Jan 23

 

 

Feb 23, 2021     Week: 8    Day:  54                           Visibility: 10 miles

Local: H 50°\ L 22°\Ave. Sky Cover: 5%                   Wind:  8mph/ Gusts:  14mph

Nearest Lightning: 3411mi.                                         Moderate Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  145mi

Record: 66°[1946]  Record: -6°[1960] 

Feb. Averages: 47°/19° (5 days with moisture)            

Today’s Quote

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

~David Viscott

A Little Humor

A guy goes into a hardware store and picks up a can of bug spray and asks the clerk "Is this good for wasps?" he asked the clerk

"No, it will kill them."

True Things

Scientists unveil first clone of endangered ferret

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced the successful cloning of a black-footed ferret -- the first time an endangered U.S. animal has been cloned. The FWS said the female ferret, dubbed Elizabeth Ann, was cloned from the frozen cells of Willa, a black-footed ferret who lived more than 30 years ago. Black-footed ferrets were declared extinct in 1979, but two years later a small population was found living on a Wyoming farmer's property. Officials said all black-footed ferrets alive today are descended from seven individuals. Officials said Elizabeth Ann will become part of a breeding program and will add some genetic diversity to the species. "Without an appropriate amount of genetic diversity, a species often becomes more susceptible to diseases and genetic abnormalities," the agency said in a statement. The FWS said scientists are aiming to create more black-footed ferret clones in the coming months.

Weekly Observations

Bird Health Awareness Week Link  
Build A Better Trade Show Image Week 
National Eating Disorders Awareness Week
National Engineers Week
National Invasive Species Awareness Week
Link
National Justice for Animals Week  
Link  Link

 

 

 

 

21-27

Lent [Christian]

17-4/3

National FFA Week Link 

20-27  

International Petroleum Week  Link

23-25 

 

Today’s Observations

Curling is Cool Day
Diesel Engine Day

International Dog Biscuit Appreciation Day

Iwo Jima Day (Flag Raised)
Museum Advocacy Day: 22-23  
Link 
National Banana Bread Day

National Tile Day  Link
Rationalization Day

Single Tasking Day
Tennis Day

Tootsie Roll Day  Link
World Spay Day USA 

World Understanding and Peace Day

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

This week is starting off with great weather. Lots of sunshine, blue sky. Great Day!

I watched part of the Attorney General conformation hearing of Eric Garland. Sounds like a good guy to me.

The local paper had a great article about Ava, the Avalanche Dog for our local ski resort. Not sure of her breed but know for sure she isn’t a St. Bernard. She is in her 7th year of search and rescue. Very cool.

NAU, our local University, has picked its next President, a guy from NY. He has said his priority is communication with community members and organizations. I guess he did his homework as this is the top priority according to our local paper. The current president had a priority of increasing student population so she could get a raise from the Board of Regents.

AOC [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez], the Rep from NY, has raised over $4million for the citizens of Texas during this disaster. Everyday she raises more. The Senator from Texas, Mr. Cruz, takes a vacation to Cancun. I’m reminded that actions speak louder than words.

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

My life is often a volume of grief, your help is needed to turn a new leaf. Stiff is my spine, and my body is pale, but I’m always ready to tell a tale. What am I?

Historical Events

1455 – Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed with movable type. Ironically, if there were newspapers at the time, we could be more confident about the date.

1792 – The Humane Society of Massachusetts was incorporated.

1836 – The Siege of the Alamo (prelude to the Battle of the Alamo) began in San Antonio, Texas.

1896 – The Tootsie Roll was introduced by Leo Hirshfield, in New York.

1903 – Cuba leased Guantanamo Bay to the United States “in perpetuity”.

1905 – Chicago attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen met for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world’s first service club.

1927 – Federal Radio Commission (FRC, later replaced by the Federal Communications Commission, FCC) which was to regulate the use of radio frequencies in the United States was established.

1941 – Plutonium was first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg

1945 – During the Battle for Iwo Jima, U.S. Marines from the 3rd Platoon, E Company, 2nd Battalion, 28th Regiment of the 5th Division take the crest of Mount Suribachi, the island’s highest peak, and raised the U.S. flag. The photo would later become world-famous as well as win a Pulitzer Prize.

1947 – The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) was founded.

1954 – The first mass inoculation of children against polio with Jonas Salk’s vaccine began in Pittsburgh, PA.

1955 – First meeting of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO).

1975 – There was an energy crisis in the US in 1975, so daylight savings time started two months early – Feb 23rd instead of April.

1978 -Both Barbra Streisand’s Love Theme from A Star Is Born (Evergreen) and Debby Boone’s You Light Up My Life were awarded the Best Song Grammy – the first and only tie in that category in Grammy history.

1987 – The light from Supernova 1987A, in the Large Magellanic Cloud, reached the Earth.

1991 – Operation Desert Storm began in Iraq.

2005 – The Apple iPod mini (2nd generation) was released.

2010 Unknown criminals pour more than 2.5 million litres of diesel oil and other hydrocarbons into the river Lambro, in Northern Italy, causing an environmental disaster.

2018 Study suggests earliest European Paleolithic artwork in Spain made by Neanderthals not humans in "Science Journal"

2020 China's Supreme Leader Xi Jinping describes the country's COVID-19 outbreak as the China's largest health emergency since 1949

Birthdays Today

@95 – W.E.B. Du Bois, American sociologist, historian, activist (d. 1963)

@79 – Peter Fonda, American actor (d. 2019; lung cancer)

70 – Ed “Too Tall” Jones, American football player

42 – [Sarah Elizabeth] S.E. Cupp, American journalist, author

38 – Emily Blunt, English actress

27 – Dakota Fanning, American actress

Puzzle Answer

A book

 

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