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Fort Detrick, Maryland Virology Division Lab 2035EST/1935CST Dr. Frank Liao watched the screen of his scanning electron microscope as the computers assembled the images on his monitor. The samples from the Montross Park crash site in DC had been delivered to USAMRIID Labs after the FBI Labs at Quantico had confirmed that they were dealing with a pathogen. The huge nano-tech containers appeared as small planets surrounded by virus particles. Liao studied the containers carefully. What the

Southaven General Hospital Clinical Directors Office 1920 CST The hospital had been jumping all day. The very first thing on Clinical Director Ellison’s agenda was to request an infectious disease specialist from University Medical Center in Jackson. Doctor Alex Jackson arrived by helicopter some hours later and they began to prepare for the unthinkable. Cases that could be discharged were sent home as soon as it could be arranged. Others were transferred. There was an impromptu refresher

I hate these birthday greetings. It's difficult to avoid sounding trite. You have my sincere best wishes for a great year to come. You know I mean it too.

Camp Shelby Hattiesburg, MS July 16, 2016 1900CST Bill Sherman had spent two hours at Shelby’s Administrative Headquarters getting Taylor’s team members paperwork jammed through the system. In peacetime such an exercise would take months. With a declared emergency, experienced soldiers were asked are you in shape? Yes? Draw your gear and fall in. Sherman was on his way to being a lawyer but hadn’t quite made it quite yet. He day job was that of a Rankin county sheriff’s deputy. Ole Miss L

Texarkana, Arkansas 1840 CST Pete Brenner parked his truck at the Interstate Lines Terminal company warehouse. Thanks to the damned Feds and their alert, the drive across Arkansas had taken all day. The check points and National Guard were all over the place by the time he rolled into Little Rock. Things didn’t get any better on I-30. The office was closed so he got in his car and drove home. At every intersection on the interstate, there was a road block and questions: where did yo

This! Note: also works with shrimp Don't forget the: Crab boil and zydeco! < Come at me bro!

The Unix/Linux and networking stuff hold up pretty good. The server side tech changes, it just doesn't change that fast or completely. It is the Microsoft operating systems that change every few years.

C-1alpha Samuel Eliot Morrison's A History of United States Naval Operations in WWII C-1 Naval History C-2 UNIX, Linux and Networking C-3 Networking Technology

It comes from the root words Poly and Ticks. It literally means MANY BLOODSUCKERS. Since I'm too old to be hot, I work with witty, charming and being damn good in the kitchen. There comes a point where being good in the kitchen makes you hotter than hell.

FEMA Regional Command Post Denver, CO 1820 CST Agent McGrath found himself at a conference table surrounded by people from an alphabet soup of federal agencies. None had been briefed in about Pandora and as he told the long, sad tale of woe associated with the accursed virus, their faces showed many different stages of shock, horror and disbelief. When he finally finished, the local FBI representative asked, “McGrath, is this something that you are cleared to be telling us?” He answered,

Southaven, MS 30 Company, 3rd Platoon Headquarters 1722 CST 601-555-5555 “Hi Joey.” “Sergeant Taylor?” “Yeah, it’s me.” “Now that’s some real shit in the news. Very scary.” “Yeah Joey it is. And I’m right here in the middle of it with the greenest bunch of kids you’ve ever seen. Remember when you said if I ever needed you, just call?” “Where do you want me Sarge?” “Can you get to Shelby?” “Yeah.” “Get there, gear up, and hop one of the convoys coming north. I’ll be damned glad to

I like the X-men franchise because it is based on a body of work that is unique, large and consistently good. There is plenty of original material. In movies today, there is a severe lack of originality. Too many of the movies being made today are that they are re-makes of remakes of remakes. Many are rehashed remakes of crap that wasn't any good to start with. Worse still are the slapped together sequels that were made for no better reason than to capitalize off a successful movie. It all boils down to writing and there's better writing here at GA than is evident in many of Hollyweird's latest crap-taculars.

MARVELous !

Teleconference: Weather Mountain Homeland Security Command Post 1700 EST/1600 CST “We’re live sir.” “This is Homeland Security Director Foley at Weather Mountain: please confirm.” “This is Weather Mountain Communications: all commands are on line.” “This is Director Foley. Welcome to our 5:00 status conference. We now have some definite answers for you. The following cities have been affected: Washington, Boston, Baltimore, Cleveland, Atlanta, Miami, Memphis, Houston, Dallas-Fort W

Southaven, MS July 16, 2016 1530CST Sergeant Taylor’s platoon deployed along State Line Avenue from I-55 to Airline Boulevard. He put his command post in the parking lot of a defunct barbecue joint and put his men in squads about 100 meters apart. What they were doing in Southaven there and exactly why they were there, no one had bothered to tell him. At some point in his past he seemed to remember that Condition Black indicated a worst case biological attack against the United State

That Boy with the Far Away Eyes I was drivin’ home late Saturday night Through Pearl, Mississippi Listening to bluegrass music on the redneck radio station, And the cowboy said: “You know you should always have your .45 by your side” And I was so pleased to be informed of this That I shot twenty stop signs in his honour, Thank you Joe-Bob, thank you lord I had an arrangement to met a boy, and I was kind of late And I thought by the time I got there he’d be off, He’d be off with the nearest truck driver he could find Much to my surprise there he was sittin’ in a corner Little bleary, worse for wear and tear Eyes bloodshot and stoned stupid Was the boy with far away eyes Well I tell you So if you’re down on you’re luck, and you can’t lobotomize Find a boy with far away eyes And if you’re downright disgusted And life ain’t worth a dime Get a boy with far away eyes Well Well the cowboy kept right on saying That all I had to do was send ten dollars To the church of the sacred bleeding heart the NRA, Located somewhere in Baton Rouge, Louisiana And next week they’d have a word with Charlton Heston And all my dreams would come true So I did, and next week I got my boy Well you know what kind of eyes he's got, Well I tell you So if you’re down on you’re luck, I know you all accessorize Find a boy with far away eyes And if you’re downright disgusted And life ain’t worth a dime Get a boy with far away eyes So if you’re down on you’re luck, I know you all antagonize Get a boy with far away eyes

Case: Black is an experiment for me based on two theories of horror and suspense. 1. Adults won't believe in monsters unless they are plausible. That doesn't mean they don't believe in monsters. We've all met them. They are the predators and the pervs, the confidence men and criminals: the every day monsters that populate the world. In Case: Black I've tried to create as believable a "zombie" as possible. The agent that creates them, the constraints on the "zombies" and the progression of the disease are all very, very plausible. Viruses don't work as fast or as completely as they do in 28 Days Later. If they did, we would all be extinct. They do work the way that they do in Case:Black and that is by design. What I'm shooting for is a story that you can "buy" without a ton of suspension of disbelief. 2. Build scenes that are fast, short and directly contribute to the plot and builds suspense and raises the stakes as it moves. I'm not trying to do fan fiction or "me too" zombie story. I am trying to start from scratch and create something new that makes something with many tiny cold feet run across your spine. A horror story that doesn't go away when you eject the DVD.

Flathead Lake, Montana July 16, 2016 0815MDT Scott McGrath was fly fishing when his cell phone rang. He looked at the DC area code on his phone and considered tossing it in the river. Instead he answered it. “McGrath.” “Please hold for the Secretary of Homeland Security.” He sighed and brought in his line and waded out of the stream while he waited for the call to come through. “Agent McGrath, this is Director Foley.” “There must be some mistake sir. I’ve been retired sinc

Camp Shelby Hattiesburg, MS July 16, 2016 0905CST Taylor's men were on the last leg of their run when his cell phone message alert went off. He pulled it out of his holster and looked: All Commands: begin Case Black protocol immediately He was so stunned that he almost took a spill on a tree root. He instantly dialed the base duty officer. It rang twice and a recording took over: "This is Shelby Command. The NCA has declared Case Black. All leaves are canceled. All Guard units are ca

Goodness knows- with all of those super bowl rings, they need to hit the sauce.

Unless you're an old hippie or druggie you probably don't remember Lou Reed. He was a rock and roll bad ass before it was cool. He wrote songs about dope and cross dressers back when Jimmy Morrison was banned from doing concerts because they thought he shook his Johnson at them. I'm limited by the number of videos I can post but there's a couple more you can look up: Sweet Jane, Pale Blue Eyes and Heroin all by the Velvet Underground.

Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center FEMA/Homeland Security Operations Center Bluemount, VA July 16, 2016 10:00EST/9:00CST Director of Homeland Security Francis Kirkwood glared at the technicians as they hastily arranged the teleconference. Half of the Federal bureaucracy was connected now in addition to an alphabet soup of military and law enforcement brass. On the hour he began the conference. If anyone was late they could read the brief. "I am Frances Kirkwood, Direct

Washington, DC White House July 16, 2016 0832EST, 0732CST Secret Service Director Donald Moss had been in his office when he heard the SAM(Surface to Air Missiles) missiles fire off. He was out of his desk and in the Situation Room in a matter of seconds. "Where is POTUS?" The Duty Officer answered, "His detail put him on Marine One as soon as we got the alert and he's en route to Camp David. The first family is at their residence in Denver. The Vice President has been dive

Memphis, TN July 16, 2016 0730 The morning traffic was rising to its peak as Officers Carson and Ogletree pulled their cruiser out on the big loop around town comprised of I-240 on the South, I-40 on the North and I-69 around the West. Morning traffic watch was a big headache and both of them were relieved that they would soon be rotating shifts. It never failed that someone would screw up and tie up traffic for miles. Sure enough, the first call of the day took them to the Lama

Camp Shelby Hattiesburg, MS July 16, 2016 0530CST Sergeant Rob Taylor watched his kids doing morning P.T. After five weeks in the Mississippi heat, they were shaping up nicely. They weren't bad for weekend warriors. They were all too damn young and greener than grass. All of them had missed out on the big sand. Afghanistan. Iraq. That had all wound down and most of the vets of those hell-holes didn't want anything more to do with the Army. It was a shame really. Taylor had spent