Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home: Spokane

From 3/16/2013 ( the untimely demise of Kerry Burgess 2005 and I exist today as Kerry Burgess 2013 ) to 5/2/2015 is 777 days

From 5/2/2015 to 6/17/2017 ( --- ) is 777 days

See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2017/05/charlotte.html
See also: Kerry Burgess - Facebook - Thursday 11 May 2017

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Oblivion (2013)

Malcolm Beech: And the Tet set crew ships down. Door is opened... And out you came. Astronaut Jack Harper. Thousands of you. Memory wiped. Programmed to kill. They took one of our best and turned him against us. No soul. No humanity. The Tet what a brilliant machine.

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Tribune Star

Historical Perspective: John Rogers Cox’s art remains popular 20 years after his death

By Mike McCormick

Special to the Tribune-Star Nov 7, 2010

When Terre Haute native John Rogers Cox was an elementary school student, he sketched cartoon figures of a Scottish terrier on test papers.

If he knew the answer to the test question, the dog rejoiced; if he didn’t, it cried. Often the pup was sitting in a puddle of water before the examination was over.

Despite his early artistic pencil skills, it was remarkable that the second oil painting he ever made, “Grey and Gold,” won Second Medal in the 1942 Artists for Victory Show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Other awards followed. Despite an erratic lifestyle, John Rogers carved out an extraordinary career. Once considered one of America’s best known painters, Cox and his work continue to be recognized and the value of his paintings skyrocket.

Even as a youth, John Rogers was a free spirit. He and his scholarly twin brother Ben were the youngest of Wilson Naylor and Lassie (Gardenhire) Cox’s four sons.

Their father — the product of a merger of two prominent Vigo County families – was president of the Terre Haute National Bank, later Terre Haute First National Bank. His childhood was spent at 501 S. Fifth St.

Wilson Naylor “W.N.” Cox, Jr., the oldest boy, was born March 12, 1909. The next oldest — Francis “Fritz” Gardenhire Cox — came along two years later. Twins Benjamin Guille and John Rogers were born March 24, 1915.

W.N., an outstanding golfer, and Ben became lawyers. Fritz was the best golfer of the bunch, winning the Country Club of Terre Haute championship and finishing as a finalist in the Indiana Amateur on at least two occasions.

Though not a celebrated golfer, John Rogers seemingly emulated Uncle Newton Cox, 1904 Indiana Amateur Golf champion, who joined a circus.

His parents sent him to the University of Pennsylvania to study business but pool halls became his favorite classrooms. He finally earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1938 from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

Unable to land a job in his chosen profession, Cox returned to Terre Haute to work as a bank clerk. On Dec. 27, 1939, he wed Terre Haute native Mary Hermine Mayer, daughter of Herman and Antoinette (Brinkman) Mayer. They had three children.

One person who recognized Cox’s talent was William Thomas Turman, chairman of the art department at Indiana State Teachers College. A recognized artist, Turman offered John the job as first director of new Sheldon Swope Art Gallery in Terre Haute.

He accepted immediately.

It was a momentous decision. Director Cox amassed a superb collection of American Regional art for the museum, which opened March 21, 1942, before Thomas Hart Benton, Edward Hopper and Grant Wood were household names.

During a dispute with Turman during 1943, Cox resigned from the Swope. Before he joined the U.S. Army in 1944, “Grey and Gold” captured the Popular Prize at the Carnegie Institute. It was purchased by the Cleveland Museum of Art, where it has been reproduced in color many times.

“White Cloud,” a colorful oil of a white mushroom-shaped cloud over a plowed field, won the Carnegie Prize in 1943. It was acquired by the Swope in 2000. “Tall Grass,” which also secured recognition from Carnegie, was sold in 1945 to a Washington, D.C., collector.

“Cloud Trails” (1944), which depicts a landscape of precisely pained where stalks under an expanse of blue sky, was acquired by the St. Louis Art Museum in 2006.

Upon his discharge from the service, “Wheat” won the 1946 Carnegie Popular Prize and was purchased by the National Bank of New York City.

Other early Cox paintings, such as “Landscape,” “The Hill,” “The Cooling House,” “Self Portrait,” “Edge of Town,” “Nude of Meleny”and “Stairway” were quickly sold to collectors. “Self Portrait,” drawn in pencil, is now owned by the Swope Art Museum.

Disheartened by the death of his daughter and the break-up of his marriage in 1947, Cox relocated to Chicago and prowled its seediest streets in search of subjects to draw.

In its July 12, 1948 issue, Life magazine did a special feature on Cox, introducing several of his paintings in color. From 1948 to 1965, he was on the faculty at the Chicago Art Institute, specializing in figure drawings. He was not prolific as an oil painter after 1950, focusing on pen and pencil sketches.

On its 40th anniversary, the Swope held a retrospective exhibition of his work.

In October 1951, “American Artist” magazine asked Cox a number of questions about his work. Reluctantly, he offered some comments. Here are a few:

“What artists say they do, what they think they do and what they actually do are three different things.

“Certainly no one ever painted what a painter said and hung it on the wall. Yet almost everyone is concerned at one time or another has wasted his time and energy trying to explain something for which there is no real answer in words.

“Still we can’t put the screws on thinking and talking about pictures with an arbitrary wave of the hand. If you do not talk about art, you’re going to think about it; and, if you think about it, then you are going to talk about it; and sooner or later, your ego takes over and you write it down and that’s the cure.”

“I hardly ever paint a picture the same way twice. Sometime I make sketches before starting, sometimes I draw directly on the canvas or panel and then paint, and sometimes I just begin to paint directly. Other times I make detailed sketches of parts of my idea in oil on little panels and pieces of cardboard … .Hours are consumed rearranging these oil sketches in various compositions to find what shape of picture I want.

“The chemistry of the paint must be sound and I refer to several books for this as well as drawing upon my own experience … I have never done anything quickly and I envy those who claim they ‘dashed of’ a painting.”

Cox ultimately remarried and moved successively from Chicago to New Orleans, Wenatchee, Wash., and Louisville, where he died at age 74 on Jan. 30, 1990. He is survived by sons John and Henry. His art is popular and continues to increase in value.

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ARPANET establishes 1st computer-to-computer link, October 29, 1969

Suzanne Deffree -October 29, 2015

The first-ever computer-to-computer link was established on ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), the precursor to the Internet, on October 29, 1969.

Originally funded by ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency), now DARPA, within the United States Department of Defense, ARPANET was to be used for projects at universities and research laboratories in the US. The packet switching of the ARPANET was based on designs by British scientist Donald Davies and Lawrence Roberts of the Lincoln Laboratory.

Initially, ARPANET consisted of four IMPs:

One at the University of California, Los Angeles with an SDS Sigma 7 as the first computer attached to it;

One at the Stanford Research Institute's Augmentation Research Center, where Douglas Engelbart is credited with creating the NLS (oN-Line System) hypertext system, with an SDS 940 that ran NLS being the first host attached;

One at University of California, Santa Barbara with the Culler-Fried Interactive Mathematics Center's IBM 360/75 running OS/MVT being the machine attached;

And one at the University of Utah's Computer Science Department, running a DEC PDP-10 running TENEX.

The first message on the ARPANET was sent by UCLA student programmer Charles S Kline at 10:30 pm on October 29, from the campus’ Boelter Hall to the Stanford Research Institute's SDS 940 host computer.

The message text was meant to be the word “login,” but only the L and O were transmitted before the system crashed.

About an hour after the crash, the system was recovered and a full “login” message was sent as the second transmission.

The first permanent ARPANET link was established weeks later on November 21, 1969, between the IMP at UCLA and the IMP at the Stanford Research Institute. By December 5, 1969, the entire four-node network was established.

By 1975, ARPANET was declared "operational" and the Defense Communications Agency took control of it. In 1983, ARPANET was split with US military sites on their own Military Network (MILNET) for unclassified defense department communications. The combination was called the Defense Data Network.

ARPANET was formally decommissioned on February 28, 1990. Well-known computer scientist and a “father of the Internet” Vinton Cerf wrote "Requiem of the ARPANET" in honor of the system.

It was the first, and being first, was best,

but now we lay it down to ever rest.

Now pause with me a moment, shed some tears.

For auld lang syne, for love, for years and years

of faithful service, duty done, I weep.

Lay down thy packet, now, O friend, and sleep.

JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 7:40 PM Saturday, May 28, 2011

Vantage

In the recent hour I started to wonder about the interstate highway number for the town of George in Washington State. Although I have driven an automobile through that area several times in interstate highway I-90 I had no idea what was even the range of numbers for that interstate exit. I started to wonder if the interstate exit number was "13-something."

I looked it up on the map and it is not "13-something" and is instead exit 149. So I started to wonder if there was anything at the "13-something" mileposts and there it was. The interstate highway I-90 exit 136 is for Vantage Washington. This is the point where the Vantage Bridge crosses off the Columbia River. And then when you are driving on the interstate towards the town of George which isn't very far away, you cross the river and then you make an almost ninety turn to the north.

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JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 7:55 PM Saturday, May 28, 2011

CH-47 Chinook

Well, that would make sense. The Grumman C-2 Greyhound is designed to land on the short deck of an aircraft carrier and my time travel leap arrives at the past date 3 March 2003 on a table mesa near Ancient Lake. As best I can tell, that table mesa is about a quarter-mile long.

I might have dreamed those details because of how the C-2 Greyhound transports passengers and cargo to the aircraft carrier deck and, although I did not travel away from that table mesa on a C-2, the CH-47 Chinook helicopter is a tandem rotor configuration and it does have that rear tailgate similar to the C-2 Greyhound. That CH-47 Chinook is what flew in and landed on the table mesa and then a passenger came out to meet me in her bugsuit and shook my hand and then we flew off into the proverbial sunset where I then lived - will live - for 67 days in Bellevue Washington State.

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From 5/28/2011 To 3/31/2017 ( --- ) is 2134 days

2134 = 1067 + 1067

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Burgess ) To 10/4/1968 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"The Paradise Syndrome" ) is 1067 days

From 10/4/1968 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"The Paradise Syndrome" ) To 3/31/2017 ( --- ) is 17710 days

17710 = 8855 + 8855

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Burgess ) To 1/30/1990 ( John Rogers Cox deceased ) is 8855 days

From 3/26/2010 ( premiere US TV series episode "Caprica"::"End of Line" ) to 9/27/2013 ( Homestead Day 1 ) is 1281 days

From 9/27/2013 ( Homestead Day 1 ) to 3/31/2017 ( --- ) is 1281 days

From 3/16/2013 ( the untimely demise of Kerry Burgess 2005 and I exist today as Kerry Burgess 2013 ) To 3/31/2017 ( --- ) is 1476 days

1476 = 738 + 738

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Burgess ) To 11/10/1967 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Metamorphosis" ) is 738 days

From 10/29/1969 To 3/31/2017 ( --- ) is 17320 days

17320 = 8660 + 8660

From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Burgess ) To 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash ) is 8660 days

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Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)

KIRK: Mister Decker, I'd like to see you in my quarters.

McCOY: Mind if I tag along, Captain?

KIRK: Level five.

[Kirk's quarters]

KIRK: All right, explanation? Why was my phaser order countermanded?

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The Simpsons (TV Series)

I Love Lisa (1993)

Quotes

Miss Hoover: Martha Washington will be played by Lisa Simpson.

[Lisa giggles]

Miss Hoover: George Washington will be played by... em, Ralph Wiggum.

Rex: What? This is a travesty! Everyone knows I'm the best actor in this ridiculous school!

Miss Hoover: Sit down, Rex.

Rex: I will not sit down! Someone's gone to you, you deceitful cow!

Miss Hoover: That's absurd, Rex. Ralph won the part fair and square.

[She opens and closes the blinds repeatedly. Outside:]

Chief Wiggum: That's the signal. Take the boot off the car, boys.

From 12/30/2016 to 2/14/2017 is 46 days

From 2/14/2017 to 4/1/2017 is 46 days

JOURNAL ARCHIVE: - posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 9:17 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Tuesday 14 February 2017 - http://hvom.blogspot.com/2017/02/ncis.html

"NCIS"

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NCIS (New)

102 KREMDT: Tuesday, February 14 8:00 PM [ 8:00 PM Tuesday 14 February 2017 Pacific Time USA ]

Crime drama, Action, Adventure, Mystery

Pandora's Box, Part I

Abby is found in possession of a real bomb after her homeland security think tank is compromised; a theoretical terror playbook is stolen and is being auctioned on the black market.

Cast: Mark Harmon, Pauley Perrette, Sean Murray, Wilmer Valderrama, Jennifer Esposito, Brian Dietzen, Emily Wickersham, Duane Henry, Rocky Carroll, David McCallum Director(s): Arvin Brown Executive Producer(s): Chas. Floyd Johnson, Mark Horowitz, Mark Harmon, Frank Cardea, George Schenck, Steven D. Binder, Scott Williams, Donald P. Bellisario

Original Air Date: Feb 14, 2017

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NCIS: New Orleans (New)

102 KREMDT: Tuesday, February 14 10:00 PM [ 10:00 PM Tuesday 14 February 2017 Pacific Time USA ]

Crime drama, Action, Adventure, Mystery

Pandora's Box, Part II

NCIS agents McGee and Torres head to New Orleans to partner with Pride and his team in the search for the missing homeland security theoretical terror playbook.

Cast: Scott Bakula, Lucas Black, Vanessa Ferlito, Rob Kerkovich, Daryl ``Chill'' Mitchell, Shalita Grant, CCH Pounder Director(s): LeVar Burton Executive Producer(s): Mark Harmon, Martha Haight

Original Air Date: Feb 14, 2017

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