http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gtwo.php?basin=epac&fdays=2
NOAA
National Weather Service
National Hurricane Center
Eastern Pacific 2-Day Graphical Tropical Weather Outlook
Tropical Weather Outlook Text
Tropical Weather Discussion
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NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
1100 PM PDT SUN OCT 25 2015
For the eastern North Pacific...east of 140 degrees west longitude:
The Central Pacific Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Hurricane Olaf, located several hundred miles east-northeast of Hilo, Hawaii. Olaf is expected to cross 140 degrees West longitude on Monday, at which time advisories on this system will be issued by the National Hurricane Center.
1. An elongated area of low pressure located about 1275 miles southwest of the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula has changed little in organization during the past 24 hours. Development, if any, of this system is expected to be slow to occur while the low moves little during the next few days.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent
* Formation chance through 5 days...low...20 percent
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=36729
The American Presidency Project
Ronald Reagan
XL President of the United States: 1981 - 1989
Remarks on the Observance of National Philanthropy Day
November 14th, 1986
Thank you very much. I have just read a clipping this morning from the United Press that shows how the private sector is spreading and things of this kind in philanthropy; that the First Lady of the Soviet Union has been named to the board of directors of a private, and privately financed, group in the Soviet Union. But I appreciate this opportunity to be with you today in recognition of one of America's greatest national treasures: the spirit of philanthropy that is so evident among our people.
When I was a lad growing up in the Midwest in Dixon, Illinois, we took this to he Americanism. And each and every one of us knew what kind of town we had and what kind of country we had. And it was all up to us. And although we were not as well off as many in town, my mother was always involved in projects for the less fortunate. She could always find somebody that was worse off than we were. I can still remember her doing a little baking of pies and cakes, and then finding out with quite some disappointment that they were for the sick lady down the street. [Laughter]
Just like every other kid in our town, I was a beneficiary of this spirit of community. I did a lot of talking about this out on the campaign. Part of it for me meant being a member of the YMCA Boys Band; I was the drum major. And during the recent election there'd be some high school bands at the political rallies, and I would tell some of these young people the story about what happened to me in that band. We were invited to go to a smaller town nearby on Memorial Day and to march in the parade. And we found out that we were at the head of the parade. The only thing in front of us was the parade marshal on a big white horse. And we started off down the street; and I'm with that baton, which was bigger than I was. And suddenly, he rode back down the parade line to make sure that everything was coming along all right. And I'm going down the street, leading the band and the music began to sound a little faint. [Laughter] And I sneaked a glance back. He had caught up with the front of the parade just in time to turn the band down an intersection, and I was walking up the street all by myself. [Laughter] I cut across backyards and so forth and scrambled to get in front of the band about another block away.
http://www.e-reading.org.ua/bookreader.php/80261/King_-_The_Stand.html
Stephen King
The Stand - The Complete & Uncut Edition
Chapter 13
Stu interrupted him with a series of harsh, dry coughs. He bent over with the force of them.
The effect on Deitz was galvanic. He was up off the bed like a shot and across to the airlock with his feet seeming not to touch the floor at all. Then he was fumbling in his pocket for the square key and ramming it into the slot.
“Don’t bother,” Stu said mildly. “I was faking.”
Deitz turned to him slowly. Now his face had changed. His lips were thinned with anger, his eyes staring. “You were what?”
“Faking,” Stu said. His smile broadened.
Deitz took two uncertain steps toward him. His fists closed, opened, then closed again. “But why? Why would you want to do something like that?”
“Sorry,” Stu said, smiling. “That’s classified.”
“You shit sonofabitch,” Deitz said with soft wonder.
“Go on. Go on out and tell them they can do their tests.”
He slept better that night than he had since they had brought him here. And he had an extremely vivid dream. He had always dreamed a great deal—his wife had complained about him thrashing and muttering in his sleep—but he had never had a dream like this.
He was standing on a country road, at the precise place where the black hottop gave up to bone-white dirt. A blazing summer sun shone down. On both sides of the road there was green corn, and it stretched away endlessly. There was a sign, but it was dusty and he couldn’t read it. There was the sound of crows, harsh and far away. Closer by, someone was playing an acoustic guitar, fingerpicking it. Vic Palfrey had been a picker, and it was a fine sound.
This is where I ought to get to, Stu thought dimly. Yeah, this is the place, all right.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: - posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 11:56 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Wednesday 07 October 2015 - http://hvom.blogspot.com/2015/10/visitation.html
Visitation
http://gateworld.net/universe/s2/transcripts/209.shtml
GateWorld
STARGATE UNIVERSE
VISITATION
EPISODE NUMBER - 209
ORIGINAL U.S. AIR DATE - 11.23.10
In Camille's room, she has Caine under hypnosis. His eyes are closed. Young is standing nearby.
WRAY: What do you see?
CAINE: Snow is falling.
CAINE (on Destiny): The shuttle is our only shelter now.
CAINE (on Destiny): It's so cold. We lost power days ago.
CAINE (on Destiny): Something vital has broken and none of us know how to fix it.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 07 October 2015 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: - posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 11:56 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Wednesday 07 October 2015 - http://hvom.blogspot.com/2015/10/visitation.html
From 11/23/2010 To 10/26/2015 ( --- ) is 1798 days
From 11/2/1965 To 10/5/1970 is 1798 days
http://www.kcet.org/about/50/timeline/1970s/kcet-joins-pbs.html
KCET
On October 5, 1970, the new Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) television network officially went on the air
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 07 October 2015 excerpt ends]
From 11/17/1994 ( premiere US film "Star Trek Generations" ) To 10/26/2015 ( --- ) is 7648 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 10/11/1986 ( United States President Ronald Reagan meets Mikhail Gorbachev at Reykjavik Iceland ) is 7648 days
From 9/26/1957 ( premiere US TV series "O.S.S." ) To 10/26/2015 ( --- ) is 21214 days
21214 = 10607 + 10607
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 11/17/1994 ( premiere US film "Star Trek Generations" ) is 10607 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 10/26/2015 ( --- ) is 8990 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 6/14/1990 ( premiere US film "Dick Tracy" ) is 8990 days
From 10/17/1958 ( Dwight Eisenhower - Remarks at the National Corn Picking Contest, Cedar Rapids, Iowa ) To 10/26/2015 ( --- ) 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 5/25/1968 ( premiere US film "Feud with a Dude" ) To 10/26/2015 ( --- ) is 17320 days
17320 = 8660 + 8660
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 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash ) is 8660 days
http://www.e-reading.org.ua/bookreader.php/80261/King_-_The_Stand.html
Stephen King
The Stand - The Complete & Uncut Edition
Chapter 73
“My name is Paul Burlson,” he said, “and by virtue of the power vested in me, I arrest you and order you to come with me.”
“In whose name?” Glen said immediately.
Burlson looked at him with contempt… but the contempt was mixed with something else. “You know who I speak for.”
“Then say it.”
But Burlson was silent.
“Are you afraid?” Glen asked him. He looked at all eight of them. “Are you so afraid of him you don’t dare speak his name? Very well, I’ll say it for you. His name is Randall Flagg, also known as the dark man, also known as the tall man, also known as the Walkin Dude. Don’t some of you call him that?” His voice had climbed to the high, clear octaves of fury. Some of the men looked uneasily at each other and Burlson fell back a step. “Call him Beelzebub, because that’s his name, too. Call him Nyarlahotep and Ahaz and Astaroth. Call him R’yelah and Seti and Anubis. His name is legion and he’s an apostate of hell and you men kiss his ass.” His voice dropped to a conversational pitch again; he smiled disarmingly. “Just thought we ought to have that out front.”
“Grab them,” Burlson said. “Grab them all and shoot the first one that moves.”
For one strange second no one moved at all and Larry thought: They’re not going to do it, they’re as afraid of us as we are of them, more afraid, even though they have guns —
He looked at Burlson and said, “Who are you kidding, you little scumbucket? We want to go. That’s why we came.”
Then they moved, almost as though it was Larry who had ordered them. He and Ralph were bundled into the back of one cruiser, Glen into the back of the other. They were behind a steel mesh grill. There were no inside doorhandles.
We’re arrested, Larry thought. He found that the idea amused him.
Four men smashed into the front seat. The cruiser backed up, turned around, and began to head west. Ralph sighed.
“Scared?” Larry asked him in a low voice.
“I’ll be frigged if I know. It feels so-good to be off m’dogs, I can’t tell.”
One of the men in front said: “The old man with the big mouth. He in charge?”
“No. I am.”
“What’s your name?”
“Larry Underwood. This is Ralph Brentner. The other guy is Glen Bateman.” He looked out the back window. The other cruiser was behind them.
“What happened to the fourth guy?”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099422/releaseinfo
IMDb
Dick Tracy (1990)
Release Info
USA 14 June 1990 (Los Angeles, California) (premiere)
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http://www.e-reading.org.ua/bookreader.php/80261/King_-_The_Stand.html
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.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 8:47 PM Monday, August 20, 2007
11/4/2006 10:26 PM
http://www.ontherunevents.com/xmasmarathon/
Christmas Classic Marathon
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 20 August 2007 excerpt ends]
http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie7.html
Star Trek Generations (1994)
PICARD: What about Soran?
GUINAN: If he's still obsessed he could be a very, very dangerous man.
PICARD: Why would he destroy a star?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111280/releaseinfo
IMDb
Star Trek: Generations (1994)
Release Info
USA 17 November 1994 (Hollywood, California) (premiere)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062966/releaseinfo
IMDb
Feud with a Dude (1968)
Release Info
USA 25 May 1968
http://www.tv.com/shows/stephen-kings-the-stand/the-plague-1178981/
tv.com
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
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=11263
The American Presidency Project
Dwight D. Eisenhower
XXXIV President of the United States: 1953-1961
290 - Remarks at the National Corn Picking Contest, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
October 17, 1958
Mr. Chairman, Senator Hickenlooper, Senator Martin, Distinguished Guests, My Friends:
I am delighted to be out here today to enjoy this colorful contest and to exchange a word of greeting with you.
Now all of us know we are in the midst of a political campaign, but so far as I know, political speeches have never picked any corn. So I won't talk long, and as I stated before, in accepting this invitation, I certainly won't talk politics. I will say this much: if, on this coast-to-coast trip I am now making, I can get on my side the ratio against the other that you people do on the corn-hog ratio, I am going to be most successful.
Now this National Corn Picking Contest, I am told, draws larger crowds than any athletic event in the country, and well it should. It is rather the agricultural world series with a bit of frolic thrown in for good measure. And the Contest dramatizes as nothing else can the tremendous changes which have taken place on American farms.
When I was a boy, this would have been entirely a hand operation. Today it is almost wholly done by machinery. The average in those days in this State, I am told, was 40 bushels to the acre. The whole State crop this year will average more than 63, and much of your acreage is going well beyond the hundred mark. As a matter of fact, a man this morning told me that down in Mississippi there was something of a record of 300 bushels to the acre, for the world record.
Now of course, in spite of this kind of crop, the farmer has problems, but more and more the greatest of these problems is how to determine how best to use these bountiful crops farmers give us. first, to sustain our economy, and second to help us build a stable peace in the world.
Now I happen to be one of those who believes that the farmer should have more freedom to produce, rather than less. And of course, with respect to the farmer, I think all of us, and the farmers themselves, should seek happiness for him, so that he can give his greatest contribution to America's future and to America's happiness.
Now, among all the nations, we use the smallest percentage of our population to produce our harvests. Nevertheless, we produce the world's most bountiful harvest. Our high American standard of living has been built on production, not on restriction.
In our ability to produce, we have a tremendous advantage over the communist world. The free American farm worker out-produces the collectivized farmer of the Soviet Union by something like four or five to one.
Now today the communist world is hard-pressed to feed itself. Communist countries can offer guns to countries outside the iron curtain. They cannot offer food to starving people.
They can create disturbances in struggling nations. They cannot create better diets.
The communists can arouse hatred in people's hearts. They are unable to satisfy the hunger in people's stomachs.
But America can provide food, thereby helping people to advance along the road that all of us want to travel, that of rising standards. Our farmers have therefore given us a great instrument of world diplomacy. American farmers have the know-how to improve agricultural production in distant lands. And so we are exporting that know-how through our technical assistance program. And under the special export programs developed under the 1954 law, nearly one and a half billion people have had an improved diet. food production there, then, is one of our most re-assuring assets in our measures to counter the communist economic offensive.
During the past two years, our food exports have totaled 8 billion, 700 million--the largest in our history. We have succeeded in expanding markets abroad while sharing our God-given abundance with the world's needy people.
So most appropriately, one of our strongest fighters in the cause of freedom today is the farmer of America. I say "appropriately" because freedom has traditionally been the inseparable companion of farm life in America. freedom of choice is the American way. It is the enlightened way. So our farmers should always be free to make their own decisions and to use free markets to reflect the wishes of producers and the consumers.
Now due largely to these practices of freedom, farm prices are going up. Generally, those prices are higher now than when rigid price supports were last in effect. Realized net farm income is up 20 percent over last year.
Per capita farm income is the highest ever.
Gross farm income will set a new record this year.
These things are merely some facts that impress me as I talk to you, the people who fill the nation's breadbasket. But I could not leave an audience such as this, speaking only of technical facts applying to the whole science of agriculture.
Rather, I would talk for a moment, with your permission, of the one outstanding problem, the one that overshadows everything we do in America, whether we are on the farm, in the factory, in the office or working on the road: it is the problem of developing and maintaining a just and lasting peace.
Now, much is often spoken about the American foreign policy. The foreign policy itself is the simplest thing in the world to describe in terms of its basic objectives. first of all, we believe in the avoidance of force as an instrument of national policy. This means we believe in the United Nations, or at least in the principles written into that noble Charter.
Next, we understand that you cannot bargain or negotiate in a world that is tom by dissension, except from a position of strength. We know that we face certain threats--and if we are going to speak about peace, we must do it from a position of strength and not of fear. Consequently, our nation's security must be one of the things, its military security, that commands our attention every day, if we are going to talk peace.
Our national defense mechanisms have as one of their first functions that of supporting diplomacy in seeking peace. And another part of our foreign policy is merely this: firm refusal to countenance communist territorial expansion by force.
We must live by principle. We don't live by deciding upon the value or the lack of value of small bits of territory. We say America has certain principles by which to live, and it is going to have the strength of heart, the courage, the stamina, the readiness, to stand by those principles, well knowing that once you retreat from principle you cannot again turn around and face your enemy.
Now these are just the simple objectives of peaceful purpose. There is, of course, the task of implementing those principles: how do we work, how do we meet the situations that have faced us in these years of Korea and Viet Nam and Iran and Trieste, in Italy--in a divided Germany, in a divided Austria; and when we saw communism almost catch a foothold on our own hemisphere.
These are the matters that force people to study and work and stay up nights in order that America may be at peace.
Not always can any group of people be completely correct. But they can do this: they can be honest enough and courageous enough to stand on the principles that have made America great.
So the United States, facing the great monolithic atheistic dictatorship that is centered in the Kremlin, realizes that the free world will be very much stronger--far stronger--to defend against that threat, if we stick closely together. And so we take a look and see what we need and what those friends of ours need. And we need their strength, often in the front lines, to keep small fires from breaking out. But they need our help, because if they have any kind of military strength at all, often they can't afford it. And there is where not only our agricultural products but other forms of economic assistance can help to make their economies capable of producing the strength we need in these very regions, if we are collectively--all of us--to be safe.
So we give them that kind of assistance in several forms. Sometimes it's money--it's usually in loans. It's technical assistance, and as I say, surplus crops. But more than this, we want to achieve with those people, and we must achieve with all of these friends of ours, a collective, spiritual strength. We must understand that what we are trying to defend today is not merely territory. Indeed, my friends, not merely our hearthstones and our lives, we are defending principles--the things we need to defend. We are defending ideals, and we must make sure that all our friends see that truth as clearly as do we. Because our respect for the dignity and freedom of the human is the great strength of the free world, and the great strength of the United States of America.
My friends, I go now with just this word of thanks to you, and to the Almighty under Whom all of us live. I am grateful for the good harvest. I am grateful for the improvement in farm income. I am grateful that you as individuals are still running the farms, and that we are not trying to turn that job over to the federal government.
And I am grateful that there are no guns shooting today. I am grateful that so well as is possible in this troubled world, peace is maintained. And I have no other thought for the next two years, if the Lord spare me that long, except to work for that one objective--which I know is the closest to each of our hearts.
Thank you very much.
http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie7.html
Star Trek Generations (1994)
PICARD: I'm looking for a Doctor Soran from the observatory. ...Doctor Soran.
SORAN: Yes, ah yes, Captain. ...Thank you for coming.
PICARD: I understand there's something urgent you wish to discuss with me.
SORAN: Yes. I must return to the observatory immediately. I must continue a critical experiment I've been running on the Amargosa star.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/reagan-and-gorbachev-meet-in-reykjavik/print
HISTORY
OCTOBER 11, 1986 : REAGAN AND GORBACHEV MEET IN REYKJAVIK
Following up on their successful November 1985 summit meeting in Geneva, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Reykjavik, Iceland, to continue discussions about curbing their intermediate missile arsenals in Europe. Just when it appeared that agreement might be reached, the talks fell apart amid accusations and recriminations, and U.S.-Soviet relations took a giant step backwards.
The sticking point arose when Gorbachev requested that the talks concerning the missiles be expanded to include limitations on America’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). Referred to as the “Star Wars” initiative by opponents, SDI was one of Reagan’s pet projects. A multi-billion-dollar program, SDI was supposed to use space technology to provide a “shield” from nuclear attacks. Not surprisingly, Reagan refused to consider Gorbachev’s suggestion, and the talks ended the next day, October 12, with no agreement in hand. Reagan charged the Soviet leader with bad faith in trying to expand the parameters of the talks; back in the Soviet Union, Gorbachev reported that Reagan seemed to be lying about his desire for serious negotiations concerning arms limitations. Talks on the missile issue did not resume until December 1987, when the two leaders met for a third summit in Washington, and Gorbachev dropped his insistence on including SDI in the negotiations.
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http://www.ecy.wa.gov/drought/
DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY
State of Washington
Last revised: October 21, 2015
Historic drought keeps grip on state; preparations begin now for second year of drought as low snowpack is forecast in 2016
Despite recent rains and some boost for stream flows, extreme drought still covers two-thirds of Washington state.
http://www.ecy.wa.gov/news/2015/135.html
DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY
State of Washington
Department of Ecology News Release - September 24, 2015
Washington's historic drought not over yet
Drought predicted to extend into second year
OLYMPIA – Even though cooler temperatures and fall colors are returning, Washington’s historic drought isn’t over. Not by a long shot.
“The recent rains were nice, but we’re not out of the woods yet,” said Director Maia Bellon with the Washington Department of Ecology. “We’re carrying a huge water deficit into this fall and winter.”
In fact, the U.S. Drought Monitor says that the entire state remains in a drought, with the west side in severe drought and the east side in extreme drought.
Because it was so hot and dry for so long, aquifers and reservoirs that supply water to fish, farms and communities across the state took a major hit.
Water experts say that we need a “normal” snowpack this winter to stave off a second year of drought.
Yet there’s growing concern that snow may not be in the cards for the second winter in a row.
Climatologists are calling for an unusually strong El Nino weather pattern. Meaning a high likelihood that Washington could have another warmer-than-normal winter.
“The models are certainly suggesting a warmer winter
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 01:19 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Monday 26 October 2015
