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I wish to incite all Christians to rise up and take back the United States of America with all of God's manifold blessings. We want the free allowance of the Bible and prayers allowed again in schools, halls of justice, and all governing bodies. We don't seek a theocracy until Jesus returns to earth because all men are weak and power corrupts the very best of them.
We want to be a kinder and gentler people without slavery or condescension to any.

The world seems to be in a time of discontent among the populace. Christians should not fear. God is Love, shown best through Jesus Christ. God is still in control. All Glory to our Creator and to our God!


A favorite quote from my good friend, Jack Plymale, which I appreciate:

"Wars are planned by old men,in council rooms apart. They plan for greater armament, they map the battle chart, but: where sightless eyes stare out, beyond life's vanished joys, I've noticed,somehow, all the dead and mamed are hardly more than boys(Grantland Rice per our mutual friend, Sarah Rapp)."

Thanks Jack!

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Wednesday, February 4, 2015

He kew under the Eiffel Tower in Paris and shot down the German pilot ... Died at 92 , reported Jan 3, 2014 ... Thx Ramey H!

Bill Overstreet, Famed WWII Fighter Pilot, Dies At 92

World War II fighter pilot William Overstreet Jr. passed away Sunday. He was 92. Overstreet gained fame for flying beneath the Eiffel Tower's arches during the war in pursuit of a German aircraft.
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We end this hour with a remembrance of a daring World War II flight that lifted the spirits of the French people and of the humble man who flew it. In 1944, American fighter pilot William Overstreet of the 357th Fighter Group was on a mission in Nazi-occupied territory. Flying his P-51 Mustang, Overstreet was escorting American bombers through France when a dogfight broke out. Overstreet broke away to pursue an enemy German plane.
PASTOR JEFF CLEMMONS: It started at 30,000 feet.
CORNISH: That's Pastor Jeff Clemmons, a combat veteran of the U.S. Army Chaplain Corps and a close friend of William Overstreet.
CLEMMONS: This was a half-hour dogfight which would end up going through the streets of Paris and conclude itself through a pursuit through the Eiffel Tower where Bill shot down the German pilot.
CORNISH: Yes, you heard that right, from the stratosphere, down through the arches of the Eiffel Tower. Here's how Overstreet himself described the chase in an interview posted online.
WILLIAM OVERSTREET: He figured I'd try to get around and he'd have time to get away. He was wrong. I was right behind him, right under the Eiffel Tower with him. And when he pulled up, I did get him. But that's a huge space. That's not close at all. It's plenty of room to go under the Eiffel Tower. But it makes a good story.
(LAUGHTER)
CORNISH: More like a great one. Clemmons says the pursuit inspired thousands of people below who witnessed the feat.
CLEMMONS: The Paris citizenry actually rose up in defiance of the Germans for a period of three days, celebrating that victory. And they knew the Germans would lose the war.
CORNISH: The French people never forgot Overstreet's courage. In 2009, France presented William Overstreet with that country's highest award, the Legion of Honor. Clemmons tells us that Overstreet was a very modest man. He accepted the medal in memory of servicemen who died in the war.
CLEMMONS: Bill was selfless. He was authentic. He knew who he was. I was there when he died. I felt his last heartbeat. We will never see the likes of these men again.
CORNISH: World War II veteran William Overstreet passed away in Roanoke, Virginia this past Sunday. He was 92 years old.
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History of the car radio ... Thx Ramey H!

HISTORY OF
THE CAR RADIO
 
Seems like cars have always had radios,
but they didn't.  
Here's the story:
One evening, in 1929,
two young men named
William Lear and Elmer Wavering
drove their girlfriends to a lookout point high above the
Mississippi River town of Quincy, Illinois, to watch the sunset.
 
It was a romantic night to be sure,
but one of the women observed that
it would be even nicer if they could listen to music in the car.
Lear and Wavering liked the idea. Both men had tinkered with radios (Lear served as a radio operator in
the U.S. Navy during World War I)
and it wasn't long before they were
taking apart a home radio and
trying to get it to work in a car.
 
But it wasn't easy: automobiles have ignition switches, generators, spark plugs, and other electrical
equipment that generate noisy static interference,   making it nearly impossible to listen to the radio when the engine was running.
 
One by one, Lear and Wavering identified and eliminated each source of electrical interference.   When they finally got their radio to work, they took it to a radio convention
in Chicago ..
 
There they met Paul Galvin, owner of
Galvin Manufacturing Corporation.
He made a product called a
"battery eliminator", a device that allowed battery-powered radios to
run on household AC current.
 
But as more homes were wired for electricity, more radio manufacturers made AC-powered radios.
 
Galvin needed a new product to manufacture. When he met Lear and Wavering at the radio convention,
he found it.   He believed that
mass-produced, affordable car
radios had the potential to become
a huge business.
Lear and Wavering set up shop in Galvin's factory, and when they perfected their first radio, they installed it in his Studebaker.
 
Then Galvin went to a local banker
to apply for a loan. Thinking it
might sweeten the deal,
he had his men install a radio in
the banker's Packard.
 
Good idea, but it didn't work –
Half an hour after the installation,
the banker's Packard caught on fire. (They didn't get the loan.)
 
Galvin didn't give up.
He drove his Studebaker nearly
800 miles to Atlantic City to show
off the radio at the
1930 Radio Manufacturers
Association convention.
 
Too broke to afford a booth, he parked the car outside the convention hall and cranked up the radio so that
passing conventioneers could hear it.
That idea worked -- He got enough orders to put the radio into production.

WHAT'S IN A NAME
That first production model was
called the 5T71.
 
Galvin decided he needed to come up with something a little catchier.
In those days many companies in the phonograph and radio businesses used the suffix "ola" for their names -
Radiola, Columbiola, and Victrola
were three of the biggest.
 
Galvin decided to do the same thing, and since his radio was intended for use in a motor vehicle, he decided to call it theMotorola.
 
But even with the name change,
the radio still had problems:
When Motorola went on sale in 1930, it cost about $110 uninstalled, at a time when you could buy a brand-new car for $650, and the country was sliding into the Great Depression.
(By that measure, a radio for a new car would cost about $3,000 today.)
 
In 1930, it took two men several days
to put in a car radio --
The dashboard had to be taken
apart so that the receiver and a
single speaker could be installed,
and the ceiling had to be cut open
to install the antenna.
 
These early radios ran on their own batteries, not on the car battery,
so holes had to be cut into the floorboard to accommodate them.
 
The installation manual had eight complete diagrams and 28 pages of instructions. Selling complicated car
radios that cost 20 percent of the
price of a brand-new car wouldn't
have been easy in the best of
times, let alone during the Great Depression –

Galvin lost money in 1930 and struggled for a couple of years after that. But things picked up in 1933 when Ford began offering Motorola's pre-installed at the factory.
 
In 1934 they got another boost when
Galvin
struck a deal with
B.F. Goodrich tire company
to sell and install them in its chain
of tire stores.
 
By then the price of the radio, with installation included, had dropped to $55. The Motorola car radio was off and running.
(The name of the company would be officially changed from
Galvin Manufacturing to
"Motorola" in 1947.)
 
In the meantime, Galvin continued to develop new uses for car radios.
In 1936, the same year that it introduced push-button tuning,
it also introduced the Motorola Police Cruiser, a standard car radio that was factory preset to a single frequency to pick up police broadcasts.
 
In 1940 he developed the first
handheld two-way radio
-- The Handy-Talkie –
for the U. S. Army.
A lot of the communications
technologies that we take for granted today were born in Motorola labs in the years that followed World War II.
 
In 1947 they came out with the first television for   under $200.
 
In 1956 the company introduced the world's first pager; in 1969 came the radio and television equipment that was used to televise Neil Armstrong's first steps on the Moon.
 
In 1973 it invented the world's first handheld cellular phone.
 
Today Motorola is one of the largest cell phone manufacturers in the world.
 
And it all started with the car radio.

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO
the two men who installed the first radio in Paul Galvin's car?
 
Elmer Wavering and William Lear, ended up taking very different
paths in life.
 
Wavering stayed with Motorola.
In the 1950's he helped change the automobile experience again when
he developed the first automotive
alternator, replacing inefficient and unreliable generators. The invention lead to such luxuries as power windows, power seats, and, eventually,
air-conditioning.

Lear also continued inventing.
He holds more than 150 patents. Remember eight-track tape players? Lear invented that.
 
But what he's really famous for are
his contributions to the field of aviation. He invented radio direction finders for planes, aided in the invention of the autopilot,
designed the first fully automatic
aircraft landing system,
and in 1963 introduced his
most famous invention of all,
the Lear Jet,
the world's first mass-produced, affordable business jet.
(Not bad for a guy who dropped out of school after the eighth grade.)
 
 

Sometimes it is fun to find out how some of the
many things that we take for granted actually
came into being!
 
AND
 
It all started with a woman's suggestion!!

All about balls ... Thx Jackie B and Alan O PHS 55





Subject: Fwd: All about balls






























































































INTERESTING OBSERVATION



















































1. The sport of choice for the urban poor is BASKETBALL.
































2. The sport of choice for maintenance level employees is BOWLING.






























3. The sport of choice for front-line workers is FOOTBALL.































4. The sport of choice for supervisors is BASEBALL.
































5. The sport of choice for middle management is TENNIS.
































And...















6. The sport of choice for corporate executives and officers is GOLF.


THE amazing facts are,
















The higher you go in the corporate structure, the smaller your balls become.
































There must be a boat load of people in Washington playing marbles.

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