[Radix]

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[Radix]

Good Morning.

[SouthernHawk]

Good Morning Radix! Love the "A day in the Life" (especially the video). Good morning to our military
and good morning to the whole Canteen crew.

Warm up exercise for today . . . . .

Excuses for Sleeping at Work?
(Part 1)

They told me at the blood bank that this might happen.

This is just a 15 minute power nap like they raved about in that
time management course you sent me to.

I was working smarter - not harder.

Whew! I must have left the top off the whiteout.

I wasn’t sleeping! I was meditating on the mission statement and envisioning a new paradigm!

This is one of the seven habits of highly effective people!

I was testing the keyboard for drool resistance.

I’m in the management training program.

I’m actually doing a Stress Level Elimination Exercise Plan (SLEEP). I learned at the last
mandatory seminar you made me attend.

[Valin]

The 17th? :-)

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Click on the pic and I'll guide you
to the start of today's thread






Please Thank someone in the military for ensuring our Freedom.
Take a moment and Thank a Service Man or Woman.
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[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Would you please correct the date on the thread from the 17th to the 16th.
Thank You

[SouthernHawk]

Catch you when I can!Tell the Cubicle Police that I'm not missing.

(8:00, 10:00, 1:00 and 3:00 meetings today!)

[aomagrat]

Wednesday's weird warship, the Brazilian navy's Sao Paulo

Minas Geraes class battleship
Displacement. 19200 t.
Lenght. 540'
Beam. 83'
Draft. 25.5'
Speed 21 k.
Complement. 1200
Armament. 12 12"; 22 4.7"; 12 76mm; 12 47mm; 4 40mm.

The São Paulo is featured as a weird warship because she was the largest ship, and the only battleship to disappear in the Bermuda Triangle.

The São Paulo was launched on April 19,1909, her launch sponsor was Mrs. Regis de Oliveira, wife of presidente of São Paulo state. The São Paulo was commissioned on July 12,1910 and her first commander was the captain Francisco Marques Pereira de Sousa.

After commissioning she voyaged to Liverpool, UK to be laid up again for inspection by Brazilian naval engineers The people of Liverpool came to the port to see "The most powerful ship of world" as the local newspaper said at the time. And on trials she proved she was the best of her time, with runs at 21 knots, very fast for a battleship of the time, and had very successful full gun salvos, due to adequate freeboard for heavier seas.

On her first voyage she stopped at Cherbourg, French, to take on the new Brazilian president, the Marchal Hermes da Fonseca. On October 2,1910 she entered the Tejo river cruising to Lisboa, Portugal. The Portuguese Exterior Relation Minister Mr. José Azevedo Castelo Branco came on board São Paulo to welcome the ship. The same night the Portuguese Imperator Dom Manuel II himself came on board, and the Brazilian president and ship's officers dined at the Portuguese palace.

On October 3, 1910 the São Paulo witnessed the Portuguese rebellion that ended Imperator Dom Manuel II's reign. Hermes da Fonseca offered protection to the Imperial government but Dom Manuel II refused with thanks, preferring to stay and await the outcome.

São Paulo entered Rio de Janeiro port for the first time on October 25, 1910, and was immediately incorporated into the Center Naval Division.

In the early 1920s the Brazilian government planned on modernizing São Paulo similiar to Minas Geraes but this was cancelled and she remained much the way she was commissioned (including coal burning) for the rest of her career.

In World War II she operated as a floating static cannon battery at Port of Recife, Pernambuco state, and returned to Rio de Janeiro after the end of the war. She was placed into reserve on July 2,1947, and was then operated as a training ship.

She was decommissioned in 1951 and sold to an English shipyard for scrap. While being towed to England by a single tugboat through the Bermuda Triangle, she broke tow and disappeared the night of November 6, 1951. No trace of her or the 8 men onboard was ever found.

[tomkow6]

SALUTE!

 

 

[tomkow6]

Good morning, Mr. RADIX! Good morning, Canteen Crew! Good morning, EVERYBODY!

GOOD

MORNING

TROOPS!!

[tomkow6]

 

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[tomkow6]

Today's FEEBLE attempt at humor:

 

An elderly man stands in line for hours at a Warsaw meat store (meat is
severely rationed).  When the butcher comes out at the end of the day
and announces that there is no meat left, the man flies into a rage.

"What is this?" he shouts.  "I fought against the Nazis, I worked
hard all my life, I've been a loyal citizen, and now you tell me I
can't even buy a piece of meat?  This rotten system stinks!"

Suddenly a thuggish man in a black leather coat sidles up and murmurs
"Take it easy, comrade.  Remember what would have happened if you had
made an outburst like that only a few years ago" -- and he points an
imaginary gun to this head and pulls the trigger.

The old man goes home, and his wife says, "So they're out of meat again?"

"It's worse than that," he replies.  "They're out of bullets."

 

 

[Valin]

On This Day In History


Birthdates which occurred on July 16:
1704 John Kay England, machinist, invented flying shuttle
1723 Sir Joshua Reynolds England, portrait painter (Simplicity)
1746 Giuseppe Piazzi discovered 1st asteroid (Ceres)
1821 Mary Baker Eddy founded Christian Science (Science & Health)
1858 EugŠne Ysa˜e Belgium, violinist/conductor/composer (Pierill Hou‹ou)
1862 Ida B Wells famous African
1872 Roald Amundsen Norway, explorer, discovered South Pole
1887 "Shoeless" Joe Jackson black sox player (Say it aint so, Joe)
1888 Frits Zernike invented phase-contrast microscope (Nobel 1953)
1896 Trygve Lie 1st UN Secretary-General (1946-52)
1904 Goffredo Petrassi Zagarolo Italy, composer (Beatitudines)
1907 Barbara Stanwyck Bkln, actress (Dynasty II, Big Valley, Thorn Birds)
1907 Orville Redenbacher popcorn king (Orville Redenbacher's Gourmet)
1911 Ginger Rogers [Virginia McMath], Independence Mo, dancer/actress
1912 Ray Barr NYC, pianist (Vincent Lopez Show)
1915 Barnard Hughes Bedford Hills NY, (Tron, Where's Poppa, Best Friends)
1915 Laverne Andrews Minneapolis, Andrew Sister (or 0706)
1917 William Bishop Oak Park Ill, actor (Steve-It's a Great Life)
1924 Bess Myerson NYC, 1st Jewish Miss America (1945)
1925 Phillip Pine Hartford Ct, actor (Set-Up, Under the Ground)
1928 Bella Davidovich Baku Russia, pianist (Chopin, Beethoven, Ravel)
1932 Milly Vitale actress (7 Little Foys, War & Peace, Juggler)
1932 Oleg Protopopov Russia, olympic pairs skater (Gold 1964, 68)
1932 Richard L Thornburgh Penn, US Attorney General (1988- )
1936 Buddy Merrill Torrey Utah, guitarist (Lawrence Welk Show)
1939 Corin Redgrave London, actor (Excalibur, Man For All Seasons
1942 Desmond Dekker reggae pioneer (The Aces-Israelites)
1942 Margaret Smith Court Australia, tennis pro (1970 Grand Slam)
1948 Pinchas Zukerman Tel Aviv Israel, violinist/violist (Leventritt 1967)
1948 Rub‚n Blades salsa singer/actor (Critical Condition, Last Fight)
1949 Cyndy Garvey Detroit, wife of Steve Garvey, talk show host (AM LA)
1952 Stewart Copeland drummer (The Police-Roxanne)
1953 Philece Sampler San Angelo, Tx, actress (Another World)
1960 Gisela Beyer German DR, discus thrower (Olympics-4th place-1980)
1963 Phoebe Cates Manhattan NY, actress (Fast Times at Ridgemount High)
1969 Rain Pryor actress (Head of the Class)
1971 Corey Feldman Encino Calif, actor (License to Drive, Stand by Me)
1972 Mindy Carson NYC, vocalist (Club Embassy, Ford Star Revue)

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Deaths which occurred on July 16:
0276 Marcus Annius Florianus, emperor of Rome (276), murdered
1557 Anne of Cleeves, queen of England/4th wife of Henry VIII, dies at 41
1764 Ivan VI, Emperor of Russia (1740-41), murdered at 23
1882 Mary Todd Lincoln, the widow of Abraham Lincoln, dies of a stroke.
1918 Nicholas II Russian tsar, his tsarina & their 5 kids executed
1981 Harry Chapin dies at 39, of a heart attack when his car is rear-ended
1982 Patrick Dewaere actor, dies at 35 of self-inflicted gunshot wound
1984 Billy Williams singer (Your Show of Shows), dies at 73
1985 Wayne King orch leader (Wayne King Show), dies at 84
1991 Frank Rizzo (Mayor-D-Phila, 1972-80), dies from a heart attack at 70

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Reported: MISSING in ACTION


1968 NECO-QUINONES FELIX V. RIO PIEDRAS PR.
[02/12/73 RELEASED BY PRG]
1969 DAWSON JAMES V. ASHLAND KY.

POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.

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On this day...
463 Start of Lunar Cycle of Hilarius
622 Origin of the Islamic Era (Muharram 1, 1 AH)
1099 Crusaders herd Jews of Jerusalem into a synagogue & set it afire
1212 Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa; end of Moslem power in Spain
1429 Joan of Arc leads French army in Battle of Orleans
1439 Kissing is banned in England
1548 La Paz, Bolivia is founded
1769 Father Serra founds Mission San Diego, 1st mission in Calif
1775 John Adams graduates Harvard
1790 Congress establishes District of Columbia
1798 US Public Health Service established & US Marine Hospital authorized
1845 NY Yacht Club holds its 1st regatta
1862 David G Farragut became 1st rear admiral in US Navy
1893 A Charlois discovers asteroid #371 Bohemia
1894 Many negro miners in Alabama killed by striking white miners
1894 Treaty of Aoki-Kimberley signed between Japan & England
1898 A Charlois discovers asteroid #437 Rhodia
1904 Islands of the Manu'a group (Samoa) ceded to US by their chiefs
1909 AL's longest scoreless game, Senators & Tigers 0-0 in 18
1910 J Helffrich discovers asteroid #702 Alauda
1912 Naval torpedo launched from an airplane patented by B.A. Fiske
1920 Gen Amos Fries appointed 1st US army chemical warfare chief
1920 Ruth sets season home run record with 30 en route to 54
1920 US wins Davis Cup sweeping Australia in 5 straight matches
1926 National Geographic takes 1st natural-color undersea photos
1927 Augusto Sandino begins 5«-year war against US occupation of Nicaragua
1934 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1334 Lundmarka
1935 1st automatic parking meter in US installed, Oklahoma City, Ok
1936 1st x-ray photo of arterial circulation, Rochester, NY
1936 K Reinmuth discovers asteroids #1395 Aribeda & #1402 Eri
1936 NY Giants are 10« games back in NL, & go on to win the pennant
1941 100ø F (38ø C) highest temperature ever recorded in Seattle Wash
1941 Joe Dimaggio goes 3 for 4, hitting in his 56th straight game
1945 1st atomic bomb detonated, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico
1946 Attempt made to recall Mayor Lapham (1st time in SF history)
1947 Bobo Newsom wins 200th game, 1st as a Yankee & Yanks 18th straight In the nightcap Vic Rashi extends streak to 19
1948 Leo Durocher changes managership from Dodgers to Giants
1950 Single day 16 team HR record set at 37 (NL-25, AL-12)
1950 Uruguay beats Brazil 2-1 for soccer's 4th World Cup in Rio de Janeiro
1951 Novel "Catcher in the Rye" by JD Salinger published
1955 "Golden Horseshoe Revue" 1st of 50,000+ performances, Disneyland
1956 Detroit Tigers & Briggs Stadium sold for then record $5.5 million
1956 Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes part of Russian SFSR
1956 Last Ringling Bros, Barnum & Bailey Circus under a canvas tent
1957 Marine Maj John Glenn sets transcontinental speed record (03:28:08)
1960 205,000 (record sports attend) see Brazil-Uruguay World Cup soccer
1960 George Crowe sets record of 12 pinch hit HRs with a runner on
1961 Ralph Boston of the US, sets then long jump record at 27' 2"
1962 NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m
1964 In accepting the Republican presidential nomination in San Francisco, Barry M. Goldwater said "extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice" and that "moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."
1967 Prison brawl ignites barracks, killing 37 (Jay, Florida)
1969 Apollo 11, carrying 1st men to land on the Moon, launched
1970 Pitts Pirates replaces Forbes Field with 3 River Stadium
1973 During Watergate hearings, Butterfield reveals existence of tapes
1974 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #2964
1976 Rock duo Loggins & Messina break-up after 6 years
1980 Ronald Reagan nominated for Pres by Republicans in Detroit
1981 Shukuni Sasaki spins 72 plates simultaneously
1982 NASA launches Landsat 4 to thematic map the Earth
1983 20 killed in Britain's worst helicopter accident
1985 F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record of 1152 kph (716 mph)
1985 NL beats AL 6-1 in th All Star Game (HHH Metrodome, Minn)
1987 Don Mattingly hits his 4th grand slam of the season & ties AL record of homers in 6 straight games (on way to tie major league record of 8)
1988 Carl Lewis runs a wind-assisted 100 m in 9.78 sec
1988 Florence Joyner runs 100 m in women's world record 10.49 seconds
1988 Jackie Joyner-Kersee sets women's hepathlete record of 7,215 pts
1988 Michael J Fox marries Tracy Pollan
1988 San Antonio (Texas League) beats Jackson 1-0 in 26 innings
1988 Wayne Gretzky (NHL) & Janet Jones (Police Acad 5) wed in Edmonton
1990 400 die in a (7.7) earthquake in the Philippines
1990 NYC's Empire State Building catches fire-No fatalities
1990 Rick Dee's "Into the Night," premiers on ABC-TV
1992 To the dismay and anger of supporters, Ross Perot announced he would not run for president. He later changed his mind.
1992 A train carrying 2,200 tons of New York garbage that spent three weeks wending its way through the Midwest headed home for burial in a Staten Island landfill.

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Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
USA : Atomic Bomb Day.
Bolivia : La Paz Day (1548)
Wash DC : District of Columbia Day (1790)
National Peach Month

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Religious Observances
RC : Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mt Carmel (opt)
Feast of St Athenogenes
Feast of St Eustathius of Antioch
Feast of St Fulrad
Feast of St Helier

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Religious History
1054 The 'Great Schism' between the Western and Eastern churches began over rivalclaims of universal pre-eminence. (In 1965, 911 years later, Pope Paul VI and PatriarchAthenagoras I met to declare an end to the schism.)
1769 Spanish Franciscan missionary Father Junipero Serra founded the San Diego deAlcala mission in California -- the first permanent Spanish settlement on America's westcoast.
1863 Birth of Howard E. Smith, American church organist and composer of the melody tothe popular hymn, 'Love Lifted Me.'
1931 Death of C. T. Studd, 69, pioneer English missionary. He was one of the 'CambridgeSeven,' and worked on the mission field in China, India and Central Africa.
1944 German Lutheran theologian and Nazi martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in a letterfrom prison: 'One has to live for some time in a community to understand how Christ is"formed" in it (Gal 4:19).'

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

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Thought for the day :
"Two wrongs do not make a right, it usually takes three or more."

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Today's 'You Might Be A Redneck If' Joke...
"Taking a dip has nothing to do with water."

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Murphy's Law of the Day...
"Probability of failure of a component, assembly, subsystem or system is inversely proportional to ease of repair or replacement."

[tomkow6]

[MoJo2001]

Good morning, Radix!! Thank you for a fabulous thread! Thank goodness it's Pancakes and not Waffles! Have a great day!

[Fiddlstix]

Good Morning Everybody.

You Know The Drill
Click the Pics J

Coffee & Donuts J

[LadyHawk]

Hello everybody! Wishing all the troops in theater a great day!

Welcome to the canteen Centurion2000!

I had my pecan waffles, bacon and juice a little late, but boy did they hit the spot!

Hey, Kathy! I was thinking about you while I was stranded outside in the pouring rain! Hope you get some relief soon!

At-a-Boys for all the beautiful flowers, poems, goodies and sunset! Neat stuff!

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

This looks kinda scary:

A line in the sun

7/16/2003 - OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM -- A pararescueman assigned to the Oregon Air National Guard's 304th Rescue Squadron rappels from the Baghdad International Airport air traffic control tower during an exercise. Squadron airmen are deployed to the airport supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. James M. Bowman)

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Here's some pics from Yokosuka, Japan. The USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) is undergoing a shipyard period prior to being deployed in a forward area. The aircraft carrier's propellers are 22 ft. in diameter, brass, five-bladed, and weigh 66,200 pounds each.

030703-N-8218W-042 Naval Base Yokosuka, Japan (Jul. 3, 2003) -- A Japanese National worker stands on one of USS Kitty Hawk's (CV 63) screws prior to its removal for maintenance. Kitty Hawk is currently undergoing scheduled maintenance at Naval Base Yokosuka ensuring its ability, to continue to maintain a responsible defensive posture in the Western Pacific region. U.S. Navy photo by Chief Photographer's Mate Jerry Woller. (RELEASED)

030703-N-8218W-029 Naval Base Yokosuka, Japan (Jul. 3, 2003) -- Japanese National workers weld a pad eye to the hull of USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) in preparation to remove one of the ship’s screws. Kitty Hawk is currently undergoing scheduled maintenance at Naval Base Yokosuka ensuring its ability, to continue to maintain a responsible defensive posture in the Western Pacific region. U.S. Navy photo by Chief Photographer's Mate Jerry Woller. (RELEASED)