The FReeper Foxhole Enjoys a Lazy Sunday and a quick look at SLAM-ER - May 1st, 2005

http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/factfile/ ^

[snippy_about_it]

Lord,

Keep our Troops forever in Your care

Give them victory over the enemy...

Grant them a safe and swift return...

Bless those who mourn the lost.
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FReepers from the Foxhole join in prayer
for all those serving their country at this time.


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SLAM ER Missile Systems




Revised: 11 August 2003

Description: The AGM-84K Standoff Land Attack Missile-Expanded Response (SLAM-ER), an evolutionary upgrade to the combat-proven SLAM, is an air-launched, day/night, adverse weather, over-the-horizon, precision strike missile. SLAM-ER achieved IOC in June 2000.

Features: SLAM-ER addresses the Navy's requirements for a precision-guided Standoff Outside of Area Defense (SOAD) weapon. SLAM-ER provides an effective, long range, precision strike option for both pre-planned and Target of Opportunity attack missions against land and maneuvering ship targets.

Most significant characteristics are: a highly accurate, GPS-aided guidance system; an imaging infrared seeker and two-way data link with the AWW-13 Advanced Data Link pod for Man-In-The-Loop (MITL) control; improved missile aerodynamic performance characteristics that allow both long range and flexible terminal attack profiles; an ordnance section with good penetrating power and lethality; and a user-friendly interface for both MITL control and mission planning. SLAM-ER was the first weapon to feature Automatic Target Acquisition (ATA), a revolutionary technological breakthrough that helps improve target acquisition in cluttered scenes, overcomes most IR countermeasures, and mitigates the effects of environmentally degraded conditions. The SLAM-ER is also the first weapon system with a moving target capability from standoff ranges. The SLAM-ER can be launched and controlled by F/A-18C/D, P-3s, and S-3 platforms. It can also be controlled by the F/A-18E/F. The SLAM-ER is extremely accurate, and has the best Circular Area of Probable (CEP) in the U.S. Navy’s inventory. The SLAM-ER remains the U.S. Navy’s only precision SOAD weapon.

Background: SLAM-ER roots go back to the original Harpoon anti-ship missile placed in the fleet in the late 1970s. Because of emerging operational requirements, the Standoff Land Attack Missile (SLAM) was developed as a derivative of the Harpoon. This baseline SLAM missile system was developed and fielded in less than 48 months, and was successfully employed by F/A-18 and A-6 aircrews in Desert Storm even before operational testing had begun. The potential of SLAM spurred further development of its standoff capabilities to provide even greater improvements in range, accuracy, warhead penetration, dive angle and mission planning. Because of the Navy's growing focus on littoral warfare, SLAM-ER program initiatives were formalized in December 1994 when the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition gave the go-ahead to proceed with engineering and manufacturing development and accelerate SLAM-ER production and deployment to the Fleet.

General Characteristics
Primary Function: Long range, air-launched precision land and sea attack cruise missile
Contractor: The Boeing Company
Power Plant: Teledyne Turbojet
Thrust: Greater than 600 pounds
Length: 172 inches (4.4 m)
Weight: 1,488 pounds (674.5 kg)
Diameter: 13.5 inches (34.3 cm)
Wing Span: 7.2 feet (2.2 m)
Range: Over-the-horizon, in excess of 135 nautical miles (250 km)
Speed: High Subsonic
Guidance: Ring Laser Gyro Inertial Navigation System (INS) with multi-channel GPS; infrared seeker for terminal guidance with Man-in-the-Loop control data link from the controlling aircraft. Upgraded missiles incorporate Automatic Target Acquisition (ATA)
Unit Cost: $500,000
Date Deployed: June 2000

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[snippy_about_it]

Good morning everyone. I picked todays weapon profile just because I liked the looks of it. :-) Enjoy your Sunday.

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[Soaring Feather]

To SamWolf and his Daughter

bentfeather

[Don W]

Good morning Snippy and other fellow Foxhole-ers.

Nothing pithy or wise from me this morning, at least until my coffee is down the gullet.

[E.G.C.]

((HUGS))Good morning to everyone at the Freeper Foxhole.

[Soaring Feather]

Good morning everyone.

[Soaring Feather]

Good morning HUGS to you E.G.C.!!

[SAMWolf]

Today is my daughters graduation from college.
I get to be the very, very proud dad. :-)

Advice to a Graduate



To live a successful life
Does not require
Money, fame, power, prestige
Or status symbols...

It's more a matter of
Being true to your beliefs and principles,
Doing your best,
Even in the smallest of things,
And never taking for granted
The simple joys in life -
Such as laughter, a perfect day,
Or a loyal friend.

For all the money in the world
Can't buy self-esteem, character,
Contentment, love or happiness -
And these are the very things
That make life
Worth living.

However you define
Happiness and success,
May you find and enjoy them
Every day of your life.

Anonymous

Life's Rules

Life is not fair. Get used to it.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

Life is not divided into semesters, and you won't get summers off.

Very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.

Your school may have done away with winners and losers but life has not.

In some schools they have abolished failing grades; they'll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This, of course, doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Sorry, but you won't make $40,000 a year right out of College.

And you won't be a vice president with a car phone until you earn both.

Flipping burgers is NOT beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.

If you mess up it's not your parent's fault. Don't whine about your mistakes. Learn from them.

The real world won't care about your self-esteem. It'll expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Before you were born your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning up your room and listening to you tell them how idealistic you are.

Smoking does not make you look cool. It makes you look moronic.

You are not immortal.

Always say "Thank You," even if you don't mean it.

You may be an idiot, but try not to be stupid.

Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

People not to talk back to: 1) Your teacher; 2) 1st Sergeants; 3) The police; 4) Your mama.

Love, Dad

[E.G.C.]

((HUGS))Back at 'ya. How's it going?

[Aeronaut]

Good morning Snippy.

[Soaring Feather]

Going well thanks. Some sun today off and on. Temps are in the 40s.

[w_over_w]

Morning Glory Folks~

Magnificent technology. Now all we need to do is keep Republicans ins the WH and in the majority so we can continue to PROTECT this technology from the RATs that always sell us out.

[w_over_w]

Congratulations as well and thanks for sharing the "advice". Think I'll copy and save it to a word file so I can give it to my daughter in four years.

It's funny (or maybe not), but I work with adults that need to read the "Life's Rules" list.

[snippy_about_it]

Nothing pithy or wise from me this morning, at least until my coffee is down the gullet.

LOL. On Sunday, it's not required. That's why I call it "Lazy Sunday". The day my brain is allowed to rest!

[snippy_about_it]

((Hugs))

[snippy_about_it]

Good morning feather.

[snippy_about_it]

Life's Rules

All of these are perfect, hard to pick a favorite. Congrats on you eldest child's graduation. I'll try and hold down the fort without you today. :-)

[snippy_about_it]

Good Morning sweetie.

[w_over_w]

Hey Sweets~

Thanks so much for the WBC news letter. It's cool being part of a group of people that enjoy attracting birds to their backyards.

BTW, here's an idea for a future article . . . "If a Dumb Jock can attract wild birds, so can you!" Catchie huh?

[stand watie]

HI, snippy, et.al.

free dixie HUGS, duckie/sw

[The Mayor]

May 1, 2005

May Day

Read:
Genesis 8:15-22

While the earth remains . . . day and night shall not cease. -Genesis 8:22

Bible In One Year: Psalm 61-63

When I was a young girl in West Michigan, we always celebrated spring and the blooming of the first flowers on May 1. I'd make a basket out of construction paper and fill it with any flowers I could find-mostly daffodils and violets. Then I would place the basket on my neighbor's doorstep, knock on her door, and quickly hide behind a bush. I'd peek out to watch her as she opened the door and picked up her surprise. When she went inside, I'd run home.

The beauty of springtime flowers and the regular changing of the seasons reminds us of God's faithfulness. When Noah and his family and the animals came out of the ark after the flood waters receded, God gave them this promise: "While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease" (Genesis 8:22). And He's been faithful to keep that promise ever since. God "made the worlds," and He continues to uphold "all things by the word of His power" (Hebrews 1:2-3).

Let's thank God today for His beautiful creation and for His faithfulness in sustaining His world and us. -Anne Cetas

For the beauty of each hour
Of the day and of the night,
Hill and vale and tree and flower,
Sun and moon and stars of light,
Lord of all, to Thee we raise
This our hymn of grateful praise. -Pierpoint

Look at the wonder of creation and say, "What a wonderful God!"

FOR FURTHER STUDY
Celebrating The Wonder Of Creation
God's Good Earth

[GailA]

Good afternoon, we are at about 70 right now. Sun, no rain in sight.

[Professional Engineer]

Good afternoon ladies. Flag-o-Gram.

Slot shot

NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. -- A view of the Thunderbirds from the slot position during the famed diamond takeoff. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Sean M. White)

Yes, there really is a flag size

[Professional Engineer]

Yawn, mornin' ma'am.

[Professional Engineer]

Hi miss Feather.

After church, we had b0runch with Msdrby's mom. Bitty Girl had a "big kid" order of Freedom Toast.

[Professional Engineer]

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

ROFL. After I graduated from college, I visited home for a few weeks. One night, my dad and I went out for dinner.

At the restaraunt, the most popular kid from my high school class approached us and said, "Hi, I'm Chris, and I'll be your server this evening".

I was VERY hard for me to keep quiet, and not laugh.

[Soaring Feather]

Afternoon, PE. What is Freedom toast??

[snippy_about_it]

"If a Dumb Jock can attract wild birds, so can you!" Catchie huh?

I could just post a picture of you in your old uniform and say "If this guy can get birds to his backyard...."

Hey, you left the door for that wide open. :-)

[snippy_about_it]

!!!!!

[snippy_about_it]

Good afternoon Mayor.

[snippy_about_it]

Ah, Nellis. My mom worked at the PX there and dated a pilot who was based there. I was pre-teen when I lived there. She used to take us for walks across the desert for something to do. It took all day to walk from LV to the base, get a sidewalk sundae ice cream bar and walk back.

[Valin]

On this Day In History


Birthdates which occurred on May 01:
1238 Magnus VI Lagabuter King of Norway (1263-80)
1245 Philippe III Poissy Yvelines France, King of France (1270-85)
1493 Phillippus Paracelsus Switzerland, physician/alchemist
1672 Joseph Addison England, essayist (Spectator)
1735 John H van Kinsbergen Dutch Lieutenant-Admiral/founder of Dutch Marines Corps
1764 Benjamin Henry Latrobe engineer/architect (built Capitol)
1771 George Guest composer
1800 Ret Thomas Aloysius Dornin Commander (Union Navy), died in 1874
1807 John Bankhead "Prince John" Magruder Major General (Confederate Army)
1819 William Steele Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1885
1825 George Inness US landscape painter ("Delaware Water Gap")
1830 Mary Harris Jones [Mother Jones], anarchist
1835 Alfred Napoleon Alexander "Natti" Duffie Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1851 Eberhard Nestle German oriëntalist/biblical scholar
1852 Calamity [Martha] Jane [Burke] frontier adventurer/Indian fighter
1881 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin France, philosopher/paleontologist
1896 Mark Clark, American general
1905 Nikolai Tikhonov Soviet PM (1980-85)
1907 Kate Smith Greenville AL, singer (God Bless America)/Philadelphia Flyer's good luck charm
1910 Cliff Battles Akron OH, NFL hall of famer (Braves, Redskins)
1916 Glenn Ford Québec Canada, actor (Cade's County, Big Heat, Midway)
1916 Jack Parr Canton OH, TV host (Jack Paar Show)
1919 Dan O'Herlihy Ireland, actor (Fail Safe, Last Starfighter, Robocop)
1922 Louis Nye Hartford CT, comedian (Steve Allen, Happy Days)
1923 Joseph Heller Brooklyn NY, novelist (Catch-22, 1963 Arts & Letters Award)
1925 Malcolm Scott Carpenter Boulder CO, astronaut (Mercury 7-Aurora 7)
1927 Harry [Harold George Jr] Belafonte New York NY, calypso singer (The Banana Boat Song)
1929 Sonny James [James Loden] Hackelburg AL, country singer (Young Love)
1930 Little Walter [Marion Walter Jacobs] blues harmonica
1939 Judy Collins Seattle WA, singer (Send in the Clowns, Both Sides Now, Clouds)
1944 Rita Coolidge Nashville TN, singer/delta lady (Higher & Higher, We're All Alone)
1948 James Wise US soul singer (Archie Bell & the Drells)
1949 Douglas Barr Cedar Rapids IA, actor (Howie-The Fall Guy)
1954 Ray Parker Jr Detroit MI, rock guitarist/vocalist (Ghostbusters-Who You Gonna Call?)
1958 John Diehl Cincinnati OH, actor (Detective Zito-Miami Vice)
1966 Johnny Colt Cherry Point NC, rock bassist (Black Crowes-Shake Your Money Maker)
1971 Jamie Marie Swenson Miss USA-South Dakota (1997)
1973 Curtis Martin NFL running back (New England Patriots)

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Deaths which occurred on May 01:
1171 Dermot MacMurrough last Irish king of Leinster, dies
1308 Albrecht I van Habsburg German King (1298-1308), murdered
1471 Thomas a Kempis spiritual writer (The Imitation of Christ), dies at 91
1555 Marcellus II [Marcello Cervini] Italian Pope (1555), dies at 53
1572 Pius V [Antonio Ghislieri] great-inquisiteur/Pope (1566-72), dies
1703 Kiva Yoshinaka Japanese monarch, murdered
1863 Edward Dorr Tracy US Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 29
1869 ? colt reported killed by a meteorite near New Concord OH
1873 David Livingstone British physician/explorer (Africa), dies at 60
1896 Naser ed-Din shah of Persia (1848-96), murdered at 65
1902 John Glover English chemist (production sulfuric acid), dies at 85
1904 Antonín Dvorak Czechoslovakia, composer (New World Symphony), dies at 62
1926 Nicolaus Adriani translator (Middle-Celebes Language), dies at 60
1932 Paul Doumer President of France (1931-32), assassinated by Russia's Paul Gargalov
1945 Paul Josef Goebbels Nazi minister on propoganda, commits suicide with wife and 8 children
1948 Christos Ladas Greek minister of Justice, murdered
1952 William Fox [Fried] US film pioneer (Nickelodeon), dies at 73
1954 Tom Tyler actor (Lost Ranch, Coyote Trails), dies at 50
1965 Spike Jones composer (Spike Jones Show), dies at 53
1982 Gene Sheldon actor (Bernardo-Zorro), dies at 72
1990 Sunset Carson cowboy actor (El Paso Kid, Oregon Trail), dies at 62
1991 Richard Thorpe director (Jailhouse Rock, Night Must Fall), dies
1993 Pierre Bérégovoy PM of France (1992-93), commits suicide at 67
1993 Ranasinghe Premadasa President (Sri Lanka, 1989-93), assassinated at 68
1997 Bebe AKA Flipper, dolphin, dies at 40
1998 Eldridge Cleaver ex-Black Panther leader dies at 62.
2000 Steve Reeves, actor, died age 74. (“Hercules,” “The Last Days of Pompeii,” and “Duel of the Titans.”)

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GWOT Casualties

Iraq
01-May-2003 1 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Private 1st Class Jesse Alan Givens Al Habbaniyah Non-hostile - vehicle accident

01-May-2004 4 | US: 4 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Specialist Trevor A. Wine Balad (31st CS Hospital) Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Sergeant Joshua S. Ladd Qarrayah (S of) [nr. Mosul] Hostile - hostile fire
US Staff Sergeant Oscar D. Vargas-Medina Al Amarah (S of) Hostile - hostile fire
US Specialist Ramon C. Ojeda Al Amarah (S of) Hostile - hostile fire


Afghanistan
119 05/01/04 Witkowski, Phillip L. Specialist 24 Army 7th Field Artillery Regiment, 25th Infantry Division Non-hostile - non-combat related injuries

http://icasualties.org/oif/
Data research by Pat Kneisler
Designed and maintained by Michael White

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On this day...
0305 Emperor Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus Jovius of Rome resigns
1006 Supernova observed by Chinese & Egyptians in constellation Lupus
1528 Pánfilo the Narvaéz begins exploration to with 350 men to Florida
1544 Turkish troops occupy Hungary
1551 Council of Trente resumes
1682 Louis XIV & his court inaugurate Paris Observatory
1703 Battle at Rultusk: Swedish army defeats the Russians
1704 Boston Newsletter publishes 1st newspaper ad
1707 England, Wales & Scotland form UK of Great Britain
1715 Prussia declares war on Sweden
1751 1st American cricket match is played (due to end next week)
1757 Austria & France divide Prussia
1776 Adam Weishaupt founds the secret society of Illuminati
(don't tell anyone, it's a secret)
1777 RB Sheridans "School for Scandal" premieres in London
1786 Mozart's opera "Marriage of Figaro" premieres in Wien (Vienna)
1822 John Phillips becomes 1st mayor of Boston
1840 1st adhesive postage stamps ("Penny Blacks" from England) issued
1841 1st emigrant wagon train leaves Independence MO for California
1844 Samuel Morse sends 1st telegraphic message
1844 Whig convention nominates Henry Clay as presidential candidate
1846 Ida Pfeiffer (48) begins trip around world
1851 Great Exhibition opens in London's Hyde Park, at Crystal Palace
1853 Argentina adopts its constitution
1857 William Walker, conqueror of Nicaragua, surrenders to US Navy
1861 Lee orders Confederate troops under T J Jackson to Harper's Ferry
1862 Union captain David Farragut conquers New Orleans
1863 Battle of Chancellorsville VA (29,000 injured or died)
1863 Battle of Port Gibson, Mississippi
1863 Confederate "National Flag" replaces "Stars & Bars"
1863 Confederate congress passed resolution to kill black soldiers
1864 Atlanta campaign, Georgia
1864 Battle at Alexandria LA (Red River Campaign)
1864 Wilderness campaign
1866 American Equal Rights Association forms
1867 Howard University chartered
1867 Reconstruction of South begins, black voter registration
1869 "Folies-Bergère" opens in Paris France
1869 A colt is reported killed by a meteorite near New Concord OH
1873 1st US postal card issued
1873 Emperor Franz Jozef opens 5th World's Fair in Wien (Vienna)
1875 238 members of "Whiskey Ring" accused of anti-US activities
1877 President Rutherford B. Hayes withdrew all Federal troops from the South, ending Reconstruction.
1883 "Buffalo Bill" Cody put on his 1st Wild West Show
1883 Baseball returns to Philadelphia, 1st National League game since 1876
1884 Construction begins on Chicago's 1st skyscraper (10 stories!)
1884 Moses Walker became 1st black player in the major league
1886 US general strike for 8 hour day, begins
1889 1st International Workers Day, according to the 2nd International
1889 Bayer introduces aspirin in powder form (Germany)
1891 Cy Young pitches 1st game played in Cleveland's League Park Cleveland Spiders 12, Cincinnati Redlegs 3
1898 George Dewey commands, "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley" as US route Spanish fleet at Manila
1900 Premature blast collapses mine tunnel killing 200 at Scofield UT
1901 Detroit Tigers commit 12 errors against Chicago White Sox

1901 Herb McFarland hit 1st grand slam in the American League

1901 Pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo
1908 World's most intense rain shower (2.47" in 3 minutes) at Portobelo Panamá
1912 Beverly Hills Hotel opens
1915 British Lusitania leaves New York, for Liverpool
1915 German submarine sinks US ship Gulflight
1919 Mount Kelud (Indonesia) erupts, boiling crater lake which broke through crater wall killing 5,000 people in 104 small villages
1920 Babe Ruth's 1st Yankee homerun & 50th of career, out of Polo Grounds
1922 Charlie Robertson of Chicago pitches a perfect game
1923 49th Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Zev wins in 2:05.4
1925 Cyprus becomes a British Crown Colony
1926 Satchel Paige makes pitching debut in Negro Southern League
1927 1st British airliner to serve cooked meals (Imperial Airways)
1928 Drunken fascist Erich Wichman attacks VARA-radio transmitter
1929 Brooklyn's Johnny Finn sets 100 yard sack race in 14.4 seconds
1929 Police kill 19 Mayday demonstrators in Berlin
1931 Empire State Building opens in New York NY
1931 Singer Kate Smith begins her long-running radio program on CBS
1934 Philippine legislature accepts US proposal for independence
1935 Boulder Dam completed
1936 Emperor Haile Selassie leaves Ethiopia as Italian invades
1936 FBI's J Edgar Hoover arrests Alvin Karpis
1937 FDR signs act of neutrality
1939 Batman Comics hit the street
1939 Pulitzer Prize awarded to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (The Yearling)
1940 140 Palestinian Jews die as German planes bomb their ship
1941 "Citizen Kane", directed by & starring Orson Welles, premieres in New York
1941 General Mills introduces Cheerios
1941 German assault on Tobruk
1942 Radio Orange calls to defy order to wear "Jewish star"
1943 69th Kentucky Derby: Johnny Longden aboard Count Fleet wins in 2:04
1943 British India SN Company troop transport in convoy with 23 merchantmen and escorted by eleven destroyers, was bound for Malta. When some 30 miles north of Benghazi, the convoy was attacked by German bombers and torpedo carrying aircraft. On board the Erinpura (Capt.P.V. Cotter) were 1,025 troops. One large bomb exploded in the hold sinking the ship in a matter of minutes. Forty four crewmembers, three gunners and an unspecified number of troops were lost. On the same day, near the Tunisian coast, another troopship (name unknown) was torpedoed and sank. On board were a number of troops from Basutoland (later Lesotho) who were serving with the British Eighth Army. In this tragic sinking, 618 Basutos lost their lives.
1943 Food rationing begins in US
1944 Messerschmitt Me-262 Sturmvogel, first operational jet aircraft (twin-jet fighter), makes 1st flight
1945 Admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government
1945 Radio Budapest, Hungary re-enters shortwave broadcasting after WWII
1946 Fieldmarshal Montgomery appointed British supreme commander
1946 Mrs Emma Clarissa Clement named "American Mother of the Year"
1947 Radar for commercial & private planes 1st demonstrated
1948 74th Kentucky Derby: Eddie Arcaro aboard Citation wins in 2:05.4; this is Arcaro's 4th win
1948 Glenn Taylor, Idaho Senator, arrested in Birmingham AL for trying to enter a meeting through a door marked "for Negroes"
1948 North Korea proclaims itself People's Democratic Republic of Korea
1948 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Auspicia quaedam
1949 A's Elmer Valo is 1st American League'er to hit 2 bases-loaded triples in a game
1949 Gerard Kuiper discovers Nereid, (2nd satellite of Neptune)
1951 Mickey Mantle's 1st homerun
1951 Minnie Minoso becomes the 1st black to play for the White Sox
1952 Marines take part in an atomic explosion training in Nevada
1952 TWA introduces tourist class (mooooo)
1954 80th Kentucky Derby: Raymond York aboard Determine wins in 2:03
1957 Larry King's 1st radio broadcast
1957 US give Poland credit of $95 million
1959 Floyd Patterson KOs Brian London in 11 for heavyweight boxing title

1960 Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane over Sverdlovsk

1961 1st US airplane hijacked to Cuba
1961 Fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba
1962 Bo Belinsky pitches a no-hitter, in his 4th start
1962 France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
1963 1st American (James Whittaker) conquers Mount Everest
1963 Indonesia takes control of Irian Jaya (west New Guinea) from Netherlands
1964 1st BASIC program runs on a computer (Dartmouth)
1965 91st Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker on Lucky Debonair wins in 2:01.2
1966 Last British concert by the Beatles (Empire Pool in Wembley)
1967 Anastasio Somoza Debayle becomes President of Nicaragua
1967 Elvis Presley & Pricilla Beaulieu wed in Las Vegas
1968 Phillies J Boozer is ejected for throwing spitballs during his warmup
1971 Amtrak railroad begins operation
1971 Rolling Stones release "Brown Sugar"
1976 102nd Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero Jr on Bold Forbes wins in 2:01.6
1978 1st black mayor of New Orleans (Ernest Morial) inaugurated
1978 Naomi Uemura became 1st to reach North Pole overland alone
1979 Elton John becomes 1st pop star to perform in Israel
1981 Billie Jean King admits to a lesbian affair with Marilyn Barnett
1981 Harrison Williams (Senator-D-NJ) convicted on FBI Abscam charges
1981 Radio Shack releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3
1982 108th Kentucky Derby: Ed Delahoussaye on Gato Del Sol wins in 2:02.4
1983 Nolan Ryan surpasses Walter Johnson for most strikeouts (3,508)
1985 US President Reagan ends embargo against Nicaragua
1986 Bill Elliott sets stock car speed record of 212.229 mph
1986 Tass reports Chernobyl nuclear power plant mishap
1987 Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish born nun
1990 Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev and other Kremlin leaders are jeered by thousands of people during the annual May Day parade in Red Square.
1991 Angola's civil war ends
1991 A's Rickey Henderson breaks Lou Brocks record with his 939th steal (vs Yankees)
1992 Rickey Henderson steals his 1,000th base
1993 119th Kentucky Derby: Jerry Bailey aboard Sea Hero wins in 2:02.4
1993 Bomb attack on Sri Lankan President (26 die)
1994 Charles Kuralt retires as CBS newsman (On the Road)
1996 Gerald Williams is 1st New York Yankee since 1934 to get 6 hits in a game
1997 Toni Blair elected PM of UK
1997 Int’l. committee agreed to create 7 new (WWW) World Wide Web domains. The new suffixes would be: .firm, .store, .web, .arts, .rec, .info and .nom for individuals
1999 Charismatic, a 31-1 long shot, won the 125th Kentucky Derby in Louisville. It was the third highest payoff in Derby history.
2001 FBI Director Louis Freeh announced his retirement.
2001 Thomas Blanton Jr. became the second ex-Ku Klux Klansman to be convicted in the 1963 bombing of a church in Birmingham, Ala., that claimed the lives of four black girls. Sentenced to four life sentences
2003 Three top members of Saddam Hussein's ousted regime: Mizban Khadr Hadi (military commander), Abdel Tawab Mullah Huweish (director of the Office of Military Industrialization and a deputy prime minister in charge of arms procurement), and Taha Muhie-eldin Marouf (a Kurd who served as one of two ceremonial vice presidents), were captured.

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Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

World : Workers Day, Law Day, Loyalty Day
World : Save the Rhino Day
Italy : Festival of St. Efisio
Belgium : Festival of St. Evermaar
Finland : Vappu Day
Hawaii : Lei Day
India : Maharashtra Day (1960
Turkey : Commemoration of Yunus Emre
Massachusetts : Senior Citizens' Day (1963)
Pennsylvania : Americanism Day
US : Child Health Day
US : Dewey Day (Battle of Manila Bay) (1898)
US : Bird Day
US : Mother Goose Day
Correct Posture Month

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Religious Observances
Roman Catholic : Memorial of St Joseph the Workman, stepfather of Jesus (optional)
Anglican, Lutheran : Feast of SS Philip & James, apostles

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Religious History
1501 In his encyclical "Ad ea quae circa decorem," Pope Alexander VI sanctioned the Minim Friars, a religious order founded by Francis of Paola (1416-1507) in 1435.
1740 English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in his journal: 'Lord, show that Thou dost love me, by humbling and keeping me humble as long as I live. The means I leave to Thee.'
1845 At a convention in Louisville, KY, the Methodist Episcopal Church, South was organized as a new denomination, separate from its parent, the Methodist Episcopal Church.
1933 The first issue of "The Catholic Worker" was published. Founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, the monthly newspaper promoted social reconstruction through shared farming and housing for the urban poor.
1939 "Back to the Bible Broadcast" was launched by founder Theodore Epp, in Lincoln, Nebraska. Today, over 600 radio stations nationwide carry the program.

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

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Thought for the day :
"Adults are obsolete children"

[Valin]

What is Freedom toast??

It used to be called French Toast

[The Mayor]

Hi Snippy!

[Valin]

At first I thought this was a thread about Hammers Slammers

The Hammer's Slammers Handbook
by John Lambshead & John Treadaway

http://david-drake.com/HSHandbook/HSHandbookTOC.html

[snippy_about_it]

Neat links. Thanks Valin.

[PhilDragoo]

CLICK SLAM-ER FOR BOEING SITE

CLICK SLAM-ER FOR DEFENSE UPDATE

SLAM-ER Photo Album

Boeing SLAM-ER Successful in
Automatic Target Acquistion Launch

1931 Empire State Building opens in New York NY
Mighty Kong Welcomes New Graduates to Real World

[snippy_about_it]

Cool links and lots of neat pictures. Thanks Phil.

[alfa6]

Man has it been a busy weekend, spent the last day and a half getting the latest "WHIP" wrapped up. Still have a few things to do, like hang the bedroom door, but we were able to get everything done the HAD to be done so we could start moving out of daughters room as she come home from college next Thursday.

A big ol lift of the alfa6 lid to SAM's daughter for getting through college, YEAHH. Now the real fun begins, reality!!! Here's hoping that all your problems are small and all your opportunities are big :-)

Speaking of college Mrs alfa6 and I took a small road trip to Warrensburg, MO to bring back a full pickup load of the daughters stuff. Thursday I get to go and bring another pick up load and the daughter back for the summer. Only one more year and my daughter will graduate.

A couple of pics of the almost completed "WHIP"

A pic of War Zone 1, aka the sewing room, from Sat evening, cleanup in progress :-)

A pic from inside War Zone 1 showing off the "bookcase" that we added.

Amd a pic of the bedroom, aka War Zone 2, just started moving things back in, YEAHHHH

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[snippy_about_it]

Nice job there alfa6.

[Professional Engineer]

1923 Joseph Heller Brooklyn NY, novelist (Catch-22, 1963 Arts & Letters Award)

Yossarian looked at him soberly and tried another approach. "Is Orr crazy?"

"He sure is," Doc Daneeka said.

"Can you ground him?"

"I sure can but first he has to ask me to. That's part of the rule."

"Then why doesn't he ask you to?"

"Because he's crazy," Doc Daneeka said. "He has to be crazy to keep flying combat missions after all the close calls he's had. Sure I can ground Orr. But first he has to ask me to."

"That's all he has to do to be grounded?"

"That's all. Let him ask me."

"And then you can ground him?" Yossarian asked.

"No, then I can't ground him."

"You mean there's a catch?"

"Sure there is a catch," Doc Daneeka replied. "Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy."

[Professional Engineer]

1925 Malcolm Scott Carpenter Boulder CO, astronaut (Mercury 7-Aurora 7)

[Professional Engineer]

Nice!

[Victoria Delsoul]

Great pics, Phil. Thanks.

[alfa6]

Thanks, the Mrs and I figured it up the other night and all I have done for the last 6 years, except for one summer or so is work on houses. This project pretty well wraps up my house as far as renovation goes. There is only a two small hal;lways left with the plaster/lath and there is a good chance they willl stay that way :-)

How about a nice pic to wrap up the weekend, just picked up this pic of the Collins Foundation B-17 Nime-O-Nine earlier this evening.

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[snippy_about_it]

I think you've earned a well deserved break this summer to enjoy just sitting around admiring your work.

[Professional Engineer]

Wow! Nice plane.

[alfa6]

I still have plenty to do, like build a playground for the grandkids, but those projects are not on a time schedule.

Hey if I don't get it done this weekend, I can finish it next weekend. He He He He

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[Valin]

Missed a spot. :-)