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United States Space Corps. The proposal is part of negotiations for this years National Defense Authorization Act. The annual military budget will have to pass a vote in the full chamber before it becomes official but the overwhelming vote in the Armed Services Committee bodes well for the space army’s chances of becoming a reality. The United States Space Corps would be the first new branch of the military since 1.

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Air Force was formed. The current proposal would classify the USCC in the department of the Air Force in a way that mirrors the Marines classification as part of the department of the Navy.

The Space Corps’ chief of staff would be ranked as equal to the Air Force chief of staff and would report to the Secretary of the Air Force. A bunch of guys in Congress who believe space carnage is on its way might be feeling positive about this military overhaul but not everyone in the military feels the same way. According to CNN, the Air Force’s secretary and chief of staff are opposed to the plan. The Nuclear Boy Scout Full Movie In English more. One reason is that we already have the Air Force Space Command and the military believes that the creation of the Space Corps would just cause more complications. Secretary Heather Wilson told reporters that “this will make it more complex, add more boxes to the organizational chart, and cost more money.” Wilson is currently fighting for budget increases and claims that the Air Force has become too small to accomplish what it’s expected to do. If I had more money, I would put it into lethality, not bureaucracy,” Wilson said. Representative Mike Rogers, R- Alabama, has been a major cheerleader for the Space Corps.

I’ve been shocked by the response by the Air Force leadership,” he said recently at a hearing. Speaking to NPR at the end of June, Rogers said that “The Russians and Chinese have realized that if they can take our eyes and ears out, which is what our satellites are, they might actually be able to compete or have an advantage against us.”At least one member of Congress has expressed doubts about the plan. Arizona Representative Martha Mc. Sally, a Republican Air Force veteran, said that more discussion is needed. This is sort of a shocking way to hear about a very major reorganization to our military, and I think it deserves at least a couple hearings and discussions on the matter at the full committee level,” Mc.

Sally told reporters. It’s really tough to say just how necessary it is to have an army dedicated to space warfare at the moment. On the one hand, we haven’t really experienced any signficant space aggression. On the other hand, the military can be very helpful in advancing technology and we do need to get off this rock at some point. On the other other hand, we’re facing an actual cyberwar that’s just getting started here on Earth and our president won’t even acknowledge it. Yeah, this is probably stupid.[CNN].

M. Night Shyamalan - Wikipedia. Manoj Nelliyattu "M. Night" Shyamalan[1] (; [2]; [3]Maṉōj Nelliyāṭṭu Śyāmaḷaṉ; Tamil: மனோஜ் நெல்லியட்டு ஷியாமளன்; Malayalam: മനോജ് നെല്ലിയാട്ട് ശ്യാമളന്‍ born 6 August 1. Watch Being There Megavideo. Indian- American film director, screenwriter, author, producer, and actor known for making movies with contemporary supernatural plots and surprise endings.

His most well- received films include the supernatural horror thriller The Sixth Sense (1. Unbreakable (2. 00. Signs (2. 00. 2). Afterwards, Shyamalan released a series of poorly received but sometimes financially successful movies, including the historical drama- horror film The Village (2. Lady in the Water (2.

The Happening (2. The Last Airbender (2. After Earth (2. 01. Following the financial failure of After Earth, Shyalaman's career was revived with the release of the found footage horror The Visit (2. Split (2. 01. 6), the latter of which is set in the same universe as his previous film Unbreakable. He was a producer for Devil (2.

Fox science fiction series Wayward Pines. Shyamalan is also known for filming and setting his films in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was raised.

Most of his commercially successful films were co- produced and released by the Walt Disney Studios' Touchstone and Hollywood film imprints. In 2. 00. 8, Shyamalan was awarded the Padma Shri by the government of India.[5]Early life[edit]Shyamalan was born in Mahé,[6] a town in the Indian Union Territory of Puducherry. The son of Indian parents,[7] his father, Nelliate C. Shyamalan, is a Malayali from Mahé and graduated with a medical degree from JIPMER,[8] while his mother, Jayalakshmi, is an ethnic Tamil who is an obstetrician and gynecologist by profession.[9]Shyamalan spent his first six weeks in Puducherry, and then was raised in Penn Valley, Pennsylvania, an affluent suburb of Philadelphia. Shyamalan was raised Hindu.[1. He attended the private Roman Catholic grammar school. Waldron Mercy Academy, followed by the Episcopal Academy, a private Episcopalhigh school located at the time in Merion, Pennsylvania.

Shyamalan earned the New York University Merit Scholarship in 1. Shyamalan is an alumnus of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, in Manhattan,[1. It was while studying there that he adopted "Night" as his second name.[1. Shyamalan had an early desire to be a filmmaker when he was given a Super 8 camera at a young age. Though his father wanted him to follow in the family practice of medicine, his mother encouraged him to follow his passion.[1. By the time he was seventeen, the Steven Spielberg fan had made forty- five home movies.

On each DVD release of his films (beginning with The Sixth Sense and with the exception of Lady in the Water), he has included a scene from one of these childhood movies, which he feels represents his first attempt at the same kind of film.[citation needed]Shyamalan made his first film, the semi- autobiographical drama. Praying with Anger, while still a student at NYU, using money borrowed from family and friends.[1. He wrote and directed his second movie, Wide Awake. His parents were the film's associate producers. The drama dealt with a ten- year- old Catholic schoolboy (Joseph Cross) who, after the death of his grandfather (Robert Loggia), searches for God. The film's supporting cast included Dana Delany and Denis Leary as the boy's parents, as well as Rosie O'Donnell, Julia Stiles, and Camryn Manheim. Wide Awake was filmed in a school Shyamalan attended as a child[1.

Young Artist Award nominations for Best Drama, and, for Cross, Best Performance.[1. Only in limited release, the film grossed $3. That same year Shyamalan co- wrote the screenplay for Stuart Little with Greg Brooker. In 2. 01. 3, he revealed he was the ghostwriter for the 1.

She's All That, a teen comedy starring Freddie Prinze Jr. Rachel Leigh Cook.[1. However, this statement has come into question as the credited screenwriter for the film, R. Lee Fleming Jr., denied Shyamalan's involvement in a now deleted tweet.[2. Shyamalan gained international recognition when he wrote and directed 1. The Sixth Sense, which was a commercial success and later nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.

In July 2. 00. 0, on The Howard Stern Show, Shyamalan said he had met with Steven Spielberg and was in early talks to write the script for the fourth Indiana Jones film. This would have given Shyamalan a chance to work with his longtime idol.[2.

After the film fell through, Shyamalan later said it was too "tricky" to arrange and "not the right thing" for him to do.[2. Shyamalan followed The Sixth Sense by writing and directing Unbreakable, released in 2. Shyamalan's name was linked with the 2. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, but it conflicted with the production of Unbreakable. In July 2. 00. 6, while doing press tours for Lady in the Water, Shyamalan had said he was still interested in directing one of the last two Harry Potter films: "The themes that run through it.. Shyamalan said. "I enjoy the humor in it.

When I read the first Harry Potter and was thinking about making it, I had a whole different vibe in my head of it".[2. His 2. 00. 2 film Signs, where he also played Ray Reddy, gained both critical and financial success. His next movie The Village (2. After the release of The Village in 2. Shyamalan had been planning a film adaptation of Yann Martel's novel Life of Pi with 2.

Century Fox, but later backed out so that he could make Lady in the Water. I love that book. I mean, it's basically [the story of] a kid born in the same city as me [Pondicherry, India] — it almost felt predestined", Shyamalan said. But I was hesitant because the book has kind of a twist ending. And I was concerned that as soon as you put my name on it, everybody would have a different experience.

Whereas if someone else did it, it would be much more satisfying, I think. Expectations, you've got to be aware of them.

I'm wishing them all great luck. I hope they make a beautiful movie".[2.

Released in 2. 00. Lady in the Water performed worse critically and financially than his previous films. The film The Happening (2. In 2. 01. 0, he directed The Last Airbender, based on the Nickelodeon TV series Avatar: The Last Airbender.

It received extremely negative reviews in the United States and won five Razzie Awards, but it made nearly $3. In July 2. 00. 8, it was announced that Shyamalan had partnered with Media Rights Capital to form a production company called Night Chronicles. Shyamalan would produce, but not direct, one film a year for three years.[2.

The first of the three films was Devil, a supernatural thriller directed by siblings John and Drew Dowdle. The script was written by Brian Nelson, based on an original idea from Shyamalan.[2. The movie was about a group of people stuck in an elevator with the devil, and starred Chris Messina.[2. The film was not previewed by critics before its release, eventually receiving mixed reviews.

Devil was not a blockbuster hit, but has become a commercial success relative to its budget. The next film in the Night Chronicles series will be called Reincarnate. It will be scripted by Chris Sparling and directed by Daniel Stamm. In 2. 01. 3, Shyamalan directed the film After Earth, based on a script by Gary Whitta and starring Will Smith and Jaden Smith. It was received poorly by critics, with Rotten Tomatoes giving the film a score of 1.

Shyamalan announced in January 2. Bruce Willis on a film titled Labor of Love.[2.

By November of that year, Universal had picked up rights to a low- budget movie called The Visit that Shyamalan had shot in secret. The movie went on to become a relative critical and financial success.[2. Universal released the movie on 1. September 2. 01. 5.[2.

In 2. 01. 6 TNT first announced that Shyamalan would be responsible for a reboot series for Tales from the Crypt. As of June 2. 01. In 2. 01. 7, Shyamalan released the movie Split, which garnered positive reviews and was a huge financial success.