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Week 16 Day 111 Flag Today 70°/32° Wind 8mph Gusts -mph Active Fire: 132 miles away Risk of fire: Extreme Nearest Lightning: 1380 miles away Air Quality: Moderate
Sunshine Partly Cloudy Apr. Averages: Temps: 60°\27° Moisture: 3 Days |
Weekly Observations
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14-20 Animal
Control Officer Appreciation Week: Link National
Volunteer Week |
18-23 18-24 Cleaning For
A Reason Week 20-21 Global Youth
Service Days International
Wildlife Film Week: Link |
Daily Observations
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Food Day Auctioneers Day |
Appreciation
Day Chinese Language Day Link |
Today’s Quote Today’s Meme
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"Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing
for most of us that it is not." — Oscar Wilde |
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Today’s Thoughts
Nice and warm with
high clouds.
Don’t hold your breath,
but it sounds like the jury and alternates are ready for the Trump trial.
A friend from TC has
passed. Back in the 1980’s I worked with Tony on several community projects. He
and his high school students helped our group with screen printing of T-shirts
for events and races. We all worked for free on these events. A few years
later, he had his shop class hold a raffle for some of their woodworking. I
bought a $3 ticket and won a very nice coffee table that I am still using.
Cancer took him yesterday. He will be missed by many.
I have been
fortunate enough to see several large coral reefs in my travels. A new study on
coral reefs shows bleaching of the reefs due to warmer waters. One-quarter of
the ocean population live in coral reefs. This can lead to devastation of our
oceans around the world. Various groups are working tirelessly to stop the
bleaching. They have gone so far as carefully moving some reefs to cooler
water. This is a last ditch effort to save them.
Did you Know?
Did you know…part 2
The Only Japanese
Passenger on RMS 'Titanic' Was Shamed By His Country For Being Alive
Masabumi Hosono was an employee of the Japanese Transportation
Ministry who traveled to Russia and then to England to study railway
operations. He boarded the RMS Titanic at Southampton, also
called "the ship of dreams," before tragedy struck. When
the Titanic went down, Hosono was on deck like all the other
passengers looking for a way out. Suddenly, the officers announced that
one of the lifeboats had space for two more passengers. Hosono became the
second to jump in.
Initially,
when he went back to Japan, he was hailed as a survivor and became a mini
celebrity. Later, he was denounced as a stowaway, first by Archibald Gracie, a
first-class passenger and Titanic survivor, and then by his
own countrymen.
Hosono
lost his job, and while he was eventually hired back, his career never
really revived. The shame persisted until his death in 1939, and even after.
Historic Events
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1836 – The US Congress created the Wisconsin Territory.
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1898 – President William McKinley signed a joint
resolution to Congress for a declaration of war against Spain, beginning the
Spanish–American War.
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1946 – The League of Nations officially dissolved,
giving most of its power to the United Nations.
Birthdays with some quotes
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87 – George Takei, American actor “If
you have to make laws to hurt a group of people just to prove your morals and
faith, then you have no true morals or faith to prove.” 82 – Ryan O’Neal, American actor 75 – Veronica
Cartwright, English-American actress 75- Jessica Lang, actress 60 – Crispin Glover, American
character actor 60 – Andy Serkis, English actor 54- Shemar Moore, Actor 52 – Carmen Electra, American model
and actress “One
of the big misconceptions about me is that I walk around in mini-skirts and
high heels twenty-four seven and go to the gym in heels.” 41 – Miranda Kerr, Australian model 35 – Carlos Valdes,
Colombian-American actor |
@94 – Lionel Hampton, American
vibraphone player, pianist, and bandleader(d. 2002) “Gratitude
is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.” @92 – Mother Angelica, American nun,
and broadcaster, founded Eternal Word Television Network (d. 2016) “Simply
believing in the existence of God is not exactly what I would call a
commitment. After all, even the devil believes that God exists. Believing has
to change the way we live.” @77 – Harold Lloyd, American comedic
actor and producer (d. 1971; prostate cancer) @68 – Bruce Cabot, American
character actor (d. 1972; lung cancer) @56 – Adolf Hitler, Austrian born
German politician, Führer of Nazi Germany (d. 1945) @54 – Luther Vandross, American
singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2005; stroke) “I’m
not the type of writer that has 400 songs in a suitcase someplace on the
shelf. I’m sort of a rise-to-the-occasion-type of a writer, so when I know
I’m going to record, I get in the mood to write.” |
…The End for today…
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