Apr 14

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Apr 14, 2019 Week: 16 \ Day: 104

86004:   H 55° \ L 22° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Wind:   6mph\Gusts:  11mph Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest wildfire:  521mi. Nearest lightning:  322mi

Record High: 75°[1937]   Record Low: 5°[1972]

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

Today’s Quote

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money. Thomas Jefferson

Random Tidbits

The cell is the basic unit of life, and an organism must be composed of at least one cell to qualify as a living thing.

The cells of every living organism contain deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), a nucleic acid that holds the genetic instructions for the development and functioning of a life form. It is this substance that allows a living thing to grow and reproduce.

Observances This Week

National Robotics Week: 6-14 Link
Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week: 7-14 Link
Passiontide: 7-20
The Masters Tournament: 8-14
International Wildlife Film Week: 13-19  Link
Animal Control Officer Appreciation Week: 14-20 Link 
Holy Week: 14-20
National Karaoke Week: 14-20
National Dog Bite Prevention Week:14-20 Link 
National Public Safety Telecommunicators (911 Operators) Week: 14-20
National Student Employment Week: 14-20   Link
Pan American Week: 14-20
World Irish Dancing Week: 14-21

Observances for Today

Children with Alopecia Day
Dictionary Day  Link
Ex Spouse Day

Global Day to End Child Sexual Abuse Link
International Moment of Laughter Day
Look up the Sky Day

National Dolphin Day
National Ex-Spouse Day  Link
National Gardening Day Link
National Pecan Day Link
National Perfume Day Link
Palm Sunday
Pan American Day
Palm Sunday

Pathologists' Assistant Day

Reach as High as You Can Day

My Rambling Thoughts

Our predicted snow was another bust. Today is sunny and nice.

More great pics are showing up on the FB page for Focus Travel. Thanks to all who are adding pics.

A few months ago, the HOA took away most of the visiting parking areas and made them by permit only. And towed any vehicles without a permit at 10p @ night. Visitors now had to walk a substantial distance to get to most of the units. Yesterday I got a survey from the HOA about the new parking. Obviously, there have been a number of concerns. This is a first for this HOA. I’m hoping they choose one of the choices, not including the current situation. I figure one of two things happened to get the change: first, a very loud squeaky wheel made a stink or two, a member of the HOA is financially attached to the tow company as each of the 15+ towed or booted vehicles had to pay $150 to get the vehicle back. In the past they have towed permitted vehicles that backed into their parking space and disrupted the uniformity of having all vehicles parking forward. The HOA loves uniformity…all doors are the same color, security doors must be approved for their style, and nothing can be placed in the front area or on the door without permisiion.

PUZZLE OF THE DAY

Answer at the bottom of this page

Which of the following statements are true, and which are false?

1. Only one of the statements is false

2. Exactly two of the statements are false.

3. Only three of the statements are false.

4. Exactly four of the statements are false.

5. All five of these statements are false.

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1400’s

1434 The foundation stone of Cathedral St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, France is laid

1600’s

1611 Word "telescope" is 1st used by Prince Federico Cesi

1700’s

1775 1st abolitionist society in US organizes in Philadelphia

1800’s

1828 First American Dictionary: its author Noah Webster registers its copyright for publication

1836 US Congress forms Territory of Wisconsin

1841 1st detective story published, Edgar Allan Poe's "Murders in Rue Morgue" (April 1841)

1860 1st Pony Express rider arrives in San Francisco from St Joseph, Missouri

1865 US President Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater in Washington

1890 Pan American Day-1st conference of American states (Washington, D.C.)

1900’s

1902 J. C. Penney opens his first store, The Golden Rule Store, in Kemmerer, Wyoming

1906 US President Theodore Roosevelt denounces "muckrakers" in US press, taken from John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress

1910 President Taft begins tradition of throwing out ball on opening day

1912 RMS Titanic hits an iceberg at 11.40pm off Newfoundland

1927 The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden

1935 Black Sunday: Severe sandstorm ravages the US Midwest, creating the "Dust Bowl"

1939 John Steinbeck novel "The Grapes of Wrath" published

1940 RCA demonstrated its new electron microscope in Philadelphia

1958 Sputnik 2 (with dog Laika) burns up in atmosphere

1960 American record company Motown, founded by Berry Gordy Jr., is incorporated as Motown Record Corporation

1969 Student Afro-American Society seized at Columbia College

1971 Supreme Court upheld busing as means of achieving racial desegregation

1972 The Provisional Irish Republican Army explodes twenty-four bombs in towns and cities across Northern Ireland

1977 US Supreme Court says people may refuse to display state motto on license

1980 1st Cubans of the Mariel boatlift sail to Florida

1980 Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Executioner's Song)

1981 1st Space Shuttle, Columbia 1, returns to Earth

1983 US President Reagan signs $165 billion Social Security rescue

1986 Desmond Tutu elected Anglican Archbishop of Capetown

1994 Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender after completion of his Seven Seals manuscript

2000’s

2003 The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%

2010 Icelandic Volcano Eyjafjallajökull begins erupting from the top crater in the center of the glacier

2015 Archeologists announce they have found at Lomekwi in Kenya 3.3 million-year old stone tools, the oldest ever discovered and which pre-date the earliest humans

Birthdays Today

1866 Anne Sullivan

[Johanna Sullivan Macy],

(d. 1936: @70: stroke)

American teacher who educated Helen Keller, born in Feeding Hills, Massachusetts

1889 Arnold J. Toynbee,

(d. 1975: @86)

English historian (A Study of History), born in London

1906 Faisal,

(d. 1975: @68: assassinated)

King of Saudi Arabia (1964-75),

born in Riyadh, Emirate of Nejd and Hasa

1907 François Duvalier "Papa Doc",

(d. 1971: @64: heart disease)

Dictator of Haiti (1957-71),

born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti 1904 Sir John Gielgud,

(d. 2000: @96)

British stage and screen actor and director

(Arthur, Hamlet, Ages of Man),

born in London, England

1925 Rod Steiger,

(d. 2002: @77: kidney failure)

American actor (Illustrated Man, Pawnbroker),

born in Westhampton, New York

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80’s

87- Loretta Lynn,

American country singer-songwriter (Coal Miner's Daughter),

born in Butcher's Hollow Kentucky

83- Frank Serpico,

American policeman

70’s

79- Julie Christie,

British actress (Darling, Doctor Zhivago),

born in Chukua, Assam, India

50’s

59- Brad Garrett

[Brad H. Gerstenfeld],

American actor and comedian (Everybody Loves Raymond),

born in Los Angeles, California

40’s

46- Adrien Brody,

American actor (The Pianist, The Grand Budapest Hotel),

born in New York City

42- Sarah Michelle Gellar,

American actress (Kendall-All My Children, Buffy the Vampire Slayer),

 born in New York City

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@85-1995 Burl Ives,

American folk singer and actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)

70’s

@78-1986 Simone de Beauvoir,

French author and feminist

(The Mandarins, The Second Sex, She Came to Stay),

dies of pneumonia

@77-1975 Fredric March,

American actor (Inherit the Wind),

dies of prostate cancer

@76-2007 Don Ho,

American musician (Tiny Bubbles)

dies of heart failure

@74-1759 George Frideric Handel,

German-British baroque composer and organist

(Messiah, Water Music)

@73-2015 Percy Sledge,

American soul singer (When A Man Loves A Woman),

dies of liver cancer

60’s

@67-1999 Anthony Newley,

British actor and singer-songwriter

(Doctor Dolittle; Goldfinger theme; Willy Wonka score),

dies of renal cancer

@67-1924 Louis Sullivan,

American architect (father of skyscrapers)

50’s

@56-1964 Rachel Carson,

American biologist/author (Silent Spring),

dies after heart attack

Puzzle answer:

The only true statement can be #4.

The others are false.

#5 can't be true, because it says all the statements are false.