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090731-N-1325N-005 BANGOR, Wash. (July 31, 2009) A Sailor assigned to the Ohio class ballistic missile submarine USS Alabama (SSBN 731) places the hull number on the sail of Alabama after tying up at the Delta Pier at Naval Base Kitsap. (U.S. Navy photo by Ray Narimatsu/Released)
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>>>>>JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 08/05/09 12:40 AM
http://www.cswap.com/1995/Waterworld/cap/en/25fps/a/00_21
Waterworld
:21:42
You don't like humans
very much, do you ?
:21:46
I can't say that I blame you.
But tell me:
:21:49
- Are all of your kind as
bad-tempered as you are ?
:21:55
- I have no ''kind.''
- Oh, fish rot.
:21:58
I'd be surprised if there
weren't others, and if there aren't,
:22:01
there will be eventually.
:22:04
Anyway, I've come here
because I need to ask you a question.
:22:08
Where-- Where did
your dirt come from ?
:22:11
Is it from Dryland ?
:22:14
Do you know what this is ?
:22:18
The ancients-- They did something
terrible, didn't they ?
:22:20
To cause all this water.
Hundreds-- Hundreds of years ago.
:22:24
If I tell you,
will you open this lock ?
:22:29
I haven't a key.
:22:32
- There's a mooring cleat down there.
- What ?
:22:35
- Good as any key.
- A mooring cleat ?
:22:40
I won't hurt anyone.
I'll just leave.
:22:43
- I'll be right back.
- Gregor !
:22:47
What's your business there ?
:22:49
- Move along !
- I'm not a brave man.
:22:51
If you know anything about Dryland,
please tell me. Please !
:22:56
Don't let it die with you.
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>>>>>JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 08/03/09 1:02 PM
There was a lot of stuff in a dream just before I woke up but I only remember fairly clearly one part and I wish I could remember it all. I also just now remember as I write this that I was dreaming of work again. I woke up at some point in the middle of my sleep period and I had been dreaming extensively of all this work I am now doing and I have that type of dream often, as I have noted. So anyway, it was not until after I had been awake for a few minutes that what the dream visuals reminded me of is of a parachute tandem jump but in the dream it was different and I don't think that is what it represents as I doubt I have ever made a tandem jump as it appeared in the dream. The reason I started thinking about a tandem jump is because there was a guy behind me and there was some kind of device that had us both attached as though it was connected to our clothing and that was in turn linked together. As I wrote that last sentence, I started thinking it could actually represent we were on a 'chain gang.' So anyway, in the dream, we were in some large room not unlike a warehouse or an auditorium and I am aware there were other people around. The point I remember clearly and that started me thinking about a tandem parachute jump was the I saw my foot and my lower leg in the air as I was falling to the ground but what I was doing in the dream was that I had knocked the feet out from that guy I was attached to and I was causing him to fall to the ground so I could cause all my weight to land on top of him as he hit the ground so I could injure him as much as possible. The next scene is in some kind of room and it almost seems to be some kind of machinery room but I cannot visualize any specifics so I can describe why I feel that is where we are and I am left with the vague sense that it is some kind of tool and machinery room on an aircraft carrier. I am also left with the vague sense that new person in that room is the actor Edward James Olmos but that person is really only an indistinct figure. The dream at this part seems to be that I am getting the lock taken off me and I can visualize the lock as the kind of brass lock with the U-hinge that the U.S. Navy uses and the guy that had been attached to me as well as the other person in the room both have a large set of keys and they are trying to figure out which key will open the lock. I look down and read that there is a '9913' stamped on the lock that restrains me and it is that Olmos-figure that has the key stamped '9913' and that does indeed unlock my lock. I don't remember anything else after that in the dream and I guess that is when I woke up and got out of bed.
08/03/09 1:15 PM
the period of 3/4/1959 to 4/24/1986 is 9913 days.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=37179&st=&st1=
Announcement of the Recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
April 24, 1986
The President today announced his intention to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award of our government, at a luncheon to be held at the White House on May 12, 1986. The following individuals will be awarded this prestigious award by the President.
Ambassador Walter H. Annenberg, for his contributions in the fields of education, public service, philanthropy, and especially as the pioneer in the use of television for educational purposes.
Col. Earl H. (Red) Blaik, former head football coach at Dartmouth and the United States Military Academy, for his contributions in the fields of education and public service.
Senator Barry Goldwater, for his contributions in the field of public service and national interests of the United States.
Miss Helen Hayes, actress, for her contributions in the field of the arts and entertainment and other significant public endeavors.
Gen. Matthew Ridgway, distinguished military hero, for his contributions to the security and national interest of the United States.
Mr. Vermont Royster, journalist, for his contributions in the fields of journalism and communications.
Dr. Albert Sabin, physician and scientist, for his contributions in the fields of education and science.
08/03/09 1:19 PM
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=50030
William J. Clinton
XLII President of the United States: 1993-2001
Remarks Honoring the National Volunteer Action Awards Recipients
April 22, 1994
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I'm sorry we're starting a little bit late, but there are worse places to spend an extra half an hour on a beautiful spring day than here in the Rose Garden. We're delighted to see all of you here.
I'm proud to celebrate the close of National Volunteer Week, 1994, with you and with the individuals and organizations we honor today for their extraordinary service, from among the more than 95 million Americans who give of themselves to help other people every year.
This afternoon we'll hear stories of ordinary Americans doing extraordinary things all over our country, ranging from little children to noted doctors, from small neighborhood organizations to one of our Nation's largest corporations, from a refugee who barely escaped the fall of Saigon to men and women whose families have belonged to the American middle class for generations. Our honorees have confronted gangs and comforted the sick. They've tutored children, fed families, planted trees, and built homes. As they have helped to rebuild their communities, they've shown each of us what can be done when all of us join together.
We know that communities have never been built with brick and mortar alone. Our communities are a product of common effort and common connections to neighbors with whom we share a city block or country road.
Community service is neither a program nor a panacea; it really is a way we live our lives. It stems from a refusal to accept things as they are, a personal commitment to make them better and to help our fellow men and women, boys and girls live up to their God-given potential.
Service, like life, is a series of challenges. Thirty-three years ago, almost exactly on this day, President Kennedy spoke of this challenge when he announced the first Peace Corps project. His challenge in that example inspired many, many members of my generation. In just a few months our Nation's and our generation's answer to history's challenge will begin working in communities all across America. They'll be members of AmeriCorps, our new national service initiative. They won't replace the efforts we honor today, but they will expand them. Working mainly through local nonprofit groups, AmeriCorps will provide the kind of commitment and energy and daring that makes heroes and communities and that makes a difference.
Robert Kennedy perhaps said it best 28 years ago in Cape Town, South Africa. He said, "Each time someone," and I quote, "stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls."
To those we honor today, thank you for your courage and your daring. To paraphrase Robert Frost, you took the road less traveled. And it has made all the difference. I ask that each of you stay on the road to public service and voluntarism, because you can continue to make a difference.
Here in Washington we are working as hard as we know how to move this country in the right direction and to pull the American people together, to reach across the many divides that separate us from one another so that once again we can become one people and one community burning with a common desire to move into the next century still the greatest nation on Earth, still the greatest hope for children here at home and around the world.
Eli Segal, the Director of our national service program, and my good friend Edward James Olmos, in their different ways exemplify that ideal. I thank them for being here today and for leading this endeavor. I thank all of you for what you have done. And I ask that today we rededicate ourselves to the principle that the Government cannot solve all the problems in America and that in the end, the Government is just another organization of the rest of us. And we have to do it in whatever way we can wherever we live.
Thank you very much.
08/03/09 2:14 PM
I just have all kinds of bad news.
08/03/09 2:16 PM
Of course they called Paul Ray Smith's widow on 2/1/2005. Of course they did. What other day would they call her?
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