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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Love sharks, wanted to go cage diving one year but the weather was too rough so the company had to call it off 
Ozzyman reviews also did a vid on sharks i see.
And best way to get revenge on humans for how they treat sharks is to play Maneater, such a good game and it is on steam now on special.
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Yeah, I really hate the bad rep that sharks get and really donât think itâs fair.
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Agreed, if i remember correctly i watched a documentary where they said that it is mostly the Movie âJawsâ fault for creating this image of a man eating force of vengeance, when that is simply not true, just like a lion or a cheetah, they are animals just acting on their instincts.
The sad part is no matter how manny documentaries or videos there are of people getting along with sharks, people still kill them left right and center.
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It is Thursday, 15 July 2021
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Today is: Gummy Worm Day
You know what the best bait for fishing for people with a sweet tooth is? If you guessed the gummy worm, youâre in the right place with the right sense of humor.
Gummy candies have been around a while, but nothing strikes our fancy like a rich chocolate brownie topped with green frosting and a gummy work sticking out of it. But honestly, weâre happy to have them right out of the bag. Gummy Worm Day celebrates these stretchy, stringy, gummy, delicious treats.
If you have never had a gummi worm before, you are seriously missing out! On Gummi Worm Day, we celebrate these little red and green delights, which come in a wide range of flavors today, including sweet and sour.
Gummi Worms are one of the best-selling candies of all time, and we can certainly see why! On Gummi Worm Day, you can eat as many Gummi Worms as you want! We wonât tell if you donât! After all, we love any day that allows us to snack on our favorite treats.
Before we can talk about Gummi Worms, we have to talk about Gummi Bears. Gummi Bears were the original Gummi candy created by the Haribo company in 1920. These delicious ursine candies came in a broad variety of fruit flavors and were intended for both adults and children to enjoy.
The secret to these little candies gumminess is from a careful mixture of special ingredients, the most important being the gelatin that helps to give the candy its form, and the sugar and citric acid that gives it its flavor.
From these initial gummi candies, many other types and shapes came into existence, but none of them could take the crown from the popular gummi bear. It wasnât until Trolli created the gummi worm that this changed. Gummi worms were fun to eat, they could easily be used to create creative desserts, and were even more fun (in our opinion) to eat than gummi bears!
Gummi Worm Day was organized to celebrate the fellow confectionary monarch to the gummi bear, and the amazing Trolli company that brought it into existence. Gummi worms comes in even more flavors and varieties than the original gummi bear, including all the basic flavors, sweet and sour flavors, and our personal favorite, the sour gummi worm.
While it may be tempting to keep all of the Gummi Worms for yourself, Gummi Worm Day gives us a good opportunity to put a smile on someoneâs face by treating them to a bag of Gummi Worms. Why not bring some Gummi Worms to work and share them with your co-workers?
If you are really feeling adventurous, you could try your hand at creating this sweet treat yourself. If you take a look online, you will see that there are a lot of different recipes for Gummi Worms. Do you think that you could produce something better than the current version? You will need sugar, corn syrup, and cold water. You are also going to need unflavored gelatin. The different juices and food colouring you use will depend on the flavor you want your Gummi Worms to have.
Get gummy with it, and have an awesome Thursday!
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Iâve been researching making gummy candies. I canât seem to find corn or glucose syrup anywhere thoughâŚ
Iâm also struggling to find moulds.
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It is Friday, 16 July 2021
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Today is: Guinea Pig Appreciation Day
As far as small fuzzies go, the Guinea Pig is certainly one of the worldâs favourites. Having been domesticated in South America for thousands of years, theyâre one of the longest-serving companions to humans and today are the pet of choice for many children and adults alike. With their soft squishy bodies, cute little ears and their easy-going demeanor, if youâre looking for a cuddly companion you canât go far wrong.
To keep the love of guinea pigs alive, Guinea Pig Appreciation Day celebrates everything that we love about these cutesy critters and celebrates just what it is that makes them great pets.
We first started domesticating the humble guinea pig as far back as 5000BC, when they were usually kept as livestock. In Europe, they became known as exotic pets when traders brought them to the UK in the 1500s, with even royalty being keen to keep them.
Throughout the years, we have bred many different breeds of guinea pigs â from breeds with long lush coats that need trimming frequently, to piggies with no hair at all!
No matter the breed, one thing they all have in common is their love of veggies â guinea pigs thrive off leafy veg and fruit, and since they are generally healthy animals they donât usually need a large amount of veterinary care. Because their teeth grow continuously, however, they need hay in their diet so that they keep their chompers worn down.
Guinea pigs are very social animals, and any piggie parent will tell you that they should always be kept in pairs or groups.
Piggies need quite a lot of space in their cage â a minimum of 8 square feet of floor space â so bear that in mind if you pop along to buy a cage. Itâs not uncommon to find cages in pet shops being sold for guinea pigs which are actually far too small, so be careful to choose the right one.
Same sex pairs must be kept together, or if you want a boy and a girl they must be spayed or neutered. Guinea pigs donât wait very long into their lives before they start mating, and are ready to reproduce from as young as 4 weeks old!
And remember, if you do decide to buy or adopt a guinea pig, they will need your love and care for a few years â these hardy creatures live on average between 5 and 8 years. The oldest piggie on record, named Snowball, died in 1979 at the grand old age of 15!
Itâs Friday! Letâs do the thing where we really like Fridays again. Those were fun days. (Even so, thereâs still much kak out there, and a frikken irritating pandemic - stay safe.)
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This is so important. Same goes for all small animals. Look up minimum floorspace online, and then go bigger. Pet shops donât keep up with this stuff. Also, donât buy that âfluffâ bedding, or use pine shavings, as it can cause a whole list of problems.
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It is Saturday, 17 July 2021
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Today is: World Emoji Day
Emojiâs have been used since the beginning of the internet to transmit emotion in the written medium. As internet technology advanced, so did the use of the emoji, with previously pure text bits of ascii art turning into full-fledged animated faces and symbols. Weâve all used them, and weâre excited for the future of them!
World Emoji day celebrates the history of these emotional expressions, and encourages you to be exceptionally emotive! After all, itâs always nice to let someone know how youâre feeling when you write, isnât it? Emojiâs are just one more way!
Emoji day was put together as a celebration of the emoji, a textual expression of emotion that came about in the old days of Japanese mobile phones. From there, these pictographic displays of emotion exploded into worldwide use. The word âEmojiâ is derived from the Japanese words e (for picture) and moji (for character), apparently the seeming connection to the words emotion and emoticon are purely incidental!
Companies like NTT DoCoMo, au, and Vodafone first created the graphical characters (though Vodafone was Softbank Mobile at the time).
Eventually, in 2000, a library of over 1000 smiley graphics were released into the world, and ever since then it has been continuously enhanced. Now emojiâs can be found on every imaginable device, and in an ever growing list of styles themes, and characters. Expressing yourself has never been easier!
The date of Emoji Day honors the date shown on the iOS Calendar Emoji, it even has an anthem! (Check it out on YouTube, itâs actually pretty catchy!)
Modern emojis are a lot more technologically advanced and are even animated and personalized, but theyâre still an amazing way of sharing how you feel and making people laugh.
So who is the emoji master amongst your family and friends! Spend 
using as many 
as you can, and see who responds in kind. Have a great, safe Saturday.
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