The Daily Drift
Today's horoscope says:This is one of those times that absolutely everyone wishes for -- especially since it's happening at a good in-between point.
You're endowed with all the right energy to have a warm, sweet, romantic adventure with the one you love. And whether you choose to take off to somewhere wild or just turn your living room into a love den doesn't matter.
You should truly enjoy each other's company.
Some of our readers today have been in:
Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Rapperswil, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
Copenhagen, Kobenhavn, Denmark
Leer, Niedersachsen, Germany
Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
London, England, United Kingdom
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
New Delhi, Delhi, India
Port-Au-Prince, Oest, Haiti
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Piove De Sacco, Veneto, Italy
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
as well as the United States in such cities such as Deerfield, San Diego, Beaumont, Vidalia, Severna Park, Natchitoches and more
Today is Tuesday, April 20, the 110th day of 2010.
There are 255 days left in the year.
There are no unusual holidays or celebrations today
In and around North Carolina's Green Swamp, poachers uproot them from protected areas as well as private lands, where they can be harvested only with an owner's permission. The plants have such shallow roots that some poachers dig them up with butcher knives or spoons, often while wearing camouflage and kneepads (the plants grow in such convenient clumps that flytrappers, as they're called, barely have to move). Each pilfered plant sells for about 25 cents. The thieves usually live nearby, though occasionally there's an international connection: customs agents at Baltimore-Washington International Airport once intercepted a suitcase containing 9,000 poached flytraps bound for the Netherlands, where they presumably would have been propagated or sold. The smuggler, a Dutchman, carried paperwork claiming the plants were Christmas ferns... There have been some victories: last winter, the Nature Conservancy replanted hundreds of confiscated flytraps in North Carolina's Green Swamp Preserve, and the state typically nabs about a dozen flytrappers per year. ("It's one of the most satisfying cases you can make," says Matthew Long of the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, who keeps a sharp eye out for hikers with dirty hands.) Gadd and others are pushing for stronger statewide protections that would require collection and propagation permits. Though North Carolina has designated the flytrap as a "species of special concern," the plant doesn't enjoy the federal protections given to species classified as threatened or endangered...
Looks like porn is still a big hit for CNBC.
