https://www.yahoo.com/news/heat-wave-strikes-arctic-climate-enters-twilight-zone-210541776.html
YAHOO! News
Heat wave strikes the Arctic, and the climate enters the Twilight Zone
Jerry Adler Senior Editor, Yahoo News July 23, 2018
Signal to Noise
We pause now in our ongoing coverage of the end of Western democracy for a brief consideration of the end of the world. Along with Robert Frost, we can say that the question of fire versus ice as the agent of destruction has been settled in favor of fire, and we even know where the fire is likely to start: above the Arctic Circle, where an unprecedented heat wave has sent temperatures in the far north of Sweden as high as 86 F. The Washington Post’s climate writer, Jason Samenow, recently reported that the temperature (calculated by extrapolation) in a part of northern Siberia reached 90 degrees earlier this month, 40 degrees above normal. “It is absolutely incredible and really one of the most intense heat events I’ve ever seen for so far north,” wrote meteorologist Nick Humphrey. And after years of increasingly hot, dry summers, the great forests in the far north, all around the globe, are starting to burn.
A forest fire, like virtually all fires, releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, accelerating the greenhouse effect that drives global warming. This is especially true of wildfires at high latitudes, where trees grow back slowly, and where there are the additional risks of carbon-dense peat bogs drying and burning, and also of melting permafrost releasing huge quantities of methane. This illustrates one of the perverse facts about climate change, that almost all the feedback effects are positive (in the technical sense of self-reinforcing, not as in “good.”) As one example, global warming melts ice and snow cover, which tends to reflect the sun’s radiation out to space, while bare earth and seawater absorb it.
Higher temperatures also cause more evaporation, putting more water vapor into the atmosphere. Water vapor — “humidity” to those living in the rain forest, or commuting to work on the subway — doesn’t just make the air feel hotter; it’s a greenhouse gas all by itself, which is why the temperature drops more at night in New Mexico than it does in New Jersey. Some climatologists have hopefully suggested that more water vapor would increase cloud cover and mitigate warming (a negative feedback loop), but the most recent assessment by the International Panel on Climate Change suggests that the net effect of increased evaporation on temperature will be either neutral, or “positive” — i.e., worse.
Almost the entire Northern Hemisphere has been hotter than normal this summer; Denver hit an all-time high of 105 in June, around the same time that Oman reported the highest nighttime low temperature ever recorded anywhere in the world, 109. As I write this, at 10 a.m. Sunday in the East, it is 79 degrees in Austin, Texas, with a forecast high of 105, going up to 108 on Monday. It was so hot there last week that the Austin Fire Department responded to a blaze caused by the spontaneous combustion of tortilla chips (technically, the crumbs and waste from a chip factory that had been left outdoors in the sun). A heat wave in Japan last week put 10,000 people in the hospital; at least 30 died.
It is a convention of the media that any article about heat waves (or forest fires, droughts or hurricanes) must be footnoted with the observation that no one weather event can be definitively attributed to climate change. That reflects both an appropriate caution on the part of scientists, and a preemptive rebuttal to climate-change deniers like Sen. James Inhofe, who a couple of years ago noticed that it was cold in February and sought to cast doubt on decades of climatology by bringing a snowball to the floor of the Senate. But that consensus is beginning to break down. The rule that where there’s smoke there’s fire, which political reporters have begun to apply metaphorically to evidence of Trump campaign collusion with Russia, should apply equally to science reporters covering actual fires.
https://news.microsoft.com/speeches/steve-ballmer-microsoft-worldwide-partner-conference-2005/
Microsoft
Steve Ballmer: Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2005
July 10, 2005
Transcript of Remarks by Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2005
Minneapolis, Minnesota
July 10, 2005
I am steveb@microsoft.com. I will get 100 pieces of e-mail as a result of that statement. I love each and every one of them, and there will probably be 90 brilliant insights, five pieces of mail I don’t really understand — (laughter) — and five pieces of mail that just says, that was the worse piece I’ve ever heard.
http://articles.latimes.com/1995-07-05/news/mn-20450_1_atlantis-mir-mission
Los Angeles Times
What's Up When There's No Down? : Science: Atlantis-Mir mission helps NASA study how zero gravity affects body. Tests find that the brain reprograms itself to adapt to sensory confusion.
July 05, 1995 K.C. COLE TIMES SCIENCE WRITER
In some ways, the recent docking of the Russian space station Mir and the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis conjures up visions of the fictional starship Enterprise on "Star Trek" and its international, two-gender crew.
But in other ways, the images beamed down by the real-life astronauts and cosmonauts couldn't be more different from the visions of space travelers embedded in the popular imagination.
Capt. James T. Kirk and his crew did not struggle to stay anchored to their chairs. Their faces did not puff up with body fluids that rushed to their heads in the absence of gravity. They did not appear to suffer from nausea, insomnia or any of the other ills that affect people who try to get along without gravity. In fact, for NASA the main purpose of the current mission--other than learning how to work in space with the Russians--is to study the effects of zero gravity on humans.
"The absence of gravity is devastating to the human body," National Aeronautics and Space Administration chief Daniel S. Goldin said in an interview. "[Normally,] we study abnormal physiology in a normal environment. Now [with U.S. astronauts on Mir] we can study super-healthy astronauts in an abnormal environment."
To find out exactly what lack of gravity is doing to their bodies, the astronauts and cosmonauts have been and will be prodded, poked and measured in every conceivable way--sometimes two or three times a day.
Perhaps most interesting is research into the central role gravity plays in the human neurosensory system--that is, how the brain, nerves, muscles and senses work together to allow people to stand, walk, reach for objects, turn their head to follow motion and perform simple tasks.
From what researchers know so far, the brain has a hard time knowing which end is up when there isn't any down.
"Your brain is used to the idea that it knows where down is," said NASA neuroscientist Deborah Harm. "[In space], you don't know . . . [so] the nervous system begins to send out commands differently than it does on Earth. When you return to Earth, you have difficulties."
Researchers are particularly concerned with what happens to the space travelers when they return because the effects of relearning how to deal with gravity can be more hazardous than learning how to live without it.
The brain uses gravity to orient itself. If someone is trying to pick out a can of soup from a supermarket shelf, the eyes and head move back and forth to scan the shelves. As the head moves, sensory organs in the inner ear record the motion. In that way, the brain knows that the head motion is making the cans of soup move across the visual field, not the motion of the cans themselves.
This helps keep your visual world steady while your head moves, Harm said.
Other sensors in the soles of the feet and the buttocks also contribute to a sense of how a person is oriented in space.
At the beginning of a mission, Harm said, "all of your physiological systems are designed to function in a gravity environment. When you take that away, everything tries to readapt."
But readapting is not a smooth process, and the brain gets easily confused.
"All the sensory systems are coordinated," Harm said. "The eyes, the inner ear, the pressure signals from the feet or seat. When there's no gravity, the combinations are different."
One result of this sensory conflict, she says, is space sickness, or nausea. Some astronauts adapt rapidly, but others remain a little out of sorts the entire trip.
Simply standing up can be a very complex problem. The sensors in the ear tell you whether you're tilting. The soles of the feet give pressure clues. Muscles constantly adjust to keep the upright position steady.
On Earth, people constantly work bones, muscles, the heart and nerves simply to stand up. In space, the need to work against gravity simply disappears, which leads to two effects: First, the nerves, muscles and bone atrophy from lack of use. Second, the brain reprograms itself to stand, reach, tilt and so forth without gravity.
"You reach for something, but your hand goes too far to the right, so you reach to the left. After a few trials, you learn. You get feedback. The brain says, oh, I know what to do now, and you've got a new program." When a space traveler returns to Earth, Harm said, "you're a zero-g animal."
But all the programs learned in space are useless for dealing with life on Earth. It normally takes a shuttle crew three or four days to readapt, but people who have been in space for many months may take many months on Earth before they are completely back to normal.
The good news is that astronauts who make many trips into space tend to readapt faster than first-timers.
"The more you go back and forth [between gravity and no gravity]," Harm said, "the more easily the brain is able to call each program up."
She and her colleagues are working on ways to teach astronauts to be pre-adapted. Essentially, she says, it's just like being bilingual. Except in this case, the astronauts will, it is hoped, become fluent in working with gravity and without it.
From 10/28/1955 ( Microsoft Corbis Bill Gates the transvestite and 100% female gender as born to brother-sister sibling parents and the Soviet Union prostitute and the cowardly International Terrorist violently against the United States of America actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the USA and United Nations chartered allies ) To 7/5/1995 ( Los Angeles Times "U.S., Russian Spacecraft Go Separate Ways" ) is 14495 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 7/10/2005 is 14495 days
From 7/4/1995 ( the undocking Mir space station docking and the United States space shuttle Atlantis orbiter vehicle mission STS-71 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-71 pilot astronaut and my 3rd official United States National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) To 7/10/2005 is 3659 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 11/9/1975 ( the mutiny on the Soviet Union warship Storozhevoy ) is 3659 days
From 6/25/1950 ( North Korea invades South Korea beginning the Korean Conflict ) To 3/2/1990 ( premiere US film "The Hunt for Red October" ) is 14495 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 7/10/2005 is 14495 days
From 6/25/1950 ( North Korea invades South Korea beginning the Korean Conflict ) To 3/2/1990 ( from the official United States Navy documents of Kerry Burgess: departing overseas from USS Wainwright CG 28 anchored in Monaco I returned to the continental United States and to Charleston South Carolina Naval Base for processing and honorable discharge from active duty United States Navy ) is 14495 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 7/10/2005 is 14495 days
From 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 ) To 7/10/2005 is 5288 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 4/25/1980 ( in Iran the failure of the United States Operation Eagle Claw ) is 5288 days
From 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 ) To 7/10/2005 is 5288 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 4/25/1980 ( in Iran the failure of the United States Operation Eagle Claw ) is 5288 days
From 4/18/1952 ( Harry Truman - Executive Order 10347—Providing for the Affixing of the Seal of the United States to Certain Presidential Documents ) To 12/25/1991 ( as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) is 14495 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 7/10/2005 is 14495 days
From 12/20/1994 ( in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) To 7/10/2005 is 3855 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 5/23/1976 ( Gerald Ford - Exchange With Reporters on Arrival at El Toro Marine Corps Air Station, California ) is 3855 days
From 10/19/1916 ( Jean Dausset ) To 3/3/1996 ( premiere US TV series episode "Space: Above And Beyond"::"Dear Earth" ) is 28990 days
28990 = 14495 + 14495
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 7/10/2005 is 14495 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 7/10/2005 is 10598 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 5/6/1980 ( Jimmy Carter - Proclamation 4756—Tribute to Eight American Servicemen ) is 5299 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 4/6/1967 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"The City on the Edge of Forever" ) is 520 days
https://news.microsoft.com/speeches/steve-ballmer-microsoft-worldwide-partner-conference-2005/
Microsoft
Steve Ballmer: Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2005
July 10, 2005
Transcript of Remarks by Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2005
Minneapolis, Minnesota
July 10, 2005
STEVE BALLMER: It is my honor, privilege, excitement, to be here with you today. For all the things I do — and many of you have had a chance to hear this many times as I travel the world — but everything I get to do working for Microsoft, there’s one thing that’s most energizing for me — one thing, one thing — meeting with our partners. And you say, this guy gives this line to every audience he meets with. Nooo.
What’s special about this group? What gets me particularly pumped up? What is particularly exciting? Our partners are a unique blend, you are, of two elements. Number one, you’ve made a bet on us. You believe in us, you want us to win, you need us to win. You’re kind of like employees in that regard. But our employees are a little bit more captive. You have other options — every — our employees do, too — but you do — every minute of every day there’s somebody coming to you saying, Hey, we’ve got a better mousetrap; Hey, we’ve got a better idea. There’s a customer out there beating you out with somebody else’s technology. And so every day you’re in a position where you’re rooting for us, and every day you come to work you give us feedback, critical feedback, important feedback. What about this, Microsoft? What about this? What about this? You need to improve this? What about this? What about this? What about this? What about this?
I find our partner audience the most challenging audience I get to deal with. Our employees have had a little bit too much in the backwater, and our customers aren’t quite deeply enough bent on us the way our partners are. So meeting with our partners and getting a chance to hear what’s on your mind, what you’re thinking about, what your concerns are, your issues — for me is absolutely, positively energizing.
I am steveb@microsoft.com. I will get 100 pieces of e-mail as a result of that statement. I love each and every one of them, and there will probably be 90 brilliant insights, five pieces of mail I don’t really understand — (laughter) — and five pieces of mail that just says, that was the worse piece I’ve ever heard. But, nonetheless, we want to hear from you and we want to hear you push us, push us, push us every day to improve — to improve, to improve, because with our improvement you improve; and, with your improvement, we improve.
So having this real healthy interaction between you and us is so critical — so, so critical.
Thank You, Partners
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea
Korea
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Korea is a region in East Asia
http://articles.latimes.com/1995-07-05/news/mn-20449_1_space-station
Los Angeles Times
U.S., Russian Spacecraft Go Separate Ways : Docking: Shuttle Atlantis ends historic 5-day linkup with space station. It leaves with three crewmen who have been in orbit since mid-March.
July 05, 1995 from Associated Press
HOUSTON — Astronauts and cosmonauts watched their ships part and fade into the blackness of space Tuesday in an orbital pirouette that ended five days of flying as a single craft.
"We're just shaking our heads at how quickly this has all gone by," said Charles Precourt, pilot of the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis. "It's as if it were a dream, that we didn't really live it, it happened so fast. . . . But what a great time, what a great effort."
For half an hour, three craft hovered a few hundred feet from one another while hurtling around Earth at 5 miles a second: The Russian Soyuz capsule with two cosmonauts, Atlantis with eight passengers, and the temporarily unmanned Russian space station Mir.
Both crews recorded the historic moment on video and film, but the sun's glare spoiled many of the pictures.
"It's been an inspiring visit with our neighbors in space. We look forward to returning," said NASA's Mission Control.
"We agree with that. . . . We agree 100%," Atlantis' commander, Robert L. (Hoot) Gibson, replied as he backed the shuttle away from the station. "In one of the simulations, the words 'cosmic ballet' came to mind, and I guess that's where we are now."
Atlantis is due back at Mir in late October with another crew. Altogether, six more dockings are planned over the next two years as a prelude to the construction of an international space station later this decade. And astronauts and cosmonauts are already talking of a shared trip to Mars.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Tommy Holloway, manager of the docking program, couldn't resist comparing this mission to the harrowing Apollo 13 flight, which took place 25 years ago and is currently being glamorized by Hollywood.
"In the 'Apollo 13' movie, the character of [flight director] Gene Kranz said just prior to the entry that this will be NASA's finest hour," Holloway said. "Gene, I'm here to report to you that . . . this is NASA's finest hour, and I expect it will continue for many years to come."
Cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyev and Nikolai Budarin began the undocking sequence by shoving off from Mir in the small Soyuz capsule and backing away 300 feet. They took the only videotape and photographs of the world's largest spacecraft in its entirety--the 100-ton Atlantis joined to the 123-ton Mir, each more than 120 feet long.
Video from Mir showed a grainy picture, with the joined shuttle and station off-center.
On the shuttle, the push of a button released the hooks binding the two craft together. Springs gently eased Atlantis away from Mir and the craft slowly separated.
At about that time, Mir began drifting off-course, possibly because of an on-board computer failure. Russian flight controllers ordered Solovyev and Budarin to hustle back to Mir; their Soyuz redocked safely.
For nearly 1 1/2 hours, Atlantis flew around Mir for picture-taking, then fired its thrusters 245 miles above South America to move into its own track.
"Bye-bye," Solovyev said softly.
Atlantis launched with seven occupants and is scheduled to land Friday at Florida's Kennedy Space Center with eight. It is returning NASA astronaut Norman E. Thagard and cosmonauts Vladimir Dezhurov and Gennady Strekalov, who had all been living on Mir since mid-March.
Thagard and the two returning cosmonauts were replaced by Solovyev and Budarin, who flew up on Atlantis and won't come back until early September.
The shuttle is also bringing back hundreds of pounds of saliva, urine and blood collected by the returning crewmen during their mission as well as Russian equipment.
By the time Atlantis lands, the three will have spent 115 days in orbit, giving Thagard a U.S. record.
Sky viewers in Los Angeles will be able to see Mir tonight at 8:48. The space station will appear at 21 degrees above the west-southwest. It will be visible as a star moving right to left across the sky for about two minutes.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/korean-war-begins/print
History
June 25, 1950 : Korean War begins
Introduction
Armed forces from communist North Korea smash into South Korea, setting off the Korean War. The United States, acting under the auspices of the United Nations, quickly sprang to the defense of South Korea and fought a bloody and frustrating war for the next three years.
Korea, a former Japanese possession, had been divided into zones of occupation following World War II. U.S. forces accepted the surrender of Japanese forces in southern Korea, while Soviet forces did the same in northern Korea. Like in Germany, however, the “temporary” division soon became permanent. The Soviets assisted in the establishment of a communist regime in North Korea, while the United States became the main source of financial and military support for South Korea.
On June 25, 1950, North Korean forces surprised the South Korean army (and the small U.S. force stationed in the country), and quickly headed toward the capital city of Seoul. The United States responded by pushing a resolution through the U.N.’s Security Council calling for military assistance to South Korea. (Russia was not present to veto the action as it was boycotting the Security Council at the time.) With this resolution in hand, President Harry S. Truman rapidly dispatched U.S. land, air, and sea forces to Korea to engage in what he termed a “police action.” The American intervention turned the tide, and U.S. and South Korean forces marched into North Korea. This action, however, prompted the massive intervention of communist Chinese forces in late 1950. The war in Korea subsequently bogged down into a bloody stalemate. In 1953, the United States and North Korea signed a cease-fire that ended the conflict. The cease-fire agreement also resulted in the continued division of North and South Korea at just about the same geographical point as before the conflict.
The Korean War was the first “hot” war of the Cold War. Over 55,000 American troops were killed in the conflict. Korea was the first “limited war,” one in which the U.S. aim was not the complete and total defeat of the enemy, but rather the “limited” goal of protecting South Korea. For the U.S. government, such an approach was the only rational option in order to avoid a third world war and to keep from stretching finite American resources too thinly around the globe. It proved to be a frustrating experience for the American people, who were used to the kind of total victory that had been achieved in World War II. The public found the concept of limited war difficult to understand or support and the Korean War never really gained popular support.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099810/releaseinfo
IMDb
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
Release Info
USA 2 March 1990
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099810/fullcredits
IMDb
The Hunt for Red October (1990)
Full Cast & Crew
Alec Baldwin ... Jack Ryan
The Hunt For Red October (1990)
(from internet transcript)
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Turbulence.
Pardon?
Turbulence. Solar radiation heats the earth's crust, warm air rises, cool air descends. I don't like that.
Try to get some sleep anyway.
Dr Ryan?
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https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/1977-04-01.pdf
Central Intelligence Agency official website
United States of America
Intelligence Memorandum
Morale and Discipline Problems in the Soviet Armed Forces
April 1977
page 2
Mutiny
Mutiny erupted aboard the Soviet destroyer Storozhcvoy on the night of 8-9 November 1975. A Krivak-class missile destroyer of the Soviet Navy's most modern type, the Storozhevoy was then stationed in the Baltic port of Riga.
According to rumor in Riga, the mutiny flared when brawling broke out between enlisted men and officers after the latter tried to end a party celebrating the October Revolution. Most of the ship's officers sided with the men. When the captain refused to join the mutineers, the political officer reportedly led the escape attempt. His defection to the mutineers may have capped a longstanding dereliction. His duty was to identify political unreliables aboard the Storozhevoy to the Baltic Fleet political section, which could have detained the ship and removed untrustworthy crewmen.
https://news.microsoft.com/speeches/steve-ballmer-microsoft-worldwide-partner-conference-2005/
Microsoft
Steve Ballmer: Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2005
July 10, 2005
Transcript of Remarks by Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2005
Minneapolis, Minnesota
July 10, 2005
STEVE BALLMER: It is my honor, privilege, excitement, to be here with you today. For all the things I do — and many of you have had a chance to hear this many times as I travel the world — but everything I get to do working for Microsoft, there’s one thing that’s most energizing for me — one thing, one thing — meeting with our partners. And you say, this guy gives this line to every audience he meets with. Nooo.
What’s special about this group? What gets me particularly pumped up? What is particularly exciting? Our partners are a unique blend, you are, of two elements. Number one, you’ve made a bet on us. You believe in us, you want us to win, you need us to win. You’re kind of like employees in that regard. But our employees are a little bit more captive.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13044434/valery-mikhaylovich-sablin
Find A Grave
Valery Mikhaylovich Sablin
BIRTH 1 Jan 1939 Russia
DEATH 3 Aug 1976 (aged 37) Russia
BURIAL Body lost or destroyed, Specifically: Executed by firing squad; body intentionaly lost
Soviet Union Naval Officer. He was involved in the short-lived "Red Banner Mutiny" (aka "Red October Mutiny") of late 1975, in which he attempted to start political unrest in the Soviet Union by way of the theft of a warship. His title was "zampolit", or political officer, responsible for the political well-being of the crew. In the early-morning hours of November 9 1975, Sablin, with the assistance of several crew members, took control of the missile frigate "Storozhevoy", locked the Captain and others in their cabins, and departed port at Riga, Latvia S.S.R., with the intention of sailing to Leningrad to broadcast a radio message to the masses about the “hypocrisy of the Brezhnev Kremlin” and ferment an uprising to return the country to a purer form of communism. Soviet forces caught up to the ship within 6 hours of leaving port and disabled it
"Space: Above And Beyond"
"Dear Earth"
03 March 1996
Episode 17 Season 1 DVD video:
Lt. Colonel McQueen: West! What's your problem?
1LT Nathan West: Sorry, sir. My - my parents weren't notified about my brother's death. Is there anything you can do?
Lt. Colonel McQueen: You're asking me to write them?
1LT Nathan West: No. Um, I mean - I don't know. I'm sorry.
Lt. Colonel McQueen: Nathan. The Corps usually notifies next of kin with a personal visit home. I'm sure they've been notified.
1LT Nathan West: I can't be sure. I mean, it's not in the letter. They - they have no idea they've lost a son.
Lt. Colonel McQueen: Parents of marines have lost their sons for 300 years, Nathan. The Corps has experience letting them know. But if there's anything I can do to help you, I wanna know. You all right?
1LT Nathan West: [nods]
Lt. Colonel McQueen: Mission briefing in 10 mikes.
https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1980/dausset-facts.html
Nobelprize.org
The Official Web Site of the Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1980
Baruj Benacerraf, Jean Dausset, George D. Snell
Jean Dausset
Born: 19 October 1916, Toulouse, France
Died: 6 June 2009, Palma, Majorca, Spain
Affiliation at the time of the award: Université de Paris, Laboratoire Immuno-Hématologie, Paris, France
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions"
Field: immunity, transplantation immunology
Prize share: 1/3
Work
Our immune system rejects damaged or abnormal cells, allowing our bodies to function properly. During transplants, this can also happen to the foreign cells. After George Snell had shown how this happens with mice, during the 1950s Jean Dausset showed that rejection of foreign cells function in a similar way for humans. The body's cells sense their surroundings through molecular complexes on the surface of the cells. These molecular complexes are governed by a certain group of genes on a certain chromosome. Among other things, this knowledge proved significant for transplants.
"Space: Above And Beyond"
"Dear Earth"
03 March 1996
Episode 17 Season 1 DVD video:
US Navy lieutenant Kolbe: Colonel! Cut. Colonel. Come on over. We should get the two of you together. InVitros to the core, then and now.
US Marine Corps lieutenant colonel T.C. McQueen: I'm only doing this because I'm under orders.
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"Space: Above And Beyond"
"Dear Earth"
03 March 1996
Episode 17 Season 1 DVD video:
US Navy lieutenant Kolbe: Fine, fine, fine. We'll just have some fun with it then, huh?
"Space: Above And Beyond"
"Dear Earth"
3 March 1996
Episode 17 Season 1 DVD video:
US Marine Corps 1LT Nathan West: On April 9th, at 1800, on the planet Mors, your son - my brother - was killed in action. Neil was courageously defending his position and died valiantly. But now, I can never throw him another football or share an inside joke. Today, I'd easily give my own life just to be able to argue with him. And yet, it doesn't mean I'm unable to let him know how much he meant to me, how much I love him. Because to tell you, Mom and Dad, is to tell Neil. I can't express how much I miss him, how much I miss you both and John. Keep him safe. And if one day you should receive a yellow envelope from the Marines, don't bother to open it. Reread this letter and know how much your sons loved one another and you and that we are once again together. With all my love, your son, Lieutenant Nathan West.
Space: Above And Beyond
Dear Earth
03 March 1996
Episode 17 Season 1 DVD video:
00:08:16
US Marine Corps lieutenant colonel McQueen: In preparation for the massive offensive, Operation Roundhammer, the directive of this mission is to disrupt the Chig's supply line. The planet Memnon is rich in merconzium 5 - an ore the Chigs mine for use in their weapons systems. What they mine, they store - along with other supplies and materiel - in deep underground bunkers. Because of the depth, it's considered questionable that a bombing mission would have maximum results. However, there exists a fortuitous window of opportunity to deploy a small ground force. Now, I've been gettin' an earful of bitching and moaning about pilots being deployed as ground pounders. Hear this, C.F.B. This is not the air force. This is the Corps - air-ground combat element of the 51st MEU - every Marine a rifleman. Therefore, you will fight on command - where needed, how needed. Do I make myself clear?
All: Yes, sir!
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: November 06, 2007
11/06/07 2:44 AM
When I wake up, as I have on many occasions, and realize I am holding a knife in my hand, which I was not holding when I went to sleep, I wonder what I was dreaming about.
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album: "Viva La Vida" (2008)
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"Viva La Vida"
I used to rule the world
Seas would rise when I gave the word
Now in the morning I sleep alone
Sweep the streets I used to own
I used to roll the dice
Feel the fear in my enemy's eyes
Listened as the crowd would sing
Now the old king is dead long live the king
One minute I held the key
Next the walls were closed on me
And I discovered that my castles stand
Upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand
I hear Jerusalem bells a-ringing
Roman cavalry choirs are singing
Be my mirror, my sword and shield
Missionaries in a foreign field
For some reason I can't explain
Once you'd gone there was never
Never an honest word
And that was when I ruled the world
It was a wicked and wild wind
Blew down the doors to let me in
Shattered windows and the sound of drums
People couldn't believe what I'd become
Revolutionaries wait
For my head on a silver plate
Just a puppet on a lonely string
Oh who would ever want to be king?
I hear Jerusalem bells a-ringing
Roman cavalry choirs are singing
Be my mirror, my sword and shield
My missionaries in a foreign field
For some reason I can't explain
I know St Peter won't call my name
Never an honest word
But that was when I ruled the world
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Hear Jerusalem bells a-ringing
Roman cavalry choirs are singing
Be my mirror, my sword and shield
My missionaries in a foreign field
For some reason I can't explain
I know St Peter won't call my name
Never an honest word
But that was when I ruled the world
"Space: Above And Beyond"
"Dear Earth"
March 3, 1996
Episode 17 DVD:
00:31:04
US Navy Commodore Ross: As you've discovered, the death notice was sent to the family of the wrong Neil West. The other family has been notified of this regrettable error. Now, the Corps will send this letter to your family.
US Marine Corps 1LT Nathan West: "...regret to inform you" - "Sorry for your loss." "Keep up hope." Sir, this is a form letter.
Ross: It's what should have been sent in the first place.
Nathan West: Sir, my brother's not just some... number in a book... or a statistic for the nightly news. He fought, defended and died for the cause he believed in.
Ross: I am sorry for your loss, Lieutenant. I truly am. Your brother was a good Marine. But this is proper Corps procedure.
Nathan West: Proper Corps procedure isn't good enough for my brother, sir.
- posted by Kerry Burgess 05:56 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Tuesday 24 July 2018
