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A Happy Thanksgiving to All
Posted by Dave (Katarahngen Zoy)
on Nov 19 at 02:21 PM
Proclamation of Thanksgiving
Washington, D.C.October 3, 1863
This is the proclamation which set the precedent for America's national day of Thanksgiving. During his administration, President Lincoln issued many orders like this. For example, on November 28, 1861, he ordered government departments closed for a local day of thanksgiving.
Sarah Josepha Hale, a prominent magazine editor, wrote a letter to Lincoln on 28, 1863, urging him to have the "day of our annual Thanksgiving made a National and fixed Union Festival." She wrote, "You may have observed that, for some years past, there has been an increasing interest felt in our land to have the Thanksgiving held on the same day, in all the States; it now needs National recognition and authoritative fixation, only, to become permanently, an American custom and institution." The document below sets apart the last Thursday of November "as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise."
According to an April 1, 1864, letter from John Nicolay, one of President Lincoln's secretaries, this document was written by Secretary of State William Seward, and the original was in his handwriting. On October 3, 1863, fellow Cabinet member Gideon Welles recorded in his diary that he complimented Seward on his work. A year later the manuscript was sold to benefit Union troops.
By the President of the United States of America.
A Proclamation.
The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consiousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom. No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this Third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the Unites States the Eighty-eighth.
By the President: Abraham Lincoln
William H. Seward,
Secretary of State
STS-126 Prepares for Launch
Posted by Dave (Katarahngen Zoy)
on Nov 12 at 03:42 PM
Despite the possibility of a weather delay, preparations are underway for the launch of the space shuttle Endeavor this Friday.
I thought I would brief you on a few of the planned mission details.
The countdown began Tuesday night (11/11) for the launch of STS-126. Liftoff is scheduled for Friday at 7:55 p.m. EST. The launch team at NASA's Kennedy Space Center began the countdown from the T-43 hour mark at 10 p.m. There are several built-in holds during the countdown that mark milestones leading up to launch. Space shuttle Endeavour and its crew of seven astronauts are to carry about seven tons of equipment and supplies to the International Space Station during the 15-day mission.
Launch controllers will load oxygen and hydrogen into the fuel cells aboard space shuttle Endeavour this evening (11/12) as the countdown to the launch of STS-126 moves ahead smoothly. The fuel cells convert the chemicals into electricity while Endeavour is in space. The process also produces water for the crew. Endeavour Commander Chris Ferguson and Pilot Eric Boe will also fly several practice landings aboard NASA's Shuttle Training Aircraft overnight.
The weather forecast for Friday's scheduled launch of space shuttle Endeavour continues to call for a 60 percent chance of acceptable conditions at liftoff.
This flight of Endeavor includes several significant steps to install new crew equipment inside the International Space Station and service the solar array joints of the laboratory. During STS-126, the crew will:
--Exchange crew members. Sandra Magnus will swap places with current station resident Greg Chamitoff.
--Conduct four spacewalks. Working in teams of two, astronauts will emerge from the space station’s Quest airlock and work on the two large joints that turn the stations massive solar array “wings.”
--Install new crew quarters, a galley, waste water recycling system and oxygen generator inside the station. The equipment has been packed inside refrigerator sized racks that require forklifts to lift them on earth. But in space, a single astronaut can move these racks around with little problem.
Endeavor and it’s crew are to land at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida after 15 days in space.
A Haunted Halloween Cruise
Posted by Dave (Katarahngen Zoy)
on Oct 20 at 03:11 PM
A few years back while enjoying a private cruise aboard a luxury motor yacht, (one of my hobbies as a world traveler) I encountered one of the strange things that I always write about, but never seem to have happen to myself. Since my investigation into the elusive ghost at the Guadalupe Center is taking longer than expected, I thought I would share this old story just to be posting something. I hope you enjoy it
First of all it was strange that the story I’m about to tell you took place on a Halloween night. It was about 3 a.m. and I couldn’t sleep. My lady friend and I were staying in the aft stateroom on the lower deck. We were at dock in St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. I watched a little television until around 4:00 a.m. While I didn’t mean to wake my friend, she did awaken and was a good sport about it. She decided to get up so we could just hang out in the middle of the night on the yacht. She and I were basically alone, walking around the ship. Our host and the 3 other couples that were guests on the ship were all asleep.
The yacht is comprised of four decks. Basically a four story, 147 foot floating palace with an elevator that runs through the four decks. This late at night, the only activity on the ship is maybe a couple deck hands on duty, but the stews are off duty, and aside from the bridge, there’s usually nobody to be found as you walk around. At the time of this incident, we were on deck 2, the main deck, and decided to take the elevator up to the 3rd deck because they have a neat area with table and chairs at the aft end of the ship near where the tenders and water toys are stored.
Before stepping onto the deck 3 landing, still in the elevator with the doors opened, I noticed 4 luggage trolleys by the elevator doors. It was the last night in the Virgin Islands, and one of the couples had taken a day and night off ship, and I just imagined the trolleys were used when they returned. The next second a trolley, which was slightly away from the others, started to move in a perfectly straight line away from us. Everyone knows those things are hard to steer, and the wheels were turned in a sideways direction. They first sharply un-turned then started moved.
Then, the fourth trolley started to move with the wheels un-turning first, but this trolley was moving toward the elevator where we still stood. With sudden fear coming over me, I pushed the deck 4 button just to close the elevator door. And just as I did, the stairway door straight across from the elevator door opened up and a deck hand stepped through. That was all we saw before the elevator doors closed, bringing us to the fourth floor.
After that experience, we immediately rode the elevator back to the bottom floor where we went back to our stateroom. I called the bridge and asked to speak to the deckhand that was just on the deck 3 landing. The First Officer, who was on duty on the bridge, said the only hand on duty in the aft part of the ship at that hour was actually located down on deck 1 in the engine room. They also have a monitoring system on the bridge that shows whenever someone opens any door on the ship. The log record did not indicate that stairway door even having been opened.
Now there are many possible explanations for this story, but none of them makes much sense. Why would the log not show anyone passing through that doorway when we obviously saw a deckhand standing there? Also, the boat wasn’t moving at all and it was the calmest night of the trip. So movement of the ship couldn’t have made the trolleys move. Even if it was that, the trolleys would have moved back and forth not two going straight-lined in opposite directions at he same time, while all of the other trolleys stood still. That wouldn’t explain how the wheels un-turned by themselves.
My guess is there are two possible explanations. Either we encountered something supernatural….or it was just too much “witches brew” at the upper deck Halloween party the evening before!
First of all it was strange that the story I’m about to tell you took place on a Halloween night. It was about 3 a.m. and I couldn’t sleep. My lady friend and I were staying in the aft stateroom on the lower deck. We were at dock in St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. I watched a little television until around 4:00 a.m. While I didn’t mean to wake my friend, she did awaken and was a good sport about it. She decided to get up so we could just hang out in the middle of the night on the yacht. She and I were basically alone, walking around the ship. Our host and the 3 other couples that were guests on the ship were all asleep.
The yacht is comprised of four decks. Basically a four story, 147 foot floating palace with an elevator that runs through the four decks. This late at night, the only activity on the ship is maybe a couple deck hands on duty, but the stews are off duty, and aside from the bridge, there’s usually nobody to be found as you walk around. At the time of this incident, we were on deck 2, the main deck, and decided to take the elevator up to the 3rd deck because they have a neat area with table and chairs at the aft end of the ship near where the tenders and water toys are stored.
Before stepping onto the deck 3 landing, still in the elevator with the doors opened, I noticed 4 luggage trolleys by the elevator doors. It was the last night in the Virgin Islands, and one of the couples had taken a day and night off ship, and I just imagined the trolleys were used when they returned. The next second a trolley, which was slightly away from the others, started to move in a perfectly straight line away from us. Everyone knows those things are hard to steer, and the wheels were turned in a sideways direction. They first sharply un-turned then started moved.
Then, the fourth trolley started to move with the wheels un-turning first, but this trolley was moving toward the elevator where we still stood. With sudden fear coming over me, I pushed the deck 4 button just to close the elevator door. And just as I did, the stairway door straight across from the elevator door opened up and a deck hand stepped through. That was all we saw before the elevator doors closed, bringing us to the fourth floor.
After that experience, we immediately rode the elevator back to the bottom floor where we went back to our stateroom. I called the bridge and asked to speak to the deckhand that was just on the deck 3 landing. The First Officer, who was on duty on the bridge, said the only hand on duty in the aft part of the ship at that hour was actually located down on deck 1 in the engine room. They also have a monitoring system on the bridge that shows whenever someone opens any door on the ship. The log record did not indicate that stairway door even having been opened.
Now there are many possible explanations for this story, but none of them makes much sense. Why would the log not show anyone passing through that doorway when we obviously saw a deckhand standing there? Also, the boat wasn’t moving at all and it was the calmest night of the trip. So movement of the ship couldn’t have made the trolleys move. Even if it was that, the trolleys would have moved back and forth not two going straight-lined in opposite directions at he same time, while all of the other trolleys stood still. That wouldn’t explain how the wheels un-turned by themselves.
My guess is there are two possible explanations. Either we encountered something supernatural….or it was just too much “witches brew” at the upper deck Halloween party the evening before!
STS-125 The Final Visit
Posted by Dave
on Sep 19 at 10:43 AM
It's a mission to once more push the boundaries of how deep in space and far back in time humanity can see. It's a flight to again upgrade what already may be the most significant satellite ever launched.
And, for the space shuttle, it's a final visit to a dear, old friend.
The STS-125 mission will return the space shuttle to the Hubble Space Telescope for one last visit before the shuttle fleet retires in 2010. Over 11 days and five spacewalks, the shuttle Atlantis’ crew will make repairs and upgrades to the telescope, leaving it better than ever and ready for another five years – or more – of research.
The shuttle Discovery launched Hubble in 1990, and released it into an orbit 304 nautical miles above the Earth. Since then it’s circled Earth more than 97,000 times and provided more than 4,000 astronomers access to the stars not possible from inside Earth’s atmosphere. Hubble has helped answer some of science’s key questions and provided images that have awed and inspired the world.
“We’ve actually seen an object that emitted its light about 13 billion years ago,” said Hubble senior scientist Dave Leckrone. “Since the universe is 13.7 billion years old, that’s its infancy, the nursery. From the nearest parts of our solar system to further back in time than anyone has ever looked before, we’ve taken ordinary citizens on a voyage through the universe.”
But Hubble has not done it alone.
Atlantis’ crew – Commander Scott Altman, Pilot Gregory C. Johnson and Mission Specialists Andrew Feustel, Michael Good, John Grunsfeld, Mike Massimino and Megan McArthur – will be the fifth shuttle crew to fly to the telescope. Their predecessors have replaced and repaired failed and faulty components and added new and improved cameras and scientific equipment, and the STS-125 crew will be no different.
Most exciting are the new scientific instruments Atlantis’ spacewalkers will install. The Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, for instance, will observe the light put out by extremely faint, far-away quasars and see how that light changes as it passes through the intervening gas between distant galaxies. In this way scientists will learn what that gas is made of, how it’s changed over time and how it affects the galaxies around it.
“It’s an important player in the story of how galaxies are formed and how the chemical makeup of the universe has changed over time,” Leckrone said.
And the new Wide Field Camera 3 will allow Hubble to take large-scale, extremely clear and detailed pictures over a very wide range of colors. At ultraviolet and infrared wavelengths the WFC3 represents a dramatic improvement in capability over all previous Hubble cameras. It is also a very capable visible light camera, though by design not quite as capable at visible wavelengths as Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys. The WFC3 and ACS are designed to work together in a complementary fashion.
“If I want a complete family album of the universe, I need to look at it in all these different wavelengths,” Leckrone said. “This will be the first time we’ve had an opportunity to take all these different images together, to have a comparable quality of pictures across this whole wavelength band.”
Before those much anticipated views are seen, though, the equipment has to be installed – a process that will be exciting in its own right. The spacewalks necessary to outfit Hubble will be very different from the spacewalks conducted at the International Space Station.
“It’s more like brain surgery than construction,” Lead Flight Director Tony Ceccacci said. “On station spacewalks, you’re installing large pieces of equipment – trusses, modules, etc. – and putting it together like an erector set. You can’t do that with Hubble. Hubble spacewalks are comparable to standing at an operating table, doing very dexterous work.”
Although the installation of the new equipment and the replacement of some old items – gyroscopes, batteries and a fine guidance sensor – will be challenging, it’s the repairs the astronauts plan that will be the most complicated.
The new camera and spectrograph are designed to complement the scientific instruments already on the telescope – specifically the Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph. But pieces of those instruments have failed in past years – not the entire instrument, but specific pieces inside of them. The crew will replace only the pieces that have failed.
But those instruments were never designed to be repaired in space. In fact, they were specifically designed not to come apart.
“When we first looked at it, we were going ‘well, maybe, maybe not,’” Ceccacci said.
Since then, the team has come up with a plan for the work that Ceccacci believes will be very successful. But it won’t be easy – the repair of the spectrograph, for instance, requires the spacewalkers to remove more than 100 screws to access a computer card they will pull out and replace.
Still, the mission’s commander pointed out that it’s good practice for the future.
“I think it’s a step that we need to take to make us better able to go to places like Mars,” Altman said. “You don’t want to drag a whole spare giant box along – you’d like to be able to have the one little transistor you need to plug in when that fails. Being able to demonstrate this in space is a key element of us growing as a space-faring people.”
The Hubble spacewalks won’t be the only things that differ from missions to the space station. Confined to just the shuttle, the quarters will be tighter; with five back-to-back spacewalks, the pace will be faster.
Without the station crew to give the shuttle a once over and photograph its heat shield , the customary survey of the heat shield done the day after launch will be much more intensive. The crew will use the shuttle robotic arm and its 50-foot boom extension and sensor systems to perform not only the standard nose cap and wing leading edges inspection, but also a survey of the upper crew cabin and the entire underside.
In the unlikely event that irreparable damage is found, the crew also won’t be able to get to the space station to wait for a ride home – Atlantis can't reach the station from Hubble’s orbit. Because the crew won't have access to the station and the support it could provide in an emergency, the mission to Hubble requires some changes on the ground.
For every shuttle mission since Columbia, there has been a contingency plan in place to allow another shuttle to be launched if needed to rescue a stranded shuttle crew. On station missions, that stranded crew can wait longer at the station than would be the case for Atlantis. So, for 125, another shuttle will be standing ready on Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-B. If needed, space shuttle Endeavour, manned by the flight deck crew of mission STS-123 which flew in March, will be ready to fly to Hubble and retrieve Atlantis’ crew within days.
What puts Altman’s mind at ease, however, are the changes NASA has made to keep damage from occurring in the first place.
“I feel pretty good that we’ve made incredible improvement in the external tank,” he said. “That’s the root cause. But if something does happen, I think we have the tools to find it, see where it is, evaluate how serious it is and fix it. And then on that one-way-down-at-the-edge-of-the-probability-level chance that you could have damage such that you wouldn’t want to come home on it, we have the capability to stay up there – extend our time and have another shuttle come get us.”
The risks, he believes, are relatively small, and the payoff is huge.
“Hubble puts cutting edge science together with a visual image that grabs the public’s imagination,” Altman said. “I think that’s the first step in exploration. Because Hubble takes light that’s been traveling for billions of years, sucks it in and shows it to us. It’s like taking you on a journey 13 and a half billion light years away while you sit there at home and look out at the universe.”
Find this article at:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/hst_sm4/overview.html
And, for the space shuttle, it's a final visit to a dear, old friend.
The STS-125 mission will return the space shuttle to the Hubble Space Telescope for one last visit before the shuttle fleet retires in 2010. Over 11 days and five spacewalks, the shuttle Atlantis’ crew will make repairs and upgrades to the telescope, leaving it better than ever and ready for another five years – or more – of research.
The shuttle Discovery launched Hubble in 1990, and released it into an orbit 304 nautical miles above the Earth. Since then it’s circled Earth more than 97,000 times and provided more than 4,000 astronomers access to the stars not possible from inside Earth’s atmosphere. Hubble has helped answer some of science’s key questions and provided images that have awed and inspired the world.
“We’ve actually seen an object that emitted its light about 13 billion years ago,” said Hubble senior scientist Dave Leckrone. “Since the universe is 13.7 billion years old, that’s its infancy, the nursery. From the nearest parts of our solar system to further back in time than anyone has ever looked before, we’ve taken ordinary citizens on a voyage through the universe.”
But Hubble has not done it alone.
Atlantis’ crew – Commander Scott Altman, Pilot Gregory C. Johnson and Mission Specialists Andrew Feustel, Michael Good, John Grunsfeld, Mike Massimino and Megan McArthur – will be the fifth shuttle crew to fly to the telescope. Their predecessors have replaced and repaired failed and faulty components and added new and improved cameras and scientific equipment, and the STS-125 crew will be no different.
Most exciting are the new scientific instruments Atlantis’ spacewalkers will install. The Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, for instance, will observe the light put out by extremely faint, far-away quasars and see how that light changes as it passes through the intervening gas between distant galaxies. In this way scientists will learn what that gas is made of, how it’s changed over time and how it affects the galaxies around it.
“It’s an important player in the story of how galaxies are formed and how the chemical makeup of the universe has changed over time,” Leckrone said.
And the new Wide Field Camera 3 will allow Hubble to take large-scale, extremely clear and detailed pictures over a very wide range of colors. At ultraviolet and infrared wavelengths the WFC3 represents a dramatic improvement in capability over all previous Hubble cameras. It is also a very capable visible light camera, though by design not quite as capable at visible wavelengths as Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys. The WFC3 and ACS are designed to work together in a complementary fashion.
“If I want a complete family album of the universe, I need to look at it in all these different wavelengths,” Leckrone said. “This will be the first time we’ve had an opportunity to take all these different images together, to have a comparable quality of pictures across this whole wavelength band.”
Before those much anticipated views are seen, though, the equipment has to be installed – a process that will be exciting in its own right. The spacewalks necessary to outfit Hubble will be very different from the spacewalks conducted at the International Space Station.
“It’s more like brain surgery than construction,” Lead Flight Director Tony Ceccacci said. “On station spacewalks, you’re installing large pieces of equipment – trusses, modules, etc. – and putting it together like an erector set. You can’t do that with Hubble. Hubble spacewalks are comparable to standing at an operating table, doing very dexterous work.”
Although the installation of the new equipment and the replacement of some old items – gyroscopes, batteries and a fine guidance sensor – will be challenging, it’s the repairs the astronauts plan that will be the most complicated.
The new camera and spectrograph are designed to complement the scientific instruments already on the telescope – specifically the Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph. But pieces of those instruments have failed in past years – not the entire instrument, but specific pieces inside of them. The crew will replace only the pieces that have failed.
But those instruments were never designed to be repaired in space. In fact, they were specifically designed not to come apart.
“When we first looked at it, we were going ‘well, maybe, maybe not,’” Ceccacci said.
Since then, the team has come up with a plan for the work that Ceccacci believes will be very successful. But it won’t be easy – the repair of the spectrograph, for instance, requires the spacewalkers to remove more than 100 screws to access a computer card they will pull out and replace.
Still, the mission’s commander pointed out that it’s good practice for the future.
“I think it’s a step that we need to take to make us better able to go to places like Mars,” Altman said. “You don’t want to drag a whole spare giant box along – you’d like to be able to have the one little transistor you need to plug in when that fails. Being able to demonstrate this in space is a key element of us growing as a space-faring people.”
The Hubble spacewalks won’t be the only things that differ from missions to the space station. Confined to just the shuttle, the quarters will be tighter; with five back-to-back spacewalks, the pace will be faster.
Without the station crew to give the shuttle a once over and photograph its heat shield , the customary survey of the heat shield done the day after launch will be much more intensive. The crew will use the shuttle robotic arm and its 50-foot boom extension and sensor systems to perform not only the standard nose cap and wing leading edges inspection, but also a survey of the upper crew cabin and the entire underside.
In the unlikely event that irreparable damage is found, the crew also won’t be able to get to the space station to wait for a ride home – Atlantis can't reach the station from Hubble’s orbit. Because the crew won't have access to the station and the support it could provide in an emergency, the mission to Hubble requires some changes on the ground.
For every shuttle mission since Columbia, there has been a contingency plan in place to allow another shuttle to be launched if needed to rescue a stranded shuttle crew. On station missions, that stranded crew can wait longer at the station than would be the case for Atlantis. So, for 125, another shuttle will be standing ready on Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-B. If needed, space shuttle Endeavour, manned by the flight deck crew of mission STS-123 which flew in March, will be ready to fly to Hubble and retrieve Atlantis’ crew within days.
What puts Altman’s mind at ease, however, are the changes NASA has made to keep damage from occurring in the first place.
“I feel pretty good that we’ve made incredible improvement in the external tank,” he said. “That’s the root cause. But if something does happen, I think we have the tools to find it, see where it is, evaluate how serious it is and fix it. And then on that one-way-down-at-the-edge-of-the-probability-level chance that you could have damage such that you wouldn’t want to come home on it, we have the capability to stay up there – extend our time and have another shuttle come get us.”
The risks, he believes, are relatively small, and the payoff is huge.
“Hubble puts cutting edge science together with a visual image that grabs the public’s imagination,” Altman said. “I think that’s the first step in exploration. Because Hubble takes light that’s been traveling for billions of years, sucks it in and shows it to us. It’s like taking you on a journey 13 and a half billion light years away while you sit there at home and look out at the universe.”
Find this article at:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/hst_sm4/overview.html
Dave's News of the Weird - Hitler Returns To Berlin
Posted by Dave
on Sep 16 at 10:49 AM
You know I'm always keeping an eye open for weird and unusual stories to enlighten you about. Here's one I stumbled across going through my morning briefing. Thought you might all enjoy it...
Berlin - Madame Tussaud's said Saturday it had returned a wax figure of the Nazi dictator to its newly opened Berlin branch weeks after the statue was beheaded by a 41-year-old German.Hitler's figure can be viewed sitting at a desk in a replica of his bunker, Madame Tussaud's, the British waxworks maker, said. Hitler committed suicide in the bunker in 1945 as the Red Army converged on Berlin.
The Berlin branch said it does not allow visitors to enter the replica of the bunker, so that the figure is protected.
Madame Tussaud's has defended its display of the Hitler figure in Berlin as "a legitimate part of our show" because he "stands for an important part of German history."
The presence of the Nazi dictator's likeness in the new museum led to criticism in German media before the branch's opening in July.
Bio
After training from Columbia School of Broadcasting, Dave began his broadcasting career in 1977 at KBRL in McCook, Nebraska. Working briefly at KFNF in Oberlin, Kansas before accepting a position with KAPZ in Bald Knob, (Searcy) Arkansas. When his father passed away in 1982, Dave returned to the McCook area and resumed work at KFNF, working the next 9 years as announcer, music director, and finally program director.
Dave was married in 1984 and moved to Scottsbluff with his now ex-wife in 1991. He worked as announcer and production manager at KNEB until late 2000. He accepted a position with Tracy Broadcasting Corporation in Scottsbluff as Operations Manager and worked in that capacity and as News Director for the next 5 years before returning to KNEB as production manager in March of 2005.
Dave was certified in 1994 as a “Master Digital Editor” and continues to keep up on the latest techniques and processes for digital editing in commercial production work.
Dave also spent 6 years as a tank gunner in the Army National Guard while continuing his career and education in broadcasting.
Hobbies include: NASA, Antarctica, dog sledding, mega-yachts, movies, and games.
Member National Science Foundation; Member National Association of Broadcasters.
Dave was married in 1984 and moved to Scottsbluff with his now ex-wife in 1991. He worked as announcer and production manager at KNEB until late 2000. He accepted a position with Tracy Broadcasting Corporation in Scottsbluff as Operations Manager and worked in that capacity and as News Director for the next 5 years before returning to KNEB as production manager in March of 2005.
Dave was certified in 1994 as a “Master Digital Editor” and continues to keep up on the latest techniques and processes for digital editing in commercial production work.
Dave also spent 6 years as a tank gunner in the Army National Guard while continuing his career and education in broadcasting.
Hobbies include: NASA, Antarctica, dog sledding, mega-yachts, movies, and games.
Member National Science Foundation; Member National Association of Broadcasters.
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