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From 9/11/2001 to 2/6/2004 ( as Kerry Burgess my final day of employment at Microsoft Corporation ) is 878 days
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Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Dr. Zefram Cochrane: Please ...don't tell me it's all thanks to me. I've heard enough about the great Zefram Cochrane. I don't know who writes your history books or where you get your information from, but you people got some pretty funny ideas about me.
From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 11:04 AM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Re: Journal May 21, 2006
Kerry Burgess wrote:
I think it was my first thought after waking up this morning that I used to date Julia Roberts a long time ago.
I also have these unexplained thoughts that I was a fighter pilot in the U.S. military, although I'm not sure which service, but I may have been in two different branches over time. I am also confused about thoughts that I may have been a helicopter pilot. What's next? A space shuttle pilot? Seems like a lot for someone that is only 40. And, while I am not sure when this divergence happened, I am reasonably certain it was before I turned 33. So I must have been a pretty busy guy. Especially because I have thoughts that I was some kind of mathmetician too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marshals_Service
United States Marshals Service
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The United States Marshals Service (USMS) is a federal law enforcement agency within the U.S. Department of Justice (28 U.S.C. § 561). It is the oldest American federal law enforcement agency and was created by the Judiciary Act of 1789 during the presidency of George Washington as the Office of the United States Marshal. The USMS as it stands today was established in 1969 to provide guidance and assistance to Marshals throughout the federal judicial districts. USMS is an agency of the United States executive branch reporting to the United States Attorney-General but serves as the enforcement arm of the United States federal courts to ensure the effective operation of the judiciary and integrity of the constitution.
The Marshals Service is the primary agency for fugitive operations, the protection of officers of the Federal Judiciary
http://www.businessinsider.com/nsa-sent-coded-messages-to-russian-using-its-official-twitter-account-2018-2
Business Insider
The NSA sent coded messages to a shadowy Russian on its official Twitter account
Michelle Mark
Feb. 10, 2018, 11:46 PM
The National Security Agency used its public Twitter account to send roughly a dozen coded messages to a shadowy Russian who had attempted to sell them dirt on President Donald Trump, The Intercept and The New York Times reported on Friday.
It was all part of a tentative deal American spies struck with a Russian who had ties to Russian intelligence and had promised to sell back stolen NSA cyberweapons. But the deal eventually fell apart after the Russian failed to deliver the hacking tools and instead kept pushing unverified and compromising information on Trump, which US officials said they were uninterested in.
The Americans agreed to pay $1 million for the tools, but ultimately paid only the first installment of $100,000 before cutting the deal short.
The coded messages they posted on Twitter were meant to prove to the Russian that the US government was really behind the negotiations and willing to move forward, according to The Intercept.
For instance, US officials reportedly told the Russians in advance that the official NSA account would tweet the following message on June 20, 2017: "Samuel Morse patented the telegraph 177 years ago. Did you know you can still send telegrams? Faster than post & pay only if it's delivered."
The message, word for word, appeared that day on the NSA's Twitter account. It's even still posted.
Again in October 2017, officials warned the Russians before the NSA tweeted, "This week in history, Robert Lamphere began working on the Verona program in 1948."
Later that month, another one appeared: "Can you help Kandice the Kangaroo save her baby Joey in this month's #PuzzlePeriodical?" the NSA tweeted.
Finally, in December, the NSA told the Russians it planned to tweet, "Section 702 is a law that can also be a life-saver. Take a look at how #Section 702 protects troops and helps the nation."
When it became clear to US officials that the Russian either did not have the hacking tools or had no intention of selling them, the Americans cut off the deal and warned him to go back to Russia and never return, The Times reported.
https://twitter.com/kerrywburgess/status/740874338530824192
twitter
Kerry Burgess
@kerrywburgess
9 Jun 2016
"It's what people know about themselves inside that makes 'em afraid."
https://twitter.com/GenFlynn
twitter
General Flynn @GenFlynn 4 Dec 2016
Fear Not The Generals
https://twitter.com/kerrywburgess
twitter
Kerry Burgess
@kerrywburgess
8 Jun 2016
"I don't know if I really like this town that much."
https://twitter.com/kerrywburgess
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Kerry Burgess
@kerrywburgess
23 Apr 2016
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177842/quotes
IMDb
The Simpsons (TV Series)
Treehouse of Horror VI (1995)
Quotes
Homer Simpson: I feel like I'm wasting a fortune just standing here. I better make the most of it.
High Plains Drifter (1973)
You still here?
No, I was just goin'.
Damn! Can you do that every time?
Damn right he can.
We're not gonna have a thing in the world to worry about.
This is gonna be a picnic!
http://hvom.blogspot.com/2016/11/stargate.html
Posted by Kerry Burgess
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2016
Stargate
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: July 24, 2006
If we could just figure out a better way to travel to orbit without these silly rocket boosters, we would be well on our way to exploring more of the solar system and other solar systems. There has got to be a cheap and safe way to cheat gravity. Sometimes I think I know how to do it, but I just can't remember.
From 4/18/1955 ( Albert Einstein dead ) To 12/8/2003 is 17766 days
17766 = 8883 + 8883
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 2/27/1990 ( from my official United States Navy documents as Kerry Burgess: while inport at anchor Monaco my permanent transfer from US Navy warship USS Wainwright CG 28 to Naval Station Charleston South Carolina for active duty separation processing and Honorable Discharge ) is 8883 days
From 11/21/1952 ( Harry Truman - Remarks at a Meeting of an Orientation Course Conducted by the CIA ) To 12/8/2003 is 18644 days
18644 = 9322 + 9322
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 5/12/1991 ( I was the winning race driver at the Formula One Monaco Grand Prix as the unpublished Formual One driver and the financial partner of McLaren Honda and the legitmate agent of Interpol ) is 9322 days
From 5/1/1949 ( the discovery of the planet Neptune moon Nereid by Gerard Kuiper ) To 12/8/2003 is 19944 days
19944 = 9972 + 9972
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 2/20/1993 ( Ferruccio Lamborghini dead ) is 9972 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 12/8/2003 is 4650 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 7/27/1978 ( premiere US film "Animal House" ) is 4650 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 12/8/2003 is 4650 days
4650 = 2325 + 2325
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 3/15/1972 ( premiere US film "Slaughterhouse-Five" ) is 2325 days
From 7/4/1976 ( at extreme personal risk to himself my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship successfully intercepts the Comet Lucifer in the outer solar system and diverts it away from the planet Earth ) To 12/8/2003 is 10018 days
10018 = 5009 + 5009
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 7/21/1979 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan and my sister-in-law Phoebe Cates are lawfully married in the state of Vermont ) is 5009 days
From 9/14/2002 ( at Overlake hospital in Bellevue Washington State the announced birth of Phoebe Gates the daughter of Microsoft Bill Gates the transvestite and Microsoft Bill Gates the 100% female gender as born to brother-sister sibling parents and Microsoft Bill Gates the Soviet Union prostitute and Phoebe Gates is the biological offspring of Microsoft Bill Gates the transvestite and William Gates II ) To 12/8/2003 is 450 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 1/26/1967 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Tomorrow Is Yesterday" ) is 450 days
See also: Other posts by me
http://www.tv.com/shows/battlestar-galactica/battlestar-galacticathe-mini-series-1603714/
tv.com
Battlestar Galactica Episode 1
Battlestar Galactica:The Mini-Series
AIRED: 12/8/03
http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/21.htm
Tomorrow is Yesterday [ Star Trek: The Original Series ]
Stardate: 3113.2
Original Airdate: 26 Jan, 1967
SPOCK: Poor choice of words on my part. I neglected, in my initial run-through, to correlate the possible contributions by offspring. I find, after running a crosscheck on that factor, that your son Colonel Shaun Geoffrey Christopher headed, or will head, the first successful Earth-Saturn probe, which is a rather significant
CHRISTOPHER: Wait a minute. I don't have a son.
MCCOY: You mean yet.
SPOCK: The doctor is correct. Unless we return Captain Christopher to Earth, There will be no Colonel Shaun Geoffrey Christopher to go to Saturn.
KIRK: Well, that's it, isn't it? We'll have to find some way of
CHRISTOPHER: A boy. I'm going to have a son.
Battlestar Galactica - television miniseries premiere episode - Monday 08 December 2003 USA
(from internet transcript)
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(Galactica. Caption: Galactica Starboard Landing Bay, Decommissioning Ceremony)
Doral: I'd like to thank you all again for being here today, and Elosha, thank you very much for those wonderful words. Next is a ceremonial fly-by by the last Galactica battle squadron led by Captain Lee Adama. (Music play, ships fly over, people applaud.) And now it is my great pleasure to introduce the last commander of the Battlestar Galactica, Commander Adama. (applause)
Adama: Thank you very much. The Cylon War is long over, yet we must not forget the reasons why so many sacrificed so much in the cause of freedom. The cost of wearing the uniform can be high, but... (pauses) Sometimes it's too high. You know, when we fought the Cylons, we did it to save ourselves from extinction. But we never answered the question: why? Why are we as a people worth saving? We still commit murder, because of greed, spite, jealousy, and we still visit all of our sins upon our children. (we hear the voiceover in Apollo's ship) We refuse to accept the responsibility for anything that we've done. Like we did with the Cylons. We decided to play god, create life. (We see Starbuck listening in her cell.) When that life turned against us, we comforted ourselves in the knowledge that it really wasn't our fault, not really. You cannot play god, then wash your hands of the things that you've created. Sooner or later, the day comes when you can't hide from the things that you've done anymore.
(There's a moment of silence, and then Roslin leads the applause.)
From 8/15/1964 To 6/7/1976 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in deep space of the solar system in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship this day was his first landing the Saturn moon Phoebe and the Saturn moon Phoebe territory belongs to my brother Thomas Reagan ) is 4314 days
4314 = 2157 + 2157
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 9/29/1971 ( premiere US TV series "McMillan and Wife" ) is 2157 days
From 8/15/1964 To 11/9/1985 ( my biological paternal uncle Charles the Prince of Wales and Princess of Wales attend the reception at the United States of America White House hosted by my biological maternal grandfather Ronald Reagan ) is 7756 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 1/27/1987 ( from my official United States Navy records as Kerry Burgess: Date Enrolled - United States Navy MK152 Computer Complex School - Naval Guided Missiles School ) is 7756 days
From 9/10/1948 ( the birthdate I recall for Thedia Gay Newman Burgess Nevells Parker Romine Draper Whatever ) To 8/15/1964 is 5818 days
5818 = 2909 + 2909
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 10/20/1973 ( Richard Nixon - Letter Directing the Acting Attorney General To Discharge the Director of the Office of Watergate Special Prosecution Force ) is 2909 days
From 8/15/1964 To 2/24/1989 ( Iran places a US $3-million bounty on the head of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie ) is 8959 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 5/14/1990 ( departing as United States Navy Fire Controlman Second Class Petty Officer Kerry Wayne Burgess my honorable discharge from United States Navy active service for commissioning as chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps and continuing to Kerry Burgess the United States Marine Corps general ) is 8959 days
See also: Other posts by me
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1243193/Melinda-Gates
Encyclopædia Britannica
Melinda Gates
ARTICLE from the Encyclopædia Britannica
Melinda Gates, née Melinda Ann French (born Aug. 15, 1964, Dallas, Texas, U.S.), American businesswoman and philanthropist who—with her husband, Microsoft Corporation cofounder Bill Gates
Battlestar Galactica - television miniseries premiere episode - Monday 08 December 2003 USA
(from internet transcript)
***
(Ragnar)
Chief: Everybody, hold fast.
Man (Leoben): I don't want any trouble.
Chief: Okay, let's talk.
Leoben: I'm not going to jail.
Chief: What?
Leoben: You understand me? I am NOT going to jail.
Chief: Nobody's taking you to jail, just calm down.
Leoben: Frikkin' right, you're not.
Chief: We're not the police, we're not here to arrest you. Now, put your gun down.
Leoben: Yeah, maybe, so who the hell are you?
Chief: We're from Colonial fleet. We just came to get some equipment from the station, to get back in the fight.
Leoben: What fight?
Chief: You don't know.
Leoben: Know what?
Chief: There's a war on. Give me your weapon.
Leoben: You think I'm stupid or something, is that it? You think I'm stupid, you expect me to believe that?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Star_Medal
Bronze Star Medal
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Bronze Star Medal, unofficially the Bronze Star, is a United States decoration awarded to members of the United States Armed Forces for either heroic achievement, heroic service, meritorious achievement, or meritorious service in a combat zone.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=58985
The American Presidency Project
John F. Kennedy
XXXV President of the United States: 1961 - 1963
Executive Order 11046 - Authorizing Award of the Bronze Star Medal
August 24, 1962
By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States and as Commander in Chief of the armed forces of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:
1. The Bronze Star Medal, with accompanying ribbons and appurtenances, which was first established by Executive Order No. 9419 of February 4, 1944, may be awarded by the Secretary of a military department or the Secretary of the Treasury with regard to the Coast Guard when not operating as a service in the Navy, or by such military commanders, or other appropriate officers as the Secretary concerned may designated to any person who, while serving in any capacity in or with the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, or Coast Guard of the United States, after December 6, 1941, distinguishes, or has distinguished, himself by heroic or meritorious achievement or service, not involving participation in aerial flight-
(a) while engaged in an action against an enemy of the United States;
(b) while engaged in military operations involving conflict with an opposing foreign force; or
(c) while serving with friendly foreign forces engaged in an armed conflict against an opposing armed force in which the United States is not a belligerent party.
2. The Bronze Star Medal and appurtenances thereto shall be of appropriate design approved by the Secretary of Defense, and shall be awarded under such regulations as the Secretary concerned may prescribe. Such regulations shall, so far as practicable, be uniform, and those of the military departments shall be subject to the approval of the Secretary of Defense.
3. No more than one Bronze Star Medal shall be awarded to any one person, but for each succeeding heroic or meritorious achievement or service justifying such an award a suitable device may be awarded to be worn with the medal as prescribed by appropriate regulations.
4. The Bronze Star Medal or device may be awarded posthumously and, when so awarded, may be presented to such representative of the deceased as may be deemed appropriate by the Secretary of the department concerned.
5. This order shall supersede Executive Order No. 9419 of February 4, 1944, entitled "Bronze Star Medal". However, existing regulations prescribed under that order shall, so far as they are not inconsistent with this order, remain in effect until modified or revoked by regulations prescribed under this order by the Secretary of the department concerned.
JOHN F. KENNEDY
THE WHITE HOUSE,
August 24, 1962
https://www.c-span.org/video/?18624-1/retirement-justice-marshall
C-SPAN
JUNE 28, 1991
Retirement of Justice Marshall In the East Conference room of the United States Supreme Court, Justice Thurgood Marshall responded to reporters' questions and comments about his retirement from the Court. With good humor, Justice Marshall responded to reporters' questions with sharp and short retorts, and would not comment on decisions made by the Court. He said he was retiring due to his declining health and that race should not be a factor in the selection of his successor. He discredited reports that he was leaving in frustration and anger over the conservative leanings of the current Supreme Court.
The retirement of Justice Marshall would become effective when the Senate confirms a successor.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/honoured-at-last-a-tribute-to-an-inventor-who-saved-millions-of-lives-during-world-war-ii-10142304.html
INDEPENDENT
Honoured at last: A tribute to an inventor who saved millions of lives during World War II
Engineer Alan Dower Blumlein pioneered the first stereo recordings and created a vital radar system
Adam Sherwin Sunday 29 March 2015 18:13 BST
He’s the genius inventor who helped save millions of lives during the Second World War, but whose achievements went unheralded following an early death.
However, this is not the tale of Alan Turing – but Alan Dower Blumlein, who was killed in a plane crash while developing Britain’s superior airborne radar system.
Blumlein will receive long-overdue recognition on Wednesday when a commemorative plaque will be unveiled in his honour during a special ceremony at Abbey Road Studios. The inventor, who died aged 39, was a pioneer who logged 128 patents, including the “moving coil” microphone and the first stereophonic recordings, while working as an engineer for EMI.
He led the BBC team which successfully chose Marconi-EMI electronic 405-line transmission for the new television medium over the cumbersome mechanical alternative.
Like Turing, the brilliant mathematician who cracked the Enigma code, Blumlein, born to a German father and who did not learn to read until he was 13, turned his skills to the war effort.
Blumlein’s revolutionary “binaural recordings” used two microphones, recording separately, with the results played in a single groove through two loudspeakers to create the effect we know as “stereo”.
He incorporated the binaural system into aircraft sound detectors using a cathode ray tube to display the result. This allowed Blumlein’s team to develop an airborne interception system which allowed British planes to detect Germany aircraft by night.
Blumlein was killed in the 1942 plane crash which destroyed the prototype of his H2S radar system, which could locate and detect targets from the air regardless of the weather conditions. News of the accident was initially suppressed but one air chief called Blumlein’s death “a catastrophe”. A new research team completed the radar system.
The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Society will unveil the plaque at Abbey Road, owned by EMI-Universal Music, during a day of tributes to Blumlein, featuring rarely heard audio and video recordings from his archive and an airing for the world’s first stereo-sound film, Train At Hayes Station.
Does Blumlein’s grandson, also named Alan, believe his achievements are also worthy of a Turing-style feature film?
“Without sounding arrogant – absolutely yes. If you consider that Alan Turing’s ACE Model Computer used circuits developed by my grandfather you truly start to uncover how across the 128 patents that my grandfather filed, so many elements of our modern-day life have a link back to Alan Blumlein.”
He added: “With his work on long-distance telephone line interference, stereo, 405-line TV and radar he was a prolific British inventor and genius.”
Professor Anthony Davies, Emeritus Professor of Electronic Engineering at King’s College London, said: “Blumlein’s many contributions to electronic engineering are not as well known as they should be, and if this plaque helps to remedy that, it will be an extra bonus.
“He was deeply involved in the development of H2S, the radar system developed as a blind-bombing aid, which made a huge contribution to the success of night-bombing raids and which allowed accurate night bombing for the first time by the Allies.”
The plaque recognises Blumlein’s stereo sound achievements of the early 1930s. “All vinyl gramophone records which record stereo in a single groove use his inventions,” professor Davies went on.
“The EMI television system to which he contributed much was the basis of TV technology from the start of TV broadcasting from Alexandra Palace in 1936 until the recent change to digital technology.”
https://www.cnet.com/news/meet-alan-blumlein-the-man-who-invented-stereo/
cnet
The fascinating story of the man who invented stereo (and pioneered TV and radar too)
Honoured at the famous Abbey Road Studios, Alan Dower Blumlein pioneered all kinds of technologies before his untimely death during a top-secret wartime mission.
BY RICHARD TRENHOLM
APRIL 1, 2015 7:25 AM PDT
When you're rocking out to your favourite music, or surround sound has slapped you in the heart of your favourite movie, you know how important stereo sound is. And it's all thanks to Alan Blumlein, the 20th-century pioneer of various technologies who was inspired to invent stereo after a trip to the movies.
Blumlein was honoured Wednesday by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and record company EMI, where he worked for much of his life. Blumlein's son Simon and grandson, also named Alan, attended the unveiling of the plaque at Abbey Road Studios in St John's Wood, North London, where Blumlein oversaw one of the earliest stereo recordings.
"This is very, very special, because it's for the engineers," Blumlein's grandson Alan told CNET.
Alan Dower Blumlein's stereo breakthrough began in 1931 when he visited the cinema with his wife Doreen. Frustrated that the sound from a single speaker didn't match up with the actors and action on the screen, he told his wife he had a better idea. That same year, Blumlein filed a patent including a whopping 70 ideas related to stereo, some of which are still in use today.
The first stereo discs were cut in 1933. And in 1934, Blumlein recorded in stereo the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham, as it performed Mozart's Jupiter Symphony, at the recording facility now known as Abbey Road Studios. It's a fitting location, then, for Blumlein's contribution to audio technology to be commemorated.
The famous recording facility on Abbey Road was opened in 1931 by the Gramophone Company, a predecessor of British music company EMI. Known as EMI Studios until 1970, the studios are synonymous with the Beatles thanks to their 1969 "Abbey Road" album and its iconic cover, but musical powerhouses from Sir Edward Elgar to Pink Floyd, Muse and Lady Gaga have recorded there.
'An incredible mind'
Alan Dower Blumlein was born in London on 29 June 1903 to German-Jewish parents. "Alan wasn't very good at school," says his grandson Alan. "He was a poor reader and a poor writer, but he loved trains and cranes." At the age of 7, Blumlein presented his father with an invoice for repairing the doorbell, an early outing in a glittering career as an electrical engineer that saw him file 121 patents in the space of 13 years and create breakthroughs in a wide range of fields.
Blumlein's early work included measuring the amplitude and frequency response of human ears, and in the 1920s he invented and patented a number of advances in telephone equipment. After moving into recording technology, he developed a new method for cutting wax master discs that gave better sound quality when making records. He improved amplifiers, and developed moving-coil microphones used in EMI recording studios and in the BBC's Alexandra Palace radio studio.
In between, he relaxed at the pictures, and even there his mind was working. "He had an incredible mind, but I think it was probably quite cluttered," says the younger Alan. "So he and his wife went to the cinema and the ballet as a form of relief -- but even while he was relaxing, he was thinking he couldn't understand why the sound didn't follow the actor, and he thought he could fix that."
Blumlein's idea for what he called "binaural sound" covered the whole process, from recording sound to reproducing it for the listener. He conceived the configuration of an orthogonal pair of velocity microphones, which became known as a Blumlein Pair. He also developed a "shuffling" circuit that processed the recording to preserve the direction of the sound.
At the other end, reproducing the sound involved recording the two orthogonal channels in a single groove of a record, cut by a special stereo disc-cutting head. A hybrid transformer then mixed the directional signals for playback.
The first film to utilise stereo sound was "Trains at Hayes Station", shot from a window in the EMI offices in Hayes, West London. Here's a clip, in all its crackly black-and-white 1930s glory:
From 1933 he was assigned to work on technology for television, then in its relative infancy. Innovations attributed to Blumlein include resonant flyback scanning, black-level clamping and the slot antenna. He also had a hand in the development of the 405-line Marconi-EMI system created for the television service from Alexandra Palace.
Like many engineers and scientists, Blumlein's work was interrupted by the second world war. The EMI team was seconded in secret to assist the war effort by using their sonic know-how in early radar systems. Blumlein was a crucial member of a team working on the H2S air-to-surface, used against ground-level targets like U-Boats. The system was only retired after the Falklands in the early 1980s.
Sadly, Blumlein did not live to see the lasting impact his many innovations had. He was killed on 7 June 1942, when the Halifax bomber he was flying in crashed during a trial of the H2S radar system. He was 38.
Today, Blumlein's innovations are still in use. "The engineers at Abbey Road and other studios still use my grandfather's recording technique, the Blumlein pair," his grandson says. "And every single day you see people post pictures online of themselves at home -- amateur drummers, for example -- placing microphones in a Blumlein pair configuration.
"His passion was to conceptualise improvements... his vision was that he wanted to make sure the listener had the best experience."
http://www.jacksonsun.com/story/news/local/2015/05/19/unshakeable-ties-built-uss-wainwright/27566957/
The Jackson Sun
Unshakeable ties on the USS Wainwright
AJ MORRIS, The Jackson Sun 11:16 p.m. CDT May 18, 2015
On April 18, 1988, Petty Officer Second Class Robert Bennett was deep in the engine room of the USS Wainwright when an emergency message came through the radio.
Operating in the Persian Gulf, the Wainwright was part of a surface action group supporting Operation Praying Mantis — an offensive to neutralize Iranian naval assets in retaliation for their mining of international waters that had damaged the USS Samuel B. Roberts.
Operating a switchboard, Bennett shared a communication line with fire control, who had just informed him an anti-ship missile was headed straight at the Wainwright.
"We didn't have any idea what was going on, but we shared a radio circuit with gun plot, and I heard gun plot say 'Missile inbound, brace for shock,'" Bennett said. "So I grabbed hold of the switchboard and yelled out to everyone in the engine room, 'Missile inbound, brace for shock!' And we just held on and waited."
The ship's countermeasures activated, sending clouds of super-heated aluminum shards around the outside of the vessel to confuse the incoming missile. As a result, the missile missed the Wainwright.
"We heard the chaff going off and we just stood there and waited — and I really thought I was going to die," Bennett said.
"Nobody ever told us the missile missed, but all of a sudden we heard this tremendous woosh sound and we knew that we had fired a missile, and the whole ship erupted in cheers — it was really something."
The Wainwright destroyed three Iranian ships and two aircraft while assisting in the neutralization of Iranian intelligence and facilities in the largest naval surface battle since the end of World War II.
For Bennett, it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
"It's something that just doesn't happen," Bennett said. "And it was amazing to see how everyone came together perfectly and did their job exactly how they had been trained to do."
The Wainwright's participation in Operation Praying Mantis was just one story in a long legacy of service with the United States Navy.
Three ships in total have sailed under the name USS Wainwright, participating in battle since World War I. The first Wainwright was a Tucker-Class destroyer who sailed from 1914 until 1934. The second Wainwright was a Sim-Class destroyer who sailed from 1938 until 1948, and saw action in several World War II theaters before taking part in the infamous Bikini Atoll atomic tests.
It is a name that conjures up powerful memories for those who served on her, forming a brotherhood that remains strong despite time and distance.
"We're all brothers. Everyone who ever served on this ship just has a brotherhood," Bennett said. "Not that we didn't have our squabbles, but there's a brotherhood."
It is this strong bond that led the creation of the USS Wainwright Veterans Association. Celebrating its 30th year, the association stopped by VFW Post 6496 in Jackson with its traveling museum exhibit trailer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_controlman
Fire controlman
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fire controlman (abbreviated as FC) is a United States Navy occupational rating.
Fire controlmen provide system employment recommendations; perform organizational and intermediate maintenance on digital computer equipment, subsystems, and systems; operate and maintain combat and weapons direction systems, surface-to-air and surface-to-surface missile systems, and gun fire control systems at the organizational and intermediate level; inspect, test, align, and repair micro/minicomputers and associated peripheral equipment, data conversion units, data display equipment, data link terminal equipment, print devices, and system related equipment; make analysis for detailed systems, computer programs, electronics, and electronic casualty control; and operate associated built-in and external test equipment; load, initialize, and run preprogrammed diagnostic, performance and testing routines for digital computer equipment, digital subsystems, digital systems, and overall combat systems.
Fire controlmen attend apprentice technical training and "A"-School at Naval Station Great Lakes; this course is roughly 8 months long followed then by a "C"-school
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belknap_class_cruiser
Belknap class cruiser
The Belknap class cruiser was a class of single-ended guided missile cruisers
When commissioned, the main armament of the Belknap class was a 5 inch/54-caliber Mk. 42 gun on the quarterdeck and a twin-rail RIM-2 Terrier Mk 10 Missile Launcher on the foredeck. The class used two twin 3"/50 caliber guns for AAW. During the NTU program in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the class had its Terrier systems upgraded to utilize standard missiles, the 3 inch guns were replaced with two Harpoon missile launchers, and two Phalanx CIWS systems were installed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIVAC_418
UNIVAC 418
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The UNIVAC 418 was a transistorized, 18-bit word core memory machine made by Sperry Univac. The name came from its 4 microsecond memory cycle time and 18-bit word.
Architecture
Numbers were represented in ones' complement, single and double precision. The TRIM assembly source code used octal numbers as opposed to more common hexadecimal[citation needed] because the 18-bit words are evenly divisible by 3, but not by 4.
UNIVAC 418-II
The first UNIVAC 418-II was delivered in November 1964. It was available with 4,096 to 65,536 (18-bit) words of memory. Memory cycle time was reduced to 2 microseconds. The militarized version was called the UNIVAC 1219 (known as the "Mk 152 Fire Control Computer.") It was part of the Navy's Mk 76 missile fire control system, used to control the AN/SPG-55 radar system.
Red Storm Rising (1986)
Tom Clancy
(from internet transcript)
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. Numbers, symbols, and vectors paraded across the master tactical display. The fore and aft twin missile launchers trained out at the first targets and awaited the orders to fire. Aegis was state-of-the-art, the best SAM system yet devised, but it had one major weakness: Tico carried only ninety-six SM2 surface-to-air missiles; there were one hundred forty incoming Kingfish. The computer had not been programmed to think about that.
Aboard Nimitz, Toland could feel the carrier heeling into a radical turn, her engines advanced to flank speed, driving the massive warship at over thirty-five knots. Her nuclear-powered escorts, Virginia and California, were also tracking the Kingfish, their own missiles trained out on their launchers.
"Red Storm Rising"
The Kingfish were at eight thousand feet, one hundred miles out, covering a mile every four seconds. Each had now selected a target, choosing the largest within their fields of view. Nimitz was the nearest large ship, with her missile-ship escorts to her north.
Tico launched her first quartet of missiles as the targets reached a range of ninety-nine miles. The rockets exploded into the air, leaving a trail of pale gray smoke. They had barely cleared the launch rails when the mounts went vertical and swiveled to receive their reloads. The load-and-fire time was under eight seconds. The cruiser would average one missile fired every two seconds. Just over three minutes later, her missile magazines were empty. The cruiser emerged from the base of an enormous gray arch of smoke. Her only remaining defenses were her gun systems.
The SAMs raced in at their targets with a closing speed of over two thousand miles per hour, directed in by the reflected waves of the ship's own fire-control radars. At a range of a hundred fifty yards from their targets, the warheads detonated. The Aegis system did quite well. Just over 60 percent of the targets were destroyed. There were now eighty-two incoming missiles targeted on a total of eight ships.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: - posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 05:17 AM Pacific Time Seattle USA Friday 22 February 2013 - http://hvom.blogspot.com/2013/02/chain-reaction.html
Back in the year 2003 I wrote a letter on my computer at home and I printed it out on to paper and I put that letter in a stamped envelope for the postal service and I sent that letter through the United States Postal Service. I had the envelope of the letter addressed specifically to the Chief of Operations United States Navy and I referenced a special projects branch I had found on the internet.
I mailed the letter to the Chief of Operations United States Navy and told them I should have received the Silver Star.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 22 February 2013 excerpt ends]
Movie Scripts > The Firm (1993)
Mr Mulholland: I know I`m not Bendini-Lambert`s most valuable client, but I`ve got a legitimate complaint. You never spent 33 hours last month on my account.
Mitch McDeere: That`s what you were billed?
Mr Mulholland: You don`t see your bills?
Mitch McDeere: No, I just... just submit my time sheet.
Mr Mulholland: Where is it?
Mitch McDeere: It`s on file with the office manager.
Mr Mulholland: You know, this overbilling`s gotten so common, nobody gives it a thought. It`s kind of like tipping.
Mitch McDeere: Well... It`s not poIicy, Mr Mulholland.
Mr Mulholland: It sure seems like policy. It`s been going on over there for years. People forget something else, too. When somebody over there stamped this and mailed it, you know what happened?
Mitch McDeere: It became a federal offense.
Mr Mulholland: You`re damn right.
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The Firm (1993)
Release Info
USA 23 June 1993 (New York City, New York) (premiere)
The Firm (1993)
(from internet transcript)
Now, sir... Do you have any questions?
Do you have an offer in mind?
It includes a bonus schedule, a low-interest mortgage so you can buy a home, country club membership, and we'll lease you a new Mercedes.
You pick the colour, Mitch.
Lamar, you haven`t been paying attention. His wife picks the colour.
Do I...do I open it here?
Of course. Unless you can tell us what`s in it. A lawyer worth that offer shouldn`t have to open the envelope.
Mr McKnight, you are the managing partner at Bendini, Lambert & Locke? Did Mr Lambert as senior partner give you instructions regarding my employment?
He did.
Mr McKnight, do you follow Mr Lambert`s instructions?
Objection - vague, ambiguous.
Sustained.
What precisely were those instructions?
That you were in great demand and I should make certain that we obtain your services before a bidding situation developed.
From: Kerry Burgess
To: AskDOJ@usdoj.gov
Sent: Fri, June 17, 2011 1:13:50 PM
Subject: My sealed personnel records
I understand from your website at http://www.justice.gov/contact-us.html that you will forward my message to the appropriate department.
My personal and current assignment on a mission critical to United States of America national security required my personnel records sealed.
My sealed records establish that I currently maintain active duty status with the United States Marshals Service as Chief Deputy United States Marshal, under the name Wayne Newman. During my employment, I have at all times served a dual status role as a warrant officer and then commissioned officer of the United States Marine Corps as Matt Kline.
I give public notice that your failure to unseal my current legitimate and active status with the United States Marshals Service establishes malice and criminal hostility against my current status as Chief Deputy United States Marshal and commissioned general officer of the United States Marine Corps.
Sincerely,
Kerry W. Burgess
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The United States Department of Justice
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Thank you for visiting the Department's "Contact Us" page. On behalf of the Attorney General, the Department of Justice would like to thank you for your many messages on law enforcement issues and activities and other matters of special interest to many groups across the nation. The Attorney General appreciates the fact that so many citizens have taken the time to express their views and thoughts on these important matters.
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Battlestar Galactica - television miniseries premiere episode - Monday 08 December 2003 USA
(from internet transcript)
***
(We catch up with Commander Adama again, as he walks down a flight of stairs to the hangar.)
Adama: Good morning. (yells) Attention on deck!
(Chief Tyrol turns around and salutes.)
Adama: Hey, Chief. At ease.
Chief: (gestures) This way.
(Cut to some techs pulling a sheet off an old-model Viper.)
Adama: (smiles) Mark II. Haven't seen one of these in about twenty years.
Chief: If the commander will take a closer look. (The side of the ship reads: Lt. William Adama, "Husker") (Adama laughs) At the tail numbering. Nebula 7242 Constellation.
Adama: Oh my god. Where did you find her?
Battlestar Galactica - television miniseries premiere episode - Monday 08 December 2003 USA
(from internet transcript)
***
Chief: Rusting out in a salvage yard in Saggitarion. We had hoped the commander would allow her to participate in the decommissioning ceremony.
Adama: She'll fly?
Chief: Oh yes, sir. We've restored the engines, patched the guidance system, replaced much of the controls...
Adama: You guys are amazing.
Chief: ...she's fueled, armed. Ready for launch, sir. (He holds out a package) Commander.
Adama: What, more? (Takes it, opens the paper) Somebody's buckin' for promotion around here.
Chief: I believe that would be Prosna, sir. He found this in the fleet archives; he was doing some research for the museum.
(It's a picture of a younger Adama with two boys, one blond and one dark-haired. They're all wearing jumpsuits and are standing in front of a Viper.)
Adama: (Taking a deep breath) Thank you. Thank you all. It's an honor.
Chief: You're welcome, sir. (To the crew) Fall out.
(Adama stands and looks at the photograph.)
from the private journal of Kerry Burgess: Saturday, October 27, 2007
I took note of that announcement from South Carolina because Microsoft Corporation had just transported me from Rock Hill, South Carolina, for that 12/7/1998 start date for my job. Absolutely every aspect of that employment in the Microsoft Bellevue office was arranged by Microsoft. A Microsoft employee contacted me to ask if I wanted to go to work at Microsoft and then Microsoft arranged the interview process. A few years later, as I was still working there at Microsoft Corporation with my official United States federal undercover identity and Microsoft re-issued those security badges. I remember that well because they had a guy named Clarence, who was from Hawaii, sitting directly across the aisle from me in another cubicle and he was one of the people I heard spreading rumors that I was a U.S. Navy SEAL, which I denied. I remember when got that new Microsoft security badge, it had the same photo that was taken of me on 12/7/1998, but it was re-issued with a red smudge on my forehead.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 27 October 2007 excerpt ends]
posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 1:33 PM Sunday, July 15, 2007
When I read about this hijacked aircraft, I recognized the Microsoft employee ID 75612 that Microsoft assigned to me on 12/7/1998, which was 33 months, 4 days, before 9/11/2001:
Flight 175
Tail number N612UA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_175
United Airlines Flight 175 was a morning flight that regularly flew from Logan International Airport in East Boston, Massachusetts to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in Los Angeles, California (Boston–Los Angeles route). On September 11, 2001, the United Airlines Boeing 767-222, registered N612UA
From 5/9/1978 to 7/16/1979 is: 433 days
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marwan_al-Shehhi
Marwan Yousef al-Shehhi (May 9, 1978 — September 11, 2001) was named by the FBI as the suicide pilot aboard United Airlines flight 175 which crashed into the second World Trade Center tower on September 11, 2001. He trained at the Huffman Aviation pilot school with Mohammed Atta. At 23 years of age, he was youngest of the four pilots.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 15 July 2007 excerpt ends]
Battlestar Galactica - television miniseries premiere episode - Monday 08 December 2003 USA
(from internet transcript)
***
(Caprica - Boomer picks out a slip of paper)
Boomer: 127. One two seven.
Woman: Here. Thank the Lords of Kobol. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Boomer: Last one. 47. 47. (Everyone groans, Baltar looks distressed. Helo looks at Baltar, recognizes him.)
From 11/2/1965 To 9/26/2000 is 12747 days
http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2000/sept00/dclaunchpr.mspx
Microsoft Windows Datacenter Program - All Systems Go
Industry Partners Deliver Wide Range of Datacenter Products and Services Exceeding Customer Requirements
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 26, 2000 — Today at the Microsoft Enterprise 2000 Launch, Steve Ballmer, president and CEO of Microsoft Corp., together with industry partners kicked off the availability of the Windows® Datacenter Program. The launch marks the delivery of Microsoft's and industry partners' joint commitment to provide customers with reliability, scalability and the best business investment for mission-critical computing environments. Industry partners announcing solutions today include Compaq Computer Corp., Unisys Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Dell Computer Corp., IBM Corp., Stratus Computer Systems, Amdahl Corp., ICL, Fujitsu Ltd., Fujitsu-Siemens, Bull and Hitachi. Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, coupled with the Microsoft® .NET enterprise servers, represents a significant step toward the delivery of the .NET Platform.
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20000927&slug=4044773
The Seattle Times Search
Wednesday, September 27, 2000
Ruling gives Microsoft an edge
By John Hendren
Seattle Times Washington bureau
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court decisively rejected a speedy review of the Microsoft antitrust case yesterday, leaving a lower court to decide whether to uphold a judge's landmark order to split the world's largest software maker in two.
The 8-1 ruling is likely to delay a final decision for as long as two years and marks a significant setback for the Justice Department and 19 states, which had sought to put their case against Microsoft on the fast track. It was the first time in 16 years that the U.S. solicitor general had asked the high court for an expedited antitrust review and the first time the justices said no.
The decision elated officials at Microsoft, which has fared well in the lower court before.
"We're pleased that the judicial process is moving forward, and we look forward to a speedy resolution to the case," said Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer, who was in San Francisco for the unveiling of another piece of Microsoft's business strategy.
Some legal observers said the Supreme Court's decision could give Microsoft a critical edge. Instead of one year under an expedited review, it may be that the appeals court will take a year to hear the case and the Supreme Court would take another year.
Battlestar Galactica - television miniseries premiere episode - Monday 08 December 2003 USA
(from internet transcript)
***
Helo: Hey. Aren't you Gaius Baltar?
Baltar: I haven't done anything.
from the private journal of Kerry Burgess: 2006
I started wondering yesterday whether that Letter of Commendation from Captain Chandler actually refers to this event. I have been thinking of that part "displaying exception skill and resourcefulness, Petty Officer Burgess' attention to detail, devotion to duty and continued support were vital to ensuring near perfect operability of the MK152 GMFC computers"
From 8/24/1962 ( John Kennedy - Executive Order 11046 - Authorizing Award of the Bronze Star Medal ) To 4/18/1988 ( the United States Navy Operation Praying Mantis ) is 9369 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 6/28/1991 is 9369 days
From 6/7/1942 ( World War II - The Battle of Midway ends and with US Navy victory ) To 6/28/1991 is 17918 days
17918 = 8959 + 8959
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 5/14/1990 ( departing as United States Navy Fire Controlman Second Class Petty Officer Kerry Wayne Burgess my honorable discharge from United States Navy active service for commissioning as chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps and continuing to Kerry Burgess the United States Marine Corps general ) is 8959 days
From 6/7/1942 ( Japanese forces invade the Aleutian Islands ) To 6/28/1991 is 17918 days
17918 = 8959 + 8959
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 5/14/1990 ( departing as United States Navy Fire Controlman Second Class Petty Officer Kerry Wayne Burgess my honorable discharge from United States Navy active service for commissioning as chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps and continuing to Kerry Burgess the United States Marine Corps general ) is 8959 days
From 6/7/1942 ( Alan Dower Blumlein killed in airplane crash ) To 6/28/1991 is 17918 days
17918 = 8959 + 8959
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 5/14/1990 ( departing as United States Navy Fire Controlman Second Class Petty Officer Kerry Wayne Burgess my honorable discharge from United States Navy active service for commissioning as chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps and continuing to Kerry Burgess the United States Marine Corps general ) is 8959 days
From 10/10/1961 ( the incorporation of Martin-Marietta Corporation ) To 6/5/1987 ( from my official United States Navy documents: "Earned NEC 1189" ) is 9369 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 6/28/1991 is 9369 days
From 11/24/1963 ( Lee Harvey Oswald was shot and fatally wounded by Jack Ruby before live television cameras at Dallas Police Headquarters ) To 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash and the end of Kerry Burgess the natural human being cloned from another human being ) is 9369 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 6/28/1991 is 9369 days
From 12/15/1986 ( the Microsoft Corporation payout settlement for the software code Bill Gates stole from Seattle Computer Products another victim in a long string of larceny victims of Microsoft Corporation ) To 6/28/1991 is 1656 days
1656 = 828 + 828
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 2/8/1968 ( premiere US film "Planet of the Apes" ) is 828 days
From 3/25/1953 ( Dwight Eisenhower - Memorandum Concerning Segregation in Schools on Army Posts ) To 6/28/1991 is 13974 days
13974 = 6987 + 6987
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 12/19/1984 ( from the official United States Navy documents of Kerry Burgess: as Kerry Wayne Burgess the E-3 Seaman United States Navy I reported for duty aboard the USS Taylor FFG 50 ) is 6987 days
See also: https://www.facebook.com/kerry.burgess.790/posts/1936384946636765
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=19744
The American Presidency Project
George Bush
XLI President of the United States: 1989 - 1993
Letter on the Resignation of United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall
June 28, 1991
Dear Mr. Justice:
It is with deep regret that I acknowledge your letter of retirement from the Supreme Court effective at such time as a successor is qualified.
Our Nation is deeply indebted to you for your long and distinguished public service. Your courageous leadership in the fight for equal opportunity, exemplified by your brief and oral argument in the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education, is a powerful example of how one person's commitment to his convictions can shape a nation's attitude on such a fundamental issue.
Your distinguished service to our country, first on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, as our Nation's 33rd Solicitor General, and capped by a great career on the Supreme Court will also be long remembered.
Barbara and I wish you happiness and every blessing in your years of retirement.
Sincerely,
George Bush
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurgood_Marshall
Thurgood Marshall
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marshall retired from the Supreme Court in 1991 due to declining health. In his retirement press conference on June 28, 1991
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063442/quotes
IMDb
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Quotes
[first lines]
George Taylor: And that completes my final report until we reach touchdown. We're now on full automatic, in the hands of the computers.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063442/quotes
IMDb
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Quotes
George Taylor: There's your Minister of Science; honor-bound to expand the frontiers of knowledge...
Dr. Zira: Taylor, please!
George Taylor: ...except that he's also chief Defender of the Faith!
Dr. Zaius: There is no contradiction between faith and science... true science!
George Taylor: Are you willing to put that statement to the test?
From 10/28/1967 ( Julia Roberts ) To 8/29/2007 ( Bill Gates-Microsoft-Nazi-Corbis causes the United States Air Force atomic weapons incident with the objective of atomic destruction in the United States and Bill Gates-Microsoft-Nazi-Corbis-George Bush continue to actively plan to produce atomic destruction in the United States of America for the purpose of murdering as many United States of America citizens as possible and for the purpose of ongoing protection to organized crime and to protect other severe illegal commerce activity ) is 14550 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 9/3/2005 ( William Rehnquist dead ) is 14550 days
See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2017/09/and-yet-they-refuse-to-let-me-live.html
http://www.nti.org/analysis/articles/close-calls/
NTI
Close Calls with Nuclear Weapons
September 18, 2014
Nuclear weapons are different.
If a nuclear weapon exploded in a major city, the blast center would be hotter than the surface of the sun; tornado-strength winds would spread the flames; and a million or more people could die. Survivors would have no electricity, phones and hospitals would be overwhelmed…if they were still standing.
The opportunities for catastrophe are wide and terrifying with more than 16,000 nuclear weapons in the world today. The possibility of an accidental, mistaken or unauthorized launch is real. The scenarios below show how close we've come.
More than two decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States and Russia still keep nearly 2,000 nuclear weapons ready for immediate launch against each other. This dangerous "prompt-launch status" means leaders in a crisis would have just minutes to check facts and decide whether to use nuclear weapons. Command and control systems are not perfect. People make mistakes. Sabotage can happen. Technology has flaws and systems fail.
A nuclear war between the U.S. and Russia could end human life on earth—and could be triggered by a false warning planted by a cyber-terrorist. We know that terrorists are seeking nuclear weapons themselves.
Seven more countries—in addition to the U.S. and Russia—have nuclear weapons: India, Pakistan, China, France, the United Kingdom, Israel and North Korea. Any one of these countries could be the cause of a catastrophe.
How long will we continue to rely on luck?
Who's Minding the Nukes?
On August 29, 2007, at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota, 12 cruise missiles were scheduled to be flown to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana to be decommissioned. Instead, six cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads were strapped onto one of the wings of a B-52 bomber not certified to carry nuclear weapons. The nuclear missiles were flown by pilots who did not know they were carrying nuclear weapons to an airbase that did not know they were coming. Once in Louisiana, the weapons sat on the tarmac overnight unguarded. By the time the mistake was discovered by a maintenance crew, the six thermonuclear weapons had been missing for a day and a half and no one in the U.S. Air Force noticed. A former head of the nation’s strategic command said: “I have been in the nuclear business since 1966 and am not aware of any incident more disturbing.”
https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-G-Roberts-Jr
Encyclopædia Britannica
John G. Roberts, Jr.
UNITED STATES JURIST
John G. Roberts, Jr., in full John Glover Roberts, Jr. (born January 27, 1955, Buffalo, New York, U.S.), 17th chief justice of the United States (2005– ).
Roberts was raised in Indiana and received undergraduate (1976) and law (1979) degrees from Harvard University, where he was the managing editor of the Harvard Law Review. From 1980 to 1981 he served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice William H. Rehnquist, who later became chief justice.
Seven Days in May (1964)
(from internet transcript)
***
US Air Force General Scott, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, United States of America: I beg your pardon, Mr. President. You wish the alert cancelled?
Jordan Lyman, President of the USA: I do. I intend to cancel it.
General Scott: May I ask why?
President Lyman: Certain facts have come to my attention. I won't waste time detailing them all now. I'll simply say that I want your resignation tonight... and those of Generals Hardesty, Riley and Dieffenbach as well.
General Scott: Either you are joking, or you have taken leave of your senses. I know of no reason why I should remove my name from the active list voluntarily. Or, for that matter, any of the other Joint Chiefs.
President Lyman: You could give me the reasons, General. But if you want me to itemize them, I shall be glad to do so.
General Scott: Please do.
President Lyman: You have used, without my authority... substantial sums from the Joint Chiefs' Contingency Fund... to establish a base, and train a special unit of troops whose purpose... and even whose existence, was kept secret from me... from officials of the Bureau of the Budget and members of the Congress.
General Scott: And the name of the unit?
President Lyman: You know that unit. It's designation is ECOMCON.
General Scott: I'm afraid your memory fails you, Mr. President. You gave me verbal authorization for the base and the unit. As I recall, we covered many items that day. Perhaps you didn't pay much attention. I assumed you'd inform the Director of the Budget.
President Lyman: What was the date of that meeting, General?
General Scott: I can't recall exactly, but it was right here in this office. Last November, I believe.
President Lyman: You have a record of the date and subject?
General Scott: Certainly, Mr. President
From 10/28/1967 ( Julia Roberts ) To 9/3/2005 is 13825 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 9/9/2003 ( Edward Teller deceased ) is 13825 days
See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2017/09/and-yet-they-refuse-to-let-me-live.html
https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Rehnquist
Encyclopædia Britannica
William Rehnquist
CHIEF JUSTICE OF UNITED STATES
William Rehnquist, in full William Hubbs Rehnquist, original name William Donald Rehnquist (born October 1, 1924, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.—died September 3, 2005, Arlington, Virginia), 16th chief justice of the United States, appointed to the Supreme Court in 1971 and elevated to chief justice in 1986.
From 5/15/1984 ( as Kerry Wayne Burgess I began active service for an enlistment period of six years as a United States Navy enlisted sailor and my United States of America military service continues as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps general ) To 6/27/1991 is 2599 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 12/14/1972 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the United States Navy Commander circa 1972 was United States Apollo 17 Challenger spacecraft United States Navy astronaut walking on the planet Earth's moon ) is 2599 days
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1991/06/27/Supreme-Court-Justice-Thurgood-Marshall-retires/8252677995200/
UPI
Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall retires
By GREG HENDERSON June 27, 1991
WASHINGTON -- Justice Thurgood Marshall, the only black ever appointed to the Supreme Court and currently its most liberal member, Thursday announced his retirement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marshals_Service
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Star_Medal
- posted by Kerry Burgess 10:14 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Sunday 11 February 2018
