Apr 17

 

 

 

Apr 17, 2021   Week: 16    Day: 107       

Visibility: 10 miles

Ave. Sky Cover: 40%

Local: H 62°\ L 29°

Nearest Lightning:958 mi.          

Wind:  3mph/ Gusts:  9mph

High Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  673mi

Record: 91°[2002 ]  Record: 21°[1971] 

Apr. Averages: 60°/27° (3 days w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

~Aldo Leopold

Random Tidbits

American taxpayers spend $200 billion and 5.4 billion hours working to comply with federal taxes each year, more than it takes to produce every car, truck, and van in the United States.

The IRS employs 114,000 people: that’s twice as many as the CIA and five times more than the FBI.

Humor

Traveling through the Midwest, I stopped at an Ohio welcome center to pick up a state map. I found plenty of brochures but no maps. Then I spotted two employees and asked whether they had any. “Sure,” said the first guy. “I’ll get you one.” As he walked to the back, the second guy explained, “We keep them in the storage room. If we leave them out on the counter, people just come in and take them.”

Real Cities

Frog Eye, Alabama: an unincorporated community in Tallapoosa County, Alabama, United States

True Things

Florida police are trying to identify the driver of a vehicle that was captured on video as it appeared to jump a rising drawbridge earlier this week.

Daytona Beach police officers said that at about 8 a.m. Monday, a driver broke through a traffic arm before jumping the Main Street Bridge that crosses over the Halifax River, FOX 35 reported.

It was apparently not the first time someone was caught on camera pulling the stunt, according to police. During Bike Week last month, a biker jumped a motorcycle over the gap in the rising Main Street Bridge.

Weekly Observations

 

Money Smart Week Link

10-17

Animal Control Officer Appreciation Week Link 
National Dog Bite Prevention Week 
Link  
National Public Safety Telecommunicators (911 Operators) Week 
National Occupational Health Nursing Week 
Link
Pan American Week 

 

 

11-17

National Student Employment Week     Link

12-18

Ramadan

Thru 5/11

Global Youth Service Days

16-18 

National Dance Week Link 

16-25  

International Wildlife Film Week Link

17- 5/15  

National Park Week Link

17-25  

 

Today’s Observations

Auctioneers Day 
Bat Appreciation Day  (Emerge from Hibernation)
Blah, Blah, Blah Day

Ellis Island Family History Day
Ford Mustang Day
Herbalist Day

Husband Appreciation Day 

International Haiku Poetry Day  Link
International Raw Milk Cheese Appreciation Day 
Malbec World Day 
 Link
National Cheeseball Day

National Clean Out Your Medicine Cabinet Day Link 
National Crawfish Day 
Link
Nothing Like A Dame Day
Record Store Day 
World Circus Day

World Hemophilia Day  Link

World Malbec Day

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Cloudy and cooler with no hope of moisture today. Much better than the 5+” of wet snow in the Denver area.

Small Business were expecting to be able to sign up for aid as the congress allocated $16billlion in Federal Aid for small business. The web site was overwhelmed and after a few hours was simply shut down. This is not the first time, nor will it be the last, that a government website to help people crashed.

Ubantu is a Bantu word that means to be truly human or put another way I am because we are. What a great way to live life. A worker at the UN and born in a small village in Zimbabwe has just written a book: I’m a Girl from Africa. She was on the Daily Social Distancing Show the other night. Amazing lady with an amazing mission.

Another mass shooting, this time at FedEx facility in Indianapolis.

 

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

What does this mean? I RIGHT I

Historical Events

1397 – Geoffrey Chaucer told The Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II.

1815 (Volcano) Tambora volcano in Indonesia killed almost 100,000 people.

1861 – The first oil well fire occurred at the Little and Merrick well at Oil Creek, near Rouseville, Pennsylvania, killing 19 people.

1906 – San Francisco was hit by a disastrous earthquake, with an estimated magnitude of 7.8.

1907 – The Ellis Island immigration center in New York processed 11,747 people, more than on any other day.

1961 – The unsuccessful Bay of Pigs invasion began.

1964 – Geraldine ‘Jerrie’ Mock landed in Columbus, Ohio, becoming the first woman to complete a solo airplane flight around the world.

1964 – The Ford Mustang was introduced to the North American market.

1979 – The worst attended MLB game occurred in Oakland on 4/17/1979 – Only 250 people showed up.

2011 – Game of Thrones premiered on HBO

2014 – NASA’s Kepler confirmed the discovery of the first Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of another star.

2012 The 8th century St. Cuthbert Gospel, Europe's oldest intact book, is purchased by the British Library for 9 million pounds

2013 Same-sex marriage is legalized in New Zealand

2019 10 babies with "bubble boy disease" cured using a gene therapy made from HIV at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, according to new study

2020 WHO warns Africa could be next epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, with over 300,000 deaths, pushing 30 million into poverty as it records nearly 1000 deaths and 19,000 cases to date

 

Birthdays Today

@78 – Thornton Wilder, American novelist, playwright (d. 1975; heart failure)

@77 – Rod Steiger, American character actor (d. 2002; kidney failure)

@75 – J.P. Morgan, American banker, financier, founded J.P. Morgan & Co. (d. 1913; in his sleep)

@68 – Harry Reasoner, American TV Journalist (d. 1991; blood clot)

62 – Sean Bean, actor

49 – Jennifer Garner, American actress

47 – Victoria Beckham, English singer and fashion designer

Puzzle Answer

Right between the eyes

 

 

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