Mar 23

 

 

Mar 23, 2021   Week: 13    Day: 82           Visibility: 10 miles

Local: H 47°\ L 28°                                    Ave. Sky Cover: 5%                        

Wind:  3mph/ Gusts:  11mph                     Nearest Lightning: 401mi.                      

High Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  674mi

Record: 67°[1990]  Record: -1°[1973]  

Mar. Averages: 53°/23° (6 days with moisture)            

Today’s Quote

Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.

~Robert Collier

A Little Something to Think About

If ‘I am’ is the shortest sentence in English, is ‘I do’ the longest sentence?

If a gang of circus performers attack you, should you go for the juggler?

Weekly Observations

Lent [Christian]

Thru 4/3

Passiontide

21-4/3

National Cherry Blossom Festival Link

20-4/10

American Chocolate Week Link
Consider Christianity Week
International Week of Solidarity with People's Struggling Against Racism & Discrimination Passion Week
National Agriculture Week
National Animal Poison Prevention Week
 Link  Link
National Inhalant/Poisons Awareness Week 
Link   Link
National Poison Prevention Week
National Protocol Officer's Week
World Folktales & Fables Week

 

 

 

 

21-27

Wellderly Week

21-28

 

Today’s Observations

American Diabetes Association Alert Day Link 
Melba Toast Day

National Agriculture Day Link 
National 3-D Day 
Link   
National Chia Day 
Link  Link
National Chip and Dip Day

National / World Agriculture Day 

National Puppy Day

National Tamale Day
Near Miss Day

OK Day Link
Puppy Day
World Meteorological Day

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

A decent day for a neighborhood walk. So, I did it.

I watched the first episode of Genius Aretha and am DVR-ing the rest. It is a great limited series on National Geographic Channel or on demand on Hulu. I highly recommend it.

Migrant asylum refugees at the southern border is horrendous, whether Trump or Biden or Obama is President. It needs to be fixed, not hidden. [side note…I recall the Burmese young family that I assisted on one of my international return flights. They applied for and were granted asylum by Sec. of State Clinton.] The US has and embassy is each Central American country. If people are serious about getting asylum, the US should make it easy to apply in their home country. Then they should start a data base to figure out what is so bad in the home country. Then the US can apply pressure to those governments to fix the situation, while at the same time granting asylum. I do not believe that the huge number of children crossing the border are runaways or that their parents simply ‘sent them to America’. They are seeking a better life, just like many of our ancestors. For most of our ancestors, there was not a whole lot of paperwork or bureaucracy back then.

Two of the four Navajo Nation Casinos are opening this week as a trial with limited occupancy and masks. They have been closed for over a year. If it works the other two, including the one near Flagstaff will open in about a month.  

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

What is extremely unusual about this group of words?

bring, buy, catch, fight, seek, teach, think. 

Historical Events

1775 – Patrick Henry delivered his ‘Give me liberty, or give me death!’ speech at St. John’s Episcopal Church, in Richmond, Virginia.

1839 – The initials ‘O.K.’ were first published in The Boston Morning Post. Meant as an abbreviation for ‘oll correct,’ a popular slang misspelling of ‘all correct’ at the time.

1840 – John William Draper took the first successful photo of the Moon. Actually, a daguerreotype, a precursor of the photograph.

1857 – Elisha Otis’s first elevator was installed at 488 Broadway New York City.

1956 – Pakistan became the first Islamic republic in the world.

1983 – President Ronald Reagan introduced the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) now called “Star Wars” to the American discussion.

1983 – Dr. Barney C. Clark, the first recipient of a permanent artificial heart, died at the University of Utah’s Medical Center after 112 days with the device.

1998 – James Cameron’s Titanic won 11 Academy Awards.

2001 – The Russian space station, Mir, ended 15 years in orbit by burning up entering Earth’s atmosphere, mostly burning up in the atmosphere, and splashing into the Pacific Ocean.

2016 GPR investigation of Shakespeare's tomb at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford concludes the Bard's skull probably has been stolen.

2018 A Sahara sandstorm turns snow in Sochi, Russia, orange in one of the largest-ever transfers of desert sand.

2019 Italy signs up to China's Belt and Road Initiative with deals signed in Rome between Italian Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

2020 New York confirmed as new center of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US with 20,875 cases (5,707 in the last day) and 157 deaths.

2020 WHO says the COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating, 1st 100,000 cases took 67 days, 2nd 100,000 cases 11 days, 3rd 100,000 cases 4 days.

2020 Immediate global ceasefire to fight COVID-19 called for by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres

Birthdays Today

@88 – Roger Bannister, English runner and academic (d. 2018)

@69 – Joan Crawford [Lucille Fay LeSueur], film actress (d. 1977; heart attack)

68 --Chaka Khan [Yvette Marie Stevens], singer

67 – Kenneth Cole, American fashion designer

@65 – Wernher von Braun, German-American physicist and engineer (dd.1977; pancreatic cancer)

45 – Keri Russell, American actress

Puzzle Answer

Their past tense forms rhyme: brought, bought, caught, fought, sought, taught, thought.

 

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