Crossland

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0217869/quotes

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Unbreakable (2000)

Quotes


Elijah Price: And most times they're friends, like you and me! I should've known way back when... You know why, David? Because of the kids.










http://articles.latimes.com/1999/sep/28/news/mn-14899/2

Los Angeles Times


(Page 2 of 2)

McCain Joins Race With Bid to Serve


* Quote: "When our government has been taken from us by the special interests, the big-dollar donors, pride is lost to shame. When our politics are corrupted by money and lies, trust is lost to cynicism."










http://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/08/business/ex-regulator-tells-of-pressure-by-senators.html

The New York Times


Ex-Regulator Tells of Pressure by Senators

By NATHANIEL C. NASH

Published: November 8, 1989

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7— A former top Federal regulator testified today that four United States Senators had tried to persuade him to drop a tough regulation affecting a California savings institution whose owner gave the Senators more than $1 million in campaign funds.

Edwin J. Gray, the former chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, said the regulation would have prevented the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association of Irvine, Calif., from making the risky real estate investments that were a key factor in its demise and costly takeover by the Federal Government.

Mr. Gray told the House Banking Committee that in a secret closed-door meeting on April 2, 1987, the four Senators offered him ''a deal'' - that in return for withdrawing the regulation that would have forced Lincoln to divest itself of large real estate holdings, the Senators would persuade Lincoln's head, Charles H. Keating Jr., to make more home loans, which Federal officials view as far safer investments. Mr. Gray said he rejected the proposal.

In letters Mr. Gray released to the committee, the four Senators - Dennis DeConcini, Democrat of Arizona; Alan Cranston, Democrat of California; John McCain


The losses at Lincoln, which was taken over by the Government on April 14, 1989, are expected to exceed $2 billion, making it possibly the costliest savings bailout on record. Lincoln's high-risk investments, the attempts by Mr. Keating to counter regulators' disciplinary efforts and his ability to influence the political process are the types of activities that have prompted the investigation of the troubled savings and loan industry.










https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain_presidential_campaign,_2000


John McCain presidential campaign, 2000

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

John McCain, the United States Senator from Arizona, launched his first candidacy for the presidency of the United States in the 2000 presidential election.

Announcing his run for the Republican Party nomination in September 1999, McCain was the main challenger to Texas Governor George W. Bush, who had the political and financial support of most of the party establishment. McCain staged an upset win in the February 2000 New Hampshire primary, capitalizing on a message of political reform and "straight talk"


Leading up to the announcement

McCain was mentioned as a possible candidate for the Republican nomination beginning in 1997, but he took few steps to pursue it, instead concentrating on his 1998 senate re-election. The decision of General Colin Powell not to run helped persuade McCain that there might be an opening for him. McCain later wrote that he had a "vague aspiration" of running for president for a long time. He would also be candid about his motivation: "I didn't decide to run for president to start a national crusade for the political reforms I believed in or to run a campaign as if it were some grand act of patriotism. In truth, I wanted to be president because it had become my ambition to become president. I was sixty-two years old when I made the decision, and I thought it was my one shot at the prize."

Potential weaknesses of a McCain candidacy included his senatorial accomplishments skewing towards the maverick side rather than those that would appeal to the party core, a lack of funds and of fund-raising prowess, and an unpredictability of personality and temperament. Potential assets included a lot of favorable treatment in the political media, and well as being featured on A&E's Biography series, and support from veterans. National polls showed McCain with low name recognition, but once voters were asked about a hypothetical candidate with a similar military biography, the numbers improved dramatically.

Announcements and Kosovo

McCain had initially planned on announcing his candidacy and beginning active campaigning on April 6, 1999. There was to be a four-day roadshow, whose first day would symbolically begin at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, then see early primary states New Hampshire and South Carolina, before concluding in home Phoenix, Arizona with a big audience, marching bands, and thousands of balloons.

However, the Kosovo War intervened. On March 24, the NATO bombing campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia began. McCain had voted the day before in favor of approval for the Clinton administration's action, saying "Atrocities are the signature of the Serbian Army. They've been carrying out atrocities since 1992. We must not permit the genocide that Milosevic has in mind for Kosovo to continue. We are at a critical hour." He was critical of past inaction by the Clinton administration in the matter, and within days was urging that the use of ground troops not be ruled out. McCain became a very frequent guest on television talk shows discussing the conflict, and his "We are in it, now we must win it" stance drew much attention. On March 31, three American soldiers were captured by Yugoslavia; the next day, McCain canceled his planned roadshow, stating "this is not an appropriate time to launch a political campaign." He received media praise for his action and continued to be a highly visible spokesman for strong action regarding Kosovo; CNN pundit Mark Shields said that, "In thirty-five years in Washington, I have never seen a debate dominated by an individual in the minority party as I've seen this one dominated by John McCain."

On April 13, McCain simply issued a statement without fanfare that he would be a candidate: "While now is not the time for the celebratory tour I had planned, I am a candidate for president and I will formally kick off my campaign at a more appropriate time." McCain and his wife Cindy would make some campaign-related appearances over the spring and summer.

McCain's co-authored, best-selling family memoir, Faith of My Fathers, published in August 1999, helped promote the new start of his campaign. The book garnered largely positive reviews, and McCain went on a 15-city book tour during September. The tour's success and the book's high sales led to the themes of the memoir, which included McCain talking more about his Vietnam prisoner-of-war experience than he had in the past, becoming a major part of McCain's campaign messaging.

McCain finally formally announced his candidacy on September 27, 1999 before a thousand people in Greeley Park in Nashua, New Hampshire, saying "It is because I owe America more than she has ever owed me that I am a candidate for president to the United States." He further said he was staging "a fight to take our government back from the power brokers and special interests and return it to the people and the noble cause of freedom it was created to serve."










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http://articles.latimes.com/1999/sep/28/news/mn-14899

Los Angeles Times


McCain Joins Race With Bid to Serve

Politics: Maverick senator criticizes Bush's inexperience, calls for tax cuts, school vouchers and restraints on the influence of special interests.

September 28, 1999 RONALD BROWNSTEIN TIMES POLITICAL WRITER

NASHUA, N.H. — Pledging to "renew pride in public service" and reduce the "corrupting influence" of money in politics, Arizona Sen. John McCain formally announced his candidacy Monday for the Republican presidential nomination.

In a 25-minute speech marked by a pointed jab at the limited foreign policy experience of Republican front-runner George W. Bush, McCain called for tax cuts, a nationwide test of school vouchers and an increase in defense spending. But on a warm cloudy afternoon here, McCain above all invoked broad themes of service, sacrifice and the need to rebuild public trust in government, largely by reforming the campaign finance system.

America, McCain declared, faces a "new patriotic challenge . . . a fight to take our government back from the power-brokers and special interests and return it to the people."

Subdued at first, the 63-year-old McCain spoke with increasing passion before a crowd of at least 500 supporters who spilled out across Greeley Park. At times he offered distant echoes of Kennedy's lyrical 1961 inaugural address--which urged Americans to "ask what you can do for your country"--as he called on his audience to embrace "the sense of pride and purpose of serving a cause greater than themselves.

"I run for president . . . so that Americans can believe once again that public service is a summons to duty and not a lifetime of privilege," said McCain.

Known as a maverick in Washington, McCain is serving his third term in the Senate. The son and grandson of Navy admirals, he flew 23 combat missions as a Navy pilot in Vietnam before being shot down over Hanoi in October 1967. McCain spent the next 5 1/2 years as a captive in a North Vietnamese prison camp--a harrowing experience he has recounted in a best-selling new memoir of his family, "Faith of my Fathers."

McCain alluded to those experiences in the most barbed passage of his speech Monday. In what aides acknowledged was a reference to Texas Gov. Bush--who has undergone a highly publicized series of briefings and tutorials with foreign policy experts in preparation for the race--McCain insisted that the next president "must be prepared for [the] challenge" of serving as commander in chief.

"When it comes time to make the decision to send our young men and women into harm's way, that decision should be made by a leader who knows that such decisions have profound consequences," he said. "There comes a time when our nation's leader can no longer rely on briefing books and talking points."

McCain's reference to experience was significant because, until now, he has refrained from even implicitly criticizing Bush on that front. Some analysts believe that Bush's limited political resume--his only experience in public office has been his nearly six years as Texas governor--could be his greatest vulnerability in the race.

McCain served in the Navy for eight more years after being released from North Vietnam in March 1973, finishing as a Navy liaison to the Senate. In 1982, he was elected to the House of Representatives from Arizona, serving two terms before winning his Senate seat in 1986. He's been reelected easily twice since, drawing support from traditionally Democratic voters, such as Latinos.

In Washington, McCain has amassed a generally conservative voting record, but with a maverick streak. Last year, he led the effort--ultimately killed by Republican senators--to raise tobacco taxes to combat youth smoking; and he was co-author of a bill with Democratic Sen. Russell D. Feingold of Wisconsin to regulate soft-money contributions--which was also opposed by most Republicans.

McCain is counting on that independent image to help him break through in the steadily shrinking Republican presidential field, which lost another candidate Monday when former Vice President Dan Quayle dropped out of the race.

He has also adopted a characteristically contrarian political strategy by virtually ignoring Iowa--site of the first caucus next January--to focus on New Hampshire, South Carolina (which he will visit today), Arizona and California. On Wednesday, McCain will visit the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley--where he will be accompanied by former First Lady Nancy Reagan.

Though Bush holds a large lead in New Hampshire, as almost everywhere, several recent polls have shown McCain running second there, and local politicos took the large crowd he drew Monday as a sign of his potential strength in the state. Notable in the crowd were older men wearing Veterans of Foreign Wars' caps or T-shirts that read, "Veterans for McCain"; the campaign has targeted veterans as a key constituency here and in South Carolina. To underscore his military service, McCain began his day Monday by addressing all 4,000 midshipmen at the Naval Academy in Annapolis.



http://articles.latimes.com/1999/sep/28/news/mn-14899/2

Los Angeles Times


(Page 2 of 2)

McCain Joins Race With Bid to Serve

Politics: Maverick senator criticizes Bush's inexperience, calls for tax cuts, school vouchers and restraints on the influence of special interests.

September 28, 1999 RONALD BROWNSTEIN TIMES POLITICAL WRITER

In his New Hampshire speech, McCain laid out a campaign agenda that refracted traditional Republican priorities through a reformist clean-government message similar in some ways to that offered by Democratic contender Bill Bradley. On issue after issue, he tried to portray special interests' influence in Washington--an issue usually stressed more by liberals--as an obstacle to policies prized by conservatives.

On defense, for instance, McCain accused President Clinton of "weakening our defenses" and promised to spend more on training, anti-missile systems, weapons modernization and counter-terrorism. But he put a distinctive twist on that common Republican argument by linking the problem to the influence wielded by defense contractors in Washington.

"Both parties in Congress have wasted scarce defense dollars on unneeded weapons systems and other pork projects while 12,000 enlisted personnel, proud young men and women, subsist on food stamps--that's a disgrace," he said.

Likewise, on education, McCain called for a nationwide test of school vouchers--which would help parents in the most poorly performing public schools send their children to private schools. That's a common position among Republicans; but McCain is scheduled to give it a unique twist today when he unveils a proposal to fund the voucher test by cutting subsidies for sugar growers, ethanol producers and oil and gas drillers--all powerful constituencies in the GOP.

He offered a similarly iconoclastic take on taxes. McCain, who has criticized the GOP congressional tax bill as overly tilted toward "special interests," repeated his call Monday for an alternative plan focused on "working families" that would end the marriage penalty, eliminate the inheritance tax and tax all family income up to $70,000 at the lowest rate of 15%.

McCain returned repeatedly to the theme of combating special interests' influence, insisting that campaign finance reform "is the gateway through which all other policy reforms must pass."

An audio interview between Sen. John McCain and Times editors and reporters is available on The Times' Web site: http://www.latimes.com/mccain

(BEGIN TEXT OF INFOBOX / INFOGRAPHIC)

Profile: Sen. John McCain

* Born: Aug. 29, 1936, in a military hospital in the Panama Canal Zone, to Navy Adm. John and Roberta McCain

* Education: Naval Academy, 1958; Naval War College, 1973 to 1974

* Military service: U.S. Navy, 1958 to 1981; prisoner of war in Vietnam, 1967 to 1973

* Career highlights: U.S. representative from Arizona, 1983 to 1986; U.S. senator from Arizona, 1987 to present

* Family: Married since 1980 to Cindy Hensley; seven children, three from first marriage

* Quote: "When our government has been taken from us by the special interests, the big-dollar donors, pride is lost to shame. When our politics are corrupted by money and lies, trust is lost to cynicism."





http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120188/releaseinfo

IMDb


Three Kings (1999)

Release Info

USA 27 September 1999 (premiere)



http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120188/fullcredits

IMDb


Three Kings (1999)

Full Cast & Crew

George Clooney ... Archie Gates

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burst_of_Joy


Burst of Joy

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Burst of Joy is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph by Associated Press photographer Slava "Sal" Veder, taken on March 17, 1973 at Travis Air Force Base in California. The photograph came to symbolize the end of United States involvement in the Vietnam War, and the prevailing sentiment that military personnel and their families could begin a process of healing after enduring the horrors of war.










http://www.boeing.com/history/products/ah-64-apache.page

Boeing


AH-64 APACHE ATTACK HELICOPTER


Historical Snapshot

The AH-64 Apache was designed to be an extremely tough survivor under combat. The prototype Apache made its first flight in 1975 as the YAH-64, and in 1976, Hughes received a full-scale development contract. In 1982, the Army approved the program, now known as AH-64A Apache, for production. Deliveries began from the McDonnell Douglas plant at Mesa, Ariz., in 1984 — the year Hughes Helicopters became part of McDonnell Douglas.

A target acquisition and designation sight/pilot night-vision sensor and other advanced technologies added to its effectiveness in the ground support role. To reduce costs and simplify logistics, the Apache used the same T700 engines as the Army’s Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk utility helicopter and its naval cousin, the SH-60 Seahawk.

Highly maneuverable and heavily armed, the combat-proven Apache helicopter is the backbone of the U.S. Army’s all-weather, ground-support capability. The AH-64D Apache Longbow, which first flew as a prototype on May 14, 1992, provided a quantum leap in capability over the AH-64A. The Apache Longbow’s fire-control radar and advanced avionics suite gave combat pilots the ability to rapidly detect, classify, prioritize, and engage stationary or moving enemy targets at standoff ranges in nearly all weather conditions.










http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1948/blackett-facts.html

Nobelprize.org

The Official Web Site of the Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1948

Patrick M.S. Blackett


Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett

Born: 18 November 1897, London, United Kingdom

Died: 13 July 1974, London, United Kingdom

Affiliation at the time of the award: Victoria University, Manchester, United Kingdom

Prize motivation: "for his development of the Wilson cloud chamber method, and his discoveries therewith in the fields of nuclear physics and cosmic radiation"

Field: particle physics



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Blackett,_Baron_Blackett


Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, Baron Blackett OM CH FRS (18 November 1897 – 13 July 1974) was an English experimental physicist known for his work on cloud chambers, cosmic rays, and paleomagnetism, winning the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1948. He also made a major contribution in World War II advising on military strategy and developing operational research. His left-wing views saw an outlet in third world development and in influencing policy in the Labour Government of the 1960s.


Biography

Early years


In August 1914 on the outbreak of World War I Blackett was assigned to active service as a midshipman. He was transferred to the Cape Verde Islands on HMS Carnarvon and was present at the Battle of the Falkland Islands. He was then transferred to HMS Barham and saw much action at the Battle of Jutland. While on HMS Barham, Blackett was co-inventor of a gunnery device on which the Admiralty took out a patent. In 1916 he applied to join the RNAS but his application was refused. In October that year he became a sub-lieutenant on HMS P17 on Dover patrol, and in July 1917 he was posted to HMS Sturgeon in the Harwich Force under Admiral Tyrwhitt. Blackett was particularly concerned by the poor quality of gunnery in the force compared with that of the enemy and of his own previous experience, and started to read science textbooks. He was promoted to Lieutenant in May 1918, but had decided to leave the Navy. Then, in January 1919, the Admiralty sent the officers whose training had been interrupted by the war to Cambridge University for a course of general duties. On his first night at Magdalene College, Cambridge he met Kingsley Martin and Geoffrey Webb, later recalling that he had never before, in his naval training, heard intellectual conversation. Blackett was impressed by the prestigious Cavendish Laboratory, and left the Navy to study mathematics and physics at Cambridge.


Academia and research


In 1947, Blackett introduced a theory to account for the Earth's magnetic field as a function of its rotation, with the hope that it would unify both the electromagnetic force and the force of gravity. He spent a number of years developing high-quality magnetometers to test his theory, and eventually found it to be without merit. His work on the subject, however, led him into the field of geophysics, where he eventually helped process data relating to paleomagnetism and helped to provide strong evidence for continental drift.

In 1948 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, for his investigation of cosmic rays using his invention of the counter-controlled cloud chamber.


World War II and operational research

In 1935 Blackett was invited to join the Aeronautical Research Committee chaired by Sir Henry Tizard. The committee was effective pressing for the early installation of Radar for air defence. In the early part of World War II, Blackett served on various committees and spent time at the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) Farnborough, where he made a major contribution to the design of the Mark XIV bomb sight which allowed bombs to be released without a level bombing run beforehand.










http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/coming-home-106013338

Smithsonian.com


Coming Home

To a war-weary nation, a U.S. POW's return from captivity in Vietnam in 1973 looked like the happiest of reunions

By Carolyn Kleiner Butler

Smithsonian Magazine

January 2005

Sitting in the back seat of a station wagon on the tarmac at Travis Air Force Base, in California, clad in her favorite fuchsia miniskirt, 15-year-old Lorrie Stirm felt that she was in a dream. It was March 17, 1973, and it had been six long years since she had last seen her father, Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm, an Air Force fighter pilot who was shot down over Hanoi in 1967 and had been missing or imprisoned ever since. She simply couldn't believe they were about to be reunited. The teenager waited while her father stood in front of a jubilant crowd and made a brief speech on behalf of himself and other POW's who had arrived from Vietnam as part of "Operation Homecoming."

The minutes crept by like hours, she recalls, and then, all at once, the car door opened. "I just wanted to get to Dad as fast as I could," Lorrie says. She tore down the runway toward him with open arms, her spirits—and feet—flying. Her mother, Loretta, and three younger siblings—Robert Jr., Roger and Cindy—were only steps behind. "We didn't know if he would ever come home," Lorrie says. "That moment was all our prayers answered, all our wishes come true."

Associated Press photographer Slava "Sal" Veder, who'd been standing in a crowded bullpen with dozens of other journalists, noticed the sprinting family and started taking pictures. "You could feel the energy and the raw emotion in the air," says Veder, then 46, who had spent much of the Vietnam era covering antiwar demonstrations in San Francisco and Berkeley. The day was overcast, meaning no shadows and near-perfect light. He rushed to a makeshift darkroom in a ladies' bathroom on the base (United Press International had commandeered the men's). In less than half an hour, Veder and his AP colleague Walt Zeboski had developed six remarkable images of that singular moment. Veder's pick, which he instantly titled Burst of Joy, was sent out over the news-service wires, published in newspapers around the nation and went on to win a Pulitzer Prize in 1974.

It remains the quintessential homecoming photograph of the time. Stirm, 39, who had endured gunshot wounds, torture, illness, starvation and despair in North Vietnamese prison camps, including the infamous Hanoi Hilton, is pictured in a crisp new uniform. Because his back is to the camera, as Veder points out, the officer seems anonymous, an everyman who represented not only the hundreds of POW's released that spring but all the troops in Vietnam who would return home to the mothers, fathers, wives, daughters and sons they'd left behind. "It's a hero's welcome for guys who weren't always seen or treated as heroes," says Donald Goldstein, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel and a coauthor of The Vietnam War: The Stories and The Photographs, of the Stirm family reunion picture. "After years of fighting a war we couldn't win, a war that tore us apart, it was finally over, and the country could start healing."

But there was more to the story than was captured on film. Three days before Stirm landed at Travis, a chaplain had handed him a Dear John letter from his wife. "I can't help but feel ambivalent about it," Stirm says today of the photograph. "I was very pleased to see my children—I loved them all and still do, and I know they had a difficult time—but there was a lot to deal with." Lorrie says, "So much had happened—there was so much that my dad missed out on—and it took a while to let him back into our lives and accept his authority." Her parents were divorced within a year of his return. Her mother remarried in 1974 and lives in Texas with her husband. Robert retired from the Air Force as a colonel in 1977 and worked as a corporate pilot and businessman. He married and was divorced again. Now 72 and retired, he lives in Foster City, California.

As for the rest of the family, Robert Jr. is a dentist in Walnut Creek, California; he and his wife have four children, the oldest of whom is a marine. Roger, a major in the Air Force, lives outside Seattle. Cindy Pierson, a waitress, resides in Walnut Creek with her husband and has a daughter in college. And Lorrie Stirm Kitching, now 47, is an executive administrator and mother of two sons. She lives in Mountain View, California, with her husband. All four of Robert Stirm Sr.'s children have a copy of Burst of Joy hanging in a place of honor on their walls. But he says he can't bring himself to display the picture.

Three decades after the Stirm reunion, the scene, having appeared in countless books, anthologies and exhibitions, remains part of the nation's collective consciousness, often serving as an uplifting postscript to Vietnam. That the moment was considerably more fraught than we first assumed makes it all the more poignant and reminds us that not all war casualties occur on the battlefield.

"We have this very nice picture of a very happy moment," Lorrie says, "but every time I look at it, I remember the families that weren't reunited, and the ones that aren't being reunited today—many, many families—and I think, I'm one of the lucky ones."










http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=59309

The American Presidency Project

Harry S. Truman

XXXIII President of the United States: 1945 - 1953

Executive Order 9865 - Providing for the Protection Abroad of Inventions Resulting from Research Financed by the Government

June 14, 1947

WHEREAS the Government of the United States now has and will hereafter acquire title to, or the right to file foreign patent applications for, numerous inventions arising out of scientific and technical research carried on by or for the Government; and

WHEREAS it is in the interest of the United States to acquire patent protection abroad on certain inventions resulting from government-financed research; and

WHEREAS it is in the interest of the Government to foster, promote, and develop the foreign commerce of the United States:

NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States by the Constitution and statutes, and as commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, and in the interest of the foreign affairs functions of the United States and the internal management of the government, it is hereby ordered as follows:

1. All Government departments and agencies shall, whenever practicable, acquire the right to file foreign patent applications on inventions resulting from research conducted or financed by the Government.

2. All Government departments and agencies which have or may hereafter acquire title to inventions or the right to file patent applications abroad thereon, shall fully and continuously inform the Department of Commerce concerning such inventions, except as provided in section 6 hereof, and shall make recommendations to the Department of Commerce as to which of such inventions should receive patent protection by the United States abroad and the foreign jurisdictions in which such patent protection should be sought. The recommendations of such departments and agencies shall indicate the immediate or future industrial, commercial or other value of the invention concerned, including its value to public health.

3. The Department of Commerce shall determine whether, and in what foreign jurisdictions, the United States should seek patents for such inventions and, to the extent of appropriations available therefor, shall procure patent protection for such inventions, taking all action, consistent with existing law, necessary to acquire and maintain patent rights abroad. Such determinations of the said Department shall be made after full consultation with United States industry and commerce, with the Department of State, and with other Government agencies familiar with the technical, scientific, industrial, commercial or other economic or social factors affecting the invention involved, and after consideration of the availability of valid patent protection in the countries determined to be immediate or potential markets for, or producers of, products, processes, or services covered by or relating to the invention.

4. The Department of Commerce shall administer foreign patents acquired by the United States under the terms of this order and shall issue licenses thereunder in accordance with law under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of Commerce shall prescribe. Nationals of the United States shall be granted licenses on a nonexclusive royalty free basis except in such cases as the Secretary shall determine and proclaim it to be consistent with the public interest to issue such licenses on a nonexclusive royalty free basis.

5. The Department of State, in consultation with the Department of Commerce, shall negotiate arrangements among governments under which each government and its nationals shall have access to the foreign patents of the other participating governments. Patents relating to matters of public health may be licensed by the Secretary of Commerce, with the approval of the Secretary of State, to any country or its nationals upon such terms and conditions as are in accordance with law and as the Secretary of Commerce determines to be appropriate, regardless of whether such country is a part to the arrangements provided for in this section.

6. There shall be exempted from the provisions of this order (a) all inventions within the jurisdiction of the Atomic Energy Commission except in such cases as the said Commission specifically authorizes the inclusion of an invention under the terms of this order; and (b) all other inventions officially classified as secret or confidential for reasons of the national security. Nothing in this order shall supersede the declassification policies and procedures established by Executive Orders No. 9568 of June 8, 1945, 9604 of August 25, 1945, and 9809 of December 12, 1946.

HARRY S. TRUMAN

THE WHITE HOUSE,

June 14, 1947










http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056592/releaseinfo

IMDb


To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Release Info

USA 25 December 1962 (Los Angeles, California)










http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117731/releaseinfo

IMDb


Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

Release Info

USA 18 November 1996 (Hollywood, California) (premiere)










https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_G._Cromwell


Carl G. Cromwell

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Carl G. Cromwell (January 26, 1889 - September 27, 1931) was a Texas Oil Driller and Aviation Pioneer.


Career

In 1921, Texon Oil and Land Company contracted with Cromwell to drill in Reagan County on land owned by the University of Texas. On May 28, 1923, the Santa Rita No. 1 came in and produced great wealth for the University of Texas. Cromwell became drilling superintendent of the Texon Company's expanding field around the camp of Santa Rita. In December 1928, the Reagan County discovery well came in at 8,525 feet. At that time the Santa Rita University 1-B was the world's deepest well.

Cromwell was also an aviation pioneer.










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Springfield! Springfield!


Halt and Catch Fire

Working for the Clampdown


[ Joe MacMillan: ] A big part of my pitch to them was that they could maintain creative freedom.

[ Jacob Wheeler: ] Yeah. That was smart.










https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/dos01

TSHA

Texas State Historical Association


SANTA RITA OIL WELL

SANTA RITA OIL WELL. Santa Rita No. 1, located in Section 2, Block 2, University of Texas lands in Reagan County, came in on May 28, 1923. Several shady promotions of "salted" wells were perpetrated in West Texas in the 1920s. But the Santa Rita well, which flowed intermittently until the end of June, proved that oil existed in the region. The Santa Rita resulted from the efforts of several men over a period of four years. The land promotion was initiated in January 1919 by Rupert P. Ricker, a University of Texas graduate, Reagan County lawyer, and World War I veteran who took advantage of a 1917 law that allowed the leasing of state land for oil exploration. He and four associates made preliminary applications on 431,360 acres owned by the University of Texas in Reagan, Upton, Irion, and Crockett counties. A filing fee of $43,136 was due the General Land Office in thirty days. Ricker intended to promote the land deal in Fort Worth and sell enough leases to pay the filing fee. When he found no interest in his land deal as the thirty-day deadline neared, he sold his ideas, maps, and preliminary leases for $2,500 to an old army friend from El Paso, Frank T. Pickrell.

Pickrell and his partner, Haymon Krupp, a prosperous El Paso merchant, had no better luck promoting the acreage than had Ricker. Not wanting to lose their investment but still hoping to promote the leases, Pickrell and Krupp decided to develop the acreage themselves. Krupp borrowed the money to cover the filing fee. He and his New York friends incorporated as Texon Oil and Land Company (see TEXON, TEXAS) to raise capital, but the company stock sold too slowly to fund drilling on the acreage. Pickrell then persuaded the board of directors to approve a sales promotion for certificates of interest in a sixteen-section block of leases called Group No. 1. Investors paid $200 each for a .0004882 interest in the group. Texon Oil raised over $100,000 from the promotion and used some of the capital to make rental payments and to buy used drilling equipment. The first oil test on Group No. 1 acreage was called Santa Rita No. 1, named for the saint of the impossible. The well was spudded on January 8, 1921, just before the thirty-day deadline.

Pickrell, who had no experience in oil, considered himself lucky to have hired an experienced driller, Carl Cromwell, for fifteen dollars a day and stock in the company. Cromwell moved his family to the lonely drilling site beside the tracks of the Orient Railroad. For 646 days the cable-tool rig pounded, and the two-man crew bailed the hole. They averaged only 4.7 feet a day. Late on May 27, 1923, the bit drilled into the dolomitic sands, called "Big Lime," just above the 3,050-foot level. Cromwell shut down the well when he saw gas bubbles escaping from the casinghead. The driller and his tool dresser, Dee Locklin, were convinced they had an oil well and left the site to lease surrounding mineral acreage while the discovery was yet unknown.

Early on May 28, with no further drilling, the Santa Rita roared to life, sprayed oil over the top of the derrick, and covered a 250-yard area around the site. The well attracted the attention of area residents and scouts from major oil companies, and Pickrell eventually enlisted the aid of independent oilman Mike Benedum to test the extent of his field. Benedum's efforts proved that the area was indeed rich in oil and that Santa Rita No. 1 was just a small beginning for the men who promoted it, for the University of Texas, and for other oil-rich areas of the Permian Basin.

In 1940, under the leadership of the Texas State Historical Association, the Santa Rita rig was moved from its original site to the University of Texas campus in Austin. Its presence commemorates a time of transformation for both the University of Texas and Texas A&M University, which shared in the university's land royalties. In 1990, after almost sixty-seven years of production, the Santa Rita No. 1 was finally plugged.



http://www.utsystem.edu/bfl/santarit.html

Santa Rita No. 1

Why Santa Rita?

Mr. Frank Pickrell was one of the partners responsible for the drilling of the Santa Rita No. 1. The reason for the name "Santa Rita" is best told in Frank Pickrell's own words:

"The name of Santa Rita really originated in New York. Some of the stock salesmen had encouraged a group of Catholic women to invest in the Group I certificates. These women became a little worried about the wisdom of their investment and consulted with their priest. He apparently was also somewhat skeptical and suggested that the women invoke the aid of Santa Rita, who was the patron saint of the impossible. As I was leaving New York on one of my subsequent trips to the field, two of these women handed me a sealed envelope and told me that the envelope contained a red rose that had been blessed by the priest in the name of the saint. The women asked me to take the rose back to Texas with me -- to climb to the top of the derrick and scatter the rose petals, which by then were dry, over the rig and to say 'I hereby christen thee Santa Rita'. I faithfully followed those instructions."

Santa Rita No. 1 - History

From 1917 - 1919 more than 5000 oil and gas exploration permits were issued by the General Land Office for University Lands.

No exploration was attempted until 1921.

On August 23, 1921 (just 4 hours prior to the expiration of the applicable permit) the historic Santa Rita No. 1 was spudded in Section 2, Block 2, University Lands, Reagan County.

Drilling continued for almost two years at the drill site which was isolated by a shortage of adequate roads and limited transportation facilities. It has been said that the only sounds came from the rig, roadrunners and rattlesnakes.

Finally the historic day arrived on May 28, 1923, when a rattlesnake noise began at the well bore and changed to the sound of a wild prairie wind. Santa Rita came in with oil blowing over the top of the derrick and spraying the countryside. The first well drilled on University Lands, Santa Rita No. 1, was officially transformed into a bona fide oil well.










http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Star


Silver Star

The Silver Star is the third-highest military decoration that can be awarded to a member of any branch of the United States armed forces for valor in the face of the enemy.

The Silver Star is awarded for gallantry in action against an enemy of the United States not justifying one of the two higher awards - the service crosses (Distinguished Service Cross, the Navy Cross, or the Air Force Cross), the second-highest military decoration, or the Medal of Honor, the highest decoration. The Silver Star may be awarded to any person who, while serving in any capacity with the armed forces, distinguishes himself or herself by extraordinary heroism involving one of the following actions:

In action against an enemy of the United States

While engaged in military operations involving conflict with an opposing foreign force










http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066886/releaseinfo

IMDb


Captain Apache (1971)

Release Info

USA 27 October 1971










http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navy_Cross


Navy Cross

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Navy Cross is the second-highest military decoration for valor that may be awarded to a member of the United States Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, or U.S. Coast Guard (when operating under the Department of the Navy) for extraordinary heroism in combat.










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IMDb


Home Is the Hero (1959)

Release Info

Ireland 3 March 1959 (Dublin)
USA 25 January 1961 (New York City, New York)



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IMDb


Home Is the Hero (1959)

Plot Summary

A man returns to his Irish town after being in jail for five years for murder. His friends try to help him fit in again, but he refuses and secludes himself from the world. Only a pretty girl and his crippled son can still reach him.










http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=87696

The American Presidency Project

Barack Obama

XLIV President of the United States: 2009 - present

Remarks at Celgard, LLC, and a Question-and-Answer Session in Charlotte, North Carolina

April 2, 2010

The President. Hello, everybody! Hello! Good to see you. Everybody, please have a seat. Have a seat.


Now, what the Congressional Budget Office has said--I'm sorry, by the way, these questions sometimes are--or these answers are long, but I want to make sure you guys--that I'm really answering your question. I hope you feel like I really want to respect the importance of your question. What the Congressional Budget Office has said is that as a consequence of the savings from the waste and fraud, combined with the new revenue sources I just mentioned, that this thing is going to actually reduce our deficit by over a trillion dollars--over a trillion dollars. We're actually saving money for the Government because we've closed the roof, the house is now insulated, it's warm, and by the way, in the meantime, we've got a whole bunch of people who were left out in the cold who are now being taken care of.

That's the concept. But I know that for a lot of people, they've got a legitimate concern about, gosh, it just seems like Government spending is out of control. I understand that. I feel that. But understand what happened. When I walked in, we already had a $1.3 trillion deficit. That's an annual deficit of $1.3 trillion. That's the day I got sworn in, before I did a thing. We had $8 trillion in accumulated debt from the war in Iraq, not paid for










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IMDb


Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)

Release Dates

USA 3 December 1991 (Hollywood, California) (premiere)



http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie6.html

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)


SPOCK: There's an old Vulcan proverb. 'Only Nixon could go to China.'

KIRK: How could you vouch for me? That's ...arrogant presumption.

SPOCK: My father requested that I open negotia...

KIRK: I know your father's the Vulcan Ambassador for heaven's sake, but you know how I feel about this. They're animals!

SPOCK: Jim, there is an historic opportunity here.

KIRK: Don't believe them! Don't trust them!

SPOCK: They're dying.

KIRK: Let them die!










http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA

1-08 - Flesh And Bones 12/06/04


http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar/season1/galactica-108.htm

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA

1X08 - FLESH AND BONE

Original Airdate: February 25, 2005 (USA)


Boomer - My co-pilot gave up a seat for you.





http://www.airforcemag.com/MagazineArchive/Pages/1991/October%201991/1091apache.aspx


Air Force Magazine


October 1991

Apache Attack

By Richard Mackenzie

The helicopters would open the war. They had to take out Iraq's early warning net, and they had to get it all.


As he sat in his helicopter talking with his gunner, Colonel Cody saw a dusty rental car speeding over the tarmac. The sedan pulled to a stop. Col. Ben Orrell, Colonel Gray's deputy, yelled from the driver's seat of the car, "I need to talk to you."

Colonel Cody climbed down and ran to the vehicle.





"Space: Above and Beyond"

"Who Monitors the Birds?"

Sunday 7 January 1996

Episode 12 Season 1 DVD video:

00:07:56


US Marine Corps Major Jack Colquitt: I know that a judge sentenced you to the Marines. That is your ticket out. You go on this mission, the old man will sign it. Lieutenant Hawkes, you're the best natural shooter there is aboard Saratoga. Now, normally, a mission of this intensity would require long-term training.





http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar/season1/galactica-101.htm

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA

1X01 - 33

Original Airdate: January 14, 2005 (USA)


Caprica

We see Helo running through the woods from two Cylons. He lures the Cylons into a trap










JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 03/17/07 9:00 AM
Or the RIO had been knocked out to from the explosion that tore off the canopy. What I was hearing was someone on the carrier yelling at me over the radio to pull up before I crashed into the ocean. The RIO woke up and I asked him if he was ok or he asked me if I was ok. This must all be symbolized in my "memory" as that time I wrote about driving that convertible Mustang back from Orlando with a couple other guys from boot camp. I fell asleep as I was driving on the interstate and almost ran into an overpass structure in the median.

JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 03/17/07 9:45 AM
In my "memory" of that time in that Mustang, the guy sitting asleep all the time in the back seat of the car might actually represent that the RIO had been killed in the explosion that blew off the canopy of my F-14. The guy in the seat to the right of my might have been a pilot in another F-14 guiding me back to the carrier because I was suffering from a concussion.

JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 03/17/07 9:49 AM
How I managed to shoot down those two enemy fighters is beyond me. I imagine or remember that I left a wake on the ocean surface I came so close to it before I recovered control after the initial missile volley they sent at us. They got off another volley but none of those detonated around me.


[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 17 March 2007 excerpt ends]










JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 7:25 AM Tuesday, June 14, 2011


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustang_(military_officer)

Mustang (military officer)

A Mustang is United States Military slang for a commissioned officer who began his or her career as an enlisted service member. Mustangs are older and more experienced than their peers-in-grade who earned their commissions from one of the service academies (such as the United States Military Academy, United States Air Force Academy, or United States Naval Academy), Officer Candidate School, or the Reserve Officer Training Corps. During the Vietnam War, however, when some Army warrant officer pilots were offered a direct commission to 2nd or 1st Lieutenant, they were usually younger than 25 at the time of commission.

A United States Navy mustang can be a Chief Warrant Officer, a Limited Duty Officer, a Staff Officer, a Restricted Line Officer or an Unrestricted Line Officer, depending on their particular situation.

The original definition of a mustang was a military officer who had earned a battlefield commission; they were especially prevalent during World War II and the Korean War. Such notables include Audie Murphy (World War II) and David Hackworth (Korean War).

A mustang is currently defined[citation needed] by a continuity in military service from enlisted to officer (i.e., no break in military service). Being a slang term, there is no precise definition or set of criteria to determine which officers can properly be called a "mustang"; however, generally accepted as mustangs are those who earned a Good Conduct Medal


[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 14 June 2011 excerpt ends]










http://www.gateworld.net/atlantis/s1/transcripts/101.shtml

GateWorld


STARGATE ATLANTIS

RISING, PART 1

EPISODE NUMBER - 101

DVD DISC - Season 1, Disc 1

ORIGINAL U.S. AIR DATE - 07.16.04


SHEPPARD: Apache, Black Hawk, Cobra, Osprey ...

O'NEILL: That's a lot of training










http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_flight_officer


Naval flight officer

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A Naval Flight Officer (NFO) is an aeronautically designated commissioned officer in the United States Navy or United States Marine Corps that specializes in airborne weapons and sensor systems. NFOs are not pilots (Naval Aviators) per se, but they may perform many "co-pilot" functions, depending on the type of aircraft.


Similarly, Marine Corps NFOs are considered also eligible for command at sea and ashore within Marine Aviation, and are also eligible to hold senior general officer positions, such as command of Marine Aircraft Wings, Joint Task Forces, Marine Expeditionary Forces, Marine Corps component commands and unified combatant commands.


Naval Aviator vs Naval Flight Officer

Naval Flight Officers operate some of the advanced systems on board most multi-crew naval aircraft, and some may also act as the overall tactical mission commanders of single or multiple aircraft assets during a given mission. NFOs are not formally trained to pilot the aircraft, although they do train in some dual-control aircraft and are given the opportunity to practice basic airmanship techniques. Some current and recently retired naval aircraft with side-by-side seating are also authorized to operate under dual-piloted weather minimums with one pilot and one NFO. However, in the unlikely event that the pilot of a single piloted naval aircraft becomes incapacitated, the crew would likely eject or bail out, if possible, as NFOs are not normally qualified to land the aircraft, especially in the carrier-based shipboard environment.


Past aircraft

NFOs also flew in these retired aircraft, including as mission commander:


A-6 Intruder (A-6A, A-6B, A-6C, KA-6D, A-6E) serving as bombardier/navigator.

EA-6A Prowler serving as electronic countermeasures officer.


F-14 Tomcat (F-14A, F-14B, F-14D) serving as radar intercept officer.










http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA


http://www.twiztv.com/scripts/battlestar/season1/galactica-102.htm

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA

1X02 - WATER

Original Airdate: January 14, 2005 (USA)


Helo: Never send a pilot to do an E.C.O.'s job.










http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092099/quotes

IMDb


Top Gun (1986)

Quotes


Goose: Come on, Mav, do some of that pilot shit!










http://science.howstuffworks.com/apache-helicopter4.htm

howstuffworks


How Apache Helicopters Work

by Tom Harris


Apache Controls

The Apache cockpit is divided into two sections, one directly behind the other. The pilot sits in the rear section, and the co-pilot/gunner sits in the front section. As you might expect, the pilot maneuvers the helicopter and the gunner aims and fires the weapons. Both sections of the cockpit include flight and firing controls in case one pilot needs to take over full operation.










JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 06/10/09 9:39 PM
I could see very well in the dream that we were flying over some mountainous terrain and there was a Libyan military jet below me and to my right side. The dialog that I believe was from the RIO in the seat behind me was about that opposing fighter and the part that I remember the best is that he was saying the the pilot of that Libyan jet was wearing a mask. I could see the jet well enough to establish the make but I was far enough away that I could not see the pilot or even if he was wearing an oxygen mask. The first detail on that notion I remember either during the dream or after I have pondered over it is that my RIO was looking at him through binoculars. At some point afterwards the thought occurred to me that we had actually flown close enough to that Libyan aircraft that I could see visually unaided that he was wearing an oxygen mask. There was some other dialog from my RIO and I have pondered over whether he was also communicating with the Hawkeye or the carrier or both over the radio the details I was hearing from him. We were preparing to engage the Libyan fighter with the weapons on my aircraft and this part about the summary label for the project item reminds me of something my RIO was saying but I cannot remember precisely what he was saying. It was as though he was scheduling a task for our fire-control computer and I heard him define the text of the label for that task of firing at the opposing fighter.


[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 10 June 2009 excerpt ends]





JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 03/14/07 6:33 PM
I have been thinking a lot about that scene recently in "Battlestar Galactica." I imagine or remember that I did something similar as I was about to land on an aircraft carrier. It was a highly crazy maneuver but I had a reason. I am thinking that I had just shot down two Libyan fighters and I did it for that reason. I wasn't showing off but I had a suspicion that at least one person on the carrier was reporting my movements and the Libyans, possibly even Soviet fighters, were sent up specifically to shoot me down. I got both of them though and I wanted to do something to cause some chatter. That was one reason. Another is that I was hoping to de-motivate them from attacking me again by showing them just how capable a pilot I was. Everything I read suggests that landing on an aircraft carrier is stressful enough on a good day. So I wanted to do something stunning that would show I was good enough to make such a maneuver even after the intense stress of that combat engagement where they sent up their best to get me. My thoughts are that just as I about to land on the carrier, I pulled what I think is called a barrel-roll. That's not the same as Claire describes as the over-turn performed by Raz over Osirak. Rather, it is similar to that scene recently when "Starbuck" rolled over the top of "Apollo's" ship. I did that and still made a perfect 3-wire landing on the deck. The Captain flipped out over that and my thoughts are conflicted over whether I explained why I did it. I might not have told him because I trusted no one. They were going to pull my wings but somehow I told President Reagan about it, or I didn't have to tell him anything and he had it figured out too and he did his part to keep me flying. So that one objective was to de-motivate them with that stunt. But another objective was to generate chatter that we could use to track down the people reporting my movements to the enemy.

JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 03/14/07 6:53 PM
There are people now though that I do trust.

JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 03/14/07 7:09 PM
I have had a lot of thoughts about something I might have been part of in Vietnam. A lot of thoughts I can't articulate. Something about refugees. Thoughts about flying air cover for refugees that were being transported out. I might have flown out some of those refugees too.

JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 03/14/07 7:19 PM
chatter chatter chatter chatter

03/14/07 7:24 PM
blah blah blah blah

JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 03/14/07 7:30 PM
The CAG probably called me a maniac for pulling that stunt on approach to the carrier.


[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 14 March 2007 excerpt ends]










JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 03/17/07 2:12 AM
They don't torture you with primarily physical pain, such as beatings, etc. Physical torture is easy to resist. For a while at least. If you are good, you can resist it for a long time. Depends on how far they take it though. But the real bastards look to get in your head and really screw with you. And they have weeks and months and years to just screw with your head and screw with your head because they are lunatics and this doesn't come goddamned close to describing how bad it was.

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.


[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 17 March 2007 excerpt ends]










http://www.gateworld.net/atlantis/s1/transcripts/101.shtml

GateWorld


STARGATE ATLANTIS

RISING, PART 1

EPISODE NUMBER - 101

DVD DISC - Season 1, Disc 1

ORIGINAL U.S. AIR DATE - 07.16.04


O'NEILL: Break right.

(Sheppard banks hard to the left. The drone whizzes past them again.)

O'NEILL: I said right!

SHEPPARD: I'm gettin' to that, sir.










http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie6.html

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)


SPOCK: Good morning. Two months ago a Federation starship monitored an explosion on the Klingon moon Praxis. We believe it was caused by over-mining and insufficient safety precautions. The moon's decimation means a deadly pollution of their ozone. They will have depleted their supply of oxygen in approximately fifty Earth years. Due to their enormous military budget, the Klingon economy does not have the resources to combat this catastrophe. Last month, at the behest of the Vulcan Ambassador I opened a dialogue with Gorkon, Chancellor of the Klingon High Council. He proposes to commence negotiations at once.

CARTWRIGHT: Negotiations for what?

SPOCK: The dismantling of our space stations and starbases along the Neutral Zone, an end to almost seventy years of unremitting hostility with the Klingons, which the Klingons can no longer afford.

MILITARY AIDE: Bill, are we talking about mothballing the Starfleet?

C in C: I'm sure that our exploration and scientific programs would be unaffected, Captain, but...

CARTWRIGHT: I must protest. To offer the Klingons a safe haven within Federation space is suicide. Klingons would become the alien trash of the galaxy. And if we dismantle the fleet, we'd be defenceless before an aggressive species with a foothold on our territory. The opportunity here is to bring them to their knees. Then we'll be in a far better position to dictate terms.

KIRK: Sir!

C in C: Captain Kirk?

KIRK: The Klingons have never been trustworthy. I'm forced to agree with Admiral Cartwright.










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 also known as Matthew Kline for official duty and also known as Wayne Newman for official duty ) To 8/12/2004 is 4956 days

4956 = 2478 + 2478

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 8/15/1972 ( Richard Nixon - Message to the Congress on Plans for an International Exposition on the Environment To Be Held in Spokane, Washington ) is 2478 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 8/12/2004 is 4956 days

4956 = 2478 + 2478

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 8/15/1972 ( Richard Nixon - Message to the Congress on Plans for an International Exposition on the Environment To Be Held in Spokane, Washington ) is 2478 days



From 4/8/1952 ( premiere US film "My Son John" ) 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 also known as Matthew Kline for official duty and also known as Wayne Newman for official duty ) is 14163 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 8/12/2004 is 14163 days



From 4/8/1952 ( premiere US film "My Son John" ) 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 14163 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 8/12/2004 is 14163 days



From 4/29/1992 ( the Rodney King trial acquittals in Los Angeles ) To 8/12/2004 is 4488 days

4488 = 2244 + 2244

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official 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



[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2015/05/my-son-john.html ]


http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2004/08/20040812-15.html

THE WHITE HOUSE

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

For Immediate Release

Office of the Press Secretary

August 12, 2004

Remarks by the President and Mrs. Bush at Victory 2004 Dinner

Santa Monica Municipal Airport

Santa Monica, California

6:54 P.M. PDT


Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States. (Applause.)

THE PRESIDENT: Thanks for coming. And thanks for having us. Thank you all, please be seated. Thanks for the warm -- warm welcome.

AUDIENCE MEMBER: (Inaudible).










http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044941/releaseinfo

IMDb


My Son John (1952)

Release Info

USA 8 April 1952



http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044941/plotsummary

IMDb


My Son John (1952)

Plot Summary


The Jeffersons are the ideal picture-perfect all-American family of the McCarthy era, except that "son John" is gay, an atheist, and a liberal. The parents obviously suspect he's a Communist spy.










http://articles.latimes.com/2000/nov/03/news/mn-46389

Los Angeles Times


Bush's 1976 Arrest in Maine Is Revealed


November 03, 2000 MARK Z. BARABAK TIMES POLITICAL WRITER

Responding to reports Thursday


Bush repeatedly questioned the timing of the Maine news reports. "I think that's an interesting question," he told reporters. "Why now? . . . I've got my suspicions."










http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=3525

The American Presidency Project

Richard Nixon

XXXVII President of the United States: 1969 - 1974

255 - Message to the Congress on Plans for an International Exposition on the Environment To Be Held in Spokane, Washington.

August 15, 1972

To the Congress of the United States:

In accordance with Public Law 91-269, I wish to inform the Congress today of current plans for the six-month International Exposition on the Environment to be held in Spokane, Washington in 1974.














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Google Maps


12805 I-90BUS

Spokane Valley, Washington










http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078788/quotes

IMDb


Apocalypse Now (1979)

Quotes


[first lines]

Willard: [voiceover] Saigon... shit; I'm still only in Saigon...










http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0000007/quotes

IMDb


Quotes for

James Bond (Character)


M: Effective immediately, your licence to kill is revoked, and I require you to hand over your weapon. Now. I need hardly remind you that you're still bound by the Official Secrets Act.










http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=flight-of-the-intruder

Springfield! Springfield!


Flight Of The Intruder (1991)


Are there times
when you have the
moral obligation
not to follow orders?
Of course there are.
The navy didn't tell you
to strafe women and children
or do anything that violated
your conscience.
But, you heroes,
you do not have the right
to make up your own orders!
You have abused my trust
and the trust of every officer
in this squadron!
You'll be confined to your
quarters until tomorrow morning,
when you will accompany me
on the cod to Subic Bay
for inquiry into
court-martial charges.










http://www.nasa.gov/centers/langley/news/researchernews/rn_yurisnight10.html

NASA


Yuri's Night, the Sequel, Is Set for VASC 03.12.10

By: Amy Johnson & Kathy Barnstorff

After a successful event a year ago, the world's biggest space party is returning to Hampton Roads. Local space enthusiasts will join thousands of others in cities around the globe for Yuri's Night, to be held locally April 10, from 7 p.m. to midnight, at the Virginia Air & Space Center in downtown Hampton.

Yuri's Night is an international celebration of two historic April space achievements. On April 12, 1961, Russian Yuri Gagarin became the first human in outer space. Twenty years later, April 12, 1981, the first U.S. space shuttle was launched.










http://www.simpsonsarchive.com/episodes/3F19.html

"The Curse of the Flying Hellfish" [ The Simpsons ]

Original Airdate in N.A.: 28-Apr-96


Baron: Hey, und dummkopf! Watch out for the CD-changer in my trunk, eh? Idiot.










http://www.nytimes.com/1981/04/11/us/computer-problem-will-delay-shuttle-at-least-two-days.html

The New York Times


COMPUTER PROBLEM WILL DELAY SHUTTLE AT LEAST TWO DAYS

By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, Special to the New York Times

Published: April 11, 1981

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., April 10— A mysterious computer breakdown caused postponement of the launching of the space shuttle Columbia today, and space agency officials pressed to reschedule it for Sunday morning.

The earliest the orbital test mission could get under way is 6:50 A.M. Sunday. But until the computer problem in the spaceship could be corrected the officials were unable to say when the re-usable winged Columbia would be cleared for another launching attempt.

Tonight engineers at the Johnson Space Center in Houston identified the source of the malfunction as a timing fault in one set of spaceship computers that disrupted communications with the backup computer.

Conference to Be Held Today

What repairs will be required and what effect they would have on launching plans will not be decided until officials at the Johnson Center hold a telephone conference with officials of the Kennedy Space Center here at mid-day tomorrow.

Arnold D. Aldrich, the shuttle deputy program manager at the Johnson Center, announced that the problem was a ''time skew'' traced to the operating instructions programmed into the Columbia's primary computers. This caused the primary computers, in effect, to reject communications from the backup computer because they did not arrive when expected.

Launching crews at the Kennedy Space Center here planned to keep the spaceship ready through tonight and tomorrow so that the countdown could be resumed at 6 P.M. tomorrow, aiming for a Sunday morning liftoff. However, they would not begin refueling the shuttle later that night until they received a favorable report on the computer problem from engineers and electronics experts at the Johnson Space Center. Problem Becomes Evident

In the final stages of the countdown early this morning, with John W. Young, a civilian, and Capt. Robert L. Crippen of the Navy strapped into their cockpit couches, the Columbia's backup computer momentarily failed to establish communications with two of the four primary computers that are essential to all spaceship operations.

The countdown was halted. Flight controllers and engineers at the Kennedy Space Center here and at Mission Control in Houston struggled for three hours to trace the elusive source of the trouble, but could find no clues. The computers themselves seemed all right, as did their instruction programs, known as software. The shuttle computer experts said that they had never encountered such a phenomenon, whatever it was, in the countless preflight tests.

After the failure recurred twice, project officials decided to give up and try another day, disappointing the crowd of hundreds of thousands of people who had gathered to watch the first flight of American astronauts in nearly six years.

Neil B. Hutchinson, a flight director at the Johnson Space Center, said that the Columbia could be operated with only one functioning computer, but added, ''We would never lift off without a full complement of computers.''

More than any previous space vehicle, the complex 122-foot-long Columbia, designed to fly like a spacecraft and return to earth like an 80-ton glider, is dependent on computers. The four primary computers operate simultaneously and, should they fail, the backup computer takes over. All five are identical machines, except that the backup one carries a different program of instructions.

After the postponement was announced at 9:56 A.M. today, crews went to the launching pad and helped Mr. Young and Captain Crippen out of the cockpit. They had been confined to their couches, lying with their faces skyward, for more than six hours. The liftoff had been scheduled for 6:50 A.M. Two Years Behind Schedule

Mr. Young appeared grim as he returned to the astronaut quarters at the space center. He and Captain Crippen have been in training three years for the mission, which was already running more than two years behind schedule because of development problems with the shuttle's propulsion system and heat-shielding tiles. The computers, ironically, had been relatively free of problems during the $10 billion development program.

Mr. Hutchinson said later that the astronauts had received the news of the postponement without complaint. According to him, Mr. Young's first reaction over the intercom to the launching and flight controllers was: ''You all did real good. We're sorry we couldn't go.''

It was the first time in 15 years that American astronauts had encountered such a frustration on the launching pad. Having a launching ''scrubbed,'' as it is known in space vernacular, was a frequent occurrence in the initial manned flight program of Mercury.

But the last time it happened was on May 17, 1966, when the Gemini 9 astronauts, Thomas P. Stafford and Eugene A. Cernan, had to walk away from their spacecraft after the Agena target craft they were to rendevous with failed to reach orbit. They did not fly until June 3. Preparations for Launching

When the Columbia astronauts were awakened at 2 A.M., all countdown preparations were progressing smoothly. The huge external tank had been pumped full of supercold liquid hydrogen and oxygen, the propellants for Columbia's main engines.

At 6 A.M., as the sun rose above a bank of clouds out over the Atlantic, Mr. Young and Captain Crippen had already been inside Columbia with the hatch sealed for more than an hour. The checkouts continued satisfactorily. But at 6:20 - T minus 13 minutes in the countdown - it was reported that warning lights had flashed on the cockpit instrument panel and at the consoles of the control rooms here and in Houston. It was a computer problem.

When the computers were being switched to the ''terminal countdown mode 101,'' the backup computer was supposed to send signals for five milliseconds to verify that it was in communication with the primary computers.

Even though the signals failed to get through to two of the four computers, a second check a few minutes later indicated that the problem had gone away. But the countdown had to be halted anyway because of another suspected malfunction. One of the three electricity-generating fuel cells showed abnormal acid levels.

The time for the scheduled liftoff passed. And just as it was determined that the fuel cells were not in trouble, after all, the computer problem recurred. The astronauts tried to reset the computer dials, but the problem would not go away.

After the astronauts left the spaceship, launching crews pumped all the propellants, more than a million pounds of liquid oxygen and 225,000 pounds of liquid hydrogen, out of the external tank. The supercold propellants could not be left in the tank long because they would start evaporating in the Florida heat.

The time required to remove the propellants, reinspect all systems and then refuel dictated the postponement of at least two days in the launching.










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 also known as Matthew Kline for official duty and also known as Wayne Newman for official duty ) To 6/27/2006 is 5640 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/12/1981 ( my biological brother United States Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan was the commander aboard the United States STS-1 Columbia spacecraft ) is 5640 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 6/27/2006 is 5640 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 4/12/1981 ( my biological brother United States Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan was the commander aboard the United States STS-1 Columbia spacecraft ) is 5640 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 also known as Matthew Kline for official duty and also known as Wayne Newman for official duty ) To 6/27/2006 is 5640 days

5640 = 2820 + 2820

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/23/1973 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the attorney passes the United States of America Multistate Bar Examination ) is 2820 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 6/27/2006 is 5640 days

5640 = 2820 + 2820

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/23/1973 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the attorney passes the United States of America Multistate Bar Examination ) is 2820 days



From 12/25/1971 ( George Walker Bush the purveyor of illegal drugs strictly for his personal profit including the trafficking of massive amounts of cocaine into the United States confined to federal prison in Mexico for illegally smuggling narcotics in Mexico ) To 6/27/2006 is 12603 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 5/5/2000 ( premiere US film "I Dreamed of Africa" ) is 12603 days





http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=242

The American Presidency Project

George W. Bush

XLIII President of the United States: 2001 - 2009

Statement on Senate Passage of a Proposed Constitutional Amendment To Prohibit Desecration of the American Flag

June 27, 2006

Today a bipartisan majority of United States Senators voted to protect our Nation's most important symbol through a constitutional amendment to authorize Congress to prohibit the desecration of the American flag. Unfortunately, the final count fell short of the votes needed to send this important proposed amendment to the States for ratification.

By showing respect for our flag, we show reverence for the ideals that guide our Nation and we show appreciation for the men and women who have served in defense of those ideals.

I commend the Senators from both parties who voted to allow the amendment ratification process to protect our flag to go forward and continue to believe that the American people deserve the opportunity to express their views on this important issue.

NOTE: The statement referred to S.J. Res. 12.










http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/crippen-rl.html

NASA


National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center

Houston, Texas 77058

Biographical Data

ROBERT L. CRIPPEN (CAPTAIN, USN, RET.)

NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER)

PERSONAL DATA: Born in Beaumont, Texas, on September 11, 1937.


SPACE FLIGHT EXPERIENCE: STS-1 (April 12-14, 1981) was the first orbital test flight of the Shuttle Columbia, the first true manned spaceship. It was also the first manned vehicle to be flown into orbit without benefit of previous unmanned "orbital" testing; the first to launch with wings using solid rocket boosters.



- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 10:17 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Sunday 19 July 2015