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Tom Clancy
Rainbow Six [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
They'd been doing it for some time. The powder-blue vans - there were four of them - circulated throughout New York City, picking up homeless people and shuttling them to the dry-out centers run by the corporation. The quiet, kindly operation had made local television over a year ago, and garnered the corporation a few dozen friendly letters, then slid back down below the horizon, as such things tended to do. It was approaching midnight, and with dropping autumn temperatures, the vans were out, collecting the homeless throughout central and lower Manhattan. They didn't do it the way the police once had. The people they helped weren't compelled to get aboard. The volunteers from the corporation asked, politely.
They wanted a clean bed for the night, free of charge, and absent the religious complications typical of most "missions," as they were traditionally called. Those who declined the offer were given blankets, used ones donated by corporate employees who were home sleeping or watching TV at the moment-participation in the program was voluntary for the staff as well-but still warm, and waterproofed. Some of the homeless preferred to stay out, deeming it to be some sort of freedom. More did not. Even habitual drunkards liked beds and showers. Presently there were ten of them in the van, and that was all it could hold for this trip. They were helped aboard, sat down, and seat-belted into their places for safety purposes.
None of them knew that this was the fifth of the four vans operating in lower Manhattan, though they found out something was a little different as soon as it started moving. The attendant leaned back from the front seat and handed out bottles of Gallo burgundy, an inexpensive california red, but a better wine than they were used to drinking, and to which something had been added.
By the time they reached their destination, all were asleep or at least stuporous. Those who were able to move were helped from one truck into the back of another, strapped down in their litter beds, and allowed to fail asleep. The rest were carried and strapped down by two pairs of men. With that task done, the first van was driven off to be cleaned out-they used steam to make sure that whatever residue might be left was sterilized and blasted out of the van.
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Release dates for
"Gilligan's Island"
Operation: Steam Heat (1966)
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USA 10 March 1966
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Gilligan's Island: Season 2, Episode 25
Operation: Steam Heat (10 Mar. 1966)
Bob Denver ... Gilligan
Release Date: 10 March 1966 (USA)
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ALLEN INSTITUTE for BRAIN SCIENCE [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
Paul G. Allen Commits $300M to Expand the Allen Institute for Brain Science to Drive Toward a Complete Understanding of How the Brain Works
Institute announces ambitious 10-year plan to tackle the most complex questions in brain science with a continued commitment to open data sharing
March 21, 2012 — The Allen Institute for Brain Science announced today that, given its achievements to date, Paul G. Allen has committed an additional $300 million to the Institute to significantly expand its scientific programs.
Bringing his total commitment to date to $500 million, Allen has charged the Institute with tackling some of the most fundamental and complex questions in brain science today. The answers to these questions are essential for achieving a complete understanding of how the brain works, what goes wrong in brain-related diseases and disorders, and how best to treat them.
"The accomplishments of the Institute have been truly remarkable," said Paul G. Allen.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2017809799_apwaallenbraininstitute.html
The Seattle Times
Originally published Wednesday, March 21, 2012 at 1:58 PM
Paul Allen puts $300M in brain institute expansion
The Associated Press
SEATTLE —
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is putting $300 million into expanding the work of the brain science institute he founded.
The financial commitment announced Wednesday is part of a 10-year plan to tackle the most complex questions in brain science.
The new money increases Allen's total commitment to the institute to half a billion dollars.
The expansion of the institute's work will include efforts to answer questions like "How does the brain store, encode and process information?"
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Tom Clancy
Rainbow Six [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
CHAPTER 6
TRUE BELIEVERS
The problem was environmental tolerance. They knew the baseline organism was as effective as it needed to be. It was just so delicate. Exposed to air, it died far too easily. They weren't sure why, exactly. It might have beer; temperature or humidity, or too much oxygen-that element so essential to life was a great killer of life at the molecular level-and the uncertainty had been a great annoyance until a member of the team had conic up with a solution. They'd used genetic-engineering technology to graft cancer genes into the organism. Specifically, they'd used genetic material from colon cancer, one of the more robust strains, and the results had been striking. The new organism was only a third of a micron larger and far stronger. The proof was on the electron microscope's TV screen. The tiny strands had been exposed to room air and room light for ten hours before being reintroduced into the culture dish, and already, the technician saw, the minute strands were active, using their RNA to multiply after eating, replicating themselves into millions more little strands, which had only one purpose-to eat tissue. In this case it was kidney tissue, though liver was just as vulnerable. The technician-who had a medical degree from Yale made the proper written notations, and then, because it was her project, she got to name it. She blessed the course in comparative religion she'd taken twenty years before. You couldn't just call it anything. could you?
Shiva, she thought. Yes, the most complex and interesting of the Hindu gods, by turns the Destroyer and the Restorer, who controlled poison meant to destroy mankind, and one of whose consorts was Kali, the goddess of death herself. Shiva. Perfect. The tech made the proper notations, including her recommended name for the organism. There would be one more test, one more technological hurdle to hop before all was ready for execution. Execution, she thought, a proper word for the project. On rather a grand scale.
For her next task, she took a sample of Shiva, sealed in a stainless-steel container, and walked out of her lab, an eighth of a mile down the corridor, and into another.
"Hi, Maggie," the head of that lab said in greeting. "(Jot something for me?"
"Hey, Steve." She handed the container over. "This is the one."
"What are we calling it?" Steve took the container and set it on a countertop.
"Shiva, I think."
"Sounds ominous," Steve observed with a smile.
"Oh, it is," Maggie promised him. Steve was another M.D., Ph.D., both of his degrees from Duke University, and the company's best man on vaccines. For this project he'd been pulled off AIDS work that had begun to show some promise.
"So, the colon cancer genes worked like you predicted?"
"Ten hours in the open, it shows good UV tolerance. Not too sure about direct sunlight, though."
"Two hours of that is all we need," Steve reminded her. And really one hour was plenty, as they both knew. "What about the atomization system?"
"Still have to try it," she admitted, "but it won't be a problem." Both knew that was the truth. The organism should easily tolerate passage through the spray nozzles for the fogging system-which would be checked in one of the big environmental chambers. Doing it outside would be better still, of course, but if Shiva was as robust as Maggie seemed to think, it was a risk better not run.
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BBC
6 June 2012 Last updated at 03:16 ET
Legionnaires' disease man dies in Edinburgh outbreak
A man in his 50s has died as the number of confirmed and suspected cases of Legionnaires' disease in an Edinburgh outbreak continues to rise.
The man, who had underlying health conditions, was being treated at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.
NHS Lothian said it was dealing with 17 confirmed and 15 suspected cases but expected more.
The Scottish government says it is doing everything possible to try to identify the source.
A meeting of its resilience committee has been scheduled for Wednesday morning to co-ordinate the official response to the outbreak.
The source of the infection is still being investigated with the potential area for infection estimated at about 44 square miles.
This is because NHS Lothian is working on the basis that the potential area of infection is about seven-and-a-half miles in diameter.
Industrial water cooling towers in the south west of Edinburgh, where all of the cases have come from, have been identified as a potential source of the disease, which cannot be spread directly from person to person.
Sixteen cooling towers at four industrial sites in the area have been treated and checked by environmental health staff in an attempt to halt the outbreak.
One of these could be the source of the outbreak but the results of tests may not be available for several more days.
Dr Duncan McCormick, a consultant in public health medicine, said medical staff were identifying possible cases in an attempt to discover the full extent of the outbreak.
Confirmed cases
NHS Lothian's Dr Duncan McCormick: "We hope we have detected the source and dealt with the cooling towers"
"I would like to reassure the public that household water supplies are safe and that Legionnaires' disease cannot be contracted by drinking water," he said.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-18885350
BBC
18 July 2012 Last updated at 07:06 ET
Edinburgh Legionnaires' outbreak: Officials declare it is over
The Legionnaires' outbreak in Edinburgh has been officially declared over by public health agencies.
The disease has claimed the lives of three men since it first emerged at the end of May.
To date, 101 people have been treated as either confirmed or suspected cases.
NHS Lothian said it is continuing surveillance for symptoms because it expects further cases will emerge in people who have been ill for some time.
An investigation into the cause of the outbreak is continuing. It is thought to have been caused by a cooling tower in the city.
Laboratory work
Dr Alison McCallum, NHS Lothian's director of public health and health policy, said: "As we have seen over the last week, we can expect further cases who have been ill for some time to continue to come forward and our increased surveillance will continue.
"However, all the evidence is suggesting that the action taken when the outbreak was first identified was effective and all cases fall within the expected incubation period, so the decision has been made to declare the outbreak over.
"Laboratory work is ongoing to try and identify the source conclusively but, as we have said from the start, it may not be possible to do so.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-19004508
BBC
26 July 2012 Last updated at 13:00 ET
Legionnaires' patient 'critical' in Stoke-on-Trent
A man is in a critical condition after the number of cases of Legionnaires' disease in Stoke-on-Trent reached 11.
The University Hospital of North Staffordshire said the other patients were in a "stable or improving condition".
The Health Protection Agency (HPA) said it was continuing to work with the NHS in Stoke and the city council to identify any sources of the disease.
It said the outbreak was not hospital related and it was safe for patients.
Professor Harsh Duggal, Director of the Health Protection Agency's Health Protection Unit in Stafford, said: "We have been able to obtain detailed information on the movements of those affected.
"We are now working with HPA experts in mapping the outbreak and our partners to pinpoint possible sources, using the information we have gathered."
Professor Duggal said he expected to get more cases "over the next week or so" because of the incubation period of the disease.
Officials have said early signs include flu-like symptoms, with muscle aches, tiredness, headaches, dry cough and fever which can lead to pneumonia.
Diarrhoea and confusion may occur, as well as chest and breathing symptoms. The disease can be effectively treated with antibiotics.
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Stephen King
The Mist [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
That was old Bill Giosti's theory about the so-called Black Spring: the Arrowhead Project. In the western part of Shaymore, not far from where the town borders on Stoneham, there was a small government preserve surrounded with wire. There were sentries and closedcircuit television cameras and God knew what else. Or so I had heard; I'd never actually seen it, although the Old Shaymore Road runs along the eastern side of the government land for a mile or so.
No one knew for sure where the name Arrowhead Project came from and no one could tell you for one hundred percent sure that that really was the name of the project-if there was a project. Bill Giosti said there was, but when you asked him how and where he came by his information, he got vague. His niece, he said, worked for the Continental Phone Company, and she had heard things. It got like that.
«Atomic things,» Bill said that day, leaning in the Scout's window and blowing a healthy draught of Pabst into my face. «That's what they're fooling around with up there. Shooting atoms into the air and all that.»
«Mr. Giosti, the air's full of atoms,» Billy had said. «That's what Mrs. Neary says. Mrs. Neary says everything's full of atoms.»
Bill Giosti gave my son Bill a long, bloodshot glance that finally deflated him. «These are different atoms, Son.»
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