The final Friday in April is National Arbor Day. However, on the first Friday in November, trees are given away at various sites throughout the nation. Hawaii will provide 6700 trees on November 7, a Saturday. Arbor Day is also celebrated around the world at different times of the year.
My previous posting indicated that we have identified Pearl's Yellow Tree, so it occurred to me that a strategy for The Pearl Foundation might be to donate a bunch of Tabebuia donnell-smithii by linking with the Arbor Day Foundation. You can access their web site and learn that for $10, they will mail you ten trees to plant as you wish, or have them plant 10 trees in various forests. Hmm, 100,000 yellow trees for $10,000. Certainly something worthy of exploration.
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The Dow Jones Industrials edged up 21 to 9886, reaching an intra-day high for the year, European markets all went up and those in the Orient dropped, save for Japan, which is today a holiday as National Sports Day. Yes, they celebrate the concept of sports. Gold went up $7/toz to $1056 and crude oil is at $73/barrel.
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Tropical Storm Parma is over Hainan and will be heading for Vietnam, Tropical Storm Patricia is angling for Baja, then will move west, and Tropical Storm Nepartak is moving away from Japan.
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| Explored and settled by the Spanish in the 16th century, Panama broke with Spain in 1821 and joined a union of Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela - named the Republic of Gran Colombia. When the latter dissolved in 1830, Panama remained part of Colombia. With US backing, Panama seceded from Colombia in 1903 and promptly signed a treaty with the US allowing for the construction of a canal and US sovereignty over a strip of land on either side of the structure (the Panama Canal Zone). The Panama Canal was built by the US Army Corps of Engineers between 1904 and 1914. In 1977, an agreement was signed for the complete transfer of the Canal from the US to Panama by the end of the century. Certain portions of the Zone and increasing responsibility over the Canal were turned over in the subsequent decades. With US help, dictator Manuel NORIEGA was deposed in 1989. The entire Panama Canal, the area supporting the Canal, and remaining US military bases were transferred to Panama by the end of 1999. In October 2006, Panamanians approved an ambitious plan to expand the Canal. The project, which began in 2007 and could double the Canal's capacity, is expected to be completed in 2014-15. |
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| Judy and John Collins, I think, still live on a boat docked at Panama City. They and their Navy friends at Pearl Harbor invented the Triathalon. |
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