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Keeping It Safe (2000-10-19)
Halloween is fast approaching and we here at RedWolf would just like to remind everybody to be careful and discrete with your airsoft collection during this time. Every Halloween, many enthusiasts feel its the perfect time to dress up in full gear and share their enthusiasm of airsoft with friends and neighbors. While admittedly this is the only day when you can actually dress up like that and not look out of place or odd, we hope everyone exercises the utmost care when going into public with anything that looks like a real weapon. Avid readers of our Bite The Bullet column will remember my story of where Wildgoose and I were mistaken as SWAT officers first on the scene of a crime. While I did tell the story from a humorous angle, guns are very hard to come by in Hong Kong and it is extremely unlikely to have people walking around the street with guns. The police officers who mistook us for the real deal were much less on-guard and wary of us due to this fact, and also because airsoft is quite common here. Police officers here also have much tighter rules about unholstering their guns, which requires them to file long reports every time they even pull their gun out. Hence, you'll rarely see them pull out their revolvers unless they feel a real threat.
This may not be the case in other countries though and displaying airsoft weapons in public may draw much more extreme reactions. While browsing discussion forums at www.airsoftguns.com, I came upon this article which I feel quite illustrates my point.
A very long time ago (15 years ago to be exact) I had some experiences similar to what is being discussed here. I was 17 at the time. Way back then, my friends and I had no access to airsoft (whatever airsoft guns that were produced were so rare and expensive it was the same as if they didn't exist). But that didn't stop us from dressing up in military gear and going up into the hills with fake guns that I made out of old 2x4s in my garage. I did a very good job with my replicas, and constructed, over time, an AK-47, a Dragunov, and an M-60. They fired nothing, and were made of wood, cardboard and tin cans. Up close it was obvious they were fake, but from a few feet away, it wasn't too hard to mistake them for real. One of my friends was kind of rich and had several replica guns (also non firing); very realistic.
Anyway, we were doing nothing more than a dressed up version of 'Bang Bang! You're dead!" We played on public land, close to residences. Never asked anyone. Not very smart in hindsight but things were different back then. More than once, people called the police on us. Usually when the police showed up, they simply walked up on us and asked what we were doing. At any rate, we were smart enough to know that if and when the police came around, there was no other option for us than to STOP what we were doing, DROP our toy guns, and go talk to the officer. We even practiced for it. I'd line everyone up and go, "Police!" and everyone would throw up their hands. We were always let go, with a "Be careful!" from the officer. Once though, we blew it. My friend with the money seemed to have less sense than a grapefruit and really got us in hot water one day. Now, we ALWAYS put all our gear in the trunk of our cars when we finished for the day. Well, Rich Kid decided he wanted to keep his replica Sterling with him in the back seat. We went to a 7-11 for some drinks and there was a school district police officer there. He saw that fake Sterling in the back seat, and I don't need to tell you what he thought.
This officer followed us in his car after we left. At the time I was driving and had no idea why he was following us (didn't know Rich kid had his gun w/him). We got on the freeway headed for another friends house, and this school cop is still behind us. I thought, "I haven't run any lights or stop signs. I'm not speeding. What's up?" Then I see a highway patrol car go by on the other side of the freeway. Then another. Then I see two rollers in my rearview. My hair stood up. I pulled off the freeway and into a residential area. Well, we hit an intersection and suddenly two black and whites screech into the intersection and block it, followed by an unmarked car. The two following us did the same. Now I'm thinking, "Oh no!" Like an idiot, I got out of the car, knowing exactly what it was this was all about now.
And then I heard shotguns being racked, and hammers being cocked, and all these guys have drawn down on me.
I nearly died of fright right there. "PLACE YOUR HANDS ON YOUR HEAD AND GET DOWN ON YOUR KNEES!" they ordered through the loudspeaker. No problem. They got my other friends out of the car and had us all face down on the street. This whole time I'm going, "They're not real!" "Can we look in the trunk?" as if I was going say no. "Sure," and I gave them the keys. Well, very quickly they saw that all we had were chunks of wood and cardboard. They took our names and let us go.
I'll never forget that though. Having a dozen cops ready to shoot me was a pretty life affirming experience (as in , "Do I want to live? Affirmative!!")
But even then, we understood why the police did what they did. We were being stupid and there was no excuse for it. My rich friend never lived it down either, but we shouldn't have been wearing our fatigues either. Nowadays, it would be impossible for anyone to play airsoft in that area anymore. Not in this day and age. As far as I'm concerned, airsoft should ALWAYS be played in a controlled environment. NEVER play on public land, especially if you are in an urban or residential area (although out in the boonies, miles from anyone is probably ok). Play on private land only with permission, and NEVER display an airsoft gun in public. Guns should always be kept in bags when not on the playing field, and you should wear civilian clothes to and from your field. If the police show up, stop the game immediately, put down your guns, and do whatever they tell you. I can understand where Foxhound is coming from when he says, "Act responsibly with the airsoft and you shouldn't have any problems." Mike (Stinger)
With past incidences of innocent shootings by police on airsoft enthusiasts, we should be real careful. So let's be careful this Halloween. Not only will that make it safe for everyone, but it will also help against public outcry for a ban on all airsoft.


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Wed., June 19, 2013 7:00am
Judge Concerned About Cheating Case
A judge overseeing the case against dozens of Atlanta educators accused of a conspiracy to cheat on standardized tests is expressing concerns about whether their statements to investigators were coerced by investigators. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Jerry Baxter addressed prosecutors at a hearing this week, telling them "I am seriously concerned about your case."
Tue., June 11, 2013 5:00am
Cheating-Case Defendant Claims Prosecutor Conflict
A defendant in the Atlanta Public Schools cheating case is asking a judge to disqualify Fulton County prosecutors because the district attorney's wife worked at a school where cheating took place. The motion claims District Attorney Paul Howard's wife, Petrina, was a counselor at M. Agnes Jones Elementary School when the 2009 CRCT was administered and helped distribute tests.
Fri., May 17, 2013 7:00am
Atlanta Schools Subpoenaed In Cheating Case
Atlanta Public Schools is notifying parents that it will have to turn over students' education information starting Friday in response to a subpoena. The subpoena is related to the criminal case against former educators who are accused of cheating on standardized tests.
Fri., May 3, 2013 4:54am
Court Date For Former Educators
Most of the educators charged in the Atlanta schools cheating scandal are set to appear in court for formal arraignments. A hearing is scheduled for Friday morning before Fulton County Superior Court Judge Jerry Baxter. Baxter also plans to hear arguments from attorneys on both sides and from some media outlets regarding a gag order placed on the defendants in the case.
Thu., May 2, 2013 6:00am
Accused Teachers' Bonus Pay Revealed
Atlanta educators accused of crimes in connection with the school system's cheating scandal earned bonuses that totaled as little as $750 and averaged $2,600. Arraignments for the 35 Atlanta Public Schools officials who were indicted in a racketeering conspiracy are set for Friday.
Tue., April 23, 2013 6:12am
Atlanta Schools Help Kids Left Behind
The Atlanta Public Schools system is spending millions on remediation programs to help those directly affected by a massive cheating scandal and others who've simply fallen behind. Officials say the students didn't get the help they needed because their test scores weren't properly recorded.
Thu., April 18, 2013 7:02am
Lawyer: Former Schools Chief Innocent
A lawyer for Beverly Hall says the former Atlanta Public Schools superintendent is innocent and looks forward to having her day in court. Richard Deane said in an interview with The Associated Press Wednesday that the charges against Hall are excessive and that there is no factual basis for them.
Wed., April 3, 2013 3:47am
Former Superintendent Posts Bond
Former Atlanta schools superintendent Beverly Hall was released from jail late Tuesday after posting bond. Educators indicted in a test cheating scandal had to surrender at the Fulton County jail by Tuesday, and all but a few met the deadline.
Tue., April 2, 2013 4:10am
Cheating Scandal Surrenders Begin
The first of several defendants expected to surrender Tuesday in Atlanta's school cheating scandal has turned herself in to authorities. Prosecutors set a Tuesday deadline for all 35 defendants to surrender to authorities.
Mon., April 1, 2013 4:31am
School Cheating Defendants Face Deadline
Nearly three dozen people are facing a deadline to report to jail after being charged in the Atlanta public schools cheating scandal. The educators are required to surrender into custody by Tuesday.


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[Athens, Greece; September 25. Image via AP.]
Jackson, a three-month-old jaguar cub, plays with a zoo worker at the Attica Park zoo near Spata, east of Athens, Greece, Friday, Sept. 25, 2009. The jaguar cub was born the day after US singer, Michael Jackson died, and has been named after him, zoo officials said. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)


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From NWChem
This is an optional top-level directive that allows the user to specify the total charge of the system. The form of the directive is as follows:
CHARGE <real charge default 0>
The default chargeThe charge directive, in conjunction with the charges of atomic nuclei (which can be changed via the geometry input, cf. Section -sec:cart-), determines the total number of electrons in the chemical system. Therefore, a charge n specification removes "n" electrons from the chemical system. Similarly, charge -n adds "n" electrons. is zero if this directive is omitted. An example of a case where the directive would be needed is for a calculation on a doubly charged cation. In such a case, the directive is simply,
charge 2
If centers with fractional charge have been specified the net charge of the system should be adjusted to ensure that there are an integral number of electrons.
The charge may be changed between tasks, and is used by all wavefunction types. For instance, in order to compute the first two vertical ionization energies of LiH, one might optimize the geometry of LiH using a UHF SCF wavefunction, and then perform energy calculations at the optimized geometry on LiH + and LiH2 + in turn. This is accomplished with the following input:
geometry; Li 0 0 0; H 0 0 1.64; end basis; Li library 3-21g; H library 3-21g; end scf; uhf; singlet; end task scf optimize charge 1 scf; uhf; doublet; end task scf charge 2 scf; uhf; singlet; end task scf
The GEOMETRY, BASIS, and SCF directives are described below (Geometry, Basis and SCF respectively) but their intent should be clear. The TASK directive is described above (TASK).


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You have probably noticed the Oreo ads recently. It is Oreo's first advertising forray into the Irish market where they are putting the Oreo Twist on Dublin Landmarks and events. There are a total of 16 ads in the series, with the 16th being an event or place chosen by a reader of the TheJournal.ie. The event ones, like the one below for the Bram Stoker Festival almost look like Oreo are sponsoring the events, when in fact they aren't, they are just putting an Oreo twist on it.
The ads in the series (a selection of them are below) are all consistent in look and feel and simplicity. There is no mistaking they are from Oreo and as a way to launch the brand above the line in Ireland it feels like a good move.
Of course this is an extension of the hugely successful, Cannes Lions Cyber Grand Prix winning "Daily Twist" campaign which marked OREO's centenary and made the cream-stuffed sandwich a social-media behemoth with incredible real-time culture jacking. There is a nice case study video which I have put at the end of this post for you.
Sadly this isn't a sign of a new advertiser entering the market, the opportunity for Oreo is the result of PHD winning €150,000 of media space in JC Decaux's "Fame – The Agency Edition" competition. I guess what it does go to show is the effectiveness of outdoor.
The work was done by Draftfcb London.
I just hope this means we will start to get some of the decent size packs of Oreos in the irish market now!


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Dolphins' Mike Pouncey testifies in Aaron Hernandez case
Players missing practice for reasons other than injury or illness is becoming a familiar pattern for the Miami Dolphins.
Center Mike Pouncey did not participate in Wednesday's practice, and the Dolphins gave "non-injury" as a reason. They were not inaccurate: He was in Massachusetts, presumably in full health, testifying before a grand jury in the Aaron Hernandez murder case, according to numerous published reports.
Pouncey's absence served as a curious bookend. His team faces the New England Patriots in Miami this Sunday. His appearance in court Wednesday, meanwhile, was a result of a subpoena served to him the last time he appeared in the state of Massachusetts—after the Dolphins' October 27 loss to the Patriots in Foxboro, reportedly while he was on his way to the team bus.
Hernandez is charged with murder and is still jailed in Massachusetts; Pouncey was his teammate at Florida, and was initially inserted into the case last summer, when he and his twin brother (and ex-Florida teammate of the two as well) Maurkice were photographed wearing "Free Hernandez" caps.
Mike Pouncey, though, has not been charged in the crime. However, he's implicated in the other notable instance of a Dolphins player being away from the team for non-injury reasons.
For more than a week after Jonathan Martin left the team in October complaining of being bullied and harassed by teammates, the Dolphins' injury report said Martin had missed practice with a "non-football illness"—and listed him as "doubtful" for the first game after he'd bolted, right up until the afternoon of the game, a Thursday night matchup with Cincinnati.
Richie Incognito has been serving a team suspension since the week after that game. His closest friend in the locker room, caught on video soon after the story broke laughing at Incognito screaming a racial slur in a bar? Mike Pouncey.


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Vertu, a status symbol phone for the wealthy elite in Russia, China and the Middle East, will now be using the Android platform for its new luxury phone.
The Vertu Ti starts at $10,000 and is likely the most expensive Android handset available, according to the Wall Street Journal. Nokia sold the company to a Swedish private equity firm last year but still retained 10 percent ownership. Because it was no longer beholden to Nokia's Symbian operating system or its new Windows Phone platform, Vertu decided to use the more popular Android 4.0, also known as Ice Cream Sandwich. Vertu said it preferred Android for its "richer mobile ecosystem and greater options for customization."
Vertu, which is based in Hampshire, England, offers phones up to $300,000 that are often laden with calfskin, alligator, diamonds or other jewels. Each device is assembled by hand, offers a concierge service and can be purchased in only 500 retail locations, according to BBC News. Its luxury market has just 326,000 smartphone owners after 10 years of operation.
The six-ounce Vertu Ti is encased in titanium, ceramic and leather and it is heavier than most smartphones, but it's created for durability -- including surviving being run over by a delivery truck. One was run over by a delivery truck and it remained in one piece and working.
Apparently the luxury electronics market is a niche one, but one that proves to be profitable. While Vertu is the most well-known, other companies such as Tag Heuer and Goldvish are entering the fray to court the wealthy. This isn't about the cutting edge of electronics but about having a handset that tells the world you can afford a $100,000, sapphire-encrusted accessory.


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Alameda, California – July 27, 2017 – Collectors won't want to miss the US $20.00 gold coins from 1907 and 1908, when the transition was underway from the Liberty Head motif to the iconic design by American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, featuring a fierce and majestic eagle in flight reversing to the elegant figure of Liberty bearing an olive branch. A 1907 $20.00 gold coin from the last year of Liberty Head production is estimated at $1,400-$1,600, while a $20.00 piece from the same year with the newer Saint-Gaudens design is offered at $1,800 to $2,000 (NGC MS62, no motto). A highlight for collectors is the 1908 Saint-Gaudens $20.00 gold piece ($2,000-$2,200) engraved with the motto "In God We Trust." B
A leading auction highlight from the collection of Dr. Eldon Ream is the very rare 1895 ("S," San Francisco) US Morgan silver dollar in uncirculated condition, estimated at $1,500-$2,000. The Morgan dollar is "by far the most widely collected and traded numismatic coin in the world" (Louis Golino, CoinWeek.com). For many collectors, the 1895 coin is the key to completing their Morgan dollar sets, and bidding should be intense for this lot. Dr. Ream also collected European coins during his study abroad in Salzburg, Austria. These will be auctioned on August 12 and include a 1915 uncirculated Austria 100 corona gold coin ($1,200-$1,400). Additional foreign gold coins range in date from the 19th century to the 1980s. Inquiries are encouraged by specialist Michael Rosenberg, who can be reached at 510-227-2502.
Collectible clocks are highly sought at auction, and a truly spectacular opportunity for collectors in August with the pavilion style automaton mechanical clock, estimated to sell for $80,000-$100,000. The design of this gilded confection was inspired by the splendor of the Orient. Elephants in ceremonial dress form its feet.
California Impressionist William Franklin Jackson (1850-1936) is Michaan's featured fine artist in August. His "California Landscape with Poppies and Lupine" ($10,000-$15,000) would make a fine addition to any collection of American Impressionist paintings. With its colorful indigenous wild perennials including the state flower, the work will have a special appeal to Californians.
Beautiful Chinese furniture to be sold includes items of rosewood such as the table and chair estimated at $3,000-$4,000. Garden stools of colorful famille rose porcelain are offered at $800-$1,200 for the pair. A collection of five stellar Yixing stoneware pieces will attract many bids with its lovely decoration and details. A fascinating lot for collectors is the cloisonné production process kit, a set of seven small vases that reveal the progressive stages of cloisonné enamel creation from start to finish ($300-$400). Superbly detailed decorative art objects include a carved white coral maiden and a mixed-metal pumpkin form covered box. Collectibles also include precious snuff bottles carved of jade, amethyst, quartz and carnelian. Antique Buddhist figures are highlighted, with estimates ranging from $400 to $3,000. Embroidered silks and archaistic bronze pieces can be found among the treasures from China; from Japan, a carp form kettle hanger carved of wood ($300-$400).
Jewelry buyers will find brilliant gemstones, precious metals, and wearable estate pieces in the assortment of fine jewelry. Jewelry for gentlemen is always in high demand among auction bidders, who will vie for the coveted cultured pearl dress set from G.T. Marsh & Company. Established as a fine Asian art dealer in 1876, the firm also offered unique fine jewelry to clients in the San Francisco Bay Area. The handsome pearl dress set features white gold and Marsh's signature patinated steel, a look for which their designs are known and loved; it is estimated at $800 to $1,200. Another estate find is the collection of jeweled gold stickpins ($300-$500). Sparkling rings include diamond and aquamarine styles; a sapphire and diamond ring is estimated at $500-$700.
Fine silver is a perennial bestseller and collectors will find compelling options in August. Featured flatware includes a 72-piece Danish set by K.A. Rasmussen ($1,500-$2,000, with silver chest) and Christofle's "Marly" (121 pieces, $1,500-$2,000). Mexican sterling lots include a coffee and tea service ($1,500-$2,000) and an elegant two-handled centerpiece ($1,200-$1,500) in the International ("Jensen") style.
Of particular interest collectors is the pair of bronze Polynesian-themed candelabra ($800-$1,200) designed and signed by the late Victor Bergeron of "Trader Vic's" fame.
Diverse estate furniture in the August auction ranges from the Brutalist burlwood table ($800-$1,600) to the ebonized Eastlake 12-piece dining suite 11837-1 ($1,000-$1,500) by venerable 19th Century American furniture maker Berkey and Gay. Auction buyers with a taste for luxury goods will find many compelling lots including the three-piece set of Louis Vuitton luggage and the Fortuny-style "Grand Canal" pattern velvet coverlet ($2,500-$3,000) in gorgeous shades of bronze and gold.
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DURHAM — Momentum is building toward the establishment of a football program at Oyster River High School, but the process is just starting and has a long way to go, according to athletic director Corey Parker.
"I think it's a strong possibility," Parker said. "But I don't want to rush into a sport like football where there are a lot more questions that need to be answered."
Parker said his office has been inundated with emails supporting the idea.
"There's a strong sense of enthusiasm over the last few weeks," Parker said.
At a recent School Board meeting, a committee was tasked with exploring the feasibility of starting a football team at Oyster River, which will work between now and June and bring before the board its findings.
The board heard from a number of those in favor of the idea, including Thomas Burd, who is part of a group known as Friends of Oyster River Football. The group hopes to establish a club football team that will play a junior-varsity schedule before becoming a full-fledged varsity program.
"Going varsity right away would be throwing children to the wolves," Burd said. "As a club team we'd play at the JV level for one or two years, grow a strong base."
Burd said that the Oyster River Youth Association has provided youth football for enough years to justify having a varsity program at the high school level.
"After five years of building a new program, the demand to play football is there," Burd said.
Burd said there are about 35-40 potential football players currently enrolled at Oyster River, and about 150 more waiting in the wings at the middle-school level.
"Our main strength is going to be kids who are currently in middle school," he said.
With an enrollment of about 700 students, Oyster River is one of the largest schools in New Hampshire that does not offer football. The school opened in 1956.
Parker said it's a "strong possibility" that the school will someday support a football team.
"Needs change," Parker said. "Student development and the growth of sports change, and we're in the business of providing opportunities for our kids."
Burd said that the program would be self-funded through booster club fundraising, gates and concessions. He said the plan would be for Oyster River to play its home games at Cowell Stadium at the University of New Hampshire.
"If we got to the point where we could build a football stadium with a track and a soccer field, that would be a great position to be in," he said.


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|The V'ger vessel
|Vessel enclosed in energy cloud
|Twelfth power
|Earth and Unknown
|Surrounding energy cloud diameter of two astronomical units
|Plasma weapons
V'ger was a massive entity and one of the most extraordinary lifeforms ever encountered by the United Federation of Planets. It generated enormous levels of power and threatened Earth with destruction until it found a way to evolve.
V'ger chose its own name. Before the name of the vessel was discovered, Starfleet personnel referred to the ship as "the intruder".
Approaching Federation space Edit
Initial contactEdit
First detected when passing through Klingon territory in the 2270s, V'ger was unlike anything that Starfleet had ever encountered. Its initial appearance – that of a vast, luminous cloud, capable of emitting enormous amounts of energy – was described as a "twelfth-power energy field", a scale beyond the energy-generation capacity of even "thousands of starships".
During a battle with a fleet of three Klingon K't'inga-class battle cruisers led by the IKS Amar, V'ger launched a series of powerful, spherically-shaped "bolts" of plasma energy that emerged from within the cloud and eliminated the Klingon assailants. The cloud and its encounter with the Klingons, while occurring within Klingon space, was detected and monitored by a sensor drone from Starfleet's Epsilon IX communications station, which was in close proximity to the then-disputed Federation-Klingon border.
Shortly after the elimination of the Klingon vessels, the cloud passed into Federation space near the Epsilon IX station, which was able to perform limited scans on it, although most of its sensor sweeps were reflected back. The relay station's crew was able, however, to determine that it measured a diameter in excess of two astronomical units, which, at almost three hundred million kilometers, would have made the cloud at least as large as Earth's entire orbit; they also detected a null reading at the heart of the entity, indicating a solid form or vessel of some kind. Unfortunately, V'ger appeared to interpret Epsilon IX's scans as a hostile act, and eliminated the space station in the same manner as it had the Klingon vessels.
Threatening EarthEdit
"Sir, it's on a precise heading for Earth."
With the cloud just fifty-four hours away from Earth, Starfleet dispatched the only starship within interception range, the newly refitted USS Enterprise, to determine both what the intruder was and how to stop it, if possible. When the Enterprise arrived at the cloud's coordinates, it determined that the entity had an energy output surpassing that of thousands of starships.
By assuming a non-threatening posture, the Enterprise was able to deeply penetrate the cloud surrounding V'ger and begin gathering information. During this critical time, however, the starship was cut off from all communication with Starfleet. As V'ger entered the Sol system, the cloud surrounding it began to rapidly dissipate, and spherical energy "bolts" similar to those that had destroyed the Klingons and the Epsilon IX station, only vastly more powerful, were launched by the entity. The energy spheres proceeded on courses that would place them into equidistant orbits around the planet, at which point it was predicted Earth's entire surface would be devastated.
Making contact Edit
The Enterprise tried to make contact with V'ger, but all linguacode messages were ignored, and it became apparent that the object at the heart of the cloud was unable to comprehend the hailing signals. It was determined that the intruder communicated on a frequency of more than one million megahertz (over one terahertz) and that, at such a high rate of speed, an entire message lasted only a millisecond.
Aside from the plasma energy spheres, V'ger had other, less destructive means of gathering data. It scanned the Enterprise with a plasma-energy beam that gave some of the crew an electric shock, but otherwise left people unharmed. However, the same beam removed the Deltan navigator of the Enterprise, Lieutenant Ilia.
V'ger was able to analyze Ilia in extraordinary detail, at least down to the cellular level. It then constructed an extremely accurate bio-mechanical replica of her, which acted as a probe. This device was such a precise copy of the original that it even had her memory patterns. They were, however, suppressed, and the Ilia probe had only rudimentary knowledge of humanoid behavior, presumably reflecting V'ger's own level of experience; the probe required considerable education to act as liaison between V'ger and the crew of the Enterprise.
Physical aspects and organization Edit
"Or a crew of a thousand, ten miles tall."
Structure and layoutEdit
Surrounded by layer upon layer of cloud formations, the vessel aspect of V'ger was enormous, with even the largest starship seeming microscopic in comparison.
Roughly cylindrical in shape, the construction of the exterior and interior of the vessel was mostly of a "hexad", or six-sided axially symmetric nature, with the axis generally running from "bow" to "stern", but with few indications as to its nature or purposes. Portions of the outer hull seem to have been composed of energy rather than matter. Organic in appearance, despite harboring no biological lifeforms, the interior was multi-chambered, and contained circular apertures that could be closed or opened to prevent or allow passage from one section of the vessel to the next. The most prominent of these apertures, at the forward end of the interior chamber where the Enterprise was located before accessing the intruder's core, possessed a hexad of six symmetrical "petals" constantly oscillating in unison, appearing much like the mechanical iris of a camera shutter, but of enormous proportions, with the entire aperture's outer diameter measuring in excess of one kilometer wide.
In one area of the vessel, there was a three-dimensional data storage facility. This stored representations of all data collected by V'ger. The plasma energy weapon which the vessel used to defend itself not only had extreme destructive force, but also functioned as an unusual data-gathering system; as V'ger destroyed a vessel, it gathered an enormous amount of information, and created what appeared to be a holographic record of it, later referred to by the Ilia probe as a "data pattern". In essence, V'ger didn't so much destroy a target as "remember" it to death. When the science officer of the Enterprise, Commander Spock, entered the area, he could see images of everything that the powerful entity had encountered on its long journey, including planets, star systems, and entire galaxies, though the images remained indeterminable as to whether they had been destroyed or simply explored. When Spock came to an image of a gigantic Lieutenant Ilia, he noticed a glowing "node" at the base of the image's throat. He was being guided telepathically by V'ger, and attempted to access the data through a mind meld. He quickly suffered a sensory overload, losing consciousness, and was flung back through the spiral "orifice" toward the Enterprise.
V'ger was able to control atmospheric conditions within its chambers. In the area near where Spock encountered the image of Ilia, there was an "inner sanctum," a central nexus where V'ger could create an M-class environment. In this nexus was a large circular area, resembling an amphitheater, with data conduits running into the center. Lightning constantly lit the background, possibly the visible "nerve" transmissions of V'ger itself.
The heart of V'gerEdit
Beyond the oscillating hexad of iris-like petals that Spock had to pass through during his EVA spacewalk to meld with the intruder, the center of the enormous vessel contained the oldest part of V'ger – Voyager 6, an unmanned deep space probe launched by NASA in the late 20th century. The entire vessel surrounding the Voyager probe had been built by an unknown race of machine entities in order to help it complete what the latter interpreted to be its primary programming: "learn all that is learnable," and return that knowledge to its creator. During its journey, the probe had come to think of itself as V'ger after the only remaining legible letters from its original name (the "O", "Y", "A", and "6" on the nameplate having been obscured from encounters with previous spatial hazards), and amassed knowledge to such a degree as to become self-aware.
Evolution of V'ger Edit
The machine planetEdit
V'ger had an extraordinary ability to evolve. It was discovered that the evolution of this once-simple probe into a complex, powerful entity began after it was pulled into an anomaly once called a black hole, shortly after leaving Earth's solar system.
Voyager 6 emerged from the anomaly in what was believed to have been the far side of the galaxy, and fell into the gravitational field of a planet populated by living machines. These beings found Voyager 6 damaged by its travels, and the identifying plaque attached to the probe's exterior had been burned, leaving only the letters "V", "G", "E", and "R" legible; the inhabitants of the machine planet called the probe "V'ger".
These entities found V'ger to be primitive, but of a kindred spirit. They discovered the probe's simple, 20th century programming, "learn all that is learnable and return that knowledge to the creator," and interpreted these instructions literally.
Reconstructed through highly advanced technologies as a vast space-faring artificial organism, V'ger was augmented with a three-dimensional data collection and storage apparatus, magnitudes beyond anything previously known to Federation science. The inhabitants of the machine planet likewise provided V'ger with effectively immeasurable defensive and sensory capabilities; these gave V'ger the ability to fulfill its programming in a far more complete fashion than the scientists who had originally built and launched the vessel at its core had ever imagined.
While traversing the vast distance back to Earth, V'ger collected data via its 3D imaging system, but in doing so destroyed the objects that it encountered along the way. However, it accumulated so much knowledge that it eventually achieved consciousness and became, like its benefactors, a living machine. As a machine, it was only capable of pure, cold logic with no emotion, but with its new-found sentience, V'ger began to question its own existence. It asked the philosophical questions faced by so many lifeforms: "Is this all that I am? Is there nothing more?" The answers, V'ger decided, could only be found with its creator on Earth.
Resolution Edit
Realizing it lacked the intuitive, irrational elements which allow Humans to deal with some complex, non-scientific concepts, it came to believe that only its Creator could help it to leap beyond logic. In order to obtain the answers it needed, V'ger wished to meet and become one with its Creator. To this end, it sought not only to receive the acknowledged signal from the Creator, but to merge with the Creator.
But V'ger had been reprogrammed to such an extent that it had come to think of biological lifeforms as an "infestation", and destroyed any that it encountered. When V'ger encountered the crew of the Enterprise, its confusion over its true nature was so great that it could not comprehend what it was told – that it had been created by the organic lifeforms it saw only as imperfections that must be cleansed.
In an effort to meet its Creator, V'ger refused to accept the pre-programmed transmission that would signal it to transmit its accumulated data. The probe burned out a relay connection, hoping to force the Creator to come to its heart, so that they could merge. Realizing that the only way V'ger would understand was to add Humanity to its experiences, Captain Will Decker, who was deeply affected by the loss of Ilia, his former lover, sacrificed himself to become one with the machine lifeform. Decker rewired the relay connection and keyed in the final sequence of the transmission manually. This prompted V'ger to begin transmitting its data, effectively merging with Decker and the Ilia probe, thus taking V'ger to a new level of existence. At last satisfied with its answers, V'ger disappeared in a blinding flash of white light, leaving Admiral James T. Kirk, Commander Spock, and Doctor Leonard McCoy of the Enterprise to discuss the possibility that they had just created a new lifeform made of V'ger's logic and of Humanity's ability to feel and to believe. (Star Trek: The Motion Picture)
Appendices Edit
Background information Edit
The concept of V'ger, an Earth-launched space probe that becomes a powerful, sentient being in its own right, is in many ways a revisiting of the Nomad probe featured in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Changeling".
Gene Roddenberry, in an interview shortly after "Q Who", said that the machine planet seen by Spock might have been the Borg homeworld. (citation needed • edit)
When Spock attempts a mind meld with V'ger and is quickly overwhelmed, among the images visible on the screen multiple times, when in slow motion, amid the background of his face, can be seen the dedication plaque carried not by Voyager 1 and 2, but by Pioneer 10 and 11. Other images include a Klingon cruiser seen earlier, the bridge and two crewmembers of (presumably) the IKS Amar, Epsilon IX, the Epsilon IX lieutenant, and Ilia.
A picture tweeted by Ted Sullivan on 28 November 2017 of a star chart supposedly used for Star Trek: Discovery, largely taken from the Star Trek Star Charts, included a few anachronisms such as the "Route of V'ger."[1]
Concept and effects development Edit
Taylor's philosophy was to make V'ger a living machine. "It would have 'morphed' and on the inside the walls would have been iridescent and changed as the Enterprise moved past them. You would have seen images of the Enterprise along the walls because it was being analyzed by V'ger and there would have been parts of walls that would break apart like a flock of birds or a swarm of insects," explained Taylor. "The swarms would go from one place to another and reassemble. You could think of the particles as digital energy or digital information. I wanted it to be a very metamorphical and very mysterious place. For the exterior of the thing one of the design concepts I had was to photo-etch thin metal plates so that the outside surface would have multiple levels which would continually move creating different patterns. We found a material that you could apply like paint that when heated with warm air from a blower would change color. It had an iridescent color quality that I was looking for like a beetle's back or butterflies wings. I wanted V'ger's skin or surface to change color near the Enterprise as it moved over the surface. I wanted the image of the Enterprise to be left like glowing phosphor images along the walls of V'ger."
The director's edition of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, released in 2002, features a somewhat different transformation scene at the end of the film than what was released in 1979. Richard Taylor explained what the original plans were for the evolution of V'ger into a higher lifeform: "What we had storyboarded was that the whole V'ger craft unfolds and turns into this incredible object in space. That effect would have started where Kirk, Spock, McCoy and the Voyager 6 was and would have radiated outward from there through the ship. There would have been this change that goes through V'ger's interior and then to the outside, unfolding into a big flower kind of thing with all these radiating colors and such."
Brick Price – whose company, Brick Price Movie Miniatures, was brought in by Robert Abel on The Motion Picture – worked on the V'ger model (at least some of the early stages of it, when Richard Taylor was designer). The model they started, in August of 1978, looked like a cigar with a maw that opened up. They disliked that design because it was too much like the planet killer from TOS: "The Doomsday Machine" and there was already enough trouble with the script being so similar to that episode and "The Changeling". "But we did a lot of tests working with the textures like paint, color and light, things of that sort," explained Price, "and it wound up with a very organic art-deco look to it. Taylor was an avid deco fan. That one might have been interesting had they gone with it. It would have had a bubble on it and the Voyager craft would have been on an island underneath one of those. The whole skin surface was sort of iridescent. But then Paramount Pictures decided to have miles and miles of white and not let people know what it looked like exactly. Ours was really bizarre and all convoluted with things hanging off it. So every time it changed hands it changed completely. Taylor's original interior concept of V'ger was extremely complex. You can see all sorts of actual light functions and all sorts of spheres representing the V'ger concept of life."
"I think V'ger more than anything was incredibly compromised because the effects had changed hands and they had to come up with their own solutions in a very short period of time," said Richard Taylor. "Doug[las Trumbull] was not going to use my solution because that model had not been built. We had built test pieces and had done extensive tests of processes we were going to use when we finally began construction. I was told Douglas Trumbull described the exterior as a 'weird fish' (Cinefex, 1980, issue 1). That's a pretty subjective description. I don't think many would agree [....] My point was that one would never really see the entire shape of V'ger because the ship was so big – it really wasn't that important. Just show glimpses of the exterior and let the audience's imagination do the rest."
Robert Abel & Associates, however, had overstretched themselves, and Paramount lost confidence in their ability to deliver the movie's visual effects in time for its release. The studio thus handed control to Douglas Trumbull, who divided work on V'ger between two teams: his would deal with the interior, while John Dykstra's people would work on V'ger's exterior. In this area, all the work that the Abel studios had done was abandoned, and the two teams set about developing entirely new concepts. The highly respected artist Syd Mead was brought in and worked with Dykstra to design an entirely new version of the giant craft.
The model of V'ger that they built was never seen in its entirety, but it was extraordinarily large, at sixty feet in length. Dykstra remembered that even constructing it in time posed logistical problems: "We were building the model on one end of the stage and photographing it on the other with a black curtain between the two – that was the unique approach to doing the work. We had three crews working eight-hour shifts in order to get that work done." The situation was complicated because the camera had to record several passes over the model at very slow speeds. Some of the passes took as long as eighteen hours, and if the motors failed (which they often did) they had to be recorded again from scratch.
Trumbull's team, handling the interior of V'ger, considered several different approaches – possibly using matte paintings or some kind of laser scanning effect – before settling on a conventional model. Most of the design work was done by Syd Mead, who by now had finished his work on the V'ger exterior. His designs followed Trumbull's brief, which called for six-sided symmetry. When it was filmed, the model was filled with smoke, to give it the right sense of scale. The walls were originally illuminated with miniature light bulbs, which were built into the model. However, when it came to the filming, they were too big to be convincing. Greg Jein, who had built the model, suggested the solution to this problem: drill hundreds of holes in the model and run fiber optic lights behind them.
The major reason why Trumbull took on the shots inside V'ger was that he was also filming a new sequence in which Spock explored the inside of the vast machine. His Spock spacewalk replaced the 'memory wall' sequence that the Abel studios had originally planned, and had been filmed during first-unit photography. Trumbull did not feel he could make the sequence work with what had been shot without spending an insane amount of money.
The wire work that had been filmed on the stage was awkward and unwieldy; there were even problems with reflections in the spacesuit faceplates. Instead, Trumbull pursued Director Robert Wise to let him shoot a new sequence, which he designed himself. The storyboards were worked up by Tom Cranham, with several artists, including David Negrón, Sr. and Robert T. McCall, developing concepts for the sights that Spock would see. The spacesuits were completely redesigned, and then built at Apogee.
The final effect – when V'ger disappears, leaving the Enterprise in orbit around Earth – was especially designed so as to expand only horizontally, ensuring that it could not be mistaken for a conventional explosion. Remarkably, all these shots were completed in time for the movie's premiere, and the film's audiences were so impressed with what they saw that the Trumbull/Dykstra team was jointly nominated for an Academy Award.
Spelling of the nameEdit
The spelling "V'ger" was used in the shooting script of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. [2] The alternative spelling "V'Ger", with a capital "G", was used in most other reference sources, including such works as Star Trek Encyclopedia (3rd ed., p. 539) and Star Trek Star Charts (p. 39) and at StarTrek.com. [3]
The label of the soundtrack LP record, and more significantly the text of the novelization of the film, itself written by Gene Roddenberry as the only Star Trek novel ever written by the series' creator, both use the alternative spelling "Vejur", which in the novel exists from its first mention on page 179 onwards in the novel's first paperback edition. This was to mislead the reader in case they had not yet seen the movie, as both the soundtrack and novelization were released before the film's premiere.
The size controversy Edit
The physical size of V'ger has been the subject of speculation from the time Star Trek: The Motion Picture was first released, at the end of 1979. In the original theatrical release of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the V'ger energy cloud is given a size measuring eighty-two au in diameter, in dialogue from the Epsilon IX commander, Branch. That measurement is equivalent to over 1.2271 ×1010 kilometers or 0.001 light years. Placing V'ger at the same central position as the sun would mean that the energy cloud would extend beyond the Kuiper belt, extending into the orbit of Eris, and essentially swallowing our entire solar system. For the later-released Directors' Edition DVD of the film, the cloud size was drastically scaled down to two au, which is the distance between Sol and a point between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. [4] This revision was achieved by editing the spoken dialogue to clip out the "eighty" and leaving just the "two". As one au is precisely the average distance between Sol and Earth, this more reasonable measurement reduces the size of the cloud to "merely" the diameter of Earth's orbit. More recent releases of the film, however, retain the original dimension and it is unclear which should be considered canonical. Additional dialogue established that the cloud dissipated rapidly as it slowed to enter the solar system, allowing V'ger ultimately to enter Earth's orbit without disrupting the entire system and destroying Earth, in essence making both size measurements "correct". In the Director's Edition, the dramatically decreasing cloud had disappeared entirely when V'ger entered Earth orbit.
The size of V'ger's vessel has also been a subject of debate. In dialogue cut from the theatrical version of the movie, Decker says the spacecraft was seventy-eight kilometers (forty-eight miles) in length. The novel adaptation of the film gives the same dimension for the ship and states it as displacing six million times the amount of space as Enterprise. One popular non-canon site for Star Trek technical details, the Daystrom Institute Technical Library, listed V'ger's overall length at a staggering ninety-seven kilometers, stated as being determined from apparently careful measurement of the image of the refitted NCC-1701 from the movie's scenes, as the Enterprise traveled closely (at only five hundred meters distance, from the movie's dialogue) over the various parts of V'ger's exterior structures, during the Federation starship's initial close examination of the "intruder" vessel. Another estimate places V'ger's colossal length at a much more conservative twenty kilometers instead, possibly based on the statement of replacement navigator DiFalco's "distance inside the intruder as seventeen kilometers," spoken just after Chekov reports that V'ger's "orbiting devices" were eighteen minutes from reaching their equidistant deployment points in Earth orbit, during the approach to Voyager 6's "island," in the most extreme part of V'ger's interior that the Enterprise was allowed access to. The latter estimate, however, would make V'ger impossibly smaller than the roughly seventy kilometer-long Whale Probe featured in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, given that the latter was passed by a Federation starship within minutes, rather than the near-hour it took to traverse even half of V'ger at a faster pace, much of which was carried out at only a half-kilometer distance from the "intruder's" hull.
The idea that the Borg homeworld was the machine planet which V'ger had encountered was further developed in the William Shatner novel The Return, where Spock's mind meld with V'ger not only protected Spock from being assimilated (since the Borg Collective was already present in Spock's mind, the Borg assumed he was already one of them), but provided the Federation with the coordinates of the Borg homeworld for a final attack. It may also be significant that Spock, when referring to V'ger, says, "Resistance would be futile."
In the game Star Trek: Legacy, it is said that V'ger itself created the Borg to gain the knowledge by assimilation. The Star Trek: Voyager episode "Dragon's Teeth" seems to contradict the game's storyline, as the character of Gedrin states to Seven of Nine that his species, the Vaadwaur, had encountered the Borg over nine centuries prior to his revival, placing the Borg's genesis at least as far back as around the year 1400 AD. The story writers for Star Trek: Legacy, however, claimed on the official game forum that Voyager 6 was meant to have been thrown back in time as well as across the galaxy, an aspect mentioned in the "extras" cut-scenes of the game itself.
Star Trek Online also hints at a connection to the Borg, as vessels closely resembling V'ger are featured as Borg mini-bosses, even including the disintegrating plasma weapons and the V'ger-style low-pitched sound effects. [5]
V'ger appears in the third issue of the comic book Star Trek: Nero. Set during 2009's Star Trek in the alternate reality caused by Nero's incursion, V'ger reactivates the Narada, itself an artificial intelligence due to having Borg-based modifications. After escaping twenty-five years of imprisonment on Rura Penthe in the alternate reality, Nero is taken to V'ger on the edge of the Delta Quadrant by the Narada and then uses the unmanned probe's intelligence to calculate where and when Spock will arrive. While Nero is able to do this, V'ger finds his hatred incompatible with itself.
External links Edit
- V'Ger at StarTrek.com, the official Star Trek website
- V'Ger at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- Designing the Living Machineat Forgotten Trek - features a large collection of V'Ger concept art


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"I think the moment is now," King said.
Presidential pardons for the dead are rare.
In 1999, President Bill Clinton pardoned Lt. Henry O. Flipper, the Army's first black commissioned officer, who was drummed out of the military in 1882 after white officers accused him of embezzling $3,800 in commissary funds. Last year, President George W. Bush pardoned Charles Winters, who was convicted of violating the Neutrality Act when he conspired in 1948 to export aircraft to a foreign country in aid of Israel.
The Justice Department and the White House declined to comment on this latest Johnson pardon effort.
However, the idea has a passionate supporter in McCain, who has repeatedly said he was wrong in 1983 when he voted against a federal holiday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.
"It's just one of those things that you don't want to quit until you see justice," McCain said of Johnson's case. "We won't quit until we win. And I believe that enough members, if you show them the merits of this issues, that we'll get the kind of support we need."
Johnson won the world heavyweight title on Dec. 26, 1908, after police in Australia stopped his 14-round match against the severely battered Canadian world champion, Tommy Burns. That led to a search for a "Great White Hope" who could beat Johnson. Two years later, the American world titleholder Johnson had tried for years to fight, Jim Jeffries, came out of retirement but lost in a match called "The Battle of the Century," resulting in deadly riots.
Johnson lost the heavyweight title to Jess Willard in 1915.
In 1913, Johnson was convicted of violating the Mann Act, which outlawed transporting women across state lines for immoral purposes. The law has since been heavily amended, but has not been repealed.
Authorities first targeted Johnson's relationship with a white woman who later became his wife, then found another white woman to testify against him. Johnson fled the country after his conviction, but agreed years later to return and serve a 10-month jail sentence. He tried to renew his boxing career after leaving prison, but failed to regain his title. He died in a car crash in 1946 at age 68.
"When we couldn't beat him in the ring, the white power establishment decided to beat him in the courts," Burns told the AP in a telephone interview. Burns' 2005 documentary, "Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson," examined Johnson's case and the sentencing judge's admitted desire to "send a message" to black men about relationships with white women.
Both McCain and King said a pardon, particularly one from Obama, would carry important symbolism.
"It would be indicative of the distance we've come, and also indicative of the distance we still have to go," McCain said.
Burns, however, sees a pardon more as "just a question of justice, which is not only blind, but color blind," adding, "And I think it absolutely does not have anything to do with the symbolism of an African-American president pardoning an African-American unjustly accused."
Burns helped form the Committee to Pardon Jack Johnson, which filed a petition with the Justice Department in 2004 that was never acted on. Burns said he spoke about the petition a couple of times with Bush, who as governor of Johnson's home state of Texas proclaimed Johnson's birthday as "Jack Johnson Day" for five straight years.
Bush gave Burns a phone number which led to adviser Karl Rove, Burns said, but Rove told him a pardon "ain't gonna fly."
Rove doesn't recall any such conversation with Burns, his spokeswoman Sheena Tahilramani said, and "if he had been approached, he wouldn't have offered an opinion."
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[♪upbeat music♪] [ADOBE TV Presents...] [♪♪] [Paul Trani in...] [♪♪] [Adobe® Flash® Professional CS5 - Training with Trani] [♪♪] [♪♪] ...21, 22, 23. Oh, hi. Welcome back to Training with Trani. My name is Paul Trani, and aside from my little workout, what I'd love to show you is the code hinting and all of the powerful features you have when you're writing code in Flash. So I'm going to go ahead and start off with this file. It's pretty straightforward, but let me give you a little background because here's a smiley face, and what I want to do is I want this smiley face to appear in different places on the screen. And not only that, but as I double click in it, I want it to display a different smiley face, a different quote, for this health club. So that's the setup for what I want to do, and it's going to require sort of a custom class, it's going to require a fair amount of code, I should say. So where I'm going to start off is in my Timeline panel, the Actions layer. As I select that first frame, I can go to Window and open up my Actions panel. So it's really a good practice to comment all your code. I want to create a timer class that executes every two seconds and shows a different smiley face. And this is going to require the Timer class. And not only that, it's going to reposition and change the movie clip at random. So that's my agenda. All right. I'm going to start off by creating this Timer class. I'm going to start off by creating a variable called myTimer. [var myTimer:Timer] As I hit that colon, I get this code pop-up. Now I have the ability to go ahead and locate Timer. That's what I want to use is this Timer class. Watch what happens when I hit Enter. It not only completes the word, but it adds this import statement right here. [import.flash.utils.Timer;] So what Flash is doing is it's going to go out and grab all of that code that I didn't have to write and it's going to put it in my file. But again, I didn't have to worry about any misspellings or any of that. It's all right in there at my fingertips. All right. Just finish this out. [var myTimer:Timer = new Timer(2000);] The newTimer is what I'm going to use. And then within these two parentheses is where I want to put how long it's going to execute. In this case 2 seconds, which is actually 2000 milliseconds. That's how often this is going to execute. All right. Next step is to go ahead and let's take a look at Event Listeners because for myTimer, you're probably going to want to add an Event Listener, which is almost like the backbone for code when it comes to ActionScript, if you ask me. [myTimer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, changeSmiley);] Notice how I can easily select it, it adds it, and literally, I'm not typing anything. Other than using my arrow keys, I'm just selecting options. Notice how I'm including that TimerEvent. When I include that TimerEvent, it actually adds that import statement up there as well. [import flash.events.TimerEvent;] Again, the less typing I do, the less chance there are errors. So TIMER, changeSmiley. There's my Event Listener. Now I need to go ahead and write my function. [function changeSmiley(e: TimerEvent):void{ changeSmiley. That is a Timer Event. Any time you get that pop-up, you just select that item, hit Enter, and there it is. Void. And then watch when I add this opening curly brace. When I hit Return, it automatically adds that closing curly brace. It may seem like something simple, but that will really get you out of a lot of jams. I'm glad it adds that. Now I can just throw in a quick trace statement just so that I know it works. [trace ("works");] And I will go ahead and run this file. Now, there is one thing I did not add, and that is the myTimer start method. So as I type in myTimer start, there it is, I select it, hit Enter. And I will save this file. Now let's run it. There it is, and we can see in the Output panel it starts to print out that word that I had in the trace statement. All right. So I have the structure down, and I'm dealing with some Flash classes. But what about potentially a custom class I might have created? I'm going to point you to how that works by first off just hiding Flash and going to my Desktop. Here's my Flash file that I'm working on. Let me go ahead and open up that Com folder because inside of that Com folder is that Utilities folder and inside of there is that RandomNum.as file, so a custom class that I wrote, and I'll double click on it. What it does is it has this function in there called getRandomNum. It's going to get a random number based on the start and end parameters that I define as I use this function. So again, that's just a custom class that's written. Now I'll go back into my Flash file, and I'm going to start to use it. Okay, so the first thing I want to do right up here is I want to create another variable called randomNum. [var randomNum:RandomNum] And I'm going to use that custom class. So as I type in that colon and start to type in Random num-- I love this! I love how it shows me that custom class. Very powerful. Locates it, I just select it, hit Return, it adds the word. And not only that, it adds that import statement pointing to that specific folder that I actually defined. [import com.utilities.RandomNum;] Very powerful being able to do this. So again, same method. RandomNum. There it is. [var randomNum:RandomNum =)( new RandomNum();] And there's my variable. All right. So far, so good. Now I want to go ahead and use it, so I'm just going to go ahead and hit some Returns so I can come down inside of this function. This is where I can use this variable. All right. So the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to create another variable called frameNum. [var frameNum:int = randomNum.getRandomNum(] It's a number, and I'm going to make it equal to the randomNum defined here. Remember that function that I defined earlier? I'll just type that period, and there it is. It appears right at the top of my list. I can go ahead and use it just by selecting it. Bam! There it is. And now it even gives me code hinting for my own custom class, particularly this function. So I can add a start between numbers 1 and 6, the start and end. [var frameNum:int - randomNum.getRandomNum(1,6);] Go ahead and pick a random number because for frameNum, that's the variable I want to use for my smiley face. All right. So let me just jump out here, locate my smiley face. It's called smileyFace, so I'll just copy that, go back to my code right in here, and paste that name in. It's helpful to copy and paste just to eliminate any errors. [smileyFace.gotoandStop(frameNum)] Smiley face, go to and stop, and then go ahead and use frameNum, just like that. So whatever number is in here, which is a random number, go ahead and use right here. All right. Looks pretty good. But the final test is, of course, when you test your movie. All right. So all it's going to do is swap out those various movie clips. It actually jumps to that specific frame and shows me that quote. So it's like it's swapping out quotes. Very powerful. Works out great from a custom class that I made. Of course the Timer class is a built-in class. Looks good. And the next step would be to sort of reposition the smiley face, both its X and Y position. So I'm just going to go ahead and paste in that code. Here it just gets a random X position number and a Y position number and then moves the smiley face based on those two variables. And I'll just run this for our final result. So as you can see, the smiley face repositions and goes to a different quote randomly every two seconds. But those are just a couple of the code enhancements that are in Flash CS5 Professional. Join me again next time. [♪upbeat music♪] [Executive Producer - Bob Donlon] [Producer - Karl Miller] [Director/VFX - Kush Amerasinghe] [DP/Post Production - Erik Espera] [ADOBE TV Productions - tv.adobe.com]
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Google last week updated its Android mobile phone software, following the discovery of a potentially nasty pair of denial of service bugs.
The first of the two bugs creates a means for hackers to kick an Android phone off a mobile network and force a restart via a malformed SMS message. Dodgy text would contain a badly formatted WAP Push message that causes an exception on phones running the open source-based software, triggering a restart.
The second vulnerability involves tricking a user into downloading and running a malicious application that hooks into Android's (vulnerable) Dalvik API. This API function contains a security bug that means a system restart can be forced.
Users are advised to upgrade to Android 1.5 CBDxx, CRCxx and COCxx, as explained in an advisory by oCERT here. oCERT is an organisation that handles security disclosure for open-source projects. ®


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Amon Amarth
- Main article: Mount Doom
Amon Amarth was a rarely used name for Orodruin, the flaming mountain in northern Mordor where Sauron forged the One Ring.[1]
The name was given because the volcano was linked in ancient and little-understood prophecies with the final end of the Third Age, when the One Ring was found again.[2]
[edit] Etymology
Sindarin: amon, "hill" and amarth, "fate, doom".[3]
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, "The Númenorean Kings", "Númenor"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Nomenclature of The Lord of the Rings" in Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull (eds), The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, pp. 768-9
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Appendix: Elements in Quenya and Sindarin Names", entries amon and amarth


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This is my very own ice cream recipe that I made after someone left a comment on one of my posts, (that of course, I can no longer find) saying that the Team Cookies would be good in ice cream. Thank you to whoever that was because I'm forever indebted to you! I didn't want to make a vanilla ice cream with team cookies in it, but rather an ice cream that incorporated all of the flavours of the cookies, (chocolate, peanut butter and oatmeal) into the ice cream itself. This recipe was the result and it's deliciously decadent. Go big or go home.
Bri's Team Cookie Ice Cream
2 ¼ cups milk
½ cup whole flake oats
Pinch of cinnamon
½ cup + 1T packed brown sugar
4 egg yolks
1 ½ cups heavy cream
½ peanut butter
½ cup roasted peanuts, coarsely chopped
Pinch of fleur de sel
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2 t vanilla
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Pour into and ice cream machine and near the end of the cycle, just before it's ready, pour in the peanuts and chocolate sauce.
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I love to blog so much that I am covering this on my personal blog as well!
I have decided to do a whole different outfit change, and pose change for this post, just to be different from MY blog.. lol, makes sense, right?
So after confusion for me, knowing how long the event was going to last, which btw is til the 29th of November, so there is no reason to miss this event, since it is basically a month long.. which also means, I will be blogging about it thru out the month.. I decided to put this lil look together to share here!
I thought this "look" was perfect because, here we are at the end of the day, and I have been blogging up a STORM lol..
So, the lil princess, FLOPS down in her throne.. (chair lol)… it is PERFECT.. at least in MY eyes.. lol.
I decided to go with, this really pretty Volstead ~ Anais ~ Dress in Wine (ty Rosa Ray) part of the South America sim.
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So, as you can see, I have OTHER items on, and if you are interested in those as well, I shall post the info below!!
I hope you enjoyed this post, and check out my personal blog So Hawt SL, and yes it is much different then this one!
Enjoy the event!
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