http://hethrael.org/big-dipper/as-seen-from-regulus-celestia.html
The Big Dipper as seen from Regulus.
http://www.tv.com/shows/alfred-hitchcock-hour/the-star-juror-135475/
tv.com
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour Season 1 Episode 24
The Star Juror
Aired Thursday 10:00 PM Mar 15, 1963 on CBS
AIRED: 3/15/63
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=better-call-saul-2015&episode=s01e02
Springfield! Springfield!
Better Call Saul
Mijo [ Episode 2 Season 1 ]
[Clears throat] Now, at this juncture, I'm deducing that they said or did something that Crossed a line, and you, with some justification You put them in their place.
[Sighs] Based on the salsa stain there, could have gone a couple ways.
http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=1993_1135707
chron Houston Chronicle Archives
Clinton ends news conference abruptly following challenge
Associated Press
TUE 06/15/1993 HOUSTON CHRONICLE
WASHINGTON -- President Clinton cut short a news conference Monday with his new Supreme Court nominee after expressing exasperation with the first question, which was about his decision-making process.
The question -- unanswered -- was asked by ABC's Brit Hume after Clinton announced his selection of federal appellate Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Hume asked: "The withdrawal of the Guinier nomination, sir, and your apparent focus on Judge Breyer, and your turn, late it seems, to Judge Ginsburg, may have created an impression, perhaps unfair, of a certain zig-zag quality in the decision-making process here. I wonder, sir, if you could kind of walk us through it, perhaps disabuse us of any notion we might have along those lines."
Clinton's testy answer: "I have long since given up the thought that I could disabuse some of you turning any substantive decision into anything but political process. How you could ask a question like that after the statement she just made is beyond me."
There was applause from some members of the Rose Garden audience, which included members of Judge Ginsburg's family, some friends and members of Congress.
Clinton turned and walked away from the podium, refusing to take additional questions, even though many hands were raised.
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http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=46684
The American Presidency Project
William J. Clinton
XLII President of the United States: 1993-2001
Remarks Announcing the Nomination of Ruth Bader Ginsburg To Be a Supreme Court Associate Justice
June 14, 1993
The President. Please be seated. I wish you all a good afternoon, and I thank the Members of the Congress and other interested Americans who are here.
In just a few days when the Supreme Court concludes its term, Justice Byron White will begin a new chapter in his long and productive life. He has served the Court as he has lived, with distinction, intelligence, and honor. And he retires from public service with the deep gratitude of all the American people.
Article II, section 2 of the United States Constitution empowers the President to select a nominee to fill a vacancy on the Supreme Court of the United States. This responsibility is one of the most significant duties assigned to the President by the Constitution. A Supreme Court Justice has life tenure, unlike the President, and along with his or her colleagues decides the most significant questions of our time and shapes the continuing contours of our liberty. I care a lot about this responsibility, not only because I am a lawyer but because I used to teach constitutional law and I served my State as attorney general. I know well how the Supreme Court affects the lives of all Americans personally and deeply. I know clearly that a Supreme Court Justice should have the heart and spirit, the talent and discipline, the knowledge, common sense, and wisdom to translate the hopes of the American people, as presented in the cases before it, into an enduring body of constitutional law, constitutional law that will preserve our most cherished values that are enshrined in that Constitution and, at the same time, enable the American people to move forward.
That is what I promised the American people in a Justice when I ran for President, and I believe it is a promise that I am delivering on today. After careful reflection, I am proud to nominate for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. I will send her name to the Senate to fill the vacancy created by Justice White's retirement.
As I told Judge Ginsburg last night when I called to ask her to accept the nomination, I decided on her for three reasons. First, in her years on the bench she has genuinely distinguished herself as one of our Nation's best judges, progressive in outlook, wise in judgment, balanced and fair in her opinions. Second, over the course of a lifetime, in her pioneering work in behalf of the women of this country, she has compiled a truly historic record of achievement in the finest traditions of American law and citizenship. And finally, I believe that in the years ahead she will be able to be a force for consensus-building on the Supreme Court, just as she has been on the Court of Appeals, so that our judges can become an instrument of our common unity in the expression of their fidelity to the Constitution.
Judge Ginsburg received her undergraduate degree from Cornell. She attended both Harvard and Columbia Law Schools and served on the law reviews of both institutions, the first woman to have earned this distinction. She was a law clerk to a Federal judge, a law professor at Rutgers and Columbia Law Schools. She argued six landmark cases on behalf of women before the United States Supreme Court and, happily, won five out of six. For the past 13 years she has served on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the second highest court in our country, where her work has brought her national acclaim and on which she was able to amass a record that caused a national legal journal in 1991 to name her as one of the Nation's leading centrist judges.
In the months and years ahead, the country will have the opportunity to get to know much more about Ruth Ginsburg's achievements, decency, humanity, and fairness. People will find, as I have, that this nominee is a person of immense character. Quite simply, what's in her record speaks volumes about what is in her heart. Throughout her life she has repeatedly stood for the individual, the person less well-off, the outsider in society, and has given those people greater hope by telling them that they have a place in our legal system, by giving them a sense that the Constitution and the laws protect all the American people, not simply the powerful. Judge Ginsburg has also proven herself to be a healer, what attorneys call a moderate. Time and again, her moral imagination has cooled the fires of her colleagues' discord, ensuring that the right of jurists to dissent ennobles the law without entangling the court.
The announcement of this vacancy brought forth a unique outpouring of support for distinguished Americans on Judge Ginsburg's behalf. What caused that outpouring is the essential quality of the judge herself: her deep respect for others and her willingness to subvert self-interest to the interest of our people and their institutions.
In one of her own writings about what it is like to be a Justice, Judge Ginsburg quotes Justice Louis Brandeis, who once said, "The Supreme Court is not a place for solo performers." If this is a time for consensus-building on the Court, and I believe it is, Judge Ginsburg will be an able and effective architect of that effort.
It is important to me that Judge Ginsburg came to her views and attitudes by doing, not merely by reading and studying. Despite her enormous ability and academic achievements, she could not get a job with a law firm in the early 1960's because she was a woman and the mother of a small child. Having experienced discrimination, she devoted the next 20 years of her career to fighting it and making this country a better place for our wives, our mothers, our sisters, and our daughters. She herself argued and won many of the women's rights cases before the Supreme Court in the 1970's. Many admirers of her work say that she is to the women's movement what former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall was to the movement for the rights of African-Americans. I can think of no greater compliment to bestow on an American lawyer. And she has done all of this and a lot of other things as well by raising a family with her husband, Marty, whom she married 39 years ago as a very young woman. Together they had two children, Jane and James, and they now have two grandchildren. Hers is a remarkable record of distinction and achievement, both professional and personal.
During the selection process, we reviewed the qualifications of more than 40 potential nominees. It was a long, exhaustive search. And during that time we identified several wonderful Americans whom I think could be outstanding nominees to the Supreme Court in the future. Among the best were the Secretary of the Interior, Bruce Babbitt, whose strong legal background as Arizona's attorney general and recent work balancing the competing interests of environmentalists and others in the very difficult issues affecting the American West made him a highly qualified candidate for the Court. And I had the unusual experience, something unique to me, of being flooded with calls all across America from Babbitt admirers who pleaded with me not to put him on the Court and take him away from the Interior Department. I also carefully considered the chief judge of the first circuit, Judge Stephen Breyer of Boston, a man whose character, confidence, and legal scholarship impressed me very greatly. I believe he has a very major role to play in public life. I believe he is superbly qualified to be on the Court. And I think either one of these candidates, as well as the handful of others whom I closely considered, may well find themselves in that position someday in the future.
Let me say in closing that Ruth Bader Ginsburg cannot be called a liberal or a conservative; she has proved herself too thoughtful for such labels. As she herself put it in one of her articles, and I quote, "The greatest figures of the American judiciary have been independent thinking individuals with open but not empty minds; individuals willing to listen and to learn. They have exhibited a readiness to reexamine their own premises, liberal or conservative, as thoroughly as those of others." That, I believe, describes Judge Ginsburg. And those, I too believe, are the qualities of a great Justice.
If, as I believe, the measure of a person's values can best be measured by examining the life the person lives, then Judge Ginsburg's values are the very ones that represent the best in America. I am proud to nominate this path-breaking attorney, advocate, and judge to be the 107th Justice to the United States Supreme Court.
[At this point, Judge Ginsburg expressed her appreciation to the President and discussed her background and her view of the position.]
Q. The withdrawal of the Guinier nomination, sir, and your apparent focus on Judge Breyer and your turn, late, it seems, to Judge Ginsburg may have created an impression, perhaps unfair, of a certain zig-zag quality in the decision-making process here. I wonder, sir, if you could kind of walk us through it and perhaps disabuse us of any notion we might have along those lines. Thank you.
The President. I have long since given up the thought that I could disabuse some of you of turning any substantive decision into anything but political process. How you could ask a question like that after the statement she just made is beyond me.
Goodbye. Thank you.
NOTE: The President spoke at 2:07 p.m. in the Rose Garden at the White House.
http://www.simpsonsarchive.com/episodes/1F04.html
Treehouse of Horror IV [ The Simpsons ]
Original airdate in N.A.: 28-Oct-93
Hear Ye, Hear Ye. The Court of Infernal Affairs is now in session.
-- The Grim Reaper speaks, "Treehouse of Horror IV"
Lionel Hutz opens the proceedings.
Hutz: First some ground rules. Number one, we get bathroom breaks every half-hour.
Flanders: Agreed. Number two, the jury will be chosen by me.
Hutz: Agreed. [realizing] No, wait --
Flanders: Silence!
http://www.britannica.com/biography/Lizzie-Borden-American-murder-suspect
Encyclopædia Britannica
Lizzie Borden
Lizzie Borden, in full Lizzie Andrew Borden (born July 19, 1860, Fall River, Massachusetts, U.S.—died June 1, 1927, Fall River)
http://saasta.ac.za/getsetgo/proxima_century.html
SAASTA
South African Agency for Science and Technology Advancement
Centenary celebrations for Proxima Centauri
By Daphney Molewa, SAASTA
The year 2015 marked the centenary of the discovery in Johannesburg of the star closest to the sun, Proxima Centauri, and South African Agency for Science and Technology Advancement (SAASTA) leveraged the occasion to advance science awareness.
SAASTA rolled out a string of activities across the country to mark this milestone in South African astronomy. These culminated in a national event where Ian Glass, who specialises in astronomical history and who is an expert in the infrared radiation from celestial objects, was one of the key speakers.
The exact date of the discovery is not known, but the evidence suggests that it was just before 05 October 1915. It was established that Innes sent the paper to announce his discovery to the printers on that date. The paper is entitled “A faint star of large proper motion” and dated 12 October 1915.
http://earthsky.org/space/this-date-in-science-discovery-of-proxima-centauri
EarthSky
This date in science: Discovery of Proxima Centauri
Happy anniversary, Proxima Centauri! Today is the 100th anniversary of the announcement that this star is next-nearest to our sun.
October 12, 1915. One hundred years ago today, the Scottish-born astronomer Robert Innes, at the Union Observatory in Johannesburg, South Africa announced the discovery of what we now know as the next-nearest star to our sun. That star is Proxima Centauri, one of three known stars in the Alpha Centauri system, with the other two stars being Alpha Centauri A and B. He announced his discovery in a paper dated October 12, 1915 titled A Faint Star of Large Proper Motion.
Prior to this announcement, astronomers believed that Alpha Centauri was the closest star to our solar system.
But Proxima – a relatively small red dwarf star – is closer at about 4.24 light-years away.
SAASTA – the South African Agency for Science and Technology Advancement – is celebrating Proxima’s centenary this year. At its website, SAASTA explained:
Although Alpha had been thoroughly observed by Innes, with his vast experience and passion for observing double stars he suspected that Alpha Centauri might have a companion. While comparing photographic plates that were taken five years apart … Innes observed that a certain faint star had moved. He found that this movement was about the same as that of Alpha Centauri.
After further investigation, he concluded that it was closer to the sun than Alpha. In 1917 he proposed the new star should be called Proxima Centauri, proxima being the Latin word for ‘nearest.’
Today, Proxima remains widely accepted as the closest star to Earth, but it’s still not known for certain whether Proxima is part of the Alpha Centauri system.
http://www.sydneyobservatory.com.au/2015/centenary-of-discovery-of-proxima-centauris-proximity/
Sydney Observatory
Centenary of discovery of Proxima Centauri’s…proximity
Published by Andrew Jacob on October 12, 2015
What is the closest star, in the night-time sky, to Earth?
Almost everyone answers Alpha Centauri, the brighter of the pair of Pointer stars. But Alpha Centauri is in fact a system of three stars. Two orbit close together and their combined light is what our naked-eye sees as the brighter of the Pointer stars, and what most of us would call Alpha Centauri.
The third star of the system is too faint to see without a large telescope but it is the closest of the three. We call this star Proxima Centauri.
How do we know Proxima Centauri is the closest? We could measure its distance via the parallax method. Or we could measure how fast it is moving across the sky – its proper motion – and infer that it is the closest because it has the greatest proper motion.
On October 12, 1915 astronomer Robert T. A. Innes, working in South Africa, placed two glass plate negatives of the sky into a blink comparator. This device allowed him to rapidly flip between viewing one plate then the other. He noticed one faint star jumped back and forth as he blinked the plates – it had moved in the five years separating the exposure of the plates. His measurements showed its proper motion and the direction it was heading were very similar to those of the star-pair we call Alpha Centauri. It was almost certainly part of that star system and therefore nearby. Later parallax measurements, by Innes and others, proved it was the closest known star at a distance of 4.22 light years.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033078/releaseinfo
IMDb
Son of the Navy (1940)
Release Info
USA 30 March 1940
http://www.tv.com/shows/star-trek/metamorphosis-24923/
tv.com
Star Trek Season 2 Episode 9
Metamorphosis
Aired Unknown Nov 10, 1967 on NBC
When their shuttle is diverted to a planetoid, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy encounter Earth's Warp Drive pioneer, Zefram Cochrane, who appears to have survived there alone for 150 years.
AIRED: 11/10/67
http://www.startrek.com/database_article/metamorphosis
STAR TREK
Metamorphosis
Star Trek: The Original Series
Season: 2 Ep. 9
Air Date: 11/10/1967
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
To: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Fri, May 19, 2006 10:21:01 PM
Subject: Re: Journal May 19, 2006
Kerry Burgess wrote:
My memory, which I am growing increasingly certain is false beyond a certain date
I wonder where the divergence point is in history? When did I become Kerry Burgess and who am I really?
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 19 May 2006 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 11:04 AM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Re: Journal May 21, 2006
Kerry Burgess wrote:
I think it was my first thought after waking up this morning that I used to date Julia Roberts a long time ago.
I also have these unexplained thoughts that I was a fighter pilot in the U.S. military, although I'm not sure which service, but I may have been in two different branches over time. I am also confused about thoughts that I may have been a helicopter pilot. What's next? A space shuttle pilot?
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 21 May 2006 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: July 17, 2006
One of those others that tugs my mind. I feel the defenses, the Kerry Burgess trying to save his life, reluctant to let me believe this.
http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1981/40981f.htm
Message to the Columbia Astronuats on the Inaugural Flight of the Space Shuttle
April 9, 1981
Commander John W. Young and Captain Robert L. Crippen, you go forward this morning in a daring enterprise, and you take the hopes and prayers of all Americans with you. You go in the hand of God and draw on the courage of life.
Our countryman and poet William Cullen Bryant said America is where mankind throws its last fetters. With your exploits, we loosen one more.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 17 July 2006 excerpt ends]
http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/31.htm
Metamorphosis [ Star Trek: The Original Series ]
Stardate: Unknown
Original Airdate: Nov 10, 1967
MCCOY: That's a pretty far out story.
KIRK: Mister Cochrane, do you have a first name?
COCHRANE: Zefram.
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1994/01/
HUBBLESITE
News Release Archive:
News Release Number: STScI-1994-01
Picture Perfect: Hubble's New Improved Optics Probe the Core of a Distant Galaxy
An Early Release Observation Release / An American Astronomical Society Meeting Release
JANUARY 13, 1994: This comparison image of the core of galaxy M100 shows the dramatic improvement in the Hubble telescope's view of the universe. The new image (right) was taken with the second generation Wide Field and Planetary Camera (WFPC2), which was installed during the STS-61 Hubble Servicing Mission.
The picture beautifully demonstrates that the corrective optics incorporated within WFPC2 compensate fully for Hubble's near-sightedness.
From 3/2/1962 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Twilight Zone"::To Serve Man" ) To 6/14/1993 ( Bill Clinton - Remarks Announcing the Nomination of Ruth Bader Ginsburg To Be a Supreme Court Associate Justice ) is 11427 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 2/14/1997 is 11427 days
From 6/28/1884 ( Chester Arthur - Special Message ) To 10/12/1915 ( Robert Innes announced the discovery of Proxima Centauri ) is 11427 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 2/14/1997 is 11427 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 2/14/1997 is 2162 days
2162 = 1081 + 1081
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 10/18/1968 ( Lyndon Johnson - Remarks Upon Signing the Radiation Control for Health and Safety Act of 1968 ) is 1081 days
http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-82/sts-82-day-04-highlights.html
STS-82 Day 4 Highlights
Back to STS-82 Flight Day 03 Highlights:
On Friday, February 14, 1997, 6:00 a.m. CST, STS-82 MCC Status Report # 7 reports:
Astronauts Mark Lee and Steve Smith worked throughout the night in the cargo bay of the Shuttle Discovery, conducting a spacewalk lasting six hours and 42 minutes to upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope, which now contains new science instruments for an expanded view of the universe.
The first spacewalk of the second servicing mission of the Telescope began at 10:34 p.m. Central time Thursday night when Lee and Smith switched their spacesuits over to battery power. The spacewalk was slightly delayed to enable ground controllers to assess the unexpected movement of one of Hubble's solar arrays, which slewed from a horizontal to a vertical position as Discovery's airlock was depressurized. The motion was created by an apparent gust of air from the airlock, but caused no damage to the array which was repositioned horizontally.
Once outside, Lee and Smith went right to work, opening the aft shroud doors on Hubble to remove the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph and the Faint Object Spectrograph. The telephone-booth sized instruments slid out of their compartments and were replaced by two brand new instruments, the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph and the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer. STIS was installed in Hubble shortly before 1 a.m. Central time, followed almost two hours later by the NICMOS. Payload controllers send commands to check the health of the two instruments, which were declared alive and well and ready for calibration over the next several weeks. The aft shroud doors were finally closed as Lee and Smith stowed the old science gear in protective containers for the trip back to Earth. With their work successfully completed, Lee and Smith returned to Discovery's airlock at 5:17 this morning to wrap up the first of four planned excursions into the Shuttle's cargo bay.
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/9702/14/hubble.12am/
CNN
Delayed Hubble spacewalk begins
February 14, 1997
Web posted at: 12:30 a.m. EST (0530 GMT)
JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, Texas (CNN) -- Following a last-minute delay, two astronauts left the shuttle Discovery late Thursday on the first of four spacewalks of the Hubble Space Telescope's $350 million refurbishment.
Astronauts Mark Lee and Steve Smith, wearing bulky white spacesuits, climbed out into the shuttle's open cargo bay at 11:45 p.m. EST as the shuttle soared 360 miles above Australia.
The spacewalk, to fit Hubble with two new scientific instruments, was held up for one hour and 45 minutes after one of the telescope's two fragile solar arrays swung around violently and unexpectedly.
Flight controllers said air vented outside from the airlock, which was mounted for the first time in the shuttle's cargo bay, struck the 40-foot long panel and set it moving. The delicate arrays appeared unharmed by the incident, officials said.
"We saw something real unusual," Discovery crewman Joe Tanner informed mission control when the mishap occurred. "The ... array moved from horizontal to vertical and then about halfway back to horizontal." The rapid movement of the 40-foot-long array occurred in just five seconds, he said.
Discovery, Hubble link up
Earlier Thursday, after a two-day chase, the space shuttle Discovery's 50-foot-long robot arm, operated by astronaut Steve Hawley, reached out and gently captured the silvery 12-ton Hubble telescope at 3:33 a.m. EST.
It was NASA's first look at Hubble since December 1993, when astronauts last visited the telescope.
Since then, the Hubble telescope has provided scientists with the first conclusive evidence for the existence of huge black holes and discovery of planetary nurseries around stars.
The telescope has also collected light emission data from distant galaxies and other evidence that the universe may be much younger than previously thought.
Building a new and improved 'scope
The telescope has traveled 996 million miles since its launch and circled Earth more than 37,000 times.
During this service call, the astronauts plan to install two improved scientific instruments, each about the size of a large refrigerator.
A $105 million multipurpose infrared camera will allow astronomers to see deeper into the universe than ever before and may discover planets orbiting other stars, while a $125 million improved spectrograph will help in the search for massive black holes devouring stars in the center of galaxies.
Other planned upgrades included a new digital tape recorder, a more accurate guidance sensor for pointing the telescope and various improved electronic boxes.
The refurbishment work will be complicated by the telescope's fragile electricity-generating solar arrays. The twin wings appeared to be warped in television pictures beamed back during the shuttle's final approach.
http://articles.latimes.com/1997-02-14/news/mn-28638_1_servicing-missions
Los Angeles Times
Astronauts' Pit Stop at 370 Miles Up
Shuttle: Spacewalk begins to replace some '70s technology on Hubble.
February 14, 1997 ROBERT LEE HOTZ TIMES SCIENCE WRITER
HOUSTON — As sleepless astronomers held their breath, two astronauts began an exacting orbital house call on the $2-billion Hubble Space Telescope late Thursday, culminating two years of painstaking rehearsals for one of the most demanding tasks in NASA's space program.
In a six-hour spacewalk scheduled to end early today, the astronauts planned to replace two outdated instruments in the bus-sized orbital telescope with more sophisticated sensors designed to dramatically improve its color vision and expand its ability to perceive infrared light.
"Hubble was built to be serviced, and this is a bit more exotic than getting a part replaced on your car, but it's similar in some respects because this is all part of routine maintenance," NASA spokesman Steve Nesbitt said.
The spacewalk by payload commander Mark Lee and mission specialist Steven Smith was temporarily delayed when Hubble's right solar panel suddenly moved, apparently when air from the air lock hit it. But there was no apparent damage and the walk began only 15 minutes late.
"Oh my gosh. Beautiful!" Lee said as he gazed at the 43-foot telescope.
Nesbitt said the astronauts should be able to finish all the work they had planned for today.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Ayrton_Senna_1991_Monaco.jpg
http://articles.latimes.com/1997-02-15/news/mn-28933_1_hubble-servicing
Los Angeles Times
2nd Spacewalk Aids Hubble's Cosmic Vision
February 15, 1997 From Associated Press
HOUSTON — Another pair of astronauts stepped out into the vacuum of space Friday night to give the Hubble Space Telescope a sharper aim to go with its new, stronger eyes.
Gregory Harbaugh and Joe Tanner, eager to get started with their mechanics' chores, floated into shuttle Discovery's open cargo bay nearly an hour ahead of schedule for the second spacewalk of the Hubble servicing mission.
Their job while circling Earth at 5 miles a second: to install a guidance sensor needed to lock on to astronomical targets, an electronic package for the sensor and a data recorder.
Meanwhile, in the cockpit, the pilots planned to boost the shuttle into a slightly higher orbit in which Hubble will be released early next week.
During the first spacewalk the night before, Mark Lee and Steven Smith plugged two new science instruments into Hubble to expand its vision of the cosmos.
Lee and Smith turned in a by-the-book performance 370 miles above Earth to modernize the $2-billion Hubble, which was launched in 1990.
Lee and Smith will go back out tonight to install more Hubble parts.
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-twilight-zone/to-serve-man-12674/
tv.com
The Twilight Zone Season 3 Episode 24
To Serve Man
Aired Unknown Mar 02, 1962 on CBS
AIRED: 3/2/62
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=the-twilight-zone-1959&episode=s03e24
Springfield! Springfield!
The Twilight Zone
To Serve Man
I showed this to every man on our staff.
I've had a dozen people working on it since late last night.
We've tried pretty much everything- single transposition, double transposition.
We've tried every known method of cryptography there is, and i don't know whether we're even close or a million miles away.
Are you saying it's indecipherable? No, we've just got to keep trying, that's all.
http://articles.latimes.com/1996-01-11/news/mn-23455_1_white-house-travel-office
Los Angeles Times
Papers Bolster Link Between First Lady, Travel Scandal
Probe: White House documents indicate she pressed for dismissal of employees. D'Amato will seek to extend the investigation.
January 11, 1996 SARA FRITZ TIMES STAFF WRITER
WASHINGTON — Newly revealed confidential documents came to light Wednesday supporting allegations that First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, despite her denials, played a central role in the White House travel office scandal.
The documents appear to bolster the view expressed by former presidential aide David Watkins in a draft memo made public last week about a conversation that he had with Hillary Clinton. Watkins wrote in late 1993 that he was acting on orders of the first lady when he fired seven long-time travel office employees the previous May.
The firings later proved to be an embarrassment for President Clinton. The decision turned out to have been based entirely on unsubstantiated allegations that travel office workers financially mismanaged the operation.
The White House has said repeatedly that Hillary Clinton "had no role in the decision to terminate" the travel office workers. Just last week, the first lady herself said: "I just don't have any memory of that."
One of the documents made available by the White House on Wednesday is a confidential chronology of events related to the travel office scandal prepared by the White House on which Thomas "Mack" McLarty, then the president's chief of staff, jotted the notation: "May 16--HRC pressure." May 16 was three days before the firings.
Also released by the White House were notes from an internal White House investigation of the incident. In them, Fan Dozier, an employee of the Arkansas company that took over part of the travel office business after the firings, said she had been told: "HRC very upset re misa[ppropriation] of funds and wanted them out of there."
In addition on Wednesday, the Associated Press obtained a copy of an FBI interview with Watkins in which he further described his conversation with Hillary Clinton about the travel office. "She stated action needed to be taken immediately to be certain those not friendly to the administration were removed and replaced with trustworthy individuals," the FBI report quotes Watkins as saying.
Sen. Alfonse M. D'Amato (R-N.Y.), who chairs the Senate's special Whitewater investigating committee, clearly was buoyed Wednesday by the widespread attention his investigation has been getting in recent days. He called a news conference in which he accused the White House and Hillary Clinton of violating the constitutional rights of the travel office employees by accusing them falsely. One former employee, Billy Dale, was acquitted of charges in a recent trial.
Critics of the Clintons, including D'Amato, have portrayed the Watkins draft memo as evidence that the first lady has been trying to cover up her role in the travel office scandal.
D'Amato also alleges that she has engaged in a cover-up of Whitewater.
On Whitewater, D'Amato blamed Hillary Clinton's lawyers for causing the unexplained disappearance of many records relating to the work she did in the mid-1980s for a corrupt Arkansas thrift owned by her Whitewater investment partner, James B. McDougal.
He said the notes of a November 1993 meeting of Clinton lawyers, released last month by the White House, discussed a plan to "vacuum" the records kept at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Ark., where the first lady worked before her husband was elected president.
White House officials, however, insist that the vague notation in the documents means that the lawyers found "a vacuum," or lack, of information when they went looking for files. Neither the White House nor Rose Law Firm officials can explain what happened to the records.
The notes say: "vacuum . . . Rose Law Firm files."
D'Amato said the White House is making "an absurd interpretation" of the notation made during the meeting by then-White House attorney William Kennedy.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/08/politics/bill-clinton-sanders-supporters-attacks/
CNN
Bill Clinton rips Sanders backers' 'sexist,' 'profane' attacks
By David Wright and Jeff Zeleny, CNN
Updated 2:27 PM ET, Mon February 8, 2016
(CNN)Bill Clinton lashed out at "sexist" and "profane" attacks on Hillary Clinton and her supporters by proponents of Bernie Sanders, and accused them of harassing those who don't back the Vermont senator's campaign or disagree with his policies.
Speaking in New Hampshire on Sunday, Clinton delivered an extended rebuke of the Sanders supporters, whom he said subject people who back his wife to "vicious trolling."
He described a progressive blogger who wrote a favorable column about the former secretary of state but was compelled to post it under a pseudonym out of fear of blowback from Sanders proponents.
"She and other people who have gone online to defend Hillary and explain -- just explain -- why they supported her have been subject to vicious trolling and attacks that are literally too profane often -- not to mention sexist -- to repeat," Clinton said.
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.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 22 August 2006 excerpt ends]
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/tina-fey-reprises-sarah-palin-impersonation-on-saturday-night-live/
CBS NEWS
By ANDREA PARK CBS NEWS January 25, 2016, 11:29 AM
Tina Fey reprises Sarah Palin impersonation on "Saturday Night Live"
The cold open mocked how Palin appeared to remove blame from her son, Track Palin, for his domestic violence charge and instead link it to PTSD: "I'm here because we Americans are struggling. So many of us have lost our jobs at the factory or our reality shows about Alaska. We've seen our own children targeted by the police for no reason other than they committed some crimes."
http://articles.latimes.com/1996-06-02/news/mn-11121_1_jim-guy-tucker
Los Angeles Times
ARKANSAS : Whitewater 'Juror' Admits Her Hoax
June 02, 1996 From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A woman who represented herself as a Whitewater juror and said her pretrial suspicions influenced her vote admitted that she never sat on the jury--she just had the same name as a panel member. Janice Greer's allegations had caused an outcry among defense lawyers, who suggested it could be grounds for reversal of the convictions of Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker and James B. and Susan McDougal. The McDougals were President Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's former business partners. Greer, who was not on the jury, said she was tired of calls from the media and decided to play along.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734684/quotes
IMDb
The Twilight Zone (TV Series)
To Serve Man (1962)
Quotes
Patty: Mr. Chambers! Don't get on that ship!
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http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=68967
The American Presidency Project
Chester A. Arthur
XXI President of the United States: 1881 - 1885
Special Message
June 28, 1884
To the Senate and House of Representatives:
I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of the Interior, calling attention to certain omissions, etc., in the act (H. R. 1340) entitled "An act to establish a Bureau of Labor Statistics," and invite the attention of the Congress to the same.
CHESTER A. ARTHUR
http://www.tv.com/shows/the-simpsons/treehouse-of-horror-1301/trivia/
tv.com
The Simpsons Season 2 Episode 3
Treehouse of Horror
Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Oct 25, 1990 on FOX
Quotes
(Kang and Kodos show off the amenities on their spaceship.)
Kang: And over here is our crowning achievement in amusement technology: an electronic version of what you call table tennis.
(Kang shows off a video screen that features the vintage video game Pong.)
Kang: Your primitive paddles have been replaced by an electronic--
Bart: Hey, that's just Pong. Get with the times, man.
Homer: Marge and I played that old game before we were married.
Kang: Well, we did build this spaceship, you know.
Kodos: Anyone from a species that has mastered intergalactic travel, raise your hand.
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 4:56 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Monday 08 February 2016
