News of the Force: Tuesday, August 22, 2017 - Page 2

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News of the Force: Tuesday, August 22, 2017 - Page 2

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NOAA news

    

    The Trump administration let a federal climate panel's charter expire yesterday, quietly ending the NOAA committee's two-year run.

    And the hurricane season that began on June 1st and lasts until the end of November could be "the most active since 2010," NOAA has said in its forecast.

 

U.S. Air Force

    

    Millions of people from around the world helped Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Mich., celebrate its 100 years of history over the weekend.

    The Civil Air Patrol (CAP) hosted the Alaska Wing's Summer Glider Academy at Clear Air Force Station, an Alaska Air National Guard site, earlier this summer.

    Aerospace education is one of the three congressionally mandated missions of the Civil Air Patrol. And this coming weekend, the CAP's South Dakota Wing will hold its "Aerospace Extravaganza."

    Members of the South Dakota Wing of the Civil Air Patrol captured a birds-eye-view image of the aftermath of a tornado that hit southwest Minnesota on Friday.

    And students from Dayton, Ohio's Oakwood High School started their trip to see the solar eclipse yesterday at around 5 a.m., and stopped at the Tennessee Welcome Center to rest and take photos with members of the Civil Air Patrol.

 

U.S. Public Health Service

    

    Misericordia University, in Dallas, Pa., is hosting its eighth annual Health Care Symposium, "Inspiring Leadership to Patient-Centered Care,'' on Friday, Oct. 6th in the Lemmond Theater in Walsh Hall from 8 a.m. to 2:15 p.m., with the Assistant U.S. Surgeon General, Rear Adm. Scott F. Giberson, delivering the keynote address. The symposium is free.

 

U.S. Coast Guard

    

    U.S. Coast Guard Sector Sault Ste. Marie,, Mich., has once again stayed busy helping troubled boaters across the Upper Great Lakes this summer.

    The U.S. Coast Guard has rescued two stabbing victims from a fishing boat 40 miles off the Florida west coast.

    The Coast Guard suspended its search yesterday for five U.S. Army soldiers who were in a helicopter that crashed off Oahu, Hawaii, last week.

    The U.S. Coast Guard medevaced a 40-year-old man yesterday from a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) vessel sailing off Florida's Space Coast.

    When boaters or others encounter difficulties on three of the Great Lakes, personnel from U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City, Mich., respond.

    The U.S. Coast Guard recovered the body of a missing man after a boater spotted an unmanned jet ski yesterday morning on Florida's Tampa Bay.

    And the Coast Guard called off the search for a possible person in the water off the coast of Plymouth, Mass., yesterday morning after the owner of a drifting kayak was found to be safe at his home.

 

UFO news

    

    It appears UFOs could be roaming Australia's skies, with a Bradbury resident appealing for support after sighting three unidentified flying objects.

 

Today in history

    On this date in 1895, Thomas Edison made a breakthrough when he created the first sound movies. In 1902, the Cadillac Motor Co. was founded; and Theodore Roosevelt became the first U.S. president to ride in an auto-mobile. In 1952, Devil's Island, a prison off the coast of South America, was closed. In 1968, Cynthia Powell (Julian Lennon's mother) filed for a divorce from John Lennon. In 1978, in Nicaragua, the Frente Sandinista de Liberacion [FSLN] occupied the national palace. In 1989, Neptune's first ring was discovered. In 1991, the Russian flag was raised following a failed coup. In 1996, welfare reform was signed into law by U.S. President Bill Clinton. 2007, the Rangers scored 30 runs against the Orioles -the most runs scored by a team in MLB history.

 

The parting shots

    Some Liberty University alumni might send back their diplomas. They cite school President Jerry Falwell, Jr.'s latest comments trashing President Trump as the breaking point.

    The U.S. president's re-election effort seems to be going full-steam ahead - a few years early.

    If your eyes feel funny after watching the solar eclipse yesterday even though you wore protective glasses, don't panic. You may have gotten superficial damage on the surface of the eyes, but the not the irreversible retina burns that prompted so many warnings prior to the celestial event viewed by millions.

    And British actor Richard Armitage is 46 years old today. Actor Ty Burrell is 50; Comedic actor and late night TV host James Corden is 39; WWE wrestler Jimmy Uso and his brother, Jay Uso, are both 32; and actress Kristen Wiig is 44.

 

 

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