Get it? Crossroads

The Brains of Al Qaida Corbis Microsoft Bill Gates Al Qaeda inside the United States.










http://articles.latimes.com/2003/sep/27/business/fi-segway27

Los Angeles Times


Segway Recalls 6,000 Scooters

September 27, 2003 Peter Pae Times Staff Writer

A Jetsons-like stand-up scooter, ridden by everyone from President Bush to Jay Leno, has fallen down in the eyes of safety regulators.

The maker of the electric Segway Human Transporter -- which has been called both a revolutionary transportation vehicle and a silly fad -- agreed Friday to recall all 6,000 of the contraptions that have been sold because several riders lost control of them, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced.

At least three riders have fallen off the scooters when power lagged, including one who suffered head injuries that required stitches, the agency said.

Under certain conditions, the two-wheeled scooters may not have enough power to keep upright, such as when trying to speed up rapidly if the battery is waning, privately owned Segway said.

The Manchester, N.H.-based company said the glitch could be repaired with new software. Dealers will install software in the scooter's computer system to better monitor battery power levels; it will automatically shut off the engine when battery levels get too low.

It was unclear whether the voluntary recall would affect sales of the $4,950 machine. Developed by inventor Dean Kaman, a Segway resembles an upright lawn mower with handlebars. It has five gyroscopes to help sense body movements so that when riders lean slightly forward, the scooter zips ahead. When the driver leans back, the scooter stops. The machine can go as fast as 12.5 mph and travel as far as 15 miles between battery recharges.

Kamen, who developed various kidney dialysis machines and insulin pumps, spent nearly $100 million developing the scooter, which was unveiled two years ago on ABC's "Good Morning America."

Fans say the scooter is easier to ride than a bike or a skateboard. And the company, which has promoted the device as a way to relieve traffic congestion, has lobbied states to allow Segways to be driven on sidewalks. More than half the states have passed such measures.

Although the scooter has been marketed to tech-savvy consumers on Amazon.com, sales have been relatively modest. Still, the machine has generated plenty of publicity.

Besides Leno, David Letterman has likewise ridden one during his late-night talk show. President Bush also gave the Segway some notoriety when he tumbled off one in June. He was not hurt.

Though the public has been slow to respond, the machine has been tested by the U.S. Postal Service, the National Park Service and various companies. Officials in Seattle and Chicago also have bought Segways for use by meter maids and parking enforcement officers.

Locally, Walt Disney Co. workers have used a fleet of 13 transporters at the theme park complex in Anaheim and have been spotted driving Segways around Tomorrowland.

For their part, Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies began patrolling Metropolitan Transportation Authority facilities last year with Segway transporters. "They're really pleased with them, and they plan to continue using them," said MTA spokesman Ed Scannell.

Since deputies started using Segways, he added, the number of vandalism incidents and robberies has declined. "They're very quiet and get you to places more quickly," Scannell said.

Still, the recall is likely to bolster critics of the transporter.










From 1/13/1919 ( Robert Stack ) To 3/16/1991 ( date hijacked from me:my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate Columbia South Carolina ) is 26360 days

26360 = 13180 + 13180

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 12/3/2001 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Segway unveiled ) is 13180 days



From 11/20/1886 ( Karl von Frisch ) To 1/22/1959 ( premiere US TV series pilot "The Untouchables" ) is 26360 days

26360 = 13180 + 13180

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 12/3/2001 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Segway unveiled ) is 13180 days



From 6/30/1947 ( the final report for Operation Crossroads - The Evaluation of the Atomic Bomb as a Military Weapon ) To 12/3/2001 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Segway unveiled ) is 19880 days

19880 = 9940 + 9940

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 1/19/1993 ( in Asheville North Carolina as Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess I was seriously wounded by gunfire when I returned fatal gunfire to a fugitive from United States federal justice who was another criminal sent by Bill Gates-Nazi-Microsoft-George Bush the cowardly violent criminal in another attempt to kill me the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) is 9940 days





http://www.segway.com/about-segway/segway-milestones.php

SEGWAY


Segway Company Milestones


December 3, 2001

The Company adopted and trademarked the name Segway®, from the word segue, which means "to transition smoothly from one state to another".



http://articles.latimes.com/2001/dec/03/business/fi-10965

Los Angeles Times


Secret of 'It' Is Out: It's a Motor Scooter

December 03, 2001 Associated Press

The ultra-secret "It" invention that has kept the high-tech world abuzz for nearly a year is a self-balancing, motorized scooter that costs less that 5 cents a day to operate, Time magazine reports in today's edition.

Inventor Dean Kamen believes the machine, code-named It but officially known as Segway, will eventually replace cars in crowded downtown areas by enabling users to zip around at virtually no cost and no harm to the environment.

The two-wheeled device uses a complex array of gyroscopes and computers to mimic the human body's sense of balance, Time said. Users lean forward to move forward, lean back to reverse course and turn by twisting a handle.

The U.S. Postal Service plans to test the device for its letter carriers, and Amazon.com Inc. will run trials for use in its warehouses, the article said.

The company expects to introduce a consumer model for $3,000 within a year, and has built a factory near its headquarters in Manchester, N.H., that will be able to make 40,000 Segways per month, Time said.



http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,16052,00.asp

PC


Segue—From Ginger to Segway

By Bill Machrone

January 9, 2002

After months of speculation and heavy press coverage, the mysterious Ginger (or "IT") made its debut on December 3, 2001, on national TV.

Bill Machrone: Extreme Tech

After months of speculation and heavy press coverage, the mysterious Ginger (or "IT") made its debut on December 3, 2001, on national TV. The most anticipated invention of the past year, now known as the Segway, turned out to be an electric scooter.










http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1973/frisch-facts.html

Nobelprize.org

The Official Web Site of the Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1973

Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz, Nikolaas Tinbergen


Karl von Frisch

Born: 20 November 1886, Vienna, Austria

Died: 12 June 1982, Munich, West Germany (now Germany)

Affiliation at the time of the award: Zoologisches Institut der Universität München, Munich, Federal Republic of Germany

Prize motivation: "for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns"










http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waggle_dance


Waggle dance

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Applications to operations research

In line with recent work in swarm intelligence research involving optimization algorithms inspired by the behavior of social insects (including bees, ants and termites), and vertebrates such as fish and birds, there has recently been research on using bee waggle dance behavior for efficient fault-tolerant routing. From the abstract of Wedde, Farooq, and Zhang (2004):

In this paper we present a novel routing algorithm, BeeHive, which has been inspired by the communicative and evaluative methods and procedures of honey bees. In this algorithm, bee agents travel through network regions called foraging zones. On their way their information on the network state is delivered for updating the local routing tables. BeeHive is fault tolerant, scalable, and relies completely on local, or regional, information, respectively. We demonstrate through extensive simulations that BeeHive achieves a similar or better performance compared to state-of-the-art algorithms.

Another bee-inspired stigmergic computational technique called bee colony optimization is employed in Internet Server Optimization.

The Zigbee RF protocol is named after the waggle dance.










http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2068837/releaseinfo

IMDb


The Untouchables (TV Series)

Pilot (1959)

Release Info

USA 22 January 1959

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2068837/

IMDb


The Untouchables: Season 1, Episode 0

Pilot (22 Jan. 1959)

TV Episode

Robert Stack ... Eliot Ness

Release Date: 22 January 1959 (USA)










http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0821041/bio

IMDb


Robert Stack

Biography

Date of Birth 13 January 1919 , Los Angeles, California, USA

Date of Death 14 May 2003 , Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA (heart attack)

Birth Name Robert Langford Modini Stack










http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/swcrc/37/chap2.htm

National Park Service

The Archeology of the Atomic Bomb

A Submerged Cultural Resources Assessment of the Sunken Fleet of Operation Crossroads at Bikini and Kwajalein Atoll Lagoons NPS Logo

CHAPTER TWO: OPERATION CROSSROADS

James P. Delgado

The end of the Pacific War, and hence World War II, was brought about by the surrender of Japan following the dropping of atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These were, respectively, the second and third nuclear detonations on the surface of the planet. The first bomb was detonated at Alamagordo, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945, at 5:30 a.m. The second bomb was detonated over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, at 8:15 a.m. The third bomb was detonated over Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, at 10:58 a.m. The fourth and fifth bombs were detonated during the atomic tests at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

The first large-scale atomic weapons effects tests conducted by the United States, the "Able" test detonation of July 1, 1946, at 9:00 a.m. local time at Bikini, and the "Baker" test detonation of July 25, 1946, at approximately 8:35 a.m. local time, were the first two of the three-part "Operation Crossroads" tests. (The third detonation, the "Charlie" test, was cancelled.) Formulated at the war's end and approved by President Harry S Truman on January 10, 1946, Operation Crossroads was not only the first of more than 850 publicly announced atomic weapons tests. It was a major demonstration of the power of the bomb and of the nation that had produced and used it, the United States. The name was selected because the atomic bomb represented a "crossroads"--from conventional to nuclear war.


"The Evaluation of the Atomic Bomb as a Military Weapon: The Final Report of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Evaluation Board for Operation Crossroads," (June 30, 1947)










http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA

1-06 - Litmus 11/22/04


http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar/season1/galactica-106.htm

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA

1X06 - LITMUS

Original Airdate: February 11, 2005 (USA)


Adama - I don't see the relevance of this line of questioning, sergeant.










http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104257/quotes

IMDb


A Few Good Men (1992)

Quotes


Capt. Ross: Now we object to this entire line of questioning as argumentative and irrelevant badgering of the witness.

Judge Randolph: The government's objection is sustained, Lieutenant Kaffee, and I would remind you that you are now questioning a Marine officer with an impeccable service record.



- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 7:59 PM Pacific Time somewhere near Seattle Washington USA Monday 24 March 2014