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Steve Ballmer Speech Transcript – GigaWorld ’98
June 2, 1998
Remarks by Steve Ballmer, Executive Vice President, Sales and Support, Worldwide Business Strategy Group
Businesses will think about the Internet as the fundamental way in which they contact their customers, their business markets. The world will really transform itself around the Internet.Many people predict that this Web lifestyle will mean a world of fallen margins, commodity pricing, customer shopping.
I believe a world in which the Web is fundamental for the way businesses interact with consumers and consumers interact with businesses will be a world of increased customer service.
I think people are focusing far too much on pricing and shopping and commoditization when, in fact, the things that I see that are good and wonderful about e-commerce and the Web and the Web lifestyle have to do with service. We can, I know, serve our customers far better with a good experience on our Web site than we can even with somebody telephoning somebody.
We have been involved with The Gap, helping them build their Web sites. They can do things on their Web site that they cannot do in their stores. They can store all of the product information from all of your relatives, important dates when it comes to shopping. They’ll store the birth dates, they’ll send you a reminder two weeks before a birthday and say you know, “Grandma Jeannie’s birthday coming up. Do you want to send her something? Here’s her size and here’s what she purchased the last time she was online.” That’s not a transactional efficiency. That is an improvement in customer service.
Friends
The One Where Monica Gets a Roommate
Episode 101
Ross : I don't want to be single, okay? I just... I just- I just wanna be married again!
(ENTER Rachel IN A WET WEDDING DRESS. SHE STARTS TO SEARCH AROUND THE ROOM)
Chandler : And I just want a million dollars! (EXTENDS HIS Hand HOPEFULLY)
Monica : Rachel?!
Rachel : Oh God Monica hi! I just went to your building and you weren't there and then this guy with a big hammer said you might be here and you are, you are!
Waitress : Can I get you some coffee?
Monica : (POINTING AT Rachel) De-caff. (TO THE GANG) Okay, everybody, this is Rachel, another Lincoln High survivor. (TO Rachel) This is everybody, this is Chandler, and Phoebe, and Joey, and- you remember my brother Ross?
Rachel : Hi, sure!
Ross : Hi.
(THEY GO TO HUG BUT Ross' UMBRELLA OPENS. HE SITS, DEFEATED AGAIN)
(A MOMENT OF SILENCE AS Rachel SITS; THE OTHERS EXPECT HER TO EXPLAIN)
Monica : So you wanna tell us now, or are we waiting for four wet bridesmaids?
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Calvin Coolidge
XXX President of the United States: 1923 - 1929
Address Before the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, New York City
November 19, 1925
Mr. President and Members of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York:
This time and place naturally suggest some consideration of commerce in its relation to government and society. We are finishing a year which can justly be said to surpass all others in the overwhelming success of general business. We are met not only in the greatest American metropolis, but in the greatest center of population and business that the world has ever known. If anyone wishes to gauge the power which is represented by the genius of the American spirit, let him contemplate the wonders which have been wrought in this region in the short space of 200 years. Not only does it stand unequaled by any other place on earth, but it is impossible to conceive of any other place where it could be equaled.
The foundation of this enormous development rests upon commerce. New York is an imperial city, but it is not a seat of government. The empire over which it rules is not political, but commercial. The great cities of the ancient world were the seats of both government and industrial power. The Middle Ages furnished a few exceptions. The great capitals of former times were not only seats of government but they actually governed. In the modern world government is inclined to be merely a tenant of the city. Political life and industrial life flow on side by side, but practically separated from each other. When we contemplate the enormous power, autocractic and uncontrolled, which would have been created by joining the authority of government with the influence of business, we can better appreciate the wisdom of the fathers in their wise dispensation which made Washington the political center of the country and left New York to develop into its business center. They wrought mightily for freedom.
The great advantages of this arrangement seem to me to be obvious. The only disadvantages which appear lie in the possibility that otherwise business and government might have had a better understanding of each other and been less likely to develop mutual misapprehensions and suspicions. If a contest could be held to determine how much those who are really prominent in our government life know about business, and how much those who are really prominent in our business life know about government, it is my firm conviction that the prize would be awarded those who are in government life. This is as it ought to be, for those who have the greater authority ought to have the greater knowledge.
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23800 = 11900 + 11900
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 6/2/1998 is 11900 days
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From 11/19/1925 ( Calvin Coolidge - Address Before the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, New York City ) To 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 officially the United States Apache attack helicopter pilot ) is 23800 days
23800 = 11900 + 11900
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 6/2/1998 is 11900 days
From 11/19/1925 ( Calvin Coolidge - Address Before the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, New York City ) To 1/17/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Persian Gulf War begins as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 23800 days
23800 = 11900 + 11900
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 6/2/1998 is 11900 days
From 10/15/1959 ( premiere US TV series "The Untouchables" ) To 5/14/1992 ( as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer circa 1992 and United States chief test pilot I performed the first flight of the US Army and Boeing AH-64D Apache Longbow ) is 11900 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 6/2/1998 is 11900 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 6/2/1998 is 11900 days
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Steve Ballmer Speech Transcript – GigaWorld ’98
June 2, 1998
Remarks by Steve Ballmer, Executive Vice President, Sales and Support, Worldwide Business Strategy Group
GigaWorld ’98
June 2, 1998, Phoenix, AZ
Steve Ballmer: It is my pleasure and honor to have a chance to talk with you today.David Gilmour had asked that perhaps I’d speak 15, 20 minutes and try to give you some projections of things that we think will happen over the next five, six, seven years.Hopefully something that surprises you from the standpoint of somebody on the vendor side who has now has decided to say something that we think’s going to be true, not just possible.
Development Inertia
I’ll make one small prediction that runs counter to something David said yesterday, and it’s unfortunate.David talked about objection orientation and the ways in which new applications could develop.Well, I agree absolutely, totally, 100 percent with what David had to say in terms of what we want to be, what could be, what can be, what needs to be.
I’m much less optimistic, frankly, about adapting to something that comes over the next four or five years.The issue is not what can be and should be and ought to be and what the effect will be.But certainly in my travel and speeches with customers and developers, it is my view that there’s a lot of inertia in the development community, and actually things change far more slowly in terms of technique and programs than anybody might ever guess.
I got to speak yesterday to 9,000 people, and I was kind of expecting that this is a revved up audience – they’ve traveled a long way, paid money, who are enthused and involved and excited and leading edge, and I asked this audience, “How many of you have ever used Java?Ten percent of the hands went up, maybe 20 percent of the hands went up.They had not. You could say, okay, I was speaking to an audience of troglodytes.That would never happen if I was speaking with employees of the companies in this room.
I’ll take a bet on it.I think we could well see that it’ll take another few returning classes of college graduates.It’ll take time.It’ll take some real change in inertial patterns before we get possible changes in the way applications are developed.
So while I’m optimistic about what the technology can do I’m not very sanguine today about the role of inertia.
Web Lifestyle to Lead to Better Customer Service
The second prediction that I want to make has to do – not surprising – with the Internet, what’s going to happen to the Internet, because I imagine quite a metamorphosis.Today everybody’s thinking about the Net, everybody’s talking about the Net, whether it’s business or consumers, and consumers – we certainly see people over the next four or five years leading what we like to describe as a Web lifestyle, people who turn to their personal computer as a fundamental place to retrieve information, to find things out, to start or conduct business, whatever the case may be.
Businesses will think about the Internet as the fundamental way in which they contact their customers, their business markets.The world will really transform itself around the Internet.Many people predict that this Web lifestyle will mean a world of fallen margins, commodity pricing, customer shopping.
I believe a world in which the Web is fundamental for the way businesses interact with consumers and consumers interact with businesses will be a world of increased customer service.
I think people are focusing far too much on pricing and shopping and commoditization when, in fact, the things that I see that are good and wonderful about e-commerce and the Web and the Web lifestyle have to do with service.We can, I know, serve our customers far better with a good experience on our Web site than we can even with somebody telephoning somebody.
We have been involved with The Gap, helping them build their Web sites.They can do things on their Web site that they cannot do in their stores.They can store all of the product information from all of your relatives, important dates when it comes to shopping.They’ll store the birth dates, they’ll send you a reminder two weeks before a birthday and say you know,
“Grandma Jeannie’s birthday coming up.Do you want to send her something?Here’s her size and here’s what she purchased the last time she was online.”
That’s not a transactional efficiency.That is an improvement in customer service.
You’ll see the same thing in financial services, information services, the kind of thing that Gideon talked about, the knowledge salon concept, which Giga is pioneering and I think it’s really a wonderful breakthrough in the way we think about knowledge management.But it’s all based upon really a notion that the Internet and the Web represent a form of advanced customer service.
I got a question from a customer the other day, a semiconductor company, who said,
“Does this e-commerce thing have anything to do with us?Tell me, does it have anything to do with us?All I ever hear about is, you know, online banking and shopping and, you know, bookstore buying.”
Well, the problem is very different for him.He doesn’t need to go out and broadly search for all the customer support.There are a hundred thousand, possibly, electrical engineers around the globe who need to know about his product.His mission is to give them all the information they need, the support that they need, when they need it, to improve his customer contacts and customer experience in precisely the right way.
So I think there’ll be an explosion of Web lifestyles, but the thing that will actually cause it is, as much as anything, businesses investing in improving the customer service experience for their customers and their trading partners.I think that’s a very important concept.
Increased Business Value from PC Technology
The second prediction I’ll make is that businesses five years from now will be clearly recognizing and admitting and understanding increased value from the investments they make in information technology, even if, as I predict, spending on information technology continues to rise as a percentage of revenue or any other measure over the next five years.
Today I’m sure many of you, as I do, see frustration among business managers, CEOs in your company, whohave production as their top objective.There are a lot of companies who still don’t have a lot of understanding of what can happen, what should happen, what’s possible.
I think there will be a shift over the next four or five years.We recently had 125 CEOs in Seattle to meet with us to talk about some of these ideas, and we’re starting, even versus a year ago, to get real change in the way people think about IT.People are thinking about IT as a tool to improve customer service.People are seeing IT as a tool to connect large global businesses together.People are seeing IT really as what we call a Digital Nervous System place, where the information technology is not just there to make sure the books get closed and the manufacturing line gets launched, but IT is really there to help the companies communicate, to train its workers, learn, make better decisions, communicate better with its customers and its suppliers.
Today, over 50 percent of the capital spending in this country on business is spent on IT, yet most business managers don’t feel very comfortable with that.I think we’ll see a change over the next five years and I predict five years from now we will be doing –
“we”
meaning the vendor community and our customers in IT – will be doing a far better job of demonstrating the value to the business in the ways the CEO, the vice president of marketing, the vice president of customer service really understand. A better job of delivering value.
I had the experience of sitting next to a fellow who runs in the western part of the United States one of the largest auto insurers in this country.We sat next to each other on an airplane, he noticed me fumbling through computer-looking stuff.He says,
“Well, you’re into computers.”
I said,
“Why, yes, I am.”
Then he says,
“We get a lot with computers.”
That’s great.That’s great.He said,
“We have a lot of computer people.”
Aha!That all sounds good to me.He said,
“You know, it’s kind of frustrating.I have to write auto insurance in Durango, Colorado, and I have to decide how we must change our prices over the course of the year, what the price is.I would really – and I know those IT guys have this someplace – I wish I could look at all the claims we paid in Durango, I could look at those by time of year.I’ve got to have a judgment that says we’re going to raise our rates on, New Year’s Eve, we probably ought to charge more to the people who come buy insurance that day, and, you know, just general information.”
He says,
“Why is it with all those computers and all those IT guys I don’t have what I need?”
I said,
“Well, you know, I have things I’ve got to go back to reading here.”
I was ashamed on behalf of Microsoft and what we’re all able to accomplish, and I see that really changing over the course of the next five years.
Cost.I think we are at a turning point in terms of manageability of cost of ownership.Certainly I have a view that five years from now, people will look back on 1998 and we will say,
“That was the turning point.That was the time in which the PC industry, Microsoft, Intel, Compaq, HP, and others got their act together.They really went after and improved the cost of ownership.”
But there’s no doubt in my mind that whether we succeed-and I think we will – or we fail, five years from now, we will view this as a turning point.If the PC industry does not get its act together to help reduce the cost and the complexity of managing large networks and PC clients’ servers, this will be viewed as the time in which alternate architecture and alternate computing approaches really take off and come to the forefront in terms of what is popular five years from now.
While the PC may not be dead five years from now, we will all understand that the PC lost its central position in the infrastructure based upon the inability of the vendor community to respond to the challenge of cost of ownership.
Now certainly it is our job to make sure that we respond, that we in the PC industry respond to the clarion call here on cost of ownership.Five years from now, either we will all see the industry responding to the needs that have been expressed or you will have voted with your feet and be buying, at least down the road, different architecture devices.
We will do it!There is no doubt in my mind – none, nada whatsoever – that five years from now, we will all agree that the PC server is absolutely the most powerful computing device, the most available, the most reliable computing device in the world.
I’m not predicting that five years from now there will be no mainframes left.We’ll have applications and those things don’t go away, but based upon the availability of other hardware – certainly the hardware from the work that Intel does to the work the system vendors do – powerful and large scale application developed will be started on top of the PC.And I base that prediction on my view of what Intel is capable of and of the incredible investments going in from Hitachi and NEC and HP and Compaq and others into high availability and high performance systems.
On the plus side, I also predict that on the low end, we’ll all agree that there’ll be PC style, PC architecture devices that are scaled down and make sense in the smallest jobs.Instead of my coming up here carrying a silly piece of paper on which I write notes, I’ll have my palm-sized PC in my pocket
Literally , in my car – wherever I go – I will have access to the same quality and type of information because of the incredible scalability that the PC and that the Windows architecture provides. Within five years, I think it will be eminently clear.
Investment in Innovation
We are very proud with our company’s record and focus on innovation and the core products that we provide-Windows, Office, and BackOffice.Five years from now, I predict we’ll be doing and our industry will be doing exactly the kinds of things that everybody’s trying to do today – investing aggressively in R & D, improving the product, providing more capability, teaching computers in key states to speak, to listen, to learn, adding artificial intelligence and natural language and voice recognition and improved security and improved information management and knowledge management, information handling capabilities into the heart and soul and core of all the products in the market place – our products, NEC’s products, Peoplesoft’s products, Oracle’s products, IBM’s products.
Everybody will push forward relentlessly, and our goal has to be to develop things in the kind of modular component type fashion that David described yesterday.But nonetheless, we and other vendors in the business have to take on the obligation to make sure that these components really are tested and work and come together for you seamlessly.
The goal of the PC revolution has to be to get the best of both worlds-the best of the specialization of the PC industry, but with the benefits of integration and things working together that people associate with the mainframe industry.
So wewill continue-by the way, we will defend our right to continue-to add value to our products.-Next year, the budget is $3 billion in R & D.Five years from now, I would certainly anticipate that our company could be spending as much as $7-8billion on R & D.
The goal has to be foremost a value added to our core products-Windows, Office, SQL Server, Exchange Servers-and we need to enhance and improve, make those products better for you, for the developers who work for you, the IT people who work for you, and for the end users who work for you.And whether it’s our company or anybody else, that will happen.
Sometimes I ask people, what if Microsoft is put out of business somehow, either regulated or out in another way, but put out of business, can you imagine an operating system in 10 years that wouldn’t have Internet access built in?That wouldn’t have speech recognition built in?That wouldn’t have natural language capabilities built in?
That’s what you’re going to want.That’s what you’re going to demand.That’s what you’re going to insist on.That form, capability, functionality will be there, be available to the developers in your organizations to build on, so the IT people do not have to worry about integrating and pulling things together.
I sure see a world that’s rich and wonderful and rosy.I’m very excited about the five-year time frame.I do worry about the inertia – inertia inside the IT industry itself.The IT industry in the United States is over five million people, five million people.The only industries or professions that are larger in the United States today than IT are electrical manufacturing and auto manufacturing.And to move an industry with five million people very quickly, that’s a difficult challenge, and it’s a challenge that affects all of the people.We’re going to get the full power and full capabilities, the customer service on the Internet, for improved decision making internal to our companies.If we’re going to get either of those benefits, we’re going to have to all take on the challenge of staying current, of educating our people, training our people, and being quick and fast moving.
We certainly will do our best for the companies to help with that education process, to keep our products moving quickly, and reacting to the kinds of issues and concerns that you raise.
My thanks for the opportunity to address you.
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Date of Birth 11 February 1969, Sherman Oaks, California, USA
Birth Name Jennifer Joanna Aniston
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The One Where Monica Gets a Roommate
Episode 101
ENTER Rachel WITH SHOPPING)
Rachel : Guess what?
Ross : You got a job?
Rachel : Are you kidding? I'm trained for nothing! I was laughed out of twelve interviews today.
Chandler : And yet you're surprisingly upbeat.
Rachel : You would be too if you found John and David boots on sale, fifty percent off!
Chandler : Oh, how well you know me...
Rachel : They're my new 'I don't need a job, I don't need my parents, I've got great boots' boots!
Monica : How'd you pay for them?
Rachel : Uh, credit card.
Monica : And who pays for that?
Rachel : Um... my... father.
(CUT TO THE GANG AT Monica + Rachel'S, SITTING ROUND A TABLE. ON THE TABLE ARE Rachel'S CREDIT CARDS and A PAIR OF SCISSORS)
Monica : C'mon, you can't live off your parents your whole life.
Rachel : I know that. That's why I was getting married.
Phoebe : Give her a break, it's hard being on your own for the first time.
Rachel : Thank you.
Phoebe : You're welcome. I remember when I first came to this city. I was fourteen. My mom had just killed herself and my step-dad was back in prison, and I got here, and I didn't know anybody. And I ended up living with this albino guy who was, like, clea ning windows outside port authority, and then he killed himself, and then I found aromatherapy. So believe me, I know exactly how you feel.
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The Outer Limits - Original Season 1 Episode 30
Production and Decay of Strange Particles
Aired Monday 8:00 PM Apr 20, 1964 on ABC
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An accident in a nuclear research facility opens a dimensional doorway. The invading creatures attempt to create an explosion which will widen the doorway.
AIRED: 4/20/64
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First Contact
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New PDAs well in hand
A handful of hardware makers at Comdex unveil new handheld PCs that run on Microsoft's Windows CE operating system for prices starting below $500.
NOVEMBER 18, 1996 11:15 AM PST
A handful of hardware makers today at Comdex unveiled new handheld PCs that run on Microsoft's Windows CE operating system for prices starting at under $500 apiece.
Devices from Casio Computer, Compaq Computer, Hitachi, and Philips Electronics are designed for business people on the road who are looking for a compatible lightweight counterpart to their desktop PCs.
The Windows 95-based machines offer remote and wireless connections for checking email as well as connecting to the Internet and corporate intranets. They also allow users to synchronize data with a range of Microsoft desktop applications, send and receive faxes, and perform other tasks.
Some of the pint-sized PCs have already begun to roll off assembly lines, while others will be launched into the market during the first quarter of next year. They come with a choice of 2MB or 4MB RAM and several are powered by ordinary AA batteries.
From 2/11/1929 ( the wacko cult phony religious Vatican City established among all the other wacko nutjob religions on this Planet Earth ) To 3/16/1991 ( the first successful major test of the ultraspace matter transportation device by Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate ) is 22678 days
22678 = 11339 + 11339
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Burgess ) To 11/18/1996 is 11339 days
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USA 18 November 1996 (Hollywood, California) (premiere)
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Steve Ballmer Speech Transcript – GigaWorld ’98
June 2, 1998
Remarks by Steve Ballmer, Executive Vice President, Sales and Support, Worldwide Business Strategy Group
I sure see a world that’s rich and wonderful and rosy.I’m very excited about the five-year time frame.I do worry about the inertia – inertia inside the IT industry itself.The IT industry in the United States is over five million people, five million people.The only industries or professions that are larger in the United States today than IT are electrical manufacturing and auto manufacturing.And to move an industry with five million people very quickly, that’s a difficult challenge, and it’s a challenge that affects all of the people.
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Steve Ballmer Speech Transcript – GigaWorld ’98
June 2, 1998
Remarks by Steve Ballmer, Executive Vice President, Sales and Support, Worldwide Business Strategy Group
On the plus side, I also predict that on the low end, we’ll all agree that there’ll be PC style, PC architecture devices that are scaled down and make sense in the smallest jobs.Instead of my coming up here carrying a silly piece of paper on which I write notes, I’ll have my palm-sized PC in my pocket
Literally , in my car – wherever I go – I will have access to the same quality and type of information because of the incredible scalability that the PC and that the Windows architecture provides. Within five years, I think it will be eminently clear.
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Steve Ballmer Speech Transcript – GigaWorld ’98
June 2, 1998
Remarks by Steve Ballmer, Executive Vice President, Sales and Support, Worldwide Business Strategy Group
While the PC may not be dead five years from now, we will all understand that the PC lost its central position in the infrastructure based upon the inability of the vendor community to respond to the challenge of cost of ownership.
Now certainly it is our job to make sure that we respond, that we in the PC industry respond to the clarion call here on cost of ownership.Five years from now, either we will all see the industry responding to the needs that have been expressed or you will have voted with your feet and be buying, at least down the road
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: posted by H.V.O.M at 10:03 PM - Thursday, April 12, 2007
I can’t fully remember the complete picture about the person referred to next, but I think it is connected to my experiences in the Vietnam War, similar to what I have written about the U.S. Navy helicopter pilot Clyde Lassen. I made some observations a while back about how USS Lassen is hull number 82 and how that connects to my 1982 graduation from the U.S. Naval Academy. Based on details I found, I assume I was at the controls of that helicopter and that it was my decision to turn on the landing lights while we were under fire in order to help the pilots we were trying to rescue get to the helicopter. So anyway, I think this award for Lt. Thomas R. Norris has something to do with me as well. I don’t know if he is the place holder for me on that award, or if he really was there with me, or what.
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: posted by H.V.O.M at 5:36 PM - Friday, April 13, 2007
I woke up this morning with more thoughts about that Medal Of Honor citation for Thomas R. Norris, and my similar journal entry from 6/12/2006. I checked the dates and his citation describes heroism observed over the period 10 to 13 April 1972. I woke up thinking more about that ’conveyance’ I wrote of and that I noted that the second-to-last known mission to the Moon launched on 4/16/1972. It was that Apollo 16 capsule I was writing about. I don’t know if Thomas R. Norris was intended to represent me, or if he was someone I was there in Vietnam - perhaps I was the Vietnamese soldier described in his citation because I was fluent in that language - but I am quite certain I was there during the rescue of those downed pilots. I made that 6/12/2006 journal entry after I had woke up from a restless night in that Pioneer Square homeless shelter and I was frustrated that there was only two computers on my floor for the 40 other people to share. So the basis for what I was writing was that I was there trying to rescue those pilots while I endured a fierce mortar barrage on my observation post. After rescuing the pilots, I went straight back to Canaveral - just 3 days later - and blasted off into space on a Saturn rocket for the Apollo 16 Moon landing.
http://www.history.army.mil/html/moh/vietnam-m-z.html
CENTER OF MILITARY HISTORY
UNITED STATES ARMY
Medal of Honor Recipients
Vietnam War
NORRIS, THOMAS R.
Rank and Organization: Lieutenant, U.S. Navy, SEAL Advisor, Strategic Technical Directorate Assistance Team, Headquarters, U.S. Military Assistance Command
Place and Date: Quang Tri Province, Republic of Vietnam, 10 to 13 April 1972
Date of Issue: 03/06/1976
Citation: Lt. Norris completed an unprecedented ground rescue of 2 downed pilots deep within heavily controlled enemy territory in Quang Tri Province. Lt. Norris, on the night of 10 April, led a 5-man patrol through 2,000 meters of heavily controlled enemy territory, located 1 of the downed pilots at daybreak, and returned to the Forward Operating Base (FOB). On 11 April, after a devastating mortar and rocket attack on the small FOB, Lt. Norris led a 3-man team on 2 unsuccessful rescue attempts for the second pilot. On the afternoon of the 12th, a forward air controller located the pilot and notified Lt. Norris. Dressed in fishermen disguises and using a sampan, Lt. Norris and 1 Vietnamese traveled throughout that night and found the injured pilot at dawn. Covering the pilot with bamboo and vegetation, they began the return journey, successfully evading a North Vietnamese patrol. Approaching the FOB, they came under heavy machinegun fire. Lt. Norris called in an air strike which provided suppression fire and a smoke screen, allowing the rescue party to reach the FOB. By his outstanding display of decisive leadership, undaunted courage, and selfless dedication in the face of extreme danger, Lt. Norris enhanced the finest traditions of the U.S. Naval Service.
http://www.cmohs.org/recipient-detail/3374/norris-thomas-r.php
Congressional Medal of Honor Society
NORRIS, THOMAS R.
Rank: Lieutenant
Organization: U.S. Navy
Company: Strategic Technical Directorate Assitance Team
Division: U.S. Army Support Command
Born: 14 January 1944, Jacksonville, Fla.
Date of Issue: 03/06/1976
Place / Date: Quang Tri Province, Republic of Vietnam, 10 to 13 April 1972
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July 1929
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The following events occurred in July 1929:
July 25, 1929 (Thursday)
Pope Pius XI celebrated mass in St. Peter's Basilica and then made an historical entrance into St. Peter's Square as a crowd of approximately 200,000 cheered the end of the pope's status as a prisoner in the Vatican.
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Prisoner in the Vatican
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A prisoner in the Vatican or prisoner of the Vatican (Italian: Prigioniero del Vaticano; Latin: Captivus Vaticani) is how Pope Pius IX was described following the capture of Rome by the armed forces of the Kingdom of Italy on 20 September 1870. Part of the process of Italian unification, the city's capture ended the millennial temporal rule of the popes over central Italy and allowed Rome to be designated the capital of the new nation. The appellation is also applied to Pius's successors through Pope Pius XI.
As nationalism swept the Italian Peninsula in the 19th century, efforts to unify Italy were blocked in part by the Papal States, which ran through the middle of the peninsula and included the ancient capital of Rome. The Papal States were able to fend off efforts to conquer them largely through the pope's influence over the leaders of stronger European powers such as France and Austria. When Rome was eventually taken, the Italian government reportedly intended to let the pope keep the part of Rome west of the Tiber called the Leonine City as a small remaining Papal State, but Pius IX refused. One week after entering Rome, the Italian troops had taken the entire city save for the Apostolic Palace; the inhabitants of the city then voted to join Italy.
For the next 59 years, the popes refused to leave the Vatican in order to avoid any appearance of accepting the authority wielded by the Italian government over Rome as a whole. During this period, popes also refused to appear at Saint Peter's Square or at the balcony of the Vatican Basilica facing it, as the square in front of the basilica was occupied by Italian troops. During this period, popes granted the Urbi et Orbi blessings from a balcony facing a courtyard, or from inside the basilica, and papal coronations were instead held at the Sistine Chapel. The period ended in 1929, when the Lateran Treaty created the modern state of Vatican City.
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Steve Ballmer Speech Transcript – GigaWorld ’98
June 2, 1998
Remarks by Steve Ballmer, Executive Vice President, Sales and Support, Worldwide Business Strategy Group
Steve Ballmer: It is my pleasure and honor to have a chance to talk with you today.David Gilmour had asked that perhaps I’d speak 15, 20 minutes and try to give you some projections of things that we think will happen over the next five, six, seven years.Hopefully something that surprises you from the standpoint of somebody on the vendor side who has now has decided to say something that we think’s going to be true, not just possible.
Development Inertia
I’ll make one small prediction that runs counter to something David said yesterday, and it’s unfortunate.David talked about objection orientation and the ways in which new applications could develop.Well, I agree absolutely, totally, 100 percent with what David had to say in terms of what we want to be, what could be, what can be, what needs to be.
I’m much less optimistic, frankly, about adapting to something that comes over the next four or five years.The issue is not what can be and should be and ought to be and what the effect will be.But certainly in my travel and speeches with customers and developers, it is my view that there’s a lot of inertia in the development community, and actually things change far more slowly in terms of technique and programs than anybody might ever guess.
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WORLD TRADE CENTER
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Demolition at the site began with the clearance of thirteen square blocks of low rise buildings for constru ction of the World Trade Center. Groundbreaking for the construction began on August 5, 1966.
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Bill Gates Announces Donations Totaling $1.1 Million to Bring Software, Internet and Multimedia PCs to Los Angeles Libraries & Schools
November 27, 1996
LOS ANGELES, Calif., November 27, 1996 — Joined by Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan and other city leaders before an audience of junior high and high school students in the Los Angeles Public Library, Microsoft Chairman and CEO Bill Gates today announced donations of cash and software worth $1.1 million to provide the Los Angeles Public Library and Los Angeles schools with multimedia computers and a wide variety of software, training and other support.
The gift will benefit tens-of-thousands of public library users and school-age children throughout the 67 libraries in the Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL) and the Los Angeles County School System. It will be used to support three programs: the LAPL’s Electronic Resources Training Center at the Central Library, the Los Angeles Public Library’s Information Network and the Los Angeles County School System’s Technology for Learning program.
The majority of the gift comes from proceeds of Gates’ revised bestseller, The Road Ahead, with additional funding from Microsoft’s national philanthropic initiative, Libraries Online!
“Through our projects in schools and libraries around the country, we’re seeing the power of technology help people of all ages and backgrounds, particularly young people,” Gates said. “Personal computers and the Internet have tremendous potential to improve education. This technology helps people expand their world by connecting to information as well as to one another.”
“Los Angeles is a leader in using technology to connect students, teachers, communities and families,” Gates continued. “I’m really happy that proceeds from the book can build on the good work underway in this community. I look forward to continued great things from Los Angeles.”
“As the address of the original Internet, Los Angeles is home to what’s new and what’s next,”
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Los Angeles Times
Billionaire's Death Blamed on Employee
Monaco: American nurse admits setting fire that killed banker Safra, police say.
December 07, 1999 JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG TIMES STAFF WRITER
PARIS — One of the wealthiest men in the world, billionaire banker Edmond Safra, lived like a man under siege in his Monaco penthouse with a Mediterranean view, protected by ultrasophisticated alarm systems and indoor and outdoor security cameras.
In the end, those high-tech precautions weren't enough to save the international financier from an unhappy American employee who, ironically, seemed only to want to be a hero in his boss' eyes, Monaco authorities said Monday.
When the 67-year-old Safra, founder of Republic National Bank of New York, died of suffocation in a fire that gutted his sprawling two-floor apartment Friday, speculation mounted that the apparent attack on the tycoon-philanthropist was the work of hit men from the Russian mafia or another criminal gang.
The sole witness, one of Safra's male nurses, told a horrific tale of being stabbed in the stomach and thigh by a pair of hooded assailants who broke in shortly before 5 a.m. and started the fire that destroyed the 10,000-square-foot rooftop residence.
The penthouse invasion sent a frisson of fear through the tiny seaside principality, haunt of many of the world's wealthiest and most famous, a place so safe that the last crime with a firearm reportedly took place in 1986.
The Riviera mystery initially puzzled Monaco authorities, but on Monday, they announced that they had found the key to unlock it--not outside Safra's household, but inside. They said the global banker and businessman died because the American nurse, Ted Maher, 41, a former Green Beret from Auburn, Maine, who later lived in Stormville, N.Y., had a dispute with Safra's head nurse and set fire to a pile of trash.
"He admitted to having set fire to a wastepaper bin to set off an alarm and then to having gone downstairs to raise an alert," Daniel Serdet, Monaco's chief prosecutor, told a news conference.
"He did not intend to threaten Edmond Safra's life. He simply wanted to draw attention to himself in order to settle his differences with an employee of Mr. Safra's," Serdet said.
A bloodied 3-inch switchblade found in the apartment belonged to Maher, and his wounds were self-inflicted, authorities said.
Maher, who reportedly had worked for Safra only five months, will be formally arrested and charged with fatal arson, Serdet said.
Viviane Torrente, 52, an American nurse of Philippine origin, was killed in the blaze along with the financier, who had been under medical care for Parkinson's disease.
In his original story, Maher said that after being stabbed, he told Torrente to hide Safra in a bathroom and said he would go downstairs to sound the alarm.
Safra then apparently panicked and, according to officials in Monaco, refused to leave his refuge even when his wife, Lily, implored him on his mobile phone to open the bathroom's bulletproof door. He apparently thought that arriving firefighters were the supposed assassins.
As flames engulfed the apartment, Safra also refused to allow Torrente to leave, Serdet said.
By the time firefighters broke into the bathroom, Safra and Torrente had died from breathing toxic fumes. Safra's wife, a Brazilian-born heiress, had hidden briefly in another bathroom after an alarm went off. She was unharmed.
Safra, heir to a line of Jewish Levantine traders and financiers, moved from Lebanon to Brazil as a young man. He made the bulk of his fortune in Brazil, where he set up a trading company in the early 1950s before moving into banking. He was a generous donor to Jewish and Israeli causes, underwriting schools in Israel and an extension to the synagogue in Cannes, France, among other projects. In Monaco, he sponsored the open tennis tournament and a host of charities and medical research organizations.
Forbes magazine this year listed Safra as one of the world's top billionaires, at No. 199. He was believed to control more than $2.5 billion.
More than 700 mourners from the worlds of business, diplomacy and society gathered for an Orthodox Jewish funeral service in Geneva's main Hekhal Haness synagogue Monday. Among those attending were Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy and former U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar.
"Each of us are dealing with his own memories of you, his own questions about what happened last Friday," Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel said at the service. Swiss police with machine guns stood guard outside. Afterward, Safra was buried in a cemetery near Geneva.
In the early phase of their investigation, Monaco officials were faced with a conundrum: How had anyone managed to enter a building that was as heavily guarded as a bank? In fact, the Belle Epoque structure, which Safra owned, also houses the Monte Carlo branch of Republic National Bank and offices of two European banks.
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35 Years of Terrorism: A Timeline
FEBRUARY 5, 1974: Kidnapping of Patty Hearst by Symbionese Liberation Army
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Los Angeles Times
States Join U.S. Government to Press Antitrust Case Against Microsoft
Courts: Documents allege two sections of Sherman Act were violated by the software giant, which disputes the claims.
December 07, 1999 JUBE SHIVER Jr. TIMES STAFF WRITER
WASHINGTON — Microsoft Corp. violated the Sherman Antitrust Act as well as state antitrust statutes as it expanded its monopoly in the computer software market, according to legal briefs filed Monday by the Justice Department and 19 states in the landmark antitrust trial.
The federal government's conclusions of law were outlined in two separate legal briefs filed in U.S. District Court in Washington. At the same time, Microsoft and government lawyers met privately 600 miles away in Chicago to try to settle their historic antitrust case out of court.
The states joined the Justice Department in the main 57-page legal brief and argued that Microsoft violated Section 1 of the Sherman Act by "unlawfully maintaining its monopoly" in personal computer operating systems. They also maintained that Microsoft violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act by attempting to monopolize the market for software to browse the Internet and by "unlawfully tying a Web browser to its [Windows] operating system."
The states also filed a separate 47-page brief saying Microsoft's alleged attempt to monopolize the Web browser market by its exclusive deals with Internet content and service providers, among other acts, violated antitrust laws in the District of Columbia, California and 18 other states.
The government's filings, which will be followed by two Microsoft legal briefs next month, are to be reviewed by presiding U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson before he reaches his final verdict in the case. Jackson's final ruling in the Microsoft case should come around March.
Microsoft spokesman Mark Murray was quick to dispute the government's claims Monday, contending they won't withstand judicial scrutiny and aren't supported by the factual findings released by Jackson last month.
"The judge has dismissed these arguments completely," Murray said. He cited a passage in Jackson's 207-page findings of facts stating that "there is insufficient evidence to find that the requirements that Microsoft sought to impose with respect to the use of Microsoft-specific browsing technologies had any discernible, deleterious impact on" rival Internet Web browsers.
The company spokesman also said that Jackson's findings noted that Microsoft's chances of monopolizing the Internet Web browsers market have been undercut by America Online Inc.'s purchase of Microsoft browser rival Netscape Communications Corp.
Microsoft also issued a statement Monday, saying: "While we disagree with the government's arguments, we look forward to presenting our conclusions of law to the court as this process continues."
So far in the landmark antitrust case against software giant Microsoft, the government has appeared to most observers to be holding the upper hand. Jackson largely sided with the government in issuing his findings of fact on Nov. 5 that condemned Microsoft's conduct and declared the company a predatory monopoly that had used its power to stifle innovation by rivals.
But experts say government lawyers must be careful in this final phase of the 14-month-long trial not to overplay their hand. Even government lawyers acknowledge that they must make certain their legal conclusion can withstand the scrutiny of a likely appeal.
That's because while Judge Jackson's findings of fact are virtually invulnerable to challenge, an appeals court could pick apart the conclusions of law that Jackson must reach, if the government and Microsoft don't settle their differences.
"This document has to be rugged in the sense that it will have to withstand hits from the reviewing courts," said William E. Kovacic, an antitrust expert and law professor at George Washington University.
Despite the separate state and federal filings Monday, government lawyers continue to be unified in their pursuit of Microsoft, said Wayne Klein, a Utah assistant attorney, who is handling the Microsoft case for that state.
Meanwhile, lawyers for the Justice Department and the states met in Chicago for a second time with federal Judge Richard A. Posner, who Jackson appointed last month to mediate an out-of-court settlement.
Shares of Microsoft declined Monday 69 cents to close at $95.44 in Nasdaq trading.
http://hvom.blogspot.com/2013/06/to-summarize-why-me.html
Posted by Kerry Burgess
SATURDAY, JUNE 08, 2013
To summarize: Why me.
I noted earlier in a blog post that my blog is boring.
I started reading it one day recently while trying to maintain the mindset of a person who had just started reading my blog.
People are going to read one blog post and if they continue then presumably they will click the link at the bottom of the page at the end of the blog post.
One of those links reads "Newer Post" and the other one reads "Older Post." In the middle of those two links is one that read "Home" and that will take you to the page with the latest blog post on it.
So anyway, I was reading back and I thought to myself that my blog is incredibly boring.
But then I got to a post where I reference biological data about Microsoft Bill Gates, specifically about "Jennifer" and "Phoebe," and then suddenly it is not so boring.
- posted by Kerry Burgess 06:51 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Thursday 26 July 2018
