March 8, 2019

That’s all she wrote for the Chatham Maroons.

They’ll bow out of the playoffs in the first round, losing the series in 5 games after a 6-1 loss to the Komaka Kings at home last night.

It’s International Women’s Day, part of Women’s History Month.

International Women’s Day was first suggested at a 1910 women’s conference in Copenhagen by activist Clara Zetkin. The first “IWD” was observed in Germany the next year.

It’s a national holiday in China and Russia, where female workers are presented with flowers and gifts.

The theme this year is #BalanceforBetter; A balanced world is a better world. How can you help forge a more gender-balanced world?

NASA plans to celebrate Women’s History Month with an all-female spacewalk on Friday, March 29th.

Astronauts Anne McClain and Christina Koch will be the first women to ever do an all-female walk. This will happen 35 years after Russia’s Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space.

Less than 11% of the more than 500 people who have been to space are women. The spacewalk will begin at 6.30am and last seven hours.

McClain and Koch are the only women on the Expedition 59 crew that starts on March 14th; it’s the 59th journey to the International Space Station.

NASA will soon have its first ever all female spacewalk. Veuer’s Sam Berman has the full story. https://t.co/FKd8qGbEPo

— USA TODAY Tech (@usatodaytech) March 7, 2019

Daylight Saving Time begins Sunday morning at 2am.

The clocks ‘Spring Forward’ one hour. Most of our computers, phones, and other electronic devices make the change on their own.

The semi-annual clock reset is also touted as a good excuse for “Check Your Batteries Day”, when you test and/or replace smoke alarm batteries.

Queen Elizabeth made her first Instagram post.

It’s two pictures of a letter written to her great-great grandfather Prince Albert in 1843. The writer was Charles Babbage, the world’s first computer pioneer. She posted it to the Royal Family’s official page. Photos of the Queen typing her Instagram caption on an iPad were shared to the Royal Family’s story. She didn’t use a single #hashtag.

In a formal fashion, the Queen signed the post “Elizabeth R.” The post currently has over 200,000 likes.

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This post was written by Chris McLeod