JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 9/24/2006 1:49 PM
The spotlight was already on me in 1999 just because Microsoft needed a better as it was. And George W. Bush’s desire to develop his own manly image only strengthen the spotlight because Microsoft wanted him, and his Republican connections, as an ally in the government. So that would have been going on in 2000. But the antitrust ruling was in 2000 as well, but importantly on June 7th, and while it was the right thing for Jackson to do, it gave Microsoft a reason to bug my apartment at Limestone. They probably had my Verona apartment bugged too. Although I don’t think there is any ‘probably’ to that; rather it is a certainty. They were tracking me well before I lived there. I don’t think it is a coincidence that my next door neighborhood at Verona worked at Microsoft too. I am certain they transferred her and her family out of state, to Florida, to keep them from being investigated by Washington State investigators.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 24 September 2006 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 10/30/2006 10:29 AM
Before Verona, I was living at Oakwood. I lived at Verona in 1999 and possibility the first month or two of 2000, although I’m not sure about 2000. I know that I lived at Verona the summer of 2000 and moved out in November 2000
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 30 October 2006 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 11/5/2006 8:49 PM
After that, I stayed for a while at a place called Pacific Inn. One day, when I was a TAM, I caught a clue that Grace Stahre knew I had lived there. I remember that I wasn’t living there at the time, having moved to the next place. Pacific Place is situated at the corner of NE 3rd Street and 112th Ave NE in Bellevue.
I moved from there to Oakwood Apartments in Bellevue. The building is situated next to the roads 110th Ave NE, NE 10th Street, and NE 9th Street.
Then I moved to Verona, which is situated on NE 11th Street, 112th Ave NE, and NE 12th Street.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 05 November 2006 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 01/22/07 9:15 PM
Well, this makes no sense. I wrote a while back, and still believed until today, that I picked up that songs "Clocks" around the time I watched Patrick Stewart's "Safe House" on Showtime when I lived at Verona. I can't remember precisely when I watched it, but I moved into Limestone in November 2000, so it was most likely during the year 2000. I can still visualize watching Showtime in that Verona apartment and hearing the music to that song.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 22 January 2007 excerpt ends]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/28/newsid_4202000/4202723.stm
BBC
ON THIS DAY 28 January
1982: US general rescued from Red Brigade
Italian police have rescued US Brigadier General James Dozier without firing a single shot after storming a flat in Padua where he was being held by Red Brigade guerrillas.
The 50-year-old general and deputy Chief of Staff at Nato's Southern European land forces headquarters at Verona, emerged after 42 days in captivity unharmed, but thinner and with a beard.
Police had been watching the flat in Padua for three days. The decision was taken to go in this morning at 1136 local time.
A squad of specially-trained officers broke down the door of the five-room apartment and confronted the five terrorists, including a woman, who surrendered immediately.
Posing as plumbers
The general was gagged, barefoot and wearing a tracksuit. He was inside a tent. One of the terrorists, who was standing pointing a gun at the general's head, was quickly overpowered.
The general's first words are reported to have been: "Thanks, thanks, marvellous, ok, police."
He was allowed to telephone his wife, who is in West Germany and the US Ambassador in Rome before being taken to an American military base near Verona.
His Red Brigade kidnappers are said to include the Venice leader, Antonio Savasta, and his partner, Emilia Libera. A third suspect was identified as Cesare Leonardo. The other two remain unidentified.
The left-wing Red Brigade was set up in the 1970s following the failure of the New Left government.
It has sought to highlight its cause by kidnapping and murdering prominent Italian politicians and other senior figures, including former prime minister Aldo Moro in 1978.
Courageous soldier
Police seized a number of guns, hand grenades, explosives and ammunition from the flat.
The general's wife, Judith, and 24-year-old daughter Cheryl, are being flown from West Germany to be reunited with him.
US President Ronald Reagan has hailed the general as a "courageous soldier whose life has been dedicated to the defence of liberty" and said his rescue was "a happy ending, the prayers of millions of Americans have been answered."
The general was captured in December. Members of the Red Brigade posing as plumbers called at his flat on the sixth floor of an apartment block in Verona.
He tried to fight off the intruders, but was hit on the head with a pistol and forced into a trunk, which was loaded into the boot of a car.
He was the first foreigner to be captured by the Red Brigade. There were rumours a ransom had been demanded of up to £4.5m.
In Context
A week later Brigadier General James Dozier was flown back to the United States, where he received a hero's welcome.
At his first news conference after his release, General Dozier admitted he had been warned about the possibility of a kidnap attempt but he had been "too busy" to take any notice of the threats.
During his captivitiy he described how he had been chained by his left foot and right hand to the central pole of a small tent, within the flat in Padua. He said his captors treated him with "businesslike indifference" but they kept their faces covered so he could not identify them.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/13/us-italy-dozier-idUSBRE82C0WU20120313
REUTERS
US Tue Mar 13, 2012 3:03pm EDT
General kidnapped in 1981 holds emotional reunion with liberators
ROME BY PHILIP PULLELLA
(Reuters) - For 42 days three decades ago, U.S. General James Lee Dozier was the world's most famous hostage and his captors, the Red Brigades, were Europe's most feared and bloody terrorist organization.
Dozier, now 80, has come back to Italy, perhaps for the last time, to meet the members of the police special operations unit who liberated him in one of the most daring rescue raids of those dramatic years in Italian history.
"If it weren't for guys like these I wouldn't be here," he told Reuters last Saturday at an emotional 30-year reunion with the 13-man SWAT team that saved him on the cold but clear morning of January 28, 1982.
Thirty years on, the members of the once svelte and swift squad that saved him have lost some of their hair, put on weight and become grandfathers. But no one can forget.
Say Dozier's name to any Italian old enough to remember and they will tell you it brings back dark memories of the country's "Years of Lead," when the ultra-leftist Red Brigades kidnapped, maimed and killed politicians and business leaders as part of their war against the state.
Dozier, then NATO's deputy chief of staff for land forces for Southern Europe and based in Verona, was the biggest fish the Red Brigades nabbed after former Prime Minister Aldo Moro, who they held for 55 days in 1978 before killing him.
Dozier knows he was probably destined to meet Moro's fate had it not been for the raid led by Major Edoardo Perna on an apartment in the northern city of Padua where five Red Brigades guerrillas had held Dozier prisoner in a tent.
"This is something that I live with almost perpetually. But in a way it's cathartic," Dozier said. "You know, you keep thinking about it and I'm told by psychologists that is one of the best medicines - keep thinking about it and don't worry about it."
Dozier was kidnapped in his apartment in Verona on December 17, 1981 by four Red Brigades' guerrillas masquerading as plumbers. One held a gun to his wife's head to convince him not to resist.
The period was one of the most tense of the Cold War. At the time, NATO was making plans to deploy nuclear Pershing II and Cruise missiles in Western Europe, including in Sicily, to counter the threat of Soviet SS-20 missiles aimed at Europe.
His kidnapping stunned the Pentagon and sent shivers throughout Western European governments.
"Quite frankly, I had no indication that I was a target. All the intelligence I received at the time -- and I thought I had pretty good intelligence -- gave me no indication that I was a target for the Red Brigades," he said.
PRISONER IN A TENT
From Verona, the Brigades drove Dozier to a safe house in Padua in the same northern region.
They kept him in a tent inside one of the rooms and forced him to listen to loud music through headphones, resulting in permanent hearing damage. For 42 days they interrogated him about NATO operations and occasionally sent flyers with his picture behind their trademark five-pointed star to newspapers.
At 11:25 on the morning of Jan 28, 1982, Perna and 12 other men launched the daring operation. Six men secured the perimeter while Perna and six others stormed the apartment where five Brigades members, including two women, were holding Dozier.
"After we knocked down the door I immobilized one of the women and used her as a shield to move forward. One of my men rushed into the tent where Dozier was being held and hit the terrorist guarding Dozier on the head with the butt of his pistol," Perna said. "There was some blood but not a shot was fired."
Inside the tent, Dozier recalled, he was confused and, for a moment, feared the worst.
"I did not know what was happening. I had read accounts of the Aldo Moro kidnapping and about the factions within the Red Brigades and my first thoughts were that I may be caught up in a jurisdictional dispute among factions of the Red Brigades," he said.
"They (the police) pushed their way into my part of the tent and I tried to push them back out because I wasn't sure who they were. But then it dawned on me that these probably were policemen ... and one of them removed his ski mask."
Perna and his team arrested Dozier's captors, led by Antonio Savasta, who later gave evidence. Savasta was also involved in the Moro kidnapping and killing three years earlier.
At a trial in Verona in March, 1982, Dozier stared down Savasta and the other guerrillas who kidnapped him for the last time. Savasta was sentenced to 16 years and six months in prison. He was freed after serving 10 years.
Asked how he felt about his captor walking free now, Dozier said: "If he has been sufficiently punished in the eyes of the Italian government that's fine with me."
That was the last time General James Lee Dozier saw his captors. Now retired, he lives in Florida and works with the U.S. Air Force, teaching a course on hostage avoidance and survival.
http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie8.html
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
TROI: Would you three like to be alone?
PICARD: What have you found out?
TROI: There's no sign of Cochrane anywhere in the complex.
PICARD: He has to be here. There was nothing more important to him than this ship. This flight. It was his dream.
http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie8.html
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
[Titan V control room]
TROI: Nine, eight...
[Phoenix cockpit]
TROI (OC): Seven...
COCHRANE: Let's rock 'n' roll!
TROI (OC): Six...
('Magic Carpet Ride' booms out of the speakers as the Titan V blasts off)
RIKER: Can you turn that down a little?
From 5/2/2000 To 9/11/2001 ( the scheduled terrorist attack by force of violence to destroy the New York City World Trade Center and the Headquarters of the United States Department of Defense "The Pentagon" by Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis-George Bush the cowardly violent criminal with massive fatalities and destruction ) is 497 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 3/14/1967 ( the body of John F. Kennedy was moved to the permanent burial site at Arlington National Cemetery ) is 497 days
From 6/8/1964 ( the fictional date setting 1992 film "A Few Good Men" - birthdate "Daniel Alistair Kaffee" - United States Navy lieutenant junior grade - United States Navy Judge Advocate General attorney ) To 12/7/1998 ( my first day working at Microsoft Corporation as the known official Chief Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and the active duty United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel circa 1998 ) is 12600 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 5/2/2000 is 12600 days
From 12/9/1992 ( premiere US film "A Few Good Men" ) To 5/2/2000 is 2701 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 3/26/1973 ( premiere US TV series "The Young and the Restless" ) is 2701 days
From 12/9/1992 ( premiere US film "A Few Good Men" ) To 5/2/2000 is 2701 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 3/26/1973 ( premiere US TV series "The New $25,000 Pyramid" ) is 2701 days
From 12/12/1923 ( Bob Barker ) To 12/9/1992 ( premiere US film "A Few Good Men" ) is 25200 days
25200 = 12600 + 12600
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 5/2/2000 is 12600 days
From 9/4/1972 ( premiere US TV series "The Price Is Right" ) To 5/2/2000 is 10102 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 6/30/1993 ( premiere US film "The Firm" ) is 10102 days
From 10/27/1925 ( Warren Christopher ) To 10/25/1994 ( Susan Smith kills her two children and dumps them in her car in the John D. Long Lake near Union South Carolina ) is 25200 days
25200 = 12600 + 12600
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 5/2/2000 is 12600 days
From 8/1/1980 ( premiere US film "The Final Countdown" ) To 5/2/2000 is 7214 days
7214 = 3607 + 3607
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 9/18/1975 ( Patty Hearst captured and arrested in San Francisco California ) is 3607 days
From 12/27/1922 ( the aircraft carrier Hosho begins active service with the Japanese Navy ) To 12/25/1991 ( as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) is 25200 days
25200 = 12600 + 12600
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 5/2/2000 is 12600 days
From 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate Columbia South Carolina ) To 5/2/2000 is 3335 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 12/20/1974 ( premiere US film "Seven Alone" ) is 3335 days
From 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate Columbia South Carolina ) To 5/2/2000 is 3335 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 12/20/1974 ( premiere US film "The Island at the Top of the World" ) is 3335 days
From 3/31/1938 ( Franklin Roosevelt - Executive Order 7856 - RULES GOVERNING THE GRANTING AND ISSUING OF PASSPORTS IN THE UNITED STATES ) To 5/2/2000 is 22678 days
22678 = 11339 + 11339
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 11/18/1996 ( premiere US film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) is 11339 days
From 11/10/1967 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Metamorphosis" ) To 5/2/2000 is 11862 days
11862 = 5931 + 5931
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 1/28/1982 ( James Dozier escapes captivity ) is 5931 days
From 7/1/1926 ( Robert William Fogel ) To 6/29/1995 ( the Mir space station docking of the United States space shuttle Atlantis orbiter vehicle mission STS-71 includes my biological brother United States Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan the spacecraft and mission commander and me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-71 pilot astronaut ) is 25200 days
25200 = 12600 + 12600
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 5/2/2000 is 12600 days
From 12/2/1949 ( premiere US film "The Hasty Heart" ) To 5/2/2000 is 18414 days
18414 = 9207 + 9207
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 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 also known as Matthew Kline for official duty and also known as Wayne Newman for official duty ) is 9207 days
From 12/2/1949 ( premiere US film "The Hasty Heart" ) To 5/2/2000 is 18414 days
18414 = 9207 + 9207
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 1/17/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Persian Gulf War begins as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 9207 days
From 2/17/1909 ( Geronimo deceased ) To 2/15/1978 ( Ted Bundy captured ) is 25200 days
25200 = 12600 + 12600
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 5/2/2000 is 12600 days
From 6/21/1960 ( premiere US TV series episode "Colt .45"::series finale episode "The Trespasser" ) To 12/20/1994 ( in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) is 12600 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 5/2/2000 is 12600 days
From 5/12/1991 ( I was the winning race driver at the Formula One Monaco Grand Prix ) To 5/2/2000 is 3278 days
3278 = 1639 + 1639
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 4/29/1970 ( South Vietnamese and United States troops move into Cambodia ) is 1639 days
From 1/19/1977 ( Gerald Ford - Memoranda on Vietnam-Era Selective Service Discharges ) To 5/2/2000 is 8504 days
8504 = 4252 + 4252
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 6/24/1977 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - George Walker Bush fraudulently incorporates Arbusto ) is 4252 days
From 1/19/1977 ( Gerald Ford - Memoranda on Vietnam-Era Selective Service Discharges ) To 5/2/2000 is 8504 days
8504 = 4252 + 4252
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 6/24/1977 ( premiere US film "Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo" ) is 4252 days
From 8/28/1978 ( premiere US TV series pilot "Flying High" ) To 5/2/2000 is 7918 days
7918 = 3959 + 3959
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 9/4/1976 ( George Walker Bush the purveyor of illegal drugs strictly for his personal profit including the trafficking of massive amounts of cocaine into the United States arrested again by police in the United States ) is 3959 days
From 12/25/1971 ( George Walker Bush the purveyor of illegal drugs strictly for his personal profit including the trafficking of massive amounts of cocaine into the United States confined to federal prison in Mexico for illegally smuggling narcotics in Mexico ) To 5/2/2000 is 10356 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 3/11/1994 ( premiere US film "The Hudsucker Proxy" ) is 10356 days
http://news.microsoft.com/2000/05/02/microsoft-unveils-redesigned-windowsmedia-com-with-powerful-new-features-and-content/
Microsoft
News Center
Microsoft Unveils Redesigned WindowsMedia.com With Powerful New Features and Content
Posted May 2, 2000 By
REDMOND, Wash., May 2, 2000 — Microsoft Corp. today announced a dramatic upgrade to WindowsMedia.com, the Internet’s most popular audio and video guide*, now offering unmatched search and navigation capabilities, integrated access to artist and album information from Alliance Entertainment Corp.’s All Music Guide, and one of the Web’s largest directories of downloadable music from major and independent labels. WindowsMedia.com’s new features make it easier than ever for mainstream consumers to find and enjoy music, movies and more in the high-quality Windows Media TM Format.
To celebrate this milestone, Microsoft today kicked off the
“Week of WindowsMedia.com,”
running now through May 8. This series of promotions will feature exclusive content from such top-tier artists as Christina Aguilera, Phish and Madonna, live-concert video downloads from House of Blues, movie trailers from the Cannes Film Festival and never-before-released footage from popular movies. Special features will be showcased each day at http://windowsmedia.com/ .
WindowsMedia.com also will host a monthlong portable music device giveaway.** Every day through May 31, WindowsMedia.com will give away three portable music devices. Eight first-prize winners will receive a Hewlett-Packard Jornada Pocket PC, and the grand-prize winner will receive a free trip to and VIP treatment for two at a House of Blues concert in Los Angeles. Registration is free; details are available at http://windowsmedia.com/ .
“The incredible growth in audience and content at WindowsMedia.com presented an opportunity for us to transform the online digital media experience,”
said Dave Fester, general manager of marketing, Digital Media Division, Microsoft.
“The new WindowsMedia.com, enhanced by All Music Guide data, powerful search capabilities and the huge music database, delivers on our goal of making it easy for people to find great content.”
Launched just last year to help consumers discover and sample the best of the Web’s audio and video content, WindowsMedia.com has already become the Internet’s most popular guide to audio and video content on the Internet, with more than 5 million unique visitors per month, according to recent figures from Media Metrix.*
All Music Guide Integration
WindowsMedia.com is the only audio and video guide to incorporate the rich information on more than 400,000 albums from All Music Guide. Searching an artist’s name returns artwork, a biography, a discography with individually rated albums and a listing of similar artists. Following a link from an artist’s main page to a particular album in the discography returns album art, album details, a track listing and the All Music Guide album review. Integrated with the All Music Guide information is a listing of all the songs and videos currently available from that artist via WindowsMedia.com.
Massive Music Download Directory
WindowsMedia.com is creating one of the Internet’s largest directories of downloadable music from major and independent labels, with more than 60,000 tracks available immediately and 40,000 to be added within weeks. The single largest source of downloads available through WindowsMedia.com is Musicmaker.com, which has provided links to tracks drawn from the largest independent labels. The Musicmaker.com library includes more than 20,000 jazz, 35,000 classical and 20,000 rock tracks, plus significant collections in specialty genres.
Thousands of additional tracks will be available from Amplified.com, Atlantic Records, Atomic Pop, Del-Fi, edge102.com, Epitonic, Global Music Network Inc., House of Blues Digital Inc., K-tel, Launch.com, Ministry of Sound, MTV.com, Mudhut, Music Choice, Musicdownloads.com, Raveworld, Remotemusic.com, Rioport, Tower Records and VH1.com.
“The new WindowsMedia.com is the ideal channel for us to get our vast library before millions of Windows Media users,”
said Bill Crowley, senior vice president of marketing and a co-founder of Musicmaker.com.
“The guide’s design makes it easy for music fans to get directly to the artists and genres they like, and the rich background information will encourage them to discover new gems in our library.”
Week of WindowsMedia.com
WindowsMedia.com celebrates its new look and capabilities with a week of exclusive free music downloads, music videos, movie promotions and more. The
“Week of WindowsMedia.com”
kicks off today with a free download of an exclusive remix of
“What a Girl Wants”
by Christina Aguilera, audio and video streams of Aguilera’s
“I Turn To You”
and a chance to win tickets to Aguilera concerts in 15 markets. Fans can also download a custom user interface, or
“skin,”
for Windows Media Player 7 featuring Aguilera. Other highlights today include a documentary with live concert shots from No Doubt’s 1999 tour, a behind-the-scenes interview with Jennifer Lopez, the
“WWF Smackdown!,”
Madonna’s
“American Pie”
video from PreviewTunes and baseball highlights from MaxBaseball.com.
Many more free specials are coming up in the
“Week of WindowsMedia.com,”
including these:
Download of Whitney Houston’s
“I’m Every Woman (C & C Mix)”
and a video stream of
“I Learned From the Best”
Prerelease download of
“Heavy Things”
from Phish, download of
“I Love You (BT Remix)”
from Sarah McLachlan,
“Oops! … I Did It Again”
from Britney Spears and music from No Doubt and The Who
Video download of the band 311 in a live House of Blues concert.
A new episode of
“Behind the Scenes at ‘That ’70s Show'”
Movie trailers from the Cannes Film Festival
A special package to mark the release of
“Jaws”
on DVD that includes a custom
“Jaws”
Windows Media Player skin as well as never-before-released footage from the movie.
Unannounced surprise specials throughout the week
New Features Deliver the Best Experience
Changes at WindowsMedia.com go far beyond its new look. Like the Windows Media Player 7, released to consumers today in beta form, the new WindowsMedia.com was designed to make digital media accessible to mainstream audiences. The site was entirely rebuilt to handle the explosive growth in visitors as well as the massive amount of content available in the Windows Media Format, especially in such popular categories as music downloads and radio. Key features of WindowsMedia.com include the following:
The audio and video people want most. The five major record labels, top independent labels and movie studios are among the more than 1,000 content providers accessible through WindowsMedia.com. That means music fans can hear popular artists, movie fans can watch the latest trailers, and audio-book aficionados can listen to the top titles. WindowsMedia.com is expanding its database to include more than 100,000 songs, 2,000 music videos and 1,900 radio stations as well as scores of news, sports and entertainment sites.
Common activities made easy. Music fans will appreciate the single search interface that points them to music downloads, music videos or artist information from All Music Guide. The Radio Guide accommodates browsing or searches by keyword, format, band, location, language, call sign or frequency, and it remembers visitors’ favorite stations. The Broadband Guide brings high-quality content together in one place to help broadband customers make the most of their connections.
Fresh content daily. Sixteen featured content providers present daily specials, which are showcased in the major content sections, and over 120 content providers update audio and video headlines weekly. Featured content providers at launch include AtomFilms, Atomic Pop, Bootleg TV, BMG Entertainment, Break TV, Centerseat, CNET Networks Inc., Hollywood Online, House Of Blues, LAUNCH Media Inc., Music Choice, MSNBC, Radio Free Virgin, Raveworld, RollingStone.com and Warner Music Group.
About WindowsMedia.com
WindowsMedia.com ( http://windowsmedia.com/ ), part of the MSN TM network of Internet services, is among the leading audio and video guides on the Internet. WindowsMedia.com provides access to localized audio and video content worldwide, including major music and video events and entertainment from more than 1,000 content providers.
About Windows Media
Windows Media, the leading digital media platform, provides consumers, content providers, solution providers, software developers and corporations with unmatched audio and video quality. Windows Media Technologies, which include Windows Media Player, Windows Media Services, Windows Media Tools and the Windows Media Software Development Kit (SDK), are available for download at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/ . The Windows Media Player is the fastest-growing digital media player and is available in 24 languages. To date, there are over 100 million licensed copies of the Windows Media Player, growing by more than one every second.
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http://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/News/Blog/3/post/2496
ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY
Photo of the Week: February 10, 2014
2/10/2014
Arlington at 150
A look back at Arlington’s 150 years as a national cemetery. This aerial photo dated 1967 shows headstones as they dot the cemetery grounds. In 1967, Arlington had been in operation for 103 years, Apollo 1 astronauts Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee were interred Jan. 31, 1967 and the body of President John F. Kennedy was moved to the permanent burial site March 14, 1967.
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=a-few-good-men
Springfield! Springfield!
A Few Good Men (1992)
You're wrong.
I do knowyou.
Daniel Alistair Kaffee,
bornJune 8, 1 964...
at Boston Mercy Hospital.
Your father's Lionel Kaffee...
former Navyjudge advocate and
attorney general ofthe United States.
Died 1 985.
You went to Harvard law.
Then youjoined the Navy...
probably because that's
whatyour fatherwanted you to do.
And nowyou'rejust treading water
for threeyears in theJAG Corps.
Just laying low till
you can get out and get a real job.
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=a-few-good-men
Springfield! Springfield!
A Few Good Men (1992)
Ifthat's the situation, that's fine.
I won't tell anyone.
But it's my feeling that
ifthis case is handled in the same...
fast-food, slick-ass,
Persian bazaar manner...
with which you seem
to handle everything else...
then something's gonna get missed.
And I wouldn't be doing myjob
ifI allowed Dawson and Downey...
to spend any more time in prison
than absolutely necessary...
because their attorney had predetermined
the path ofleast resistance.
Wow.
I'm sexually aroused, Commander.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 3:39 AM FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 2012 - http://hvom.blogspot.com/2012/03/he-gets-shot-just-as-he-opens-and-walks.html
He gets shot just as he opens and walks through the door.
I was trying to remember if I had ever before heard of the 1999 film "10 Things I Hate About You." The title is vaguely familiar, meaning I probably recall the advertisements for it when it premiered in the theatres or some other advertisements for it later. I have no idea what it is about, other than more hate crime activity directed at my person and my private property.
I started looked at it a short while ago because I had actually started wondering again when Kerry Park was established in Seattle. After reading about it from 1927 I then read that the racketeering production the 1999 film "10 Things I Hate About You" has an opening scene in Kerry Park, which is in the Queen Anne neighborhood which is a high hill overlooking downtown Seattle. Queen Anne hill also has those three large television towers on it.
Then I noticed that the starring characters in the racketeering production the 1999 film "10 Things I Hate About You"appear to be the actors Heath Ledger as "Patrick Verona" and Julia Stiles.
The funny part is that by the summer of the year 2000 I was living in an apartment building named Verona. I had no conscious idea about that association until the past hour or so. So you know that I have been driving them absolute ape-shit since then by doing things like that.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 30 March 2012 excerpt ends]
http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie8.html
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
TROI: ...It's a primitive culture. I'm just trying to blend in.
RIKER: You're blending all right.
TROI: I've already told him our cover story. He didn't believe me.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=61264
The American Presidency Project
Franklin D. Roosevelt
XXXII President of the United States: 1933-1945
Executive Order 7856 - RULES GOVERNING THE GRANTING AND ISSUING OF PASSPORTS IN THE UNITED STATES
March 31, 1938
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117731/releaseinfo
IMDb
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Release Info
USA 18 November 1996 (Hollywood, California) (premiere)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041445/releaseinfo
IMDb
The Hasty Heart (1949)
Release Info
USA 2 December 1949
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041445/fullcredits
IMDb
The Hasty Heart (1949)
Full Cast & Crew
Ronald Reagan ... Yank
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Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
TROI: There's no sign of Cochrane anywhere in the complex.
PICARD: He has to be here. There was nothing more important to him than this ship. This flight. It was his dream.
TROI: Captain, we should consider the possibility that Doctor Cochrane was killed in the attack.
PICARD: Huh. If that's true then the future may die with him.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 8:50 AM Saturday, July 21, 2007
When I was sitting there in that bar in our office in historic Bellevue, Washington, in 1999, I told her I drove around in my blue Mazda RX-7 and solved crimes. Suzanne Morgan then looked across the table at Thomas Dawkins and asked him "What did he say?" and Thomas repeated what I had said. Later that evening, from my apartment at Oakwood, I wrote an email to Suzanne and commented that all the cigarette smoke in that bar had caused my face to turn red.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 21 July 2007 excerpt ends]
1992 film "Freejack" DVD video:
00:56:30
Reporter: You got a name, sugar?
Alex Furlong: Yeah, it's, uh - Alex.
Reporter: Well, Alex, do a working girl a favor and talk to me for the Club Channel. How do you like it here?
Alex Furlong: I don't. Everybody's chasing me.
Reporter: Really? What is it they all want?
Alex Furlong: My body.
Reporter: Mmm. The self-absorbed type.
http://www.tv.com/shows/star-trek/metamorphosis-24923/
tv.com
Star Trek Season 2 Episode 9
Metamorphosis
Aired Unknown Nov 10, 1967 on NBC
When their shuttle is diverted to a planetoid, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy encounter Earth's Warp Drive pioneer, Zefram Cochrane, who appears to have survived there alone for 150 years.
AIRED: 11/10/67
http://www.stripes.com/news/general-who-was-held-hostage-now-an-example-of-how-to-survive-1.36619
Stars and Stripes
General who was held hostage now an example of how to survive
By Nancy Montgomery
Stars and Stripes
Published: August 5, 2005
In U.S. military anti-terrorism training currently under way, the American general kidnapped by Italy’s Red Brigades and held captive for six weeks is used as an example both of what to do and what not to do.
He was an exemplary hostage, who “maintained his composure and survived…,” according to the anti-terrorism training materials.
Yet Brig. Gen. James Dozier had been studied for a month by the leftist group before his kidnapping in December 1981. The terrorists considered kidnapping three other U.S. generals but “chose Dozier because his personal security was less rigorous,” the training materials say.
Dozier, now 76, a retired major general and a resident of Fort Myers, Fla., is OK with that.
“I’ve continued to be involved in the dynamics of international terrorism,” he said in a phone interview Wednesday. “I teach hostage avoidance, and hostage survival, if you screw it up like I did.”
Dozier says he erred, along with others, in taking the threat of terrorism too lightly — especially when, as he says, the Red Brigades announced each fall a season of terrorist activity, with the aim of destabilizing the government.
Generals in Naples and Vicenza, Italy, were better protected, he said, living on base or with a security detail. But Dozier, then a brigadier general working for NATO, lived with his wife, Judy, in a penthouse apartment in Verona and had only an armed driver as security.
“Verona had been a backwater for years. ... We didn’t think we were threatened,” Dozier said.
“We were wrong, but we just didn’t take the threat seriously.”
Dozier’s kidnappers, after previously appearing at his door selling soap and reading the water meter — “indicators,” in retrospect, he said — got into the apartment by posing as plumbers. Dozier let them in, and “things went downhill from there,” Dozier said.
Dozier was trucked to an apartment in Padua. His captors made him wear headphones with music playing 24 hours a day. But they weren’t especially vicious, he said.
“They first started out with hard-rock tapes. It was awful,” he said. “I’d argue with the guards, and they’d turn the volume down. Finally, they changed to Gershwin tapes. At least the music was better.”
He and his captors didn’t talk much, he said, but he worked to make them see him as a human being, not just some military-political symbol — something he recommends when he gives talks such as the one he gave in Stuttgart last year for the U.S. Air Force’s Joint Special Operations University.
“There were two things I did: I was continuously asking about my wife; pretty soon they started bringing me news clippings about what she was doing,” Dozier said. “The other thing I did was to make myself a more reliable prisoner.” That meant he made himself predictable so his captors saw him as less threatening.
Dozier didn’t worry too much about being killed because usually the Red Brigades released its captives.
“It’s just like combat,” he said. “You do the best you can, rather than worrying about what’s going to happen.”
After he was freed in a raid carried out by Italy’s caribinieri police, Dozier said, he met with Gen. Frederick Kroesen, U.S. Army Europe commander who himself survived an assassination attempt in Heidelberg, to discuss security.
“The generals were running around carrying machine guns in their cars,” Dozier said. Kroesen was concerned that might lead to trouble.
“We decided it was better to rely on our security details than be John Wayne ourselves,” Dozier said.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104257/releaseinfo
IMDb
A Few Good Men (1992)
Release Info
USA 9 December 1992 (Westwood, California) (premiere)
http://www.tv.com/shows/10000-pyramid/june-lockhart-and-rob-reiner-debut-on-cbs-tv-278196/
tv.com
$10,000 Pyramid Season 1 Episode 1
June Lockhart & Rob Reiner (Debut on CBS-TV)
Aired Unknown Mar 26, 1973 on CBS
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0054837/bio
IMDb
Bob Barker
Biography
Date of Birth 12 December 1923, Darrington, Washington, USA
Birth Name Robert William Barker
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-price-is-right/season-1-episode-1-230284/
tv.com
The Price is Right Season 1 Episode 1
Season 1, Episode 1
Aired Weekdays 11:00 AM Sep 04, 1972 on CBS
AIRED: 9/4/72
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106918/quotes
IMDb
The Firm (1993)
Quotes
Abby McDeere: Somewhere, inside, in the dark, the firm is listening.
http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/31.htm
Metamorphosis [ Star Trek: The Original Series ]
Stardate: Unknown
Original Airdate: Nov 10, 1967
KIRK: You'll find I have a very low tolerance level where the safety of my people are concerned. We find you out here, where no human has any business being. We were virtually hijacked in space and brought here. Now I'm not just requesting an explanation, Mister. I'm demanding one.
COCHRANE: All right. It was the Companion.
KIRK: The what?
COCHRANE: That's what I call it. As a matter of fact, Captain, I didn't crash here. I was brought here in my disabled ship. I was almost dead. The Companion saved my life.
SPOCK: You were injured?
COCHRANE: I was dying, Mister Spock.
KIRK: You seem perfectly all right now. What was the matter?
COCHRANE: I was an old man.
KIRK: You were what?
COCHRANE: Well, I don't know how it did it, but the Companion rejuvenated me, made me young again
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The Firm (1993)
Release Info
USA 30 June 1993
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/115789/Warren-Minor-Christopher
Encyclopædia Britannica
Warren Minor Christopher
United States statesman
Warren Minor Christopher, (born Oct. 27, 1925, Scranton, N.D.—died March 18, 2011, Los Angeles, Calif.), American public official who helped formulate U.S. foreign policy as deputy secretary of state (1977–81) during Pres. Jimmy Carter’s administration and secretary of state (1993–97) in Pres. Bill Clinton’s cabinet. During his time with the Department of State, Christopher, who was known for his low-key and methodical negotiating style, oversaw the completion (1977) of the Panama Canal Treaty, led the negotiations for the release in 1981 of 52 hostages held in the U.S. embassy in Tehran, supervised the 1995 Dayton Accords that ended the war in Bosnia, and in August 1995 became the first U.S. secretary of state to visit Hanoi. Christopher graduated (1945) from the University of Southern California while serving (1943–46) in the U.S. Naval Reserve. He obtained a law degree (1949) from Stanford University and clerked (1949–50) for Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas before joining the Los Angeles corporate law firm O’Melveny & Myers (he was made a partner in 1958 and served as chairman from 1982 to 1992). He took his first leave of absence to serve as U.S. deputy attorney general (1967–69) under Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson. Christopher later headed the committee that in 1991 recommended substantial reforms to the Los Angeles Police Department following the beating of African American Rodney King. He also led Vice Pres. Al Gore’s legal team in the disputed 2000 U.S. presidential election.
http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie8.html
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
COCHRANE: You all look at me as if I'm some kind of saint or visionary or something.
RIKER: I don't think you're a saint, Doc, but you did have a vision. ...And now we're sitting in it.
COCHRANE: You wanna know what my vision is?
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Encyclopædia Britannica
Robert William Fogel
American economist
Robert William Fogel, (born July 1, 1926, New York, New York, U.S.—died June 11, 2013, Oak Lawn, Illinois), American economist who, with Douglass C. North, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1993. The two were cited for having developed cliometrics, the application of statistical analysis to the study of economic history.
Fogel attended Cornell University (B.A., 1948), Columbia University (M.A., 1960), and Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D., 1963); he later received M.A. degrees from the University of Cambridge (1975) and Harvard University (1976). After teaching at Johns Hopkins and the University of Rochester, he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago (1964). He later accepted a position at Harvard (1975–81), after which he returned to Chicago.
Fogel first attracted attention in the early 1960s with his statistical analysis of the impact of railroads on 19th-century American economic development. Contrary to the thinking of the time, he argued that the building of railroads in the United States had contributed far less than had been believed to the overall growth of the economy. The publication in 1974 of Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery, which he wrote with Stanley L. Engerman, generated considerable controversy because it contended that slavery had been a profitable enterprise that had collapsed for political—rather than economic—reasons. The resulting furor over this theory caused Fogel to write a defense of his work, Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery (1989), which included a moral condemnation of slavery and clarified his earlier research. His later publications include Economic Growth, Population Theory and Physiology: The Bearings of Long-Term Processes on the Making of Economic Policy (1994), The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism (2002), The Slavery Debates, 1952–1990: A Retrospective (2003), and The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700–2100: Europe, America, and the Third World (2004).
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-simpsons/oh-brother-where-art-thou-1313/trivia/
tv.com
The Simpsons Season 2 Episode 15
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Feb 21, 1991 on FOX
Quotes
Woman: (Off camera and singing.) Whatever Homer wants…
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IMDb
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (1977)
Release Info
USA 24 June 1977
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-simpsons/oh-brother-where-art-thou-1313/trivia/
tv.com
The Simpsons Season 2 Episode 15
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Feb 21, 1991 on FOX
Quotes
Woman: … Homer gets.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/Aerial_view_of_the_Pentagon_during_rescue_operations_post-September_11_attack.JPEG
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 4:26 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Monday 30 March 2015
