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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
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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