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Episode 14 - "The Variable"
WIDMORE: Did I say something to upset you?
FARADAY: It's this plane crash. I don't know why it's bothering me so much. [Whispers] it's just so sad. They're dead.
WIDMORE: Daniel, what if I told you... they're not dead? What if I told you the plane was a fake? An elaborate... [scoffs] expensive fake.
FARADAY: [Sighs] How would you know that?
WIDMORE: Because I put it there.
FARADAY: Well... why would you tell me that?
WIDMORE: Because come tomorrow, you won't remember I did. Daniel, the real Oceanic Flight 815 crashed on an island--a special island with unique scientific properties. I want to send you to the Island. It will further your research, show you things you'd never dream of. But more importantly, it will heal you, Daniel--your mind, your memory.
FARADAY: H--heal me? W--why are you doing all this for me?
WIDMORE: Because you're a man of tremendous gifts, and it would be a shame to see them go to waste.
FARADAY: [Chuckles] You sound like my mother.
WIDMORE: [Chuckles] That's because we're old friends.
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Episode 1 - "Pilot, Part 1"
LOCKE: Hey! Hey, hey, hey, get away from there!
[The guy gets sucked into the engine and the engine explodes.
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Barack Obama [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
XLIV President of the United States: 2009 - present [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
Remarks at the National Academy of Sciences
April 27, 2009
And I'd like to begin today with a story of a previous visitor who also addressed this august body. In April of 1921, Albert Einstein visited the United States for the first time. And his international credibility was growing as scientists around the world began to understand and accept the vast implications of his theories of special and general relativity. And he attended this annual meeting, and after sitting through a series of long speeches by others, he reportedly said, "I have just got a new theory of eternity." [Laughter] So I will do my best to heed this cautionary tale. [Laughter]
From 8/3/1998 ( Tom Clancy "Rainbow Six" ) To 4/27/2009 is 3920 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 7/27/1976 ( the first reported death from Legionnaires' disease) is 3920 days
From 7/25/1947 ( the United States National Security Act passes congress ) To 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 ) is 15882 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 4/27/2009 is 15882 days
From 7/25/1947 ( the United States National Security Act passes congress ) To 1/17/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Persian Gulf War begins as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 15882 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 4/27/2009 is 15882 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 4/27/2009 is 6675 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 2/11/1984 ( Ronald Reagan - Radio Address to the Nation on United States-Soviet Relations ) is 6675 days
From 1/17/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Persian Gulf War begins as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) To 4/27/2009 is 6675 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 2/11/1984 ( Ronald Reagan - Radio Address to the Nation on United States-Soviet Relations ) is 6675 days
From 2/17/1909 ( Geronimo deceased ) To 2/5/1996 ( premiere US TV series "Second Noah" ) is 31764 days
31764 = 15882 + 15882
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 4/27/2009 is 15882 days
From 1/5/1950 ( premiere US film "Dream No More" ) To 4/27/2009 is 21662 days
21662 = 10831 + 10831
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 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 10831 days
From 5/8/1994 ( premiere US TV miniseries Stephen King's "The Stand" ) To 4/27/2009 is 5468 days
5468 = 2734 + 2734
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 4/28/1973 ( Jorge Garcia ) is 2734 days
From 9/22/2004 ( premiere US TV series "Lost" ) To 4/27/2009 is 1678 days
1678 = 839 + 839
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 2/19/1968 ( premiere US TV series "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" ) is 839 days
From 11/25/1961 ( the United States Navy warship USS Enterprise CVN 65 commissioned into United States Navy battle force fleet active service - the first atomic propulsion aircraft carrier ) To 4/27/2009 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 ( Bill Gates-Microsoft-George Bush kills 111 passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 232 and destroys the United Airlines Flight 232 aircraft because I was a passenger of United Airlines Flight 232 as United States Navy Petty Officer Second Class Kerry Wayne Burgess and I was assigned to maintain custody of a non-violent offender military prisoner of the United States ) is 8660 days
From 12/11/1998 ( premiere US film "Star Trek: Insurrection" ) To 4/27/2009 is 3790 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 3/19/1976 ( premiere US TV movie "Time Travelers" ) is 3790 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 4/27/2009 is 5242 days
5242 = 2621 + 2621
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 1/5/1973 ( premiere US TV movie "In Search of Ancient Astronauts" ) is 2621 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 4/27/2009 is 5242 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 3/10/1980 ( premiere US TV series "From Here to Eternity" ) is 5242 days
From 2/11/1996 ( premiere US TV series episode "Space: Above And Beyond"::"The Angriest Angel" ) To 4/27/2009 is 4824 days
4824 = 2412 + 2412
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 6/10/1972 ( premiere US film "Spook!" ) is 2412 days
From 2/11/1996 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Simpsons"::"Bart the Fink" ) To 4/27/2009 is 4824 days
4824 = 2412 + 2412
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 6/10/1972 ( premiere US film "Spook!" ) is 2412 days
From 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 ) To 4/27/2009 is 5942 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 2/8/1982 ( premiere US TV series episode "In Search of..."::"The Walls of Jericho" ) is 5942 days
From 3/28/1963 ( premiere US film "The Birds" ) To 9/20/2006 ( premiere US TV series "Jericho" ) is 15882 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 4/27/2009 is 15882 days
From 12/25/1991 ( as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) To 4/27/2009 is 6333 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 3/6/1983 ( premiere US TV movie "Baby Sister" ) is 6333 days
From 12/25/1991 ( as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) To 4/27/2009 is 6333 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 3/6/1983 ( premiere US TV movie "Once Upon a Time Lord" ) is 6333 days
From 9/21/1947 ( Stephen King ) To 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 ) is 15882 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 4/27/2009 is 15882 days
From 7/25/1986 ( premiere US film "Maximum Overdrive" ) To 4/27/2009 is 8312 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 8/5/1988 ( premiere US film "The Blob" ) is 8312 days
From 2/1/1954 ( Billy Mumy ) To 7/27/1997 ( premiere US TV series "Stargate SG-1" ) is 15882 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 4/27/2009 is 15882 days
From 5/11/1918 ( Richard Phillips Feynman ) To 11/3/1961 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Twilight Zone"::"It's a Good Life" ) is 15882 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 4/27/2009 is 15882 days
From 10/28/1955 ( Microsoft Bill Gates the transvestite and 100% female gender as born and the Soviet Union prostitute and the cowardly International Terrorist violently against the United States of America actively instigates insurrection and subversive activity against the USA and United Nations chartered allies ) To 4/27/2009 is 19540 days
19540 = 9770 + 9770
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From 1/12/1997 ( premiere US TV series "King of the Hill" ) To 4/27/2009 is 4488 days
4488 = 2244 + 2244
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 12/25/1971 ( 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 ) is 2244 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 3/6/2003 ( premiere US film "Dreamcatcher" ) is 13638 days
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A SCARE IN THE SKIES Jet flyover in Manhattan spurs panic Little warning given; White House [ NAZI PROPAGANDA ]aide issues apology over staged event
By ROCCO PARASCANDOLA and JENNIFER MALONEY NEWSDAY
Tue 04/28/2009
Houston Chronicle
NEW YORK - Call it a photo flop.
The White House late Monday apologized for a photo-op and military training exercise involving two low-flying aircraft - a presidential plane and an F-16 fighter jet just above downtown Manhattan that sparked fears and panic of another Sept. 11.
The New York Police Department knew. The 911 dispatchers knew. And Mayor Mike Bloomberg's citywide event coordination and management director, Marc Mugnos, knew. In fact, the FAA and several other public agencies knew.
Administration officials said planning started in mid-March and told the FAA to make the airspace available.
But the mayor abruptly found out about Monday morning's fighter jet photo-op and military training mission via complaints sent to his BlackBerry, as thousands of New Yorkers fled several lower Manhattan buildings and made frantic phone calls.
Because Mugnos didn't tell the mayor about the planned flyover, he has been reprimanded and a disciplinary letter has been placed in his file, a Bloomberg spokesman said Monday.
An Obama administration official said the photo-op was intended to update a photo of Air Force One with the Statue of Liberty. An administration official last night said "the president was furious when he heard about the flight."
Bloomberg later said had he known about the flyover, he would have moved to stop it. Bloomberg also blasted the White House for signing off on a publicity stunt it should have known would backfire.
"I'm annoyed - furious is a better word," Bloomberg said. "Why … the Defense Department wanted to do a photo-op right around the site of the World Trade Center catastrophe defies imagination."
By late Monday, the White House had apologized.
"While federal authorities took the proper steps to notify state and local authorities in New York and New Jersey, it's clear that the mission created confusion and disruption," said Louis Caldera, director of the White House Military Office. "I apologize and take responsibility for any distress that flight caused."
The exercise seemed well-intentioned enough: An F-16 fighter jet, tailing a presidential Boeing 747, known in the military as a VC-25 aircraft and used by President Barack Obama, would race through the skies over lower Manhattan, allowing Air Force photographers to take pictures with the Statue of Liberty in the background.
To save money, it was done in coordination with a military training exercise, said a White House official.
But many New Yorkers, completely unaware, reacted as if terrorists were about to strike. People in several buildings evacuated.
The NYPD said witnesses put the height of the planes at no more than 500 feet. That's substantially less than the 1,000 to 1,500 feet the planes were supposed to fly, according to a classified letter sent by the Federal Aviation Administration to a number of agencies last Friday.
That left New Yorkers on their own to figure out what was happening. "We thought we were under attack again," said Laorie Crystal, 50, of Battery Park City, walking her dog at the time. "It was very scary."
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'Furious' Obama orders review [ NAZI PROPAGANDA ]of NY plane flyover
updated 10:03 p.m. EDT, Tue April 28, 2009
NEW YORK (CNN) -- A "furious" President Obama has ordered a review of the decision to fly a Boeing 747 frighteningly close to the lower Manhattan skyline, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Tuesday.
The review will focus on "why that decision was made and to ensure that it never happens again," Gibbs said. Jim Messina, a deputy chief of staff, will lead the effort.
On Tuesday, Obama told reporters, "It was a mistake. It was something we found out about along with all of you. And it will not happen again."
Officials said that when Obama first found out about the incident, he was "furious."
The incident has led to a large amount of criticism from New Yorkers and politicians.
After a YouTube video showed panicked New Yorkers scrambling as the plane flew frighteningly close to the lower Manhattan skyline
Witnesses reported seeing the plane circle over the Upper New York Bay near the Statue of Liberty before flying up the Hudson River.
The YouTube video shows dozens of people standing in a parking lot, watching the plane approach. As it nears, they begin to run. Someone unleashes an expletive. "Run, run!" says one person. "Oh my God," cries another.
A 911 call released by the Hudson County Sheriff's Department in New Jersey shows the panic caused by the plane.
"There's a plane falling, there is a big aircraft falling like 9/11," a man says to the operator. "Everybody is running and people are crying and panicking."
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Barack Obama
XLIV President of the United States: 2009 - present
Remarks at the National Academy of Sciences
April 27, 2009
Well, thank you so much for the wonderful welcome. To President Cicerone, thank you very much for your leadership and for hosting us today. To John Holdren, thanks, John, for the outstanding work that you are doing.
I was just informed backstage that Ralph and John both are 1965 graduates of MIT, same class. And so I'm not sure this is the perfectly prescribed scientific method, but they're sort of a control group--[laughter]--who ages faster: The President's science adviser or the president of the academy? [Laughter] And we'll check in, in a couple of years. But it is wonderful to see them.
To all of you, to my Cabinet Secretaries and team who are here, thank you. It is a great privilege to address the distinguished members of the National Academy of Sciences, as well as the leaders of the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine who've gathered here this morning.
And I'd like to begin today with a story of a previous visitor who also addressed this august body. In April of 1921, Albert Einstein visited the United States for the first time. And his international credibility was growing as scientists around the world began to understand and accept the vast implications of his theories of special and general relativity. And he attended this annual meeting, and after sitting through a series of long speeches by others, he reportedly said, "I have just got a new theory of eternity." [Laughter] So I will do my best to heed this cautionary tale. [Laughter]
The very founding of this institution stands as a testament to the restless curiosity, the boundless hope so essential not just to the scientific enterprise, but to this experiment we call America. A few months after a devastating defeat at Fredericksburg, before Gettysburg would be won, before Richmond would fall, before the fate of the Union would be at all certain, President Abraham Lincoln signed into law an act creating the National Academy of Sciences, in the midst of civil war.
Lincoln refused to accept that our Nation's sole purpose was mere survival. He created this academy, founded the land-grant colleges, and began the work of the transcontinental railroad, believing that we must add, and I quote, "the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery of new and useful things."
This is America's story. Even in the hardest times, against the toughest odds, we've never given in to pessimism; we've never surrendered our fates to chance; we have endured; we have worked hard; we sought out new frontiers.
Today, of course, we face more complex challenges than we have ever faced before: a medical system that holds the promise of unlocking new cures and treatments, attached to a health care system that holds the potential for bankruptcy to families and businesses; a system of energy that powers our economy, but simultaneously endangers our planet; threats to our security that seek to exploit the very interconnectedness and openness so essential to our prosperity; and challenges in a global marketplace which links the derivative trader on Wall Street to the homeowner on Main Street, the office worker in America to the factory worker in China, a marketplace in which we all share in opportunity, but also in crisis.
At such a difficult moment, there are those who say we cannot afford to invest in science, that support for research is somehow a luxury at moments defined by necessities. I fundamentally disagree. Science is more essential for our prosperity, our security, our health, our environment, and our quality of life than it has ever been before.
And if there was ever a day that reminded us of our shared stake in science and research, it's today. We are closely monitoring the emerging cases of swine flu in the United States. And this is obviously a cause for concern and requires a heightened state of alert. But it's not a cause for alarm. The Department of Health and Human Services has declared a public health emergency as a precautionary tool to ensure that we have the resources we need at our disposal to respond quickly and effectively. And I'm getting regular updates on the situation from the responsible agencies. And the Department of Health and Human Services as well as the Centers for Disease Control will be offering regular updates to the American people. And Secretary Napolitano will be offering regular updates to the American people, as well, so that they know what steps are being taken and what steps they may need to take.
But one thing is clear: Our capacity to deal with a public health challenge of this sort rests heavily on the work of our scientific and medical community. And this is one more example of why we can't allow our Nation to fall behind.
Unfortunately, that's exactly what's happened. Federal funding in the physical sciences as a portion of our gross domestic product has fallen by nearly half over the past quarter century. Time and again we've allowed the research and experimentation tax credit, which helps businesses grow and innovate, to lapse.
Our schools continue to trail other developed countries and, in some cases, developing countries. Our students are outperformed in math and science by their peers in Singapore, Japan, England, the Netherlands, Hong Kong, and Korea, among others. Another assessment shows American 15-year-olds ranked 25th in math and 21st in science when compared to nations around the world. And we have watched as scientific integrity has been undermined and scientific research politicized in an effort to advance predetermined ideological agendas.
We know that our country is better than this. A half century ago, this Nation made a commitment to lead the world in scientific and technological innovation; to invest in education, in research, in engineering; to set a goal of reaching space and engaging every citizen in that historic mission. That was the high water mark of America's investment in research and development. And since then our investments have steadily declined as a share of our national income. As a result, other countries are now beginning to pull ahead in the pursuit of this generation's great discoveries.
Now, I believe it is not in our character, the American character, to follow; it's our character to lead. And it is time for us to lead once again. So I am here today to set this goal: We will devote more than 3 percent of our GDP to research and development. We will not just meet, but we will exceed the level achieved at the height of the space race, through policies that invest in basic and applied research, create new incentives for private innovation, promote breakthroughs in energy and medicine, and improve education in math and science.
This represents the largest commitment to scientific research and innovation in American history. Just think what this will allow us to accomplish: solar cells as cheap as paint; green buildings that produce all the energy they consume; learning software as effective as a personal tutor; prosthetics so advanced that you could play the piano again; an expansion of the frontiers of human knowledge about ourselves and world the around us. We can do this.
The pursuit of discovery half a century ago fueled our prosperity and our success as a nation in the half century that followed. The commitment I am making today will fuel our success for another 50 years. That's how we will ensure that our children and their children will look back on this generation's work as that which defined the progress and delivered the prosperity of the 21st century.
This work begins with a historic commitment to basic science and applied research, from the labs of renowned universities to the proving grounds of innovative companies. Through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and with the support of Congress, my administration is already providing the largest single boost to investment in basic research in American history. That's already happened.
This is important right now, as public and private colleges and universities across the country reckon with shrinking endowments and tightening budgets. But this is also incredibly important for our future. As Vannevar Bush, who served as scientific adviser to President Franklin Roosevelt, famously said: "Basic scientific research is scientific capital."
The fact is an investigation into a particular physical, chemical, or biological process might not pay off for a year, or a decade, or at all. And when it does, the rewards are often broadly shared, enjoyed by those who bore its costs but also by those who did not. And that's why the private sector generally under-invests in basic science, and why the public sector must invest in this kind of research, because while the risks may be large, so are the rewards for our economy and our society.
No one can predict what new applications will be born of basic research: new treatments in our hospitals, or new sources of efficient energy; new building materials; new kinds of crops more resistant to heat and to drought. It was basic research in the photoelectric field--in the photoelectric effect that would one day lead to solar panels. It was basic research in physics that would eventually produce the CAT scan. The calculations of today's GPS satellites are based on the equations that Einstein put to paper more than a century ago.
In addition to the investments in the Recovery Act, the budget I've proposed, and versions have now passed both the House and the Senate, builds on the historic investments in research contained in the recovery plan.
So we double the budget of key agencies, including the National Science Foundation, a primary source of funding for academic research; and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which supports a wide range of pursuits from improving health information technology to measuring carbon pollution, from testing smart grid designs to developing advanced manufacturing processes.
And my budget doubles funding for the Department of Energy's Office of Science, which builds and operates accelerators, colliders, supercomputers, high-energy light sources, and facilities for making nano-materials, because we know that a nation's potential for scientific discovery is defined by the tools that it makes available to its researchers.
But the renewed commitment of our Nation will not be driven by Government investment alone. It's a commitment that extends from the laboratory to the marketplace. And that's why my budget makes the research and experimentation tax credit permanent. This is a tax credit that returns $2 to the economy for every dollar we spend, by helping companies afford the often high costs of developing new ideas, new technologies, and new products. Yet, at times, we've allowed it to lapse or only renewed it year to year. I've heard this time and again from entrepreneurs across this country: By making this credit permanent we make it possible for businesses to plan the kinds of projects that create jobs and economic growth.
Second, in no area will innovation be more important than in the development of new technologies to produce, use, and save energy, which is why my administration has made an unprecedented commitment to developing a 21st century clean energy economy, and why we put a scientist in charge of the Department of Energy.
Our future on this planet depends on our willingness to address the challenge posed by carbon pollution. And our future as a nation depends upon our willingness to embrace this challenge as an opportunity to lead the world in pursuit of new discovery.
When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik a little more than a half century ago, Americans were stunned. The Russians had beaten us to space. And we had to make a choice: We could accept defeat or we could accept the challenge. And as always, we chose to accept the challenge.
President Eisenhower signed legislation to create NASA and to invest in science and math education, from grade school to graduate school. And just a few years later, a month after his address to the 1961 annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences, President Kennedy boldly declared before a joint session of Congress that the United States would send a man to the Moon and return him safely to the Earth.
The scientific community rallied behind this goal and set about achieving it. And it would not only lead to those first steps on the Moon, it would lead to giant leaps in our understanding here at home. That Apollo program produced technologies that have improved kidney dialysis and water purification systems, sensors to test for hazardous gasses, energy-saving building materials, fire-resistant fabrics used by firefighters and soldiers. More broadly, the enormous investment in that era--in science and technology, in education and research funding--produced a great outpouring of curiosity and creativity, the benefits of which have been incalculable. There are those of you in this audience who became scientists because of that commitment. We have to replicate that.
There will be no single Sputnik moment for this generation's challenges to break our dependence on fossil fuels. In many ways, this makes the challenge even tougher to solve, and makes it all the more important to keep our eyes fixed on the work ahead.
But energy is our great project--this generation's great project. And that's why I've set a goal for our Nation that we will reduce our carbon pollution by more than 80 percent by 2050. And that is why I'm pursuing, in concert with Congress, the policies that will help meet us--help us meet this goal.
My recovery plan provides the incentives to double our Nation's capacity to generate renewable energy over the next few years, extending the production tax credit, providing loan guarantees, and offering grants to spur investment. Just take one example: Federally funded research and development has dropped the cost of solar panels by tenfold over the last three decades. Our renewed efforts will ensure that solar and other clean energy technologies will be competitive.
My budget includes $150 billion over 10 years to invest in sources of renewable energy as well as energy efficiency. It supports efforts at NASA, recommended as a priority by the National Research Council, to develop new space-based capabilities to help us better understand our changing climate.
And today I'm also announcing that for the first time, we are funding an initiative, recommended by this organization, called the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy, or ARPA-E. This is based, not surprisingly, on DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which was created during the Eisenhower administration in response to Sputnik. It has been charged throughout its history with conducting high-risk, high-reward research. And the precursor to the Internet, known as ARPANET, stealth technology, the Global Positioning System all owe a debt to the work of DARPA.
So ARPA-E seeks to do the same kind of high-risk, high-reward research. My administration will pursue, as well, comprehensive legislation to place a market-based cap on carbon emissions. We will make renewable energy the profitable kind of energy. We will put in place the resources so that scientists can focus on this critical area. And I am confident that we will find a wellspring of creativity just waiting to be tapped by researchers in this room and entrepreneurs across our country. We can solve this problem.
Now, the nation that leads the world in 21st century clean energy will be the nation that leads in the 21st century global economy. I believe America can and must be that nation. But in order to lead in the global economy and to ensure that our businesses can grow and innovate, and our families can thrive, we're also going to have to address the shortcomings of our health care system.
The Recovery Act will support the long overdue step of computerizing America's medical records, to reduce the duplication, waste, and errors that cost billions of dollars and thousands of lives. But it's important to note, these records also hold the potential of offering patients the chance to be more active participants in the prevention and treatment of their diseases. We must maintain patient control over these records and respect their privacy. At the same time, we have the opportunity to offer billions and billions of anonymous data points to medical researchers who may find in this information evidence that can help us better understand disease.
History also teaches us the greatest advances in medicine have come from scientific breakthroughs, whether the discovery of antibiotics, or improved public health practices, vaccines for smallpox and polio and many other infectious diseases, antiretroviral drugs that can return AIDS patients to productive lives, pills that can control certain types of blood cancers, so many others.
Because of recent progress--not just in biology, genetics, and medicine, but also in physics, chemistry, computer science, and engineering--we have the potential to make enormous progress against diseases in the coming decades. And that's why my administration is committed to increasing funding for the National Institutes of Health, including $6 billion to support cancer research, part of a sustained, multiyear plan to double cancer research in our country.
Next, we are restoring science to its rightful place. On March 9th, I signed an executive memorandum with a clear message: Under my administration, the days of science taking a back seat to ideology are over. Our progress as a nation--and our values as a nation--are rooted in free and open inquiry. To undermine scientific integrity is to undermine our democracy. It is contrary to our way of life.
That's why I've charged John Holdren and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy with leading a new effort to ensure that Federal policies are based on the best and most unbiased scientific information. I want to be sure that facts are driving scientific decisions, and not the other way around. [Laughter]
As part of this effort, we've already launched a web site that allows individuals to not only make recommendations to achieve this goal, but to collaborate on those recommendations. It's a small step, but one that's creating a more transparent, participatory, and democratic Government.
We also need to engage the scientific community directly in the work of public policy. And that's why, today, I am announcing the appointment--we are filling out the President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology, known as PCAST, and I intend to work with them closely. Our Cochairs have already been introduced, Dr. Varmus and Dr. Lander, along with John. And this council represents leaders from many scientific disciplines who will bring a diversity of experiences and views. And I will charge PCAST with advising me about national strategies to nurture and sustain a culture of scientific innovation.
In addition to John--sorry, the--I just noticed that I jumped the gun here--go ahead and move it up. [Laughter] I had already introduced all you guys.
In biomedicine, just to give you an example of what PCAST can do, we can harness the historic convergence between life sciences and physical sciences that's underway today; undertaking public projects, in the spirit of the Human Genome Project, to create data and capabilities that fuel discoveries in tens of thousands of laboratories; and identifying and overcoming scientific and bureaucratic barriers to rapidly translating scientific breakthroughs into diagnostics and therapeutics that serve patients.
In environmental science, it will require strengthening our weather forecasting, our Earth observation from space, the management of our Nation's land, water and forests, and the stewardship of our coastal zones and ocean fisheries.
We also need to work with our friends around the world. Science, technology, and innovation proceed more rapidly and more cost-effectively when insights, costs, and risks are shared; and so many of the challenges that science and technology will help us meet are global in character. This is true of our dependence on oil, the consequences of climate change, the threat of epidemic disease, and the spread of nuclear weapons.
And that's why my administration is ramping up participation in--and our commitment to--international science and technology cooperation across the many areas where it is clearly in our interest to do so. In fact, this week, my administration is gathering the leaders of the world's major economies to begin the work of addressing our common energy challenges together.
Fifth, since we know that the progress and prosperity of future generations will depend on what we do now to educate the next generation, today I'm announcing a renewed commitment to education in mathematics and science. This is something I care deeply about. Through this commitment, American students will move from the middle of the top--from the middle to the top of the pack in science and math over the next decade, for we know that the nation that out-educates us today will outcompete us tomorrow. And I don't intend to have us out-educated.
We can't start soon enough. We know that the quality of math and science teachers is the most influential single factor in determining whether a student will succeed or fail in these subjects. Yet in high school more than 20 percent of students in math and more than 60 percent of students in chemistry and physics are taught by teachers without expertise in these fields. And this problem is only going to get worse. There is a projected shortfall of more than 280,000 math and science teachers across the country by 2015. And that's why I'm announcing today that States making strong commitments and progress in math and science education will be eligible to compete later this fall for additional funds under the Secretary of Education's $5 billion Race to the Top program.
And I'm challenging States to dramatically improve achievement in math and science by raising standards, modernizing science labs, upgrading curriculum, and forging partnerships to improve the use of science and technology in our classrooms. I'm challenging States, as well, to enhance teacher preparation and training, and to attract new and qualified math and science teachers to better engage students and reinvigorate those subjects in our schools.
And in this endeavor, we will work to support inventive approaches. Let's create systems that retain and reward effective teachers, and let's create new pathways for experienced professionals to go into the classroom. There are, right now, chemists who could teach chemistry, physicists who could teach physics, statisticians who could teach mathematics. But we need to create a way to bring the expertise and the enthusiasm of these folks--folks like you--into the classroom.
There are States, for example, doing innovative work. I'm pleased to announce that Governor Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania will lead an effort with the National Governors Association to increase the number of States that are making science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education a top priority. Six States are currently participating in the initiative, including Pennsylvania, which has launched an effective program to ensure that the State has the skilled workforce in place to draw the jobs of the 21st century. And I want every State, all 50 States, to participate.
But as you know, our work does not end with a high school diploma. For decades, we led the world in educational attainment, and as a consequence we led the world in economic growth. The GI bill, for example, helps send a generation to college. But in this new economy, we've come to trail other nations in graduation rates, in educational achievement, and in the production of scientists and engineers.
That's why my administration has set a goal that will greatly enhance our ability to compete for the high-wage, high-tech jobs of the future, and to foster the next generation of scientists and engineers. In the next decade, by 2020, America will once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world. That is a goal that we are going to set. And we've provided tax credits and grants to make a college education more affordable.
My budget also triples the number of National Science Foundation graduate research fellowships. This program was created as part of the space race five decades ago. In the decades since, it's remained largely the same size, even as the numbers of students who seek these fellowships has skyrocketed. We ought to be supporting these young people who are pursuing scientific careers, not putting obstacles in their path.
So this is how we will lead the world in new discoveries in this new century. But I think all of you understand it will take far more than the work of Government. It will take all of us. It will take all of you. And so today I want to challenge you to use your love and knowledge of science to spark the same sense of wonder and excitement in a new generation.
America's young people will rise to the challenge if given the opportunity, if called upon to join a cause larger than themselves. We've got evidence. You know, the average age in NASA's mission control during the Apollo 17 mission was just 26. I know that young people today are just as ready to tackle the grand challenges of this century.
So I want to persuade you to spend time in the classroom, talking and showing young people what it is that your work can mean, and what it means to you. I want to encourage you to participate in programs to allow students to get a degree in science fields and a teaching certificate at the same time. I want us all to think about new and creative ways to engage young people in science and engineering, whether it's science festivals, robotics competitions, fairs that encourage young people to create and build and invent, to be makers of things, not just consumers of things.
I want you to know that I'm going to be working alongside you. I'm going to participate in a public awareness and outreach campaign to encourage students to consider careers in science and mathematics and engineering, because our future depends on it. And the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation will be launching a joint initiative to inspire tens of thousands of American students to pursue these very same careers, particularly in clean energy.
It will support an educational campaign to capture the imagination of young people who can help us meet the energy challenge, and will create research opportunities for undergraduates and educational opportunities for women and minorities who too often have been underrepresented in scientific and technological fields, but are no less capable of inventing the solutions that will help us grow our economy and save our planet.
And it will support fellowships and interdisciplinary graduate programs and partnerships between academic institutions and innovative companies to prepare a generation of Americans to meet this generational challenge. For we must always remember that somewhere in America there's an entrepreneur seeking a loan to start a business that could transform an industry, but she hasn't secured it yet. There's a researcher with an idea for an experiment that might offer a new cancer treatment, but he hasn't found the funding yet. There's a child with an inquisitive mind staring up at the night sky. And maybe she has the potential to change our world, but she doesn't know it yet.
As you know, scientific discovery takes far more than the occasional flash of brilliance, as important as that can be. Usually, it takes time and hard work and patience; it takes training; it requires the support of a nation. But it holds a promise like no other area of human endeavor.
In 1968, a year defined by loss and conflict and tumult, Apollo 8 carried into space the first human beings ever to slip beyond Earth's gravity, and the ship would circle the Moon 10 times before returning home. But on its fourth orbit, the capsule rotated and for the first time Earth became visible through the windows. Bill Anders, one of the astronauts aboard Apollo 8, scrambled for a camera, and he took a photo that showed the Earth coming up over the Moon's horizon. It was the first ever taken from so distant a vantage point, and it soon became known as "Earthrise."
Anders would say that the moment forever changed him, to see our world, this pale blue sphere, without borders, without divisions, at once so tranquil and beautiful and alone. "We came all this way to explore the Moon," he said, "and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth."
Yes, scientific innovation offers us a chance to achieve prosperity. It has offered us benefits that have improved our health and our lives, improvements we take too easily for granted. But it gives us something more. At root, science forces us to reckon with the truth as best as we can ascertain it.
And some truths fill us with awe. Others force us to question long-held views. Science can't answer every question, and indeed, it seems at times the more we plumb the mysteries of the physical world, the more humble we must be. Science cannot supplant our ethics or our values, our principles or our faith. But science can inform those things and help put those values--these moral sentiments, that faith--can put those things to work, to feed a child or to heal the sick, to be good stewards of this Earth.
We are reminded that with each new discovery and the new power it brings comes new responsibility; that the fragility, the sheer specialness of life requires us to move past our differences and to address our common problems, to endure and continue humanity's strivings for a better world.
As President Kennedy said when he addressed the National Academy of Sciences more than 45 years ago: "The challenge, in short, may be our salvation."
Thank you all for all your past, present, and future discoveries. May God bless you. God bless the United States of America.
Note: The President spoke at 9:12 a.m.
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THIS DAY AT LAW
Today in legal history...
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Congress passed legislation establishing modern national security structure
Dwyer Arce
On July 25, 1947, the National Security Act of 1947 was passed, establishing a link between the military and national security. The act set up the National Security Council, CIA, Department of Defense and several other new agencies, including the National Military Establishment with three separate departments (the Army, the Navy and the new US Air Force) and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Origins, Missions, and Structure of CIA
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22 SEPT 1993
ORIGIN, MISSIONS, AND STRUCTURE OF CIA
Lyman B. Kirkpatrick
This is a brief summary of the history of the modern origin of the central intelligence concept and thus of the Central Intelligence Agency.
In 1940 the fortunes of Britain and France were at their lowest ebb. Some high-level officials of the US Government were predicting that Great Britain could not hold out against the Germans. To check on this, President Roosevelt sent Colonel William J. Donovan, prominent New York attorney and winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor as Commanding Officer of the 69th Regiment in World War I, abroad to discover and report his estimate of the situation. Donovan first visited the Mediterranean area, and on his second trip talked to leaders of both Britain and France. His report indicated that Britain would hold out, but he urged that the US immediately organize itself for global warfare. Donovan's particular interest was in the intelligence field, and he went to talk to Secretary of the Navy Knox, Secretary of War Stimson, and Attorney General Jackson about his concept of an agency which would combine intelligence with the forces of propaganda and subversion.
On 10 June 1941, Donovan proposed "a service of strategic information." This service would have an advisory panel composed of the chiefs of intelligence of the Army, the Navy, the Department of State, and the FBI. It would draw its personnel from the Army and the Navy and would also have a civilian staff. It would not displace or encroach upon the intelligence prerogatives of the established departments, although it would collect information independently. This was the start of the Office of the Coordinator of Information which combined information, intelligence, and clandestine activities. In 1942, however, the Coordinator of Information was split and the Office of War Information - the predecessor of the present US Information Agency - was created and given the responsibility for all overt attributable propaganda information, and to the Office of Strategic Services went the responsibility for clandestine activities and for research and analysis of intelligence.
From the OSS the present day intelligence community inherited certain assets. Among these were records and some methods and means of procuring both overt and secret intelligence. There were certain basic counterespionage files developed with the advice and assistance of some foreign intelligence services, particularly the British. There was a considerable reservoir of knowledge of procedures for research and analysis of basic intelligence information. There were some skilled personnel. Finally, but far from last in importance, there were agreements with key foreign intelligence services.
The history of the OSS, and particularly its relationship with other US intelligence organizations during World War II, is far too detailed for discussion in this essay. But it should be noted that shortly after the creation of the Office of Strategic Services, top level officials in the US intelligence community started to hunk about a peacetime intelligence service. On 25 August 1942, Brigadier General John Magruder wrote a paper on a proposed plan for a joint intelligence bureau which would be an agency of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. For the next two years there was considerable discussion of this and similar papers.
On 5 October 1944 a document was originated in the office of general Donovan entitled "The Basis for a Permanent World Wide Intelligence Service." Certain of the principles enunciated in this document are interesting to note. This service would collect, analyze, and deliver intelligence on the policy or strategy level. The proposed organization would have its own means of communication and control over its secret operations. It would not interfere with departmental intelligence and it could not have any police function. An individual rather than collective responsibility for national intelligence was proposed. Finally, the director of the proposed organization would be responsible directly to the President.
It is interesting to note that Secretary of War Stimson commented on the subject of intelligence coordination in his biography "On Active Service in Peace and War." This quotation reads: "Stimson was insistent that no impatience with its occasional eccentricities should deprive the Army of the profits of cooperation with General Donovan's Office of Strategic Services. Throughout the war the intelligence activities of the United States Government remained incompletely coordinated, but here again it was necessary to measure the profits of reorganization against its dislocations and on the whole, Stimson felt that the American achievement in this field, measured against the conditions of 1940, was more than satisfactory. A full reorganization belonged to the post war period."
On 18 January 1945, the Joint Strategic Survey Committee reported to the JCS on the subject of a central intelligence organization. The members proposed first a national intelligence authority composed of the Secretaries of State, War, and Navy and the Chief of Staff to the President. There would be an advisory board consisting of the heads of the various intelligence services. The new organization would have the power to inspect the operations of the various departmental intelligence services and would have the responsibility for protecting sources and methods.
At this juncture the press got wind of the discussions for creating a new intelligence organization and, on 9 February 1945, fairly complete details appeared in the Chicago Tribune and the Washington Times Herald. There was considerable furor, and some members of Congress took a dim view of the creation of what they felt might become a peacetime "gestapo."
Shortly after this - just a few days before his death - President Roosevelt asked General Donovan to get together with the heads of the various intelligence and security services and get a consensus of views on a central service. Donovan did this and also went further and queried by letter all of the members of the Cabinet. Within the intelligence community there was general agreement that a central service might be appropriate, but there were several conflicting views as to whether it should report to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to the Department of State, or to the President, and there was also controversy as to whether there should be individual or collective responsibility for national intelligence. The response from the Cabinet members was varied and ranged from yes to no.
After open hostilities had ceased, as we all vividly remember, there was almost frantic haste to demobilize not only the military services but many of the war agencies. On 20 September 1945 the OSS was disbanded. Its Research and Analysis Branch and its Presentation Unit were transferred to the Department of State, its Secret Intelligence and Special Operations Units were transferred to the Army, and the former were reserved in the Strategic Services Unit which reported to the Secretary of the Army.
On 22 October 1945 a report prepared by Ferdinand Eberstadt on possible unification of the Army and Navy recommended a central intelligence organization and a national security council. On 14 November 1945 the Secretaries of State, War, and Navy met, discussed the proposed central intelligence organization, and set up an interdepartmental working committee to attempt to arrive at a unanimous recommendation.
The end product of these reports and committees was the :issuance on 22 January 1946 of the Executive order creating the Central Intelligence Group. This Executive Order reflected such of the thinking and work that had gone on during the war. A National Intelligence Authority was created, composed of he Secretaries of State, War, and Navy and the Military Chief of Staff to the President. The Director of the Central Intelligence Group was designated by the President, and personnel sere to be assigned from the respective departments as well as recruited from civilian life. The Director of the new Central Intelligence Group was charged by the Executive Order with preparing plans for coordination. The new organization could inspect the activities of departmental intelligence if such inspection were approved by the National Intelligence Authority. It could recommend policies and objectives. It was responsible for correlating, evaluating, and disseminating intelligence and for the performance of services of common concern and such other functions as directed. The Executive Order explicitly stated that the departments would continue to collect, evaluate, correlate, and disseminate departmental intelligence. Finally, an Intelligence Advisory Board, composed of the heads of the service intelligence agencies, was established to advise the Director of the Central Intelligence Group.
With the creation of the Central Intelligence Group there commenced a process of accretion of functions taken from the wartime agencies and from departments which were anticipating reductions in budget under peacetime conditions. The Strategic Services Unit was transferred from the Department of the Army and became the Office of Special Operations - charged with espionage and counterespionage functions. The Washington Document Center was taken over from the Navy and shortly after that the Army's German Military Documents Center at Fort Holabird joined this unit and together became the Foreign Documents Division. The Foreign Broadcast Information Service, an organization with worldwide bases for monitoring all non-coded radio traffic, which had originally been under the Federal Communications Commission, was transferred from the Army and became the Foreign Broadcast Information Division. During World War II the Army and Navy and OSS and occasionally other agencies had all approached US businesses and institutions in search of foreign intelligence information. An early agreement was reached that this domestic collection should be performed as a service of common concern by Central Intelligence with other agencies participating as they desired, and this became the Contact Division. Another illustration of the type of functions taken on is the division of responsibilities with the Department of State on biographic intelligence. The list would be much too long if we attempted to enumerate all of the functions acquired in this method.
Slightly over a year and a half after the creation of the CIG-on 25 July 1947-the Congress, utilizing most of the features of this Executive Order, passed the National Security Act of 1947 creating the Central Intelligence Agency.
https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2008-featured-story-archive/national-security-act-of-1947.html
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
News & Information
A Look Back … The National Security Act of 1947
President Harry S. Truman signed the National Security Act of 1947 (P.L. 80-235, 61 Stat 496) on July 26, 1947. The act – an intricate series of compromises – took well over a year to craft. It remained the charter of the U.S. national security establishment until significantly altered with the passage of the National Security Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of December 2004, which created the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
This landmark legislation reorganized and modernized the US armed forces, foreign policy, and the Intelligence Community apparatus. It directed a major reorganization of the foreign policy and military establishments of the US government. And it created many of the institutions that US presidents would find useful when formulating and implementing foreign policy.
A Brief Overview of the Act
The act:
Established the National Security Council (NSC)
Merged the War and Navy departments into the National Military Establishment (NME) headed by the secretary of defense, and
Recognized the US Air Force as an independent service from the Army.
From 5/15/1984 ( as Kerry Wayne Burgess I began active service for an enlistment period of six years as a United States Navy enlisted sailor and circa 2012 my United States of America military service continues as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps lieutenant general ) To 8/27/2004 is 7409 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 2/14/1986 ( premiere US film "The Delta Force" ) is 7409 days
[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2014/06/you-got-time-rostov.html ]
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/27/politics/27CND-INTE.html
The New York Times
Bush Signs Order Bolstering C.I.A. Director's Power
By DOUGLAS JEHL and DAVID E. SANGER
Published: August 27, 2004
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 — President Bush issued a new order today enhancing the powers of the director of central intelligence, but the White House acknowledged that new legislation still was needed to establish the kind of strong national intelligence director recommended by the independent Sept. 11 commission.
The move, along with a separate order to establish a new national counterterrorism center, was described by the White House as a "down payment"
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http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=12715
The American Presidency Project
Harry S. Truman
XXXIII President of the United States: 1945-1953
157 - Statement by the President on the Dangers of Explosive-Type War Souvenirs.
July 25, 1947
IT HAS BEEN brought to my attention that the War, Navy, and Treasury Departments and the National Rifle Association have joined in a campaign of instruction to prevent the loss of life and destruction of property resulting from the possession of explosive-type war souvenirs. One need but scan the papers to see that such a safety program is badly needed.
The problem is primarily one of education. It is regrettable that a step of this kind was not taken after past wars. This neglect has cost us thousands of lives and millions of dollars.
Three Government agencies and a nonprofit sportsmen's organization have banded together in a public service. I trust the public will hear them--and heed.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=12714&st=&st1=
The American Presidency Project
Harry S. Truman
XXXIII President of the United States: 1945-1953
156 - Statement by the President Upon Signing Resolution Terminating Additional Emergency Powers.
July 25, 1947
I HAVE today approved Senate Joint Resolution 123, providing for the repeal of certain temporary emergency and war statutes and for discontinuing operations under various permanent statutes which are effective only in time of war or national emergency. Under the terms of the new Act, certain wartime powers are ended immediately and others will terminate at stated times within a period of one year. Some 175 statutory provisions are affected.
This resolution is the result of joint studies made by the Attorney General and the Committee on the Judiciary of each House of the Congress, with the cooperation of the executive departments and agencies. It is part of a sound and systematic program for removing emergency and wartime powers of the Government, and is in accord with recommendations which I have previously made to the Congress on this subject.
The proclamation declaring the cessation of hostilities of World War II, issued on December 31, 1946, had the effect, under the law, of terminating operations under a large number of wartime statutes. The present bill makes suitable provision with respect to a number of additional statutes, the need for which has now ceased or will cease at a foreseeable future date.
The emergencies declared by the President on September 8, 1939, and May 27, 1941, and the state of war continue to exist, however, and it is not possible at this time to provide for terminating all war and emergency powers.
I have asked the Attorney General to continue his study of the problems involved in the termination of the remaining wartime and emergency legislation, as well as the other problems involved in declaring the end of the war and the end of the existing emergencies. We should complete the orderly reconversion of the machinery and operations of the Government to a peacetime basis as rapidly as practicable.
Note: As enacted, the joint resolution is Public Law 239, 80th Congress (61 Stat. 449).
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/diary/page23.htm
Harry S. Truman Library & Museum
Harry S. Truman 1947 Diary
July 25:
At 3:30 today had a very interesting conversation with Gen[eral] Eisenhower. Sent for him to discuss the new Sec[retary] for National Defense. Asked him if he could work with Forestal [sic]. He said he could. Told him that I would have given the job to Bob Patterson had he stayed on as Sec[retary] of War. I couldn't bring myself to force him to stay. He has three daughters comming [sic] on for education and I know what that means, having had only one. But she is in a class by herself and I shouldn't judge Patterson's three by her. No one ever had a daughter equal to mine!
After the discussion on Forestal [sic] was over Ike & I visited and talked politics. He is going to Columbia U[niversity] in NY as President. What a job he can do there. He'll do it too. We discussed MacArthur and his superiority complex.
When Ike went to the far east on an inspection tour in 1946 I asked him to tell Gen[eral] Marshall, then special envoy to China, if he'd accept appointment to Sec[retary] of State. Byrnes was tired, sick and wanted to quit. Ike, when he returned came in and said "Gen[eral] Marshall said yes." So when Byrnes quit I appointed Marshall and did not even ask him about it!
Ike & I think MacArthur expects to make a Roman Triumphal return to the U. S. a short time before the Republican Convention meets in Philadelphia. I told Ike that if he did that that he (Ike) should announce for the nomination for President on the Democratic ticket and that I'd be glad to be in second place, or Vice President. I like the Senate anyway. Ike & I could be elected and my family & myself would be happy outside this great white jail, known as the White House.
Ike won't quot [sic] me & I won't quote him.
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Ronald Reagan
XL President of the United States: 1981 - 1989
Radio Address to the Nation on United States-Soviet Relations
February 11, 1984
My fellow Americans:
I'd like to speak to you about a subject always on the minds of Americans, but of particular interest today in view of the death of Soviet leader Yuriy Andropov: our relations with the Soviet Union.
Changes of leadership have not happened often in the Soviet Union. Yuriy Andropov was only the sixth Communist Party leader in the 66 years since the Russian Revolution. In recent months, he'd been totally absent from public view, so his death did not come as a shock to the world. Nevertheless, the importance of the U.S.-Soviet relationship makes his passing away a time for reflection on where that relationship is heading.
The changes in Moscow are an opportunity for both nations to examine closely the current state of our relations and to think about the future. We know that our relationship is not what we would like it to be. We've made no secret of our views as to the reasons why. What is needed now is for both sides to sit down and find ways of solving some of the problems that divide us.
In expressing my condolences to Mr. Andropov's family and to the Soviet Government, I emphasized once again America's desire for genuine cooperation between our two countries. Together we can help make the world a better, more peaceful place. This was also the message for the Soviet people in my address on Soviet-American relations last month. In that speech, as in my private communications with the late Chairman Andropov, I stressed our commitment to a serious and intensive dialog with the Soviet Union, one aimed at building a more constructive U.S.-Soviet relationship.
This commitment remains firm, and Vice President Bush will lead our delegation to Moscow for Mr. Andropov's funeral. He will be accompanied by Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker and our Ambassador in Moscow, Arthur Hartman. I hope there will be an opportunity for the Vice President to meet with the new General Secretary.
As we engage in discussions with Soviet leaders, we recognize the fundamental differences in our values and in our perspectives on many international issues. We must be realistic and not expect that these differences can be wished away. But realism should also remind us that our two peoples share common bonds and interests. We are both relatively young nations with rich ethnic traditions and a pioneer philosophy. We have both experienced the terrible trauma of war. We have fought side by side in the victory over Nazi Germany. And while our governments have very different views, our sons and daughters have never fought each other. We must make sure they never do.
Avoiding war and reducing arms is a starting point in our relationship with the Soviet Union, but we seek to accomplish more. With a good-faith effort on both sides, I believe the United States and the Soviet Union could begin rising above the mistrust and ill will that cloud our relations. We could establish a basis for greater mutual understanding and constructive cooperation, and there's no better time to make that good-faith effort than now.
At this time of transition in the Soviet Union, our two nations should look to the future. We should find ways to work together to meet the challenge of preserving peace. Living in this nuclear age makes it imperative that we talk to each other, discuss our differences, and seek solutions to the many problems that divide us.
America is ready. We would welcome negotiations. And I repeat today what I've said before: We're prepared to meet the Soviets halfway in the search for mutually acceptable agreements. I hope the leaders of the Soviet Union will work with us in that same spirit. I invite them to take advantage of the opportunities at hand to establish a more stable and constructive relationship. If the Soviet Government wants peace, then there will be peace.
In recent days, millions of citizens inside the Soviet Union, the United States, and countries throughout the world have been brought together by one great event, the winter Olympics. The competition is fierce, and we cheer for the men and women on our respective teams. But we can and should celebrate the triumphs of all athletes who compete in the true spirit of sportsmanship and give the very best of themselves. And when each race or event is done and our teams come together in friendship, we will remember that we are meant to be one family of nations.
We who are leaders in government have an obligation to strive for cooperation every bit as hard as our athletes, who reach within for the greatest efforts of their lives. If the Soviet Government would join us in this spirit, then together we could build a safer and far better world for the human family, not just for today but for generations to come.
Till next week, thanks for listening. God bless you.
Note: The President spoke at 9:06 a.m. from Rancho del Cielo, his ranch near Santa Barbara, CA.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 03/17/07 8:55 AM
I woke up this time thinking, partially visualizing, flying an F-14 Tomcat over the ocean somewhere. I can almost visualize another F-14 flying on my wing. Suddenly, the other F-14 exploded but I can't actually visualize that part. I think both people parachuted out of that aircraft. Apparently another missile hit my aircraft, blew off the canopy, and knocked me unconscious. Then I can almost see us traveling straight down towards the ocean surface and the RIO in the seat behind me was yelling at me to wake up. I pulled up and engaged the two aircraft that fired at us. One was hit by my Sparrow but the other Sparrow missed. I went in and finished off the other one up close. I returned to the carrier and landed safely, and then passed out from a moderate concussion with blood running out from underneath my cracked helmet.
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 7:46 AM Thursday, September 15, 2011 - http://hvom.blogspot.com/2011/09/hyperspace.html
Hyperspace
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/16/1991 ( my first successful test of my hyperspace portal ) is 9265 days
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: August 28, 2006
I don't know what the "silver strand" is, but as soon as I read it, I was reminded of some thoughts or dreams I used to have. In the dream or thought, I was flying back from somewhere, maybe Desert Storm, and the aircraft crashed on an island. The aircraft was carrying one of these desert vehicles. These thoughts or dreams were recurring and sometimes there were other survivors on the island with me, other times I was alone.
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Human (episode)
"Human" is the fourteenth episode in the first season of Stargate Universe. [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
Original air date April 23, 2010
Rush expresses envy of Eli's genius, noting that despite having no ambitious education, and always playing computer games, Eli solved a problem he never could
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http://gateworld.net/universe/s1/transcripts/114.shtml
GateWorld
HUMAN
EPISODE NUMBER - 114
ORIGINAL U.S. AIR DATE - 04.23.10
RUSH'S MIND. Nicholas is back in the classroom and has written a string of calculations in Ancient on the blackboard. Daniel Jackson is at the back of the room watching as Nicholas addresses his class.
RUSH: Every code that's ever been cracked, every cipher in the last two millennia has been based on those who came before them. (He gestures to the blackboard.) This code, however, is so old, there may be no known predecessor.
(The boy who spoke during the last class stares at him in shock.)
STUDENT: You're talking about a proto-encryption.
RUSH: Exactly, right.
STUDENT: Wh... How do we attack it with no basis, then?
(Nicholas looks round at his students, waiting for a moment to see if anyone else will offer anything.)
RUSH: None of you. Nothing. None of you see any pattern in this?
(He glares at them angrily.)
RUSH: So what good are you lot, then? Why are you here?
STUDENT (indignantly): There's symbols up there I've never even seen before!
RUSH: Yes you have! Yes you have, because I have, and you are all me!
(The students look round at each other nervously.)
SECOND STUDENT: What's he talking about?
(Nicholas glares at them all for a long moment, then loses his temper.)
RUSH: Get out! All of you - just get out!
(Murmuring indignantly to each other, the students gather their books and start to leave the room. At the back of the room, Daniel stands aside as they leave.)
JACKSON: It's not their fault.
(Nicholas sighs as the last of the students exits the room.)
RUSH: Yeah, I know.
(He sits down in one of the seats as Daniel comes to join him. They both look at the blackboard.)
RUSH: I'm the one who can't solve it, despite the fact it's right in front of me.
JACKSON: Have you given any thought to what we talked about?
RUSH: Oh yeah. (He snorts, then looks down sadly.) I'm gonna fail at that, too.
JACKSON: I'm sorry?
RUSH: Solving the issues of dialling the ninth chevron. I'll devote two and a half years of my life to that. Meanwhile my wife is gonna spend her dying days alone while I'm off, out, trying to solve that little problem.
(Daniel frowns as if he can't understand how Nicholas knows the future. Nick's voice becomes increasingly bitter.)
RUSH: And then some kid - some big child - with no meaningful education is gonna jump in at the last moment ... (he clicks his fingers angrily) ... and solve it just like that. No sense of ambition; spends most of his time playing ridiculous games, yet he's the genius I'll never be. He's the one that should be here now, seeing what I'm seeing.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=86059
The American Presidency Project
Barack Obama
XLIV President of the United States: 2009 - present
Remarks at the National Academy of Sciences
April 27, 2009
In addition to John--sorry, the--I just noticed that I jumped the gun here--go ahead and move it up. [Laughter] I had already introduced all you guys.
In biomedicine, just to give you an example of what PCAST can do, we can harness the historic convergence between life sciences and physical sciences that's underway today; undertaking public projects, in the spirit of the Human Genome Project, to create data and capabilities that fuel discoveries in tens of thousands of laboratories; and identifying and overcoming scientific and bureaucratic barriers to rapidly translating scientific breakthroughs into diagnostics and therapeutics that serve patients.
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-simpsons/bart-the-fink-1428/trivia/
tv.com
The Simpsons Season 7 Episode 15
Bart the Fink
Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Feb 11, 1996 on FOX
Quotes
(Bart stands at the bank teller's window at closing time.)
Bank Teller: Sorry, the bank is--Oh, kid! Gosh, I meant to tell ya. Turns out Krusty is one of the biggest tax cheats in the history and they nailed him, all thanks to you.
(Bart gasps)
Bank Teller: Some might say you're a hero, kid. Not me, however. I love Krusty.
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Episode 715 Photos
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tv.com
The Simpsons Season 7 Episode 15
Bart the Fink
Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Feb 11, 1996 on FOX
Quotes
Chief Wiggum: Okay, folks. Show's over. Nothing to see here. Show's… (sees plane crash) OH, MY GOD!!! A horrible plane crash! Hey, everybody! Get a load of this flaming wreckage! Come on! Crowd around, crowd around! Don't be shy; crowd around!
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-simpsons/bart-the-fink-1428/
tv.com
The Simpsons Season 7 Episode 15
Bart the Fink
Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Feb 11, 1996 on FOX
The Simpsons each inherit $100 after a recent death in the family. Bart and Lisa use their new fortune to open a bank account. With checkbook in hand, Bart has the idea of writing Krusty a check, so that when Krusty endorses the check, Bart will then have his autograph. Once the check is endorsed by Krusty's offshore holding corporation, it is discovered that Krusty is guilty of massive tax evasion. Devastated because his career is ruined, Krusty fakes his own death. It is now up to Bart and Lisa to bring him back to the top.
AIRED: 2/11/96
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1001401/releaseinfo
IMDb
Spook! (1972)
Release Info
USA 10 June 1972
"Space: Above And Beyond"
"The Angriest Angel"
11 February 1996
Episode 15 DVD:
00:24:00
Elroy-El: A silicate feels no pain.
US Marine Corps lieutenant colonel T.C. McQueen: Ah. How did you know? How did you know?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1464931/releaseinfo
IMDb
From Here to Eternity (TV Series)
Pearl Harbor (1980)
Release Info
USA 10 March 1980
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1464931/
IMDb
From Here to Eternity: Season 1, Episode 1
Pearl Harbor (10 Mar. 1980)
TV Episode
Release Date: 10 March 1980 (USA)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042414/releaseinfo
IMDb
Dream No More (1950)
Release Info
USA 5 January 1950 (New York City, New York)
http://articles.latimes.com/1995-07-05/news/mn-20449_1_space-station
Los Angeles Times
U.S., Russian Spacecraft Go Separate Ways : Docking: Shuttle Atlantis ends historic 5-day linkup with space station. It leaves with three crewmen who have been in orbit since mid-March.
July 05, 1995 from Associated Press
HOUSTON — Astronauts and cosmonauts watched their ships part and fade into the blackness of space Tuesday in an orbital pirouette that ended five days of flying as a single craft.
"We're just shaking our heads at how quickly this has all gone by," said Charles Precourt, pilot of the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis. "It's as if it were a dream, that we didn't really live it, it happened so fast. . . . But what a great time, what a great effort."
For half an hour, three craft hovered a few hundred feet from one another while hurtling around Earth at 5 miles a second: The Russian Soyuz capsule with two cosmonauts, Atlantis with eight passengers, and the temporarily unmanned Russian space station Mir.
Both crews recorded the historic moment on video and film, but the sun's glare spoiled many of the pictures.
"It's been an inspiring visit with our neighbors in space. We look forward to returning," said NASA's Mission Control.
"We agree with that. . . . We agree 100%," Atlantis' commander, Robert L. (Hoot) Gibson, replied as he backed the shuttle away from the station. "In one of the simulations, the words 'cosmic ballet' came to mind, and I guess that's where we are now."
Atlantis is due back at Mir in late October with another crew. Altogether, six more dockings are planned over the next two years as a prelude to the construction of an international space station later this decade. And astronauts and cosmonauts are already talking of a shared trip to Mars.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Tommy Holloway, manager of the docking program, couldn't resist comparing this mission to the harrowing Apollo 13 flight, which took place 25 years ago and is currently being glamorized by Hollywood.
"In the 'Apollo 13' movie, the character of [flight director] Gene Kranz said just prior to the entry that this will be NASA's finest hour," Holloway said. "Gene, I'm here to report to you that . . . this is NASA's finest hour, and I expect it will continue for many years to come."
Cosmonauts Anatoly Solovyev and Nikolai Budarin began the undocking sequence by shoving off from Mir in the small Soyuz capsule and backing away 300 feet. They took the only videotape and photographs of the world's largest spacecraft in its entirety--the 100-ton Atlantis joined to the 123-ton Mir, each more than 120 feet long.
Video from Mir showed a grainy picture, with the joined shuttle and station off-center.
On the shuttle, the push of a button released the hooks binding the two craft together. Springs gently eased Atlantis away from Mir and the craft slowly separated.
At about that time, Mir began drifting off-course, possibly because of an on-board computer failure. Russian flight controllers ordered Solovyev and Budarin to hustle back to Mir; their Soyuz redocked safely.
For nearly 1 1/2 hours, Atlantis flew around Mir for picture-taking, then fired its thrusters 245 miles above South America to move into its own track.
"Bye-bye," Solovyev said softly.
Atlantis launched with seven occupants and is scheduled to land Friday at Florida's Kennedy Space Center
http://www.tv.com/shows/stephen-kings-the-stand/the-plague-1178981/
tv.com
Stephen King's The Stand Season 1 Episode 1
The Plague
Aired Sunday 12:00 AM May 08, 1994 on ABC
AIRED: 5/8/94
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IMDb
Jorge Garcia
Biography
Date of Birth 28 April 1973 , Omaha, Nebraska, USA
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=caprica&episode=s01e03
Springfield! Springfield!
Caprica
The Reins of a Waterfall
- Why else would you come to this rat hole Instead of the big, beautiful, and expensive gym Down at the lab? Why? You want to look like a man of the people.
- I come to this rat hole because I like it here.
Besides, I know what your woman's gonna say.
She's gonna want me to go on the sarno show And debase myself trying to win public sympathy By telling charmingly self-deprecating anecdotes, Turn my family pain into a plus--forget it.
- We're a long way from turning this into a plus, danny.
http://www.tv.com/shows/lost/the-variable-1237161/
tv.com
Lost Season 5 Episode 14
The Variable
Aired Sunday 9:00 PM Apr 29, 2009 on ABC
On the 100th episode milestone for the series, the time of reckoning has begun when Daniel Faraday comes clean regarding what he knows about the island.
AIRED: Apr 29, 2009
http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/The_Variable_transcript
LOSTPEDIA
Episode 14 - "The Variable"
DR. CHANG: All right, ladies and gentlemen, you know why you're here. I wish you could all get a good night's sleep, but, uh...
MILES: [Whispers] What the hell are you doing back here, Dan? Once you left for Ann Arbor, I figured you'd gotten rich, invented the DVD or something.
CHANG: The shuttle will pick you up at the motor pool...
[Miles indicates a facsimilie of the DHARMA Initiative new recruits photograph that includes Jack, Kate, and Hurley.]
FARADAY: [Whispers] This is what I'm doing back here. When did they get here?
MILES: A few days ago. It's weird, huh? LaFleur managed to--
FARADAY: We don't have time. I need you to take me to Jack's right now, okay?
[Knock on door. Jack puts a shirt on and opens the door.]
FARADAY: Jack. How did you get back here?
JACK: Faraday? What the--
FARADAY: How did you do it?
JACK: Whoa.
FARADAY: How did you get back to the Island?
JACK: Where have you been?
FARADAY: I was--I was just at DHARMA headquarters in Ann Arbor. I was doing some research. What's more important right now... how did you get back here to 1977?
JACK: [Sighs] What's going on?
MILES: Don't look at me. I just carried his luggage.
FARADAY: Jack, how?
JACK: Uh... we were on a plane, and then--
FARADAY: Who told you to get on a plane?
JACK: As a matter of fact, Dan, it was your mother.
FARADAY: [Sighs] And how did she convince you, Jack? Did she tell you it was your destiny?
JACK: Yeah. That's exactly what she said.
FARADAY: Well, I got some bad news for you, Jack. You don't belong here at all. She was wrong.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0133018/releaseinfo
IMDb
In Search of Ancient Astronauts (1973 TV Movie)
Release Info
USA 5 January 1973
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/318353/Stephen-King
Encyclopædia Britannica
Stephen King
Stephen King, in full Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947, Portland, Maine, U.S.)
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IMDb
Stephen King
Biography
Date of Birth 21 September 1947 , Portland, Maine, USA
Birth Name Stephen Edwin King
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091499/quotes
IMDb
Maximum Overdrive (1986)
Quotes
Man At Cashpoint: Honey! C'mon over here, Sugar-buns. This machine just called me an asshole!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091499/releaseinfo
IMDb
Maximum Overdrive (1986)
Release Info
USA 25 July 1986
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IMDb
Maximum Overdrive (1986)
Full Cast & Crew
Emilio Estevez ... Bill Robinson
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IMDb
Maximum Overdrive (1986)
Quotes
Wanda June: You can't! WE MADE YOU!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094761/releaseinfo
IMDb
The Blob (1988)
Release Info
USA 5 August 1988
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IMDb
The Blob (1988)
Quotes
Dr. Meddows: Let Me tell you a story. Dinosaurs ruled our planet for millions of years and yet they died out almost over night. Why? The evidence suggests that a meteor fell to Earth carrying an alien bacteria.
Meg Penny: Plague? Is that what this whole thing is about?
Dr. Meddows: Prevention!
Brian Flagg: And you think that this meteor brought some kind of killer germ?
Dr. Meddows: It's something I've expected and prepared for all my life!
Brian Flagg: Your meteor brought something all right but if it's a germ, it's the biggest son of a bitch you've ever seen!
http://www.tv.com/shows/stargate-sg-1/children-of-the-gods-1-7319/
tv.com
Stargate SG-1 Season 1 Episode 1
Children of the Gods (1)
The System Lord Apophis launches an attack through the Stargate, tucked away by the military after the events of the movie, and the SGC program is reactivated and given a new objective - seek out and find the alien invaders and defeat them. Jack O'Neill is called out of retirement and sent to locate Daniel Jackson on Abydos.
AIRED: 7/27/97
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0612621/bio
IMDb
Bill Mumy
Biography
Date of Birth 1 February 1954 , San Gabriel, California, USA
Birth Name Charles William Mumy Jr.
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1965/feynman-facts.html
Nobelprize.org
The Official Web Site of the Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1965
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger, Richard P. Feynman
Richard P. Feynman
Born: 11 May 1918, New York, NY, USA
Died: 15 February 1988, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles"
Field: quantum electrodynamics, quantum mechanics
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734580/quotes
IMDb
Twilight Zone (TV Series)
It's a Good Life (1961)
Quotes
[first lines]
Narrator: [Opening Narration] Tonight's story on The Twilight Zone is somewhat unique and calls for a different kind of introduction. This, as you may recognize, is a map of the United States, and there's a little town there called Peaksville. On a given morning not too long ago, the rest of the world disappeared and Peaksville was left all alone. Its inhabitants were never sure whether the world was destroyed and only Peaksville left untouched or whether the village had somehow been taken away. They were, on the other hand, sure of one thing: the cause. A monster had arrived in the village. Just by using his mind, he took away the automobiles, the electricity, the machines - because they displeased him - and he moved an entire community back into the dark ages - just by using his mind. Now I'd like to introduce you to some of the people in Peaksville, Ohio. This is Mr. Fremont. It's in his farmhouse that the monster resides. This is Mrs. Fremont. And this is Aunt Amy, who probably had more control over the monster in the beginning than almost anyone. But one day she forgot. She began to sing aloud. Now, the monster doesn't like singing, so his mind snapped at her, turned her into the smiling, vacant thing you're looking at now. She sings no more. And you'll note that the people in Peaksville, Ohio, have to smile. They have to think happy thoughts and say happy things because once displeased, the monster can wish them into a cornfield or change them into a grotesque, walking horror. This particular monster can read minds, you see. He knows every thought, he can feel every emotion. Oh yes, I did forget something, didn't I? I forgot to introduce you to the monster. This is the monster. His name is Anthony Fremont. He's six years old, with a cute little-boy face and blue, guileless eyes. But when those eyes look at you, you'd better start thinking happy thoughts, because the mind behind them is absolutely in charge. This is the Twilight Zone.
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-twilight-zone/its-a-good-life-12658/
tv.com
The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 8
It's a Good Life
Aired Unknown Nov 03, 1961 on CBS
Little Anthony Fremont controls an entire town with his ability to read minds and make people do as he wishes. Which is a real good thing.
AIRED: 11/3/61
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105173/releaseinfo
IMDb
Primary Motive (1992)
Release Info
USA 2 August 1992
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 10:56 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Thursday 10 July 2014
