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|Spock and McCoy encounter a recently arrived crewmember, Crewman Norman, in the Enterprise corridors. McCoy notes that something bothers him about the man. Not only is he avoiding a medical exam, but he seems unemotional and detached from the rest of the crew. Spock, taking this as a jibe against himself, dismisses the complaint.
Norman goes to the auxiliary control center, overpowering the personnel there and taking control of the ship to lock it onto a new course. He rapidly goes to the emergency manual monitor and engineering, effortlessly defeating multiple crewmembers and resetting the ship's systems to lock out any change in the course he has laid in. Finally he proceeds to the bridge where he points out that his alterations have connected the matter-antimatter pods to the main navigational bank with a trigger relay, meaning any attempt to change course will destroy the ship. He also opens a panel in his stomach, revealing that he is an android.
The ship spends four days at Warp 7 heading for an unexplored Class K planet. Norman remains dormant throughout, standing motionless on the bridge. On arrival he demands that Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Uhura and Chekov to beam down, threatening to destroy the engines if they refuse. They beam to a facility on the surface where None other than Harry Mudd reveals himself to have been behind their kidnapping. Mudd declares that he is now Emperor Mudd the First, and that the crew of the Enterprise will remain on his planet for the rest of their lives and there is nothing they can do about it. Mudd is accompanied by multiple robots, many of them identical to one another. He reveals that after his last encounter with the Enterprise he managed to escape from prison and engaged in further petty crime, including reselling patents. He was caught on Deneb V and sentenced to death, but again managed to steal a ship and escape. After wandering for a while he chanced on this planet and explored it, finding the facility there along with androids running it. The facility is equipped with fantastically advanced technology, capable of building massive numbers of androids to any specification, along with almost anything else one could want. Mudd, of course, stocked the place almost entirely with hundreds of female androids.
Although it seemed like a paradise at first, Mudd soon grew bored with the planet. He decided to leave, but the androids are so determined to serve him that they refuse to allow him to leave the planet. Mudd eventually told the androids about the Enterprise and asked them to capture the crew so they would have other Humans to serve, and so allow him to leave. He tries to convince Kirk that it won't be so bad, demonstrating some of the pleasant aspects of the place - including an android replica of his own wife who nags him specifically so that he can have the pleasure of yelling at her to shut up. The androids reveal that they were built by a species from the Andromeda galaxy which is now long gone.
Spock conjectures that the androids do not operate independently, but must function via some kind of control control system which guides them all. He tries to quiz them on the subject but they politely decline to answer his queries.
The androids begin trying to tempt the officers to remain. They tell Uhura that an android body will last for some half a million years. Since a human brain can be installed in one, this would give the person almost perpetual youth and beauty. Chekov finds himself enjoying the prospect of being surrounded by beautiful female androids, whilst Scotty is intrigued by their incredibly advanced engineering technology. Meanwhile the androids have forcibly removed the crew from the Enterprise, putting an android crew aboard to run the ship. There seems to be no way to stop them.
Kirk is increasingly annoyed by the situation, and when an Alice series android promises him that they will do anything to make him happy he states that he cannot be happy without his ship. Alice seems confused by this and asks Norman to "coordinate" a response, before leaving.
Mudd prepares to depart, but the androids refuse to let him leave despite their earlier deal. They reveal that they plan to export vast numbers of androids to all Human worlds, giving them the same life of complete luxury as exists on their planet - along with the same lack of freedom.
Spock notes that there are hundreds of each model of android on the planet, with the exception of Norman. There is only a single Norman as far as anybody knows. This, combined with the way the Alice asked Norman to coordinate a response when she was confused, makes Spock speculate that Norman may be the control system he spoke of earlier. Since illogic seemed to confuse the Alice, they wonder if they might not be able to overload Norman's ability to command the androids if enough strange and inexplicable behaviour is presented to the androids.
Reasoning that the androids will expect an escape attempt the crew stage a mock one, with Uhura turning traitor and telling the Androids about it so that they can foil the plan. Now hoping to have them at their ease, the crew begin their real campaign. They each challenge the androids with surreal behaviour, spreading confusion and illogic amongst them. Spock informs two of the Alice series that although he loves one of them, he hates the other - stating that he responds to them so differently because they are identical to one another. The illogic of the statement causes both androids to shut down.
The crew begin to target Norman directly, making him more and more confused until Kirk finally informs him that Harry Mudd is a liar, and everything he says is a lie. Harry then informs Norman that he is indeed lying - prompting Norman to realise that if that is a lie then Mudd must be telling the truth, but that if he is telling the truth then he must be lying. Finally overwhelmed, Norman shuts down and all of the other androids shut down with him.
With the crew back aboard the ship and control restored, Kirk decides what to do with Mudd. He will be left on the planet, stranded with the androids to look after him. Mudd is pleased that his imprisonment will at least be pleasant - until he finds that Kirk has had at least 500 copies of his nagging wife constructed, all of them designed so that they will ignore any order to shut up. Harry is thus left to indefinite imprisonment under the eternal nagging of the woman he most hates.
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|The Enterprise is in the vicinity of Sherman's Planet, a world claimed by both the Federation and the Klingon Empire, when they pick up a Code One Emergency from the nearby Deep Space Station K-7. The code is reserved only for the most dire disasters, so Kirk takes the ship in expecting the worst. On arrival, though, he finds the station apparently peaceful and untroubled. The commander of the station, a Mr. Lurry, asks Kirk to come over to the station to talk. On arrival, a furious Kirk finds the Federation Under-Secretary for Agriculture, Nilz Baris, in Lurry's office with his assistant Arne Darvin.
Baris admits that he ordered the emergency code because the station is currently holding a large stock of Quadrotriticale, a genetically engineered grain to be used on Sherman's Planet. He is worried that the Klingons will attempt to sabotage the grain, as this would seriously hamper the Federation's attempts to develop the planet - and under the terms of the Organian peace treaty, the planet will belong to whomever can best use it. Kirk is increasingly annoyed by the use of the emergency code for what he sees as such a trivial reason, but is forced to concede that Baris has the authority to issue it and to order Kirk to provide security. He reluctantly assigns two guards to the storage compartments and returns to the ship.
As the Enterprise orbits the station a Klingon cruiser arrives, prompting Kirk to go to battle stations. However the ship's commander beams over to the station and merely requests shore leave for his crew there; under the treaty Mr, Lurry must agree, but Kirk is deeply suspicious of the Klingon Captain, Koloth, and places limits on the number of crew who can come aboard at any given time. He also informs Koloth that he will assign a security guard to follow each and every Klingon on the station. Baris is extremely unhappy with this development, and wastes no time in venting his anger on an increasingly frustrated Kirk.
On K-7 Uhura and Chekov are enjoying some time in the station bar where an independent trader named Cyrano Jones is trying to sell his wares. These include a Tribble - a small creature which looks like a spherical ball of fur with no visible limbs or features. Tribbles emit a soft purring sound when stroked, and Uhura finds it adorable. Jones gives her one as a free sample and agrees a deal with the bar owner to supply some more.
Uhura's tribble quickly reproduces, giving birth to a whole litter of small Tribbles which she distributes them to the crew as gifts. The Tribbles in the bar also reproduce, making it impossible for Jones to sell more. He tries to sell them to the Klingons, but the Tribbles react to proximity to a Klingon with a distressed shrieking sound - and the Klingons seem to like Tribbles no better than the Tribbles like them.
The Klingons begin needling Enterprise personnel in the bar about what a terrible person Kirk is. Scotty, as the senior officer present, restrains Chekov from starting a fight - but when the Klingons begin to mock the Enterprise Scotty himself throws the first punch and a large bar brawl breaks out. Kirk logs the incident as a 'small disturbance' and confines Scotty to his quarters, which delights the Engineer as he will have time to read up on his technical journals.
Meanwhile the Tribbles are reproducing at a fantastic rate, every one of them giving birth to large litters of offspring every twelve hours. Soon thousands of them are overrunning the ship, and much to Kirk's annoyance there seems to be no way to stop them. When he tries to order a meal he finds that the Tribbles have gotten into all the ship's machinery, including the food system, and are consuming their supplies rapidly. Spock notes that the Quadrotriticale is being stored under similar conditions on K-7, which is also being overrun by the furry menace.
Kirk beams to K-7 and hurries to the storage compartments to check on the grain - only to find that the compartments are stuffed with almost two million Tribbles who have eaten all the grain in the process of reproducing. However, a scan reveals that many of the Tribbles are dead, and the rest are rapidly dying - victims of the grain, which had been poisoned.
A furious Baris blames Kirk for the fiasco, threatening to have his career in ruins. Koloth also demands an apology for the brawl, which he blames purely on Kirk's men. Koloth also demands the removal of the Tribbles which are crowding the room, as he suffers from the same dislike of them as other Klingons. As Kirk moves to take them away he passes Baris's aide, Arne Darvin - and the Tribbles shriek as soon as they get close to him. A quick examination by McCoy shows that Darvin is a Klingon, a spy working to sabotage the Sherman's Planet project - it was he who poisoned the grain with a virus which prevented the food being absorbed into the body.
With his own aide shown to be the cause of all the trouble Baris's threats against Kirk are rendered moot, and with the Klingons shown to be behind the sabotage Kirk is able to brush off Koloth's complaints and order him out of Federation space. A new shipment of grain is ordered for Sherman's Planet, which now should fall quite easily under Federation control. Kirk orders Cyrano Jones to clear up all the Tribbles on the station, a task Spock estimates will take him 17.9 years - his alternative being to be charged with disrupting a space station, a crime which carries a 20 year sentence.
A victorious Kirk returns to the Enterprise to find it wholly Tribble free. After some prevaricating, his officers admit to the method they used - they beamed the entire population of Tribbles into the engine room of the Klingon ship just before it went to warp. Where, as Scotty puts it, 'they'll be no Tribble at all'. Imagining the chaos that must be going on aboard the Klingon ship, the officers share a laugh as the episode ends.
|A Private Little War
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|The Enterprise is visiting an idyllic planet to do some research there, as McCoy describes the biology there as "a medical treasure trove". Kirk, who performed the initial survey of the world 13 years previously, described it as a near perfect planet which should be left undisturbed so that the peaceful but primitive inhabitants could progress in their own way.
Unfortunately it seems that the natives are not so peaceful any more - Kirk sees a group of Villagers setting up to ambush some Hill People using flintlock firearms. Worse, the Hill People are led by Tyree, whom Kirk met and befriended on his previous visit. Unable to use his phaser to intervene directly, Kirk lobs a rock at the Villagers, prompting one to fire accidentally and thus warning the Hill People. The officers quickly retreat as the Vilalgers give chase, but just before they can beam out Spock is shot in the back.
Aboard the Enterprise McCoy works to stabilise Spock, but can give no guarantee as to his prognosis. Kirk decides to head back down to investigate the planet further, and McCoy decides to join him - leaving Spock in the care of Dr. M'Benga, a specialist in Vulcan medicine who interned in a Vulcan hospital ward.
The ship's sensors detect a Klingon ship in orbit of the planet. Realising that it hasn't spotted them yet Kirk orders the ship to stay out of sight if possible, even if it means leaving orbit. He and McCoy beam down in native disguise and start to search the area for signs of Hill People. Unfortunately they are attacked by a fierce local beast called a Mugato, and Kirk is bitten. The Mugato bite is poisonous, and Kirk quickly falls unconscious. McCoy calls for help, but the Enterprise has left to avoid detection.
Tyree and some Hill People arrive at the scene and take Kirk and McCoy to their village. Tyree's wife is Nona, a local "Kahn-ut-tu woman" who is knowledgeable in the effects of various plants and animals on the planet. She goes to the cave where McCoy is looking after Kirk, and sees the Doctor using his phaser to heat some rocks to provide warmth. Intrigued, she demands that Tyree tell her everything about Kirk or she won't be able to cure him of the Mugato bite.
Nona treats Kirk with a "Mahko root", a thing that appears half plant, half animal. She places it on the bite and cuts her own hand open to place it on the root, chanting an incantation. The bite is completely cured within moments, leaving Kirk awake and aware. Tyree glumly states that according to legend, the mingling of the blood through the Mahko root means that their souls have met in the spirit world, and Kirk will be unable to refuse Nona any request from now on. It becomes clear that Nona uses her skills to dominate and manipulate as much as to heal and help.
Once Kirk is up and about, Tyree explains that the Villager's "fire sticks" appeared about a year ago; as far as he knows the Villagers make them themselves. Kirk asks Tyree to help him sneak into the Village at night to investigate. Nona is hopeful that Kirk's arrival will allow the Hill People to start fighting back against the Villagers, though Tyree wants no part in violence and merely hopes that the Villagers will eventually return to their peaceful ways.
Once in the Village, Kirk and McCoy find a chrome steel drill and carbon-free iron, along with cold rolled gun barrels - none of which could have been produced in the primitive forge that the Villagers possess. Soon a Klingon appears with the Village leader, Apella. Kirk overhears the Klingon discussing new weapon advancements that he will soon give to the Villagers, and how one day Apella will become governor of the whole planet - as a subject world of the Klingon Empire. Kirk and McCoy escape, taking a flintlock with them.
Back on the Enterprise Spock has been in a healing trace. He wakes, asking Nurse Chapel to strike him repeatedly in order to help him fully back to consciousness. She reluctantly does, much to the consternation of the passing Scotty. M'Benga explains that this is actually standard practice for Vulcans, and Spock has now recovered from his wound.
On the planet Kirk is demonstrating the operation of the Flintlock rifle to the Hill People, much to McCoy's consternation. Kirk justifies his apparent violation of the Prime Directive by stating that the Klingons have already upset the natural balance here, and the only thing to do is to restore the balance by giving equal weapons to the Hill People so that they can defend themselves. Although horrified, McCoy can offer no viable alternative.
Kirk encounters Nona away from the Hill People's camp, and she seduces him by rubbing leaves from some local plants on his arm, inducing a sort of hypnotic daze. Tyree sees this and raises the flintlock, moments from killing for the firt time. But he instead throws the weapon down in disgust and storms off angrily. Suddenly another Mugato attacks the pair, but the addled Kirk manages to vaporizes it with his phaser. Nona knocks Kirk out and steals the weapon, making off to find some Villagers. She finds a small group and proclaims that she now has the ultimate weapon, far more powerful than their "fire sticks". The Villagers don't believe her, and when Nona is unable to work out how to fire the weapon she is quickly captured. Kirk, McCoy and Tyree arrive on the scene - but the Villagers think that this was a trap, and one of them stabs Nona in the stomach. The Hill People and Villagers charge one another, and an appalled McCoy watches as the Hill People defeat them - with Tyree beating one man to death with a rock, lost in rage.
Afterwards, Tyree orders the few escaped Villagers hunted down and killed, and takes a flintlock over to Kirk to ask for "more of these, Kirk - many more!" The Enterprise arrives back in orbit and signals Kirk. He reluctantly asks Scotty how long it would take to manufacture a hundred flintlocks for the natives. Kirk is beamed up and the ship heads out of orbit, the deadly cargo presumably delivered.
|The Savage Curtain
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|Abraham Lincoln appears flaoting in space before the Enterprise (!). Understandably surprised, Kirk accepts the former president aboard the ship and gives him a guided tour. Lincoln invites Kirk and Spock to beam down to Exo III, a planet utterly hostile to Human life except for an unexplanable "oasis" spot on the surface. The invitation is accepted, and the officers beam down. They are met by an Excalbian, a silicon being who informs them that his people wish to investigate the Human concepts of good and evil to discover which is stronger. The good are to be represented by Kirk and Spock, Lincoln and Surak of Vulcan; their evil opponents are Ghengis Khan, Kahless the Unforgettable, Zora and Colonel Green. The aliens threaten to destroy the Enterprise in a matter of hours unless Kirk wins the battle.
The two groups skirmish on the surface, improvising weapons from whatever materials are to hand. Eventually Kirk and Spock manage to prevail, and the Excalbians release them and free the Enterprise to continue on its way.
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So has the show become a series of 3 episode arcs or what? This is the third one in a row, although who knows where they end up in the actual time line. I like the idea but it seems be overdone imho.
*Christophsis - two and the movie
*Malevolence - three
*Rookies - three
*R3-S6 - two
*hunt for Nute Gunray's - three
*Dooku captured - two
*Maridun - two
*Pantora - two
*Blue Shadow Virus - two
*Ryloth - five (including Ambush, given the events of Supply Lines connecting them)
*holocron - three
*Geonosis - five
*hunt for Grievous - two
*Lightsaber Lost - one
*Mandalore's Death Watch - three
*Bounty Hunters - one
*Zillo beast - two
*Boba Fett - three
*Mandalore's corruption - two
*Ziro the Hutt - four
*military spending bill - three
*Nightsisters - three
*Mortis - three
So that's 21 arcs so far, plus two standalone episodes. Yowza!
Another thing - the episode guide says that the fact that the Father was the only one to disappear upon his death was intentional. I wonder if he and Qui-Gon had a little chit-chat.
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I gotta agree....as much as I was NOT enjoying the first two episodes of this arc...this last one did kind of reel it it in and tie it up in a good way. It made it easier for me to accept this whole story arc as something that "happened but didn't happen" as far as what the movies present. And yes, I like what JabbaJohn said about the possible coda of this whole arc is that while Anakin doesn't remember seeing his future, the whole incident may have left a residue of doubt towards the Jedi. Not bad, not bad at all...
And now...back to the clones! Yes!
The thing that had me curious was that the Father knows the future, but still warned Anakin to be mindful of his heart. I'm not sure if that meant to follow his heart because he had to become Darth Vader, or for Anakin to be wary of what his heart wants out of him to avoid becoming Vader.
Nowhere in your incoherent ramblings did you come anywhere close to the answer. Thanks to you, everyone in this room is now stupider having heard you. I award you no points and may God have mercy on your soul. -Billy Madison-
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
So the balance of the Force episode was just some sort of dream the Jedi all had? Or a vision at the very least?
I kind of felt the whole thing was a waste. Ashley Eckstein asked on her Facebook page what people thought of it. While Ahsoka basically didn't do much anyway, I felt it was probably best not to answer her question.
At least there aren't Sith warriors who wear clothes, and can turn into naked bat-things in "real life." At least in my interpretation of it (the shuttle never landed on a real planet period).
I don't know who was influencing their vision - and if only Anakin had it, or they all shared it "in the Force or something."
Seems like maybe the latter, since why would Anakin dream what Obi-Wan was doing when he wasn't physically there (when Obi-Wan spoke to the Father)?
Anyway, this is exactly why I like the Senate politics episodes better. And I'm NOT being sarcastic.
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The Federal Water Pollution Control Act amendments of 1972 established an extensive program to improve the quality of waters in this country. In 1978, however, of the 73 percent of the population served by a central wastewater system, only 33 percent (53 million people) had adequate treatment (secondary or better). Those who must build new treatment facilities or improve existing facilities need information that will help them with their task.
Rural areas may need planning assistance more than other areas. Population increases in non-metropolitan areas in the 1970s are more than offsetting the decreases of the previous decade. As population densities increase in these rural areas, community leaders must investigate alternatives to the individual septic tank and absorption field.
The Ozarks is one such rural area. We gathered data from recently built facilities in the Ozarks and non-Ozarks regions of Oklahoma and Missouri to develop a budget analysis. This analysis will help local decision makers in planning collectors, mains for conveyance and treatment facilities. (Generally, conveyance and interceptor sewers are larger mains between household collectors and the final treatment plant.)
In the initial stages of designing the system, follow these steps:
Draw up the layout according to the following suggestions:
The layout will be useful in estimating pipe footage and numbers of manholes and cleanouts.
Accurate estimates of future population growth, potential industrial and commercial growth, groundwater infiltration into the system, and maximum daily flow of wastewater will help in determining both the size of pipe and the size of treatment facility necessary.
You can estimate future wastewater flow by two methods. With the first method, multiply the projected population 25 years in the future by the estimated flow rate per capita per day of 100 gallons. With the second method, use Table 1 along with your knowledge of community growth in both residential and commercial aspects to estimate wastewater flow. With either method, add estimated flow from major water-using industrial establishments to your total.
Table 1Wastewater flow rate estimating guide
Pipe size depends on the flow, slope and roughness coefficient of the pipe in use. Cumulative population along a sewer line is also a key factor in determining the diameter of the pipe needed. State and federal regulations indicate that new lines should not be made from pipe smaller than 8 inches in diameter. Indeed, if no more than 1,000 residents live along a line, 8-inch diameter piping should be sufficient for the entire length of the line. As the cumulative population along the line increases to over 1,000, however, we recommend larger pipe diameters. Table 2 lists pipe diameters needed for various populations along a sewer line.
Table 2Approximate pipe diameters for various populations along sewer line
The pipes of most rural sewer lines in use today are made of vitrified clay, asbestos cement, pre-cast concrete, plastic pipes, or cast-iron or ductile iron. No single material is best suited for all applications, and the choice from among these materials depends on availability, type of waste, waste transport method, design factors and capital cost per unit. For a particular project, one or two materials might give the desired performance. You will need to weigh the tradeoff between cost and engineering considerations.
The state Department of Natural Resources can furnish detailed design standards and requirements. With those guidelines in mind, consider the following points when making preliminary studies:
Once the layout of the wastewater collection and conveyance system is prepared, the future population of the service area and its wastewater flow estimated, and the pipe sizes determined, local decision makers should develop capital and operating cost budgets for the complete wastewater system.
For the collection and conveyance system, expenses include pipe, trenching manholes and cleanouts, crossings, lift stations and other miscellaneous items. We calculated average costs as of January 1979 for these items from bid data for 23 projects in Oklahoma and Missouri. Refer to Table 3 for these averages for the Ozarks and non-Ozarks regions of these states.
Table 3Average price of items used in wastewater collection and conveyance systems, January 1979
To figure the cost for your system, begin by determining total footage of pipe from the system layout. Next determine the sizes of pipe you will need according to cumulative population along a line. Then determine the number of manholes required by dividing the total footage of pipe by 400 if pipes are under 15 inches in diameter. (Divide by 500 for larger pipes.) Locate cleanouts at the end of every sewer line.
For municipal wastewater, federal legislation requires secondary treatment. Treatment facilities that may be economically feasible for small rural communities include:
Aerated lagoons use a mechanical device to supply oxygen to the lagoon. Facultative lagoons operate with both oxygen- and non-oxygen-requiring bacteria. An oxidation ditch is generally an oval concrete-lined ditch with a mechanical aerator-mixer and facilities for sludge removal.
We have listed capital costs for lagoons and oxidation ditches in Table 4. Table 5 shows costs for package treatment plants.
Table 4Minimum land required and capital costs for lagoons and oxidation ditches, January 1979 (table is split into two parts)
Table 4Minimum land required and capital costs for lagoons and oxidation ditches, January 1979 (continued)
Table 5Costs for package treatment plants, January 1979
Data for the systems analyzed in 1978 indicate that total operating and maintenance costs were $32 per hookup per year for systems with lagoons or oxidation ditches and $57 for systems with activated sludge treatment plants built on site. Operating costs for systems with package treatment plants should approximate $57 per hookup per year.
Once you have developed a budget, you must examine the financial situation of the district. Compare annual costs and annual revenue in the early planning stages; consider different financing options. Numerous methods of financing are available.
Several federal agencies can provide funding to rural communities interested in constructing and operating wastewater facilities:
The FmHA can grant up to 75 percent of total eligible project development costs to communities under 10,000 in population. They give priority to towns under 5,500 in population.
To receive funding from the EDA, an area must be an EDA-designated area, an economic development district or an economic development center. The major criteria for such designation include high unemployment and low family income. Direct grants of up to 50 percent of total eligible project costs are available.
Through the Small Cities Program, HUD is authorized to make grants to communities less than 50,000 in population having the greatest needs as evidenced by poverty and substandard housing. Sewage treatment works and interceptor sewers are not eligible for assistance under this program.
The Clean Water Act (P.L. 92-500 and P.L. 95-217) is the legal basis for the largest public works grant program in this country. Section 201 of that act established a construction grants program for wastewater treatment facilities. Through the EPA, grant awards are available for 75 percent of eligible costs of a project. (Up to 85 percent for projects incorporating innovative or alternative technology.)
For specific information on these sources of funding, consult state or regional offices. These offices can provide funds currently available, specific criteria concerning a community's eligibility, and grant and/or loan application procedures.
Local decision makers should find this guide helpful in the initial planning stages of developing central wastewater collection, conveyance, and treatment facilities or in expanding or improving existing facilities. Initial design approximations and cost information will help you make important budgetary and rate structure decisions.
If the decision process goes beyond these preliminary stages, hire a consulting engineer to conduct the actual design of the system. By consulting with the appropriate state agency throughout the process, you should be able to build a centralized wastewater collection, conveyance and treatment facility that will meet federal and state regulations and provide adequate service to the community.
In cases of low population density, central sewage systems may not be economically feasible. An alternative may be the installation of small aerobic treatment plants for individual households. Local governments could support perpetual maintenance of these individual plants.
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Found an El-Les at Walmart in Dublin - but that was it. He was stashed in an end cap by the fitness equipment.
Also, found a single Jedi Turbo Speeder at Dublin TRU. No other new figs at any of the stores in the area.
One interesting note - El-Les rang up for $6.50. Seems to confirm reports of drop in price on CW figs by Walmart.


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This book provides a historical and mathematical tour of cryptography, from classical ciphers to quantum cryptography. The authors introduce just enough mathematics to explore modern encryption methods, with nothing more than basic algebra and some elementary number theory being necessary. Complete expositions are given of the classical ciphers and the attacks on them, along with a detailed description of the famous Enigma system. The public-key system RSA is described, including a complete mathematical proof that it works. Numerous related topics are covered, such as efficiencies of algorithms, detecting and correcting errors, primality testing and digital signatures. The topics and exposition are carefully chosen to highlight mathematical thinking and problem solving. Each chapter ends with a collection of problems, ranging from straightforward applications to more challenging problems that introduce advanced topics. Unlike many books in the field, this book is aimed at a general liberal arts student, but without losing mathematical completeness.
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I don't know whether to be happy or sad.....Joe and I went back to Ky for the second season today and killed two birds. Now all my gun tags are filled so I HAVE TO WAIT TILL SPRING! Unless I go back to Ky and try to fill my archery tags, but that didn't work out too well last time, aac.
We had a good day. We took Joe's dog and he got a bust on a gobbler group, but we couldn't work them back. Then we called in a flock and killed two out it, both Poults(1 male & one hen). It was good to have the dog, Joe's bird took off running crippled and the dog caught it, that was neat to watch. On the way out we busted another group and walked off and left 3 long beards and a group of young birds and hens. Joe was wishing big time he had passed the poult as he had a good chance at one of the long beards, but alas no tag. As for me I had filled my gobbler tag in the early season so a poult is what I wanted.
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The former director of family planning and school counseling advocacy groups in the District of Columbia has been arrested for allegedly arranging to have sex with a 12-year-old girl in an online Internet sting.
Scott Richard Swirling, 61, thought he was discussing plans to meet a District man who was offering to let him have sex with his preteen daughter, authorities said.
For every one of these cases that we hear about, there must be thousands that don't get caught.
The fact that he believed a dad would offer his 12 yr old daughter tells me that it actually does happen somewhere.
That seems highly inflated
If a small group of psychiatrists and other mental health professionals have their way at a conference this week, pedophiles themselves could play a role in removing pedophilia from the American Psychiatric Association's bible of mental illnesses — the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), set to undergo a significant revision by 2013. Critics warn that their success could lead to the decriminalization of pedophilia.
The August 17 Baltimore conference is sponsored by B4U-ACT, a group of pro-pedophile mental health professionals and sympathetic activists. According to the conference brochure, the event will examine "ways in which minor-attracted persons [pedophiles] can be involved in the DSM 5 revision process" and how the popular perceptions of pedophiles can be reframed to encourage tolerance.
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We had got a bus down to Oruro, a town notable solely for being totally nondescript. It was another place that reinfoirced for me that mankind is not as far advanced of the animal kingdom as we would like to think: the structures and food that we saw probably came a distant third to the kingdoms established by bees and ants. Its a little disquieting.
It was in this reflective frame of mind that we went to the station. We were unofrtunate enough to come on a day that is one of Bolivia's 312 annual public holidays, and thus the station was closed - as it had been for a number of days the prior week as well. The sign said it would reopen at 8:15a.m., but signs say a lot of things, and in Bolivia, they rarely mean it
We managed to speak to a couple of lounging police, daring to briefly interrupt them from their focus on playing the Find-a-Word and sleeping. They were desperate to communicate to us that 6a.m. was the key time, and they wrote down for us some key Spanish directions as we were alearly too dense to understand the spoken word.
Thankfully, our hotel hostess spoke perfect English and was able to translate. The crux of the situation was that the aggregation of consecutive fiestas, public holidays, rain and a general reluctance to work meant that the ticket office on the following day would be a shitfight on a royal scale. As a result, wouldbe passengers were invited to go to the station at 6a.m. to get a number in the queue, then return at 8:15 when the ticket office opened in earnest.
In theory, yes.
It should be noted by the reader that there are only four trains a week here. It should not be that hard to smooth demand to a managable level. "Should" not.
Claude and I democratically split the task. I would do the dawn shift, then return to bed and allow Claude to negotiate the riot, although at least at a respectable hour.
The alarm went at 5:10a.m., and all would have gone quite well but for the standard practice of locking you in
Locals queue from 8p.m. the night prior. So arriving on scene, my first reaction was that either Bon Jovi or the Spice Girls were due to play Uyuni (yayy!!!). But no, this was the queue to get your little Coles deli counter style numbered ticket.
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Uyuni is famous for only one thing: Salar de Uyuni.
The town is small and incredibly missable but this attraction is truly incredible. When first we heard of the Salar de Uyuni, it was from the mouth of another tourist who was flagrantly outraged that we had never even heard of them. "This is the only reason I came to this continent. I just can�t believe that you don�t know about these Salt Flats" she chastised us struggling to contain her outrage (and spittle).
Who would have thought someone so desperately in need of anger management would be so right.
We were heading south from the base of Bolivia to northern Chile and this meant that we would travel directly across this region
After speaking to a few, we decided on one of the 70 tour companies at Uyuni who took the daily tour. Our choice ultimately fell to the giggliest guide who managed to speak to us in basic English to lock in the sale and then avoided the English language for the subsequent three days.
The tour was incredible and the landscapes we passed through were more like life on another planet then anywhere I have been before. We visited these famed salt plains during the rainy season which meant that the surface salt was drowned under a permanent lustrous liquid layer. The horizon, the sky and the salt were one indefinable mass which sparkled and shone for as far as the eye could see.
We passed through rock tree regions, incredible desertscapes, red lakes, green lakes, geysers and bubbling, hot springs. Even through an interesting rocky,desertscape which was called Dali Desert after the shapes and formations of rock which looked just like Dali�s paintings.
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I'm impressed.
I have small keyring with a USB memory stick, 2 yubikeys and a cofee machine cashless RFID key on. Stupidly I left said key in the vending machine. The system operators at work collected it and set about finding the owner. 1st up, they discovered that they can't read any files off yubikeys (heh) but googled the image and found the manufacturers website and said they had found serial #.... and #.....
Having spend the last 2 days rummaging in car / home looking for it, I got an email from yubico saying that <email> had found my key, based on the serial no of the one I purchased. Work also got an email for the other serial no, which they traced to me.
I'm *very* impressed by this level of attention at yubico, and it means when distributing keys within the business it pays to keep track of the serial no (printed under the 2d barcode).
It does raise the question of how (if) one should notify yubico if they're passed on - especially if I overwrite the yubi profile (as I have done) to prove that I am the rightful owner of the key.
Things to consider with revocation / blocking, especially with a distributed architecture like Fedora....
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Spring brings us warm rain, blooming flowers, more people on bikes and the dandyhorse magazine spring issue launch party.
Come to the Gladstone Hotel on May 30, 2011 and pick up a copy of the Spring 2011 issue showing you the many ways bikes are good for business on Bloor. Stick around and share a drink with fellow bike buddies and enter a raffle to win an Opus Cervin bicycle.
More event info on Facebook: dandyhorse magazine spring launch party!
Check out the new dandyhorse magazine website, too: dandyhorsemagazine.com


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Facebook Timeline is Coming to Business Pages
Inside Facebook gives us the lowdown::
The layout features a cover photo and larger stories presented chronologically, similar to Timeline for personal profiles. What differs is the ability to pin a post to the top of a page and a friend activity box that makes pages more relevant to each user. Page tabs still function, but there is no longer an option to set a third-party tab as default. A new admin panel, activity log and direct message feature will help page owners manage their communities.
While you don't have to do anything to your page, the new features offer new ways to promote your brand and track user activity. View the full break down of the top changes at Inside Facebook, or go to your Facebook page and run through the preview shown at the top of the page.
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Ach mein herr!
I've been listening to this one all morning. Not Al's best, but definitely better than Polka Party or In 3-D, but an awesome album all around.
My faves are definitely Bob (nice to see Dylan finally getting a nod, and the palindrome theme is hilarious), Wanna B Ur Lover, Genius in France, and Why Does This Always Happen to Me.
Hardware Store, Party at the Leper Colony, and Ebay didn't really do much for me.
Ode to a Superhero is a well-done parody, but after Yoda, Jurassic Park, and The Saga Begins, it's not quite up to expectations.
All this and the number twenty-seven, too! :happy:
I kinda figured Genius in France was intended as a parody of or homage to the late, great Frank Zappa. Weird vocals, xylophone, gratuitous-but-awesome guitar licks (some by Frank's son Dweezil), random style shifts, complete animosity to the French, repition of nonsense words, noises, poodles, "great googily moogily". . . . If Al's voice was a tad deeper, I'd think it was a lost track by Frank.


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Wow what a change an intelligent mechanic who explained everything about the job Will be using them again in the near future for my other car
"Prestige MOT Centre offer a wide range of garage services including MOT & Servicing , also specializing in BMW, Mercedes, Porsche, Lexus and Land rover. We strive to make sure customer has up most satisfaction with the services we provide. "
Ovi Motors Ltd is based in Barking, Essex. We are specialized in all mechanical , bodywork and breakdown recovery. We offer quality services at accessible prices.
What a great company, I was surprised how quickly they did my repairs and the car looks like it was when i first bought it. Great service
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The name of this popular Italian eatery conjures up several images. Do you drop by for take-out pasta or pizza and take it down the hill to First Beach? Pasta, then beach. Do you wash up here, after bucking the tourist tide on Thames, so grateful for an out-of-the-way spot, it seems like a beach full of pasta? Or is it just a way to convey the size and informality of a place not much bigger than a clam shack, with an outdoor deck onto a busy walkway and boulevard?
Whatever the origins of the name, Pasta Beach is a bustling place on a summer weekend in Newport: a table of eight near us on the deck was quickly replaced by another table of nine, a full complement of kids at each seating; prospective (or waiting) customers studied the menu posted just below our table, asking outdoor diners what they'd ordered; two tall guys balanced four boxes of steaming pizza they'd just picked up; a line began to form just inside the restaurant.
Pasta Beach's popularity stems from the simple, straightforward menu of pizza, pasta, and paninis. The sauces are house-made and very tasty; the prices are reasonable; the aromas of hearth-baked pizza and sauce simmering in the open kitchen are irresistible. Several couples like ourselves grabbed seats at the counter stools, though we were later able to snag an empty table outside before we were served more than water.
Instead of an appetizer (bruschetta or prosciutto wrapped around melon) or a salad (including some that would serve as dinner), we chose to split a pizza as our starter. From a lineup of 16 pizzas, we picked one called simply "rucola," the Italian word for arugula ($14). The red sauce was delicious, with a slight sweetness, and the arugula was tossed on after the pizza emerged from the oven.
Next we studied the pastas, with a choice of spaghetti, penne, farfalle, orecchiette, or tagliatelle for the many sauces listed. These ranged from tomato sauce or pesto through carbonara, aglio olio, amatriciana (with bacons and onions), to Mediterranea (with zucchini and cherry tomatoes, olive oil and garlic). We chose one favorite of ours — potato gnocchi ($14.60) — and a new one — panzerotti ($16.45), similar to ravioli, filled with spinach and ricotta.
The gnocchi were delicate and light, and the pesto sauce we decided on tasted earthy from the fresh basil. The panzerotti were not overcooked (sometimes a danger with filled pastas), and the butter-and-sage sauce on them was also very good.
In addition to the pastas, there is grilled chicken, grilled swordfish, and daily specials — that day a lobster dish and one with shrimp, clams, and mussels were on deck. There are also pasta dishes on the regular menu that feature one or more of the latter, including the Rhode Island favorite of spaghetti and littlenecks.
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I'm 3/4s of the way through Splinter of the Minds Eye. Since it was written before a lot of the SW canon was established, it's interesting. I remember starting and stopping this book several times, but don't think I'd ever finished it.
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I'm 3/4s of the way through Splinter of the Minds Eye. Since it was written before a lot of the SW canon was established, it's interesting. I remember starting and stopping this book several times, but don't think I'd ever finished it.
Another unusual mix.
Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston. She came to speak at our library's Asian Pacific Islander Month kickoff event this month, and those who attended it got a free signed copy of the book. Last summer, on a drive back from Reno, I stopped at the Manzanar site, too. I'd read excerpts of FtM before, but never read the entire book. A simple style, easy to understand, of a time period where we probably don't understand how and why what happened did happen (even though the "why" has been explained for decades :( ).
Peter & the Sword of Mercy by Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson. Another in the Peter Pan YA series. Pretty good, with more world history in this one (Charlemagne, London and English geography, Edward the Confessor, et al). A fast read, even at a 2"+ thick book spine.
These next reads have a negative side to each.
Where Things Come back by John Corey Whaley. A colleague (who did a Skype interview with the author in her classes) recommended this book. It fits into the rare like/hate category: I really liked its construction (characters, allusions, plot weaving, dialogue, interesting concepts) but hated how I found myself in the book (I believe this was the most intensive connections to characters I've read in a long time; I was actually literally shaken up after reading it and needed some unwind time). Set in an Arkansas small town, it deals with various intersecting storylines mainly about a teenager's life, losses, and loves (hey; alliteration! :D ).
The Hoarder in You by Robin Zasio, one of the people with the Hoarders TV show. As a collector, I wondered if their definitions of "hoarder" would fit me. It just confirmed that I have some of my collecting under control; I'd be a 2 or 3 on their 5-point continuum (or called a "clutterer" I guess) of hoarding tendencies. I wasn't interested in a self-help book, but there were a few helpful aspects.
After all the hype, and time that passed, I finally got to Pride & Prejudice & Zombies by Seth Graham-Smith (and Jane Austen). It was really just silly, but the "zombie mayhem" made the slow, plodding British countryside narrative tolerable. I don't recall the word "pride" being used so often in the original novel, and the amount of vomit, inuendo, and "balls" jokes was more than necessary. Funny, dull, witty, boring; it had it all?
The Art of Ralph McQuarrie was a little awkward to read (it's in Japanese, so I used the companion translation booklet) but if you just studied the artwork, the words just added more detail.
I have now crossed the summer 10-books read plateau, about 2700 pages. So far. My summer goal is always 30 books. Or more. :D
Aleph by Paulo Coelho. I have liked almost all his books I've read, but this is easily my least favorite of those. It's listed as "fiction," and it is, but he makes himself the main character in his own life. Basically, it's his weeks-long journey on the Trans-Siberian railroad on a book signing tour, and the group that travels with him. The woman who forces him to let her join is annoying, selfish, and arrogant (even though she is supposed to be inspiring for her forcefulness and confidence); the translator is the best person (but his flaws are not fully rounded and make him flat); and the comments on life seemed trite and cliched to me. Sad to hear, but this was not as good as I'd have liked.
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett. I'll have to go back and check out JediTricks' reviews of it. [edit: that was over 2 years ago here? wow; time flies...] A very well-constructed crime mystery classic, set in a northern CA crime-ridden city; the not-named detective who is hell-bent on cleaning up the corruption there spouts all the gangster jargon and slang, and more. The last chapter is the one that wraps up all the loose ends, just like detective novels used to do. Hey; this was written in the days when that happened. :rolleyes: A great read. Better than the SW EU book of the same title.
I'll give some others a chance to post in this thread after this. :rolleyes:
I Had a Hammer by Henry Aaron & Lonnie Wheeler. His autobio was in chronological order, with a strong memory; most of his MLB days I knew about (but not the extent of the hate mail he received, not only during the Ruth chase, but throughout his career), but I'd heard almost nothing of his Negro League and minor league days. I have to soapbox for a bit: people say I have good patience with others, but Aaron's was far beyond mine. Stupid, ignorant, racist, hateful, selfish people need to be put in their places; I have only to hope that karma really exists to turn around the awful things they wrote (some would put today's internet spelling and grammar at Shakespearean levels) and said to him. Those parts made me sick to share the earth with those idiotic humans, especially those who wrote that they weren't being racist or cruel but "truthful." :mad: The book was good, just like the man. Maybe that's what I should take from it, rather than the hatred.
Ever since the layoffs and other bloodshed, I haven't had time to do any recreational reading to any real degree. I'm at work more than home and that's getting really tiring...
SEAL Target Geronimo by Chuck Pfaffar. One of the first books released about the mission to take out Osama Bin Laden in Mau 2011. Pfarrar is a former SEAL himself and interviewed a lot of the parties involved (names changed to protect their identity, of course). Interesting read.
Darth Maul: Saboteur. Reread the short story at the end of the Maul: Shadow Hunter. Someone gave me the paperback version with the story included. Thoroughly enjoyed it.
Tread Lightly: Form, Footwear, and the Quest for Injury-Free Running by Peter Larson and Bill Katovsky. The name pretty much gives away the subject matter. Its a pretty good book about running, not the best but not bad. I'm a big fan of Dr. Larson's blog runblogger.com so it was kinda natural for me to get his book.
I've been reading some of the short stories from the old SW Adventure Journals. Some are pretty decent, others are so-so. Too bad I don't have more of the journals; they're pretty cool.


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Sunday's beautiful but markedly chilly weather did nothing to dissuade wine aficionados from bundling up and stepping out for the 2011 Charleston Wine + Food Festival poster unveiling at Wine Under the Oaks, an event copresented by Boone Hall Plantation.
The front lawn of the stunning historic plantation home was packed with an enthusiastic crowd of gourmands, who happily flitted between strategically placed heating lamps and wine tasting booths. When not sipping vino or reheating their fingertips, people bid on a silent auction, purchased local goods, or noshed on gourmet bites from Charleston's finest chefs.
Fleet Landing's crab and pesto bruschetta was a hit, and more than a few guests snuck back in line second helpings of 82 Queen's jambalaya. The mouth-watering smell of barbecued meatballs wafted from the Slather Brand Foods booth, which consistently drew a long line of hungry fledgling sommeliers. "Lick your fingers!" the woman behind the table advised. "Someone else will lick them if you don't."
The highlight of the afternoon was the unveiling of the winning 2011 Charleston Wine + Food Festival, designed by Seth Deitch. The striking poster was on display along with several honorable mentions in front of a live bluegrass band.
The gorgeous afternoon of wine tasting with friends was the perfect way to wrap up the weekend, and it was a relaxed, mellow crowd that made their way down the oak lined path to their cars.
Wine Under the Oaks was presented by the Charleston Wine + Food Festival and Boone Hall Plantation, and a portion of all proceeds benefited The American Red Cross. The American Red Cross is the nation's premier emergency response organization, offering humanitarian care to the victims of war, aiding victims of devastating natural disaster, and supporting our communities in a variety of ways.