Mar 22

 

 

Mar 22, 2021   Week: 13    Day: 81  Visibility: 10 miles

Local: H 57°\ L 26°                                 Ave. Sky Cover: 10%               

Wind:  8mph/ Gusts:  12mph           Nearest Lightning: 1854mi.                                                 

Moderate Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  571mi

Record: 68°[2004]  Record: -1°[1952]  

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

Today’s Quote

You exist only in what you do.

~Federico Fellini

A Little Something to Think About

If you are skating on thin ice, can you end up in hot water?

If people from Poland are called Poles, shouldn’t people from Holland be called Holes?

Weekly Observations

Lent [Christian]	Thru 4/3
American Council on Education	20-22
National Cherry Blossom Festival Link	20-4/10
Passiontide	21-4/3
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 Alert Day

As Young As You Feel Day
International Day of The Seal
International Goof Off Day
National Goof-off Day
Talk Like William Shatner Day
Tuskegee Airmen Day
World Day for Water (aka World Water Day)  Link
World Day of Metta

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Nice Sunday here at 7000’. Nice spring day, wind expected later this afternoon.

I’ll be watching the Buffs v FL State Men’s game whenever it comes on Monday. I have to say I was bothered when the workout facilities for Men’s and Women’s NCAA basketball were so different. That female head of NCAA women’s basketball made a good apology, but why didn’t she know this long before the tournament began? Now is the time to review ALL the policies/practices of NCAA including the payment of student athletes. It sure looks like the student athlete is not on the priority list of member schools and it hasn’t been for decades.

Before citizens get excited about the very public riff between the US and China or the US and Russia, remember, this is more for public view and the real negotiations are through back-channels, as they have been for the decades before Trump. It is more about diplomacy than transparency.

 

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

There are three bags, each containing two marbles. Bag A contains two white marbles, Bag B contains two black marbles, and Bag C contains one white marble and one black marble. You pick a random bag and take out one marble, which is white. What is the probability that the remaining marble from the same bag is also white?

Historical Events

1630 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlawed the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.

1894 – The first championship series for Lord Stanley’s Cup was played in Montreal, Canada. The Montreal HC (Montreal Hockey Club) won the first cup.

1933 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Beer and Wine Revenue Act, putting a federal tax on all alcoholic beverages, although prohibition was still in effect until December 1933.

1945 – The Arab League was founded in Cairo, Egypt.

1960 – The first laser was patented (#2,929,922) by Arthur Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes under the title ‘Masers and Maser Communications System.’

1963 – The Beatles’ first album, Please Please Me, was released in the UK.

1972 – The Equal Rights Amendment was passed by the U.S. Senate and sent to the states for ratification. It never gained the 38 states necessary to become part of the US Constitution.

1978 – Karl Wallenda, aged 73, of The Flying Wallendas, died after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1997 – Tara Lipinski, age 14 years and 9 months, became the youngest women’s World Figure Skating Champion.

2016 – Brussels Terror Attack: 3 bombs exploded at the airport and metro station, injuring 300 and killing 32.

2009 Mount Redoubt, a volcano in Alaska began erupting after a prolonged period of unrest.

2012 Largest protest in Quebec's history occurs in Montreal with over 200,000 people marching against government tuition hikes and for free access to post-secondary education.

2018 US President Donald Trump imposes $60 billion worth of tariffs on Chinese imports

2018 The "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" between Hawaii and California has 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic and increasing rapidly according to new research

2019 "Mind-blowing" discovery announced of 518-million-year-old fossil site in near Danshui river, Hubei province, China, with thousands of unknown fossils well preserved

2020 India puts 1 billion people under a daytime curfew to curb COVID-19

2020 Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei refuses American COVID-19 help, refers to conspiracy theory that it was manufactured by the US

 

Birthdays Today

@97 – Karl Malden, American actor (died in 2009)

91 – Pat Robertson, founded the Christian Broadcasting Network

91 – Stephen Sondheim, American composer

90 – William Shatner, Canadian actor

86 – M. Emmet Walsh, American character actor

@84 – Marcel Marceau, French mime and actor (d. 2007)

@80 – Werner Klemperer, German-American actor (d. 2000)

74 – James Patterson, American author

73 – Andrew Lloyd Webber, English composer

@61 – Ross Martin, American actor (d. 1981; heart attack)

61 – Matthew Modine, American actor

45 – Reese Witherspoon, American actress

Puzzle Answer

2 out of 3. You know you don’t have Bag B. But because Bag A has two white marbles, you could have picked either marble; if you think of it as four marbles in total from Bags A and C, three white and one black, you’ll have a greater chance of picking another white marble.