https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonga
Tonga
From Wikipedia
Tonga became known in the West as the "Friendly Islands" because of the congenial reception accorded to Captain James Cook on his first visit in 1773. He arrived at the time of the annual ʻinasi festival, which centres on the donation of the First Fruits to the Tuʻi Tonga (the islands' monarch), so he received an invitation to the festivities. Ironically, according to the writer William Mariner, the political leaders actually wanted to kill Cook during the gathering, but did not go through with it because they could not agree on a plan of action for accomplishing it.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/heres-scientists-know-tonga-volcano-124800517.html
Yahoo! News
Here's What Scientists Know About the Tonga Volcano Eruption
Henry Fountain
Wed, January 19, 2022, 4:48 AM
the power of the eruption was in part related to its location, about 500 feet underwater. When superhot molten rock, or magma, hit seawater, the water instantly flashed into steam, expanding the explosion many times over. Had it been much deeper, water pressure would have dampened [ sic ] the explosion.
“We’re seeing a really big wave, the biggest we’ve ever seen in the data we’ve been using for 20 years,” Wright said. “We’ve never seen anything really that covers the whole Earth like this, and certainly not from a volcano.”
The wave resulted when the force of the blast displaced huge amounts of air outward and upward, high into the atmosphere. But then gravity pulled it down. It then rose up again, and this up-down oscillation continued, creating a wave of alternating high and low pressure that moved outward from the blast source.
Wright said that although the wave occurred high in the atmosphere, it may potentially have a short-term effect on weather patterns closer to the surface, perhaps indirectly by affecting the jet stream.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Hunga_Tonga_eruption_and_tsunami
2022 Hunga Tonga eruption and tsunami
From Wikipedia
A much larger eruption started that day (14 January) at 17:15 local time (UTC 04:14:45, January 15).
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/149347/hunga-tonga-hunga-haapai-erupts
NASA Earth Observatory
Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai Erupts
A powerful volcanic eruption has obliterated a small, uninhabited South Pacific island known as Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai. Damage assessments are still ongoing, but preliminary reports indicate that some communities in the island nation of Tonga have been severely damaged by volcanic ash and significant tsunami waves.
The volcano had sporadically erupted multiple times since 2009. The most recent activity began in late December 2021 as a series of Surtseyan eruptions built up and reshaped the island, while sending bursts of tephra and volcanic gases spewing from the vent. Relatively powerful blasts shook Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai on January 13, but it was an even more intense series of explosions early on January 15 that generated atmospheric shock waves, sonic booms, and tsunami waves that traveled the world.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1990/08/04/caught-far-from-the-news-in-kuwait/54abc074-39a3-4ebd-8d09-c0eca801a33a/
The Washington Post
CAUGHT FAR FROM THE NEWS IN KUWAIT
By Paul Farhi August 4, 1990
Iraq's invasion of Kuwait this week proved an axiom of journalism: Sometimes, being in the right place at the right time counts most.
As Iraqi tanks rolled through Kuwait city on Thursday, there were no television crews -- and indeed few print reporters -- on the scene. The invasion caught most media organizations by surprise. Journalists who attempted to enter Kuwait after the invasion began, including CBS News anchor Dan Rather, were turned away by Iraqi officials. (Rather, after jetting among three Middle Eastern countries yesterday, anchored his network's broadcast last night from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, according to a CBS executive. Sources said Rather did not reveal his location on the broadcast because officials in Dubai were concerned about giving Iraq the impression it was aiding Western journalists.)
News executives cannot recall an instance in which access was so poor to so big a story. As of late yesterday afternoon, broadcast executives said they had yet to see a single piece of video footage of the invasion or its immediate aftermath.
"This story's a bitch," said Ed Turner, CNN's top news executive. "In a wired universe, where up-links and transponders are so common, here you've got a whole area of the world that's off-limits to us. We could get in the bowels of the Soviet Union for the Armenian earthquake and we could stay in {Tiananmen} square in Beijing {during unrest last year} but we can't get a frame out of there."
Turner's frustration was perhaps best symbolized by a jet that remained grounded in Frankfurt, West Germany, last night, two days after the four U.S. TV networks hired it to carry satellite relay equipment to the region. The jet was unable to take off because the Iraqis had closed airspace around Kuwait.
In the absence of footage from the scene, television journalists were forced to cover the Kuwait invasion much like radio journalists. All of the major networks carried the voices of eyewitnesses via phone links to Kuwait city. The standard visual was a map of the region.
"This was a very unusual situation," said Steve Friedman, executive producer of "NBC Nightly News." "Usually in a situation of this kind, there is some kind of TV to fall back on -- government stations or something else from the area. But no one could get in there. We were all equally hobbled."
Executives at both NBC and ABC said they did not attempt to send their anchormen into the scene, saying they were better off working the story from the United States. CBS officials, however, were crowing about Rather's excursion to the Middle East; Lane Venardos, director of special events for CBS News, said Rather was the first to report, late Thursday night, that Iraqi troops were massing on Kuwait's border with Saudi Arabia. But Rather's scoop was hard-won: The anchor flew from London on Thursday, and spent Friday hopping around from Amman, Jordan, to Bahrain to Dubai.
It apparently didn't help the media's coverage much that Iraq's actions came during peak vacation season for many reporters. The Kuwait-based correspondents for both United Press International and the Associated Press were both on vacation at the time of the Iraq attack; both wire services relied on backup stringers in Kuwait for their coverage. Rather, meanwhile, was called up from a vacation in France.
The New York Times' Cairo correspondent was in Johannesburg at the time of the invasion, filling in for the paper's vacationing reporter there, and was unable to gain access once the fighting began.
"If we had had a full complement of staff, we might have been there," said Michael Kaufman, the Times' acting foreign editor, yesterday. In its account yesterday of the invasion, the Times relied on AP's eyewitness dispatch from the scene.
Added Kaufman, "We have all been a bit spoiled by the memories of Vietnam that it is our God-given right to attend and bear witness. That's not always the case."
The Washington Post was among a handful of Western news organizations with correspondents in Kuwait. Reporter Caryle Murphy traveled to Kuwait earlier in the week as Iraqi and Kuwaiti diplomats met to defuse the growing crisis and as Iraqi President Saddam Hussein began massing troops on his country's border with Kuwait.
David Ignatius, The Post's editor for foreign news, said Hussein's unpredictability made it more likely that hostilities could break out.
Fortunately for the media, the story moved briskly beyond Kuwait with developments in Washington, Moscow, Tokyo and other world capitals and financial markets. Which brings up a new problem, at least for television: how to make diplomatic negotiations and economic repercussions visually interesting.
"The story is not much different than the budget negotiations now," said Bob Murphy, vice president of news coverage at ABC.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120461/releaseinfo
IMDb
Volcano (1997)
Release Info
USA 15 April 1997 (Los Angeles, California) (premiere)
Full Cast & Crew
Tommy Lee Jones ... Mike Roark
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/press-release-ai-that-reflects-american-values
The American Presidency Project
DONALD J. TRUMP
45th President of the United States: 2017 ‐ 2021
Press Release - AI That Reflects American Values
January 08, 2020
Office of Science and Technology Policy
Michael Kratsios, U.S. CTO
We don't have to decide between freedom and technology.
Innovations in artificial intelligence are creating personalized cancer treatments, improving search and rescue disaster response, making our roadways safer with automated vehicles, and have the potential for so much more.
But with growing concerns about data privacy, big tech companies, and the rise of technology-enabled authoritarianism in China and elsewhere, more people are starting to wonder: Must we decide between embracing this emerging technology and following our moral compass?
That's a false choice. We can advance emerging technology in a way that reflects our values of freedom, human rights and respect for human dignity.
As part of the Trump Administration's national AI strategy—the American AI Initiative—the White House is today proposing a first-of-its-kind set of regulatory principles to govern AI development in the private sector. Guided by these principles, innovators and government officials will ensure that as the United States embraces AI we also address the challenging technical and ethical questions that AI can create.
Read the full op-ed here.
This article was published on Bloomberg.com on January 7, 2020.
Donald J. Trump, Press Release - AI That Reflects American Values Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/335362
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120461/quotes
IMDb
Volcano (1997)
Quotes
[Museum personnel are moving paintings from a threatened museum]
1st. Guard: Man, this Hieronymus Bosch is heavy!
2nd. Guard: That's because he deals with man's inclination towards sin, in defiance of God's will.
1st. Guard: I didn't mean it like that.
2nd. Guard: Oh.
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: August 18, 2021
Your god(s) were invented by cavemen.
They were superstitious imbeciles.
*You* don't have to be one, also.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120461/quotes
IMDb
Volcano (1997)
Quotes
Amy: Sometimes magma can find one of those fissures and rise up through it.
Roark: What's magma?
Rachel: Lava.
Roark: Lava? Right here in L.A?
Amy: It is one of the possibilities.
Roark: We have a history of that here in the downtown area?
Rachel: Paricutin... 1943, a Mexican farmer sees smoke coming out of the middle of his cornfield. A week later there's a volcano a thousand feet high. There's no history of anything until it happens. Then there is.
excerpt from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess:
From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2006 6:24 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Re: Journal May 27, 2006
Went to Camp Couchdale in the summer of '81, after graduating 9th grade.
Met a girl named Phoebe, took her out on the lake in a boat and paddled around. We wrote letters for a long time afterwards.
"Metamorphosis" [ Star Trek ]
Original Airdate: Nov 10, 1967
NANCY Hedford, Federation Commissioner: How perceptive of you to notice I needed one.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068229/releaseinfo
IMDb
The Astronaut (1972 TV Movie)
Release Info
USA 8 January 1972
The Astronaut (1972)
ABC Movie of the week
00:40:18
Gail Randolph: [ slaps him ] Stop it! Stop looking at me with his face!
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083929/releaseinfo
IMDb
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Release Info
USA 13 August 1982
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Full Cast & Crew
Phoebe Cates ... Linda Barrett
http://www.tv.com/shows/star-trek/metamorphosis-24923/
tv . com
Star Trek
Season 2 Episode 9
Metamorphosis
Aired Nov 10, 1967 on NBC
When their shuttle is diverted to a planetoid, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy encounter Earth's Warp Drive pioneer, Zefram Cochrane, who appears to have survived there alone for 150 years.
AIRED: 11/10/67
"Metamorphosis" [ Star Trek ]
Original Airdate: Nov 10, 1967
(from internet transcript)
Captain KIRK: You say you can communicate with it. Perhaps you can find out what we're doing here.
Zefram COCHRANE: I already know.
KIRK: You wouldn't mind telling us?
COCHRANE: You won't like it.
KIRK: I already don't like it.
COCHRANE: You're here to keep me company.
KIRK: You mean you brought us here?
Zefram COCHRANE: No, the Companion did. I told it I'd die of loneliness.
"Metamorphosis" [ Star Trek ]
Original Airdate: Nov 10, 1967
(from internet transcript)
(The Companion vanishes, so Kirk and McCoy go over to Cochrane.)
MCCOY: Are you all right?
COCHRANE: Yes. It kind of drains me a little, but I'm all right.
fast-times-at-ridgemont-high-1982_00h-53m-40s
https://blogs.oracle.com/ai-and-datascience/post/5-sneaky-biases-that-could-be-lurking-in-your-algorithms
Oracle AI & Data Science Blog
5 Sneaky Biases That Could Be Lurking in Your Algorithms
May 7, 2018
Companies use machine learning algorithms to help with everything from identifying business opportunities and optimizing marketing spend to personalizing the customer experience. These algorithms are typically built on a solid base of historical data and well-trained prior to deployment. They are often also built to operate dynamically, so that they become smarter and faster over time. Even so, it’s not uncommon for machine learning algorithms to be marred by unintended biases.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1158922/releaseinfo?ref_=tttrv_ql_dt_2
IMDb
Uses of Dynamite by U.S. Engineering Corps (1913)
Release Info
USA 1 May 1913
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Stibitz
George Stibitz
From Wikipedia
George Robert Stibitz (April 30, 1904 – January 31, 1995) was a Bell Labs researcher internationally recognized as one of the fathers of the modern digital computer. He was known for his work in the 1930s and 1940s on the realization of Boolean logic digital circuits using electromechanical relays as the switching element.
This bronze plaque is located in the entryway of McNutt Hall at Dartmouth College reads, "In this building on September 9, 1940, George Robert Stibitz, then a mathematician with bell telephone laboratories, first demonstrated the remote operation of an electrical digital computer. Stibitz, who conceived the electrical digital computer in 1937 at Bell Labs, described his invention of the "complex number calculator" at a meeting of the Mathematical Association of America held here. Members of the audience transmitted problems to the computer at Bell Labs in New York City, and in seconds received solutions transmitted from the computer to a teletypewriter in this hall."
album: "Building Nothing Out Of Something" (1999)
MODEST MOUSE
"Never Ending Math Equation"
(from internet transcript)
I'm the same as I was when I was 6 years old
And oh my God I feel so damn old
I don't really feel anything
On a plane, I can see the tiny lights below
And oh my God, they look so alone
Do they really feel anything?
Oh my God, I gotta gotta gotta gotta move on
Where do you move where you're moving from
Is yourself? Is yourself?
The universe works on a math equation
that never even ever really even ends in the end
Infinity spirals out creation
We're on the tip of its tongues, and it is saying
We ain't sure where you stand
You ain't machines and you ain't land
And the plants and the animals, they are linked
And the plants and the animals eat each other
I'm the same as I was when I was 6 years old
And oh my God I feel so damn old
I don't really feel anything
On a plane, I can see the tiny lights below
And oh my God, they look so alone
Do they really feel anything?
Oh my God, I've gotta gotta gotta gotta move on
Where do you move where you're moving from
Is yourself? Is yourself?
The universe works on a math equation
that never even ever really even ends in the end
Infinity spirals out creation
We're on the tip of its tongue, and it is saying
Well, We ain't sure where you stand
You ain't machines and you ain't land
And the plants and the animals, they are linked
And the plants and the animals eat each other
- posted by me, Kerry Burgess 1:44 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Wednesday 01/19/2022
