The Great
Flood of 1913 occurred between March 23 and March 26, after major
rivers in the central and eastern United States flooded from runoff and several
days of heavy rain. Related deaths and
damage in the United States were widespread and extensive. Flood-related deaths in Ohio, Indiana, and eleven other states are estimated at
approximately 650. Official death toll
range for Ohio falls between 422 and 470.
Flood-related death estimates in Indiana range from 100 to 200. More than a quarter million people were left
homeless. The death toll from the flood
of 1913 places it second to the Johnstown Flood of 1889 as one of the deadliest floods in the
United States. The flood remains Ohio's
largest weather disaster. In the Midwest damage estimates exceeded a third of a billion
dollars. Damage from the Great
Dayton Flood at Dayton, Ohio, exceeded $73 million. Indiana’s damages were estimated at $25
million (in 1913 dollars). Further south,
along the Mississippi
River, damages exceeded $200
million. Devastation from the flood of
1913 and later floods along the Mississippi River eventually changed the country's
management of its waterways and increased federal support for comprehensive
flood prevention and funding for flood control projects. The Ohio Conservancy Act, which was signed by
the governor of Ohio in 1914, became a model for other states to follow. The act allowed for the establishment of
conservancy districts with the authority to implement flood control
projects. Following the flood of 1913,
citizens and government officials took a greater interest in comprehensive
flood prevention, managing flood-prone areas, and funding for flood control
projects that would limit damage and save lives. Congress previously contended
that floods were local events and flood control was the responsibility of state
and local government. The Flood
Control Act of 1917 was the
first of several pieces of legislation that eventually led to the creation of
the National Flood Insurance Program of
1968, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in 1979, and the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and
Emergency Assistance Act of
1988. Federal funding for national flood
control projects began slowly in 1917, with Congress authorizing funding for
flood control studies in the Mississippi River as part of House Document 308. By 1925 it had been expanded to include other
major rivers in the United States. See
timeline and graphics at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Flood_of_1913
Big Pharma may refer to:
Pharmaceutical
industry Pharmaceutical lobby Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA),
a trade group Big Pharma (book),
a 2006 book by British journalist Jacky Law
Big Pharma (video game), a simulation game or Big Pharma (artist), an electronic music
artist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Pharma
Scrapple, also known by the Pennsylvania Dutch name Pannhaas or
"pan rabbit", is traditionally a mush of pork scraps and trimmings combined with cornmeal and wheat flour, often buckwheat flour, and spices.
The mush is formed into a semi-solid congealed loaf, and slices of the
scrapple are then pan-fried before serving.
Scraps of meat left over from butchering, not used or sold elsewhere,
were made into scrapple to avoid waste.
Scrapple is best known as an American food of the Mid-Atlantic
states (Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia). Scrapple
and panhaas are commonly considered an ethnic food of
the Pennsylvania
Dutch, including the Mennonites and Amish. Scrapple is found in supermarkets throughout
the region in both fresh and frozen refrigerated cases. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapple
Goetta is a meat-and-grain sausage or mush of German inspiration that is
popular in the greater Cincinnati area. It is primarily composed
of ground meat (pork, or pork and beef), pin-head oats and spices. It was originally a dish meant
to stretch out servings of meat over several meals to conserve money, and
is a similar dish to scrapple and livermush, both also developed by German immigrants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goetta
Hoity-toity Pretentiously self-important, haughty or pompous. Many dictionaries also give a second meaning,
that is, given to frivolity, silliness or riotousness. That was the original meaning of this term,
but has now almost completely died out.
Our view of what is hoity-toity now is defined by the 'looking down the
nose' manner adopted by characters like Lady Bracknell, as performed by Dame
Edith Evans, in the stage and film versions of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of
Being Earnest. The frivolousness/riotousness
meaning was first recorded in Sir Roger L'Estrange's 1668 translation of The
visions of Don Francisco de Quevedo Villegas: "The Widows I observ'd . . . Chanting and Jigging to every Tune they heard,
and all upon the Hoyty-Toyty, like mad Wenches of Fifteen." The later meaning isn't seen until around mid
to late 18th century and is recorded in O'Keefe's Fontainebleau in
1784: "My mother . . . was a fine
lady, all upon the hoity-toities, and so, good for nothing." As with many reduplicated
phrases, one word carries an existing meaning and the other is present for
emphasis. In this case the earlier
meaning of the term came from the word hoit.
This is a now defunct verb meaning to indulge in riotous, noisy
mirth. That in turn was formed from
hoyden--a boorish clown or rude boisterous girl. https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/hoity-toity.html
Saturday, April 13,
2019 Cherry
Blossom Walk 9:30 a.m Nashville Cherry Blossom Festival 9:30
a.m. - 5:00 p.m. The 11th Annual
Nashville Cherry Blossom Festival
NASHVILLE,
Tenn. (WTVF) — The work to move 10
cherry trees from the end of Broadway to 1st Avenue North was completed April
3, 2019. The trees were moved to
make room for a stage to be built for the NFL Draft. Initially, 21 trees were scheduled to be
removed but public outcry prompted city officials to come up with a new
plan. Thousands of people signed a
petition over the weekend, demanding the trees not be uprooted. Once the NFL draft stage is deconstructed,
new cherry blossoms will be planted in the vacant spots closest to the
river. As an act of good faith, around
200 additional cherry trees will be planted in the city by the NFL and the
Nashville Convention and Visitors Corp.
Alexandra Koehn https://www.newschannel5.com/news/crews-begin-removing-cherry-blossoms-from-downtown-nashville
As Nashville booms, Davidson County's tree canopy
continues to shrink. But now a new campaign supported by Mayor
David Briley with city dollars and an assortment of nonprofits is
looking to reverse that trend by hitting a lofty goal: plant 500,000 trees by 2050. That's the focus of Root Nashville, a new
public-private effort that is getting an early jolt via $1.5 million in private
money donated by the Atticus Trust, a foundation led by philanthropist
Martin Brown Sr., formerly of the Brown-Forman Corporation. The campaign, announced October 3, 2018, will
also include $2 million from Metro annually earmarked for the city's urban
forest program. Joey Garrison https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2018/10/03/root-nashville-500-000-new-trees-2050/1508906002/
DAN ROBBINS (1925-2019) Dan Robbins, an artist whose idea
for paint-by-number sets sparked a hobby craze and, decades later, inspired an
exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, died April
1, 2019 in ProMedica Ebeid Hospice, Sylvania, Ohio. Mr. Robbins and his wife, Estelle, lived the
last four years at Oakleaf Village in Sylvania Township after a decade in West
Bloomfield, Mich. A Detroit native, he
formerly lived in the Chicago area and West Toledo. His grounding in art theory, history, and
technique at Detroit’s esteemed Cass Technical High School led to wartime duty
in the Army Corps of Engineer’s maps division. Mark Zaborney https://www.toledoblade.com/news/deaths/2019/04/05/toledo-blade-obituaries-dan-robbins-creator-paint-by-numbers/stories/20190404153
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