Monday, June 30, 2014
Children's Television Act of 1990
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=18939
The American Presidency Project
George Bush
XLI President of the United States: 1989 - 1993
Statement on the Children's Television Act of 1990
October 17, 1990
I have decided to withhold my approval from H.R. 1677, the "Children's Television Act of 1990," which will result in its becoming law without my signature. This bill is intended to increase the amount and quality of children's television programming and to diminish the commercialization of programming for children.
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Bedtime for Bonzo (1951)
Quotes
Peter Boyd: Look, I might as well tell you now. He's a monkey.
Jane Linden: They all are.
Peter Boyd: A real monkey.
Jane Linden: You should have seen my brother Gus.
From 2/6/1911 ( my biological maternal grandfather Ronald Reagan ) To 1/4/1961 ( Erwin Schrödinger deceased ) is 18230 days
18230 = 9115 + 9115
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 10/17/1990 is 9115 days
From 4/21/1926 ( my biological paternal grandmother Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II ) To 4/5/1951 ( premiere US film "Bedtime for Bonzo" ) is 9115 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 10/17/1990 is 9115 days
From 4/5/1951 ( premiere US film "Bedtime for Bonzo" ) To 10/17/1990 is 14440 days
14440 = 7220 + 7220
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 8/9/1985 ( the Microsoft headquarters groundbreaking in Redmond Washington ) is 7220 days
From 4/5/1951 ( premiere US film "Bedtime for Bonzo" ) To 10/17/1990 is 14440 days
14440 = 7220 + 7220
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 8/9/1985 ( premiere US film "My Science Project" ) is 7220 days
From 4/5/1951 ( premiere US film "Bedtime for Bonzo" ) To 3/19/1976 ( premiere US TV movie "Time Travelers" ) is 9115 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 10/17/1990 is 9115 days
From 8/19/1952 ( Jonathan Frakes ) To 10/17/1990 is 13938 days
13938 = 6969 + 6969
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/1/1984 ( the United States Navy warship USS Taylor FFG 50 commissioned into United States Navy battle force fleet active service - departing in 1986 as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Navy Fire Controlman Petty Officer 3rd Class my first United States Navy fleet assignment beginning 19 December 1984 ) is 6969 days
From 2/8/1968 ( premiere US film "Planet of the Apes" ) To 10/17/1990 is 8287 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/11/1988 ( premiere US film "Midnight Run" ) is 8287 days
From 10/14/1962 ( the Cuban Missile Crisis begins ) To 9/28/1987 ( premiere US TV series "Star Trek: The Next Generation" ) is 9115 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 10/17/1990 is 9115 days
From 5/17/1943 ( the US Army air crew of the US Army B-17 Flying Fortress "Memphis Belle" becomes the first US Army heavy bomber crew to complete 25 bombing missions over Europe ) To 10/17/1990 is 17320 days
17320 = 8660 + 8660
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash ) is 8660 days
From 8/4/1964 ( the Gulf of Tonkin incident ) To 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash ) is 9115 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 10/17/1990 is 9115 days
From 4/9/1986 ( "Them sailors all have tales to tell of far-off lands from roving far over the oceans." ) To 10/17/1990 is 1652 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 5/12/1970 ( premiere US TV movie "America: The Ocean Frontier" ) is 1652 days
From 4/18/1988 ( the United States Navy Operation Praying Mantis ) To 10/17/1990 is 912 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 5/2/1968 ( premiere US film "The Odd Couple" ) is 912 days
From 8/18/1955 ( premiere US film "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing" ) To 8/1/1980 ( premiere US film "The Final Countdown" ) is 9115 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 10/17/1990 is 9115 days
From 9/19/1964 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Outer Limits"::"Soldier" ) To 10/17/1990 is 9524 days
9524 = 4762 + 4762
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/16/1978 ( premiere US TV miniseries "Pearl" ) is 4762 days
From 7/4/1976 ( at extreme personal risk to himself my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship successfully intercepts the Comet Lucifer in the outer solar system and diverts it away from the planet Earth ) To 10/17/1990 is 5218 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 2/15/1980 ( premiere US film "Saturn 3" ) is 5218 days
From 9/29/1963 ( premiere US TV series "My Favorite Martian" ) To 10/17/1990 is 9880 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/20/1992 ( the Windsor Castle fire ) is 9880 days
From 12/25/1971 ( George Walker Bush the purveyor of illegal drugs strictly for his personal profit including the trafficking of massive amounts of cocaine into the United States confined to federal prison in Mexico for illegally smuggling narcotics in Mexico ) To 10/17/1990 is 6871 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 8/25/1984 ( Truman Capote dead ) is 6871 days
http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/research/public_papers.php?id=2336&year=1990&month=10
George Bush Presidential Library and Museum
Public Papers - 1990 - October
Statement on the Children's Television Act of 1990
1990-10-17
I have decided to withhold my approval from H.R. 1677, the ``Children's Television Act of 1990,'' which will result in its becoming law without my signature. This bill is intended to increase the amount and quality of children's television programming and to diminish the commercialization of programming for children.
I wholeheartedly support these goals, but regret that the Congress has chosen inappropriate means of serving them. In an effort to improve children's television, this legislation imposes content-based restrictions on programming. The legislation limits the amount of advertising that broadcasters may air during children's programming, and the Federal Communications Commission is charged with policing the adequacy of broadcasters' efforts to serve the educational and informational needs of children. The First Amendment, however, does not contemplate that government will dictate the quality or quantity of what Americans should hear -- rather, it leaves this to be decided by free media responding to the free choices of individual consumers.
I recognize that the Supreme Court has upheld the application of certain content-based regulations to broadcast licensees, on the theory that the ``scarcity of broadcast frequencies'' makes government involvement inevitable. Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC, 395 U.S. 367 (1969). Whatever validity this analysis may have been thought to have some 2 decades ago, its factual premise has been eroded by the proliferation of new video services that supplement those provided by traditional broadcasters. Accordingly, a constitutional challenge to this legislation may provide the Supreme Court with an occasion to reconsider its decision in Red Lion.
I also have very strong reservations about the legislation's application of quantitative advertising restrictions to cable operators. Red Lion's ``technological scarcity'' theory does not apply to cable service, which should be considered analogous to the print media under the First Amendment. Even under the commercial speech doctrine, I do not believe that quantitative restrictions on advertising should be considered permissible when applied either to newspapers or to cable operators.
Finally, the advertising limits imposed by this legislation cannot reasonably be expected to advance their intended purpose. To the extent that children's programming is financed by the revenue from advertising during such programming, restrictions on the amount of advertising will tend to diminish, rather than enhance, the quantity and quality of children's programming.
George Bush
The White House,
October 17, 1990.
Note: H.R. 1677 became law on October 18, upon the expiration of the 10-day period allowed for Presidential action, and was assigned Public Law No. 101 - 437.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d101:HR01677:@@@L&summ2=m&
The Library of Congress Thomas
Bill Summary & Status
101st Congress (1989 - 1990)
H.R.1677
All Information
H.R.1677
Latest Title: Children's Television Act of 1990
Sponsor: Rep Bryant, John W. [TX-5] (introduced 4/5/1989) Cosponsors (43)
Related Bills: H.R.5835, S.707, S.1992
Latest Major Action: 10/17/1990 Became Public Law No: 101-437.
Latest Action: 11/8/1990 See also H.R. 5835.
Note: H.R. 1677 was not signed by the President; it was sent to the Archivist of the United States unsigned.
MAJOR ACTIONS:
4/5/1989 Introduced in House
11/21/1989 Reported by the Committee on Energy and Commerce. H. Rept. 101-385.
7/23/1990 Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
9/24/1990 Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Voice Vote.
10/1/1990 Resolving differences -- House actions: On motion that the House agree to the Senate amendment Agreed to by voice vote.
10/1/1990 Cleared for White House.
10/5/1990 Presented to President.
10/17/1990 Sent to Archivist of the United States unsigned.
10/17/1990 Became Public Law No: 101-437.
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Quigley Down Under (1990)
Release Info
USA 17 October 1990 (Hollywood, California) (premiere)
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Quigley Down Under (1990)
Full Cast & Crew
Tom Selleck ... Matthew Quigley
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Quigley Down Under (1990)
Quotes
Major Ashley-Pitt: In our experience, Americans are uncouth misfits who should be run out of their own barbaric country.
Matthew Quigley: Well, Lieutenant...
Major Ashley-Pitt: Major.
Matthew Quigley: Major. We already run the misfits outta our country. We sent 'em back to England.
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Midnight Run (1988)
Release Info
USA 11 July 1988 (New York City, New York) (premiere)
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Midnight Run (1988)
Full Cast & Crew
Robert De Niro ... Jack Walsh
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Midnight Run (1988)
Plot Summary
Bounty hunter Jack Walsh is sent to find and return bail jumper and former Mafia accountant, Jonathan "The Duke" Mardukas. The FBI have had no success it locating The Duke, so when Jack finds him in next to no time, they are a little embarrassed. In order to collect his $100,000 fee, Jack must take The Duke from New York to Los Angeles. However, the Mafia and the FBI have other ideas, as does Marvin, a rival bounty hunter.
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Jonathan Frakes
Biography
Date of Birth 19 August 1952 , Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, USA
Birth Name Jonathan Scott Frakes
http://www.chakoteya.net/NextGen/264.htm
The Pegasus
Stardate: 47457.1
Original Airdate: Jan 10, 1994
PRESSMAN: You have changed.
RIKER: Changed?
PRESSMAN: Something the Captain and I were talking about. To be honest I'm glad to see this kind of change in you, Will. State your opinion and stand by it. It's a far cry from the young man who used to sit at my helm and worry about pressing the wrong button.
RIKER: A lot of things can change in twelve years, Admiral.
PRESSMAN: Yes, they can. But it's important that a man changes the right things in his life, not his sense of duty, not his sense of loyalty.
RIKER: I'd like to think that I haven't changed those things, sir.
PRESSMAN: I would like to think that too. Because those things say more about a man than the rank on his collar or the uniform he wears. They define him. Twelve years ago, a lot of older and more seasoned officers turned away from their duty, but you stood up for what was right. I'm sorry, Will. I know the kind of man you are. I know that I can count on you again.
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NVR
Naval Vessel Register
USS TAYLOR (FFG 50)
GUIDED MISSILE FRIGATE
Class: FFG 7
Fleet: Atlantic
Status: Active, in commission
Force: Battle Force
Award Date: 05/22/1981
Keel Date: 05/05/1983
Launch Date: 11/05/1983
Commission Date: 12/01/1984
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HISTORY
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
Oct 14, 1962:
The Cuban Missile Crisis begins
The Cuban Missile Crisis begins on October 14, 1962, bringing the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear conflict. Photographs taken by a high-altitude U-2 spy plane offered incontrovertible evidence that Soviet-made medium-range missiles in Cuba—capable of carrying nuclear warheads—were now stationed 90 miles off the American coastline.
Tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union over Cuba had been steadily increasing since the failed April 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, in which Cuban refugees, armed and trained by the United States, landed in Cuba and attempted to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro. Though the invasion did not succeed, Castro was convinced that the United States would try again, and set out to get more military assistance from the Soviet Union. During the next year, the number of Soviet advisors in Cuba rose to more than 20,000. Rumors began that Russia was also moving missiles and strategic bombers onto the island. Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev may have decided to so dramatically up the stakes in the Cold War for several reasons. He may have believed that the United States was indeed going to invade Cuba and provided the weapons as a deterrent. Facing criticism at home from more hard-line members of the Soviet communist hierarchy, he may have thought a tough stand might win him support. Khrushchev also had always resented that U.S. nuclear missiles were stationed near the Soviet Union (in Turkey, for example), and putting missiles in Cuba might have been his way of redressing the imbalance. Two days after the pictures were taken, after being developed and analyzed by intelligence officers, they were presented to President Kennedy. During the next two weeks, the United States and the Soviet Union would come as close to nuclear war as they ever had, and a fearful world awaited the outcome.
http://www.startrek.com/database_article/encounter-at-farpoint-part-i
STAR TREK
Encounter at Farpoint, Part I
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Episode: TNG 101 - Encounter at Farpoint, Part I
Season 1 Ep. 1
Air Date: 09/28/1987
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/528287/Erwin-Schrodinger
Encyclopædia Britannica
Erwin Schrödinger
Erwin Schrödinger, (born Aug. 12, 1887, Vienna, Austria—died Jan. 4, 1961, Vienna), Austrian theoretical physicist who contributed to the wave theory of matter and to other fundamentals of quantum mechanics. He shared the 1933 Nobel Prize for Physics with the British physicist P.A.M. Dirac.
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=the-outer-limits-1963&episode=s02e01
Springfield! Springfield!
The Outer Limits (1963)
Soldier
Qarlo Clobregnny, Private, R-M-E-N -T-N -D-O, reporting.
Cat.
Remember the book? What did you want from that cat, Qarlo? Nothing same.
Cats are different where you come from? Different.
CO, prowler, think-speak.
I I don 't understand.
The commanding officer uses cats? On patrol, troopers, cats, tied together by think-speak.
Cats do prowl, spot the enemy.
Troopers jump.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 1:10 AM Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Greer
I dreamed about that house again I remember that I used to own and as usual that recurring dream does not disappoint. I don't write about it in my public or private journal but I write about it now because it leaves me this morning with a strong longing for something somewhere. I am not interested at all in moving to that specific but the dream just makes me think of being somewhere else. So the reason I decided to note today that latest dream is because the point in the dream I can clearly recall, after a lot of stuff happened that I do not now recall, is that I found myself sitting in the living room of that house and I was sitting in front of a white dry erase board and I had been sitting there for quite a while and I seemed to have been lost in concentration as I was writing a whole bunch of equations on that dry erase board. I have no memory of ever actually doing that when I lived in that house but I do have memory of that in my apartment in 1998 in Rock Hill South Carolina as I wrote computer programs. I was sitting there in the living room of that house in Greer and the television was in front of me and to my left side and it had been on for a while playing something in the background that I don't recall but then I noticed it because the television news came on and I even now want to watch television news but they antagonize me too much even if I watched it this very morning and so I was sitting there examining the equations I was writing on that dry erase board and at one point, the only real point I examined those equations in my dream, I was looking closely at what I had written there and I was thinking that I should re-write some of the equations because the series I was looking at wasn't very legible. I could read it but it could have been written plainer. I have no idea after waking up what I was working on that dry erase board in terms of the purpose of those equations. Then I was looking out the living room window which I was next to and that was to my right side. The time of day seemed to be early morning and the sun seemed to be still just below the horizon on a cloud-covered sky. There seemed to be a lot of automobile traffic on the street in front of my house but that would probably be normal as everyone drove off for work. I thought I saw Bobbilynn's car drive past my house. I heard voices and I saw a man with two kids who were wearing Halloween costumes and I thought specifically in the dream that the day as I was standing there in my house was the morning of Halloween. As usual in that dream, I had just moved back in there and I was happy to be there. I was standing there looking to see if I had candy for Halloween in case trick-or-treaters came around and I did have some candy but most of it was not individually wrapped and I did not really want to give out that kind of candy but I did have some individually wrapped candy so I was standing there and I was thinking about what I was going to tell the neighbors if they asked me any questions about my new arrival into the neighborhood. One detail I thought about in the dream was how I had actually owned the house since 1994, which I think is the year I sold it, but I had been renting it out all this time and I just now moved back in and I was glad to be back there. I looked out the window and the light was still kind of dim although I could see fairly clearly all the way out past the street in front and beyond that and I saw walking through my yard a black cat. The cat had crossed over the sidewalk running up to the circle driveway and the cat stopped to look at me just about the time I saw it. I thought about how the grass was going to need mowing and I would need to purchase a lawn mower. I used to have a riding lawn mower when I used to live there but I was going to purchase a push lawn mower and I wasn't looking forward to mowing that entire lawn with a push mower.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 25 October 2011 excerpt ends]
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Midnight Run (1988)
Quotes
Jack Walsh: I know my rights. You owe me phone calls.
Alonzo Mosely: What should be of paramount importance to you right now is not the phone calls, it's the fact that you're gonna spend ten years for impersonating a federal agent.
Jack Walsh: 10 years for impersonating a fed, uh?
Alonzo Mosely: 10 years.
Jack Walsh: How comes no one's after you?
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Bedtime for Bonzo (1951)
Release Info
USA 5 April 1951 (New York City, New York)
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Bedtime for Bonzo (1951)
Full Cast & Crew
Ronald Reagan ... Prof. Peter Boyd
http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/m/manchurian-candidate-script-transcript-denzel.html
Manchurian Candidate
You should have your people
check it out.
Oh, we'll get on that right away.
Colonel Garret was kind enough
to show us the file on you, Marco.
You are the real deal, aren't you?
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The Manchurian Candidate
Senator Iselin, how does it feel to be
the father of a Medal of Honor winner?
- He's not my father!
- He's Raymond's stepfather.
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The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Full Cast & Crew
Denzel Washington ... Ben Marco
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Jericho
Oversight
Episode 4 Season 2
John Smith: For now, call me John Smith. You don't know me, but I know about you.
Hawkins: No. No, you don't know anything.
John Smith: You were tasked on Project Red Bell with seven other agents. A member of your own team, Sarah Mason, betrayed you. I know about Valente. When I saw Chavez was caught by Major Beck, I figured either you or Cheung couldn't be far. So I reached out. We have goals in common. And I have information that can help you. But I want your assurance that you won't try to find me. Can you accept those terms?
(Hawkins hangs up)
(Hawkins picks up)
Hawkins: Let's agree on this. You don't make the terms, I do. And if you have information to share, then you just share it. But if you lie to em, then know that I will find out, and the next time we speak, it will not be on the phone. Those are the terms.
John Smith: Agreed. Now can we move on to more urgent business?
Hawkins: I'm listening.
John Smith: Good. Because you're a day away from being caught.
http://jericho.wikifoundry.com/page/Oversight+Transcript
Jericho
Oversight
Episode 4 Season 2
Jake: You rang?
Hawkins: tomorrow morning, a binder will be delivered to Major Beck from an Air Force Reconnaissance Unit based in Cheyenne. It'll contain an aerial radiation scan of this entire area.
Jake: The Bomb. I thought lead made it undetectable.
Hawkins: oh, this is an advanced system. Lead is not enough.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 6:00 AM Thursday, October 22, 2009
The Bill Gates-Microsoft-Corbis Bomb
It's closer than you think.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 22 October 2009 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 6:00 AM Thursday, October 22, 2009
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Seattle
Seattle is located in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Situated in the western part of Washington State on an isthmus between Puget Sound (an arm of the Pacific Ocean) and Lake Washington
Seattle is the county seat of King County. As of July 1, 2008, the city had an estimated municipal population of 598,541, making it the twenty-fifth most populous city in the U.S. and a metropolitan area population of 3,344,813.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/underground
underground
existing, situated, operating, or taking place beneath the surface of the ground.
the place or region beneath the surface of the ground.
Situated, occurring, or operating below the surface of the earth: underground caverns; underground missile sites.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 22 October 2009 excerpt ends]
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STS-59
Scientists around the world will be provided a unique vantage point for studying how the Earth's global environment is changing when Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on Shuttle mission STS-59. During the 9-day mission, the Space Radar Laboratory (SRL) payload in Endeavour's cargo bay will give scientists highly detailed information that will help them distinguish human-induced environmental changes from other natural forms of change.
The Space Radar Laboratory (SRL) payload is comprised of the Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR) and the Measurement of Air Pollution from Satellite (MAPS). The German Space Agency (DARA) and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) are providing the X-SAR instrument.
The imaging radar of the SIR-C/X-SAR instruments have the ability to make measurements over virtually any region at any time, regardless of weather or sunlight conditions. The radar waves can penetrate clouds, and under certain conditions, can also "see" through vegetation, ice and extremely dry sand. In many cases, radar is the only way scientists can explore inaccessible regions of the Earth's surface.
Launch:
The STS-59 launch occured April 9, 1994 at 7:05am EDT from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Fla.
http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=1994_1195055
Shuttle Endeavour blasts off to study Earth's environment
MARK CARREAU Staff
SUN 04/10/1994
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The shuttle Endeavour, with a crew of six astronauts, roared into space on Saturday for the first flight test of a powerful new radar observatory developed under an international agreement for global environmental research.
If this and at least one other test flight of the $391 million observatory prove successful, U.S. and European collaborators are hopeful that a future version of the device can be placed aboard continuously orbiting satellites.
The observatory was developed to survey a wide range of environmental phenomena -- including rainfall levels and measurements of the water content of mountain snow packs. Also, it will survey crop yields, soil erosion, shifts in ocean currents that influence seasonal weather changes and earthquake fault lines.
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Mission To Mars
- Check the radiation levels.
- Check rad levels.
Normal.
- Go to disaster site.
- Go to by .
- What's wrong ?
- I don't know.
Magnetic interference ?
- Go infrared.
- Switch to infrared.
It's gotta be a problem
with SI MA.
I don't see how an earthquake six months
ago could cause this kind of distortion.
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FlashForward
A561984
Episode # 110
PALO ALTO, CA
NEWS REPORTER: That's right, Terry, we're live here in Palo Alto where sources are claiming a major announcement will be made concerning the causes of the global blackout
GORDON MYHILL: Thank you for attending this press conference. My name is Gordon Myhill. I am the director of the National Linear Accelerator Project. Today we have some important information concerning the events of October 6th that we feel needs to be shared with the global community.
[Myhill is heard in the background as Simon and Lloyd speak to each other.]
SIMON: You know they're gonna crucify us.
LLOYD: What's a little martyrdom between friends?
SIMON: Just make sure you stick to the talking points we discussed with Myhill. The last thing we need is your guilty conscience dragging us down any further.
LLOYD: What the hell does that mean?
SIMON: You feel guilty because your wife died in the blackout. I get it. Now you have to take care of your son. Boo-hoo. I'm not gonna let you drag me down into your spiral of shame just because you're playing Mr. Mom. [adjusts tie] Understood?
[Switch to the hospital. Olivia, Bryce and others are watching a TV. Under Myhill's name is the caption, "Origin of Blackout?' Myhill continues to speak.]
GORDON MYHILL: I'd like to introduce you now to our associate directors of the Plasma Wakefield Program, Dr. Lloyd Simcoe and Dr. Simon Campos.
[Mark and Demetri was the broadcast as they stand on a Hong Kong street looking up at a large screen.]
LLOYD: Uh, good, good morning. My name is Lloyd Simcoe. As Dr. Myhill indicated, our specialty is proton-driven plasma wakefield acceleration. What we're trying to do at this facility is to reproduce the kind of energy levels that existed just after the Big Bang but on a much more controllable scale.
[Lloyd continues speaking as we see various FBI employees watch the broad cast. Wedeck is front and center.]
LLOYD: Uh, we were conducting just such an experiment here on October the sixth at precisely eleven hundred hours, Pacific Daylight time.
[Uproar in the gallery of the NLAP auditorium breaks out. Everyone is yelling at the same time. Chaos commences. Simon rolls his eyes and Lloyd tries to regain control of the situation.]
LLOYD: No, no, please, please [louder] please! Could you just wait for a moment, please?
[The shouting calms for the moment. Simon continues to roll his eyes.]
LLOYD: I, I will take questions in a minute. Please, I, I just need to get to the heart of the matter.
[Aaron watches the broadcast from his house. Mark and Demetri watch from Hong Kong.]
LLOYD: We are here today because we believe the global blackout was precipitated by our experiment. No, please, please.
MAN IN AUDIENCE: How can that be?
LLOYD: I, I will take questions in a minute. Please, one ...
[The audience breaks out in an uproar again. Lloyd has lost control as he stands behind the podium. The entire audience is speaking at once. Scenes switch in background from Simon to Myhill to FBI building to hospital back to Wedeck's office to Mark in Hong Kong. Returning to Lloyd at the podium.]
MAN IN AUDIENCE: Are you taking responsibility for all the death and damage caused by the blackout?
[Camera shutters are clicking quickly. The audience collects itself for a brief moment.]
LLOYD: Uh, we admit that our experiment does seem the most likely cause, yes.
[Simon rushes the podium and pushes Lloyd aside. The scene pans out from the gallery and stops in Hong Kong.]
SIMON: But we contend that there was no way to predict anything like this happening whatsoever. This was utterly unforeseeable. Scientists conduct experiments all the time. We simply cannot stop conducting experiments because we are not 100% sure of the results.
DEMETRI: If this guy caused the blackout, what does this mean for Mosaic? This game over?
MARK: Maybe Simcoe caused the blackout, maybe he didn't. The game's not over.
SIMON: All the work that we've ...
[Myhill takes over the podium.]
GORDON MYHILL: N.L.A.P will be releasing an official statement regarding this event including ... We'll now be concluding ..
[Lloyd comes to the podium again.]
LLOYD: Look, please believe me when I say that our hearts go out to anyone who was hurt or who lost someone that they cared for. My own wife was killed and I would give anything to have her back. We understand people are scared because they think there's going to be another blackout, but there won't be because we were the cause, and we assure you, we assure you that this could not happen again because as of this moment, all plasma wakefield experiments are being put on hold indefinitely.
[Chaos continues in the audience. A woman sitting in an aisle seat stands up, pushes the security man and grabs his handgun from its holster. She aims and shoots at Lloyd hitting the podium instead. She gets four more rounds off before she is subdued by two men. The audience is yelling and screaming.]
WOMAN IN AUDIENCE: You think you can just apologize? [crying] You killed my family.
[People are taking pictures, screaming, yelling resulting in panic in the audience.]
SIMON: Idiot. Hey we talked about having suspicions about our work contributing to a phenomenon.
LLOYD: We needed to be more definitive.
SIMON: There is no we. You made that clear. You lost all objectivity, Lloyd.
LLOYD: Yeah, and you're willfully ignoring the obvious just to save your own skin.
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FINANCE
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Oversight
Episode 4 Season 2
Hawkins: oh, this is an advanced system. Lead is not enough.
Jake: Well, then, we need to move it.
Hawkins: The scan will get Beck closer but not all the way. You see, anything with a high enough atomic weight will present in the same way as plutonium. He's still gotta search the hot spots one at a time.
Jake: This cabin is gonna be one of those hot spots. How do you know all this?
Hawkins: only a hard copy would have been sent. They're not gonna take any chances with the Internet. Now, that binder will be in Beck's office with his secure files. I need the page from the binder that'll identify the bomb.
Jake: I'm guessing that's my job.
Hawkins: Within 24 hours, Jake. Forty-eight at the most. Before they got a chance to process the data and map the hot spots.
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Oversight
Episode 4 Season 2
Heather: The government, the army and the news. They're all lying about who's responsible for the attacks?
Hawkins: Yes.
Heather: But you're telling the truth?
Hawkins: yeah.
Heather: Who are you? Okay. Okay, okay, all right. What do you want me to do?
Jake: All right. There's a binder in Beck's office. We need you to remove one page from it.
Heather: Beck's involved in this too?
Jake: Not directly, no.
Heather: Beck's a good man.
Hawkins: Yes, he is. But he is taking orders from some very bad people in the Cheyenne Government.
Heather: What's in the binder?
Hawkins: Data from an aerial radiation survey.
Heather: Radiation. Radiation? What the hell's going on here?
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