Mar 2

 

Dear Spring: Please stop hiding.

Mar 2, 2021 Week: 9    Day: 61                Visibility: 10 miles

Local: H 44°\ L 19°\Ave. Sky Cover: 5%    Wind:  5mph/ Gusts:  10mph

Nearest Lightning: 983mi.                          Moderate Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  500mi

Record: 66°[2009]  Record: -1°[1971]

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

Today’s Quote

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

~Thomas Jefferson

Random Tidbits

Unless you're a real science geek, chances are you never knew these elements even existed. Nonetheless, many of them form the foundations of modern life.

Scandium (Sc)

In the 1970s, metallurgists found that aluminum-scandium alloys are strong and lightweight, making it useful in aerospace components. It wasn't long before sporting-equipment manufacturers started using the alloys in everything from baseball bats to lacrosse sticks.

A Little Humor

A jumper cable walks into a bar. The bartender says- I'll serve you- but you better not start anything!

True Things

Naked man carrying Bible shot in Florida

A naked man knocking on doors at a South Florida apartment complex was shot by someone who then called 911 to turn himself in, police said. The man was carrying a Bible and knocking on doors at the Sunshine Garden Apartments when he was shot, Pembroke Pines police Major Al Xiques reported. Police said that officers found the man bleeding and on the ground. He was taken to a hospital in critical condition. Officers were already on their way to investigate calls about a naked man at the complex when a 911 caller said he had just shot the man. "[The shooter] wanted to surrender himself to police," Xiques said. "He was detained by police and is being questioned." The identities of the man and the person who turned himself in were not immediately released.

Monthly Observations

 

Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) Month Link Deaf History Month (3/13 to 4/15) Developmental Disabillities Awareness Month  Link Employee Spirit Month Endometriosis Month Link Expanding Girls' Horizons in Science & Engineering Month Link Honor Society Awareness Month Link Humorists Are Artists Month

 

Weekly Observations

Lent [Christian]	Thru 4/3
National Pasty Week Cancelled	Thru 3/6
National School Breakfast Week: 1-5	1-5
Hearing Awareness Week Link LGBT Health Awareness Week Link National Cheerleading Week Nat’l Write A Letter of Appreciation Week National Ghostwriters Week National Invest in a Veteran Week  Link National Pet Sitters Week Link Return the Borrowed Books Week Telecommuter Appreciation Week Universal Human Beings Week Link Will Eisner Week   Link World Hearing Awareness Week Link	1-7

 

Today’s Observations

Dr. Seuss Day
Free Dentistry Day Link 

National Banana Cream Pie Day

NEA's Read Across America Day
Old Stuff Day

Peace Corps Day Link 
World Teen Mental Illness Day Link 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Thankfully, there is much less wind today, but still not as warm as I had hoped.

I’m just enjoying a kinda lazy day.

Navajo: March is the sixth month in the traditional Diné calendar. It is the month when the eaglets scream, bighorn sheep drop their young, first thunder rumbles and the deer and elk shed their antlers. The heart of this month is becha na'chil, sudden spring storms, and the bear and thunder constellations, while it's feather is dibéʼniiʼí, the mountain sheep bird. When these birds are seen it is spring. Niłchidootłizh, the blue wind of warmth, is carried back from the south by the hummingbirds, while niłchidiłhił, the dark wind blanket of cold and sickness, is carried back north with the migrating geese and swans. The first leaves come forth and ceremonies are held to bless the fields before the seeds are planted.

This time of the year has many names in Diné Bizaad as it is a time of great seasonal change from winter to spring. Here in southern Navajo the old ones once used the word of dee nahaałdaas, 'falling antlers', for the month of March as during this period of the year dzééh (elk) and bįįhtsoh (mule deer) would be seen shedding their antlers.

Another name once used was dibé iiłchííh, 'birthing time of the sheep', as the bighorn sheep (dibé) would be seen in the canyons, and atop the mesas and mountains with newborn lambs at their side.

Ii'ni' ts'ósí, small thunder, was another older name used by our people. The thunder beings it was said would make themselves known during this time of the year by rumbling above or striking the ground below to waken the plants and animals from their long sleep and to alert the people to cease the winter ceremonies until fall time.

Wóózhchį́į́d, eaglets crying horsely, is the name generally used today by a majority of our people for the month of March. This is the time of the year when the eaglets born in January or February have begun to grow out their little feathers and can be heard crying out loudly above in their nests from which the name of 'wóózhchį́į́d' derives from.

I had a good conversation with my brother…actually several over the past few days. He has been under the weather with body aches and fatigue. He was tested and negative for Covid. Not sure what is messing with his body, but yesterday afternoon he was improving a lot. Hope it continues.

One of the cool things about Facebook is discovering how former students are doing. At least 5 former students, whom I am not ‘friends’ with, posted when a former student who is a friend wished me a happy birthday. They reminisced about why they remembered me teaching them. Nice memories, some were pretty funny. Thanks to all who posted. Some posted on Old School TCBS group site.

After watching the news on CPAC, I guess my hope that our country’s division would cease after Trump lost was little more than a fantasy. America needs a Nelson Mandela now more than ever.

 

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

Five people were eating apples, A finished before B, but behind C. D finished before E, but behind B. What was the finishing order? 

Historical Events

1657 – The Great Fire of Meireki in Edo (now Tokyo), Japan, caused more than 100,000 deaths and lasted three days.

1807 – The US Congress passed an act to “prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States… from any foreign kingdom, place, or country.”

1863 – The US Congress authorized a track width of 4-feet, 8-1/2 inches as the standard for the Union Pacific Railroad, which became the standard width for most of the world.

1933 – King Kong (film) opened at New York’s Radio City Music Hall.

1949 – The first round the world nonstop airplane flight was completed in a US Air Force B-50 Superfortress bomber, the Lucky Lady II headed by Captain James Gallagher. They landed back at Carswell Air Force Base, Fort Worth, Texas, which they had left on February 26, about 94 hours earlier.

1960 – Lucille Ball filed for divorce from Desi Arnaz, ending their marriage as well as the Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show franchise on CBS.

1962 – Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in a single basketball game against the New York Knicks. Final score: 169-147, at the Hershey Arena. Although there were only about 6,000 tickets sold, guesstimates are that almost 50% of male sports fans born in the Philadelphia area between 1925 and 1958 claim to have been at the event.

1969 – The Concorde SST Supersonic jet aircraft, prototype 001, made its first flight from Toulouse airport in France.

1983 – Compact discs and players are released for the first time in the United States and other markets. (They had previously been available only in Japan.)

1978 – Charlie Chaplin’s body was stolen from a cemetery in the Swiss village of Corsier-sur-Vevey, near Lausanne, Switzerland. The grave robbers (and the re-buried body) were found a few weeks later.

1985 – Sheena Easton the first and still only recording artist to score top-10 singles on all five major Billboard singles charts: Pop, Country, Dance, Adult Contemporary and R&B with her hit Sugar Walls.

1990 – Nelson Mandela was elected deputy President of the African National Congress.

2000 Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet heads home after being told the UK would not extradite him on torture charges

2014 President Vladimir Putin receives unanimous approval from Russia's parliament to send troops to the Ukraine.

2016 US astronauts Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko return to earth after nearly a year (340 days), setting an ISS record.

2017 US Attorney General Jeff Sessions recuses himself from the investigation into Trump campaign contacts with Russia after revelations he met Russian ambassador

2020 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey can no longer enforce 2016 deal with EU to stop migrants entering Europe, warns millions may try. 

Birthdays Today

90 – Mikhail Gorbachev, Russian lawyer and politician, Nobel Prize laureate

@87 – Dr. Seuss [Theodor Seuss “Ted” Geisel], children’s book writer, poet, illustrator (d. 1991)

79 – John Irving, American novelist and screenwriter

@70 – Sam Houston, American soldier and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Texas (d. 1863)

@69 – Desi Arnaz, Cuban-American actor, singer, producer (d. 1986; lung cancer)

69 – Mark Evanier, American author and screenwriter

68 – Russ Feingold, American lawyer and politician

59 – Jon Bon Jovi [John Francis Bongiovi Jr.], singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, actor

53 – Daniel Craig, English actor

41 – Rebel Wilson, Australian actress 

Puzzle Answer

CABDE. Putting the first three in order, A finished in front of B but behind C, so CAB. Then, we know D finished before B, so CABD. We know E finished after D, so CABDE.