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The Headcrook's Resident Evil Timeline Table of Contents: The Disclaimer The Updates About the Headcrook The Timeline Special Thanks The Disclaimer: All characters and events are the property of Capcom Entertainment, but the timeline is mine and mine alone. After eleven long months of research and having beaten Resident Evil Dead Aim, I have managed to scrounge up this timeline of events. Enjoy. The Updates: 11-4: RE0 files updated. 12-30: REDA files and Trevor's letters updated. About The Headcrook: I am a 21 year-old college student who ocassionally writes videogame fanfiction, but this is my first analysis of the Resident Evil timeline. I've worked on this thing for about a year and a half and now I have finished...for the time being. Aside from Street Fighter and some other games, I am a rabid Resident Evil fan and decided to write this timeline in honor of the game. From my friends, I heard that some other RE experts have designed their own timelines, and those that have their own timelines can email me at firstname.lastname@example.com for any questions you have. The Timeline: Late 18th-Early 19th century: English noblewoman Veronica Ashford founded the Ashford family. Sometime in 1939: James Marcus graduates from university. Late 1940's (estimate, exact date unknown): Brian Irons is born. 1950 (estimate, exact date unknown): English noblemen Ozwell E. Spencer and Edward Ashford (father of Alexander, grandfather of Alfred and Alexia) discover the 'Mother Virus.' 1953: Kenneth Sullivan is born. 1957: Enrico Marini is born. 1960: Barry Burton and Albert Wesker are born. Construction of Raccoon City begins at an undisclosed location in the American Midwest (If I was doing the story, the ideal place for the location of Raccoon City would possibly be Colorado, but then again, that's my opinion). 1961: Michael Warren, the future mayor of Raccoon City, arrives as an engineer. He's the main person responsible for the city's electrical and cable car systems. 1962: William Birkin is born. 1963: Brad 'Chickenheart' Vickers is born in Delucia (see Brad's Note--N64 version of Resident Evil). Lord Ozwell Spencer begins construction on a mansion in the Raccoon Forest near Raccoon City. The mansion is designed by a famous New York architect by the name of George Trevor. The mansion takes five years to be built. The mansion also has many secrets that only Spencer and Trevor know about. 1967, Friday, November 10: Lord Spencer invites Jessica Trevor and Lisa Trevor (wife and daughter of George Trevor) to the nearly-completed Spencer Mansion while George Trevor is away on business. Lisa plays the piano for the host, who approves. Several days later, Lisa and Jessica Trevor disappear. Monday, November 13: Trevor arrives three days later, and is notified by Lord Spencer that his wife and daughter had gone off to visit an ailing relative. Trevor doesn't give it a single thought, since he is reveling in his work. Tuesday, November 14: While touring the mansion with Lord Spencer, he tells Trevor about his plans to establish a major medical and pharmaceutical conglomerate called the Umbrella Corporation. The mansion itself will be used as a resort for Umbrella personnel. Saturday, November 18: Four days later, Trevor begins to worry about his family's whereabouts, not to mention upset because he can't find a telephone in the mansion. While in the courtyard, he finds a tunnel (the one that leads to the labs) and figures out that this was not in his plans. Before he could investigate further, several security guards appear and 'escort' Trevor from the courtyard, saying that he should never be alone. Monday, November 20: Instead of the shotgun that his wife had given Lord Spencer for his birthday, Trevor finds its rusted, broken counterpart in its place. Aside from that, he becomes troubled when he can't reach his family. He notifies Lord Spencer that he plans to join them the next day, and Spencer tells him not to worry about it, since he says that Trevor will be seeing them soon. Tuesday, November 21: Trevor packs his bags and prepares to leave. Before he can, however he is asked to come to the reception room (in other words, it's the art room with the 'Cradle to Grave' puzzle), and is escorted there by one of the courtyard guards. The courtyard guard notifies Trevor that his family is dead and knocks him out with a sedative agent. Friday, November 24: Four days has passed since Trevor was imprisoned within the confines of the mansion. One of the guards who bring him food tells him that he has to be silenced so that Lord Spencer only knows the mansion�s secrets. Monday, November 27: Trevor then escapes by means of a secret route he has designed. He is locked out of the mansion's many rooms, since he does not have any of the keys. Tuesday, November 28: Trevor comes across one of the mansion's experiments, which is a giant plant. Thursday, November 30: Trevor discovers the underground laboratory through the caves. He ponders of his wife and his daughter's fate and vows to escape. 1967, Tuesday, December 5: Trevor is still trapped within the mansion. Worse yet, he is becoming dehydrated and hasn't eaten in several days. The Special Tactics and Rescue Squad is established in New York City as a means to counter occult terrorism. Thursday, December 7: The Death of George Trevor. Trevor reaches a dead end. He finds a tombstone with his name on it and discovers that it was all Spencer's intention for him to reach his own grave. Begging forgiveness to his wife and daughter, Trevor dies. Jessica Trevor is also killed and Lisa Trevor becomes Umbrella's chief experiment for the next 30 years. 1967-1968: The Umbrella Corporation is established by Edward Ashford and Ozwell Spencer as a front for their 'Mother Virus' research. In time, it becomes the largest medical and pharmaceutical conglomerate in the world. 1968: Several cable cars are imported from Europe and are installed in Raccoon City. 1970: Morpheus D. Duvall is born. Edward Ashford's son Alexander (the future Nosferatu) discredits the Ashford family by killing his father, thus putting complete control of Umbrella into Spencer's hands. He then builds a research facility inside a mining post in the frozen wastelands of the Antarctic so he can work on restoring back his family's tarnished honor. Within the facility, there is also a mansion, which is modeled after the Spencer Mansion back in Raccoon City. 1971: Joseph Frost is born. Alexander discovers the gene that controls a human being's intelligence. He takes a DNA sample from the remains of Veronica Ashford and extracts the intelligence gene from her DNA. He implants the tampered genes inside the egg of a surrogate mother and as a result, the twins Alfred and Alexia Ashford are born. 1972: Billy Coen is born. 1973: Christopher Redfield is born. 1975: Jillian Valentine, Richard Aiken and Bruce McGivern are born. 1975, Thursday, December 4: Umbrella researcher James Marcus modifies the Mother Virus. He gives it the codename 'Progenitor.' 1976, Tuesday, March 23: James Marcus hears from Lord Spencer that he is starting a company which will soon be Umbrella. Marcus could care less, just as long as he can continue his research. 1976, Thursday, August 19: Lord Spencer asks James Marcus--who notices a change of attitude in Spencer--to run the Arklay training facility. Marcus accepts, mainly because it allows him to explore the 'Progenitor' virus. 1976, Tuesday, November 30: James Marcus is at odds with Lord Spencer, who sees 'Progenitor' only as a financial opportunity. Marcus realizes that it could means trouble for his research if Spencer's influence begins to grow and realizes that the only way to fortify his position is by developing 'Progenitor.' 1977, Monday, September 19: Umbrella researcher James Marcus combines the 'Mother Virus,' now codenamed 'Progenitor' by both Spencer and the late Edward Ashford with mutated leech DNA to create the Tyrant-virus, or T-virus for short. 1977, Sunday, October 23: James Marcus is frustrated because he can't make any progress on the T-virus by experimenting on rodents. He realizes that he needs humans for a more suitable experiments. 1977, Tuesday, November 15: James Marcus thinks that someone is onto his experiments. He vows that whoever discovers his secrets, that they will become guniea pigs in his research. 1978, Friday, January 13: James Marcus's leeches--according to him--are ready. 'Those of low intellgence, they will never have the privilege of tasting this sense of joy and satisfaction!' He now has an oppotunity to make a move for power against Spencer. 1978, Saturday, Febuary 11: James Marcus finds that someone has been screwing around with the lab's entrance. He decides to put Umbrella rookies Albert Wesker and William Birkin on the case, seeing as he can only teust those two. He also debates on whether or not to reveal the T-virus at the next Umbrella directors' meeting. Fongling, Leon Scott Kennedy and Carlos Oliveira are born. 1978, Saturday, July 29: Eighteen-year-old Albert Wesker and sixteen-year-old William Birkin are reassigned to the Spencer mansion as researchers by Ozwell Spencer himself. 1978, Febuary 3: James Marcus begins to keep a log based on his experimentation on his leeches. He injects the T-virus into four of his leeches. He documents that 'their will to survive leads them first to parasitism and predation, then they breed and mulitply. Such single minded biology makes them attractive candidates for bioweapons research. Afterwards, no major changes observed.' Febuary 10: Seven days passed since Marcus injected the T-virus in the leeches. Marcus notes the leeches' rapid growth and the increase in their numbers. He also notes that they resort to cannibalism, due to their 'ravenous appetites.' 1978, March 7: Marcus documents that when live food was brought to the leeches, 'but lost half when the live food fought back.' He also notes that they are 'beginning to exhibit group attack behavior,' and that they are stopping their cannibalism methods. 1978, April 22: Marcus notices that his leeches no longer act on their own, but rather than as a unit. They also eat anything that Marcus gives them. April 30: When an Umbrella emplyee stumbles in on Marcus' experiments, Marcus begins to wonder if hummans can be use as a food source. 1978, June 3: Marcus is in a jovial mood. He discovers that his mutant leeches have begun to imitate him. 'Surely they recognize their father...Wonderful children, No one will take you away...' 1978: September 2: The asisstant director at the Arklay training facility complains about his employees' worth. However, he sees potential in both William Birkin and Albert Wesker. September 25: The assistant director notes the differences in both Wesker and Birkin, but they are both extremely competitive. He also adds that there is something about them that makes the both of them shady. 1978, October 7: The assistant director gets a call from Director Marcus, ordering him to create a rivalry between Wesker and Birkin. The director is surprised that Marcus has shown interest in something other than his research, but promises to 'have them tearing at each other's throats.' 1979: Claire Redfield is born. 1980: Rebecca Chambers is born. 1981: Kid genius Alexia Ashford graduates from university (probably Oxford), and is hired by the Umbrella Corporation. She is their leading researcher. Twenty-year-old Barry Burton joins the Raccoon Police Department as a S.W.A.T. member. Tuesday, December 8: The Rockfort Island Training Grounds and Facility are completed. 1983, Sunday, January 30: Twelve-year old Alfred Ashford discovers a secret door in the Antarctic facility, but needs the two jewels from his father and sister as well as his in order to open the door. 1983, Thursday, February 17: Alfred gains access to the secret laboratory that was hidden behind the secret door. There he finds out about the circumstances regarding his and Alexia's birth. As a result of this, the twins grow to hate their father. 1983, Thursday, March 3: Alexia Ashford creates a new virus by combining the T-virus with an ancient virus found within the remains of a queen ant. In honor of the founder of the Ashford family, Alexia names the new virus T-Veronica. Using their own father as a test subject, the twins inject the T-Veronica virus into Alexander, making sure that the family butler doesn't wise up to their scheming. 1983, Thursday, March 3-Friday, April 22: The T-Veronica Virus mutates Alexander into a monster that emits toxic gases that not even the Blue Herbs cannot cure. As a result of the failed experiment, Alfred and Alexia imprison Alexander--now Nosferatu--deep within the Antarctic facility. 1983, May: Alexia Ashford injects the T-Veronica virus into herself and places herself in cryogenic suspension in order for her body to co-exist with the virus. She leaves her brother to guard her for the next 15 years. The official story is that Alexia Ashford was killed in a laboratory accident. 1986: Sherry Birkin is born. 1988, January: Michael Warren, the former city engineer, is elected mayor of Raccoon City. He will remain as mayor until Raccoon City's nuclear destruction in October 1998. Acting on orders from Spencer himself, Wesker and Birkin oversee the assassination of James Marcus (shown in RE0 flashback) and Birkin take over the T-virus research. Marcus is revived by his leeches and now waits for the perfect opportunity to seek revenge against Umbrella. William Birkin comes across the G-virus in the now-mutated Lisa Trevor's body. He spends the next ten years researching the new virus until Raccoon's nuclear destruction. 1992: The Umbrella Corporation give funds to Raccoon City, allowing the city to built a new municipal building and a hospital, complete with advanced medical equipment, making way for hundreds of jobs. As a result of this, Mayor Warren is rewarded with a statue in City Hall. 1993: Brian Irons is promoted to Chief of the Raccoon City Police Department. 1994: Robert Dorson begins working as Alfred Ashford's private attendant on Rockfort Island. Sometime in 1995: Chris Redfield (by my theory) graduates from the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado and is commissioned as an officer in the United States Air Force. He serves under Colonel William Guile (not true in this case, but sounds good. Hey, it's Capcom, so anything's possible...) Sometime later, he gets kicked out of the Air Force, possibly for insubordination (Fanfiction websites and the Wildstorm Comics state that Chris was booted out of the Air Force for going back for a fallen comrade, thus disobeying his orders). 1996: The Raccoon Special Tactics and Rescue Service is formed in Raccoon City with Albert Wesker as Captain and Enrico Marini as their second in command. 1996, Monday, August 26: A condemned prisoner is transported to an unspecified Umbrella disposal facility as a test subject. 1996, Tuesday, September 26: Day One: One month after the condemned criminal is brought in, the researchers begin their experiments on the man, now codenamed 'Alpha.' For 'humanitarian reasons,' they place a metal rod in the test subject's skull to relieve him some of pain. Saturday, September 30: Day Four: The researchers remove the test subject's eyeballs for any reaction to 'external stimulation.' 1996, Tuesday, October 10: Day Fourteen: After giving the test subject a muscle booster, it begins to increase in weight and in size. 1996, Friday, November 1: Day Thirty-Six: The test subject, due to its lack of eyes, have an enhanced sense of hearing, and can pinpoint exactly where a sound came from. Wednesday, November 6: Day Forty-One: Project Alpha has escaped from the labs and is lurking around the sewers. Steps to capture the monster are in the works. Bruce McGivern and Fong Ling will encounter this monster four years from now. Sometime in 1997: Marine Lieutenant Billy Coen is framed for the massacre of 23 civilians at an unknown African village. He is convicted, committed, and sentenced to death by hanging. 1997, Friday, May 16: An operator is transferred to the Umbrella Disposal Facility, located somewhere in the Atlantic. 1997, Monday, June 16: Due to the 'sloppy supervision' at the Atlantic disposal facility, an accident has occurred. Fortunately, it was a minor accident, but the operator promises to himself that if he dies, then he shall die as a human. Tuesday, June 24: The operator is at odds with Morpheus Duvall, the supervisor of the facility. 'He must pay more attention to worker health management and biological weapons that anyone I have ever met.' He wants to leave, but for some odd reason, he can't move. Sometime between 1998 and 2000 (Exact date unknown): Fongling arrests her brother, who was a member of a democratic movement in China and turns him over to her superiors, who order her brother to be executed in the same day. 1998, early March: A mercenary who was on death row for a crime he did not commit is granted a second chance at life. Looks like Umbrella needs a few good mercenaries... Mid-March: Ada Wong becomes 'romantically' involved with an Umbrella researcher named John, who disappears from the Umbrella office in Chicago. In truth, he was transferred to the Spencer mansion. 1998, Monday, April 6: Police Chief Brian Irons chews out his secretary for moving one of the statues on the second floor of the R.P.D. Tuesday, April 7: Irons' secretary becomes suspicious that her boss is dirty when she finds out that his art collection is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Saturday, April 25: An engineer who recently graduated from university is made manager of what will soon become the Dead Factory on his thirtieth birthday. 1998, May: Child genius and college graduate Rebecca Chambers is the newest--and youngest--member of the Raccoon S.T.A.R.S. at the age of eighteen. She is placed as a member of Bravo Team under Captain Enrico Marini as a field medic and biochemist. Saturday, May 9: A keeper at the Spencer Mansion plays poker with Scott, a security guard, Steve, another researcher, and Alias, another staff member. The keeper thinks that Steve was cheating, since he was the big winner. 'Scumbag.' Sunday, May 10: The keeper at the mansion lab is given a new type of creature to look after. To him, it looks like a skinless gorilla (the Eliminators from Resident Evil 0. Anyone else have a reasonable explanation?) Feeding instructions: LIVE animals. At the R.P.D. Irons' secretary notices her boss drooling over another cheesy painting, which is a naked woman being hanged. Her suspicions arise then she finds out that the painting costs more than the Chief can afford. Monday, May 11: The supposedly deceased (and rejuvenated) James Marcus spills the T-virus over Spencer Mansion as the first phase of his revenge plot against Umbrella. The keeper is awakened by Scott the guard early in the morning and is told to wear a biohazard suit. If not, he could be infected with the T-Virus. Inside the lab where the Fi-3 Neptune sharks are kept, one of the scientists infected with the T-virus goes nuts and shatters the glass tank holding the mutant sharks, flooding the lab and releasing the mutated sharks. Tuesday, May 12: The keeper's skin begins to grow itchy. In retaliation, he decides not to feed the guard dogs. Wednesday, May 13: The keeper has his back inspected by the doctors, who bandages his back and tells the keeper that he does not have to wear the biohazard suit anymore. A prisoner at Rockfort Island meets his new cellmate, who happens to be Alfred Ashford's former private secretary Robert Dorson, who had fell out of favor with his boss. Thursday, May 14: The keeper ends up dragging his foot for most of the day, due to the fact that his foot has a blister. He also finds out later in the day that several guard dogs have escaped from their pens. The factory manager at Umbrella's factory near Raccoon Park reports that the disposal system is active, but not completely stable. Friday, May 15: The keeper is forbidden to leave the Spencer Mansion when he tries to see his girlfriend, nor he can't make a phone call, since all the phones have been ripped from their outlets. Saturday, May 16: The plant at Point 42 begins to grow at a geometric rate, due to the chemicals (and the T-virus) in the water from the shattered tank. The keeper hears that one of the researchers that had tried to escape was shot and killed by the guards. The keeper goes ballistic when a chunk of rotten flesh falls off his arm while he was scratching it. The prisoner who befriends Robert Dorson hears his new friend's story on how he ended up in the prison. Tuesday, May 19: The keeper falls victim to the T-virus and joins the rising number of the mansion's undead. He attack and kill Scott the guard and eats the dog food. 'FEvr gon bUt IchY. HUNgre unD EaT DogGE Fud. ICHy ItchY SCott KamE. Ugle FAcE sO KilLEd HIm. TaStY.' Wednesday, May 20: Like an idiot, the factory manager locks himself in the disposal room for an hour. Robert Dorson is escorted from the barracks by guards. The prisoner wonders what happened to his friend. The mauled remains of a female hiker are found on the banks of the Marble River in Raccoon City's Cider District. Raccoon Police assume that a grizzly bear or some other wild animal attacked her. Thursday, May 21: The prisoner sneaks out of the barracks and searches for Robert Dorson. Instead he hears Dorson screaming, followed by maniacal laughter. Henry Sarton, one of the few remaining scientists who has not fallen to the T-virus or his zombified co-workers, makes a report on the mutant plant at Point 42, now called Plant 42. Sarton also reports that the mutant plant has high intelligence, since it can block the doors with its vines while it sleeps. Wednesday, May 27: The Raccoon Times reports on the dead hiker found near the Marble River. The prisoner on Rockfort Island is the only one left in the barracks. Soon he will meet the same fate as did Dorson and the other prisoners before him. 1998, early to mid June: Infected scientist Martin Crackhorn writes a final letter to his girlfriend explaining the outbreak and his decision to kill himself before he turns into a zombie. Sunday, June 7: The number of guinea pigs are the Dead Factory are rising, and the manager butt heads with the laboratory staff. Oh, did I forget to mention that the disposal system is STILL NOT WORKING?! Monday, June 8: Chief Irons' secretary is cleaning her boss' office when he comes in, and Irons ends up yelling at the poor employee. Ada Wong's boyfriend John writes his final letter to his love, explaining how to make the outbreak at the Spencer Mansion known to the public. He also adds that if she comes across him if he is a zombie, that she kills him herself Wednesday, June 10: Chief Irons' behavior becomes the gossip among the Raccoon police officers, since he hasn't came out of his office after kicking his secretary out two days ago. Monday, June 15: Chief Irons' secretary comes across several of her boss' secrets and realizes that her life may be in jeopardy if her boss finds out. Tuesday, June 16: The Raccoon Weekly magazine has an article on doglike creatures in the Arklay Mountains. It even dared its readers to go and try to find one of the creatures. Sunday, June 28: Don Weller, a chemical transporter for Umbrella keeps scratching himself and is sweating constantly while was talking to the sewer manager. 1998, Tuesday, July 7: The sewer manager notices Chief Irons' foul mood and sums it up to William Birkin's requests. Thursday, July 9: The Raccoon Times report that the Raccoon Police Department closes down the road to the Arklay Forest due to the murders, and enlist the S.T.A.R.S. to help with the case. The townspeople report sightings of hideous monsters hiding in the mountains. Mid-July: The Special Committee on Disasters of Umbrella's Raccoon Special Research Department sends a letter to Umbrella's Sanitation Department concerning the T-virus outbreak at the Spencer Mansion. Tuesday, July 14: An Umbrella employee receives orders from his superiors to investigate the long-deserted Arklay training facility. According to the employee, he is part of the first group assigned to investigate the failed experiment. Thursday, July 16: The Dead Factory can't keep up with the increasing number of bodies for its disposal system. The Umbrella employee notes that due to the investigation of the Arklay facility, the testing of B.O.W. Type-Y139 was suspended. 'There's a lot of interesting research left...Depending on the species and nurturing conditions, only minute doses of "T" bring about remarkable changes in solidity, size, multiplication of internal toxins and brain development.' The employee also adds that if 'these effects can be controlled, a weapon could be produced. But the sudden development of the shell results in corresponding fragility. Certain areas become exceedingly weak.' Sunday, July 19: The Umbrella employee is growing with anticipation on the upcoming day when his team investigates the Arklay training facility. He also adds that 'The Raccoon City newspapers and TV stations are full of reports about bizzare murders in the suburbs. It can't be the virus, can it?' Wednesday, July 22: Captain Wesker receives his orders from 'White Umbrella' on what to do with the B.O.W.'s and the destruction of the lab. Thursday night, July 23-Friday morning July 24: Here's where the mayhem starts. Resident Evil 0 takes place. James Marcus attacks a train full of Umbrella employees en route to a training facility near the Spencer Mansion. Wesker sends Bravo Team, which consists of team leader Enrico Marini, field scout/chemist Kenneth J. Sullivan, sharpshooter Forest Speyer, pilot Kevin Dooly, co-pilot Edward Dewey, radioman Richard Aiken, and field medic Rebecca Chambers to the Raccoon Forest to investigate. Their chopper crashes, and with the exception of the pilot Kevin, searches the forest. Not too far away, Marcus' leeches attack Billy Coen's transport vehicle, killing the MP's and in the attack, Billy manages to escape to the train. Rebecca Chambers finds the train and meets up with the fugitive, and the pair team up against the onslaught of the undead and mutant leeches. Rebecca is forced to execute the zombie that was formerly her comrade-in-arms Edward Dewey, and the train crashes near the training facility, where they fight their way through scores of the undead and Umbrella's monsters and test experiments. The pair encounters a prototype Tyrant and James Marcus in the treatment plant below the training facility. Marcus is killed and Rebecca comes across the Spencer Mansion. Billy and Rebecca go their separate ways after Rebecca takes his dogtags. "Officially, Billy Coen is dead." Whether or not Billy Coen lives or not afterwards is left open to question. Friday night, July 24-Saturday morning, July 25: Welcome to the world of survival horror. Resident Evil/RE Remake takes place. Having failed to regain contact with Bravo Team, Captain Wesker leads Alpha Team, which consists of Wesker himself, weapons specialist Barry Burton, marksman Chris Redfield, machine/lockpicking expert (and in some cases, ex-thief) Jill Valentine, vehicle specialist Joseph Frost, and the cowardly pilot Brad Vickers. Alpha Team comes across the remains of Bravo team's helicopter and the body of Kevin Dooly. Joseph Frost is attacked and killed by the Cerberus (zombie dogs), Brad, living up to his name, ditches his teammates, and the survivors are chased into the mansion. The team separate and discover the grisly fate of their teammates: Kenneth Sullivan became zombie food, Forest Speyer was attacked and killed by infected crows, only to become a member of the undead himself, Richard Aiken was poisoned by Yawn (giant mutant snake). Alpha Team blasted their way through an army of the undead, monsters, an overgrown plant project gone berserk, and the monster that was formerly Lisa Trevor. Along the way, they find a badly injured Enrico Marini, who is assassinated before he can tell who the traitor is among the S.T.A.R.S. members. In the meantime, Wesker makes his own plans. Using a special type of T-virus (minus the zombie effect) he injects it into himself and sets out to cover his escape by sending the Tyrant against Chris and the others. Jill Valentine is successful in taking down the Tyrant for the first time after it supposedly kills Wesker. The self-destruct sequence is activated and Barry, Rebecca, Chris and Jill head for the heliport, where they signal Brad to airlift them out of there. The Tyrant--now pissed off--has other plans for them. He makes an explosive entrance at the heliport and attacks the surviving S.T.A.R.S. members. Brad evens the odds by dropping an anti-tank Rocket Launcher on the heliport. Chris gets to it first and in one shot, reduces the 'ultimate bio-weapon' into bloody chunks. The surviving S.T.A.R.S. members escape the Spencer mansion, just seconds before the self-destruct mechanism is activated, and the mansion, along with its labs, are destroyed. Albert Wesker escapes by another route and now has a serious vendetta against the surviving S.T.A.R.S. members. Sunday, July 26: Chris Redfield makes a report on the events the night before to Chief Irons. He tells of the zombies and monsters within the Spencer Mansion, the deaths of his fellow S.T.A.R.S. teammates, Umbrella's involvement in illegal experiments, Wesker's betrayal and death, and their escape from the mansion. He finishes the report by stating a federal investigation on Umbrella should be initiated immediately. Wednesday, July 29: The number of bodies in the Dead Factory continues to rise, and the disposal system is beginning to fail. Under these inhumane conditions, the antibiotics are useless and several of the workers are infected. The factory manager begins to keep a loaded gun nearby, always saving the last bullet for himself. 'I want to weep. I don't want to die here. I swear that I'll lose my mind if I imagine how painful the death will be...' 1998, Friday, August 7: Jill Valentine has physically recovered from the Spencer Mansion case, but is still haunted by the deaths of her teammates. Saturday, August 8: Chris tries once again to get Chief Irons to listen to him and open a case against Umbrella, but being on Umbrella's payroll, Irons turns a blind eye to the impending investigation. To make things worse, the majority of Raccoon's citizens are working for Umbrella. Sunday, August 9: Umbrella Biohazard Countermeasure Service commando Nicholai Ginovaef submits his report concerning the destruction of the Spencer mansion and its laboratory. A Sheena Island factory worker has serious doubts on the tactics that his boss has concerning the experiments at the laboratory. Thursday, August 13: Jill Valentine notices a change of mood in Chris Redfield. He constantly causes trouble, and it came to a point when he decks Officer Elran of the Boy's Crime Department for accidentally splashing him in the face with hot coffee. Saturday Morning, August 15: Jill visits Chris at his apartment in the middle of the night and Chris shows her confidential information regarding the G-virus. Monday, August 16: The sewer manager notices that Chief Irons is in a bad mood. When he tries to cheer him up, the manager finds himself staring down the barrel of Irons' gun. The manager manages to calm the chief down...for now. Irons' mood changes for the better when William Birkin places a hefty deposit of $10,000 in the Chief's bank account. In exchange for the money, Irons has to keep the S.T.A.R.S. from snooping around in Umbrella's affairs. Tuesday, August 17: The Raccoon Police Department begin to get reports on 'strange monsters' lurking around Raccoon City. Chris realizes that Umbrella is up to its old tricks again. Friday, August 20: A teenage boy from the Republic of Congo is kidnapped by Umbrella agents and is sent to Sheena Island, an Umbrella-run city which specializes in producing Tyrants en masse. Saturday, August 21: William Birkin orders the sewer manager to temporary cease all operations in the sewers, seeing that the police have launched an investigation on Umbrella's activities. Tuesday, August 24: With the help of Jill Valentine and Barry Burton, Chris Redfield finds more info on the G-virus. A course of plan is in action as Chris decides to go ahead to Europe, while Barry sends his family to Canada for safety. Jill, on the other hand, decides to stay in town in order to scrounge up some more info on Umbrella. Friday, August 25: A Raccoon P.D. night watchman is inside the police station's clock tower. Chief Irons finds him and gives the watchman the third degree for being in the clock tower, rather than not being at his post. Monday, August 28: Umbrella sends a dismissal notice to Morpheus Duvall, notifying him of his termination, saying that he was responsible for the T-virus outbreak at the Spencer mansion. Duvall swears revenge. 1998: Tuesday, September 1: Thirty-one days left before the destruction of Raccoon City. The mercenary who was saved from execution has completed his training, which lasted six months. Saturday, September 5: The Congolese boy held captive on Sheena Island finds out that teenagers between the ages of 16 to 20 were kidnapped from all over the globe by the Umbrella Corporation as test subjects. The citizens of Sheena Island are working for Umbrella one way or another. Sunday, September 6: Vincent Goldman and another member of the Umbrella Corporation are sent to Sheena Island. Vincent kills the other guy, so that way he is appointed Commander of the island. Sheena Island sewer caretaker Andy Holland writes in his diary concerning Vincent Goldman. He heard rumors about Vincent's coldheartedness, but pays it no mind. Thursday, September 10: Twenty days left before the destruction of Raccoon City. The Director at Raccoon Hospital makes his report on the 'cannibal disease' that's beginning to appear in the city. On Sheena Island, the Congolese lad suspects that his and the other prisoners' food is being drugged. Lott Klein, the son of one of the researchers, is told by Commander Goldman and his father that the children brought here will be turned into �decent people� by Umbrella. Tuesday, September 15: Sixteen days left before Raccoon's destruction. Jill Valentine resigns from the Raccoon Police Department. She continues to investigate Umbrella, while at the same time laying low. The mercenary is forced to cut his vacation short as his U.B.C.S. unit is called to action. According to the mercenary, there are two separate teams of paramilitary teams; one group to combat corporate terrorism and V.I.P. kidnappings, and the second group--which he is a member of--is a special unit of nightmen trained to handle 'illegal products' and the problems that they cause. Joel Allman, Vice-President of the U.S. Branch of Umbrella sends a memo to William Birkin concerning a shortage of chemicals at the Antarctic base. Allman requests a donation of chemicals to be transported to the Antarctic base, and reassures Birkin that the Ashford's reputation is damaged beyond repair. William Birkin finds out that Umbrella plans to steal his G-virus from him. He instructs Chief Irons to find and arrest anyone who is doing anything suspicious in the city. Friday, September 18: Thirteen days left before Raccoon's destruction. Another person suffering from the 'cannibal disease' is sent to Raccoon Hospital. The hospital director wonders if there is a cure for the disease. Saturday, September 19: Twelve days left before Raccoon's destruction. The night watchman that Chief Irons yelled at meets Thomas, who works at the sewer plant behind the R.P.D. Like the watchman, he is a chess fanatic, but wonders why his new friend keeps on scratching himself most of the time. '...does he have some sort of skin disease or his he just rude?' Sunday, September 20: Eleven days left before Raccoon's destruction. R.P.D. officer Neil Carson comes across a strange-looking person at the outskirts of the city. The person ran off, but left behind some plastic explosive, handgun ammo, and an infrared scope that's broken. On Sheena Island, Andy Holland hears rumors about Commander Goldman's inhumane experiments on the kidnapped children. Monday, September 21: The Congolese boy discovers that several of his friends were taken to 'the factory on the mountain.' While at a nightclub, he overhears some of the workers talking about Commander Goldman's horrific experiments. The Congolese boy and his friends plot their escape. Tuesday, September 22: Nine days left before Raccoon's destruction. Umbrella's French Research and Division director Christine Henri orders Hunk and his unit to steal the G-virus from the defiant William Birkin and deliver it to the French R and D at Loire Village. They enter the lab without a hitch and confront Birkin, who refuses to give up his work. A mistake on Birkin's part and a commando with an itchy trigger finger ends up with Birkin being mortally wounded by the commando unit (What goes around, comes around, Birkin. Serves you right.), and his G-virus samples are taken. Birkin, who has a hidden sample of the G-virus on himself, leads it into a syringe and injects it into himself. The G-virus revives Birkin, but mutates him into a Tyrant-like G-Type monster. Birkin pursues his assailants in a murderous rampage and slaughters them. He then stuffs down more G-virus samples and the sewer rats ingest the broken T-virus samples, thus leading to the full-scale outbreak at Raccoon City. Hunk manages to escape, but is knocked unconscious. (My guess that the rats were probably immune to the T-virus. If they managed to survive the Black Death in Medieval Europe, then a man-made virus would possibly have no effect on them.) Wednesday, September 23: Eight days left before Raccoon's destruction. This is the beginning of the end for the city and its citizens. Chief Irons finally reaches the breaking point as he hears about the zombie invasion that's starting to take place. He vows to himself to kill everyone who is infected. Thursday, September 24: Seven days left before Raccoon's destruction. Raccoon City Mayor Michael Warren places the city under martial law. Chief Irons plans to sabotage his police force's efforts in containing the zombie menace. He spreads confusion in both the police department and the general public. Second, he makes sure that there is no outside help and that all escape routes in the city are barricaded. Third, he has his police force spread the ammo throughout the building. R.P.D. officer Marvin Branagh makes a report on two jewels stolen from City Hall. He has to suspend the case, due to the lack of police officers and the imminent zombie threat. Saturday, September 26: Five days left before Raccoon's destruction. The night watchman sees that his friend Thomas isn't feeling too well, and tells him to return home and rest. He also realizes that he himself is not feeling well either. Morning. Marvin Branagh reports a restaurant owner who had one of the two missing gems. The owner was shot after showing symptoms of the 'cannibal disease' and Branagh has to suspend the case once again. Round One: The Raccoon Police Department is under siege by the undead and the police gets their arses handed to them and many of the civilians hiding inside the police station are killed. (Sorry. A little 'Braveheart' humor there.) During the battle one of the officers, David Ford is rescued by one of the marksmen named Meyer. Instead of returning the favor when Meyer was in danger, Officer Ford chickened out and ran, leaving Meyer to be slaughtered. The Raccoon Hospital is in even worse shape than the police station. Zombies had killed the majority of the hospital staff, several of the floors are inaccessible and the director, who is now showing symptoms of the 'cannibal disease,' is forced to close the hospital down. '...I know that it's too late for me. I am beginning to feel that same itchy and hungry desire that all of my patients felt. It's too late for me...' The sadistic Chief Irons has a 'change of heart' and decides to hunt down the remaining civilians and police officers. One of his targets includes Mayor Warren's daughter, whom Claire Redfield finds sprawled over Irons' desk three days from now. '...I'm going to enjoy my new trophy. Yes, frozen forever in the pose I choose to give her...' Sick bastard. The remaining police officers plan on finding the remaining ammunition and escaping the police station. There's just one small problem though: the guy with the keycard went missing since the attack on the R.P.D. Several units of the Umbrella Biohazard Countermeasure Service, led by Lieutenant Mikhail Victor and Sergeant Nicholai Ginovaef, are dispatched to Raccoon City. Despite being better prepared than the ill-fated police force, their numbers are quickly decimated and the remaining mercenaries finds themselves on the run, including Tyrell Patrick, Murphy Seeker, and Carlos Oliveira. Sunday, September 27: Four days left before Raccoon's destruction. Round Two: The Raccoon police force and its S.W.A.T. team take to the streets to try and stop the zombie menace. Using their cars as barriers, they open fire on the advancing undead, but the zombies simply barge through the police, forcing them to retreat back to the Raccoon Police Department, where they barricade themselves in for a standoff. They are then killed one by one by the undead, monsters, or by Chief Irons himself. (Looks like they haven't been watching any of George Romero's zombie movies, otherwise they would have known to aim for the head ;P.) Twelve more police officers are killed when the undead break through the western barricade of the Raccoon Police Department. A new monster, dubbed the 'Licker,' due to its lance-like tongue, which is 'capable of piercing a human torso in an instant,' kills three more police officers. Let's face it, the Raccoon Police Department is seriously fucked here. Inside a well-fortified room, the unstable David Ford, thought to have been dead, plans on painting the ceiling with his brains with his Mossberg shotgun once he runs out of booze. Nighttime. A mercenary and his partner named Campbell arrive at the rendezvous point, the Saint Michael Clock Tower. They managed to stay alive by stealing their wounded comrades' weapons and using civilians as decoys, something that one of the mercenaries doesn't like doing. The mercenary, who is more sympathetic, takes a liking to one of the survivors, a teenage girl, who reminds him of his younger sister. Monday, September 28: Three days left until Raccoon's destruction. Dawn. One of the Umbrella mercenaries finally loses it. He would much rather be back on death row, since to him, it was a 'heavenly asylum compared to this place,' and proceeds to commit suicide. Jill Valentine comes across his body later on during the day. Sometime during the mission, Mikhail Victor is seriously injured. Whether he was injured by the Brain/Drain Deimos or survived a botched assassination attempt by Nicholai is left to question. Four more police officers are attacked and killed. The remaining police officers, now down to four, plan to escape through the sewers. They obviously did not make it. The two mercenaries at the clock tower prepare to escape. The more sympathetic merc wishes to take the girl with him, but the girl refuses to leave without her father. Campbell wants his buddy to ditch the girl, but the kind mercenary refuses to do so. All three are killed, the mercenary protecting the girl to the very end. Jill Valentine and Carlos Oliveira will come across their bodies while exploring the clock tower later that night. First Half of Resident Evil 3 Nemesis takes place. Jill Valentine decides to make her 'last escape' from Raccoon City. She literally blasts her way through her apartment building and hides inside a warehouse. Finding another survivor, a wannabe novelist named Dario Russo, Russo basically tells the former S.T.A.R.S. member to shove it and refuses to leave the warehouse. She comes across the injured Brad Vickers hiding inside Bar Jack and is told of the monstrosity that is hunting S.T.A.R.S. members. "He's after S.T.A.R.S. members. There's no escape!" Jill shoots her way to the Raccoon Police Department, where she encounters Brad, who looked liked, as what Pres. Evil says, 'someone dropped a truck on him.' The Tyrant-like monster that Brad was ranting about earlier makes its appearance and kills Brad in Jill's view. As the monster turns on Jill, chanting "S.T.A.R.S.," like a mantra, Jill dashes into the police station for safety. While she is inside, Brad Vickers joins the ranks of the undead. The resourceful woman searches the Raccoon Police Department for any survivors. When she finds none, she manages to find better weapons inside the S.T.A.R.S. Office. Back on the first floor, she encounters the trenchcoated monster again, this time it is armed with a HUGE rocket launcher. Jill escapes the creature's murderous advances and heads into Downtown Raccoon City. While Jill is exploring the city, zombies kill Dario Russo and a young woman. Jill will come across their bodies upon returning to the warehouse to check up on Russo. Inside the Grill 13 restaurant, Jill meets Carlos Oliveira and avoids the monster yet again. Jill ditches the monster again and comes across the injured Mikhail Victor and the cool Nicholai Ginovaef, as well as Carlos inside a cable car. Jill agrees to join forces with the Umbrella mercenaries in order to reach the clock tower. After a few close calls, they find parts for the cable car to get it moving. Jill's stalker makes another appearance on the cable car, and Mikhail, using a incendiary grenade, meets an honorable death by sacrificing himself to allow Jill and Carlos to escape, but end up crashing at the clock tower. After repairing the bell, Jill signals the rescue chopper to the clock tower, which is promptly destroyed by the creature's rocker launcher. With its tentacle, the monster infects Jill with the T-virus and in the ensuing battle, Jill sends the creature packing. Carlos comes to Jill's aid as she passes out and takes her to the tower's chapel. Tuesday night, September 29-Wednesday morning, September 30: Resident Evil 2 takes place. While Jill Valentine is unconscious from the effects of the T-virus, two more unlucky souls join the zombie block party at Raccoon City. The first person is Leon Scott Kennedy, an idealistic rookie police officer on his way to work at the Raccoon Police Department (it's his first day on the job!). The second is Claire Redfield, a 19-year-old college student/motorcycle enthusiast who is in town looking for her older brother, former S.T.A.R.S. marksman Chris Redfield. Instead, shortly after arriving into town from separate routes, both find themselves on the run from Raccoon's zombified populace. They commandeer an abandoned police cruiser and head for the police station. A surprise zombie attack, a car crash, and one exploding tanker trailer later, Leon and Claire find themselves separated, with Leon being the closest to the police station. (I'm going by Claire A-Leon B scenario. Makes more sense. Too many plot holes in Leon A-Claire-B.) Claire meets Robert Kendo, the gun shop owner (and brother of Joseph Kendo, designer of the S.T.A.R.S. Samurai Edge Custom Beretta handgun, seen in the RE remake as a hidden weapon and again in RE 3 as Jill's default weapon), who unfortunately meets a bad end at the hands of the zombies and escapes through the back door. While she is making her way through the mazelike streets, Leon arrives at the police station's back door. He witness a botched rescue attempt and enters the station. Claire, on the other hand, arrives at the R.P.D.'s front doorstep and puts the now-zombified Brad Vickers' tortured soul to rest once and for all. While inside the police station, Leon and Claire encounter several characters, each with their own agendas. Leon crosses paths with the mysterious Ada Wong, who is looking for her boyfriend, a jailed reporter named Ben Bertolucci, and on several occasions, narrowly eludes the Neo-Tyrant known only as 'Mr. X.' (Writer's note: Resident Evil is not the only game who had a character named Mr. X. Aside from Metal Gear Solid 2 (the robo-ninja), the very first Mr. X was the Tommy gun-toting end boss from the Streets of Rage series. A little trivia there.) Claire, on the other hand, encounters the dying Marvin Branagh, Sherry Birkin, the daughter of William and Annette Birkin, and Brian Irons, the screwloose police chief, leering over the dead body of Mayor Warren's daughter. Later on,
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text: Like an angsty mash-up of Harry Potter and X-Men, Tamaki's Ignatz Award–winning SuperMutant Magic Academy, originally a webcomic, explores the thrills and banalities of superhuman teens at boarding school. The story begins with discrete sets of dryly witty six-panel pages focusing on individual characters, such as Everlasting Boy, who drifts through all time and space with little concern for worldly worries, and Frances, who creates absurd and antagonistic performance art ("Frances, feminist statement or not, throwing pig's blood, followed by glitter, on male students is not acceptable"). Its true heart, however, is Marsha, a closeted bespectacled grump who pines for her best friend, Wendy. Though Tamaki's black-and-white panels shift from detailed and realistic to dreamy and atmospheric and back again, she consistently and expertly captures subtle emotion and subtext with only a few strokes of the pen. The teens all face the usual hurdles—dating, self-esteem, homework, sports, and so on—but Tamaki, illustrator of the award-winning This One Summer (2014), never lets growth come easy. There are flickering moments of transcendent wisdom and kindness, but the overall tone is one of insouciant, salty resignation to the mundane realities of existence. Simultaneously heartbreaking and hilarious, this is perfect for fans of Daniel Clowes' Ghost World (1997).

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The latest Ubisoft game to bear the Tom Clancy name is H.A.W.X. 2, the sequel to the original, million-selling arcade-style flight sim. Billions of dollars in virtual aircraft will once again be blowing up this fall.
Now in development at Ubisoft Bucharest, Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. 2 will land on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC and Wii later this year. If you had any doubt about the game appealing to a wide array of gamers, just read what Ubisoft has to say: "The game will appeal to a wide array of gamers as players will have the chance to control exceptional pilots trained to use cutting edge technology in amazing aerial warfare missions." I'm convinced!
H.A.W.X. 2 will also likely appeal to author Tom Clancy himself, who will be extremely satisfied with the game's ability to send him to the Bahamas.


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The episode/scene that I have stuck in my head is where one of the scientist is trying to improve the lion's eyesight by feeding it carrots.


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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — For the rest of time, these three men will be linked by the Columbia disaster, strangers thrown together by that awful Saturday morning in February.
The accident has altered their lives forever: NASA's most visible persona during those dreadful first days, a scientist who would dig into the cause of the accident, the grieving husband of one of the two women on the flight.
Ron Dittemore, the space shuttle program manager who took the most dramatic public fall, remains emotionally scarred one year later. He left NASA and now holds a low-profile aerospace job in Utah.
Not a day goes by that he does not think about the mistakes he made during Columbia's farewell flight.
The seven lost lives weigh heavily on him. After repeatedly delaying previous shuttle launches for all sorts of reasons, he wonders what it was that prevented him and others from seeing the risk in the piece of foam that broke off and hit the shuttle wing. "Why didn't the hair stand up on your neck?" he asks himself.
Douglas Osheroff, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who investigated the accident, still wonders if NASA can save itself.
He sensed from the start that the flyaway chunk of foam at liftoff likely doomed Columbia. But he forced himself to keep an open mind and followed the evidence, over six months, to that very conclusion.
The Stanford University researcher learned more about foam-shedding in a series of quick kitchen experiments than NASA ever learned in more than two decades of shuttle flight.
Dr. Jon Clark, still numbed at times by the pain of losing his wife and the mother of his son, uncomfortably straddles two worlds.
Clark is an insider, working for NASA as a neurologist. But ever since Laurel Clark and six other astronauts perished aboard Columbia, he feels more like an outsider as he pushes for cultural change within an agency that he sadly believes does not have what it takes to put humans on the moon or Mars.
Virtually everyone inside and outside the space program acknowledges that the Columbia tragedy, along with the investigation board's condemnation of the lack of a national space vision, spurred President Bush into aiming for the moon.
"I would really love that to happen," Clark says. "But I can tell you that it can't happen without NASA fundamentally changing."
An empty sky
The three men had no way of knowing on Feb. 1, 2003, that their lives would intersect.
Moments after 9 a.m. ET, Columbia shattered in the sky over Texas while streaking through the atmosphere toward Cape Canaveral, just another 16 minutes on top of a journey that had spanned 16 days.
NASA had safely pulled off all 111 of its previous space shuttle landings, despite a power unit on fire, a burst tire, periodic cross-country detours and, all too often, pockmarked bellies and wings from foam and other debris.
So until the moment communication ceased with Columbia during re-entry, hardly anyone was seriously worried about the foam strike to the ship's left wing back on Jan. 16. And the few engineers who were worried never spoke up, at least not to anyone who could make a difference.
Most of the flight controllers in Houston had put the foam impact out of their minds as Columbia was zooming homeward. But the launch-day incident came rushing back, flooding their brains, as one shuttle sensor after another started going out of whack.
"Columbia, Houston, we see your tire pressure messages and we did not copy your last call," Mission Control radioed.
"Roger," replied Columbia's commander Rick Husband. He started to say something that sounded like "Buh..." but was cut off. The time was 8:59 a.m.
That was the last anyone on the ground heard from Columbia.
Thirteen minutes later, one of the mission managers got a call on his cell phone from an off-duty colleague who was watching TV images of the flaming wreckage hurling to the ground. He walked over to flight director LeRoy Cain and gave him the horrible news.
Cain declared an emergency and issued a terse, bone-chilling order to his team: "Lock the doors." All data were about to be impounded and no one was getting in or out.
A thousand miles away, at Cape Canaveral, the families of the seven Columbia astronauts waited along the runway. The twin sonic booms that herald a shuttle's arrival never came, and at 9:16 a.m., the appointed touchdown time, the countdown clocks started ticking upward.
The sky was empty.
Dark news ... then the screams
Jon Clark, with his all his intimate knowledge about launches and landings, knew something was very wrong. He'd been listening to Mission Control's commentary on the loudspeakers alongside the runway and was disturbed by the call to Columbia about the tire-pressure alarms and the commander's truncated reply.
His brain went into high-speed analytical mode: The crew was probably going to have to bail out and his wife was in one of the worst spots, on the upper flight deck. By his count, she would be the fifth to jump and he was hoping that the three men on the lower deck would get out fast and make way for the four on top.
Clark says he was more worried about the guys downstairs dawdling than how his wife, a Navy captain and doctor, might respond. She had always been able to handle herself in a crisis and had made a lot of parachute jumps.
What was happening though, was unimaginable — even to him.
Descending at nearly 20 times the speed of sound in a bucking spacecraft, the astronauts could not have bailed out, least of all from 200,000 feet.
They never stood a chance.
Within a minute or a little more, it was all over. The Columbia and its seven souls were gone, hurled all over Texas and Louisiana.
Someone telephoned one of the astronaut family escorts as they all waited at the landing strip, and everyone dashed to the SUVs that had brought them there and roared back under police escort, on the wrong side of the road, to astronaut quarters.
There, in a conference room, the wives, husbands and children of the astronauts were told that while there was no confirmation of fatalities, the accident was believed to be unsurvivable.
The screams were bloodcurdling.
President Bush later called the families to console them and then announced to the world that Columbia was lost and that all seven on board — Rick Husband, William McCool, Kalpana Chawla, Laurel Clark, Michael Anderson, David Brown and Israel's first astronaut, Ilan Ramon — were dead.
Fights over the foam
A shell-shocked Dittemore appeared before the TV cameras in midafternoon and urged journalists not to rush to judgment about the foam impact.
"There are a lot of things in this business that look like the smoking gun but turn out not even to be close," Dittemore said from Houston. Four days later, he insisted the foam was not to blame.
NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe was outraged by Dittemore's swift dismissal of the foam. He told him — and everyone else — to stop leaping to conclusions and let the investigators rule things out one by one. His biting criticism about the surge in "foamologists" echoed through the succeeding days and months.
O'Keefe says his reproach was aimed both at those who assumed the foam caused the accident and those, like Dittemore, who refused to believe it could.
It turned out that the suitcase-size section of foam insulation was the biggest piece ever to break off a shuttle fuel tank, and it slammed into the underside of Columbia's left wing edge at more than 500 mph, 81 seconds after liftoff.
Shuttles had been struck before by foam and other debris, to no great consequence. But while viewed as a problem, little was ever done to stop the foam from breaking off. And there was no one bold enough to express fears about the wounded Columbia.
Even Jon Clark — a doctor not an engineer — was puzzled when he saw a reference to the launch-day foam strike as he read the Mission Control log notes during Columbia's mission.
Everyone looked the other way when Clark offered to pinch-hit for some overworked doctors in Mission Control while Columbia — carrying his wife — was in orbit.
When he came across the foam note, it was the first he'd heard of it.
"Wow, that's weird," he thought.
Clark decided not to make a fuss or even delve further into it. It wasn't his area of expertise. He avoided the subject while speaking to his wife in orbit. He didn't want to worry her. Besides, the word was, it wasn't significant.
Puzzling silence
Mission managers, grown accustomed to uneventful landings and under the flight schedule gun, dismissed the concerns of low-level engineers and did not seek spy satellite pictures of the damaged wing.
NASA's top safety official, Bryan O'Connor, learned of the foam strike while Columbia was still in orbit. He was tipped off by a colleague who had a friend in the Pentagon that people there were surprised the space agency had not requested zoom-in pictures.
O'Connor, a retired Marine colonel and former shuttle commander working in Washington, did not have the military clearance to deal with the issue. So he passed off the problem to shuttle managers in Houston, and there it languished.
One year later, O'Connor is filled with regret and still trying to figure out why he, like so many others, never spoke up. He offered to quit after the accident, but O'Keefe urged him to stay and make the shuttle program safer.
O'Connor has since adjusted his threshold level downward for creating stinks.
"Does that mean I'll catch everything? No," he says. "I'm not smart enough and I'm not bold enough to tell anybody that from now on, based on what I learned from this accident, there will be no more accidents because I'll catch everything."
Curses and goodbyes
As Dittemore briefed the world on NASA's second shuttle accident in 17 years, Osheroff, the physicist, was driving through the Santa Cruz Mountains in Northern California to his favorite dim sum restaurant. He and his Chinese-born wife made the trip to Ming's of Palo Alto for brunch nearly every Saturday.
Neither had listened to the news before leaving home, and Osheroff was puzzled when he turned on the car radio and heard a NASA news conference in progress. The radio announcer finally came on and summarized what had happened: The shuttle Columbia had broken up on re-entry and, perhaps not so coincidentally, a chunk of foam had fallen off the fuel tank during launch 16 days earlier and hit the left wing.
The military-saturated investigation board needed scientific heavyweights, and its chairman, retired Navy Adm. Harold Gehman sought out Osheroff and fellow physicist Sally Ride, the first American woman in space. John Logsdon, director of George Washington University's space policy institute, also got an invitation, and the number of board members swelled to a final 13.
As Dittemore grimly answered reporters' questions and Osheroff listened in disbelief across the country, Clark was on a NASA jet flying back to Houston from Cape Canaveral with the other astronaut families.
The newly widowed flight surgeon was playing the card game War with son Iain, then 8, in hopes of distracting the boy. Just as the plane passed over the Texas-Louisiana border, where most of the wreckage had fallen, the child froze and instead of looking at his cards, raised a hand and moved it back and forth.
"Iain, what are you doing?" Clark asked.
"I'm waving goodbye to Mommy," he said. "I felt her."
Already, law officers and volunteers were combing the swamps and woods below, looking for pieces of the shuttle.
By the time the search officially ended in April, 85,000 pounds of debris — and nearly 85,000 individuals pieces — were recovered, including 845 pieces of the foam-damaged left wing. Thirty-eight percent of the shuttle was retrieved, as far west as Littlefield in West Texas and as far east as Fort Polk in Louisiana, south of Shreveport.
In all, more than 25,000 people took part in the recovery operation, covering an area almost as big as Connecticut. The cost to the Federal Emergency Management Agency was more than $305 million.
The right stuff?
Osheroff says he's been thinking a lot, since the investigation board's report came out in August, about how and why NASA's bizarre culture evolved — not just in its approach to safety issues but its lack of curiosity. The only conclusion he can reach is, "This is what happens to an organization that simply doesn't have the money to do what it wants to do safely."
He is, however, one of the few to readily accept full responsibility for the tragedy.
"It doesn't get any easier as the time passes, because I still focus on seven families, and what did we miss to allow such a tragedy to occur," Dittemore says.
While progress is being made on the technical front for the grounded shuttle fleet's return to flight, perhaps as early as this fall, Clark says not enough is being done to fix NASA's crucial cultural issues.
"How do I know that? I have eyes and ears. People come to me," he says. "I'm not talking about little petty things. I'm talking about fundamental issues, about not listening."
Clark goes on. "Look, let's face this. I mean, if you read the Challenger reports and you read the Columbia ones and just change 'O-ring' for 'foam,' you see there's this underlying concern there. ... It can't be one of those things where dissension is suppressed."
It's important to be open and frank about the crew survivability issues, Clark says, especially considering a new spaceship is on the horizon and lifesaving improvements could be made.
The president's new space initiative calls for the three remaining space shuttles to be retired in 2010 and a crew exploration vehicle to eventually take their place, first ferrying crews to the international space station and then evolving into a spacecraft for the moon and, ultimately, Mars.
Scott Hubbard, the director of NASA's Ames Research Center in California who served on the Columbia accident board, was hoping for a new direction for the space agency. But he never imagined it would come so soon, within a year of the disaster.
"It's the best legacy the crew could possibly have, to see what they lived and died for to be now carried forward in a new policy that really commits to exploration beyond low-Earth orbit," Hubbard says.
NASA is going to need adequate money, though, to ask all the necessary questions to pull it off, Osheroff says.
"It's like a kid in school who asks why is the sky blue and how do homing birds home?" he explains. If he doesn't get answers to his questions, maybe he is discouraged from asking them.
"It's the same stuff. You can't continue to ask questions for which you don't get answers for a long time. After a while, you stop asking those questions."
Osheroff's guess is that NASA will start asking questions. His own question, though, is whether NASA will keep it up.
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Air taxi: For-hire passenger or cargo aircraft operations in accordance with Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR) Part 135. An air taxi operates on an on-demand basis and does not meet the flight schedule qualifications of a commuter air carrier.
British thermal unit (Btu):The amount of energy required to raise the temperature of 1 pound of water 1 degree Fahrenheit (F) at or near 39.2 degrees F and 1 atmosphere of pressure.
Certificated airport:An airport holding an operating certificate issued by the Federal Aviation Administration in accordance with Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Title 14, Chapter 1, Part 139 allowing it to serve scheduled or nonscheduled air carrier aircraft designed for more than 30 passengers.
Class I (rail): As defined by the Surface Transportation Board in 2003, a Class I Railroad is a railroad with operating revenues of at least $277.7 million.
Commuter rail: Urban passenger train service for short-distance travel between a central city and adjacent suburb. Does not include rapid rail transit or light rail transit service.
Container: A box-like device used to store, protect, and handle a number of packages or items as a unit of transit that can be interchanged between trucks, trains, and ships without rehandling the contents.
Controlled right-of-way:Lanes restricted for at least a portion of the day for use by transit vehicles and other high occupancy vehicles (HOVs).
Demand responsive: Transit service provided without a fixed route and without a fixed schedule that operates in response to calls from passengers or their agents to the transit operator or dispatcher. Service is usually provided using cars, vans, or buses with fewer than 25 seats.
Directional route-miles:The mileage in each direction over which public transportation vehicles travel while in revenue service. Directional route-miles are a measure of the facility or roadway, not the service carried on the facility such as the number of routes or vehicle-miles. Directional route-miles are computed with regard to direction of service, but without regard to the number of traffic lanes or rail tracks existing in the right-of-way.
Dry-bulk carrier (water):A ship with specialized holds for carrying dry cargo such as coal, grain, and iron ore in unpackaged bulk form.
Enplanements: The total number of revenue passengers boarding aircraft.
Exclusive right-of-way:Lanes reserved at all times for transit use and other high occupancy vehicles (HOVs).
Ferryboat (transit): Vessels that carry passengers and/or vehicles over a body of water. Generally steam or diesel-powered, ferryboats may also be hovercraft, hydrofoil, and other high-speed vessels. The vessel is limited in its use to the carriage of deck passengers or vehicles or both, operates on a short run on a frequent schedule between two points over the most direct water routes other than in ocean or coastwise service, and is offered as a public service of a type normally attributed to a bridge or tunnel.
Full containership: Ships equipped with permanent container cells, with little or no space for other types of cargo.
General aviation: Civil aviation activity except that of air carriers operated in accordance with Federal Aviation Regulation (FAR) Parts 121, 123, 127, and 135. The types of aircraft used in general aviation range from corporate multi-engine jet aircraft piloted by professional crews to amateur-built single engine piston acrobatic planes, balloons, and dirigibles.
Heavy rail: An electric railway with the capacity to transport a heavy volume of passenger traffic and characterized by exclusive rights-of-way, multicar trains, high speed, rapid acceleration, sophisticated signaling, and high-platform loading. Also known as subway, elevated (railway), or metropolitan railway (metro).
Light rail: A streetcar-type vehicle operated on city streets, semi-exclusive rights-of-way, or exclusive rights-of-way. Service may be provided by step-entry vehicles or by level boarding.
Local railroad: A railroad which is neither a Class I nor a Regional Railroad, and is engaged primarily in line-haul service
Major arterial highway: A major highway used primarily for through traffic.
Metric ton: 2,205 pounds (2,000 pounds divided by 0.907).
Minor arterial: In rural areas, roads linking cities and larger towns. In urban areas, roads distributing trips to small geographic areas but not penetrating identifiable neighborhoods.
Minor collector highway: In rural areas, routes that serve intracounty rather than statewide travel. In urban areas, streets that provide direct access to neighborhoods and arterials.
Mixed right-of-way: Lanes used for general automobile traffic.
Motorbus: A rubber-tired, self-propelled, manually steered bus with a fuel supply onboard the vehicle. Motorbus types include intercity, school, and transit.
Natural gas distribution pipeline: Smaller than transmission pipelines and maintained by companies that distribute natural gas locally (intrastate). Distribution pipeline systems are analogous to networks of lesser roads and residential streets that people travel after getting off the freeway.
Natural gas transmission pipeline: Analogous to a major freeway, it is the main interstate transportation route for moving large amounts of natural gas from the source of production to points of distribution. Transmission pipelines are designed to move large amounts of natural gas from areas where the gas is extracted and stored to the local distribution companies that provide natural gas to homes and businesses.
Principal arterial highway: Major streets or highways, many of multilane or freeway design, serving high-volume traffic corridor movements that connect major generators of travel.
Regional railroad: A non-Class I, line-haul railroad operating 350 or more miles of road or with revenues of at least $40 million or both.
Short ton:2,000 pounds.
Switching and terminal railroad: A non-Class I Railroad engaged primarily in switching and/or terminal services for other railroads
Tanker: An oceangoing ship designed to haul liquid bulk cargo in world trade.
Ton-mile: The movement of one ton of cargo the distance of one statute mile.
Trackage rights:The authority of one railroad to use the tracks of another railroad for a fee.
Trolley bus: Rubber-tired, electric transit vehicle, manually steered and propelled by a motor drawing current, normally through overhead wires, from a central power source.
Unlinked passenger trips: The number of passengers boarding public transportation vehicles. A passenger is counted each time he or she boards a vehicle even if the boarding is part of the same journey from origin to destination.
Vanpool:Public-sponsored commuter service operating under prearranged schedules for previously formed groups of riders in 8- to 18-seat vehicles. Drivers are also commuters who receive little or no compensation besides the free ride.
Vehicle-miles traveled (highway):Miles of travel by all types of motor vehicles as determined by the states on the basis of actual traffic counts and established estimating procedures.


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Embracing "The Uncommon Thread" as its mantra, Stance turned socks into one of the world's most exciting categories in less than five years.
Stance's founders saw a category that had been ignored, taken for granted, and dismissed. By breathing life into something that had been overlooked, Stance ignited a movement of art and self-expression that has drawn athletes, performers and iconic cultural influencers to the brand – a group they call the Punks & Poets.
And by underpinning its creative roots with a relentless focus on technical innovation, Stance is now found in over 40 countries on the feet of those who dare to be different. Stance was named the official sock of the NBA starting in the 2015-2016 season.


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amandaknight brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 325 Designs von 56 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
We are people development specialists who want to help people feel great about themselves, and to be happy, healthy and successful (in whatever way that may mean to the individual). So our offering is two-pronged, 'feeling fabulous' and 'being great' (at whatever you do). We see these two going in tandem - that feeling fabulous lies at the heart of true success.
Our latest venture is to launch an online coaching website and we need an umbrella brand (feelingfabulousbeinggreat.com), which is followed through to the individual personalities of each of the products we have and will offer.
Our existing website for our UK training and coaching market is at http://www.minds4success.co.uk. We are wanting to move from a professional but faceless, UK-focussed web presence, to a personalised, inspiring one for global clients (particularly targeting North America and Canada) who will be moved to purchase there and then online!
And we need a fab logo to help us do this ....
We have 3 target markets to attract via 3 distince projects under the umbrella brand:
Product name 'Fearful to Fabulous':
- individuals (predominantly likely to be women) who have at some point felt small, stuck or frustrated at their life circumstances and who are either:
a). ready to step into their happiness and potential (and who understand that they are the one getting in their own way and are therefore willing to change).
b). still know that they can get in their own way of their potential, and so still need to make some changes.
Product name 'Successful Minds:
- individuals (male and female) who are looking to take the next big step in their career or business (to step into their potential), and who recognise the value of coaching support to help them achieve this as easily and pain-free as possible!
Product name: 'Individual Potential Accelerator accreditation':
- fellow coaches and people developers who understand the importance of attitude development and who are looking for additional tools in their toolkit to help them help their clients get out of their own way and feel consistently fabulous rather than fearful.
We've already chosen the colour scheme, so we need you to work within this - purple (main colour), white (we like white space), and yellow/gold as a signature colour to add depth and impact. Regal and elegant - how we want our clients to feel!
We need an umbrella logo from which we can easily derive a sub-logo for the individual products. Each product will have its own webpage and URL.
As this is an online offering, it needs to be a website logo, which we can overlay onto our webpage template which we are developing at the moment.
In terms of 'feel', we're developing a website that represents our expertise (11 years as emotional intelligence specialists and coaches), headed up by our lead coach Amanda Knight (me!) to engender a sense of 'they know what they are doing, they understand me, they can help me, and it will be fun!'. Potential clients need to feel safe with us, and uplifted. So the logo design needs to replicate that.
We are developing the website at the moment so don't have anything specifically to be able to send you as reference material, but websites offering similar services include: http://www.helpmorepeople.com/home.html
I am happy to answer any questions you may have by email at email@example.com, if this brief isn't clear. Look forward to hearing from you!
Finden Sie heraus, wie ein Designwettbewerb funktioniert, oder lernen Sie mehr über unsere Logo-Design-Angebote.


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TORONTO - Research In Motion Limited said Thursday that it is cutting 5,000 jobs as it restructures its operations and that the launch of its much anticipated BlackBerry 10 smartphone will not happen until the beginning of next year.
The launch of the new smartphones, seen as key to the recovery of the company, had been expected later this year and will now miss the important holiday shopping season.
"I am not satisfied with these results and continue to work aggressively with all areas of the organization and the board to implement meaningful changes to address the challenges," said chief executive Thorsten Heins in a release.
"Our top priority going forward is the successful launch of our first BlackBerry 10 device, which we now anticipate will occur in the first quarter of calendar 2013."
The company announced the cuts and delays as it reported a loss of $518 million or 99 cents per share for its latest quarter. The loss compared with a profit of $695 million or $1.33 per share a year ago.
Revenue for the three months fell to $2.81 billion from $4.91 billion.
Excluding one-time items including a non-cash charge to goodwill, the company said it lost $192 million or 37 cents per share diluted.
During the quarter, RIM shipped 7.8 million BlackBerry smartphones and approximately 260,000 BlackBerry PlayBook tablets.
In its outlook, the company said it expects the next several quarters to continue to be very challenging for its business.
RIM said it expects to report an operating loss in the second quarter of fiscal 2013, as RIM continues to invest in marketing programs and continues to work through the transition to BlackBerry 10.


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...you'll get it this weekend. A bug in the signup process (yeah, I know, again) clogged the whole works. I've cleared the clog, which should get everything back up to speed; meanwhile, I'm fixing that bug over the weekend.
...now I try to login...
...can I run two accounts without confusion?
Dr Neo Lao wrote:If you have two (or more) accounts then that is perfectly fine and you'd be able to run them all without confusion. This is the recommended way because 1 accounts are free and 2 it lets you have an individual look to each comic. Note that (normally) you'd be able to have all your comic accounts linked to a single forum account under SiteAdmin, but that's a non-issue at the moment since SiteAdmin is broken and can't be accessed by new users anyway.
So long as you had all the images and files and such associated with each comic in separate sections on your computer then you'd avoid confusion.
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This page is written for FUDCon organizers who have been accepted to run a FUDCon through the FIXME-LINK FUDcon bid process. It covers what you need to know about
This page documents things FUDCon organizers should think about when putting together an event. It covers the common style of FUDCon, which includes one or more days of group hackfest sessions as well as one or more days of BarCamp-style technical sessions.
- 1 Starting point: What you should already have
- 1.1 This section will be deleted shortly
- 1.2 FUDcon Team General Planning Schedule
- 1.3 Venue Setup
- 1.4 Signage
- 1.5 Badges
- 1.6 Design (for badges, signs, handouts, and so forth)
- 1.7 Meetings
- 1.8 Current resources
Starting point: What you should already have
If you've been through the FIXME-LINK FUDcon bid process, you should already have the following:
- At least 6 months to plan (absolute minimum 4).
- An event owner/organizer (you!) who expects to spend approximately 15 hours a week on FUDCon tasks until 1 month prior to the event, when that number will jump to approximately 25 hours per week. FIXME -- word better
- Dates for FUDCon
- A venue for the FUDCon event itself
- A hotel location
- A general budget-availability quote from one or more sources (usually this will be Red Hat's Community Architecture team), and a contact person for obtaining access to said budget
This section will be deleted shortly
Things we should have in the doc:
(note that this list may be overly exhaustive and we will probably pare it down. Mel writes too much.)
- planning schedule/timeline
- for local folks
- for non-local folks
- marketing
- reaching out to locals, publicizing in various existing Fedora channels
- design
- shirts, badges, signs, ads
- content (<--?) - pre-pitching, user track, specific invitations (can we lean on Ambassadors for this? FPL should be involved)
- web (database app, surveys, range voting)
- marketing
- for budget interfaces?
- hotel/lodging tasks: whether to (not) set up hotel booking in a block, how to advertise, how to set up a wiki space for rooming pairings
- registration: how to set it up, how to open it, how to set a cap
- food: what you'll need to get, approximately how much it might cost, how to order it
- networking and power: at the hotel, and at the venue: backup plans for the inevitable NETWORK HOSEDNESS (short of bringing in temporary network, how do you accomodate?)
- signage: where to get designs, how to customize them, where to store your customized versions, what kinds you might want to print and post where
- badges
- tshirts: where to get designs, how to customize them, where to store your customized versions, how to find and negotiate with a vendor, how to set up shirt registration, what types of shirts to get, figuring out delivery, figuring out distribution
- budget: how to interface with FIXME link -- Attendee sponsorship, how to track it, what to save, what to report, suggestions for setting deadlines.
- fudcon live: link to FIXME link --fudcon live setup doc
- user tracks
- marketing online
- marketing to locals
- design needs
- posters, sign, badges, shirts
- FUDpub
FUDcon Team General Planning Schedule
Put the Future Schedule here
Venue Setup
Welcome/Information Table
- Space to lay out (in at least one line, if not two or more):
- Badges
- Information kits (maps, wireless network information, lunch details, etc) you are handing out
- Any swag you are making available
- Shirts, at least one pile per size+style
- Power strips for laptops
- Wired access (temporary switches, etc) for backup to wireless access
Session Rooms
- Video projector with VGA (15-pin sub-d input)
- Whiteboard with pens or chalkboard with chalk
- Optional but recommended: wired network access for presenter, in case wireless is swamped
- Board erasers
- Seating - various size rooms are fine, from 20 to 120
- Wi-Fi access
- Podium sign - place on podium/console or wall behind speaker so that pictures that end up on blogs/Flickr, blogs, etc as well as videos show the event name and year. 11x17" filled with the event logo is appropriate.
- Small tables with 6-10 seats (round works well), small number of
- Good network access -- consider wired as a backup/compliment to wireless
- Whiteboards or easel pads
- Map/information at front desk
- Hack room with network access and sign
- Outdoor signs advertising the event (so attendees know they're in the right spot)
- Signs to venue from parking and from transit
- Signs at venue to direct people from the entrances most likely to be used to the information/registration table
- Signs identifying room ranges and directions (Room A-E <- / Room F-H 5-8 ^ )
- Room signs to identify room (consider ignoring the existing room numbers and assigning new ones, using a numbering/lettering scheme that can't be confused with the existing one -- for eexample, Room A, B, C ... H, vs. T1106, T1109, T1113, ... T2176)
- Room signs for non-session locations (lounge, registration/information, lunch, To FUDpub)
- Session schedules - blank grid that can be filled in with the session schedule for the room once the barcamp session is finalized, and then attached to each session room door)
- Signs advertising events (FUDpub, side trips)
Include on the padge:
- The event logo
- Attendee name (in a large font size)
- Comment filled in by user (e.g., IRC nick, area of involvement, company, hiring _____)
- T-shirt size (use small font size, light coloured, or print on back to avoid embarassing anyone)
- Swag/non-swag status (e.g., eligible for lunch) - can be indicated by different-colour backgrounds
- Include any other personal-tied information on back, such as an individual wireless password
The gLabels package is a good tool for designing badges and merging in text from a CSV file. It can also shrink the font size to fit the space available for a field.
Design (for badges, signs, handouts, and so forth)
The design team is very helpful in designing preparing materials. However, there will undoubtedly be situations where the local team will need to produce materials on their own.
When designing for FUDcon, consistently:
- Use the Fedora and FUDcon event logos according to the Logo Usage Guidelines
- Use the MgOpen Modata font (from the mgopen-modata-fonts package). These fonts will work in Inkscape, OpenOffice.org, Gimp, and most other applications.
- Frequency:
- More than 6 months in advance: monthly
- 6-2 months in advance: bi-weekly
- 1 months-2 weeks in advance: weekly
- Last 2 weeks: daily
- Use #fudcon-planning or telephone conference as appropriate.