See, that couldn't be right.
The day 24 March 1990 was a Saturday.
I guess I wrote this, probably or possibly in May 2006, while under the psychiatrist dope the Seattle Veteran's Affairs had me on for all those months back then.
Or some other reason. My memory now is based on some kind of context that I think is clouding my accurate memory of the past.
Still not really sure what it means.
However, a closer examination today of the records the United States National Archives sent me three years ago accurately explains where I got that date from.
And that is consistent with what I remember writing other times.
So that would mean my first day was actually the 26th.
I might have tried to clarify that detail here somewhere in the massive volume of this blog but I cannot recall if I worked on clearing up this detail before now because I do know I caught that discrepancy a long time ago when I noted that 23 March 1990 was Friday and the 24th was Saturday and that made no sense. I'm very confident the day I drove up there to Greenville the first time and met with Dan Benbow, formerly of Broken Bow Oklahoma, was Thursday the 22rd. Friday the 23rd would have been my final day and I cannot recall the uniform I was wearing but I clearly recall driving over that overpass leaving the base in my rental car and I flung my uniform white hat out the window as I crossed over the overpass.
http://www.space.com/33834-discovery-of-planet-proxima-b.html
SPACE.COM
Found! Potentially Earth-Like Planet at Proxima Centauri Is Closest Ever
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer August 24, 2016 01:01pm ET
"The conclusion: We have found a planet around Proxima Centauri," Anglada-Escude said Tuesday (Aug. 23) during a news conference. [The Search for Another Earth (Video)]
How did Proxima b remain undetected for so long, in an era when astronomers are finding exoplanets thousands of light-years from Earth?
"The uneven and sparse sampling, combined with the longer term variability of the star, seem to be the reasons why the signal could not be unambiguously confirmed with pre-2016 data, rather than the total amount of data accumulated," the researchers wrote in the new study, which was published online today (Aug. 24) in the journal Nature.
The news confirms rumors first reported earlier this month by German magazine Der Spiegel.
http://www.tv.com/shows/halt-and-catch-fire/valley-of-the-hearts-delight-3406701/
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Halt and Catch Fire Season 3 Episode 1
Valley of the Heart's Delight
Aired Sunday 10:00 PM Aug 23, 2016 on AMC
AIRED: 8/23/16
http://www.tv.com/shows/halt-and-catch-fire/one-way-or-another-3406702/
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Halt and Catch Fire Season 3 Episode 2
One Way or Another
Aired Sunday 10:00 PM Aug 23, 2016 on AMC
AIRED: 8/23/16
http://transcripts.foreverdreaming.org/viewtopic.php?f=176&t=28355&sid=62dd033b822a3fc6e8ce21a7ea1a5836
F.D. » Transcripts » G-H » Halt and Catch Fire
03x02 - One Way or Another
Walking the floor, not really working, wearing a tie. You looking to become management? What? No, no. I got another bullshit deposition today. Going in tomorrow, too. MacMillan lawsuit? Yep. That's three already this month. Dogget: Is that intimidating? Getting grilled with Joe MacMillan staring at you with those eyes of his? No, he's not there. It's just me and the lawyers. More boring than brutal. You know, they ask you the same stupid questions over and over, hoping you'll slip up. Give anything if it was to be over so I can collect the damn check already. That'd be sweet. Better brush the nacho dust off your tie first.
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 2006
AND, March 24, 1990, is that date I remember writing about earlier. It was when I got out of the Navy and went to work for Kettermans in Greenville. The 24th was my first day at work.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 2006 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 4/25/07 11:36 AM
Since I remember in my artificial and symbolic memories that Jim Shea's girlfriend Julie drove me home from the hospital, does that mean Julia Roberts drove me home from the hospital after I returned from Africa in 1987?
I feel that is when Julia Roberts and I met and we started dating.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 25 April 2007 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: 03/12/07 2:38 PM
I wonder why I "remember" Jim Shea giving me a copy of this CD for my birthday. I'm not really sure when that was; 1990 maybe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Final_Cut_%28album%29
The Final Cut is a rock album by Pink Floyd recorded at several studios in the UK from July to December 1982. It is the final Pink Floyd studio album to feature Roger Waters. None of the songs have ever been performed live by the band, though some have been performed live by Waters during solo tours. The album is dominantly Roger Waters (similar to The Wall, but even more so). Waters' dominance on the album is most clearly seen on the back cover, which reads "The Final Cut by Roger Waters, performed by Pink Floyd".
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 12 March 2007 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: - posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 03:39 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Tuesday 15 September 2015 - http://hvom.blogspot.com/2015/09/chief-dod.html
Chief D.O.D.
Well, as I try to shrug off, as I have said before years ago, the effects of false memory, I think again about the context of memory I have written of before.
I write now about this day because the occurrence caught my eye as I scan through my journal.
I found myself feeling disappointed because the dates do not match precisely.
I write about the 24th and I sit here now disappointed I was not writing about the 23rd.
But then I look at the calendar and I wonder.
I wonder about that day the 24th which the calendar tells me is a Saturday.
What that made me think about was the first time I can recall getting a service call for that bank that contracted the company Jim Shea and I were employed.
I remember that all very well.
I can recall the first time we were called out.
Actually, Jim was called out. But he wanted me to go out there with him. I remember that.
So I reluctantly went out there with him.
I remember that so well.
Looking at the calendar, the 24th of March 1990 was a Saturday.
So there are couple reasons I think my notes are wrong.
For one reason, the 24th is a Saturday.
I am sitting here now thinking that Jim Shea was called out first on a Sunday.
So that could have been the 25th.
But I'm not sure about that.
I wrote about how my first day at work was the 24th, which is probably an incorrect detail, but a detail that is probably close to the truth. Possibly my first day was the 26th, which the calendar tells me was Monday. I feel this is more likely because my first day could have been Monday.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 15 September 2015 excerpt ends]
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http://www.startrek.com/database_article/allegiance
STAR TREK
Allegiance
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season: 3 Ep. 18
Air Date: 03/26/1990
http://www.tv.com/shows/star-trek-the-next-generation/allegiance-23194/
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Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 3 Episode 18
Allegiance
Aired Unknown Mar 26, 1990 on CBS
Stardate: 43714.1 Picard is secretly abducted and switched with an alien double. The crews' suspicions are raised when he starts exhibiting unusual behaviour. Meanwhile the real Picard must deal with three other prisoners in a series of bizarre tests.
AIRED: 3/26/90
http://www.chakoteya.net/NextGen/166.htm
Allegiance [ Star Trek: The Next Generation ]
Stardate: 43714.1
Original Airdate: 26 Mar, 1990
[ Opening scenes ]
Captain's log, Stardate 43714.1. We have finally succeeded in eradicating the Phyrox plague on Cor Caroli Five, and will soon be preparing to leave orbit and proceed to our next mission. A rendezvous with the USS Hood to assist their terraforming efforts on Browder Four.
[Picard's quarters]
(Picard is relaxing on a comfortable lounger. He puts his book down, closes his eyes, and we see a slab hovering over him. It scans him, then he disappears in a twinkle of lights)
[Bridge]
DATA: Commander, ship's sensors detect an abnormal energy reading in the Captain's quarters.
RIKER: Type?
DATA: Undetermined.
RIKER: Riker to Captain Picard.
WORF: Security team to Captain's quarters.
[Holding cell]
(Picard wakes up in a hexagonal room with a thing in the middle. There are a total of four beds, two more of which are occupied)
PICARD: Picard to Enterprise. Anyone receiving this transmission, please respond.
[Outside Picard's quarters]
WORF: Security override. Priority one.
(The door opens to reveal - Picard holding his book and a glass of brandy)
PICARD 2: Is something the matter, Lieutenant?
[Holding cell]
(One of the other bed occupants is also in a Starfleet engineering uniform. she is a green-tinged alien)
PICARD: It's all right, it's al right. I'm not going to hurt you.
HARO: Captain.
PICARD: Picard, of the Enterprise.
HARO: Captain Picard. We studied your missions at the Academy Mitena Haro, first year cadet, Starfleet Academy.
PICARD: Cadet Haro.
THOLL: Perhaps you can explain what this is all about.
(A tall, white-skinned alien wearing a hood)
PICARD: Unfortunately, I can't, Mister
THOLL: Tholl. Kova Tholl, of Mizar Two.
PICARD: Well, Mister Tholl, all I know is that I've been brought here against my will. Wherever here is.
HARO: The same thing happened to me, sir. I was alone, studying and I fainted. When I came to, it was about three days ago.
PICARD: And you, sir?
THOLL: I've been here twelve days, possibly more. I had been meditating privately and for no reason whatever, I lost consciousness.
PICARD: What can you tell me about our captors?
THOLL: Nothing. They've never shown themselves.
PICARD: Four sleeping areas. That implies we may be joined by another captive.
(He goes to the central thing, which dispenses red roundels)
THOLL: It's edible, but I wouldn't call it food.
(Picard takes a tentative bite and puts it down, then goes to the panel by the door)
THOLL: I wouldn't touch that.
PICARD: Why not?
THOLL: If it's the door lock, the combination's too complex to hit at random. I tried it and was punished.
PICARD: Punished? How?
THOLL: Severe pain. Some sort of energy beam. I won't get near that panel again.
[Bridge]
WORF: Sir, the Hood has arrived at the rendezvous point. They are expecting us in thirty six hours.
PICARD 2: Thank you, Lieutenant. Mister Data, the nearest pulsar is in the Lonka cluster, is it not?
DATA: Correct, sir.
PICARD 2: What do we know about that pulsar?
DATA: A great deal, sir. It is a rotating neutron star of approximately four point three five six solar masses.
PICARD 2: Mister Crusher, how long would it take us to get there?
WESLEY: At warp seven, thirty four minutes.
PICARD 2: Mister Crusher make it so.
WESLEY: Sir?
PICARD 2: Set course for the Lonka pulsar. Warp two.
WESLEY: Aye, sir. Sir, at warp two we'll arrive at the pulsar in thirty one hours.
PICARD 2: Thank you, Ensign. Engage.
WESLEY: Aye, sir.
RIKER: Will we be delaying our rendezvous with the Hood, sir?
PICARD 2: We may have to, Number One.
RIKER: Lieutenant, contact the Hood and inform them of our delay.
WORF: Aye, Commander.
PICARD 2: Belay that order. There will be no further communication off this ship without my prior authorisation. Commander, may I have a word with you? Mister Data, you have the bridge.
DATA: Aye, sir.
[Ready room]
PICARD 2: Number One, you know I like to keep you well informed as to the nature of our missions.
RIKER: Yes, sir.
PICARD 2: And if I don't inform you there is a reason. I don't like keeping you in the dark, but for the next few days I may not be able to be as communicative as usual. It may make things difficult for you.
RIKER: Don't worry about me, sir. I can handle it.
PICARD 2: And the crew?
RIKER: You can count on all of us, sir.
PICARD 2: I appreciate that, Number One.
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Divergent (2014)
Quotes
Four: My name's Four.
Christina: Four, like the number?
Four: Exactly, like the number.
Christina: What happened, one through three were taken?
Four: What's your name?
Christina: Christina.
Four: The first lesson you learn from me, if you wanna survive here, is keep your mouth shut. Do you understand me?
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
http://www.chakoteya.net/StarTrek/31.htm
Metamorphosis [ Star Trek: The Original Series ]
Stardate: Unknown
Original Airdate: Nov 10, 1967
KIRK: Mister Cochrane, do you have a first name?
COCHRANE: Zefram.
KIRK: Zefram Cochrane of Alpha Centuri, the discoverer of the space warp?
COCHRANE: That's right, Captain.
MCCOY: But that's impossible. Zefram Cochrane died a hundred and fifty years ago.
SPOCK: The name of Zefram Cochrane is revered throughout the known galaxy. Planets were named after him. Great universities, cities.
KIRK: Isn't your story a little improbable, Mister Cochrane?
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/29/arts/joseph-brodsky-exiled-poet-who-won-nobel-dies-at-55.html?scp=5&sq=joseph+brodsky&st=nyt
The New York Times
Joseph Brodsky, Exiled Poet Who Won Nobel, Dies at 55
By ROBERT D. McFADDEN
Published: January 29, 1996
Joseph Brodsky, the persecuted Russian poet who settled in the United States in the early 1970's, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987 and became his adopted country's poet laureate, died yesterday at his apartment in Brooklyn Heights. He was 55.
The cause was believed to be a heart attack, said Roger Straus, Mr. Brodsky's friend and publisher. Mr. Brodsky had open-heart surgery in 1979 and later had two bypass operations, and had been in frail health for many years.
The poetry of Joseph Brodsky, with its haunting images of wandering and loss and the human search for freedom, was not political, and certainly not the work of an anarchist or even of an active dissident. If anything, his was a dissent of the spirit, protesting the drabness of life in the Soviet Union and its pervasive materialist dogmas.
But in a land of poets where poetry and other literature was officially subservient to the state, where verses were marshaled like so many laborers to the quarries of Socialist Realism, it was perhaps inevitable that Mr. Brodsky's wark -- unpublished except in underground forums, but increasingly popular -- should have run afoul of the literary police.
He was first denounced in 1963 by a Leningrad newspaper, which called his poetry "pornographic and anti-Soviet." He was interrogated, his papers were seized, and he was twice put in a mental institution. Finally he was arrested and brought to trial.
Unable to fault him on his poetry's content, the authorities indicted him in 1964 on a charge of "parasitism." They called him "a pseudo-poet in velveteen trousers" who failed to fulfill his "constitutional duty to work honestly for the good of the motherland."
The trial was held in secret, though a transcript was smuggled out and became a cause celebre in the West, which was suddenly aware of a new symbol of artistic dissent in a totalitarian society. Mr. Brodsky was found guilty and sentenced to five years in an Arctic labor camp.
But amid protests from writers at home and abroad, the Soviet authorities commuted his sentence after 18 months, and he returned to his native Leningrad. Over the next seven years he continued to write, with many of his works translated into German, French and English and published abroad, and his stature and popularity continued to grow, particularly in the West.
But he was increasingly harassed, for being Jewish as well as for his poetry. He was denied permission to travel abroad to writers' conferences. Finally, in 1972, he was issued a visa, taken to the airport and expelled. He left his parents behind.
With the help of W. H. Auden, who befriended him, he settled in Ann Arbor, Mich., where he became a poet-in-residence at the University of Michigan. He later moved to New York, teaching at Queens College, Mount Holyoke College and other schools. He traveled widely, though never back to his homeland, even after the collapse of the Soviet Government. He became a United States citizen in 1977.
Meanwhile, his poems, plays, essays and criticisms appeared in many forums, including The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books and other magazines. They were anthologized in books in a growing canon that garnered the 1981 MacArthur Award, the 1986 National Book Critics Circle Award, an honorary doctorate of literature from Oxford University and, in 1987, the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The Swedish Academy, which awards the prestigious prize, said he had been honored for the body of his work and "for all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity." It also called his writing "rich and intensely vital," characterized by "great breadth in time and space."
In 1991, the United States added to his honors, naming him poet laureate. The rumpled, chain-smoking Mr. Brodsky had for 15 years been the Andrew Mellon Professor of Literature at Mount Holyoke College, in South Hadley, Mass., and had been scheduled to return there today to begin the spring semester.
Joseph Ellis, a former faculty dean who brought Mr. Brodsky to the college in the early 1980's, recalled yesterday how his friend often was seen speeding around the campus in an old Mercedes. He would interrupt conversations with students and colleagues to jot down notes on bits of paper he carried in his pocket. "He thought out loud in front of his students in a way that was inspirational," Mr. Ellis said.
Mr. Brodsky, who wrote in English as well as in Russian, though his poems were composed in Russian and self-translated, was a disciple of the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, whom he called "the keening muse." He was also strongly influenced by the English poet John Donne, as well as Mr. Auden, who died in 1973. One volume of Mr. Brodsky's poetry, "Elegy to John Donne and Other Poems," was published in London in 1967. His "Selected Poems" had a foreword by Mr. Auden.
But Mr. Brodsky was best known for three books published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux: a volume of poetry called "A Part of Speech" (1977); a book of essays, "Less Than One" (1986), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and a book of poems, "To Urania" (1988). Other recent works include a play in three acts called "Marbles" (Noonday Press, 1989) and a book of prose, "Watermark" (Farrar, Straus, 1992).
Mr. Straus remembered Mr. Brodsky as "very warm, very caring, very willing to give his friendship," especially to young writers and other exiles, some of whom he championed selflessly.
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/29/arts/joseph-brodsky-exiled-poet-who-won-nobel-dies-at-55.html?scp=5&sq=joseph%20brodsky&st=nyt&pagewanted=2
The New York Times
Joseph Brodsky, Exiled Poet Who Won Nobel, Dies at 55
Published: January 29, 1996
(Page 2 of 2)
Robert Silvers, co-editor of The New York Review of Books, also spoke in glowing terms of Mr. Brodsky and his work. "It was astonishing that a Russian poet should have emerged as also one of the most powerful writers in the English language in just these years of exile," he said.
In Russia, Yevgeny Kiselyov, host of the weekly news program Itogi, told the nation's te'evision viewers: "He was the only Russian poet who enjoyed the right to be called 'great' in his lifetime."
It was also reported in Moscow that Gleb Uspensky, a senior editor and co-publisher of the Russian publishing house Vagrius, had met Mr. Brodsky in New York last fall and asked him to return to Russia for a tour as part of a deal to republish some of his works in Russian. Mr. Uspensky was quoted as saying that Mr. Brodsky seemed interested, but was torn by the prospect and did not agree.
Joseph Aleksandrovich Brodsky -- whose first name is sometimes given as Josip or Iosif -- was born in Leningrad on May 24, 1940, to Joseph Aleksandrovich Brodsky, a commercial photographer, whose status as a Jew kept him often out of work, and Maria M. Volpert Brodsky, who was linguistically gifted and often supported the family.
The redheaded boy spent his early years living in a communal apartment shared with other families. His parents gave him a Russified, assimilated upbringing, and he himself made little of his religious lineage, but as he later recalled, his teachers were anti-Semitic and treated him negatively.
However, he was something of a spiritual dissenter, even as a boy. "I began to despise Lenin, even when I was in the first grade, not so much because of his political philosophy or practice . . . but because of his omnipresent images," he recalled.
He quit school at the age of 15 and began working in what proved to be a series of jobs, including laborer, metal worker and hospital morgue attendant. Literature provided an alternative to the drabness of his life. He learned Polish so he could translate the works of Polish poets like Czeslaw Milosz, and English so he could translate Donne.
Beginning in 1955, he began to write poems, many of which appeared on mimeographed sheets, known as samizdat, and were circulated among friends. Others were published by a fringe group of young writers and artists in the underground journal Sintaksis.
He began joining street-corner recitations, rendering his poems in a voice that was soft yet dramatic, reflecting the weariness and vibrancy in his verses. "He recited as if in a trance," one friend recalled. "His verbal and musical intensity had a magical effect." As his popularity began to grow, he a'so made enemies among older, more entrenched Leningrad writers.
In 1963, after a Leningrad newspaper denounced the 23-year-old poet as "a drone" and "a literary parasite," harassments began in a pattern that seemed to confirm that they had official backing. These led to a trial that began in February 1964. A transcript sent to the West contained this colloquy:
Judge: What is your profession?
Brodsky: Translator and poet.
Judge: Who has recognized you as a poet? Who has enrolled you in the ranks of poets?
Brodsky: No one. Who enrolled me in the ranks of the human race?
Found guilty and given a sentence of five years, Mr. Brodsky was sent to a labor camp near Arkhangelsk, where he chopped wood, hauled manure and crushed rocks for 18 months. At night, in his bunk, he read an anthology of English and American poetry.
After his release and return to Leningrad, the harassment resumed, but so did his work, and some of it began appearing in the West. "Verses and Poems" was published by the Inter-Language Literary Associates in Washington in 1965, "Elegy to John Donne and Other Poems" was published in London in 1967 by Longmans Green, and "A Stop in the Desert" was issued in 1970 by Chekhov Publishing in New York.
Despite his growing stature, however, he was denied permission to attend writers' conferences abroad. In 1971, he received two invitations to immigrate to Israel. In May 1972, he was summoned to the Ministry of the Interior and asked why he had not accepted. He said he had no wish to leave his country.
Within 10 days, authorities invaded his apartment, seized his papers, took him to the airport and put him on a plane for Vienna. In Austria, he met Mr. Auden, who arranged for his transit to the United States. After a year at Michigan as poet-in-residence, he taught at Queens College (1973-74), returned to the University of Michigan (1974-80) and then accepted a chair at Mount Holyoke.
Mr. Straus recalled that he was with Mr. Brodsky in London when they learned about the Nobel Prize. "He was overjoyed," Mr. Straus recalled. "It was fairly amazing that Joseph should win at that young age." But publicly, Mr. Brodsky made light of it. "A big step for me, a small step for mankind," he joked.
In naming him United States poet laureate in 1991, James Billington, the Librarian of Congress, said Mr. Brodsky "has the open-ended interest of American life that immigrants have. This is a reminder that so much of American creativity is from people not born in America."
Mr. Brodsky is survived by his wife, Maria, and his daughter, Anna, who were with him when he died.
A Poet in His Own Words
Everything has its limit, including sorrow.
A windowpane stalls a stare. Nor does a grill abandon
a leaf. One may rattle the keys, gurgle down a swallow.
Loneliness cubes a man at random.
A camel sniffs at the rail with a resentful nostril;
a perspective cuts emptiness deep and even.
And what is space anyway if not the
body's absence at every given
point? That's why Urania's older than sister Clio!
In daylight or with the soot-rich lantern,
you see the globe's pate free of any bio,
you see she hides nothing, unlike the latter.
-- From the title poem of the collection "To Urania"
Darling, you think it's love, it's just a midnight journey.
Best are the dales and rivers removed by force,
as from the next compartment throttles "Oh, stop it, Bernie,"
yet the rhythm of those paroxysms is exactly yours.
Hook to the meat! Brush to the red-brick dentures,
alias cigars, smokeless like a driven nail!
Here the works are fewer than monkey wrenches,
and the phones are whining, dwarfed by to-no-avail.
Bark, then, with joy at Clancy, Fitzgibbon, Miller.
Dogs and block letters care how misfortune spells.
Still, you can tell yourself in the john by the spat-at mirror,
slamming the flush and emerging with clean lapels.
-- From "Seaward," in the collection "To Urania"
Citizen, enemy, mama's boy, sucker, utter
garbage, panhandler, swine, refujew, verrucht;
a scalp so often scalded with boiling water
that the puny brain feels completely cooked.
Yes, we have dwelt here: in this concrete, brick, wooden
rubble which you now arrive to sift.
All our wires were crossed, barbed, tangled, or interwoven.
Also: we didn't love our women, but they conceived.
Sharp is the sound of the pickax that hurts dead iron;
still, it's gentler than what we've been told or have said to ourselves.
-- From "Letter to an Archeologist," in the collection "To Urania"
So long had life together been that now
the second of January fell again
on Tuesday, making her astonished 'row
lift like a windshield wiper in the rain,
so that her misty sadness cleared, and showed
a cloudless distance waiting up the road.
-- From "Six Years Later," in the collection "A Part of Speech"
I was born and grew up in the Baltic marshland
by zinc-gray breakers that always marched on
in twos. Hence all rhymes, hence that wan flat voice
that ripples between them like hair still moist,
if it ripples at all. Propped on a pallid elbow,
the helix picks out of them no sea rumble
but a clap of canvas, of shutters, of hands, a kettle
on the burner, bo'ling -- lastly the seagull's metal
cry. What keeps hearts from falseness in this flat region
is that there is nowhere to hide and plenty of room for vision.
Only sound needs echo and dread its lack.
A glance is accustomed to glance back.
-- From the title poem in the collection "A Part of Speech"
For some odd reason, the expression "death of a poet" always sounds somewhat more concrete than "life of a poet." Perhaps this is because both "life" and "poet," as words, are almost synonymous in their positive vagueness. Whereas "death" -- even as a word -- is about as definite as a poet's own production, i.e., a poem, the main feature of which is its last line. Whatever a work of art consists of, it runs to the finale which makes for its form and denies resurrection. After the last line of a poem nothing follows except literary criticism. So when we read a poet, we participate in his or his works' death. In the case of Mandelstam, we participate in both.
-- From "The Child of Civilization," in "Less Than One: Selected Essays"
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Dimitri Moisevitch: You like being a teacher?
Dr. Heywood Floyd: I don't think I like you.
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1987/brodsky-facts.html
Nobelprize.org
The Official Web Site of the Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1987
Joseph Brodsky
Joseph Brodsky
Born: 24 May 1940, Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), USSR (now Russia)
Died: 28 January 1996, New York, NY, USA
Residence at the time of the award: USA
Prize motivation: "for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity"
Field: poetry
Language: English (prose) and Russian (poetry)
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Dimitri Moisevitch: You were responsible for the Discovery mission. It was a failure. Someone had to be blamed, so it was you.
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The Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, ordered the establishment of the team on April 24, 1946.
1984 film "2010" DVD video:
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Dimitri Moisevitch: Neatness! It's a good quality. You'll make someone a fine wife! You are Dr. Heywood Floyd?
Dr. Heywood Floyd: Who the hell are you?
Dimitri Moisevitch: I'm Moisevitch. I'm here to talk to you about your problem.
Dr. Heywood Floyd: Really? What problem's that?
Dimitri Moisevitch: You were chairman of the National Council on Astronautics. Now you are a schoolteacher. This was by your own choice?
Dr. Heywood Floyd: Chancellor of the university. It pays better.
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Niklaus Emil Wirth
SWISS COMPUTER SCIENTIST
WRITTEN BY:
William L. Hosch
Niklaus Emil Wirth, (born Feb. 15, 1934, Winterthur, Switz.) Swiss computer scientist and winner of the 1984 A.M. Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science, for “developing a sequence of innovative computer languages, EULER, ALGOL-W, MODULA and PASCAL.”
Wirth earned a bachelor’s degree (1959) in electronics engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), a master’s degree (1960) in electronics engineering from Laval University, in Quebec city, and a doctorate (1963) in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.
After leaving Berkeley, Wirth held a professorship in the newly created computer science department at Stanford University (1963–67) before returning to Switzerland. Following a short stay at the University of Zürich, in 1968 Wirth accepted a professorship in informatics at ETH, where he tried for years to establish an independent computer science department before succeeding in 1981. Except for a two-year sabbatical at Xerox PARC (1976–77), a research facility in California, Wirth remained at ETH until his retirement in 1999.
In addition to his development of important computer programming languages, especially PASCAL, Wirth led the design and development of the Lilith and Oberon operating systems at ETH. Inspiration for these systems came from his sabbatical at Xerox PARC, where he had used an experimental workstation computer that included a personal monitor and a computer mouse.
Wirth wrote more than a dozen books on computer science. Among his more noteworthy titles are Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs (1975), Algorithms & Data Structures (1986), Digital Circuit Design (1995), and Compiler Construction (1996).
In addition to the Turing Award, Wirth received an IEEE Computer Pioneer Award (1988) and an IBM Europe Science and Technology Prize (1988). He was elected to the Swiss Academy of Engineering (1992) and the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (1994).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086837/releaseinfo
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2010 (1984)
Release Info
USA 7 December 1984
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2010 (1984)
Full Cast & Crew
Roy Scheider ... Dr. Heywood Floyd
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Stargate (1994)
Release Info
USA 28 October 1994
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1996/zinkernagel-facts.html
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The Official Web Site of the Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1996
Peter C. Doherty, Rolf M. Zinkernagel
Rolf M. Zinkernagel
Born: 6 January 1944, Basel, Switzerland
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Zurich, Institute of Experimental Immunology, Zurich, Switzerland
Prize motivation: "for their discoveries concerning the specificity of the cell mediated immune defence"
Field: immunity
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Stargate: The Movie (1994)
DANIEL
I was dead?
[Ra looks directly at him at this point.]
RA
That is why I chose your race...your bodies...so easy to repair.
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Joe: Cynthia!
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SPACE.COM
Found! Potentially Earth-Like Planet at Proxima Centauri Is Closest Ever
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer August 24, 2016 01:01pm ET
The star closest to the sun hosts a planet that may be very much like Earth, a new study reports.
Astronomers have discovered a roughly Earth-size alien world around Proxima Centauri, which lies just 4.2 light-years from our own solar system. What's even more exciting, study team members said, is that the planet, known as Proxima b, circles in the star's "habitable zone" — the range of distances at which liquid water could be stable on a world's surface.
"We hope these findings inspire future generations to keep looking beyond the stars," lead author Guillem Anglada-Escude, a physics and astronomy lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, said in a statement."The search for life on Proxima b comes next." [In Pictures: The Discovery of Planet Proxima b]
A long search
The discovery of Proxima b was a long time in the making.
Astronomers have been hunting intensively for planets around Proxima Centauri for more 15 years, using instruments such as the Ultraviolet and Visual Echelle Spectrograph (UVES) and the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS), both of which are installed on telescopes run by the European Southern Observatory in Chile.
UVES, HARPS and other instruments like them allow researchers to detect the slight wobbles in a star's movement caused by the gravitational tugs of orbiting planets.
Astronomers found hints of such a wobble back in 2013, but the signal was not convincing, Anglada-Escude said. So he and a number of other researchers launched a campaign to ferret out the planet. They called this effort the Pale Red Dot — a nod to Carl Sagan's famous description of Earth as a "pale blue dot," and the fact that Proxima Centauri is a small, dim star known as a red dwarf.
The Pale Red Dot team focused HARPS on Proxima Centauri every night from Jan. 19, 2016, through March 31 of this year. After they combined this new data with UVES observations from 2000 through 2008 and HARPS observations from 2005 through early 2014, the signal of a possible planet came through loud and clear.
Then, after analyzing observations of the star's brightness made by several other telescopes, Anglada-Escude and his colleagues ruled out the possibility that this signal could be caused by the variable activity of Proxima Centauri.
"The conclusion: We have found a planet around Proxima Centauri," Anglada-Escude said Tuesday (Aug. 23) during a news conference. [The Search for Another Earth (Video)]
How did Proxima b remain undetected for so long, in an era when astronomers are finding exoplanets thousands of light-years from Earth?
"The uneven and sparse sampling, combined with the longer term variability of the star, seem to be the reasons why the signal could not be unambiguously confirmed with pre-2016 data, rather than the total amount of data accumulated," the researchers wrote in the new study, which was published online today (Aug. 24) in the journal Nature.
The news confirms rumors first reported earlier this month by German magazine Der Spiegel.
Incidentally, the team also spotted possible signs of an additional Proxima Centauri planet, which would have an orbital period of between 60 and 500 days. But that second signal is much weaker and might be caused by stellar activity, the researchers said.
An Earth-like world?
The HARPS and UVES data indicate that Proxima b is about 1.3 times more massive than Earth, which suggests that the exoplanet is a rocky world, the researchers said. [6 Strange Facts About Planet Proxima b]
Proxima b lies just 4.7 million miles (7.5 million kilometers) from its host star and completes one orbit every 11.2 Earth days. As a result, it's likely that the exoplanet is tidally locked, meaning it always shows the same face to its host star, just as the moon shows only one face (the near side) to Earth.
For comparison, Earth orbits about 93 million miles (150 million km) from the sun. But Proxima b's relatively tight orbit puts it right in the middle of the habitable zone, because red dwarfs are so much cooler and dimmer than sun-like stars, team members said. Not much else is known about Proxima b, so it's unclear just how hospitable the planet may be to life. In fact, there are reasons to be pessimistic on this front, noted Artie Hatzes, an astronomer at the Thuringian State Observatory in Germany.
Proxima Centauri fires off powerful flares, and the planet therefore experiences a much higher dose of high-energy X-ray radiation than Earth does, Hatzes, who is not part of the discovery team, wrote in an accompanying "News and Views" article in the same issue of Nature.
"Energetic particles associated with the flares may erode the atmosphere or hinder the development of primitive forms of life," Hatzes wrote. "We also don't know whether the exoplanet has a magnetic field, like Earth, which could shield it from the dangerous stellar radiation."
But the higher X-ray flux is not a "showstopper" for life, Anglada-Escude and his colleagues said.
"None of this does exclude the existence of an atmosphere, or of [surface] water," co-author Ansgar Reiners, a professor at the University of Göttingen's Institute of Astrophysics in Germany, said during Tuesday's news conference.
How Proxima Centauri behaved in the distant past is more relevant to the newfound planet's potential habitability than current radiation levels are, Reiners added.
"What is more interesting is the history of the planet — whether in the early ages, the young ages, of this planet the star was so active, and the star emitted so much high-energy radiation, that it blew away the atmosphere and may have blown away the water also," he said.
Other aspects of the planet's history also have a bearing on just how wet Proxima b may be. For example, if the alien world formed far from the star but then migrated inward, it is likely water-rich; if it formed near its present position, it likely started out much drier, study team members said. (But even this latter scenario doesn't preclude the existence of large amounts of water on Proxima b, Anglada-Escude stressed; comet and/or asteroid strikes could deliver the substance, as apparently happened here on Earth, he said.)
Tidally locked planets were once regarded as inhospitable to life — baked too hot on the star-facing side, and freezing cold on the dark side. But recent research suggests that such worlds may indeed be habitable; winds in their atmospheres could distribute heat, smoothing out temperature extremes.
And if Proxima b is potentially habitable, life-forms have a long time to gain a foothold there: Red dwarfs keep burning for trillions of years, in contrast to stars like the sun, which die after 10 billion years or so.
"Proxima Centauri will exist for several hundreds or thousands of times longer than the sun," Hatzes wrote in his "News and Views" piece. "Any life on the planet could still be evolving long after our sun has died."
The sun is 4.6 billion years old. Proxima Centauri is thought to be slightly older — perhaps 4.9 billion years or so, study team members said.
Searching for life
Proxima b likely does not "transit," or cross the face of, its host star from Earth's perspective, Anglada-Escude and his colleagues said.
That characteristic will make it tougher to study Proxima b further; astronomers can learn a lot about the atmospheres of transiting exoplanets by studying the starlight that passes through them. (NASA's $8.8 billion James Webb Space Telescope, which is scheduled to launch in late 2018, will use this method to look for possible signs of life in the atmospheres of nearby alien worlds.)
But Proxima b is close enough to Earth that scientists may soon be able to image it directly. Indeed, it should be possible to resolve the planet (separately from its host star) using a telescope with an aperture of 11.5 feet (3.5 meters), provided that the scope is outfitted with some advanced technology, such as a starlight-blocking coronagraph, Reiners said. (For perspective, NASA's famous Hubble Space Telescope has an aperture of 7.9 feet, or 2.4 m.)
"We are quite far from it right now, but physics allows us to do it," he said. "And then, you can study the light coming from the planet itself, and that gives you the opportunity to learn about the atmosphere spectroscopically or photometrically, or whatever you want."
A trip to Proxima b?
Proxima b is also a prime target for a potential up-close visit by a future space probe.
This past April, scientists and engineers announced the $100 million Breakthrough Starshot project, which aims to develop the technology required to accelerate tiny, sail-equipped "nanocraft" to 20 percent the speed of light using powerful lasers.
Breakthrough Starshot team members said they hope to eventually launch flotillas of such postage-stamp-size probes to Alpha Centauri — a binary star system about 4.37 light-years from the sun. (In 2012, incidentally, astronomers analyzing HARPS data announced the discovery of a roughly Earth-size world around the star Alpha Centauri B, but later work suggested that the putative planet does not actually exist.)
Spacecraft traveling at 20 percent the speed of light could make the trip to Alpha Centauri in about two decades, as opposed to thousands of years for conventionally powered probes.
Proxima Centauri lies just 0.24 light-years from Alpha Centauri, and is regarded by some scientists as part of the latter system — so Breakthrough Starshot team members are recalibrating possible mission profiles a bit now.
"With today's announcement, we now know that there's at least one planet, the one orbiting Proxima Centauri, that has some characteristics similar to the Earth," Pete Worden, chairman of the Breakthrough Prize Foundation, said during a news conference today.
"Over the next decade, we will work with experts here at ESO and elsewhere to get as much information as possible about the Proxima Centauri planet, perhaps as noted, even including whether it might bear life, prior to launching mankind's first probe towards the star," Worden added. "We also hope to obtain similar data about the other nearby stars, Alpha Centauri A and B."
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SwapMeet.
It's a good name.
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nature
A terrestrial planet candidate in a temperate orbit around Proxima Centauri
Nature 536, 437–440 (25 August 2016) doi:10.1038/nature19106
Received 06 May 2016 Accepted 07 July 2016 Published online 24 August 2016
At a distance of 1.295 parsecs, the red dwarf Proxima Centauri (a Centauri C, GL 551, HIP 70890 or simply Proxima) is the Sun’s closest stellar neighbour and one of the best-studied low-mass stars. It has an effective temperature of only around 3,050 kelvin, a luminosity of 0.15 per cent of that of the Sun, a measured radius of 14 per cent of the radius of the Sun and a mass of about 12 per cent of the mass of the Sun. Although Proxima is considered a moderately active star, its rotation period is about 83 days (ref. 3) and its quiescent activity levels and X-ray luminosity are comparable to those of the Sun. Here we report observations that reveal the presence of a small planet with a minimum mass of about 1.3 Earth masses orbiting Proxima with a period of approximately 11.2 days at a semi-major-axis distance of around 0.05 astronomical units. Its equilibrium temperature is within the range where water could be liquid on its surface.
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