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http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie8.html
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
DATA: It is an historical irony that Doctor Cochrane would use an instrument of mass-destruction to inaugurate an era of peace.
(Picard feels the Titan V rocket)
PICARD: It's a boyhood fantasy, Data. I must have seen this ship hundreds of times in the Smithsonian, but I was never able to touch it.
DATA: Sir, does tactile contact alter your perception of the Phoenix?
PICARD: Oh, yes. For humans, touch can connect you to an object in a very personal way. It makes it seem more real.
DATA: I am detecting imperfections in the titanium casing. Temperature variations in the fuel manifold. It's no more real to me now than it was a moment ago.
TROI: Would you three like to be alone?
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The Spokesman-Review
LOCAL NEWS
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 30, 2016, 5:12 P.M.
‘Weather bomb’ of higher winds, much colder temps could drop Sunday
By Mike Prager
The region’s soft slide into winter is about to get a lot more rugged.
The rain-snow pattern of the past few weeks could come to an end on Sunday with a “weather bomb.”
National Weather Service forecasters see a potential clash between moist Pacific air and cold polar air.
That could trigger what meteorologists call “bomb cyclogenesis.”
The term describes a fast drop in air pressure, and while uncommon in the Inland Northwest, it is possible Sunday.
If the weather bomb happens, the result will be strong winds, rain and snow, all just ahead of the season’s first hard freeze as temperatures descend into the teens early next week.
One forecaster said gusts on Sunday could potentially reach 45 to 50 mph, which is right on the edge of bringing down trees and power lines. Forecasters don’t agree that the wind will be that strong, however.
They do agree Sunday’s storm will bring snow down to lower elevations on Sunday night as the polar air arrives.
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.
PICARD: Huh. If that's true then the future may die with him.
From 3/11/1922 To 12/4/2016 ( --- ) is 34602 days
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From 7/8/1993 ( premiere US film "In the Line of Fire" ) To 12/4/2016 ( --- ) is 8550 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Burgess ) To 3/31/1989 ( premiere TV episode "Quantum Leap"::"Star-Crossed" ) is 8550 days
From 7/8/1993 ( premiere US film "In the Line of Fire" ) To 12/4/2016 ( --- ) is 8550 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Burgess ) To 3/31/1989 ( premiere US TV series episode "Falcon Crest"::"Resurrection" ) is 8550 days
From 7/8/1993 ( premiere US film "In the Line of Fire" ) To 12/4/2016 ( --- ) is 8550 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Burgess ) To 3/31/1989 ( premiere US film "Beyond the Stars" ) is 8550 days
From 10/4/1968 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"The Paradise Syndrome" ) To 12/4/2016 ( --- ) is 17593 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Burgess ) To 1/2/2014 is 17593 days
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From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Burgess ) To 10/4/1968 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"The Paradise Syndrome" ) is 1067 days
From 3/12/1966 ( Sydney Camm deceased ) To 12/4/2016 ( --- ) is 18530 days
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From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/18/1985 ( the United States orbiter vehicle Enterprise was transferred to the Smithsonian Institution ) is 7321 days
http://www.columbiabasinherald.com/article/20161201/AP/312019828
Columbia Basin Herald
WEATHER SERVICE WARNS OF HARSH WEEKEND IN SPOKANE REGION
AP
December 01, 2016 at 11:11 am The Associated Press
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The National Weather Service is warning that the Spokane region might get hit by what some people call a weather bomb this weekend.
Forecasters say that on Sunday the region might see a clash between moist Pacific air and cold polar air.
The Spokesman-Review says that could trigger what meteorologists call "bomb cyclogenesis."
The term describes a fast drop in air pressure that will result in strong winds, rain and snow, all just ahead of the season's first hard freeze.
Wind gusts on Sunday could potentially reach 45 to 50 mph.
[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2016/11/star-trek-first-contact-1996.html ]
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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
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Chris Devers
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center: Space Shuttle Enterprise (port full view)
http://www.spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/reference/basics/history/index.html
NASA
Space Shuttle History
After numerous tests across the United States, the Enterprise was ferried across the Atlantic for several air shows across Europe. Finally, on November 18, 1985, the Enterprise was ferried from Kennedy Space Center to Washington, D.C. and became the property of the Smithsonian Institution.
http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie8.html
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
[Enterprise-E observation lounge]
RIKER: How many ships?
PICARD: One, and it's on a direct course for Earth. It'll cross the Federation border in less than an hour. Admiral Hayes is mobilising a fleet in the Typhon sector.
DATA: At maximum warp it will take us three hours twenty-five minutes.
PICARD: We're not going.
RIKER: What do you mean, 'We're not going'?
PICARD: Our orders are to patrol the Neutral Zone, in case the Romulans decide to take advantage of the situation.
TROI: The Romulans?
DATA: Captain, there has been no unusual activity along the Romulan border for nine months. It seems highly unlikely they would choose this moment to start a conflict.
CRUSHER: Does Starfleet feel we need more shakedown time?
LAFORGE: Captain, we've been out in space for nearly a year now. We're ready! The Enterprise-E is the most advanced starship in the fleet. We should be on the front line.
PICARD: I have gone over all this with Starfleet Command. Their orders stand. ...Number One, set a course for the Neutral Zone
Quantum Leap
Star-Crossed: June 15, 1972
Episode 2 Season 1
00:13:37
Dr. Sam Beckett: [ narrating ] God, how I wanted to tell her I'm not the boozed out professor she sees. That I was her Sam. The man she loved ten years from now. That I'm doing what we dreamed of. I'm traveling in time.
http://www.tv.com/shows/quantum-leap/star-crossed-3885/
tv.com
Quantum Leap Season 1 Episode 3
Star-Crossed
Aired Friday 12:00 AM Mar 31, 1989 on NBC
AIRED: 3/31/89
http://www.tv.com/shows/quantum-leap/star-crossed-3885/trivia/
tv.com
Quantum Leap Season 1 Episode 3
Star-Crossed
Aired Friday 12:00 AM Mar 31, 1989 on NBC
Quotes
Sam: Hieroglyphics? I can, I can read hieroglyphics?
Albert: Well, you never know unless you try.
http://www.tv.com/shows/falcon-crest/resurrection-63263/
tv.com
Falcon Crest Season 8 Episode 17
Resurrection
Aired Friday 10:00 PM Mar 31, 1989 on CBS
AIRED: 3/31/89
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IMDb
Beyond the Stars (1989)
Release Info
USA 31 March 1989
http://www.tv.com/shows/star-trek/the-paradise-syndrome-24941/
tv.com
Star Trek Season 3 Episode 3
The Paradise Syndrome
Aired Unknown Oct 04, 1968 on NBC
AIRED: 10/4/68
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 2:55 AM Monday, January 31, 2011
Time traveler ((I was (will be) a person from the future in the past)) departure date 9 May 2003
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 31 January 2011 excerpt ends ]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 1:10 AM Monday, January 31, 2011
The test of any such higher authority is, of course, the police force that supports it.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 31 January 2011 excerpt ends ]
http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/58.htm
The Paradise Syndrome [ Star Trek: The Original Series ]
Stardate: 4842.6
Original Airdate: Oct 4, 1968
SPOCK: Prepare to beam us up, Mister Scott. We're warping out of orbit.
MCCOY: Leaving? You can't be serious, Spock.
SPOCK: Doctor, that asteroid is almost as large as your Earth's moon. Far enough away, the angle necessary to divert it enough to avoid destruction is minute, but as the asteroid approaches this planet, the angle becomes so great that even the power of a starship
MCCOY: The devil with an asteroid! It won't get here for two months, Spock!
SPOCK: If we arrive at the deflection point in time, it may not get here at all.
MCCOY: In the meantime, what about Jim?
SPOCK: Once the asteroid has been diverted, we'll return here and resume the search.
MCCOY: That may be hours from now. He may be injured or dying.
SPOCK: (picking up two stoned to illustrate his point) Doctor, assume this is the planet we're on. This is the approaching asteroid. If we don't get to that deflection point in time, it will become physically impossible to divert this asteroid. In that case, everyone on this planet will die, including the captain.
MCCOY: Can a few more minutes matter, Spock?
SPOCK: In the time it's taken me to explain the problem, the asteroid has moved from here to here. The longer we delay, the less the likelihood of being able to divert it. Beam us up, Mister Scott.
[Obelisk chamber]
KIRK [OC]: (dazed and confused) Where am I? What place is this? What are these? (phaser and communicator) I feel should know. They're familiar and yet unfamiliar. How did I get here? Who am I? Try to remember.
(He finds a flight of stairs and walks up, out into the sunshine)
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: - posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 10:09 AM Pacific Time somewhere near Seattle Washington USA Thursday 02 January 2014 - http://hvom.blogspot.com/2014/01/bad-news-bears-2005.html
Bad News Bears (2005)
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
To: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 5:55:42 PM
Kerry Burgess wrote:
I have this sense of dread I can't explain. But there is something........I can't put my finger on it, something, something, something, what is it? I had the strongest feeling this morning that I don't know who I am. Then it just clicked back. It just turned off. I think it was something someone on tv said while they were listening to me. I find myself thinking about that part in that 1998 Star Trek movie where Data realizes he is missing some memory chips. And I heard someone just the other day saying something similar. I keep my headphones on to block out stuff like that, but......what am I missing? What other clues are there that I've missed? Are people telling me this all to help? Do I need help?
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 16 May 2006 excerpt ends ]
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 02 January 2014 excerpt ends ]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: - posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 12:27 AM Pacific Time somewhere near Seattle Washington USA Thursday 02 January 2014 - http://hvom.blogspot.com/2014/01/thats-what-i-asked-you-base.html
"That’s what I asked you, base."
http://www.e-reading.org.ua/bookreader.php/80261/King_-_The_Stand.html
Stephen King
The Stand - The Complete & Uncut Edition
Chapter 26
The Los Angeles Times ran only 26,000 copies of their one-page extra before the officers in charge discovered that they were not printing an advertising circular, as they had been told. The reprisal was swift and bloody. The official FBI story was that “radical revolutionaries,” that old bugaboo, had dynamited the L.A. Times ’ presses, causing the death of twenty-eight workers. The FBI didn’t have to explain how the explosion had put bullets in each of the twenty-eight heads, because the bodies were mingled with those of thousands of others, epidemic victims who were being buried at sea.
Yet 10,000 copies got out, and that was enough. The headline, in 36-point-type, screamed:
WEST COAST IN GRIP OF PLAGUE EPIDEMIC
Thousands Flee Deadly Superflu
Government Coverup Certain
LOS ANGELES—Some of the soldiers purporting to be National Guardsmen helping out during the current ongoing tragedy are career soldiers with as many as four ten-year pips on their sleeves. Part of their job is to assure terrified Los Angeles residents that the superflu, known as Captain Trips by the young in most areas, is “only slightly more virulent” than the London or Hong Kong strains… but these assurances are made through portable respirators. The President is scheduled to speak tonight at 6:00 PST and his press secretary, Hubert Ross, has branded reports that the President will speak from a set mocked up to look like the Oval Office but actually deep in the White House bunker “hysterical, vicious, and totally unfounded.” Advance copies of the President’s speech indicate that he will “spank” the American people for overreacting, and compare the current panic to that which followed Orson Welles’s “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast in the early 30s.
The Times has five questions it wishes the President would answer in his speech.
1. Why has the Times been enjoined from printing the news by thugs in army uniforms, in direct violation of its Constitutional right to do so?
2. Why have the following highways—US 5, US 10, and US 15—been blocked off by armored cars and troop carriers?
3. If this is a “minor outbreak of flu,” why has martial law been declared for Los Angeles and surrounding areas?
4. If this is a “minor outbreak of flu,” then why are barge-trains being towed out into the Pacific and dumped? And do these barges contain what we are afraid they contain and what informed sources have assured us they do contain—the dead bodies of plague victims?
5. Finally, if a vaccine really is to be distributed to doctors and area hospitals early next week, why has not one of the forty-six physicians that this newspaper contacted for further details heard of any delivery plans? Why has not one clinic been set up to administer flu shots? Why has not one of the ten pharmaceutical houses we called gotten freight invoices or government fliers on this vaccine?
We call upon the President to answer these questions in his speech, and above all we call upon him to end these police-state tactics and this insane effort to cover up the truth…
In Duluth a man in khaki shorts and sandals walked up and down Piedmont Avenue with a large smear of ash on his forehead and a hand-lettered sandwich board hanging over his scrawny shoulders.
The front read:
THE TIME OF THE DISAPPEARANCE IS HERE
CHRIST THE LORD RETURNETH SOON
PREPARE TO MEET YOUR GOD!
The back read:
BEHOLD THE HEARTS OF THE SINNERS WERE BROKEN
THE GREAT SHALL BE ABASED AND THE ABASED MADE GREAT
THE EVIL DAYS ARE AT HAND
WOE TO THEE O ZION
Four young men in motorcycle jackets, all of them with bad coughs and runny noses, set upon the man in the khaki shorts and beat him unconscious with his own sandwich board. Then they fled, one of them calling back hysterically over his shoulder: “Teach you to scare people! Teach you to scare people, you half-baked freak!”
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 02 January 2014 excerpt ends ]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: - posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 4:20 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Wednesday 10 December 2014 - http://hvom.blogspot.com/2014/12/contagion.html
Contagion
For the past few days I have contemplated a discrepancy in a sort of daily journal I maintain. Beginning 01 October 2013 I began capturing a series of digital images of the environment outside my apartment windows. I don't have a routine for the time of day and I do it only at some point during the day when I remember it. I started doing mainly because in the heat of summer I like to go back and look at the images of those same places covered in snow.
What has been on my mind again but more recently is the day 01 January 2014. That day is missing from my collection. I went through the three months before that day and that day is the only one missing.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 10 December 2014 excerpt ends]
http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/camm.html
the PIONEERS
Sir Sydney Camm (1893-1966)
Sir Sydney Camm
http://user.tninet.se
Sir Sydney Camm was born at Windsor, England, August 5, 1893. He's fascination with aeroplanes was apparent at an early age.
In 1912 he was a member of the Windsor Model Aeroplane Club, which designed and flew a man-carrying glider. He was knighted in 1953 and died March 12 1966.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Camm
Sydney Camm
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Sydney Camm, CBE, FRAeS (5 August 1893 – 12 March 1966) was an English aeronautical engineer who contributed to many Hawker aircraft designs, from the biplanes of the 1920s to jet fighters. One particularly notable aircraft he designed is the Hawker Hurricane fighter.
Aviation career
He then moved on to designing aeroplanes that would become mainstays of the RAF in the Second World War including the Hawker Hurricane, Hawker Typhoon and Hawker Tempest.
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In the Line of Fire (1993)
Release Info
USA 8 July 1993 (Westwood, California) (premiere)
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MROZ, VINCENT R. was born 11 March 1922
Death Master File says, died 22 July 2008
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Vincent Mroz
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vincent Peter Mroz (March 11, 1922 – July 22, 2008) was a United States Secret Service agent and a United States Marine Corps veteran who served during World War II. In 1948, he was assigned to the presidential protection detail during the Harry S. Truman administration. In November 1950, Mroz shot one of two Puerto Rican nationalists who intended to assassinate President Truman. Harry Truman; the man was later tried and imprisoned. The event was described as "the biggest gunfight in Secret Service history." The other nationalist was killed by a city police officer.
Mroz also served the presidential detail in the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration. He served with the Secret Service for 26 years, retiring in 1974 as the Deputy Assistant Director of the uniformed division.
http://legacy.sandiegouniontribune.com/uniontrib/20080807/news_1m7mroz.html
U-T San Diego
OBITUARY
Vincent Mroz and Elroy Sites; two who responded to Truman assassination attempt in 1950
By Patricia Sullivan
THE WASHINGTON POST
August 7, 2008
Secret Service Special Agent Vincent Mroz and apprentice electrician Elroy Sites met Nov. 1, 1950, just moments after two Puerto Rican nationalists attempted to storm the Blair House in Washington and assassinate President Truman.
Mr. Mroz had just fired a well-considered shot at one of the would-be assassins from a second-floor window while his colleagues were in hot pursuit. He then ran through a basement and out, ready to continue the fight, only to find a fatally injured colleague nearby. Mr. Sites, the electrician, was knotting up a jacket as a makeshift pillow for the dying man.
The incident made headlines around the world and foreshadowed a 1954 attack by Puerto Rican nationalists on the U.S. Capitol. Except for a 2005 book on the incident, the Blair House assassination attempt is now almost forgotten.
Mr. Mroz, the last surviving officer involved in the 1950 shootout, died of lung cancer July 22 at his home in Adrian, Mich. He was 86.
Mr. Sites, one of the last significant witnesses of that day, died of coronary artery disease July 26 at his home in Westminster, Md. He was 77.
In 1950, hundreds immediately gathered at the scene, including swarms of photographers, nearby office workers, tourists and streetcar passengers. Few were close to the action, and all of them are now dead: The only remaining Secret Service agent from that case, Floyd Boring, died in February.
Mr. Mroz had been in the Secret Service for a little more than two years at the time, working the presidential protective detail. The White House was being renovated, so Truman was living at Blair House. The president was napping at 2:20 p.m. when the two would-be assassins approached from opposite directions, with a hazy but firm intent to kill him.
The sequence of events is laid out in “American Gunfight: The Plot to Kill Harry Truman” by Stephen Hunter, a former Washington Post film critic, and John Bainbridge Jr.
Mr. Mroz, who had just rotated into the service's office, right over the eastern entrance to Blair House, heard gunshots and looked out the window. He spotted two colleagues and Oscar Collazo, one of the gunmen, running and shooting. Mr. Mroz fired at Collazo, who seemed to disappear. Mr. Mroz then dashed out through a basement corridor and up a set of stairs to approach the scene from a better angle.
When he came out the side door to the adjoining Lee House, he found, to his shock, that “there was nobody to shoot. Everybody was down,” Hunter and Bainbridge wrote. What he did see was a civilian pulling a seriously injured White House police officer, Leslie Coffelt, out of a guardhouse.
The civilian was Elroy Sites, 19, who had been fixing an outdoor sign at a furniture company about 480 feet away. At the sound of gunshots, he ran toward Blair House, arriving before the shooting had ended, and spotted the White House police officer slumped in the phone booth-size guardhouse.
“I heard Coffelt moaning and I went over and he looked up at me and raised his pistol,” Sites told Bainbridge. “I just took my foot and pushed the pistol over. . . . I had just lifted him up and I was trying not to hurt him. . . .
“This guy came up and told him to roll up his coat,” he said. “I made a pillow, somebody came out the door. . . . I helped put him on the stretcher, and I gave the police captain his gun. They put him in the ambulance. Then I went around and worked on the sign.”
He testified in the murder trial of Oscar Collazo, and then went on about his life. Collazo was sentenced to death, but Truman commuted his sentence. Collazo died in 1994. His partner, Griselio Torresola, had died at the scene.
Elroy Reynolds Sites, a native of Altoona, Pa., moved to Washington as a boy but spent enough time hunting that he became an expert marksman. He graduated from Cardozo High School in Washington, D.C., where he was on the swim team and the shooting team. He also served in the Army. He was a member of the National Rifle Association.
He worked for himself most of his life as a master electrician and then went into the construction, heating and air-conditioning trades. He also worked as a deputy sheriff in Montgomery County for seven years. His wife, Mary Louise Sites, died in 1989.
Survivors include eight children: Kathleen Horan of Gaithersburg, Md., Anne Vane of Frederick, Md., Ronald Sites of Silver Spring, Md., Lauren Chaffin of Annapolis, Md., David Sites of Fulton, Md., Christine Ryman of Kearneysville, W.Va., Carolyn Arensmeyer of Germantown, Md., and Mark Sites of Tucker, Ga.; a sister; 25 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
His family said that Mr. Sites, who liked to talk about his years as a deputy sheriff, rarely talked about the Truman assassination incident until the Hunter-Bainbridge book was published.
Mr. Mroz was more than 6 feet tall, physically imposing but a graceful dancer with large hands and a level gaze. He looked like a Secret Service agent, someone in the higher ranks noted, and he had a college degree, which was not a given for agents in those days.
He spent 26 years in the Secret Service, and he had been a Marine in World War II, so he knew how to handle guns and a crime scene. After Coffelt was loaded into an ambulance, Mr. Mroz noticed a little man curled up in a fetal position in the hedges. It was the body of Torresola, who had shot three men that afternoon and whom Truman might have seen when he rose from his nap and looked out the window.
When Mr. Mroz removed the Luger pistol from Torresola's body and searched his pockets, he found two magazines of unused ammunition.
Vincent Peter Mroz was born in Stanley, Wis., and grew up in East Chicago, Ind. He attended Michigan State University on a football scholarship but interrupted his college life to enlist in the Marine Corps during World War II. Before he went to war in the Pacific, he was sent to the University of Michigan by the Marines, and he became one of the few football players to get an athletic letter from both schools.
After the war ended, Mr. Mroz graduated from Michigan State and went directly into the Secret Service.
He worked in Chicago before coming to Washington in 1950. Assigned to the permanent protection detail for Presidents Truman and Eisenhower, Mroz later rose through the ranks. He ended his career with the Secret Service in 1974 as deputy assistant director of the uniformed division.
He was an instructor for Montgomery school bus drivers until 1986, then moved to Naples, Fla., where he became director of the background investigative unit of the Collier County Sheriff's Department. He moved to Michigan in 2002, a year after retiring for a third time.
The Treasury Department gave Mr. Mroz a certificate of meritorious civilian service for his actions during the Truman assassination attempt.
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2008/dec/12/snow-rain-wind-coming-our-way/
The Spokesman-Review
LOCAL NEWS
FRIDAY, DEC. 12, 2008
In brief: Snow, rain, wind coming our way
A winter storm approaching the Inland Northwest is shaping up to be a meteorological “bomb,” a forecaster at the National Weather Service said Thursday.
A deepening low-pressure system migrating from Alaska was expected to park itself off the coast today, triggering a succession of snow, rain, wind, drizzle, freezing drizzle, more snow and arctic winds – roughly in that order – through Sunday.
“It’s a bomb,” forecaster John Livingston said. “It’s a rapidly deepening system, very vigorous.”
Arctic air and northeast wind are expected to make Sunday, Monday and Tuesday brutally cold, with highs struggling to reach 10 degrees.
Wind chills could reach minus 27 degrees in Spokane and elsewhere Monday morning, and low temperatures could bottom out Tuesday morning at minus 15 if skies are clear overnight.
The Weather Service issued a winter storm warning for much of the Inland Northwest, predicting nearly 11 inches of snow in Spokane and 9 inches in Coeur d’Alene. The heaviest snow should come overnight tonight into Saturday morning.
Cold is expected to persist throughout next week.
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2008/dec/19/were-in-deep/
The Spokesman-Review
LOCAL NEWS
FRIDAY, DEC. 19, 2008
Record snowfall buries region, stalls services
By Mike Prager
Snowplow crews worked furiously Thursday against a wintry onslaught that dropped record amounts of snow over the Inland Northwest, repeating a pattern left from the brutal 2007-’08 winter.
At nearly 2 feet, the snow was so deep that it forced Spokane crews to focus on major arterial routes in an effort to keep the city from being completely choked.
Stores and government offices closed. Workers stayed home on the advice of authorities on both sides of the state line.
Forecasters warned that there may not be much time to dig out, and the work will have to be done in single-digit temperatures today and Saturday.
Another snowstorm could bring 5 inches or more Sunday with yet another storm in the offing for Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.
Spokane ended up with 23.3 inches over 34 hours ending at 4 p.m. Thursday. Coeur d’Alene had 25 inches by Thursday morning. Other locations had more.
It was the most snow received in both Spokane and Coeur d’Alene in a 24-hour period since record-keeping began.
The snowstorm resulted from “the alignment of everything,” said National Weather Service forecaster John Livingston: An unusual combination of arctic cold and Pacific moisture gathered momentum Wednesday as a storm front stalled over the region.
Air traffic at Spokane International Airport was beginning to take off after long delays and some cancellations. Crews were working to clear runways, taxiways and gates, spokesman Todd Woodard said.
The Washington State Patrol responded to almost 200 collisions in Eastern Washington on Thursday, though only minor injuries were reported. Troopers also responded to more than 100 disabled vehicles.
Police throughout the region warned drivers to stay off the roads except for emergencies.
Residents were being stranded in their driveways because snow was piled so high on side streets that it high-centered many vehicles, mostly passenger cars.
“All hills, particularly those coming off of the South Hill, are treacherous,” city spokeswoman Marlene Feist said in one of several press releases from City Hall. “The best routes off the South Hill are the Ray/Thor and Grand/Stevens corridors. On the North Side, the best routes are Division Street and the Maple/Ash corridor.”
City plow crews worked to carve emergency routes on major arterials.
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=in-the-line-of-fire
Springfield! Springfield!
In the Line of Fire (1993)
- Have you got that funny money?
- Yeah. Right here.
It looks good. It looks real good.
- We're in business.
- Excellent.
There's just one problem.
This guy Al...
He keeps asking all these questions
about my counterfeiter.
My instinct usually tells me
when something's wrong.
And there's something wrong.
So I had him followed.
He's a Secret Service agent, Frank.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107206/quotes
IMDb
In the Line of Fire (1993)
Quotes
Mendoza: What do you think I ought to do here, Frank?
Frank Horrigan: Make sure the body doesn't wash up on shore.
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 3:46 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Thursday 01 December 2016
