This Is What I Think.
Wednesday, June 05, 2013
"In the nuclear missile business, morale is not a trivial matter."
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/politics/article/Nuke-missile-crews-cite-morale-sapping-pressures-4575904.php#page-2
seattle pi
Nuke missile crews cite morale-sapping pressures
By ROBERT BURNS, AP National Security Writer
Updated 10:39 pm, Tuesday, June 4, 2013
(Page 2 of 2)
Hans Kristensen, a nuclear weapons expert at the Federation of American Scientists, said that ICBM launch crew officers have told him over a period of years that morale has been on the decline.
"You can't take away the fact that the mission they sit and wait for" — to launch a nuclear attack — "is very unlikely to ever happen," Kristensen said. "That affects career choices and morale because they talk to their other Air Force buddies who come home after flying B-52s over Afghanistan or Iraq and it's very exciting to be in that part of the Air Force" while the ICBM launch crews "sit in a hole in the Midwest and wait for nothing."
A Pentagon advisory panel report two years ago cited multiple aspects of a morale problem within the nuclear force. It said the Air Force's traditional emphasis on fighter and bomber operations leaves nuclear officers feeling marginalized, all the more because their work is out of public view and veiled in secrecy.
"They perceive a lack of knowledge of and respect for their mission from within the larger Air Force," the panel reported.
Robert L. Goldich, a military affairs expert formerly with the Congressional Research Service, said the Air Force faces a difficult task in attracting and keeping high-quality officers to fill the missile launch crew positions.
"They can of course assign new second lieutenants involuntarily, as any service does, but that wouldn't exactly create high esprit de corps in a component of the Air Force that just seems less and less relevant — and, importantly, is virtually unknown to the American public
From 6/29/1995 ( the Mir space station docking of the US space shuttle Atlantis orbiter vehicle mission STS-71 includes my biological brother US Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan the spacecraft and mission commander and me Kerry Wayne Burgess the US Marine Corps officer and STS-71 pilot astronaut ) To 9/26/2000 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Microsoft Enterprise 2000 Launch & all Microsoft activity & the United States Supreme Court Microsoft antitrust decision and all associated activity and all participants especially Antonin Scalia ) is 1916 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/31/1971 ( Kevin Wayne Burgess ) is 1916 days
From 10/11/1985 ( premiere US film "Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins" ) To 9/26/2000 (RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Microsoft Enterprise 2000 Launch & all Microsoft activity & the United States Supreme Court Microsoft antitrust decision and all associated activity and all participants especially Antonin Scalia ) is 5464 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 10/18/1980 ( the United States Navy warship USS Arkansas CGN 41 commissioned into United States Navy battle force fleet service ) is 5464 days
From 11/9/1978 ( the first flight McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II ) To 9/26/2000 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Microsoft Enterprise 2000 Launch & all Microsoft activity & the United States Supreme Court Microsoft antitrust decision and all associated activity and all participants especially Antonin Scalia ) is 7992 days
7992 = 3996 + 3996
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 10/11/1976 ( the United States of America Public Law 94-479 General of the Armies of the United States approved by United States President Gerald Ford and applies personally and professionally to my biological brother United States Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan ) is 3996 days
From 10/3/1993 ( the Battle of Mogadishu Somalia begins as the scheduled criminal event staged by George Herbert Walker Bush & Bill Clinton for the explicit purpose of killing me Kerry Wayne Burgess the known official Deputy United States Marshal and United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer and as many other United States of America soldiers sailors marines as possible ) To 9/26/2000 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Microsoft Enterprise 2000 Launch & all Microsoft activity & the United States Supreme Court Microsoft antitrust decision and all associated activity and all participants especially Antonin Scalia ) is 2550 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 10/26/1972 ( Igor Sikorsky - deceased ) is 2550 days
From 2/9/1961 ( premiere US TV series "Gunslinger"::series premiere episode "Border Incident" ) To 1/4/1996 ( the first flight RAH-66 Comanche helicopter ) is 12747 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/26/2000 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Microsoft Enterprise 2000 Launch & all Microsoft activity & the United States Supreme Court Microsoft antitrust decision and all associated activity and all participants especially Antonin Scalia ) is 12747 days
From 2/13/1997 ( as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-82 pilot astronaut I begin repairing the US Hubble Telescope while in space and orbit of the planet Earth ) To 9/26/2000 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Microsoft Enterprise 2000 Launch & all Microsoft activity & the United States Supreme Court Microsoft antitrust decision and all associated activity and all participants especially Antonin Scalia ) is 1321 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/15/1969 ( premiere US TV series "Hee Haw" ) is 1321 days
From 9/26/2000 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Microsoft Enterprise 2000 Launch & all Microsoft activity & the United States Supreme Court Microsoft antitrust decision and all associated activity and all participants especially Antonin Scalia ) To 2/1/2003 ( the scheduled terrorist attack by Bill Gates-Nazi-Microsoft-NASA-George Bush the cowardly violent criminal reportedly destroying the United States space shuttle Columbia killing all United States and foreign national astronauts onboard United States Columbia spacecraft but I suspect that was all an elaborate hoax by NASA and those people are hiding somewhere to this day and probably in hiding somewhere with Saddam Hussein the material witness against George Herbert Walker Bush and George Walker Bush and their criminal co-conspirators against the United States of America ) is 858 days
858 = 429 + 429
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/5/1967 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"The Galileo Seven" ) is 429 days
From 9/26/1971 ( Susan Smith ) To 9/26/2000 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Microsoft Enterprise 2000 Launch & all Microsoft activity & the United States Supreme Court Microsoft antitrust decision and all associated activity and all participants especially Antonin Scalia ) is 10593 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/3/1994 ( Susan Smith admits to killing her two children in her car in John D. Long Lake near Union South Carolina and the car had been days earlier discovered by me the known official Chief Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and reported to other officials and in order to maintain investigation of Susan Smith and her co-conspirators that include Microsoft Bill Gates ) is 10593 days
http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2000/sept00/dclaunchpr.mspx
Microsoft Windows Datacenter Program - All Systems Go
Industry Partners Deliver Wide Range of Datacenter Products and Services Exceeding Customer Requirements
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 26, 2000 — Today at the Microsoft Enterprise 2000 Launch, Steve Ballmer, president and CEO of Microsoft Corp., together with industry partners kicked off the availability of the Windows® Datacenter Program. The launch marks the delivery of Microsoft's and industry partners' joint commitment to provide customers with reliability, scalability and the best business investment for mission-critical computing environments. Industry partners announcing solutions today include Compaq Computer Corp., Unisys Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Dell Computer Corp., IBM Corp., Stratus Computer Systems, Amdahl Corp., ICL, Fujitsu Ltd., Fujitsu-Siemens, Bull and Hitachi. Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, coupled with the Microsoft® .NET enterprise servers, represents a significant step toward the delivery of the .NET Platform.
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20000927&slug=4044773
The Seattle Times Search
Wednesday, September 27, 2000
Ruling gives Microsoft an edge
By John Hendren
Seattle Times Washington bureau
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court decisively rejected a speedy review of the Microsoft antitrust case yesterday, leaving a lower court to decide whether to uphold a judge's landmark order to split the world's largest software maker in two.
The 8-1 ruling is likely to delay a final decision for as long as two years and marks a significant setback for the Justice Department and 19 states, which had sought to put their case against Microsoft on the fast track. It was the first time in 16 years that the U.S. solicitor general had asked the high court for an expedited antitrust review and the first time the justices said no.
The decision elated officials at Microsoft, which has fared well in the lower court before.
"We're pleased that the judicial process is moving forward, and we look forward to a speedy resolution to the case," said Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer, who was in San Francisco for the unveiling of another piece of Microsoft's business strategy.
Some legal observers said the Supreme Court's decision could give Microsoft a critical edge. Instead of one year under an expedited review, it may be that the appeals court will take a year to hear the case and the Supreme Court would take another year.
http://www.tv.com/shows/hee-haw/ep-1-6-15-69-loretta-lynn-and-charley-pride-827924/
tv.com
Hee-Haw Season 1 Episode 1
Ep. 1: 6-15-69
AIRED: 6/15/69
http://www.cswap.com/1998/Armageddon/cap/en/25fps/a/00_02
Armageddon
:02:43
- It's Truman.
- Hey.
:02:45
- How you doing up there, hoss?
- Pretty good.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 01/13/08 4:01 AM
There was also an element in that dream, I think at the point where I was supposed to do the fly-by of Lily Jang, that I realized I had let myself gain too much altitude. I think I was having trouble by that time with reading the instrument panel, because it all had become sort of blurry, and I didn't realize I had been drifting upwards for too long. I am not certain what I did after that point but I can recall vaguely that I was still flying.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 01/13/08 4:04 AM
I can still sort of visualize the lights on the highway and other reference points I used to navigate my way along to the point I was supposed to fly over.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 01/13/08 4:05 AM
I didn't seem to gain a tremendous amount of altitude, so I don't know what that means. I would say that I might have gained 100 feet of altitude, which seems unimportant for that kind of fly-by so I don't understand that element of the dream.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 01/13/08 4:09 AM
I stomped on the left foot pedal, but I seemed to roll to the right. I am not certain if that is correct or not. I want to say that if I stomped on the left pedal, then I would have done a snap-roll to the left.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 01/13/08 4:10 AM
Or maybe that is correct.
The left foot pedal would raise - I think it would raise - the left aileron, which I think is on the tail, or maybe it would raise the flap on the trailing edge of the left wing. When that control surface is raised, it seems....now that I think it though, I think the aircraft would roll in that direction. The control surface catches the air and creates a drag on that side of the aircraft, which causes it to change attitude on that side. Something like that. I feel slightly confused.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 01/13/08 4:14 AM
The part about the longitudinal axis sounds correct, in terms of what I am trying to describe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aileron
Ailerons are hinged control surfaces attached to the trailing edge of the wing of a fixed-wing aircraft. The ailerons are used to control the aircraft in roll. The two ailerons are typically interconnected so that one goes down when the other goes up: the downgoing aileron increases the lift on its wing while the upgoing aileron reduces the lift on the other wing, producing a rolling moment about the aircraft's longitudinal axis.
Modern military aircraft may have no ailerons on the wings at all, and combine roll control with an all-moving tailplane. This is a taileron or a rolling tail.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 01/13/08 4:19 AM
In a roll, slower than a snap roll, which I think of as a very quick roll, the rudder would be used to keep the aircraft centered on its original heading. The roll would cause the aircraft to drift to one side or the other, which I think is known as yaw.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_control_surfaces
Longitudinal axis
The longitudinal axis passes through the plane from nose to tail. Rotation about this axis is called bank or roll. Bank changes the orientation of the aircraft's wings with respect to the downward force of gravity. The pilot changes bank angle by increasing the lift on one wing and decreasing it on the other. This differential lift causes bank rotation around the longitudinal axis. The ailerons are the primary control of bank. The rudder also has a secondary effect on bank.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 01/13/08 4:25 AM
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/duranduran/rio.html
DURAN DURAN LYRICS
"Rio"
With a step to your left and a flick to the right you catch that mirror way out west
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 13 January 2008 excerpt ends]
http://articles.latimes.com/1997-02-15/news/mn-28930_1_hubble-space-telescope
Los Angeles Times
Hubble Upgrade Starts Out '100% Successful'
Space: Astronauts install new equipment aboard orbiting telescope as it soars around Earth. Additional spacewalks planned through Sunday.
February 15, 1997 From Associated Press
HOUSTON — Working with practiced ease while circling Earth at 5 miles a second, a spacewalking duo plugged two new science instruments into the Hubble Space Telescope on Friday to expand its vision of the cosmos.
"From an astronomical point of view, it is almost impossible to imagine the Hubble Space Telescope being any better than it's been for the last three years, but you guys have made it so," said Hoffman, an astronaut-astronomer who took part in the 1993 mission to fix Hubble's blurred vision.
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19970216&slug=2524353
The Seattle Times
Sunday, February 16, 1997
Shuttle Takes Hubble Higher Up To Avoid Orbiting Space Junk
By Marcia Dunn
AP
SPACE CENTER, Houston - Space shuttle Discovery fled to a safer, higher orbit with the Hubble Telescope yesterday to avoid a piece of space junk the size of a book.
The fragment of an exploded rocket would have come dangerously close to Discovery, its seven astronauts and the telescope anchored in the cargo bay had the crew not steered out of the way.
Astronauts making the mission's second spacewalk Friday night discovered a surprising number of cracks and tears in Hubble's thin, outer insulation, as well as holes punched into the solar panels by micrometeorites.
A few hours after Discovery's pilots steered the shuttle and the moored Hubble into a 2-mile-higher orbit to extend the lifetime of the telescope, they were ordered to go up an additional half-mile.
A fragment of an exploded Pegasus rocket was due to pass within a half-mile of the shuttle and telescope, officials said, and Mission Control did not want to take any chances.
The Pegasus was launched in 1994 with a military-research satellite, which ended up in the wrong orbit. The rocket fragment was one of 8,014 orbiting objects being tracked by the U.S. Space Command yesterday, most of it junk.
http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/14.htm
The Galileo Seven
Stardate: 2821.5
Original Airdate: Jan 5, 1967
SPOCK: The Enterprise is surely on course for Makus Three by now. I for one do not believe in angels.
MCCOY: Well, Mister Spock, so ends your first command.
SPOCK: Yes. My first command.
http://www.tv.com/shows/star-trek/the-galileo-seven-24901/
tv.com
Star Trek Season 1 Episode 16
The Galileo Seven
AIRED: 1/5/67
http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/14.htm
The Galileo Seven
Stardate: 2821.5
Original Airdate: Jan 5, 1967
SCOTT: What a mess.
SPOCK: Picturesque descriptions will not mend broken circuits, Mister Scott. I think you'll find your work is cut out for you. Galileo to Enterprise. Galileo to Enterprise. Come in, please.
SCOTT: You don't really expect to get an answer, do you?
SPOCK: I expect nothing, Mister Scott. It is merely logical to try all the alternatives. Doctor McCoy, a reading on the atmosphere, please.
MCCOY: Partial pressure of oxygen, seventy millimetres of mercury. Nitrogen one forty. Breathable, if you're not running in competition.
SPOCK: Just the facts, Doctor.
MCCOY: Traces of argon, neon, krypton, all in acceptable quantities. However, I wouldn't recommend this place as a summer resort.
SPOCK: Thank you for your opinion. It will be duly noted.
http://dc.library.okstate.edu/utils/getfile/collection/theses/id/3098/filename/3099.pdf
USE OF WATER QUALITY MEASUREMENTS TO
DETECT POTENTIAL SEPTIC SYSTEM INPUT AT
GRAND LAKE, OKLAHOMA
By
KEVIN BURGESS
Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science
East Central University
Ada, Oklahoma
2005
Submitted to the Faculty of the
Graduate College of the
Oklahoma State University
in partial fulfillment of
the requirements for
the Degree of
MASTER OF SCIENCE
July, 2008
Kevin Wayne Burgess
Candidate for the Degree of Master of Science
Thesis: USE OF WATER QUALITY MEASUREMENTS TO DETECT POTENTIAL SEPTIC SYSTEM INPUT AT GRAND LAKE, OKLAHOMA
Major Field: Environmental Science
Biographical:
Personal Data: Born in DeQueen, Arkansas to Joseph and Gemma Burgess on January 31, 1971
Education: Graduated from Asher High School, Asher, Oklahoma, May 1989.
Bachelor of Science East Central University, Ada, Oklahoma, August 2005. Completed the requirements for the Master of Science degree with a major in Environmental Science with an emphasis in Toxicology and Risk Assessment at Oklahoma State University in July, 2008
Experience: Machinist Mate (Nuclear), USS Bainbridge CGN-24, United States Navy 1990-1994. Industrial Mechanic, Farley Foods International, Oklahoma City, OK 1994-1998. Letter Carrier, United State Postal Service, Warr Acres, OK 1998-2001.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112173/quotes
IMDb
The Internet Movie Database
Memorable quotes for
"Space: Above and Beyond" (1995) [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
Capt. Shane Vansen: McQueen was born with a ka-bar and a Corps tattoo.
Lt. Paul Wang: Can you imagine if he was anything else? Like a plumber?
Lt. Paul Wang: [imitating McQueen] Okay, listen up. This one's in the kitchen. I'm here to fix your faucet, so check your six. I'm gonna replace the strainer part, and I'm gonna replace the washer. It's gonna be a real knife fight. Now I'm gonna utilize a monkey wrench and perhaps even a plunger. And when I'm done, you'll have water.
[McQueen enters]
Lt. Paul Wang: It'll be hot, and it'll be cold. And one more thing.
[Wang flips table]
Lt. Paul Wang: It's okay to be scared.
Lt. Paul Wang: [realizes McQueen is standing behind him]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machinist%27s_Mate
Machinist's Mate
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Machinist's Mate (or MM) is a rating in the United States Navy's engineering community.
Description
According to the Bureau of Naval Personnel (BUPERS), the job of an MM is to "operate, maintain, and repair (organizational and intermediate level) ship propulsion machinery, auxiliary equipment, and outside machinery
Machinist's Mates (Submarine) and Machinist's Mate (Surface) generally fall into one of three roles:
Propulsion Mechanics
The core job of an MM is the engine room.
Auxiliary Mechanics
The other major place to find Machinist's Mates is in the Auxiliaries Division of Engineering Department, often referred to as "A-gang". Mechanics in this role establish training & work on mechanical equipment within and outside of the engine rooms.
Nuclear Mechanics
Some MMs are qualified to work on nuclear propulsion plants. They are designated as MMN (Machinist's Mate Nuclear), though the N is generally only used for the purposes of billeting and advancement exams. These mechanics go through a rigorous training program consisting of three months at the Nuclear Field "A" School, six months of Naval Nuclear Power Training Command and six months at one of four Nuclear Power Training Units (prototypes). Two NPTUs are moored training ships (MTS) using S5W reactors located at the Naval Weapons Station in Charleston, South Carolina, and two additional NPTUs are land-based prototype units using an S7G reactor and an S8G reactor located in Ballston Spa, New York. This course of instruction is commonly referred to as "the nuclear-power pipeline."
MMNs earn a 3385 NEC (surface) or 3355 (submarines) upon completion of prototype. Along with the normal duties of a propulsion mechanic, they are responsible for the operation, maintenance, and repair of the auxiliary equipment in support of the naval reactors under their care.
http://www.king5.com/news/investigators/State-wants-details-from-feds-on-plan-for-leaking-Hanford-tank-210015431.html
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Investigators
State ready to take action over leaking Hanford nuclear waste tank
by SUSANNAH FRAME / KING 5 News [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
Posted on June 3, 2013 at 10:27 PM
Updated yesterday at 8:25 AM
Washington state officials say they can take several actions, including filing a lawsuit, if the U.S. Department of Energy fails to deliver an acceptable plan for fixing or emptying a leaking double-shell tank at the Hanford Site.
Energy has promised to deliver a plan by June 14, but if it fails to meet the state's expectations, one option is to file a lawsuit againt the federal government, according to Maia D. Bellon, director of the Washington State Department of Ecology.
Bellon said the lack of transparency will no longer be tolerated by the state.
http://www.king5.com/news/investigators/State-wants-details-from-feds-on-plan-for-leaking-Hanford-tank-210015431.html
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Investigators
State ready to take action over leaking Hanford nuclear waste tank
by SUSANNAH FRAME / KING 5 News [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
Posted on June 3, 2013 at 10:27 PM
Updated yesterday at 8:25 AM
Bellon said state officials are upset that the federal government and the private company monitoring the leaking tank failed to disclose the results of August 2012 tests that showed dangerous waste seeping from the tank, which holds 867,000 gallons of radioactive sludge.
"My full expectation from the federal government is that we receive information in a timely fashion and that it's transparent," said Maia D. Bellon, who was tapped in February by Gov. Jay Inslee to head Ecology.
Bellon said state officials were not happy that they learned key details of the tank leak investigation from watching KING 5 News' continuing series of reports on 241-AY-102, the first-ever double-shell nuclear waste tank to leak at Hanford.
The delay in disclosing information occurred even though state regulators at Hanford repeatedly asked to be updated on the tank's status, according to a Department of Ecology spokesperson.
“Ecology believes DOE [U.S. Department of Energy] should have been more forthcoming with the sampling results. We were told that the ‘preliminary’ sample was too small to be conclusive and that more, larger-sized samples were being taken in September. Ecology asked repeatedly for the sample results. We also heard about the August sample with the high rad (radioactive) reading, but could not confirm that,” said Dieter Bohrmann, communications manager for Ecology's Nuclear Waste Program.
http://www.king5.com/news/investigators/State-wants-details-from-feds-on-plan-for-leaking-Hanford-tank-210015431.html
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Investigators
State ready to take action over leaking Hanford nuclear waste tank
by SUSANNAH FRAME / KING 5 News [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
Posted on June 3, 2013 at 10:27 PM
Updated yesterday at 8:25 AM
Even though the test results were in hand by August 13, weeks later federal officials assured Ecology officials and members of the Hanford Advisory Board that further testing was needed and that the material could be a variety of things including rainwater or carbonate build up.
At a September 7 meeting of the Hanford Advisory Board, Tom Fletcher, a Department of Energy manager in charge of Hanford's tank farms, downplayed leak worries by noting that the camera used to take photos of the tank space was contamination free after being retrieved by technicians. Representatives from the state Department of Ecology attended the meeting as well.
"Camera equipment has been removed in all cases without incident. When I say without incident, it's that no contamination on the equipment itself, so we're not seeing any airborne contamination flying around as we're doing this," Fletcher said.
But what Fletcher didn't tell the group was that the cameras used for tank inspections are never contaminated, as they are covered with a protective sleeve to ensure the expensive equipment remains contamination free and can be used again.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120591/trivia?tab=qt
IMDb
Armageddon (1998)
Quotes
Lev Andropov: Don't touch my uncle! You know? He's a genius of my family.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120591/trivia?tab=qt
IMDb
Armageddon (1998)
Quotes
Lev Andropov: He used to make the tip of the bomb. The thing that finds, uh, New York or Washington, you know?
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/politics/article/Nuke-missile-crews-cite-morale-sapping-pressures-4575904.php#page-2
seattle pi
Nuke missile crews cite morale-sapping pressures
By ROBERT BURNS, AP National Security Writer
Updated 10:39 pm, Tuesday, June 4, 2013
(Page 2 of 2)
Asked about the complaints about weak leadership, Carey said on May 31, "I certainly take it to heart."
Carey, who was briefed on Rand's findings on March 20, said that despite the various complaints, morale at Minot is "not bad." He said that on a recent visit to the 91st he found missile crews optimistic and upbeat.
http://www.cswap.com/1998/Armageddon/cap/en/25fps/a/01_31
Armageddon
1:31:23
What? You're not astronaut?
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/famous/smith/phase_10.html
tru TV
By Rachel Pergament
The prosecution showed the jury two-videotape re-enactments of Susan Smith's burgundy Mazda rolling down the boat ramp and into the water. During the showing of the videotape of the car filling with water, Prosecutor Keith Giese commented that the rear of the car was rising while the front of the car was filling with water and that Michael and Alex would have faced the lake's water before the water engulfed them. The videotape re-enactment of Susan's Mazda submerging into the lake showed that it took a full six minutes for the car to fill with water before it became completely submerged, because the car's doors and windows were closed.
On Wednesday, July 27, 1995 the prosecution showed the jury pictures taken of Michael and Alex after they had been removed from the Mazda. Judge Howard only allowed photographs showing the brothers' discolored and decomposing legs and arms. The judge would not allow several photos showing the full effects of the nine-day submersion to be shown to the jury. After the presentation of the photos, the prosecution rested its case
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 10/28/2006 4:13 PM
That explains all the crazy behavior that has surrounded me for years. They think they are the one to wake me up. Some dumbass at Microsoft even said something like that to me at work one day. We were in some training class, I can’t remember the name of it, the instructor had used me to demonstrate something about not giving in to a salesperson or something where I was the person who was non-committal. Then we broke up into groups of three to practice and this one guy said something about making breakfast in bed for me. Earlier, another guy was telling me that he had been an Apache helicopter pilot.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 28 October 2006 excerpt ends]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363547/trivia
IMDb
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Quotes
Andre: Hey, my man. You know, I hear you talking a lot. You know, you're always saying something. Who the fuck are you that we should listen, huh? What are you, like, in Special Ops? You in the Marines? What the fuck do you do?
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 12:52 AM Pacific Time Seattle USA Wednesday 05 June 2013