Aug 25

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Aug 25, 2018 Week: 34\ Day: 237

86004 Today: H 75° \ L 53° \ Average Sky Cover: 75% 

Nearest Lightning:  2.9 miles away

Wind ave.:   5mph\Gusts:  15mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 88°[1985]   Record Low: 36°[2002]

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

Today’s Quote

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

  Marcus Aurelius

Harper’s Index

 1

  Rank of Disneyland among the happiest places on Earth,

  according to Disneyland

  56

  Percentage of Disneyland employees who worry about

  being evicted from their homes

Observances This Week

16-26  Little League World Series

23-26

North American Organic Brewers Week

25-31

Be Kind To Humankind Week
World Water Week Link

Observances for Today

Brother's Day  Link 
International Bat Night 
Kiss and Make Up Day

National Park Service Day
National Second-hand Wardrobe Day
National Whiskey Sour Day  
Sand Castle Day Link
Franchise Appreciation Day 

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s                                         

1609 Galileo demonstrates his 1st telescope to Venetian lawmakers

1900’s                                         

1910 Yellow Cab is founded.

1916 US Department of Interior forms National Park Service

1936 Odorless cornstarch is patented in the US by Ralph W Kerr

1944 General Charles de Gaulle walks the Champs Elysees in Paris after the liberation of the city from Nazi occupation

1952 Puerto Rico becomes a US commonwealth

1958 Momofuku Ando markets the first package of precooked instant noodles (Chikin Ramen)

1989 After 12-year, 4-billion-mile journey, Voyager 2 flies over cloudtops of Neptune & its moon Triton, sending back photographs of swamps

1991 Linux was born when Linus Torvalds sent off the email announcing his project to create a new operating system

2000’s                                         

2003 The Tli Cho land claims agreement is signed between the Dogrib First Nations and the Canadian federal government in Rae-Edzo (now called Behchoko).

2007 1st Women's Snow Polo World Championship takes place in Bariloche, Argentina

2017 President Donald Trump grants presidential pardon to Joe Arpaio, who had been convicted of contempt of court for racial profiling

2017 Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong jailed for 5 years for corruption in South Korea

My Rambling Thoughts

Had lunch with Mary yesterday. Turned into a long lunch as she caught me up on her 3 weeks at her Oregon Beach House. Fun times for all that were there.

Looks like there are only a couple more days of our annual monsoon. Cloudy and lightning. We will take all the moisture we can get, spread over a few hours.

Sad news for AZ, and America as Senator John McCain stops further medical treatment. Didn’t always agree with his politics, but he continues to be a war hero and a statesman.

So, Rep. Hunter (R-CA) has thrown his wife under the bus. “She had my power of attorney and was my campaign manager”. What a cheap shot.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@96► Monty Hall, Canadian►American TV game show host (Let's Make a Deal), born in Winnipeg Canada (d. 2017)

80’s

88► Sean Connery, actor 007

87► Regis Philbin, American talk & game show host (Joey Bishop Show, Live with Regis & Kathie Lee), born in The Bronx, New York

70’s

@79► George Wallace, American politician (Gov►D►Ala) and presidential candidate, born in Clio, Alabama (d. 1998) septic shock

60’s

69► Gene Simmons, singer (KISS)

64► Elvis Costello, singer

@60► Walt Kelly, American cartoonist and animator (Pogo), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1973) long illness

50’s

57► Billy Ray Cyrus, singer

@53► Ivan IV [Ivan the Terrible], 1st tsar of Russia (1533►84), born in Kolomenskoye, Russia (d. 1584) stroke

50► Rachael Ray, Food host

40’s

42►Alexander Skarsgard, actor (True Blood)

30’s

31► Blake Lively, actress (Gossip Girl)

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@83-1822 William Herschel, German-British astronomer (discovered Uranus), dies at 83

@83-1819 James Watt, Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer and chemist (steam engine), dies at 83

@82-2012 Neil Armstrong, American astronaut, 1^st to walk on moon

70’s

@77-2009 Edward [Ted] M. Kennedy, United States Senator from Massachusetts brain cancer

@75-1867 Michael Faraday, English scientist who discovered principle of electric motor

50’s

@59-1984 Truman Capote, American author (In Cold Blood), liver cancer

@55-1908 Henri Becquerel, French physicist who discovered radioactivity (Nobel 1903), radiation?

@55-1900 Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher and philologist (Übermensch and the doctrine of eternal return), brain tumor? Syphilis?

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.

☼☼☼☼…And That Is All for Now…☼☼☼☼

Aug 23

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Aug 23, 2018 Week: 34\ Day: 235

86004 Today: H 70° \ L 53° \ Average Sky Cover: 85% 

Nearest Lightning:  9.3 miles away

Wind ave.:   10mph\Gusts:  18mph Visibility: 9 mi

Record High: 90°[1985]   Record Low: 24°[1968]

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

Today’s Quote

  It is amazing how complete is the delusion

  that beauty is goodness.

  Leo Tolstoy

Harper’s Index

  1 in 13

  Chance that a given day is a public holiday in Cambodia

Observances This Week

16-26  Little League World Series

18-24  Minority Enterprise Development Week

 National Chef's Appreciation Week  Link  Link  

20-24  National Safe at Home Week

23-26

North American Organic Brewers Week

Observances for Today

Day For The Remembrance of The Slave Trade & Its Abolition
Ride the Wind Day

Valentino Day

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

70’s                                              

79 Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on feast day of Vulcan, Roman god of fire (goes on to destroy Pompeii)

1300’s                                         

1305 William Wallace, Scottish patriot, is executed for high treason by Edward I of England.

1600’s                                         

1617 1st one-way streets open (London)

1800’s                                         

1839 British capture Hong Kong from China

1872 1st Japanese commercial ship visits San Francisco, carrying tea

1900’s                                         

1948 World Council of Churches formed by 147 churches from 44 countries

1960 World's largest frog (3.3 kg) caught (Equatorial Guinea)

1987 15-year old boy hijacks KLM B737, demands $1 billion

1996 Osama bin Laden issues message entitled "A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places"

2000’s                                         

2005 Hurricane Katrina forms over the Bahamas, later becoming a category 5 hurricane

2011 Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the 2011 Libyan Civil War.

2013 UN inspectors are stopped by Syrian government from investigating a reported site of a chemical massacre

My Rambling Thoughts

Another cloudy and rainy day. This is very unusual. This is monsoon season, like it should be sunny in the morning, warm up, clouds appear in the afternoon or evening, hard rain, lightning, thunder and a fast cool-off. Not happy over this change which gives us full days of cloudiness.

One thing this administration is doing right, having TV cover many of the military honor ceremonies. While I am not a big proponent of war, I am glad that we recognize those who perform heroic acts. Listening to what they endured shows true commitment to their fellow soldiers.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

87►Barbara Eden, actress (I Dream of Jeannie)

@83- Gene Kelly►dancer, actor

@81►Edgar Lee Masters, American poet and novelist (Spoon River Anthology), born in Garnett, Kansas (d. 1950)

60’s

69►Rick Springfield, Australia, (General Hospital, Jessie's Girl)

69►Shelly Long, actress (Cheers)

67►Queen Noor of Jordan [Lisa Najeeb Halaby], American born wife of King Hussein, born in Washington, D.C.

40’s

40►Kobe Bryant, basketball (Lakers)

30’s

30►Jeremy Lin, basketball (Knicks)

@30►Arnold Toynbee, English economic historian and social reformer, born in London (d. 1883) exhaustion

20’s

28►Seth Curry, basketball (Mavericks)

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@84-1723 Increase Mather, New England Puritan minister

30’s

@35± 1305 William Wallace, Scottish patriot, hanged, disemboweled & beheaded at Smithfield London

@31-1926 Rudolph Valentino, silent movie idol (Sheik), pleurisy /peritonitis

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.

☼☼☼☼…And That Is All for Now…☼☼☼☼

Aug 22

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Aug 22, 2018 Week: 34\ Day: 234

86004 Today: H 63° \ L 54° \ Average Sky Cover: 90% 

Nearest Lightning:  5 miles away

Wind ave.:   5mph\Gusts:  16mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 88°[1938]   Record Low: 32°[1968]

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

Today’s Quote

  Never apologize for showing feeling.

  When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

    Benjamin Disraeli

Harper’s Index

  -24

  Percentage change since 2001 in the number of

  slot machines in Nevada

Observances This Week

16-26  Little League World Series

18-24  Minority Enterprise Development Week

 National Chef's Appreciation Week  Link  Link  

20-24  National Safe at Home Week 

Observances for Today

Be an Angel Day

National Bao Day Link
National Tooth Fairy Day 

Southern Hemisphere Hoodie Hoo Day
Take Your Cat To The Vet Day

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

500’s                                           

565 St Columba reports seeing monster in Loch Ness

1600’s                                         

1639 Madras (now Chennai), India, founded by the British East India Company on sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers

1700’s                                         

1762 1st female (Ann Franklin) US newspaper editor, Newport, Rhode Island, Mercury

1800’s                                         

1848 The United States annexes New Mexico

1862 Santee Sioux indian attack Fort Ridgely

1864 First Geneva Convention adopted in Geneva "for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field"

1877 Nez Perce (Niimíipu) indians flee into Yellowstone National Park

1900’s                                         

1901 Cadillac Motor Company is founded.

1902 US President Theodore Roosevelt became 1st US chief executive to ride in a car

1906 1st Victor Victrola manufactured

1952 The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed.

2000’s                                         

2003 Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building

2004 "The Scream" (1910 painted version) and "Madonna", two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway.

2007 The Storm botnet, a botnet created by the Storm Worm, sends out a record 57 million e-mails in one day

2017 India's highest court outlaws instant divorce for Muslim men (talaq, talaq, talaq)

My Rambling Thoughts

Woke up to a cloudy sky and a steady light rain. It was unexpected but is nice. Cool outside. A day of rain is very relaxing for me. I had plans to do some shopping today but decided I don’t need to get wet.

During my career, I became known as a fixer. I went to six different schools after the principal of each school was removed or demoted. My assignment was to keep the school operating through the transition and to help the board find a new permanent principal for the school. Each assignment was difficult but enjoyable. I got to meet lots of new people, I got accolades from the staff and the board at each school before I departed. It is sad that another ‘fixer’ decided the only way to fix things was to break the law. My job was to protect the Bureau’s mission, Cohen’s job was to protect his boss. There is a big difference!

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@95►Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer famous for 'The Decisive Moment', born in Chanteloup-en-Brie, France (d. 2004)

@91- Ray Bradbury, American sci-fi author (Fahrenheit 451), born in Waukegan, Illinois (d. 2012)

@91- James Hillier, Canadian-American inventor (co-created the electron microscope), born in Brantford, Canada (d. 2007)

70’s

@73►Dorothy Parker, American short story writer (1958 Marjorie Peabody Award), born in Long Branch, New Jersey (d. 1967) heart attack

73►Steve Kroft, American journalist and longtime correspondent for 60 Minutes, born in Kokomo Indiana

60’s

68- I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney and convicted felon, born in New Haven, Connecticut

@66►Charles Francis Jenkins, American Inventor (altimeter, automobile self-starter, and early television pioneer), born in Dayton, Ohio (d. 1934)

40’s

48- Giada De Laurentiis, chef, Food Channel host

30’s

39- James Corden, comedian, late night host

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@85-1989 Diana Vreeland, French-American fashion editor (Harper's Bazaar, Vogue)

@83-1978 Jomo Kenyatta, 1st Prime Minister of Kenya (1963-78)

60’s

@60-1965 Ellen Church, American 1st female airline stewardess (United flight in 1930 from San Francisco to Cheyenne), horse riding accident

30’s

@31-1922 Michael Collins, Irish nationalist leader, killed in ambush by anti-treaty forces during the Irish Civil War at 31

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.