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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 8:43 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: friend
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=friend
friend
A person with whom one is allied in a struggle or cause
"Homeless, cold, sitting in the dark behind the wheel of his Jeep parked on the top of a mountain, trying to sleep while thinking about how a bear could easy rip through the plastic window his head rested against, Kerry hoped that tomorrow a friend would show up and let him know he could go back home."
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 22 February 2006 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: - posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 6:32 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Tuesday 23 June 2015 - http://hvom.blogspot.com/2015/06/ah-i-think-were-at-some-kind-of.html
I think of that change now as being some kind of loss of context. Not so much a fragmentation of memory but a loss of context about memory. A key fact changed and so that causes my mind to ignore certain facts about before 6/13/2005.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 23 June 2015 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 01/23/09 7:42 AM
I had some kind of dream just before I awoke an hour or two ago that, while pleasant to ponder, sort of reminds me of when I first became homeless almost 4 years ago in the summer of 2005. The scenery was similar to those mountain roads I was driving on, but yet, I can clearly visualize certain details that tell me that location in my dream was definitely not that same area. I don't really know where it was. But I clearly saw my black Jeep Wrangler there as I was walking around at certain points and then at the beginning where I was driving it down a paved road. The details I can remember tell me it was definitely the same Jeep Wrangler. I can remember it had a fabric roof but I cannot visualize it well enough to see the texture of the fabric. I cannot visualize the wheels but of course I assume it did have wheels and that doesn't really seem an issue but as I was asleep, or maybe I was pondering all this just before I awoke, I was thinking in my sleep about the details I could visualize. The dream started with me driving the Jeep but I cannot visualize the steering wheel and I cannot even visualize details about the console but I can vaguely visualize looking through the windshield. The dream actually reminds me more of that sequence I described recently where "Khan" spots the "Enterprise" as it leaves orbit of that moon with the space station. The dream went on with me pulling off to the side of that 2-lane paved highway for some reason and I remember from the dream there was a backhoe excavation machine there in that area where I pulled off. I was probably fifty yards from the highway and I remember from the dream that someone was following me and it is that part that makes me think of that series of scenes about "Khan" spotting the "Enterprise." As I was near that machinery, I was in an area that seemed to hilly althoug I was generally at the top of the terrain and I am vaguely aware of the rolling terrain. The area seemed to have been clear-cut in the recent past but there was some low growth foliage around me and I could see a single tree with no leaves. As I mentioned, that reminds me of that area near that pond where I was sleeping in my Jeep Wrangler but yet the visualization in my mind from the dream is completely different. So anyway, I was about fifty yards off that main highway on a short stretch of dirt road that seemed to have been created to park that machinery and I was away that a very short distance down that highway in my direction of travel was a turn off road and I can almost visualize some kind of store and gas station that was just off that turn off. I remember details that suggest I stopped in there and was talking with the old man who owned the store and there was some kind of discussion about me finding more business for his store but I cannot visualize any of those details. I do know that I drove further down that turn off road but as I try to remember how I drove away from that machinery in order to get to that turn off road, I remember another scene that I can visualize that seems to happen before I stopped at that store. I was driving away from that machinery but I was driving backwards and then I was driving backwards up some kind of slope and then I was trying to stop but I was not stopping as I wanted to stop while on top of the peak of that slope. I did stop but I over-shot the peak slightly. It is that scene that reminds me of the planet Mars because all that terrain around me was some kind of reddish-clay dirt. I think there are more details about this scene that I do not now remember because I have been awake for a while. I am not certain how I went from there to that gas station but there but I do clearly remember driving down a road past that gas station and there seemed to be some abandoned houses down that way and there seemed to be some kind of sense in my dream about whether I should even be in that area. I think the series of scenes goes in the sequence of me driving down that road to a wooden bridge and I was concerned about whether I should drive over that bridge because I had no idea its condition. I could visualize that the surface was made mostly out of plywood and I could see that the surface was wet and I guess that was from the rain although I do not remember any rain in the dream but my visualization of the environment was gloomy enough to support the possibility that it was raining or had been raining intermittently. I can visualize looking over at a house that was off the road to my left and that was located in an area lower than the road. I vaguely recall seeing that the windows were boarded up. There were some other scenes of driving along dirt roads in the mountains but I do not remember the sequence. I remember standing out there looking at that bridge and I wanted to continue across it so I could explore what was beyond it but there is also that lingering sense of whether I should have even been in that area but I don't think it was public land. There are also some details about me with a hammer and I was inspecting the wood of that bridge but I am not really certain if I was actually doing that or if that was something I was thinking of doing while I was dreaming. There is also something about a snake under that bridge but again I am not certain if I ever went under there to inspect the structure. So the next series of scenes, as I think it happened in sequence, was of me after I drove a short distance back down that side road in the direction towards the gas station and I stopped and went inside a house that seemed abandoned. I could clearly visualize my Jeep Wrangler sitting there where I stopped and as I went towards the house. The next scene I remember was standing inside the room of the house, which only seemed to have one room, which I can only vaguely visualize within a foot or two of my location although I do have a sense that it was fairly large room and I am vaguely aware of a window on the far side of the room. I was standing there and I was next to the wall that faced the direction of travel back towards main highway, although the main highway was more towards my right side. I could see that the door to my left was open but I cannot visualize any details beyond it. My Jeep was parked in that direction, but if I stretched my left arm straight out then my Jeep was about 45 degrees behind my left arm. I could not see it through the window behind me but it was situated between my field of view out that window and the open door to my left. Then a car drove past the house and in the direction of the bridge and I think it stopped but I am not certain. It made an odd sound as though not unlike the sound a space ship would make in an old science fiction movie but that is only my first guess at how to describe it because I cannot now remember how it sounded in the dream. But I do remember thinking about how to describe it and I seemed to have pondered over that for a brief time in my dream and I eventually decided that it resembled a compact version of the Delorean car from "Back To The Future" but one other difference is that it was painted black in my dream. I am also left with the vague sense the occupants of the car had been following me but I am not really certain. I remember that I stood there in the same spot and I caught a glimpse of the car through the open door and I did not want them to see me but I also did not try to conceal myself. I don't remember anything else at that point and I think that is when I awoke and got up out of bed.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 23 January 2009 excerpt ends]
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The Simpsons Season 11 Episode 14
Alone Again, Natura-Diddily
Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Feb 13, 2000 on FOX
Quotes
Lisa: Dad, why are you taping Flanders?
Bart: Do you even have a job anymore?
Homer: I think it's pretty obvious that I don't.
From 9/2/1969 ( the first automatic teller machine in the United States was installed by Chemical Bank in Rockville New York ) To 2/13/2000 is 11121 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 4/14/1996 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Simpsons"::"22 Short Films About Springfield" ) is 11121 days
From 11/11/1904 ( Alger Hiss ) To 6/4/1973 ( the United States patent granted for the automatic teller machine ) is 25042 days
25042 = 12521 + 12521
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 2/13/2000 is 12521 days
From 12/5/1933 ( Franklin Roosevelt - Proclamation 2065 - Repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment ) To 2/13/2000 is 24176 days
24176 = 12088 + 12088
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 12/7/1998 ( my first day working at Microsoft Corporation as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and the active duty United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel circa 1998 ) is 12088 days
From 11/18/1996 ( premiere US film "Star Trek: First Contact" ) To 2/13/2000 is 1182 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 1/27/1969 ( premiere US TV series episode "I Dream of Jeannie"::"Ride 'Em Astronaut" ) is 1182 days
From 10/27/1942 ( premiere US film "The Navy Comes Through" ) To 2/13/2000 is 20928 days
20928 = 10464 + 10464
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 6/27/1994 ( United States Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan the pilot and plane crash survivor along with me Kerry Wayne Burgess - circa 1990 also known for official duty as Wayne Newman the United States Marshal and the active duty commissioned officer of the United States Marine Corps - and the other Lockheed L-1011 aircraft passengers and crew murdered in a scheduled terrorism-sabotage attack by Bill Gates-Nazi-Microsoft-Corbis-NASA-George Bush the cowardly violent criminal by causing the external mounted Orbital Sciences Pegasus space satellite booster rocket to explode and fatally disable our aircraft ) is 10464 days
From 10/27/1942 ( Franklin Roosevelt - Tribute on Navy Day ) To 2/13/2000 is 20928 days
20928 = 10464 + 10464
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 6/27/1994 ( United States Navy Fleet Admiral Thomas Reagan the pilot and plane crash survivor along with me Kerry Wayne Burgess - circa 1990 also known for official duty as Wayne Newman the United States Marshal and the active duty commissioned officer of the United States Marine Corps - and the other Lockheed L-1011 aircraft passengers and crew murdered in a scheduled terrorism-sabotage attack by Bill Gates-Nazi-Microsoft-Corbis-NASA-George Bush the cowardly violent criminal by causing the external mounted Orbital Sciences Pegasus space satellite booster rocket to explode and fatally disable our aircraft ) is 10464 days
From 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate Columbia South Carolina ) To 2/13/2000 is 3256 days
3256 = 1628 + 1628
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 4/18/1970 ( Richard Nixon - Remarks on Presenting the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Apollo 13 Mission Operations Team in Houston ) is 1628 days
From 5/21/1949 ( Harry Truman - Joint Statements Following Discussions With the President of Brazil ) To 2/13/2000 is 18530 days
18530 = 9265 + 9265
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 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 9265 days
From 1/27/1949 ( premiere US film "The Sun Comes Up" ) To 2/13/2000 is 18644 days
18644 = 9322 + 9322
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 5/12/1991 ( I was the winning race driver at the Formula One Monaco Grand Prix ) is 9322 days
From 1/29/1957 ( premiere US film "Edge of the City" ) To 5/12/1991 ( I was the winning race driver at the Formula One Monaco Grand Prix ) is 12521 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 2/13/2000 is 12521 days
From 1/29/1957 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Phil Silvers Show"::"Bilko Goes to Monte Carlo" ) To 5/12/1991 ( I was the winning race driver at the Formula One Monaco Grand Prix ) is 12521 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 2/13/2000 is 12521 days
From 1/25/1958 ( Dwight Eisenhower - Statement by the President on the Contribution of British and American Scientists Toward Peaceful Uses of the Atom ) To 5/7/1992 ( the first launch of the US space shuttle Endeavour orbiter vehicle mission STS-49 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-49 pilot astronaut ) is 12521 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 2/13/2000 is 12521 days
From 3/18/1961 ( the first flight Soviet Union Tu-28 ) 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 12521 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 2/13/2000 is 12521 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 2/13/2000 is 3314 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 11/29/1974 ( Gerald Ford - Remarks on Signing 18 Executive Warrants for Clemency ) is 3314 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 2/13/2000 is 3314 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 11/29/1974 ( Gerald Ford - Remarks on Signing 18 Executive Warrants for Clemency ) is 3314 days
From 6/26/1943 ( Karl Landsteiner deceased ) To 10/6/1977 ( the first flight Soviet Union MiG-29 Fulcrum ) is 12521 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 2/13/2000 is 12521 days
From 2/1/1958 ( Explorer 1 - the first United States satellite successfully launched by the United States into orbit of the planet Earth ) To 5/14/1992 ( as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer circa 1992 and United States chief test pilot I performed the first flight of the US Army and Boeing AH-64D Apache Longbow ) is 12521 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 2/13/2000 is 12521 days
From 8/3/1973 ( premiere US film "The Neptune Factor" ) To 2/13/2000 is 9690 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 5/14/1992 ( as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer circa 1992 and United States chief test pilot I performed the first flight of the US Army and Boeing AH-64D Apache Longbow ) is 9690 days
From 1/14/1942 ( Franklin Roosevelt - Message to Congress on Private Claims Bills and Bridges ) To 2/13/2000 is 21214 days
21214 = 10607 + 10607
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 11/17/1994 ( premiere US film "Star Trek Generations" ) is 10607 days
From 1/30/1944 ( the Battle of Cisterna during World War 2 ) To 2/13/2000 is 20468 days
20468 = 10234 + 10234
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 11/9/1993 ( the Stari Most in Mostar Bosnia-Herzegovina destroyed by artillery fire ) is 10234 days
From 7/30/1959 ( the United Nations Medal established ) To 11/9/1993 ( the Stari Most in Mostar Bosnia-Herzegovina destroyed by artillery fire ) is 12521 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 2/13/2000 is 12521 days
From 9/8/1960 ( Dwight Eisenhower - Remarks at the Dedication of the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama ) To 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 ) is 12521 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 2/13/2000 is 12521 days
From 10/9/1958 ( Pope Pius XII dead ) To 1/19/1993 ( in Asheville North Carolina as 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 who was another criminal sent by Bill Gates-Nazi-Microsoft-George Bush the cowardly violent criminal in another attempt to kill me the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) is 12521 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 2/13/2000 is 12521 days
From 10/31/1987 ( premiere US TV movie "The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains" ) To 2/13/2000 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
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-simpsons/alone-again-natura-diddily-1525/
tv.com
The Simpsons Season 11 Episode 14
Alone Again, Natura-Diddily
Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Feb 13, 2000 on FOX
AIRED: 2/13/00
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tv.com
The Simpsons Season 11 Episode 14
Alone Again, Natura-Diddily
Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Feb 13, 2000 on FOX
TRIVIA
Ned's ATM pin number is 5316.
From 9/2/1969 ( the first automatic teller machine in the United States was installed by Chemical Bank in Rockville New York ) to 3/23/1984 ( premiere US film "Police Academy" ) is 5316 days
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=police-academy
Springfield! Springfield!
Police Academy (1984)
Mahoney isn't the only one
who can play tricks on people.
Take it easy. These ain't track shoes.
Just hurry up.
I'm as anxious to get through this as you.
I'm not comfortable in these surroundings.
Come on up.
Up here?
When do I get
the second half of my money?
When the job's over with.
That's good.
http://www.simpsonsarchive.com/episodes/3F18.html
22 Short Films About Springfield [ The Simpsons ]
Original Airdate in N.A.: 14-Apr-96
Dr. Nick leads Jasper off while Abe continues to receive trans-dermal electromicide. The treatment causes lights to flicker all over town, including Moe's Tavern.
Moe: Say, Barn, uh, remember when I said I'd have to send away to NASA to calculate your bar tab?
Barney: Oh ho, oh yeah, you had a good laugh, Moe.
Moe: The results came back today.
Moe: [reading a printout] You owe me seventy billion dollars.
Barney: Huh?
Moe: No, wait, wait, wait, that's for the Voyager spacecraft.
Barney's tab is fourteen billion dollars.
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-simpsons/alone-again-natura-diddily-1525/trivia/
tv.com
The Simpsons Season 11 Episode 14
Alone Again, Natura-Diddily
Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Feb 13, 2000 on FOX
Quotes
Ned: Hi-diddly-ho, peddle to the metal-o-philes!
Homer: Flanders? Since when do you like anything cool?
Ned: Well I don't care for the speed, but I can't get enough of that safety gear! Helmets, rollbars.
Maude: I like the fresh air! And looking at the poor people in the infield.
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-simpsons/alone-again-natura-diddily-1525/trivia/
tv.com
The Simpsons Season 11 Episode 14
Alone Again, Natura-Diddily
Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Feb 13, 2000 on FOX
Quotes
Pit crew member: Hey, you're not a driver!
Homer: Oh, how rude of me. My name is--
(He drives off quickly)
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-phil-silvers-show/bilko-goes-to-monty-carlo-69595/
tv.com
The Phil Silvers Show Season 2 Episode 19
Bilko Goes To Monty Carlo
Aired Tuesday 8:30 PM Jan 29, 1957 on CBS
Bilko comes up with a foolproof method of winning at roulette, so all the camp come up with a bankroll and send him off Monte Carlo to try it out.
AIRED: 1/29/57
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0674106/releaseinfo
IMDb
The Phil Silvers Show (TV Series)
Bilko Goes to Monte Carlo (1957)
Release Info
USA 29 January 1957
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0674106/
IMDb
The Phil Silvers Show: Season 2, Episode 19
Bilko Goes to Monte Carlo (29 Jan. 1957)
TV Episode
Bilko invents a new gambling system. When word spreads about the system, aided by the air force Bilko heads for Monte Carlo armed with a bankroll and a weekend pass.
Phil Silvers ... MSgt. Ernest G. Bilko
Release Date: 29 January 1957 (USA)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050347/releaseinfo
IMDb
Edge of the City (1957)
Release Info
USA 29 January 1957 (New York City, New York)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040849/releaseinfo
IMDb
The Sun Comes Up (1949)
Release Info
USA 27 January 1949 (Houston, Texas)
http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-marlboro-men-20140127-story.html
Los Angeles Times
At least four Marlboro Men have died of smoking-related diseases
By MATT PEARCE
JANUARY 27, 2014, 6:29 PM
For the longest time, the Marlboro Man was synonymous with America's image of itself -- tough, self-sufficient, hard-working.
In one of the 20th century's most famous ad campaigns, which began in the 1950s, he was a rugged but handsome man who did the jobs that needed to be done, and he almost always had a Marlboro cigarette in his mouth.
Today, the reality about the Marlboro Man is darker: At least four actors who have played him in ads have died of smoking-related diseases.
The latest was Eric Lawson, 72, who appeared in Marlboro print ads from 1978 to 1981. He died in San Luis Obispo on Jan. 10.
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?episode=s11e14
Springfield! Springfield!
The Simpsons
Alone Again, Natura-Diddily
I can't believe my last words to Maude were, ''No foot-longs.
'' Yep.
It would have been a lot better if you'd said ''I love you'' or, ''You're special.
'' You know, something sweet instead of that hot dog crack.
If I'd only been a gentlemen and got the hot dogs myself she'd still be here.
Now, now, now.
Don't beat yourself up.
I'm the one who drove her out of her seat.
I'm the one who provoked the lethal barrage ofT-shirts.
I'm the one who parked in the ambulance zone, preventing any possible resuscitation.
Uh, but there's no point in playing the blame game.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=13192
The American Presidency Project
Harry S. Truman
XXXIII President of the United States: 1945-1953
108 - Joint Statements Following Discussions With the President of Brazil.
May 21, 1949
THE PRESIDENT of Brazil and the President of the United States are associated in their approval of the following statements:
[1.] The President of the United States of Brazil and the President of the United States of America have met in Washington, D.C., and have discussed at length the desirability of fostering economic development and social progress through the mutually beneficial interchange of technological data and trained specialists of all types, as well as through financial and economic cooperation. These conversations have been inspired by the traditional and unfaltering friendship which has prevailed for more than a century in the relations between the two countries.
The recently published report of the Joint Brazil-United States Technical Mission, which outlines a program of economic development for Brazil, was discussed. In reply to the expression of appreciation by President Dutra for services given by North American experts with this report, President Truman emphasized the past record of interdependence of the two countries, in times of peace and war, and assured the Brazilian President that the United States is now, and will continue to be, most interested in the further development of his country, either through the implementation of the recommendations made in the joint report or in other fields of related endeavor. It was suggested that technical discussions regarding this report might take place later in the year at the time of the visit of the Brazilian Minister of Finance to the United States.
President Dutra mentioned the need of foreign private investment in Brazil. The two Presidents recognized the important role of private investment in economic development and social progress. Accordingly, they have instructed technical experts of their respective Governments to commence immediately the negotiation of an appropriate treaty that would stimulate the mutually beneficial flow of private investment.
The two Presidents were also fully agreed that a comprehensive joint study of the tax relations between the two countries would be helpful. It was decided that conversations on this subject should be held with a view toward negotiating a convention between the two countries, similar to those already in force between the United States and other countries, which will, it is hoped, eliminate many of the factors that result in double taxation.
President Dutra also pointed to the great need in Brazil for trained technicians and specialists of all types. He was assured that every effort would be made to meet Brazil's requirements in the field of technical cooperation.
The two Presidents recognized the possibility of financing through public lending agencies appropriate development projects not suited to private financing, such as those projects which have already been accepted for financing by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the Export-Import Bank. President Truman assured President Dutra that requests from Brazil would in the future, as in the past, receive the most attentive consideration of the United States Government.
[2.] The historical record of relations between Brazil and the United States reflects cordial and unbroken friendship and cooperation. During the present visit of Brazilian President Dutra, he and the President of the United States have reviewed this admirable record and have discussed means through which relations between the two States might be improved and broadened. In this connection both Presidents have agreed that a cultural convention, a treaty which would encourage and further stimulate the present cultural exchange between the two countries, would be desirable and have given their approval to the negotiation of such an instrument.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=2472
The American Presidency Project
Richard Nixon
XXXVII President of the United States: 1969 - 1974
122 - Remarks on Presenting the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Apollo 13 Astronauts in Honolulu.
April 18, 1970
CAPTAIN LOVELL, it is my proud honor on behalf of a grateful and proud nation to welcome you and your colleagues back to the United States of America.
On this occasion I am very proud to speak not just for 200 million Americans, but for people around this world. We have received over 100 messages from foreign governments--from the Soviet Union, from Poland, other countries behind the Iron Curtain, from countries in the free world. This is truly a welcome from all the people of the world to three very brave men.
I recall, Captain, that when I spoke to you on the phone, you said that you regretted that you were unable to complete your mission. I hereby declare that this was a successful mission, a great mission on behalf of your country.
Your mission served the cause of the space program because of what you did. It means that future manned flights to space which will be made by our space program will be safer. Your mission served the cause of international understanding and good will.
I think I can truthfully say that never before in the history of man have more people watched together, prayed together, and rejoiced together at your safe return, than on this occasion.
You did not reach the moon but you reached the hearts of millions of people on earth by what you did.
Finally, your mission served your country. It served to remind us all of our proud heritage as a nation; to remind us that in this age of technicians and scientific marvels, that the individual still counts; that in a crisis, the character of a man or of men will make the difference.
As we look at what you have done, we realize that greatness comes not simply in triumph but in adversity. It has been said that adversity introduces a man to himself. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you three men who have been introduced to themselves as much as anybody in the whole history of men.
Now I have the proud honor to present the highest civilian award that can be presented in the United States of America, the Medal of Freedom.
I will now read the citation:
To James Arthur Lovell, Jr., to Fred Wallace Haise, Jr., to John Leonard Swigert, Jr.:
The citation on each of your medals will read as follows:
Adversity brings out the character of a man. Confronted suddenly and unexpectedly with grave peril in the far reaches of space, he demonstrated a calm courage and quiet heroism that stand as an example to men everywhere. His safe return is a triumph of the human spirit--of those special qualities of man himself we rely on when machines fall, and that we rely on also for those things that machines cannot do.
From the start, the exploration of space has been hazardous adventure. The voyage of Apollo 13 dramatized its risks. The men of Apollo 13, by their poise and skill under the most intense kind of pressure, epitomized the character that accepts danger and surmounts it. Theirs is the spirit that built America. With gratitude and admiration, America salutes their spirit and their achievement.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, I think we would also want to pay our respects to three very brave women, two wives, one mother, and a very brave father. Would they please stand?
Before I ask Captain Lovell to respond on behalf of this great crew, I have one personal matter that I want to mention to Mr. Swigert. I noticed that he had a little problem about filing his income tax return.1 Don't worry about it. I happen to know the collector. [Laughter]
1On April 12, 1970, while enroute to the moon, command module pilot Swigert told Mission Control at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston that he had forgotten to file his income tax return, due April 15.
Note: The President spoke at 4:41 p.m. at the Honolulu International Airport, Hawaii. Captain Lovell responded as follows:
Mr. President, distinguished ladies and gentlemen:
Needless to say, it is a very proud day for the three of us to be back here, to be back on earth again. We are very happy to be here. We had some very trying moments in the last week.
I can recall about a year and a half ago when we were coming home on Apollo 8, and we looked back on earth, and we had mentioned then that the earth was really the only place we had to go to. It was the only place that had color. It was the only place we could see in the universe that had life, that had warmth and was home to us.
But I was safely tucked in a nice, warm spacecraft with all systems functioning, and I really wasn't too worried. In Apollo 13 on the way home the situation was a little different. I recall the same words I had said a year and a half ago, and I wondered just when and how we would get back.
But I think the secret was the fact that we have in America something which has always been part of us and that is teamwork. Just as Fred and Jack and I tried to work as a team up there, we had hundreds of people on the ground that really saw to it that we got back home safely. It was these people who gave us instructions, who tracked us, who watched our systems, that we owe a debt of gratitude to. So, on behalf of the three of us, we are glad to be home and we are glad to be part of America.
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Richard Nixon
XXXVII President of the United States: 1969 - 1974
121 - Remarks on Presenting the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Apollo 13 Mission Operations Team in Houston.
April 18, 1970
Dr. Paine, Mrs. Lovell, Mrs. Haise, Mr. and Mrs. Swigert, all of the members of the NASA team who are here, and members of your families who are here in such great numbers today:
I have a very special honor, first as President of the United States to speak for all of the American people in expressing appreciation to the men and women on the ground who made it possible for the men to return to earth. We express our appreciation to you.
But I also am authorized to do something that even in this office I cannot usually do, and that is to speak not just for Americans but to speak for people all over the world.
There has poured into the White House in these past 24 hours, an unprecedented number of wires and letters and cables. There has poured in the kind of messages that have told me over and over again that it is vitally important to convey to the wives, to the astronauts, and to the men and women on the ground NASA [National Aeronautics and Space Administration] the fact that not just Americans but people all over the world, not just people in the free world but people in the Communist world, people of all religions, of all faiths, of all political beliefs, that they also were on that trip with these men.
I could read many, many wires today that express those sentiments. I have one that I think perhaps summarizes them as well as any. I read it to you:
"To the President of the United States:
"For the safe return of three astronauts, we express profound gratitude to God, to men of science and to all those who contributed to make this possible.
"To Your Excellency and to the people of the United States, we give assurance of deep admiration for the great skill employed and courage shown in the carrying out of this extraordinary undertaking which has held the attention and the hope of the world.
"To the heroes of the day and to their families go our joyful best wishes."
That message expresses the sentiment that runs through all of them. It happens to be from Pope Paul.
I would also mention something else: that in these last few days never have so many people on this earth, in all nations, thought together so much, shared an experience together so much, and never have they prayed so much for the success of this mission.
I had a man last night at the White House at a dinner who came up to me-I know he hasn't been in church for years--and he said, "I never prayed so hard in my life as I prayed these last 3 or 4 days."
I know that whatever our religious faith may be, whatever our differences in this respect are, that we know that through our prayers we helped to participate in this successful recovery.
But let me say one other thing. I think it is important that out of this mission we recognize that it was not a failure. I remember when I called Captain Lovell, he said he was sorry that they were unable to complete their mission of landing on the moon. I would reply in this way: The three astronauts did not reach the moon but they reached the hearts of millions of people in America and in the world. They reminded us in these days when we have this magnificent technocracy, that men do count, the individual does count. They reminded us that in these days machines can go wrong and that when machines go wrong, then the man or the woman, as the case may be, really counts. They reminded us, for example, of a truth that every astronaut has said when he has returned from a successful space flight, but that we have not paid too much attention to.
I know that when I have welcomed each group at the White House, their first statement is that, "We could not have done it without the help of hundreds, thousands of people on the ground." They point out that there are 6,000 major components in an astronaut operation and if something goes wrong with any one of those 6,000 major components the whole thing may prove to be a failure. They say that and we usually think in terms of "That is just the man carrying the ball giving the credit to the blockers when really we know he did it."
But now we know. We are reminded of the fact that the men and women on the ground do count, that those hours that they spent were worth spending. And I use this one example to indicate it.
There were a number of contingency plans that had to go into effect when this accident occurred and they took care of most of the difficulties. But there were some things that occurred that nobody could have planned for. We just didn't expect it to happen that way.
President Eisenhower often used to say around the Security Council table that it had been his experience in a really great crisis that plans were useless but that planning was indispensable. And so it was in this case.
When the problem was how to bring into the LEM [Lunar Excursion Module] from the command module the carbon dioxide absorbent, there was no plan, no contingency. Nobody ever thought that could happen. But then here in this great organization, men came into play. They are men whose names simply represent the whole team: [Robert E.] Smiley, [James V.] Correale. And they had a jerry-built operation which worked, and had that not occurred these men would not have gotten back. That is only one example to prove the magnificent teamwork of the Whole group, how the years of preparation paid off.
So, as President of the United States, I wanted the opportunity to thank everybody who had helped to make this flight a success, the success that it was, and all the others a success. I called Dr. Paine immediately after splashdown and said, "I would like to do that." He said, "How many days or weeks or years do you have? There are about 300,000 that we would like to thank." I said, "Well, then I will come down to Houston and present the Medal of Freedom to you, Dr. Paine, for the whole NASA organization." And now we see the greatness of a really superb executive. His response was, "No, not to me." He said, "Let me think a moment, and I will tell you who it ought to be to." He said, "Let's give it to the Apollo mission operations team." And he suggested that we have on this platform today the members of that team: Sig Sjoberg, Glynn Lunney, Mill Windler, Gerald Griffin, Gene Kranz. They are here and I wonder if they would all stand, please.
Mr. Sjoberg, I am sure that when I see the three astronauts in Hawaii a few hours from now, they will say from their hearts, "Never have so few owed so much to so many."
It is now my proud honor to present to the Apollo 13 mission operations team the highest civilian award in the United States, the Medal of Freedom.
I read the citation:
We often speak of scientific "miracles"-forgetting that these are not miraculous happenings at all, but rather the product of hard work, long hours and disciplined intelligence. The men and women of the Apollo 13 mission operations team performed such a miracle, transforming potential tragedy into one of the most dramatic rescues of all time. Years of intense preparation made this rescue possible.
The skill, coordination and performance under pressure of the mission operations team made it happen. Three brave astronauts are alive and on Earth because of their dedication, and because at the critical moments the people of that team were wise enough and self-possessed enough to make the right decisions. Their extraordinary feat is a tribute to man's ingenuity. to his resourcefulness and to his courage.
SIGUARD A. SJOBERG [Director of Flight Operations]. Mr. President, all of us here at the Manned Spacecraft Center and indeed people throughout the country and world who had the opportunity to participate in Apollo 13, are extremely grateful for this award.
Thank God for the return of the astronauts.
Thank you.
THE PRESIDENT. You know, a President learns a great deal on a trip like this. I had to learn how to pronounce Sjoberg.
Now we leave you to go to Hawaii where we will present the Medal of Freedom to the three astronauts. Their wives and Mr. and Mrs. Swigert will accompany us.
I know that you will want us to take from you the best wishes and congratulations from the men and women on the ground to the men who came back from space.
Note: The President spoke at 11:15 a.m. at the Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Tex.
In his opening words the President referred to the wives of astronauts James A. Lovell, Jr., and Fred W. Haise, Jr., and the parents of John L. Swigert, Jr.
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The Navy Comes Through (1942)
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The Navy Comes Through (1942)
A U.S. Navy crew aboard a merchant marine ship battle Nazis.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
XXXII President of the United States: 1933-1945
111 - Tribute on Navy Day.
October 27, 1942
This is the first Navy Day ever to be observed with the United States at war. As such it is the most significant celebration of its kind since Navy Day was first inaugurated in 1922.
As I salute the Navy, in company with 130,000,000 other patriotic American citizens, I am deeply proud of its heroic accomplishments in this war. I am proud not only because of my own long and happy associations with the service but also because as its Commander in Chief I am acutely aware of the tremendous role it is playing in the preservation of freedom and human decency.
When I greeted you just one year ago the Navy was on defense duty, a symbol of our hope that we could remain isolated and inviolable in a world where tyranny raged unchecked. As I greet you today the Navy is fighting hard in every corner of the globe to bring victory to our cause.
On this occasion I need not ask the people of the United States to pay tribute to our Navy, for I am sure that there is not a man, woman, or child in the land who has not been thrilled by its triumphs and inspired by its indomitable courage. They know that their Navy is doing the biggest job any navy has ever been called upon to do and doing it superbly.
They have the most profound faith in their Navy's ability to sweep our enemies from the seas and in conjunction with the Army, the Marine Corps, and the Coast Guard preserve America's place of honor in the community of Nations.
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Tom Clancy
Red Storm Rising
24 – Rape
Red Storm Rising
USS PHARRIS
Morris didn't wave at the low-flying aircraft, but wanted to. The French Navy's patrol plane signaled that they were within range of land-based air cover. It would take a very brave Russian sub skipper to want to play games here, with a screen of French diesel subs a few miles north of the convoy lane and several ASW patrol aircraft forming a tricolored umbrella over the convoy.
The French had also sent out a helicopter to collect the Russian submariners. They were being flown to Brest for a full interrogation by NATO intelligence types. Morris didn't envy them the trip. They'd be held by the French, and he had no doubt that the French Navy was in an evil mood after the loss of one of its carriers. The tapes his crew had made of their conversations were also being sent. The Russians had talked among themselves, aided by the chiefs' liquor, and perhaps their whispered conversations had some value.
They were about to turn the convoy over to a mixed British-French escort force and take over a group of forty merchantmen bound for America. Morris stood on the bridge wing, turning every five minutes or so to look at the two half and one full silhouettes that the bosun had painted on both sides of the pilothouse-"No sense having some jerk on the wrong side of the ship missing them," the bosun had pointed out seriously. Their ASW tactics had worked fairly well. With Pharris as outlying sonar picket, and heavy support from the Orions, they had intercepted all but one of the inbound Russian subs. There had been a lot of skepticism on this point, but the tactic had worked, by God. But it had to work better still.
Morris knew that things would be getting harder. For the first trip the Soviets had been able to put no more than a fraction of their submarines into action against them. Those submarines were now forcing their way down the Denmark Strait. The NATO sub force trying to block the passage no longer had the SOSUS line to give them intercept vectors, nor Orions to pounce on the contacts that submarines could not reach. They would score kills, but would they score enough? How much larger would the threat be this week? Morris could see from their return route to the States that they were adding nearly five hundred miles to the passage by looping far to the south-partially because of the Backfires, but more now to dilute the submarine threat. Two threats to worry about. His ship was equipped to deal with only one.
They'd lost a third of the convoy, mainly to aircraft. Could they sustain that? He wondered how the merchant crews were holding up.
"Red Storm Rising"
They had closed in on the convoy, and he could see the northernmost line of merchies. On the horizon a big container ship was blinking a light at them. Morris raised his glasses to read the signal.
THANKS FOR NOTHING NAVY.
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Pegasus
Pegasus Mission History
Flight # Launch Date Vehicle Payload Result
6 June 27, 1994 Pegasus XL STEP-1 Failure
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I Dream of Jeannie Season 4 Episode 15
Ride 'Em Astronaut
Aired Tuesday 8:00 PM Jan 27, 1969 on NBC
AIRED: 1/27/69
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Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
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Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Full Cast & Crew
James Cromwell ... Zefram Cochran
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The Simpsons
Alone Again, Natura-Diddily
- I'm two-time fast-car champ, Clay Babcock.
- You're on fire!
Yeah, I have won a lot of races. It's all thanks to my crew, really.
[ Grunts ] There it is.
Mr. Babcock, can I ride in your car?
Well, my ''A'' car was just incinerated, but, uh, you can ride in my ''B'' car. - [ Flame Roars ] - I don't see why not. Bart, these are the ''time trials'' that determine the ''pole position.''
Shouldn't you be keeping your hands on the wheel?
Oh, sure, if you want to drive the ''traditional'' way. - [ Grinding Metal ] - Sorry.
Boy, these cars are surprisingly roomy.
Yeah, we like to bring our families along on the longer races.
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The Official Web Site of the Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1930
Karl Landsteiner
Karl Landsteiner
Born: 14 June 1868, Vienna, Austrian Empire (now Austria)
Died: 26 June 1943, New York, NY, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York, NY, USA
Prize motivation: "for his discovery of human blood groups"
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National Museum of the US Air Force
MIKOYAN-GUREVICH MIG-29A
Posted 4/18/2014
The MiG-29 was designed in response to a new generation of American fighters, which included the F-15 and F-16. Designed as an air defense fighter, this dual-purpose aircraft also possessed a ground attack capability. The task of producing a "frontal" or tactical fighter for the Frontal Aviation Regiments of the Soviet Air Force went to the Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau (MiG OKB). Employing all the technical data available about the most advanced Western aircraft, the MiG designers started working on the MiG-29 in the early 1970s, and the first prototype made its first flight on Oct. 6, 1977. U.S. reconnaissance satellites detected the new fighter in November 1977, and NATO gave it the designation "Fulcrum."
Production started in 1982, and deliveries to Frontal Aviation units started in 1983. By comparison, the USAF's first operational F-15As arrived seven years earlier in 1976, and its F-16As entered operational service four years earlier in 1979.
Although newer, the MiG-29 still lagged behind the most modern Western fighters in several important areas. For instance, the aircraft designers had little experience in either fly-by-wire controls or lightweight composite materials for airframe construction, and the first MiG-29 versions used a conventional hydraulic flight control system and an aluminum alloy fuselage. Over time, MiG designers addressed these deficiencies, and later variants of the MiG-29 incorporated some fly-by-wire controls and composite materials.
Nevertheless, the MiG-29 presented a formidable threat to Western pilots. The radars used on earlier Soviet fighters had been unable to distinguish aircraft flying below them from ground clutter, and low-flying aircraft could avoid detection. With the Phazotron NIIR N019 Doppler radar (NATO designation "Slot Back") capable of detecting a target more than 60 miles away, infrared tracking sensors, and a laser rangefinder carried on the MiG-29, a pilot could track and shoot at aircraft flying below him. Also, the pilot's Shchel-3UM-1 helmet-mounted aiming device turned the MiG-29 into a very dangerous threat once opponents came within visual range. No longer did a pilot have to turn his aircraft toward a target and wait for his missiles' sensors to "lock-on" before firing. Now, the pilot simply turned his head toward a target, and the helmet aimed the missile's sensors toward the target. This "off boresight" procedure gave the MiG-29 pilot a great advantage at close range.
The aircraft on display was an early model Soviet Air Force MiG-29A (S/N 2960516761) assigned to the 234th Gvardeiskii Istrebitelnii Aviatsionnii Polk (234th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment) stationed at Kubinka Air Base near Moscow. It was one of the six MiG-29s that made a good will visit to Kuoppio-Rissala, Finland, in July 1986. This event marked the first public display of the MiG-29.
TECHNICAL NOTES:
Armament: One 30mm GSh-301 cannon; six air-to-air missiles (mixture of medium-range, radar-guided AA-10 "Alamo-A;" or close-range, infrared-guided AA-11 "Archer;" and/or close-range, infrared-guided AA-8 "Aphid" missiles); able to carry bombs and 57mm, 80mm and 240mm rockets in attack role.
Engines: Two Isotov RD-33 turbofans of approx. 18,300 lbs. thrust each with afterburner
Maximum speed: Approx. Mach 2.3
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Gerald Ford
XXXVIII President of the United States: 1974 - 1977
266 - Remarks on Signing 18 Executive Warrants for Clemency.
November 29, 1974
FIRST, let me, before reading the prepared statement, thank the Chairman and all of the members of the Board. It has, I know, been a difficult job and a tough responsibility, but I, for one, am very grateful for what each and every one of you have done.
On September 16, I announced my program of clemency, and I am pleased on this Thanksgiving weekend that I am able to announce my first decisions on recommendations of the Presidential Clemency Board involving 18 individual cases of draft evasion.
I wish to thank each of you here for sharing this ceremonial moment, and I also wish to thank the Clemency Board members for their very hard and effective work.
Signing ceremonies often mark the end of a project, but today these signings represent the beginning of the difficult task of administering clemency. Instead of signing these decisions in a routine way, I wish to use this occasion to underline the commitment of my Administration to an evenhanded policy of clemency.
When I initiated the policy, I detailed the reasons for my decision in this very difficult problem. I consider them as valid today as when I first announced them. We do not resolve difficult issues by ignoring them. There are honest differences that will continue to be discussed, but discussions must not overshadow the need for action and fair and open resolution of the clemency problem.
Of the 18 recommendations the Board has made to me, I have reviewed each one and have personally approved each one. Information on these cases will be made available by the Press Office.
I believe this more detailed information will help to explain the basis for my decision in each instance. Of course, considerable more information was made available to the Board, and to me, on which to base these decisions. But to make public the complete files on each individual would be a negation of his right to privacy.
In each case, however, the law was violated, and each has received punishment. The power of clemency can look to reasons for these actions which the law cannot. Unlike God's law, man's law cannot probe into the heart of human beings. The best way we can do this is to offer clemency and to provide a way for offenders to earn their way back into a rightful place in society.
Last week, I traveled overseas in search for peace. Yet, we cannot effectively seek peace abroad with other nations until we have made peace at home. While America reaches out to those whom we have disagreed with in the past, we must do no less within our own Nation.
Sometimes it seems easier for us to forgive foreign enemies than fellow Americans at home. Let us continue to search for a softening of the national animosity caused by differences over the Vietnam war. We will not forget the sacrifices of those who served and died in Vietnam.
In their honor, America must seek ways to live up to the ideals of freedom and charity that they fought to preserve. These first few decisions do not end the unfinished business of clemency, but the task of formal forgiveness is underway.
I hope it marks the beginning of personal forgiveness in the hearts of all Americans troubled by Vietnam and its aftermath.
I do want to thank you, all of the Board members, not only for the first-class job they have done but the way in which they have approached this very difficult responsibility. I am grateful. I am sure the individuals in the cases that are involved here are grateful. And I think the American people will be grateful for them assuming a difficult responsibility and performing it with very great distinction.
I thank you, Charlie, and each of the Board members on this occasion on behalf of all, including 213 million Americans.
Thank you very much.
Note: The President spoke at 1:21 p.m. in the Cabinet Room at the White House. In his remarks, the President referred to Charles E. Goodell, Chairman of the Presidential Clemency Board.
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NASA
Explorer 1
NSSDC/COSPAR ID: 1958-001A
Facts in Brief
Launch Date: 1958-02-01
Launch Vehicle: Jupiter C (Juno I)
Launch Site: Cape Canaveral, United States
Funding Agency
Department of Defense-Department of the Army (United States)
Description
Explorer 1 was the first successfully launched U. S. spacecraft. Launched late on 31 January 1958 (10:48 p.m. EST, or 03:48 UTC on 01 February) on an adapted Jupiter-C rocket, Explorer 1 carried instrumentation for the study of cosmic rays, micrometeorites, and for monitoring of the satellite's temperature.
The Jupiter-C launch vehicle consisted of four propulsive stages. The first stage was an upgraded Redstone liquid-fueled rocket. The second, third, and fourth stage rockets consisted of eleven, three, and one (respectively) Sergeant motors. The satellite itself was the fourth stage of the Jupiter-C rocket. It was cylindrical, 2.03 m long and 0.152 m in diameter. Four whip antennas were mounted symmetrically about the mid-section of the rocket. The spacecraft was spin stabilized.
The 4.82 kg instrumentation package was mounted inside of the forward section of the rocket body. A single Geiger-Mueller detector was used for the detection of cosmic rays. Micrometeorite detection was accomplished using both a wire grid (arrayed around the aft section of the rocket body) and an acoustic detector (placed in contact with the midsection). Data from the instruments were transmitted continuously, but acquisition was limited to those times when the spacecraft passed over appropriately equipped ground receiving stations. Assembly of data proceeded slowly also due to the fact that the satellite's spin-stabilized attitude transitioned into a minimum kinetic energy state, that of a flat spin about its transverse axis. This was deduced from the modulation of the received signal, which produced periodic fade-outs of the signal.
Explorer 1 was the first spacecraft to successfully detect the durably trapped radiation in the Earth's magnetosphere, dubbed the Van Allen Radiation Belt (after the principal investigator of the cosmic ray experiment on Explorer 1, James A. Van Allen). Later missions (in both the Explorer and Pioneer series) were to expand on the knowledge and extent of these zones of radiation and were the foundation of modern magnetospheric studies.
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The Neptune Factor (1973)
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The Simpsons
Alone Again, Natura-Diddily
If I get tired, I let my wife drive. She's good.
Get your feet off the upholstery!
[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-childhood-express.html ]
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Star Trek: Generations (1994)
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The Purple Heart (1944)
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USA 23 February 1944
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Star Trek Generations (1994)
RIKER: He'll never make it. No one ever has.
(Worf jumps, grabs the hat and lands safely back on the plank)
PICARD: If there's one thing I've learnt over the years, is never to underestimate a Klingon.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
XXXII President of the United States: 1933-1945
7 - Message to Congress on Private Claims Bills and Bridges.
January 14, 1942
To the Congress:
In these critical days of our national defense effort, I feel there should be a joint endeavor on the part of the Congress and of the heads of the executive branch of the Government to divest our minds as far as possible of matters of lesser importance which consume considerable time and effort. We should grant the responsibility for handling such matters to those equipped with year-around facilities and time to dispose of them.
For instance, it is well known to the Congress and to me that more than 2,000 private claim bills are introduced in each Congress, and that a substantial percentage of these bills present claims for property damage or personal injury. While the executive departments and establishments may now settle claims up to $1,000 for property loss or damage and in a few instances claims for personal injury up to $500, a great number of cases not falling within these classifications are introduced in the Congress as private claim bills.
They consume a great amount of the time of the Congress and the President, and give rise to considerable expense.
During the last three Congresses, almost 6,300 private claim bills were introduced, an average of more than 2,000 per Congress, of which less than 20 percent became law. And of all the bills which I vetoed during these Congresses, fully one-third were made up of private claim bills.
It is estimated that the expenses of the executive and legislative branches in considering the claim bills of each Congress, excluding salaries of Congressmen, are in the neighborhood of $125,000; that the printing costs alone of the claim bills which fail to become law are almost $19,000 per Congress; and that it costs almost $200 to pass a single bill. When it is considered that some claim bills are enacted in amounts much less than $200, the wisdom of our present procedure is questionable.
As the Congress knows, this question has been considered many times before. During the past twenty years, members of the Congress have frequently pointed out that the procedure for relief of tort claims by special act is slow, expensive, and unfair both to the Congress and to the claimant, and several attempts have been made to enact legislation submitting all negligence claims to administrative or judicial determination.
The question arises why the Congress and the President should continue to devote so much time to the consideration and approval of these numerous individual cases.
I suggest that the executive departments and independent establishments be authorized to adjust and determine tort claims up to $1,000, with review by the Attorney General of awards over $500. I also suggest that the United States District Courts be given jurisdiction over claims of this nature up to $7,500, with a right of appeal to the Court of Claims. The passage of such legislation would be of real assistance to the Congress and to the President, at a time when matters of grave national importance demand an ever increasing share of our attention. It would also make available a means of dispensing justice simply and effectively to tort claimants against the Government, and give them the same right to a day in court which claimants now enjoy in fields such as breach of contract, patent infringement, or admiralty claims.
I should point out that the Congress, if this procedure were adopted, would, of course, retain every right to enact legislation granting relief, or further relief, in the event that in any special case the Congress felt that justice had been denied.
There is another class of legislation with respect to which I recommend a simplification of procedures. I refer to the legislation governing the construction of bridges over navigable waters of the United States. During the 76th Congress, more than 100 public enactments authorized the construction or extended the permissible time of construction of bridges affecting navigation. The passage of each one of these acts unquestionably costs the taxpayers several hundred dollars and consumes a large amount of time in the Congress, in the War Department, and at the White House. Under prevailing law, the Secretary of War and the Chief of Engineers are responsible for approving location, engineering plans, and other important features of such bridge enterprises as may be authorized by the Congress, so that administrative action is essential to the execution of the enterprise after Congress grants its authorization. I suggest that in order to save time and money, Congress consider passing an enabling act delegating to the Secretary of War the responsibility for authorizing the construction and maintenance of bridges over navigable waters in accordance with such general policy as may be prescribed by the Congress. The Secretary of War would, of course, render periodic reports on all applications made.
These two matters may seem of little importance in these difficult days, but I am certain that the Congress will sympathize with the efforts I am making to save motion in the conduct of the Government.
http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie7.html
Star Trek Generations (1994)
HARRIMAN: Prepare to leave Spacedock. Aft thrusters ahead one-quarter, port and starboard at station keeping. ...Captain Kirk, I'd be honoured if you'd give the order to get underway.
KIRK: Thank you very much. I...
HARRIMAN: Please, sir.
KIRK: No.
HARRIMAN: Please, I insist.
KIRK: Take us out.
(the crew breaks out into general applause)
CHEKOV: Very good, sir.
SCOTT: Brought a tear to my eye.
KIRK: Oh, be quiet.
(as Kirk, Scott and Chekov return from their tour of the ship the journalists accost them again)
JOURNALIST #1: Gentlemen! Gentlemen! Tell me. Now that you've seen the rest of the ship, How's it feel to be back?
KIRK/SCOTT/CHEKOV: Fine. Fine. Fine.
HARRIMAN: Ladies and gentlemen, we've just cleared the asteroid belt. Our course today will take us out past Pluto and then back to Spacedock. Just a quick run around the block.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ultra
Dictionary.com
ultra
a prefix occurring originally in loanwords from Latin, with the basic meaning “on the far side of, beyond.” In relation to the base to which it is prefixed, ultra- has the senses “located beyond, on the far side of”
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space
the unlimited or incalculably great three-dimensional realm or expanse in which all material objects are located and all events occur.
http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Solar
Solar System Live
Solar System: Sat 1991 Mar 16
Distance (AU)
Neptune 30.544
Pluto 29.107
http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie7.html
Star Trek Generations (1994)
(Worf dons the hat to cheers)
RIKER: Remove the plank.
http://www.nato.int/sfor/engineers/mostarbridge/introduction/introduc.htm
SFOR INFORMER
Bridge over troubled waters
by Capt. Bente Ravn
First published in SFOR Informer #11, May 28, 1997
Mostar - The war in Bosnia and Hercegovina (BiH) caused much pain and destruction. Many people lost family, friends, and homes and some cities became divided. One of the best known of these is Mostar, the largest city in Hercegovina with 109,000 inhabitants. In 1522 Mostar became the headquarters of the Ottoman administration of Hercegovina. Many military missions against Venetian cities were launched from the city, which came under Austrian control from 1878-1918, and then became part of Yugoslavia. Today it is a part of BiH.
According to a pre-war consensus, Mostar’s population consisted of 20 % Bosnian-Serbs, 40 % Bosniacs and 40 % Bosnian-Croats. There are practically no longer any Bosnian-Serbs in the city, they are living in the mountains south and east of the city. Bosniacs, make up 55 % of the city’s inhabitants live east of the river. Bosnian-Croats make up the remaining 45 %, and live on the west side of the Neretva.
Mostar has a story to tell. It is the story of the Old Bridge, an elegant single span arch built over the river Neretva by the Ottoman Turks. Mostar is an old city, established in the 15th century when a small settlement began to form around an old Roman wooden bridge over the Neretva river, but the name Mostar comes from the old white limestone bridge Stari Most (most means bridge, and stari means old - hence Mostar) which was finished in 1566 after nine years construction for the Ottoman emperor Sultan Sleiman the Magnificent.
On November 9, 1993, during bitter civil war in the city, the bridge was shelled by a Bosnian Croat tank from Mt. Hum. One of its last roles had been to allow Muslim defenders of the "left bank" cross the river and take supplies to their supporters and the population that had remained there. It withstood many centuries, but it could not survive this concentrated effort to demolish it. After several direct hits, this magnificent piece of history crashed into the waters below.
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA428671
Accession Number : ADA428671
Title : The Ranger Force at the Battle of Cisterna
Descriptive Note : Master's thesis
Corporate Author : ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLL FORT LEAVENWORTH KS
Personal Author(s) : Stewart, Jeff R.
PDF Url : ADA428671
Report Date : 18 JUN 2004
Pagination or Media Count : 100
Abstract : The purpose of this research project is to determine what factors led to the operational failure and destruction of the 1st and 3rd Ranger Battalions during the battle of Cisterna on 30 January 1944. Subordinate questions are as follows: Why did experienced combat commanders, like General Truscott and Colonel Darby, utilize the lightly armed Ranger Force against a fortified town?; Did the training level of the new ranger replacements compromise the infiltration and affect the outcome?; Did the Germans detect the infiltration and initiate an ambush for the unsuspecting Ranger Force?; What was the intelligence preparation of the battlefield, and how did it affect the plan?; and Did General Truscott's and Colonel Darby's previous experience lead to assumptions about effectiveness of the Ranger Force in such a mission?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cisterna
Battle of Cisterna
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
he Battle of Cisterna took place during World War II, on 30 January-2 February 1944, near Cisterna, Italy, as part of the Battle of Anzio that followed Operation Shingle. The battle was a clear German victory which also had repercussions on the employment of U.S. Army Rangers that went beyond the immediate tactical and strategic results of the battle.
During this battle, the 1st, 3rd, and 4th U.S. Army Ranger battalions, the 83rd Chemical Mortar Battalion, and the 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion, which had been brigaded as the 6615th Ranger Force (Provisional), were assigned to support the renewal of an attack by the 3rd Infantry Division, which had previously failed to take Cisterna from 25–27 January. The 3rd Division's attack was part of a large offensive by the U.S. VI Corps to break out of the Anzio beachhead before German reinforcements could arrive and concentrate for a counterattack.
Battle
The 1st and 3rd Ranger Battalions—preceding the main attack by the 4th Ranger Battalion and the 3rd Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment—attempted a night infiltration behind German lines into the town of Cisterna. Their objective was to seize the town in a surprise attack and hold it until the main attack came through.
The two battalions—totaling 767 men and supported by a platoon of 43 men of the 3rd Reconnaissance Troop—moved out at 01:30 and moved in the darkness along a drainage ditch in column formation. Although they were able to bypass numerous German positions, at first light they were still short of their objective and needed to cross open ground for the final portion of the approach. At this point the Rangers were attacked by strong German forces of the 715th Motorized Infantry Division and Herman Göring Panzer Division, including at least seventeen German Panzer IV tanks. According to the Army history of the operation, the infiltration movement had apparently been discovered and an ambush prepared.
The 1st Battalion commander—Major Dobson—personally knocked out one tank by shooting the commander with his pistol, climbing atop the tank, and dropping a white phosphorus grenade down the hatch. Two other tanks were captured by Rangers, but then knocked out by other Rangers who did not know they had been captured. Despite fierce fighting, there was little chance of success once the Rangers were attacked on the open ground. German units put Ranger prisoners in front of their tanks and commanded other Rangers to surrender. After the approximately seven-hour battle, only six of the 767 Rangers and one member of the 3rd Recon troop returned to Allied lines, resulting in an overall loss of 803 men. The exact number of killed, wounded and captured is unknown, although historian Carlo D'Este estimated well over 400 Rangers became POWs. US Army records indicate over 700 Ranger prisoners.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: August 29, 2006
My doctor asked me why I wanted to return as Thomas Ray. As I was riding back on the bus, I decided that the real reason is that I want to prosecute the people that revealed my covert activities.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 29 August 2006 excerpt ends]
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=omega-man-the
Springfield! Springfield!
Omega Man, The (1971)
Incidentally... mind telling me what keeps you in the city? You some kind of exterminator?
I guess maybe you could call it that.
Very complicated, Doctor.
http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/executive-order/11139.html
NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Executive Order 11139--Authorizing acceptance of the United Nations Medal and Service Ribbon
Source: The provisions of Executive Order 11139 of Jan. 7, 1964, appear at 29 FR 227, 3 CFR, 1964-1965 Comp., p. 177, unless otherwise noted.
By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States and as Commander in Chief of the armed forces of the United States, I hereby authorize the Secretary of Defense, with respect to members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps, and the Secretary of the Treasury, with respect to members of the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service in the Navy, to prescribe regulations under which the United Nations Medal and Service Ribbon may be accepted by members of the armed forces who have been determined eligible for consideration in accordance with the Regulations for the United Nations Medal, promulgated by the United Nations Organization on July 30, 1959. A determination that service with the United Nations in a particular geographic area or for a particular purpose constitutes a justifiable basis for authorizing acceptance of the United Nations Medal and Service Ribbon by eligible members of the armed forces of the United States shall be made with the concurrence of the Secretary of State.
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.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?episode=s11e14
Springfield! Springfield!
The Simpsons
Alone Again, Natura-Diddily
No, I hear what you're saying.
It's always hard to replace someone.
Yeah.
My name's RachelJordan.
If you feel like talking, maybe we could grab a coffee?
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?episode=s11e14
Springfield! Springfield!
The Simpsons
Alone Again, Natura-Diddily
That was a lovely song.
- It really got to me.
- Been through some rough times yourself? I-I recently lost my wife.
[ Gasps ] I'm real sorry to hear that.
We just lost our drummer to a Pentecostal ska band.
I know it's not the same
http://www.aviamagazine.com/specials/outofservice/monino/index.aspx
Aviamagazine.com
By Gostar den Daas May 2012
Central Air Force Museum, Monino
In-depth look at the unique collections of prototypes and one-off aircraft.
The largest Russian aircraft museum in the world is located on the site of the former Monino airfield east of Moscow.
Tupolev Tu-128
NATO callsign Fiddler, the Tu-128 was designed as a big long range interceptor. It was based on a Tupolev called aircraft “98”, which was also the base for the Tu-22. Aircraft 98 was designed a bomber, but with the need of a AAM (air-to-air missile) platform the Tu-128 was developed. This was after another OKB design for this purpose called the “La-250” (also in the museum) failed. It was originally designated the Tu-28, to which the Fiddler is also known in the West. First flight was on 18 March 1961. In all 198 were build, with the prototype on display in the museum.
http://www.airlinereporter.com/2015/02/fiddlers-on-the-roof-of-the-world/
AirlineReporter
LOOKING BACK AT SOVIET AIR DEFENSES & THE AIRCRAFT THAT SERVED
BY BERNIE LEIGHTON
By the end of 1960, the first Tu-28 was produced (In December of 1963, the PVO renamed the program from Tu-28 to Tu-128 – there was no real merit for this decision being made) and moved from Lefortovo to Zhukovsky. First airborne on March 18, 1961
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Russia---Air/Tupolev-Tu-128/2649126/L/
AIRLINERS.NET
The Tupolev Tu-28 (NATO reporting name Fiddler)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093485/releaseinfo
IMDb
The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains (1987 TV Movie)
Release Info
USA 31 October 1987
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093485/fullcredits
IMDb
The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains (1987 TV Movie)
Full Cast & Crew
Val Kilmer ... Robert Eliot Burns / Eliot Roberts
http://www.britannica.com/biography/Alger-Hiss
Encyclopædia Britannica
Alger Hiss
United States official
Alger Hiss, (born November 11, 1904, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.—died November 15, 1996, New York, New York), former U.S. State Department official who was convicted in January 1950 of perjury concerning his dealings with Whittaker Chambers, who accused him of membership in a communist espionage ring. His case, which came at a time of growing apprehension about the domestic influence of communism, seemed to lend substance to Senator Joseph R. McCarthy’s sensational charges of communist infiltration into the State Department. It also brought to national attention Richard M. Nixon, then a U.S. representative from California, who was prominent in the investigation that led to the indictment of Hiss.
Hiss was a graduate of Johns Hopkins University (A.B., 1926; Phi Beta Kappa) and of Harvard Law School (1926–29) and was law clerk (1929–30) to Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. In 1933 he entered government service in Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration and served successively in the Departments of Agriculture, Justice, and State. He attended the Yalta Conference (1945) as an adviser to Roosevelt and later served as temporary secretary-general of the United Nations (San Francisco Conference). In 1946 he was elected president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a position he held until 1949.
In 1948 Chambers, a self-professed former courier for a communist underground “apparatus” in Washington, D.C., accused Hiss of having been a member of the same “apparatus” before World War II. Hiss denied the charge, which was originally made before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. When Chambers repeated the charge publicly, away from the House committee chamber where his words were protected by congressional immunity, Hiss sued him for slander. On December 6, 1948, the House committee released sworn testimony by Chambers that Hiss had provided him (Chambers) with certain classified State Department papers for transmission to a Soviet agent. Hiss promptly denied the accusation “without qualification.” In a federal grand-jury investigation of the case, both Chambers and Hiss testified; and Hiss was indicted on December 15 on two charges of perjury, specifically charging that Hiss lied both when he denied that he had given any documents to Chambers and when he testified that he did not talk to Chambers after January 1, 1937. Arraigned, Hiss pleaded not guilty. Hiss’s first trial in 1949 ended in a hung jury. In the second trial, which ended early in 1950, he was found guilty. At both trials Chambers’s sanity was a prominent issue. After serving more than three years of a five-year prison sentence, Hiss was released in 1954, still asserting his innocence. During the following decades the issue of Hiss’s guilt was kept open by outspoken defenders, principally from the American political left, who consistently maintained that he had been unjustly convicted.
In 1992 Hiss asked Russian officials to check the newly opened archives of the former Soviet Union for information pertaining to the case. Later that year General Dmitri A. Volkogonov, a historian and chairman of the Russian government’s military intelligence archives, announced that a comprehensive search had revealed no evidence that Hiss had been involved in a Soviet spy ring. Many scholars, however, doubted that any search could divulge all the secrets of the complex Soviet intelligence operation—Volkogonov’s search did not include Soviet military intelligence files—and therefore felt that the question of Hiss’s innocence remained unresolved. In 1996 the release of secret Soviet cables that had been intercepted by U.S. intelligence during World War II provided strong evidence for Hiss’s guilt.
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-103566015.html
HighBeam
RESEARCH
Articles > Reference > News Wires, White Papers, and Books > Banking Wire news wires > June 2003
Article: From Guy Waiting In Line To ATM's 30th Bday.
Article from: Banking Wire Article date: June 18, 2003
The automatic teller machine (ATM) has just turned 30.
On June 4, 1973, a trio of inventors-Don Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain-were granted a patent on the machine, the idea for which is largely credited to Wetzel even though there were attempts as early as 1939 to develop such an "automatic teller."
Wetzel said he first got the idea in 1968 while waiting in the lobby of a Dallas bank. At the time he was VP-product planning with Docutel, a manufacturer of automated baggage handling equipment for airlines and airports. The first working prototype was created in 1969, but the patent was not issued until four years later
http://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0609/today-in-finance-june-4---the-birth-of-the-modern-atm.aspx
INVESTOPEDIA
On This Day In Finance: June 4 - The Birth Of The Modern ATM
By Investopedia Staff on June 04, 2009
On June 4, 1973, the first patent for the automated teller machine (ATM) is awarded to Don Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain of Docutel. The patent was issued following years of research at an estimated cost of $5 million.
Although Docutel was credited with the creation of the first magstripe ATM (known as the Docuteller at the time), the idea and use of less advanced ATMs dates back to the late 1930s. Several other prototypes were introduced to the public over the next 30 years, however the free-standing magstripe machine was the eventual victor and is still used by financial institutions to this day.
The first Docuteller was installed at New York City's Chemical Bank in 1969, while the first fully functioning "Total Teller" was introduced in 1971. Following the awarding of the patent in 1973, ATMs begin to spread across the nation and have remained a constant in consumer banking.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=14570
The American Presidency Project
Franklin D. Roosevelt
XXXII President of the United States: 1933-1945
187 - Proclamation 2065 - Repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment
December 5, 1933
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Whereas the Congress of the United States in 2nd Session of the 72nd Congress, begun at Washington on the fifth day of December in the year one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two, adopted a resolution in the words and figures following: to wit--
JOINT RESOLUTION
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
"Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is hereby proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when ratified by conventions in three-fourths of the several States:
ARTICLE
"Section 1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed."
"Section 2. The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited."
"Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress."
Whereas Section 217(a) of the Act of Congress entitled "An Act to encourage national industrial recovery, to foster competition, and to provide for the construction of certain useful public works, and for other purposes" approved June 16, 1933, provides as follows:
"Section 217(a) The President shall proclaim the date of
(1) the close of the first fiscal year ending June 30 of any year after the year 1933, during which the total receipts of the United States (excluding public-debt receipts) exceed its total expenditures (excluding public-debt expenditures other than those chargeable against such receipts), or
(2) the repeal of the eighteenth amendment to the Constitution, whichever is the earlier."
Whereas it appears from a certificate issued December 5, 1933, by the Acting Secretary of State that official notices have been received in the Department of State that on the fifth day of December, 1933, Conventions in thirty-six States of the United States, constituting three-fourths of the whole number of the States had ratified the said repeal amendment;
Now, Therefore, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States of America pursuant to the provisions of Section 217 (a) of the said Act of June 16, 1933, do hereby proclaim that the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was repealed on the fifth day of December, 1933.
Furthermore, I enjoin upon all citizens of the United States and upon others resident within the jurisdiction thereof, to cooperate with the Government in its endeavor to restore greater respect for law and order, by confining such purchases of alcoholic beverages as they may make solely to those dealers or agencies which have been duly licensed by State or Federal license.
Observance of this request, which I make personally to every individual and every family in our Nation, will result in the consumption of alcoholic beverages which have passed Federal inspection, in the break-up and eventual destruction of the notoriously evil illicit liquor traffic, and in the payment of reasonable taxes for the support of the Government and thereby in the superseding of other forms of taxation.
I call specific attention to the authority given by the 21st Amendment to the Government to prohibit transportation or importation of intoxicating liquors into any State in violation of the laws of such State.
I ask the wholehearted cooperation of all our citizens to the end that this return of individual freedom shall not be accompanied by the repugnant conditions that obtained prior to the adoption of the 18th Amendment and those that have existed since its adoption. Failure to do this honestly and courageously will be a living reproach to us all.
I ask especially that no State shall by law or otherwise authorize the return of the saloon either in its old form or in some modern guise.
The policy of the Government will be to see to it that the Social and political evils that have existed in the pre-prohibition era shall not be revived nor permitted again to exist. We must remove forever from our midst the menace of the bootlegger and such others as would profit at the expense of good government, law and order.
I trust in the good sense of the American people that they will not bring upon themselves the curse of excessive use of intoxicating liquors, to the detriment of health, morals and social integrity.
The objective we seek through a national policy is the education of every citizen toward a greater temperance throughout the Nation.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-simpsons/22-short-films-about-springfield-1434/trivia/
tv.com
The Simpsons Season 7 Episode 21
22 Short Films About Springfield
Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Apr 14, 1996 on FOX
Quotes
Cletus: (holds up a pair of dirty boots) Hey, Brandine. You might could wear these to your job interview.
Brandine: And scuff up the topless dancin' runway? Naw, you best bring 'em back where from ya got 'em.
Cletus: Okay. (to boots) Back you go, to wait for a woman o' less discriminatin' taste.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-atm-opens-for-business
HISTORY
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
Sep 2, 1969:
First ATM opens for business
On this day in 1969, America's first automatic teller machine (ATM) makes its public debut, dispensing cash to customers at Chemical Bank in Rockville Center, New York.
http://www.simpsonsarchive.com/episodes/3F18.html
22 Short Films About Springfield [ The Simpsons ]
Original Airdate in N.A.: 14-Apr-96
Chairman: Dr. Nick, this malpractice committee has received a few complaints against you. [reads from clipboard] Of the 160 gravest charges, the most troubling are performing major operations with a knife and fork from a seafood restaurant.
Riviera: But I cleaned them with my napkin.
Chairman: Misuse of the cadavers.
Riviera: I get here earlier when I drive in the carpool lane.
An orderly barges in, and yells that there's a crazy man with a scalpel in E/R demanding to see a quack. It's up to Dr. Nick.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0309540/bio
IMDb
Biography for
Bill Gates
Date of Birth
28 October 1955, Seattle, Washington, USA
Birth Name
William Henry Gates III
Spouse
Melinda Gates (1 January 1994 - present) 3 children
Children: Jennifer Katharine (26 April 1996), son Rory John (23 May 1999), Phoebe Adele (14 September 2002)
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/transvestite
Dictionary.com
transvestite
a person, especially a male, who assumes the dress and manner usually associated with the opposite sex.
a person who seeks sexual pleasure from wearing clothes that are normally associated with the opposite sex
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