June 2, 2005
Issue 114
A View from the Bridge
Remember:
•
NO team meeting
today.
• Happy Birthday to:
Monica ThamesLamar, 6/3
David Edwards, 6/5
Tim Hugus, 6/6
David Lin, 6/6
Mike Conlon, 6/8
• Did we miss your
birthday? Do we have
the date incorrect?
Please let Peggy know.
• Congratulations to last
week’s Gator Hat
winner, Anita Ellison!
• We have a first aid kit
in the kitchen of Suite
215. If you use the last
of an item, please alert
Jennifer Snowden.
• If you use the last of an
item from the supply
closet, please write
that item on the order
list taped to the front of
the supply closet door.
• If you use the last of
the copier paper,
please alert Jennifer
Snowden.
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UF Bridges Team Weekly Newsletter
Items to Note . . .
•
Employees – Did you remember
to enter your time yesterday for this two week pay period?
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Did you remember that this past Monday was a holiday?
•
Supervisors – Don’t forget you need to approve time today for this two week pay period.
•
Tim Hugus and his wife just found out that their baby is going to be a boy – congratulations!
Saying Goodbye to . . .
Anita Ellison is leaving us. Her actual “official” last day is July 7th, but Anita left yesterday on
annual leave. We have a tribute to her on the following page. You are definitely leaving an
empty spot, Anita. We wish you the best!
Did you know . . .
June 3rd is
June 4th is
June 5th is
June 6th is
June 7th is
June 8th is
Repeat Day (I said “Repeat Day”)
Old Maid’s Day
Applesauce Cake Day – okay, this falls on Saturday so we need a volunteer to
bring in an Applesauce Cake to celebrate on Friday!
World Environment Day
D-Day, WW II (Tribute on following pages)
Child Health Day
National Gardening Day
National Yo-Yo Day
National Chocolate Ice Cream Day
Best Friend’s Day (Mine would be anybody that brings in an Applesauce Cake!)
Name Your Poison Day (Is it poetic justice that this is also Best Friend’s Day?)
Quips and Quotes . . .
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
~ Josh Billings
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
~ Colette
You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and
depth.
~ Evan Esar
Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.
~ Margaret Cho
Life is full of obstacle illusions.
~ Grant Frazier
Love, above all else, is the gift of oneself.
~ Jean Anouilh
An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.
~ Bonnie Friedman
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Send news, comments, or
suggestions by Tuesday,
5:00 p.m. to:
Peggy Lee, 846-2506,
[email protected]
The best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in a smaller house than your means
would entitle you to have.
~ Edward Clarke
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
~ Dutch Proverb
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For those of you that don’t know, Anita Ellison is leaving us. Her last official day is
July 7 but she left Wednesday, June 1st on annual leave.
Anita
Source: http://www.gsoderberg.com/retirement/poem.htm
And adapted by Carol Cohen
Saying goodbye is so hard to do,
We wish you the best, though we'll surely miss you.
Trying to fill your shoes will be tough,
We'll have to work hard, to be good enough!
How do we thank you for all that you've done?
There's so many things, that we can't pick just one.
Perhaps you will miss all the work in this place,
OK now, quit laughing, I kept a straight face.
There isn't a computer that doesn't know you,
If we broke it, you fixed it at one time or two.
"This software is trashed, it won't do what I say!",
”R80’s abended, please call right away”.
You're the student services guru, and our trusted teacher,
I hope you documented every last feature.
Student software is fragile and causes us pain, Until we go to Peoplesoft, we
won’t ever get trained.
We'll miss the lunches out on the town,
The times you lifted us up when we were down.
You're such a great friend, and co-worker too,
We hope that each day brings adventures for you!
Karl will be happy to have you nearby,
You can now share the chores so you won’t have to cry,
We wish you true joy in the years still ahead,
If you get tired of gardening, come visit instead!
Thank you Anita! We'll miss you!
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D-Day, World War II: Did You Know?
Source: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dday/sfeature/sf_info.html
The invasion of France on June 6, 1944 was a triumph of intelligence,
coordination, secrecy, and planning. The bold attack was also a tremendous
risk. Ultimately it succeeded because of individual soldiers' bravery in combat.
Learn some of the basic facts about D-Day.
The Meaning of the "D"
Ever since June 6, 1944, people have been asking what the "D" in "D-Day"
means. Does it stand for "decision?" The day that 150,000 Allied soldiers landed
on the shores of Normandy was certainly decisive. And with ships, landing craft
and planes leaving port by the tens of thousands for a hostile shore, it is no
wonder that some would call it "disembarkation" or "departed."
There is not much agreement on the issue. But the most ordinary and likely of
explanations is the one offered by the U.S. Army in their published manuals. The
Army began using the codes "H-hour" and "D-day" during World War I to indicate
the time or date of an operation's start. Military planners would write of events
planned to occur on "H-hour" or "D-day" -- long before the actual dates and
times of the operations would be known, or in order to keep plans secret. And so
the "D" may simply refer to the "day" of invasion.
D-Day's Impressive Numbers
An invading army had not crossed the unpredictable, dangerous English
Channel since 1688 -- and once the massive force set out, there was no turning
back. The 5000-vessel armada stretched as far as the eye could see,
transporting over 150,000 men and nearly 30,000 vehicles across the channel to
the French beaches. Six parachute regiments -- over 13,000 men -- were flown
from nine British airfields in over 800 planes. More than 300 planes dropped
13,000 bombs over coastal Normandy immediately in advance of the invasion.
War planners had projected that 5,000 tons of gasoline would be needed daily
for the first 20 days after the initial assault. In one planning scenario, 3,489 long
tons of soap would be required for the first four months in France.
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By nightfall on June 6, more than 9,000 Allied soldiers were dead or wounded,
but more than 100,000 had made it ashore, securing French coastal villages.
And within weeks, supplies were being unloaded at UTAH and OMAHA
beachheads at the rate of over 20,000 tons per day.
Captured Germans were sent to American prisoner of war camps at the rate of
30,000 POWs per month from D-Day until Christmas 1944. Thirty-three detention
facilities were in Texas alone.
Tuning in to D-Day
In the pre-television era, Americans got their breaking news from their radios.
London-based American journalist George Hicks made history with his radio
broadcast from the deck of the U.S.S. Ancon at the start of the D-Day invasion.
"...You see the ships lying in all directions, just like black shadows on the grey sky,"
he described to his listeners. "...Now planes are going overhead... Heavy fire now
just behind us... bombs bursting on the shore and along in the convoys." His
report, including the sounds of heavy bombardment, sirens, low-flying planes,
and shouting, brought Americans to the front line, with all its chaos, confusion,
excitement, and death.
An American Noah
Louisiana entrepreneur Andrew Jackson Higgins first designed shallow-draft
boats in the late 1920s to rescue Mississippi River flood victims. Higgins tried for
years to sell his boats to the U.S. military, but he was rejected repeatedly. At last,
the Marine Corps selected the flat-bottomed landing craft for troop landings on
Pacific beaches. Higgins, who had paid heavily out-of-pocket to promote his
boats, finally landed the government contract -- and his factories produced
20,000 of the versatile craft for the war effort -- including D-Day.