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Elián González
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Elián González (born December 6, 1993) is a Cuban student who, as a young boy in 2000, became embroiled in a heated international custody and immigration controversy involving the governments of Cuba and the United States, his father, Juan Miguel González Quintana, his other relatives in Miami, Florida, and in Cuba, and Miami's Cuban American community.
González's mother, Elizabeth Brotons Rodríguez, drowned in November 1999 while attempting to leave Cuba with González and her boyfriend to get to the United States. The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) initially placed González with maternal relatives in Miami, who sought to keep him in the United States against his father's demands that González be returned to Cuba. A federal district court's ruling that only González's father, and not his extended relatives, could petition for asylum on the boy's behalf was upheld by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. After the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case, federal agents took González from his relatives and returned him to Cuba in June 2000.
Taken by federal authorities
Attorney general Janet Reno ordered the return of González to his father and set a deadline of April 13, 2000, but the Miami relatives defied the order. Negotiations continued for several days as the house was surrounded by protesters as well as police. The relatives insisted on guarantees that they could live with the child for several months and retain custody, and that González would not be returned to Cuba. Negotiations carried on throughout the night, but Reno stated that the relatives rejected all workable solutions. A Florida family court judge revoked Lázaro's temporary custody, clearing the way for González to be returned to his father's custody. On April 20, Reno made the decision to remove Elián González from the house and instructed law enforcement officials to determine the best time to obtain the boy. After being informed of the decision, Marisleysis said to a Justice Department community relations officer, "You think we just have cameras in the house? If people try to come in, they could be hurt."
In the pre-dawn hours of Easter eve, Saturday, April 22, pursuant to an order issued by a federal magistrate, eight agents of the Border Patrol's elite BORTAC unit as part of an operation in which more than 130 INS personnel took part approached the house, knocked on the door, and identified themselves. When no one responded from within, they entered the house. Pepper-spray and mace were employed against those outside the house who attempted to interfere. Nonetheless, a stool, rocks, and bottles were thrown at the agents. In the confusion, Armando Gutierrez called in Alan Diaz, of the Associated Press, to enter the house and entered a room with González, his great uncle's wife Angela Lázaro, her niece, the niece's young son, and Donato Dalrymple (one of the two men who had rescued him from the ocean). They waited in the room listening to agents searching the house. Diaz took a widely publicized photograph of a border patrol agent confronting Dalrymple and the boy.
INS also stated in the days after the raid that they had identified as many as two dozen persons who were "prepared to thwart any government operation", some of whom had concealed weapons while others had criminal records.
Approximately 100 people protested against the raid as it took place, with some calling the INS agents "assassins".[clarification needed]
Public opinion about the INS raid on the Miami González's house was widely polarized.
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http://articles.latimes.com/2000/apr/23/news/mn-22595
Los Angeles Times
ELIAN CUSTODY BATTLE
In Cuba, a Mix of Delight, Dismay Over Miami Seizure
Response: At rally attended by more than 100,000, Fidel Castro thanks the American government but says it is too soon to celebrate.
April 23, 2000 MARIA ELENA FERNANDEZ TIMES STAFF WRITER
HAVANA — The Cuban community across the Florida Straits may have been in turmoil Saturday after the U.S. government's seizure of 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez. But here in the Cuban capital, the atmosphere was almost as if nothing had happened just before dawn in Miami. People went about their weekend routines as television returned to normal programming, and government leaders told the public to neither celebrate nor demonstrate.
At Havana's Jose Marti anti-imperialist open stage in front of the U.S. Interests Section--the site of massive government "free Elian" demonstrations during the last month--only five police officers stood guard.
Cuban President Fidel Castro spoke at a previously scheduled rally in the province of Matanzas, where he thanked the American government and told more than 100,000 demonstrators it was neither a time nor an event to celebrate.
A communique written by Castro and issued earlier in the day told the Cuban people, "The fight for Elian is not over, yet the return of the child to his father is a step toward the right thing to do."
On state television, images of Elian in the arms of an INS officer were replayed, but no pictures appeared of what had occurred inside his great-uncle's house in Miami's Little Havana. Cuban viewers were amazed to see Elian's Florida relatives openly criticizing President Clinton and Atty. Gen. Janet Reno and calling them liars.
A 35-year-old cigar factory worker said: "That is true democracy. I can't believe that people in your country can say things like that. Here you're even afraid to think them."
He refused to give his name, saying he feared retaliation from the government.
At a supermarket in the comparatively upscale Miramar district, shoppers standing in line and listening to state radio expressed relief that Elian was in the arms of his father.
A 53-year-old woman whose father was once a member of the Communist Party said that it was probably good that the reunion had taken place.
"They've been torturing us with images of the little boy. It's been constant here. But you also have to think that the U.S. government has been very patient. I just think it's a terrible thing for them to do to that little boy at this late date," she said.
At a nearby oceanfront hotel, a busboy said he was very happy at the prospect of Elian's return to Cuba.
"I'm dying for him to get here so that I can see something else on television," the teenager said. "This thing has been draining for us."
Since Elian was rescued in November, Cuba's two television channels have broadcast a daily two-hour "round table" focused almost entirely on the boy. Children have complained that the show has preempted their cartoons.
In central Havana, a group of elderly men seated on a wall and enjoying the ocean breeze quickly got into a heated debate Saturday when asked about the fate of the boy.
"That was not handled properly," said a 72-year-old man who grew up in Cardenas, Elian's hometown. "They acted drastically. The father has a right to claim his son, but he should have gone to get him a long time ago. I believe Elian would be better off there. Here he would not even be allowed to drink milk after he turns 7. But I think it's most important that he be with his father."
A cigarette salesman and member of the Communist Party who was sitting nearby said he agreed with the action of the U.S. government. The man said that he lives in Cuba because he is free here and does not want to live anywhere else.
"It had to be that way because the family was talking a lot of nonsense, saying [U.S. authorities] would have to kill them to take the boy. You could tell from watching him on television that the boy was being coerced. Enough is enough."
Another man turning a nearby corner became excited when he heard Elian's name.
"That boy has been giving this country a headache for five months. This situation stinks already. I think you should talk about something else," he said.
But an elderly man smoking cigarettes with his friends said he was in favor of Elian's staying in Miami with his relatives.
"That boy will have no life here," he said. "I hear people in America saying that Cuba is free. Believe me, if we were free, none of us would be here. When time passes, history will show what a failure this government has proved to be."
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Los Angeles Times
ELIAN CUSTODY BATTLE
Little Havana Residents Grieving Over Sudden, Shocking Loss of Elian
Aftermath: Prayer groups and posters mass outside Cuban boy's home, which is becoming makeshift shrine.
April 24, 2000 MIKE CLARY TIMES STAFF WRITER
MIAMI — On Easter Sunday, they awoke to find him gone.
Elian Gonzalez no longer lived in the little house on Northwest 2nd Street. But still they came.
"We just wanted to see where it happened," said Iris Arellano, 15, a high school student who joined hundreds of others in what seemed like a pilgrimage to Little Havana.
"We watched on television all day yesterday, and it was just horrible. So we wanted to see."
On the day after armed federal agents seized Elian from the home of his Miami relatives and whisked him to a Washington reunion with his father, many in Miami looked for a way to vent their emotions. The pepper spray had dissipated, but their anger had not.
During sunrise services, ministers and priests told stories of the day Jesus disappeared from his tomb--and they spoke of the resurrection. They also led prayers for Elian, the 6-year-old Cuban boy invested with a religious significance by many. "He was a gift from God," the Rev. Agusto Valverde told parishioners who sat on folding chairs in the parking lot of their Baptist church, just two blocks from where Elian stayed for almost five months.
After church, many Cuban Americans went to the house to say another prayer for the boy. Others, in shorts and carrying Cuban flags, were there because they come every weekend. Some just didn't know where else to go.
"Shame!" cried one woman standing in the middle of the street, holding aloft the picture of a SWAT team officer pointing a semiautomatic weapon in the direction of the terrified child, who was in the arms of one of the fishermen who found him at sea. The print had been altered to insert the face of Atty. Gen. Janet Reno as the officer. A swastika had been etched onto the helmet.
"I love this country," said Jose R. Villoch, 75, a Cuban-born U.S. citizen and World War II veteran who drove 200 miles to Miami from his home near Orlando early Sunday. "But when something like this can happen, we are in danger. "
The violence that erupted in the wake of Saturday's televised seizure of Elian seemed spent. Although police remained on standby, Miami's streets had been cleared of trash. Where tire fires had blazed, only scorch marks remained.
But Cuban flags waved from hundreds of cars in Miami, and signs of outrage were common. "Elian, we want you to be free" were the words printed in Spanish under a huge portrait of the child on Flagler Street.
Elian's great-uncle, Lazaro Gonzalez, was in Washington on Sunday--along with his daughter, Marisleysis, and his brother Delfin-- attempting to see the child they still hope to keep from going back to Cuba. Their Little Havana house appeared almost deserted, but it was festooned with flags, signs and religious symbols--and a banner advertising a Web site, http://www.libertyforelian.org.
Even though they knew Elian was gone--and is unlikely to return--people left flowers, stuffed animals and notes for the boy.
"This is a historic spot," said Arai Noda, 24, who lives in the four-unit apartment building next door. "People come because it is important for Cubans."
Indeed, almost all the residents of the neighborhood are Cuban immigrants, and they have been remarkably tolerant of the crowds and commotion that has attended the Elian saga.
"It didn't bother me, because it was for the cause of Elian," said Eduardo Rodriguez, 55, who began sweeping up the trash in front of his house as the last of the television crews folded their tents and wound up their cables. "I just hope," said Rodriguez, a watchmaker who came here from Cuba eight years ago, "that Fidel Castro does not make him a marionette, a puppet of the state."
For dozens of television reporters and cameramen, the departure of Elian means they can go home. Freelancers Abdiel Vivancos and Juan Merlo, working for ABC-TV, are ready.
"We spent 61 days here overall," said Vivancos, enough time to get to know the members of the family and to have come up with a name for the thousands of people who came by to see the boy.
"Some of them we called the peanut-throwers," Merlo said. "They would come to the fence and yell, 'Let the kid come out and play.' Like he was a zoo attraction."
During his 148 days in Miami, Elian was indeed an attraction. He survived a boat trip from Cuba that claimed the lives of his mother and 10 others, only to become the prize in a bitter international custody fight that is not yet finished.
Despite pictures that show Elian seemingly content with his father, many remain shaken by the way he was wrested from his relatives' home.
"I was sickened," said Sen. Bob Graham (D-Fla.). "At a time when families are reflecting on spiritual values . . . to come in the middle of the night . . . was absolutely intolerable, unnecessary and outrageous."
Miami Mayor Joe Carollo also remained upset that he had not been warned about the federal action, and he blasted the Police Department's role in "Operation Reunion."
Federal authorities had alerted Police Chief Bill O'Brien on Friday afternoon that the operation might take place Saturday morning. O'Brien did not inform Carollo.
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Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
COCHRANE: Ha, ha, ha. That's a trick. Ha, ha, ha. How'd you do that?
LAFORGE: It's your telescope.
TROI: That's our ship. The Enterprise.
COCHRANE: And Lily's up there right now?
TROI (OC): That's right.
COCHRANE: Can I talk to her?
RIKER: We've lost contact with the Enterprise. We don't know why yet.
COCHRANE: So, what is it you want me to do?
RIKER: Simple. Conduct your warp flight tomorrow morning just as you planned.
COCHRANE: Why tomorrow morning?
RIKER: Because at eleven o'clock an alien ship will begin passing through this solar system.
COCHRANE: Alien? You mean extra-terrestrials. More bad guys?
TROI: Good guys. They're on a survey mission. They have no interest in Earth. ...Too primitive.
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CBS News
By CYDNEY ADAMS CBS NEWS April 22, 2016, 5:51 AM
April 22, 2000: Elian Gonzalez raid transfixes the nation
The raid started at 5:15 a.m. on a small Miami street on the morning of April 22, 2000. By 5:18 a.m., it was over.
Elian Gonzalez was removed from the home of relatives to be reunited with his father, and a chapter of the family's bitter custody battle was closed.
"In three minutes," reported then-CBS News correspondent Byron Pitts, "six-year-old Elian Gonzalez -- dressed in a t-shirt, draped in fear -- was gone."
Elian had been rescued by two fishermen on Thanksgiving Day in 1999, floating alone off the coast of Florida. His mother had drowned during their attempted escape from Cuba.
He was placed with relatives in Miami, but his father -- with the backing of former Cuban President Fidel Castro -- began an campaign to have the boy sent home to Cuba.
The custody fight came to a dramatic head on that April morning, with Elian being whisked away in the arms of a Spanish-speaking federal agent assigned to the case to provide the child comfort.
"They came into our house, took the boy, threw us down like dogs," one relative told CBS News outside the home after the raid had ended.
Dubbed "Operation Reunion," the entire mission was carried out with military precision as demonstrators protested in the streets.
"Three minutes of calculated chaos by heavily armed agents from U.S. Immigration, who sprayed anyone in their path with pepper spray," Pitts said. "It was force met by anger."
By the end of the day, Elian was back with his father under military guard at a U.S. Air Force base near Washington. His relatives also flew to Washington to fight for him to stay Miami, but when it was all said and done Elian returned to Cuba with his dad in June of 2000.
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Biography
Elián González
Born December 6, 1993
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August 1973
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The following events occurred in August 1973:
August 8, 1973 (Wednesday)
South Korean politician Kim Dae-Jung is kidnapped in Tokyo by the KCIA.
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WikiLeaks
UNCOVERING THE DJ KIDNAPPING: CLOSING THE DOOR ON AN AUTHORITARIAN PAST
Date: 2007 November 30, 07:24 (Friday)
ACCOUNTING FOR PAST WRONGS
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2. (C) On October 24, the Development Committee for Clarifying the Past of the NIS announced its finding that former president Park Chung-hee "tacitly approved" of the 1973 kidnapping of then-opposition leader Kim Dae-jung in Tokyo.
3. (C) The investigative committee was established in November 2004 to investigate seven major incidents allegedly involving NIS' predecessor Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA).
On August 8, 1973, or five days before the establishment of an anti-Park organization of overseas Koreans in Tokyo, KCIA agents kidnapped him.
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The National League of POW/MIA Families
Recognition Day – Background
Until July 18, 1979, no commemoration was held to honor America’s POW/MIAs, those returned and those still missing and unaccounted for from our nation’s wars. That first year, resolutions were passed in the Congress and the national ceremony was held at the National Cathedral, Washington, DC.
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The American Presidency Project
Jimmy Carter
XXXIX President of the United States: 1977 - 1981
Statement on Signing H.J. Res. 963 Into Law - National P.O.W.-M.I.A. Recognition Day
August 18, 1978
American soldiers have been captured or have become missing in action during each of our country's wars.
The agony of their families has been incalculable. The prisoners themselves have suffered deprivation, starvation, abuse, torture, and sometimes death at the hands of their captors.
Their heroism in the face of these afflictions has often been greater than the heroism of men in battle; the prisoner's battle to preserve life, dignity, and honor can go on day after painful day, sometimes for years.
And the anguish suffered by the families of Americans missing in action is prolonged by lack of certainty over the fate of a husband or son or grandson or brother.
I am proud to sign a bill honoring these Americans who have given so much and endured so much. Many of them have won through to become some of America's finest citizens—like the former prisoner of war who is one of the sponsors of this bill, Senator Hathaway. I join all Americans in gratefully recognizing their sacrifices.
NOTE: As enacted, H.J. Res. 963 is Public Law 95-349, approved August 18. The resolution requests the President to issue a proclamation designating July 18, 1979, as "National P.O.W.-M.I.A. Recognition Day."
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The Strongest Man in the World (1975)
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Dexter Riley and his friends accidently discover a new chemical mixed with a cereal seems to give anyone temporary superhuman strength
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Springfield! Springfield!
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969)
Each of our learned guests
will be allowed 3 questions.
Our first questions will be
from Dr. Rufus Schmidt,
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of Higher Mathematics
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I kind of looked at the text
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Killer in Blue (1959)
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Manhunt (1959–1961)
Killer in Blue
30min Drama, Crime Episode aired 15 April 1959
Season 1 Episode 1
Victor Jory ... Police Lt. Howard Finucane
Release Date: 15 April 1959 (USA)
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Truth (2015)
Quotes
Mary Mapes: Our story was about whether Bush fulfilled his service. Nobody wants to talk about that. They wanna talk about fonts and forgeries and conspiracy theories, because that's what people do these days if they don't like a story. They point and scream.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=21207
The American Presidency Project
George Bush
XLI President of the United States: 1989 - 1993
Munich Economic Summit: Yugoslavia Communique
July 7, 1992
We, the leaders of our seven countries and representatives of the European Community, are deeply concerned about the ongoing Yugoslav crisis. We strongly condemn the use of violence in the former Yugoslavia and deplore the suffering inflicted upon its population. We particularly deplore those actions directed against civilian populations, as well as the forced expulsion of ethnic groups.
Although all parties have contributed to this state of affairs, the Serbian leadership and the Yugoslav army controlled by it bear the greatest share of the responsibility. We support the EC Conference on Yugoslavia chaired by Lord Carrington as the key forum for ensuring a durable and equitable political solution to the outstanding problems of the former Yugoslavia, including constitutional arrangements for Bosnia and Hercegovina.
We call on all parties to resume negotiations in that conference in good faith and without preconditions. We welcome the close consultations between the conference chaired by Lord Carrington, the EC, the U.N., and other parties concerned with the Yugoslav crisis.
These consultations could lead to the holding of a broader international conference to address unresolved questions, including issues related to minorities. We stress the absolute need for the parties in former Yugoslavia to show the will for peace which is indispensable to success and without which the peoples of former Yugoslavia will continue to suffer.
The tragic humanitarian situation, especially in Bosnia and Hercegovina, is unacceptable. We fully endorse as heads of state and government the efforts of the international community to provide relief. We welcome the efforts made in achieving the opening of the airport of Sarajevo, and we support actions taken by UNPROFOR to secure the airport.
The blockade of Sarajevo must be lifted and the shelling of the town stopped in order to sustain a comprehensive relief operation. We express our gratitude to all participants in the airlift to Sarajevo and the supply of its population. We appeal to all parties in Bosnia and Hercegovina not to imperil the humanitarian effort.
We firmly warn the parties concerned, including irregular forces, not to take any action that would endanger the lives of those engaged in the relief operation. Should these efforts fail due to an unwillingness of those concerned to fully cooperate with the United Nations, we believe the Security Council will have to consider other measures, not excluding military means, to achieve its humanitarian objectives.
The airlift to Sarajevo can only be the beginning of a larger humanitarian effort. Safe access by road to Sarajevo, as well as to other parts of Bosnia and Hercegovina in need, must be guaranteed. The needs of the hundreds of thousands of refugees and displaced persons require further significant financial support. We are willing to contribute and ask others also to make fair contributions.
We underline the need for Serbia and Croatia to respect the territorial integrity of Bosnia and Hercegovina and for all military forces not subject to the authority of the government of Bosnia and Hercegovina to either be withdrawn or disbanded and disarmed with their weapons placed under effective international monitoring.
We call on all parties to prevent the conflict from spreading to other parts of the former Yugoslavia.
We urge the Serbian leadership to respect minority rights in full, to refrain from further repression in Kosovo, and to engage in serious dialogue with representatives of Kosovo with a view to defining a status of autonomy according to the draft convention of the EC Conference on Yugoslavia.
Sanctions decided by the U.N. Security Council in Resolution 757, as well as all other provisions of relevant U.N. resolutions, must be fully implemented. We support the efforts of the U.N. peacekeeping forces in implementing the U.N. peace plan for Croatia and all its elements.
We demand that Serbs and Croats extend their full cooperation to the U.N. peace plan and make every effort to bring the bloodshed in Croatia to an end.
We do not accept Serbia and Montenegro as the sole successor state to the former Yugoslavia.
We call for the suspension of the delegation of Yugoslavia in the proceedings of the CSCE and other relevant international fora and organizations.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=32008
The American Presidency Project
Jimmy Carter
XXXIX President of the United States: 1977 - 1981
Senior Executive Service Conversion Rights Memorandum From the President.
March 6, 1979
Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies
Subject: Senior Executive Service Conversion Rights of Career Appointees to Presidential Appointments
In my memorandum to you of November 8, 1978, I requested that you forward to me names of candidates for Inspector General positions who possess exceptional integrity and ability. This request reflected my desire to fill these Presidential appointments strictly on the basis of merit.
Some candidates for these positions, and for other Presidential appointments, come from the career service and are now occupying positions which will be placed in the Senior Executive Service. If they were to remain in their present assignment, they would be entitled to convert to the Senior Executive Service, but if they should accept Presidential appointment prior to the effective date of the SES, their entitlement to conversion is less clear.
It is unmistakably the intent of Congress that Inspector General positions will be filled on a merit basis. It is equally clear that the Congress intended to permit career members of the Senior Executive Service to accept Presidential appointments while retaining full SES career status and SES benefits (PL 95-454 § 3392(c) and 3393(b)).
To carry out the intent of Congress and to facilitate the merit appointment of able career executives to Presidential appointments during the few months before the Senior Executive Service goes into effect, I am hereby directing the heads of Departments and Agencies to take the following actions:
1. If a career executive in your agency has been nominated by me for a Presidential appointment and that executive is serving in a position which will be in the SES, the executive's present position should be officially designated SES immediately. (Such designation is authorized by Section 413 of PL 95-454, which became effective on October 13, 1978.)
2. The agency designation should be forwarded to the Office of Personnel Management for review and publication in the FEDERAL REGISTER.
3. On official designation by the agency, the career incumbent of this SES position should be given the option to convert to SES or to decline such conversion (PL 95-454 permits the incumbent up to 90 days to make a conversion decision, but the decision may be made at any time during that period. In this instance, the incumbent would need to make the decision before his/her Presidential appointment is confirmed by the Senate.)
4. If the career incumbent chooses to convert to SES, he/she may then elect to retain SES compensation and benefits as provided under PL 95-454 3392(c). Since SES compensation and benefits do not become effective before July 13, 1979, until that date the incumbent will serve under the Executive Level pay and benefit provisions.
If you need further guidance in carrying out this directive, the Office of Personnel Management will assist you.
JIMMY CARTER
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1998/tsui-facts.html
Nobelprize.org
The Official Web Site of the Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1998
Robert B. Laughlin, Horst L. Störmer, Daniel C. Tsui
Daniel C. Tsui
Born: 28 February 1939, Henan, China
Affiliation at the time of the award: Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
Prize motivation: "for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations"
Field: condensed matter physics
Prize share: 1/3
Work
The Hall effect refers to the fact that if an electrical current flows lengthwise through a metal band and a magnetic field is placed against the surface of the band at a right angle, a charge arises diagonally in the band. In interfaces in certain materials a quantum Hall effect occurs. Klaus von Klitzing discovered that changes in the magnetic field result in changes in what is known as Hall conductance that vary in steps of whole-number multiples of a constant. Subsequently, Daniel Tsui and Horst Störmer discovered in 1982 that there also are steps that represent fractions of the constant.
http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie8.html
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
COCHRANE: Go home.
LILY: You're gonna regret this tomorrow.
COCHRANE: Well, what I think you should have learned about me by now is that I don't have regrets. ...Come on, Lily, one more round.
LILY: Z, you've had enough. I'm not going up in that thing with a drunken pilot.
COCHRANE: But I sure as hell's not going up there sober.
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Beyonce Knowles Sighting In New York City
6 photos
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Beyonce Knowles Sighting In New York City
Photo 4 of 6
15 June 2006
Names: Beyoncé Knowles
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The official website of The British Monarchy
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The Prince of Wales meets Kenadee Stephenson during a visit to Highbury Gardens in north London, a residential development completed with help from The Prince's Foundation for Building Community, 12 February 2013.
http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie8.html
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
[Enterprise-E bridge]
(Picard opens a hatch into the bridge to be confronted by Worf, Crusher and Hawk pointing phaser rifles)
WORF: Captain.
CRUSHER: Jean-Luc.
PICARD: Reports of my assimilation are greatly exaggerated. I found something you lost.
(Lily gasps when confronted by Worf)
http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=the-twilight-zone-1959&episode=s03e26
Springfield! Springfield!
The Twilight Zone
Little Girl Lost
Bill? Bill, this is chris.
Can you come over to the house right away? I'm sorry, bill, this is an emergency.
Tina has disappeared.
No, no, she hasn't been kidnapped.
Tina is tina is here but she's not here.
Bill, for crying out loud, will you get over here?! Hurry.
Shouldn't we wake her? Bill's coming over, honey.
Bill? Well, he's a physicist.
Maybe he can help us out.
http://www.tv.com/shows/broken-arrow/the-mail-riders-92717/
tv.com
Broken Arrow Season 1 Episode 1
The Mail Riders
Aired Tuesday 9:00 PM Sep 25, 1956 on ABC
The Apaches have been attacking every mail rider going through their territory. Jeffords decides the only way to stop them is to ask Cochise himself.
AIRED: 9/25/56
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Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938)
Release Info
USA 21 March 1938
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Men Don't Leave (1990)
Release Info
USA 2 February 1990 (Los Angeles, California)
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 7:45 AM Friday, April 29, 2011
1994 film "Princess Caraboo" DVD video:
Mary: "Land ho!" cries the sailor. Now, the princess don't know what that means but she sees a land
From 5/21/1969 ( I am Princeton University doctor of medicine graduate as Dr Thomas Reagan MD ) to 1/21/1976 ( my first landing the planet Mars and my documented and lawful exclusive claim to the territory of the planet Mars ) is 2436 days
2436 = 1218 + 1218
From 7/16/1963 ( my wife ) to 11/15/1966 ( the United States Gemini 12 spacecraft splashdown and as Tom Reagan the US Navy officer I was United States Gemini 12 spacecraft United States Navy astronaut returning from orbit of the planet Earth ) is 1218 days
From 7/21/1969 ( I was United States Apollo 11 Eagle spacecraft United States Navy astronaut walking on the planet Earth's moon as United States Navy Commander Thomas Reagan ) to 1/21/1976 ( my first landing the planet Mars and my documented and lawful exclusive claim to the territory of the planet Mars ) is 2375 days
From 3/3/1959 ( my birth date US ) to 9/2/1965 ( my first day as university student and graduate student instructor at Princeton University Princeton New Jersey United States where I earned doctor of medicine degree as Dr. Thomas Reagan MD ) is 2375 days
http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Solar
Solar System: Wed 1976 Jan 21
Mars
Distance (AU)
0.743
http://www.onlineconversion.com/length_all.htm
Welcome to OnlineConversion.com
All Length and Distance Conversions
Result:
0.743 astronomical unit = 69 066 026.667 mile [survey, US]
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[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2016/11/star-trek-first-contact-1996.html ]
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Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Release Info
USA 18 November 1996 (Hollywood, California) (premiere)
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Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Full Cast & Crew
James Cromwell ... Zefram Cochran
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Max-Wolf
Encyclopædia Britannica
Max Wolf
GERMAN ASTRONOMER
Max Wolf, in full Maximillian Franz Joseph Cornelius Wolf (born June 21, 1863, Heidelberg, Baden [Germany]—died Oct. 3, 1932, Heidelberg) German astronomer who applied photography to the search for asteroids and discovered 228 of them.
Wolf showed an early interest in astronomy; he was only 21 years old when he discovered a comet, now named for him. In 1890 he was appointed Privatdozent (unsalaried lecturer) at the University of Heidelberg. One year later he adapted a camera to a motor-driven telescope to seek out asteroids. (All previous discoveries had been made one by one by direct observation.) Using a time exposure of the heavens, Wolf demonstrated that the asteroids, because of their orbital motion, would show up in the photograph as a short line rather than a point of light, which denoted a star.
In 1893 Wolf became director of the new Königstuhl Observatory and was appointed to an extraordinary professorship in astrophysics at Heidelberg; nine years later he was elected to the chair of astronomy at Heidelberg. Through his photographic studies he established the presence of dark clouds of interstellar matter in the Milky Way Galaxy, and he was the first to use the stereocomparator (a type of stereoscopic viewer), which greatly helps in the discovery and identification of variable or moving objects in celestial photographs. In 1906 he discovered Achilles, the first of the Trojan planets, two groups of asteroids that move around the Sun in Jupiter’s orbit: one group 60° ahead of Jupiter, the other 60° behind.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/iraq-wins-independence/print
HISTORY
OCTOBER 03, 1932 : IRAQ WINS INDEPENDENCE
With the admission of Iraq into the League of Nations, Britain terminates its mandate over the Arab nation, making Iraq independent after 17 years of British rule and centuries of Ottoman rule.
Britain seized Iraq from Ottoman Turkey during World War I and was granted a mandate by the League of Nations to govern the nation in 1920. A Hashemite monarchy was organized under British protection in 1921, and on October 3, 1932, the kingdom of Iraq was granted independence. The Iraqi government maintained close economic and military ties with Britain, leading to several anti-British revolts. A pro-Axis revolt in 1941 led to a British military intervention, and the Iraqi government agreed to support the Allied war effort. In 1958, the monarchy was overthrown, and for the next two decades Iraq was ruled by a series of military and civilian governments. In 1979, General Saddam Hussein became Iraqi dictator; he held onto power with an iron fist, until disappearing in the face of an American-led coaliation’s invasion of Iraq in 2003.
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The Strongest Man in the World (1975)
Quotes
Dean Higgins: I know he's been kidnapped. How do I know? Because he's been gone for the last three hours looking for his dog.
The Policewoman: Sir, a boy looking for his dog isn't so unusual.
Dean Higgins: It is when the dog got back two hours and forty-five minutes ago.
http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=1990_724466
chron
Houston Chronicle Archives
Saddam talks to hostages on Iraqi TV/Troops ready to surround embassies
Houston Chronicle News Services
THU 08/23/1990
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
NICOSIA, Cyprus - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, in a tape from Iraq televised today, talked to a group of Western children and adults in his office in an apparent attempt to show the hostages were not being mistreated.
He told the group of Westerners, some believed to be British, that "your presence here and other other places is meant to prevent war."
The talk was broadcast by Cable News Network, which said it was a tape of the meeting. It was not known when the meeting took place.
Saddam was shown sitting in a business suit, patting the Western children on the head. He was surrounded by army officers and an interviewer who provided some translation of the conversation.
One of the officers also repeatedly stroked the head of one child as Saddam spoke to the boy. The grim-faced boys were dresssed in shorts and T-shirts. Saddam talked briefly with them about playing sports.
The Iraqi TV broadcast gave Saddam an unusual forum to repeat the Iraqi position.
A group of adults sat around the room, and also spoke with Saddam through an interpreter. Saddam asked them for forgiveness for keeping them there.
"Your presence here will not be for too long," he said.
"Your presence here is not a source of pleasure for us. This does not make us happy. What would make us happy would be to see you back in your countries or back in the streets of Baghdad (as in normal times)," Saddam said.
Saddam appeared relaxed as he spoke with a boy, identified only as Ian, 7. Saddam asked the boy if he was getting enough milk and food. The child, through an interpreter, said he was getting enough milk and cornflakes.
It was then that Saddam giggled, and turning to an aide in military uniform, he said in Arabic: "He is getting more than our Iraqi children."
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Stephen King
The Stand - The Complete & Uncut Edition
Chapter 38
As the superflu epidemic wound down, there was a second epidemic that lasted roughly two weeks. This epidemic was most common in technological societies such as the United States, least common in underdeveloped countries such as Peru or Senegal. In the United States the second epidemic took about 16 percent of the superflu survivors. In places like Peru and Senegal, no more than 3 percent. The second epidemic had no name because the symptoms differed wildly from case to case. A sociologist like Glen Bateman might have called this second epidemic “natural death” or “those ole emergency room blues.” In a strictly Darwinian sense, it was the final cut—the unkindest cut of all, some might have said.
http://www.e-reading.org.ua/bookreader.php/80261/King_-_The_Stand.html
Stephen King
The Stand - The Complete & Uncut Edition
Chapter 38
George McDougall lived in Nyack, New York. He had been a teacher of high school mathematics, specializing in remedial work. He and his wife had been practicing Catholics, and Harriett McDougall had borne him eleven children, nine boys and two girls. So between June 22, when his nine-year-old son Jeff had succumbed to what was then diagnosed as “flu-related pneumonia,” and June 29, when his sixteen-year-old daughter Patricia (and oh God she had been so young and so achingly beautiful) had succumbed to what everyone—those that were left—was then calling tube-neck, he had seen the twelve people he loved best in the world pass away while he himself remained healthy and feeling fine. He had joked at school about not being able to remember all his kids’ names, but the order of their passing was engraved on his memory: Jeff on the twenty-second, Marty and Helen on the twenty-third, his wife Harriett and Bill and George, Jr., and Robert and Stan on the twenty-fourth, Richard on the twenty-fifth, Danny on the twenty-seventh, three-year-old Frank on the twenty-eighth, and finally Pat—and Pat had seemed to be getting better, right up to the end.
George thought he would go mad.
He had begun jogging ten years before, on his doctor’s advice. He didn’t play tennis or handball, paid a kid (one of his, of course) to mow the lawn, and usually drove to the corner store when Harriett needed a loaf of bread. You’re putting on weight, Dr. Warner had said. Lead in the seat. No good for your heart. Try jogging.
So he had gotten a sweatsuit and had gone jogging every night, for short distances at the start, then longer and longer ones. At first he’d felt self-conscious, sure that the neighbors must be tapping their foreheads and rolling their eyes, and then a couple of the men that he had only known to wave to when they were out watering their lawns came and asked if they could join him—probably there was safety in numbers. By that time, George’s two oldest boys had also joined in. It became a sort of neighborhood thing, and although the membership was always evolving as people dropped in and dropped out, it stayed a neighborhood thing.
Now that everyone was gone, he still jogged. Every day. For hours. It was only when he was jogging, concentrating on nothing more than the thud of his tennis shoes on the sidewalk and the swing of his arms and his steady harsh respiration, that he lost that feeling of impending madness. He could not commit suicide because as a practicing Catholic he knew that suicide was a mortal sin and God must be saving him for something, so he jogged. Yesterday he had jogged for almost six hours, until he was completely out of breath and almost retching with exhaustion. He was fifty-one, not a young man anymore, and he supposed that so much running was not good for him, but in another, more important way, it was the only thing that was any good.
So he had gotten up this morning at first light after a mostly sleepless night (the thought that played over and over in his mind was: Jeff-Marty-Helen-Harriett-Bill-George-Junior-Robert-Stanley-Richard-Danny-Frank-Patty-and-I-thought-she-was-getting-better) and put on his sweatsuit. He went out and began to jog up and down the deserted streets of Nyack, his feet sometimes gritting on broken glass, once leaping over a TV set that lay shattered on the pavement, taking him past residential streets where the shades were drawn and also past the horrible three-car crash at the Main Street intersection.
He jogged at first, but it became necessary to run faster and faster to keep the thoughts behind him. He jogged and then he trotted and then he ran and finally he sprinted, a fifty-one-year-old man with gray hair in a gray sweatsuit and white tennis shoes, fleeing up and down empty streets as if all the devils of hell were after him. At quarter past eleven he suffered a massive coronary thrombosis and fell down dead on the corner of Oak and Pine, near a fire plug. The expression on his face was very like gratitude.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 9:56 AM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: gulag
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=gulag
gulag
A place or situation of great suffering and hardship, likened to the atmosphere in a prison system or a forced labor camp
[Living for years under the constant surveillance of unknown tormentors, Kerry was exhausted from trying to escape his apparent captivity.]
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Shivering Sherlocks (1948)
Release Info
USA 8 January 1948
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Shivering Sherlocks (1948)
Full Cast & Crew
Shemp Howard ... Shemp Howard (as Shemp)
Larry Fine ... Larry Fine (as Larry)
Moe Howard ... Moe Howard (as Moe)
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Shivering Sherlocks (1948)
Plot Summary
The stooges witness an armed robbery and are brought in by the cops as suspects. After passing a lie detector test, the boys are freed but are now the only ones who can identify the crooks. Meanwhile, their friend Gladys has inherited a house in the country and the boys go with her to inspect it so she won't be gypped when its sold. The house turns out to be the crook's hideout, and when they abduct Gladys, the stooges must rescue her.
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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Wednesday, March 1, 2006 8:19 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: sunshine
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=sunshine
sunshine
Radiant cheerfulness
"The sunshine disappeared for a moment, but I think it was from a cloud that had dropped her off beside me. The side of her face sang that song as her flowing hair danced fearlessly across the old barbed-wire squeezing my heart. Again I asked the grumpy pavement to give me an arrow, a directional, anything, that shows me the way home."
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- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 05:31 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Monday 28 November 2016
