Monday, October 15, 2007

Albany - Albanian

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albany%2C_New_York

Albany is the capital of the State of New York and the county seat of Albany County. Albany lies 136 miles (219 km) north of New York City, and slightly to the south of the juncture of the Mohawk and Hudson Rivers.[1] The city has a population of 93,963 (July 2006 est.).[2]

Albany has close ties with the nearby cities of Troy, Schenectady, and Saratoga Springs, forming a region called the Capital District. This area makes up the bulk of the Albany-Schenectady-Troy Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) with a population of 850,957, making it the fourth largest urban area in New York State, and the 56th largest MSA in the United States.[3]

The Albany-Schenectady-Amsterdam, NY CSA, consists of the Albany-Schenectady-Troy MSA, the Glens Falls MSA, and the Amsterdam MSA. Using this definition, the area has a population (as of 2006) of 1,147,850, making it the third largest metropolitan area in New York State, and aside from New York City CSA, the only area that has shown any population growth. [citation needed] The Albany-Schenectady-Amsterdam, NY CSA is also the 36th largest in the nation.[4]





From 7/16/1963 to 11/26/1976 is: 4882 days
From 11/26/1976 to 4/7/1990 (USS Albany)(Saturday) is: 4880 days

http://www.nvr.navy.mil/nvrships/details/SSN753.htm

USS ALBANY (SSN 753)
SUBMARINE (NUCLEAR-POWERED)
Commission Date: 04/07/1990





From 7/16/1969 (Apollo 11 launches for Moon) to 6/13/1987 (USS Albany launched) is: 6541 days
6541 * 0.3359 = 2197 days
From 7/16/1963 to 7/21/1969 (Apollo 11 lunar landing) is: 2197 days

'33-59'

http://www.nvr.navy.mil/nvrships/details/SSN753.htm

USS ALBANY (SSN 753)
SUBMARINE (NUCLEAR-POWERED)
Launch Date: 06/13/1987





http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084434/

An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)

John Laughlin ... Troy
Jeffrey P. Rondeau ... Troy's Friend

Tommy Petersen ... Young Zack





From 8/10/1959 (Rosanna Arquette) to 7/16/1963 is 3 years, 340 days

'33-34'

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000275/

Rosanna Arquette
Date of Birth: 10 August 1959
Flight of the Intruder (1991) .... Callie [ Callie Troy ]





http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&saddr=troy,+ny&daddr=grafton+lakes+state+park&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=42.495706,95.800781&ie=UTF8&z=12&om=1

From: Troy, NY

Drive: 15.7 mi – about 28 mins

To: Grafton Lakes State Park





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafton_Lakes_State_Park

Grafton Lakes State Park is a state park in Rensselaer County, New York in the USA. The park is in the central part of the Town of Grafton and north of the community of Grafton on Route 2.

The park offers a beach, a boat launch and boat rentals, a bridle path, hunting, fishing and ice fishing, ice skating, hiking and biking, picnic tables and pavilions, a nature trail, a playground, recreation programs, snowmobiling, snowshoeing and cross-country skiing, and a food concession.





From 3/3/1959 to 10/24/1959 (Brad Johnson) is: 33 weeks, 4 days

'33-34'

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0424635/

Brad Johnson
Date of Birth: 24 October 1959
Flight of the Intruder (1991) .... Lt. Jake 'Cool Hand' Grafton





From 7/22/1955 (Willem Dafoe) to 7/16/1963 is: 4 days, 416 weeks

'4416'

From 3/3/1959 to 7/16/1963 is: 4 years, 4 months, 1 week, 6 days

'4416'

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000353/

Willem Dafoe
Date of Birth: 22 July 1955
Flight of the Intruder (1991) .... Lt. Cmdr. Virgil 'Tiger' Cole





Sea, Air, Land - S.A.L.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0299076/

Alison Furrevig

Flight of the Intruder (1991) .... Sallie [ Sallie Troy ]





From 7/16/1963 to 4/14/1977 is: 5021 days
From 4/14/1977 to 1/12/1991 (Saturday) is: 5021 days

From 1/12/1991 (Saturday) to 1/18/1991 ("Flight of the Intruder")(Friday) is: 6 days

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099587/

Flight of the Intruder (1991)

Release Date: 18 January 1991 (USA)

Tagline: The only thing they can count on is each other.

Willem Dafoe ... Lt. Cmdr. Virgil 'Tiger' Cole
Brad Johnson ... Lt. Jake 'Cool Hand' Grafton
Rosanna Arquette ... Callie
Alison Furrevig ... Sallie





From 7/16/1963 to 1/17/2000 (Monday) is: 13334 days

'1-33-34'

http://www.snpp.com/episodes/BABF06

Faith Off

Original Airdate on FOX: 16-Jan-2000


Movie (and other) references

Garo Yepremian (football player)

- Springfield University's star kicker based on this Albanian (?) field-goal kicker who played for the Dolphins


Kickers are the unsung heroes of (American) football. In football, the touchdown is usually the main event, so most of the glory goes to the quarterbacks, running backs, and receivers who engineer them. The kicker is a crucial part of a winning team. Since he is usually the one who scores all the field goals, and is credited with the point-after kick following a touchdown, he will often be the one who scores the most points for a team over a season. Even so, the place kicker is sort of a low-key position, it's a subtly humorous point he would be the team's star player.

The fact that Andre Lubchenko, the Nittany Tide's kicker, is a foreigner is also no coincidence. Many kickers in the pros are people who hail from countries where soccer (that *other* football) is popular.


% Springfield U's star player gets ready to kick off.

Well, hang on to your hoop skirts, folks, because Anton Lubchenko is going to be kicking higher than a mule on payday. [Lubchenko kicks the ball. It is a long, high punt] Oh, land o'lakes! Take that, ozone layer!

-- Game Announcer, "Faith Off"


% A&M's kick returner catches the ball, but it hits him with such
% force that he's buried in the end zone. Several SU players pile on.
% Homer leaps from out of nowhere and lands on top of the pile.
%
% Lubchenko kicks a field goal for the first score of the game.

Marge: Wow, he should have his foot insured by Lloyd's of London.

Homer: [drunkenly] Oh, you just know what everyone should do, don't you, Marge?

-- As it turns out, yeah, she does, "Faith Off"


% The sound of the referee's starter pistol signals the beginning of
% halftime. (The score is now SU, 18, and A&M, 7.) Homer suddenly
% remembers he has to drive his float. The crowd obligingly passes
% him down to the field.
%
% Bart and Lisa wait in a concession line somewhere in the stadium.
% Lisa, apparently not convinced the veal died of loneliness, is
% convinced she can get some tabouli there. Captain McAllister sees
% Bart, and asks if the can heal his depression. Bart tells him that
% he can't help him. As the Captain retreats, Bart confides to Lisa
% that he thought the McAllister "had it all."


% On the field, halftime floats and singers create a tribute to
% halftime itself. As the floats leave, the players retake the field.
% Suddenly, Homer drives onto the field with his float, "A Salute to
% Hazing." The crowd boos this interloper, distracting Homer just
% long enough to plow into Anton Lubchenko. The crowd gasps in
% horror. Lisa looks downcast and sympathetic. "Dad has the worst
% luck when he's drinking."


% Dr. Hibbert quickly is on the scene. When he touches Lubchenko's
% leg, the man screams in pain. Things look grim. Homer looks on
% from the sideline.

Homer: Oh, I only wanted to show my school spirit.

[Fat Tony walks up, and grabs Homer]

Tony: I wagered a large sum on the performance of that scholar athlete. [produces an icepick with a laser sight, and points it menacingly at Homer]

Homer: No, wait! I got a kid who's a miracle worker! He'll heal him up real good!

Tony: Well he'd better, or else.

Homer: Or else what? [Tony holds up his weapon] Oh, right, the icepick.

-- "Faith Off"


% Homer, "encouraged" by the sight of Fat Tony on the stadium's jumbo-
% vision, begs Bart to work his healing magic on the injured player.
% Bart agrees to try.
%
% In the locker room, Dr. Hibbert gives Lubchenko his diagnosis.
% Homer and Bart watch.

Hibbert: Son, I'm afraid that leg is hanging by a thread.

Lubchenko: Lubchenko must return to game!

Hibbert: [chuckles] Your playing days are over, my friend. But, you can always fall back on your degree in ... [reads chart] communications!? Oh, dear Lord!

Lubchenko: I know! Is phony major. Lubchenko learn nothing. Nothing! [cries]

-- Should've majored in recreational management, "Faith Off"


% Bart asks God's help, not just for his sake, but for his father's.
% Then he lays his hands on Lubchenko's leg and commands him to heal.
%
% Back on the field, the score is Springfield U, 18, and Springfield
% A&M, 20.

Announcer: Oh, doctor, with SU behind and seconds left, my supply of homespun sayings is lower than a doodlebug in Aunt Tilly's root cellar. So we'll -- [Lubchenko hobbles back onto the field] Oh, jumpin' crawdaddies! Is that Lubchenko coming back on the field?

[crowd cheers, and the camera cuts to Marge and Lisa]

Lisa: Bart did it. And they're going to try for a field goal.

Marge: Field goal, hmm? [counts on her fingers] Nineteen ... twenty ... twenty-one [gasps] That would win the game!

-- Marge Simpson, football tactician, "Faith Off"