Good morning, Whitewater.
Tuesday in town will be increasingly cloudy with a high of thirty-eight. Sunrise today is 6:49 and sunset 7:12, for 12h 22m 30s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 21.7% of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Urban Forestry Commission meets today at 4:30 PM.
Workers using high-pressure, hot-water washing to clean an oiled shoreline. Via Wikipedia.
On this day in 1989, America saw one of the worst oil spills in her history:
The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska, on March 24, 1989, when Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker bound for Long Beach, California, struck Prince William Sound’s Bligh Reef at 12:04 a.m.[1] local time and spilled 11,000,000 to 38,000,000 gallons of crude oil[2][3] over the next few days. It is considered to be one of the most devastating human-caused environmental disasters.[4] The Valdez spill was the largest in US waters until the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, in terms of volume released.[5] However, Prince William Sound’s remote location, accessible only by helicopter, plane, or boat, made government and industry response efforts difficult and severely taxed existing plans for response. The region is a habitat for salmon, sea otters, seals and seabirds. The oil, originally extracted at the Prudhoe Bay oil field, eventually covered 1,300 miles (2,100 km) of coastline,[6] and 11,000 square miles (28,000 km2) of ocean.[7]
It’s Harry Houdini’s birthday:
1874 – Harry Houdini Born
On this date magician Harry Houdini was born in Budapest, though he later claimed to have been born on April 6, 1874, in Appleton, Wisconsin. At the age of 13 he left Appleton, where his family had emigrated, for New York City, and began his career as an escape artist and magician. [Source: Houdini.org]
Here’s the Tuesday game from Puzzability:
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This Week’s Game — March 23-27
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Mixed Company
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The economy may be looking up, but these businesses have fallen to pieces. For each day this week, we started with the name of a current Fortune 500 company. We removed all spaces and punctuation, then divided the string into three-letter chunks. Those chunks, in random order, are the day’s clue.
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Example:
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RIC ESS XPR AME ANE
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Answer:
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American Express
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What to Submit:
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Submit the company name (as “American Express” in the example) for your answer.
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Tuesday, March 24
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