Went fishing and caught 4 deer ... Thx Dr. H!

Went Fishing, Caught 4 Deer

A once in the history of mankind kind of thing.

The Best Day Of Fishing Ever!

Some fishing stories are a little hard to believe,
but this guy has pictures to prove his story...
I've heard of salmon jumping into boats,
but never anything quite like this...
Tom Satre told the Sitka Gazette that he was out
with a charter group on his 62-foot fishing vessel
when four juvenile black-tailed deer swam directly
toward his boat.


"Once the deer reached the boat, the four began to circle
the boat, looking directly at us. We could tell right away that
the young bucks were distressed.
I opened up my back gate and we helped the typically
skittish and absolutely wild animals onto the boat. In all my
years fishing, I've never seen anything quite like it!
Once onboard, they collapsed with exhaustion, shivering."

"This is a picture I
took of the rescued bucks on the back
of my boat, the Alaska Quest.
We headed for Taku Harbour . Once we reached the
dock, the first buck that we had been pulled from the
water hopped onto the dock, looked back as if to say
'thank you' and disappeared into the forest.
After a bit of prodding and assistance, two more
followed, but the smallest deer needed a little more help.

This is me carrying the little guy.

My daughter, Anna, and son, Tim, helped the last buck
to its feet. We didn't know how long they had been in the
icy waters or if there had been others who did not survive.
My daughter later told me that the experience was something
that she would never forget, and I suspect the deer felt the same way as well!"

I told you! Awesome... huh?
Our Lord works in mysterious way..

"Kindness is the language the blind
can see and the deaf can hear." - Mark Twain

Today is the first day of the rest of your life!

Make it a good one!

Growing Older ... Thx Dr. H!

Growing older.!!

    

 

                               

"Mash" by Portsmouth Doctor Otto Apel and Pat Apel

This "Mash" book, by Portsmouth Ohio Dr. Otto Apel, is on Amazon.  Sarah Rapp has been reading it.  I want to read a copy!

SamKat


When North Korean forces invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950, Otto Apel was a surgical resident living in Cleveland, Ohio, with his wife and three young children. A year later he was chief surgeon of the 8076th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital constantly near the front lines in Korea. Immediately upon arriving in camp, Apel performed 80 hours of surgery. His feet swelled so badly that he had to cut his boots off, and he saw more surgical cases in those three and a half days than he would have in a year back in Cleveland. There were also the lighter moments. When a Korean came to stay at the 8076th, word of her beauty spread so rapidly that they needed MPs just to direct traffic. Apel also recalls a North Korean aviator, nicknamed "Bedcheck Charlie," who would drop a phony grenade from an open-cockpit biplane, a story later filmed for the television series. He also tells of the day the tent surrounding the women's shower was "accidentally" blown off by a passing helicopter. In addition to his own story, Apel details the operating conditions, workload, and patient care at the MASH units while revealing the remarkable advances made in emergency medical care. MASH units were the first hospitals designed for operations close to the front lines, and from this particularly difficult vantage, their medical staffs were responsible for innovations in the use of antibiotics and blood plasma and in arterial repair. On film and television, MASH doctors and nurses have been portrayed as irreverent and having little patience with standard military procedures. In this powerful memoir, Apel reveals just how realistic these portrayals were.

Sarah Rapp wrote:

Sarah Rapp		9:26 AM (22 hours ago)
am reading Mash by Ottie Appel..have you read it??

Sam Kegley		9:32 AM (22 hours ago)
No, Sarah. I would enjoy the doctor's book I am sure. Has he passed on?

Sarah Rapp	9:52 AM (22 hours ago)
to me

So sad!!  he was to accept an award for the book, and walking across the stage he collapsed and died on the way to the hospital          

Update on Jack P and the Trojans

Remember Jack- you are a Portsmouth Trojan- a team I quit in early freshman practice to my life-long shame.  But I have many friends who did, like yourself.  So, the ball is in Middletown's hands on the five.  Take a time-out.  Rest and come back and fight the dreaded political secular-progressives friend!.  Would Paul Walker allow you to quit?  I think not!

Sam

On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Jack Plymale wrote:
> Sam, I really have no hope for the political salvation of our country.
> I am 86 years old and guys like me are not going to fight any more
> battles........even if we could Jack P
>
> On 10/28/13, Sam Kegley wrote:
>> Monday, October 28, 2013
>>
>> Milage tax via new technology ... Thx Ramey H!
>>
>> Labels Cars, taxes
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>> This smells terribly BAD to me, Ramey H!  I detest our supposed
>> representatives who are always seeking new ways to tax us American
>> citizens.  I recently paid a fine for a traffic corner camera
>> conviction.  Will there soon be a tax on bed time?  UGH!  Big Brother,
>> aka NSA, is too darned nosy!
>>
>> Sam
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>> A black box in your car? Some see a source of tax revenue
>>
>> The devices would track every mile you drive —possibly including your
>> location — and the government would use the data to draw up a tax
>> bill.
>>
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>> Ryan Morrison is chief executive of True Mileage, a Long Beach company
>> testing devices that can track drivers' mileage. "People will be more
>> willing to do this if you do not track their speed and you do not
>> track their location," he says. (Mark Boster, Los Angeles Times /
>> October 24, 2013)
>>
>> Jury hits Toyota with $3-million verdict in sudden acceleration death case
>> Photos: The 10 worst cars sold in America
>> Photos: Cars after crash test
>> Cars' safety systems are getting a whole lot smarter
>> Ex-NSA chief talks on a train, fellow rider tweets, tweets go viral
>>
>>
>> By Evan Halper
>> October 26, 2013, 7:11 p.m.
>>
>> WASHINGTON — As America's road planners struggle to find the cash to
>> mend a crumbling highway system, many are beginning to see a solution
>> in a little black box that fits neatly by the dashboard of your car.
>> The devices, which track every mile a motorist drives and transmit
>> that information to bureaucrats, are at the center of a controversial
>> attempt in Washington and state planning offices to overhaul the
>> outdated system for funding America's major roads.
>> The usually dull arena of highway planning has suddenly spawned
>> intense debate and colorful alliances. Libertarians have joined
>> environmental groups in lobbying to allow government to use the little
>> boxes to keep track of the miles you drive, and possibly where you
>> drive them — then use the information to draw up a tax bill.
>> PHOTOS: Kelley Blue Book's 10 best 'green' cars
>> The tea party is aghast. The American Civil Liberties Union is deeply
>> concerned, too, raising a variety of privacy issues.
>> And while Congress can't agree on whether to proceed, several states
>> are not waiting. They are exploring how, over the next decade, they
>> can move to a system in which drivers pay per mile of road they roll
>> over. Thousands of motorists have already taken the black boxes, some
>> of which have GPS monitoring, for a test drive.
>> "This really is a must for our nation. It is not a matter of something
>> we might choose to do," said Hasan Ikhrata, executive director of the
>> Southern California Assn. of Governments, which is planning for the
>> state to start tracking miles driven by every California motorist by
>> 2025. "There is going to be a change in how we pay these taxes. The
>> technology is there to do it."
>> The push comes as the country's Highway Trust Fund, financed with
>> taxes Americans pay at the gas pump, is broke. Americans don't buy as
>> much gas as they used to. Cars get many more miles to the gallon. The
>> federal tax itself, 18.4 cents per gallon, hasn't gone up in 20 years.
>> Politicians are loath to raise the tax even one penny when gas prices
>> are high.
>> "The gas tax is just not sustainable," said Lee Munnich, a
>> transportation policy expert at the University of Minnesota. His state
>> recently put tracking devices on 500 cars to test out a pay-by-mile
>> system. "This works out as the most logical alternative over the long
>> term," he said.
>> Wonks call it a mileage-based user fee. It is no surprise that the
>> idea appeals to urban liberals, as the taxes could be rigged to change
>> driving patterns in ways that could help reduce congestion and
>> greenhouse gases, for example. California planners are looking to the
>> system as they devise strategies to meet the goals laid out in the
>> state's ambitious global warming laws. But Rep. Bill Shuster (R-Pa.),
>> chairman of the House Transportation Committee, has said he, too, sees
>> it as the most viable long-term alternative. The free marketeers at
>> the Reason Foundation are also fond of having drivers pay per mile.
>> "This is not just a tax going into a black hole," said Adrian Moore,
>> vice president of policy at Reason. "People are paying more directly
>> into what they are getting."
>> The movement is also bolstered by two former U.S. Transportation
>> secretaries, who in a 2011 report urged Congress to move in the
>> pay-per-mile direction.
>> The U.S. Senate approved a $90-million pilot project last year that
>> would have involved about 10,000 cars. But the House leadership killed
>> the proposal, acting on concerns of rural lawmakers representing
>> constituents whose daily lives often involve logging lots of miles to
>> get to work or into town.
>> Several states and cities are nonetheless moving ahead on their own.
>> The most eager is Oregon, which is enlisting 5,000 drivers in the
>> country's biggest experiment. Those drivers will soon pay the mileage
>> fees instead of gas taxes to the state. Nevada has already completed a
>> pilot. New York City is looking into one. Illinois is trying it on a
>> limited basis with trucks. And the I-95 Coalition, which includes 17
>> state transportation departments along the Eastern Seaboard (including
>> Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Florida), is studying how they
>> could go about implementing the change.
>> The concept is not a universal hit.
>> In Nevada, where about 50 volunteers' cars were equipped with the
>> devices not long ago, drivers were uneasy about the government being
>> able to monitor their every move.
>> "Concerns about Big Brother and those sorts of things were a major
>> problem," said Alauddin Khan, who directs strategic and performance
>> management at the Nevada Department of Transportation. "It was not
>> something people wanted."
>> As the trial got underway, the ACLU of Nevada warned on its website:
>> "It would be fairly easy to turn these devices into full-fledged
>> tracking devices.... There is no need to build an enormous, unwieldy
>> technological infrastructure that will inevitably be expanded to keep
>> records of individuals' everyday comings and goings."
>> Nevada is among several states now scrambling to find affordable
>> technology that would allow the state to keep track of how many miles
>> a car is being driven, but not exactly where and at what time. If you
>> can do that, Khan said, the public gets more comfortable.
>> The hunt for that technology has led some state agencies to a small
>> California startup called True Mileage. The firm was not originally in
>> the business of helping states tax drivers. It was seeking to break
>> into an emerging market in auto insurance, in which drivers would pay
>> based on their mileage. But the devices it is testing appeal to
>> highway planners because they don't use GPS and deliver a limited
>> amount of information, uploaded periodically by modem.
>> "People will be more willing to do this if you do not track their
>> speed and you do not track their location," said Ryan Morrison, chief
>> executive of True Mileage. "There have been some big mistakes in some
>> of these state pilot programs. There are a lot less expensive and less
>> intrusive ways to do this."
>> In Oregon, planners are experimenting with giving drivers different
>> choices. They can choose a device with or without GPS. Or they can
>> choose not to have a device at all, opting instead to pay a flat fee
>> based on the average number of miles driven by all state residents.
>> Other places are hoping to sell the concept to a wary public by having
>> the devices do more, not less. In New York City, transportation
>> officials are seeking to develop a taxing device that would also be
>> equipped to pay parking meter fees, provide "pay-as-you-drive"
>> insurance, and create a pool of real-time speed data from other
>> drivers that motorists could use to avoid traffic.
>> "Motorists would be attracted to participate … because of the value of
>> the benefits it offers to them," says a city planning document.
>> Some transportation planners, though, wonder if all the talk about
>> paying by the mile is just a giant distraction. At the Metropolitan
>> Transportation Commission in the San Francisco Bay Area, officials say
>> Congress could very simply deal with the bankrupt Highway Trust Fund
>> by raising gas taxes. An extra one-time or annual levy could be
>> imposed on drivers of hybrids and others whose vehicles don't use much
>> gas, so they pay their fair share.
>> "There is no need for radical surgery when all you need to do is take
>> an aspirin," said Randy Rentschler, the commission's director of
>> legislation and public affairs. "If we do this, hundreds of millions
>> of drivers will be concerned about their privacy and a host of other
>> things."
>> evan.halper@latimes.com
>> Copyright © 2013, Los Angeles Times
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>> Posted by Sam, Kegley at 3:10 AM
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>
>
> --
> Jack P.

America ...

She's still singing in my book, Sam.....

Thx Paul C!

I can hear the lady and victory is at hand for the Tea Party in 2014.  Jack P- Paul C is a Wheelersburg HS baseball player in the vintage of Clay Vice.  He sends me a lot of good stuff. 

I respect all of the fine people, mostly conservatives who send me good things for my SamKat blog.

America Kate Smith- Song introduced by her- lyrics by Irving Berlin:

God, bless America,
Land that I love.
Stand beside her,
And guide her
Through the night with a light from above.
From the mountains
To the prairies
To the oceans white with foam,
God, bless America,
My home, sweet home.
God bless America
Land that I love
Stand beside her
And guide her
Through the night with a light from above
From the mountains
To the prairies
To the oceans white with foam
God bless America
My home sweet home
God bless America....
My home sweet home!

Construction of Ford Aircraft Carrier- most expensive ever ... Thx Ramey H!

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USS GERALD R. FORD: Check Out The Construction Of The Most Expensive Ship Inbox x ramey hoskins 12:25 AM (3 hours ago) to USS GERALD R. FORD: Check Out The Construction Of The Most Expensive Ship Ever Robert Johnson for Business Insider Jul. 24, 2013  The United States is building its next generation of aircraft carrier, the FORD-class carriers. The U.S. Navy gave us access to photograph construction of the USS Gerald R. Ford at Newport News Shipbuilding, Virgina. The numbers behind the USS Gerald R. Ford are impressive; about $14 billion in total cost, 224 million pounds, about 25 stories high, 1,106 feet long and 250 feet wide. But the sheer enormity of the ship and construction operation is hard to grasp until you're nearly face-to-metal with the massive military beast. At Newport News Shipbuilding the power of new technology and 100 years of carrier design is built into every facet of the new ship. The Ford will handle up to 220 takeoffs and landings from its deck every day. Part of that quick turnaround is because when aircraft like the new F-35 return for maintenance, the plane's network will already have alerted ground crews to what's needed so they can get the aircraft on its way faster than ever before. The new FORD-class aircraft carrier will be the largest, most lethal ship ever when it joins the US fleet in 2016. The scope of the ship's construction is hard to fathom, but that chain is made up of links weighing 360-pounds each. It's the weight of the chains that immobilize the 224 million pound carrier, not the anchors like those seen here on the USS Abraham Lincoln. All that weight starts up here in the "Bulbous Bow" that displaces the ship's center of gravity, allowing her to cruise on just the energy required for a much smaller ship. This bow alone is more than three stories tall and weighs 116,000 pounds. With its nuclear power plant and extraordinary size, the Ford is manufactured only here at Newport News Shipbuilding, Va. Using "Big Blue" — the largest crane in the Western Hemisphere — towering 235 feet above the shipyard. Big Blue can lift nearly 2.5 million pounds at a time and is essential for assembling the new class of ship. Ships this big have to be built in dry docks like this; twenty-two-hundred-feet long and 250 feet wide. Replacing the 50-year-old Nimitz-class carrier, engineers at Newport News Shipbuilding designed the Ford to accept technology that won't be seen for decades. Some of those advancements are expected, but most are as far-fetched as the Navy's newest drones were in 1963. Regardless of what the future brings, all of it will require more power, which is why the Ford will generate three times the energy of Nimitz-class carriers. Newport News Shipbuilding has learned a lot about building carriers over the years, like the wisdom of leaving the paint job until the ship is finished. This is done to save on repainting over welds and stresses caused during construction. Raw steel exposed to salt air causes the rust, but the various other colors denote the thickness of the plates. The paint applied to the Ford actually isn't paint, but a "high solids coating" that lasts longer and doesn't break down as quickly. Newport News Shipbuilding rents acres of canvas to cover the hull when it applies the coating. Moving the island house (the control tower) back further on the ship will accommodate an increased launch rate for the 75+ planes that will live aboard the carrier. The Ford will be capable of launching and receiving up to 220 planes a day. That increased rate comes in part from replacing the steam-generated catapult systems like those on the USS Abraham Lincoln shown here, with an electromagnetic system that's more efficient and gentler on the multi-million-dollar jets. Even with the extra fuel and weapons needed to keep that pace, the Ford is equipped to remain at sea without replenishment for months at a time. Before the FORD-class carriers, Newport News Shipbuilding needed to construct mock-ups of many ship sections to see how it would integrate in construction. Now they use 3D design technology. With a pair of these 3D glasses designers are able to see exactly how everything fits together in a virtual environment. The 3D system also allows engineers to assemble the ship in modules. These modules can be exchanged and modified over the carrier's lifetime. Inside a module like S/L3609, the electronic workstation could be removed and relocated along with the interior walls and floors. These were all permanent fixtures on previous carriers. For the first time the Navy will have no urinals on this carrier. Gender neutral toilets mean berthing can be swapped between male and female without concern and one unit means fewer spare parts and repair. The Navy is requesting larger pipes for the Ford to prevent blockage and unpleasant smells, which are common issues on carriers. A carrier's effectiveness isn't judged by its plumbing, but by its ability to deliver lethal military force from these 4.5 acres of sovereign US territory. That lethality comes in many forms — like the weapons aboard the new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. The SeaSparrow Missile also factors into lethality with its ability to fly four times the speed of sound, turn on a dime, and intercept anti-ship missiles more than 30 miles out. Ford's lethality is also enhanced by the RIM 116 short-range defensive surface to air missile. ... and the radar-guided, rotating 20 mm Gatling Gun called the Phalanx CIWS (Sea-Wiz). That lethality aims to help keep sailors safe and the enemy less so. Criticism of the new carrier, which may be the last of the "Big" carriers now that drones are replacing manned aircraft, has been swift and harsh. Facing a longer timeline for completion and burgeoning costs, Newport News Shipbuilding construction director Geoff Hummel says, "Problems are something we think about every day." "There are going to be issues in a new class of ship," Hummel says. "The question is how big are they and how serious?" Minimizing those problems are the Newport News Shipbuilding employees, out here every day of the year. Newport News wants the Ford's eventual new sailors to know that "this is an awesome ship that they'll bring to life." Those sailors shouldn't doubt it, with the decades of experience Newport News employees bring. When the Ford finally hits the water in a few years, it will look less like something from "Waterworld" and more like something from the future. That's where generations of new tech will be used ...  See the carrier's first unmanned drone Click here to Reply or Forward LegalZoom - Quality Legal Solutions Personalized Services in all 50 States. Approved by Top Attorneys. 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