Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. – Paul Hawken

LODD’s:

Jan 04, 2012

Wildland fire fighter trainee suffers sudden cardiac death during physical fitness exercise – California.

Jan 04, 2001

Fire fighter suffers a heart attack and dies while exercising in firehouse – New York.

History from Historyplace.com:

January 4, 1790 – President George Washington delivered the first State of the Union address.

January 4, 1974 – President Richard Nixon rejected subpoenas from the Senate Watergate Committee seeking audio tapes and related documents.

Birthday – Louis Braille (1809-1852) was born in France. Blinded as a boy, he later invented a reading system for the blind using punch marks in paper.