Saturday

Celebrate: National Cinnamon Crescent, Encourage a Young Writer, Farm Animals, and Siblings Day.

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April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month, and a distracted driving enforcement and education campaign is running through Monday. It's called "U Drive. U Text. U Pay." 

New York State Police and local law enforcement agencies are participating by stepping up patrols and working to create awareness surrounding the dangers of distracted driving.

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To Bodly Go Where we haven't since 2016. Paramount announced that they’ve got an untitled Star Trek on the books for June 9, 2023. Of course, release dates are highly subject to change, and it’s now standard operating procedures for studios to claim weekends before they even have a script. The truth is that we don’t know anything about this new Trek. We don’t know if it’s a continuation of the Kelvin timeline started with Star Trek 2009 or if it’s a fresh reboot, but io9 reports that it's being produced by Abrams.

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Sources tell Deadline that Phoebe Waller-Bridge is set to co-star opposite Ford in the fifth installment of the Indian Jones franchise.

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Rusty nut, bolt or screw that won’t budge? Pour some cola on it and dry it off. May take a few times but the rust will come off completely. (great...maybe you shouldn't drink it)

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Five years after Prince died, his estate is prepping a new album of “lost” music to be released this summer. The album, recorded in 2010 and titled Welcome 2 America, will drop on streaming service July 30. The title track was just released. Give it a listen. 

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Colorado State University released its 2021 Atlantic hurricane season forecast and is calling for 17 named storms, 8 hurricanes and 4 major hurricanes (Category 3 or higher). Each of these numbers is above the typical season average of 12 named storms, 6 hurricanes, and 3 major hurricanes.

Before 2021, if the hurricane season used up all the names on the predetermined alphabetical list, the next plan of action was to use the Greek alphabet.

"The Greek alphabet will not be used in the future because it creates a distraction from the communication of hazard and storm warnings and is potentially confusing," the WMO announced in March.

It was decided that a separate list of names would be used as a backup.

The Greek alphabet will be replaced by a supplemental list of names using the same rules as the main Atlantic hurricane season naming list -- a list of names A-Z, but excluding the letters Q, U, X, Y, and Z -- for if and when the initial list of names has been exhausted.

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