Apr 30,
2021 Week: 18 Day: 120
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Visibility: 10 miles |
Ave. Sky Cover: 5% |
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Local:
H 65°\ L 30° |
Nearest Lightning: 481mi. |
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Wind:
9mph/ Gusts: 15 mph |
EXTREME Risk of Fire: Active fire: 476 mi |
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Record: 86°[1903] Record: 24°[1875] |
Apr. Averages: 60°/27° (3 days w/moisture) |
Today’s Quote
You can't wait for
inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
~Jack London
Random Tidbits
The fact that Hyperion is
still around today is sheer luck. Only a few hundred feet from its base is a
clearcut 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.
Humor
When a visitor to a town in Alabama spotted a dog attacking a boy, he
grabbed the animal and throttled it with his bare hands. An impressed reporter
saw the incident and told him the next day’s headline would scream “Valiant
Local Man Saves Child by Killing Vicious Animal.”
“I’m not from this town,” said the hero.
“Then,” the reporter said, “it will say ‘Alabama Man Saves Child by
Killing Dog.'”
“Actually,” said the man, “I’m from New Hampshire.”
“In that case,” the reporter grumbled, “the headline will be ‘Yankee
Kills Family Pet.'”
Real Cities
Chicken Bristle, Illinois is an unincorporated community
in Douglas County, Illinois, United States. Chicken Bristle is 5.5 miles (8.9
km) northwest of Tuscola.
Weekly Observations
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Ramadan |
Thru 5/11 |
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International
Wildlife Film Week Link |
17-
5/15 |
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Festival
of Ridvan |
20-5/1 |
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National Scoop the Poop Week |
24-30 |
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Fibroid Awareness Week Preservation Week Link (re: Libraries) |
25-5/1 |
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National Infant Immunization
Week (NIIW) Link Stewardship Week |
25-5/2 |
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National Playground Safety Week
Link |
26-30 |
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National Medical Cannabis
Week: Link |
29-30 |
Today’s Observations
Adopt A Shelter Pet
Day Link Link
Animal
Advocacy Day
Arbor Day
Beltane
Bugs Bunny Day
Dandelion Day Link
Day of Dialogue Link Link
Díá De Los Niños / Díá De Los
Libros Day
Hairstyle Appreciation Day
National
Hairball Awareness Day
International Jazz Day
Link
Lag B'Omer
National Animal Advocacy Day
National Bubble Tea Day Link
National Honesty Day
National
Military Brats Day Link
National Prepareathon Day Link
National Raisin Day
National Teach Children to Save Day
Mr. Potato Head Day
Oatmeal
Cookie Day
Spank
Out Day - USA
Undiagnosed Children's Awareness
Day Link
Walpurgis Night
National Oatmeal Cookie Day
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
A nice day, once the wind died down.
I had a blood draw this morning. Took 1 tech and 2 nurses and 5 pokes
to get the blood…only 2 small vials. Probably a phlebotomy tomorrow. If that
happens, no post tomorrow.
I am tired of the body cam video not being released. Now a judge says
no. I thought the purpose of body cam video was to keep cops from committing acts
like this.
Biden is surely an ol’ time politician. His speech was very informative.
I hope that much of his vision becomes law. Our country is in hard times right
now, but if we don’t progress now, other countries will take our place. That
will lead to harder times. I liked is goal of building turbines and computer
chips here and pushing Buy America.
My brother and his wife had another ‘event’ at their hacienda. I saw
some videos. Music, creative people, nice food. At Christmas, Laura talked about
how they have the hacienda for events. So cool.
Daily Puzzle
Answer: bottom of the page
On which side of a chicken are there more feathers?
Historical Events
1803 – The Louisiana
Purchase from France, for 15 million dollars, also included much (if not all
of) of Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana,
Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Wyoming.
1812 – The Territory of
Orleans became the 18th U.S. state under the name Louisiana.
1894 – Antarctic iceberg
fragment was sighted at a latitude 26.50 degrees south, approximately parallel
to Rio de Janeiro, the nearest to the equator that an Antarctic iceberg that
has been seen.
1900 – Casey Jones died
in a train wreck in Vaughan, Mississippi, while trying to make up time on the
Cannonball Express.
1900 – Hawaii became a
territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
1904 – The Louisiana
Purchase Exposition World’s Fair opened in St. Louis, Missouri.
1927 – Douglas Fairbanks
and Mary Pickford were the first celebrities to leave their footprints in
concrete at Grauman’s Chinese Theater, in Hollywood.
1939 – The New York
World’s fair opened at Flushing Meadow Park in Queens.
1947 – Nevada’s Boulder
Dam was renamed the Hoover Dam.
1948 – The Land Rover, a
British-made all-terrain vehicle, debuted at an auto show in Amsterdam.
1989 – CNBC, the first
NBC cable channel and the first financial cable channel, began transmitting.
1992 – The finale for The
Cosby Show aired on NBC
1993 – Tennis star Monica
Seles was stabbed by Gunter Parchein Hamburg, Germany.
1997 – During the ‘Puppy’
episode of Ellen it was revealed that the main/title character (Ellen
DeGeneres) was gay.
1996 US President Clinton
approves the sale of $227 million of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum
Reserve; US gas prices are at their highest levels in 5 years
1999 Cambodia joins the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bringing the total members to 10
2001 US Vice President
Cheney calls for increased domestic production of fossil fuels and increased
usage of nuclear power to meet America's energy demand
2009 Failed attack on the
Dutch Royal Family results in 7 deaths and 17 injured
2013 Willem-Alexander
becomes the first male Monarch of Netherlands in 123 years, following the
abdication of his mother, Queen Beatrix
2019 Japanese Emperor
Akihito declares his abdication at a ceremony in Tokyo which officially takes
effect the following day
2020 Eurozone economy
shrinks at -3.8% between Jan and Mar 2020, the fastest rate on record with Euro
Bank President Christine Lagarde warning the 2nd quarter will be even worse
2020 US President Donald
Trump claims COVID-19 originated in a lab in Wuhan, while the Office of the
Director of National Intelligence saying the virus is not manmade
Birthdays Today
@94 – Cloris Leachman, American actress (d. 2021)
@89 – Alice B. Toklas, American memoirist (d. 1967)
@82 – Eve Arden [Eunice Mary Quedens], American character actress (d.
1990)
@74 – Gary Collins, American actor and talk show host (d. 2012)
@73 – Bobby Vee [Robert Thomas Velline ], singer-songwriter(d. 2016;Alzheimer’s)
@66 – Jill Clayburgh, American actress (d. 2010; cancer)
46 – Johnny Galecki,
American actor
39 – Kirsten Dunst,
American actress
36 – Gal Gadot, Israeli
actress and model
Puzzle Answer
The outside
