Make your bed

1. Make your bed 2. Find people to paddle with you 3. Measure the size of heart, not flippers 4. Get over being a sugar cookie and keep moving forward 5. Don't be afraid of the circuses 6. Sometimes you have to slide down obstacles head first 7. Don't back down from the sharks 8. You must be your very best in the darkest moments 9. Start singing when you're up to your neck in mud. Hope for everyone 10. Don't ever, ever ring the bell

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Snow

There are four types of snow crystals

• Snowflakes – These are single ice crystals or clusters of ice crystals that fall from a cloud. These are the pretty, white flakes that fall directly from the sky as precipitation and they are often symmetrical. 
• Hoarfrost – When ice crystals fall on a surface (like tree branches, leaves, wires, etc.) that is lower in temperature or below freezing than the surrounding atmosphere, the result is the rapid freezing of the moist crystals into solid state. 
• Graupel – These are cute, opaque, capsule-shaped ice crystals. They are often around 2-5 millimeters (0.1 to 0.2 inches) in size. They are formed when ice crystals travel through super cooled water droplets at temperatures below freezing and rounds the crystals out. If the ice crystals are more than 5 millimeters and harder, then they are called hail.
• Polycrystals – These are simply snowflakes made up of many individual ice crystals.

Types of snowfall

• Blizzard – This is a violent winter storm, lasting at least three hours. It combines subfreezing temperatures and very strong winds. It is laden with blowing snow which reduces visibility if you are outside. 
• Snow squall – This is a brief but intense snowfall that greatly reduces visibility and often comes with strong winds. A watch alert is issued when “conditions are favourable for the development of brief periods of very poor visibilities caused by heavy snow and blowing snow.”
• Blowing snow – This is when snow is raised by the wind to moderate or great heights above the ground. This causes very poor visibility. 
• Winter storm – When two or more severe and potentially dangerous winter weather conditions combine, it is called a winter storm. 
• Snow flurry – Snow that falls for short durations and with varying intensity. Flurries are those light, fluttering snow that melt on the pavement a few minutes after they fall. They are not alarming at all.

Types of snow cover:

• New snow – This is a recent deposit of snow where you can still see shapes of snow crystals.
• Old snow – Long standing snow fall. This is usually smooth and flat. You won’t be able to discern the snow crystals.
• Firn – This is old snow (older than one year) that has re-crystallized into a dense material.
• Seasonal snow – Snow that lasts for only one season.
• Perennial snow – Snow that deposits over numerous winter seasons and does not thaw in the melt season. 

Source here: https://livelearn.ca/article/living-in-manitoba/did-you-know-that-there-are-different-types-of-snow/

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Joe the Pigeon

A pigeon that was to be put down by authorities in Australia after reportedly crossing the Pacific Ocean has been saved after officials found he was "highly likely" to be a local bird.

Joe the pigeon made headlines around the world after he was found in a garden in Melbourne wearing what appeared to be a US identification.

The bird was to be killed for breaching Australia's quarantine rules.

But he was granted a reprieve amid doubts about the origin of his leg tag.

"Following an investigation, the department has concluded that Joe the Pigeon is highly likely to be Australian and does not present a biosecurity risk," Australia's Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment announced on Friday.

"The department is satisfied that the bird's leg band is a fraudulent copy of a legitimate leg band," the statement said, adding that no further action would be taken against the bird.

Read more here:

 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-55667045

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Cactus leather

These entrepreneurs are turning nopal cactus leaves into organic, all-natural, cruelty-free leather. Desserto is the first cactus-based leather on the market, and the material has the potential to make the vegan leather industry much more sustainable.

Read more here.

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Poe's law

Poe's law is an adage of Internet culture stating that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, it is impossible to create a parody of extreme views so obviously exaggerated that it cannot be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of the views being parodied. The original statement, by Nathan Poe, read:

Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is utterly impossible to parody a Creationist in such a way that someone won't mistake for the genuine article.

Read more here. 

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Hate lives in a small town

 

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Notable deaths from COVID-19

Herman Cain. (Age 74. Died July 20, 2020. American businessman and activist for the Tea Party movement within the Republican Party.) See Cain's infamous Bad Lip Reading parody here.

Roy Horn (from Siegfried & Roy. Age 75. Died May 8, 2020)

Dawn Wells (Mary Ann Summers from Gilligan's Island, age  82. Died December 30, 2020)

See more notable deaths here:

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deaths_due_to_COVID-19

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