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Apr.
4, 2020 Week: 14
Day:
95
86004:
H
61°
\ L
30°
\ Average
Sky Cover: 5%
Wind:
7mph\Gusts: 8mph Visibility: 10 mi
Nearest
lightning: 70mi.; Nearest active fire: 441mi.
Record
High:
74°[1961]
Record Low:
5°[1977]
Apr.
Averages:
60°\27°
(3
days with moisture)
Today’s
Quote
"The
future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Random
Tidbits
Over
2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made
for right handed people!
There
are more than 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building!
If
you counted 24 hours a day, it would take 31,688 years to reach one
trillion!
Observations
This Week
Passiontide:
29-4/11
National Cherry Blossom Festival: 20-4/12 Link
National Cherry Blossom Festival: 20-4/12 Link
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APAWS
Pooper Scooper Week: 1-7
Golden Rule Week: 1-7
Laugh at Work Week: 1-7
Medication Safety Week: 1-7
Mule Day: 1-7
Testicular Cancer Awareness Week: 1-7 (aka Get A Grip Day!) Link
National Dental Hygienest Week: 4-10 Link
Hate Week: 4-10
National Robotics Week:4-12LinkCANCELLED due to COVID-19
Money Smart Week: 4-11 Link CANCELLED due to COVID-19
Golden Rule Week: 1-7
Laugh at Work Week: 1-7
Medication Safety Week: 1-7
Mule Day: 1-7
Testicular Cancer Awareness Week: 1-7 (aka Get A Grip Day!) Link
National Dental Hygienest Week: 4-10 Link
Hate Week: 4-10
National Robotics Week:4-12LinkCANCELLED due to COVID-19
Money Smart Week: 4-11 Link CANCELLED due to COVID-19
Observations for Today
Every
Day is Tag Day
Hug
a Newsman Day CANCELLED
due to COVID-19
International
Carrot Day
Slow
Art Day
My
Rambling Thoughts
Wind
slowed down, nice day. Nice walk around the block. Didn't see another
human. Nice.
Two
groups having problems with on-line learning: Special Education
students, students in various science labs. I'm sure innovation will
soon step in to assist.
Then
there is grading, promotion, and graduation. Give the grade at the
time of the shutdown? Base grade on entire grading period? What about
mandatory state testing? What about the ACT for seniors? What about
students without internet access? Is the student doing the on-line
assignments or is someone else helping and/or doing it for them? Lots
of questions that need answering very quickly. And will the Feds step
up and make nationwide rules or will each school, district, or state
decide what to do? Sure glad I'm retired and don't have to deal with all this.
The
best thing right now, is not to panic. For those who in the stock
market, this is good advice. I've been seeing stories telling
investors to drop cruise line stock, oil digging/fracking stock,
airline stock, and many more. I'm not invested that much in the stock
market...only thru a couple of long-term IRA-type investments, but
selling the stock does not seem like a good idea. I'll let those who
know more, make the decision for me.
H&R
is awesome. My tax guy called, let me know that I was getting a nice
chunk of change from the Feds, and a decent chunk from the state. And
I can review it and pay for it on line so they will electronically
send it for me. I can pick up my copies later. Very cool.
Today’s
Puzzle
Answer
at the bottom of the page
A
man condemned to death has the option of picking one of the mentioned
three rooms.
The
first room is a furnace filled with flames.
The
second has armed men with loaded guns, while
the
third has lions starving for years.
Which
one should the man choose?
Historical
Events
1561
- UFOs were reported flying over Nuremberg, German
1841 - US President Harrison died of pneumonia after one month in office
1850 - Los Angeles, California was incorporated as a city.
1871 - Mary Florence Potts of Ottumwa, Iowa Patented (#113,448) the "Mrs. Potts' sad iron" - a set of three irons with a detachable handle, so two irons could be heating up while you were using the other.
1877 -A pianist performed in Philadelphia, and an audience heard the performance in New York, via the telephone.
1932 - Professor C. Glen King, of the University of Pittsburgh, discovered vitamin C.
1949 - Twelve nations signed the North Atlantic Treaty, creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
1964 - The Beatles occupied all of the top five positions on the Billboard singles chart in the United States, with Can't Buy Me Love, Twist and Shout, She Loves You, I Want to Hold Your Hand, and Please Please Me.
1968 - Martin Luther King, Jr was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis Tennessee.
1969 - CBS abruptly canceled The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, and replaced it with Hee Haw. Hee Haw episodes were ready to premiere in mid-June.
1973 - The World Trade Center in New York was officially dedicated.
1975 - Microsoft was founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico
1841 - US President Harrison died of pneumonia after one month in office
1850 - Los Angeles, California was incorporated as a city.
1871 - Mary Florence Potts of Ottumwa, Iowa Patented (#113,448) the "Mrs. Potts' sad iron" - a set of three irons with a detachable handle, so two irons could be heating up while you were using the other.
1877 -A pianist performed in Philadelphia, and an audience heard the performance in New York, via the telephone.
1932 - Professor C. Glen King, of the University of Pittsburgh, discovered vitamin C.
1949 - Twelve nations signed the North Atlantic Treaty, creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
1964 - The Beatles occupied all of the top five positions on the Billboard singles chart in the United States, with Can't Buy Me Love, Twist and Shout, She Loves You, I Want to Hold Your Hand, and Please Please Me.
1968 - Martin Luther King, Jr was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis Tennessee.
1969 - CBS abruptly canceled The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, and replaced it with Hee Haw. Hee Haw episodes were ready to premiere in mid-June.
1973 - The World Trade Center in New York was officially dedicated.
1975 - Microsoft was founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico
1983 - Space Shuttle Challenger made its maiden voyage into space (STS-6).
2013 - Famed movie critic Roger Ebert died.
Birthdays
Today
94-Actor,
Cloris Leachman
@86-Poet/Actress, Maya Angelou (d. 2014)
@60-Actor, Anthony Perkins (d.1992; AIDS)
55-Actor, Robert Downey Jr.
47-Illusionist, David Blaine
@28-Actor, Heath Ledger (d.2008; OD)
Puzzle
Answer:
The
third room, because lions starving for years would be long dead!
