Apr 17,
2021 Week: 16 Day: 107
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Visibility: 10 miles |
Ave. Sky Cover: 40% |
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Local:
H 62°\ L 29° |
Nearest Lightning:958 mi. |
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Wind:
3mph/ Gusts: 9mph |
High Risk of Fire: Active fire: 673mi |
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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
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Money
Smart Week Link |
10-17 |
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Animal Control Officer
Appreciation Week Link |
11-17 |
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National Student Employment
Week Link |
12-18 |
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Ramadan |
Thru 5/11 |
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Global Youth Service Days |
16-18 |
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National
Dance Week Link |
16-25 |
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International
Wildlife Film Week Link |
17-
5/15 |
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National Park Week Link |
17-25 |
Today’s Observations
Auctioneers Day
Bat Appreciation Day
Blah, Blah, Blah Day
Ellis Island Family
History Day
Ford Mustang Day
Herbalist Day
International Haiku Poetry Day
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
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
