When little George Everest was only ten years old (1800) he was playing one day in his family's large vegetable garden. He drew small crossed lines in the sand and connected the ends of the lines to each other. What he had was a small square with a tilted cross in the center. He realized then that triangles could  be a powerful tool. Issac Newton's "Calculus" had concerned itself with estimating the area under a two dimensional curve. George Everest had taken it a step further and concerned himself with the area of a curved sphere, a three dimensional curve. It would be another twenty years before George Everest realized what he had come upon as a child, trigonometry!

Trigonometry is defined as the study of triangles that is originated and based on the theorems and proofs of
a right triangle. If you know the exact distance away to two separate points from an origin (were you are
standing), and have the measured angle between the two lines, then you can tell many things about that area
of the triangle, regardless of its size. Whether it is a young boy's lines in the sand or the use of space-age
geodesic satellite in a stationary orbit around the planet, trigonometry can be very useful! Sometimes in life
if you know two things, you then may infer a third from them. When doing research sometimes that is how
theories are developed until proven or disproven. It is called logical deductive reasoning.

Inductive and deductive reasoning are exactly the opposite of each other. They are antonyms of each other.
A scientist has a guess (deduces) or hypothesis and tries to prove the "guess" with data collected from
measured reproducible experiments. A Police Detective comes to the scene of the crime and must take pieces of a puzzle and find (induce) the whole picture - who did it?. They move from pieces (clues) to the whole (what happened?). The scientist moves from whole picture to individual pieces, data collection. One field guesses what happened from the facts and builds a case and the other field starts with a hypothetical case and tries to find the facts to support it. The scientist uses deductive reasoning to support their logical arguments. The detective relies on an Inductive power of reasoning to solve riddles and criminal mysteries. With HCV we must use both senses of reasoning depending on the situation. When it comes to learning about HCV, an Inductive reasoning is called for, and when questioning the government about the origins of HCV, a deductive reasoning must be applied to the presented data. To learn, build your knowledge from the facts! To question, look at the story as a whole and take it apart. To learn; you are a scientist. To question; you are a detective! HCV and the government's story of its origins are not logically presented to the public. The facts speak differently than the "public record". When we investigate the whole picture there are many missing pieces concerning HCV and the public.

As a young Army Officer (early 1800's) stationed in Colonial India George Everest was doing what he enjoyed
most. He was traveling, using mathematics, and mapping the continent of India for the British Empire. He had
studied trigonometry and triangulation in order to better map the continent. It took the rest of his life to do it.
Triangulation is the same principle of basic right triangle trigonometry. Instead of using land points on earth
to determine a third points' distance, mariners in the past used longitudinal and latitudinal positions to
determine their position at sea. By knowing the distance or angles to two fixed points the mariners could travel about and discover the world. The countries that possessed the technology and know-how to do this ended up being world leaders for the next few centuries.

The 14th Century was explored by the Portuguese in their "Voyages of Discovery" of the African Continent.
The 15th century belonged to Spain and Cortez's conquest of the new world (old Mayan and Inca world). The
16th century belonged to the Dutch as they claimed the East and West Indies for themselves. The 17th Century to the Turks and the Ottoman Empire The 18th Century encouraged The French to become world leaders when they helped the Americans defeat the English during the American Revolution (1776). In the 19th Century England "ruled the waves" with their mighty Navy, lead by Admiral Nelson. They conquered so much of the earth's surface that it was true that "the sun never set on the British Empire", they had land on both sides of the planet! And now the 20th century was The great American Century! It began with The building of the Panama Canal and included a moon walk and two spankings of a hysterical Germany, but how would it end? Who will rise to own the 21st century? Not Germany! It would not be in the world's best interest! The answer of course is China! Out of a world's population of almost five billion people, the Chinese have a population of almost 3.5 billion. No one will be able to deny such a formidable force once they become organized, mobilized, directed with momentum and determined. The same is true of the HCV movement!

Captain George Everest spent his entire first tour of duty, three long years, mapping a small triangular section of land around the city of Bangalore, located in southern India. It took over a year just to plot and map the first small triangle of land. Once his team of surveyors were familiar with the new procedures they could work at a more steadier pace. After three years Colonel Everest had mapped most of the Karnataka providence of Southern India. His team did so well that he was asked to stay an additional tour to finish mapping the entire southern region. Triangle by triangle his surveyors added them up and plotted them on a map. After six years they had completed the mapping of southern India. But Everest had a problem, a big problem. The Himalayan Mountain range.

Geodesy or Triangulation, is the theory or practice of determining the position of points on the earth's surface and the dimensions of areas so large that the curvature of the earth must be taken into account. Today geodesic satellites like Explorer, Vanguard, Echo, and Pagos are satellites that are used to map and exactly calculate the earth's surface within a few millimeters. They do this by slightly shifting in their orbits and then by the precise measuring of the area inside the narrow triangle created to the earth's surface. In the mid 1800's George Everest did not have satellites to assist him. He also had to rely on Triangulation rather than Euclid's plane Geometry as he had been doing. Once he understood the principles of spherical trigonometry (Geodesy and triangulation) Sir George Everest then completed the entire mapping of the Indian Continent to include the entire Himalayan Range! He was knighted by Queen Victoria of England, and Mount Everest was named in his honor. He used exact guesses to determine the unknown! He made educated guesses and was right!

"Why now?" John pleaded with his wife Judy. "Divorce!" he yelled. "Why divorce?" he painfully asked. "I can
not live with your disease anymore, or you!" she snapped angrily back. "You are so totally consumed by YOUR problem that you no longer notice me or the kids!" she confessed with flowing tears now. "After Christina died you just have not been the same person John!" Judy explained. "We have two other children! What about them? What about me?" she demanded to know. Judy then collapsed into the oak dinning room chair and began to sob uncontrollably on the table with her head down. "Fine! Abandon me! Everyone else has! Why not my family? John screamed with dripping sarcasm. "What am I to do now?" he asked with his arms raised high and outstretched. "Where am I to go?" John asked with tears now forming in his puffy eyes. "Why is this happening to me? Why God?" he pleaded towards the ceiling. John then stormed out of the house and back down to the riverwalk in San Antonio to do some more thinking.

Mark's employer had been watching Mark much closer than before Kevin found him. His employer dabbled in
genetics themselves. In fact, they owned a genetics laboratory that was located across the street from Mark's
office window. As themselves. he worked over the years there Mark would look out his big tinted windows and wonder what they were creating over there. His employer had been good to him so far, and now they were very interested in following Mark's story with Kevin, as it developed. One day at home Mark received a phone call from the Head of the Medical Laboratory owned by his employer. The Doctor asked "just friendly medical
questions" about what Mark knew of HCV and what his and Kevin's symptoms were. His boss at work had been
following his strange developing plight with a keen interest now for weeks. One of the top researchers, world-
wide in his field of Chemistry, just so happened to stop by Mark's desk every now and then to see what Mark
had learned recently about HCV. He too wanted to know "how the other guys were?". Mark was treated
suddenly like a celebrity at work, but he had played the corporate world of "cutthroat politics" much too long
to be fooled and lulled into a false sense of security. He would watch them as closely as they watched him,
if not closer!

Eventually the entire world was mapped following Sir George Everest's mapping of India. Because the world
was mapped it could then be traveled. The best way to travel globally back then was by sea. Because the world could be traveled by sea it could then be conquered by invading Armies. In order to conquer and take land you must be able to project power as a nation, globally. To project America's power globally leading into the 20th Century President Teddy Roosevelt had the Panama Canal built. The Suez Canal in the middle east was constructed to allow England's Royal Navy to travel to India. They traveled by way of the Mediterranean Sea and not by traveling around the dangerous Cape of Hope in southern Africa. From the cape they would still have months to go to reach India. The Suez Canal "short cut" allowed the English to project power throughout the 1800's. The Panama Canal has done the same for the Americans in the 1900's. What is the next Panama or Suez Canal for the new Century? What is the shortcut to a global projection of power? The Internet!

In a small rural village of Chu-Ching in the southwestern Providence of Yunnan, China a mysterious illness has overcome the village inhabitants. The small farming village is located approximately 500 miles up the Yuan Swang river from the Gulf of Tonkin and the South China Sea. For many years mariners have ventured up this far to encounter a friendly and generous people. Upon one such visit a guest was invited to watch a ritual rites- of-passage ceremony involving young unmarried adults. Before the ceremonies began the village feasted on a collective gathering of foods from the community. Farmers from the flat lands brought pigs and produce. Others from the mountains brought an assortment of birds and berries. And others brought fresh fish caught from the river and live ocean creatures from the sea.

The young children brought their pet crickets to have contests and to play with. The village is a festive market place year-round with a lot of bartering and trading occurring between the local inhabitants and passing strangers. In their market place they store their rodents (Mammals) on top of the chicken (Avarian) cages and the chicken cages are placed on top of the pig (Bovine) pens. This creates a host reservoir for many different types of viruses and bacteria. The combined droppings on the bottom of the pen enable the three possible virus types to mix and possibly crossover into a hybrid mixture called a "wild-type" virus. If this occurs then it is estimated that there will be no immunity initially from it. If it is a rapidly spreading disease that has a high incidence of killing its victims, then the world's population could be wiped out in a matter of a few weeks!

Before the ceremony, the pigs are slaughtered with sharp thin metal instruments and then cooked for all to
eat and enjoy. Since this is a small, poor, and backward third world village, they only have so many metal
instruments for use by all. There is no way of sterilizing the contaminated instruments and the village Doctor
does not have any reporting system of diseases to the government. He is required to do a population count
and report it annually to Bejing. Bejing is the Capital City of China located nearly 1,500 miles away and on the
other end of the great wall of China! During the ceremony a small bleeding cut is made in the abdomen to show an acceptance to adulthood. All villagers celebrate.

Recently many young people have been ill in the small rural village. In fact they have been ill ever since the
troops from Vietnam started coming up river for weekend leaves. The young North Vietnamese troops were
as typical as any other soldiers throughout history. They enjoyed a certain lifestyle while on leave from the war. Once in the village the virus may travel and be cross-contaminated with other viruses to form a new deadly "wild- type" killer virus. Cultural practices in China and Central Africa have led Cameroon (13.1 %) and Vietnam (9.5 %) into being the second and third ranked countries, respectively, of HCV infection of percent of
populations behind Egypt (number 1 with 14.5 % of the population infected) in the world. Since there is no
reporting system or testing ability available in Chu-Ching, then we do not know why the young people of Chu-
Ching are sick. Or do we? If we used triangulation could we infer what the problem might be? Or could we?
(this scenario was fabricated, but is typical of many villages in that area of China).

"Welcome Doctor to Plum Island National Research Laboratory, I'm Dr. Cane the Director of the lab here" he
says as he extends his hand and greets you with a warm smile. "I hope you were not inconvenienced" he
expresses politely. "Is there anything I can get you" he asks you while still smiling gently. "Yeah! A phone!"
you demand! "What is going on here Director?" you rightfully ask with anger. "Why was I taken from my
laboratory two days ago and kidnapped to D.C then to taken to Iowa, and Now Plum Island?", you suddenly
realize that you do not even know where Plum Island is, or even what it is!

Located three miles east, off the north fork of Long Island, New York, is the National Center for Infectious
Diseases. "Well Doctor" Director Cane begins. "You have read some writings of a man from Fort Detrick,
correct?" he asks you. "Yes!" you respond defensively. "Well as you know Doctor, Ft. Detrick, Maryland is the
Hub of National Viral Research" He begins. "Ames Iowa is where we do a lot of agricultural research and some storage" he informs you. "Here at Plum Island, we are considered to be the most dangerous place on the planet!" he tells you. Director Cane now stands tall and places both hands on his thin hips while peering at you over his bifocals. He awaits the inevitable question. "Why?" you question, totally bewildered.

"We store all of the most dangerous organisms in the world here!" the Director proudly announces. "And we've never had a problem!" he states emphatically. "Ever since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1990 we have had to keep a special eye on a similar type of storage laboratory, located in Moscow." he confesses to you. We are very concerned that the wrong biological agents may fall into the wrong hands." he admits to you. "We have every disease known to adversely affect plants, animals or man stored here!" the Director finally explains with pride. "WOW!" you reply with growing interest. "Come this way please from the clinic to my strategy Command Center underground." he offers. As you wind your way down a wide metal staircase you come to a large set of thick glass sealed doors. The Director slids a pass-card into the security slot and the large doors "Whoosh" open quickly.

Inside the Director shows you a central command center with rows of computer consoles and liquid crystal
display (LCD) readouts. On the huge side walls are world maps showing the location and connecting lines of
the "Secret Global Viral Surveillance Network". "Gosh!" you reply stunned! "How much did this cost me?" you
sarcastically ask. The Director hesitantly skips over your remark and on to, "See all those lights and lines?"
he asks while scanning the room with his index finger. "Yeah" you follow along with him. "Well this is the
BABY!" he proclaims. He walks down to the nearly empty room. "Four persons are constantly on duty in here"
he continues. "It can hold up to 200 persons in times of a National Crisis or outbreak!" he informs you. "We
can monitor the hot-zone from here and coordinate with Detrick and Ames" he admits while he strolls among
the ever-blinking consoles like they were his children. "But why am I here?" you ask again with new
determination and defiance. "I better let your spouse tell you" the Director tells you. "What? Where are they?" you head towards the Director in a sudden rush and are stopped dead in your tracks by a faint voice in the rear of the control room that calls your name.

"Hello?" Kevin asks. "Mr. Donnelly? Mr. Kevin Donnelly?" he is asked "This is the Biological Unit at the FDA,
I'm Ms. Smith and I have you on a speaker phone with Ms. Jones and some others here to listen to our
conversation" she informs him. "Is that alright with you" she asks. "Sure!" Kevin innocently obliges. Meanwhile alarms and flags were going off and waving in his head. "Now, why is the FDA calling my house?" he thought.
"Mr. Donnelly you called this office last week and left a message on a machine that mentioned Adenoviruses" she said. "What did you want to know?" she fished. "Just what they were and why the military was testing them?" Kevin offered. "Who said they were tested on the military? And where did you get your information from?" she inquired. "From the Internet and your web page!" Kevin reveals. "What web page of ours? Do you have the address?" she asked. "Yep! Sure do!" Kevin shot back. Kevin read the web address to her over the telephone and soon all he could hear was "Uh Oh!". "Why Uh oh?" Kevin soon inquired. "Because this is not our web-page" she confessed. "This belongs to the Department of Defense, DoD!" she said with confusion. "We really don't have any control over the military, in fact we run into a lot of black holes when we deal with DoD" she admitted to Kevin. "We are going to speak with our Hepatitis C expert here at the FDA and we'll call you right back!" she said and ended the conversation. Kevin could barely hold the phone as they spoke. The virus had deposited cyroproteins in his hands and joints. The pain was becoming unbearable as the days
passed by. The FDA was not calling to help Kevin. They did not even ask how he was. They were concerned
with what Kevin might know! Kevin knew more than they thought and he kept it that way!

Within two hours the FDA called again to say that their expert was going to call the CDC's Hepatitis C expert
and discuss Adenoviruses with him. Kevin was informed that his name and address and phone number would
be given to the CDC. It was further explained to Kevin that the CDC would also be calling his home to speak
with him, personally. "We don't think it's a problem, but we're going to follow-up on it just the same." Kevin
was told by the woman at the FDA. Kevin knew now that the proper authorities had just been notified about
his questioning of the military and Adenoviruses. Soon the phones began to click and his computer was
constantly "knocked off-line" but this did not deter Kevin. It only made his resolve more determined to get to
the bottom of the HCV cover-up. He knew Adenoviruses were dangerous and attacked "virus infected" liver
cells by searching the Journal of Immunology's past articles about Adenoviruses. He also knew that suddenly
the government was jumping to its feet pretending to help and assist him. Were they? Or were they just
tracking his movements on the computer at night? Maybe all they wanted to know was what Kevin knew!
"Careful" he thought to himself at night while doing research, "You're playing hardball now with the big boys!
And they play for keeps!". Kevin had a stronger tool to use against all, the US Constitution!

The deepest depression on the earth's surface is the 36,198 foot deep Marianas Trench located 210 miles south west of the Island of Guam in the western Pacific ocean. The trench was first "sounded" by radar in 1959 by the Soviets. The following year the Americans were the first to travel to the bottom of the deepest spot on earth. The bottom was reached in 1960 by two men in a U.S. Navy submarine known as a "bathyscaphe". Just seven years earlier the highest spot on the planet had been scaled and conquered. Remember, Hawaii is the tallest object on the planet at 30,000 feet off the pacific ocean floor. Mt. Everest ranks second and is slightly higher than 29,000 feet. However, the Marianas Trench at 36,000 feet below the sea level is a greater distance down than they both rise up! Things are not always what they seem to be in this American Century!

"What do you mean you lost my test results!" Marks says with a growing disdain. "Besides, the Doctor had
to leave early for the day!" she informs Mark. "Why didn't the VA call me then! And save me an hours ride
here?" he asks as he begins to tap his fingers on the counter top in the small window hole. "Could you please stop doing that or I'll call security!" she threatens. "What am I to do now?" Mark asks with disbelief. "Make another appointment, you're entitled to." she reminds him. "I was entitled to this one!" Mark zips back to her with a mean glance. "This is absurd!" he states and leaves the building in a huff!. "Security please." the nasal sounding VA receptionist says after Mark is gone. She then slams the window closed. Welcome back to the VA Mark!

In the early 1950's the Himalayan Mountain Range had been mapped for almost 100 years. The earth's tectonic
plate that the Indian Continent rests on is moving north at four inches a year and pushing the Asia continent
upwards as it moves northward. The end result of this formidable force so far has been the Himalayan
Mountain Range. The youngest and tallest mountains in the world today! One of those mountains is named
Mount Everest after the man who mapped the India Continent, and the mountain itself in the mid 1800's. It
soars upwards over 29,000 feet and is covered perpetually by ice and snowfall. It is the tallest landmass object in the world! Up until 1953 no one had ever been to the top of Mount Everest. Not even the native Sherpa people who lived at the base of the mountain, in the newly formed country of Nepal (capital; Kathmandu).

The last great exploration left on earth was thought to be the climbing of Mt. Everest. Years later it would be
said to be discovering the great oceans of the world. A decade later is was the space-frontier that needed our exploration. This decade it is the cyber-frontier. When the British looked to climb Mt. Everest in 1953 they
placed individuals in teams, with a total of six teams, that would attempt an assault on the great peak. Sir
Edmound Hilliary, an English Explorer was matched with a small Sherpa native guide named "Tensing". The
Nepalese people feared the mountain because of their Buddhist Religion. They believed that all the "spirits"
were up in the clouds and to climb the tall mountain was an insult to the great God Buddha. The Buddhist even placed cloth pray wheels along the paths that climbed up the mountain side. Tensing did not fear the mountain and often climbed up high as a child. Many times he would be scolded by his elders for climbing the great mountain and violating the spirits. He did this by climbing higher up the mountain than the pray wheels
permitted anyone to go.

When Sir Edmound Hilliary and Tensing, his Sherpa guide, started up the mountain with five other groups of
climbers, many laughed at them. Tensing was a very small man and Hilliary was a very tall and broad
shouldered Englishman. They appeared to be a comedy act as they first began to climb. They were given the
least chances, out of the six groups, to succeed all the way to the top first. They were not even considered
good enough to complete the rigorous climb. The other climbers were all gallant, spirited, famous climbers,
but they lacked an essential ingredient in their attempted climb to the top that Tensing and Hilliary did not!
They had each other!

The other English climbers were all very skilled in the craft of climbing, but Tensing knew the "lay of the land" and the mountain he had grown up on. When other explorers feared, he was sure footed. When others
hesitated, Tensing went forth with incredibly skill. When some went foolishly forth, he analyzed and
determined his path more prudently. In 1953 Tensing and Sir Edmound Hilliary were the first two men to climb
to the top of Mt. Everest and also the world. They admitted years later that it was their close friendship, that
was based on honesty, that allowed them to trust each other with their lives. They had what the other climbers did not have. They had the missing link, a close dependable friendship!