Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home: Visitation

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1631 The Reverend John Eliot arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was the first Protestant minister to dedicate himself to the conversion of Native Americans to Christianity.

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November 3, 2015 in City

Freeze expected tonight in Inland NW

Mike Prager The Spokesman-Review

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An influx of colder dry air from Canada today is expected to set the stage for the first widespread freeze of the fall season in the Spokane region.

A mild autumn has been responsible for bringing a first freeze that is at least three weeks later than average in the Spokane area.

Outlying locations and some spots in the city have already seen their first frosts.

The National Weather Service is calling for lows of about 29 in Spokane and Coeur d’Alene tonight with lows near 30 to 32 degrees on Wednesday and Thursday nights.

Highs should be in the low to middle 40s for the next several days, which is a little below normal for this time of year.

A weak cold front is going to bring a small chance of snow showers early Thursday, but any showers would change to rain after 10 a.m.

More stormy weather is in the forecast for the region this weekend.

Also in the weather, several locales in the Inland Northwest broke all-time records for a warm October.

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Visitation

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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.

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September 27, 2008 in Voices

Big chill needed before Indian summer

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A few weeks ago, I was asked if I thought we were going to have an Indian summer.

At the time, we were still technically in the summer season, so an answer to that question would have required somewhat of a long-range forecast on my part, which I generally don’t try to do.

It did get me thinking however, about the term Indian summer, what its meaning is, and where it originated. It seems as if the general consensus is that Indian summer is a period of above normal, warm temperatures that occurs during the fall. I’ve also read that the warm period can only be considered an Indian summer if it follows the first freeze of the season.

Over the last 30 years, the average date of the first freeze at the Spokane International Airport is Oct. 3. Taken over the entire period of record, the date shifts slightly to Oct. 7, which is also the average first freeze date for Coeur d’Alene. Farther north in Sandpoint, Jack Frost usually visits a little sooner, Sept. 16 on average.

Of course due to differences in elevation and topography, the date of the first freeze can vary widely across the region. Case in point, this past Tuesday the low temperature at the National Weather Service office near the Spokane airport dipped to 29 degrees. Fairchild Air Force Base had a low of 32 degrees. Temperatures stayed above freezing however, at Geiger and Felts fields, with lows of 34 and 38 degrees respectively.

The Coeur d’Alene area also escaped the freeze for the most part with lows generally in the mid to upper 30s reported that day. Just looking at the averages, it would seem that most of our Indian summers would occur sometime in October.

Know one knows exactly where the term Indian summer originated. It has been discovered in French literature dating back to the late 1700s. The author St. John de Crevecoeur spoke of it as an “interval of calm and warmth” and a “tranquil atmosphere and general smokiness” which follows the rain.

What does that have to do with Indians? There are many possible explanations for that as well, though none have been proven. Some say that this was the period of harvest for Indians, or that they used the dry, hazy weather as an opportunity for hunting or even for attacking whites before the harsh conditions of winter set in.

It is also possible that early English immigrants equated Indian summer to a “fools” summer which would quickly revert back to more seasonal unsettled conditions. Locally, that is the story of our autumn season, which can give us a taste of winter’s chill one day and a balmy afternoon the next.

Temperatures are supposed to be above normal this weekend and into the start of next week, with above freezing temperatures overnight, and warm dry days. The absence yet of a widespread freeze, however, has me saying that we won’t have a chance for an Indian summer until next month.

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VISITATION

EPISODE NUMBER - 209

ORIGINAL U.S. AIR DATE - 11.23.10

VOLKER (into radio): That looks like our shuttle.

YOUNG (into radio): Yes, it does. Rush, this is Young. Meet me on the Bridge, now.

(As the shuttle continues to fly alongside, Young hurries to the Bridge.)

YOUNG: What's it doing?

VOLKER: Nothing. It's just matching our velocity off the right side.

YOUNG: Where did that thing come from?

VOLKER: I don't know! I mean, one minute it wasn't there, the next minute it was.

(Nicholas comes onto the Bridge, followed by Adam.)

RUSH: What's happened?

(Young points out of the window.)

YOUNG: Just came out of nowhere.

BRODY: Is that the shuttle?!

YOUNG: Yeah, seems like it.

(He looks round at Adam pointedly.)

BRODY: Uh, no, I wasn't drinking, I was fixing it.

(A man's voice comes over the comms.)

VOICE: Hello? Can anyone hear me? Hello?

(The men stare in amazement.)

RUSH: That sounds like Caine!

VOLKER: Caine's more monotone than that.

YOUNG: Yeah, he's also in another galaxy.

VOICE (sounding uncertain and bewildered): Hello? This is Robert Caine. Um, we can see the Destiny. What should we do?

YOUNG (to his crew): How?!

(Nicholas shakes his head. Young walks over to the central command chair and activates the comms.)

YOUNG: This is Colonel Young. As far as we know, Doctor Caine and a number of other people are on a planet thousands of light years away.

CAINE: And as far as we remember, Colonel, that is where we still were when we went to sleep last night.

(Nicholas walks closer to the chair so that his voice can be heard over the comms.)

RUSH: Look, the shuttle we left you wasn't capable of leaving the atmosphere, let alone fly between galaxies.

CAINE: We understand that, Doctor Rush, but here we are.

YOUNG: The others are with you?

CAINE: Yes, all of us.

YOUNG: Which brings me back to "how?"

CAINE: Honestly, I have no idea.

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VISITATION

EPISODE NUMBER - 209

ORIGINAL U.S. AIR DATE - 11.23.10

CHLOE'S QUARTERS. The doors unlock and open and Scott walks in to where Chloe Armstrong is standing looking out of the window. She looks around as he walks in.

ARMSTRONG: Hi.

SCOTT: Hey.

(He punches the wall panel as he passes and the doors close behind him.)

SCOTT: Did you hear the news?

(She walks closer to him, looking at him blankly.)

SCOTT: Uh, Doctor Caine and the bunch that stayed back on that planet - they came back!

ARMSTRONG: What, how?

SCOTT: Hell if I know! They don't even know! I guess we'll find out. Um, we've got a shuttle again, though, so we've got, like, that.

(He shrugs awkwardly, having already run out of things to say.)

SCOTT: Um, can I get you anything?

ARMSTRONG: No.

SCOTT: OK.

(She laughs, then shakes her head ruefully and lowers it briefly.)

ARMSTRONG: You're trying so hard, but every time I look at your face you can't hide it.

SCOTT: What?

ARMSTRONG: That you're not looking at me any more - at least, not as the person I used to be. You see the other ...

SCOTT: Chloe ...

ARMSTRONG: No, it's just your inability to lie, Matthew. It's one of the best things about you, but I know what you see. I see it too.

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VISITATION

EPISODE NUMBER - 209

ORIGINAL U.S. AIR DATE - 11.23.10

YOUNG: You know, not one of them remembers a damn thing about the planet or how they got here.

JOHANSEN: Well, Caine believes that's God's way of telling them they've been reborn.

YOUNG (cynically): Was that before or after He gave them amnesia?

JOHANSEN: The others think that maybe the aliens discovered them and returned them to us as an act of benevolence.

YOUNG: Well, that's nice(!)

JOHANSEN: You're not buying it.

YOUNG: Nah. These aliens are too damn powerful. Building planets, rebuilding shuttles - they could ... they could squash us like ants if they wanted to.

JOHANSEN: That scares you?

YOUNG: Yes! But what scares me even more is the feeling I got when I looked them in the eye.

JOHANSEN (frowning): I thought it was just me.

YOUNG: I should be welcoming them with open arms, but I can't be in a room with any of them for more than a minute before I wanna get the hell away.

JOHANSEN: Why?

YOUNG: I don't know ... but I wanna find out.

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VISITATION

EPISODE NUMBER - 209

ORIGINAL U.S. AIR DATE - 11.23.10

The doors to the temporary holding cell open and the new arrivals look at Young as he stands outside.

YOUNG: You can all return to your original quarters. You will be given a list of duties to help carry your weight as members of this crew.

CAINE: Is this as close as we're gonna get to "welcome aboard"?

YOUNG: Yeah, it is. Right now I don't have any reason to treat you like prisoners.

PETER: Thank you.

YOUNG (sternly): Don't give me a reason.

(He steps aside and the crew members walk out. Caine is the last to leave and he looks at Young unhappily as he passes him, sad that the colonel isn't more happy that they're home.)

Later, one of the new arrivals, Rachel, walks onto the Observation Deck. She sees Morrison sitting opposite a woman at the bar at the rear of the room and hurries over to them excitedly.

RACHEL: Hey!

(She sits down next to Morrison, smiling happily at him.)

RACHEL: Young finally let us out.

(He lowers the lid of the notebook he has been working on. Opposite him, the other woman continues to read her book as if pretending that Rachel doesn't exist. Morrison looks at Rachel awkwardly.)

MORRISON: Yeah, that's good. I-I've got a shift in Hydroponics.

(Rachel reaches out to put her hand over his, but he snatches it away as if she's contagious.)

RACHEL: What-what's wrong?

MORRISON: Don't touch me.

(Picking up his notebook, he hurries away. Distressed, she watches him go. At the front railing, Greer is standing with Lisa Park and they also watch Morrison's rapid departure.)

PARK: What was that all about?

GREER: I see you haven't spent time with the new arrivals.

PARK: No.

(As Rachel looks around the room, bewildered by the hostility, the woman on the other side of the bar picks up her book and hurries away.)

GREER: Eight science types, no survival skills. I've seen a lot of people go in my time and I know I'm gonna see more before I'm done here.

(Pulling her cardigan closer around her, Rachel unhappily stands up and leaves the room.)

GREER: I have never seen anyone come back - until now.

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VISITATION

EPISODE NUMBER - 209

ORIGINAL U.S. AIR DATE - 11.23.10

RUSH: I've just been going over the shuttle's navigational data, trying to figure out the path you took back to Destiny.

CAINE: And?

RUSH: Well, it seems you were there ... and then you were here. Nothing in between.

CAINE: I wish I could help you with that, but I fell asleep there and I woke up here.

RUSH: Yeah.

CAINE: Listen, I heard that you've learned what Destiny's original mission was.

RUSH: Yes, we have.

CAINE: In search of a message from the moment of creation?

RUSH: Oh, I don't know about "message". "Fingerprints" might be a better word - a sign that some intelligence may have had a hand in all of this.

CAINE: The hand of God?

(Nicholas laughs.)

RUSH: I don't know about that either, I'm afraid. I'm a scientist. I'd go so far as to call it evidence of an intelligence having existed prior to its own potential to exist.

CAINE: Ah, you just can't bring yourself to call it a miracle, can you?

RUSH: No, actually.

CAINE: Well, I'd like to hear more.

RUSH: Oh, why bother? Call it God's will and you needn't give it another thought.

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VISITATION

EPISODE NUMBER - 209

ORIGINAL U.S. AIR DATE - 11.23.10

CAINE: He must have brought us here for a reason. He must have saved us for a reason.

RUSH: Yeah, saved from what? Do you remember? I mean, the burning bush spoke to Moses. Gabriel, was it, spoke to Abraham? Yet you - you've returned here with no proof of your saviour one way or the other.

(Caine can't take his cynicism any longer.)

CAINE: I'll leave you to your work.

(He turns and heads towards the rear of the shuttle. Nicholas hesitates for a moment, then calls after him.)

RUSH: Let me ask you ...

(Caine stops and turns back.)

RUSH: The shuttle was restored to its original condition by the aliens who sent you here - better than it was before, even.

CAINE: Well, that sounds to me more like the work of God than aliens.

RUSH: Well, if this shuttle has been restored so perfectly, then why weren't all of you?

(Caine frowns.)

RUSH: I mean, Norris wasn't born with astigmatism, was he? Mr. Chan surely had a full head of hair at one time. All of you have enormous gaps in your memory.

CAINE: What's your point?

RUSH: Well, either He's lost His touch, or God's got nothing to do with this.

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VISITATION

EPISODE NUMBER - 209

ORIGINAL U.S. AIR DATE - 11.23.10

CAINE: But you won't have to drop me off at the next planet, Colonel.

(They turn back to him.)

CAINE: I expect I'll be dead before you come back out of F.T.L.

WRAY: You don't know that.

CAINE: Yes, I do. Because now I remember something that no-one ever should.

CAINE: I'm already dead.

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VISITATION

EPISODE NUMBER - 209

ORIGINAL U.S. AIR DATE - 11.23.10

INFIRMARY. Camille and Young escort Caine into the room. T.J. is just pulling a sheet over the face of another of the Eden crew. Another covered body lies nearby.

JOHANSEN: They all died in their sleep.

CAINE: With symptoms of severe exposure?

JOHANSEN: Yeah. But I'm guessing whatever the aliens did to bring you back - it was only temporary.

WRAY: You're all just reverting back to the state they probably found you in.

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EPISODE NUMBER - 209

ORIGINAL U.S. AIR DATE - 11.23.10

Shortly afterwards, with a blanket around him, Caine walks onto the Observation Deck with Tamara. He gazes in awe at the F.T.L. vortex ahead of him.

CAINE: Wow.

(The two of them walk to the front bench and sit down on it.)

CAINE: I forgot how beautiful this view was.

JOHANSEN: Maybe they were just giving you the chance to see it one more time, or to say goodbye to all of us.

CAINE: This isn't me - at least, not the man I was. That's what Doctor Rush was trying to tell me in his own way. I just didn't believe him.

(He shudders repeatedly, unable to get warm.)

CAINE: This body's nothing but a shadow - not reborn but reanimated, and not by God but by beings who can rebuild a man's body ... but not his soul.

(He gazes out at the vortex.)

CAINE: Maybe that's what you and Colonel Young were sensing.

(He pulls the blanket tighter around him as T.J. smiles a little and looks at him.)

JOHANSEN: I don't feel that way now.

(Shivering, he looks across at her.)

CAINE: It's kind of you to say. But even though I have his thoughts, and some of his memories, I'm not the Robert Caine that God made.

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VISITATION

EPISODE NUMBER - 209

ORIGINAL U.S. AIR DATE - 11.23.10

Eli has watched the footage from the Kino found in the shuttle, and has called Young, Camille and Nicholas to his room to watch. They stand nearby as he sets the footage going again. Inside the shuttle the Kino turns to focus on Robert Caine sitting on the floor.

CAINE (weakly): If anyone's listening, help us.

(He pulls in an agonised breath as the Kino draws closer to him.)

CAINE: Help us. Please. I don't wanna die. Help.

(Behind him, a bright glow appears outside the front window. Gasping, Robert brushes aside the blanket covering his head and turns to look out of the window. The glow becomes brighter and envelops the entire ship, and the screen fills with white light.)

(The footage ends.

From 11/20/1910 To 11/23/2010 is 36528 days

36528 = 18264 + 18264

From 11/2/1965 To 11/4/2015 is 18264 days

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November 1910

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The following events occurred in November 1910:

November 20, 1910 (Sunday)

Died: Leo Tolstoy, 82, celebrated as one of Russia's greatest authors.

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Leo Tolstoy

Russian writer

Leo Tolstoy, Tolstoy also spelled Tolstoi, Russian in full Lev Nikolayevich, Graf (count) Tolstoy (born August 28 [September 9, New Style], 1828, Yasnaya Polyana, Tula province, Russian Empire—died November 7 [November 20], 1910, Astapovo, Ryazan province), Russian author, a master of realistic fiction and one of the world’s greatest novelists.

Tolstoy is best known for his two longest works, War and Peace (1865–69) and Anna Karenina (1875–77), which are commonly regarded as among the finest novels ever written. War and Peace in particular seems virtually to define this form for many readers and critics. Among Tolstoy’s shorter works, The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886) is usually classed among the best examples of the novella. Especially during his last three decades Tolstoy also achieved world renown as a moral and religious teacher. His doctrine of nonresistance to evil had an important influence on Gandhi. Although Tolstoy’s religious ideas no longer command the respect they once did, interest in his life and personality has, if anything, increased over the years.

Most readers will agree with the assessment of the 19th-century British poet and critic Matthew Arnold that a novel by Tolstoy is not a work of art but a piece of life; the Russian author Isaak Babel commented that, if the world could write by itself, it would write like Tolstoy. Critics of diverse schools have agreed that somehow Tolstoy’s works seem to elude all artifice. Most have stressed his ability to observe the smallest changes of consciousness and to record the slightest movements of the body. What another novelist would describe as a single act of consciousness, Tolstoy convincingly breaks down into a series of infinitesimally small steps. According to the English writer Virginia Woolf, who took for granted that Tolstoy was “the greatest of all novelists,” these observational powers elicited a kind of fear in readers, who “wish to escape from the gaze which Tolstoy fixes on us.” Those who visited Tolstoy as an old man also reported feelings of great discomfort when he appeared to understand their unspoken thoughts. It was commonplace to describe him as godlike in his powers and titanic in his struggles to escape the limitations of the human condition. Some viewed Tolstoy as the embodiment of nature and pure vitality, others saw him as the incarnation of the world’s conscience, but for almost all who knew him or read his works, he was not just one of the greatest writers who ever lived but a living symbol of the search for life’s meaning.

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Stargate Universe Season 2 Episode 9

Visitation

Aired Monday 9:00 PM Nov 23, 2010 on Syfy

AIRED: 11/23/10

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Bart Gets an F

Bart complains, ``Now I know how George Washington felt when he surrendered Fort Necessity to the French in 1754!''

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