Apr 10

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Apr 10, 2019 Week: 15 \ Day: 100

86004:   H 69° \ L 35° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Wind:   10mph\Gusts:  21mph Visibility: 10 mi wind advisory

Nearest wildfire:  158mi. Nearest lightning:  1406mi

Record High: 74°[1989]   Record Low: 7°[2011]

Mar Averages: 59°\28° (3 days with rain)

Today’s Quote

We are afraid to care too much,

for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Random Tidbits

The fact that Hyperion is still around today is sheer luck. Only a few hundred feet from its base is a clear-cut dating back to the 70s. Clearcutting is a forestry practice in which all trees in an area are logged and the entire area is devastated. Mere weeks before the loggers reached the majestic giant, the valley it calls home was declared a national park during the Carter administration.

However, most redwoods were not so lucky. In the 1970s, 15 percent of America's redwood forest had been logged, and nowadays only 4 percent still exist.

Observances This Week

Hate Week: 4-10
National Robotics Week: 6-14 Link
Bat Appreciation Week: 7-13 
Consider Christianity Week: 7-13 
National Blue Ribbon Week:  7-13  Link  (Child Abuse)
National Crime Victims Rights Week: 7-13  Link
National Library Week: 7-13  
National Public Health Week:  7-13 
National Volunteer Week: 7-13
National Window Safety Week:   7-13 
Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week: 7-14 Link
Passion Week: 7-13
Passiontide: 7-20
American Indian Awareness Week:  8-12  Link
National Dental Hygienest Week: 8-12  Link (Second Week)
National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week: 8-12  Link
National Youth Violence Prevention Week: 8-12 Link
The Masters Tournament: 8-14
Undergraduate Research Week: 8-12  Link  
Week of The Young Child: 8-12 Link

Observances for Today

ASPCA (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) Day  Link
Golfer's Day 

National Bookmobile Day Link 
National Cinnamon Crescent Day

National Farm Animals Day 
National Sibling Day Link
Salvation Army Founder's Day
Safety Pin Day

My Rambling Thoughts

Looks and sounds like our beautiful spring weather will soon be disappearing. Snow is expected on Friday. Not surprising, but not welcomed.

Focus Travel Club has a great group of travelers in Germany, on their way to the tulips. Great pics showing up on the Focus Travel Club Facebook page. Have fun!

There are too many ‘acting’ positions in the Executive Branch. I was placed in Acting principal positions many times in my career. First, when one moves into an acting position, someone else must be acting in your main job. Then, everyone knows you are ‘acting’ and it is hard to do any long range planning. All an acting person can do is stop the bleeding with first aid, but not provide long-range healing. I was sent to one school 4 different years as every time, the principal had to be removed. In the current administration, when a higher-up leaves, the position is either not filled or filled with an acting person. Homeland Security is one example, where the deputy left, no one was put in that position. Now the Secretary is gone and there is no second in command to take over, even in an acting position. This is no way to run our government.

PUZZLE OF THE DAY

Answer at the bottom of this page

Two very short friends, John and Jack, were living together in an apartment. Since they used to lose their apartment key very often, they decided to leave it on top of the door frame when they leave home. To reach the key, John was climbing on Jack’s shoulders and thus taking it down from the frame. However, John was the taller and the heavier guy of the two. Why didn’t Jack climb on his shoulders instead?

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1500’s

1516 1st Jewish ghetto established: Venice compels Jews to live in a specific area

1700’s

1710 The first law regulating copyright is issued in Great Britain

1790 US Patent system forms

1800’s

1815 Mount Tambora in the Dutch East Indies experiences a cataclysmic eruption, one of the most powerful in history, killing around 71,000 people, causes global volcanic winter

1816 Samuel Taylor Coleridge recites his poem "Kubla Khan" to fellow poet Lord Byron, who persuades him to publish it

1825 1st hotel in Hawaii opens

1845 More than 1,000 buildings damaged by fire in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1849 Safety pin patented by Walter Hunt (NYC); sold rights for $400

1858 "Big Ben", a 13.76 tonne bell, is recast at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry

1866 American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) forms

1869 Congress increases number of Supreme Court judges from 7 to 9

1872 1st Arbor Day celebrated in Nebraska, later changed to Apr 22

1900’s

1912 RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton for her maiden (and final) voyage

1919 Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos

1925 Scribners publishes "The Great Gatsby" by F Scott Fitzgerald

1974 Magicians Penn & Teller 1st meet

1981 Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands elected to British Parliament for Northern Ireland county of Fermanagh and South Tyrone

1991 Last automat (coin operated cafeteria) closes (3rd & 42nd St, NYC)

1998 The Good Friday/Belfast Agreement for Northern Ireland is signed by the British and Irish governments

2000’s

2018 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg begins testifying before US Congress about data use and security

Birthdays Today

0’s

1794 Matthew C. Perry,

(d. 1858: @63: cirrhosis)

Commodore of the United States Navy who opened Japan to Western influence and trade,

born in Newport, Rhode Island

1796 James Bowie,

(d. 1836: @39: at the Alamo)

American pioneer and soldier (Texas Revolution),

born in Logan, Kentucky

1847 Joseph Pulitzer,

(d. 1911: @64)

Hungarian publisher (St Louis Post-Dispatch, NY World),

born in Makó, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire

1903 Clare Boothe Luce,

(d. 1987: @84)

American politician and U.S. ambassador to Italy,

born in NYC, New York

1915 Harry Morgan,

(d. 2011: @96)

American actor (December Bride, M*A*S*H, Dragnet),

born in Detroit, Michigan

1921 Chuck Connors,

(d. 1992: @71: lung cancer)

American author, actor

(The Rifleman, Branded, Cowboy in Africa),

professional basketball and baseball player,

born in Brooklyn, New York

1921 Sheb Wooley,

(d. 2003: @82)

American vocalist (Purple People Eater, Hee Haw),

born in Erick, Oklahoma

1932 Omar Sharif

[Michel Dimitri Shalhoub],

(d. 2015@83)

Egyptian actor (Doctor Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia),

 born in Alexandria

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90’s

90- Max Von Sydow,

Swedish actor (Hawaii, Exorcist, Dune, Dreamscape),

 born in Lund, Sweden

80’s

83- John Madden,

NFL coach (Oakland Raiders) and

sports commentator (CBS, FOX),

born in Austin, Minnesota

60’s

67- Steven Seagal,

American actor (Above the Law, Hard to Kill),

born in Detroit, Michigan

60- Babyface

[Kenneth Edmonds],

American Grammy Award winning R&B singer,

songwriter and record producer,

born in Indianapolis, Indiana

30’s

39-Charlie Hunnam,

actor (Sons of Anarchy)

35- Mandy Moore,

American singer (Candy) and actress

(Rebecca Pearson-This Is Us),

born in Nashua, New Hampshire

31- Haley Joel Osment,

American actor (The Sixth Sense, A.I., Pay it Forward),

born in Los Angeles, California

20’s

29- Alex Pettyfer,

English actor (Stormbreaker),

born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@85-1975 Marjorie Main,

actress (Ma & Pa Kettle)

70’s

@70-2010 Dixie Carter,

 an American actress (Designing Women),

dies of endometrial cancer

60’s

@62-1966 Evelyn Waugh,

British writer (Black Mischief),

dies after heart attack

@60-2000 Larry Linville,

American actor (M*A*S*H),

dies of pneumonia

50’s

@59-2003 Little Eva

[Eva Boyd],

American pop singer (Locomotion),

dies of cervical cancer

40’s

@48-1931 Khalil Gibran,

Lebanese poet and painter,

dies of cirrhosis

30’s

@38-1992 Sam Kinison,

loud mouth comedian,

dies in a car crash

@32-1958 Chuck Willis,

rocker (Don’t Deceive Me),

dies of peritonitis

Puzzle answer:

The reason is that as being taller, John also had longer arms. If Jack climbed on John’s shoulders, he wouldn’t have reached the key.