Friday, May 15, 2015
Countermeasures
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2015/may/14/post-falls-soldiers-purple-heart-a-long-time/
The Spokesman-Review
May 14, 2015 in City
Post Falls soldier’s Purple Heart a long time coming
Alison Boggs The Spokesman-Review
A U.S. Army general traveled from North Carolina on Wednesday to pin the Purple Heart on the chest of a young Post Falls man still struggling with the effects of the deadliest mass shooting this nation has seen on a military base.
“It’s a long time coming. It’s a step in the right direction,” said George Stratton Jr., father of George Stratton III, who was one of the more than 30 people wounded when former Army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan opened fire at Fort Hood in Texas on Nov. 5, 2009.
Thirteen people were killed, including Michael Grant Cahill, a 62-year-old Spokane native. Cahill, a civilian physician assistant who charged Hasan with a chair, was honored in 2011 with the Army Award for Valor, which was presented to his wife.
Hasan is currently on military death row.
Numerous people wounded in the shooting returned last month to Fort Hood to receive the Purple Heart, but Stratton has too many bad memories to be able to return, his father said. “He’s got a lot of demons still. The sad part is he doesn’t think he has problems, but it’s obvious to everyone else.”
The younger Stratton, who is 23, didn’t want to talk much about the award ceremony, other than to say it was “an honor” but that it “won’t change anything.”
Stratton saw two friends die at Fort Hood. One of Hasan’s bullets hit Stratton’s left shoulder, shattering his humerus bone. He had been at Fort Hood to complete medical processing, preparing to deploy to Afghanistan. Months later, his unit departed without him. He was reassigned and went through five months of physical therapy and counseling, but quit the therapy out of concern that he was placing too much of a burden on his unit. In December 2011, Stratton was honorably discharged.
Since then he hasn’t worked much and has “a lot of PTSD-related problems that make it difficult for his life to be normal,” his father said. “I still think the Army has to provide and take care of these guys better than they did.”
Steve Holbert of the Spokane Vet Center, who attended the Purple Heart ceremony Wednesday, said that’s exactly what he intends to do for Stratton. Holbert said he will be the one, every step of the way, navigating the system for Stratton to get him the help he needs.
“I will be the person who walks beside him,” Holbert said, adding that Stratton asked him why he should trust him. “I said, ‘If you give me a shot, I won’t fail you.’ ”
The Purple Heart, given to military personnel wounded in battle, offers increased retirement pay and other benefits, including combat-related special compensation. It likely will improve Stratton’s medical coverage and disability status. He was previously classified as having 20 percent disability, which delivered benefits of $533 per month, his father said.
In the years following the shooting, many of the survivors and their families have battled the government in court, seeking additional financial damages. The lawsuit claims the government should have known of Hasan’s extremist views. The lawsuit lists Stratton, his parents and his siblings as plaintiffs, saying they’ve all suffered as a result of the attack and Stratton’s “debilitating psychological wounds,” PTSD and “violent mood swings.”
The military previously denied the Purple Heart to victims of the shooting, saying the attack was one of workplace violence, not terrorism. However, Congress expanded eligibility for the Purple Heart by inserting language into the National Defense Authorization Act of 2015.
Stratton’s Purple Heart was pinned to his chest by Brig. Gen. Erik Peterson, commanding general of the Army’s Special Operations Aviation Command, based in Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
“This is the Army’s fulfillment of that recognition,” Peterson said. “It’s closure with respect to the recognition” and represents the Army’s “enduring commitment to soldiers.”
Stratton’s father said the acknowledgement is important to the survivors.
“They earned it,” he said. “They should get it. It’s about time.”
Attending the ceremony Wednesday were Stratton’s grandmother and grandfather, aunt and uncle, father and stepmother. The ceremony left his aunt, Crystal Lecoultre, in tears.
“It’s a good thing,” she said. “It’s a good thing. It’s a good thing.”
His grandmother, Wilma Banderob, said she could only hope the medal and increased help from the Veterans Administration would “help him come out of whatever he’s been going through.
“He needs to get some more help. He’s refused so far,” Banderob said. “When you see people with their heads blown off at 18 years old, it makes an impression on you. He was really excited to go into the military. I’m hoping this will wake him up.”
http://www.e-reading.org.ua/bookreader.php/71211/Clancy_-_Rainbow_Six.html
Tom Clancy
Rainbow Six
CHAPTER 22
COUNTERMEASURES
What was going on here? the Russian demanded. He'd just thought it through enough to realize something. Whatever his employer was doing, it was larger than mass murder. What the hell could that be? Most worrisome of all, Popov had undertaken the missions in the hope - a realized hope, to be sure - of making a good deal of money off the job. He now had over a million dollars in his Bern bank account. Enough for him to return to Mother Russia and live very well indeed… but not enough for what he really wanted. So strange to discover that a "million," that magic word to describe a magic number, was something that, once you had it… wasn't magical at all. It was just a number from which you had to subtract to buy the things you wanted. A million American dollars wasn't enough to buy the home he wanted, the car he wanted, the food he wanted, and then have enough left over to sustain the lifestyle he craved for the remainder of his life - except, probably, in Russia, where he did not, unfortunately, wish to live. To visit, yes; to stay, no. And so Dmitriy was trapped, too.
Trapped into what, he didn't know. And so here he was, sitting across the desk from someone who, like himself, was also busily trying to think things through, but neither of them knew where to go just yet. One of them knew what was happening and the other did not-but the other one knew how to make things happen, and his employer did not. It was an interesting and somewhat elegant impasse.
And so they just sat there for a minute or so, each regarding the other, and if not not knowing what to say, then unwilling to take the risk of saying what they needed to. Finally, Brightling broke the silence.
"I really need to think this situation through. Give me a day or so to do that?"
"Certainly." Popov stood, shook hands, and walked out of the office. A player for most of his adult life in that most interesting and fascinating of games, he realized now that he was in a new game, with new parameters.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: posted by H.V.O.M at 9:10 PM Thursday, January 18, 2007
John Roberts was nominated for the Supreme Court by George W. Bush on 7/19/2005. That is 2 weeks, 3 months, before 11/2/2005. That is a valid method for calculating a "23" clue because some people might line up with the target day first, and then start counting ahead the months. For example, you start with 7/19, which was a Tuesday and then precisely two weeks later was August 2nd. Then you count ahead for 3 months to November 2nd.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 18 January 2007 excerpt ends]
From 3/25/1970 ( Richard Nixon - Executive Order 11520 - Amending Executive Order No. 11407, Relating to the Presidential Service Certificate and the Presidential Service Badge ) to 11/5/2009 is 39 years 7 months 1 week 4 days {14470 days}
From 11/2/1965 to 6/13/2005 is 39 years 7 months 1 week 4 days {14468 days}
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From 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 ) To 11/5/2009 is 12115 days
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From 4/6/1967 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"The City on the Edge of Forever" ) To 11/5/2009 is 15554 days
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From 1/19/1993 ( in Asheville North Carolina as 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 United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/5/2009 is 6134 days
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13830 = 6915 + 6915
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http://articles.latimes.com/2009/nov/06/nation/na-fort-hood-shootings6
Los Angeles Times
Suspect in Fort Hood shooting faced Iraq deployment
The Army psychiatrist, stable after being shot himself, is accused of killing 12 and wounding 31 at the Texas Army base. It's not clear whether he is the author of inflammatory comments on the Web.
November 06, 2009 Robin Abcarian and , Ashley Powers and Josh Meyer
LOS ANGELES, FT. HOOD, TEXAS, AND WASHINGTON — An Army psychiatrist who was about to be deployed to Iraq allegedly armed himself with two guns and opened fire Thursday afternoon on the grounds of Ft. Hood, the country's largest military base, killing 12 people and injuring 31 others.
Officials said that soldiers and civilians ripped apart their clothes to make bandages for fallen colleagues, many of whom were waiting at the base's Soldier Readiness Center for medical and dental exams before deployment. The attack shocked the country and raised questions about base security.
The suspected gunman, who initially was thought to have died, was wounded and in stable condition under guard at a hospital. Identified as Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, 39, he worked at the Darnall Army Medical Center, Ft. Hood's hospital. The facility has an extensive program to help soldiers deal with the stress of returning from war.
Base commander Lt. Gen. Robert Cone said at a news conference Thursday evening that Hasan was shot multiple times by a female civilian Army police officer, who was also injured. The suspect reportedly had not spoken with investigators, and Cone would not say anything more about him.
A senior U.S counter-terrorism official said Thursday night that the Army and FBI were looking into whether Hasan, who is Muslim, had previously come to the attention of federal law enforcement officials as the suspected author of inflammatory Internet comments likening suicide bombers to heroic soldiers who give their lives to save others.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing, said that authorities would examine Hasan's actions in the months leading up to the rampage in part to determine whether authorities had missed warning signs. "This is going to be a long and convoluted and messy investigation," the official said.
Although three other soldiers were briefly taken into custody, Cone said he believed that the gunman acted alone.
President Obama lamented the attack as a "horrific outburst of violence" and promised justice. "We are going to stay on this," he said.
"These are men and women who have made the selfless decision" to protect the nation, Obama said of the victims. "It is horrifying that they should come under fire at an Army base on American soil."
Hasan, a Virginia native, worked at Walter Reed Army Medical Center for six years before his transfer to the Texas base in July. Army officials with access to Hasan's records told the Associated Press that he had received a poor performance evaluation at Walter Reed.
In a post on the website scribd.com that appears to be from May, a writer named "NidalHasan" likened a suicide bomber to a soldier who jumps on a grenade to save the lives of his fellow officers in that both were sacrificing their lives "for a more noble cause."
That cause, he wrote, "is to help save Muslims by killing enemy soldiers. If one suicide bomber can kill 100 enemy soldiers because they were caught off guard that would be considered a strategic victory. Their intention is not to die because of some despair. The same can be said for the Kamikazees in Japan."
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) told NBC News that Hasan was about to be deployed to combat for the first time "and was upset about it." Hasan's cousin, Nadar Hasan, a lawyer in northern Virginia, told Fox News that deployment was his cousin's "worst nightmare."
The shooting broke out about 1:30 p.m. Central time at the Soldier Readiness Center. About 50 meters away, Cone said, 138 soldiers were preparing to go through a 2 p.m. college graduation ceremony before 600 guests.
"Thanks to the quick reaction of several soldiers," Cone said, "they were able to able to close off the doors to that auditorium." That action, he said, saved lives.
Cone said he did not believe that the weapons involved in the attack -- one of them a semiautomatic -- were military-issued.
The rules for carrying weapons on an Army post are standard throughout all bases, service officials said. The only personnel allowed to openly display weapons on the base are military police, said Lt. Col. Nathan Banks, an Army spokesman.
Service weapons are checked daily and are usually only allowed to be removed from an arms room for training on a range or maintenance. Personal weapons must be kept locked and registered with the base provost marshal. The military police keep a record of all of the weapons on a base, Army officials said.
The military has not released the names of those who were wounded or killed.
Lisa Pfund, the mother of a 19-year-old soldier, Amber Bahr, told a Milwaukee TV station that her daughter had been shot in the abdomen and was in stable condition. "We were on the phone. She said, 'Hi, Mommy, how you doing?' And all of a sudden, she said, 'I gotta go.' " The next call she received, Pfund said, was from an emergency room doctor.
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/nov/05/entertainment/et-mariah5
Los Angeles Times
Mariah Carey shows her ugly side in 'Precious'
Yes, that's the pop diva -- deglammed and with facial hair -- playing the dowdy caseworker.
November 05, 2009 Chris Lee
You'd be forgiven for not recognizing Mariah Carey in her role as a dowdy welfare caseworker in the urban drama "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire."
The legendarily high-maintenance pop diva underwent a soup-to-nuts physical transformation, checking her glossy celebrity patina at the door in order to convincingly portray the film's Ms. Weiss: a drab but deeply empathetic soul helping a troubled teenager in '80s Harlem. Far from the image Carey has cultivated for years, the character is no oil painting of music-video pulchritude, with her lank hair, a wardrobe of rayon sweater-coats and, yes, even a sparse mustache creeping across her upper lip.
"I had to lose all vanity," Carey said. "I had to change my demeanor, my inside, layers of who I am, to become that woman."
How R&B's most unabashedly glamorous chanteuse came to sport facial hair -- how Carey came to defy all expectations by delivering what some are describing as an Oscar-worthy performance in "Precious" at all -- is one of those quirky sagas upon which indie film-world dreams are made.
Turns out the alto with a five-octave range wasn't director-producer Lee Daniels' first choice. He had considered Jane Fonda for the role and cast Carey only when Oscar-winning British actress Helen Mirren dropped out at the 11th hour.
Daniels, who became chummy with the singer after casting her in his indie drama "Tennessee," implemented Carey's deglamorization process as a means to two ends -- to ensure that audiences wouldn't be "taken out of the picture by seeing Mariah Carey." But also to antagonize the singer for her own good by making her look homely in the extreme.
"It wasn't just the director in me," Daniels explained earlier this week, "but the big brother torturing his sister. This was just to irritate her. At what point would she start screaming and run up out of this chair?"
To put a fine point on how sheerly unlikely all of this is, one need look no further than Carey's 2001 star vehicle "Glitter." A semi-autobiographical musical romance, the movie was trounced by critics, fizzled at the box office and netted the performer a Razzie Award for worst actress.
Carey seemed to be just another one-trick songbird (Madonna, Britney and Jessica Simpson, please stand up) unable to transfer her talents to the big screen. Since "Precious" premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival, however, critics have been singing a different tune. A reviewer for Variety called Carey's performance "pitch-perfect" while the New Yorker's Anthony Lane asks, "Hold on: a stern, song-free, compassionate piece of acting from Mariah Carey? . . . It's for real."
Nonetheless, Carey finds her appearance in "Precious" painful.
"Hideosity!" she exclaimed, raising her hands in mock horror. Carey was seated on the patio of the Polo Lounge wearing a plunging black gown, exhausted from a whistle-stop tour through Korea, Japan and Brazil in support of her latest album "Confessions of an Imperfect Angel" (which peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 album chart earlier this year) but still impressively blinged-out in diamonds. The divide between her luxe life and latest movie role could not have been more vividly illustrated, but Carey left their disconnect unmentioned. "I am glad people are telling me they don't recognize me," she continued. "But when it comes to my scenes, I get like, 'Oh, I don't know if I can look.' "
Based on the acclaimed 1996 novel "Push," "Precious" took both the Grand Jury Prize and the audience award at Sundance and hits theaters in limited release Friday. The film -- executive produced by media heavyweights Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry -- follows Claireece "Precious" Jones (newcomer Gabourey Sidibe), a 16-year-old Harlem girl whose hard-knock life provides a taxonomy of urban poverty's worst ills. She's illiterate, on welfare, morbidly overweight and pregnant with a second child by her own father. After enrolling in a literacy program, Precious is reluctantly assigned to visit a social worker: Carey's Ms. Weiss.
"She still doesn't have a first name," the singer laughed, popping a blini with a glinting mound of caviar into her mouth. In her few but unforgettable scenes, the character plays a pivotal role in helping Precious pull out of her downward spiral.
Movie history is studded with A-list actors who subverted their prescribed images in a bid for greater respect and awards season glory. A few recent examples: Nicole Kidman's golden statue-grabbing turn (courtesy of a prosthetic schnoz) in "The Hours," or Charlize Theron's uglying up as a serial killer for her Oscar-winning portrayal in "Monster."
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/nov/05/entertainment/et-mariah5/2
Los Angeles Times
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Mariah Carey shows her ugly side in 'Precious'
Yes, that's the pop diva -- deglammed and with facial hair -- playing the dowdy caseworker.
November 05, 2009 Chris Lee
Unlike some other performers, though, ego-driven careerism was hardly the deciding factor in Carey's transformation. When Mirren, who had previously worked with Daniels on his 2005 directorial debut "Shadowboxer," dropped out of "Precious" just days before she was scheduled on-set, the director had to scramble; there wasn't time to audition replacement actresses. Cue phone call from Carey.
"Mariah calls me, 'Come over dah-ling.' I said, 'I'm not in the mood. I gotta cast this movie,' " Daniels recalled. " 'What movie dah-ling?' "
The two had had forged what they describe as a brother-sister level of closeness working on "Tennessee," a little-seen road drama Daniels produced that had a brief theatrical run this summer. In that film, Carey first spread her wings as a dramatic actress portraying a small-town waitress with ambitions of singing stardom.
"I said, 'I'm doing "Push." ' She had read the book. A light bulb went on over my head," Daniels said.
With Mirren's blessing, he hired Carey. "I wanted to tap into what people don't see in her," said Daniels. "She steps into that Mariah world of makeup and pumps, she becomes something. It's a machine that has made her an enormous amount of money. But I wanted to show the person I know she is when we're alone. One of the smartest, most intuitive women I've ever met."
Carey, 40, cleared her schedule and traveled to the "Precious" set in northern-most Harlem by taxi, forbidden from arriving with entourage in tow. With only days to prepare, the performer says she based her characterization on a therapist she knew but also on what she cryptically describes as first-hand knowledge of the social welfare system.
Asked what those experiences might be, Carey -- a Long Island native of Afro-Venezuelan/Irish American decent who was raised by her opera singer mother -- declined to specify.
"When people say, 'I didn't know she had it in her,' they don't know my life," said Carey. "They don't know my childhood and what I went through except for a very basic story because I don't choose to tell the world."
Transcending simple stunt casting, the performance strikes a unique dramatic tone, balancing a lived-in physical presence with world-weary empathy. As well, there's a tinge of impatience, the whole effect leavened by Carey's deepening her natural speaking voice. It's all a far cry from the sequined bustiers and high-frequency melismas on which her reputation as a songstress rests.
"I went, 'What does this woman feel every day with people coming at her, wanting something from her?' And there may be people who are slightly disingenuous. Because I know a little of what goes on, believe it or not."
An out gay man and opinionated aesthete, Daniels personally saw to uglying her up.
"We created Ms. Weiss on the spot," he said. "We started with the bags under the eyes. Then I said, 'I'm going to put a mustache on you.' Bound her boobs down, put this gray makeup on her, found this cheesy rayon material, put it on her. I could see her hands shaking. I was nervous for her, but I felt it was good for her to be out of her bubble."
The pop diva said she hopes to continue in independent films but has no plans to give up music any time soon. But before leaving the topic of facial hair, she wanted to get something clear. "Do I look like I have a mustache?" Carey asked.
She craned her neck forward and thrust her upper lip in a visitor's direction. Nope, no 'stache. "I'm not very hairy," Carey continued, displaying her forearm on which not a single hair could be seen. "I've never had that issue."
http://articles.latimes.com/1994-12-11/news/mn-7770_1_hard-realities
Los Angeles Times
Just What Went Wrong in Bosnia? Almost Everything : Balkans: The world's noble intentions proved no match for the hard realities of an unforgiving region.
December 11, 1994 TYLER MARSHALL This story was reported by Times staff writers Doyle McManus in Washington, Carol J. Williams in Zagreb, Croatia, Tyler Marshall in Brussels, Stanley Meisler at the United Nations and Scott Kraft in Paris. It was written by Marshall
BRUSSELS — It was the first day of summer, 1991, when Secretary of State James A. Baker III flew to Belgrade for a look at Yugoslavia on the brink.
Frustrated European Community diplomats had already failed to find a formula for keeping the country together. But here was a superpower's emissary, the man who had just helped manage the end of the Cold War, shape German unification and assemble the international army that had crushed Saddam Hussein's finest in the Iraqi desert.
But this time, Baker kept his distance. He met with the presidents of each of the Yugoslav federation's six constituent republics for an hour. He warned them that "history could repeat itself"--a reference to the animosities that triggered World War I. To his critics' dismay, he did little else.
Then he left.
Four days later, the Yugoslav federation began to disintegrate.
First Slovenia and Croatia declared their independence. Nine months later came the secession of Bosnia-Herzegovina, a move that triggered a dirty, stubborn war in the heart of the Balkans and gave the world a new synonym for barbarity: Bosnia.
The messy confusion of the war itself--a conflict that pits the country's majority Muslims and minority Croats against an ill-disciplined but brazen rogue army of Bosnian Serbs--has been matched only by the equally messy attempts by the international community to end it.
What went wrong can be summed up in just two words--almost everything.
How these efforts failed is not a tale of evil people and evil deeds but of bright, well-intentioned men and women, some of them overly idealistic, some of them arrogant, running afoul of the hard realities at critical moments in a part of the world that does not forgive those who err.
The price of their failure at these turning points has been high. In Bosnia itself, more than 200,000 people have died and 10 times that number have been displaced. The war has scorned the world's mightiest military alliance, discredited the United Nations, frustrated the United States, complicated U.S. ties with Russia and strained its links with Europe, and ended the illusion among Europeans that they had somehow managed to progress beyond such brutality.
It has also thrown America's leadership and that of its President into question.
Before his inauguration, Bill Clinton defined the war in Bosnia as a modern-day Holocaust, a moral challenge that the United States could not duck. "The legitimacy of 'ethnic cleansing' cannot stand," he declared, referring to the Bosnian Serbs' systematic murder and expulsion of Bosnian Muslims from nearly three-quarters of the country.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=105859
The American Presidency Project
Richard Nixon
XXXVII President of the United States: 1969 - 1974
Executive Order 11520 - Amending Executive Order No. 11407, Relating to the Presidential Service Certificate and the Presidential Service Badge
March 25, 1970
By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States and as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States, it is ordered as follows:
Paragraphs 1 and 3 of Executive Order No. 11407, of April 23, 1968, entitled "Amending Executive Order No. 11174, Establishing the Presidential Service Certificate and the Presidential Service Badge" are hereby amended to read as follows:
"1. Certificate established. The White House Service Certificate is hereby reestablished as the Presidential Service Certificate, to be awarded in the name of the President of the United States to members of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Coast Guard who have been assigned to the White House Office or to military units and support facilities under the administration of the Military Assistant to the President for a period of at least one year subsequent to January 20, 1969.
"3. Badge established. The White House Service Badge is replaced by the Presidential Service Badge, the design of which accompanies and is hereby made a part of this Order. The Presidential Service Badge may be awarded to any member of the Armed Forces assigned to duty in the White House Office or to military units and support facilities under the administration of the Military Assistant to the President by the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the Navy, the Secretary of the Air Force, or, when the Coast Guard is not operating as a service in the Navy, the Secretary of Transportation, upon recommendation of the Military Assistant to the President, to military personnel of their respective services. The Badge may be worn as a part of the uniform of those individuals upon award of the Presidential Service Certificate under such regulations as the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Secretary of the Air Force, with the approval of the Secretary of Defense, and, when the Coast Guard is not operating as a service in the Navy, the Commandant of the Coast Guard, with the approval of the Secretary of Transportation, may severally prescribe."
RICHARD NIXON
The White House
March 25, 1970
From 9/1/1964 ( Lyndon Johnson - Executive Order 11174 - Establishing the Presidential Service Certificate and the Presidential Service Badge ) 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 11067 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 2/20/1996 is 11067 days
From 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 ) To 2/20/1996 is 427 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/3/1967 ( Jack Ruby dead ) is 427 days
[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2015/02/i-probably-havent-seen-these-since.html ]
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=52430
The American Presidency Project
William J. Clinton
XLII President of the United States: 1993 - 2001
Statement on the Balkan Peace Process
February 20, 1996
This afternoon I met with my senior national security team to review the situation in Bosnia. I received a report on this weekend's meeting in Rome with the Presidents of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia.
I am pleased that in Rome, the Balkan leaders recommitted themselves to keeping peace on track. The parties pledged to resume contacts with the NATO-led Implementation Force, to reunify Sarajevo on schedule, to release all remaining war prisoners, to remove any remaining foreign forces, to cooperate in the investigation and prosecution of war crimes, and to strengthen the Bosnian-Croat Federation and reunify Mostar.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0127520/releaseinfo
IMDb
Don't Leave Me This Way (1993 TV Movie)
Release Info
USA 3 January 1999
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IMDb
Don't Leave Me This Way (1993 TV Movie)
Plot Summary
British academics Loretta and Bridget run into Sandra, an old school friend at a book launch. Although Sandra appears to be gay and carefree, Loretta notices an undercurrent of tension while Sandra stays with her for a few days. Loretta is saddened to learn her friend was killed in a car accident, and comforts Sandra's estranged husband Tom, her daughter Lizzie, and emotionally disturbed son Felix. While doing so she becomes to believe the accident may not be what it seems, spurred on by the information a local policeman provides her.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001014/bio
IMDb
Mariah Carey
Biography
Date of Birth 27 March 1970, Huntington, New York, USA
Birth Name Mariah Carey
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 2:40 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Re: manipulate
Kerry Burgess wrote:
[This reminds me of something I told a doctor in the VA. He was relating something to me about Freud. I commented about the difference between invention and discovery. My basic understanding of Freud is that you can't really prove anything he said.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 23 March 2006 excerpt ends]
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The American Presidency Project
Franklin D. Roosevelt
XXXII President of the United States: 1933-1945
29 - Excerpts from the Press Conference at "Hobcaw Barony," in Georgetown, South Carolina
May 6, 1944
Q. Would you like to sort of review your vacation?
THE PRESIDENT: In one word, I have rested. I have had a very quiet time. Been out in the sun as much as possible. Done some fishing—some salt-water fishing, some in the mouth of the river, some off the inlet, and some in the ponds.
You know, the matter of a vacation hide-out for the President is really a problem. I don't know what we are going to do about it. Up until two years ago last December, I used to do a lot of cruising down the Potomac. Then there arose the danger of German subs, and of hostile planes flying over the Potomac. It has no anti-aircraft protection. There were no other ships available, and we couldn't get a lot of escort boats for the Potomac, so the Navy stopped us.
I looked around for some Government property near Washington where I could spend a holiday. I tried in vain to go to Sugar Loaf Mountain. There's a place up there not far from Frederick. It belongs to a man who doesn't like me; he's going to give it to the Government some day, but he didn't want the President going there. We found a place up on the Blue Ridge Mountains, but it was practically impossible to get to.
Then, up almost to Gettysburg, I found a place where we can put up thirty-three or thirty-four. It was built as a recreation center, as part of the W.P.A. It consists of two or three separate camps. It's up in the Catoctin Mountains, near the Pennsylvania-Maryland line. After using it last summer, toward the end of last summer, they raised the old objection, that it had no anti-aircraft protection—wanted to find a place where we could have protection from the air. When I first went up there, I found a company of O.S.S. trainees-secret commandos- up there. We used them, and also the Marines who were already up there, too, for protection.
Then last summer, a society gossip columnist broke the whole thing. She goes ahead and spills the thing. I don't know whether that would make it impossible for me to go there again or not, but they are afraid that a certain bunch of crackpots will take some planes- wouldn't take more than two or three planes- they could use training planes- and fly over and unload some bombs on the place. It is pretty well guarded on the ground, but not from the air.
Then I learned of this place here. I like it here. I have been very comfortable down here. I want to come back. Down here I can do a little fishing, and get lots of rest. I like it around Belle Isle Gardens, it's perfectly lovely. I would like to come back down here again, but if it becomes known as one of the places where the President goes, it won't hold .... One thing that strikes us all about this part of the country down here is the enormous amount of land that is vacant. I have made a number of drives about the country. I love the place—love going through the woods. But there is an enormous amount of land' vacant—no one on it. It's not being used for scientific purposes either. It's the general feeling of everybody that this part of the country will support a great many more people, room for a large number of families, and for certain industries locally ....
Q. What will be the top item on your agenda when you return to Washington?
THE PRESIDENT: I don't know. I am really well up. We have had a pouch every other day. Certain things I have sent back for further information. I have signed a number of bills, and other regular papers including an appointment of a notary public for the District of Columbia. Got a lot of things out. The things the President has to sign now have been cut in half. The only things I have to sign are courts-martial.
Speaking of courts-martial, I want to tell you a story about a Marine court-martial case at Guantanamo.
You know, a court-martial in any of the services is a very solemn affair. They had appointed down there a major general, a couple of colonels, two or three majors as members, and a judge advocate of the court. They had also assigned another officer to the defense.
The accused was a second lieutenant, a youngster who had, I think, been in the service six months or so. He had been sentenced to dismissal. It was approved by the Judge Advocate General of the Navy, the Major General Commandant, and the Secretary of the Navy.
It came on down to me. I picked it up to read it. The more I read of it, the more I laughed.
This youngster had gone out from Guantanamo—Guantanamo is a U. S. naval reservation surrounded by Cubahe had taken a party out on patrol, to patrol around the edges of the eastern side of the reservation.
About two miles out, they ran across some cows. The cows obviously were strays. There was a good deal of question as to whether the cows were on the Cuban side or the American side. One calf was limping very badly. After a conversation, some members of the patrol felt that this calf was suffering a great deal. That was a perfectly correct assumption. The second lieutenant told the sergeant that he would take the responsibility, and that he thought the calf should be put out of its misery.
So the sergeant shot the calf.
Now, they happened to have in this patrol the company cook. The cook butchered the calf. The result was the whole company had veal for about three days- perfectly delicious veal, butchered by the company cook.
The story came to the ears of the major general, that one of his officers had shot a calf. The result was the kid got a court-martial- and all that a court-martial means in time of war. The court was held. The record built up into a pile of documents. It finally got to the Major General Commandant. They approved it. It was all lined up to ruin this kid's life- to dismiss him from the service. Maybe he did want the veal. But it was funny—the great question was about his decision as to whether or not this calf ought to be put out of its misery.
So I took the recommendation that had been prepared for my signature- reading "Approved. The sentence will be carried into effect"—and instead of signing it, I wrote thereon,
"The sentence is approved, but it is mitigated, so that in lieu of being dismissed the accused will be placed on probation for a year, subject to the pleasure of the President.
"This man must be taught not to shoot calves.
"FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT"
It went back to the Marine Corps Headquarters. And they were wild. They thought I was trying to be funny with the Marine Corps.
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IMDb
Best Defense (1984)
Release Info
USA 20 July 1984
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IMdb
Best Defense (1984)
Full Cast & Crew
Eddie Murphy ... Lieutenant T.M. Landry
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
To: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Fri, May 26, 2006 9:20:16 PM
Subject: Re: Journal May 26, 2006, Supplemental
Kerry Burgess wrote:
Earlier in my notes, I remember a time when I got out of boot camp, the same day I think. Three of us, still wearing our dress whites, rented a car and headed to the beach for the weekend. I was driving but didn't know how to get to Daytona. The next thing I remember, we were at the gated entrance to some facility. The security guard asked if we were "lost." We were at the entrance to Cape Canaveral.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 26 May 2006 excerpt ends]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_Defense
Best Defense
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Best Defense is a comedy film starring Dudley Moore and Eddie Murphy.
"The WAM's overheating! The WAM's overheating! What the hell is a WAM!?!"
1980 film "The Final Countdown" DVD video:
Samuel S. Chapman: We've got to get off this boat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_in_aviation
1947 in aviation
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of aviation-related events from 1947:
January 14
The United States replaces the national insignia for its military aircraft adopted in September 1943 with a new marking consisting of a white star centered in a blue circle flanked by white rectangles bisected by a horizontal red stripe, with the entire insignia outlined in blue, which is still in use in the 21st century.
http://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/naval-aviation-history/aircraft-markings.html
Naval Heritage and History Command
U.S. Naval Aircraft Marking
Aircraft of the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps have carried distinguishing markings almost from the beginning of naval aviation.
Since 1920, numerous additions and changes have been made in aircraft markings which over the years built up an awesome array of variety and detail. The story of these changes is further complicated by the fact that many were instituted by the operating forces without official Navy Department sanction and as a result, some directives issued on the subject did little more than to make standard practice official. Some of the more significant, or possibly more apparent, changes effecting heavier-than-air aircraft of the operating forces since that date were directed as follow.
January 14, 1947
A horizontal red stripe, centered on the white horizontal bar, was added to the National Aircraft Insignia.
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IMDb
Good Will Hunting (1997)
Release Info
USA 2 December 1997 (Westwood, California) (premiere)
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IMDb
Good Will Hunting (1997)
Plot Summary
Will Hunting is a boy genius who was severely abused as a child and has been in trouble with the law ever since. When Will finally agrees to get counseling to keep himself out of jail and with his girlfriend, he meets Sean, the therapist who will change his life. Good Will Hunting tells the poignant story of Will and Sean's coming to terms with the blows life has dealt them and with the questions that lie in the future.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119217/plotsummary
IMDb
Good Will Hunting (1997)
Plot Summary
Will Hunting, a janitor at M.I.T., has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069816/releaseinfo
IMDb
Book of Numbers (1973)
Release Info
USA 11 April 1973 (New York City, New York)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144451/releaseinfo
IMDb
Nervous Shakedown (1947)
Release Info
USA 13 March 1947
http://www.gateworld.net/atlantis/s1/transcripts/101.shtml
GateWorld
STARGATE ATLANTIS
RISING, PART 1
EPISODE NUMBER - 101
DVD DISC - Season 1, Disc 1
ORIGINAL U.S. AIR DATE - 07.16.04
SUMNER: Then we're done talking.
WRAITH: I think not. Kneel.
http://seattletimes.com/html/politics/2010210993_apusobamaforthood.html
The Seattle Times
Originally published November 5, 2009 at 12:57 PM Page modified November 5, 2009 at 7:46 PM
Obama laments 'horrific outburst of violence'
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON —
President Barack Obama on Thursday called a mass shooting at a Texas Army base "a horrific outburst of violence."
"We will make sure that we get answers to every single question about this horrible incident," the commander in chief said. "We are going to stay on this."
He said it's a tragedy to lose a soldier overseas and even more horrifying when they come under fire at an Army base on American soil.
http://www.gateworld.net/atlantis/s1/transcripts/101.shtml
GateWorld
STARGATE ATLANTIS
RISING, PART 1
EPISODE NUMBER - 101
DVD DISC - Season 1, Disc 1
ORIGINAL U.S. AIR DATE - 07.16.04
WRAITH: Kneel.
http://gateworld.net/atlantis/s3/transcripts/314.shtml
GateWorld
STARGATE ATLANTIS
TAO OF RODNEY
EPISODE NUMBER - 314
DVD DISC - Season 3, Disc 4
ORIGINAL U.S. AIR DATE - 05.04.07
ELIZABETH’S OFFICE. Elizabeth is sitting behind her desk reading her laptop. John walks in and goes over to stand beside her. He leans down to look at her screen.
SHEPPARD: Well, how’s it coming?
WEIR (without looking up): Actually, I think I’m just getting to the good bit.
SHEPPARD: Don’t you hate it when people interrupt right when things are getting good?
(Elizabeth looks up, then glances at him briefly. As she looks down at her laptop again, all the lights and wall panels flicker on and off several times. John looks annoyed.)
SHEPPARD: I know McKay is some super-genius now, but I find the flickering lights incredibly unnerving.
(He walks around the desk and sits down opposite Elizabeth.)
WEIR: Doctor Coleman has -- however reluctantly -- admitted it does seem as if Rodney is significantly improving the city’s power system.
SHEPPARD: Whatever. Anyway, you were saying ...?
(Elizabeth sighs.)
WEIR: Well, we know the Ancients evolved physiologically to a certain point where they could transform into a state of pure energy.
SHEPPARD: Ancient History 101.
WEIR: Yes. We also know that not all of them managed to get there.
SHEPPARD: You’re saying some of them needed a kick in the pants.
WEIR: So to speak. I think this machine was not meant to help them fight the war against the Wraith but rather to help them escape it.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 7:55 PM Thursday, December 08, 2011
Also, despite how I tell myself often that I am ready and mentally prepared to take the big step into that great big empty world where I can finally get some privacy today was a wake up call.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 08 December 2011 excerpt ends]
http://www.stargate-sg1-solutions.com/wiki/9.02_%22Avalon_Part_2%22_Transcript
STARGATE WIKI
9.02 "Avalon Part 2"
DANIEL
Actually, it's a story. It's written like fiction.
MITCHELL
"Once upon a time…"
DANIEL
Once upon a time, there was a race of people that went on a great journey through space, across the universe. They were called the Altera. After much time…
[Vala plucks coins out of her bodice and sulks. Teal'c crouches, half-listening to the story.]
DANIEL
(continuing)
…and I think this means thousands of years, they found a great belt of stars.
[Daniel falls silent.]
MITCHELL
…and they lived happily ever after.
[Daniel continues to read silently. Something in the book grabs his attention, and he stands.]
TEAL'C
(noticing Daniel's movement)
Have you found something, Daniel Jackson?
DANIEL
It says that the Alterans named their new home "Avalon," and that they built many Astria Porta.
MITCHELL
Stargates?
DANIEL
Yes.
VALA
The Ancients built the Stargates.
DANIEL
Well, it stands to reason they weren't always called "the Ancients."
http://www.stargate-sg1-solutions.com/wiki/9.02_%22Avalon_Part_2%22_Transcript
STARGATE WIKI
9.02 "Avalon Part 2"
MITCHELL
Whoa. We've always presumed that the Ancients were the first evolution of humans in this galaxy. But, but this…this is the first evidence suggesting they came here long ago from somewhere far, far away.
DANIEL
Yes.
[Marks brushes some gold trinkets away from a large, black, domed device with a blue crystal adorning its top.]
MARKS
Colonel Mitchell.
[Mitchell, Vala, and Daniel turn to Marks. Teal'c approaches and studies the alien device.]
MITCHELL
(grinning)
Heh. One of these things is not like the others.
INT—SGC CORRIDOR
[Landry, Daniel, Vala, and Mitchell come out of a room and walk down the corridor. Daniel is in the middle of trying to convince Landry of his position.]
DANIEL
(sighing)
It's much, much more than that. We know the Ancients left our galaxy for Pegasus and returned later when they lost the war to the Wraith, but what happened to them?
LANDRY
I thought they ascended.
DANIEL
Some did, that we know of. But what if the others went home? Even if they didn't, the book I read suggested that the Alterans left a civilization behind.
http://www.stargate-sg1-solutions.com/wiki/9.03_%22Origin_Part_3%22_Transcript
STARGATE WIKI
9.03 "Origin Part 3"
DANIEL
This is bad.
VALA
Worse than being burned to death?
DANIEL
It appears our ascended Ancients and the Ori have a slight difference of opinion. See the Ori seem to think that because they're ascended, humans beings should worship them. All humans.
VALA
And if we don't?
DANIEL
Then we're not worthy of living and should be destroyed.
VALA
I don't think enlightenment means what they think it means.
DANIEL
See, apparently our ascended Ancients have been shielding our existence from the Ori.
VALA
They've been protecting us?
DANIEL
The Ori seem to think that our Ancients are evil because they haven't shared the secrets of the universe with us.
http://www.tv.com/shows/stargate-sg-1/stronghold-431885/
tv.com
Stargate SG-1 Season 9 Episode 14
Stronghold
Aired Friday 8:00 PM Jan 27, 2006 on Syfy
AIRED: 1/27/06
http://www.stargate-sg1-solutions.com/wiki/9.14_%22Stronghold%22_Transcript
STARGATE WIKI
9.14 "Stronghold"
MAZ'RAI
I am entitled to be swayed by reason, Bra'tac.
BRA'TAC
You were the one who tabled this proposal for a referendum. You have always believed democracy was essential for the future of our nation.
MAZ'RAI
Indeed, that is still the case. I have merely been convinced that we should not act in such haste.
TEAL'C
Brother, it was you who feared that Gerak's followers were gathering strength. That there was a danger that if we did not dissolve this Council, they could still vote to support the unilateral submission to the religion of the Ori.
From 11/25/1915 ( Albert Einstein announces his theory of general relativity ) To 9/19/2013 is 35728 days
35728 = 17864 + 17864
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 9/30/2014 is 17864 days
From 8/26/1976 ( the first known human case of Ebola ) To 9/19/2013 is 13538 days
13538 = 6769 + 6769
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 5/15/1984 ( as Kerry Wayne Burgess I began active service for an enlistment period of six years as a United States Navy enlisted sailor ) is 6769 days
From 8/3/1998 ( Tom Clancy "Rainbow Six" ) To 9/19/2013 is 5526 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 12/19/1980 ( premiere US film "The Formula" ) is 5526 days
From 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 ) To 9/19/2013 is 8281 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 7/5/1988 ( Los Angeles Times - Tom Clancy - "Now, Something Worse in the Gulf Than War:What if You Do Everything Right and End Up Killing 300 Civilians?" ) is 8281 days
From 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 ) To 9/19/2013 is 8281 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 7/5/1988 ( Los Angeles Times - Tom Clancy - "Now, Something Worse in the Gulf Than War:What if You Do Everything Right and End Up Killing 300 Civilians?" ) is 8281 days
From 8/18/1951 ( premiere US film "Iron Man" ) To 9/19/2013 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 12/26/1962 ( premiere US film "Nature's Playmates" ) To 9/19/2013 is 18530 days
18530 = 9265 + 9265
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 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate Columbia South Carolina ) is 9265 days
[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2014/09/freaked-out-ncis-tuesday.html ]
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The American Presidency Project
Barack Obama
XLIV President of the United States: 2009 - present
642 - Remarks at a Meeting of the President's Export Council
September 19, 2013
The President. Everybody, please have a seat. Have a seat. Well, it is good to see all of you. I know that we've got a——
[At this point, Export Council Chairman W. James McNerney, Jr., reached over and turned on the President's microphone].
The President. ——whoops, All right.
Mr. McNerney. There you go.
The President. I know that we've got a few new members, in fact, some folks that were just appointed and immediately got to work. And so we're thrilled to see all of you. And then there are the grizzled veterans of the Export Council—[laughter]—although you don't look grizzled. You guys look great.
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Tom Clancy
Rainbow Six
CHAPTER 11
INFRASTRUCTURE
The lawyer made the call, and unsurprisingly found that it developed into a luncheon in a restaurant where a man of forty or so asked a few simple questions, then left before the dessert cart was wheeled up to the table. That ended his involvement with whatever would happen. He paid the check with cash and walked back to his office haunted by the question-what had he done, what might he have started? The answer for both, he told himself forcefully, was that he didn't know. It was the intellectual equivalent of a shower after a sweaty day's work, and though ultimately not as satisfying, he was a lawyer, and accustomed to the vicissitudes of life.
His interlocutor left the restaurant and caught the Metro, changing trains three times before settling on the one that ran near his home, close to a park known for the prostitutes who stood about, peddling their multivalued wares for passersby in automobiles. If there were anywhere an indictment of the capitalist system, it was here, he thought, though the tradition went further back than the onset of the current economic system. The women had all the gaiety of serial killers, as they stood there in their abbreviated clothing made to be removed as rapidly as possible, so as to save time. He turned away, and headed to his flat, where, with luck, others would be waiting for him. And luck, it turned out, was with him. One of his guests had even made coffee.
"This is where it has to stop," Carol Brightling said, even though she knew it wouldn't.
"Sure, doc," her guest said, sipping OEOB coffee. "But how the hell do you sell it to him?"
The map was spread on her coffee table: East of Alaska's Prudhoe Bay was a piece of tundra, over a thousand square miles of it, and geologists for British Petroleum and Atlantic Richfield - the two companies that had largely exploited the Alaskan North Slope, built the pipeline, and therefore helped cause the Exxon Valdez disaster-had made their public pronouncement. This oilfield, called AARM, was at least double the size of the North Slope. The report, still semi classified in the industrial sense, had come to the White House a week earlier, with confirming data from the United States Geological Survey, a federal agency tasked to the same sort of work, along with the opinion of the geologists that the field extended farther east, across the Canadian border-and exactly how far it extended they could only guess, because the Canadians had not yet begun their survey. The conclusion of the executive summary posited the possibility that the entire field could rival the one in Saudi Arabia, although it was far harder to transport oil from it-except for the fact, the report went on, that the Trans-Alaska pipeline had already been built, and the new fields would only need a few hundred miles of extension on the existing pipeline, which, the summary concluded arrogantly, had produced a negligible environmental impact.
"Except for that damned tanker incident," Dr. Brightling observed into her morning coffee. Which had killed thousands of innocent wild birds and hundreds of sea otters, and had sullied several hundred square miles of pristine seacoast.
"This will be a catastrophe if Congress lets it go forward. My God, Carol, the caribou, the birds, all the predators. There are polar bears there, and browns, and barren-ground grizzly, and this environment is as delicate as a newborn infant. We can't allow the oil companies to go in there!"
"I know, Kevin," the President's Science Advisor responded, with an emphatic nod
"The damage might never be repaired. The permafrost-there's nothing more delicate on the face of the planet," the president of the Sierra Club said, with further, repetitive emphasis. "We owe it to ourselves, we owe it to our children-we owe it to the planet. This bill has to be killed! I don't care what it takes, this bill must die! You must convince the President to withdraw any semblance of support for it. We cannot allow this environmental rape to take place."
From 1/17/1964 ( Michelle Obama ) To 12/14/2012 is 17864 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 9/30/2014 is 17864 days
From 8/26/1976 ( the first known human case of Ebola ) To 12/14/2012 is 13259 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 2/20/2002 ( premiere US film "Dexter" ) is 13259 days
From 8/3/1998 ( Tom Clancy "Rainbow Six" ) To 12/14/2012 is 5247 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 3/15/1980 ( premiere US TV series "Sanford" ) is 5247 days
From 6/22/1951 ( premiere US film "Savage Drums" ) To 8/3/1998 ( Tom Clancy "Rainbow Six" ) is 17209 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 12/14/2012 is 17209 days
[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-blob.html ]
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=102750
The American Presidency Project
Barack Obama
XLIV President of the United States: 2009 - present
946 - Remarks on the Shootings in Newtown, Connecticut
December 14, 2012
This afternoon I spoke with Governor Malloy and FBI Director Mueller. I offered Governor Malloy my condolences on behalf of the Nation and made it clear he will have every single resource that he needs to investigate this heinous crime, care for the victims, counsel their families.
We've endured too many of these tragedies in the past few years. And each time I learn the news, I react not as a President, but as anybody else would: as a parent. And that was especially true today. I know there's not a parent in America who doesn't feel the same overwhelming grief that I do.
http://news.yahoo.com/ebola-lapses-persisted-days-dallas-hospital-154031941.html
YAHOO! NEWS
Ebola lapses persisted for days at Dallas hospital
Associated Press
By MATT SEDENSKY
5 hours ago [ Retrieved 1:50 PM Saturday 18 October 2014 Pacific Time USA ]
DALLAS (AP) — Just minutes after Thomas Eric Duncan arrived for a second time at the emergency room, the word is on his chart: "Ebola." But despite all the warnings that the deadly virus could arrive unannounced at an American hospital, for days after the admission, his caregivers are vulnerable.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has pointed to lapses by the hospital in those initial days. And Duncan's medical records show heightened protective measures as his illness advanced. But either because of a lag in implementing those steps or because they were still insufficient, scores of hospital staffers were put at risk, according to the records.
The hospital's protective protocol was "insufficient," said Dr. Joseph McCormick of the University of Texas School of Public Health, who was part of the CDC team that investigated the first recorded Ebola outbreak in 1976. "The gear was inadequate. The procedures in the room were inadequate."
Duncan's medical records, provided by his family to The Associated Press, show Nina Pham, the first Texas nurse to be diagnosed with Ebola, first encountered the patient after he was moved to intensive care at 4:40 p.m. on Sept. 29, more than 30 hours after he came to the ER. Nearly 27 hours later, Amber Joy Vinson, a second nurse who contracted the disease, first appears in Duncan's charts.
Because doctors and nurses are focused on logging the patient's care, they may not always note their own safeguards in the medical records. In Pham's first entry, she makes no mention of protective gear. When she logs again the following morning, she specifically mentions wearing a double gown, face shield and protective footwear, equipment she mentions again in later entries.
In the first apparent mention of Vinson — identified by just her first name in another nurse's notes — she is said to have worn personal protection, including a hazardous-materials suit and face shield.
It's unclear whether those initial interactions with Duncan represent the time at which a breakdown in protection led to the infections, or whether such lapses persisted during the remainder of the patient's 11-day stay. At least 70 workers are named in the records as being involved with Duncan's care in that period.
Dr. Tom Frieden, the CDC director, told lawmakers during a congressional hearing Thursday that he did not know how the nurses got infected, only that "possible causes" had been identified.
In comments a day earlier, he gave a clue: "For the first several days of the patient's stay, before he was diagnosed, we see a lot of variability in the use of personal protective equipment."
Because Ebola has an incubation period of up to 21 days, those who cared for Duncan at the start of his second hospital stay will not be considered safe from infection until Monday. Those with him at the time of his death will not emerge from monitoring until Oct. 30.
Duncan first arrived at Presbyterian on Sept. 25 but was sent home. When he returned by ambulance at 10:07 a.m. on Sept. 28, he was sicker and probably more contagious. Staff noted immediately upon his intake that he had recently arrived from Liberia.
Five minutes later, a nurse notes that he is in a room and had "put on airborne precautions." Nine minutes after that, Duncan is seen by a doctor who writes that Ebola is a possibility and notes that he "followed strict CDC protocol" by being "masked, fully gowned and gloved" when treating Duncan.
The doctor makes no mention of eye protection such as goggles or a face shield, which are considered basic equipment in Ebola guidelines issued by the CDC. There is also no initial mention of foot coverings, which are suggested when such patients have diarrhea or vomiting, as Duncan did, according to the records.
It is also not clear when Duncan was safely isolated, though the records refer to him being in an "isolation room" in the ER on Sept. 29.
Numerous entries in the records of Duncan's stay at the hospital — both in the ER and later in intensive care — make note of precautionary measures. Many other entries are silent on the issue, and the mention of hazardous-material suits does not appear in Duncan's records until after his diagnosis is confirmed on Sept. 30.
http://www.tv.com/shows/ncis-new-orleans/carrier-3047497/
tv.com
NCIS: New Orleans Season 1 Episode 2
Carrier
Aired Tuesday 9:00 PM Sep 30, 2014 on CBS
A Navy lieutenant on liberty dies from the bubonic plague. Special agent DiNozzo is sent from Washington, D.C., to help the New Orleans team locate all additional sailors on liberty, prevent a potential outbreak and determine the source of the highly infectious disease.
AIRED: 9/30/14
http://www.stargate-sg1-solutions.com/wiki/9.15_%22Ethon%22_Transcript
STARGATE WIKI
9.15 "Ethon"
DANIEL
You don't think they'll listen to us?
KANE
Our people suffered greatly after the war. They needed to believe there was a reason for what was happening to them.
DANIEL
And the Prior provided that.
KANE
He said our suffering was a test, to see who was worthy.
DANIEL
Well, if it makes you feel any better, your planet's not alone.
(after a moment)
Kane, I—I have to ask…Leda?
[Kane pauses for a few moments, studying Daniel before responding.]
KANE
Five months ago, while Rand was deciding whether to accept Origin or not, a disease swept through the country. Thousands became deathly ill. The Prior said those who believed and embraced the Ori would be cured. That's when people everywhere began accepting them as gods.
http://www.stargate-sg1-solutions.com/wiki/9.11_%22The_Fourth_Horseman_Part_2%22_Transcript
STARGATE WIKI
9.11 "The Fourth Horseman Part 2"
ORLIN
Your entire life was an open book to me the moment you set foot in this galaxy. I was once…ascended, but I took this…form, because it was the only way to warn…the humans about the Ori. Since I made that decision, I've paid a heavy price in terms of the effect it's had on my mind. The memories I've…lost.
PRIOR
"Life and death. Light and darkness. Hope and despair. The rift was created, and on that day, the Ori were born."
ORLIN
But every so often, something will…stir in me. And if I push myself hard enough, I'll remember, one more time, before it leaves me forever. Your name, Damaris. Your wife, Adina. Your…sons, Jaden and Allon.
PRIOR
(desperately)
"But the hatred of those who strayed from the true path festered and bloomed in the dark corners of the Avernakis to which they had been cast!"
ORLIN
And the fact that the…Ori have never…ascended any of their…followers.
http://www.stargate-sg1-solutions.com/wiki/9.14_%22Stronghold%22_Transcript
STARGATE WIKI
9.14 "Stronghold"
TEAL'C
I will not hear the words of a false god.
BA'AL
(changing to the normal human voice of his host)
Ah, yes. The whole "god" issue. Maybe we did take it a little too far, but can you blame us? We gave you strength, vitality, long life. I know you don't quite see it that way, but no matter. It's all in the past now.
[He approaches Teal'c and rests an arm on the metal bar holding Teal'c's arms back. Teal'c flinches at the movement, but is angry and non-receptive.]
BA'AL
(chuckling)
Oh, come on now, Teal'c. We're smart enough to know we're not actually gods! Well, some of us are, anyway. There are always those who will begin to believe their own propaganda. I suppose all you need is enough people to worship you, and then, what's the difference? You're pretty much a god by definition, are you not?
(becoming serious)
So is the case with the Ori. Granted they do seem to have some very interesting powers to back up their claims. I've seen what happens to those who resist. They are a formidable enemy.
TEAL'C
(irritated)
How does this concern you and I?
BA'AL
We worked together to defeat the replicators.
TEAL'C
(angry)
This is working together? Taking me against my will? Brainwashing the Council to do your bidding?
BA'AL
The Jaffa number in the millions spread across the vastness of the galaxy. Your backgrounds are diverse and rich in a history of warfare with each other.
TEAL'C
Because of the Goa'uld!
BA'AL
As a united nation, you are young and inexperienced, too weak to face an adversary as powerful as the Ori. Gerak proved that. What you need right now is a strong leader. One with the mind and experience to wage war on such a foe.
TEAL'C
(smiling in derision)
You?
BA'AL
I'm not asking you to worship me. I do not plan to undermine your freedom. I care nothing for your rites and traditions or what you wish to do with your daily lives. What I do not want to see happen is the utter subjugation of this entire galaxy at the hands of the Ori. That would be an utter shame for all of us. Don't make this personal, Teal'c. Your people are in need, and I can help them. I can help all of us defend ourselves against the Ori.
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 09:02 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Friday 15 May 2015
