Thursday, July 30, 2015
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
THE LARGEST 5K Paint race event series in the world! - The Color Run will be in Denver on August 1st
The Color Run™, the largest 5k paint race event series in the world, will be in Denver on August 1.
The event will be held at the Coors Field parking lots and will begin at 8 a.m.The Happiest 5k on the Planet is shining brighter in 2015 with a totally new tour! We've got some surprises coming that will blow your mind! Want a sneak peek? Check out our new Shine Tour video here!
Participants will receive a limited-edition Shine Tour Participant Kit, including a custom 2015 tee, a gold finisher's medal, a tri-color headband with blingin’ silver stitching, a special-edition SHINE pack, a classic color pack, a gold foil tattoo and more!
To register, visit thecolorrun.com/denver and enter promo code “WESTWORD” at checkout to save $5!
Participants will receive a limited-edition Shine Tour Participant Kit, including a custom 2015 tee, a gold finisher's medal, a tri-color headband with blingin’ silver stitching, a special-edition SHINE pack, a classic color pack, a gold foil tattoo and more!
To register, visit thecolorrun.com/denver and enter promo code “WESTWORD” at checkout to save $5!
Monday, July 27, 2015
Families of missing boater teens ask public to comb beaches
Families of missing boater teens ask public to comb beaches
The families of two teenagers who went missing while fishing off Florida's coast asked the public Monday to help scour the beaches for clues.
On Sunday, the US Coast Guard located the 19-foot (six-meter) white single-engine boat that Austin Stephanos and Perry Cohen, both 14, took out off Jupiter, Florida, on Friday.
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On Sunday, the US Coast Guard located the 19-foot (six-meter) white single-engine boat that Austin Stephanos and Perry Cohen, both 14, took out off Jupiter, Florida, on Friday.
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There was no sign of the teens, who had bought $110 of fuel before casting off.
Rescue crews have covered more than 25,000 square nautical miles (86,000 square kilometers), assisted by helicopters, planes, boats and the destroyer USS Carney.
"Anyone that is located near the beaches from Jupiter Florida up the coast to the beaches of Georgia -- PLEASE GO OUT AND WALK YOUR BEACHES!!" Cohen's mother Pamela Cohen wrote in an Instagram post.
"Look for any sign of our boys Perry and Austin. KEEP THE FAITH."
Perry Cohen's stepfather Nick Korniloff joined the call.
"I need everyone that has a friend who lives near or on the beach anywhere from Palm Beach FL -- Georgia to Facebook them and ask them to walk and comb all the beaches," he wrote on Facebook.
"We are looking to activate a major Beach Comb of the South East -- looking for volunteers to organize in each seaside community NOW!!!"
"We are believers that they will return home to us," he insisted.
Relatives have described the two boys as experienced fishermen.
"They know the waters. They've been through rough water, they've been through thin water," Korniloff told CNN.
"Those are salty dog kids, and they know what they're doing out there
Rescue crews have covered more than 25,000 square nautical miles (86,000 square kilometers), assisted by helicopters, planes, boats and the destroyer USS Carney.
"Anyone that is located near the beaches from Jupiter Florida up the coast to the beaches of Georgia -- PLEASE GO OUT AND WALK YOUR BEACHES!!" Cohen's mother Pamela Cohen wrote in an Instagram post.
"Look for any sign of our boys Perry and Austin. KEEP THE FAITH."
Perry Cohen's stepfather Nick Korniloff joined the call.
"I need everyone that has a friend who lives near or on the beach anywhere from Palm Beach FL -- Georgia to Facebook them and ask them to walk and comb all the beaches," he wrote on Facebook.
"We are looking to activate a major Beach Comb of the South East -- looking for volunteers to organize in each seaside community NOW!!!"
"We are believers that they will return home to us," he insisted.
Relatives have described the two boys as experienced fishermen.
"They know the waters. They've been through rough water, they've been through thin water," Korniloff told CNN.
"Those are salty dog kids, and they know what they're doing out there
Friday, July 24, 2015
Logic
"The environment is part of a logic of receptivity. It is on loan to each generation, which must then hand it on to the next"
Thursday, July 23, 2015
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Life is Simple!
Life is simple, if you don't put anything into it you wont get anything out of it!
~Greg Burke
~Greg Burke
Monday, July 20, 2015
Denver Real Estate - Humor
These Babies Sum Up Real Estate Better Than Any Realtor Could
By Mike Bell
Friday, July 17, 2015
Thursday, July 16, 2015
The upsides of a four-day weekend - time to shave off another day!
It's a relatively new invention—is it time to shave another day off?
Where the Five-Day Workweek Came From
“Seven days,” wrote Witold Rybczynski in the August 1991 issue of The Atlantic, “is not natural because no natural phenomenon occurs every seven days.” The year marks one revolution of the Earth around the sun. Months, supposedly, mark the time between full moons. The seven-day week, however, is completely man-made.
If it’s man-made, can’t man unmake it? For all the talk of how freeing it’d be to shave a day or two off the five-day workweek, little attention has been paid to where the weekly calendar came from. Understanding the sometimes arbitrary origins of the modern workweek might inform the movement to shorten it.
The roots of the seven-day week can be traced back about 4,000 years, to Babylon. The Babylonians believed there were seven planets in the solar system, and the number seven held such power to them that they planned their days around it. Their seven-day, planetary week spread to Egypt, Greece, and eventually to Rome, where it turns out the Jewish people had their own version of a seven-day week. (The reason for this is unclear, but some have speculated that the Jews adopted this after their exile in Babylon in the sixth century B.C.) At the very latest, the seven-day week was firmly entrenched in the Western calendar about 250 years before Christ was born.
The earliest recorded use of the word “weekend,” Rybczynski notes, occurred in 1879 in an English magazine called Notes and Queries:
It took decades for Saturday to change from a half-day to a full day’s rest. In 1908, a New England mill became the first American factory to institute the five-day week. It did so to accommodate Jewish workers, whose observance of a Saturday sabbath forced them to make up their work on Sundays, offending some in the Christian majority. The mill granted these Jewish workers a two-day weekend, and other factories followed this example. The
Great Depression cemented the two-day weekend into the economy, as shorter hours were considered a remedy to underemployment.
Nearly a century later, mills have been overtaken by more advanced technologies, yet the five-day workweek remains the fundamental organizing concept behind when work is done. Its obsolescence has been foretold for quite a while now: A 1965 Senate subcommittee predicted Americans would work 14-hour weeks by the year 2000, and before that, back in 1928, John Maynard Keynes wrote that technological advancement would bring the workweek down to 15 hours within 100 years.
The earliest recorded use of the word “weekend” occurred in 1879 in an English magazine called Notes and Queries.
There’s reason to believe that a seven-day week with a two-day weekend is an inefficient technology: A growing body of research and corporate case studies suggests that a transition to a shorter workweek would lead to increased productivity, improved health, and higher employee-retention rates.
The five-day workweek might be limiting productivity. A study in the American Journal of Epidemiology found that those who worked 55 hours per week performed more poorly on some mental tasks than those who worked 40 hours per week. And Tony Schwartz, the author of Be Excellent at Anything, told Harvard Business Review that people work best in intense 90-minute bursts followed by periods of recovery. Taken together, these findings suggest that with the right scheduling of bursts and rests, workers could get a similar amount of work done over a shorter period of time.
Moreover, there’s some anecdotal evidence that a four-day workweek might increase productivity. Google’s Larry Page has praised the idea, even if he hasn’t implemented it. And Jason Fried, the CEO of Basecamp, has his employees work four-day, 32-hour weeks for half of the year. “When you have a compressed workweek, you tend to focus on what’s important. Constraining time encourages quality time, ” he wrote an op-ed in The New York Times. “Better work gets done in four days than in five,” he concluded.
Beyond working more efficiently, a four-day workweek appears to improve morale and well-being. The president of the U.K. Faculty of Public Health told the Daily Mail that a four-day workweek could help lower blood pressure and increase mental health among employees. Jay Love of Slingshot SEO saw his employee-retention rate shoot up when he phased in three-day weekends. Following this line of thought, TreeHouse, an online education platform, implemented a four-day week to attract workers, which has contributed to the company's growth.
That said, the five-day workweek might already have so much cultural intertia that it can’t be changed. Most companies can’t just tell employees not to come in on Fridays, because they'd be at a disadvantage in a world that favors the five-day workweek.
But there’s a creative solution to this problem. David Stephens, a consultant based in Houston, detailed in a post on LinkedIn the clever system devised at a company he used to work for. The company was divided into two teams. One would work from 7 a.m. until 6 p.m. from Monday to Thursday, and the other would work those hours from Tuesday to Friday. The teams would switch schedules every week, so every two-day weekend would be followed by a four-day weekend. The results, Stephens reports, were positive. The company was open five days a week, from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. instead of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. He claims that morale skyrocketed. Employees took fewer sick days, visiting the doctor in off hours rather than during the workday.
If the old ways are truly just sitting there, waiting to be disrupted, it’s surprising that the traditional workweek remains wholly intact.
In this scenario, employees still work 40-hour weeks, but they do so over the course of four days rather than five. This arrangement still sounds sub-optimal, though, as working at full capacity for 10 hours is more demanding than doing so for eight. Despite that, the employees at Stephens’s company still preferred 40 hours in four days to 40 hours in five days. They might be even happier—and work even better—if they worked fewer hours in addition to fewer days.
Given the ongoing conversation about how most of the old ways are just sitting there, waiting to be disrupted, it’s surprising that the traditional workweek remains wholly intact. On top of that, one would think that the slew of corporate perks deployed to attract top talent would have by now extended to a re-envisioning of the two-day weekend. But it hasn’t.
Where the Five-Day Workweek Came From
“Seven days,” wrote Witold Rybczynski in the August 1991 issue of The Atlantic, “is not natural because no natural phenomenon occurs every seven days.” The year marks one revolution of the Earth around the sun. Months, supposedly, mark the time between full moons. The seven-day week, however, is completely man-made.
If it’s man-made, can’t man unmake it? For all the talk of how freeing it’d be to shave a day or two off the five-day workweek, little attention has been paid to where the weekly calendar came from. Understanding the sometimes arbitrary origins of the modern workweek might inform the movement to shorten it. The roots of the seven-day week can be traced back about 4,000 years, to Babylon. The Babylonians believed there were seven planets in the solar system, and the number seven held such power to them that they planned their days around it. Their seven-day, planetary week spread to Egypt, Greece, and eventually to Rome, where it turns out the Jewish people had their own version of a seven-day week. (The reason for this is unclear, but some have speculated that the Jews adopted this after their exile in Babylon in the sixth century B.C.) At the very latest, the seven-day week was firmly entrenched in the Western calendar about 250 years before Christ was born.
The earliest recorded use of the word “weekend,” Rybczynski notes, occurred in 1879 in an English magazine called Notes and Queries:
In Staffordshire, if a person leaves home at the end of his week’s work on the Saturday afternoon to spend the evening of Saturday and the following Sunday with friends at a distance, he is said to be spending his week-end at So-and-so.Some 19th-century Britons used the week's seventh day for merriment rather than for the rest prescribed by scripture. They would drink, gamble, and enjoy themselves so much that the phenomenon of “Saint Monday,” in which workers would skip work to recover from Sunday's gallivanting, emerged. English factory owners later compromised with workers by giving them a half-day on Saturday in exchange for guaranteed attendance at work on Monday.
It took decades for Saturday to change from a half-day to a full day’s rest. In 1908, a New England mill became the first American factory to institute the five-day week. It did so to accommodate Jewish workers, whose observance of a Saturday sabbath forced them to make up their work on Sundays, offending some in the Christian majority. The mill granted these Jewish workers a two-day weekend, and other factories followed this example. The
Great Depression cemented the two-day weekend into the economy, as shorter hours were considered a remedy to underemployment.
Nearly a century later, mills have been overtaken by more advanced technologies, yet the five-day workweek remains the fundamental organizing concept behind when work is done. Its obsolescence has been foretold for quite a while now: A 1965 Senate subcommittee predicted Americans would work 14-hour weeks by the year 2000, and before that, back in 1928, John Maynard Keynes wrote that technological advancement would bring the workweek down to 15 hours within 100 years.
The earliest recorded use of the word “weekend” occurred in 1879 in an English magazine called Notes and Queries.
There’s reason to believe that a seven-day week with a two-day weekend is an inefficient technology: A growing body of research and corporate case studies suggests that a transition to a shorter workweek would lead to increased productivity, improved health, and higher employee-retention rates.
The five-day workweek might be limiting productivity. A study in the American Journal of Epidemiology found that those who worked 55 hours per week performed more poorly on some mental tasks than those who worked 40 hours per week. And Tony Schwartz, the author of Be Excellent at Anything, told Harvard Business Review that people work best in intense 90-minute bursts followed by periods of recovery. Taken together, these findings suggest that with the right scheduling of bursts and rests, workers could get a similar amount of work done over a shorter period of time.
Moreover, there’s some anecdotal evidence that a four-day workweek might increase productivity. Google’s Larry Page has praised the idea, even if he hasn’t implemented it. And Jason Fried, the CEO of Basecamp, has his employees work four-day, 32-hour weeks for half of the year. “When you have a compressed workweek, you tend to focus on what’s important. Constraining time encourages quality time, ” he wrote an op-ed in The New York Times. “Better work gets done in four days than in five,” he concluded.
Beyond working more efficiently, a four-day workweek appears to improve morale and well-being. The president of the U.K. Faculty of Public Health told the Daily Mail that a four-day workweek could help lower blood pressure and increase mental health among employees. Jay Love of Slingshot SEO saw his employee-retention rate shoot up when he phased in three-day weekends. Following this line of thought, TreeHouse, an online education platform, implemented a four-day week to attract workers, which has contributed to the company's growth.
That said, the five-day workweek might already have so much cultural intertia that it can’t be changed. Most companies can’t just tell employees not to come in on Fridays, because they'd be at a disadvantage in a world that favors the five-day workweek.
But there’s a creative solution to this problem. David Stephens, a consultant based in Houston, detailed in a post on LinkedIn the clever system devised at a company he used to work for. The company was divided into two teams. One would work from 7 a.m. until 6 p.m. from Monday to Thursday, and the other would work those hours from Tuesday to Friday. The teams would switch schedules every week, so every two-day weekend would be followed by a four-day weekend. The results, Stephens reports, were positive. The company was open five days a week, from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. instead of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. He claims that morale skyrocketed. Employees took fewer sick days, visiting the doctor in off hours rather than during the workday.
If the old ways are truly just sitting there, waiting to be disrupted, it’s surprising that the traditional workweek remains wholly intact.
In this scenario, employees still work 40-hour weeks, but they do so over the course of four days rather than five. This arrangement still sounds sub-optimal, though, as working at full capacity for 10 hours is more demanding than doing so for eight. Despite that, the employees at Stephens’s company still preferred 40 hours in four days to 40 hours in five days. They might be even happier—and work even better—if they worked fewer hours in addition to fewer days.
Given the ongoing conversation about how most of the old ways are just sitting there, waiting to be disrupted, it’s surprising that the traditional workweek remains wholly intact. On top of that, one would think that the slew of corporate perks deployed to attract top talent would have by now extended to a re-envisioning of the two-day weekend. But it hasn’t.
Of course, the upsides of a four-day weekend have yet to be truly borne out, but there’s a lot of evidence that suggests it’s a good idea. So, for now, there appears to be an untapped way for companies to bring on and retain high-quality employees: Shorten the work-week. And figure out a way to do that before everyone else does.
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Why does moisture ruin leather?
Now why does moisture ruin leather?
Aren't cows outside a lot of the time?
When it's raining, do cows go up to the farmhouse and
Aren't cows outside a lot of the time?
When it's raining, do cows go up to the farmhouse and
say,
"Let us in! We're wearing leather!"
Jerry Seinfeld
"Let us in! We're wearing leather!"
Jerry Seinfeld
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Denver Real Estate - Contact me!
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Monday, July 13, 2015
Did You Know?
It may not surprise you to learn that many amazing discoveries and inventions are spawned from war, but did you know the hugely popular M&M candies beloved by kids and adults of all ages around the world are one such innovation?
After clashing with his father—the creator of the Milky Way bar—for a few years at Mars Inc., Forrest Mars Sr. moved to England, where in 1932 he began manufacturing the Mars bar for troops in the United Kingdom. It was during the Spanish Civil War that Mars purportedly encountered soldiers eating small chocolate beads encased in a hard sugar shell as part of their rations. In an age when sales of chocolate typically dropped off during summer months due to the lack of air conditioning, Forrest was thrilled by the prospect of developing a product that would be able to resist melting in high temperatures. He returned to the United States and, shortly thereafter, approached Bruce Murrie, the son of Hershey executive William Murrie, to join him in his new business venture. Anticipating a shortage of chocolate and sugar as World War II raged on in Europe, Mars sought a partnership that would ensure a steady supply of resources to produce his new candy. In return, Murrie was given a 20 percent stake in the M&M product, which was named to represent ‘Mars’ and ‘Murrie.’
In March of 1941, Mars was granted a patent for his manufacturing process and production began in Newark, New Jersey. Originally sold in cardboard tubes, M&M’s were covered with a brown, red, orange, yellow, green or violet coating. After the United States entered the war, the candies were exclusively sold to the military, enabling the heat-resistant and easy-to-transport chocolate to be included in American soldiers’ rations. By the time the war was over and GIs returned home, they were hooked.
Shortly after wartime quotas ended and the candies were made available to the general public, Forrest Mars bought out Murrie’s shares in the company and took sole ownership of the M&M brand. The familiar brown bag package that remains in use today was introduced in 1948. In 1950, the candies were imprinted with a black “m” (which changed to white in 1954) and customers were encouraged to “Look for the M on every piece” to ensure they were getting the real thing. Peanut M&M’s made their debut in 1954, along with the cartoon characters Mr. Plain and Mr. Peanut, and by 1956 M&M’s had become the No. 1 candy in the United States.
In 1964, Forrest merged his various businesses (which by then included pet food and rice, among other products) with his father’s company, Mars Inc., and soon began to phase out external chocolate suppliers like Hershey’s. Upon request by the crew aboard NASA’s first space shuttle, Columbia, M&M’s were the first candy to rocket into space in 1981. Three years later, they were advertised as the Official Snack of the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. Today, the crowd-pleasing and satisfying candies continue to sweeten a soldier’s day as a welcome part of their individual Meal, Ready to Eat (MRE) field ration
Credit: Mars, Incorporated
The Wartime Origins of the M&M June 2, 2014
Friday, July 10, 2015
Are you ready to run your tail off?
Walk, Run & Wag 5K
Are you ready to run your tail off?
The fourth annual Walk, Run & Wag 5K is a pet-friendly event held at Sloan's Lake Park on Saturday July 11th.
Come enjoy a morning of exercise and meet local pet companies. Fastest runner will win a $250 Fly Bucks Card from Frontier Airlines.
All proceeds will support International Hearing Dog, Inc., which rescues shelter dogs and trains them to be service dogs for the deaf.
Denver Real Estate - Ready for your “Castle”-Contact me your area “Expert” to see more…
Ready for your “Castle”-Contact me your area “Expert” for more…
Rosemary Reeve REALTOR®/Broker Associate Cherry Creek Properties, LLC 120th Washington Thornton, CO 80241 D.720.518.5463
Thursday, July 9, 2015
Wednesday, July 8, 2015
8 avoidable mistakes first-time homebuyers keep making
Stop doing these things
July 2, 2015 12:21PM
The last thing a first-time homebuyer wants to do is mess up the entire homebuying process by doing one of these common mistakes. Yet, they continue to make them.
Listen, buying a home is one of the biggest financial decisions a person will make, and all it takes is one bad or misinformed decision to mess up the entire process.
So, stop.
Movoto complied a list of 10 common mistakes first-time homebuyers make.
After perusing the list, HousingWire condensed the mistakes into 8 things that could ruin the homebuying process:
1. They don’t watch their finances before buying a home
Listen, buying a home is one of the biggest financial decisions a person will make, and all it takes is one bad or misinformed decision to mess up the entire process.
So, stop.
Movoto complied a list of 10 common mistakes first-time homebuyers make.
After perusing the list, HousingWire condensed the mistakes into 8 things that could ruin the homebuying process:
1. They don’t watch their finances before buying a home
This would include watching your credit, taking on too much debt right beforehand or making a big purchase right before closing.2. They don’t take the time to get pre-approved before house hunting
Debt-to-income ratio is a huge deciding factor on credit scores and it’s one of the first things that lenders look at when putting your mortgage together. Lenders want to know how much debt borrowers have already accumulated against their income. The more debt the borrower has, the less of a loan they will be able to get.
Many people don’t realize that lenders look at all financial information again before closing occurs to make sure that nothing has changed. And that debt-to-income ratio that they used to create your mortgage in the first place is one of the first things they’re going back to check. So, hold off on any plans to buy a new car to park in that new driveway or furniture to fill the house.
It’s easy for homebuyers to assume what they can afford and to just start looking without taking the steps through the lender first, but it’s not the smart move. Most real estate agents won’t show potential homes without a prequalification letter to in hand. And some won’t do anything without the pre-approval. [Go to any mortgage lender and ask about pre-approval.]3. They take on more than they can handle financially
Many first-time homebuyers make the mistake of assuming that just because they can afford the house that means that they can afford to live there. That’s not always the case. There are many extra costs associated with homeownership that often get overlooked by someone who is new to the game.4. They get into a fixer upper they don’t have time or money to fix
Fixer uppers can often seem like a great savings. Home renovation shows can do that to anyone. The problem is, though, that most people don’t have a production company budget and a huge crew behind them working around the clock to get the jobs done. Without money and time, fixer uppers stay fixer uppers. Not only can the novelty wear off fast, but what seemed like a huge savings quickly starts to look like a giant money pit.5. They prioritize the home over the neighborhood
When people start looking for that dream home in their dream neighborhood, many realize just how far outside their budgets dream homes can be, especially in big cities and affluent suburbs. It’s tempting to continue to look for that same dream home, just in a neighborhood that might not be as good.6. They put all their eggs in the online basket
The Internet has become an invaluable tool for home buyers. Searching through homes, researching neighborhoods, getting your credit score, and finding out what lenders are prepared to give has never been so easy. However, it’s still not as good as getting a reputable team of professionals who can physically meet with or at least speak with you in your corner.7. They spend all their money on the down payment
Putting down a 20% down payment on a home is often mandatory these days unless you’re interested in paying mortgage insurance. Many people save and scrape every last dollar they can get together for years in order to meet that 20 percent down payment figure and then as soon as they reach it, they go through the home buying process. Many people empty out their savings in order to meet the down payment, leaving themselves with nothing left over.8. They skip the home inspection
Skipping the home inspection might seem like a quick and easy way to save money for some people. The novelty and excitement of a new home make some people feel like there’s nothing that would possibly change their minds about wanting to buy it. That is until you’re moved in and realize that there are major and very costly maintenance issues such as mold, termites, a leaking roof, electrical issues or foundation problems
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Tuesday, July 7, 2015
Monday, July 6, 2015
Friday, July 3, 2015
Today starts the "Cherry Creek Arts Festival"
Today starts the "Cherry Creek Arts Festival"
Arts Organization Address: 2 Steele St B100, Denver, CO 80206 Phone:(303) 355-2787 Hours: Open today · 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
What does the 4th of July mean to you?
The Birth of American Independence
When the initial battles in the Revolutionary War broke out in April 1775, few colonists desired complete independence from Great Britain, and those who did were considered radical. By the middle of the following year, however, many more colonists had come to favor independence, thanks to growing hostility against Britain and the spread of revolutionary sentiments such as those expressed in Thomas Paine’s bestselling pamphlet “Common Sense,” published in early 1776. On June 7, when the Continental Congress met at the Pennsylvania State House (later Independence Hall) in Philadelphia, the Virginia delegate Richard Henry Lee introduced a motion calling for the colonies’ independence.
Amid heated debate, Congress postponed the vote on Lee’s resolution, but appointed a five-man committee–including Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, John Adams of Massachusetts, Roger Sherman of Connecticut, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania and Robert R. Livingston of New York–to draft a formal statement justifying the break with Great Britain.
Did You Know?
John Adams believed that July 2nd was the correct date on which to celebrate the birth of American independence, and would reportedly turn down invitations to appear at July 4th events in protest. Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on July 4, 1826--the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.On July 2nd, the Continental Congress voted in favor of Lee’s resolution for independence in a near-unanimous vote (the New York delegation abstained, but later voted affirmatively). On that day, John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail that July 2 “will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival” and that the celebration should include “Pomp and Parade…Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other.”
On July 4th, the Congress formally adopted the Declaration of Independence, which had been written largely by Jefferson. Though the vote for actual independence took place on July 2nd, from then on the 4th became the day that was celebrated as the birth of American independence.
Early Fourth of July Celebrations
In the pre-Revolutionary years, colonists had held annual celebrations of the king’s birthday, which traditionally included the ringing of bells, bonfires, processions and speechmaking. Festivities including concerts, bonfires, parades and the firing of cannons and muskets usually accompanied the first public readings of the Declaration of Independence, beginning immediately after its adoption. Philadelphia held the first annual commemoration of independence on July 4, 1777, while Congress was still occupied with the ongoing war.George Washington issued double rations of rum to all his soldiers to mark the anniversary of independence in 1778, and in 1781, several months before the key American victory at Yorktown, Massachusetts became the first state to make July 4th an official state holiday.
After the Revolutionary War, Americans continued to commemorate Independence Day every year, in celebrations that allowed the new nation’s emerging political leaders to address citizens and create a feeling of unity.
July 4th Becomes A National Holiday
The tradition of patriotic celebration became even more widespread after the War of 1812, in which the United States again faced Great Britain. In 1870, the U.S. Congress made July 4th a federal holiday; in 1941, the provision was expanded to grant a paid holiday to all federal employees. Over the years, the political importance of the holiday would decline, but Independence Day remained an important national holiday and a symbol of patriotism.Falling in mid-summer, the Fourth of July has since the late 19th century become a major focus of leisure activities and a common occasion for family get-togethers, often involving fireworks and outdoor barbecues. The most common symbol of the holiday is the American flag, and a common musical accompaniment is “The Star-Spangled Banner,” the national anthem of the United States.
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
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Happy Hour - Every Wednesday thru August 26th
Happy Hour
Every Wednesday thru August 26th
Denver Pavilions presents Happy-est Hour every Wednesday from 5 p.m to 6 p.m. in the heart of the 16th Street Mall through August 26. Thirty-five participating shops and restaurants will be offering special pricing on food, drinks, appetizers, gifts, merchandise, jewelry, candy, wine, cocktails, beer, snacks, clothing and more!
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