The plant manager resigned. Very likely he was given some incentive to resign. Here’s a tip for detecting a sudden departure before it’s been announced: everyone who knows about it is having a good day. If they told you they were having a bad day you might ask why and they would have to think Click Here to continue reading.
I am a spoiled brat. This is the cause of many of my personality defects.
Last night, I had sandwiches, sweet corn, and lemonade for supper. The sandwiches were made of homemade pheasant bread, marinated chicken, homemade pickles, and tomatoes fresh from the garden. The sweet corn was also fresh from the garden and it Click Here to continue reading.
Joe Galloway writing on Michale Yon’s site….
Their story was told in a book my buddy Lt. Gen. Hal Moore and I wrote 15 years ago titled “We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young” and in the Mel Gibson movie, “We Were Soldiers,” released in the spring of 2002. Too Tall and Old Snake were ably portrayed in the movie.
Their argument over which of them is the Best Pilot in the Whole World sadly came to an end this week when our friend and comrade-in-arms Maj. Ed (Too Tall to Fly) Freeman slipped the surly bonds of earth and headed off to Fiddler’s Green, where the souls of departed cavalrymen gather by dispensation of God Himself.
Too Tall Ed was 80 years old when he died in a hospital in Boise, Idaho, after long being ill with Parkinson’s disease. He turned down a full dress hero’s funeral in Arlington National Cemetery in favor of a hometown service and burial in the National Cemetery in Boise, close to the rivers he loved to fish and the mountains he flew through in his second career flying for the U.S. Forest Service.
From The Telegraph…..
The latest data from the Bank of Spain shows that the country’s banks have increased their ECB borrowing to a record €49.6bn (£39bn). A number have been issuing mortgage securities for the sole purpose of drawing funds from Frankfurt.
From Live Science….
Something beneath the surface is changing Earth’s protective magnetic field, which may leave satellites and other space assets vulnerable to high-energy radiation.
The gradual weakening of the overall magnetic field can take hundreds and even thousands of years. But smaller, more rapid fluctuations within months may leave satellites unprotected and catch scientists off guard, new research finds.
A new model uses satellite data from the past nine years to show how sudden fluid motions within the Earth’s core can alter the magnetic envelope around our planet. This represents the first time that researchers have been able to detect such rapid magnetic field changes taking place over just a few months.
This week’s poem of the week is Joel Dueck’s poem “Soar.” Rundy took the name of his new web site from this poem.
Paul Krugman is smart. There is no denying that. But he has established a well deserved reputation for being unfair and vindictive. Thus we are surprised to find ourselves making one of his columns rant of the week.
But his column entitled “The Great Illusion” is right on the money. The points he makes have been made by many others, but rarely so concisely.
Long time readers will remember that Full Circle was one of our first essays of the week back when we were getting started. Now Rundy (The Silverware Thief) has a web site up devoted to chronicling his care for Grandpa called As We Lived Before. Most of the essays on this site have never been made public before now. That includes this week’s essay of the week entitled “Bad Night, Bad Day.”
Britain’s honeybees have suffered catastrophic losses this year, according to a survey of the nation’s beekeepers, contributing to a shortage of honey and putting at risk the pollination of fruits and vegetables.
The survey by the British Beekeepers’ Association (BBKA) revealed that nearly one in three of the UK’s 240,000 honeybee hives did not survive this winter and spring.