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 |
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Passiontide |
21-4/3 |
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National Cherry Blossom Festival Link |
20-4/10 |
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American Chocolate Week Link |
21-27 |
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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 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.
