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From fairly early in the history of the Colony of New South Wales there have been counts made of the number of people living in it. People were named individually, making censuses and musters useful to us when trying to find out where a person was living and what they were doing.
Here is a rather poor copy of a page from the 1837 Muster of Convicts:
- Page from the 1837 Convict Muster
In the early days of the colonies of Australia censuses involved nothing more than gathering every person together in one place and counting them. This was called a 'muster', and is similar to the process used to count sheep before herding them off to the stockyards.
The first census as we know it, where people were counted in their homes, was in New South Wales in 1828. It had been brought to the Governor's attention that free settlers could not be forced to attend a muster…
As more information was required, more questions were asked. An important consideration in the beginning of the new colonies was whether there was enough food to go around, so the early musters indicate whether each person was dependent on government stores for food. Only heads of households were listed by name, with dependent wives, children and servants counted but not named. As the inhabitants started to grow their own food it was important to know what they were growing, so these questions were asked.
Here is a list of the early censuses and musters available for New South Wales with their availablity to researchers.
A muster was taken between Jul and August 1800, when Governor Philip Gidley King assumed control of the colony. Additional musters were taken at the same time of year in 1801 and 1802.
Baxter, Carol J. Musters and Lists, New South Wales and Norfolk Island, 1800-1802. Sydney: ABGR, 1988.
Governor King's Lists 1801 can be found on PRO Reel 10 and the Norfolk Island Victualling Book 1802 on PRO Reel 14.
A general muster of prisoners and freemen was taken on Tuesday 12th August 1806, with the landholders mustered on Thursday 14th August. The muster gives information on 'how employed' or 'with whom lives (females)', which is information that is available nowhere else. A Land and Stock Muster was collected on the same day, containing acreages of the different crops, numbers of horses, cattles, sheep, goats and hogs, numbers of bushels of wheat, maize and barley on hand, and the numbers of persons and whether victualled by the government, with remarks about residence.
These musters have been transcribed in:
Baxter, Carol J. Musters of New South Wales and Norfolk Island, 1805-1806. Sydney: ABGR, 1989.
The Norfolk Island Muster of 1805 has been transcribed in the same volume, as has Samuel Marsden's Female Muster 1806. The Reverend Samuel Marsden collected information on the females of the colony, probably from the original 1806 muster. This muster classifies the women as 'concubine', 'married' or 'wife', and records, where possible, where the woman was married and numbers of legitimate and 'natural' children.
Images of the 1806 muster is available on PRO Reel 72 and on Ancestry. Marsden's muster is at the Mitchell Library in Sydney.
The muster was taken between 5 February and 5 March 1811. Individuals are listed alphabetically within category – male convicts, female convicts, free men and free women. Information listed:
- Name
- Ship
- When convicted
- Where convicted
- Sentence
- Remarks
There is a transcription in:
Baxter, Carol J. General Muster of New South Wales, Norfolk Island and Van Diemen's Land, 1811.Sydney: ABGR, 1987.
The NSW version of the 1811 census can be viewed on SRNSW Reel 1252, and the British version on PRO Reel 61 and on Ancestry.
The 1814 muster was taken between 17 October and 16 November 1814, and gives a brief description of occupation and whether on or off the stores. A transcription is available in:
Baxter, Carol J. General Muster of New South Wales, 1814. Sydney: ABGR, 1987.
The original records can be viewed on SRNSW Reel 1252.
A general muster taken in November 1819 can be viewed on SRNSW Reel 1252. There is no index or transcription.
A general muster was taken on the 2-13 September 1822, and a Land and Stock muster taken around the same time. The General Muster gives:
- Name
- Age, including an indication the parents of children
- Arrival Status
- Present Status
- Ship of Arrival
- Colonial sentence
- Sentence
- Occupation
- Employer
- Where
The Land and Stock Muster gives:
- Residence
- Name
- How land held
- Whether resident on farm
- Acres in wheat, maize, barley, oats, peas/beans, potatoes, garden or orchard
- Numbers of horses, cattle, sheep, hogs
- Bushels in hand of wheat and maize
Both the General Muster and the Land and Stock Muster have been transcribed:
Baxter, Carol J. General Muster and Land and Stock Muster of New South Wales, 1822. Sydney: ABGR, 1988.
Images of the General Muster is available on PRO Reel 72 and on Ancestry. The Land and Stock Muster is only available on SRNSW Reel 1252.
In 1823 a General Muster was taken in September 1823, and a muster book compiled by the Colonial Secretary's office. Subsequent musters in 1824 and 1825 were taken at the same time of year, but instead of compiling new lists the decision was made to update the 1823 list instead, resulting in a much more complete and more accurate list. Additional details were added up to 1832.
The muster includes:
- Name
- Age
- Status
- Ship of arrival
- Ship year
- Sentence
- Occupation, Employer, etc
The 1825 muster was the last muster. Free settlers were increasingly unwilling to attend musters, and the government realised it had no power to compel them.
A transcription can be found in:
Baxter, Carol J. General Muster List of New South Wales, 1823, 1824, 1825. Sydney: ABGR, 1999.
Ancestry has digitized images of the muster books, which are also available on PRO Reel 66.
The 1828 Census was taken in November 1828, although returns straggled in early the next year. This was the first census to be taken in Australia and the only census to survive in its entirety to the present day. About a quarter of the householders' returns survive.
Both colonial and British copies survive, as do most of the householders' returns. There are differences in each, so it is important to check them all if possible.
Malcolm Sainty and Keith Johnson (editors) have compiled a database on CD 1828 Census Revised Edition which collects data from both the Australian and British versions of the census together with the returns of the householders themselves. This is the most complete list available, as there were many transcription errors in the compiling and copying of the lists, and some people were left out of the lists completely.
The 1837 Convict Muster is more of a compilation than a traditional muster, and as such is more accurate. The new governor, Sir George Gipps, needed to establish an accurate count of the convicts in the colony as it was likely that transportation would soon cease.
The muster includes:
- Name
- Age
- Ship
- Year
- Where Tried (often not filled in)
- Master
- District
- Remarks (such as 'Ticket of Leave' or 'Married')
The muster has been transcribed:
Butlin, N.G., C.W. Cromwell and K.L. Suthern. General Return of Convicts in New South Wales, 1837.Sydney: ABGR, 1987.
Images are available on PRO Reels 71 and 72, and on Ancestry.
The 1841 and later censuses will be covered in future post.


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These kinds of simplistic stereotypes can't exist in other mediums, not even comedy anymore. They are just too outdated. Super expensive animated features keep them alive long after their relevance to human life.
Here is the stock animated feature villain and how he came to be:
Disney animators have shrewdly deduced that the average Joe thinks homosexuals and people of middle-eastern descent are the most evil people in the world. So when an animated feature needs a villain, they automatically create a stereotype combination of a hooked nose man with fruity gestures. For some reason, these characters are always lanky, so tall skinny people I assume must also be evil.
Ancestry of the Disney Villain:
1) Melodrama from a century and a half ago This kind of stock stereotype probably started in the 1800s. Simon Legree is typical (although in the book, he is more shaded than in his theatrical and silent movie performances).
This character was used so often in melodramas that he eventually became stale and "cartoonish". Soon entertainers only used it for comedy, because no one could take a character like this seriously anymore. It can't scare you when it's such a cardboard stereotyped representation.
2) Dracula - Gothic Horror Villain
Here's another genre with characters you couldn't take seriously except in the context of the horror film and even then you really have to suspend your disbelief to enjoy the drama.
Cartoonists quickly jumped on the inherent silliness of living dead people and the stereotype became stock comedy cartoon material.
3) Homosexual Caricature
There are many funny homosexuals in entertainment, as long as they live up to their stereotype.
4) Goth Merges With Gay
They eventually mated a goth character with a zany homosexual and came up with this:
A transvestite goth villain.
And eventually gay, goth, Arab and Simon Legree all together.
Animated feature characters need more than an obvious design to define their character. In the best features, each main character usually has a certain gesture or expression assigned to him, that the other characters don't have. We instantly recognize this symbolic key to the character because we have grown up seeing it so many times.
INSTANT EVIL: The sniffing of the turd
I'm not sure if Disney invented it, but animators know that the quickest way to turn the audience against someone is to have them sniff the ceremonial turd. Decent people instinctively know you shouldn't be poking your nose around that area and won't root for the turd sniffer.
This fellow is all the villain stereotypes in one. The most turd sniffingest of all.
Hey, he's copyrighted! I guess no one else can ever use this character again.
I'm confused as to why we need villains in every animated story in the first place. Merely "evil" ones. And the same version of evil.
Will features ever surpass Terrytoons in characterization? (Let alone catch up in fun)I bet the animators would love to try characters with more meat on 'em if they were allowed.
Hey, he's copyrighted! I guess no one else can ever use this character again.
I'm confused as to why we need villains in every animated story in the first place. Merely "evil" ones. And the same version of evil.
Will features ever surpass Terrytoons in characterization? (Let alone catch up in fun)

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The collections include work uniforms, academic gowns, clothing of presidents and first ladies, T-shirts bearing protest slogans, and a clean-room "bunny suit" from a manufacturer of computer microchips. Beyond garments, the collections encompass jewelry, handbags, hair dryers, dress forms, hatboxes, suitcases, salesmen's samples, and thousands of fashion prints, photographs, and original illustrations. The more than 30,000 artifacts here represent the changing appearance of Americans from the 1700s to the present day.


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The /etc/fstab
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default, in which order, and which must be checked (for integrity
errors) prior to mounting. Create a new file systems table like this:
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defaults 1 1 /dev/<yyy>
swap swap pri=1 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=4,mode=620 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 # End /etc/fstab EOF
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, and <fff>
with the values
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mount point for
is included to allow enabling
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into it for this to work (more about this is in the next section).
Please note that very little software currently uses POSIX-shared
memory. Therefore, consider the /dev/shm
mount point optional. For more
information, see Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt
in the kernel
source tree.
Filesystems with MS-DOS or Windows origin (i.e.: vfat, ntfs, smbfs,
cifs, iso9660, udf) need the "iocharset" mount option in order for non-ASCII
characters in file names to be interpreted properly. The value of
this option should be the same as the character set of your locale,
adjusted in such a way that the kernel understands it. This works if
the relevant character set definition (found under File systems ->
Native Language Support) has been compiled into the kernel or built
as a module. The "codepage"
option is also needed for vfat and smbfs filesystems. It should be
set to the codepage number used under MS-DOS in your country. E.g.,
in order to mount USB flash drives, a ru_RU.KOI8-R user would need
the following in the options portion of its mount line in
The corresponding options fragment for ru_RU.UTF-8 users is:
In the latter case, the kernel emits the following message:
FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems,
filesystem will be case sensitive!
This negative recommendation should be ignored, since all other values of the "iocharset" option result in wrong display of filenames in UTF-8 locales.
It is also possible to specify default codepage and iocharset values
for some filesystems during kernel configuration. The relevant
parameters are named "Default NLS
Option" (CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT)
, "Default Remote NLS Option" (CONFIG_SMB_NLS_DEFAULT
), "Default codepage for FAT" (CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE
), and "Default iocharset for FAT" (CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET
). There is no way to
specify these settings for the ntfs filesystem at kernel compilation
It is possible to make the ext3 filesystem reliable across power
failures for some hard disk types. To do this, add the barrier=1
mount option to the appropriate entry in
. To check if the disk drive
supports this option, run hdparm
on the applicable disk drive. For example, if:
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The IMF Press Center is a password-protected site for working journalists.
The rates used by the IMF to pay interest and levy charges each financial quarter since 1969 could be searched here. The SDR interest rate, calculated every week, is the primary rate from which other rates are derived. This rate is used to pay interest and levy charges on SDR holdings and SDR allocations, respectively. The basic rate of remuneration is equal to the SDR interest rate. The basic rate of charge is equal to the SDR interest rate, plus a fixed margin that is set annually by the IMF Executive Board. Both rates are further adjusted under the burden sharing mechanism for the financial consequences of protracted arrears. Members' remunerated reserve tranche positions are paid interest (remuneration) at the adjusted rate of remuneration. Charges on members' outstanding use of IMF credit are levied at the adjusted rate of charge.


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- Jacob's well
- The scene of the conversation described in John 4 of Jesus with a woman of Samaria. He promises her 'living water' instead of the dull, still water she is to draw from the well. The well was probably near Shechem and may have been in fact no more than a tank for rain-water. Theologically, however, John is using the symbolism of a gushing, lively spring; this is an evocative image to express the joy and excitement of the new life which Jesus offers, beginning in baptism.
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When it's time to hit the links, what is your golf game of choice?
Nintendo is celebrating 30 years of Kirby with an anniversary concert
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Destiny 2 will showcase some Guardian fashion with Threads of Light
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Yoshitaka Amano did a cover for Vogue Italia
Lego Star Wars player showcases some air juggling tech on the younglings
Namco's cute 'n' unique brawler Wonder Momo hits Arcade Archives
Demo for unreleased PS1 sequel 'Gex Jr.' surfaces online
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Dennis Keller, who graduated from Princeton in 1963 with a degree in economics, and his wife, Constance Templeton Keller, were honored during a dedication ceremony Thursday, April 16, for endowing a center in Princeton's School of Engineering and Applied Science.
The Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education is a cross-disciplinary initiative focused on preparing Princeton students to be leaders in an increasingly complex and technology-driven society. Members of the University community gathered to celebrate the naming of the center for the Kellers, who made a $20 million gift last year to support it.
Keller, co-founder and director emeritus of DeVry Inc., one of the largest publicly held higher educational organizations in North America, and the parent organization for DeVry University, said he's learned to appreciate the value of engineering in society and the significance of the problem-solving skills students acquire from studying engineering.
"I've come to see the important role engineering has played in our history and will play in the future of our species," said Keller, who serves on Princeton's Board of Trustees and co-chairs the engineering school's advisory council. "We need the best work in applied science and engineering that the human mind is capable of providing."
The daylong celebration included meetings of advisers of the center and the engineering school, a formal dedication ceremony and a panel discussion with the deans of six engineering schools: Princeton, Yale, Stanford and Tufts universities, the University of Michigan and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The Keller Center dedication was held in the Friend Center for Engineering Education, which was funded by a previous gift from Keller, and named in honor of his friend and classmate, the late Peter Friend.
"We live in a society where it is increasingly difficult to imagine personal and professional lives that do not have a significant technological component," President Shirley M. Tilghman said at the dedication ceremony. "The Keller Center broadens the understanding of our students -- engineers and non-engineers alike -- of the economic, social and environmental forces that shape, and are shaped by, technology."
The center, which opened in 2005, supports the development of courses and projects that cross conventional academic disciplines to prepare students in engineering, the natural sciences, humanities and social sciences to work side by side to solve global problems.
In his remarks as guest speaker at the dedication, Norman Augustine, a Princeton-educated engineer who served as undersecretary of the Army and as the head of aerospace industry giants Martin Marietta and Lockheed Martin, emphasized the tremendous challenges facing society. He said well-trained engineers will be crucial to addressing problems such as a broken healthcare system, aging infrastructure, increasing demand for energy and growing pressures on the environment.
Princeton and other universities have done a good job of training engineers, he said, but the curriculum needs to evolve as the world changes. "As they like to say on Wall Street, past performance is no guarantee of future performance -- and they weren't kidding," he said, drawing laughter from the audience.
H. Vincent Poor, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, said the Keller Center has already made strides in making engineering accessible to a wider range of students.
"I view the Keller Center as a model for improving engineering education throughout the United States and around the world," Poor said. "As Norm suggested, this task is mission critical; and I view the Keller Center as another expression of 'Princeton in the Nations Service and in the Service of All Nations.'"
He noted that under the leadership of director Sharad Malik, the George Van Ness Lothrop Professor in Engineering, the Keller Center has expanded the number and visibility of engineering courses available for all students, has helped more students participate in engineering projects outside the classroom -- including international projects -- and has hosted many visitors and guest lecturers.
Malik told the attendees that 60 percent of liberal art majors now take an engineering course during their time at Princeton, and that the valedictorian and salutatorian of the class of 2008 had embodied the cross-disciplinary approach the center hopes to achieve.
The valedictorian, Zachary Squire was a classics major, yet spent his last summer as a researcher in the Center for Mid-Infrared Technologies for Health and the Environment, investigating possible applications of quantum cascade lasers and studying the interaction of scientists and policymakers. The salutatorian, James Morrison, was a chemical engineering major, yet also took classes in a dozen other departments and programs, including a course on the Latin lyric poems of Horace.
"At the Keller Center, we connect engineering students to the world around them through experiential learning both inside and outside the classroom," Malik said. "And we connect students in other disciplines to engineering through courses that touch the essential issues that face society now and into the future, from energy and climate change to high-tech entrepreneurship."
The center's second annual report, which was distributed during the dedication, highlighted several courses the center supports that have attracted students from across the University. These include a hands-on class in optical engineering, a class on alternative energy sources such as wind and solar power, and classes on science writing that help students better communicate complex ideas.
The Keller Center also sponsors "Special Topics in Entrepreneurship," taught by visiting professor John Danner from the University of California-Berkeley's Haas School of Business, and "Harnessing the Power of Entrepreneurship," taught by Julian Lange from Babson College. Both courses are intended to inspire engineering students to consider turning ideas into businesses, as was the center's 2008 "Leadership in a Technological World" lecture series, which brought the heads of technology-based companies to campus to talk about their experiences as high-tech entrepreneurs.
The event concluded with poster displays and presentations by students who received funding from the Keller Center for independent projects, including students who are creating autonomously controlled vehicles and a student making high-performance bicycles from bamboo.


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NEW YORK–Apple, the most valuable company in the U.S., slumped Friday, helping to drag down the stock market. A lack of progress in federal budget talks also discouraged investors.Apple's stock dropped 4 percent after the launch of the iPhone 5 in Beijing failed to draw the long lines of customers that showed up for previous versions, according to news reports. Analysts at UBS cut their earnings estimates and price target for Apple, which lost $19.90 to close at $509.79.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 5.87 points to close at 1,413.58, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite sank 20.83 points to 2,971.33. Apple is the biggest stock in both indexes.
The Dow, which doesn't include Apple, fell 35.71 points, or 0.3 percent, to 13,135.01. All three stock-market measures ended the week with a loss.
President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner met Thursday to discuss a budget deal to avoid the "fiscal cliff," a collection of higher taxes and government spending cuts scheduled to start Jan. 1. There were no signs of progress, however, and Boehner returned home to Ohio on Friday.
Investors remain confident the two sides will reach a deal soon, said Todd Morgan, a founder of Bel Air Investment Advisors in Los Angeles. But the more time it takes, the more anxious they get.
"People want to move ahead and get past this," Morgan said. "The uncertainty around it is what's making people nervous."
The Labor Department said a steep fall in gas prices pushed down a measure of consumer prices last month. The consumer price index edged down 0.3 percent in November from October, as gas prices sank 7.4 percent, the biggest drop in nearly four years. Consumer prices have risen 1.8 percent over the past year.
The report helped nudge up prices for U.S. government debt, pushing yields down. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note slipped to 1.70 percent from 1.73 percent late Thursday. When inflation is weak, it suggests that interest rates are unlikely to jump, and bond prices unlikely to drop, anytime soon.
Asian markets rose after HSBC said manufacturing in China is picking up. Its index for manufacturing December rose to 50.9, a slight increase from the previous month. Anything above 50 is a sign of growth.
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_ Best Buy sank 15 percent, losing $2.07 to $12.05. The struggling electronics retailer and one of its founders, Richard Schulze, agreed to give Schulze more time to assemble a bid for the company. That erased nearly all of the gain the stock made Thursday following a report that Schulze would make a bid by the end of the week.
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The relative frequencies show a steady increase of this species through time, from 2 per cent in Phase 1b to 14 per cent in the Phases 5 and 6. Whether the lack of horses in the earliest phase of occupation (Phase 1a) is an artefact of the small size of the total faunal collection or was a reality remains an open question. The second half of the third millennium BC, which roughly corresponds with Phase 1a, is considered as the period when horse domestication flourished in Western Asia (Benecke & von den Driesch 2003). Nevertheless, percentages of horse remains at Begash remain below 6 per cent until approximately AD 50 (Phase 3b).
...The early "cowboys of the steppe" paradigm is slowly collapsing. Certainly the horse was known, milked, eaten, and occasionally ridden on the steppes, but its central role in the emergence of Eurasian pastoralism has been ovestated on rather flimsy evidence.
The steady increase in horses in the faunal record does correlate with documented political and social expansions of eastern Eurasian mobile pastoralists in the mid-first millennium BC. For example, the increase in horses in Phase 3 (750 BC-AD 50) corresponds with the growth of nomadic steppe confederacies such as the Saka and Wusun (Chang et al. 2003; Rogers 2007).
The domestic horse is documented at Begash by the start of the second millennium BC, but its impact on pastoralism is not clear. It is true that by increasing their use of the horse throughout the Iron Age and later periods, the inhabitants of Begash likely improved their mobility and access to pastures across various ecological niches for their primary herd animals. Nevertheless, the zooarchaeological record from Begash illustrates that the increase in horses through time correlates first with opportunistic hunting forays at the end of the Bronze Age and then with expanding political engagements that undoubtedly reshaped the organisation of Eurasian pastoralist communities from the first millennium BC onward.
When compared to the relative stability of other domesticates at Begash, the small Bronze Age presence and limited expansion of horses in the faunal record before historic periods demands that we reconsider the degree to which domestic horses played a dominant role in emerging pastoralist lifeways or in aiding the diffusion of regional material culture throughout prehistory. Specifically, there is not ample evidence for extensive horse riding during the second millennium BC at Begash. To the degree that Begash is indicative of other pastoralist settlements in the region, the faunal evidence directly challenges the image of middle to late Bronze Age pastoralists (2000-1000 BC) as derived from migrating horse-riders (Kuz'mina 2008) and suggests that horse riding was not the most significant catalyst for regional diffusion at this point in prehistory. This does not demote the importance of domestic horse riding as a key innovation for Eurasian populations in general or defray its historical impact on the region write large; rather these data suggest there were other mechanisms by which pastoralism, material culture, and ideology developed among regional populations in the third and second millennia BC (Frachetti 2008a).
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From sheep to (some) horses: 4500 years of herd structure at the pastoralist settlement of Begash (south-eastern Kazakhstan)
Michael Frachetti and Norbert Benecke
Does the riding of horses necessarily go with the emergence of Eurasian pastoralism? Drawing on their fine sequence of animal bones from Begash, the authors think not. While pastoral herding of sheep and goats is evident from the Early Bronze Age, the horse appears only in small numbers before the end of the first millennium BC. Its adoption coincides with an increase in hunting and the advent of larger politically organised


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- Detect file system changes runtime (adding/removing folders/files).
- Updated JRE auto-download from 6u27 to 7u1
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- Renderer image improvements
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Should all our genetic information be made public in order to eradicate genetic diseases from this world? Who owns your genetic data once it becomes publicly accessible? What is your responsibility to family members when you know more about genetic diseases than they do? Who decides what kind of genetic information is relevant to a person? And what does genetic privacy mean to you? In this challenge with Robert Zwijnenberg (Professor in Art and Science Interactions) you will critically reflect upon the issue of genetic privacy. You will dive into the ethical questions that come up with the disclosure of genetic data in biobanks and through genetic tests. This course encourages you to think about the cultural, philosophical and political tensions present in the debate around genetic privacy. You are invited to identify and listen to the viewpoints and values provided by the different stakeholders that shape this debate: corporations, researchers, consumers and patients. Furthermore, you will go off the beaten track by exploring the issue from the unique perspective of art and culture.
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The two-hour outage held up morning flights around the globe. From Los Angeles to London, Boston to San Francisco, frustrated fliers tweeted snarky remarks about the glitch. It was United's third major computer mishap this year.
"Does anyone have a Radio Shack computer or abacus to help United get their system fixed?," tweeted Lewis Franck, a motorsports writer flying from Newark, N.J. to Miami on Thursday to cover the last race of the NASCAR season.
In a subsequent phone call with The Associated Press, Franck added: "Why is there a total system failure on a beautiful day? What happened to the backup and the backup to backup?"
United said the technology problem was fixed by 10:30 a.m. EST. But early morning delays can easily ripple throughout an airline's network for the rest of the day even after the underlying cause is fixed. That's because once a plane is late for one flight it can be hard to make up for lost time.
United was not immediately able to say how many flights were delayed on Thursday. Spokesman Rahsaan Johnson said few if any flights were canceled.
The problem was that dispatchers couldn't send flight information to about half of the United's mainline flights. Johnson confirmed that the problem affected planes that came from United, which merged with Continental in 2010. Planes that came from Continental, and regional flights on United Express, were not affected. All of them together run some 5,500 flights a day.
United's biggest computer problem occurred in March, when its long-planned transition to a single computer system for passenger information caused delays and problems with frequent flier account balances. In August, 580 flights were delayed and its website was shut down for two hours because of a problem with a piece of computer hardware.
Johnson said the problems on Thursday were not related to integrating the computer systems of the two airlines. But even if Thursday's dispatching issue is separate from its earlier problems, the still leaves passengers frustrated.
Michael Silverstein, who works in finance, was supposed to be on a 6:01 a.m. flight from Los Angeles to San Francisco. The computer outage had already caused him to miss one meeting. Worried about missing another, he walked off the plane and bought a $195 last-second ticket on a Southwest Airlines flight to Oakland, Calif.
"I'm frustrated because I'm missing a meeting that I thought I had plenty of time for," Silverstein said.
CEO Jeff Smisek acknowledged on Oct. 25 that some customers avoided United over the summer because of its computer problems. He said the airline had fixed those problems by improving software and adding more spare planes to its system, among other moves.
"We expect to earn back those customers that took a detour and we expect to attract new customers as well," he said at the time.
Thursday's problems were exactly what United did not need, said airline and travel industry analyst Henry H. Harteveldt of Atmosphere Research Group. "This event shows an unacceptable lack of planning at United," he said.
"This merger has been an outright disaster on almost every count. United must make some changes in its executive leadership, starting with the CEO" and including its chief information officer if it wants to restore confidence among passengers, he said.
Shares of United Continental Holdings Inc. fell 20 cents to $19.78 on a day when shares of other big airlines rose.


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Farm equipment, in North Carver, are the machineries used in a farm to aid farming. They are classified into several categories according to their uses.
General Tractor & Crawler/ Caterpillar Tractor are used for traction & power.
Rotavator, Cultivator, Cultipacker, Chisel plow, Harrow, Spike harrow, Drag harrow, Disk harrow, Plough, Power tiller / Rotary tiller / Rototiller, Spading machine, Subsoiler, Two-wheel tractor, Stone picker or rock-picker, Rock windrower (rock rake) are used in soil cultivation.
Broadcast seeder/ broadcast spreader/ fertilizer spreader, Planter (farm implement), Plastic mulch layer, Potato planter, Seed drill, Air seeder, Precision drill, Transplanter,Rice transplanter are the planting equipment.
Fertilizer spreader, Terragator, Manure spreader, Sprayer are essential for fertilization & pest control.
Center pivot irrigation is needed for irrigational purposes.
Weight Sorter, Bulleted list item, Color Sorter, Blemish Sorter, Diameter Sorter, Shape Sorter, Density Sorter, Internal/Taste Sorter are used for sorting the produce.
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He actually doped in the interview? This guy's just incorrigible! Then again, pretty much everyone dopes for their Oprah interviews, so arguably it was a level playing field:
Most incredibly, Armstrong's Oprah interview is already getting more media attention than all three presidential debates combined and it hasn't even aired yet--though this morning Oprah did give an interview about the interview, and everyone else even tangentially involved in cycling has been interviewing each other about it too, as have people with nothing whatsoever to do with cycling, which is to say nothing of the millions of informal interviews conducted with anyone who rides a bike (how many questions from co-workers and relatives have you had to field recently?), and it really makes you wonder if an entire society can actually interview itself to death. Sure, we may have squeaked through the atomic age with our culture more or less intact, but the information age could very well be our undoing, thanks to the perfect storm of Armstrong, Winfrey, and social networking.
Even Fabian Cancellara is concerned, though I'm not sure exactly what he's concerned about because I don't speak Spartacus:
I do not wonna know how much money some secret source has get from the media regarding the pre recorded #Armstrong #Oprah showWell, I do not wonna know how much money Cancellara paid Mario Cipollini to design his website:
— Fabian cancellara (@f_cancellara) January 15, 2013
Also, the more time people spend obsessing over this Oprah interview the better it is for Cancellara, because it distracts them from his Gruber Assist:
I used to think the "doped bike" thing was funny, but now I totally think he did it.
In any case, at this point there are two important conclusions to draw from all of this. The first is that cycling is officially the lamest pro sport out there, since even football and baseball manage to muddle through without Oprah having to come in and moderate. The second is that they should probably remove cycling from the Olympics to make way for a sport with more integrity, like dog racing or cockfighting. Here's the reigning Olympic road race champion, in case you've forgotten:
But don't worry, because according to all the riders and managers cycling's entering into a new era of transparency starting...now. No, wait. Now.
Okay, now. Hey, I wasn't ready! Can we do it on three? One, two, three...all right, totally clean now.
At this rate Oprah will be UCI president by 2020.
Speaking of stuff that's really dirty, we all have different thresholds at which we clean our bikes. If you're a roadie, you clean it if you've touched it since the last time you've cleaned it. Or, if you're a lazy slob like me, you don't even consider cleaning it until it looks like this:
Then you put the wheels back on and take it for a spin around the neighborhood to dry it out, during which you discover there's one of those coin operated self-service car wash machines right down the street and that you could have blasted all that crud off in like four seconds.
Finally, you grab a fistful of quarters, get naked, and blast yourself clean with the power washer.
Don't act like you've never done it.
Yes, an important part of being a cyclist is feeling special--special because you rode your bike, special because you washed your bike, and special because you blasted your scranus clean in broad daylight on a heavily trafficked roadway. But you know who feels even more special? Parents. Parents feel special because they made their kid, they feel special because they washed their kid, and they feel special because they blasted their kid's scranus clean in broad daylight on a heavily trafficked roadway. And you know who feels even more special than regular parents? "Artisanal" parents. Indeed, you may recall that "artisanal fathers" are the new trend in human reproduction. Well, Artisanal Aaron informs me that these artisanal fathers finally have their own magazine, and it's called "Kindling:"
Which, appropriately enough, is exactly what you should use it for when you roast locally-sourced carob heath S'mores on your next artisanal father-artisanal son camping trip--unless of course you're the sort of person who needs a quarterly journal design exercise to tell you that your life is inseparable from your role as a parent:
Which might be useful information to you if you're also the sort of person who needs to be reminded that chewing is inseparable from swallowing--which the typical "Kindling" reader probably does, since his food was chewed for him and then spat into his mouth from childhood all the way through those six years at Bard.
Oh, there's also wistful pop culture nostalgia that only artisanal fathers are old enough to get:
Sure, there won't be any information about basic stuff like how to change a diaper, but I wouldn't be surprised if you find an article about how to knit your own diapers that's written by Stephen Malkmus.
At only $38 dollars for four issues, how could you possibly say yes? Plus, if you act now, you'll receive this smart male breastfeeding shirt:
Steven Keaton totally would have worn a male breastfeeding shirt had the technology been available at the time.


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For my next football snack I was thinking that potato skins would be nice. I have had potato skins a few times before and I had enjoyed them and now I wanted to try making them myself. Potato skins are the skins of potatoes where the middles have been scooped out that are baked with a filling. Though you can fill the potato skins with whatever you want the most common filling seems to be cheese and bacon often accompanied by some sour cream. In my opinion, you can't go wrong with cheese and bacon so that is what I went with. Potato skins are pretty easy to make though they require a some time to bake the potato. You could speed things up a bit by cooking the potato in the microwave instead of baking it before scooping out the middle. The potato skins with cheddar cheese and bacon turned out great! The skins were a little crispy along the edges and soft and warm in the middle. The cool sour cream went well with the warm potato skins and their flavourful filling. Another perfect snack for game day.
Potato Skins
- 4 baking potatoes (such as russet, scrubbed clean)
- oil
- salt and pepper to taste
- 4 slices bacon (cooked and crumbled)
- 1 cup cheese (grated)
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 2 green onions (chopped)
- Prick the potatoes a few times with a fork.
- Bake in a preheated 400F/200C oven until tender, about an hour.
- Let the potatoes cool and cut in half and scoop out the middle. (Reserve the scooped potato for another use.)
- Brush the potato skins all over with the oil and season with salt and pepper.
- Bake in a preheated 450F/230C over for 10 minutes on each side.
- Season the inside of the potato skins with salt and pepper and fill with the cheese and bacon.
- Broil until the cheese has melted, just a few minutes.
- Serve while still warm from the oven along with some sour cream and green onions.
French Fries
Spicy Sweet Potato Wedges
Twice Baked Sweet Potato Potato Skins with Pecan Streusel (aka Individual Sweet Potato Casserole)
Loaded Baked Potato Salad
Loaded Smashed Potatoes
Loaded Cauliflower Salad
Loaded Baked Potato Broccoli Crust Pizza
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How Cliques Make Kids Feel Left Out
One day, Madison's teacher found her sitting alone at lunch, looking sad and upset. She could barely bite the peanut butter sandwich that she usually couldn't wait to eat. "What's the matter, Madison?" the teacher asked.
Later that afternoon, Trey was standing alone by the basketball court after school. Trey's mom asked him why he didn't go play with Zack and Steve, who were shooting hoops. He told his mom he just didn't feel like it, so they walked home.
But the truth was, Trey and Madison were facing the same problem: They both felt left out, and their feelings were hurt. Madison was so sad that she didn't want to eat, and Trey was so mad that when he got home he slammed his bedroom door.
Kids who were their friends yesterday weren't their friends today. What happened?
What Are Cliques?
Cliques are groups of friends, but not all groups of friends are cliques. The thing that makes a group a clique (say: KLIK) is that they leave some kids out on purpose. Usually, one or two popular kids control who gets to be in the clique and who gets left out. Kids may act much differently than they did before they were part of the clique. They may even act differently today from how they were yesterday. It can be really confusing.
Everyone feels left out by friends once in a while. Friends are people just like us — they make mistakes and usually, we can forgive them (after all, we make mistakes too!). Sometimes friends fight and make up again. But sometimes kids form groups that they won't let other kids belong to. A clique is a group of kids who hang out together and won't let others join in. Sometimes kids in the clique are mean to kids they think are on the outside.
For instance, Trey and Steve always played basketball after school. But Zack started pushing Trey out of the group, and now even Steve was saying mean stuff to Trey. Same with Madison and Allie. They used to have sleepovers all the time, but now Cleo was hosting the sleepovers and she didn't invite Madison.
Kids might form cliques in elementary school or in middle school. Sometimes cliques are made of kids who share an interest in something, like sports or computer games or music. Sometimes the kids in them want to be popular or want to belong. They might say you can only join in if you wear certain clothes, or they might make you feel bad if your mom or dad can't afford the same stuff they can. Both boys and girls have cliques, though people who study these groups say girl cliques may be more common. Girl cliques are often meaner and more hurtful in the way they treat girls who aren't in the group.
Feeling Left Out
If you are on the outside of a clique, it can make you frustrated and confused. Maybe someone who was your BFF last week was mean to you and wouldn't sit with you at lunch. It can make you feel like crying or just feel really angry or sad. You might feel lonely at lunch or after school, or even afraid if you feel that someone might pick on you or fight with you. You might be frustrated or upset because you don't know what to do. You might feel hurt because of the ways other kids keep you out.
Why Do Other Kids Join Cliques?
One of the most difficult things to understand about cliques is if a person who was your friend joins one, they start treating you differently. Sometimes, the problem starts with an argument between the two of you. But other times you can find yourself on the outside of a clique even if nothing happened.
Sometimes people get left out because of the way they:
- Look
- Act
- Dress
Sometimes you're the "new kid" in class. Kids who get into cliques usually want to be popular and feel cool. Sometimes kids think that belonging to a clique will keep them from feeling left out. Some kids feel more powerful when they're mean to other people (like bullies).
Kids in cliques sometimes act differently than they would outside the group. They often go along with what the others are doing, even if they know it's not right — even if it means leaving out a friend.
Some kids might even feel bad about the way they treat other kids, but they can't figure out how to be cool and still be nice to the person who's not in the clique. This is no excuse, though. Plenty of kids manage to be nice to everyone — kids in and outside their closest group of friends — without being part of a clique.
Feeling Trapped in a Clique
Sometimes kids in cliques find that they don't really want to belong to it anymore. They don't want to leave others out and hurt people's feelings. Sometimes they realize they're missing out on being friends with great kids outside of the clique. Some kids don't want to be bossed around by the rules of the clique and don't like that another kid is trying to be in charge of them. Being in a clique might mean that they have to give up some freedom and maybe even change the kind of people they are or what kind of music they like or clothes they want to wear.
Even if no one is being mean to you personally, you still might find it annoying if there are cliques that you're not welcome to be part of. Or you might be part of a clique but are getting tired of being bossed around or worried that your so-called friends will embarrass you or play a mean joke on you. Maybe someone said something mean about you or a friend of yours online. You can learn more about surviving cliques by following this link.
Be careful what you post and say online — and always walk away from online taunts.
As kids get older, they can outgrow the need to be part of a clique or feel more relaxed about who is "in" and who is "out." For some kids, this takes a while. Most cliques have disappeared by the end of high school, making way for more fun and enjoyable friendship groups.
Who Can Help?
- Parents
- Guardians
- Siblings
- Other family members
- Teachers
These individuals might help by giving you advice on how to deal with mean kids. Sometimes they can teach kids that it isn't OK to treat others this way and show them ways to stop kids from being mean to other kids.
If you or someone you know is being treated meanly or bullied by members of a clique, telling an adult is important. Adults can also help kids learn to play together, include each other, mend hurt feelings, and repair broken friendships. They can encourage kids to make friends and belong to a group without leaving others out. They can show kids how to be popular by treating everyone with respect and kindness.
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What is Bell's palsy?
Bell's palsy is an unexplained episode of facial muscle weakness or facial paralysis that begins suddenly and worsens over three to five days. This condition results from damage to the 7th (facial) cranial nerve, and pain and discomfort usually occurs on one side of the face or head.
It can strike anyone at any age, but it occurs most often in pregnant women, and people who have diabetes, influenza, a cold or another upper respiratory ailment. According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, this facial nerve disorder affects about 40,000 U.S. adults and children each year. Bell's palsy strikes men and woman equally. It is less common before age 15 or after age 60.
Bell's palsy is not considered permanent, but in rare cases it does not disappear. Currently, there is no known cure for Bell's palsy; however, recovery usually begins two weeks to six months from the onset of the symptoms. The majority of people with Bell's palsy recover full facial strength and expression.
For more information or to request an appointment with a doctor in the Facial Nerve Institute, call 314.454.5437 or 800.678.5437 or email us.
What causes Bell's palsy?
A specific cause of Bell's palsy is unknown, however, it has been suggested that the disorder is due to inflammation that is directed by the body's immune system against the nerve controlling movement of the face. The weakness or symptoms seen in Bell's palsy is sometimes associated with the following:
- Diabetes
- High blood pressure
- Trauma
- Toxins
- Lyme disease
- Guillain-Barré syndrome
- Sarcoidosis
- Myasthenia gravis
- Infection, especially following a viral infection with Herpes simplex virus (a virus that is related to the cause of the common "cold sores" of the mouth)
These conditions cause weakness through a different mechanism than the usual inflammation of Bell's palsy.
For more information or to request an appointment with a doctor in the Facial Nerve Institute, call 314.454.5437 or 800.678.5437 or email us.
What are the symptoms of Bell's palsy?
The following are the most common symptoms of Bell's palsy. However, each individual may experience symptoms differently. Symptoms may include:
- Disordered movement of the muscles that control facial expressions, such as smiling, squinting, blinking, or closing the eyelid
- Loss of feeling in the face
- Headache
- Tearing
- Drooling
- Loss of the sense of taste on the front two-thirds of the tongue
- Hypersensitivity to sound in the affected ear
- Inability to close the eye on the affected side of the face
The symptoms of Bell's palsy may resemble other conditions or medical problems. Always consult your doctor for a diagnosis.
What is the treatment for Bell's palsy?
One uniformly recommended treatment for Bell's palsy is protecting the eye from drying at nighttime or while working at a computer. Eye care, which may include eye drops during the day, ointment at bedtime, or a moisture chamber at night, helps to protect the cornea from scratching, which is crucial to the management of Bell's palsy.
Your doctor will establish an appropriate treatment protocol for your condition based on the severity of your symptoms and your medical profile. Other treatment options include:
- Steroid medications to reduce inflammation
- Antiviral medications, such as acyclovir
- Analgesics or moist heat to relieve pain
- Physical therapy to stimulate the facial nerve
Some individuals may choose to use alternative therapies in the treatment of Bell's palsy, but there is no proof these alternative therapies actually make an absolute difference in a person's recovery. Such treatment may include:
- Relaxation
- Acupuncture
- Electrical stimulation
- Biofeedback training
- Vitamin therapy, including B12, B6, and the mineral zinc
For more information or to request an appointment with a doctor in the Facial Nerve Institute, call 314.454.5437 or 800.678.5437 or email us.


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OGGOA was lucky enough to be on-site for the Navy-Marine Corps Classic on Friday at Navy Mayport Station in Jacksonville, FL featuring the No. 10 Florida Gators and Georgetown Hoyas. Though the game itself was suspended at halftime, the event was one to remember and provided plenty of great sights for the military, players, coaches, staff, media and fans in attendance. Below are 40 choice pictures, including a few panoramas, taken by OGGOA at the event. Click on the first picture below and then click the "next" arrow to view each additional picture (click to enlarge).
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» Head coach Billy Donovan on what his team can take away from the event: "The thing that I think any coach is trying to do is I think share a lot of values that the military shares. Our guys are not in life and death situations. Just talking to a lot of the men and women and captains and admirals, the thing that stands out to me is the sacrifice, the unselfishness, being a part of something bigger than themselves, to realize that they're putting their life in the hands of someone else, someone else is putting their life in the hands of them. I think those are messages you try to get across to our team. I would say not at the same level; the guys are not going to war. As it relates to their basketball future and career, there are so many valuable teaching lessons in this. For our guys to see 3,000 people working on the ship, to see the discipline, the focus, the attention to detail, all those things are things we want our basketball team to do. It was really a great experience. I'm disappointed that we couldn't finish out the game. It was really great."
» Senior guard Kenny Boynton on his experience: "I had a good two days here. It was an honor to be here playing in this game. I'll always remember it. … It's been a great experience, I think for us and them. We look up to them, and they seemed like they enjoyed us here. I had a great time here, and if I could do it all over again, I would."
» Junior center Patric Young, who was one of a number of players to give his jersey to a member of the military after the game: "He didn't even ask for it. I just gave it to him. That was probably the first time I've ever did that. I wish I could have gave him more just to let him know how thankful we are for what he's done."


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At Code Switch, we receive a whole bunch of emails and messages from readers and listeners. And many times, folks ask questions that get us buzzing during our editorial discussions.
One Code Switch reader sent us a note seeking book recommendations for a multiracial teen. The emailer described the teen as not very "bookish" but still a good reader.
What books do you recommend that feature race in a way that a teen would find compelling? Nothing preachy or earnest or heavy. Shout us out in the comments, or holler at us on Twitter at @NPRCodeSwitch using #codeswitchbooks.
We turned to NPR's books team and contributors to the Backseat Book Club series for suggestions. Here's our list:
*Some of the language in the summaries above has been provided by publishers.
P.S. If you're looking for book suggestions in general, our friends over at NPR Books came up with this really neat, lovely, awesome tool that's essentially a genius book recommender of all the great work from 2013.
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25 Sep 1989
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Winrich Kolbe
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Writers :
Michael Piller
Michael Wagner
Season Ep :
x 01
Main Cast :
LeVar Burton
Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn
Worf Rozhenko
Jonathan Frakes
William T. Riker
Gates McFadden
Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis
Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner
Patrick Stewart
Jean-Luc Picard
Wil Wheaton
Wesley Crusher
Guest Cast :
Ken Jenkins
Doctor Paul Stubbs
Mary McCusker
as Nurse
Lorine Mendell
Diana Giddings
Randal Patrick
as Crew member #1
Guy Vardaman
Darien Wallace
Isn't it a crime to kill a sentient life form in the Federation? Stubbs killed countless numbers of the nanites, yet as soon as they accept his apology Picard apparently considers the matter closed. Surely Stubbs should be arrested and tried for his crimes? I mean, suppose I shot somebody and then apologized, and the rest of his family said "Okay, we forgive you." Would we seriously expect the law to forgo a prosecution because of that?
Actually this is a pretty prevalent issue in Star Trek. Almost every single problem is treated at the dramatic or philosophical level, and so long as a solution is found that most of the people involved think is nice, or at least okay, then that's the end of it. Prime Directive aside, the behaviour of Federation or Starfleet people very rarely seems to be constrained by actual laws to which they are answerable regardless of whether it feels fair or not.
Great Moment :
It's nice to see Wesley screw up and have to go and ask the adults help for once.
Body Count :
Several million nanites.
Factoid :
This episode marks the return of Dr Crusher to the show, replacing the rather unpopular Dr. Pulaski.
The "egg" probe was a rebuild of the virus containment unit from "The Child".
The new design uniforms appear in this episode. Designed to be more comfortable after the old uniforms began to cause many actors back pain, the new uniform is made of breathable wool and cost a cool three thousand dollars each. Many background characters continue to wear the old uniforms as a cost saving measure.
The baseball game Stubbs refers to with 'Lockman on first, Dark on second, Thomson at the plate, Branca on the mound' is actually a real game, a moment in the 1951 National League when the Brooklyn Dodgers played the New York Giants. Thomson hit the, ball, winning the game for the Giants.
The baseball game Stubbs describes to Wesley is a real one, the final game of the 1951 National League tiebreaker between the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants.
The script for this episode got Pillar hired as the shows head writer. He commented that the baseball scene probably helped, as Rick Berman is a big baseball fan.
Dr. Paul Stubbs has come aboard the Enterprise-D to perform an experiment. The ship is in a binary star system composed of a red giant and a companion neutron star. Every 196 years the neutron star pulls a fountain of matter off the red giant onto itself, causing a massive explosion and expelling neutronium at relativistic speeds. Stubbs has built a probe called "The Egg" which he wants to use to study the phenomena.
Wesley, meanwhile, has been frantically busy with his duties on the ship. He has been conducting an experiment with nanites which caused him to oversleep and be late for his duty shift on the bridge. He hurries up to his station after a reminder from Riker. The ship reaches its launch point and prepares to "lay the egg" as Stubbs calls it, when suddenly it goes out of control and is flung into the path of the stream of stellar matter. Shields refuse to go up at first. The crew struggle to regain control and are partially successful, but the ship continues to drift towards the stream of matter. The computer reports that all systems are operating normally, much to their confusion.
Dr. Crusher, now back from her year at Starfleet medical, busily treats various minor injuries, including Dr. Stubbs. As he leaves she notices an odd thing - one of the food replicators is apparently stuck producing a drink, leaving a stream of water pouring out of it. Despite this, the computer reports that the device is functioning perfectly.
As Geordi works on the problem, Crusher talks to Picard about Wesley. She wonders whether her constant presence around Wesley is good for him now that he's seventeen. She asks Picard about how Wesley has changed during the year they spent apart and Wesley compares him to her late husband Jack.
Down in the shuttle bay, Stubbs is inspecting the Egg with Wesley. As they talk Stubbs notes that he was a child prodigy like Wesley, and that it can be a heavy burden to live under. Red Alert sounds and Wesley rushes to the bridge, where sensors are showing a Borg ship approaching. Shields once again jam, and visual inspection shows no sign of a Borg cube or any other vessel in the area - the whole thing was prompted by another computer error. More faults occur - the computer begins reciting chess moves, doors open and close on their own, helm and engine control is lost again. In conference, Data reports that a general failure in the main computer is hard to believe - no such failure has happened in seventy nine years given that the computers are designed with self correction mechanisms. Stubbs is adamant that the experiment proceed, but Picard tells him that if the safety of the ship requires aborting the mission, then he will do so. Subbs comments that that would certainly get him into the record books and leaves. Troi states that Stubbs has staked his entire sense of self worth on this experiment, to the point where he will do literally anything to see it proceed.
In engineering Geordi discovers a strange kind of damage to the computer - the pathways of circuitry within it are gradually disintegrating, as if something is eating away at them. Wesley looks started at the news and rushes out to check on the experiment he was running the night before. Horrified at the result he goes to Ten Forward to scan an area of the deck. Guinan asks him what's wrong and Wesley confesses that he is responsible for what is going on. The nanites he was experimenting with have escaped because he was careless with their container. Now they are reproducing within the computer system, eating the raw material around them and turning it into more nanites. He admits that he has to go and tell the other officers what has happened.
On the bridge, a restart of the computer solves the problems, at least for a while, and the ship tries to launch the Egg again. Malfunctions begin almost at once, prompting Picard to abandon the mission and try and head out of the system. Stubbs objects but is overruled. He heads down to the shuttlebay and talks to Wesley again, obviously bitter and trying to hide it. Wesley gos and talks to his mother, snapping at her out of stress and then confessing his mistake. She reports back to the senior staff and explains about the nanite infection. Apparently these nanites have evolved, producing a new breed with unknown capabilities. Picard suggests that the nanites may even have evolved enough to be aware of what they are doing, and responds negatively to Stubbs' suggestion that they be killed with - if they are indeed self aware then they are a new life form and the priority is to communicate with them and resolve the situation peacefully. Stubbs argues that the nanites are no different to a biological virus, and wiping them out is no more of a moral issue than curing an infection, but Picard refuses.
As the crew work to cure the problem Srubbs takes matters into his own hands - he uses a hand device to irradiate one of the computer cores with gamma rays, killing the nanites within it. The nanites in other parts of the ship respond to this, actively attacking both the crew and Stubbs. Stubbs argues that Picard now has to eliminate the remaining nanites or be killed in return, angry that consideration is being extended to what he calls "machines with a screw loose." Data points out that the very fact that the nanites have responded to an attack on themselves by targeting Stubbs particularly shows that they are indeed intelligent, at least collectively.
Picard confines Stubbs to his quarters and sets Data to work on a way of communicating with the nanites. As the situation worsens Picard considers irradiating the computers with gamma radiation to wipe them out, but Data manages to make contact. Stubbs is brought to the bridge to apologize to them. Data agrees to let the nanites modify his own systems to use him as a communications channel directly, arguing that this would be a display of trust and good faith. Picard proceeds with the plan and the nanites are able to talk through Data. Stubbs apologizes to them and admissions of fault are made on both sides, along with an agreement to cease hostilities. Stubbs uses his political clout to have a planet designated as a nanite home world and they are released there. Meanwhile the Egg is finally launched just in time for the explosion, and a gleeful Stubbs begins to gather all the data he could hope for.
Crusher, meanwhile, settles in to chat with Guinan about how happy Wesley seems to be with kids his own age - only to become super concerned when she sees him with a girl.
Overall a decent episode. Primarily, this is "the one where Wesley screws up". After having "Wesley the perfect child" pushed in our face for two seasons it was a relief to finally see him make a genuine mistake. It's also great to see how he responds to it - yes he turns around and confesses, but he doesn't just do it straight off as if doing the right thing was absolutely the only concern he had. Rather he held off for quite some time because he was scared, because he didn't want to admit that he was to blame, didn't want to lose the respect everybody had for him. It's exactly how somebody who had been put up on a pedestal might behave, so kudos to the show for showing him in this light. Alas this kind of thing was all too little too late - Wesley was pretty much unsalvageable by this time.
Stubbs I like, too. Again, he's not a terrible cliche - Star Trek so often produces people from Starfleet or the Federation who are completely oblivious to a Starship and crew function. Stubbs is well aware of what's going on, he's probably even aware on some level that Picard and the crew are completely right about the nanites and how they should be treated. It's just that he's so devoted himself to the idea of his experiment that he refuses to allow himself to believe anything that would jeopardize it. I especially like how Troi notes that his public persona is stretched so tight that he risks an explosion and wonders at what might be under that public face... only to have Stubbs suggest that just maybe there's nothing underneath at all.
It's nice to see the binary star thing as well. Space has some pretty weird stuff in it, including systems like this. I'm sure some of the details are modified for effect, but I'd far rather see the ship exploring stuff that we know is at least based in reality than the whole "Made up science anomaly of the week" syndrome that certain Trek shows would indulge in.
Overall a pretty decent episode. The resolution is a bit twee, but I am forgiving of it really.
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