http://www.oocities.org/elzj78/bsgminiseries.html
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: Miniseries (2003)
(CIC)
Adama: What was the final count?
Tigh: Twenty-six walked out. Eighty-five didn't. (They look at each other for a moment.) There's a munitions depot at Ragnar Anchorage.
Adama: Oh, it's a super-bitch to anchor a ship there.
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/voyager2/indepth
NASA
Voyager 2: In Depth
Voyager 2's encounter with Neptune capped a 7-billion-km journey when on 25 August 1989, at 03:56 UT it flew about 4,950 km over the cloud tops of the giant planet
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converted.html?iso=19890824T2355&p1=263&p2=0
timeanddate.com
The World Clock – Time Zone Converter – results
Washington DC (USA - District of Columbia) Thursday, August 24, 1989 at 11:55:00 PM EDT UTC-4 hours
UTC (Time Zone) Friday, August 25, 1989 at 3:55:00 AM UTC UTC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Time
Universal Time
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Universal Time (UT) is a time standard based on Earth's rotation. It is a modern continuation of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/08/thirty-four-years-voyager-2-continues-explore/
NASA SPACEFLIGHT.COM
Thirty-four years after launch, Voyager 2 continues to explore
August 20, 2011 by Chris Gebhardt and Jeff Goldader
Voyager 2 made its closest approach to Neptune – and its closest approach to any object planet other than Earth – on August 24, 1989 at 23:56.39 EDT.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c101:S.CON.RES.70.ATS:
The LIBRARY of CONGRESS THOMAS
Bill Text
101st Congress (1989-1990)
S.CON.RES.70 -- Commending NASA and the jet propulsion laboratory for the continuing successes of the Voyager space missions to the outer solar system. (Agreed to Senate - ATS)
SCON 70 ATS
101st CONGRESS
1st Session
S. CON. RES. 70
Commending NASA and the jet propulsion laboratory for the continuing successes of the Voyager space missions to the outer solar system.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
September 18, 1989
Mr. FOWLER (for himself, Mr. MICHELL, Mr. DOLE, Mr. GORE, and Mr. GARN) submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was considered and agreed to
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Whereas Voyager II's closest approach to Neptune occurred on August 24, 1989, once again representing the first fly-by of an outer planet, and at Neptune Voyager II produced another rich load of scientific discoveries
http://www.nasa.gov/nasa-leadership
NASA
NASA Leadership
Administrator Charlie Bolden
http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie1.html
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
ILIA PROBE: You infest, Enterprise. You interfere with the Creator in the same manner.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_de_Monaco
Circuit de Monaco
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Circuit de Monaco is a street circuit laid out on the city streets of Monte Carlo and La Condamine around the harbour of the principality of Monaco.
A lap of the modern day circuit
The lap starts with a short sprint up Boulevard Albert 1er, to the tight St. Devote corner. This is a nearly 90 degree right-hand bend usually taken in first or second gear. This corner has seen many first lap accidents, although these are less common since the removal of the mini roundabout on the apex of the corner before the 2003 event, making the entrance to the corner wider. The cars then head uphill along Avenue d'Ostende, before changing down for the long left-hander at Massenet.
Out of Massenet, the cars drive past the famous casino before quickly reaching the aptly named Casino Square. The cars snake down Avenue des Beaux Arts, the next short straight, avoiding an enormous bump on the left of the track, a reminder of the unique nature of the circuit. This leads to the tight Mirabeau corner, which is followed by a short downhill burst to the even tighter Grand Hotel Hairpin (more commonly known by its former name the Loews Hairpin, and before that as the Station Hairpin). It is a corner which has been used for many overtaking manoeuvres in the past. However it would be almost physically impossible for two modern F1 cars to go round side by side, as the drivers must use full steering lock to get around. It is so tight that many Formula 1 teams must redesign their steering and suspension specifically to negotiate this corner.
After the hairpin, the cars head downhill again to a double right-hander called Portier before heading into the famous tunnel, a unique feature of a Formula One circuit. (Until 2009 only one other circuit, Detroit USA in 1982–88, featured a tunnel, but the F1 series now includes racing at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi, which presents a shorter tunnel at the exit of the pit lane.) As well as the change of light making visibility poor, a car can lose 20–30% of its downforce due to the unique aerodynamic properties of the tunnel.
Out of the tunnel, the cars have to brake hard for a tight left-right-left chicane. This has been the scene of several large accidents, including that of Karl Wendlinger in 1994, Jenson Button in 2003 and Sergio Pérez in 2011. The chicane is generally the only place on the circuit where overtaking can be attempted.
[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2016/04/monaco.html ]
http://en.espn.co.uk/f1/motorsport/driver/891.html
ESPN
Full name Jean-Pierre Maurice Georges Beltoise
Birth date April 26, 1937
Birthplace Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Date of death January 5, 2015
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Calmes
Jack Calmes
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Jack Calmes (October 21, 1943 – January 5, 2015) was an American inventor, executive and musician.
In 1965, he co-founded Showco, an influential and industry-revolutionizing concert sound and lighting service company. In 1984, Calmes founded Syncrolite, considered one of the foremost entertainment/architectural light manufacturers in the world.
He also holds a pair of United States patents
http://www.dallasnews.com/obituary-headlines/20150106-jack-calmes-early-figure-in-dallas-rock-n-roll-scene.ece
The Dallas Morning News
Jack Calmes, early figure in Dallas rock ’n’ roll scene
By ROBERT WILONSKY
Staff Writer
Published: 06 January 2015 10:34 PM
Updated: 06 January 2015 11:00 PM
Jack Calmes, one of the men who brought rock ’n’ roll to Dallas in the 1960s, died Monday of cancer.
He was 71.
A public celebration of his life will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at Sparkman-Hillcrest Funeral Home, 7405 W. Northwest Highway, with a reception immediately afterward.
Calmes, a native of Oklahoma, moved to Dallas as a boy and later made his mark on the stage and behind the scenes.
Billboard profiled Calmes in August 1972, when he’d already built what the music trade referred to as a “vast empire” providing sound to rock shows.
He was married to actress Morgan Fairchild from 1967 until 1973.
“He was a great musician first, and a great salesman,” says Angus Wynne, Calmes’ long-ago partner in the Soul City nightclub and Showco, the concert-promotion business that became a sight-and-sound company that brought rock shows into Soul City. “That was his forte. He did that with the sound company to great acclaim and later with the lighting company.”
Wynne had known Calmes since 1963, when Calmes, a Highland Park High School graduate, was a senior at Southern Methodist University. They met at Ernstrom’s Records on Lovers Lane.
“We discovered the other guy was pretty cool,” said Wynne.
And right then, right there — or close to it — they decided to get into the music business. By Texas-OU weekend that fall, they were putting on a show at Market Hall, with Chuck Berry as the headliner. Calmes happened to have the rock pioneer’s phone number.
Showco brought the Beach Boys to Dallas. Then the Doors. Then Bob Dylan. Everybody played Soul City when they opened it in 1967, including Stevie Wonder and Ike and Tina Turner.
During Labor Day Weekend 1969, it all coalesced into the Texas International Pop Festival, North Texas’ Woodstock, headlined by Led Zeppelin, Sly and the Family Stone, B.B. King, Janis Joplin, Johnny Winter and others on their way to fame, infamy or some combination of the two. The show lost $100,000. Not long after that, Wynne sold his share of Showco. Calmes carried on.
He’d lost enough money to know where it had all gone — to the sound guys. He wanted a piece. He wound up getting it all.
“When I saw how much money [sound guy] Bill Hanley got for doing the sound at the Texas Pop Festival and at Woodstock, it set me thinking,” Calmes told D Magazine in 1980. “Hanley didn’t get burned at either festival, although the rest of us did.”
Calmes said he knew sound setups could be run better, leading to more business.
That collaboration built the vast empire. With it came the legendary friends, among them Mick Jagger, whom he persuaded in 1978 to let him film the “Some Girls” show in Fort Worth after a Bobby “Blue” Bland show at the Longhorn Ballroom.
That film eventually became The Rolling Stones: Some Girls Live in Texas, which went unreleased until three years ago.
There were other businesses, too: He and Wynne co-managed Freddie King, while Calmes alone handled Bloodrock. In the early 1980s, he also founded and ran Syncrolite, which did for lighting what Showco did for sound.
He produced the 1982 Who show “The Who Rocks America.” And before any of it, he was lead guitarist for one of Dallas’ best garage-rock bands of the 1960s: the Jades. And he still played with the Forever Fabulous Chickenhawks.
http://lasvegassun.com/news/2003/jan/14/theft-not-unusual-during-las-vegas-conventions/
LAS VEGAS SUN
Theft not unusual during Las Vegas conventions
Jen Lawson
Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2003 11:14 a.m.
For the past 14 years Jack Calmes has displayed his high-tech theatrical lights -- used in Rolling Stones and Britney Spears concerts -- at the Lighting Dimensions International trade show at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Calmes showed off a new toy at last year's LDI show in October: A 560-pound, one-of-a-kind computer programmable light worth $35,000.
After LDI wrapped, Calmes arranged for the light to be shipped back to Dallas, where his company, Syncrolite, is based.
The light never arrived. Calmes thinks it was spirited away from the convention center loading dock by a competitor who wanted to copy the technology.
"I don't understand why there are no security cameras on that loading dock," Calmes said. "It's inconceivable that the Las Vegas Convention Center doesn't have this happen more, and if it does, it's being swept under the rug."
Las Vegas is the trade show capital of North America, and the Las Vegas Convention Center is the No. 1 venue drawing the likes of the International Consumer Electronics Show, which ran through last weekend with an estimated 110,000 attendees.
While thousands of people attend shows each year, millions of dollars of goods ranging from cutting-edge technology to designer clothing move through the convention center every year. Thieves have found it to be a buffet.
Metro Police records show 188 theft reports in 2000; 185 in 2001 and 161 in 2002.
But there may be more thefts than are reported. Exhibitors often don't report stolen goods. Rather than file a police report, many people make a claim with their insurance company or a trucking company if their goods are lost or stolen.
Other material is simply misplaced, officials said, as thousands of people come in and out with every show or convention.
Convention officials and police note this isn't new or unique to Las Vegas. Wherever there are large gatherings of people, thefts happen. In Las Vegas' mob era, the convention docks were known as a place to find something that fell off a truck.
Metro Detective John Gorski is one of two detectives assigned to investigate crimes at the convention center. He categorizes the number of thefts there as "excessive."
"We're fully working to cut down on thefts, but we need more help," Gorski said.
Comdex arrests
During Comdex, a large technology trade show held Nov. 18 to 22 at the convention center, Metro Police arrested two people for grand larceny, conspiracy and burglary for the theft of electronics equipment. A theft arrest was also made in July.
"We don't make an arrest at every show, because sometimes it's hard to prove where something was taken, but we do get lucky once in a while," Gorski said.
Small items, such as monitors with flat plasma screens and digital cameras, are commonly stolen at trade shows, he said.
But the goods aren't always small.
Calmes' light, known as the SX7K, was in a black case measuring about five feet by three feet. After the trade show closed, the light was held overnight on the convention center floor, and it was to be loaded onto a truck headed for Dallas the next day. He thinks a competitor stole it by having it loaded onto another truck.
The lighting industry is small, and Calmes has a few ideas as to where his light went.
"We think the light is still in Las Vegas," he said, adding that he'd think twice about showing equipment at the trade show again, especially if it's held at the convention center.
He is offering a $25,000 reward for the light and information leading to the arrest and conviction of the thieves.
Jennifer Arnold of Earth LCD in San Juan Capistrano, Calif., said she was a victim of theft while at the Comdex trade show last fall.
Earth LCD, a company that buys and resells used liquid crystal display screens, has gone to Comdex for the past nine years. The company never had a problem with theft at the convention until this year.
As do other exhibitors, Arnold kept her display booth up overnight on the convention floor. Comdex officials hired a local security company, Pro-Tect, to guard the corridors of the convention center, and exhibitors could arrange to have a Pro-Tect guard watch individual booths for $12 an hour.
Arnold didn't think it was necessary, since their display was small, a 10-foot by 10-foot booth, and their wares aren't cutting-edge.
But when she arrived at her company's display booth on the second day of the convention, she discovered that a laptop computer hidden between two boxes under a skirted table was missing.
"My reaction was disbelief," she said. "After that first night, we locked down everything. We bought a gigantic piece of plastic to cover our table. Nobody else was doing that, just us."
She reported it to a Comdex official, and Arnold said the official suggested that she file a false claim with the company that transported her display equipment to Las Vegas. A Pro-Tect official refused to take a theft report, Arnold said. She is tracking down serial numbers for the items. She said she tried to file a report with Metro Police but became frustrated after a few attempts and gave up, thinking there was nothing police could do.
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/08/thirty-four-years-voyager-2-continues-explore/
NASA SPACEFLIGHT.COM
Thirty-four years after launch, Voyager 2 continues to explore
August 20, 2011 by Chris Gebhardt and Jeff Goldader
Voyager 2 made its closest approach to Neptune – and its closest approach to any object planet other than Earth – on August 24, 1989 at 23:56.39 EDT.
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converted.html?iso=19890824T2355&p1=263&p2=0
timeanddate.com
The World Clock – Time Zone Converter – results
Washington DC (USA - District of Columbia) Thursday, August 24, 1989 at 11:55:00 PM EDT UTC-4 hours
UTC (Time Zone) Friday, August 25, 1989 at 3:55:00 AM UTC
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 1/6/2015 is 8697 days
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_John_Mason
Basil John Mason
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Basil John Mason, CB, FRS (18 August 1923 – 6 January 2015), better known as John Mason, was an expert on cloud physics
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11348538/Sir-John-Mason-meteorologist-obituary.html
The Telegraph
Sir John Mason, meteorologist - obituary
Expert on clouds who transformed the Met Office into a world centre for weather prediction
6:20PM GMT 15 Jan 2015
Sir John Mason, who has died aged 91, was an expert in the physics of clouds; as director-general of the Meteorological Office from 1965 to 1983, he transformed the institution into a world centre for global weather and climate prediction and research.
Basil John Mason was born at Docking, Norfolk, on August 18 1923 and educated at Fakenham Grammar School. After wartime service as a flight lieutenant in the Radar branch of the RAF, and after being awarded a First in Physics by the University of London, he was appointed lecturer in the postgraduate department of meteorology at Imperial College, London in 1948.
There he formed a research group to study the physical processes involved in the formation of clouds and the release of precipitation as rain, snow or hail. He also wrote a classic study The Physics of Clouds (1957), in which he provided a mathematical expression of the formation (due to condensation) or evaporation of water droplets in clouds — known as the Mason equation.
He published a second, updated and enlarged, edition of the book in 1971, and in 2010 the Oxford University Press published a reprint in its Oxford Classic Texts in the Physical Sciences series. In 1961 Mason was appointed the world’s first professor of cloud physics at Imperial.
When he moved to the Met Office at Bracknell in 1965, Mason took his Imperial research team with him and, in the early 1970s, proposed a quantitative theory to explain how electrical charges are generated in thunderclouds, showing how they create vertical electrical fields which, under certain conditions, become strong enough to break through air insulation and trigger and sustain lightning storms. For this research he received the Rumford Medal and the Bakerian lectureship of the Royal Society.
The background to Mason’s appointment to the Met Office was the announcement in 1961 by President Kennedy of an ambitious “Global Atmospheric Research Programme” to improve long-range weather forecasting through the use of advanced computational and satellite technology. At the time the British Met Office was largely employed in making routine observations, plotting and analysing them by hand and making short-range forecasts. Mason, with his distinguished record in scientific research and an outstanding reputation as a physicist, was seen as the right man to lead the office into the computer age.
He embarked on a major programme of modernising and equipping the Met Office with the most powerful computers available – a programme that involved major building works and a significant expansion of basic and applied research. By 1983 he had replaced the traditional empirical forecasting methods with objective numerical techniques and extended the reach of the Met Office’s weather monitoring and prediction operations across the globe.
His achievement was recognised in 1977 at a major exhibition at the Royal Society to mark the Queen’s Silver Jubilee, at which the advances made by the Met Office in numerical weather prediction featured as one of the 12 most important British contributions to science during her reign. The success of the programme was a major factor in the decision by the International Civil Aviation Organisation, in 1983, to nominate the Bracknell office as one of two world area forecasting centres (the other being in Washington) whose global forecasts it approved for use by civil airline operators.
After his retirement from the Met Office in 1983, Mason became director of an Acid Rain Research Project, involving some 300 scientists from institutes affiliated to the Royal Society or the National Academies of Norway and Sweden. Their report, published in 1990, confirmed that acid rain was caused mainly by emissions from coal-fired power stations and found that damage to hundreds of Scottish and Scandinavian lakes has exceeded earlier fears. The results, discussed at a week-long conference at the Royal Society attended by the three Prime Ministers, led the British government to implement measures which have seen levels of sulphur in the atmosphere drop 90 per cent compared with their peak level in the 1950s.
Mason was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1965, served as its treasurer and vice president from 1976 to 1986 and was awarded the Society’s Royal Medal in 1991. A Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society from 1948, he served as president of the society from 1968 to 1970, winning its Symons Gold Medal in 1975 and endowing its its Mason Gold Medal for outstanding contributions to the understanding of meteorological processes in 2006. He served as president of the Institute of Physics from 1976 to 1978, winning its Charles Chree Medal in 1965 and Glazebrook Medal in 1972. He was pro-chancellor of the University of Surrey from 1980 to 1985 and president (1986–94) and then chancellor of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology from 1994 to 1996.
John Mason was appointed CB in 1973 and knighted in 1979.
http://www.iop.org/news/member/page_65101.html
Institute of Physics
(Basil) John Mason (1923-2015)
18 February 2015
Sir John Mason, a renowned meteorologist and former president of the IOP, died on 6 January 2015 at the age of 91.
Born in Docking, Norfolk, on 18 August 1923, he attended Fakenham Grammar School and started at University College Nottingham, but his studies there were interrupted by the Second World War. He was commissioned into the RAF’s radar branch and served as a flight lieutenant, becoming chief instructor at the Fighter Command Radar School.
When the war ended he worked in telecommunications then resumed his studies at Nottingham, where he completed a University of London external degree and was awarded a first. He joined Imperial College in 1948 and was appointed lecturer in the postgraduate department of meteorology. There he formed a world-leading research group to study the physical processes of cloud formation and the release of precipitation, as well as the electrification of thunder storms.
He wrote the first monograph on The Physics of Clouds (1957), in which he presented a mathematical expression for the formation of clouds, known as the Mason Equation. Following a one-year visit as a research professor at the University of California, he was appointed the world’s first professor of cloud physics in 1961 and wrote a further publication, Clouds, Rain and Rainmaking, in 1962 which became the authoritative book on the subject.
In 1965 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society and received the IOP’s Charles Chree Medal, and in that year he moved to the Meteorological Office as director-general, taking his research group with him to form a new branch of the Meteorological Office. He continued his research, especially on charge generation in thunderstorms, for which he received the Bakerian Lectureship of the Royal Society in 1971 and its Rumford Medal in 1972.
Sir John modernised and equipped the Meteorological Office to become a leading world centre for climate prediction and research, using the most advanced mathematical models and the most powerful computers. He replaced traditional empirical forecasting with objective numerical techniques, at first covering only western Europe and the north Atlantic, then gradually extending to cover the whole of the Earth by the time of his retirement in 1983. For these achievements he was made a Companion of the Bath in 1973 and knighted in 1979.
Following his retirement he became director of the Acid Rain Research Project, which involved some 300 scientists from 30 institutes affiliated to the Royal Society or the National Academies of Norway and Sweden. The results, conclusions and recommendations for remedial action were discussed in a week-long conference at the Royal Society that was attended by three prime ministers.
His publications included Acid Rain and its Effects on Inland Waters (1992) and, as editor, Highlights in Environmental Research – Professorial Inaugural Lectures at Imperial College (2000). He also wrote a memoir, The Meteorological Office (1965-83), which is available on the Royal Meteorological Society website.
He received the IOP’s Glazebrook Medal in 1974 and served as the Institute’s president in 1976-78. He was also vice-president and treasurer of the Royal Society (1976-86), receiving its Royal Medal in 1991, president of what was then the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1983-84), and president of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) in 1986-94 and its Chancellor (1994-96).
He was also a fellow and later an honorary member of the Royal Meteorological Society (RMS) and was RMS president (1968-70), received its Symons Gold Medal (1975), and endowed its Mason Gold Medal for outstanding contributions to the understanding of meteorological processes in 2006.
Sir John held honorary doctorates from 12 universities, was pro-chancellor of the University of Surrey (1980-85), and opened the Mason Centre for Environmental Flows at the University of Manchester in 2004.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111282/releaseinfo
IMDb
Stargate (1994)
Release Info
USA 28 October 1994
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=106358
The American Presidency Project
Dwight D. Eisenhower
XXXIV President of the United States: 1953-1961
Executive Order 10695-A - Radio Frequencies
January 16, 1957
[confidential - not published]
http://www.tv.com/shows/battlestar-galactica/battlestar-galacticathe-mini-series-1603714/
tv.com
Battlestar Galactica Episode 1
Battlestar Galactica:The Mini-Series
AIRED: 12/8/03
http://www.tv.com/shows/cpo-sharkey/oh-captain-my-captain-141674/
tv.com
C.P.O. Sharkey Season 1 Episode 1
AIRED: 12/1/76
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/jan/05/guardianobituaries
theguardian
Hugh Richardson
Our last man in Lhasa, he brought unrivalled knowledge of Tibet to warnings of Chinese ambitions
Ed Douglas
Thursday 4 January 2001 20.26 EST Last modified on Thursday 7 January 2016 05.14 EST
On August 15 1947, the British mission to Lhasa pulled down the Union Jack and hoisted the Indian national flag as the new republic inherited the raj's diplomatic ties. At a stroke, Hugh Richardson, who has died aged 94, became Britain's last representative to an independent Tibet and the first from India. But while the mission continued seamlessly with the same staff, the world of central Asian politics was changing fast, something that Richardson, the finest Tibetan scholar of his era, pointed out in dispatches to both his British and Indian masters.
"We ignored Tibet," said India's prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, but the Chinese did not. If the new republic failed to understand the threat on its northern border, Richardson could see China coming. He left Tibet for good in 1950, a few months before the Chinese overran Lhasa. He was called "a vicious aggressor" by Chinese propagandists, though, in truth, few men were less vicious or aggressive.
In fact, Richardson's greatest threat to the Chinese was his objective observation of the labyrinthine world of Tibetan politics and his deep understanding of Tibetan culture. When he argued that Tibet had been an independent state before its occupation by the Chinese, he did so with immense authority.
An army officer's son, he was born at St Andrews, Fife. His elder brother, Frank, followed their father into the military, also as a doctor, while Hugh won a scholarship to Keble College, Oxford, to read greats, the subject chosen by his predecessors in Tibet, Sir Charles Bell and Sir Basil Gould, both great Tibetologists whom Richardson would eventually surpass.
After briefly teaching at his old school, Trinity College at Glenalmond, Richardson sat the Indian civil service exam. He learned to speak Bengali fluently, a skill that later helped him to befriend the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. His first posting, to Tamluk, in modern Bangla- desh, also drew on his Bengali skills, and from there he crossed the border from Sikkim into Tibet, travelling as far as Phari in 1933 with his Tibetan servant Pema.
But it was during his next posting, to Baluchistan, that Richardson's interest in Tibet blossomed. Left with almost nothing to do, he indulged his passion for gardening and got to know his colleague Basil Gould, the former agent in Sikkim who, in 1936, recruited Richardson as his protégé to join a new mission to Lhasa. The pretext was to mediate for the return from exile in China of the Panchen Lama, but Gould was determined to counter increasing Chinese influence by establishing a permanent British presence. This he achieved, leaving Richardson in charge when he left.
Richardson spent eight of the next 15 years in Tibet, from 1936 to 1940, when he returned to India for the remainder of the war, and from 1946 to 1950, latterly for the Indian government. He learned to speak Tibetan fluently, his accent described by the Tibetan politician Tsipon Shakabpa as "impeccable Lhasa Tibetan with a slight Oxford accent". He witnessed astonishing times in Lhasa, including the arrival of the 14th (and current) Dalai Lama in 1936, and the unwelcome expedition of 1939, led by Ernst Schaefer, which had been dispatched by Himmler to prove the Tibetans were a lost Aryan race.
Such intrusions did not, however, dispel the magic of the place. "A party at Lhasa," Richardson later recalled, "could last from 10 in the morning to 10 at night and could go on for two days." He made his own contributions to the fun, introducing golf - the thin air being useful for long drives - and soccer.
Although he missed the Dalai Lama's installation, Richardson kept in touch with the Tibetan leader after the war - through the Austrian mountaineers, Heinrich Harrer and Peter Aufschnaiter, when protocol prevented private interviews, and, after 1959, more personally during the Dalai Lama's continuing exile. He continued to lobby the United Nations to oppose the Chinese invasion and described himself "ashamed" when the British abstained.
After leaving Tibet, he returned to St Andrews, where he remained until his death, a cherished member of the Royal and Ancient. He began a second career as a scholar on Tibetan culture and politics, and wrote prodigiously, co-authoring a cultural history of the country with David Snellgrove and writing papers and monographs, expertly collected by the Himalayan scholar Michael Aris in 1998 as High Peaks, Pure Earth. Subjects range from the origins of the Tibetan state to early Tibetan law on dog bites, something anyone who has travelled in Tibet will appreciate.
Richardson's work, encapsulated in this book, fills important gaps in the historical record, as well as bearing witness to a culture that has been systematically dest- royed over the last 50 years. At the time of his memorial service in St Andrews, monks lit butter lamps in the Jokhang in Lhasa, and the Dalai Lama sent a personal message praising Richardson as "an honorary Tibetan".
In 1951, Richardson married Huldah Rennie, whose first husband had been killed during the war, and became stepfather to her children, David and Elizabeth. She predeceased him in 1995.
Hugh Edward Richardson, diplomat and author, born December 22 1905; died December 3 2000
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079945/releaseinfo
IMDb
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
Release Info
USA 6 December 1979 (Washington, D.C.) (premiere)
http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie1.html
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
[Surface of Vulcan]
FEMALE MASTER: (in Vulcan) Our ancestors cast out their animal passions on these very sands, ...saving our race through the attainment of Kolinahr.
MALE MASTER: (in Vulcan) Kolinahr, through which all emotion is renounced and shed.
FEMALE MASTER: (in Vulcan) You have laboured for many seasons, Spock
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 01/22/08 7:45 PM
From 5/1/1967 ( my first flight by myself as jet pilot ) to 10/28/1994 ( premiere US movie "Stargate" ) is: 10042 days
10042 = 5021 + 5021
From 7/16/1963 ( my wife ) to 4/14/1977 ( I return to Earth after I successfully diverted the comet in the outer solar system ) is: 5021 days
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111282/
Stargate (1994)
Release Date: 28 October 1994 (USA)
Kurt Russell ... Col. Jonathan 'Jack' O'Neil
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 01/22/08 7:51 PM
I love you, Tammy.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 22 January 2008 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 01/23/08 11:26 PM
I think it was last night that I had a clear dream where I was looking at a wound on my skin that I think is related to what I was writing about cover story for bullet wounds. It was as though I heard someone saying something to me about what the wound was, or at least, what I had said the wound was. As in other dreams, I never know where is that person that is saying something to me in the dream and I don't think it is always the same person.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 01/23/08 11:40 PM
I think I am hearing comments from Phoebe and I find that thought delightful.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 23 January 2008 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 02/21/08 4:03 AM
I had a dream the other night where I heard someone that I could not see make a comment that I would make a good CAG.
I was on an aircraft carrier and I did not recognize any of the surrounding, as I pondered over the dream after waking up.
I do remember something about the USS Carl Vinson CVN-70, as I remember seeing those words on a cap someone was wearing, but something was wrong about that. The hull number might have been wrong on the cap or something else was wrong about those details in the dream.
In the dream, I told the Captain of the aircraft carrier that I had two A-6 Intruders holding near a ship that had navigated close to us and the Captain told me to bring them back. I can still almost hear the engine noises of those jets and I am not certain if maybe it is a noise I heard while in one of those jets during an experience relevant to the details in that dream.
I am not certain when I had that dream. A few days ago I guess. There were other details that I pondered over after waking up but that I do not remember now.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 02/21/08 4:10 AM
At the point in the dream after the Captain told me to recall the Intruders was when I heard the comment, as though from some external source to my sleeping mind, that I would make a good CAG.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 21 February 2008 excerpt ends]
https://mix.msfc.nasa.gov/IMAGES/MEDIUM/9255001.jpg
1991 film "Flight of the Intruder" DVD video:
00:09:07
US Navy Commander Frank "Dooke" Camparelli - USS Independence CV 62 air squadron commander: I don't like the targets, either. I hate them. But... I don't want any blood feuds going on.
1991 film "Flight of the Intruder" DVD video:
00:13:03
USS Independence CV 62 Commander Air Group: Uh, somebody close that door back there, will you?
http://www.navysite.de/cvn/cvn70deploy.htm
navysite.de
Deployments of USS CARL VINSON:
Date of Departure
February 17, 1994
Date of Return
August 17, 1994
Squadrons (Aircraft)
VA-196 (A-6E and KA-6D)
Area of Operations
Western Pacific
Indian Ocean
Arabian Gulf
Operations/Exercises
Operation Southern Watch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Southern_Watch
Operation Southern Watch
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Operation Southern Watch was a military operation conducted by the United States Department of Defense. United States Central Command's Joint Task Force Southwest Asia (JTF-SWA) had the mission of monitoring and controlling the airspace south of the 32nd Parallel (extended to the 33rd Parallel in 1996) in Iraq, following the 1991 Gulf War
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=flight-of-the-intruder
Springfield! Springfield!
Flight Of The Intruder (1991)
250... 200.
Things are coming alive.
Yeah, we got restart.
Yeah, you beautiful, wonderful
little aerodynamic wonder, you.
Yeah!
Whoo!
http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie8.html
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
[Montana settlement]
(the T'plana-Hath lands and the Vulcans begin to emerge)
COCHRANE: [ My God! ] They're really from another world.
RIKER: And they're going to want to meet the man who flew that warp ship.
http://www.tv.com/shows/12-monkeys/year-of-the-monkey-3367430/
tv.com
12 Monkeys Season 2 Episode 1
Year of the Monkey
Aired Friday 9:00 PM Apr 18, 2016 on Syfy
AIRED: 4/18/16
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=12-monkeys-2015&episode=s02e01
Springfield! Springfield!
12 Monkeys
Year of the Monkey
[laughing] So who's next?
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5417245/bio
IMDb
John Mason
Biography
Date of Birth 18 August 1923, Docking, Norfolk, England, UK
Date of Death 6 January 2015, England, UK
Birth Name Basil John Mason
http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie3.html
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)
KRUGE: (in Klingonese) I wanted prisoners!
KLINGON GUNNER #1: (in Klingonese) A lucky shot, sir.
(Kruge vaporises the gunner)
KRUGE: (in Klingonese) Animal!
TORG: Sir, may I suggest.
KRUGE: Say the wrong thing, Torg...
TORG: There are life signs on the planet. Perhaps the very scientists you seek.
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 8:58 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Wednesday 20 April 2016
