JOURNAL ARCHIVE: July 20, 2006
Since you asked, George W. should get the Silver Coin Star for Selling Out America medal.
No, wait, George W. should get the Gold Coin Star of Dishonor For Selling Out America. Karl Rove should get the Silver Coin Star For Corruption.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 20 July 2006 excerpt ends]
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Nick: We're the same, you and me. We're the same, don't you see?
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Nick: Just what kind of vigilante are you?
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About Windows 8.1 at Boston College
Microsoft commercially released Windows 8 on October 26, 2012 and Windows 8.1 on October 17, 2013.
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Oct. 25, 2012
— Microsoft Corp. today announced the global availability of its popular Windows operating system, Windows 8. Beginning Friday, Oct. 26, consumers and businesses worldwide will be able to experience all that Windows 8 has to offer
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Windows 8.1 is available now
Posted October 17, 2013 By Microsoft News Center
REDMOND, Wash. — Oct. 17, 2013 — Microsoft Corp. on Thursday announced the global availability of Windows 8.1, a feature-rich update to its popular Windows 8 operating system
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Editor’s Note – October 25, 2012 –
Clarification to the remarks below: Microsoft collaborated with PC makers Asus, Lenovo, Dell and Samsung.
STEVEN SINOFSKY: Welcome, everyone, to Windows 8. We are so happy to be here today and to celebrate the global availability of a new era of Windows and Windows-powered PCs.
We’d like to welcome all of you here today in New York City from all the major PC manufacturers, hardware and software developers, and of course those of us live or streamed.
There’s so much excitement and potential for the future of computing to improve how we work, learn, and entertain.
Windows 8 is a major milestone in the evolution and the revolution of computing. Having surpassed over a billion people using Windows, it is now that we’re looking forward to the next billion.
We want to start today with where we are with Windows. Three years ago this week, our industry collectively released Windows 7. Since that time, Windows 7 has become the most successful, widely used, and widely praised OS ever. Together with PC makers, our industry has seen unprecedented adoption of Windows 7 and the technology and services that make up the complete Windows experience.
As of today, we’re pleased to share with you that Windows 7 has sold over 670 million licenses to businesses and consumers. (Applause.)
In fact, Windows 7 has seen the fastest adoption of any OS in business ever. As of today, more than half of the enterprises have deployed Windows 7, a demonstration of the reliability, security, and business readiness of the Windows platform.
Windows 7 was the first release of Windows to build on the use of cloud services as an important part of the overall experience. These Windows services are the most widely used, scalable cloud services available globally.
Let me just give you an example. SkyDrive has over 200 million customers storing data in their free SkyDrive. It’s accessible from PCs, Web browsers, mobile devices, your Windows Phone, everywhere. Today, SkyDrive has 11 billion photos, 550 million documents, storing over 14 petabytes of data, and, every month, two petabytes of data are added.
Windows 7 and services such as SkyDrive, Outlook.com, Skype, and more form the foundation upon which we began the creation of Windows 8. We know starting from the foundation as robust and available as that has many, many advantages.
You know, as familiar and productive as Windows 7 is for customers today, the world that led to Windows 7 began back in the early 1990s when familiar concepts like the Start menu were first conceived. Familiar today, but completely new when it was first released. That technology world was so very different than the world we experience each and every day.
Looking back, we see a world that was without the Internet, without email, without smartphones, no test messages, no digital cameras. We lived in caves. (Laughter.) It was a world we could hardly imagine today.
You know, our PCs were so remarkably different. We were tethered to a 15-inch CRT monitor. It showed less on that screen than the phone on our pocket does today and had 1/100th the storage. Even something as basic as networking was a luxury for most of us.
You know, today the world is very different. You know, we’re connected all the time. Our PCs used to be about managing files, and today we know that people and communication are the center of all of our activities. Work and play are intertwined seamlessly as you move between them. The stuff that we create and consume is not just on PCs, but also cloud connected. That clunky desktop PC has been replaced by one or more, more sleek, more powerful, more mobile PCs with vastly more storage and computing at a fraction of the price.
In creating Windows 8, we shunned the incremental. We boldly re-imagined Windows. From the chip set to the experience, Windows 8 is the next generation of Windows, computing for the next billion people.
Creating a release of Windows is a unique product development journey. No product is used by so many people and developed with such a breadth of global participation. This transparency and openness is an important part of how we approached the key partnerships across thousands of companies and millions of people involved in our industry.
From the earliest demonstrations of Windows, we showed off the bare CPU boards running ARM processors. New user interface long before it was even done. And we’ve worked to re-imagine Windows for this new era and invited participation in the process.
We’ve had 16 million installations of the prerelease builds of Windows. Developers have been actively engaged in learning how to create new types of apps for Windows 8 since our BUILD conference a year ago.
We’ve forged unique collaborations with hardware, software, and peripheral companies to bring this re-imagined Windows to market.
We’ve even blogged about the development of Windows 8. Some of you might have read the 650 pages of blogs we’ve done detailing our bold approach.
And at the same time, building Windows, especially such a bold release of Windows, reminds us of the responsibility we have for so many. So many rely on Windows in so many ways. We’re incredibly humbled by that responsibility. It’s a big part of how we design and how we approach building Windows.
So it is today with great pride that we unveil this new generation of Windows. Starting at 12:01 a.m. local time worldwide, the next era of Windows computing begins.
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Thomas Eric Duncan
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Thomas Eric Duncan (May 2, 1969 – October 8, 2014) was a Liberian who became the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States on September 30, 2014.
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Barack Obama
XLIV President of the United States: 2009 - present
Remarks to Federal Bureau of Investigation Employees
April 28, 2009
Good afternoon, everybody. Well, it is a good excuse for you to be outside on a nice day. And it is a great honor to be here with the men and women of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Now, I am grateful to the FBI for the T-shirts, for the teddy bear for the girls; even though we've kept our promise on the dog, I wouldn't want to come home emptyhanded. [Laughter]
I want to thank your outstanding Director, Robert Mueller--[applause]--not just for the introduction, but because Bob has led the Bureau during incredibly challenging times. He became only the sixth Director of the FBI just 1 week before the 9/11 attacks, and since then he has worked as hard as anybody to prevent additional attacks and to carry out the FBI's enormous responsibilities. So I appreciate him, and I appreciate all of you. Thank you.
So last summer, the FBI celebrated its 100th anniversary. I think it's safe to say that it has been an eventful century for the Bureau. Back in 1908--oh, did somebody faint? Do we have a EMT here? Right down here. Just give him a little bit of space. This happened during my political campaign all the time. I was talking too long, people would be falling out every which way. [Laughter] They're usually fine, they just need a little bit of air and a little bit of water. Right down here, right in the middle. Not you--[laughter]--you're doing fine. Right in here. All right, I think they'll be all right.
So back in 1908 there were just 34 Special Agents reporting to Theodore Roosevelt's Attorney General. Today, there are over 30,000 men and women who work for the FBI. Back in 1908, those agents worked out of one building here in Washington. And today, you work here at FBI headquarters and at field offices across America and in countries around the world.
So much has changed in the last 100 years. Thank God for change. And part of what makes the FBI so unique is its ability to adapt to an ever-changing world. Back in 1908, even the most imaginative of minds would have struggled to anticipate all of the challenges that would confront the Bureau: from bank robbers to bootleggers, from hate crimes to white-collar criminals, from public corruption to counterintelligence, from international terrorism to cyber threats.
The challenges of the 21st century have called on us to think anew, and to act anew. And in recent years, the Bureau has undergone a profound transformation to keep pace. With the attacks of 9/11, your mission became focused more than ever before on prevention, so that we have the capacity to uncover terrorist plots before they take hold. With the spread of new technologies, you increasingly confront adversaries in unconventional areas, from transnational networks to cyber crimes and espionage. And through it all, you must continue to stay one step ahead of all who step outside of the law.
And I know that change means much more than moving around some boxes on an organizational chart. You've set new priorities. You've developed new capabilities. You're working to use new technologies and teach new skills. And because these challenges cross borders, both seen and unseen, you've developed new partnerships abroad, while sharing information more effectively with law enforcement here at home.
This is a tough business, but it is essential to protecting our country. Because in the end, it's your hard work that makes the difference: your decisions, your analysis, your action. Because of you, the men and women of the FBI , the American people are safer, and our country is stronger. For that, you have my personal gratitude, but you also have the thanks of a grateful nation.
So I know that much has changed in the last 100 years. But as your Director said, I know that some things have remained constant. That starts with the values that we have sworn to uphold: liberty and equality, opportunity, and the rule of law. That's the foundation upon which America is built. That's the purpose that has always guided our power. And that is why we must always reject as the false--as false choices the choice between our security and our ideals.
In so many ways, the FBI is a unique institution. You're unique because the FBI is both an intelligence agency and a law enforcement agency. You must both prevent danger and help us pursue those who carry it out. You protect us and you protect the civil liberties that we cherish.
But after all, that is why America is unique, because of that fundamental belief that we are committed both to our security and to the rule of law, because of that hard-earned truth that we are always stronger when we act in concert with our most deeply held values.
I have no illusions that this is simple or easy. Many of you made enormous sacrifices and are incredibly dedicated. Living our values means that we must hold ourselves to higher standard than our enemies. We face a long struggle against a determined adversary. We know that Al Qaida is not constrained by a constitution or by allegiance to anything other than a hateful ideology and a determination to kill as many innocents as possible. But what makes the United States of America so special is precisely the fact that we are willing to uphold our values and our ideals not just when it's easy, but when it's hard. We've been called to serve in such a time.
And I have to say that I am heartened but what I see here today. Each of you has made the decision to serve your country, and you are dong so at a critical time. And you know, none of us can know with certain what the future will hold. But I do know that the FBI can and will continue to adapt to new dangers, that you will be critical in leading the way in keeping this country safe. And we are counting on you.
There's much to celebrate from the FBI's first 100 days [years].8 We remember notorious criminals who have been caught, and public corruption that has been ended, and civil rights that have been protected, and terrorist plots that have been uncovered. None of that would have been possible without the work of men and women like you, and we're calling on you again.
Behind me is the motto that you carry forward and that your Director alluded to: "Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity." These are more than words etched into a building; they're a signal of the character of the men and women who work here. And I am confident that if you stay true to those words, no matter what challenge may come our way, we'll be able to look back a hundred years from now with the satisfaction that you advanced the cause of America's security and America's ideals in your time. What an enormous gift that is to give back to your country.
Thank you, God Bless you, and God Bless the United States of America.
Note: The President spoke at 11:33 a.m. at the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building.
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Barack Obama
XLIV President of the United States: 2009 - present
Remarks at a Swearing-In Ceremony for Kathleen Sebelius as Secretary of Health and Human Services
April 28, 2009
The President. Congratulations, Madam Secretary.
Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius. Thank you, sir.
The President. Here we go. We're just going to make a brief statement. I am thrilled to have Kathleen Sebelius as my new Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Obviously, we have a lot to do to make sure that health care is affordable for the American people, to deal with critical issues like food safety. But we wanted to swear her in right away because we've got a significant public health challenge that requires her immediate attention, and that is the H1N1 flu outbreak that we've seen initially in Mexico and we now see over a dozen cases here in the United States.
It is something that we have to monitor very carefully. The officials who have been in charge, including the Acting Director at the CDC, those at Department of Homeland Security, have done an outstanding job, a superb job, in managing the situation up to this point.
But we need all hands on deck, and so I am thrilled that we have Secretary Sebelius taking the reins. She is going to be immediately briefed on the issues that we're working on right now. I expect her to hit the ground running, and I have every confidence that given her experience as a Governor who's managed crises before, who's worked on public health issues since she's been in public life, she is the right person at the right time for the job.
So congratulations. We are thrilled, and you are going to do a great job.
Secretary Sebelius. Thank you, sir. Honored to serve.
The President. Thank you.
All right, thanks, guys.
Note: The President spoke at 8:02 p.m. in the Oval Office at the White House.
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1.21 "Politics"
KINSEY
Then I say, let them come.
O'NEILL
Where do you get this bureaucratic bull? You're talking suicide.
KINSEY
Colonel O'Neill. You underestimate this great nation.
TEAL'C
It is you who underestimates the enemy.
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Harry S. Truman
XXXIII President of the United States: 1945-1953
189 - Memorandum and Statement of Policy on the Need for Industrial Dispersion.
August 10, 1951
To the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies:
There is hereby promulgated, effective immediately, the attached Industrial Dispersion Policy which I have approved on the recommendation of the Chairman of the National Security Resources Board, the Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization, and the Chairman of the Munitions Board.
This policy shall be adhered to by all Departments and Agencies with respect to programs under their control.
The Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization, in carrying out his task of directing, controlling, and coordinating all mobilization activities of the Executive Branch of the Government, shall establish general standards with respect to dispersal, which shall be followed in the granting of certificates of necessity, in the allocation of critical materials for construction purposes, and in the making of emergency loans growing out of defense production.
I shall look to the Chairman of the National Security Resources Board to keep me advised on the progress of this program.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
STATEMENT OF POLICY ON INDUSTRIAL
DISPERSION
The strength of our national defense and in fact our continued existence as a free nation depend largely upon our industrial capacity. The core of this capacity, so essential to our survival, lies within a relatively few densely built up centers.
Since 1945 we have experienced a period of unprecedented industrial expansion, but, except for a few examples, there has been no pronounced trend away from these concentrations. Some eighteen billions in new plants and equipment were spent annually during the past 4 years, largely in areas already highly industrialized.
Although we are increasing our defense efforts, the danger of atomic attack grows and demands that new and more positive policies be put into effect to obtain added security for our industrial establishment without jeopardizing its productive efficiency.
In September 1948 the Government, through the National Security Resources Board, issued a report, "National Security Factors in Industrial Location." The report stressed the fact that dense agglomerations of industrial plants were inviting targets for the enemy and that plants separated in space would better survive an atomic attack.
These general conclusions are as sound today as they were 3 years ago. On these first principles of security our basic policy still must rest.
Since publication of this report, several factors have added to the urgency of the problem:
1. The evidence that Russia had a successful atomic explosion.
2. The probability that a strong enemy air attack could penetrate any defenses.
3. The outbreak of hostilities in Asia as an indication of the semi-peace conditions under which we are living.
Obviously, in the light of the above, what was, in 1948, a set of desirable objectives, is today a subject of major concern and one vital to our national security.
It is recognized that the major centers of industrial production have become highly integrated and that a part of their efficiency is due to their concentration. A dispersion policy to be effective and realistic must not be allowed to cripple the efficiency and productivity of our established industries, lest the remedy become worse than the ill. Our policy, therefore, must be directed mainly toward the dispersal of new and expanding industries.
Sites which meet dispersion security standards can be found in local marketing areas adjacent to industrial or metropolitan districts in all sections of the country.
Thus, this policy can be made to fit the economic and social pattern of any part of the country.
The fullest cooperation of industry, labor, and local and State governments, together with all of the measures which the Federal Government can take, will be needed to alleviate the present situation. With the necessary technical guidance as well as the positive inducements which we will give, much can be accomplished.
All departments and agencies of the Government concerned with this problem will be called upon in carrying out a coordinated policy leading to effective industrial dispersal within the concepts described above.
To this effect, the following measures will be taken:
1. To the greatest extent practicable, certificates of necessity, allocations of critical materials for construction purposes, and emergency loans growing out of defense production will be confined to facilities which meet satisfactory standards of dispersal.
2. Primary consideration to dispersal factors will be given in locating facilities built by the Federal Government.
3. Defense contracts will be awarded, and planning under Department of Defense production allocation programs will be conducted in such a manner as to make maximum use of facilities located in dispersed sites.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
XXXVI President of the United States: 1963-1969
13 - Executive Order 11129 - Designating Facilities in Florida as the John F. Kennedy Space Center
November 29, 1963
WHEREAS President John F. Kennedy lighted the imagination of our people when he set the moon as our target and man as the means to reach it; and
WHEREAS the installations now to be renamed are a center and symbol of our country's peaceful assault on space; and
WHEREAS it is in the nature of this assault that it should test the limits of our youth and grace, our strength and wit, our vigor and perseverance--qualities fitting to the memory of John F. Kennedy:
Now, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, I hereby designate the facilities of the Launch Operations Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the facilities of Station No. 1 of the Atlantic Missile Range, in the State of Florida, as the John F. Kennedy Space Center; and such facilities shall be hereafter known and referred to by that name.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
THE WHITE HOUSE
November 29, 1963
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Lyndon B. Johnson
XXXVI President of the United States: 1963-1969
15 - Executive Order 11130 - Appointing a Commission To Report Upon the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
November 29, 1963
Pursuant to the authority vested in me as President of the United States, I hereby appoint a Commission to ascertain, evaluate, and report upon the facts relating to the assassination of the late President John F. Kennedy and the subsequent violent death of the man charged with the assassination. The Commission shall consist of--
The Chief Justice of the United States, Chairman;
Senator Richard B. Russell;
Senator John Sherman Cooper;
Congressman Hale Boggs;
Congressman Gerald R. Ford;
The Honorable Allen W. Dulles;
The Honorable John J. McCloy.
The purposes of the Commission are to examine the evidence developed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and any additional evidence that may hereafter come to light or be uncovered by Federal or State authorities; to make such further investigation as the Commission finds desirable; to evaluate all the facts and circumstances surrounding such assassination, including the subsequent violent death of the man charged with the assassination, and to report to me its findings and conclusions.
The Commission is empowered to prescribe its own procedures and to employ such assistants as it deems necessary.
Necessary expenses of the Commission may be paid from the "Emergency Fund for the President."
All Executive departments and agencies are directed to furnish the Commission with such facilities, services, and cooperation as it may request from time to time.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
THE WHITE HOUSE
November 29, 1963
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February 1910
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The following events occurred in February 1910:
February 19, 1910 (Saturday)
Don Quichotte an opera by Jules Massenet, based on Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote, was presented for the first time.
Mary Mallon, the disease carrier infamously known as "Typhoid Mary", was released from her confinement at the North Brother Island Hospital, when the New York City health department announced that disease carriers would no longer be held in isolation. Over the protests of health inspector George Soper, who had traced the spread of typhoid to places where Mallon worked as a cook, she was released. Mallon was returned to isolation on North Brother Island on March 27, 1915, where she remained until her death in 1938.
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Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health
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Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America
By Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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WED OCT 29, 2014 AT 01:15 PM PDT
The True Story of Typhoid Mary
She may be the most famous medical patient in US history who was never sick. "Typhoid Mary" infected at least 45 people in New York City and killed at least 3, and also touched off a legal battle that still resonates today. Here is her story.
In 1906, a wealthy Wall Street banker named Charles Henry Warren rented a house on the beach at Oyster Bay, Long Island, to take his family for vacation. It was at first a typical family summer outing, with afternoons on the beach and evenings inside at the beach house, where servants waited on them and met their every need.
Then, on August 27, one of Warren's daughters developed a fever, coughing, stomach pains and headache. She was diagnosed with typhoid fever. For many years, typhoid, which was spread through contaminated food and water, had been a constant presence in American cities, killing thousands of Americans every year, particularly children. In the late 19th century, large cities like New York installed sewer systems, which made conditions more sanitary and sharply cut the number of typhoid cases. So although a case of typhoid in the wealthy area of Oyster Bay was unusual, it was not unexpected.
But then something odd happened. Within a week, Mrs Warren was also sickened with symptoms of typhoid fever. Then two maids who worked in the guest house. Then the gardener, and then another of Warren's daughters. In all, six of the eleven people in the house were stricken with typhoid fever.
Now, the owner of the beach house, George Thompson, had a problem. It was apparent that the source of the infection was somewhere in the house, and if he did not find it and eliminate it, he would never be able to make a livelihood again by renting out the house. So he hired a private health engineer named George Soper, who had already worked on other typhoid outbreaks. After several months of examining the house for typhoid bacteria, including its water supply and plumbing system, Soper's suspicions fell on a 35-year old servant who had been hired that summer as the cook--an Irish immigrant named Mary Mallon. Soper noticed that three weeks after the initial cases of typhoid, Mary had left for another job--and the typhoid outbreak at Oyster Bay stopped as soon as she left. With some investigation, Soper checked into Mary Mallon's past employment record, and found that between 1900 and 1907 she had worked as a cook at 7 different places, and 22 cases of typhoid had appeared in those homes (in one instance, 7 of the 8 people in the house got sick; in another case it was 10 out of 11). One young woman who worked as a laundress in one of the houses died of typhoid.
Since Mary herself had never been sick or exhibited any symptoms of typhoid, Soper suspected that she was a "carrier", a person who though infected with the bacteria, does not develop the disease but still carries the live pathogen and sheds it into the environment to infect others. To be certain, Soper needed to test samples of Mary's blood and feces for signs of the bacteria.
Soper managed to track Mary Mallon down, and found her working as a cook in the family home of New Yorker Walter Bower, and visited the house in March 1907. As gently as possible, he told Mary Mallon that he suspected she was a carrier of typhus, and asked if he could obtain a blood and stool sample. Mallon indignantly replied that she was not sick and could not be infecting anyone, and when Soper continued to ask for samples, she grabbed a meat fork from the kitchen counter and threatened to skewer him with it. Soper beat a hasty retreat. Upon learning where Mary lived, Soper tried again, this time accompanied by a local doctor, but Mary once again became enraged, ordered them to leave her house, and shouted expletives at them as they left.
Soper now went to the New York City Health Department, which, after reviewing Soper's evidence, agreed that a test was needed. A local health inspector was sent to Mary Mallon's house, and when he was refused entry, he returned with five policemen. Mary stabbed at one of them with a fork and ran off, and was found hiding in her neighbor's closet and taken into custody.
Against her will, Mary Mallon was taken by ambulance to the Willard Parker Hospital, where, despite continuous protests that she had never been sick and did not have typhoid, blood and stool samples were taken from her. When the tests came back positive for typhoid bacteria, she was taken to a cottage on the grounds of Riverside Hospital, on North Brother Island in the East River, which was converted into an isolation ward for her. She was kept there for the next two years.
In effect, Mary Mallon had been incarcerated in virtual solitary confinement, without any charges or trial and without having committed any crime, and there were serious questions about the legality of her involuntary exile. She kept up a constant barrage of letters to city officials protesting her isolation. "I never had typhoid in my life", one of her letters thundered, "and have always been healthy. Why should I be banished like a leper and compelled to live in solitary confinement with only a dog for a companion?" Every few days, city health officials tested her feces for typhoid bacteria--they got positive results in 120 of 163 samples. Mary, meanwhile, was sending several of her own stool samples to private doctors at her own expense--and they all came back negative. Mary sued the city in an attempt to gain her freedom, arguing that her de facto incarceration was entirely illegal, that she was not sick, had never been sick, and carried no typhoid germs.
In 1909, a lawyer filed a writ of habeus corpus on Mary's behalf with the New York Supreme Court. The city argued that, as a carrier of typhoid, Mary Mallon was a danger to the public and had to be confined and isolated as a matter of public health. Mallon, who was quickly dubbed "Typhoid Mary" by the press, argued to the court, "This contention that I am a perpetual menace in the spread of typhoid germs is not true. My own doctors say I have no typhoid germs. I am an innocent human being. I have committed no crime and I am treated like an outcast--a criminal. It is unjust, outrageous, uncivilized. It seems incredible that in a Christian community a defenseless woman can be treated in this manner." The Court ruled in favor of the city, declared that Mary Mallon presented a public health danger, and ordered her returned to the isolation ward on North Brother Island.
A year later, a new public health commissioner was appointed for New York City, and he was disturbed by the implications of involuntarily locking up a young woman who had committed no crime, in solitary confinement, presumably for the rest of her life. So he arranged to release Mary Mallon, on the condition that she never worked as a cook again. Mary went free on February 19, 1910.
Some historians have concluded that Mary Mallon, who had always insisted that she was not sick and could not infect others, had never really intended to live up to that agreement. Others have noted that she simply had no choice--as an uneducated Irish immigrant woman, her choices of occupation were limited, and the skilled position of "cook" paid far more than any other job she was likely to get. So what happened next was, perhaps, inevitable.
In January 1915, some five years after Mary Mallon left her isolation ward, an outbreak of typhoid fever struck at the Sloane Maternity Hospital in New York City. Twenty-five patients and staff members became sick with typhoid. Two people died. Health investigators looking for the source of infection soon focused on the hospital's kitchen, where a woman named "Mrs Brown" worked as a cook. "Mrs Brown", the investigators soon discovered, was actually Mary Mallon.
Once again, she was taken into custody and was returned to her old isolation ward on North Brother Island. Although she still wrote protest letters to everyone she could think of, this time "Typhoid Mary" found no public sympathy--she had known that she was carrying typhoid, had agreed to not work where she would be a health danger to the public, and had done so anyway under a false name. She would now remain exiled on North Brother Island for her remaining 23 years.
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Curious George Season 1 Episode 1
Curious George Flies a Kite/From Scratch
Aired Weekdays 8:00 AM Sep 04, 2006 on PBS
AIRED: 9/4/06
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United Nations
Treaty Collection
STATUS AS AT : 30-07-2015 05:04:18 EDT
CHAPTER VI
NARCOTIC DRUGS AND PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES
8 .a Convention for limiting the Manufacture and regulating the Distribution of Narcotic Drugs
Geneva, 13 July 1931
Entry into force : 9 July 1933, in accordance with article 30.
Registration : 9 July 1933, No. 3219 1
Text : League of Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 139, p. 303.
From 10/26/2012 to 4/22/2013 is 178 days
From 4/22/2013 to 10/17/2013 is 178 days
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Boston Marathon bombing
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The Boston Marathon bombing was a terrorist attack, followed by subsequent related shootings, that occurred when two pressure cooker bombs exploded during the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. The bombs exploded about 12 seconds and 210 yards (190 m) apart at 2:49 pm EDT, near the marathon's finish line on Boylston Street. They killed 3 people and injured an estimated 264 others.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) took over the investigation
Legal proceedings
Interrogation
United States Senators Kelly Ayotte, Saxby Chambliss, Lindsey Graham, and John McCain, and Representative Peter T. King, suggested that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a U.S. citizen, should be tried as an unlawful enemy combatant rather than as a criminal, potentially preventing him from obtaining legal counsel. Other sources, including Alan Dershowitz, a prominent American legal scholar and lawyer, said that doing so would be illegal and would jeopardize the prosecution. The government decided to try Dzhokhar in the federal criminal court system and not as an enemy combatant.
Dzhokhar was questioned for 16 hours by investigators but stopped communicating with them on the night of April 22 after Judge Marianne Bowler read him a Miranda warning. Dzhokhar had not previously been given a Miranda warning, as federal law enforcement officials invoked the warning's public safety exception. This raised doubts whether the suspect's statements during this investigation would be admissible as evidence and led to a debate surrounding Miranda rights.
Charges and detention
On April 22, 2013, formal criminal charges were brought against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts during a bedside hearing while he was hospitalized. He was charged with use of a weapon of mass destruction, and with malicious destruction of property resulting in death.
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Tsarnaev Charged: Suspected Boston Bomber Accused Of Using WMD
APRIL 22, 2013 7:00 AM ET
The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings was charged Monday with using a weapon of mass destruction to kill three people and wound more than 200 in what FBI investigators said evidence shows was a coldly calculated attack.
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Modern Marvels (TV Series)
Failed Inventions (2002)
Release Info
USA 2 January 2002
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0878491/
IMDb
Modern Marvels: Season 8, Episode 1
Failed Inventions (2 Jan. 2002)
TV Episode
William Atwater ... Himself - Director, U.S. Army Ordinance Museum
Release Date: 2 January 2002 (USA)
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Windows 10
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Windows 10 is a personal computer operating system developed by Microsoft as part of the Windows NT family of operating systems.
Announcement
Threshold was officially unveiled during a media event on September 30, 2014, under the name Windows 10
Microsoft has not clarified the reasoning for naming the new operating system Windows 10 instead of Windows 9
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NCBI
PMC
US National Library of Medicine
National Institutes of Health
Epidemiol Health. 2014; 36: e2014014.
Published online Aug 18, 2014. doi: 10.4178/epih/e2014014
PMCID: PMC4153011
What do we really fear? The epidemiological characteristics of Ebola and our preparedness
Moran Ki
Abstract.
Ebola virus disease (hereafter Ebola) has a high fatality rate; currently lacks a treatment or vaccine with proven safety and efficacy, and thus many people fear this infection. As of August 13, 2014, 2,127 patients across four West African countries have been infected with the Ebola virus over the past nine months. Among these patients, approximately 1 in 2 has subsequently died from the disease. In response, the World Health Organization has declared the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. However, Ebola is only transmitted by patients who already present symptoms of the disease, and infection only occurs upon direct contact with the blood or body fluids of an Ebola patient. Consequently, transmission of the outbreak can be contained through careful monitoring for fever among persons who have visited, or come into contact with persons from, the site of the outbreak. Thus, patients suspected of presenting symptoms characteristic of Ebola should be quarantined. To date, South Korea is not equipped with the special containment clinical units and biosafety level 4 facilities required to contain the outbreak of a fatal virus disease, such as Ebola. Therefore, it is necessary for South Korea to make strategies to the outbreak by using present facilities as quickly as possible. It is also imperative that the government establish suitable communication with its citizens to prevent the spread of uninformed fear and anxiety regarding the Ebola outbreak.
The current Ebola epidemic has garnered wide media attention throughout the world. As a result, many people fear that the disease, which is generally limited to the African continent, may cause an outbreak in their local community at any given moment.
The present paper will examine the epidemiological characteristics of Ebola, our level of preparedness, and discuss what we fear.
Ebola is a viral disease. Although it has previously been referred to as “Ebola hemorrhagic fever,” some Ebola patients did not present hemorrhage, and thus, it is now referred to as Ebola virus disease. The first known Ebola patient was a 44-year old man who had managed the construction of a school in northern Zaire (currently the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC). On August 26, 1976, the patient presented at a hospital with a high fever. He received an injection of chloroquine for presumptive malaria and had a clinical remission of his symptoms the next four days. On the sixth day, the patient had a fever of 39.2°C and began to hemorrhage. On September 8 (the 14th day), the patient died with severe hemorrhage. For the following months, until late-October, there was an outbreak of Ebola, with 280 of the 318 patients subsequently dying from the disease
http://www.tv.com/shows/modern-marvels/failed-inventions-320482/
tv.com
Modern Marvels Season 9 Episode 1
Failed Inventions
Aired Wednesday 10:00 PM Jan 02, 2002 on The History Channel
Dreamers and schemers try an odd assortment of flawed ideas for inventions. Start with the cars--cars that fly, cars that float, cars with jet engines. That's just the tip of the iceberg. Here are homes that look like nothing you've ever seen and clothes too strange for even the most radical fashion runway, including rocket belts and radium-infused garments. Some of these creations were too far ahead of their time, and others were just plain bad ideas, but there's a fascinating tale behind each one, and FAILED INVENTIONS celebrates those occasions when necessity mothers a notion that only its creator could love.
AIRED: 1/2/02
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Impeachment of Bill Clinton
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Independent counsel investigation
A much-quoted statement from Clinton's grand jury testimony showed him questioning the precise use of the word "is." Contending that his statement that "there's nothing going on between us" had been truthful because he had no ongoing relationship with Lewinsky at the time he was questioned, Clinton said, "It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/25/world/africa/liberia-ebola-victims-treatment-center-cdc.html?_r=0
The New York Times
In Liberia, Home Deaths Spread Circle of Ebola Contagion
By NORIMITSU ONISHI SEPT. 24, 2014
MONROVIA, Liberia — The family of the sick man, who had endured Ebola’s telltale symptoms for six days, took him by taxi to treatment centers here in the capital twice, only to be turned back at the gate each time for lack of beds. He died at home, his arms thrashing violently and blood spewing out his mouth, in front of his sons.
“We had to carry him home two times because they could do nothing for us,” said Eric Gweah, 25, as a team of body collectors came to retrieve the corpse of his father, Ofori Gweah, 62. “The only thing the government can do is come for bodies. They are killing us.”
So many Ebola victims are dying at home because of the severe shortage of treatment centers here in Monrovia, Liberia’s capital, that they are infecting family members, neighbors and others in a ballooning circle of contagion.
Only 18 percent of Ebola patients in Liberia are being cared for in hospitals or other settings that reduce the risk of transmission by isolating them from the rest of the population, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Unless that rate reaches 70 percent, the center predicted this week, Ebola cases will keep soaring.
In its worst-case estimate, Liberia and Sierra Leone, two of the three West African nations hit hardest by the outbreak, could face 1.4 million infections by Jan. 20 — more than 10 percent of their combined populations of about 10.3 million.
In the coming weeks, the United States military will try to overhaul the fight against Ebola in Liberia, home to 1,580 of the 2,800 Ebola deaths so far recorded in West Africa. The 3,000-strong American mission will not treat patients, but will build as many as 17 treatment centers, with a total of 1,700 beds, and try to train 500 health workers a week.
But building the centers is expected to take weeks and it is unclear who will run them, especially since the disease has decimated Liberia’s already weak health care system and the fear of Ebola has long kept many international aid workers away.
“I’ve worked in many crises for more than 20 years, and it’s the first time I can see a situation that nobody wants to come,” said Jean-Pierre Veyrenche, who is heading the World Health Organization’s efforts to build treatment centers here. “There’s plenty of money, so that’s not the issue.”
“People are afraid to come — that’s it,” he added.
With treatment beds overflowing, the government is often left to simply pick up the bodies of the dead. As its six teams of body collectors crisscross this capital of 1.5 million people, navigating cratered streets left over from the 14-year civil war that ended in 2003, they encounter a city that is likely to remain at the mercy of Ebola for weeks, perhaps months.
Every day, each team retrieves a half-dozen to a couple of dozen bodies, delivering them to a crematorium at the end of the day.
The body collectors who came to pick up Mr. Gweah had descended to the compound where he lived four times in the past four weeks, down a steep cliff to a riverside area called Rockspring Valley. Each week, they had picked up a body that passed on the Ebola virus to the next person, and now Mr. Gweah’s was the fifth body. The crowd, seething beneath a sky of low clouds, erupted in anger.
“If the government can’t work it out, let them give it up,” said Marvin Gweah, 28, another son. “Let the international community handle this.”
Five body collectors in full protective suits clambered up the cliff in the rain, carrying his father’s body in a black plastic bag, resting to readjust their grip, and steadying themselves on the slippery path. Eric Gweah, his face twisted in anguish, led the way, shrieking “Papa!” and throwing his hands up in the air, nearly losing his footing.
“Stand up! Stand up!” a woman following the body collectors shouted at another woman who had fainted. A cacophony of wailing and sobbing rose as all of Rockspring Valley below seemed to sway in grief.
A new 120-bed treatment center, Island Clinic, operated by Liberian health workers under the W.H.O., opened here on Sunday, bringing Liberia’s total beds to 450. The agency is hoping to open two additional centers with a total of 400 beds here in the capital over the next month, but is unable to find international workers to operate them, Mr. Veyrenche said.
Last week in Bong County, in central Liberia, the International Medical Corps began operating a treatment center built by Save the Children. The Medical Corps and Doctors Without Borders are the only international organizations operating treatment centers in Liberia.
Sean Casey, the leader of the International Medical Corps in Liberia, said he hoped to increase the center’s current capacity of 10 beds to 70 beds over the next six weeks. But because of the fear of Ebola and the time commitment required of foreign volunteers, the organization has been unable to draw doctors and nurses from its usual pool, he said. The organization is recruiting health workers for the first time in the Philippines, Jordan and Ethiopia.
Like most experts here, Mr. Casey was skeptical of the American military’s plans to find and train 500 health workers a week.
“It took us a few weeks to just open 10 beds,” he said. “It worries me that some of their facilities will be open before they’re ready.”
Here in Monrovia, the first city to face Ebola’s full onslaught since the virus was discovered in 1976, entire families are dying at home, unable to get a ride in one of the city’s few ambulances or gain admission to overcrowded treatment or holding centers.
“We came here for the husband last week, we’re back today for the wife, and maybe next week we’ll be back for the children,” said Alexander Nyanti, 23, a body collector who was picking up the corpse of Lorpu David, 30, in a central Monrovia neighborhood off Gurley Street.
A week earlier, his team visited the same house to retrieve the body of her husband, Sam David, the first Ebola death in that community. The couple shared one room with their two children and the wife’s younger sister.
“The little boy is not feeling all right,” John Sackie, the community’s chairman, said as four collectors pulled Ms. David out of a dark room in the back of the house, each grasping a limb.
Others from the community may have been exposed. Teddy Momo, 36, the husband’s nephew, said he had taken the ailing Ms. David to an Ebola treatment center, riding in the front passenger seat of a taxi as Ms. David shared the back with her two children and sister.
Turned away because of a lack of beds, they took the taxi back to Gurley Street. But Ms. David slipped and hit her chin on a rocky path leading to her house; a neighbor carried her home, where she died immediately, Mr. Momo said.
Even if there were enough treatment centers, not all families would send their sick relatives to them. Deeply distrustful of the government and fearful of becoming social outcasts, families often lie about the cause of death, furthering the contagion throughout their communities.
In front of the gate at the John F. Kennedy Medical Center’s maternity ward, a pregnant woman lay dead in the back seat of a taxi. She had died during labor and did not suffer from Ebola, her family insisted. But a hospital worker said the woman had been bleeding from her mouth, so she had been turned away from the maternity ward. When the body collectors finally opened the taxi door, they found that she had vomited blood.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
XXXVI President of the United States: 1963-1969
252 - Statement by the President on the Minting of Silver Dollars.
May 15, 1965
LAST YEAR the Congress appropriated $600,000 to the Mint for the manufacture of 45 million silver dollars.
The minting of these silver dollars was necessarily postponed while the Mint devoted its facilities to the production of other coins to overcome the coin shortage that developed in 1963-64.
This course was followed because it is possible to use paper currency in place of silver dollars, but there is no substitute for smaller coin.
It has always been my intention to carry out the will of Congress as soon as feasible. Substantial progress has now been made in bringing the supply of small coin into line with demand. Consequently, I have directed the Mint to proceed with the making of silver dollars, up to the amount authorized by the Congress, during the remainder of the current fiscal year, ending June 30.
They will be distributed in the areas of the country where the silver dollar has traditionally been used as a medium of exchange.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: - posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 05:17 AM Pacific Time Seattle USA Friday 22 February 2013 - http://hvom.blogspot.com/2013/02/chain-reaction.html
Back in the year 2003 I wrote a letter on my computer at home and I printed it out on to paper and I put that letter in a stamped envelope for the postal service and I sent that letter through the United States Postal Service. I had the envelope of the letter addressed specifically to the Chief of [ Naval ] Operations United States Navy and I referenced a special projects branch I had found on the internet.
I wrote about a computer program I created for the guided missile computer complex system that would transfer memory from one of the computers to the other when we were in the Persian Gulf in 1988. We had two identical systems in place. They were twins you could say. The transfer of code was problematic and the solution was not obvious.
I mailed the letter to the Chief of Operations United States Navy and told them I should have received the Silver Star.
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Ronald Reagan
XL President of the United States: 1981 - 1989
Executive Order 12605 - Navy and Marine Corps Reserve Officer Promotions
August 12, 1987
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including Section 301 of Title 3 of the United States Code, and in order to delegate certain functions concerning the promotion of commissioned officers of the Naval Reserve and the Marine Corps Reserve, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. The function vested in the President by Section 5898(b) of Title 10 of the United States Code to approve, modify, or disapprove the report of a Naval Reserve or Marine Corps Reserve selection board is delegated to the Secretary of Defense. Nothing in this Section shall be deemed to delegate the authority vested in the President by Section 5898(c) of Title 10 of the United States Code to remove a name from a selection board report.
Sec. 2. The function delegated to the Secretary of Defense by this Order may be redelegated to the Deputy Secretary of Defense, any of the Assistant Secretaries of Defense, and the Secretary of the Navy who may further subdelegate such authority to subordinates who are appointed to their office by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
Sec. 3. With respect to the functions delegated by this Order, all prior actions taken for or on behalf of the President that would have been valid if taken pursuant to this Order are ratified.
RONALD REAGAN
The White House,
August 12, 1987.
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02x01 - SETI
Now, you go ahead and you sue my ass if you want to because I'd love nothing better than to tell a jury what you did here.
You destroy lives.
You cost dozens of good, honest people their jobs.
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 3:51 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Thursday 30 July 2015
