Tuesday, January 19, 2016
George W. Bush: The Man From Al Qaida.
http://www.britannica.com/biography/Grace-Hopper
Encyclopædia Britannica
Grace Hopper
United States naval officer and mathematician
Grace Hopper, in full Grace Murray Hopper, née Grace Brewster Murray (born December 9, 1906, New York, New York, U.S.—died January 1, 1992, Arlington, Virginia), American mathematician and rear admiral in the U.S. Navy who was a pioneer in developing computer technology, helping to devise UNIVAC I, the first commercial electronic computer, and naval applications for COBOL (common-business-oriented language).
After graduating from Vassar College (B.A., 1928), Hopper attended Yale University (M.A., 1930; Ph.D., 1934). She taught mathematics at Vassar before joining the Naval Reserve in 1943. She became a lieutenant and was assigned to the Bureau of Ordnance’s Computation Project at Harvard University (1944), where she worked on Mark I, the first large-scale automatic calculator and a precursor of electronic computers. She remained at Harvard as a civilian research fellow while maintaining her naval career as a reservist. After a moth infiltrated the circuits of Mark I, she coined the term bug to refer to unexplained computer failures.
In 1949 Hopper joined the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp., where she designed an improved compiler, which translated a programmer’s instructions into computer codes. She remained with the firm when it was taken over by Remington Rand (1951) and by Sperry Rand Corp. (1955). In 1957 her division developed Flow-Matic, the first English-language data-processing compiler. She retired from the navy with the rank of commander in 1966, but she was recalled to active duty the following year to help standardize the navy’s computer languages. At the age of 79, she was the oldest officer on active U.S. naval duty when she retired again in 1986.
Hopper was elected a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (1962), was named the first computer science Man of the Year by the Data Processing Management Association (1969), and was awarded the National Medal of Technology (1991).
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/nereid/indepth
NASA
Nereid: In Depth
Nereid is one of the outermost of Neptune's known moons and is among the largest. Nereid is unique because it has one of the most eccentric orbits of any moon in our solar system. Nereid is so far from Neptune that it requires 360 Earth days to make one orbit. This odd orbit suggests that Nereid may be a captured asteroid or Kuiper Belt object or that it was greatly disturbed during the capture of Neptune's largest moon Triton.
Discovery:
Nereid was discovered on 1 May 1949 by Gerard P. Kuiper with a ground-based telescope. It was the last satellite of Neptune to be discovered before Voyager 2's discoveries four decades later.
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=final-countdown-the
Springfield! Springfield!
Final Countdown, The (1980)
Russian trawler.
What's it doing?
Not doing much fishing!
http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2008/03/20080325.html
THE WHITE HOUSE
PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
March 25, 2008
President Bush Meets with 2008 Bassmaster Classic Champion and 2008 Women's Bassmaster Tour Champion
Oval Office
From 12/9/1906 ( Grace Hopper ) To 5/1/1949 ( the discovery of the planet Neptune moon Nereid by Gerard Kuiper ) is 15484 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 3/25/2008 is 15484 days
From 8/1/1980 ( premiere US film "The Final Countdown" ) To 3/25/2008 is 10098 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 6/26/1993 ( Bill Clinton - Address to the Nation on the Strike on Iraqi Intelligence Headquarters ) is 10098 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 3/25/2008 is 6219 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 11/12/1982 ( Yuri Andropov selected as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ) is 6219 days
From 10/23/1948 ( premiere US film "A-Lad-in His Lamp" ) 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 15484 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 3/25/2008 is 15484 days
From 10/25/1957 ( premiere US film "The Amazing Colossal Man" ) To 3/25/2008 is 18414 days
18414 = 9207 + 9207
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 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 also known as Matthew Kline for official duty and also known as Wayne Newman for official duty ) is 9207 days
From 10/25/1957 ( premiere US film "The Amazing Colossal Man" ) To 3/25/2008 is 18414 days
18414 = 9207 + 9207
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 1/17/1991 ( RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 - the Persian Gulf War begins as scheduled severe criminal activity against the United States of America ) is 9207 days
From 12/11/1955 ( premiere US film "The Prisoner" ) To 3/25/2008 is 19098 days
19098 = 9549 + 9549
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 12/25/1991 ( as United States Marine Corps chief warrant officer Kerry Wayne Burgess I was prisoner of war in Croatia ) is 9549 days
From 12/11/1995 ( Bill Clinton - Letter to Senate Democratic Leader Thomas Daschle on the Plan for Implementation of the Balkan Peace Agreement ) To 3/25/2008 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.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=76883
The American Presidency Project
George W. Bush
XLIII President of the United States: 2001 - 2009
Remarks Following a Meeting With the 2008 Bassmaster Classic Champion and 2007 Women's Bassmaster Tour Champion
March 25, 2008
The President. I've got the fishing champs from this year. And, Judy, thanks for coming.
Judy Wong. Oh, thank you.
The President. She is from Many, Louisiana. She won the Women's Bassmaster. And Alton Jones from Waco, Texas, won the Bassmaster Classic.
And I thought it was important to welcome these champs here to the White House so that--you know, to encourage people to fish. There's nothing better than fishing. I had a fantastic experience with Alton and our friend Charlie Pack. He was a famous local fisherman, and he said, "Do you want to go fishing with a fellow named Jones?" I said, "I've never heard of him. There's a lot people named Jones." [Laughter] It turns out, the man I was fishing with is the--wins the Bassmaster Classic.
This is a good, clean sport. It's a sport that requires good conservation in order to make sure our fisheries are good. And I love welcome the champs here. And so we're glad you're here.
Ms. Wong. Thank you.
The President. The people in Louisiana and Texas are proud of you.
Alton Jones. Well, it's an honor to be here. You know, fishing with you, I've got to say that President Bush is actually a very good fisherman and a great conservationist. And I'm really not sure who's working who here. I'm hoping to get an invite to fish on his lake in Crawford.
The President. That's right.
Mr. Jones. And he's looking for a free fishing guide. [Laughter]
Ms. Wong. I would be glad to take you any day on Toledo Bend.
The President. That's good.
Ms. Wong. Okay.
The President.Well, thank you, Judy.
Ms. Wong. And bring Laura as well.
The President. Well, yes, she's--I'm a good fisherman; sometimes I'm a good catcher-man. [Laughter]
Mr. Jones. There's a big difference.
The President. Yes, there is. Anyway, thank you all for coming.
Note: The President spoke at 10:11 a.m. in the Oval Office at the White House. In his remarks, he referred to TV host and fisherman Charlie Pack.
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The American Presidency Project
William J. Clinton
XLII President of the United States: 1993 - 2001
Address to the Nation on the Strike on Iraqi Intelligence Headquarters
June 26, 1993
My fellow Americans, this evening I want to speak with you about an attack by the Government of Iraq against the United States and the actions we have just taken to respond.
This past April, the Kuwaiti Government uncovered what they suspected was a car bombing plot to assassinate former President George Bush while he was visiting Kuwait City. The Kuwaiti authorities arrested 16 suspects, including 2 Iraqi nationals. Following those arrests, I ordered our own intelligence and law enforcement agencies to conduct a thorough and independent investigation. Over the past several weeks, officials from those agencies reviewed a range of intelligence information, traveled to Kuwait and elsewhere, extensively interviewed the suspects, and thoroughly examined the forensic evidence.
This Thursday, Attorney General Reno and Director of Central Intelligence Woolsey gave me their findings. Based on their investigation there is compelling evidence that there was, in fact, a plot to assassinate former President Bush and that this plot, which included the use of a powerful bomb made in Iraq, was directed and pursued by the Iraqi intelligence service.
We should not be surprised by such deeds, coming as they do from a regime like Saddam Hussein's, which is ruled by atrocity, slaughtered its own people, invaded two neighbors, attacked others, and engaged in chemical and environmental warfare. Saddam has repeatedly violated the will and conscience of the international community. But this attempt at revenge by a tyrant against the leader of the world coalition that defeated him in war is particularly loathsome and cowardly. We thank God it was unsuccessful. The authorities who foiled it have the appreciation of all Americans.
It is clear that this was no impulsive or random act. It was an elaborate plan devised by the Iraqi Government and directed against a former President of the United States because of actions he took as President. As such, the Iraqi attack against President Bush was an attack against our country and against all Americans. We could not and have not let such action against our Nation go unanswered.
From the first days of our Revolution, America's security has depended on the clarity of this message: Don't tread on us. A firm and commensurate response was essential to protect our sovereignty, to send a message to those who engage in state-sponsored terrorism, to deter further violence against our people, and to affirm the expectation of civilized behavior among nations.
Therefore, on Friday I ordered our forces to launch a cruise missile attack on the Iraqi intelligence service's principal command-and-control facility in Baghdad. Those missiles were launched this afternoon at 4:22 eastern daylight time. They landed approximately an hour ago. I have discussed this action with the congressional leadership and with our allies and friends in the region. And I have called for an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council to expose Iraq's crime.
These actions were directed against the Iraqi Government, which was responsible for the assassination plot. Saddam Hussein has demonstrated repeatedly that he will resort to terrorism or aggression if left unchecked. Our intent was to target Iraq's capacity to support violence against the United States and other nations and to deter Saddam Hussein from supporting such outlaw behavior in the future. Therefore, we directed our action against the facility associated with Iraq's support of terrorism, while making every effort to minimize the loss of innocent life.
There should be no mistake about the message we intend these actions to convey to Saddam Hussein, to the rest of the Iraqi leadership, and to any nation, group, or person who would harm our leaders or our citizens. We will combat terrorism. We will deter aggression. We will protect our people.
The world has repeatedly made clear what Iraq must do to return to the community of nations. And Iraq has repeatedly refused. If Saddam and his regime contemplate further illegal provocative actions, they can be certain of our response.
Let me say to the men and women in our Armed Forces and in our intelligence and law enforcement agencies who carried out the investigation and our military response: You have my gratitude and the gratitude of all Americans. You have performed a difficult mission with courage and professionalism.
Finally, I want to say this to all the American people: While the cold war has ended, the world is not free of danger. And I am determined to take the steps necessary to keep our Nation secure. We will keep our forces ready to fight. We will work to head off emerging threats, and we will take action when action is required. That is precisely what we have done today.
Thank you, and God bless America.
NOTE: The President spoke at 7:40 p.m. from the Oval Office at the White House.
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The American Presidency Project
William J. Clinton
XLII President of the United States: 1993 - 2001
Remarks at a Reception for Hillary Clinton in New York City
September 11, 2000
And I realize that so many times, people like me in positions of responsibility just mess it up for them, if people play games with power and create illusions in the minds of people about false values
http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=1990_724466
chron
Houston Chronicle Archives
Saddam talks to hostages on Iraqi TV/Troops ready to surround embassies
Houston Chronicle News Services
THU 08/23/1990
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
It was then that Saddam giggled, and turning to an aide in military uniform, he said in Arabic: "He is getting more than our Iraqi children."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._W._Bush
George H. W. Bush
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States (1989–1993). A Republican, he had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States (1981–1989), a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pedophile
Dictionary.com
pedophile
a person who is sexually attracted to children
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: August 22, 2006
As I was riding the bus to the VA, I remembered something else that happened at Microsoft. I was complaining to a friend one day about how Sharon Bjeletich had put a curtain up at the entrance to her cube so no one could see in. That was the second cube I sat in after moving to that new floor in the Bellevue office. Sharon sat two cubicles from me. Eddy Hahn was in the cube between us. I believe that Sharon put that curtain up because she, and everyone else, knew that there were cameras outside the building staring in at me and she was being captured in the frame. I am certain that happened in 2000 because I remember something from Halloween when I was still on that floor and by Halloween of 2001, we were all out at Issaquah. Halloween of 1999, I was still a TAM and I remember another TAM dressed up as a hockey player and he asked me if I was trying to work. Eddy is that guy I wrote about that worked in Las Vegas before Microsoft. He is from Budapest. I can't remember where Sharon was from originally but she is the one I wrote about that reminds me of Sarajevo. Eddy has one of those masks from that movie....can't remember the name now. Wasn't it something similar to "I Know What You Did Last Summer."? That movie came up one time when I was still a TAM. Something with Wally Simpson. I was leaving notes around his desk with that phrase on it. He said his son found the one I left in his closed laptop.
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http://www.simpsonsarchive.com/episodes/AABF05.txt
Mayored to the Mob
Original Airdate on FOX: 20-Dec-1998
% However, before Homer can grab the last one off the tray, a rat picks
% it up and runs off with it. Annoyed, Homer chases the vermin to a
% hole in the wall next to a door labeled "Milking Room". Walking
% inside expecting to see a room full of cows, he is shocked to find
% rats everywhere, each one attached to a system of hoses that sucks the
% milk out of their bellies, draining it into a large bucket labeled
% "Springfield Elementary".
Homer: [gasps] Crap on a crust! [running away] Aaah! They're milking rats! Milking rats!!
Quimby: [to Fat Tony] Rats? I'm outraged! You promised me dog or higher.
% Frantically, Homer runs to his kids' school cafeteria, shocked to see
% all the kids there drinking out of milk cartons bearing Fat Tony's
% face. Looking over, he sees Bart drinking milk out of an elaborate
% twisty straw, watching the milk slowly pass through the it and towards
% Bart's mouth. Acting fast, he yells and knocks the carton away from
% his mouth.
Bart: Hey, my milk! I traded my math book for that. [Lisa walks over, her upper lip covered in a milk moustache]
Lisa: Dad, what a nice surprise! [attempts to kiss her father hello]
Homer: [panics and pushes her face away] Get that away from me! Kids, I don't want you drinking any more milk. Ever!
Milhouse: Can I still drink it?
Homer: [handing him Lisa's carton] Go nuts.
Milhouse: All right! [takes a drink]
Homer: [disgusted] Ehh!
% At the Municipal Building, Homer bursts in on Mayor Quimby's office,
% who runs on a treadmill, exercising.
Homer: You monster! How could you do that to the children?
Quimby: Those wacky gangsters! What're you gonna do?
http://clintonlibrary.gov/william-j.-clinton-bio.html
The William J. Clinton Presidential Library
William J. Clinton
Biography -- William J. Clinton
Bill Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas, three months after his father died in an automobile accident. In high school, he took the name of his step father, Roger Clinton of Hot Springs, Arkansas.
Bill Clinton graduated from Georgetown University and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford. He received a law degree from Yale in 1973.
In 1975, Bill Clinton married Hillary Rodham, whom he had met while a law student at Yale.
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Cambridge Five
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Cambridge Five were a ring of spies, recruited in part by Soviet scout Arnold Deutsch in the United Kingdom, who passed information to the Soviet Union during World War II and at least into the early 1950s. Four members of the ring have been identified: Kim Philby (cryptonym: Stanley), Donald Duart Maclean (cryptonym: Homer), Guy Burgess (cryptonym: Hicks) and Anthony Blunt (cryptonym: Johnson); jointly they are known as the Cambridge Four.
The term "Cambridge" in the name Cambridge Five refers to the recruitment of the group during their education at Cambridge University in the 1930s. The four known members all attended the university, as did the alleged fifth man. Debate surrounds the exact timing of their recruitment by Soviet intelligence; Anthony Blunt claimed that they were not recruited as agents until they had graduated. Blunt, a Fellow of Trinity College, was several years older than Burgess, Maclean, and Philby; he acted as a talent-spotter and recruiter for most of the group save Burgess.
Several people have been suspected of being the "fifth man" of the group; John Cairncross (cryptonym: Liszt) was identified as such by Oleg Gordievsky, though many others have also been accused of membership in the Cambridge ring. Both Blunt and Burgess were members of the Apostles, an exclusive and prestigious society based at Trinity and King's Colleges. Cairncross was also an Apostle. Other Apostles accused of having been the "fifth man" or otherwise spied for the Soviets include Michael Whitney Straight, Victor Rothschild and Guy Liddell.
Maclean and Burgess
All four were active during World War II, to various degrees of success. Philby, when he was posted in the British embassy in Washington, DC, after the war, learned that US and British intelligence were searching for a British embassy mole (cryptonym Homer) who was passing information to the Soviet Union, relying on material uncovered by VENONA.
Philby learned one of the suspects was Maclean. Realizing he had to act fast, he ordered Burgess, who was also on the embassy staff and living with Philby, to warn Maclean in England, where he was serving in the Foreign Office headquarters. Burgess was recalled from the United States due to "bad behaviour" and upon reaching London, warned Maclean.
In early summer 1951, Burgess and Maclean made international headlines by disappearing. Their whereabouts were unclear for some time and the suspicion that they had defected to the Soviet Union turned out to be correct, but was not made public until 1956 when the two appeared at a press conference in Moscow.
It was obvious they had been tipped off and Philby quickly became the prime suspect, due to his close relations with Burgess. Though Burgess was not supposed to defect at the same time as Maclean, he went along. It has been claimed that the KGB ordered Burgess to go to Moscow. This move damaged Philby's reputation, with many speculating that had it not occurred, Philby could have climbed even higher in the Secret Intelligence Service.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/bush072899.htm
The Washington Post
At Height of Vietnam, Bush Picks Guard
By George Lardner Jr. and Lois Romano
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, July 28, 1999; Page A1
Fourth of seven articles
Two weeks before he was to graduate from Yale, George Walker Bush stepped into the offices of the Texas Air National Guard at Ellington Field outside Houston and announced that he wanted to sign up for pilot training.
It was May 27, 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War. Bush was 12 days away from losing his student deferment from the draft at a time when Americans were dying in combat at the rate of 350 a week. The unit Bush wanted to join offered him the chance to fulfill his military commitment at a base in Texas. It was seen as an escape route from Vietnam by many men his age, and usually had a long waiting list.
From 10/16/1946 ( Nazi war criminals hanged at Nuremberg ) To 9/16/1991 is 16406 days
16406 = 8203 + 8203
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 4/18/1988 ( the United States Navy Operation Praying Mantis ) is 8203 days
From 5/27/1968 ( United States Title 18 Treason - the fraudulent enlistment by George Walker Bush in the Texas Air National Guard ) To 9/16/1991 is 8512 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 2/21/1989 ( premiere US TV series episode "Frontline"::"Who Profits from Drugs" ) is 8512 days
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=19984
George Bush
Remarks at the Presentation Ceremony for the National Medals of Science and Technology [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
September 16, 1991
Today's award winners range in age from the Pegasus Team, a group of precocious 40-something scientists and one 37-year-old, who designed and built the world's first private space rocket
Once again, welcome to the White House. Congratulations on your well-deserved honors. Now, with the help of Dr. Massey and Secretary Mosbacher and Dr. Allan Bromley, we will present the awards.
Thank you all very much.
[At this point, Walter Massey presented the awards.]
Well done to the presenter. I guess that concludes it, doesn't it?
Thank you all and, again, my congratulations. I think that concludes the ceremony. And the person that's in charge of the weather, please meet me inside. [Laughter] Thank you all very much.
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The American Presidency Project
George Bush
XLI President of the United States: 1989 - 1993
Remarks at the Presentation Ceremony for the National Medals of Science and Technology
September 16, 1991
Thank you. Please be seated, and let me welcome the dignitaries, that's almost everybody. I don't know who is excluded, but -- [laughter] -- first, Secretary Mosbacher and Secretary Lujan here, Bob over my shoulder, Allan Bromley, my Science Advisor; Henson Moore, I believe is to be here, of Energy; and, of course, Rock Schnabel of Commerce; Walter Massey, the Director of the National Science Foundation. And then finally and perhaps most important today, our honorees and their friends and families. It's my pleasure to welcome all of you to this steamy Rose Garden. [Laughter]
And with us today are five Nobel laureates, leading engineers of the information age, authors of some of this century's world-changing discoveries and inventions. Men and women whose quantum leaps of learning compress generations of knowledge within a single lifetime of achievement. From the first moments of creation to the frontiers of the solar system, and now with Voyager, beyond, your knowledge spans the broad canvas of human endeavor.
Some of you are not only experts in your field, you invented your field. Your quests and questions produced new disciplines, new knowledge, new ways of looking at our world.
And today, your Nation recognizes your monumental accomplishments, honors the differences you have made: Advancing human understanding, improving the human condition, helping mankind conquer ignorance and illness, helping this Nation compete and prosper.
Today's award winners range in age from the Pegasus Team, a group of precocious 40-something scientists and one 37-year-old, who designed and built the world's first private space rocket to Admiral Grace Hopper, born in 1906, who pioneered the revolution that put personal computers on the desks of millions of Americans. And dragged even this President into the computer age. [Laughter]
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19900124&slug=1052416
The Seattle Times
Wednesday, January 24, 1990
Redmond Plans Old-Fashioned Police Beats
By Margarita Overton
-- REDMOND
Whatever happened to Mayberry, that small, fictitious town with the friendly sheriff and deputy who spent more time chatting over pie and coffee at the local drugstore than chasing after criminals - because there weren't many?
The best guess is that Mayberry grew up. Development brought more people and the police force grew. There wasn't time for an afternoon snack and a rambling talk with the drugstore owner.
Mayberry's probably a lot like Redmond now.
And Redmond, with its 51 officers, is trying to get back to Mayberry.
Redmond plans to join the ranks of police departments across the country that want to return to the old way of doing police work, when officers knew everybody, spent less time in their cars and more time on the street.
By midsummer, residents and business owners should see the same officers in their neighborhoods talking about problems and asking for help in finding solutions. Patrol district boundaries will be changed, and three officers will be assigned for at least one year to each district.
Redmond Police Chief Steve Harris decided something needed to be changed because police were logging the same types of calls, in the same areas, again and again: car prowlers in apartment complexes; burglaries in residential neighborhoods; speeding cars on streets.
Crime problems were not being solved. No matter how many complaints were reported, arrests made or citations written, the problems persisted.
Harris wants to try to make a dent in Redmond's crime through community policing.
``It goes back to the old beat-cop theory,'' said Robert Sheehan, police commander. ``The officers know the people because they're in (the neighborhoods) permanently.''
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper
Grace Hopper
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Grace Brewster Murray Hopper (December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992), née Grace Brewster Murray, was an American computer scientist and United States Navy Rear Admiral. She was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer in 1944, invented the first compiler for a computer programming language, and was one of those who popularized the idea of machine-independent programming languages which led to the development of COBOL, one of the first high-level programming languages. She is credited with popularizing the term "debugging" for fixing computer glitches (in one instance, removing a moth from a computer).
Owing to her accomplishments and her naval rank, she is sometimes referred to as "Amazing Grace". The U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke class guided-missile destroyer USS Hopper (DDG-70) is named for her
Career
UNIVAC
In 1949, Hopper became an employee of the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation as a senior mathematician and joined the team developing the UNIVAC I. In the early 1950s, the company was taken over by the Remington Rand corporation, and it was while she was working for them that her original compiler work was done. The compiler was known as the A compiler and its first version was A-0.
In 1952 she had an operational compiler. "Nobody believed that," she said. "I had a running compiler and nobody would touch it. They told me computers could only do arithmetic."
In 1954 Hopper was named the company's first director of automatic programming
Anecdotes
Throughout much of her later career, Grace Hopper was much in demand as a speaker at various computer-related events. She was well known for her lively and irreverent speaking style, as well as a rich treasury of early war stories. She also received the nickname "Grandma COBOL".
While she was working on a Mark II Computer at a US Navy research lab in Dahlgren, Virginia in 1947, her associates discovered a moth stuck in a relay and thereby impeding operation, whereupon she remarked that they were "debugging" the system. Though the term bug had been in use for many years in engineering to refer to small glitches and inexplicable problems, Admiral Hopper did bring the term into popularity. The remains of the moth can be found in the group's log book at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.
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Debugging
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Debugging is the process of finding and resolving bugs or defects that prevent correct operation of computer software or a system.
Origin
The terms "bug" and "debugging" are popularly attributed to Admiral Grace Hopper in the 1940s. While she was working on a Mark II Computer at Harvard University, her associates discovered a moth stuck in a relay and thereby impeding operation, whereupon she remarked that they were "debugging" the system. However the term "bug" in the meaning of technical error dates back at least to 1878 and Thomas Edison (see software bug for a full discussion), and "debugging" seems to have been used as a term in aeronautics before entering the world of computers. Indeed, in an interview Grace Hopper remarked that she was not coining the term[citation needed]. The moth fit the already existing terminology, so it was saved. A letter from J. Robert Oppenheimer (director of the WWII atomic bomb "Manhattan" project at Los Alamos, NM) used the term in a letter to Dr. Ernest Lawrence at UC Berkeley, dated October 27, 1944, regarding the recruitment of additional technical staff.
The Oxford English Dictionary entry for "debug" quotes the term "debugging" used in reference to airplane engine testing in a 1945 article in the Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society. An article in "Airforce" (June 1945 p. 50) also refers to debugging, this time of aircraft cameras. Hopper's bug was found on September 9, 1947. The term was not adopted by computer programmers until the early 1950s. The seminal article by Gill in 1951 is the earliest in-depth discussion of programming errors, but it does not use the term "bug" or "debugging". In the ACM's digital library, the term "debugging" is first used in three papers from 1952 ACM National Meetings. Two of the three use the term in quotation marks. By 1963 "debugging" was a common enough term to be mentioned in passing without explanation on page 1 of the CTSS manual.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 03/25/08 9:32 PM
I have been thinking that after I launched from Earth on 11/2/1975, I traveled straight upwards for 3 days before I initiated the Orion nuclear-pulse propulsion. I traveled that far above the ecliptic so that the radioactive fallout from the Orion propulsion would not get swept onto the outlying planets in our solar system by the solar wind. I traveled further in those 3 days than the Apollo flights to the Moon traveled in 3 days on the way to the Moon because I did not have to worry about entering into lunar orbit so I had the freedom to travel as fast as the impulse from the chemical rockets would allow. So after 3 days, I was sitting there with the Orion drive about to engage and I observed that I wished I was a monkey about that time so I would not have to ponder over what was about to happen, considering that the Orion drive had never been tested to that point.
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 03/25/08 4:34 PM
I am still feeling as though I would like to move somewhere new but I do not know if I will. Moving does not do me any good because I cannot remember where my real home is really but I would enjoy a change of scenery. I would definitely move somewhere, anywhere, new right now if I had a car and that is all that is really stopping me from picking up and moving. I also expect some new danger to my life to accompany me in anything I do.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 03/25/08 4:38 PM
The battlefield follows me where ever I go.
I am really getting pissed off at being constrained like this and of not being allowed to put a decisive end to the insurgency.
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- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 02:55 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Tuesday 19 January 2016
