...you can figure out when Easter will be?

Every year Easter is on a different day. We all know that happens because it is based on a different calendar, but it need not be such a mystery.

Every year, Easter Sunday is the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Spring Equinox. Therefore, the earliest it can be is 22 March and the latest it can be is April 25th.

Nobody alive today has, or ever will, witness it occuring on March 22nd . The last time that happened was in 1818 and it won't happen again until 2285.

The last time Easter was on April 25th (the latest possible date) was 1943. You may have been around to see that and you may be around when it happens again in 2038.

Happy Easter!

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curlers talk to their rocks?

In the game of curling, jargon runs rampant.

What does it mean when a curler says, "Sit! Sit!" It means s/he is talking to the curling rock that has just been thrown and telling it to stop moving.

Despite the lack of scientific evidence that this works, it is a strategy employed by curlers at all levels of play.... :)

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...that fingerprints...

I attended a presentation by my local RCMP Forensic Ident officer this evening and learned things about fingerprints, footprints, DNA and other crime scene clues. Here's a few fun facts I picked up:

• fingerprints are particularly easy to lift from potato chip bags because
• it is grease and oil one gets from touching body parts, such as face or hair (or from chips you eat), clinging to the fingers that creates fingerprints
• this grease sticks to the fingers because we have many sweat pores on our fingers. We can see these if we look closely. They look like tiny holes.
• fingerprints can be easily lifted from paper. It is heated and then treated and voila! Prints appear!
• put superglue in a heating chamber with a plastic bag and the glue will become gaseous and cling to the oily finger prints on the bag, making them visible. This is a valuable technique as many illicit drugs are stored, traded, transferred in ordinary plastic Ziploc bags.
• a technique has yet to be discovered for lifting prints from rocks...which means if a rock smashes through your window, it likely won't be useful in the ensuing vandalism investigation.
• Despite digitalization of fingerprints, computerized transmission of fingerprints, and the national fingerprint data base Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS), it still takes a human to do the ultimate match up. The computer can only narrow it down to a dozen or so similar prints. It is a labour-intensive job and truly does still involve lab techs staring at prints through magnifying glasses.
• A partial print on a revolver leads investigators to suspect young Katrina Buckhold played a part in a horrific gang slaying in FATAL ERROR, my new crime novel. Sequel to The Traz.
  

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...that lynx swim?

Lynx are good swimmers. At least this one was. We spotted it from our boat this past weekend the middle of Wolf Lake, which is quite a large lake in Northern Alberta, Canada.  He had a long way to get to shore, but was swimming quickly.

It looked odd to see a cat in the water.

Lynx have distinctive tuffs on their ears. They are double to triple the size of the average house cat.  In some places they are called bob cats because they have a short tail. Most people, though, call them lynx and call the other species of short-tailed cats without the ear tuffs bob cats.

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Here are some more pictures of beautiful Wolf Lake. We were fishing for Pike and Walleye.

 

...the Snowbirds, Canada's formation flyers, are officially known as...

...the Snowbirds, Canada's  formation flyers, are officially known as the 431 Air Demonstration Squadron?

...the CT-114 Tutor jet that the Snowbirds have flown since 1971 was designed and built in Canada and was used by the Canadian Forces as its basic pilot training aircraft until 2000?

...the jets are painted in a distinctive red and white paint scheme symbolic of Canada's national flag?

...the CT-114 Tutor jet is 9.75 m long? Has a wingspan of 11.12 m, weighs approximately 7170 lbs (3260 kgs), and can carry 310 U.S. gallons (1173 litres or 2,012 lbs) of fuel?

...the Tutor is powered by a General Electric J-85 engine producing 2,700 pounds of thrust? Top speed of the aircraft, with smoke tanks attached, is 412 knots (470 mph or 750 km/h)?

...the motto of the 4331 Squadron is THE HATITEN RONTERIIOS (Warriors of the air) and it's badge is an Iroquois Indian's head?

...the Snowbirds were at the Yellowknife airshow today and I saw them perform?

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