Posted on 04/01/2024 4:29:24 PM PDT by ransomnote
I’m here.
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:: Eagle floats in to rest on man’s ultralight glider. ::
Raven? Crow?
Def not an eagle.
Carrion bird.
:: There goes the Cow-Tipping Festival this year ::
Except in New Glarus, Wisconsin.
Where cow-tipping takes place everyday and all day long.
He gave an equivalent amount to the NYPD Fallen Officers fund.
That fund paid off the Diller’s mortgage.
BTW, doing it that way saves the family on taxes.
IIRC, benevolent fund money isn’t considered “income”, per se.
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Never forget.
Touching, soothing. I learned a long time ago not to swat at bees - or wasps. I suppose it was a good thing that they were not 'killer bees'. (?)
I had a hive appear in the wall of my 'shop' (shed) behind the house a couple of years ago. I hired a bee 'expert' to remove the hive; turns out he just exterminated them. sigh
😳
🐣🌷🐰🪻 Easter greetings, darling FRens. I’m in on this NY Primary Day!
trail markers?
portal?
The last living survivor of the USS Arizona, a battleship sunk in the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, has died aged 102.
Lou Conter passed away on Monday at his home in Grass Valley, California, after complications with congestive heart failure, his daughter Louann Daley said.
He was just 18 when he enlisted in the U.S. Navy and was a quartermaster who stood on the main deck of the Arizona when Japanese planes flew over and attacked on December 7, 1941.
“I said, “Ok, I’ll sign up”, so I signed up for four years, I was going to leave at 5:45 that night,’ Conter told KCRA.
The assault, which launched the United States into World War II, destroyed most of the fleet stationed at the Hawaii naval base and resulted in the deaths of more than 2,000 Americans.
Around 20 people who were at the surprise attack remain alive today.
As soon as they came in, we knew what was happening,’ he said.
‘We knew for six months we were training hard for fighting the Japanese at war. They were dive bombing, and they were right down the ship’s edge.’
‘We didn’t have time to look up and see what was coming. They were already right down at the water’s edge. It lasted for about 40 minutes. We took a 50-60-hundred-pound bomb alongside the number two turret.’
He added that even though they tried to fight back, ‘there was no time to do anything.’
‘It happened so fast,’ Conter said.
He went on to fly 200 combat missions in the Pacific with a ‘Black Cats’ squadron, which directed dive bombing at night in black-painted planes.
In 1943, he and his crew were shot down off the coast of New Guinea and landed in shark-infested waters.
‘Don’t ever panic in any situation. Survive is the first thing you tell them. Don’t panic or you’re dead,” he said. They were quiet and treaded water until another plane came hours later and dropped them a lifeboat,’ Conter recalled.
As an intelligence officer, he flew combat missions in Korea and created the Navy’s first SERE (survival, evasion, resistance and escape) program in the late 1950’s.
He retired in 1967 after serving 28 years in the U.S. Navy.
Aileen Utterdyke, president and CEO of Pacific Historic Parks, a non-profit that honors those who died in the attack, said that Conter’s death ‘is a heartbreaking loss.’
‘Lou Conter epitomized what it meant to be a member of the Greatest Generation, Americans whose collective courage, accomplishments and sacrifices saved our country from tyranny.’
‘He had an exemplary career in the Navy and was steadfast in imploring the schools, parents and everyday Americans to always remember Pearl Harbor.’
FWAFS
First Human Case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Flu Detected in Texas After Contact with Infected Dairy Cattle
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no more blue bell?
Thanks
‘Tipping’ Spotted Cow? I’m off New Glarus Brewery. It’s run by a female Socialist who is very vocal about her political beliefs.
I’ll not support Socialism with my dollars. :)
"Drop of Fuel pressure or machinery electrical computer system failure."
I did find a Michael Buckley - Care Business Partner - Maersk Line ... on LinkedIn, but I was not going to join to research further since I would have to join linked in. On its face, though, "Care Business Partner" does not sound like an Engineering position.
Poor ship power plant or computer system maintenance? Training or Personnel Issue? Hacking and Deliberate act? It will take an investigation to determine. Maintenance logs, computer logs, video record evidence that will end up in court at some point in order to determine liability. Courts, lawyers, judges...this may drag on for years. Everyone can make up their own minds at that point if they want to trust the investigators. (I think it most likely it is one of the first two.)
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