Monday, June 16, 2014
The scene of the crime.
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The Seattle Times
Tuesday, November 10, 1998
Microsoft Trial -- Microsoft Takes Aim At Accuser From Intel -- Defense Says Witness Is Disgruntled Employee
By James V. Grimaldi
Seattle Times Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON - Microsoft trained its legal guns on an Intel executive today and attempted to show that he was a disgruntled employee whose inflammatory accusations are discounted by internal documents and by the sworn testimony of his boss.
Intel Vice President Steven McGeady testified for the second day that Microsoft's threatening of its longtime partner - Microsoft makes the operating-system software and Intel makes the microprocessors for most of the world's personal computers - squelched Intel's innovation on a variety of products that would have made computers easier for consumers to use.
McGeady's testimony has provided some of the most dramatic moments of the Microsoft antitrust trial. The federal government and 20 states are suing Microsoft, alleging that the company has monopolized the market for PC operating systems and used that monopoly to stifle innovation and competition for other software products.
McGeady said Microsoft executives told Intel that "Microsoft owned software to the metal," meaning that Intel was to stay out of developing software without Microsoft's permission.
In cross-examination today Microsoft attorneys attempted to get at McGeady's motives - and bias - in dealing with Microsoft when attorney Steve Holley asked whether he had ever said that "war, either limited or all out with Microsoft, was inevitable."
McGeady, who proved a wily and strong-willed witness, said, "Since that sounds like a direct quote, I probably said it."
But McGeady stuck to his testimony that Microsoft, through a series of threats, had snuffed out Intel's effort to develop software that Microsoft opposed. That's why Intel kept the whole program secret from Microsoft initially, he testified.
"The fear that kept us from telling Microsoft about it was the fear that was ultimately realized, the fear that Microsoft would stomp it out of existence," McGeady said.
Earlier in the day, when Microsoft attorneys started to introduce a videotaped deposition of McGeady's boss, U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson said the government should be permitted to review the tape - just as Microsoft was provided an opportunity to see all excerpts of Chairman Bill Gates' deposition before it was played.
McGeady is testifying under subpoena and is the only witness who is not providing a written witness statement, as other witnesses for the government have done. An Intel spokesman said the company wants to remain neutral about the issues at trial. McGeady, who had a brief stint doing research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after some of his software work was canceled by Intel, is now a vice president for a new Intel Internet initiative with health companies.
In the morning session, government attorney David Boies played another excerpt from Gates' 20 hours of pretrial questioning. Gates was asked if Microsoft made any effort to persuade Intel not to help Sun Microsystems and Java, Sun's programming language considered a threat to Microsoft.
Gates paused for more than 25 seconds before answering. He rocked gently while staring down. Finally, he said, "Not that I know of."
Then Boies introduced an e-mail from Gates to various top Microsoft executives, including Paul Maritz, who was in the courtroom to watch McGeady's testimony. In the June 9, 1995, e-mail, Gates states that he told Intel chief Andrew Grove that it was inappropriate to do certain work with Sun.
Asked if Microsoft made an attempt to get Intel to stop helping Sun and Java, McGeady testified: "Repeatedly, on multiple occasions."
McGeady testified that if the work had continued and it had been successful, it would have created a faster type of software for gaining access to the Internet.
Another set of notes - written by McGeady - showed Gates at a July 11, 1995, meeting answering questions about the Department of Justice's antitrust investigations. McGeady quoted Gates as saying, "This antitrust thing will blow over. We haven't changed our business practices."
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Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
Quotes
Auntie Entity: [the Blaster has reduced Bartertown's power supply] For God's sake, what now?
The Master: Who run Bartertown?
Auntie Entity: Dammit, I told you, no more embargos.
The Master: More, Blaster.
[the Blaster puts all power out]
The Master: Who run Bartertown? Who... run... Bartertown?
Auntie Entity: ...You know who.
The Master: Say.
Auntie Entity: Master Blaster.
The Master: Say loud!
[the Master turns on the town loudspeakers]
Auntie Entity: Master Blaster.
The Master: Master Blaster... what?
Auntie Entity: Master Blaster runs Bartertown.
The Master: Louder!
Auntie Entity: Master Blaster runs Bartertown!
The Master: Lift embargo.
[the Blaster turns power back on]
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FLASHFORWARD
The Negotiation
OLIVIA: Can you let go of my arm?
GABRIEL: No, you're staying.
[Mark walks to Gabriel and puts his hand on Gabriel's shoulder]
GABRIEL: Hey, Hey! You can't touch!
[Mark quickly removes his hand.]
MARK: Okay, I just won't...
GABRIEL: You can look but you can't, can't touch.
OLIVIA: Gabriel, it's okay.
GABRIEL: [points to shoulder] You can't touch this!
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FLASHFORWARD
Course Correction
LLOYD: Well, so this McDow is a savant?
OLIVIA: Yeah. He's pretty high functioning, incredible memory.
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20060105&slug=ces05
The Seattle Times
Thursday, January 5, 2006
Gates aims barbs at dueling formats
By Brier Dudley
Seattle Times technology reporter
LAS VEGAS — Bill Gates' annual speech Wednesday to open the Consumer Electronics Show had the usual funny bits and views on future technology. But the Microsoft chairman also used the podium to fire a volley in a war over digital media formats that's erupting at the massive trade show and threatening to replay the VHS-Betamax fiasco of the early 1980s.
At issue are two competing formats for super high-capacity discs coming onto the market to record and play high-definition video content.
Within a few years, one of the formats is likely to eclipse DVD discs as the standard way consumers buy or rent movies. But movie studios, electronics companies, Microsoft and personal computer makers are still fighting over which format should become the standard.
Gates' keynote traditionally kicks off what has become the electronics and computer industries' largest consumer showcase. The speech is also an opportunity for Microsoft to pitch its technology vision to electronics manufacturers, retailers and journalists gathered at the huge show.
The company begins preparing Gates' speech midyear and hones the message over the holidays. Wednesday morning, Gates gave it a final polish during a rehearsal on stage at the Las Vegas Hilton
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Tom Clancy
Rainbow Six
CHAPTER 39
HARMONY
"Brightling, this is Clark, can you hear me?" the radio in John's hand crackled next.
"Yes, Clark, I hear you."
"Bring all of your people into the open right now and unarmed," the strange voice commanded. "And nobody will get shot. Bring all of your people out now, or we start playing really rough."
"Don't do it," Bill Henriksen urged, seeing the futility of resistance, but fearing surrender more and preferring to die with a weapon in his hands.
"So they can kill us all right here and right now?" Carol asked. "What choice do we have?"
"Not much of one," her husband observed. He walked to the reception desk and made a call over the building's intercom system, calling everyone to the lobby. Then he lifted the portable radio. "Okay, okay, we'll be coming out in a second. Give us a chance to get organized."
"Okay, we'll wait a little while," Clark responded.
"This is a mistake, John," Henriksen told his employer.
"This whole fucking thing's been a mistake, Bill," John observed, wondering where he'd gone wrong. As he watched, the black helicopter reappeared and landed about halfway down the runway, as close as the pilot was willing to come to hostile weapons.
Paddy Connolly was at the fuel dump. There was a huge aboveground fuel tank, labeled #2 Diesel, probably for the generator plant. There was nothing easier or more fun to blow up than a fuel tank, and with Pierce and Loiselle watching, the explosives expert set ten pounds of charges on the opposite side of the tank from the generator plant that it served. A good eighty thousand gallons, he thought, enough to keep those generators going for a very long time.
"Command, Connolly."
"Connolly, Command," Clark answered.
"I'm going to need more, everything I brought down," he reported.
"It's on the chopper, Paddy. Stand by."
"Roger."John had advanced to the edge of the treeline, a scant three hundred yards from the building. Just beyond him, Vega was still on his heavy machine gun, and the rest of his troops were close by, except for Connolly and the two shooters with him. The elation was already gone. It had been a grim day. Success or not, there is little joy in the taking of life, and this day's work had been as close to pure murder as anything the men had ever experienced.
"Coming out," Chavez said, his binoculars to his eyes. He did a fast count. "I see twenty-six of 'em."
"About right," Clark said. "Gimme," he said next, taking the glasses from Domingo to see if he could recognize any faces. Surprisingly, the first face he could put a name on was the only woman he saw, Carol Brightling, presidential science advisor. The man next to her would be her former husband, John Brightling, Clark surmised. They walked out, away from the building onto the ramp that aircraft used to turn around on. "Keep coming straight out away from the building," he told them over the radio. And they did what he told them, John saw, somewhat to his surprise.
"Okay, Ding, take a team and check the building out. Move, boy, but be careful."
"You bet, Mr. C." Chavez waved for his people to follow him at a run for the building."
Using the binoculars again, Clark could see no one carrying weapons, and decided that it was safe for him to walk out with five Team-1 troops as an escort. The walk took five minutes or so, and then he saw John Brightling face-to-face.
"I guess this is your place, eh?"
"Until you destroyed it."
"The guys at Fort Detrick checked out the canister that Mr. Gearing there tried to use in Sydney, Dr. Brightling. If you're looking for sympathy from me, pal, you've called the wrong number."
"So, what are you going to do?" Just as he finished the question, the helicopter lifted off and headed for the power-plant building, delivering the rest of Connolly's explosives, Clark figured.
"I've thought about that."
"You killed our people!" Carol Brightling snarled, as though it meant something.
"The ones who were carrying weapons in a combat zone, yeah, and I imagine they would have shot at my people if they'd had a chance-but we don't give freebies."
From 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 ) To 11/10/1998 is 2854 days
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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 9/29/1969 ( premiere US TV series "Love, American Style" ) is 1427 days
From 1/17/1991 ( the Persian Gulf War begins ) To 11/10/1998 is 2854 days
2854 = 1427 + 1427
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 9/29/1969 ( premiere US TV series "Love, American Style" ) is 1427 days
From 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 ) To 11/10/1998 is 2854 days
2854 = 1427 + 1427
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 9/29/1969 ( premiere US TV series "The Survivors" ) is 1427 days
From 1/17/1991 ( the Persian Gulf War begins ) To 11/10/1998 is 2854 days
2854 = 1427 + 1427
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 9/29/1969 ( premiere US TV series "The Survivors" ) is 1427 days
From 9/22/1942 ( premiere US film "Overland Mail" ) To 9/30/1975 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the United States Navy test pilot was the primary test pilot for the first flight of the Hughes and McDonnell Douglas AH-64 Apache attack helicopter and for the United States Army AH-64 Apache test program ) is 12061 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 11/10/1998 is 12061 days
From 1/16/1979 ( Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi flees Iran ) To 11/10/1998 is 7238 days
7238 = 3619 + 3619
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 9/30/1975 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the United States Navy test pilot was the primary test pilot for the first flight of the Hughes and McDonnell Douglas AH-64 Apache attack helicopter and for the United States Army AH-64 Apache test program ) is 3619 days
From 4/18/1988 ( the United States Navy Operation Praying Mantis ) To 11/10/1998 is 3858 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 5/26/1976 ( premiere US film "Mother, Jugs & Speed" ) is 3858 days
From 8/7/1975 ( the unpublished true birthdate of Linsey Dawn McKenzie & the birthdate of Charlize Theron ) To 11/10/1998 is 8496 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 2/5/1989 ( premiere US TV miniseries "Lonesome Dove" ) is 8496 days
From 8/7/1975 ( the unpublished true birthdate of Linsey Dawn McKenzie & the birthdate of Charlize Theron ) To 11/10/1998 is 8496 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 2/5/1989 ( premiere US TV series episode "Murder, She Wrote"::"The Search for Peter Kerry" ) is 8496 days
From 12/17/1958 ( premiere US film "Monster on the Campus" ) To 12/25/1991 ( as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) is 12061 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 11/10/1998 is 12061 days
From 12/17/1958 ( premiere US film "The Doctor's Dilemma" ) To 12/25/1991 ( as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) is 12061 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 11/10/1998 is 12061 days
From 10/28/1967 ( Julia Roberts ) To 11/10/1998 is 11336 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 11/15/1996 ( Alger Hiss dead ) is 11336 days
From 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate Columbia South Carolina ) To 11/10/1998 is 2796 days
2796 = 1398 + 1398
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 8/31/1969 ( Rocky Marciano killed in airplane crash ) is 1398 days
From 11/18/1996 ( premiere US film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) To 11/10/1998 is 722 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 10/25/1967 ( premiere US TV series episode "Lost in Space"::"Flight Into the Future" ) is 722 days
From 12/20/1994 ( in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) To 11/10/1998 is 1421 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 9/23/1969 ( premiere US TV series "Marcus Welby, M.D." ) is 1421 days
From 6/6/1944 ( the landings at Normandy begin during World War 2 ) To 11/10/1998 is 19880 days
19880 = 9940 + 9940
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 1/19/1993 ( in Asheville North Carolina as Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess I was seriously wounded by gunfire when I returned fatal gunfire to a fugitive from United States federal justice ) is 9940 days
From 6/13/1929 ( Air traffic flight following established by the United States Coast Guard ) To 6/29/1995 ( the Mir space station docking of the United States space shuttle Atlantis orbiter vehicle mission STS-71 includes my biological brother United States Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan the spacecraft and mission commander and me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-71 pilot astronaut ) is 24122 days
24122 = 12061 + 12061
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 11/10/1998 is 12061 days
From 6/25/1952 ( premiere US film "The Brigand" ) To 7/3/1985 ( premiere US film "Back to the Future" ) is 12061 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 11/10/1998 is 12061 days
From 6/25/1952 ( premiere US film "Has Anybody Seen My Gal" ) To 7/3/1985 ( premiere US film "Back to the Future" ) is 12061 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 11/10/1998 is 12061 days
From 3/15/1957 ( premiere US film "Hit and Run" ) To 3/23/1990 ( premiere US film "Pretty Woman" ) is 12061 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 11/10/1998 is 12061 days
From 8/27/1935 ( premiere US film "Here's to Romance" ) To 9/11/2001 ( the World Trade Center towers destroyed in New York City ) is 24122 days
24122 = 12061 + 12061
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 11/10/1998 is 12061 days
From 7/28/1933 ( the first Western Union singing telegram ) To 8/5/1966 ( groundbreaking of the World Trade Center in New York City New York ) is 12061 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 11/10/1998 is 12061 days
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The Seattle Times
Friday, April 21, 2000
Long trail of tips led police to Yates
By Kim Barker
Seattle Times staff reporter
In the end, hundreds of possibilities, thousands of tips, more than a million dollars and 18 dead women led to a shiny white 1977 Corvette worth $10,000.
Robert Lee Yates Jr. once owned that car, once worked on it in his front yard. It was his baby, and ultimately the reason he was arrested, even though he sold it two years ago. When investigators finally looked inside, they found the things that murder cases are made of.
Yates, a 47-year-old father of five who once flew helicopters in the U.S. Army, has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of Jennifer Joseph, a 16-year-old girl who died of gunshot wounds in August 1997.
Yates time line
Nov. 10, 1998 - Yates is stopped while driving his 1985 Honda Civic in an area frequented by prostitutes; inside is a woman described as a known prostitute. Yates told officer he picked up the woman to give her a ride home at her father's request.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1998-11-11/business/9811110299_1_microsoft-partner-steven-holley-intel
Chicago Tribune
Intel Exec Stands By Testimony
November 11, 1998 By Andrew Zajac, Tribune Staff Writer.
WASHINGTON — Intel Corp. executive Steven McGeady, under cross-examination Tuesday in the Microsoft antitrust trial, acknowledged that Intel blundered when it developed multimedia technology for a soon-to-be-replaced version of Microsoft's Windows operating system. But he refused to yield on his contention that the technology was shelved because of Microsoft's threats.
A Microsoft lawyer spent the afternoon attacking McGeady as a poorly-informed malcontent in an attempt to undo his testimony that Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates threatened to withhold vital support for Intel microprocessors unless Intel ceased development of multimedia software known as native signal processing, or NSP.
Earlier in the day, the government concluded its direct examination of McGeady by introducing notes in which McGeady quoted Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates telling Intel officials on July 11, 1995, that "this antitrust thing will blow over" and informing them that "we haven't changed our business practices at all."
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WORLD TRADE CENTER
WTC Timeline
Key Dates
Demolition at the site began with the clearance of thirteen square blocks of low rise buildings for constru ction of the World Trade Center. Groundbreaking for the construction began on August 5, 1966.
http://www.nytimes.com/1983/02/10/business/the-singing-telegram-at-50.html
The New York Times
THE SINGING TELEGRAM AT 50
Published: February 10, 1983
When the Postal Telegraph-Cable Company delivered what it claimed was the world's first singing telegram on Feb. 10, 1933, it may have been 50 years or so ahead of its time. The idea was good, but not good enough to save its telegraph business, and the company soon merged with Western Union.
The idea, however, lived on. Today, after many lean years, the singing telegram has re-emerged as a multimillion-dollar business offered through a network of musical competitors - which typically charge $25 to $100 per delivery. And a substantial peripheral business in cookie-grams, balloon-grams, stripper-grams and the like has also sprung up.
''In the first 30 years or so it was never done right - it really was not entertainment,'' observed Robert J. Jasper, who says ''starvation'' brought him to found a singing telegram company, Western Onion, four years ago. ''It was only in the last few years that companies like mine all over the country have made it entertainment. I call it vaudeville to go.''
But the singing telegram business has long had a touch of vaudeville. On July 28, 1933, a Western Union operator named Lucille Lipps sang ''Happy Birthday'' to Rudy Vallee. Mr. Vallee later recalled the episode as ''a phony stunt by the publicity people,'' although Western Union recalls it as the first singing telegram.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/attack-on-america
HISTORY
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
Sep 11, 2001:
Attack on America
At 8:45 a.m. on a clear Tuesday morning, an American Airlines Boeing 767 loaded with 20,000 gallons of jet fuel crashes into the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. The impact left a gaping, burning hole near the 80th floor of the 110-story skyscraper, instantly killing hundreds of people and trapping hundreds more in higher floors. As the evacuation of the tower and its twin got underway, television cameras broadcasted live images of what initially appeared to be a freak accident. Then, 18 minutes after the first plane hit, a second Boeing 767--United Airlines Flight 175--appeared out of the sky, turned sharply toward the World Trade Center, and sliced into the south tower at about the 60th floor. The collision caused a massive explosion that showered burning debris over surrounding buildings and the streets below. America was under attack.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/266986/Alger-Hiss
Encyclopædia Britannica
Alger Hiss
Alger Hiss, (born November 11, 1904, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.—died November 15, 1996, New York, New York), former U.S. State Department official who was convicted in January 1950 of perjury concerning his dealings with Whittaker Chambers, who accused him of membership in a communist espionage ring. His case, which came at a time of growing apprehension about the domestic influence of communism, seemed to lend substance to Senator Joseph R. McCarthy’s sensational charges of communist infiltration into the State Department. It also brought to national attention Richard M. Nixon, then a U.S. representative from California, who was prominent in the investigation that led to the indictment of Hiss.
Hiss was a graduate of Johns Hopkins University (A.B., 1926; Phi Beta Kappa) and of Harvard Law School (1926–29) and was law clerk (1929–30) to Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. In 1933 he entered government service in Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration and served successively in the Departments of Agriculture, Justice, and State. He attended the Yalta Conference (1945) as an adviser to Roosevelt and later served as temporary secretary-general of the United Nations (San Francisco Conference). In 1946 he was elected president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a position he held until 1949.
In 1948 Chambers, a self-professed former courier for a communist underground “apparatus” in Washington, D.C., accused Hiss of having been a member of the same “apparatus” before World War II. Hiss denied the charge, which was originally made before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. When Chambers repeated the charge publicly, away from the House committee chamber where his words were protected by congressional immunity, Hiss sued him for slander. On December 6, 1948, the House committee released sworn testimony by Chambers that Hiss had provided him (Chambers) with certain classified State Department papers for transmission to a Soviet agent. Hiss promptly denied the accusation “without qualification.” In a federal grand-jury investigation of the case, both Chambers and Hiss testified; and Hiss was indicted on December 15 on two charges of perjury, specifically charging that Hiss lied both when he denied that he had given any documents to Chambers and when he testified that he did not talk to Chambers after January 1, 1937. Arraigned, Hiss pleaded not guilty. Hiss’s first trial in 1949 ended in a hung jury. In the second trial, which ended early in 1950, he was found guilty. At both trials Chambers’s sanity was a prominent issue. After serving more than three years of a five-year prison sentence, Hiss was released in 1954, still asserting his innocence. During the following decades the issue of Hiss’s guilt was kept open by outspoken defenders, principally from the American political left, who consistently maintained that he had been unjustly convicted.
In 1992 Hiss asked Russian officials to check the newly opened archives of the former Soviet Union for information pertaining to the case. Later that year General Dmitri A. Volkogonov, a historian and chairman of the Russian government’s military intelligence archives, announced that a comprehensive search had revealed no evidence that Hiss had been involved in a Soviet spy ring. Many scholars, however, doubted that any search could divulge all the secrets of the complex Soviet intelligence operation—Volkogonov’s search did not include Soviet military intelligence files—and therefore felt that the question of Hiss’s innocence remained unresolved. In 1996 the release of secret Soviet cables that had been intercepted by U.S. intelligence during World War II provided strong evidence for Hiss’s guilt.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051948/releaseinfo
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Monster on the Campus (1958)
Release Info
USA 17 December 1958 (Bismarck, North Dakota)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052744/releaseinfo
IMDb
The Doctor's Dilemma (1958)
Release Info
USA 17 December 1958 (New York City, New York)
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IMDb
Julia Roberts
Biography
Date of Birth 28 October 1967 , Smyrna, Georgia, USA
Birth Name Julia Fiona Roberts
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1439351/releaseinfo
IMDb
Lonesome Dove (TV Mini-Series)
Leaving (1989)
Release Info
USA 5 February 1989
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1439351/
IMDb
Lonesome Dove: Season 1, Episode 1
Leaving (5 Feb. 1989)
TV Episode
Release Date: 5 February 1989 (USA)
http://www.tv.com/shows/murder-she-wrote/the-search-for-peter-kerry-15273/
tv.com
Murder, She Wrote Season 5 Episode 11
The Search for Peter Kerry
Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Feb 05, 1989 on CBS
After going to the funeral of an old friend, Jessica is caught up in the middle of a twenty-year-old mystery when it seems her friend's missing son may have turned up ... with no memory of who he was.
AIRED: 2/5/89
http://www.uscg.mil/history/webaircraft/CGAviationHistory1916_1938.pdf
A Chronological History of Coast Guard Aviation
Page 4
Historical Timeline of Events
The Early Years 1915-1938
1929 13 June Air Traffic Flight Following Established by USCG
Page 41
1929 – Air Traffic Flight Following Established By USCG:
The great expansion of the Coast Guard incident to anti-smuggling activities during the Prohibition years brought about a major expansion in radio communication capabilities. Prior to that time cutters were equipped with Navy type radio equipment and used Navy frequencies for handling ship-shore traffic. The need developed for a vast and far reaching radio communication service than could be provided by other sources. In addition to traffic generated by the increased number of cutters there was a tremendous amount of traffic to and from the large number of patrol boats. There was also, for the first time, the requirement for aircraft radio communication. Coast Guard aircraft of this period were allocated International Wireless Telegraphy call signs as a means of identification. To take care of this traffic, a shore radio station was established at Rockaway, New York. This station proved highly successful and as a result additional units were established at Nahant, Massachusetts; New London, Connecticut; Cape May, New Jersey; Cape Henry, Virginia; Fernandina, Florida; Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Mobile, Alabama; San Francisco, California; San Pedro, California; Port Angeles, Washington; and Anacortes, Washington.
While performing law enforcement duties the Coast Guard was simultaneously engaged in search and rescue operations. The radio communications network was of tremendous value in identifying, locating, and directing aid to those in peril on the sea. Beginning in 1929, initial steps were taken to establish a radio communication network for aircraft. Inaugurated along the Atlantic Seaboard, the aim was to keep track of all aircraft using the coastal routes. Aircraft departure and arrival times were given and by means of check times provided when abeam a designated station; aircraft on long distance flights were afforded continual radio observation and contact. With no additional cost to the Government, adequate monitoring of airborne traffic was provided. There was a chain of lifeboat stations along the coast with land line connections. These were depicted on the air-navigation charts. When an accident did occur or help was needed, the nearest Coast Guard station was ready with immediate assistance.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/shah-flees-iran
HISTORY
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
Jan 16, 1979:
Shah flees Iran
Faced with an army mutiny and violent demonstrations against his rule, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, the leader of Iran since 1941, is forced to flee the country. Fourteen days later, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the spiritual leader of the Islamic revolution, returned after 15 years of exile and took control of Iran.
In 1941, British and Soviet troops occupied Iran, and the first Pahlavi shah, who they regarded with suspicion, was forced to abdicate in favor of his son, Mohammad Reza. The new shah promised to act as a constitutional monarch but often meddled in the elected government's affairs. After a Communist plot against him was thwarted in 1949, he took on even more powers. However, in the early 1950s, the shah was eclipsed by Mohammad Mosaddeq, a zealous Iranian nationalist who convinced the Parliament to nationalize Britain's extensive oil interests in Iran. Mohammad Reza, who maintained close relations with Britain and the United States, opposed the decision. Nevertheless, he was forced in 1951 to appoint Mosaddeq premier, and two years of tension followed.
In August 1953, Mohammad Reza attempted to dismiss Mosaddeq, but the premier's popular support was so great that the shah himself was forced out of Iran. A few days later, British and U.S. intelligence agents orchestrated a stunning coup d'etat against Mosaddeq, and the shah returned to take power as the sole leader of Iran. He repealed Mosaddeq's legislation and became a close Cold War ally of the United States in the Middle East.
In 1963, the shah launched his "White Revolution," a broad government program that included land reform, infrastructure development, voting rights for women, and the reduction of illiteracy. Although these programs were applauded by many in Iran, Islamic leaders were critical of what they saw as the westernization of Iran. Ruhollah Khomeini, a Shiite cleric, was particularly vocal in his criticism and called for the overthrow of the shah and the establishment of an Islamic state. In 1964, Khomeini was exiled and settled across the border in Iraq, where he sent radio messages to incite his supporters.
The shah saw himself foremost as a Persian king and in 1971 held an extravagant celebration of the 2,500th anniversary of the pre-Islamic Persian monarchy. In 1976, he formally replaced the Islamic calendar with a Persian calendar. Religious discontent grew, and the shah became more repressive, using his brutal secret police force to suppress opposition. This alienated students and intellectuals in Iran, and support for Khomeini grew. Discontent was also rampant in the poor and middle classes, who felt that the economic developments of the White Revolution had only benefited the ruling elite. In 1978, anti-shah demonstrations broke out in Iran's major cities.
On September 8, 1978, the shah's security force fired on a large group of demonstrators, killing hundreds and wounding thousands. Two months later, thousands took to the streets of Tehran, rioting and destroying symbols of westernization, such as banks and liquor stores. Khomeini called for the shah's immediate overthrow, and on December 11 a group of soldiers mutinied and attacked the shah's security officers. With that, his regime collapsed and the shah fled.
The shah traveled to several countries before entering the United States in October 1979 for medical treatment of his cancer. In Tehran, Islamic militants responded on November 4 by storming the U.S. embassy and taking the staff hostage. With the approval of Khomeini, the militants demanded the return of the shah to Iran to stand trial for his crimes. The United States refused to negotiate, and 52 American hostages were held for 444 days. Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi died in Egypt in July 1980.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035165/releaseinfo
IMDb
Overland Mail (1942)
Release Info
USA 22 September 1942
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035165/plotsummary
IMDb
Overland Mail (1942)
Plot Summary
Government agents Jim Lane and Sierra Pete are sent to investigate the breakdown of the U.S. Mail delivery in the La Paz country, which is carried by the Overland Company operated by Tom Gilbert and his daughter Barbara. Aided by their friend, Buckskin Bill Burke, they discover that Frank Chadwick, using white renegades disguised as Indians, is behind the trouble as he wants the mail franchise owned by Gilbert's stage line.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100405/releaseinfo
IMDb
Pretty Woman (1990)
Release Info
USA 23 March 1990
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050512/releaseinfo
IMDb
Hit and Run (1957)
Release Info
USA 15 March 1957
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050512/plotsummary
IMDb
Hit and Run (1957)
Plot Summary
Garage owner Gus Hilmer marries showgirl Julie, many years his junior, and this causes a conflict between Gus and Frankie, a young mechanic he has befriended. FRankie falls in love with Julie and she, as expected in any Hugo Hass film, can not resist his advances. Frankie puts together an automobile out of parts lying around in Gus's junkyard, and forces Julie to accompany him, as he follows Gus and runs him down on a lonely road, and later dismantles the car/murder weapon. Unexpected by the lovers, but not any audience that had seen any Hass film, his twin brother, just release from prison, turns up at the reading of the will, and moves in as half-owner of the garage. So, he and his brother's widow then get together and knock off Frankie? No, nothing that simple from Hair-Shirt Hugo.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026467/releaseinfo
IMDb
Here's to Romance (1935)
Release Info
USA 27 August 1935 (premiere)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043873/releaseinfo
IMDb
Has Anybody Seen My Gal (1952)
Release Info
USA 25 June 1952 (Los Angeles, California)
http://www.tv.com/shows/love-american-style/love-and-a-couple-of-couples-166355/
tv.com
Love, American Style Season 1 Episode 1
Love and a Couple of Couples
Aired Friday 10:00 PM Sep 29, 1969 on ABC
AIRED: 9/29/69
http://www.e-reading.org.ua/bookreader.php/71211/Clancy_-_Rainbow_Six.html
Tom Clancy
Rainbow Six
CHAPTER 39
HARMONY
"You think we should all live in harmony with nature, right?"
"If you want the planet to survive, yes," John Brightling said. His wife's eyes were filled with hatred and defiance, but also curiosity now.
"Fine." Clark nodded. "Stand up and get undressed, all of you. Dump your clothes right here."
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19991116&slug=2995632
The Seattle Times
Tuesday, November 16, 1999
Eastside Business
Corbis Courts Online Consumers
By Gordon Black
Seattle Times Technology Reporter
THE DIGITAL-IMAGE company expands its photo collection and adds a Web-based gallery that will sell a limited number of handmade prints.
If a thousand words can be distilled to one picture, how many photographs would you need to represent 160 years of photography? Try 65 million, which is the number of images held by Bellevue-based Corbis, the privately held company founded by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates.
In an effort to continue extending its appeal, Corbis this week is introducing two offerings from its extensive collection of digital images. Both are aimed at consumers, which the company sees as a growing market.
The announcement came at ImageScape '99, a trade show in Las Vegas being held in conjunction with the Comdex computer trade show.
Gates, who created Corbis with a vision for a day when using digital images would be commonplace, made his first major speech about Corbis this morning at ImageScape.
"Corbis is 10 years old. In a lot of ways it was ahead of its time. . . . It takes a lot of pieces for an industry to come together in a totally digital approach," Gates said.
Gates said that increased bandwidth - the capacity of Internet connections to computers - should top the list of improvements to make digital photo transfers easier.
Indeed, when Gates created Corbis it was with the expectation that computers would change photography in much the same way the PC affected the ability to write, store and move text. But it has taken longer to reach a critical mass than Gates expected.
http://flashforward.hypnoweb.net/episodes/saison-1/118--l-infiltree/script-vo.154.321/
hypnoweb.net
FLASHFORWARD
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
OLIVIA: How did you get in here?
[Gabriel takes the earplugs out of his ears.]
GABRIEL: I know you.
OLIVIA: My husband is FBI, okay? So there's an agent right out front. I'm gonna call him and he's gonna take you...
GABRIEL: [interrupts] The Pixies. The Pixies. You were there. You were there. You, you wore a purple beret. The drink spilled on the lady in front. She got mad. She got so mad. [chuckles] I was there too, with my handler, Barry. Barry lost his job for taking me to a Pixies concert. They closed with, "Wave of Mutilation."
[Olivia drops her purse on the floor. She is stunned.]
OLIVIA: The summer after med school?
GABRIEL: I was at Scott's wedding at the vineyard. Remember Scott's wedding at the vineyard? Your dress was turquoise. You cried. It was sad, so sad. They served many corndogs.
OLIVIA: I don't know who you are. What do you want from me?
GABRIEL: I'm Gabriel McDow. I told you that. I said, I definitely said that already. You have to remember things, Olivia.
http://flashforward.hypnoweb.net/episodes/saison-1/118--l-infiltree/script-vo.154.321/
hypnoweb.net
FLASHFORWARD
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
GABRIEL: [yells] No, don't go! Don't go! The proof of the pudding is in the eating! Don't buy coffee today! Don't buy coffee today from the man who looks like Mr. Clean! Don't buy coffee today!
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 10:33 PM Pacific Time somewhere near Seattle Washington USA Monday 16 June 2014
