3 Aug
Weather
Expectations
Week 32
Day
215 Flag Today 88°/64°
Wind 12 mph
Gusts 18 mph
Risk of fire: Extreme Active Fire: 645 miles away
Nearest Lightning: 435 miles
away Humidity: 23%
Air Quality: Fair Sunshine Partly Cloudy Breezy
July Averages: Temps: 82°\51° 9
days with rain
Today’s Observances:
National
Hair Gloss Day Link
Picnic Day Link
Watermelon Day Link
Weekly Observances:
International
Clown Week: 1-7 Link
National Cleanse Your Skin Week: 1-7 Link
National Minority Donor Awareness Week: 1-7
Simplify Your Life Week: 1-7
World Breastfeeding Week: 1-7 Link
International Lace Week: 2-7 Link
International
Psychic Week: 2-8 Link
National Exercise With Your Child Week: 2-8 Link
Single Working Women's Week: 2-8
Knights of Columbus Family Week: 2-8
National Farmers' Market
Week: 2-8 Link
National
Health Center Week: 2-8 Link
International
Assistance Dog Week: 2-8 Link
Stop on Red Week: 2-8 Link
Old Fiddler Days: 3-8 Link
National
Bargain Hunting Week: 3-9
Monthly Observances:
National
Cheerleading Safety Month Link
National Cowgirl Month Link
National Crayon Collection Month Link
National Dog Month Link
National Goat Cheese Month Link
National Immunization Awareness Month Link Link
National Panini Month Link
National Political Affiliation Discrimination Awareness Month Link
National Minority Donor Awareness
Month
National Read A Romance Novel Month
Fresh Quotation:
Today’s Reflection:
A very pleasant day.
I ordered some pants on the internet. When they arrived, they were
about 1” too long. Today I took time to shorten them. I used an iron-on strip
that easily shortened them the inch I needed. Happy camper.
I remember my dad had easily bruised arms, now I have that condition.
Turns out so does my brother. On social media there was an ad for Helichrysum
balm. The video showed applying the balm and within seconds the bruise was
gone. I was savvy enough to realize it would never happen that fast. I ordered
a trial jar. I’ve been using it for a couple of days. The bruises are slowly
disappearing. I’m happy with it. Faster would be nicer but this is working
fine.
As a retired educator I still follow education trends. Today I
learned that Mississippi 3rd graders have a better reading score
than Massachusetts 3rd graders. This is very unusual. Usually
Mississippi in near the bottom and Massachusetts is near the top. Glad to see
that Mississippi is doing such a good job in the area of reading.
Historical events
Cool to know:
The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland.
Yes, although it's a fabled creature, the national animal of Scotland is actually
the mythical unicorn — chosen because of its association with dominance and
chivalry as well as purity and innocence in Celtic mythology. BRB, moving to
Scotland real quick.
Today in
Science:
Modern cephalopods are
unique among molluscs in ancestrally possessing a chambered, gas- and
fluid-filled shell, the internal septa of which are penetrated by a siphuncle.
Combined with jet propulsion, the siphuncle enables cephalopods to engage in a
nektonic and mostly predatory lifestyle through long-term regulation of their
bouyancy1. The origin of this key innovation remains unknown, as major gaps
exist between the earliest accepted cephalopod, Plectronoceras cambria2 from
the late Cambrian era, and molecular clock estimates placing the divergence of
the lineage from other molluscs in the early Cambrian3,4. Here we report
Eoceras shaanxiense gen. et sp. nov., a millimetre-sized cephalopod with an
orthoconic shell from the Shuijingtuo Formation (Cambrian Stage 3) of South
China. Internally, the shell exhibits multiple septa along with a peripherally
situated segmented tube that appears to bridge the septa through minute canals,
indicating that the soft body migrated aperturally to form successive chambers
during growth while maintaining contact with earlier chambers via the tube.
Collectively, these features identify the segmented tube in E. shaanxiense gen.
et sp. nov. as a candidate primordial cephalopod siphuncle, thus extending the
known range of stem cephalopods back to the early Cambrian and revealing the
early stages in the evolutionary assembly of a chambered phragmocone employed
in buoyancy regulation.
Picture of the Day:
Commended entry from the
“People” category – 2021 Drone Photo Awards
Title: Harvesting grass
Description: “The women are harvesting grass, a type of grass that grows
naturally in lowland areas. This grass is found throughout Vietnam, in some
low-lying areas in Central and Southern Vietnam. Grass can be used as fodder,
fertilizer or as a material to keep plants moist. Under the wind and sunlight,
the grasslands are like waves and bring out the conical hats of the women, a
wonderful harmony between man and nature.” Khanh Phan
Tricky US
Trivia:
Question: Why
was the U.S. Secret Service officially formed in July 1865?
Answer: To stamp out rampant counterfeiting after the Civil War
Today’s Birthdays:
Tom Brady Football
Player 49 years old
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James Hetfield Metal Singerf
[Metalica] 63 years old
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Martha Stewart Entrepreneur
85 years old
Birthplace Jersey City, NJ
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Lisa Ann Walter Movie
Actress [Abbott Elementary] 63 years old
Birthplace Silver Spring, MD
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Stephen Graham Movie Actor
[HBO’s Boardwalk Empire] 53 years old
Birthplace England
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Martin Sheen Movie Actor
86 years old
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Isaiah Washington TV Actor 63
years old
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Tony Bennett Pop Singer
[1926-2023] @96
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That’s
All for Now
