Can't make up this stuff.

JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 2:05 PM Friday, April 08, 2011


Powers





Maybe I can figure out how to use my power to control the weather that I can see outside. That is a good test case as I try to control something I have no control over and that would seem to be random occurrences.

Now I have to figure out how to generate a test case that I can schedule for a test.

For one thing, if the sky is clear then how could I make it rain ten minutes later when there are not even any clouds that are ten minutes away.


[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 08 April 2011 excerpt ends]










http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=mission-to-mars

Springfield! Springfield!


Mission To Mars (2000)


It's not a signature.
What?
The noise from the face.
It's not a signature.
It's a test.
It's asking us for the right answer.










JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 3:10 AM Friday, April 22, 2011


Digital Integrated Attack/Navigation Equipment - this is just a game to you.





I've finished watching that film now and I remember some thoughts after I resumed the video after my last post.

Why this seems important to share in my public blog, I don't know. Other than obvious reasons. Somehow this must be why I am here now.

I am a bait car. A stupid piece of metal. I just sit here and wait for something to happen.

So anyway, his fake wife shows up and I think, "Her again."

I don't know what that actress makes me think of that girlfriend from Arlington Heights. She was also the romantic interest of Gene Hackman's character in the 25 August 1989 film "The Package." In that 1989 film, she was a US Army officer who was the ex-wife of the character Gene Hackman portrayed, who was an enlisted soldier in the US Army and who then has a lot of conflict when he escorts a military prisoner, who is portrayed by the actor Tommy Lee Jones.

So anyway, why does that actress remind me of that girlfriend from Chicago? I don't know. I thought of her when a car with distinctly similar features that she drove in 1986 shows up in the 6 August 1993 film "The Fugitive" and the woman driving asks Harrison Ford if he needs a ride.

That actress from the 1987 film "The Fourth Protocol" and the 1989 "The Package" has no real distinct features I can recall to that girlfriend from Chicago. Maybe it is their chin. I always want to say they have distinctly different chins so maybe that is something. Their hair is different, as best I recall. I don't recall the voice, in terms of specific details I can now articulate, of that girlfriend from the Arlington Heights suburb of Chicago Illinois so I don't know if that is the reason I think there is some kind of association there.

In the 1989 film "The Package" that actress is a US Army officer in charge of some kind of computer and data processing center and the Gene Hackman character contacts her for help after the military prisoner he was escorting escapes from him, which the film, as I recall, reveals was supposed to happen and that was why he was assigned.

That girlfriend from Chicago came to see me that first time after I had been assigned to the USS Wainwright CG 28 in Charleston South Carolina. We might have talked about getting married but, as I recall I usually brought up marriage with any woman I was sleeping with and I, as best I recall, was never really serious about it. I guess that was just something that seemed appropriate for the time. In reality, I was a jerk. I don't even know what she saw in me in the first. I think about how I was still chewing tobacco back in that time. That is really a disgusting habit when I really think about it.

I broke up with her because, in a nightclub in downtown Charleston, I met a girl from Scotland who had moved here to the United States where her sister's and their husbands lived. For a while recently I have been thinking of her place in this world.

What was that port during our Med cruise in 1989? The ending of this film got me thinking of that. That would have been late 1989 or very early 1989. The Fire Controlman Senior Chief Petty Officer of our division, who became the Master Chief Petty Officer after I left, told me he was glad I had gone up on the deck of the forecastle that day. We were in port somewhere in the Med, I don't think that was in Naples Italy, but it could have been, but I reject that notion because as I recall no one liked Naples and if a riot was going to happen then we expect it there, but it could have been somewhere. We were in Valencia Spain, which was a place I enjoyed a lot and had never been there before but I don't think that happened there but who really knows because I was on duty the day the rally happened on the pier and thus was sober while usually when on the beach in the Med, I usually was not and there were always girls from Britain. No matter what port we were in, there were always girls who told us they were on holiday from Britain. So where was that? France? Toulon France? Maybe. That was my last stop before flying back to the United States, similar to the 1991 film where they are going to Mexico, I was riding from Monaco France to Toulon France in the back of the mail truck and I was seriously hung over from drinking too much and I was crashed on a pile of boxes in the back of the mail truck that would take me to the US military flight back to Charleston SC. A serious windstorm had blown through Monaco just about that time. The plane flew for what seemed to be only a few minutes before we had several hours of wait time at another airport to repair something that had gone wrong with the airplane.


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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 8:55 PM Friday, April 22, 2011


"Fellas, it's bin good t'know ya!" and all you FBI Rudy's! Perverts.





JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 9/28/2006 6:50 PM
One day when I was in the gulag in Pioneer Square, there was a choir that came in and performed down in the cafeteria. It must have been a Tuesday because I think we had that weekly house meeting that day and they were still in there. I think they started during the dinner meal. It may have been around last Christmas. I remember thinking they had sure traveled a long ways to be there. Were they not from Princeton University??!!

JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 9/28/2006 6:56 PM
I think it was this group. Whoever they were, they were very good.

http://www.princeton.edu/~choir/

JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 9/28/2006 6:59 PM
I see there is also a Chamber Choir, so it might have actually been that group.

http://www.princeton.edu/main/tools/az/c.xml?section=arts


[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 28 September 2006 excerpt ends]
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 22 April 2011 excerpt ends]










JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 4:55 AM Sunday, April 24, 2011


DAMNIT DAMNIT DAMNIT!





ELMHURST!

ELMHURST HOSPITAL CENTER

EMERGENCY SERVICES










http://www.divxmoviesenglishsubtitles.com/U/US_Marshals.html

US Marshals


This is unit 1 1 5. We're en route|with a 32-year-old male.
Multiple gunshot wounds to the chest.|ETA: 5 minutes.
Hey, partner, can you hear me?
His name is Noah.
Noah, can you hear me?
He's in fib.
You got it?
-Does he have a chance?|-No, we lost him.
This is Linda Carlton outside|the U.S. Mission to the U.N.
Many details are still unclear,|but we can now confirm...
{y:i}... that Special Agent Frank Barrows...
{y:i}... was killed at Queens Hill Cemetery|{y:i}during a stakeout...
{y:i}... to capture fugitive Mark Sheridan,|{y:i}suspect in 2 murders...
{y:i}...at the U.N. 6 months ago.
{y:i}Though unconfirmed, sources report|{y:i}Barrows may be implicated...
{y:i}... with Sheridan for selling top-secret|{y:i}documents to the Chinese
government.
{y:i}Deputy U. S. Marshal Noah Newman|{y:i}was also killed...
{y:i}...as Sheridan eluded police|{y:i}in a spectacular escape...


[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 24 April 2011 excerpt ends]










JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 5:30 PM Sunday, April 24, 2011


George Everette "Bud" Day





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

Bud Day

George Everette "Bud" Day (born February 24, 1925) is a retired U.S. Air Force Colonel and Command Pilot who served during the Vietnam War, to include five years and seven months as a Prisoner of War in North Vietnam. He is often cited as being the most decorated U.S. service member since General Douglas MacArthur, having received some seventy decorations, a majority for actions in combat. Day is a recipient of the Medal of Honor.










http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=5662

The American Presidency Project

Gerald Ford

XXXVIII President of the United States: 1974-1977

176 - Remarks on Awarding the Congressional Medal of Honor to Four Members of the Armed Forces.

March 4th, 1976

Medal of Honor recipients and their families, distinguished Members of the Congress, Secretary Rumsfeld, Secretary Middendorf, Secretary Reed, members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, ladies and gentlemen:

We are gathered here today to honor four Americans for exceptional military gallantry in the service of our Nation. All four of these men distinguished themselves above and beyond the call of duty. I deeply regret that one of the awards, to the late Captain Lance P. Sijan, of the United States Air Force, is posthumous. The other three, Rear Admiral James P. Stockdale, United States Navy; Colonel George E. Day, United States Air Force; and Lieutenant Thomas R. Norris, United States Naval Reserve, are here with us today.


[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 24 April 2011 excerpt ends]










From 12/27/1952 ( premiere US film "Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd" ) To 7/19/1989 ( Bill Gates-Microsoft-George Bush kills 111 passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 232 and destroys the United Airlines Flight 232 aircraft because I was a passenger of United Airlines Flight 232 as United States Navy Petty Officer Second Class Kerry Wayne Burgess and I was assigned to maintain custody of a non-violent offender military prisoner of the United States ) is 13353 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 5/25/2002 is 13353 days



From 3/3/1959 ( the birthdate in Hawaii of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) To 9/23/1995 ( premiere US TV series "JAG" ) is 13353 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 5/25/2002 is 13353 days



From 6/19/1968 ( the 1st United States Navy Medal of Honor date of record of my biological brother Thomas Reagan the United States Navy officer and Thomas Reagan is the only United States of America military fighter jet ace-in-single-day during the Vietnam War ) To 5/25/2002 is 12393 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 10/8/1999 ( premiere US TV series episode "Stargate SG-1"::"Forever in a Day" ) is 12393 days



From 12/25/1951 ( premiere US film "The Wonder Kid" ) To 5/25/2002 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 12/25/1951 ( premiere US film "The Wonder Kid" ) To 5/25/2002 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





http://www.au.af.mil/au/goe/eagle_bios/2008/day_2008.asp

Air University


On 25 May 2002, Sioux City airport honored Day by renaming their airport Colonel Bud Day Field.










http://www.komonews.com/weather/blogs/scott/200-mph-Hurricane-Patricia-sets-record-for-strongest-hurricane-ever-recorded-336355161.html

KOMOnews


At 200 mph, Patricia sets record for strongest hurricane ever

By Scott Sistek Published: Oct 23, 2015 at 11:07 AM PDT Last Updated: Oct 23, 2015 at 4:16 PM PDT

The numbers are staggering: A hurricane bearing down on western Mexico has been measured to have winds stronger than Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Andrew -- and even Hurricane Camille. In fact, put any name there and Hurricane Patricia tops them all: 201 mph!

The National Hurricane Center said Friday morning that based on data from hurricane hunter aircraft, Patricia had strengthened into a monster Category 5 hurricane with peak *sustained* winds at 175 knots -- or 201 mph -- with even higher gusts! That is 6 mph more than the 195 mph winds measured by satellites in Typhoon Haiyan which caused massive destruction in the Philippines in 2013. In North America, Hurricane Allen had 190 mph winds in 1980.

200 mph is also the baseline windspeed of an F5 tornado.

The wind speed is just one record the hurricane has set. A second record is the recorded central barometric pressure of 879 millibars -- the lowest central pressure ever recorded in a hurricane near North America (Typhoon Tip in 1979 measured 870 mb in the waters off Guam).

To put that in perspective, normal sea level pressure is 1012 millibars or about 29.92" on your home barometer. To convert Patricia's central pressure into inches of mercury, that would be an astonishing 25.96". To compare, Hurricane Andrew had a central pressure of 922 mb and peak winds of 175 mph.

It's not just the strength that's making meteorologists' jaws drop, but how fast it intensified. Patricia formed suddenly Tuesday evening as a tropical storm, turned into a hurricane just over a day later and kept building in strength, catching many off guard with its rapid growth.

Early Thursday morning, the storm had a central pressure of just 980 mb with 85 mph peak winds. Now, 28 hours later, the storm pressure had dropped an incredible 100 mb -- essentially 1/10th of an entire atmosphere and the winds have raged to 200 mph.

Patricia weakened just a little as it approached the Mexican coastlaine Friday afternoon, dropping to 190 mph in its center and a central pressure of 900 mb.

How can it get so strong so fast? I'm sure Patricia will end up being the subject of numerous research papers, but of chief reason are the super warm ocean temperatures off the Mexican coast. A ship a few hundred miles offshore reported a sea temperature of 87.8 degrees and satellite measurements suggest a wide swath of ocean temperatures in the upper 80s in that area of the Pacific Ocean.
The air was much moister than usual, adding yet more fuel. And at the same time, upper-level crosswinds - called shear - that restrain a hurricane from strengthening were missing for much of Thursday, meteorologists said.

"I was really astounded," said MIT meteorology professor Kerry Emanuel. "It was over the juiciest part of the eastern Pacific."

El Nino's fingerprints are all over this, meteorologists agreed. And while it fits perfectly into climate scientists' theories of what a warming world will be like, they say global warming can't quite be blamed - yet.

The NHC is taking no chances, issuing as dire of warnings as they can to make sure those its path take heed, calling it "potentially catastrophic hurricane."










http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=mission-to-mars

Springfield! Springfield!


Mission To Mars (2000)


- Hey. Take a look.
Damn.
What do you make of that?
Dust storm.
Southern hemisphere,
coming from the east.
Big fella too.
- Headed straight for Mars One base camp.
- Yep.
- Could get a little hairy
right about landing time.
- Yeah.
Listen, we're gonna have to be able to
move fast. Maybe even advance our E.T.A.
These bad boys can cover a whole planet
and last up to a year.
- When does SI MA do her flyby?
- Tomorrow morning, 0600.
That's when we find out whether
we've come all this way for nothing.










From 7/7/2003 ( the launch from planet Earth of the United States NASA MER-B "Opportunity" spacecraft ) To 10/20/2015 is 4488 days

4488 = 2244 + 2244

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 12/25/1971 ( George Walker Bush the purveyor of illegal drugs strictly for his personal profit including the trafficking of massive amounts of cocaine into the United States confined to federal prison in Mexico for illegally smuggling narcotics in Mexico ) is 2244 days



From 1/19/1996 ( premiere US film "From Dusk Till Dawn" ) To 10/20/2015 is 7214 days

7214 = 3607 + 3607

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 9/18/1975 ( Patty Hearst captured and arrested in San Francisco California ) is 3607 days



From 8/24/2001 ( premiere US film "Ghosts of Mars" ) To 10/20/2015 is 5170 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 12/29/1979 ( premiere US TV series episode "A New Kind of Family"::"Fair Weather Friend" ) is 5170 days



From 10/7/1963 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Outer Limits"::"The Man With the Power" ) To 10/20/2015 is 19006 days

19006 = 9503 + 9503

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 11/9/1991 ( premiere US TV series "Charlie Hoover" ) is 9503 days



From 10/7/1963 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Outer Limits"::"The Man With the Power" ) To 9/23/2013 ( Barack Obama - Joint Statement on the Promotion and Protection of Civil Society ) is 18249 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 10/20/2015 is 18249 days



From 3/6/2000 ( premiere US film "Mission To Mars" ) To 10/20/2015 is 5706 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 6/17/1981 ( Zerna Sharp deceased ) is 5706 days



From 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate Columbia South Carolina ) To 10/20/2015 is 8984 days

8984 = 4492 + 4492

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 2/19/1978 ( premiere US TV series "Project U.F.O." ) is 4492 days



From 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate Columbia South Carolina ) To 10/20/2015 is 8984 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 6/8/1990 ( premiere US film "False Identity" ) is 8984 days



From 11/18/1996 ( premiere US film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) To 10/20/2015 is 6910 days

6910 = 3455 + 3455

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 4/19/1975 ( Gerald Ford - Remarks at the Old North Bridge, Concord, Massachusetts ) is 3455 days



From 5/7/1992 ( the first launch of the US space shuttle Endeavour orbiter vehicle mission STS-49 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-49 pilot astronaut ) To 10/20/2015 is 8566 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 4/16/1989 ( premiere US TV series "Around the World in 80 Days" ) is 8566 days



From 10/12/1962 ( premiere US TV series episode "Route 66"::"Ever Ride the Waves in Oklahoma?" ) To 10/20/2015 is 19366 days

19366 = 9683 + 9683

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 5/7/1992 ( the first launch of the US space shuttle Endeavour orbiter vehicle mission STS-49 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-49 pilot astronaut ) is 9683 days



From 10/12/1962 ( the Columbus Day Storm of 1962 pummels the United States Pacific Northwest ) To 10/20/2015 is 19366 days

19366 = 9683 + 9683

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 5/7/1992 ( the first launch of the US space shuttle Endeavour orbiter vehicle mission STS-49 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-49 pilot astronaut ) is 9683 days



From 7/7/1963 ( Frank Purdy Lahm dead ) To 10/20/2015 is 19098 days

19098 = 9549 + 9549

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 12/25/1991 ( as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) is 9549 days



From 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 also known as Matthew Kline for official duty and also known as Wayne Newman for official duty ) To 10/20/2015 is 9042 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 8/5/1990 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - George Bush - Remarks and an Exchange With Reporters on the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait ) is 9042 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 10/20/2015 is 9042 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 8/5/1990 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - George Bush - Remarks and an Exchange With Reporters on the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait ) is 9042 days



From 10/11/1958 ( premiere US TV series "U.S. Marshal"::series premiere episode "The Fugitives" ) To 10/20/2015 is 20828 days

20828 = 10414 + 10414

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 5/8/1994 ( premiere US TV miniseries Stephen King's "The Stand"::miniseries premiere episode "The Plague" ) is 10414 days



From 5/16/1961 ( John Kennedy - Letter to Mrs. Alicia Patterson, Editor and Publisher of Newsday, Concerning the Nation's Response to the Cold War ) To 10/20/2015 is 19880 days

19880 = 9940 + 9940

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



From 12/8/2003 ( premiere US TV miniseries "Battlestar Galactica" ) To 10/20/2015 is 4334 days

4334 = 2167 + 2167

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 10/9/1971 ( my biological brother Dr. Thomas Reagan MD becomes a United States of America board-certified surgeon ) is 2167 days



[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-monkey-apprentice.html ]


http://phys.org/news/2015-10-satellite-tropical-storm-patricia-western.html

PHYS.ORG


Satellite sees Tropical Storm Patricia form near Western Mexico coast

October 21, 2015

The low pressure area that was designated as System 97E on October 20 developed into the Eastern Pacific Ocean's twentieth tropical depression of the season at 11 a.m. EDT. By 11 p.m. the depression became Tropical Storm Patricia and was seen strengthening by NOAA's GOES-West satellite.



http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2015/ep20/ep202015.fstadv.001.shtml?

NOAA


National Weather Service

National Hurricane Center


Tropical Depression TWENTY-E

ZCZC MIATCMEP5 ALL

TTAA00 KNHC DDHHMM

TROPICAL DEPRESSION TWENTY-E FORECAST/ADVISORY NUMBER 1

NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL

EP202015 1500 UTC TUE OCT 20 2015

THERE ARE NO COASTAL WATCHES OR WARNINGS IN EFFECT.

INTERESTS ALONG THE SOUTHERN COAST OF MEXICO SHOULD MONITOR THE PROGRESS OF THIS SYSTEM.

TROPICAL DEPRESSION CENTER LOCATED NEAR 13.3N 94.4W AT 20/1500Z POSITION ACCURATE WITHIN 25 NM



http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2015/ep20/ep202015.public.003.shtml

NOAA


National Weather Service

National Hurricane Center


Tropical Storm PATRICIA

ZCZC MIATCPEP5 ALL

TTAA00 KNHC DDHHMM

BULLETIN

TROPICAL STORM PATRICIA ADVISORY NUMBER 3

NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL EP202015

1000 PM CDT TUE OCT 20 2015

...DEPRESSION STRENGTHENS INTO THE SIXTEENTH TROPICAL STORM OF THE SEASON SOUTH OF MEXICO...

SUMMARY OF 1000 PM CDT...0300 UTC...INFORMATION

-----------------------------------------------

LOCATION...13.1N 95.3W

ABOUT 220 MI...355 KM SSE OF PUERTO ESCONDIDO MEXICO

ABOUT 405 MI...650 KM SE OF ACAPULCO MEXICO

MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...40 MPH...65 KM/H

PRESENT MOVEMENT...WSW OR 255 DEGREES AT 5 MPH...7 KM/H

MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...1004 MB...29.65 INCHES

WATCHES AND WARNINGS

--------------------

There are no coastal watches or warnings in effect.

Interests along the southern coast of Mexico should monitor the progress of Patricia.

DISCUSSION AND 48-HOUR OUTLOOK

------------------------------

At 1000 PM CDT (0300 UTC), the center of Tropical Storm Patricia was located near latitude 13.1 North, longitude 95.3 West. Patricia is moving toward the west-southwest near 5 mph (7 km/h) and this general motion is expected to continue tonight. A motion toward the west with some increase in forward speed is expected on Wednesday, followed by a turn toward the west-northwest by Wednesday night and a turn toward the northwest by Thursday.

Maximum sustained winds have increased near 40 mph (65 km/h) with higher gusts. Additional strengthening is forecast during the next 48 hours, and Patricia is expected to become a hurricane by late Wednesday night or on Thursday.

Tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 140 miles (220 km) to the southeast of the center.

The estimated minimum central pressure is 1004 mb (29.65 inches).



http://pmm.nasa.gov/extreme-weather/tropical-storm-patricia-forms-mexican-coast

NASA


GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER


Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Tropical Storm Patricia Forms Off Mexican Coast

Tropical Depression Twenty-E (TD20E) formed on October 20, 2015 off the Mexican coast southeast of Puerto Escondido, Mexico. Later that evening TD20E was upgraded to tropical storm Patricia.










http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116367/releaseinfo

IMDb


From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)

Release Info

USA 19 January 1996










http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20061108&slug=webrumsfeld08

The Seattle Times


Wednesday, November 8, 2006

Rumsfeld quitting; will be replaced by former CIA head

By The Associated Press


Bush seemed stoic about the election, proclaiming: "This isn't my first rodeo."










http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/patty-hearst-captured/print

HISTORY


SEPTEMBER 18, 1975 : PATTY HEARST CAPTURED

Newspaper heiress and wanted fugitive Patty Hearst is captured in a San Francisco apartment and arrested for armed robbery.

On February 4, 1974, Patricia Hearst, the 19-year-old daughter of newspaper publisher Randolph Hearst, was kidnapped from her apartment in Berkeley, California, by two black men and a white woman, all three of whom were armed. Her fiancé, Stephen Weed, was beaten and tied up along with a neighbor who tried to help. Witnesses reported seeing a struggling Hearst being carried away blindfolded, and she was put in the trunk of a car. Neighbors who came out into the street were forced to take cover after the kidnappers fired their guns to cover their escape.

Three days later, the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), a small U.S. leftist group, announced in a letter to a Berkeley radio station that it was holding Hearst as a “prisoner of war.” Four days later, the SLA demanded that the Hearst family give $70 in foodstuffs to every needy person from Santa Rosa to Los Angeles. This done, said the SLA, negotiations would begin for the return of Patricia Hearst. Randolph Hearst hesitantly gave away some $2 million worth of food. The SLA then called this inadequate and asked for $4 million more. The Hearst Corporation said it would donate the additional sum if the girl was released unharmed.

In April, however, the situation changed dramatically when Patty Hearst declared, in a tape sent to the authorities, that she was joining the SLA of her own free will. Later that month, a surveillance camera took a photo of her participating in an armed robbery of a San Francisco bank, and she was also spotted during the robbery of a Los Angeles store.

On May 17, police raided the SLA’s secret headquarters in Los Angeles, killing six of the group’s nine known members. Among the dead was the SLA’s leader, Donald DeFreeze, an African American ex-convict who called himself General Field Marshal Cinque. Patty Hearst and two other SLA members wanted for the April bank robbery were not on the premises.

Finally, on September 18, 1975, after crisscrossing the country with her captors–or conspirators–for more than a year, Hearst, or “Tania,” as she called herself, was captured in a San Francisco apartment and arrested for armed robbery. Despite her later claim that she had been brainwashed by the SLA, she was convicted on March 20, 1976, and sentenced to seven years in prison. Her prison sentence was commuted by President Jimmy Carter and she was released in February 1979. She later married her bodyguard. In 2001, she received a full pardon from President Bill Clinton.










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From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)

Quotes


Seth: We did it. We're in Mexico!










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From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)

Quotes


Seth: Why, out of all the God-forsaken shitholes in Mexico, do we have to meet here?

Carlos: One place's just as good as another.










http://www.tv.com/shows/a-new-kind-of-family/fair-weather-friend-358461/

tv.com


A New Kind of Family Season 1 Episode 9

Fair Weather Friend

Aired Sunday 7:30 PM Dec 29, 1979 on ABC

AIRED: 12/29/79










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Ghosts of Mars (2001)

Release Info

USA 24 August 2001










http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=ghosts-of-mars

Springfield! Springfield!


Ghosts of Mars (2001)


We hid until the storm was over.
Later, I went out
to take a look around.
Thought they were all dead.
Then some of them
started to come to.
They walked around
like they were confused or lost.
A few of them seemed okay.
They was trying to help the others.
Then they started changing.
Changing? What do you mean?










http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=ghosts-of-mars

Springfield! Springfield!


Ghosts of Mars (2001)


They act different,
stand different.
Start cutting themselves
for decoration.
Filing their teeth.
Making weapons.










http://www.tv.com/shows/the-outer-limits-1963/the-man-with-the-power-21534/

tv.com


The Outer Limits - Original Season 1 Episode 4

The Man With the Power

Aired Monday 8:00 PM Oct 07, 1963 on ABC

AIRED: 10/7/63










http://www.tv.com/shows/charlie-hoover/happy-birthday-to-hugh-72572/

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Charlie Hoover Season 1 Episode 1

Happy Birthday to Hugh

Aired Saturday 9:30 PM Nov 09, 1991 on FOX

On his depressing 40th birthday, Charlie meets his alter ego, an pint-sized mouth in a long coat, who helps start to get it together, and helps him to get his promotion.

AIRED: 11/9/91










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Mission to Mars (2000)

Release Info

USA 6 March 2000 (premiere)










http://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/19/obituaries/zerna-sharp-91-dies-in-indiana-originated-dick-and-jane-texts.html

The New York Times


ZERNA SHARP, 91, DIES IN INDIANA

ZERNA SHARP, 91, DIES IN INDIANA; ORIGINATED 'DICK AND JANE' TEXTS

By JOSEPH B. TREASTER

Published: June 19, 1981

Zerna A. Sharp, who created the concept for the Dick and Jane reading textbooks that were widely used in American classrooms for four decades, died on Wednesday at the Wesley Manor nursing home in Frankfort, Ind. She was 91 years old.

Miss Sharp never married and often referred to Dick and Jane as ''my children.'' She had been living in retirement in California and Indiana since 1964.

Miss Sharp conceived the illustrated readers while working as a traveling reading consultant for the publishing concern of Scott Foresman & Company after she had taught first grade for more than a decade and served as principal of an elementary school.

''She used to go down and sit on the beach on the South Side of Chicago and listen to the kids playing,'' said Robert L. Sharp, a nephew who lives in Frankfort, Ind. ''She noticed them saying, 'Look, look,' instead one word, 'Look.' That's how I understand the idea for the books came about.'' Simplicity of Texts

Miss Sharp did not write the books, but worked with an illustrator, Eleanor B. Campbell, and several others to produce the texts. In the books, only one new word was introduced on each page and no individual story introduced more than five new words. The illustrations showed the characters carrying out the action of the words.

''There's nothing these book children do that a child couldn't remember having done themselves,'' Miss Sharp once told an interviewer. ''They made the books part of themselves. We made reading easy for them and encouraged them to read more.''

The books had been criticized by some as casting Jane in stereotyped female roles, subordinate to Dick. But Miss Sharp replied: ''It never bothered the children. That's all an adult's viewpoint.''

By the early 1970's Scott Foresman had placed its emphasis on other reading texts, but a company spokesman said at the time that many schools ''are hanging on to them and are still deeply devoted to these books.''

Miss Sharp was born Aug. 12, 1889, the first of five children of the owner of a general store in Hillisburg, Ind. She studied at a teachers college in Marion, Ind., but never received a degree.










2000 film "Mission To Mars" DVD video:

01:11:02


Phil Ohlmyer: Is it just me, or is he a few meals packs short of a picnic?

Terri Fisher: Long-term exposure to low gravity can have an adverse impact on the brain. Or then, he could be suffering from some kind of asphyxia.

Jim McConnell: Or maybe his whole crew died, and he's been marooned alone on Mars for a year. It's a miracle he survived this long.










2000 film "Mission To Mars" DVD video:

01:13:28


Luke Graham: When I came to and dug myself out of the sand, my face plate was cracked. It was... leaking, leaking badly. I barely made it back to base.










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Springfield! Springfield!


Mission To Mars (2000)


- Has it been blowin'
like this for a while?
- Yeah.
We saw a big storm on our screens,
but Micker said
it was turning south.
If it holds course.
Luke, this...
this whatever it was...
this... this force...
You said it came directly
out of the top of the mountain?
Don't you believe me?
That's okay, Jim.
You don't believe me, that's okay.
But I'm not crazy, I know that much.
- I'm not crazy.
- What'd you mean by its "secret"?
What secret?










2000 film "Mission To Mars" DVD video:

01:11:01


Luke Graham: Why? Why? It had to be for a reason. And then all of a sudden, I knew the reason why. It's so someone would be left to figure out the secret.










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tv.com


Project UFO Season 1 Episode 1

Sighting 4001: The Washington D.C. Incident

Aired Sunday 10:00 PM Feb 19, 1978 on NBC

AIRED: 2/19/78










http://www.e-reading.org.ua/bookreader.php/80261/King_-_The_Stand.html


Stephen King

The Stand - The Complete & Uncut Edition


Chapter 37


“But lately, I’ve had an extremely bad dream. It recurs, like my dream of being crushed to death under the lift, but it makes that one look like a pussycat in comparison. It’s like no other dream I’ve ever had, but somehow it’s like all of them. As if… as if it were the sum of all bad dreams. And I wake up feeling bad, as if it wasn’t a dream at all, but a vision. I know how crazy that must sound.”

“What is it?”

“It’s a man,” Bateman said quietly. “At least, I think it’s a man. He’s standing on the roof of a high building, or maybe it’s a cliff that he’s on. Whatever it is, it’s so high that it sheers away into mist thousands of feet below. It’s near sunset, but he’s looking the other way, east. Sometimes he seems to be wearing bluejeans and a denim jacket, but more often he’s in a robe with a cowl. I can never see his face, but I can see his eyes. He has red eyes. And I have a feeling that he’s looking for me —and that sooner or later he will find me










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False Identity (1990)

Release Info

USA 8 June 1990



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False Identity (1990)

Plot Summary


When Rachel, a radio personality, discovers a Purple Heart at a garage sale she decides to find out its history. She finds that the medal belonged to a man named Harlan Erickson, a long-lost brother of the town's leading citizen.










http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie8.html

Star Trek: First Contact (1996)


PICARD: What have you found out?

TROI: There's no sign of Cochrane anywhere in the complex.

PICARD: He has to be here. There was nothing more important to him than this ship. This flight. It was his dream.

TROI: Captain, we should consider the possibility that Doctor Cochrane was killed in the attack.










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IMDb


Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

Release Info

USA 18 November 1996 (Hollywood, California) (premiere)



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Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

Full Cast & Crew

James Cromwell ... Zefram Cochran










http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=4847

The American Presidency Project

Gerald Ford

XXXVIII President of the United States: 1974 - 1977

198 - Remarks at the Old North Bridge, Concord, Massachusetts.

April 19, 1975

Thank you very, very much, Mr. Suter. Governor Dukakis, Mr. Ambassador, Senator Brooke, Senator Kennedy, Members of the House of Representatives, distinguished guests, and fellow, Americans:

Two hundred years ago today, American Minutemen raised their muskets at the Old North Bridge and answered a British volley. Ralph Waldo Emerson called it "the shot heard round the world." The British were in full retreat soon afterwards and. returned to Boston. But there was no turning back for the colonists--the American Revolution had begun.

Today, two centuries later, the President of 50 united States and 213 million people stands before a new generation of Americans who have come to this hallowed ground.

In these two centuries, the United States has become a world power. From a newborn nation with a few ships, American seapower now ranges to the most distant shores. From a militia of raw recruits, the American military stands on the frontlines of the free world. Our fliers and our planes eclipse one another in power and in speed with each succeeding new breed of airmen and aircraft.

From a nation virtually alone, America is now allied with many free worlds [nations] in common defense. The concepts of isolationism and "Fortress America" no longer represent either the reasoning or the role of the United States foreign policy.

World leadership was thrust upon America, and we have assumed it. In accepting that role, the United States has assumed responsibility from which it cannot and will not retreat. Free nations need the United States, and we need free nations. Neither can go it alone.

There are some in the world who still believe that force and the threat of force are the major instruments of national and international policy. They believe that military supremacy over others is [the] logical and legitimate [end] of their revolutionary doctrines. Such aims have left a trail of tyranny, broken promises, and falsehood.

Tyranny by any other name is still tyranny. Broken promises in any other language are still promises unkept. And falsehood by any other description is still a lie.

This is not the rhetoric of the past. It is reason about the present because history keeps repeating itself. Force as an instrument of national and international policy continues to be a major instrument of change in the world. Reasonable societies and reasonable people must do all in their power to reconcile all threats to peace. Now is a time for reconciliation, not recrimination. It is a time of reconstruction, not rancor.

The world is witnessing revolutionary technological, economic, and social change--a massive and rapid breaking of barriers.

We, all men and women of all lands, must master this change. We must make this revolution an evolution--to make and accept change with greater order and greater restraint.

How can we achieve, how can we accomplish this evolution? It is not enough to call upon material resources. No material resources are sufficient to themselves to inspire the continued confidence of men in reasonable change. We must summon higher, greater values as we proceed. These higher values are found in the principles of this Republic, forged by our forefathers in the Declaration of Independence.

Thomas Jefferson wrote of change in the light of American principles, and he said, "Nothing, then, is unchangeable but the inherent and inalienable rights of man." Jefferson accepted change in the ordinary course of human events, but he rejected any fundamental change in the principles of our Republic, the inalienable rights of man.

Often, change is healthy for a people and a nation. That is why America has always been a land of new horizons and new hopes. Free choice, the consent of the governed, represents the American philosophy of change.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are sacred rights, not to be given or not to be taken by shifting winds or changing moods. It is important to recall these truths, because the men and women of America must renew that faith, their courage, and their confidence. Our belief, our commitment to human rights, to human liberties, must also represent belief and commitment to ourselves.

It is a time to place the hand of healing on the heart of America--not division and not blame. When all is said and done, the finest tribute that may ever be paid this Nation and this people is that we provided a home for freedom.

Freedom was nourished in American soil because the principles of the Declaration of Independence flourished in our land. These principles, when enunciated 200 years ago, were a dream, not a reality. Today, they are real. Equality has matured in America. Our inalienable rights have become even more sacred. There is no government in our land without consent of the governed.

Many other lands have freely accepted the principles of liberty and freedom in the Declaration of Independence and fashioned their own independent republics. It is these principles, freely taken and freely shared, that have revolutionized the world. The volley fired here at Concord two centuries ago, "the shot heard round the world," still echoes today on this anniversary.

One hundred years from now, a new generation of Americans will come here to rededicate this Nation and renew the spirit of our people in the principles that inspire us on this occasion. Let it be said that those of us who came to Concord today reaffirmed these final words of the Declaration of Independence: "We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor."

Thank you very, very much.

Note: The President spoke at 9:54 a.m. at Patriots Day ceremonies at the bridge. He was introduced by Philip Suter, chairman of the Town of Concord Board of Selectmen.

Following the President's remarks, Sir Peter Ramsbotham, British Ambassador to the United States, laid a wreath on the graves of British soldiers buried at Concord. The President then placed a wreath at the base of the Minutemen Statue.










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Around the World in 80 Days Season 1 Episode 1

Part 1

Aired Unknown Apr 16, 1989 on Fireworks International

AIRED: 4/16/89










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Route 66 Season 3 Episode 4

Ever Ride the Waves in Oklahoma

Aired Friday 8:30 PM Oct 12, 1962 on CBS

AIRED: 10/12/62










http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-columbus-day-storm-50th-anniversary.html

Cliff Mass Weather Blog


Wednesday, October 10, 2012

The Columbus Day Storm 50th Anniversary

It was the most powerful and destructive storm to strike the Northwest since the arrival of European settlers.

AND it was probably the most powerful non-tropical cyclone to strike the lower-48 states during the past century.

The Columbus Day Storm occurred on October 12, 1962, with the fiftieth anniversary this week.

I have thought a lot about this event, partially because one of my research areas has been intense Northwest storms and in part because I am giving a talk on Thursday at Kane Hall.

The winds during the storm were amazing (see graphic of peak gusts, courtesy Wolf Read). Over 145 mph at Cape Blanco, 138 mph at Newport, over 130 mph at Mt. Hebo, 160 mph at the Naselle radar site in SW Washington, 116 in Portland, and 100 mph in Renton (so those people who put down Renton keep this in mind!).

The central pressure of the Columbus Day Storm (CDS) dropped to approximately 955 hPa and was equivalent in pressure and winds to a category 3 hurricane (like Katrina as it struck New Orleans). I have little doubt that if the CDS hit today it would result in many billions, if not tens of billions, of dollars of damage. The Columbus Day Storm was FAR stronger than the "Perfect Storm" (Halloween 1991) of movie fame. I mean it wasn't even close.

Before the storm was over 46 people had died, 317 were hospitalized, and 15 billion board feet of timber, enough to build 300,000 homes, had fallen. Millions had lost power, with the twin high-tension power lines to Portland toppled like some children's Tinker Toys.

An interesting aspect of this storm was that is started as Typhoon Freda in the western Pacific. Moving northward, this storm weakened and transitioned into a midlatitude cyclone. In doing so, it switched energy sources from the warmth and moisture of the tropical Pacific to the differences in temperatures found in the midlatitudes (sort of a meteorological version of a hybrid car). Moving across the Pacific, it swung south into a large trough over the eastern Pacific and then moved northward along the West Coast, growing very rapidly

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http://www.af.mil/AboutUs/Biographies/Display/tabid/225/Article/106446/brigadier-general-frank-p-lahm.aspx

U.S. AIR FORCE


BRIGADIER GENERAL FRANK P. LAHM

Retired November 20,1941 Died July 07,1963

Frank Purdy Lahm was born in Mansfield, Ohio in 1877. He attended public school in Mansfield and later a Dominican school near Paris, France. Lahm then spent two years at Michigan Military Academy preparing for West Point, where he entered in June 1897.

Although he graduated in the top fifth of his class, he found plenty of time for athletics. He held the rope climbing record at West Point, and his great enthusiasm for riding led him into the Cavalry upon graduation in 1901. He became a second lieutenant of cavalry and served in the Philippines for two years.

Upon his return to the United States in 1903, Lieutenant Lahm was stationed at West Point as an instructor in French. The summer of 1904 was eventful. It marked the beginning of his activities in aeronautics.

Lahm's father had joined the Aero Club of France and owned the balloon the "Katherine Hamilton," named in honor of his daughter. The elder Lahm made frequent ascensions and initiated his son in a night ascension.

In the summer of 1905 young Lahm completed the requirements of six ascensions, including one at night and one alone, to win his Federation Aeronautique Internationale license as a balloon pilot. In July of the same summer Lahm became a first lieutenant. In 1906 young Lahm won the International Balloon Race, flying across the Channel from Paris, France to Yorkshire, England.

Lieutenant Lahm contracted typhoid in the spring of 1907. He spent part of his convalescence at a rest home in St. Germain. One day the garden gate opened and in walked the senior Lahm and Wilbur and Orville Wright. This was the beginning of a warm friendship which lasted until the two brothers died.

In August 1907, Lieutenant Lahm was assigned to the Aeronautical Division of the 0ffice of the Chief Signal Office in Washington. At Fort Myer Va., Lahm and a detachment of Signal Corps soldiers constructed a hydrogen generating plant and practiced captive observation balloon work. Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone and an early aviation enthusiast, often invited Lahm and young scientists to his Washington home for discussions on many subjects, especially aviation.

The Wright brothers brought an improved version of their 1908 plane to Fort Myer, Va., in 1909 for official War Department tests. After practice hops Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Lahm as a passenger, made the first official test flight on July 27. He and Lahm established a world's record for a two-man flight - one hour, 12 minutes and 40 seconds. The Wright Brothers set out to fulfill their Army contracts by teaching officers to operate the machine. In October 1909 Wilbur Wright trained Lieutenants Lahm and Frederic E. Humphreys at a field in College Park, Md. Both officers soloed. With little more than three hours apiece flying time, Lahm and Humphreys were pronounced pilots on Oct 26. When Lahm and Humphreys crashed Nov. 5, the Army lost its entire air force, one plane. Both were uninjured, but the Signal Corps lost them when they returned to their regular assignments.

In 1911 Lahm attended Mounted Service School and at the end of the year he was transferred to the Philippines. At the request of the Signal Corps he opened a flying school at Fort William McKinley near Manila in March 1912. Lahm trained several pilots in the next two years using one Wright Type B plane.

Lahm was then assigned to the 6th Cavalry and served at Texas City and Harlingen, Texas until April 1916. He became a captain April 1, 1916, and then President of the Junior Military Aviator Examining Board, Signal Corps Aviation School in San Diego, Calif. In May 1917 Captain Lahm became commanding officer of the Army Balloon School at Fort Omaha, Neb., and in June he was promoted to major.

Major Lahm went to Britain with the American Expeditionary Forces in August 1917. He participated in the Aisne-Marne, St. Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne offensives, and then in the occupation of a defensive sector.

Lahm was inspector of the British and French balloon services and chief of staff, Air Service, 1st and 2d armies in France. In February 1918 Lahm became a lieutenant colonel and in September he was appointed full colonel.

Colonel Lahm returned home in August 1919 and studied at the General Staff College in Washington D.C., until August 1920. He was a member and later in charge of the Organization Section, Organization Branch of the Operation and Training Division of the General Staff until July 1924. He was then Air Officer at the Ninth Corps Area at the Presidio of San Francisco, Calif.

The Air Corps Training Center was established at San Antonio, Texas in August 1920. Lahm commanded the school which included primary and advanced flying school and the School of Aviation Medicine. Lahm was appointed assistant to the chief of the Air Corps with the rank of brigadier general in July 1930.

In 1931 Lahm went to France as assistant military attache for air. Four years later he was chief of aviation for the First Army at Governors Island, N.Y. He received the Legion of Merit for his contribution to this command during its important formative period. Lahm served on duty at the Gulf Coast Air Corps Training Center at Randolph Field, Texas where he retired Nov. 20, 1941 in the grade of brigadier general. Lahm died July 7, 1963 at Good Samaritan Hospital in Sandusky, Ohio.

In addition to the Legion of Merit, Lahm received the Distinguished Service Medal, the French Legion of Honor and the Portuguese Order of Avis. Lahm was co-author with Colonel Charles deForest Chandler of How Our Army Grew Wings.

ASSIGNMENTS

1905 - Sent by Signal Corps to study aeronautics in France, Belgium, Germany.

1906 - Won the International Balloon Race from Paris to York County, England.

1908 - U.S. Army decided to buy a plane - among specifications to be met - must carry two persons. Three Army lieutenants assigned as a nucleus air force - Lahm, Foulois and Selfridge - one was to be passenger on test flight. Selfridge chosen. Orville Wright flew the plane - the "Flyer," built to meet Army specifications, at Fort Myer, Va. Lahm was passenger on first pre-test flight. Official flight made Sept. 17, 1908. Plane crashed, Orville Wright injured, Selfridge died from injuries.

1909 - Orville Wright and Lahm made first two-man endurance record of one hour, 12 minutes, 40 seconds, fulfilling the conditions of one hour's flight with a passenger, in the first official test flight of airplane built for Army acceptance.

Lahm and Lieutenant Frederic E. Humphreys trained to fly by Wilbur Wright at College Park, Md., (October). Both soloed 26 Oct 1909.

Lahm believed to be first rated pilot in the U.S. Military Service.

1912 - Opened a flying school at Fort William McKinley near Manila -March 1912 - at request of Signal Corps - using one Wright Type B plane trained several pilots during the next two years.

World War I - Went to England in August 1917 - as captain commanded balloon units in American Expeditionary Force. Later commanded the 1st and 2d Army Air services.

1926 - Became assistant chief of Air Corps - brigadier general in July - Organized and commanded the Corps Training Center at San Antonio, Texas, in August 1926, which in October 1931 became Gulf Coast Air Corps Training Center and moved to Randolph Field, Texas - now location of Headquarters Air Training Command. Lackland Military Training Center is now located at San Antonio (Lackland Air Force Base).

1935 - Became chief of aviation for First Army.

Returned to Gulf Coast Air Corps Training Center at Randolph Field, Texas, where he retired Nov. 30, 1941.










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U.S. Marshal Season 1 Episode 1

The Fugitives

Aired Unknown Oct 11, 1958 on

AIRED: 10/11/58










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Stephen King's The Stand Season 1 Episode 1

The Plague

Aired Sunday 12:00 AM May 08, 1994 on ABC

AIRED: 5/8/94










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Battlestar Galactica Episode 1

Battlestar Galactica:The Mini-Series

AIRED: 12/8/03










http://www.oocities.org/elzj78/bsgminiseries.html


BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: Miniseries (2003)


Six: How small they are.

Mom: I know. But they grow up so fast.










JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From:

Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2013 1:22 PM

To: Kerry Burgess


And I am going to send you over a new lease that has your move date as September 27th. Sorry to make you sign all over again. Though the current tenant is VERY grateful to have the extra few days. Thank you again!


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Mega-storm Patricia drenches Mexico as it weakens

Oct 24, 6:03 AM (ET) [ Saturday 24 October 2015 Pacific Time USA ]

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN

PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico (AP) — Hurricane Patricia pushed rapidly inland over mountainous western Mexico early Saturday, weakening from its record-breaking strength but still powerful as it dumped torrential rains that authorities warned could cause deadly floods and mudslides.

Patricia, which peaked as the strongest hurricane on record in the Western Hemisphere, made landfall Friday on a sparsely populated stretch of Mexico's Pacific coast as a Category 5 storm



http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/10/23/451276950/hurricane-patricia-makes-landfall-in-mexico

npr


Hurricane Patricia Makes Landfall In Mexico

OCTOBER 23, 2015 8:12 PM ET


Updated at 11:35 p.m.

Hurricane Patricia, one of the most powerful hurricanes in history, made landfall on Mexico's Pacific coast Friday night.

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BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: Miniseries (2003)


Leoben: That's it, isn't it? And this is a refuge, that's why you put a fleet out here. Last ditch effort to hide










http://www.tv.com/shows/the-outer-limits-1963/the-man-with-the-power-21534/

tv.com


The Outer Limits - Original Season 1 Episode 4

The Man With the Power

Aired Monday 8:00 PM Oct 07, 1963 on ABC

AIRED: 10/7/63










http://www.tv.com/shows/the-outer-limits-1963/the-man-with-the-power-21534/trivia/

tv.com


The Outer Limits - Original Season 1 Episode 4

The Man With the Power

Aired Monday 8:00 PM Oct 07, 1963 on ABC

Quotes


Vera Finley: You wouldn't hurt anyone even if you could. You're not a violent man. You've never hated anyone, never.

Harold Finley: Not to hurt them, no, Vera. But I have this power. It acts whether I want it to or not.

Vera Finley: No, Harold, you don't have any power. You've always been quiet. You told me yourself you're too mild, you're too weak.

Harold Finley: No more, Vera! I could split this ceiling open if I wanted to! I could crash down these walls. I could splinter this whole block into bricks and rubble.

Vera Finley: Harold, you're a little man, a nobody. You don't have any power.










http://www.e-reading.org.ua/bookreader.php/80261/King_-_The_Stand.html


Stephen King

The Stand - The Complete & Uncut Edition


Chapter 48


“Who’s here?” Trash croaked, but no answer came back.

He was afraid then, because this was a place of ghosts, a place where monsters might lurk, but the fear was weakened by his weariness. He stumbled down the steps and into the casino, passing the Cub Bar, where Lloyd Henreid sat silently in the deep shadows, watching him and holding a glass of Poland water.

He came to a table upholstered in green baize, the mystic legend DEALER MUST HIT 16 AND STAND ON 17 inscribed thereon. Trash climbed up on it and fell instantly asleep. Soon nearly half a dozen men stood around the sleeping ragamuffin that was the Trashcan Man.

“What do we do with him?” Ken DeMott asked.

“Let him sleep,” Lloyd answered. “Flagg wants him.”










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tv.com


Battlestar Galactica Episode 1

Battlestar Galactica:The Mini-Series

AIRED: 12/8/03










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tv.com


Operation Petticoat Season 1 Episode 1


Aired Saturday 8:30 PM Sep 17, 1977 on ABC

AIRED: 9/17/77










http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053143/quotes

IMDb


Operation Petticoat (1959)

Quotes


Lt. Cmdr. Matt T. Sherman: Chief, can this boat go down?

Chief Molumphry: Like a stone, sir.

Lt. Cmdr. Matt T. Sherman: And the engines?

Chief Mechanic's Mate Sam Tostin: Factory fresh, sir!

Capt. J.B. Henderson: Captain, take these 2 liars and get the hell out of here!










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BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: Miniseries (2003)


Adama: Specialist.

Specialist: Sir.

Adama: Bring me our position.

Specialist: Yes, sir.

Tigh: You don't want to do this.

Adama: I know I don't.

Tigh: Because any sane man wouldn't. It's been, what, twenty, twenty-two years?










http://www.e-reading.org.ua/bookreader.php/80261/King_-_The_Stand.html


Stephen King

The Stand - The Complete & Uncut Edition


Chapter 37


So they walked on down 302, one of them wheeling the barrow while the other drank a beer. No matter which was which, Bateman talked, an endless monologue that jumped from topic to topic with hardly a pause. Kojak bounced alongside. Stu would listen for a while, then his thoughts would trail off for a while, following their own tangents, and then his mind would come back. He was disquieted by Bateman’s picture of a hundred little enclaves of people, some of them militaristic, living in a country where thousands of doomsday weapons had been left around like a child’s set of blocks. But oddly, the thing his mind kept returning to was Glen Bateman’s dream, the man with no face on top of the high building—or the cliff-edge—the man with the red eyes, his back to the setting sun, looking restlessly to the east.

He woke up sometime before midnight, bathed in sweat, afraid he had screamed. But in the next room, Glen Bateman’s breathing was slow and regular, undisturbed, and in the hallway he could see Kojak sleeping with his head on his paws. Everything was picked out in moonlight so bright it was surreal.

When he woke, Stu had been up on his elbows, and now he lowered himself back to the damp sheet and put an arm over his eyes, not wanting to remember the dream but helpless to avoid it.

He had been in Stovington again. Elder was dead. Everyone was dead. The place was an echoing tomb. He was the only one alive, and he couldn’t find the way out.










http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033741/releaseinfo

IMDb


I Wanted Wings (1941)

Release Info

USA 26 March 1941










https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_1911


April 1911

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The following events occurred in April 1911:


April 11, 1911 (Tuesday)


Died: Crazy Snake, 64, real name Chito Harjo, Creek Indian warrior who had, on March 27, 1909, led the last American Indian uprising in the Indian Territory, later Oklahoma.



http://digital.library.okstate.edu/Chronicles/v011/v011p0899.html

Oklahoma Historical Society's Chronicles of Oklahoma


Chronicles of Oklahoma

Volume 11, No. 3

September, 1933

THE PLEA OF CRAZY SNAKE (Chitto Harjo)

By JOHN BARTLETT MESERVE.


DEATH OF CRAZY SNAKE


"Spring has passed four times since Chitto Harjo was laid to rest in his grave-house at the home of Daniel Bob. He died in a foreign land—the Choctaw country, for such a fullblood would consider any spot outside the boundaries of his tribal lands. His abandoned home in the Creek Nation, valued at several thousand dollars, forced the Federal government to perservere in its search for Chitto, and only the most assiduous inquiry led to his location.

"Daniel Bob, in Indian fashion, dictated a letter to the writer that for simplicity and directness belongs to Homeric times. It reads:

"There was a man by the name of Chitto Harjo were came over here at my place.

"He were stay here while, and he got down in April 5, 1911, and the last few days of his life were spent in bed. One morning in April 11, 1911, at 10 o'clock, his life passed from away.

"In this April 5, he get down that with indeed distress, as the gunshot wound in his hip, and had died.

"Than we laid him good in my house yard. That where he lie in grave.

"This is all about Chitto Harjo death at my place".










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tv.com


The Twilight Zone Season 2 Episode 22

Long Distance Call

Aired Unknown Mar 31, 1961 on CBS

A young boy find he can communicate with his dead grandmother through a toy phone.

AIRED: 3/31/61










http://www.tv.com/shows/the-twilight-zone/long-distance-call-12642/trivia/

tv.com


The Twilight Zone Season 2 Episode 22

Long Distance Call

Aired Unknown Mar 31, 1961 on CBS

Quotes


Shirley: This is Mr. Peterson.

Mr. Peterson: I've been sitting here shaking for 20 minutes because of what happened with your son.

Chris: Well what did happen with Billy?

Mr. Peterson: He ran out in front of my car, it's a good thing I'm a careful driver. You should talk to him about playing out in the street.










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amazon


Rainbow Six Hardcover – August 3, 1998

by Tom Clancy (Author)


Product Details

Hardcover: 738 pages

Publisher: Putnam Adult; First Edition edition (August 3, 1998)










http://www.nvr.navy.mil/nvrships/details/CG47.htm

NVR

Naval Vessel Register

TICONDEROGA (CG 47)
(ex-DDG 47)
GUIDED MISSILE CRUISER
Class: CG 47

Status: Stricken, available for donation as a museum and memorial
Award Date: 09/22/1978
Keel Date: 01/21/1980
Launch Date: 04/25/1981
Commission Date: 01/22/1983
Decommission Date: 09/30/2004










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Tom Clancy

Red Storm Rising


20 – The Dance of the Vampires


"Vampire, Vampire!" the CIC talker said aboard Ticonderoga. "We have numerous incoming missiles. Weapons free."

The group antiair warfare officer ordered the cruiser's Aegis weapons system into full automatic mode. Tico had been built with this exact situation in mind. Her powerful radar/computer system immediately identified the incoming missiles as hostile and assigned each a priority of destruction. The computer was completely on its own, free to fire on its electronic will at anything diagnosed as a threat.










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amazon


Red Storm Rising Hardcover – August 7, 1986

by Tom Clancy (Author)


Product Details

Hardcover: 656 pages

Publisher: G. P. Putnam Sons; 1st edition (August 7, 1986)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0399131493
ISBN-13: 978-0399131493



http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1385857.Red_Storm_Rising

goodreads


Red Storm Rising

by Tom Clancy


Hardcover, 656 pages

Published August 7th 1986 by Putnam Publishing Group


ISBN

0399131493 (ISBN13: 9780399131493)



http://www.book-info.com/isbn/0-399-13149-3.htm

archINFORM


authors

Tom Clancy


ISBN-10: 0-399-13149-3

ISBN-13: 9780399131493

Publisher: Putnam Adult

Year: August 7, 1986

Edition: First edition










https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/history/famous-cases/patty-hearst-kidnapping

THE FBI FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION


The Patty Hearst Kidnapping


Assault rifle in hand, Hearst joins DeFreeze in robbing a San Francisco bank on April 15, 1974. It was her first crime as a professed SLA member.










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NOAA


National Weather Service

National Hurricane Center


Tropical Storm PATRICIA

ZCZC MIATCPEP5 ALL

TTAA00 KNHC DDHHMM

BULLETIN

TROPICAL STORM PATRICIA ADVISORY NUMBER 3

NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL EP202015

1000 PM CDT TUE OCT 20 2015

...DEPRESSION STRENGTHENS INTO THE SIXTEENTH TROPICAL STORM OF THE SEASON SOUTH OF MEXICO










http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/mer/mission/launch_e.html

NASA

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Mars Exploration Rover Mission

Launch Event Details - archive


When did the Rovers Launch?


Mission: MER-A "Spirit"

Launch Date: June 10, 2003

Launch Time: 1:58:47 p.m. EDT

Launch Vehicle: Delta II

Launch Pad: 17-A

Mission: MER-B "Opportunity"

Launch Date: July 7, 2003

Launch Time: 11:18:15 p.m. EDT

Launch Vehicle: Delta II

Launch Pad: 17-B










JOURNAL ARCHIVE: - posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 6:32 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Tuesday 23 June 2015 - http://hvom.blogspot.com/2015/06/ah-i-think-were-at-some-kind-of.html


Also, I have been thinking more today about how I have reacted to memories I still have of the time period before 6/13/2005. I was inpatient at the University of Washington Medical Center mental health unit in Seattle and they executed me there. They literally decided on 13 June 2005 to literally kill me dead dead dead and then someone came into my room that night, possibly after midnight I have been thinking, and they literally injected me with some kind of chemical compound that killed me dead and then they hauled my corpse off for storage. After I returned as a living being after they literally killed me I returned with incomplete memory. I think of that change now as being some kind of loss of context. Not so much a fragmentation of memory but a loss of context about memory. A key fact changed and so that causes my mind to ignore certain facts about before 6/13/2005.


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http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=ghosts-of-mars

Springfield! Springfield!


Ghosts of Mars (2001)


After we dynamited the mountain
we discovered an entrance.
It was a tunnel
carved into the rock.
It had been hidden underneath
the outer walls for centuries
and someone other than man
had carved it.
WHITLOCK:
Jesus!
MAN: What the hell is that?
WHITLOCK: I don't know.
MAN:
Get the hell out of here!
It was me.
I opened Pandora's box.
I let them out.










JOURNAL ARCHIVE: ----- Original Message ----

From: Kerry Burgess

To: Kerry Burgess

Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 1:38:07 PM

Subject: Re: Journal May 20, 2006


Kerry Burgess wrote:


I have gone out and beat myself into the ground to the point of hypothermia


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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 11/5/2006 9:55 PM


There is also Millersylvania State Park where I completed all those marathons. I completed 5 down there in a year’s time, starting with the Christmas Marathon. I believe the first one was in December 2001 and the last one was the Christmas Marathon again in December 2002.


[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 05 November 2006 excerpt ends]





JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 8:47 PM Monday, August 20, 2007


11/4/2006 10:26 PM
All those marathons I ran down south of Olympia. The run course started at Millersylvania State Park


http://www.ontherunevents.com/xmasmarathon/
Christmas Classic Marathon


[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 20 August 2007 excerpt ends]

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Stephen King

The Stand - The Complete & Uncut Edition


Chapter 38

As the superflu epidemic wound down, there was a second epidemic that lasted roughly two weeks. This epidemic was most common in technological societies such as the United States, least common in underdeveloped countries such as Peru or Senegal. In the United States the second epidemic took about 16 percent of the superflu survivors. In places like Peru and Senegal, no more than 3 percent. The second epidemic had no name because the symptoms differed wildly from case to case. A sociologist like Glen Bateman might have called this second epidemic “natural death” or “those ole emergency room blues.” In a strictly Darwinian sense, it was the final cut—the unkindest cut of all, some might have said.










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Stephen King

The Stand - The Complete & Uncut Edition


Chapter 38


Sam Tauber was five and a half years old. His mother had died on June the twenty-fourth in the Murfreesboro, Georgia, General Hospital. On the twenty-fifth, his father and younger sister, two-year-old April, had died. On June the twenty-seventh, his older brother Mike died, leaving Sam to shift for himself.

Sam had been in shock ever since the death of his mother. He wandered carelessly up and down the streets of Murfreesboro, eating when he was hungry, sometimes crying. After a while he stopped crying, because crying did no good. It didn’t bring the people back. At night his sleep was broken by horrible nightmares in which Papa and April and Mike died over and over, their faces swollen black, a terrible rattling sound in their chests as they strangled on their own snot.

At quarter of ten on the morning of July 2, Sam wandered into a field of wild blackberries behind Hattie Reynolds’s house. Bemused and vacant-eyed, he zigzagged among blackberry bushes that were almost twice as tall as he was, picking the berries and eating them until his lips and chin were smeared black. The thorns ripped at his clothes and sometimes at his bare flesh, but he barely noticed. Bees hummed drowsily around him. He never saw the old and rotted well-cover half buried in tall grass and blackberry creepers. It gave under his weight with a grinding, splintering crash, and Sam plunged twenty feet down the rock-lined shaft to the dry bottom, where he broke both legs. He died twenty hours later, as much from fear and misery as from shock and hunger and dehydration.










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Stephen King

The Stand - The Complete & Uncut Edition


Chapter 38


George McDougall lived in Nyack, New York. He had been a teacher of high school mathematics, specializing in remedial work. He and his wife had been practicing Catholics, and Harriett McDougall had borne him eleven children, nine boys and two girls. So between June 22, when his nine-year-old son Jeff had succumbed to what was then diagnosed as “flu-related pneumonia,” and June 29, when his sixteen-year-old daughter Patricia (and oh God she had been so young and so achingly beautiful) had succumbed to what everyone—those that were left—was then calling tube-neck, he had seen the twelve people he loved best in the world pass away while he himself remained healthy and feeling fine. He had joked at school about not being able to remember all his kids’ names, but the order of their passing was engraved on his memory: Jeff on the twenty-second, Marty and Helen on the twenty-third, his wife Harriett and Bill and George, Jr., and Robert and Stan on the twenty-fourth, Richard on the twenty-fifth, Danny on the twenty-seventh, three-year-old Frank on the twenty-eighth, and finally Pat—and Pat had seemed to be getting better, right up to the end.

George thought he would go mad.

He had begun jogging ten years before, on his doctor’s advice. He didn’t play tennis or handball, paid a kid (one of his, of course) to mow the lawn, and usually drove to the corner store when Harriett needed a loaf of bread. You’re putting on weight, Dr. Warner had said. Lead in the seat. No good for your heart. Try jogging.

So he had gotten a sweatsuit and had gone jogging every night, for short distances at the start, then longer and longer ones. At first he’d felt self-conscious, sure that the neighbors must be tapping their foreheads and rolling their eyes, and then a couple of the men that he had only known to wave to when they were out watering their lawns came and asked if they could join him—probably there was safety in numbers. By that time, George’s two oldest boys had also joined in. It became a sort of neighborhood thing, and although the membership was always evolving as people dropped in and dropped out, it stayed a neighborhood thing.

Now that everyone was gone, he still jogged. Every day. For hours. It was only when he was jogging, concentrating on nothing more than the thud of his tennis shoes on the sidewalk and the swing of his arms and his steady harsh respiration, that he lost that feeling of impending madness. He could not commit suicide because as a practicing Catholic he knew that suicide was a mortal sin and God must be saving him for something, so he jogged. Yesterday he had jogged for almost six hours, until he was completely out of breath and almost retching with exhaustion. He was fifty-one, not a young man anymore, and he supposed that so much running was not good for him, but in another, more important way, it was the only thing that was any good.

So he had gotten up this morning at first light after a mostly sleepless night (the thought that played over and over in his mind was: Jeff-Marty-Helen-Harriett-Bill-George-Junior-Robert-Stanley-Richard-Danny-Frank-Patty-and-I-thought-she-was-getting-better) and put on his sweatsuit. He went out and began to jog up and down the deserted streets of Nyack, his feet sometimes gritting on broken glass, once leaping over a TV set that lay shattered on the pavement, taking him past residential streets where the shades were drawn and also past the horrible three-car crash at the Main Street intersection.

He jogged at first, but it became necessary to run faster and faster to keep the thoughts behind him. He jogged and then he trotted and then he ran and finally he sprinted, a fifty-one-year-old man with gray hair in a gray sweatsuit and white tennis shoes, fleeing up and down empty streets as if all the devils of hell were after him. At quarter past eleven he suffered a massive coronary thrombosis and fell down dead on the corner of Oak and Pine, near a fire plug. The expression on his face was very like gratitude.



- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 08:26 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Saturday 24 October 2015