7 Aug
Weather
Expectations
Week 32
Day
219 Flag Today 84°/61°
Wind 3 mph
Gusts 6 mph
Risk of fire: Moderate e Active Fire: 72 miles away
Nearest Lightning: 29 miles
away Humidity: 32%
Air Quality: Moderate Sunshine Partly Cloudy
July Averages: Temps: 82°\51° 9
days with rain
Today’s Observances:
Braham Pie Day or Homemade Pie Day
International Beer Day Link
Lighthouse Day Link
National Water Balloon Day
Particularly Preposterous Packaging Day Link
Professional Speakers Day
Purple Heart Day
Tomboy Tools Day
Twins Day-9 Link
U.S. Postal Inspection Service Day
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 Li`nk
National
Bargain Hunting Week: 3-9
National Hobo Week: 6-9
Tall Timber Days: 7-9
Twins Days: 7-9 (Sturgis Rally: 7-16 Link
Fresh Quotation:
Today’s Reflection:
A nice warm summer day.
Yesterday there was unexpected lightning and thunder for orver an
hour, then a nice gentle 45-minute rain.
Nice!
I had lunch with Andy and Faith at our favorite Mexican place. Good
food and great conversation. We are all surprised that Tuba Boarding was
finishing up its first week of instruction. Also surprising is that they still
do have a permanent Principal. Not a great look. While I was detailed over many
times over the year, an unwritten directive was to finish out the school year
and hire a new principal during the summer break.
The belief was that there would be better candidates and they would have a
couple of weeks to set up their agenda for the upcoming school year. It worked
just fine.
Historical events
Cool to know:
M&M stands for Mars and Murrie.
Forrest Mars (son of the Mars Company founder) first spotted
the British confection Smarties during the Spanish Civil War and noticed the
candy shell prevented the chocolate from melting. He teamed up with Bruce Murrie (son
of Hershey Chocolate's president) and the company later trademarked the
"Melts in Your Mouth, Not in Your Hand" slogan.
Today in
Science:
Two genetic changes in
the genomes of Neanderthals contributed to the extinct hominin’s characteristic
robust physique — and the differences persist in modern humans. The variants
make carriers taller and more muscular than non-carriers, according to a study1 published in Current
Biology.
Neanderthals, who lived
across Europe and western Asia from about 300,000 years ago to around 40,000
years ago, interbred
with Homo sapiens before going extinct. Previous studies
have shown that modern humans with ancestors from outside Africa inherited
roughly 1–4% of their DNA from Neanderthals2.
Fossil evidence shows
that Neanderthals had
broader chests3, thicker bones4 and larger muscles than
most modern humans do. The latest study provides a plausible molecular pathway
that contributed to the Neanderthals’ robust traits, says Bastien Llamas, a
human geneticist at Adelaide University in Australia.
Picture of the Day:
Commended entry from the “Urban” category – 2021
Drone Photo Awards
Title: City In the Sky Description:
“A foggy morning in
downtown Dubai. Very rare conditions, caused by the cold nights and warm
mornings, create the perfect scene for an aerial photo. The iconic buildings of
Dubai emerging out of the low clouds creating an impression that the city is
floating in the sky.” Hugo Healy
Harper’s Index from Funny Times:
Aaverage amount that a US worker has saved for retirement:
$935
Percentage of Americans aged 30-47 who have apent
aome of their retirement savings in the past months”: 37
Today’s Birthdays:
Charlize Theron Movie
Actress 51 years old
Birthplace Benoni, South Africa
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David Duchovny TV Actor 66
years old
Birthplace New York City, NY
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Carl Switzer TV Actor Alfalfa
on the original Our Gang [1927-1959] @31 shot
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