16 Apr

 

Week 16  Day 106 Flag Today  58°/26° Wind 4mph Gusts 15mph Active Fire:  132 miles away Risk of fire: Moderate  Nearest Lightning: 201 miles away Air Quality: Fair Sunshine Breezy Apr. Averages: Temps: 60°\27° Moisture:  3 Days

Weekly Observations

11-17 Black Maternal Health Week 14-20 Animal Control Officer Appreciation Week Link  National Public Safety Telecommunicators (911 Operators) Week National Student Employment Week Link Pan American Week Spring Astronomy Week Medical Laboratory Professionals Week Link

15-19 National Blue Ribbon (Child Abuse)Week Link Link  National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week Link 15-21 National Volunteer Week

Daily Observations

Day of the Mushroom Eggs Benedict Day Save the Elephant Day

Stress Awareness Day Wear Pajamas to Work Day

Today’s Quote                                                        Today’s Meme

"If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough." — Oprah Winfrey

Today’s Thoughts

Spring may have sprung. The forecast for the week looking good.

So, the Trial has begun. No cameras mean weeks of newscasters talking outside the courtroom while continuing to read their correspondent’s notes from their colleagues who are inside the courtroom. I doubt this will be riveting TV.

Over in Israel, the war committee is deciding how to retaliate. Ceasefire should be their reaction.

Did you Know?

 

 Did you know…part 2

Two Powerful Nuclear Bombs Accidentally Fell On North Carolina

On January 24, 1961, North Carolina barely avoided tragedy. A B-52 carrying two powerful Mark 39 nuclear bombs broke up mid-flight. The two bombs fell and landed just outside of Goldsboro. Had they detonated, North Carolina would have been a tragic memory, as the bombs were 200-300 times more powerful than the ones that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 

The force of the aircraft's mid-air mishap began the fusing sequence on both bombs. The first was found with its nose embedded two feet into the ground, and only the "safe" switch prevented a detonation. 

The second one hit the ground hard and was armed to detonate, but the impact with which crashed prevented the explosion. While the first bomb was fully retrieved, one of the second bomb's nuclear cores went deep into the Earth. It was left there, and the area around it is actively farmed.

 

Historic Events

·         1862 – Emancipation Day – Abraham Lincoln freed 3,1000 slaves in Washington DC.

·         1908 – Natural Bridges National Monument was established in Utah.

·         1946 – The United States Army liberated Nazi Sonderlager (high security) prisoner-of-war camp Colditz, aka Oflag IV-C.

·         1947 – Bernard Baruch first used the term “Cold War” to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.

·         1961 – Cuban leader Fidel Castro declared that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.

Birthdays with some quotes

89 – Bobby Vinton, American singer 77 – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American basketball player “One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.’ 72 – Bill Belichick, American football player 70 – Ellen Barkin, American actress 59 – Jon Cryer, American actor “Actors always have things that they’re not thrilled about on a show and have a hobby of bellyaching about those things.” 59 – Martin Lawrence, American actor 51 – Akon (Aliaune Damala Badara Akon Thiam), Senegalese-American singer and rapper “Two Things that Define Success In Life – The way you manage when you have nothing and the way you behave when you have everything.” 48 – Lukas Haas, American character actor and musician 40 – Claire Foy, English actress 31 – Chance the Rapper, American rapper “Sometimes the truth don’t rhyme.” 28 – Anya Taylor-Joy, Argentine-British actress @23 – Selina Quintanilla, singer (d.1995)

@95- Pope Benedict XVI (d. 2022) @92 – Hans Sloane, Irish-English physician and academic (d. 1753) @89 – Barry Nelson, American character actor (d. 2007) @88 – Charlie Chaplin, English actor, director, producer, screenwriter, composer (d. 1977) “The best thing in life is to go ahead with all your plans and your dreams, to embrace life and to live every day with passion, to lose and still keep the faith and to win while being grateful. All of this because the world belongs to those who dare to go after what they want. And because life is really too short to be insignificant.” @83 – Spike Milligan, Irish actor, comedian, and writer (d. 2002) “We haven’t got a plan so nothing can go wrong!” @82 – Peter Ustinov, English actor (d. 2004) @73 – Herbie Mann, American composer (d. 2003; cancer) @70 – Henry Mancini, American composer and conductor (d. 1994; cancer) @63 – Gerry Rafferty, Scottish singer-songwriter (d. 2011; organ failure) @59 – Dusty Springfield, English singer (d. 1999; cancer) @45- Wilbur Wright, inventor (d. 1912; typhoid fever)

 

…The End for today…