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