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AFFORDABILITY

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Affordability is a quality of being inexpensive. Because of the affordability of the apples at the orchard, we went ahead and bought a whole bushel. The adjective affordability describes things you can afford to pay for because they don't cost too much.

RIP GEN XYZ

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If you feel muddled by this alphabet soup of names, it is easy to see why there is so much confusion about generational cohorts.
While some individuals are special and do not follow the trend, many appear hyper-individualistic or resistant to responsibility beyond themselves and some in their inner circle, while others are deeply collective and cause-driven. The bottom line is most don’t shive-a-git.

STARVING CUBA

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He has a few nicknames, "Raulito," the younger Castro is known in political circles by his others nickname "El Cangrejo" ("The Crab") because he apparently has a deformed finger. For over six decades, the Castro family has held total control, power and influence favoring relatives, or close friends.

RIP JESSE JACKSON

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Rest in power, Jesse Jackson, one of the world's best-known Black activists who worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr., died at the age of 84.

A CALENDAR RARITY

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A notable “triad” of observances/calendar events happening at the same time:
🌙 Religious & Calendar Observances (the big three)
🌕 Lunar New Year – The start of the lunar/Chinese New Year (Year of the Horse) based on the lunar calendar, widely celebrated by Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and other communities.
🍖 Mardi Gras / Fat Tuesday – The last day before Ash Wednesday & Lenten season in the Christian calendar; celebrated with parades and feasting especially in places like New Orleans and other Catholic communities in the U.S.
🌙 Ramadan moon sighting window – Tonight (Feb 17) is when many Muslim communities globally will look for the new crescent moon to decide the official start of Ramadan; the fasting month most likely begins at sunset tonight or will start on Feb 18, depending on local sightings.

HAPPY PRESIDENTS DAY

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At first, he cried wolf because he was bored, needed attention, or behsps both reasons.

The hills answered him faithfully. The sound carried. The villagers came running. Breathless. Furious. Relieved.

The second time, he cried wolf because he liked the power.

There was something intoxicating about watching grown men drop their tools. Watching women leave their ovens. Watching urgency move at his command. Fear, he learned, was leverage.

By the fifth time, he didn’t even need a reason.

The word wolf was enough.

A FIRE HORSE YEAR

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The 1966 Fire Horse year had a strong cultural impact in places like Japan, where superstition suggested girls born that year would be strong-willed and bring hardship to husbands. Birth rates noticeably declined that year.

SOCIAL MEDIA & BOOZE

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Social media and alcohol claim to bring people together, but in many cases, it's the opposite. Designed to connect the world, it frequently amplifies hostility, rewards division, and gives a megaphone to negative messaging. What is marketed as community can quickly become conflict, revealing a gap between the image social media promotes and the reality it sometimes produces.

POTUS APPROVALS

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Among the past 13 presidents, Harry Truman received a 22 percent job approval rating, the lowest ever recorded, in a Gallup survey from Feb. 1952.