7 Aug

 

 

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

7 Aug history video

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

Birthplace Paris, IL

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That’s All for Now