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Windows 8
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Windows 8 is a personal computer operating system developed by Microsoft as part of the Windows NT family of operating systems. Development of Windows 8 started before the release of its predecessor, Windows 7, in 2009.
The operating system was released to manufacturing on August 1, 2012, and was released for general availability on October 26, 2012.
On October 17, 2013, Microsoft released Windows 8.1.
Development history
The "Building Windows 8" blog launched on August 15, 2011, featuring details surrounding Windows 8's features and its development process.
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Colorado Theater Shooting Trial: Holmes' Notebook to Take Center Stage
CENTENNIAL, Colorado — May 26, 2015, 5:32 AM ET
By CAROL McKINLEY via GOOD MORNING AMERICA
One of the most mysterious pieces of evidence in the Aurora, Colorado, theater shooting case will be further revealed when the trial of James Holmes enters its fifth week.
The now-infamous notebook with the words "James Holmes" and "My Life" written on the front cover, has been a huge controversy in the case since the beginning.
There have been intense arguments in the past three years as to whether the notebook should be admitted into evidence. It is a Pandora's Box written by the gunman in the weeks before the shooting. His thoughts will be interpreted by both sides, but first presented by the prosecution.
Holmes, 27, mailed it to his psychiatrist on July 19, 2012, just hours before he booby-trapped his apartment and then entered a midnight showing of "The Dark Knight Rises" dressed head to toe in ballistic gear on a mission to kill as many people as he could to increase what he referred to in the notebook as his "human capitol."
He faces 166 charges, including numerous counts of murder, attempted murder and possession of explosives, in the July 20, 2012, attack, in which 12 people were killed and 70 injured. He has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
Holmes' attorneys say he cataloged his thoughts in the notebook -- which looks like a typical college student project, plastic-covered with colorful separators -- in the weeks before the shooting.
During opening statements, the court heard what was inside for the first time as Holmes' lawyer, public defender Dan King waved it in the air and read his client's writings: "We are all one unity, as such there is no difference between life and death or space time. ...Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why does the value of a person even matter?"
"This notebook," said King,"is a whole lot of crazy."
But prosecutors presented the contents of the notebook differently.
"It was a philosophical discourse," Arapaho County District Attorney George Brauchler said to the 24-person jury.
Pages of the notebook were shown on screens in the courtroom that day. One monitor is over the jurors' heads, one is just to the left of where the defendant and his attorneys sit, and a third is displayed behind Judge Carlos Samour Jr.
In the notebook, Holmes' scribbled out "his longstanding hatred of mankind," and asked questions about the meaning of life and death, Brauchler said. Holmes then supported these theories with drawings and diagrams of the actions he would take -- actions which "would make him feel better," the prosecutor said.
Prosecutors say the missive was intended for his family: Goober, Bobbo, and Chrissy, pet names for his mother, Arlene; father, Robert; and younger sister Chris.
Holmes mailed the notebook from a post office near the Century 16 theater on a Thursday, but it arrived at the University of Colorado Medical School mail room on the weekend and sat there until the next Monday. His psychiatrist, Lynne Fenton, never saw it.
The defendant's writings will be interpreted by both sides as they battle out whether he was sane or insane the night he opened fire with a shotgun, a semi-assault rifle and a Glock handgun into a theater full of excited Batman fans.
It is unclear how this crucial evidence from Holmes' mind will be presented to the court. Will the jury receive a copy of the notebook to read for themselves? Will it be displayed page by page on the courtroom TV screens? Or will it be read aloud like a grim storybook?
The district attorney hinted Thursday before the Memorial Day break that his case, which is nearing the halfway point, will take a turn starting this week. The court has yet to hear from state psychiatrists who evaluated the defendant in nearly 48 hours of taped interviews.
The defense says it will take about a month to put on its case, but, explained King, there have been some duplicate witnesses, so it may not take as long as that.
Legal observers say three months of being subjected to grueling testimony and then a possible month of sentencing will be hard on the 19-woman and five-man jury. Some of the evidence has been tedious, including hours of plotting out bullet impacts in dozens of theater seats.
Last week, Samour admonished one juror for seemingly falling asleep.
But no one was sleeping as court wound down Thursday, as the Arapahoe County Coroner described the autopsies of half of the 12 gunshot victims, including those of 6-year-old Veronica Moser-Sullivan. The jury passed around Kleenex, dabbed their eyes, and quietly walked out of the room for a much-needed holiday break.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-holmes-notebook-evidence-20150526-story.html
Los Angeles Times
James Holmes' notebook: Opposing views of Aurora shooter's mind-set
MAY 26, 2015, 7:04 PM
Day 18 of the Aurora, Colo., shooting trial was an exercise in the old adage: The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
The book quoted Tuesday from the witness stand in Division 201 of the Arapahoe County Justice Center, however, was not the Bible. Instead, it was an unassuming brown notebook with a metal spiral along its spine and the musings of a mass killer inside.
James Holmes, who is on trial for his life, has acknowledged shooting 12 moviegoers to death and severely wounding 70 others in a Denver suburb on July 20, 2012, in one of the worst mass shootings in American history. He has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to the 166 charges against him.
The prosecution is about halfway through its case against the 27-year-old. More than 150 witnesses have testified, and jurors have heard four weeks of alternating heartbreak and tedium.
Victims have described watching loved ones die, seeing their own limbs shattered, being covered in other people's blood. Tech experts have testified in mind-numbing detail about IP addresses, how PayPal works and how credit card information lives online.
Jurors have wiped away tears; at least one has been admonished to stay awake.
Holmes' mental state is the central question facing jurors, and Arapahoe County Dist. Atty. George H. Brauchler has suggested that it would probably be broached this week by those most knowledgeable about it -- the psychiatrists and psychologists who have examined the defendant.
But first prosecutors introduced the key piece of evidence in the case: P-TR-341.
Also known as Holmes' personal notebook, it is full of the shooter's chilling plans to kill innocent people, his incomprehensible musings about life, death and everything in between, and six pages scrawled with a single word, over and over, larger and larger. "Why."
Judge Carlos A. Samour Jr. ruled that Aurora Police Sgt. Matthew Fyles was not allowed to simply read all 29 pages of notes and diagrams aloud in court Tuesday. Instead, jurors were given copies of the document to read after Fyles testified about the journal.
Prosecutor Karen Pearson walked the sergeant through a description of the book and then asked him to read specially chosen sections.
First Fyles quoted from Holmes' deliberations about how best to kill the most people. Biological weapons require too much knowledge, Holmes wrote; serial killing, too much contact with victims; and bombs are too well regulated.
The upshot? "'Mass murder/spree,'" Fyles read. "'Check mark.'"
Then Fyles read the notebook section about how Holmes chose his target: "'Venue,'" Fyles read, "'airport or movie theater.' Then it says 'airport' with an X. 'Substantial security. Too much of a terrorist history. Terrorism isn't the message.
"'The message is, there is no message. Most fools will misinterpret correlation for causation, namely, relationship and work failures as causes. Both were expediting catalysts, not the reason. Causation being my state of mind for the past 15 years.'"
In an effort to convince the jury that Holmes was a thoughtful and sane killer, Pearson also had Fyles read sections about how Holmes methodically considered various theaters in the Century 16 cineplex for his massacre.
The shooter weighed them for their closeness to parking, Fyles told the jury, how inconspicuous Holmes would be while shooting, and how he could "'lock double doors, inflicting more casualties.'"
And then she asked Fyles to read from page 53 of Holmes' notebook, a kind of notes-to-self section, a terrifying to-do list: "Buy stun gun and folding knife. Research firearm laws and mental illness. Buy handgun ... acquire remote detonation equipment and body armor. Practicing shooting at Byers Canyon Rifle Range."
Pearson did not have Fyles read the very next sentence.
Instead, defense attorney Daniel King chose to read it himself, after pointing out just how much of the rambling document Pearson had ignored.
The point, of course, is that Pearson's segments emphasized a cool planner; King's segments showed a man so sick he did not know the consequences of his actions.
This is how King's cross-examination unfolded Tuesday afternoon, as he read aloud from Holmes' journal and asked Fyles to confirm that he was, indeed, quoting the document accurately.
King: "'First appearance of mania occurs. Not good mania.' Correct?"
Fyles: "Correct."
King: "'Anxiety and fear disappears. No more fear. No more fear of failure.... No fear of consequences. Primary driver, aversion to, hatred of, mankind. Intense aversion to people, cause unknown. Began long ago. Suppressed by greater fear of others. No more fear. Hatred unchecked. Start small.'
"And this is where you begin the section where you read on direct examination about the purchasing of the different weapons he describes there, correct?"
Fyles: "Correct."
King: "The section that you read before ends with, 'Practice shooting at Byres Canyon Rifle Range.' The next line is, 'Can't tell the mind rapist's plan. If plan is disclosed, both normal life and ideal enactment on hatred fails.'
"Correct?"
From 8/15/2011 To 7/20/2012 ( Corbis al Qaida Microsoft Paul Allen Bill Gates causes the movie theatre gunfire massacre in Aurora Colorado ) is 340 days
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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 4/21/1966 ( Lyndon Johnson - Remarks Upon Presenting the Medal of Honor (Posthumous) to the Father of Milton L. Olive III ) is 170 days
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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 5/28/1984 ( Ronald Reagan - Remarks at Memorial Day Ceremonies Honoring an Unknown Serviceman of the Vietnam Conflict ) is 6782 days
From 5/14/1992 ( as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer circa 1992 and United States chief test pilot I performed the first flight of the US Army and Boeing AH-64D Apache Longbow ) To 8/15/2011 is 7032 days
7032 = 3516 + 3516
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 6/19/1975 ( the introduction of the United States of America congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 General of the Armies of the United States applies personally and professionally to my biological brother United States Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan the General of the Armies of the United States ) is 3516 days
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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 5/31/1986 ( Ronald Reagan - Radio Address to the Nation on Terrorism ) is 7515 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 8/15/2011 is 7515 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 5/31/1986 ( Ronald Reagan - Radio Address to the Nation on Terrorism ) is 7515 days
From 3/16/1961 ( premiere US film "The AbsentMinded Professor" ) To 8/15/2011 is 18414 days
18414 = 9207 + 9207
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 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 also known as Matthew Kline for official duty and also known as Wayne Newman for official duty ) is 9207 days
From 3/16/1961 ( premiere US film "The AbsentMinded Professor" ) To 8/15/2011 is 18414 days
18414 = 9207 + 9207
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 1/17/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Persian Gulf War begins as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 9207 days
From 11/20/1960 ( Dwight Eisenhower - Statement by the President on Making Public a Report by the Science Advisory Committee ) To 8/15/2011 is 18530 days
18530 = 9265 + 9265
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 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
From 2/5/1949 ( premiere US film "Tarzan's Magic Fountain" ) To 8/15/2011 is 22836 days
22836 = 11418 + 11418
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 2/5/1997 ( "Civil Jury Finds Simpson Liable in Pair of Killings" ) is 11418 days
From 2/25/1958 ( Dwight Eisenhower - Remarks and Address at Dinner of the National Conference on the Foreign Aspects of National Security ) To 12/8/2003 ( premiere US TV miniseries "Battlestar Galactica" ) is 16722 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 8/15/2011 is 16722 days
From 1/18/1991 ( premiere US film "Flight of the Intruder" ) To 8/15/2011 is 7514 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 5/30/1986 ( Ronald Reagan - Proclamation 5497 - National Theatre Week, 1986 ) is 7514 days
From 9/21/1921 ( the explosion at the BASF plant in Oppau Germany ) To 4/15/2013 ( the Boston Marathon massacre ) is 33444 days
33444 = 16722 + 16722
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 8/15/2011 is 16722 days
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/08/15/welcome-to-building-windows-8.aspx
Building Windows 8
An inside look from the Windows engineering team
Welcome to Building Windows 8
Steven Sinofsky Monday, August 15, 2011 12:02 PM
Building the next release of Microsoft Windows is an industry-wide effort that Microsoft approaches with a strong sense of responsibility and humility. Windows 8 reimagines Windows for a new generation of computing devices, and will be the very best operating system for hundreds of millions of PCs, new and old, used by well over a billion people globally.
We've been hard at work designing and building Windows 8, and today we want to begin an open dialog with those of you who will be trying out the pre-release version over the coming months. We intend to post regularly throughout the development of Windows 8, and to focus on the engineering of the product. Welcome to “Building Windows 8,” or as we call it, “B8.”
For the Windows team, this blog is an important part of developing Windows 8, as was our blog for Windows 7. Blogging allows us to have a two-way dialog with you about design choices, real-world data and usage, and new opportunities that are part of Windows 8. Together, we will start the unique adventure of bringing a major product to market. We’re genuinely excited to talk about the development of Windows 8 and to engage thoughtfully with the community of passionate end-users, developers, and information professionals.
Reimagining Windows from chips to experience
Windows 8 reimagines Windows. That's a big statement and one that we will return to throughout this blog. It is also important to know that we're 100% committed to running the software and supporting the hardware that is compatible with over 400 million Windows 7 licenses already sold and all the Windows 7 yet to be sold.
But so much has changed since Windows 95—the last time Windows was significantly overhauled—when the "desktop" metaphor was established. Today more than two out of three PCs are mobile (laptops, netbooks, notebooks, tablets, slates, convertibles, etc.). Nearly every PC is capable of wireless connectivity. Screen sizes range from under 10" to wall-sized screens and multiple HD screens. Storage has jumped from megabytes to terabytes and has moved up to the cloud. The appearance of touch-screen mobile phones with the rich capabilities they bring, have together changed the way we all view computing. Most of all, computing is much more focused on applications and on people than on the operating system itself or the data. These changes in the landscape motivate the most significant changes to Windows, from the chips to the experience.
We showed you a preview of Windows 8 in June, demonstrating the user experience and providing an update on ARM SoC support. The next major event for Windows is our BUILD conference in September, where we will provide developers with more details about the full spectrum of tools and capabilities available to make the most of Windows 8. This blog is a chance for us to discuss the details and provide a behind the scenes look at the evolution of Windows 8.
With our preview in June, we started by showing you user experience, because it is the most visible change to Windows. Rest assured we've thoughtfully engineered changes across the full range of Windows capabilities. But this presents us a challenge in deciding where to start the dialog.
We know people who care a lot about networking want to know our plans there. We know people who are invested heavily in storage want to know what is new in that area. Many want to know about performance and fundamentals. We know developers, IT pros, and gamers all want to know what's new for them. There is so much packed into Windows 8 and there are so many unique and important lenses through which to view Windows 8, and so we want to be sure to take the time to cover as many of these topics as possible, to build up a shared understanding of why we’ve taken Windows where we have. So in the next weeks we will just start talking specifics of features, since there is no obvious place to start given the varying perspectives. From fundamentals, to user interface, to hardware support, and more, if something is important to you, we promise we'll get to it in some form or another.
We’ve heard people express frustration over how little we’ve communicated so far about Windows 8. We’ve certainly learned lessons over the years about the perils of talking about features before we have a solid understanding of our ability to execute.
Our intent with this pre-release blog is to make sure that we have a reasonable degree of confidence in what we talk about, before we talk about it. Our top priority is the responsibility we feel to our customers and partners, to make sure we’re not stressing priorities, churning resource allocations, or causing strategic confusion among the tens of thousands of you who care deeply and have much invested in the evolution of Windows. Rather than generating traffic or building excitement, this blog is here to provide a two-way dialog about the complexities and tradeoffs of product development.
Focusing on engineering
We started the Engineering Windows 7 blog in 2008 in recognition of the need to re-engage the community and rebuild trust relative to the engineering and design of Windows. While engineering Windows 7, we learned some great lessons and renewed our sense of responsibility to the community.
As we moved on to building Windows 8, we took those values and have built on them. Our focus on performance, reliability, compatibility, security, and quality is now baked into our engineering process even as we change Windows for a new generation. With these changes come new ways of doing work on Windows PCs as well as continual investments in hardware, software, and peripherals.
We intend to continue our dialog around performance and fundamental engineering of Windows. The feedback on these topics and the desire to talk about them in depth was clear during the development of Windows 7.
Starting our dialog
We know that blogging about Windows 8 will bring out the passionate opinions of many people, including members of our team. As a team we're all going to participate—many of us will author posts, and all of us will read and take note of your comments on this blog. We'll participate in a constructive dialog with you. We'll also make mistakes and admit it when we do. It is almost certain that something will hit a nerve, with the team or with the community, or both, in the blog posts or in the product, or both. In any case, we'll work hard to have constructive conversations with you, share the data, and, when the situation calls for it, make thoughtful changes.
Feel free to send us your thoughts via comments or email—we can't respond to every question we receive, but your suggestions for blog topics are welcome. The email contact link in the right pane goes straight to my inbox without any filter (except spam filtering). Please note that we are also making this blog available in several other languages (acting on feedback from the Engineering Windows 7 blog) and you can expect to see those posts within 48 hours of the English language post.
If you're looking for notifications of posts, then be sure to follow us on Twitter @BuildWindows8. Look for shortened URLs at "win8.ms" with links to posts and videos.
With that, we’ll just ask you to stay tuned and join us in this dialog about the engineering of Windows 8.
--Steven Sinofsky
http://www.tv.com/shows/seinfeld/the-seinfeld-chronicles-2241/trivia/
tv.com
Seinfeld Season 1 Episode 1
The Seinfeld Chronicles
Aired Thursday 9:00 PM Jul 05, 1989 on NBC
Quotes
George: Listen, your stuff has to be done by know, why don't you just see if it's dried?
Jerry: No, no, no, don't interrupt the cycle. The machine is working, it, it knows what it's doing, just let it finish.
George: You're gonna over dry it.
Jerry: You, you can't over dry.
George: Why not?
Jerry: Same as you can't over wet. You see, once something is wet, it's wet. Same thing with dead: like once you die you're dead, right? Let's say you drop dead and I shoot you: you're not gonna die again, you're already dead. You can't over die, you can't over dry.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/08/15/welcome-to-building-windows-8.aspx
Building Windows 8
An inside look from the Windows engineering team
Welcome to Building Windows 8
Steven Sinofsky Monday, August 15, 2011 12:02 PM
We’ve heard people express frustration over how little we’ve communicated so far about Windows 8. We’ve certainly learned lessons over the years about the perils of talking about features before we have a solid understanding of our ability to execute.
Our intent with this pre-release blog is to make sure that we have a reasonable degree of confidence in what we talk about, before we talk about it.
http://www.tv.com/shows/seinfeld/the-seinfeld-chronicles-2241/trivia/
tv.com
Seinfeld Season 1 Episode 1
The Seinfeld Chronicles
Aired Thursday 9:00 PM Jul 05, 1989 on NBC
Quotes
Jerry: If you've got a t-shirt with blood stains all over it maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem right now.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/08/15/welcome-to-building-windows-8.aspx
Building Windows 8
An inside look from the Windows engineering team
Welcome to Building Windows 8
Steven Sinofsky Monday, August 15, 2011 12:02 PM
Starting our dialog
We know that blogging about Windows 8 will bring out the passionate opinions of many people, including members of our team. As a team we're all going to participate—many of us will author posts, and all of us will read and take note of your comments on this blog. We'll participate in a constructive dialog with you. We'll also make mistakes and admit it when we do. It is almost certain that something will hit a nerve, with the team or with the community, or both
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/07/20/12854157-aurora-suspect-james-holmes-was-buying-guns-dropping-out-of-graduate-school?lite
U.S. NEWS on NBCNEWS.com [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
Aurora suspect James Holmes was buying guns, dropping out of graduate school
By Pete Williams, Bill Dedman and NBC News staff
Updated Friday 9:25 p.m. ET: James Eagan Holmes, suspected of carrying out the Colorado movie theater shooting while wearing an outfit of black ballistic gear, was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate student in neuroscience who started buying his four weapons legally in May, about the time his grades fell and he began the process of dropping out of school.
Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates said Holmes, born Dec. 13, 1987, is the man who is believed to have killed at least 12 people early Friday at a midnight showing of the new Batman movie in Aurora, a suburb of Denver. At least 58 other people were injured, nearly all of them by bullets but a few in other ways in the chaos, Oates said.
http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/world/james-holmes-aurora-colorado-shooting-suspect-24-year-old-arrested-after-dark-knight-rises-shooting
NEWS CHANNEL 5
wptv.com
James Holmes Aurora Colorado shooting suspect's apartment being searched after Dark Knight shooting
Posted: 07/20/2012
By: wptv.com
NBC has identified a suspect in the mass shooting at a Colorado movie theater.
Citing federal sources, NBC's Justice Correspondent Pete Williams said the suspect is James Holmes, who was born December 13, 1987.
http://www.tv.com/shows/seinfeld/the-seinfeld-chronicles-2241/
tv.com
Seinfeld Season 1 Episode 1
The Seinfeld Chronicles
Aired Thursday 9:00 PM Jul 05, 1989 on NBC
AIRED: 7/5/89
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098286/releaseinfo
IMDb
The Seinfeld Chronicles - Pilot (1989 TV Movie)
Release Info
USA 5 July 1989
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/08/15/welcome-to-building-windows-8.aspx
Building Windows 8
An inside look from the Windows engineering team
Welcome to Building Windows 8
Steven Sinofsky Monday, August 15, 2011 12:02 PM
Starting our dialog
We know that blogging about Windows 8 will bring out the passionate opinions of many people, including members of our team. As a team we're all going to participate—many of us will author posts, and all of us will read and take note of your comments on this blog. We'll participate in a constructive dialog with you. We'll also make mistakes and admit it when we do. It is almost certain that something will hit a nerve, with the team or with the community, or both, in the blog posts or in the product, or both. In any case, we'll work hard to have constructive conversations with you, share the data, and, when the situation calls for it, make thoughtful changes.
--Steven Sinofsky
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 9:44 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Issaquah
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001966828_whycostco28.html
Monday, June 28, 2004
the former president arrives here Wednesday to autograph copies of his book, his first scheduled stop will be the discount retail warehouse Costco in Issaquah.
[When I just read something Bill Clinton read about not wanting to "pile on" to Cheney's shooting incident, I remembered this. The day I went back to Microsoft to ask for my job back, he was at this Costco, which I could see from the window at my cube. I thought that was quite the coincidence, and I hoped it was a good sign, albeit something extraordinary that defied my logic. I remember now too that it was on the other side of the street from that Costco where I went face first into the concrete after my bike slipped on a slick bridge. I had a black eye for a week. I still remember the date for some reason: Feb 1, 2002. I think I remembered it because I had another accident on Dec. 23, 2001, when I was biking around Lake Washington. At the 30 mile point of that 60 mile trip, I hit a patch of ice and went down hard and fast. One minute I was riding along, the next minute I was looking at my feet as I went sliding across the road. Damn that hurt. I dislocated my shoulder because my elbow hit first or right about the same time as my knee. I could barely raise my arm if at all for weeks after that. It was pretty uncomfortable riding the remaining 30 miles back home. And the whole way there and for a time afterwards, I could almost hear something, it was unusal, the way you can feel like there is something on your tongue as that saying goes, but with this, I could almost hear a "thud" sound for a while after, the sound of me hitting the ground.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 19 February 2006 excerpt ends]
http://www.tv.com/shows/battlestar-galactica/battlestar-galacticathe-mini-series-1603714/
tv.com
Battlestar Galactica Episode 1
Battlestar Galactica:The Mini-Series
AIRED: 12/8/03
http://www.oocities.org/elzj78/bsgminiseries.html
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: Miniseries (2003)
Adama: You know, all the things you talked to me about the last time we were together-
Apollo: I really don't want to do this.
Adama: -at the funeral, they still ring in my ears after two years.
Apollo: Good! Good. Cause you know what? They were meant to.
http://www.oocities.org/elzj78/bsgminiseries.html
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: Miniseries (2003)
Adama: Zack had a choice. You both did.
Apollo: "A man isn't a man until he wears the wings of a Viper pilot." Doesn't that sound at all familiar to you?
Adama: That's not fair, son.
Apollo: No, it's not fair. Because one of us wasn't cut out to wear the uniform.
Adama: He earned his wings, just like we all do.
Apollo: One of us wasn't cut out to be a pilot, one of us wouldn't have even made it into flight school if his old man, his daddy, hadn't have pulled some strings.
Adama: That's an exaggeration. I did nothing for him that I wouldn't have done for anyone else.
Apollo: You're not even listening to me. Why can't you get this through your head? Zack did not belong in that plane. He shouldn't have been there. He was only doing it for you. Face it, you killed him.
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Welcome to Building Windows 8
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It is almost certain that something will hit a nerve, with the team or with the community, or both
--Steven Sinofsky
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Building Windows 8
An inside look from the Windows engineering team
Welcome to Building Windows 8
Steven Sinofsky Monday, August 15, 2011 12:02 PM
Building the next release of Microsoft Windows is an industry-wide effort that Microsoft approaches with a strong sense of responsibility and humility.
1991 film "Flight of the Intruder" DVD movie:
00:00:01
Title dialog: Lyndon B. Johnson: With American sons in the fields far away, I shall not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president
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Lyndon B. Johnson
XXXVI President of the United States: 1963-1969
183 - Remarks Upon Presenting the Medal of Honor (Posthumous) to the Father of Milton L. Olive III.
April 21, 1966
Mr. and Mrs. Olive, members of the Olive family, distinguished Mayor Daley, Secretary Resor, General Wheeler, Members of the Senate, Members of the House, ladies and gentlemen:
There are occasions on which we take great pride, but little pleasure. This is one such occasion. Words can never enlarge upon acts of heroism and duty, but this Nation will never forget Milton Lee Olive III.
President Harry Truman once said that he would far rather have won the Medal of Honor than to have been the President of the United States. I know what he meant. Those who have earned this decoration are very few in number. But true courage is very rare. This honor we reserve for the most courageous of all of our sons.
The Medal of Honor is awarded for acts of heroism above and beyond the call of duty. It is bestowed for courage demonstrated not in blindly overlooking danger, but in meeting it with eyes clearly open.
That is what Private Olive did. When the enemy's grenade landed on that jungle trail, it was not merely duty which drove this young man to throw himself upon it, sacrificing his own life that his comrades might continue to live. He was compelled by something that is more than duty, by something greater than a blind reaction to forces that are beyond his control.
He was compelled, instead, by an instinct of loyalty which the brave always carry into conflict. In that incredibly brief moment of decision in which he decided to die, he put others first and himself last. I have always believed that to be the hardest, but the highest, decision that any man is ever called upon to make.
In dying, Private Milton Olive taught those of us who remain how we ought to live.
I have never understood how men can ever glorify war. "The rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air," has always been for me better poetry than philosophy. When war is foisted upon us as a cruel recourse by men who choose force to advance policy, and must, therefore, be resisted, only the irrational or the callous, and only those untouched by the suffering that accompanies war, can revel.
Let us never exult over war. Let us not for one moment disguise in the grandest justifications of policy the inescapable fact that war feeds on the lives of young men, good young men like Milton Olive. I can never forget it. I am reminded of it every moment of every day. In a moment such as this, I am reminded all over again how brave the young are, and how great is our debt to them, and how endless is the sacrifice that we call upon them to make for us.
I realize, too, how highly we prize freedom-when we send our young to die for it.
There are times when Vietnam must seem to many a thousand contradictions, and the pursuit of freedom there an almost unrealizable dream.
But there are also times--and for me this is one of them--when the mist of confusion lifts and the basic principles emerge:
--that South Vietnam, however young and frail, has the right to develop as a nation, free from the interference of any other power, no matter how mighty or strong;
--that the normal processes of political action, if given time and patience and freedom to work, will some day, some way create in South Vietnam a society that is responsive to the people and consistent with their traditions;
--that aggression by invading armies or ruthless insurgency must be denied the precedent of success in Vietnam, if the many other little nations in the world, and if, as a matter of fact, all Southeast Asia is to ever know genuine order and unexploited change;
--that the United States of America is in South Vietnam to resist that aggression and to permit that peaceful change to work its way, because we desire only to be a good and honorable ally, a dependable, trustworthy friend, and always a sincere and genuine servant of peace.
Men like Milton Olive die for honor. Nations that are without honor die, too, but without purpose and without cause. It must never be said that when the freedom and the independence of a new and a struggling people were at stake this mighty, powerful Nation of which we are so proud to be citizens would ever turn aside because we had the harassments that always go with conflict, and because some thought the outcome was uncertain, or the course too steep, or the cost too high.
In all of this there is irony, as there is when any young man dies. Who can say what words Private Olive might have chosen to explain what he did? Jimmy Stanford and John Foster, two of the men whose lives he saved that day on that lonely trail in that hostile jungle 10,000 miles from here are standing on the White House steps today because this man chose to die. I doubt that even they know what was on his mind as he jumped and fell across that grenade.
But I think I do know this: On the sacrifices of men who died for their country and their comrades, our freedom has been built. Whatever it is that we call civilization rests upon the merciless and seemingly irrational fact of history that some have died for others to live, and every one of us who enjoys freedom at this moment should be a witness to that fact.
So Milton Olive died in the service of a country that he loved, and he died that the men who fought at his side might continue to live. For that sacrifice his Nation honors him today with its highest possible award.
He is the eighth Negro American to receive this Nation's highest award. Fortunately, it will be more difficult for future presidents to say how many Negroes have received the Medal of Honor. For unlike the other seven, Private Olive's military records have never carried the color of his skin or his racial origin, only the testimony that he was a good and loyal citizen of the United States of America.
So I can think of no more fitting tribute to him than to read from a letter that was written to me by this patriot's father, dated March 10.
"It is our dream and prayer that some day the Asiatics, the Europeans, the Israelites, the Africans, the Australians, the Latins, and the Americans can all live in One-World. It is our hope that in our own country the Klansmen, the Negroes, the Hebrews, and the Catholics will sit down together in the common purpose of good will and dedication; that the moral and creative intelligence of our united people will pick up the chalice of wisdom and place it upon the mountain top of human integrity; that all mankind, from all the earth, shall resolve, 'to study war no more.' That, Mr. President, is how I feel and that is my eternal hope for our Great American Society."
Ladies and gentlemen, I have no words to add to that.
[Secretary of the Army Stanley R. Resor read the citation, the text of which follows.]
CITATION
THE PRESIDENT of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, March 3, 1863, has awarded in the name of The Congress the Medal of Honor, posthumously, to
PRIVATE FIRST CLASS MILTON L. OLIVE, III UNITED STATES ARMY
for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty:
Private First Class Milton L. Olive, III, distinguished himself by conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his own life above and beyond the call of duty while participating in a search and destroy operation in the vicinity of Phu Cuong, Republic of Vietnam, on 22 October 1965. Private Olive was a member of the 3d Platoon of Company B, 2d Battalion (Airborne), 503d Infantry, as it moved through the jungle to find the Viet Cong operating in the area. Although the Platoon was subjected to a heavy volume of enemy gun fire and pinned down temporarily, it retaliated by assaulting the Viet Cong positions, causing the enemy to flee. As the Platoon pursued the insurgents, Private Olive and four other soldiers were moving through the jungle together when a grenade was thrown into their midst. Private Olive saw the grenade, and then saved the lives of his fellow soldiers at the sacrifice of his own by grabbing the grenade in his hand and failing on it to absorb the blast with his body. Through his bravery, unhesitating actions, and complete disregard for his own safety, he prevented additional loss of life or injury to the members of his platoon. Private Olive's conspicuous gallantry, extraordinary heroism, and intrepidity at the risk of his own life above and beyond the call of duty are in the highest traditions of the United States Army and reflect great credit upon himself and the Armed Forces of his country.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
Note: The President spoke at 12:15 p.m. in the Rose Garden at the White House.
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Flight of the Intruder (1991)
Release Info
USA 18 January 1991
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The American Presidency Project
Ronald Reagan
XL President of the United States: 1981 - 1989
Proclamation 5497 - National Theatre Week, 1986
May 30, 1986
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Theatre is an ancient and honored art form with a recorded history spanning 2,500 years. Some have speculated that its roots go so deep in human nature and human experience that it may well be the wellspring of all the arts. We do know that poetry, story-telling, dance, music, masks, costumes, and sets all have a place in what we have come to call "theatre." These elements can be found in the performances of primitive tribes and the most sophisticated modern productions. In fact we see the impulse to theatre in every child who has ever played "let's pretend" or "make believe."
Theatre lets us stand apart from the flow of life: to feel pity and understanding and empathy; to smile at human foibles and to weep at human tragedies. Theatre is an art form for all seasons and all moods. It can refresh our spirits with comic hijinks, dazzle us with the splendor of pageantry, and impart rich insights into human relationships. It can convulse us into gales of laughter, wring our hearts with pathos, and dramatize eternal moral truths. In the works of such giants as Shakespeare, Goethe, Moliere, and O'Neill it can do all these things.
In one respect theatre is an art of the present moment—once performed it is gone, save in the memory of the audience. Yet new productions and performances give it a kind of ever-renewed immortality. It can put us in touch with the culture, conditions, and viewpoints of many civilizations. Indeed, theatre is at once a reminder and an affirmation of the continuity of civilization and the fundamental unity of all mankind.
That continuity is manifested not only in performances of plays of the past, but also in the attempts of modern artists to give voice to the conditions and experiences of our own time. These efforts, in turn, will enrich the legacy we will leave to future generations.
Today, theatre exists not only in the traditional cultural centers of our country but all across the land. Theatre at all levels—professional, community, and school—has sprung up in every region of our country. There is no greater testimony to mankind's need for theatre than this. Today we are experiencing a renaissance of the living theatre, with great gains in artistic excellence, in aesthetic variety and diversity of cultural voices—and in growing and loyal audiences throughout America.
In recognition of the importance of theatre in the lives of all Americans, the Congress, by Senate Joint Resolution 247, has authorized the President to proclaim the week of June 1 through June 7, 1986, as "National Theatre Week."
Now, Therefore, I, Ronald Reagan, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the week beginning June 1, 1986, as National Theatre Week. I encourage the people of the United States to observe this month with appropriate ceremonies, performances, programs, and activities.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this thirtieth day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and tenth.
RONALD REAGAN
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Lex Barker
Biography
Date of Birth 8 May 1919, Rye, New York, USA
Date of Death 11 May 1973, New York City, New York, USA (heart attack)
Birth Name Alexander Crichlow Barker Jr.
Disowned by his family for his choice of an acting career, he worked in a steel mill and studied engineering at night. In February 1941, nearly a year before the attack on Pearl Harbor, Barker left his fledgling acting career and enlisted in the U.S. Army. The 6'3" 208-pound soldier rose to the rank of major during the war. He reportedly was wounded in action (in the head and leg) fighting in Sicily.
Back in the United States, Barker recuperated at an Arkansas military hospital. Upon his discharge from service, he traveled to Los Angeles. Within a short time, he landed a small role in his first film, Doll Face (1945). A string of small roles followed, the best of which was as Emmett Dalton in the Western Return of the Bad Men (1948).
The next year, Barker found the role that would bring him fame. In Tarzan's Magic Fountain (1949), Barker became the tenth official Tarzan of the movies.
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Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Volumes 12-14
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Incidents That Define Process Safety
By CCPS (Center for Chemical Process Safety)
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Flight Of The Intruder
Here in People's Resistance Park,
they've set up trophies of their victories:
grim reminders of the losses
taken in this seven-year-old war over the North.
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Building Windows 8
An inside look from the Windows engineering team
Welcome to Building Windows 8
Steven Sinofsky Monday, August 15, 2011 12:02 PM
We’ve heard people express frustration over how little we’ve communicated so far about Windows 8. We’ve certainly learned lessons over the years about the perils of talking about features before we have a solid understanding of our ability to execute.
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Ronald Reagan
XL President of the United States: 1981 - 1989
Radio Address to the Nation on Terrorism
May 31, 1986
My fellow Americans:
History is likely to record that 1986 was the year when the world, at long last, came to grips with the plague of terrorism. For too long, the world was paralyzed by the argument that terrorism could not be stopped until the grievances of terrorists were addressed. The complicated and heartrending issues that perplex mankind are no excuse for violent, inhumane attacks, nor do they excuse not taking aggressive action against those who deliberately slaughter innocent people.
In our world there are innumerable groups and organizations with grievances, some justified, some not. Only a tiny fraction has been ruthless enough to try to achieve their ends through vicious and cowardly acts of violence upon unarmed victims. Perversely, it is often the terrorists themselves who prevent peacefully negotiated solutions. So, perhaps the first step in solving some of these fundamental challenges in getting to the root cause of conflict is to declare that terrorism is not an acceptable alternative and will not be tolerated.
Effective antiterrorist action has also been thwarted by the claim that—as the quip goes—"One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter." That's a catchy phrase, but also misleading. Freedom fighters do not need to terrorize a population into submission. Freedom fighters target the military forces and the organized instruments of repression keeping dictatorial regimes in power. Freedom fighters struggle to liberate their citizens from oppression and to establish a form of government that reflects the will of the people. Now, this is not to say that those who are fighting for freedom are perfect or that we should ignore problems arising from passion and conflict. Nevertheless, one has to be blind, ignorant, or simply unwilling to see the truth if he or she is unable to distinguish between those I just described and terrorists. Terrorists intentionally kill or maim unarmed civilians, often women and children, often third parties who are not in any way part of a dictatorial regime. Terrorists are always the enemies of democracy. Luckily, the world is shaking free from its lethargy and moving forward to stop the bloodshed.
Nearly a month ago in Tokyo, the leaders of the major Western democracies hammered out an agreement on tough measures to eradicate this evil. Ironically the progress made in Tokyo is now imperiled by a lack of consistent support at home. For nearly a year now a handful of United States Senators have held up approval of a supplementary extradition treaty between the United States and the United Kingdom. This agreement, when ratified, would prevent terrorists who have kidnaped, killed, or maimed people in Britain from finding refuge in our country. Today these killers are able to do just that by labeling their vile acts as political. Well, in Tokyo the democracies declared there is no political or any other justification for terrorist acts and those who commit them should be brought to justice. The world is watching. If actions by a few Senators allow terrorists to find safe haven in the United States, then there will be irreparable damage. Refusal to approve the supplementary treaty would undermine our ability to pressure other countries to extradite terrorists who have murdered our citizens. And rejection of this treaty would be an affront to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, one European leader who, at great political risk, stood shoulder to shoulder with us during our operations against Qadhafi's terrorism.
Some members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee have gone so far as to prepare a substitute treaty permitting those who have murdered British policemen and soldiers, for so-called political reasons, to avoid extradition. Well, this substitute is not a compromise; it's retreat. Its passage would be a victory for terrorism and a defeat for all we've been trying to do to stop this evil. One concern about the treaty is that it may set a precedent for other treaties, which will then be used against those who simply oppose totalitarian regimes. We can never permit that to happen. Our country will always remain the beacon of hope and freedom to all oppressed peoples.
I therefore urge the Senate to promptly approve the revised treaty and reinforce the momentum building against terrorism. With good sense, courage, and international cooperation, our struggle against terrorism will be won. And the United States will lead the way into a freer and more peaceful tomorrow.
Until next week, thanks for listening, and God bless you.
Note: The President spoke at 12:06 p.m. from Camp David, MD.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
XXXIV President of the United States: 1953-1961
363 - Statement by the President on Making Public a Report by the Science Advisory Committee.
November 20, 1960
THIS REPORT is part of a continuing study by my Science Advisory Committee of ways in which the Federal Government can best assure the strength and progress of American science, one of our essential resources for national security and welfare. I hope it will be favorably received and widely studied by everyone in our national community concerned with the advancement of scientific knowledge through basic research and with the education of young scientists.
I call particular attention to the conclusion of the Science Advisory Committee that the process of basic scientific research and the process of graduate education in universities must be viewed as an integrated task if the nation is to produce the research results and the new scientists that will maintain the leadership of American science. In this great endeavor, the partnership between the Federal Government and the nation's universities will assume growing importance in the future.
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Tarzan's Magic Fountain (1949)
Release Info
USA 5 February 1949
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Tarzan's Magic Fountain (1949)
Plot Summary
An aviatrix emerges from the jungle looking as young as she was when her plane went down many years before. Unscrupulous hunters discover that this is due to a secret fountain of youth. Tarzan tries to keep the hunters from finding the hidden valley setting of the fountain. The flyer ages as the effects of the fountain wear off.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 7:26 PM Monday, January 12, 2009
From 7/20/1969 ( date hijacked from me:I was Apollo 11 Eagle astronaut landing on Earth's moon ) To 2/5/1997 ( victim of illegal combatants against the U.S. federal government such as Christopher Darden and Marcia Clark that have infiltrated regional and state government of U.S. : O.J. Simpson ) is 10062 days
10062 = 5031 + 5031
From 3/4/1959 ( date hijacked from me:my birth date UK ) To 12/11/1972 ( date hijacked from me:I was Apollo 17 Challenger astronaut landing on the Earth's moon ) is 5031 days
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Civil Jury Finds Simpson Liable in Pair of Killings
By B. DRUMMOND AYRES JR.
Published: February 5, 1997
In a unanimous decision, which starkly contradicted Mr. Simpson's acquittal by a criminal jury on murder charges in October 1995, the jury awarded the Goldman family $8.5 million in compensatory damages.
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 7:26 PM Monday, January 12, 2009
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof
Burden of proof
The Burden of proof (Latin: onus probandi) is the obligation to shift the assumed conclusion away from an oppositional opinion to one's own position (this may be either a negative or positive claim). The burden of proof may only be fulfilled by evidence.
Under the Latin maxim necessitas probandi incumbit ei qui agit, the general rule is that "the necessity of proof lies with he who complains." The burden of proof, therefore, usually lies with the party making the new claim. The exception to this rule is when a prima facie case has been made.
He who does not carry the burden of proof carries the benefit of assumption, meaning he needs no evidence to support his claim. Fulfilling the burden of proof effectively captures the benefit of assumption, passing the burden of proof off to another party.
The burden of proof is an especially important issue in law and science.
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Seinfeld (1989–1998)
Quotes
George Costanza: So I tell her, 'I think I should leave now'. And she looks at me surprised as if she couldn't understand what had just happened and why I was leaving... The only excuse that I could fathom would be acceptable is to tell her that I am indeed Batman, and I'm sorry I just saw that Bat signal out the window.
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The Absent-Minded Professor (1961)
Release Info
USA 16 March 1961
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: August 31, 2006
I've been thinking for a while that the dreams I have are literal. They are the foreign dreams I used to write, the dreams produced by the manipulators of my thoughts. Don't know what to say about that last one. Jumbled, disturbing, painful. Somebody put in a lot of effort to make me forget those memories, if it is real. There was a scene there straight out the opening of "Saving Private Ryan" except that it seemed to be in the Middle East. And it was something like a pyramid I was running into, and I was by myself and every gun, there were countless guns, was turning towards me. It was sort of like a pyramid I was rushing onto, except that it was elogated, like a castle wall. In another scene, a two-star general or admiral was captured by the enemy. Back in the stretched-pyramid, I was fighting off an attack. Grenades were flying in on me, but I don't recall them going off. Then, I and some of my fellow soldiers seemed to be cleaning the place. A lot of other stuff that is fading from my mind. I feel sad, very sad.
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: August 31, 2006
It wasn't so much a pyramid, although I keep wanting to call it that, than a very high wall. But it seemed sloped liked the side of the pyramid. It was actually more like a wall, where the enemy resided all along the top, shooting downwards. I managed to get to the top and then fought off a counter-assault of enemy troops. Not sure if I batted away the hand grenades they were throwing or they just didn't go off or they did go off but I wasn't seriously wounded or some combination of all three.
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 9/7/2006 8:31 PM
I’m thinking I have extensive experience with this particular weapon. I am thinking that I used to carry one in the field, although I’m not sure if that is possible due to the weight but I am still thinking that I carried one. Maybe I am thinking of operating one of them on one of those SEAL vehicles. I am thinking I was quite good with it.
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Gunner's Mate 2nd Class Justin Shea fires a Mark-19 40mm grenade launcher from the weather deck aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Hopper (DDG 70) during a familiarization firing.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 9/7/2006 8:37 PM
I guess it actually is possible that I carried one of them. According to this article, the unit weighs about 72 pounds. I wouldn’t have been carrying much else, but I suddenly remembered times when I carried hundred pound sacks of dog food on my shoulder and also carrying railroad ties by myself. Maybe that is what I remember as carrying this weapon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_19
The MK19 (also known as MK-19, M19, Mark 19, or Mk 19) is a belt-fed grenade machine gun capable of firing five grenades per second.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 9/7/2006 8:42 PM
I have been thinking I was on the ground in both of these places:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_19
The Mk 19 has been used by American forces in Somalia (1993) and in Iraq (1991) by special forces operating behind enemy lines.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 9/7/2006 8:45 PM
I actually have memories about the Mark 19 grenade launcher being designed for use as a mounted weapon but that it could actually be carried around and used standalone.
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: August 31, 2006
I batted away the hand grenades they were throwing
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