I deliberately avoided capturing images of that pedestrian overpass bridge.
I've personally crossed it only twice.
Once in 2017 and that was in the daytime. I deliberately avoided capturing it in my digital images from my camera.
As though I was heeding some sort of unspoken advice from *almost* some unseen person.
You're superstitious and you're a dim-wit so don't try - with your ridiculous wishful-thinking - to try to understand. Because you never will. You're a monkey. You're a dim-wit dullard. That's all you will be ever.
Me, I've yet to discover some great truth. A great truth I may or may not share with you dim-wit polluters infesting this planet Earth.
GUARANTEED I will *NEVER* share that Great Truth with any of you the way things are *now*.
There is no way in hell I will let myself become the center of a media circus, the way things are now in my personal life.
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Posted by Kerry Burgess at 7:21 AM
Monday, December 09, 2019
"From here to there in style"
Somewhere in the Night (1946)
Michael Conroy: And - And there was a suitcase. He dropped it.
George Taylor: Who dropped the suitcase?
Michael Conroy: One of the men who ran away.
George Taylor: Larry Cravat?
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Stargate: The Movie (1994)
(from internet transcript)
United States Air Force colonel Jack O'NEIL
Chicken man! You got it!
From 8/18/1973 ( The Killian Document ) To 5/7/2019 ( ) is 16698 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/22/2011 ( premiere US film "Another Earth" ) is 16698 days
From 7/16/2004 ( premiere US TV series "Stargate: Atlantis" ) To 5/7/2019 ( ) is 5408 days
5408 = 2704 + 2704
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/29/1973 ( the United States withdraws from Vietnam ) is 2704 days
From 10/28/1994 ( premiere US film "Stargate" ) To 5/7/2019 ( ) is 8957 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/12/1990 ( George Bush - Remarks at the University of South Carolina Commencement Ceremony in Columbia ) is 8957 days
From 9/26/2001 ( premiere US TV series "Star Trek: Enterprise"::series premiere episode "Broken Bow" ) To 5/7/2019 ( ) is 6432 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/13/1983 ( the United States Pioneer 10 spacecraft departs the solar system of the planet Earth ) is 6432 days
From 5/30/1946 ( premiere US film "Somewhere in the Night" ) To 5/7/2019 ( ) is 26640 days
26640 = 13320 + 13320
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/22/2002 ( Victor Weisskopf dead ) is 13320 days
From 12/20/1994 ( in non-aviator related duties boots on the ground 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 5/7/2019 ( ) is 8904 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/20/1990 ( Depeche Mode "Violator" ) is 8904 days
From 5/16/1992 ( the landing of the first flight of the United States space shuttle Endeavour orbiter vehicle mission STS-49 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-49 pilot astronaut and my 1st official United States of America National Aeronautics and Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) To 5/7/2019 ( ) is 9852 days
9852 = 4926 + 4926
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/29/1979 ( premiere US TV series episode "Battlestar Galactica"::"The Hand of God" ) is 4926 days
From 9/11/1937 ( Robert Crippen ) To 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate ) is 19544 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/7/2019 ( ) is 19544 days
From 2/28/1992 ( premiere US TV series episode "MisteRogers' Neighborhood"::"Imaginary Friends" ) To 5/7/2019 ( ) is 9930 days
9930 = 4965 + 4965
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/7/1979 ( Anne McClain ) is 4965 days
From 2/28/1992 ( premiere US film "Memoirs of an Invisible Man" ) To 5/7/2019 ( ) is 9930 days
9930 = 4965 + 4965
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/7/1979 ( Anne McClain ) is 4965 days
From 2/28/1992 ( Microsoft Project for Windows 3.0 ) To 5/7/2019 ( ) is 9930 days
9930 = 4965 + 4965
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/7/1979 ( Anne McClain ) is 4965 days
From 6/16/2005 ( as Kerry Burgess my official records United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital includes: Date of Admission, psychiatric unit ) To 5/7/2019 ( ) is 5073 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/23/1979 ( premiere US TV series "Trapper John, M.D." ) is 5073 days
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Spokesman-Review
Leaders, onlookers cheer ‘change in the skyline’ as Gateway Bridge officially opens
UPDATED: Tue., May 7, 2019
By Nicholas Deshais
Upward of 500 people turned out for Tuesday’s official opening of the University District Gateway Bridge – six months after Spokane’s $15.4 million pedestrian bridge opened, and nine after it was originally supposed to.
If there’s a lesson there, Lisa Brown has it.
“This is not just an inflection point that connects our past, present and future. This is a victory over the name callers and naysayers,” said Brown, a former state senator from Spokane who now leads the state Department of Commerce. “We did it with a commitment to education and equity.”
Needless to say, the bridge was a hit. Before a cheery crowd, a food truck and more than a few students from Pride Prep, the parade of speakers described the city’s changing skyline, the educational and economic connections the bridge has made and a brief primer on “how the sausage is made.”
Spokane Mayor David Condon pointed to the various organizations involved in bringing the bridge to reality – including BNSF Railways and Garco Construction – but spoke of the personal meaning it had for him as mayor.
“I committed for my time in office that I wanted to change that skyline,” Condon said, noting there’s a “change in the skyline, and that is of this bridge,” which is on the city’s official keys and coins he gives to notable Spokanites.
Condon called the bridge “an amazing, amazing structure,” but said it represented the city’s larger goals of constructing “innovative infrastructure,” building more pedestrian and bicycle trails and investing in downtown.
State Sen. Andy Billig, a Spokane Democrat and majority leader in the Senate, said the bridge would encourage people to be healthy and active in their everyday lives, but lauded the connections the bridge will forge.
“This is a bridge to education. This is a bridge to economic development. This is a bridge to better health,” he said.
Michael Baumgartner, Spokane County treasurer and former state senator, took his turn to tell the many young people there about the “strange bedfellows” politics can make, and told in detail of the political maneuvering in 2015 that delivered a large portion of funding for the bridge’s construction.
“Success in politics has a thousand mothers and fathers, and most are here today,” he said.
Daryll DeWald, chancellor of Washington State University-Spokane, said the bridge was part of making the University District a “globally impacting, nationally prominent, regional health innovation district.” He then led crowd in separately cheering for all the universities in the district, including the Eags, Zags, Huskies, Bucs and Cougs.
E. Susan Meyer, CEO of Spokane Transit Authority, told of the new stations on either side of the bridge. The bus rapid transit Central City Line will pass by the bridge’s north landing, and a new transit hub will serve the south landing.
“I can think of no better occasion than today to announce the names for the new transit stations,” she said. “They will be the North Gateway Station and the South Gateway Station, names that will communicate the iconic and important destination that it is.”
The crowd did not stifle its laughter.
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Violator
Studio album by Depeche Mode
Released March 20, 1990
Track listing
"World in My Eyes"
"Sweetest Perfection"
"Personal Jesus"
"Halo"
"Waiting for the Night"
"Enjoy the Silence"
"Policy of Truth"
"Blue Dress"
"Clean"
album: "Violator" (1990)
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/depechemode/personaljesus.html
AZ
Depeche Mode
"Personal Jesus"
Reach out and touch faith
Your own personal Jesus
Someone to hear your prayers
Someone who cares
Your own personal Jesus
Someone to hear your prayers
Someone who's there
Feeling unknown
And you're all alone
Flesh and bone
By the telephone
Lift up the receiver
I'll make you a believer
Take second best
Put me to the test
Things on your chest
You need to confess
I will deliver
You know I'm a forgiver
Reach out and touch faith
Reach out and touch faith
Your own personal Jesus
Someone to hear your prayers
Someone who cares
Your own personal Jesus
Someone to hear your prayers
Someone who's there
Feeling unknown
And you're all alone
Flesh and bone
By the telephone
Lift up the receiver
I'll make you a believer
I will deliver
You know I'm a forgiver
Reach out and touch faith
Your own personal Jesus
Reach out and touch faith
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Weisskopf
Victor Weisskopf
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Victor Frederick "Viki" Weisskopf (September 19, 1908 – April 22, 2002) was an Austrian-born American theoretical physicist. He did postdoctoral work with Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, Wolfgang Pauli and Niels Bohr. During World War II he was Group Leader of the Theoretical Division of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, and later campaigned against the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/25/us/victor-weisskopf-a-manhattan-project-physicist-dies-at-93.html
The New York Times
Victor Weisskopf, a Manhattan Project Physicist, Dies at 93
By Kenneth Chang
April 25, 2002
Victor F. Weisskopf, a nuclear physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bomb in World War II and later became an ardent advocate of arms control, died on Monday
http://news.mit.edu/2002/weisskopf-0424
MIT News
Weisskopf dies at 93; was protégé of physicist Niels Bohr
April 24, 2002
Institute Professor Emeritus Victor F. Weisskopf, a protégé of physicist Niels Bohr who helped develop the atomic bomb and later became an outspoken advocate of arms control, died Sunday night at his home in Newton, Mass. He was 93 years old.
Weisskopf--called "Viki" by all who knew him--was noted for his theoretical work in quantum electrodynamics, the structure of the atomic nucleus and elementary particle physics. But beyond his purely scientific accomplishments, he played a leading role in explaining science--and its role in society--to the public. In the years since his work on the Manhattan Project in World War II, he warned repeatedly of the growing danger of nuclear war.
"Viki was a giant of 20th-century physics, a great spokesman for peace, for the welfare of humanity and the beauty of physics," said Professor Robert L. Jaffe, director of the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics. "He was a friend to everyone who knew him. His influence here at MIT and in the Center for Theoretical Physics was beneficent and profound. His perpetual curiosity and his enthusiasm for new ideas and young people defined MIT's style of doing physics. We will miss him."
Weisskopf was director-general from 1961 to 1965 of the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland, heading an international research establishment that operated the world's second most powerful large particle accelerator or "atom smasher" just as it started to be used for research. Under his direction, CERN developed into one of the foremost institutions in this field.
When he returned to MIT from CERN in 1966 he was given the rank of Institute Professor. From 1967 to 1973, Weisskopf was head of the Department of Physics, where he was a major force in the development of physics research--both through the many students he taught and the research group he built up to become the present Center for Theoretical Physics.
Additional recognition from the MIT faculty came in 1973 when he was awarded the James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award.
Weisskopf formally retired from MIT on July 30, 1974, after 28 years at the Institute, but he remained active as a senior lecturer in physics. In October 1974, a large number of the world's leading scientists, including six Nobel laureates, gathered at MIT for a two-day symposium convened specifically in celebration of Weisskopf and his contributions to science and society.
A naturalized United States citizen since 1943, Weisskopf was born in Vienna, Austria, on Sept. 19, 1908. He received the Ph.D. from the University of Gottingen, Germany in 1931, and served as research associate at the University of Copenhagen from 1932 to 1933 and the Institute of Technology in Zurich from 1934 to 1936.
Bohr, the Nobel Prize-winning Danish physicist and founder of quantum mechanics, was Weisskopf's mentor during their time together in Copenhagen. While in Denmark, Weisskopf met his first wife, ballet dancer Ellen Tvede, who died many years ago.
Weisskopf once told an interviewer that he had come out of the "golden age" of physics, when European scientists in the 1920s and 1930s created a new picture of how the world behaved at the atomic level.
"We touched the nerve of the universe," he said. "It was a great revolution that allowed us for the first time in the history of science to get at the root of the matter--why are leaves green, why are metals hard, why are the mountains so high and not higher--all those natural questions of our immediate environment got an answer."
Those who knew him say Weisskopf made major contributions to that work by seeing through the mathematics to the principles beneath.
"Viki is a past master at taking subtle and mathematical and opaque material, and by careful thought, reformulating it into a simple, clear problem," said physicist Philip Morrison, an Institute Professor Emeritus who was Weisskopf's colleague at MIT.
JOURNEY TO MIT
In 1937, just before the Nazis took over Austria, Weisskopf came to the United States to the University of Rochester, where he served as instructor and then assistant professor.
In 1943 he joined the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, N.M., where he worked on the atom bomb project as a group leader and associate head of the theory division on the exploitation of nuclear energy.
In 1944 he was one of many physicists who participated in the founding of the Federation of Atomic Scientists. Its purpose was twofold: to warn the public of the consequences of atomic war--thus hoping for the creation of an international agreement against the use of atomic weapons--and to support the peaceful use of atomic energy.
In 1945 he was appointed associate professor of physics at MIT but was granted a leave of absence to complete his work at Los Alamos. In 1946 he came to the Institute as a full professor, and later was in charge of the theory group in MIT's Laboratory for Nuclear Science, where he and his group made important contributions to theories of nuclear reactions and quantum electrodynamics. Together with John M. Blatt, he wrote a textbook, "Theoretical Nuclear Physics," probably the most-used book in that subject.
In 1949 Weisskopf became a member of the emergency committee of scientists whose president was Albert Einstein. This committee fought for control of atomic weapons and for an understanding between the countries of the East and West concerning atomic armaments. He participated in a manifesto against the hydrogen bomb in 1950 and in a campaign for the exchange of scientists by the U.S. and the rest of the world.
He spent increasing amounts of time in the years following his retirement attempting to raise public awareness of the dangers of nuclear weapons, weapons he had helped to create.
In a 1983 interview, he referred to the nuclear bomb as "a shadow over my life." And in an address that same year to a reunion of scientists who had worked to develop the atomic bomb, he described that effort as "the most exciting years of our lives." But he added, "our achievement has been the unintended cause of the world's most tragic predicament. Therefore, we physicists have a special duty." Another time he commented, "There is such fantastic beauty, in landscape, poetry, painting, and now these are all threatened."
While immersing himself in the issue of arms control, Weisskopf also said that "political questions take a lot of nervous energy" and that he always returned to physics for relaxation. "When life is very bad," he told an interviewer, "two things make life worth living--Mozart and quantum mechanics."
In another expression of his philosophy, when he was profiled on the public television series "Nova" in 1984, he likened the big-bang theory of the universe to a work by Haydn and suggested that Haydn's music is in its own way as descriptive of the big-bang theory as are the words of physicists. "I do not believe in the supernatural," he said, but he insisted that there is "something divine in our lives."
While he was at CERN, Weisskopf's numerous awards were augmented with the conferral of an honorary Ph.D. from the University of Vienna on the 600th anniversary of that institution. He received numerous other honorary degrees from institutions throughout the world, including Brandeis, Harvard, Notre Dame, Oxford, Rockefeller University, Yale and the Weizmann Institute.
His book "Knowledge and Wonder: The Natural World as Man Knows It" also was published (Doubleday & Co., New York, 1962) while he was in Geneva. It was selected by the Thomas Alva Edison Foundation as the best science book of the year for youth. Some of his essays are collected in the book, "Physics in the XX Century," published by the MIT Press. His own series of essays, "The Privilege of Being a Physicist," was published in 1989 (W.H. Freeman & Co., New York). He co-authored a two-volume book, "Concepts of Particle Physics," with MIT alumnus Kurt Gottfried, a theoretical physicist at Cornell University.
In 1991, Weiskopf wrote "The Joy of Insight," a personal memoir published by Basic Books as part of series of autobiographies and biographies of contemporary scientists sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
On his departure from CERN, his international colleagues collaborated in publishing a volume of 39 essays dedicated to Weisskopf. The volume's preface said in part: "It is Weisskopf's unique achievement that he has carried over the devoted idealism and the enthusiasm of his early days into a new world of organized research and large-scale experimentation. Through the work he did at CERN, through the impact of his mature personality, he has had a profound influence on modern physics in Europe."
HONORED BY THE WORLD
Weisskopf's international honors included the Max Planck Medal of the German Physical Society in 1956, the Boris Pregal Medal of the New York Academy of Sciences in 1970, the Prix Mondial Cino de Duca (France) for humanism in science in 1972, the Order pour le Merite (German) in 1978, the Smolukowski Medal of the Polish Physical Society in 1979, the National Medal of Science (United States) in 1980, the Wolf Prize in Physics (Israel) in 1981, the J. Robert Oppenheimer Medal in 1983, the 1988 Enrico Fermi Award of the U.S. Department of Energy, the Ludwig Wittgenstein Prize of the Austrian Research Organization in 1990 and the 1991 Public Welfare Medal of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
Weisskopf was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the Federation of American Scientists. He was a fellow of the American Physical Society and served as its president in 1960-61. He was president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences from 1976 to 1979.
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Dictionary.com
professor
a teacher of the highest academic rank in a college or university, who has been awarded the title Professor in a particular branch of learning; a full professor
the principal lecturer or teacher in a field of learning at a university or college; a holder of a university chair
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Kerry Burgess, excerpt from my private journal: 08/01/10
I never mentioned this before, because I was feeling compelled not to, but now after reading this, I wanted to note that she was the woman I was imagining that was going to drive me around to collect the numbers from the bombs and then fly me to Tiger, WA, where I would record the numbers at the crossroads.
Kerry Burgess, excerpt from my private journal: 07/23/10 1:35 AM
When the "Battlestar Galactica" fleet jumps to the "Ionian Nebula" all the ships lose power and are set adrift in space. The "Cylons" ships then jump in and start racing towards the "Galactica" fleet. People on "Galactica" are running around crazy in the dark and the four "Cylons" that are now identified as part of the "The Final Five" are stumbling around like zombies as they are drawn to the same place and where they accept that they are "Cylons."
Kerry Burgess, excerpt from my private journal: 07/21/10 1:52 PM
The thought had occurred to me to look at that border crossing into Canada that is well north of Ione. I cannot remember if I used Google Streetview to look at it, but I think I did. Looking now at the interesection in Tiger, WA, I see a sign that indicates the border crossing is 27 miles to the north.
07/21/10 1:55 PM
There is a road sign on Highway 20 that has a directional arrow that points towards Tiger Store and the sign indicates a Rest Area and a Visitor Information Center is in the direction of the arrow.
07/21/10 2:12 PM
Near that crossroads of Highway 20 and Highway there is another sign above the 'Rest Area' and the 'Visitor Info Area' that is blurry but I think it reads 'Tiger Historical Center.'
Kerry Burgess, excerpt from my private journal: 07/18/10 7:40 PM
I was also thinking again recently about the series finale episode of "Battlestar Galactica" and of how "Starbuck" knew the precise jump coordinates for the planet Earth. I was wondering if that plot element is based on what I was writing in my journal about how I would write down the sequence of numbers that had been written onto nuclear bombs that were a few hundred feet above the surface of downtown Seattle and I would do all that because time was frozen and I was the only one who could still freely move around.
07/18/10 7:48 PM
The first notion I had was that I would then travel to Tiger, Washington, and on a road next to the river there, I would paint those number sequences on the side of the road. I might have first thought I would paint them on the side of a building next to that place in the road I was thinking of. Then over time, I started thinking I would write the numbers down on the underside of a bridge.
07/18/10 7:51 PM
That deep bored tunnel project from 1/13/2009 that I recently referenced has an associated with 4/20/2010 and the title from "The Fugitive" television series "Tiger Left, Tiger Right."
07/18/10 7:58 PM
I thought I had noted in my journal that I had to use a small telescope to read the numbers off the bombs as they were suspended in the air but I do not see that associated with "telescope" in my journal.
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