1. Pillage, then burn.2. A Sergeant in motion outranks a Lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on.3. An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody.4. Close air support covereth a multitude of sins.5. Close air support and friendly fire should be easier to tell apart.6. If violence wasn’t your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.8. Mockery and derision have their place. Usually, it's on the far side of the airlock.9. Never turn your back on an enemy.10. Sometimes the only way out is through. . . through the hull.11. Everything is air-droppable at least once.12. A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head.13. Do unto others.16. Your name is in the mouth of others: be sure it has teeth.21. Give a man a fish; feed him for a day. Take his fish away and tell him he's lucky just to be alive, and he'll figure out how to catch another one for you to take tomorrow.27. Don't be afraid to be the first to resort to violence.29. The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.30. A little trust goes a long way. The less you use, the further you'll go.31. Only cheaters prosper.34. If you’re leaving scorch-marks, you need a bigger gun.35. That which does not kill you has made a tactical error.36. When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support.37. There is no 'overkill.' There is only 'open fire' and 'I need to reload.'38. Just because it's easy for you doesn't mean it can't be hard on your clients.
1887: Lake County, Florida’s 47th county was established from territory taken from Orange and Sumter counties. The county took its name from the more than 500 lakes, contained in the county.1891: Florida’s first Salvation Army Corps was established today in Jacksonville. Five years later on this date, a Salvation Army officer was arrested while conducting street services and charged with disturbing the peace.1895 British inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector.1919 Charles Strite patents pop-up toaster.1921 After 84 years of British control, Afghanistan achieves sovereignty.1930 Richard Drew invents masking tape.1935 Supreme Court declares FDR's National Recovery Act unconstitutional.1937 Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, dedicated.1942 Top German Nazi Reinhard Heydrich is shot and mortally wounded in Prague, Hitler orders 10,000 Czechoslovakians murdered.1951 Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing.1958: Pratt and Whitney established its Florida research and Development Center in West Palm Beach.1969 Walt Disney World construction begins. Florida as we knew it is gone.1985 Britain agrees to return Hong Kong to China in 1997.1988 Afternoon thunderstorms in southern Florida caused the mercury at Miami to dip to a record low reading of 69 degrees.1989 Unseasonably hot weather prevailed in the southeast. Lakeland, FL, reported a record high of 99 degrees
- “Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.”
- “Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
- “That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.”
- “Reputation is like fine china, once broken it's very hard to repair.”
- “And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
- “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
- “The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can…”
Rex block continues over the eastern seaboard with high pressure over New England and stacked low well east of the County Warning Area. Inferred satellite imagery shows large convective area to the northwest of the low center has weakened and shrunk during the past 6 hrs and cloud tops continue to warm. Much less shower activity over the coastal waters this morning and cell motion is almost due south. Skies over land areas are clear to partly cloudy. Temperatures range from the mid 60s over inland areas to the lower 70s along the Atlantic coast.Have gone with isolated to low end scattered chance of rain today over east 2/3 of the area. This may be a bit overdone as precipitation trajectories mostly parallel the coast and instability over land continues to drop. Although weak vorticity maxima continue to rotate around the mid and upper low, models are not indicating any well defined area and dynamic support for precipitation looks minimal other than convergence.
Douglas Adams will be missed by his fans worldwide. So that all his fans everywhere can pay tribute to this genius, I propose that two weeks after his passing (May 25, 2001) be marked as “Towel Day”. All Douglas Adams fans are encouraged to carry a towel with them for the day.Make sure that the towel is conspicuous, use it as a talking point to encourage those who have never read the Hitchhiker’s Guide to go pick up a copy. Wrap it around your head, use it as a weapon, soak it in nutrients- whatever you want!
A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-boggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitchhiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, washcloth, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet-weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitchhiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitchhiker might accidentally have “lost”. What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.If you have a towel, you are not only ultimately prepared but others around you will become aware of your ultimate preparedness and be randomly willing to assist to make sure you are even further prepared for your journey. Could you ask for anything more? This is what having a towel handy can do for you.
The High Springs Main Street Program, a local 501 (c)3 non-profit organization, will be hosting the upcoming River Festival from October 1-3, 2010. On top of all of the world-renowned water sports and activities that will be available at area springs and river locations, this River Festival will include a variety of exciting events.Poe Springs Park will be hosting star-studded musical performances and outdoor activities as well as providing shuttle buses to and from the activities around High Springs. A bicycle "Peddle/Paddle" fundraising event will be hosted by the local "Yellow Bellied Sliders" bicycle group along the Santa Fe River and O'Leno State Park will host an "Old Time Dance" event. Additionally, there will be nature and water excursions at natural spring locations in Alachua, Gilchrist, and Columbia counties over the course of three days. In historic downtown High Springs, there will be live music concerts, shops open late, as well as food vendors and environmental organizations with educational displays throughout the event. The High Springs Main Street Program will be hosting a "Roll Your Boat Race" downtown as well as a feature presentation by world-famous cave diver and photographer Jill Heinerth.Given that eco-tourism and heritage tourism to historic downtown locations such as High Springs tend to overlap between 60-80% of the time, the High Springs Main Street Program will be hosting the 2010 River Festival in order to highlight the natural assets of the High Springs area as well as the unique downtown atmosphere and culture that our beautiful city has to offer. This event is an annual fundraiser for the High Springs Main Street Program, which works to revitalize and preserve the historic downtown district in High Springs, Florida.Please feel free to contact the High Springs Main Street office directly with any questions about this exciting upcoming event or visit our website at : http://highspringsmainstreet.com.We look forward to seeing you in downtown High Springs soon and hope that you will "Enjoy our Good Nature!"Sincerely,Ashley McDonoughHigh Springs Main Street Manager386-454-2889manager@highspringsmainstreet.comP.O. Box 1868, High Springs, Fl 32655Registration # CH16296
One of the most difficult setups for models to depict correctly this time of year is that of north or northwest flow aloft. This was the scenario late last evening as convection which blossomed along the sea breeze over Charleston area propagated south with mean steering flow to arrive at our doorstep at 10 pm. Fortunately, instability was on the wane by this time and activity fizzled but this pattern looks to continue for the next several days with increased moisture and instability.Currently the area is under the influence of weak ridging that extends through the Carolinas becomes more difficult to discern over our area. In fact the ridge was replaced temporarily by surface trough that was aided in development by the sea breeze. This feature likely helped maintain north flow convection for as long as it could through late evening.For today we will begin to see surface ridge build southward with a backdoor front arriving early in the morning hours for the Georgia Coast. This will allow an overall increase in available moisture for storm development with PWATS increasing to 1.60 by day's end. Expect an earlier start to convection than previous days, but still only slight chance to low end scattered showers for the coast in the morning. This activity will transition inland during the afternoon and will favor the WRF and SREF depictions of an I-75 Corridor collisions with best chance of showers there. In addition, continued northerly steering flow will serve two purposes.It will allow initially for upstream activity to propagate along the sea breeze and enhance activity along it during the afternoon. Would expect another round of isolated severe with strong winds and marginal hail for the interior. Secondly, expect steering flow to allow for some late evening/early overnight convection to move in late along the coast once again with increased probability of It sustaining itself due to higher moisture content from today's values.
