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The university said Wooden died Friday night of natural causes at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. He was 99. RIP Coach. You were the best.

What Is "Generation Y"??? Well, I've always wondered about this myself. And now I know. People born before 1946 were called "The Silent Generation". "The Baby Boomers", are people born between 1946 and 1959. "Generation X", are the people who have been born between 1960 and 1979. And "Generation Y", are the people born between 1980 and 2009. So, why do we call the last group "Generation Y"? I never really knew until I saw a cartoon which explained it very eloquently below...& sure makes sense doesn't it?! * * * * * * * *

Happy Birthday Deacon! Hope you get what you wanted for your birthday! I'm still waiting for mine. Been a couple birthdays now and still waiting...and waiting...

Seafood? Hell I can barely afford tubesteak. Hope the WWII surplus cheese and WWI surplus powdered eggs get me through this current economic downturn.

Morning. 68F and muggy. Storms off and on all day and tonight. High of 80F.

Sealright Company Ad - June 1944 1940: Home Defense commander Ironside announces the creation of the ‘lronsides’, small groups of highly mobile, armed men for defense against parachutists. 1940: The Germans begin 'Operation Red', the ‘Battle of France’ with 119 divisions, including 10 Panzer division's. Army Group B, with 50 divisions, opens the offensive against the French left wing which is anchored along the Somme for 120 miles, in fortified positions known as the Weygand Line, just 100 miles from Paris. Charles de Gaulle is appointed as French Under Secretary of State for War. 1940: Hauptmann. Mölders, leader of III/JG 53 and Germany's top air ace (25 kills) is shot down near Compiegne and taken prisoner. *June Vincent 1941: US House Appropriations committee introduces largest Army expenditure bill since the First World War at S10,000 million. 1941: Secret transfer of 4000 Marines to Iceland. 1941: Over 100 German divisions have now been deployed along Germany's frontier with the Soviet Union. 1941: Germans say 15,000 prisoners taken in Crete. British later say 12,970 unaccounted for. June Vincent 1942: USA declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania and warns Japan that she will retaliate in kind if gas is used. 1942: Operation 'Birdsong' kicks off between Roslavl and Bryansk, as 5,000 German troops pursue 2,500 partisans. In four weeks, 1,198 partisans are killed, for the loss of 58 German dead. Even so, the Germans are not happy as "The partisans," a German officer reports, "continued their old tactic of evading, withdrawing into the forests, or moving in larger groups into the areas South and Southwest of the Roslavl-Bryansk highway and into the Kletnya area." Although no further partisan attacks are reported in the area, "mines continued to be planted" and several German vehicles damaged. 1942: SS report 97,000 persons have been "processed" in mobile gas vans. June Vincent 1942: Germans besiege Sevastopol. 1942: The Eighth Army launches a counter-attack against the Afrika Korps forces that are inside the 'Cauldron. This is codenamed 'Aberdeen', but went disastrously wrong from the start, with an infantry tank brigade being destroyed in minefields and an Indian infantry brigade attacking the wrong positions. This left the remainder of the force, the 22nd Armoured Brigade to be repulsed easily by the untouched German defenses. British losses for this operation were 150 tanks, 133 guns and 6,000 troops. At this point in the battle, the British forces in the northern part of the Gazala line (1st South African and the remainder of the British 50th Division), were still in a strong position and so General Auchinleck and Lieutenant General Ritchie decide to hold the line facing south from the Knightsbridge defensive box to El Adem with the remainder of their infantry and tank forces and wait for Rommel's next move. 1942: During the early hours, Admiral Yamamoto orders the withdrawal of the Japanese invasion fleet and abandons his efforts to capture Midway. The US fleet loses contact with the Japanese later in the day. The US destroyer Hammam is torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine. June Vincent & Peter Lorre in "Black Angel" 1943: Battle of Pantelleria-Island with airfield; 11,000 Italian troops; guns controlling access to Sicily. A six-day air bombardment forces the garrison to surrender without an invasion. This is also the first time the Tuskegee "Black Eagles" flew under Colonel Ben Davis. 1943: U-513 (Kptlt. Sohler) sinks 4 ships off the coast of Brazil. June Vincent 1944: Eisenhower gives the go ahead order for the D-Day landings in 24 hours when Stagg predicts a clearing of weather. 10:15 p.m.: "Wound my heart with a monotonous languor"- BBC radio cue for the French Resistance. 10:30 p.m.: 101st Screaming Eagles finish their takeoff (822 C-47's). Ike visits airfield: "Good luck to you tonight soldier." 1944: The first mission by B-29 Superfortress bombers occurs as 77 planes bomb Japanese railway facilities at Bangkok, Thailand. 1945: Moscow Radio announces the award of the highest Russian honour, the 'Order of Victory', to Montgomery and Eisenhower. 1945: The four allied powers sign a declaration on the defeat of Germany, which divides the country into four zones. *Born Dorothy June Smith on July 17, 1920 in Harrod, Ohio, Vincent began her career in film in the early 1940s. The blond actress entered the movie business in 1940. Occasionally a leading lady, as in Abbott & Costello's "Here Come the Co-eds" (1945), Vincent was more effectively cast as an ice-princess "other woman." After a string of progressively uninteresting film parts, she received a shot in the arm career wise when she began accepting television roles, rapidly establishing herself as an versatile character actress; TV Guide, taking into consideration the number of times that the on-screen Vincent tried to steal away somebody's husband or boyfriend, referred to her as "Television's Favorite Homewrecker." June Vincent made her final TV appearances in the mid-1970s. June died on November 20, 2008 (aged 88) in Aurora, Colorado. She is survived by her three children.

Oh Lord.

I know I'll feel safer tonight, that's for sure!

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Morning. Rained overnight, sun trying to show through at time of this post. 66F with a high temp reaching 79F. Rain possible off and on today.

Walter Kidde Ad - June 1944 1940: Churchill tells Commons 'We shall fight on the beaches, in the fields, in the streets and in the hills. We shall never surrender.' 1940: Holiday camps are banned within 10 miles of east and south-east coasts of England and Isle of Wight. 1940: German troops enter Dunkirk, taking 40,000 French prisoners and huge quantities of abandoned equipment, including 84,000 vehicles, 2,500 guns and 650,000 tons of supplies and ammunition. 1940: French planes attack Munich and Frankfurt as reprisals for Paris bombing. *Lillian Porter 1941: Luftwaffe bombers carry out a night raid on the port of Alexandria in Egypt, killing 100 people. The Egyptian Cabinet resigns. 1942: Heydrich dies of his wounds. 1942: Hitler flies to Finland to meet with the Finnish head of state, Marshal Mannerheim. 1942: At 4.30am aircraft of Admiral Nagumo's 1st Carrier Striking Force makes strikes against Midway. However, the American garrison received prior warning of this from a spotter aircraft. This raid fails to sufficiently neutralise US airpower on Midway and so Nagumo orders a second attack against Midway. However, his aircraft are in the middle of being rearmed with torpedoes for a strike against the US carriers, should they be spotted. The Admirals orders mean that the Japanese aircraft must first replace their torpedoes with bombs, before another strike against Midway can take place. At 8.20am Japanese reconnaissance aircraft reported sighting the American carriers and at 8.55am warned that US torpedo aircraft had been launched and were on their way towards the Japanese fleet. While this is going on, the Japanese aircraft which had been sent out on the second strike against Midway, begin to return and by 9am had all been landed. Crews were now swarming round the aircraft with fuel hoses and bomb racks in a desperate attempt to get them ready for a strike against the American Carriers. At 9.30am the torpedo bombers from the Hornet and Enterprise found the the Japanese carriers, but by 9.36am they had all been shot down. The Hornet's and Enterprise's dive-bombers failed to find the Japanese carriers and so turned for home, although many ran out of fuel on the way. A similar fate was suffered by all the fighters on this mission. The torpedo bombers of the Yorktown now found and attacked the Japanese carriers, but with the same result as the previous attacks and by 10am it all seemed to be over and Admiral Nagumo could prepare for his counter strike in what seemed total safety. However, because his fighters had been drawn down to sea level to deal with the Yorktown's torpedo-bombers, the sky above the Japanese carriers was left temporarily exposed to attack. At 10.25am a lost dive-bomber group from the Enterprise stumbled upon the undefended Japanese carriers. The 37 Dauntless dive-bombers plunged down in to the attack. With their decks cluttered with aircraft in the throws of being re-armed and refuelled, the Japanese carriers were in serious danger. Admiral Nagumo's flagship, the Akagi was the first to be hit and a bomb started a fire in the torpedo store. This fire was so fierce that the Admiral had to abandon the Akagi and shift his flag to a destroyer. The carrier Kaga was hit next by four bombs, which set ablaze the ships aviation fuel and forced her also to be abandoned. The Soryu was hit as well, this time by 3 bombs. These started a fire on deck amongst the parked aircraft and also caused her engines to stop. In just five 5 minutes 3 Japanese carriers had been put out of action, but the agony was not yet over. At noon an American submarine found the stricken Soryu and sank her by torpedo. The Hiryu, which so far was undamaged, was ordered to withdraw at speed from the area in order to save herself. During her withdrawal the Hiryu managed to launch two strikes against the Yorktown at noon and 2.40pm, which caused severe damage to the Yorktown. At 3.30pm Admiral Yamamoto gave the order for the Akagi to be scuttled by torpedo as it had not been possible to save her. By 5pm the Kaga had also succumbed to her wounds and sank. At the same time the Hiryu's luck ran out when she was spotted and attacked by dive-bombers from the Enterprise. Hit by four bombs, the Hiryu was set on fire from stem to stern and had to be scuttled by her crew. Farther north, aircraft from the Japanese 2nd Carrier Strike Force bomb Dutch harbor in the Aleutians as planned, damaging the islands fuel tanks and a US ship. US efforts to locate this force are unsuccessful. (More Info) Lillian Porter 1943: The House of Commons rejects any lifting of the economic blockade against occupied Europe. 1943: A Military coup takes place in Argentina, with the army occupying Buenos Aires. 1943: Luftwaffe bombers attack the massive Russian tank factory's at Gorki. Lillian Porter & Columnist Sidney Skolsky 1944: Eisenhower postpones 'Operation Overlord', the allied invasion of France, for 24 hours because of rough seas in the English Channel. 1944: The RAF carries out heavy night raids against German coastal batteries and fortifications in Normandy. 1944: U-505, patrolling off Cape Blanco on the West African coast is forced to the surface by depth-charges from the U.S. destroyer escort Chatelain and is captured intact and towed to Bermuda by the escort carrier Guadalcanal. (More Info) 1944: The U.S. Fifth Army enters Rome. 1944: The first B29 (Superfortress) combat mission is made against the Bangkok railway. 1945: U.S. troops land on the Oriko peninsula of Okinawa. Lillian Porter *Lillian Mary Porter was born on February 24, 1917 in Alameda County, California, USA. Lillian "Mousie" Porter was a contract actress with 20th Century Fox. The name "Mousie" came about when Darrel F. Zanuck, the Fox mogul, quipped, "You're a cute little mouse." Indeed. Check out her every-camera-angle beauty and impeccable comedic timing in such Fox A-list gems as "Song of the Islands" (1942) starring Betty Grable and Victor Mature. Even with a scene-stealer like Jack Oakie, you can't take your eyes off Mousie. The nickname "Mousie" was a joke to those who knew Lillian because, though diminiutive in size, she was not "mousie" at all. Lillian appeared in 40 films (many uncredited) such as "A Yank in the R.A.F." (1941), "Footlight Serenade" (1942), and "Pin Up Girl" (1944). She also appeared in an episode of the TV series "Judge Roy Bean" in early 1956, along with her husband and stepdaughter Sandra Hayden. She retired after marrying Cowboy star Russell Hayden on July 11, 1946. Hayden, along with fellow cowboy actor Dick Curtis, helped develop Pioneertown, a western movie set location in Southern California that was used for many film and TV westerns. They remained married until his death in 1981, but apparently the union was childless, though Russell had a daughter, Sandra, who would also become an actress, from a previous marriage with actress Jan Clayton. One evening in September of 1956, Sandra was driving on Coldwater Canyon Road on her way from Jan Clayton's home to Russ and Mousie's. The actress was wearing her contact lenses and not her glasses, which family members later felt put her at risk for night driving. In the ensuing traffic accident, the young heiress to two fortunes died at the scene. Lillian Porter died February 1, 1997, San Bernardino, California, several weeks before her 80th birthday from undisclosed causes.

McClanahan died Thursday at 1 a.m. of a stroke RIP Rue.

The Queen has also Knighted the following: Bob Geldof Bono Bill Gates Rudolph Giuliani Paul McCartney Elton John Pretty sad choice of characters to be Knighted. At least Patrick Stewart has some class. Not as much as Sean Connery, but class none the less. Much better choice then those on that list. Especially the top two.

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Panadol is Tylenol. The boy is fighting a flu bug.

Morning. Cloudy and 63F. High of 78F with clearing skies. Lottie off to the capital city (Des Moines) to a meeting for the State Insurance Commission.

Pullman Rail Car Ad - June 1944 1940: All aliens and stateless persons living in Britain are forbidden to leave home between 10:30pm and 6am. 1940: Churchill orders the setting up of commando forces to be used for raiding occupied Europe. *Julie Adams 1940: The last night of the Dunkirk evacuation sees 26,700 French soldiers lifted from the beaches. This brings the total rescued to 224,686 British, 121,445 French and Belgian troops. Most of the French opt to return to France to continue the fight. During the evacuation, 177 aircraft were lost (Germans lost 140 aircraft). 1940: Admiralty announce the loss of six destroyers, 24 small warships and participation of 222 British naval vessels and 665 other craft in Dunkirk operation. 226 vessels are sunk altogether. Julie Adams 1940: 300 German planes bomb Paris inflicting around 900 casualties. 1940: British and French forces start to evacuate from Narvik in northern Norway. Julie Adams 1941: Attlee memorandum approved 2,430,000 to 19,000 at Labour Party conference: ‘A necessary prelude to a just peace is a total victory.’ 1941: Ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II, dies in exile in Holland. 1941: New Iraqi government is formed. Julie Adams 1942: Task Force 16 (Spruance) and 17 (Fletcher) meet 350 miles north-east of Midway. Admiral Fletcher takes overall command of the joint task force, although the two would act separately. US land based aircraft from Midway spot the Japanese Transport Force about 600 miles from Midway. They launch attacks against this force, but without success. US reconnaissance aircraft spot the 2 carriers of the Japanese 2nd Carrier Striking Force, which were about 400 miles from Kiska in the Aleutians. 1943: The first fruits of victory reach British shops, Algerian wine. Julie Adams 1944: Hitler allows Kesselring to withdraw from Rome, which has now been declared an 'Open City'. 1944: The Japanese rearguard at Kohima retreats, ending a 64 day battle. Julie Adams *Julie Adams was born Betty May Adams on October 17, 1926 in Waterloo, Iowa. Although born in the Hawkeye State, Julie Adams grew up in Arkansas and made her acting debut in a third grade play, "Hansel and Gretel". Deciding to become an actress, she moved to California, where she worked three days a week as a secretary (to support herself) and spent the remainder of her time taking speech lessons and making the rounds at the various studios' casting departments. Her first movie role was playing a starlet, appropriately enough, in Paramount's "Red, Hot and Blue" (1949), followed by a leading role in the Lippert Western "The Dalton Gang" (1949). Over a period of five weeks, she appeared in six more quickie Lippert Westerns. Adams' first big show biz break was at Universal, when she appeared in a screen test opposite All-American footballer Leon Hart, a Detroit Lions end. It was Hart who was being considered by the studio, but the gridiron star flopped while Universal execs flipped over Adams. The studio changed her first name from Betty to Julia (and later to Julie). Adams was featured as the bathing beauty Kay Lawrence in 1954's "Creature from the Black Lagoon". Later in her career, she played guest starring roles for television, including "12 O'Clock High", "The Gallant Men", "Maverick", "The F.B.I.", "The Big Valley", "The Man and the Challenge", "Mannix", "Cagney & Lacey", and as real estate agent "Eve Simpson" on "Murder, She Wrote". Most recent TV appearances are the shows "CSI: NY", "Cold Case", and "Lost". TRIVIA: Height 5' 6" (1.68 m) Measurements: 35-25-36 Universal publicity in the '50s claimed that her legs won an award as "the most perfectly symmetrical in the world" and that they were insured for $125,000. Julie Adams was married to actor/director Ray Danton from 1954 until 1981; they had two sons: Steven Danton, an assistant director, and Mitchell Danton, an editor.

Looks like two to me!

Damn kids.

She finally realizing he is full of shit about "Global Warming". And he has probably been warming his "Global Probe" where it wasn't supposed to warmed.

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Saw that photo on Monday. Amazing. Coming signs of the Apocalypse...? Magnitude 6.2 earthquake rattles Papua New Guinea Underwater Pacific Volcano Erupts Near Mariana Islands, Spews Ash and Vapor Thousands of Feet Al and Tipper Gore Break Up After 40 Years of Marriage

Morning all. Received a half inch of rain overnight. Cloudy and 64F, with a high temp of 77F and humid. Chance of more rain today.

Champion Spark Plugs Ad - June 1944 1940: 26,200 British and French troops are evacuated from the beaches at Dunkirk today. Virtually all British soldiers have now been evacuated and so the remaining French troops have taken over the defense of the perimeter. 1941: US statement of policy respecting French possessions in the Western Hemisphere. 1941: Hitler and Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass on the German-Italian border to discuss the progress of the war. *Irene Hervey 1941: Goring tells the Luftwaffe ‘There is no unconquerable island’. The Ruhr industrial area bombed by RAF. 1941: Vichy publishes anti-Semitic legislation based on German laws. Jews banned from public office. 1941: A Greek government-in-exile is formed in Egypt. Irene Hervey 1942: The RAF' launches it's second 1,000 bomber raid (although only 956 took off) and hits Essen, but due to the haze over the city, the results were minimal and the RAF lost 31 aircraft. Nevertheless, Churchill was highly impressed and sanctioned further raids on this scale. 1942: The Germans begin a five day bombardment, using all the artillery at their disposal, including super heavy siege artillery, against Sevastopol in order to soften up the defenses ready for the main assault. Irene Hervey 1943: The Red Air Force bombs Kiev and Roslavl, while the Luftwaffe bombs Kursk. 1943: Japanese forces are reported to be in full retreat on Yangtze. Irene Hervey 1944: U.S. troops are now only 20 miles from Rome. 1944: The Bulgarian government seeks terms of surrender from the western allies. 1944: The first shuttle raid, operation 'Frantic' is made by 130 B-17s of the US 15th Air Force based at Tripoli. The raid attacks rail yards at Debrecen in Hungary and then flies on to Soviet airfields at Poltava in the Ukraine. Irene Hervey 1944: Secret negotiations between the Romanian government of Marshal Antonescu and representatives of the Soviet Union begin in Stockholm, Sweden. 1944: The British 2nd Division begins its advance to relieve Imphal as the Japanese renew attacks on Bishenpur. The Chinese besiege Myitkyina, near the Chinese border in northern Burma. Irene Hervey *Born Beulah Irene Herwick on July 11, 1909 in Venice, California, Irene Hervey began her acting career after being introduced to a casting agent from MGM. After a successful screen test, she was signed by the studio and made her screen debut in the 1933 film "The Stranger's Return", opposite Lionel Barrymore. Though signed by MGM, Hervey was loaned out by the studio and appeared in several films including United Artists' "The Count of Monte Cristo" (1934) and "With Words and Music", released by Grand National Films, Inc.. In 1936, Hervey left MGM and signed with Universal Pictures. While at Universal, Hervey appeared in "The League of Frightened Men" (1937) and "Destry Rides Again" (1939) with Marlene Dietrich and James Stewart. In 1943, Hervey was seriously injured in a car accident and was forced to retire from acting for five years. Hervey returned to acting in 1948 with the film "Mickey", followed by "Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid". By the early 1950s, she began appearing in the new medium of the era; television. Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, Hervey appeared in several television shows including "Richard Diamond, Private Detective" (1 episode, 1959), "Peter Gunn" (1 episode, 1961), Perry Mason (3 episodes, 1958-1963), "Hawaiian Eye" (2 episodes, 1961-1962) and "The Twilight Zone" (1964). In 1965, she landed a regular role on "The Young Marrieds", followed by a stint on the short lived series "Honey West" as the titular character's Aunt Meg. In 1969, Hervey was nominated for an Emmy Award for her appearance on "My Three Sons". After roles in "Cactus Flower" and the 1971 film "Play Misty for Me" with Clint Eastwood, Hervey retired from acting. She took a job working at a travel agency in Sherman Oaks, California and briefly returned to acting in 1978 with a role in "Charlie's Angels". In 1981, she made her last onscreen appearance in the television movie "Goliath Awaits". As a teenager, Hervey married her first husband William Fenderson in 1929 and had a daughter, Gail, before divorcing. In 1936, she met and married actor Allan Jones. The couple had a son, singer Jack Jones (famous for singing the theme song for the TV Series "The Love Boat"), before divorcing in 1957. Irene Hervey died on December 20, 1998 of heart failure in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, aged 89.

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