18 weeks and Buy Nothing Day is in 40 weeks.
🍔🌺Only 14 weeks remain until the start of Memorial Day Weekend!🌻🌼
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What the Misery Index Can Tell Us About the Health of the US Economy
"The Misery Index grew famous during the candidacy of Jimmy Carter (a man not known for projecting or encouraging misery), and he used it with great effect against his rival in the 1976 presidential campaign. The index was then in the low teens, having come down from the peak of 19.9% it had reached shortly after Gerald Ford took office. Nevertheless, a figure in the low teens still seemed too much to the electorate, and Carter won easily. However, Carter's own Misery Index peaked at 21.98% in June 1980, when the next election was in full swing. Carter was hoisted by his own petard and lost in a landslide."
"Those numbers are worth keeping in mind as we contemplate a current economy frequently referred to in less than glowing terms, and in light of a market that has recently turned hostile on the bulls. Currently, the Misery Index stands at a scant 5.3%, with the latest unemployment figures coming in at 5.1% and inflation at a mere 0.2% for September. That's the lowest the index has been since the spring of 1956 -- the exact point in time when the end of the first season of Happy Days is set. Happy Days first aired in 1974, when the Misery Index was just gaining notoriety."