Aug 1

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Aug 1, 2017 Week: 31 \ Day: 213

86004 Today: H 82° \ L 59°

Average Sky Cover: 65% 

Wind ave:   6mph\Gusts:  18mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

Aug Records: H: 93° (1902) L: 24(1968)

Record High: 92°[1977]   Record Low: 42°[1915]

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Quote of the Day

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Mark Twain

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Observances Today

Girlfriend's Day

Lughnasa  Link

Mead Day Link

National Girlfriends Day

National Minority Donor Awareness Day

National Mountain Climbing Day

National Night Out Link  

National Raspberry Cream Pie Day

Respect For Parents

Rounds Resounding Day

Spider-Man Day 

Tisha B'Av

US Air Force Day Link

World Lung Cancer Day

World Wide Web Day

World Scout Scarf Day

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Observances This Week

1-7

International Clown Week Link

National Minority Donor Awareness Week

Simplify Your Life Week Link

World Breastfeeding Week Link

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

★  Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1700’s

1789 US Customs begins enforcing Tariff Act

★1793 France becomes 1st country to use the metric system

1794 Whiskey Rebellion begins in western Pennsylvania

★1798 Battle of the Nile: British Royal Navy under Admiral Horatio Nelson attacks and decimates the French fleet at Aboukir Bay off the Nile Delta, Egypt

1800’s

★1831 London Bridge opens to traffic

1832 The Black Hawk War ends.

★1838 Apprenticeship system abolished in most of the British Empire. Former slaves no longer indentured to former owners.

1867 Blacks vote for 1st time in a US state election in the South (Tenn)

1869 1st voyage down Colorado River

1876 Colorado becomes 38th state of the Union

1900’s

1917 Frank Little, IWW organizer, lynched in Butte, MT

★1936 Adolf Hitler opens 11th Olympic Games in Berlin

1941 The first Jeep is produced.

1944 Adam Clayton Powell elected 1st African-American congressman from New York

1946 US President Harry Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)

★1950 Guam Organic Act establishes Guam as an unincorporated US territory

1953 California introduces sales tax (for education)

★1954 South African Natives Resettlement Act comes into being, empowers the Government to remove Africans from any area within and next to the magisterial district of Johannesburg

1957 1st commercial building heated by Sun (Albuquerque NM)

1960 Chubby Checker releases "The Twist"

★1968 Canada begins replacing silver with nickel in coins

1972 1st article exposing Watergate scandal (Bernstein-Woodward)

★1976 21st Olympic games close at Montreal Canada

1981 MTV premieres at 12:01 AM

★1987 In New Zealand, the Maori Language Act comes into force, making te reo Māori an official language of New Zealand; it can now be used in some legal proceedings.

★1988 Rush Limbaugh begins his national radio show.

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My Rambling Thoughts

Monday…still having monsoon…lots of rain in July, looks like only light showers today. NICE!

Cleaned up after having a visitor over the weekend. Laundry, changed sheets and towels, vacuumed, ready for the week now.

My mom always hung a flag on holidays. Today she would have had the CO flag flying on our front porch.

Turned on the news to find that the Mooch is out. Yeah, there is no chaos in the WH. Very confused. I’ve heard our president talk about the importance of securing the border and protecting all Americans. So, he takes the head of Homeland Security, the very office responsible for security, and moves him to the Chief of Staff at WH and doesn’t name anyone to replace him. Yeah, national security is very important, but not, I guess, as important as the WH offices. Sitting here dumbfounded.

More upsetting for me is that there were a number of reports over the weekend that the president’s supporters think he is doing a great job. Scary.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@93- Mother Jones (Mary Harris "Mother" Jones),

American labor organizer

(d. 1930)

70’s

@75- Dom DeLuise, 

American comedian (End, Cannonball Run, Fatso), born in Brooklyn, 

(d. 2009)

@72- Herman Melville,

author (Moby-Dick, Billy Budd),born in New York City

(d. 1891)

@71- Yves Saint-Laurent,

Oran Algeria, fashion designer (Opium, Obsession)

(d. 2008)

60’s

@68- William Clark,

American explorer, soldier, Indian agent and territorial governor who lead the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804-06 and claimed the Pacific Northwest for the United States, born in Ladysmith, Virginia

(d. 1838)

@63- Francis Scott Key,

American lawyer, poet and composer of the lyrics to "Star-Spangled Banner", born in Carroll County, Maryland

(d. 1843)

@61- Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov,

Russian Biologist who perfected the artificial insemination of animals and showed that his technology allowed one stallion to fertilize up to 500 mares

(d. 1932)

60- Bart Conner,

US, parallel bars gymnist (Olympic-gold-1984)

50’s

58- Joe Elliott,

lead singer (Def Leppard)

54- Coolio [Artis Leon Ivey Jr.],

American rapper (Gangsta's Paradise), born in Monessen Pennsylvania

@53- Jerry Garcia,

SF, rocker (Grateful Dead) (d. 1995)

40’s

44- Tempestt Bledsoe,

actress (Cosby Show)

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Historical Obits Today

70’s

@76-2009 Corazon Aquino,

11th President of the Philippines (1986-92),

colon cancer

@75-1866 John Ross (aka. Koo-wi-s-gu-wi),

Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation

60’s

@62-1983 Peter Arne,

actor (Straw Dogs),

bludgeoned to death

@61-1980 Strother Martin,

actor (Slapshot),

heart attack

50’s

@58-1981 Paddy Chayefsky,

screenwriter (Network, Hospital)

cancer

@53-30 BC Mark Antony,

Roman Politician and General,

commits suicide after he is defeated by Octavian at the Battle of Actium

@51-1903 Calamity Jane [Martha Jane Canary],

American frontierswoman,

pneumonia

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Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.

All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site contains mistakes and sadly once the information is out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.

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Jul 31

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July 31, 2017 Week: 31 \ Day: 212

86004 Today: H 71° \ L 57°

Average Sky Cover: 90% 

Wind ave:   1mph\Gusts:  --mph

Visibility: 10 mi

July Averages: 82°\50°

July Records: H: 97° (1973) L: 32 (1955)

Record High: 91°[1977]   Record Low: 43°[1997]

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Quote of the Day

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man

and his environment.

D. H. Lawrence

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Observances Today

Mutt's Day Link   

Uncommon Instruments Awareness Day Link  Link

World Ranger Day  Link

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Observances This Week

30-8/5

Single Working Women's Week

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

★  Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

700’s

★781 The oldest recorded eruption of Mt. Fuji (Traditional Japanese date: July 6, 781).

1700’s

★1703 Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet, but is pelted with flowers.

1790 1st US patent granted, to Samuel Hopkins for a potash process

1800’s

★1865 The first narrow gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Australia.

1876 US Coast Guard officers' training school established (New Bedford MA)

★1879 The first cable connection between South Africa and Europe is laid by the British electrical engineer Charles Tilston Bright as part of his project to link the British Empire with growing telecommunications technologies

1893 Henry Perky patents shredded wheat

★1893 Gaelic League is founded by Douglas Hyde and Eoin MacNeill in order to encourage Irish people to speak the language and take a greater interest in their culture

1900’s

★1928 1st woman to win a track and field Olympic gold medal, Halina Konopacka of Poland

★1936 Tokyo Japan is awarded the 1940 Olympics (later cancelled)

1948 US President Harry Truman dedicates Idlewild Field (now Kennedy Airport), NY

1960 Elijah Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam, calls for a black state

1970 Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ends "Huntley-Brinkley Report"

★1970 Black Tot Day: the last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy (started 1740)

1971 Apollo 15 astronauts take 6½ hour electric car ride on Moon

1972 Thomas Eagleton withdraws as Democratic VP candidate

1984 US men's gymnastics team won team gold medal at LA Summer Olympics

1991 Senate votes to allow women to fly combat aircraft

2000’s

★2006 Fidel Castro hands over power temporarily to brother Raúl Castro. This leads to a celebration in Little Havana (La Pequeña Habana in Spanish), Miami, Florida, where many Cuban Americans participated.

★2016 Yuriko Koike is the first woman to be elected Tokyo Governor

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My Rambling Thoughts

Another day of monsoon rain. As much as I like the moisture for our forest, I would like to have a day of sunshine soon.

One of my sisters-in-law was married yesterday. I wanted to go to Chicago, but my blood thing, which I thought was serious, prevented me from going. Turns out all is well and I should have gone. I am enjoying the great pics from those who did attend. I met her new husband and some of his family a couple of years ago at Christmas. Nice guy. Nice family.

To be honest I am sick and tired of trying to run everything in our country like a business. I was working in schools when the pendulum swung toward a business model. What a joke, that hurt millions of youth. Administrators and teachers were being held accountable for student test scores on multiple choice tests. Fairly quickly the schools dropped every course that was not measured on THE test. PE was cut, recess was cut, socialization activates were cut, the arts were cut. History, Civics, and some science classes were dropped. And kids quickly learned that an education was being able to answer multiple choice questions on a test regarding Reading and Math. So very sad and disruptive. Students leaving HS and/or college are shocked to find out that you seldom need multiple choice test taking skills to be successful in a job or career.

Now our president is trying to run our country like a business. It isn’t a business any more than education was. The idea that our congress couldn’t find a Healthcare law to help people after trying for 7+ years means that we should ‘just let it implode’ is certainly a business model. But healthcare is impacting every single American. Are the citizens going to stand by as neighbors and family suffer from the lack of healthcare? Is the news media going to stand by too? Why doesn’t the media explain that Congress IS under Obamacare? They have to buy their health insurance on an exchange just like every working American. And we the tax payers pay for up to 75% of their health insurance cost. Most big businesses pay up to 80% of the health insurance cost for their employees. And is the media going to report on the cost for non-working Americans or Americans working for a business that doesn’t offer health insurance in their benefit package? This is sad state of affairs.

Our National Parks, National Monuments, and Historical sites are NOT a business model. They were not created on a business model. The current budget is trying to say that National Monuments that don’t make a profit should be made smaller and land should be sold off so that they can be mined. Really?!?  There was a time when business wanted to dam up much of the Colorado River so they could sell more water and cut down on flooding downstream to that more homes and businesses could be built in the then current flood plain. Lake Mead and Lake Powell are part of that initiative. Turns out, while I was rafting down the canyon we stopped at two of four other places where dams were started. Thanks to the Sierra Club and others, those plans were stopped. These beautiful sites were never set aside for profit.

Not yet ready to discuss a business model in foreign policy, but am trying to figure it out.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@-94- Milton Friedman,

economist (Nobel 1976), born in Brooklyn, New York

(d. 2006)

80’s

@-86- Curt Gowdy,

Green River Wyo, sportscaster (ABC)

(d. 2006)

@-85- John Ericsson,

Swedish-American inventor (screw propeller, rotating turret), born in Långban, Sweden

(d. 1889)

70’s

@-79- Fred Quimby,

American film producer [Tom & Jerry]

(d. 1965)

71- Gary Lewis,

Jerry's son, singer, (& The Playboys-This Diamond Ring)

60’s

66- Barry Van Dyke,

actor (Battlestar Galactica, Diag Murder), born in Atlanta

61- Michael Biehn, American actor (Rampage, Hog Wild, Aliens, Abyss), born in Anniston, Alabama

50’s

59- Mark Cuban,

American businessman and basketball team owner

55- Wesley Snipes,

Orlando Florida, actor (Passenger 57, Money Train, Blade trilogy)

52- J. K. Rowling,

English writer (Harry Potter novels), born in Yate, Gloucestershire

51- Dean Cain,

actor (Clark-Lois & Clark), born in Mt Clemens, Michigan

40’s

@-46- Ted Cassidy,

American actor (Lurch-Addams Family), born in Pittsburgh,

(d. 1979)

teens’s

19-Rico Rodriguez,

TV actor (Modern Family)

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@91-2013 Michael Ansara,

Syrian-born American stage, screen, and voice actor (Cochise in Broken Arrow)

80’s

@86-2012 Gore Vidal,

American author

@85-1937 Charles Hires,

American Inventor and Manufacturer of the Hires Root Beer beverage

70’s

@74-1886 Franz Liszt [Ferencz],

Hungarian pianist/composer,

pneumonia

60’s

@66-1875 Andrew Johnson, 17th US President (Unionist: 1865-69), stroke

@±65-1556 Saint Ignatius of Loyola,

Spanish knight from a Basque noble family, hermit, priest, theologian and founder of the Society of Jesus,

malaria

@62-1913 John Milne,

British geologist (developed the first modern seismograph),

Bright's disease

30’s

@39-1964 Jim Reeves,

US country singer,

air crash

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Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.

All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site contains mistakes and sadly once the information is out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.

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Jul 30

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July 30, 2017 Week: 31 \ Day: 211

86004 Today: H 73° \ L 55°

Average Sky Cover: 90%

Nearest Lightning: 1.2mi

Wind ave:   10mph\Gusts:  --mph

Visibility: 8 mi

July Averages: 82°\50°

July Records: H: 97° (1973) L: 32 (1955)

Record High: 92°[1943]   Record Low: 40°[1913]

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Quote of the Day

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

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Observances Today

Cheesecake Day

Father-in-Law Day

Friendship Day Link

Health Care Now!  Medicare's Birthday 

International Day of Friendship

National Cheesecake Day

National Chicken and Waffles Day

National Support Public Education Day

Paddle for Perthes Disease Awareness Day 

Paperback Book Day

World Day Against Trafficking in Persons

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Observances This Week

22-30

National Moth Week

28-30

Garlic Days: Link  

Lollapalooza: 

30-8/5

Single Working Women's Week

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

★  Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s

1619 House of Burgesses Virginia forms, 1st elective American governing body

1700’s

★1792 500 Marseillaisian men sing France's national anthem for 1st time

1800’s

1863 Indian Wars: Chief Pocatello of the Shoshone tribe signs the Treaty of Box Elder, promising to stop harassing the emigrant trails in southern Idaho and northern Utah.

1866 New Orleans's Democratic government orders police to raid an integrated Republican Party meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150.

1900’s

1928 George Eastman shows first amateur color motion pictures to guests at his New York house including Thomas Edison

★1932 10th modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles

1935 1st Penguin book is published, starting the paperback revolution

1942 FDR signs bill creating women's Navy auxiliary agency (WAVES)

★1948 Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record (10K - 29:59.6)

1956 US motto "In God We Trust" authorized

1965 LBJ signs Medicare bill, which goes into effect in 1966

1974 House Judiciary Committee votes on 3rd & last charge of "high crimes & misdemeanors" to impeach President Nixon in the Watergate cover-up

1975 US Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa disappears in suburban Detroit; Hoffa was legally declared dead in 1982

1990 The first Saturn automobile rolls off the assembly line.

2000’s

★2003 The last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line in Mexico

★2013 Wikileaks discloser Bradley [later Chelsea] Manning convicted of 17 espionage charges

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My Rambling Thoughts

This is turning out to be a very wet monsoon. It is another day of clouds and rain and thunder and lightning…kinda puts a damper on any outside activities.

Not sure if it is a coincidence or something of import, but I slept the entire night without waking up until 5:00a. Maybe it was the change in the CPAP, or maybe I was just more relaxed without being concerned about my blood issue. I’ll see how this plays out tonight.

The workings at the WH continue to baffle many. Our president has a way of convincing people that he is a good leader. All those guys leaving the WH employ have only positive things to say about the experience and that they wanted the President to have a clean slate. Maybe it’s because the WH was a ‘dream job’ and they want to have good memories. Maybe they signed a non-disclosure agreement that could cost them big bucks. Maybe they believe he really is the greatest man to ever sit in the WH. With all the chaos going on, I have to wonder why the leave and have only positive things to say.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

95- Henry W. Bloch, 

American co-founder of H&R Block

@-92- Henry Louis Smith, 

American physicist who made the first X-ray photograph, born in Greensboro, NC (d. 1951)

80’s

@-85- Casey Stengel, 

baseball manager (Yankees (1949-60)/NY Met's 1st) 

(d. 1975)

84- Edd "Kookie" Byrnes, 

American actor (77 Sunset Strip, Jack the Ripper), born in Los Angeles

@-83- Henry Ford, 

American industrialist and auto maker (Ford Model T), born in Dearborn Township, Michigan 

(d. 1947)

70’s

78- Peter Bogdanovich, 

director/producer (Last Picture Show), born in Kingston, New York

77- Pat Schroeder, 

American politician

76- Paul Anka, 

singer (Put Your Head on My Shoulder), born in Ottawa, Ontario

70- Arnold Schwarzenegger, 

American body builder, actor (Terminator) and politician (38th Governor of California), born in Thal, Austria

60’s

63- Ken Olin, 

actor (Hill St Blues, Michael-30 Something), born in Chicago, Illinois

61- Anita Hill, 

professor of law, Clarence Thomas' nemesis

61- Delta Burke, 

actress (Suzanne-Designing Women), born in Orlando, Florida

50’s

56- Laurence Fishburne, 

actor (Red Heat, School Daze), born in Augusta, Georgia

54- Lisa Kudrow, 

Encino California, actress (Phoebe-Friends, Romy & Michele)

53- Vivica A. Fox, 

American actress

40’s

48- Simon Baker, 

Australian actor (The Mentalist)

47- Christopher Nolan, 

English film director (Inception, Interstellar), born in London

43- Hilary Swank, 

American actress (Boys Don't Cry, Million Dollar Baby), born in Lincoln, Nebraska

30’s

@-30- Emily Brontë, 

English novelist (Wuthering Heights), born in Thornton, West Yorkshire 

(d. 1848)

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@95-1983 Lynn Fontanne, 

Broadway's premier actress (Emmy 1965)

@93-1996 Claudette Colbert, 

French-born American actress (It Happened One Night)

@91-2016 Gloria DeHaven, 

American musical actress (Step Lively)

80’s

@89-2007 Ingmar Bergman, 

Swedish stage and film director (Cries & Whispers)

@85-1997 Bảo Đại, 

last Emperor of Vietnam (1926-45) and Chief of State of South Vietnam (1949-55)

@83-1898 Otto von Bismarck, 

German "Iron" chancellor, dies at 83

@80-2008 Anne Armstrong, 

U.S. ambassador to Britain and first female counsel to the President

@80-2003 Sam Phillips, 

American record producer (Sun Records)

@80-1998 Buffalo Bob Smith, 

American television host (Howdy Doody)

70’s

@73-1718 William Penn, 

English Philosopher, Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania (No cross, no crown)

60’s

@67-2015 Lynn Anderson, 

American country singer (I Never Promised you a Rose Garden), 

heart attack

40’s

@44-1683 Maria Theresa of Spain, 

queen of Louis XIV of France, 

illness

30’s

@31-1918 Joyce Kilmer, 

American poet, 

shot in battle

20’s

@25-1989 Lane Frost, 

American bull rider, 

trampled by bull @ Cheyenne Frontier Days

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Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.

All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site contains mistakes and sadly once the information is out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.

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