Mar 12

 

 

Mar 12, 2021     Week: 19    Day: 71                         Visibility: 10 miles

Local: H 45°\ L 22°\Ave. Sky Cover: 45%                Wind:  11mph/ Gusts:  20mph

Nearest Lightning:  523mi.                                          Very Low Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  321mi

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

Today’s Quote

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. 

~Norman Cousins

Weekly Observations

Lent [Christian]	Thru 4/3
Celebrate Your Name Week Girl Scout Week Link  National Dental Assistants Recognition Week Link National Procrastination Week National Schools Social Work Week Link  National Words Matter Week No More Week Link Read an E-Book Week Link Save Your Vision Week Link Termite Awareness Week Women in Construction Week  Link  Words Matter Week	7-13
Women of Aviation Worldwide Week	7-14
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Week	10-13
National Money Show	11-13
Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign	11-17
World Rattlesnake Roundup	12-14

 

Today’s Observations

Alfred Hitchcock Day
Girl Scout Birthday Day Link
Middle Name Pride Day Link  

National Milky Way Day

Girl Scouts Day

Plant a Flower Day

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Strange weather day. Any overnight snow on the street was gone by 7a. It has just enough to cover the ground. It will snow, the sun will come out, it will snow while the sun is shining, the clouds return, more snow, more sunshine. It is crazy.

The snow is very wet, so it is all good.

Staying home today so cleaned the spare bedroom.

I’m waiting for a couple of statements so I can get my taxes done. Hoping they come soon.

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

This famous river crossing problem is known as the “bridge and torch” puzzle. Four people are crossing a bridge at night, so they all need a torch—but they just have one that only lasts 15 minutes. Alice can cross in one minute, Ben in two minutes, Cindy in five minutes and Don in eight minutes. No more than two people can cross at a time; and when two cross, they have to go at the slower person’s pace. How do they get across in 15 minutes? 

Historical Events

1894 – Coca-Cola bottles were sold to the public for the first time, in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

1912 – The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) were founded in the United States.

1923 – Phonofilm, the first motion picture with a sound-on-film track was demonstrated at a press conference by Dr. Lee De Forest, who was also the inventor of the radio tube in 1907.

1928 – St. Francis Dam collapsed San Francisquito Canyon, California

1933 – New resident Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his first national radio address or “fireside chat,” from the White House.

1987 – Broadway Show – Les Miserables (Musical) March 12, 1987

1993 – ’93 Superstorm stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to the northeastern US. 318 were killed.

1994 – The Church of England ordained its first female priests.

1999 – Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland joined NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization).

2003 – 15-year-old Elizabeth Smart was found in Sandy, Utah, nine months after being abducted from her Salt Lake City home.

2003 – The Dixie Chicks’ lead singer, Natalie Maines said, in an interview with The Guardian “Just so you know, we’re on the good side with y’all. We do not want this war, this violence. And we’re ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas.” That lead to a revolt from many of their fans.

2008 – Hulu opened online.

2011 A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan's earthquake.

2018 Tens of thousands of farmers from Indian state Maharashtra end protests over loan waivers, prices and land rights after promises from state officials and walking 167km to Mumbai

2020 US President Trump bans travel with 26 European countries, though not the UK, due to COVID-19 (UK and Ireland added a day later) 

Birthdays Today

88 – Barbara Feldon, American actress

@76 – Al Jarreau, American singer (d. 2017; respiratory failure)

75 – Liza Minnelli, American actress, singer and dancer

74 – Mitt Romney, American businessman and politician

73 – James Taylor, American singer-songwriter

59 – Darryl Strawberry, American baseball player

52 – Jake Tapper, American journalist

@47 – Jack Kerouac, American author and poet (d. 1969; Cirrhosis)

Puzzle Answer

Alice and Ben cross first in two minutes, and Alice crosses back alone with the torch in one minute. Then the two slowest people, Cindy and Don, cross in eight minutes. Ben returns in two minutes, and Alice and Ben return in two minutes. They just made it in 15 minutes exactly.