Good Morning, Do, Today is Monday, February 13 Thanks, Bill!! Have FUN! DearWebby Todays Bonehead Award: Killer strangled 4-year-old son after boy spotted him murdering his mother, a former teacher who had been the killer's lover. Details at  Boneheads ______________________________________________________ Today, February 13 in 1945 At the end of World War II, Allied aircraft began bombing the disarmed German city of Dresden and reduced it to rubble in what they called Psychologigal Warfare. It did not work because the bombing was too thorough and nobody left to tell the tale. It was not until the book and movie "Slaughterhouse Five" decades later, that most of the Germans found out about it.  See More of what happened on this day in history. ______________________________________________________ 
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 ______________________________________________________ Adventure is not outside man; it is within. --- George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) ______________________________________________________ If you like the Humor Letter, please vote!  ______________________________________________________ At one point during a game, the coach said to one of his young players, "Do you understand what cooperation is? What a team is?" The little boy nodded in the affirmative. "Do you understand that what matters is whether we win together as a team?" The little boy nodded yes. "So," the coach continued, "when a strike is called, or you're out at first, you don't argue or curse or attack the umpire. Do you understand all that?" Again the little boy nodded. "Good," said the coach. "Now go over there and explain it to your mother." ______________________________________________________   ______________________________________________________ Shortly after returning home from a trip to Sea World in Florida, a friend went shopping for swimsuits with her children. When she emerged from the dressing room in a contrasting black-and-white suit, her four-year-old son, exclaimed his approval: "Oh, Mommy, that's perfect! You look just like Shamu!" ______________________________________________________   >From FB ______________________________________________________ 
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 ______________________________________________________ An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD has been earned by  Isaac Infante, 23, Harlem, NY  Killer strangled 4-year-old son after boy spotted him murdering his mother, a former teacher who had been the killer's lover.  The confessed killer of an ex-girlfriend in her Harlem home strangled their 4-year-old son when he stumbled onto the crime scene, police sources told the Daily News. Miguel Barahona was in the bathroom when an enraged Isaac Infante attacked Felicia Barahona, and the killer was standing over her lifeless body when the little boy emerged, the sources said. Duran then choked his helpless son to death, placing the boys body into the bathtub before fleeing the apartment during the Dec. 22 rampage, the sources said Wednesday. The defendant detailed the taking of a cord and taking it to (Barahonas) neck until she turned blue and the life drained from her body, said Assistant District Attorney Nicole Blumberg. The unsuspecting child had no idea he would be the defendants next victim. Infante, 23, faces two counts of first-degree murder in the double-homicide. He admitted entering the apartment with the intention of murdering his ex-lover, sources said. He was remanded without bail after the hearing. Infante and Barahona were lovers while Infante was a high school student and she was his teacher, with the woman delivering their child in August 2012. Her body, a telephone cord wrapped around her throat, was found four days later on Monday morning with Infante charged a day later. The superintendent at Barahonas apartment smelled a stench seeping from her apartment into the hallway Monday, put down his mop and went out on the fire escape to look inside, the sources said. He spied Barahona, 36, on the floor and called 911, with cops finding her and then discovering the little boy face down in the bathtub, cops said. Ten people had called 911 about the death smell, sources said. Infante, of Bethlehem, Pa., left the apartment door unlocked when he left early Monday morning, the sources said. The murder suspect was captured on security video from a neighboring apartment both arriving Sunday night and then departing about three hours later. He returned home to Bethlehem after the killings. Infante turned himself into police after his sister, Elizabeth, showed cops a photo of the suspect in a red hooded sweatshirt the same one he wore to the apartment, sources said. Infante left the sweatshirt behind after the killings, donning a scarf that was once a gift from Barahona, the sources said. According to cops, Infante was angry about paying child support for the boy he fathered back when he was a student in Barahonas science class at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx. The sources indicated that he was also angry because Barahona fed their child fast food rather than making him meals, and confessed to knocking her to the floor before killing her with the cord.  ______________________________________________________  Tech Support Pits From: Maryanne Re: Merging mail from different machines Dear Webby I replaced my old computer at year end, but kept using the old one for almost a month for mail. How can I pull that mail across to the new one without overwriting the mailboxes that I have there with the February stuff in it? Thanks Maryanne  Dear Maryanne Go to the old machine and use your email program to rename the mailboxes that you want. For example rename "Recipes" to "Recipes-1". Then shut down the mail program on both machines and copy the Recipes-1" mailbox to the new computer, right beside where you find "Recipes". Most email programs have TWO files for each mailbox, for example IN.mbx and IN.toc . Some name them slightly different. You need both. When you start up the mail program, you will see both "Recipes" and "Recipes-1". Now you can just drag the mails, that you want to keep, from one mailbox to another. Have FUN! DearWebby    >From Mona: When my son first start dating he said, "I want to marry a good woman, a smart woman, one who'll be a good mother to our kids, a woman who will make me happy." I told him he'd better make up his mind. 
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 Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com Fruity Valentine Gelatin By joanWZ [33 Posts, 9 Comments] It's a fruity dessert for Valentine's Day! Not just for boyfriends and girlfriends but because I am a mom, for the whole family. I especially made this recipe for my two kids. Prep Time: 3 mins. Cook Time: 5 mins. Total Time: 10 mins. It's a fruity dessert for Valentine's Day! Not just for boyfriends and girlfriends but because I am a mom, for the whole family. I especially made this recipe for my two kids. Prep Time: 3 mins. Cook Time: 5 mins. Total Time: 10 mins. Fruity Valentine Gelatin Ingredients: 3 cups water 1 sachet gelatin 1 cup white sugar 2 slices papaya, cut into small slices (or any fruit you want) 2 Tbsp sprinkles Steps: In a pan on low heat, add water and sachet of gelatin. Stir for 2 minutes on low heat. After 2 minutes add the sugar. Then, prepare the mold for the gelatin, and place the cut papaya fruit. After 5 minutes of stirring pour mixture through a strainer into the mold. This will eliminate lumps in the gelatin. Put it in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. Remove from mold. Decorate with sprinkles, chocolate chips, honey or anything you like. It is now ready to serve!   
  
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 ____________________________________________________ My two-year-old cousin scared us one summer by disappearing during our lakeside vacation. More than a dozen relatives searched the forest and shoreline, and everyone was relieved when we found Matthew playing calmly in the woods. "Listen to me!" his mother, said sharply. "From now on when you want to go someplace, you tell Mommy first, okay?" Matthew thought about that for a moment and said, "Okay, Disney World." ___________________________________________________  
  
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 Today on February 13 1542 Catherine Howard was executed for adultery. She was the fifth wife of England's King Henry VIII. 1633 Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before the Inquisition. 1875 Mrs. Edna Kanouse gave birth to Americas first quintuplets. All five of the baby boys died within two weeks. 1880 Thomas Edison observed what became known as the Edison Effect for the first time. 1900 The Anglo-German accord of 1899 was ratified by Reichstag, in which Britain renounced rights in Samoa in favor of Germany and the U.S. 1920 The League of Nations recognized the continued neutrality of Switzerland. 1920 The National Negro Baseball League was organized. 1935 In Flemington, New Jersey, a jury found Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of the kidnapping and death of the infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. Hauptmann was later executed for the crimes. 1945 At the end of World War II, the Soviets captured Budapest, Hungary, from the German army. 1945 At the end of World War II, Allied aircraft began bombing the disarmed German city of Dresden and reduced it to rubble in what they called Psychologigal Warfare. It did not work because the bombing was too thorough and nobody left to tell the tale. It was not until the book and movie "Slaughterhouse Five" decades later, that most of the Germans found out about it. 1955 Israel acquired 4 of the 7 Dead Sea scrolls. 1960 France detonated its first atomic bomb. 1971 South Vietnamese troops invaded Laos. They were backed by U.S. air and artillery support. 1984 Konstantin Chernenko was chosen to be general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding the late Yuri Andropov. 1990 In Ottawa, the United States and its European allies forged an agreement with the Soviet Union and East Germany on a two-stage formula to reunite Germany. 1991 Hundreds of Iraqis were killed by two laser-guided bombs that destroyed an underground facility in Baghdad. U.S. officials identified the facility as a military installation, but Iraqi officials said it was a bomb shelter. 1997 Astronauts on the space shuttle Discovery brought the Hubble Space Telescope aboard for a tune up. The tune up allowed the telescope to see further into the universe. 1999 A bomb exploded just outside a government-owned bank in southern Kosovo. Nine people were killed. 2000 Charles M. Schulz's last original Sunday "Peanuts" comic strip appeared in newspapers. Schulz had died the day before. 2001 El Savador was hit with an earthquake that measured 6.6 on the Richter Scale. At least 400 people were killed. 2002 In Alexandria, VA, John Walker Lindh pled innocent to a 10-count federal indictment. He was charged with conspiring to kill Americans and aiding Osama bin Laden's terrorist network. 2002 Former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani received an honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II. 2008 Roger Clemens denied having taken performance-enhancing drugs in testimony before Congress. 2008 Hollywood writers ended a 100-day strike. 2017 Do smiled.
 
 

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