HI! hugs
There are two (2) birfdays listed for this week on the Unofficial Birthday List:
- Babsie Wolf will be forty-seven on Tuesday (April 16th.) And
- MomentRabbit will be forty-nine on Wednesday (April 17th.)
Many Happy Returns of your day!
And heads-up for Trel’la’s birfday next Sunday (April 21st) and Pyat’s birfday next Monday (April 22nd.)
On the Local Furry Events Desk, Sparx! is hosting a meet for Oshawa Furries this Friday (April 19th) at Battle City Laser Tag, 690 Taunton Rd W, Oshawa. The action starts at 6:00 PM.
As usual, the Saturday after an Oshawa Fur Meet is an Oshawa Virtual Furmeet (Saturday, April 20th) starting at 8:00 PM. Please see the Oshawa Virtual Furmeet chat on Telegram for details.
The next Fierce Furrles event, Buddies Pride, doesn’t happen until June 7th. They’re already selling tickets, though, so I decided to mention it anyway. Fierce will share the event with Pups’ N Pals. It will be at Buddies In Bad Times Theatre again, but they have the whole building this time. Featured DJs are Dodge and Gnaw, with performances by Alissa Brink and Molly Kewl. For tickets, see the Fierce website. https://www.fiercefurriesto.ca/
Furcationland, Woods Flock, and Furry Tea Party are wrapping up today (April 14th). There’s just one Furry convention this weekend.
- Furry Down Under (FurDU), April 19th to 21st, Surfer’s Paradise, Queensland, Australia
On the Holidays and Occasions Desk, today (Sunday, April 14th) is World Quantum Day, an occasion to promote public awareness and understanding of quantum science and technology. This day was chosen to represent Planck’s Constant (4.14 X 10-15 eV). Today is also Pan American Day, the anniversary of the Organization of American States’ founding in 1890.
Tomorrow (Monday, April 15th) will be World Art Day, an international celebration of the fine arts.
Tuesday (April 16th) will be World Voice Day, a celebration of the human voice in speech, singing, etc. Tuesday will also be Equal Pay Day because women are still not paid as much as men. And Tuesday will be Save the Elephant Day; they’re still endangered or critically endangered.
Wednesday (April 17th) will be busy.
- On Wednesday, Yom HaAliyah will begin at sunset, the Jewish celebration of the right of all Jews to return to Israel.
- Wednesday will be Equality Day, the anniversary of Section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms concerning equal rights, coming into force in 1985. “Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination. based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability.”
- Wednesday will be International Bat Appreciation Day. Bats are important pollinators. Some species eat insect pests. And bats are cute. However, they also spread diseases (they have supercharged immune systems), so it’s best to appreciate them from a distance.
- Wednesday will be National Canadian Film Day. Celebrate our homegrown film industry.
- Wednesday will be World Hemophilia Day. It’s a genetic lack of blood clotting factor that can be deadly. People living with Hemophilia can bleed to death from even a cut or bruise.
- Wednesday will be Malbec World Day, a celebration of wine from the Malbec region of Argentina.
Thursday (April 18th) will be the Birthday of Guru Angad Dev, the second of the Sikh Gurus. He began writing down the wisdom of the Sikh religion and promoted education for children. Thursday will also be the anniversary of the First Publication of “The Spirits Book,” the “bible” of Spiritism. It was created by Hippolyte Leon Denizard Rivail (aka Allan Kardec) and published in 1857. It contains answers to questions about the nature of spirits in the universe. And Thursday will be World Amateur Radio Day, the anniversary of the formation of the International Amateur Radio Union in 1925, celebrated by “ham” radio operators.
On Friday (April 19th Shabbat HaGadol begins at sunset: the “Great Sabbath,” the sabbath before Passover. The First Day of Riḍván will also start at sunset on Friday, the Baha’i celebration of the Bahá’u’lláh announcing that he had received a revelation from God and began to prepare to leave Persia (now Iran) for Constantinople (now Istanbul.) Friday will be the Day of Silence, a day among students to protest the silencing of their 2SLGBTQ+ peers. And Friday will be World Bicycle Day, which commemorates Professor Albert Hofmann taking the first LSD trip. (The drug kicked in as he was riding a bicycle home.)
Saturday (April 20th) will be 4/20, the worldwide celebration of cannabis. (Smoke ’em if ya got ’em!) Saturday will also be Limber Day, the Dudeist celebration of 4/20. (They put their own twist on the joint.) Saturday will be Hardware Freedom Day, a celebration of non-proprietary hardware to promote its use.
Heads-up for next Sunday (April 21st.) It will be Grounation Day, Queen Elizabeth II’s Birfday, World Creativity and Innovation Day, the Feast of St. Anselm and the Full Moon. Next Sunday will also be the first day of Administrative Professionals’ Week and National Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Week. (In the UK, it will be National Tea Day.) And next Monday (April 22nd) will be Ta’anit Bechorot, Pesach, the Jashan of Ardwahisht (or Ardavisht), Earth Day and the start of International Wildlife Film Week.
If you want to be on the Unofficial Birthday List, or if you’d prefer to be removed or have your entry changed, email me at dotter8@gmail.com, and I’ll fix it for you promptly. I WILL NOT ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR REQUESTS SENT IN ANY OTHER WAY! (Requests should include the name you are or want to be entered under so that I know which “Jim Smith” to change to “Honking Camel. “) Please note that the UBL is NOT linked to the TorFur list; if you change or delete your TorFur entry, you must notify me separately. Also, it’s my policy never to add people to the UBL unless they ask to be added, changed or removed themselves. Please don’t ask for somebody else. However, you can have a Character of Significance on the list, provided you own it. (Ask me.)
Nips & cuddles,
— Dee
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