This week we continue calving on the ranch and take a look at some of the technology we use to help calves be born safely and healthy. Including thermal imaging from FLIR and the MooCall calving sensor. Combining old school and new school calving on Our Wyoming Life.
"Marijuana" and "marihuana" were both used in Mexican Spanish speech at the time, and so US anti-drug officials decided to hijack both spellings to turn people off to smoking pot by "[exploiting] prejudice against despised minority groups, especially Mexican immigrants," medical marijuana activist Martin Lee notes in a 2013 book he wrote on the subject. Maybe by chance, the "h" spelling ended up being the version that landed in the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, as well as in the Controlled Substances Act decades later. So why did the "h" start getting phased out in the '60s? Experts aren't sure, but one theory is that as more Americans caught on to the pronunciation of Spanish words, the "j" became more commonplace. The Post notes that even "marijuana" may be falling out of grace, with drug advocates and researchers pushing to go back to the simple and non-loaded "cannabis." (Read more marijuana stories.)
Inside the apartment, her boys were insulated from the crossfire outside. But like thousands of others seeking shelter behind the peeling walls muffling the bubbling bass dripping from Crown Vic speakers, the poison of lead would find a way into her sons’ bodies all the same. Ryan and Ronnie, along with thousands of other poor children in New Orleans whose parents believed they could shelter their children from the violence outside, would become an entire poisoned generation.
Lead was only one of many ecological risks her family faced. The playgrounds where Ryan and Ronnie played often brimmed with pools of fetid, standing water—owing to New Orleans’s fabled and constant flooding—that were sometimes tainted with battery acid. Billieson had heard tell about the regurgitated sewage and chemical waste from Louisiana’s booming petrochemical operations that flowed back into dirt common spaces where her children learned to walk, all while they breathed in the emissions from the nearby roads and highways.
What actually happens to your donated clothes is a very involved process with a lot of complicated layers, each worth taking the time to understand. Let’s start here: Contrary to popular (naive) belief, less than 20 percent of clothing donations sent to charities are actually resold at those charities. Generally, the other 80 percent is sent to textile recyclers who then determine the next cycle of the garment's life. Almost half of the donations will be exported and sold in developing countries, while the other half will be recycled into rags and household insulation.
Good morning! Today the Happy Average High is 40 ☀️! Winter is fading away or so I tell myself. Four weeks to April Fools Day 🤡. Cloudy and 41 degrees at the Valero. ☁ Breezy, ️20 mph breeze from the west 🌬 with gusts up to 32 mph 💨💨💨. The wind is really flapping around the flag 🚩 at the gas station but it actually feels quite mild and spring like. Temperatures will drop below freezing at tomorrow around 2 am. ☃️
My sinuses were really plugged up 👃 and I had a bit headache this morning but I’m feeling better now that I’m going to work. I highly doubt I have the Coronavirus but I’m sure at some point I’ll get it — it doesn’t sound like the end of the world for a healthier person like myself. 😷 Maybe not so great for the President or his leading competitors, they’re kind of elderly. But hopefully not when I’m on vacation or planning on heading out of town.
Today will have a chance of showers, mainly between 10am and 1pm. Mostly cloudy 🌦, with a high of 49 degrees at 2pm. Nine degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical day around March 26th. Mild enough it will save on the heat. ♨ Breezy, with a west wind 18 to 24 mph, with gusts as high as 44 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies. The high last year was 34 degrees. The record high of 59 was set in 1919. 8.3 inches of snow fell back in 1971.❄
Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:08 pm with sun having an altitude of 41.2° from the due south horizon (-29.6° vs. 6/21). A six foot person will cast a 6.9 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 5:12 pm with the sun in the west-southwest (256°). 📸 The sunset is in the west (263°) starting at 5:47 pm and lasts for 2 minutes and 55 seconds with dusk around 6:17 pm, which is one minute and 13 seconds later than yesterday. 🌇 At dusk you’ll see the Waxing Gibbous 🌔 Moon in the southeast (124°) at an altitude of 62° from the horizon, 236,140 miles away. 🚀 The best time to look at the stars is after 6:50 pm. At sunset, look for possible rain showers 🌧 and temperatures around 44 degrees. Breezy, 16 mph breeze ⛅ from the west with gusts up to 28mph. Today will have 11 hours and 24 minutes of daytime, an increase of 2 minutes and 53 seconds over yesterday.
Tonight will have a slight chance of rain and snow showers before midnight, then a slight chance of snow showers between midnight and 2am. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 30 degrees at 6am. Eight degrees above normal, which is similar to a typical night around March 27th. West wind around 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. In 2019, we had clear skies in the evening, which became partly cloudy by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 7 degrees. The record low of -12 occurred back in 1948.
After work I’ll probably run to the store 🏬 and wash my truck. 🚿 I think the roads are pretty salt free. I’ll also swing by Lowes to see if I can some screws to fix my waffle iron. 🔩 And I want to keep working on my blog code so hopefully I can get this launched this weekend and maybe go for an evening 🌃 walk.
Today in 1985, Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS infection, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States. 🆎 In 1917, Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives. 🚺 And in 1957, S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90. 📊
A picture perfect weekend on tap. 😎 Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 37. Sunday, mostly sunny, with a high near 53. Typical average high for the weekend is 41 degrees.
This weekend I think I plan on staying in town and unpacking my truck cap and going through my camping gear, vacuuming outy truck. 🚿 I might also walk out to Five Rivers on Saturday morning then do Schodack Island in the afternoon, 🚶 buy groceries at Aldi’s 🍏 and then Sunday spend the bulk of the day hiking or skiing 🎿 maybe in the Catskills. 🗻
🌹🌻🌼Only 15 days remain until the first day of calendar spring!🌹🌻🌼
Looking ahead, there are 4 weeks until April Fools Day 🤡 when the sun will be setting at 7:21 pm with dusk at 7:50 pm (Daylight Savings Time). The jokes on all New Yorkers that day 🃏 when they awake to the news 📰 of the state budget. Looking forward to April and doing more traveling once the snow is gone. ⛺ On that day in 2019, we had mostly sunny and temperatures between 42 and 26 degrees. Typically, the high temperature is 52 degrees. We hit a record high of 77 back in 1986.
