Waar is hulle?
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Daar is heelwat van hulle
kyk watter een is naaste aan julle. Hulle goodies is altyd heerlik en vars!
Baie van hulle goed koop mens in Woolies en dis baie cheaper by Nibbly
Hey, thereâs one just by our sonâs pre-school! Heâs in Curro Rosen Castle. COVID numbers permitting, heâll be back at school next week. So when we drop him off (or pick him up) weâll stop by and pick up some ânibbly bitsâ.
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Well worth it, its yummy! I see you can order online as well, for deliver within 5 days
Good morning! 
It is Thursday, 08 July 2021
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Today is: 
Math 2.0 Day
Weâve had a number of days celebrating numbers already this year (Pi Day comes to mind). And there are a few more still to come (World Maths Day in October and Fibonacci Day in November, for example). But today is a celebration of the marriage of maths and technology, emphasizing the importance of mathematics in the fields of computer sciences and advancing technology. Hence the 2.0 bit.
Math 2.0 Day is a celebration of the blending of technology and mathematics. For many of us, maths wasnât a favourite subject. Weâd spend the entire period staring at the equations and wondering what sort of madman designed these torture chambers on paper.
Ultimately, however, we realized that maths is utterly indispensable in our modern world. If you ever wondered, in those hours in Maths class who uses maths in their day to day careers, just take a wander around some recent MEW work from home and my view at work posts - plenty of evidence of numbers in the work place all over the place here.
Programmers deal with mathematics every day, as itâs the framework upon which all computer operations are formed. Everything from the order of operations to quadratic equations is necessary to make even the simplest program.
Scientists are one of the biggest users of mathematics, whether theyâre calculating the statistical variance of their data or figuring out how much to add to their chemistry experiment, itâs involved at every step.
One presumes you live in a house, drive a car, or operate a computer? The engineers responsible for designing those things so that they work, and especially in the case of the house, use maths to ensure it doesnât come crumbling down on your head. Math 2.0 day celebrates all these modern mathematical heroes and more.
Mathematics is one of the most important fields in the world today, and just about everything we know and love is built on its back. If youâre one of those that still balks at the thought of using maths for a living, stop by those people who use it every day and thank them for doing the work so you donât have to.
And if you are one of those numbers nerds using maths in your daily grind to make the world a better place, thank you for your service!
Have a mathematically sound Thursday friends! 
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It is Friday, 09 July 2021
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Today is: Sugar Cookie Day
As Harold took a bite of Bavarian Sugar cookie, he finally felt as if everything was going to be okay. Sometimes, when we lose ourselves in fear and despair, in routine and constancy, in hopelessness and tragedy⌠there are Bavarian Sugar Cookies.
Zach Helm Stranger Than Fiction
After a bit of a drought, weâve been having a run of food related days this week for which I make no apology. Iâm on diet again, and eating vicariously through these posts.
Sugar cookies are far and away one of the simplest and most delicious cookies to ever be created. They are the hallmark of Christmas, with Santa ostensibly wolfing down tons of them every year in a deluge of milk. They are made to celebrate every occasion and are sold as part of charity drives everywhere. Sugar Cookie Day celebrates this delicious little treat.
Sugar Cookie Day was created to honor the tasty sugar cookie. This is a holiday favorite, and it is very easy to make, which is always a major plus! Most sugar cookies are made with a mixture of sugar, vanilla, eggs, butter, flour, and either baking soda or baking powder. It is an easy recipe to follow, which means that anyone can give it a try, and itâs a good recipe to try if youâve got children as well.
Fun facts about sugar cookies
- In 2015, Pillsbury was given the world record for the most biscuits/cookies ice within 60 minutes. They enlisted the help of shoppers at the Mall of America, resulting in 1,169 sugar cookies being decorated.
- You can create fluffier cookies by using a technique that is known as creaming. When butter and sugar are creamed correctly, you can add air to the cookie dough. This will lighten it and give you more to work with.
- The first sugar cookies were not known by the name we call them today. There were many different entertaining terms that were used to describe the sweet treats before they became known as sugar cookies.
Sugar Cookie Day finds its origins in the roots of the sugar cookie, which in its turn can be traced back to the 1700s among the Nazareneâs of Pennsylvania. Among those pastoral people, the German Protestants, a simple creation was made that was proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. Benjamin Franklin claimed this was beer, but we contest that and say it was clearly the sugar cookie. In those days it was specifically known as the Nazareth Sugar Cookie, as it was the only recipe of its kind.
But like all recipes, it comes from an earlier source known as the âjumbleâ, a biscuit that was equally popular and had an unusual trait. This biscuit was unleavened and thus could be stored for many months after it was dried.
As time went on Pennsylvania adopted the Nazarene Sugar Cookie as the official cookie of the Commonwealth, not just as a resolution, but as a full House Bill. House Bill 1892 to be precise. Since its creation, the sugar cookie has been served in the name of every celebration that comes across the table.
If you have children, sugar cookie making, baking, and decorating is great fun. You can purchase some cookie cutters so that you can create the sugar cookies in lots of different and exciting shapes. You can then decorate the cookies with different colored icing and sprinkles. This is a great way to spend some special time with your children and to have a lot of fun together.
Hereâs You Suck at Cooking to show us how easy it is to make Sugar Cookies:
If that doesnât work for you, pick any one of the many online recipes for your sugar cookies, and get your bake on! Your family will thank you.
Make it a most delicious day! Happy Friday!
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I guess fudge will have to do, it also has sugar in it.
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Some of those sugar cookie pics look great! So fluffy!
My momâs recipe was more like YSACâs, and donât tell her this, but they never really appealed to me. They tasted as flat as they looked. Maybe she wasnât creaming properly 
Also, bonus points for linking YSAC!
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It is Saturday, 10 July 2021
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Today is: Teddy Bear Picnic Day 
Itâs a wonderful day for a (socially distant) stroll in the woods (your garden)! Grab a favourite stuffed toy, a basket full of goodies, and set off for Teddy Bearsâ Picnic Day!
When it comes to interesting reasons to celebrate, this is certainly one of the most unique days! This day was created based on the popular song of the same name, âThe Teddy Bearsâ Picnicâ. The song is a classic one, written to the tune of a song composed in 1907 by American John W. Bratton. The lyrics were added later, in 1930, by Jimmy Kennedy, a British songwriter.
Since the song became so popular, the day has evolved and is now celebrated by families in countries all over the world, enjoying the simple pleasure of a picnic with their favorite stuffed beings.
You know the song. We all know the song. You started singing the song has soon as you read the title of todayâs post.
If you go down in the woods today
Youâre sure of a big surprise
If you go down in the woods today
*Youâd better go in disguise! *
For every bear that ever there was will gather there for certain
Because todayâs the day the Teddy Bears have their picnic!
The celebration around this day hardly has any rules at all. Itâs simply meant to be a day for families to enjoy each other, their stuffed animals and, if possible, a picnic! Try these ideas for celebrating Teddy Bear Picnic Day:
Host a Teddy Bear Picnic
Why not arrange an outing with friends and family, and to enjoy the summer sun, fun and games, and creativity with some favourite toys? If the weather holds, then plan to have a picnic outside. If it doesnât? No problem! Just have an indoor picnic by spreading a brightly colored tablecloth on the floor and laying out a yummy spread of foods. Donât forget to include teddy bears and other fluffy animal friends!
Listen to the Teddy Bearsâ Picnic Song
Many different popular artists over the years have recorded versions of this song that have been enjoyed by children and adults alike.
- Henry Hall (1932). The first known recording of the song just after the lyrics were written. It was recorded by the BBC and was of particularly high quality.
- Bing Crosby (1950). One of the most famous crooners of his time (and beyond), Crosby recorded this classic song a few years before his popular film White Christmas was released.
- Anne Murray (1977). This popular recording by the Canadian singer, songwriter has been beloved by millions of children and adults over the years.
Learn the History of Teddy Bears
Those who donât know the history of this adorable toy may be surprised to find that Teddy Bears have a decidedly political story behind them.
The story goes that the name came from a political cartoon about game-hunting US President Theodore Roosevelt. During a hunting trip in 1902, the president refused to shoot a bear that someone had tied to a tree, saying that shooting it would be unsportsmanlike. So the story went around about âTeddyâs Bearâ.
From there, a shop owner decided to make and sell bears with the name Teddy Bear, which caught on and has now become part of American culture and tradition. A few years later the song, The Teddy Bearsâ Picnic, was written and the day developed into a fun celebration for all!
Hereâs a blast from the past of South African entertainment: Carike Keuzenkamp rocking that song:
Go down to the woods! Go in disguise! Because todayâs the day the teddy bears have their picnic!
(Has it ear wormed itâs way in yet? It has, hasnât it? )
You may banish the words from your brain, but I bet you canât get the melody out of your head:
One last one just in case. (This one especially for @Entity âDoof Doofâ to share with KK!)
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I have never heard of this. Guess weâll have to have a teddy bear picnic 
Thanks for the share, KK loves his bearsâŚ
His bday is actually going to be bear themed. Iâll be sure to play him the songs. That hardstyle one is actually quite good
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Now I want to paint him a Teddy bear onesie! Send details now
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Canât believe itâs almost his 1st birthday - itâs flown past.
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It is Sunday, 11 July 2021
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Today is: World Population Day
Every year the world continues to get more and more crowded. While weâve a tendency to pack ourselves into massive cities, and there are presently still long open stretches of countryside, every year that gets whittled away at more and more.
The power and food needs of the world continue to place a greater and greater strain on our ability to meet them, and resources in general are becoming harder and harder to come by.
World Population Day comes along each year to remind us that our present rate of population growth is unsustainable, and the present social and logistical issues we are experiencing to meet the demand of that population will only get worse if we donât do something.
World Population Day was inspired by the public interest in Five Billion Day on 11 July 1987, the approximate date on which the worldâs population reached five billion people.
World Population Day was established by the United Nations Development Programme. The reason for its creation was to increase awareness regarding global population issues. The purpose of the day is to increase the awareness that people have about a number of different population issues, including the importance of human rights, maternal health, poverty, gender equality, and family planning.
In order to understand why World Population Day is so important, you need to understand what human overpopulation is and why it is a vital issue. Human overpopulation is when there are too many people for the environment to sustain with breathable air, drinkable water, food, and so on.
There are a number of different reasons why overpopulation can occur. Of course, the most obvious is an increase in the number of births. However, there are also other reasons as well, including depletion of resources, an increase in immigration, and a decline in mortality rates.
Those who advocate moderating the population cite a number of different potential problems in order to argue for population decline. This includes the risk of mass starvation, impact on the quality of life, imminent or potential ecological collapse, global warming, and exceeding the carrying capacity of the Earth.
Have a wonderful Sunday.
Know More:
WorldoMeterâs live global population counter, link to the entire population on a single chart page (itâs a very long scroll!) and a host of population stats and charts:
The World Counts also has a live population counter and a number of additional stats. It also focuses on the ecological impact of our population growth on the planet. We currently need 1.788 Earths to provide sufficient resources and absorb our waste.
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It is Monday, 12 July 2021
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Today is: Simplicity Day
Simplicity Day is observed every year on July 12 to honour the life, work and philosophies of poet, author and leading transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. Born on 12 July 1817, Thoreau was an advocate of living a simple life and wrote a number of books around the subject.
His most popular book Walden is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings.
With our world surrounded with mobile phones, laptops and other modern day gadgets, the Simplicity Day holds a lot of significance in todayâs day and age. As we rarely get time to experience true peace in our fast-paced lives, this day gives a chance to shun the gadgets for a day and enjoy the feeling of truly being in the moment.
We live in a complicated world, with taxes and devices and every imaginable complication the world can provide. Wouldnât it be nice if we could just take some time to keep things simple? To whittle life down to the bare essentials and hold onto it like the precious thing it is? Simplicity Day encourages you to do just that, to let go of all of lifeâs complications and live a day simply.
Simplicity Day was born out of a need to be free from the complications of the world and to allow ourselves to just be simple. Celebrate life through simplicity by turning off your devices, getting rid of complicated things and just let life be about living for a day.
One of the great conundrums of the modern world is that the more opportunities and options you have the less happy youâre going to be. Some of the happiest people in the world have been determined to be those who live in uncivilized areas concerning themselves only with what theyâre going to eat that day and where a good place to sleep is.
Step away from the computer, and find a sunny nook with a cup of tea and a book to pass the time. If the weather is clear, stroll outside and feel the sun on your skin and listen to the sounds of birds and insects. These moments will be the ones that can truly set you free. During these moments take the time to relax and consider how you want to proceed in your life. What can you cut out that buries you under complications that bring no benefits? Are there people or things you can remove that will make your life a little simpler and a little happier?
We can all benefit from just cutting out the things that make our lives difficult. Simplicity Day is about getting rid of these complications and culling from your life what doesnât bring you joy.
Have a simplified start to another week of pandemic provided lockdown. Stay safe. Get vaxxed when you can!
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From a gaming point of view I think this is why I often find the 1st area or zone of a game more fun than the larger (more filled with activities) area afterwards.
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This is so true⌠I kinda lost interest in HZD when I finished up with the prologue and started the actual game. Or maybe itâs because I jumped straight into a challenge that requires great aim with an analogue stick, which just isnât meâŚ
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It is Tuesday, 13 July 2021
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Today is: Embrace Your Geekness Day
Pokemon fans to Final Fantasy nerds, LARPâers to Medieval Reenactors, rise up and be proud! Don your Lyre Pipe hats and your rattan swords, polish up your gunblades and bundle up your pokeballs, Embrace Your Geekness Day is for you! No matter what your fandom or what impassions you to creativity and brings a skip to your step, cry it loud and proud!
The geek and fan community is truly one of the most amazing and creative groups out there, and every year more geeks are shouting out their fandoms loud and proud.
Geek was originally an early 20th-century term for a carnival worker who was so unskilled that the only thing the worker could do at the carnival to entice an audience was to bite off the heads of live animals. Essentially, a geek was a socially undesirable person who lacked any skill or ability.
Thankfully, weâve moved from those days and being a geek no longer requires any animal head biting. In todayâs world it just means one thing: A geek is completely obsessed with one or more subjects, and can speak fluently on it for hours, sounding like a walking encyclopedia of geeky facts.
Wellcat Holidays organized the holiday stating that we all should be proud of the things that define us, and little defines us as much as those things weâre passionate about. âDungeon games, comic books, vampire dress-upâ we should have no shame about anything weâre into. In fact, you should shout it loud and proud.
Geekdom brings people together, whether theyâre sharing their love of a mutual fandom, or talking about their individual fandoms to inspire others to check it out, they love community. Some of the most amazing costuming and tech gadgets have been put together by people inspired by the shows, stories, and games that they love. Thatâs the power of being in touch with your imagination, and thatâs what Embrace Your Geekness Day is all about.
If you have a fandom youâve been hiding in a closet, donât let it sit there unloved anymore. Get out into the world and wear your favorite shows t-shirt, talk to your friends about the stuff you love, maybe even try an arts project. Embrace Your Geekness Day reminds us that weâre not alone in our Geekness, and the world is a better place for our bright showing of imagination, creativity, and pride. Now get out there and get your geek on!
The geeks shall inherit the earth! Stay safe folks.
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Ok, my balls are poke-ing out while I bite the head off a monkey.
Am I doing this right?
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It is Wednesday, 14 July 2021
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Today is: Shark Awareness Day, my Dudes 
Contrary to what you might expect, the purpose of Shark Awareness Day is not to stand on the beach and shout out warnings to terrified swimmers and surfers! Donât be the boy that cried âShark!â.
Like top predators in any ecosystem, sharks play an essential role in keeping the seas healthy and productive, and yet various threats make these ocean oligarchs a persecuted and vulnerable species. While no one is suggesting we go out and hug a great white on Shark Awareness Day, itâs the least we can do to respect these wonderful creatures and help protect them.
From the mako to the basking, from the great white to the hammerhead, from the nurse to the tiger, sharks roam our oceans (and in a couple of cases our freshwater rivers) the world over. These toothy fish, which are closely related to rays, live for around 30 years on average, but some species make it to over 100, with one Greenland shark discovered to be at least 272!
Their most distinctive feature is of course their razor-sharp teeth â sharks can have as many as seven rows of gnashers and go through up to 30,000 of them in their lifetimes. Another key weapon in their hunting arsenal is their electrical sensitivity, able to pick up on electromagnetic fields better than any other animal. This allows them to seek out their prey, even if hiding or camouflaged.
With so many species found all over the globe, itâs no wonder that these water-dwellers also possess a few weird and wonderful quirks! Did you know, for example, that bamboo sharks canât actually swim (instead they push themselves along the sand with their fins) or that frilled sharksâ pregnancies last a lengthy 3.5 years? Did you know that hammerheads have a 360-degree vision or that female sharks will occasionally reproduce via parthenogenesis (essentially a type of cloning)?
Sharks are one of the oldest species on the planet, with fossil records showing they were cruising our oceans at least 420 million years ago. Modern-day sharks have been around for about 100 million years â even thatâs back when the dinosaurs existed!
Nowadays there are over 500 species of shark, ranging from the tiny dwarf lantern shark, able to fit into the palm of your hand, to the gigantic whale shark, which can clock in at up to 10m. However, this is nothing compared to the megalodon, a now extinct relation of the modern-day great white, which may have reached sizes of a whopping 20m!
Some cultures, such as Hawaiian and Pacific Island cultures, have long revered and respected these impressive hunters and predators, with various legendary tales and mythologies. Unfortunately, however, cultural depictions of these creatures have by and large been a significant contributing factor to the fear and stigma surrounding them. Youâre hard-pressed to find a shark film that doesnât portray these animals in at least a partially negative light, and the majority of Hollywood blockbusters, from Jaws and Deep Blue Sea to The Shallows and 47 Meters Down, have perpetuated the idea of sharks as bloodthirsty, vengeful monsters.
Those familiar with sharks will know that this unfair reputation is far from the truth, and the sad fact remains that these magnificent creatures are threatened far more by us humans than we are by them. In fact, while there are around 10 fatal shark attacks a year (for context, cows kill 20 people a year, ants kill 50 and falling coconuts kill 150!), the various dangers they face all combine to mean an estimated 100 million sharks are killed by humans each year.
These include overfishing and bycatch (through which their food source is depleted and theyâre often killed as collateral damage in the fishing process), pollution, the worldwide demand for commodities such as shark-fin soup and shark-tooth medallions, and an inflated sense of threat at beaches and other coastal regions where sharks are known to swim the waters, leading to excessive culls.
As a result of these activities, experts believe that over the past 50 years shark numbers have declined by more than 70%, a devastating loss to the biodiversity of our oceans. And thatâs why Shark Awareness Day is so important, helping to preserve these vital fish now and well into the future.
Shark Awareness Day aims to both dispel the fear, stigma, and misinformation surrounding sharks and also raise awareness of this creatureâs plight, inspiring people all over the world to take action in their defense.
Mind how you go today folks. Stay safe. And watch out for the sharks on dry land - theyâre bigger predators than the ones in the water!
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