Apr 7

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4.7.16 Week: 14 \ Day: 98

April Averages: 58°\27°

86004 Today: H 66° \ L 25° Average Sky Cover: 35% 

Wind ave:   7mph\Gusts:  14mph Visibility: 7 mi

Record High: 80°[1989]   Record Low: 10°[1922]

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Quote of the Day 

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Observances Today                         

Caramel Popcorn Day

Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Rwanda Genocide Link

International Beaver Day

International Snailpapers Day

Metric System Day

National Alcohol Screening Day 

National Beer Day Link

No Housework Day

World Health Day (UN) 

World Health Organization Day Link

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Observances This Week

1-7

APAWS Pooper Scooper Week

Golden Rule Week Link

Laugh at Work Week

Medication Safety Week

Testicular Cancer Awareness Week (aka Get A Grip Day!)  Link

2-10

National Robotics Week Link 

3-9

Bat Appreciation Week

National Blue Ribbon Week Link  (Child Abuse)

National Public Health Week

National Window Safety Week

Week of The Ocean

4-10

Explore Your Career Options

Hate Week

The Masters Tournament

National Youth Violence Prevention Week Link 

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US Historical Highlights for Today

1712 Slave revolt in New York kills 6 white men, 21 African Americans executed

1798 Mississippi Territory organized

1818 General Andrew Jackson conquers St Marks Fla from Seminole Indians

1830  President Jackson has submitted a bill that would call for the removal of most of the Indians in the southeast to lands west of the Mississippi. In a speech today, Senator Theodore Frelinghuysen, denounces the bill. He asked the Senate when was it ever proclaimed "that the right of discovery contained a superior efficacy to all prior titles?"

1891 Nebraska introduces 8 hour work day

1902 Texas Oil Company (Texaco) forms

1922 Warren G. Harding's Interior Secretary, Albert B. Fall, leases the Teapot Dome oil reserves to harry sinclair, setting in motion what comes to be known over the next two years as the Teapot Dome scandals

1933 'National Beer Day" Cullen-Harrison act comes into effect legalizing sale of low alcohol beer

1940 1st black to appear on US stamp (Booker T. Washington) 1949 "South Pacific" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 1928 performances

1954 US President Eisenhower in news conference first to voice fear of a "domino-effect" of communism in Indo-China

1957 Last of NY's electric trolleys completes its final run

1969 Supreme Court strikes down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material

1969 The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1

1970 42nd Academy Awards - "Midnight Cowboy", John Wayne & Maggie Smith win

1980 Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis

2003 U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later.

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World Historical Highlights for Today

  529 First draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I

1348 Prague U, first university in central Europe, formed by Charles IV

1720- The Declaratory Act defines the right of the British Pariliment to legislate for Ireland and denies the appellate jurisdiction of the irish House of Lords

1827 English chemist John Walker invents wooden matches

1926- Mussolini's Irish wife breaks his nose

1946 Syria's independence from France is officially recognized.

1948 World Health Organization formed by the United Nations

1953 Dag Hammarskjoeld of Sweden elected 2nd UN general-secretary

1983 Oldest human skeleton, aged 80,000 years, discovered in Egypt

1988 Russia announced it would withdraw its troops from Afghanistan

1994 Vatican acknowledges Holocaust (Nazis killing Jews) for 1st time

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My Rambling Thoughts

Another beautiful spring day here at 7000’. Looks good until Friday when rain/snow returns. We need the moisture, so will deal with either way it comes.

Home Show at the University on Friday so our retirement group will go there and then to lunch. Gives me some time to get stuff done tomorrow.

The amazing forest service has decided that today would be a good day for prescribed burns, so we have some smoke in the sky, kinda trying to block the sunshine.

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Brain Teasers

(answers at the end of post)

My Life?

Rebus brain teasers use words or letters in interesting orientations to represent common phrases.

Difficulty:

(1.45/4)

Can you decipher this rebus:

M1y 1Li1f1e

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…Harper’s Index…

8-Number of US law schools that accepted students with LSAT scores below 147 in 2010

45-In 2014

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…Instagram Photo of the Day… 

natgeoPhoto by @davidalanharvey | Afternoon storm builds outside the broken wall of an old lighthouse built in 1889 that the locals call "las ruinas" near Wilderness surfers beach on the west side of Puerto Rico. April 2016. #puertorico #jobos

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2 jokes for the day

Fruit Flies Like

Time flies like an arrow but fruit flies like a banana.

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Go See If Am I There

The basketball coach stormed into the university president's office and demanded a raise right then and there.

"Please," protested the college president, "you already make more than the entire History Department."

"Yeah, maybe so, but you don't know what I have to put up with," the coach blustered. "Look."

He went out into the hall and grabbed a jock who was jogging down the hallway. "Run over to my office and see if I'm there," he ordered.

Twenty minutes later the jock returned, sweaty and out of breath. "You're not there, sir," he reported.

"Oh, I see what you mean," conceded the president, scratching his head. "I would have phoned."

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Yep, It Really Happened

*--- Woman Spends Weekend in Public Toilet ---*

A woman was rescued from a library toilet after being stuck inside for two days, police in Texas said. Waco police said that they received a call from employees of the library to report a woman stuck in a toilet. According to the police investigation, the woman came to the library on Saturday night and went into the bathroom just before closing time. Somehow, she got stuck inside a toilet and could not get out. She did not have a cellphone and was unable to call for help. When the West Waco Library was locked, she remained inside. Around 7:00 a.m. on Monday, employees found the woman in the toilet and called the police. The woman was rescued. She did not suffer any injuries. 

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Somewhat Useless Information

Refrigerators in the U.S. consume about the same energy as 25 large power plants produce each year.

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The United States produces half of its electricity from coal. China uses coal to generate more than three-fourths of its electricity. Australia, Poland, and South Africa produce an even greater percentage. Overall, coal makes up 2/5 of the world's electricity generation.

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The world's biggest blackout occurred on August 14, 2004, when a massive power outage occurred across the northeastern U.S. and throughout Ontario, Canada, affecting 50 million people.

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In the average home, 75% of the electricity used to power home electronics is consumed while the products are turned off. The average desktop computer idles at 80 watts, while the average laptop idles at 20 watts. A Sony PlayStation 3 uses about 200 watts and nearly as much when idle. Idle power consumes more electricity than all the solar panels in America combined. Refrigerators in the U.S. consume about the same energy as 25 large power plants produce each year.

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Ways to Spot an American Abroad

Not Knowing the Customs

It makes sense. We live in a country that takes up an enormous amount of space, and while we do have a lot of differences in accent, food, and culture, we're not used to studying up before we travel. Still, it's a good idea. Learn what you can of the language instead of expecting people to speak English. Read about customs and manners. (Pay special attention to not making any obscene gestures.)  You'll have more fun if you go in knowing what to expect, and you'll get along better, too.

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Birthdays Today

“( )” indicates age at death

(92) Ravi Shankar,

Varanasi, India, British musician (the Pandit), (d. 2012)

(91) Will Keith Kellogg,

American cereal manufacturer (d. 1951)

(86) James Garner,

Norman Ok, American actor (Rockford Files, Bret Maverick), orn in (d. 2014)

85- Daniel Ellsberg,

whistleblower (Pentagon Papers)/patriot

(82) Wayne Rogers,

Birmingham Al, actor (M*A*S*H, House Calls), (d. 2015)

(80) William Wordsworth,

English poet laureate (The Prelude), (d. 1850)

78- Jerry Brown,

San Francisco, Governor of California

77- Francis Ford Coppola,

Detroit, director (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now)

(74) Walter Winchell,

NYC, Harlem newscaster/columnist (Untouchables) (d.1972)

(74) David Frost,

Tenterdon England, TV host (That Was the Week That Was), (d. 2013)

(70) Kenneth Oakley,

English Anthropologist, Palaeontologist, and Geologist whose method for the relative dating of fossils using fluorine content was instrumental in exposing the Piltdown Man hoax (d.1981)

68- John Oates,

NYC, rock guitarist/vocalist (Hall & Oates-Rich Girl)

(67) Percy Faith,

conductor (Summer Place) (d.1976)

65- Janis Ian, [Janis Eddy Fink],

NYC, lesbian/folk rocker (At 17)

62- Jackie Chan,

Hong Kong, martial arts actor (Rumble in the Bronx)

62- Tony Dorsett,

NFL running back (Dallas Cowboys, Heisman Trophy)

52- Russell Crowe,

Wellington, nz, Australian/New Zealand actor (A Beautiful Mind, Gladiator)

(44) Billie Holiday, [Eleanora Fagan],

Philadelphia, jazz singer (Lady Sings the Blues) (d.1959)

(42) Francis C Lowell,

founded 1st raw cotton-to-cloth textile mill (d.1817)

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Historical Obits Today

@93-2012 Mike Wallace [Myron],

American media personality

@88-1891 Phineas T Barnum,

US circus promoter (B & Bailey)

@83-1947 Henry Ford,

American industrialist and auto maker (Ford Model T)

@76-2007 Johnny Hart,

American cartoonist (bc, wizard of id)

@73-1614 El Greco (Doménikos Theotokópoulos),

Greek-born artist working in Spain

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Brain Teasers Answers

For once in my life.

(Four ones, in my life)

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Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.

All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site contains mistakes and sadly once the information is out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.

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