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Today 42°/29° Sky cover: 90% Wind 13mph Gusts 23mph Active Fire: 226 miles away Risk of fire: Low Nearest Lightning: 5 miles away Air Quality: Fair Overcast Windy Mar. Daily Averages: Temps:
53°\23° Moisture: 6
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Today’s Thoughts
Spring weather at
7000’…overcast, rain, snow, rain. Thankfully none sticking yet. As always, moisture
is needed. This moisture sure helps the forest.
Tik-Toc has been around
for a few years. I tried it when it first came out. I didn’t like that it was
owned by the Chinese Gov’t, I did enjoy some of the posts, but was concerned
about privacy information so I deleted it during the Trump administration. Now
Congress is stepping in. I have to say this is a mess. I’m usually against
censorship. However, China is not known for its integrity, truthfulness, or
transparency. Now that the House as voted to turn it off unless it breaks its
ties to the Chinese government it is up to the Senate. A vote to ban it will
upset many voting age youth, who will blame Biden. Not banning it will upset a bunch
of people too. Tough call and more proof of spying would be very beneficial.
Every year I have
sent Hamdy a message wishing him a good Ramadan. On the many trips he led to Africa,
I learned so much about Africa, the Muslim religion, and the people and cultures
of Africa. He always calls me a ‘good friend’ when he replies to me. I agree. I
learned so much.
Terms with origins in rural America
Ballpark figure
The phrase "ballpark
figure" stems from commentators who guessed the size of country crowds by
estimating the number of spectators. It's believed to have started with sizing
up baseball fans.
Influential Women
Grace Hopper (1906-1992). A computer scientist and Navy rear admiral, Hopper played an
integral role in creating programs for some of the world’s first computers.
(Recommended biography here.)
America’s Top Attractions
1970’s:
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Washington DC
Construction
of the flagship building of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
started on the Mall in Washington DC in the early 1970s and it was inaugurated
in 1976. It has the world’s largest collection of historic aircraft and
spacecraft. The five millionth visitor crossed its threshold just six months
later. Today, the National Air and Space Museum is one of the most-visited
museums in the world with more than 8.6 million guests annually.
Art
Deco Historic District, Miami, Florida
In
1979, Miami Beach was the first 20th-century neighborhood to be added to the
National Register of Historic Places. The preservation order was the work of
the Miami Design Preservation League, which was first founded in 1976 along
with Art Deco Welcome Center, to save the area’s then-neglected historic
buildings from being destroyed. It was the starting point for guided tours
through the 800-plus buildings and structures that make up Miami Beach's Art
Deco Historic District.
Influential Native Americans…
Sacheen
Littlefeather
Sacheen
Littlefeather made history at the 1973 Academy Awards when she accepted the
award for Best Actor on behalf of Marlon Brando. Littlefeather's speech, which
protested the film industry's treatment of Indigenous people, may have caught
the audience off guard, but she is proud to be the first Indigenous woman to
have used the Academy Awards as a platform. In August, when the Academy
apologized to Littlefeather nearly 50 years later, she told The Hollywood
Reporter, "I was stunned. I never thought I'd live to see the day I would
be hearing this, experiencing this." She added, "As my friends in the
Native community said, it's long overdue."
Born
to a father of Apache and Yaqui heritage, Littlefeather dedicated herself to
advocating for the rights of Indigenous people across film, TV, and sports. As
an elder, she mentored members of her community, sharing her knowledge with
future generations. Just a few months after the Academy's apology,
Littlefeather died at 75 on Oct. 2, 2022. A cause of death was not announced,
but she had been living with metastasized breast cancer after being diagnosed
in 2018.
Historic Events
1950 – The FBI
released its first ‘Ten Most Wanted’ criminals list.
Officially Pi Day is
3/14.
Unofficial Pi Day is
Approximation Day, 7/22.
The circumference of
a circle with radius r is 2pr.
Birthdays with some quotes
91 – Michael Caine,
English actor and author
“A man’s body may
grow old, but inside his spirit can still be as young and as restless as ever.”
91 – Quincy Jones,
American singer-songwriter, trumpet player, and producer
“Excellence isn’t an
act, it’s a habit.”@88 – Les Brown, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (d.
2001)
@86 – Lee Petty, American
race car driver (d. 2000)
@81 – Hank Ketcham,
American author and cartoonist, created Dennis the Menace (d. 2001)
@76 – Albert Einstein,
German-American physicist, engineer, academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955; aneurysm)
“Weak people
revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.”
“Genius is making
complex ideas simple, not making simple ideas complex.”
“Everybody is a
genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live
its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
76 – Billy Crystal,
American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
“In high school, I
was the class comedian as opposed to the class clown. The difference is the
class clown is the guy who drops his pants at the football game, the class
comedian is the guy who talked him into it.”
45 – Chris Klein,
American actor
@37 – Casey Jones, American
engineer (d. 1900; train crash)
36 – Stephen Curry,
Basketball star
27 – Simone Biles,
Olympic gymnast
16 – Abby Ryder
Fortson, American actress
…The End for today…
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