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
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Lent [Christian] |
Thru 4/3 |
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Celebrate Your Name Week Read an E-Book Week Link Save Your Vision
Week Link Termite Awareness
Week Women in
Construction Week Link |
7-13 |
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Women of Aviation Worldwide Week |
7-14 |
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Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Week |
10-13 |
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National Money Show |
11-13 |
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Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign |
11-17 |
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World Rattlesnake Roundup |
12-14 |
Today’s Observations
Alfred Hitchcock Day
Girl Scout Birthday Day Link
Middle Name Pride Day Link
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.
