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Origin of guise
François de Lorraine, 2nd Duc de, 1519–63, French general and statesman.
his son, Henri I de Lorraine, Duc de, 1550–88, French general and leader of opposition to the Huguenots.
Word Origin and History for guise
n. late 13c., "style or fashion of attire," from Old French guise "manner, fashion, way,"
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Sidereus Nuncius
http://articles.latimes.com/1997-02-20/local/me-30716_1_tough-love
Los Angeles Times
Tough Love From NASA's Top Official
Innovation: Administrator Daniel Goldin tells scientists their work isn't good enough--and many of them agree with him.
February 20, 1997 K.C. COLE TIMES SCIENCE WRITER
Visiting two high kingdoms of Southern California research this week, NASA chief Daniel Goldin brought his tough love show to town. And his subjects ate it up.
Brandishing a style unlike any of his predecessors, the cowboy-booted space honcho came down hard on engineers at USC and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, saying that the work they are doing "isn't good enough."
Goldin took the occasion of National Engineering Week to lambaste his own kind for hanging on to a "narrow nerd mentality" in danger of producing "robots and zombies."
"I want to get astronauts to Mars," he said. "I don't want to wait 30 years. We're not moving fast enough."
While engineers at NASA's JPL in Pasadena and USC's Integrated Media Systems center (funded by the National Science Foundation) tried to show off their latest virtual spacecraft and face-recognition computers, the NASA chief constantly interrupted the well-planned presentations to challenge, scold and preach about the limits about linear thinking.
"We're on the line," he told his hosts at USC. Vice President Al Gore demanded last week that airplane crashes had to be reduced by 80%, he reminded them. "We have an aircraft go down, or a spacecraft fail . . . and we don't know why it goes down."
At the same time, he worried, no one is working on the kind of next-generation computer software needed to run a complex enterprise like the planned international space station. "I get the chills just thinking about what could go wrong," he said. "Here we are at JPL," which he described as the "kingdom" and "the forefront" of high-tech know-how. "And they're not doing it here. If we can't do better than this, we're not going to lead the 21st century."
If Goldin's fellow engineers were somewhat shellshocked by his frontal, frenetic approach, they have also gotten accustomed to their leader's blunt, confrontational style. Indeed, his unsatisfactory assessment of the state of their work only seemed to inspire them.
"The time we spent with [Goldin] was one of the most invigorating intellectual adventures of my entire scientific career," said USC's Armand Tanguay, deputy director of the media systems center.
What's needed most, Goldin said, are tools that can run complex space programs, and fly (and design) spacecraft and aircraft by computer. "Our toolbox is empty," he said.
Current state-of-the-art computer processors deal with billions or trillions of operations per second--known as "gigaflops" and "teraflops," respectively. Next-generation software will require processes working billions of times faster. (He coined a new term--the "Saganflop" after the late astronomer Carl Sagan--to describe this new unit of speed.)
" When he took the time to catch his breath, Goldin saw things that pleased him. But he always asked for more.
At JPL, the space chief watched in a standing-room-only crowd as startlingly realistic movies of the red Martian crust rolled on the screen, exposing deep gashes that geological eons had carved on its surface.
"When you can do that in 3-D," you'll have something, he said.
JPL scientist Carl Kukkonen informed the chief: "This is the best technology can buy today." Goldin returned: "It's not good enough."
Presented with a two-year timetable for developing "thinking, self-healing" data systems, Goldin butted in: "I'd like it to be one year."
As computer scientist Meemong Lee demonstrated a simulated trial of a detector that will someday take a close-up look at an asteroid, he interrupted again, pointing out that the environment a spacecraft encounters is not predictable.
"So how do you deal with that?" he asked. "Take me through your thought processes." The chief admits he "frustrates people. . . . But it's my job to push the boundaries."
Besides, even his targets seemed to agree with him on substance. "He's absolutely right," said the dean of USC's engineering school, Leonard Silverman. "Dan is a real preacher for the cause."
At USC's new multimedia center, Goldin heard about total-immersion virtual reality systems, smart cameras that can recognize facial expressions and new ways to configure computer chips that allow them to think more like brains.
He kept popping up out of his seat like an eager schoolboy, pointing his fingers, waving his hands and sometimes taking over the speaker's platform.
"I'm very hard to brief," he said.
One of his main targets was "the folly" of trying to use numerical, hard computing to model unpredictable real-world situations like turbulence or complex systems with many interacting parts. In such situations, a small variability can change everything.
Dealing with the inherent chaos of these systems will require going beyond standard silicon hardware and computer programs that use simple 1s and 0s. The time has come, he said, to take serious looks into what is called "soft computing"--including "fuzzy logic" (which leaves room for errors), genetic computing (as performed by DNA) and neural networks (computers configured like the human brain).
http://articles.latimes.com/1997-02-20/local/me-30716_1_tough-love/2
Los Angeles Times
(Page 2 of 2)
SCIENCE FILE / An exploration of issues and trends
affecting science, medicine and the environment.
Tough Love From NASA's Top Official
Innovation: Administrator Daniel Goldin tells scientists their work isn't good enough--and many of them agree with him.
February 20, 1997 K.C. COLE TIMES SCIENCE WRITER
So his eyes lit up as USC's Tanguay described research into cameras that do far more than replicate the eye's retina, and instead work in concert with something analogous to the brain's visual processing centers.
"We need thinking systems," Goldin said.
If the space chief had his way, new spacecraft would be designed and tested almost entirely in virtual environments.
To get this kind of technology, however, schools may have to rethink how they train engineers, the chief said. "The problem is, we're getting nerds coming out of college," he said. Their focus on precision above all leaves no margin for error, he said. They can solve a problem to a dozen decimal places, he added, but still not understand the fundamentals of the question they're asking.
The NASA chief also targeted other "narrow" technology: e-mail. He doesn't like it and doesn't use it. "It feels so cold," he said. "It's a one-way monologue. People don't ask: How are you? How are your kids? . . . If you treat people like zombies and robots, that's what you get."
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The Simpsons
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
Oh, yes, and his personal hygiene is above reproach.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henri-II-de-Lorraine-5e-duc-de-Guise
Encyclopædia Britannica
Henri II de Lorraine, 5e duke de Guise
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Henri II de Lorraine, 5e duke de Guise, (born April 4, 1614, Blois, France—died June 2, 1664) duke of Guise whose multiple attempts to revive the family’s power came to naught.
Henri had already succeeded to the archbishopric of Rheims, a family benefice, when the death of his elder brother Charles, the 4th duke, made him head of the family, and in 1640 5th duke. He went against the absolutism of the age and joined the count of Soissons. Condemned to lose his head, he fled to Brussels and took command of the Austrian troops against France—noble traitors to their country being then not uncommon. In 1643, however, after Richelieu’s death, he returned to France; but, being chosen their chief by the Neapolitans, at the time of Masaniello’s revolt, and dazzled by this opening for his ambition, he betook himself to Naples. There his failure was complete; he was defeated and carried prisoner to Madrid. Delivered thence by the intercession of the Great Condé, he again attempted Naples and failed again. After this he spent the rest of his life at the French court and died in 1664 leaving no issue.
Henri’s sisters never married, and of all his brothers, only one left a son, Louis-Joseph de Lorraine (1650–71), who became 6th duke of Guise. Louis-Joseph died of smallpox in 1671, leaving an infant son, Francis-Joseph (1670–75), 7th duke, a sickly babe, with whom, four years later, the direct line of the house of Guise expired.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_II,_Duke_of_Guise
Henry II, Duke of Guise
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Henry II de Lorraine, 5th Duke of Guise (Paris, 4 April 1614 – 2 June 1664, Paris) was the second son of Charles, Duke of Guise and Henriette Catherine de Joyeuse.
Life
At the age of fifteen, he became archbishop of Rheims, but the death of his eldest brother Francis in 1639 placed him in the dukedom the following year. He opposed Richelieu, and conspired with the count of Soissons, fighting in the Battle of La Marfée in 1641. For this, he was condemned to death, but fled to Flanders in 1641. His property was seized by the king in 1641, for crime of lèse majesté. Reprieved, he returned in 1643 and his confiscated property was returned to him.
Hoping to make good his family's ancient pretensions to the Kingdom of Naples, he joined the revolt of Masaniello in 1647. The "Royal Republic of Naples" was declared, appealing to the protection of France and nominally headed by Guise (entitled doge in imitation of Venice). However, the tactless Guise rapidly alienated the Neapolitans, and wielded little influence with Cardinal Mazarin. He was captured by the Spaniards in 1648 when the republic fell, and held by them until 1652. He made a second attack on Naples in 1654, but it ended in failure, partly because of the presence of an English fleet under Robert Blake in support of the Spanish.
Afterwards, he settled in Paris, becoming Grand Chamberlain of France to Louis XIV and going deeply into debt because of his expenditures for horses and entertainments. He was the patron of Pierre Corneille, to whom he gave a lodging in the Hôtel de Guise.
Over the years two women laid claim to being his wife. The first was Anna Gonzaga later known as the "Princess Palatine," who in 1639 appears to have been duped into believing that a clandestine marriage ceremony was the real thing. The second was a widow, Honorée de Berghes, Countess of Bossut, who claimed to have married him in Brussels on November 11, 1641. In March 1666 the Sacra Rota declared the marriage valid; but the King (and the House of Guise) refused to recognize the decision, thereby preventing Mme Bossu from receiving any of the late Duke's vast fortune.
Anna Gonzaga described Duke Henry's "good and bad qualities" as follows:
"Monsieur Guise had the figure, the air and the manners of a hero in a novel, and his entire life bore the mark this character. Magnificence reigned in his entire person and in everything that surrounded him; his conversation was especially charming: everything he said, everything he did, proclaimed that he was an extraordinary man. Ambition and love dominated his projects, which were so vast that they were Homeric; but with such an illustrious name, heroic valor, and a bit of good fortune, nothing exceeded his hopes. He had a gift for making himself loved by all those he wanted to please, which seemed to be the lot of the princes of the House of Lorraine. He was flighty in his attachments, inconstant in his projects, hasty in carrying things out."
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/galileo-in-rome-for-inquisition/print
HISTORY
FEBRUARY 13, 1633 : GALILEO IN ROME FOR INQUISITION
On this day in 1633, Italian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician Galileo Galilei arrives in Rometo face charges of heresy for advocating Copernican theory, which holds that the Earth revolves around the Sun. Galileo officially faced the Roman Inquisition in April of that same year and agreed to plead guilty in exchange for a lighter sentence. Put under house arrest indefinitely by Pope Urban VIII, Galileo spent the rest of his days at his villa in Arcetri, near Florence, before dying on January 8, 1642.
Galileo, the son of a musician, was born February 15, 1564, in Pisa, Italy. He entered the University of Pisa planning to study medicine, but shifted his focus to philosophy and mathematics. In 1589, he became a professor at Pisa for several years, during which time he demonstrated that the speed of a falling object is not proportional to its weight, as Aristotle had believed. According to some reports, Galileo conducted his research by dropping objects of different weights from the Leaning Tower of Pisa. From 1592 to 1630, Galileo was a math professor at the University of Padua, where he developed a telescope that enabled him to observe lunar mountains and craters, the four largest satellites of Jupiter and the phases of Jupiter. He also discovered that the Milky Way was made up of stars. Following the publication of his research in 1610, Galileo gained acclaim and was appointed court mathematician at Florence.
Galileo’s research led him to become an advocate of the work of the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1573). However, the Copernican theory of a sun-centered solar system conflicted with the teachings of the powerful Roman Catholic Church, which essentially ruled Italy at the time. Church teachings contended that Earth, not the sun, was at the center of the universe. In 1633, Galileo was brought before the Roman Inquisition, a judicial system established by the papacy in 1542 to regulate church doctrine. This included the banning of books that conflicted with church teachings. The Roman Inquisition had its roots in the Inquisition of the Middle Ages, the purpose of which was to seek out and prosecute heretics, considered enemies of the state.
Today, Galileo is recognized for making important contributions to the study of motion and astronomy. His work influenced later scientists such as the English mathematician and physicist Sir Isaac Newton, who developed the law of universal gravitation. In 1992, the Vatican formally acknowledged its mistake in condemning Galileo.
From 2/13/1633 ( Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome to face charges of heresy ) To 6/2/1664 ( Henri II de Lorraine dead ) is 11432 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 2/19/1997 is 11432 days
From 8/1/1963 ( John Kennedy - Remarks at the U.S. Naval Academy ) To 2/19/1997 is 12256 days
12256 = 6128 + 6128
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 8/13/1982 ( premiere US film "Fast Times At Ridgemont High" ) is 6128 days
From 2/18/1945 ( Franklin Roosevelt - Executive Order 9524 - AMENDING EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 9195 OF JULY 7, 1942, PRESCRIBING REGULATIONS RELATING TO AERIAL FLIGHTS BY PERSONNEL OF THE ARMY, NAVY, MARINE CORPS, COAST GUARD, AND NATIONAL GUARD ) To 6/7/1976 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in deep space of the solar system in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship this day was his first landing the Saturn moon Phoebe and the Saturn moon Phoebe territory belongs to my brother Thomas Reagan ) is 11432 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 2/19/1997 is 11432 days
http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/sts-82/sts-82-day-09-highlights.html
STS-82 Day 9 Highlights
Back to STS-82 Flight Day 08 Highlights:
On Wednesday, February 19, 1997, 6:00 a.m. CST, STS-82 MCC Status Report # 17 reports:
Discovery's astronauts bid farewell to the Hubble Space Telescope early this morning as they placed the orbiting observatory back into its own orbit to continue its investigation of the far reaches of the universe.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Annapolis 2006
Waller was the name of a girlfriend in the 10th grade. She said she decided to take the offer to join the TARGETS class because I was in there. We used to always go to the Sonic for lunch.
http://www.usna.edu/VirtualTour/150years/1980.htm
August 22, 1981
Vice Admiral Edward C. Waller becomes superintendent.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 2006 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Annapolis 2006
Judging by the shoulders boards, this guy inspecting the ranks seems to be a first-year cadet. This seems familar in terms of my memories at Great Lakes when I was a 3rd Class at I would stand in front of the E-1 school attendees. I was the Asst. Platoon Leader as well as Asst. Class Leader. And the 1979 date stamp would be consistent with my theory of graduating Class of 1982.
http://www.dodmedia.osd.mil/Assets/1986/Navy/DN-ST-86-02873.JPEG
Plebes stand at attention during noon quarters at the US Naval ACADEMY.
Date Shot: 1 Sep 1979
How the hell did I do all that stuff AND still go through the Academy? I must have been training for it for many years before.
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 2006 excerpt ends]
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=9367
The American Presidency Project
John F. Kennedy
XXXV President of the United States: 1961 - 1963
321 - Remarks at the U.S. Naval Academy.
August 1, 1963
Admiral, officers, members of the Brigade:
I hope you will stand at case. Perhaps the plebes will. Did you explain that to them? That comes later in the course.
I want to express our very strong appreciation to all those of you in the plebe class who have come into the Navy. I hope that you realize how great is the dependence of our country upon the men who serve in our Armed Forces. I sometimes think that the people of this country do not appreciate how secure we are because of the devotion of the men and their wives and children who serve this country in far off places, in the sea, in the air, and on the ground, thousands and thousands of miles away from this country, who make it possible for us all to live in peace each day.
This country owes the greatest debt to our servicemen. In time of war, of course, there is a tremendous enthusiasm and outburst of popular feeling about those who fight and lead our wars, but it is sometimes different in peace. But I can assure the people of this country, from my own personal experience in the last 21/2 years, that more than anything, more than anything, the fact that this country is secure and at peace, the fact that dozens of countries allied with us are free and at peace, has been due to the military strength of the United States. And that strength has been directly due to the men who serve in our Armed Forces. So even though it may be at peace, in fact most especially because it is at peace, I take this opportunity to express our appreciation to all of them whether they are here at Annapolis, or whether they are out of sight of land, or underneath the sea.
I want to express our strong hope that all of you who have come to the Academy as plebes will stay with the Navy. I can think of no more rewarding a career. You will have a chance in the next 10, 20, and 30 years to serve the cause of freedom and your country all over the globe, to hold positions of the highest responsibility, to recognize that upon your good judgment in many cases may well rest not only the well-being of the men with whom you serve, but also in a very real sense the security of your country.
I can imagine a no more rewarding career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worth while, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: "I served in the United States Navy." So I congratulate you all. This is a hard job, particularly now as you make the change, but I think it develops in you those qualities which we like to see in our country, which we take pride in. I am sure you are going to stay with it. I am sure you are going to be able, by what you are now going through, to find the means to command others.
So I express our very best wishes to you and tell you that though you will be serving in the Navy in the days when most of those who hold public office have long gone from it, I can assure you in 1963 that your services are needed, that your opportunities are unlimited, and that if I were a young man in 1963 I can imagine no place to be better than right here at this Academy, or at West Point, or in the Air Force, or in some other place beginning a career of service to the United States.
There is an old story--which I will close with which will give you very valuable advice as you follow a naval career--about a young yeoman who watched a lieutenant begin a meteoric career in the Navy, and he always used to go into his office every morning and go to his drawer and take out a piece of paper and look at it. He became the youngest captain, the youngest admiral, the youngest commander-in-chief. Finally one day he had a heart attack. The yeoman said, "I want to see what is in that paper. It might help me." So he went over and opened up the safe and pulled out the paper. And it said, "Left--port; right--starboard."
If you can remember that, your careers are assured !
Thank you. [At this point there was a round of cheering, following which the President made the following statement.]
In view of that warm cheer I'd like to, using the full powers of the Office, to grant amnesty to whoever needs it, whoever deserves it.
Note: The President spoke in the early evening at Bancroft Hall at a ceremony honoring the new class of midshipmen.
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=high-plains-drifter
Springfield! Springfield!
High Plains Drifter (1973)
You promised that son of a bitch $3,000... after what he did to my hotel?
Promisings one thing. Payings another. He may just catch a bullet.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/26/politics/carter-suspends-bonus-clawbacks-california-national-guard-members/index.html
CNN
Carter suspends bonus clawbacks for California National Guard members
By Michael K Callahan, CNN
Updated 5:43 PM ET, Wed October 26, 2016
(CNN)Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said Wednesday he is suspending "all efforts to collect reimbursement" from improperly awarded enlistment bonuses given to some members of the California National Guard, following outrage from veterans and their families over attempts to recover the money 10 years after it was disbursed.
"I have ordered the Defense Finance and Accounting Service to suspend all efforts to collect reimbursement from affected California National Guard members, effective as soon as is practical," Carter said in a statement, adding this suspension will continue until "I am satisfied that our process is working effectively."
Army's letter to veteran: Pay us back $21,000
"There is no more important responsibility for the Department of Defense than keeping faith with our people," Carter added in his statement, adding, "While some soldiers knew or should have known they were ineligible for benefits they were claiming, many others did not."
http://schiff.house.gov/news/press-releases/rep-schiff-calls-on-california-national-guard-to-halt-efforts-to-seek-repayment-of-enlistment-bonuses-is-drafting-legislation
CONGRESSMAN ADAM SCHIFF
Representing California's 28th District
10.24.16
Rep. Schiff Calls on California National Guard to Halt Efforts to Seek Repayment of Enlistment Bonuses, Is Drafting Legislation
Los Angeles, CA – Today, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) called on the California National Guard and the Pentagon to immediately halt efforts to obtain repayment of enlistment bonuses, student loan payments, and other payments granted incorrectly to members of the California Guard. In a letter to Adjutant General of the California National Guard David Baldwin, Schiff pushed the Guard to immediately halt these efforts saying that “seeking reimbursement for these funds when they were accepted in good faith imposes a substantial financial hardship on those who have served our nation and their families.”
http://www.spacefacts.de/graph/sts/large_landing/english/sts-82.htm
http://www.oocities.org/elzj78/bsgminiseries.html
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: Miniseries [ Monday 08 December 2003 USA ]
Pilot: Does the rest of the fleet know about this trick?
Apollo: I doubt it. It's just a theory we toyed with in war college, but it never used to work during war games, the Cylons would see right through it and destroy the targets anyway.
Roslin: The lesson here is not to ask follow-up questions
- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 5:29 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Wednesday 26 October 2016
