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Back in the day, you could buy cars in a variety of colors, although until the advent of HIP (High Impact Paint), they tended to be a little bland. Regardless of that, one of the most visible things people do when they work up their machines for street and show status is fresh pigment. For truck driver Dennis Probst of Deptford, New Jersey, the stock color and black vinyl top gave way to Dupont Dodge Viper Red when he was ready to finish his LA-equipped '68 Dart GTS.
But that came after Dennis had owned this particular car for a while. In fact, this is the only Mopar he has owned, and his father bought it for him when he was 17 years old. Now 30, Dennis recalls that the old man might have wondered just what he had gotten himself into soon afterward.
"The car had been registered in my name for less then 24 hours and I got my first speeding ticket-85 mph in a 55 mph zone," he says. "My dad grounded me for two months and the car sat next to the house. Before long, people were stopping by to see if it was for sale!"
The 340 GTS is probably not the rarest machine on the planet, but the model is scarce enough that even back then (1987), it drew a lot of attention. So, over the next decade, Dennis spent a good deal of time reworking it for improved performance. The result scored a very respectible 324.9 horses and 360 lbs.-ft. torque at the rear wheels on the Dynojet during the Carlisle All-Chrysler Nationals. Not just a nice show piece, there is much more than meets the eye to this very clean example of small-block Scat Pack action.
Under the bonnet, Dennis had Jeff Mazzoni (Mazzoni Racing, Vineland, New Jersey) put together a balanced bottom end that has no problem spinning to 7,000 rpm. This consists of the stock crank, Eagle ESP rods, and TRW 11.0:1 pistons that Mazzoni prepped and R&R Automotive of Vineland, New Jersey, balanced, adding an ATI Super Damper and B&M solid flexplate to the ends of the crank. Next, cast-iron X-heads were prepped with bowl work and a port match, filled with 2.02/1.60 Milodon valves and Crane hardware, and bolted to the tops of the bores. A solid-lifter Crane pumping .540 intake/.560 exhaust on a 294-duration is in the middle of it all, kept in time by a Cloyes double-roller timing outfit. An Edelbrock Victor Jr. intake topped with a 750 Holley dual-feed double-pumper is the starting point for the incoming charge, which is then ignited by a combination of MSD and Mopar ignition parts before heading south through a set of customized Hooker Super Comps.
Behind this, Mazzoni put together a 727 that uses a Cheetah full manual valvebody, a 4400-stall Trans Specialties 8-inch converter, and a B&M shifter. The 8 3/4 4.10 Sure Grip rear is supported by MP super stock springs, longer shocks, a pinion snubber and polyurethane bushings, and Moser axles. Weld Drag Lites supporting narrow Michelins up front and wide BFGoodrich Drag Radials in the back roll it around.
The body features side stripes and wheel moldings and small pieces from Totally Auto in Feasterville, Pennsylvania. Mods include moving the battery into the trunk, a front-disc conversion (and a 4.5-inch bolt pattern at all four corners), Comp Engineering front shocks, and .810 torsion bars. The interior is mostly stock, augmented by a 14-inch Grant wheel and an array of Autometer gauges. Mark Henry of M&H Auto Body in Philadelphia gets credit for the straightened panels and aforementioned paint.
We were impressed enough by the Dart's appearance and numbers at Carlisle that we figured the car would be something Mopar Muscle readers would enjoy, so Dennis quickly agreed to take the car into town for some driving shots. The results shown here and on the cover prove that Dennis is not afraid to take his A-Body out for a Sunday stroll, and we think you'll understand why this one is staying in the family.


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An Orchard Park man has admitted stealing $25,789 from a friend who entrusted him to handle his finances, the Erie County District Attorney's Office announced Friday.
Geary H. Murray, 55, of Michael Road, pleaded guilty, as charged, to third-degree grand larceny before Erie County Judge Thomas P. Franczyk.
Murray, a teacher for Buffalo Public Schools, faces a prison sentence of up to seven years when sentenced Sept. 19.
Murray made some 144 unauthorized ATM withdrawals from the victim's bank account between July 2011 and August 2012 to pay for a trip to New York City and other personal expenses, District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III said in a statement.
The victim asked Murray to handle his fiances as he underwent medical treatment for severe anxiety, prosecutors said. The anxiety was largely caused by the victim's efforts to provide for his disabled son.
By stealing the money, Murray took advantage of both his hospitalized friend and the disabled son, Sedita said.

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Before the design for his glassy Miami condo remodel was finished, Greek shipping magnate Ion Varouxakis invited his architect to spend a week with him touring the Greek islands on his circa-1921, 125-foot-long sailboat.
Mr. Varouxakis's intent was to show the architect, Miami-based Rene Gonzalez, two things: first the environment he most loved—sky, water and air, with the reflection of light and openness; second, how comfortable he was with minimalism. "Onboard a boat you learn to use few things. I like simplicity," said Mr. Varouxakis, who previously lived on his yacht for a year. He also wanted to establish a relationship of trust with his architect.
Mr. Gonzalez got all that—and a better understanding of Mr. Varouxakis, 41, who is unmarried and divides his time between Paris, Athens and the Greek island of Sifnos when he isn't traveling around the world to manage FreeSeas , his oceangoing-cargo company. "I realized he was perfectly happy living in ways that are unconventional," said Mr. Gonzalez.
The resulting remodel of the shipping magnate's 37th-floor Miami Beach condo turned a three-bedroom, closed-in space into a two-bedroom open loft. Finished in the fall, the 2,000-square-foot condo, which has an 800-square-foot terrace, took about two years and cost about $1.5 million to renovate.
Entering the home from the building's dark hallway is like stepping into the sky. The effect comes partly from the all-glass exterior walls, with their view of Biscayne Bay, downtown Miami, the city's port terminal and a series of small islands. But it's also from the unconventional materials and techniques chosen by Mr. Gonzalez. The ceiling, made of a rubbery latex, is slightly angled and shifts from translucent white to opaque gray. During the day, it mirrors the sky, water, islands and clouds; at night, it reflects the oranges, pinks and purples of the sunsets and then, later, the city's lights.
There are interior walls made of stainless-steel vertical panels that slide to open or close off rooms or create smaller openings. Mirrored, the panels, in the main room of the house, also pivot to capture fragments of different views. A large sculpture separating the living and dining areas is also made from reflective materials. All the refracted light and reflection gives a feeling of infinite space, like being on the bow of a ship.
A shiplike sensibility also comes from the smaller rooms. The cubby-like library, windowless as it is in the back of the condo, is nicknamed the "ship's cabin" and is full of teak. There are also no windows in the kitchen, a closed-off galley space right by the front entrance; Mr. Varouxakis often hires someone to cook for parties and didn't want cooking smells permeating the rest of the space. The master bathroom has a deep tub with teak lounge chairs next to it, like a swimming pool on the deck of a ship.
The pivoting and sliding panels allow Mr. Varouxakis to control his space: He can close up the master bedroom and library fully or partially from the living and dining area, and he can decide which views he wants to reflect. "Once you start to interact with architecture, you start to make it your own. You love it and understand it more," said Mr. Gonzalez. Mr. Varouxakis said he likes all the shifting and sliding. "I don't like repetition. I don't like to be bored."
The son of a Greek diplomat, Mr. Varouxakis grew up in Europe and founded his company in 2003. He operates seven ships that carry dry bulk cargo—iron ore, coal, rice, sugar—around the world.
Mr. Varouxakis first came to Miami a decade ago to inspect the sailboat that he would later use to travel with Mr. Gonzalez. He loved the city, which he calls vibrant and exotic but with "the environment and the safety of the First World." He bought the condo in 2008 for $1.985 million and lived in it for a year and a half before making changes. A two-bedroom, 1,933-square-foot condo in the same building is currently for sale for $2.8 million
He now spends four days at a time in Miami several times a year, almost always attending the city's Art Basel fair. That's where he met a gallery owner who introduced him to Mr. Gonzalez, whose firm designed Miami's Alchemist store—a glass box inserted into the fifth floor of a parking structure—and the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation.
Despite the owner's interest in art, the walls of the condo are bare. Mr. Varouxakis, who has a lot of traditional art at home in Greece, said he thinks more art might make the place "more human." His mother, Emmy, visiting from one of her homes in Paris, Barcelona and Athens, agreed. "Right now, it's a movie star's apartment," she said.
But Mr. Varouxakis said their time spent together on his yacht also strengthened the trust he had in Mr. Gonzalez, who has warned him that additional art could reduce the impact of the materials in reflecting the sky, water and air that Mr. Varouxakis requested. "This space is constantly reading what you have around you. It doesn't require art," he said.
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Fox News' news-aggregation website, Fox Nation, has made it a consistent habit over the last few years to prominently feature race-baiting headlines and content. While websites often attract extreme comments, Fox's choice of headlines and the stories that they emphasize seem designed to attract and encourage racist commenters.
Some examples:
Fox Nation, 10/23/10: "White Kid Beaten Up Because Of Slavery"
Fox Nation 10/7/10: "Hate Crime? Brutal Bus Driver Attack Stuns Milwaukee"
The source article for this story makes no mention of race of the driver or the attacker, or of hate crimes.
Fox Nation, 7/28/09: "Reparations By Way Of Health Care Reform?"
Fox Nation, 10/25/10: "WaPo Blockbuster Story on Holder's Black Panthers"
Fox Nation, 5/29/09: "Why Would Justice Dept. Protect Black Panthers?"
Media Matters has extensively documented that the conservative assertion that the Justice Department is protecting the New Black Panthers out of racial preference has no basis in reality.
Fox Nation, 5/28/09: "NBC News: No White Men Qualified for Supreme Court?!"
This story links to a Newsbusters report that accuses MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell of "repeat[ing] White House talking points" when she countered Pat Buchan's complaint that "not a single white male" was on the short list for a Supreme Court vacancy by asking: "Did it ever occur to you, Pat, that maybe there weren't any white men who were qualified?"
Somehow this became an NBC News statement that no white men were qualified for the Supreme Court.
Fox Nation, 2/11/11: "Big Union Recruiting Minority Army for Obama"
The source article here makes no mention of Obama, minorities, or a minority army. The entire premise is fraudulent.
Fox Nation, 12/21/10: "Napolitano Letting Mexicans Bypass Some Airport Security?"
The story linked here details concerns that Mexican drug cartels could possibly exploit a program that allows Mexican citizens to apply for "trusted traveler" status, allowing them to bypass some elements of airport security when flying into the United States (after passing a background check). Fox Nation's headline is an exaggeration; even the headline on FoxNews.com's story doesn't go that far: "Trusted Traveler Program Sparks Fears That Mexican Drug Cartels Could Bypass U.S. Airport Security."
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HOUSTON - The rebuilding Houston Astros often have difficulty finding a silver lining in their losses.
That wasn't a problem on Friday night thanks to rookie Brandon Barnes hitting for the cycle in a 10-7 defeat by the Seattle Mariners.
Rookie Brad Miller hit his first two major league homers and drove in five runs to lead the Mariners to the win.
Barnes hit a solo homer in the second inning and had a run-scoring triple in the fourth. He singled in the sixth inning and completed the cycle with a sharp groundball double down the right field line in the eighth inning.
"That's a great feat, and it doesn't happen in our game every day," Houston manager Bo Porter said. "To accomplish it in a big-league game is pretty impressive, and it couldn't have happened to a better guy."
He added a single in the ninth to finish 5 for 5 and become the first Astro to collect five hits since Hunter Pence did it in May 2008.
"It's the top moment of my career," Barnes said. "I was just thankful that I had the opportunity to do it, and to do it in front of my wife was awesome."
Miller, who started the season in Double-A, launched a two-run shot to the second deck in right field to chase starter Bud Norris (6-9) and make it 6-2 in the sixth. Miller finished with three hits and added a three-run homer when he sent one to the first row in right field in the eighth.
Kyle Seager extended his major league-best hitting streak to 15 games with a two-run homer that gave Seattle a 2-1 lead in the second, and Justin Smoak hit a solo home run in the ninth.
It was Seattle's 23rd straight game with at least one homer to extend the team record. It is tied for the sixth-longest such streak in major league history dating to 1916.
Mariners starter Joe Saunders (9-8) yielded nine hits and three runs with six strikeouts in 5 1-3 innings for his fourth straight win. Tom Wilhelmsen allowed two hits and a run in 1 1-3 innings for his 20th save.
Norris had a second straight tough start, allowing six hits and six runs with four walks in 5 2-3 innings. He has allowed 17 hits and 13 runs in his past two starts.
Miller's dazzling play wasn't limited to offense on Friday night. He also had a nice night on defense, starting a nifty double play in the fourth inning by flipping a grounder hit by J.D. Martinez to second baseman Nick Franklin. Franklin barehanded the ball and threw it to first to complete the double play.
Barnes became the second player this season to hit for the cycle against the Mariners. Mike Trout of the Angels did it on May 21.
It is the eighth time an Astro has hit for the cycle and the first time since Luke Scott did it on May 28, 2006, against Arizona.
Barnes is the first right-handed hitter to accomplish the feat since Craig Biggio did it on April 8, 2002, at Colorado. Barnes pumped his fist after he beat the throw into second base on his double.
"When it was there, I had to go for it," Barnes said of the double. "I decided that I had the opportunity to do it and was able to achieve it."
Porter raved about the work ethic and attitude of Barnes.
"You're talking about a guy who punches the clock every day, plays the game the way it's supposed to be played, and he's a great teammate," Porter said. "I'm extremely happy for him and couldn't be more proud."
Saunders walked Justin Maxwell with one out in the sixth before a single by Barnes. He was replaced by Yoervis Medina after Matt Dominguez drew a walk to load the bases.
Pinch hitter Brett Wallace grounded into a force out that scored a run to cut the lead to 6-3.
Wallace added a two-run homer in Houston's three-run eighth inning.
Kendrys Morales singled to start the fourth inning. Seager gave Seattle a 2-1 lead with his shot to left field. Norris plunked Michael Saunders with one out before walking Mike Zunino. Dustin Ackley followed with a double that rolled into the left-field corner to score two and push the lead to 4-1.
Houston's Jason Castro hit his 26th double of the season in the first inning to pass Brad Ausmus for most doubles by a catcher in team history. Ausmus had 25 in 1997.
HOUSTON - The rebuilding Houston Astros often have difficulty finding a silver lining in their losses.


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The walk should offer the opportunity to see about 50 species of birds, including waterfowl, early spring migrants, sparrows and raptors, according to TFFC's Jim Booker, who will lead the walk. The walk will be suitable for beginners.
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Arsenal and Manchester United target Javi Garcia is being chased by two Premier League clubs, according to his agent.
A report from talkSPORT also suggests that both Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger are ready to increase efforts to sign the Spaniard.
The Old Trafford and Emirates Stadium clubs will also have to fight off interest from Italy and Germany if they want to land the defensive midfielder from Portuguese side Benfica.
"There have been no concrete offers, but he is being followed by two clubs in the Premier League," agent Manuel Garcia Quilon is quoted as saying on talkSPORT.
"There is also one Italian and German club. But the player is focused on doing his best for Benfica and wants to win trophies."
Garcia has been getting praise for his performances at the base of the Benfica midfield this season.
The Lisbon based side are currently unbeaten in the Primeira Liga in Portugal and top the table ahead of second placed Porto.
Sir Alex Ferguson will have seen first hand the effect Garcia can have, as he was part of the side that helped oust United from the Champions League at the group stages.
Garcia joined the Portuguese side in 2009 after being told he was surplus to requirements at Real Madrid.
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The Sovereign class Enterprise-E was designed for "Star Trek : First Contact" by John Eaves, with assistance from Rick Sternbach and Herman Zimmerman. Eaves had this to say regarding the new ship :
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|"I wanted a sleek, very fast ship with favourite elements from all the starships that had gone before, especially Bill George's Excelsior. Everyone knows the basic shape; the saucer section, the body, the two nacelles. They've been arranged so many times in so many beautiful ways, I thought 'well how will I approach this?'. I decided to start with a really sleek design. While all of the Enterprises were beautiful, none of them had a really streamlined, 'warp speed' look. We have the 'cadillacs' of starships; I wanted a porsche."
|Overall Length
|680 m
|242.2 m
|84.75 m
|Length of Nacelle
|323.4 m
|Maximum width of nacelle
|32.7 m
|Maximum height of nacelle
|32.4 m
|Span of nacelles
|214.3 m
|Engineering hull height
|54.3 m
|Engineering hull length (from front of quantum tube housing to back of hull)
|384.7 m
|Length of Saucer (bow to back of impulse engines)
|332 m
|Width of saucer
|242.2 m
|Height of saucer (excludes quantum torpedo housing)
|38 m
|Diameter of deflector dish
|22.5 m
If you look at the nacelle pylons, you can see that in the newer version of the ship they have been moved forwards. The shape of the pylons has also changed slightly, making them a little narrower at the engineering hull end. The nacelles themselves seem to have moved forward with the pylons, reducing the length of the ship by about twelve metres.
Additionally, there is a slight change to the base of the engineering hull. The point at which the "cutout" portion on the hull begins has been moved back by about seven metres, allowing the hull to curve upwards slightly. The aft-facing tractor beam emitters seen in the drawings for the original ship are now visible here.
There is also a change to the way that the saucer connects to the engineering hull - the fairings on either side of the main shuttle bay have been given a slightly more streamlined look. You can see this much more clearly on one of the production drawings later in this article.
I've seen it said that the makers of Trek intend that the Nemesis version of the Sovereign is the way it looked all along. But I don't see the need to assume this. Although not canon, it has long been suggested that the shape of a Starship hull is dictated by the shape of the warp field - hence the ships are becoming more "streamlined" over the years as their designers develop flatter, more efficient warp fields. So the structural changes may reflect a faster or more efficient warp drive system which the ship has received. As we will see in the rest of this article, the ship's weaponry was also uprated for Nemesis. Given that the Federation has just been through a major war, it only makes sense that Starfleet would have upgraded its ships significantly.
As far as phasers are concerned, the Sovereign was originally quite impressively equipped in some areas but less so in others. On this diagram I have marked the ship's phaser arrays as seen in First Contact and Insurrection.
As you can see, there is extensive phaser coverage for the area above and behind the ship - no less than six arrays cover this area! The forward area is also well covered, with the three longest arrays and the engineering dorsal array able to fire forwards. The weakest coverage is below and aft - only the ventral engineering array can come close to reaching this spot, and although it is hard to judge properly from diagrams, it appears that there is a sizeable blind area to the rear of the ship.
It's worth noting, though, that anybody who was in this blind spot would be directly in the sights of the two aft facing photon torpedo tubes.
We have seen most of these arrays fire at one time or another :
The main dorsal saucer array in "First Contact"
The port main ventral saucer array in the same movie.
The ventral Engineering hull array firing in "Insurrection".
The starboard secondary ventral saucer array firing in Nemesis.
For Nemesis, the Sovereign was given another four arrays on the dorsal and ventral surfaces of the nacelle pylons, bringing the total to sixteen. We can see these extra weapons being used in Nemesis, for example in this shot :
These weapons nicely fill in the "blind spot" described above, and give the Sovereign the same level of all-around phaser coverage that the Galaxy class enjoys.
At least one official publication - the cutaway poster published around the time of First Contact - claims that the phaser arrays on the Sovereign are Type XII, directing 7.2 MegaWatts per emitter segment compared to 5.1 MegaWatts per emitter for the Type X arrays used on the Galaxy class. Discussion of what a Type XII array might be, and reasons why these emitter power ratings are out of line with Trek canon, are given in my phaser phaser article.
The same poster claims a crew complement of 700 for the Sovereign. It's not known if this includes family members, though the fact that no civilians have ever been seen on board the Enterprise-E and that nobody has ever worried about civilians when a battle was in the offing, as they often did on the Galaxy class Enterprise-D, argues against it.
Torpedo Tubes
As far as torpedoes go, the Sovereign was originally fitted with at least five torpedo tubes. Most notably, in First Contact we saw a quantum torpedo tube under the saucer section, which was used against the Borg to considerable effect :
The Enterprise-E fires her quantum tube.
The Enterprise-E was only the second Starfleet ship seen to use the quantum torpedo, the first of course being the USS Defiant. It is not known what advantage quantum torpedoes have over photons - the DS9 Tech Manual suggests that the quantums have a greater yield, but this is not stated in canon and the true advantage may lie in range, agility, ability to penetrate shields, or some other area.
Production drawings of the Enterprise-E done for First Contact also show further tubes at the base of the engineering hull :
You can see twin forward facing tubes in this drawing...
These tubes can also be seen on the ship itself, during the sequence with the Borg on the deflector dish :
The thing directly below the deflector dish is a tractor beam emitter, according to the drawing above. The twin tubes are clearly visible behind, and you can just make out a little of the ventral engineering phaser array in the bottom left corner of the picture.
These tubes are not used in either First Contact or Insurrection, and as such could not really be considered as completely canonical. This issue was finally settled in Nemesis, when we saw the forward tubes in action :
Drawings for First Contact also show another pair of tubes on the engineering hull, facing aft :
Another pair of tubes.
Neither these tubes nor the tractor beam emitter are visible in First Contact or Insurrection, but the tubes are seen firing in Nemesis.
This gave the ship no less than five torpedo tubes, which was pretty impressive. Rick Sternbach, who created many ship designs for Star Trek and did much of the work on filling in the technical details for the series, suggested that each of these tubes could fire twelve photon torpedoes simultaneously, compared to ten at a time for each of the three tubes (two visible, one hidden while the saucer was docked) of the Galaxy class.
There was even more to come. The Star Trek Fact Files is one of those magazines where you buy a binder and a small insert is published periodically, building up into a big encyclopedia-style book. I don't collect them myself, but I have been told that the Fact Files suggested that the ship carried two more quantum torpedo tubes flanking the secondary deflector on the saucer section. These tubes have never been seen in action and are not visible on the model, so far as I can discern. Since the Fact Files were somewhat inaccurate, at least in early editions, I tend to discount the existence of these weapons.
As part of the Nemesis up-gunning, the creators decided that the Sovereign needed some more torpedo tubes. The following are production drawings for that movie showing some extra firepower that the ship received :
As you can see, the top two diagrams show a single torpedo tube above the aft shuttle bay, plus two more behind the bridge. The bottom one shows those plus another tube below the aft shuttle bay, another forward of the bridge, and another near the leading edge of the saucer. This diagram also shows the extra phaser arrays on the nacelle pylons.
Some of these tubes can be confirmed on the actual model used in the movie :
The twin aft-facing tube located aft of the bridge
We also get to see these tubes fire during the movie :
The tube forward of the bridge is also visible in Nemesis, though it is not seen to fire. You can see it in this shot, just above and behind the first row of windows on the superstructure. It's not completely clear if it is a single or twin tube, but it looks like a single to me :
However, the tube just behind the leading edge of the saucer is missing from the model. We get a clear view of this area when we first see the Enterprise-E in Nemesis, and the tube simply is not there :
The single tube above the aft shuttlebay is also seen firing during Nemesis, shortly after the scene in which Troi uses her telepathic link with the Viceroy to find the Scimitar :
The angle makes it a little difficult to tell if this torpedo comes from the tube above the shuttle or one of the pair behind the bridge, but if you trace back along the direction of travel then this torp is a perfect match for something originating from above the aft shuttle bay. So we can be pretty confident in declaring that this tube is canonical.
Another candidate for an aft-facing torpedo tubes comes in Insurrection. When the Enterprise-E is being chased by the Son'a, it fires two photon torpedoes out of what appears to be a point on the back of the saucer or the dorsal engineering hull. You can see the moment of firing in this shot :
The apparent origin point is too low for the tube behind the bridge, but it could come from the tube above the aft hangar bay. However, it is very difficult to say for sure. We are seeing the ship from above and in front, at an angle that hides the entire engineering hull behind the saucer. So there is no way to know for sure where the torpedoes are emerging from. It is conceivable that the torpedoes came from the ventral aft engineering tubes, and the angles involved just made it look like they were coming from the dorsal surface, like this :
If we were to assume that the aft tube was installed by the time of Insurrection, we would be faced with the fact that there were two refits - one after First Contact, one after Insurrection. This seems undesirable to me, and given that there is no real necessity for it I prefer to believe that all of the extra tubes were installed after Insurrection.
As we can see in the third of the Nemesis production drawings, there is one tube left to deal with - that below the aft shuttle bay. This is not seen firing in any movie, and a close examination of the area during Nemesis does not show it on the model - though our view of this area is not a very good one so it's hard to be sure.
Some of these new tubes are of a rather strange design. Most torpedo tubes are much longer than a torpedo. They sit buried within the hull, with only the muzzle pointing out into space. This gives plenty of room for the torpedo to accelerate to launching velocity, and plenty of room for associated machinery behind and around the tube which can load and fire the it. However, these new tubes are extremely short, barely longer than a torpedo casing. So there is little room for a torpedo tube to accelerate. They are also sitting on the surface of the hull, making them very difficult to reload from behind. It's possible that they are reloaded from below, but even this would be difficult for the aft facing tubes. The twin tubes are located directly above a docking port, so it is hard to see how there could be any kind of reloading mechanism directly below the tube. The single tube is little better, since it sits directly above the aft hangar bay.
There may be some sort of "pop up" reloading mechanism that loads the tubes from behind, though even this would be hard for the one located above the hangar bay. Or perhaps torpedoes are beamed into the tubes, or replicated within them - farfetched, but within the realms of Star Trek technology.
As far as torpedoes are concerned, here is the Sovereign's armament as of Nemesis :
|Tube Type
|Torpedo Type
|Tube Location
|Ventral saucer, beneath captain's yacht
|Observed firing in First Contact, Nemesis.
|Ventral saucer, port of secondary deflector
|Reported in Fact Files. Existence unlikely.
|Ventral saucer, starboard of secondary deflector
|Reported in Fact Files. Existence unlikely.
|Ventral engineering hull, forward
|Observed firing in Nemesis.
|Ventral engineering hull, aft
|Observed firing in Nemesis.
|Dorsal engineering, above aft hangar
|Observed on production drawings for Insurrection. Possibly seen firing in Nemesis.
|Dorsal saucer, aft of bridge
|Observed firing in Nemesis.
|Dorsal saucer, forward of bridge
|Observed on model in Nemesis.
|Dorsal saucer, near forward edge
|Not seen on model; existence unlikely.
|Ventral engineering, below aft hangar
|Not seen on model; existence unlikely.
If we took all these tubes to exist, and all the uncertains to be twin tubes, the Sovereign would have no less than sixteen torpedo tubes! If every one of them could fire twelve torpedoes at a time, as Rick Sternbach suggested for the original four photon tubes, then with a single volley the Sovereign could launch 192 torpedoes.
Perhaps fortunately, this is not really supported by the facts. The two additional quantum tubes can be safely dismissed, as can the dorsal saucer leading edge tube. The other dorsal saucer tube is most likely a single tube. The tube below the aft shuttle bay is also unlikely, though less so. So we are left with :
|Tube Type
|Torpedo Type
|Tube Location
|Ventral saucer, beneath captain's yacht
|Observed firing in First Contact, Nemesis.
|Ventral engineering hull, forward
|Observed firing in Nemesis.
|Ventral engineering hull, aft
|Observed firing in Nemesis.
|Dorsal engineering, above aft hangar
|Observed firing in Nemesis.
|Dorsal saucer, aft of bridge
|Observed firing in Nemesis.
|Dorsal saucer, forward of bridge
|Observed on model in Nemesis.
Or one quantum and eight photon tubes in total. This would leave us with a salvo of 108 torpedoes, which still seems excessive. It's easy enough to cut this number down some. The quantum tube has never been seen to fire more than one torpedo at once; while Sternbach's suggestion of a 12-torp burst fire capacity should be held as official for the four tubes at the bottom of the engineering hull, given the small size of the other tubes I would suggest that they cannot have this capacity. At the start of the Nemesis battle we see the twin tube aft of the bridge fire two groups of three torpedoes, suggesting that these tubes can hold and fire three at a time. This would allow the ship to fire "only" 37 torpedoes at a time, which is rather more sensible.
Photon torpedoes are relatively small objects - the TNG Tech Manual states that the casing measures 2.1 x 0.76 x 0.45 metres, and although that book is not canon the torpedo casings seen on the screen seem a close match for these figures. Even a basketball court could comfortably hold 120 torpedoes laid out on the floor - and this is leaving plenty of room to actually get at the torps and move them around. Stack them 5 deep, which you could do in a normal deck height, and you could easily fit 600 photon casings on a basketball court.
There is certainly enough space on the Sovereign to carry ten or twenty thousand torpedoes, then. However, this does seem a little excessive. The much bigger Galaxy class only carried around 250 torpedoes, and even Deep Space Nine held only five thousand torps. Even if the Sovereign is a more "militarised" design than the Galaxy it doesn't seem likely that the total complement would be higher than five or six hundred. This would allow the Sovereign to get through all of its torpedoes in about twenty salvos, which is about right.
The Sovereign certainly represents one of the most formidably armed Starfleet vessels to date. Indeed its armament approaches - some would say exceeds - the limit of sensible design and story credibility. Nemesis shows that the ship can also survive immense damage. The ramming of the Scimitar did major structural harm to the Enterprise-E on top of the battle damage yet the ship was largely repaired before Riker had even left for the Titan command, indicating a timeframe of days or weeks rather than months. The combination of a heavy offensive punch and damage resistance confirm this Sovereign as one of Starfleet's finest and most powerful vessels.
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Not too long ago, I got an angry e-mail from someone in the town where I grew up.
The author of the e-mail is someone who knows my parents pretty well, and he had somehow stumbled across something I had written about privilege.
"How disrespectful can you be!? It's like your spitting in the face of everything your parents have worked for," he wrote. "Writing about this White privilege makes it look like your father, one of the harder working men I know, just had everything handed to him. You know that's not the case!"
I did my best to respond by explaining that privilege doesn't necessarily mean that you've had everything handed to you, and I know that my father has worked hard. To say that we have privilege doesn't discredit any of his hard work. It simply puts that hard work in context.
I recently heard privilege described as a "tailwind," taking your effort and energy and propelling you further forward than those who must fly against the winds of our society's constructs of power and privilege.
My father didn't grow up with incredible wealth privilege. He is the son of a truck driver and stay-at-home mom who also worked at a local school cafeteria to earn extra cash. My grandfather grew up in the "holler" in West Virginia in an area well familiar with intergenerational poverty.
Part of what set our family apart, though, was our ownership of land.
Similarly, on my mom's side of the family, go back a few generations and you'll find some poor, hardworking farmers from Ireland and Belgium who settled on stolen indigenous land in South Dakota. Again, they were able to buy a plot of land upon which they could start to build their familial wealth legacy.
Fast forward a few generations, and I am the son of a doctor and a nurse.
Wealth and the Context of History
There are really a few ways to look at my family's history.
Some might say that it's the perfect example of "The American Dream," as defined by the ability of a people to build something (read: wealth) for themselves that is passed down to ensure the next generation's life is a little better than the last.
Others might note that my family's story perfectly illustrates the trappings of privilege.
Sure, my family gave up most of our cultural identity to become White in the United States, but doing so gave us access to a system that privileged us in countless ways.
Simply put, we traded culture for a tailwind.
After all, one of the key markers of access to wealth in the United States for much of its history has been the ability to own land. There's a reason that for a good, long while in this country, a man couldn't vote unless he owned land, and you couldn't own land unless you were White and Christian.
And land-ownership has been systematically denied to those not considered "White" (through the ever-changing construction of Whiteness) for most if not all of this country's history.
From the Land Grant Acts to the Homesteading Acts to redlining policies toWhite flight, we see how owning land, but particularly land considered "desirable" or worthy (whether because of access to resources or proximity to jobs or simply status) allows for wealth mobility.
And this access to wealth mobility is relates directly to intersectional identity politics.
This does not mean that all White people are wealthy or that poor White folks somehow are failures for not better working the system that privileges us.
It simply means that the limited access to wealth that has always been a staple in this country has just been more limited for people of Color and women and disabled/differently-abled people and non-Christians and really anyone who isn't part of the smaller, privileged few that are most granted access to wealth in this country.


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Your company most likely has a similar onstage (customer area) and backstage (production area) structure. And while your employees may not use your "backstage" area to don their Mickey or Minnie Mouse costumes, there are things that go on behind the scenes that most of your customers are not privileged to see.
That is, of course, unless you offer to take your customers on a tour of your facility. At most Disney facilities, visitors can take a ride backstage to see some of the inner workings of the magical world. The same can be done at your business. Allowing your customers a peek at the inner workings of your company and introducing them to your staff will improve your relationship with them. And, showing them any impressive machinery or workflow systems you have in place will increase their confidence in the work you do for them.
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El Alto
At the opposite extreme in every sense from the Zona Sur is El Alto, the huge urban sprawl that has grown up over the last few decades around the airport, on the rim of the Altiplano overlooking La Paz. At over 4000m above sea level and some 5km from the city centre, El Alto enjoys beautiful views along the length of the snow-capped Cordillera Real, and the views of La Paz from the rim of the Altiplano are spectacular, even if they contrast sharply with the physical ugliness of the city itself. Populated largely by Aymara migrants from the surrounding Altiplano, when it was officially recognized as a separate municipality from La Paz in 1986, El Alto instantly became the fourth biggest, poorest and fastest growing city in Bolivia. With a bigger population than La Paz, and rapidly approaching one million (sixty percent of whom are under 25 years old), the place resembles a vast, impoverished yet dynamic suburb, its endless stretches of tin-roofed adobe shacks and often half-finished red-brick buildings broken only by the strangely minaret-like spires of churches and an increasing number of shops and businesses, industrial warehouses and endless lines of scruffy garages. Much of the population has no access to running water or electricity, employment is scarce and freezing night-time temperatures make it a desperately harsh place to live. Alteños nevertheless take pride in their urban-rural identity, their collective struggle against adversity and the challenges of urban life in what they refer to as the biggest indigenous city in the Americas, and denigrate La Paz, where many of them work, as la hoyada – "the hole".
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So while remodeling a room, I've discovered that one of the exterior walls of my home has a hole in it that has apparently allowed water to get in and has rotted the plywood in the wall pretty badly. However, the damage is limited to the space between the corner and the first stud in the wall.
A neighbor has suggested simply filling the hole with spray insulation, cutting a new piece of plywood slightly larger than the damaged area, and securing it from the inside with liquid nails and coarse drywall screws. While it's appealing as a cheap fix, I don't think it's the best solution, but I'm not sure how to go about repairing it properly. Any suggestions? Pictures can be taken if they're helpful.


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Ruth E. Riggin
Ruth E. Riggin, 89, of Salina and formerly of Lost Springs, died Dec. 19 at Pinnacle Park Nursing Home in Salina.
She was born Feb. 16, 1923, in Marion to Albert and Alice (Dody) Schroer. She lived most of her life in Lost Springs and Burdick. She graduated from Lost Springs High School and operated the Lost Springs Telephone Office until it closed, then she owned and operated Zinn Mercantile and Café until her retirement.
She married Bill Zinn on June 18, 1942. He preceded her in death in 1957. She then married Johnny Riggin of Burdick. He preceded her in death in 1995. She was also preceded in death by her parents and two brothers, Laird Schroer and Gerald Schroer.
She is survived by her five children, Gary Zinn of Wamego, Julie Sader of Salina, Bob Riggin of Detroit, Jack Riggin of Burdick, and Pat Baker of Lawrence; a sister, Lois Peterson of Burdick; 13 grandchildren; and 27 great-grandchildren.
Her funeral will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Burdick United Methodist Church with the Rev. J.J. Beck and Phil Peterson officiating. Burial will be in the Lost Springs Cemetery.
Visitation with family receiving friends will be from 7 to 8 p.m. Dec. 21 at Carlson-Becker Funeral Home in Hope.
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Iran: Syrian crisis prelude to coming of Mahdi
'One can smell … the end of times and the last Islamic messiah'
A high Iranian politician believes the Syrian revolution could be the catalyst for sparking a worldwide conflagration that will usher in an era of Muslim domination of the world.
"One can smell from the crisis in Syria the coming … of the end of times and the coming of the last Islamic messiah," said Ruhollah Hosseinian, a member of the Islamic regime's parliament. Previously he was deputy of the Intelligence Ministry and a member of board of trustees of Islamic Revolution Document Center.
Shiites, whose clerics rule Iran with an iron fist, believe that at the end of times, the 12th Imam, Mahdi, a 9th century prophet, will reappear with Jesus Christ at his side, kill all the infidels and raise the flag of Islam in all four corners of the world. Many analysts believe Iran is seeking nuclear capability to bring on that Armageddon.
Based on hadiths by Muhammad and his descendants, the Syrian revolution is a start to the coming of Mahdi, Hosseinian said in a speech quoted Thursday by Fars News Agency, a media outlet run by the Revolutionary Guards.
"Imam Sadegh (the Shiites' 4th Imam) has stated, when the masters of the yellow flag (Lebanese Hezbollah) engage in a conflict with anti-Shiite elements in Damascus and Iranian forces join them, this is a sign and a prelude to the coming of his highness (Mahdi)," Hosseinian said. "We see that (now) the masters of the yellow flag are engaged with anti-Shiite groups in Damascus. Perhaps this is the event that promises the coming and that we must prepare ourselves."
Hadiths from Ali, the Shiites' 1st imam, also state that a sign of the coming will be the fall of the walls of Damascus. A tight-knit coalition of Syrian loyalists, Hezbollah fighters and Iranian forces is fighting against a loose coalition of Syrian rebels and al-Qaida fighters. The anti-Assad forces have brought their fight to inside Damascus.
Hosseinian told the audience that they should prepare themselves for war.
"The coming of his highness is assured … the prophet has promised that people from the east, which according to the hadith means Iran, take power and prepare for the government of Imam Mahdi."
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Hosseinian said that because of the belief in Mahdi, many Christians have converted to Shiism, "including a French philosopher who converted to Shiism and wrote … that because of the Shiites' belief in Mahdi and that a human being will appear to establish justice in the world … this was the reason 'for me' to become a Shiite."
WND reported on June 23 that the Islamic regime's newly elected president, Hassan Rohani, attributed his victory in the June 15 voting to the 12th Imam, showing the deep belief of regime officials of the coming of Mahdi.
"This victory and the epic saga are without a doubt due to the special kindness of the Imam Zaman (Mahdi) and the measures taken by the supreme leader (Ayatollah Ali Khamenei), especially his guidance and words. … Without his management, then it was not clear if the people of Iran would witness such a day filled with joy," Rohani said.
Ayatollah Movahedi Kermani, in his Friday prayer speech last week congratulating Rohani for his election, said that, "Before the reappearance of Imam Zaman (Mahdi), the struggle will reach its peak … in that fight there won't even be mercy on the womb in the mother's belly."
He urged Muslims to prepare the grounds for the coming of Mahdi.
Recently Gen. Hassan Firouzabadi, the Iranian military chief of staff, criticized President Obama's decision to provide weapons to rebel factions in Syria and warned, "Obama has made his most dangerous blunder today as president of the U.S. when, with the deceit of the Israelis, he issued an order of sending weapons for terrorists in Syria. Today the shipment of arms to the Syrian terrorists won't solve anything as the Syrian nation with its national army will force the Israeli mercenaries to retreat and escape."
As WND reported exclusively last year, a joint war room was created among Iran, Hezbollah and Syria to defeat the opposition in Syria and respond to any possible attack by U.S. or NATO forces with a directive for an immediate response to fire a barrage of missiles from the three allies not only toward Israel but also at American assets in the region.
The British paper The Independent reported on June 16 that Iran has decided to send 4,000 troops from its Revolutionary Guards forces to Syria to assure President Bashar Assad's survival.
Reza Kahlili translated this Iranian video about Islamic prophecies of a coming messiah and the destruction of Israel and America:


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Word of a looming pilot shortage has been making headlines. The Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio and most of the major network news channels have carried the story.
It's amazing how the media can pick up and run with something, regardless of how unclear or inaccurate the premise is.
What does "pilot shortage" really mean?
The idea that airlines will soon face an "acute shortage of pilots," as a Journal piece recently put it, is both true and untrue. It depends very much on which sector of the airline industry we're talking about. We need to draw a sharp divide between the major carriers and their regional affiliates. It's the latter that may have a problem on its hands.
The major carriers will always have a surplus of highly qualified candidates to choose from. They are able to cull from from the top ranks of the regional carriers, as well as from the military. The impending wave of retirements won't come close to depleting a supply of senior, highly experienced regional airline pilots who would kill for a slot with a major. That is, if and when they are hiring. Attrition is slow, and at the moment there are more than 3,000 pilots on indefinite furlough from the likes of American, United, and US Airways, some of whom have been laid off for ten years or more. A friend of mine who lost his job at TWA and American recently took a position in Dubai because decent US flying jobs are so scarce. He's one of many.
At the regionals it's a slightly different story. By regionals we're referring to the numerous subcontractors who operate smaller jets and turboprops on behalf of the network carriers: those myriad "Connection" and "Express" carriers. This sector of the industry has expanded tremendously over the past twenty years or so, and now accounts for an astonishing one-half (53 percent to be exact) of all domestic departures in the United States.
Pay and working conditions are often terrible at these companies, with salaries starting at around $20,000 annually — sometimes less. And with little to no hiring by the majors, pilots are figuring out that a job with a regional often means a career with a regional. An aspiring aviator has to ask, is it worth sinking $50,000 or more into one's primary flight training, plus the time it will take to build the requisite number of flight hours, plus the cost of a college education, only to spend years toiling at poverty-level wages, with at best a marginal shot at moving on to a major?
Meanwhile, the FAA is about to enforce tougher hiring standards for entry-level pilots. Over the past two decades, as the regional sector grew and grew, thousands of new pilot jobs were created. To fill these slots, airlines sharply lowered their experience and flight time minimums for new-hires. Suddenly, pilots were being taken on with as little as 350 hours of total time, assigned to the first officer's seat of sophisticated regional jets. Twenty or thirty years ago this would have been unthinkable. Then came a rash of accidents, including the Colgan Air (Continental Connection) disaster outside Buffalo in 2009. Regulators began taking a closer look at hiring practices, eventually enacting legislation that that will mandate higher flight time totals and additional certification requirements for new-hires.
(The new rules may sound highly restrictive to young pilots, but really all they're doing is returning things to historical norms. My first job with a regional — "commuters" we called them in those days — was in 1990. Competitive applicants at the time had between 1,500 and 2,000 hours, and most of us had an FAA Airline Transport Pilot certificate as well. And that was to fly an unpressurized 15-seater.)
There are fewer pilots getting into the business — understandably so. And those that are getting in will have to accrue substantially more flight time before sending resumes to the airlines. Thus, the hiring pool is drying up.
How much it dries up, however, remains to be seen.
In summary, there will not be a shortage of pilots per se. But there may be a shortage of pilots willing to work for the pay and benefits offered by regional airlines.
Meanwhile, there are those who feel that cries of a coming shortage are little more than an industry strategy intended to encourage the FAA to water down the tougher hiring rules. Captain Chesley Sullenberger, speaking to the media in December, referred to "cynics" who were "crying wolf" over the matter. It's somewhat telling that virtually no regional carriers have raised their salaries or benefit packages to levels that would appear aimed at retaining or attracting pilots.
And the regionals are no longer growing like they once were. On the contrary, many are downsizing and laying off. Comair, a Delta Connection carrier and one of the oldest and largest regionals, recently shut its doors, throwing 500 or so pilots onto the street, many of whom had been with the company for twenty years or more. The much maligned Colgan Air also ceased operations. Others are overstaffed, and at least one large regional is offering early-retirement incentives and soliciting voluntary leaves of absence.
If you ask me, there will be plenty of experienced crewmembers out there in the foreseeable future, hungry for work. Even with the tougher new hiring rules, airlines big and small can continue to expect a hundred or more applications for every available job.
For a deeper look at this topic, including its implications on safety, see the author's earlier column on Salon.com.
This article was originally published on AskThePilot.com and is used here with the author's permission. Patrick Smith is an airline pilot, air travel columnist and author behind the site AskThePilot.com. In his spare time he has visited more than 70 countries and always asks for a window seat. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.


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From: Jan-Erik Larka
Date: 2011/03/01
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It's necessary include to eCS CD1:
A SOM based ODBC configuration utility (ODBC Admin) that use the newest UnixODBC-backend (They've split the GUI and the core in the latest release)
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>-> odbc what is it? is it useful?
Yes, ODBC is important if you want to retrieve and add data from/to databases, wheter it's a web server, spread sheet, OOorg Base or an accounting application such as QNE. The version listed there is the one that is most current of unixODBC. WDSybil support it, rexxSQL can use it and OpenOffice.org can use it if you apply the patched file you have the link to on your site so that it can retrieve data from various databases. I use it to connect to my PostgreSQL databases (8.4.? and 9.0.3), while others use it with MySQL etc.
You mentioned the link you have to a special file that update unixODBC, that one should be distributed to everyone that use unixODBC.
That's the one I've asked Paul Smedley to update to acurrent version and I intend to write the mentioned SOM wps class for. Just wish Lorne Sunley would send us his sourcecode for the work he put into that version.
Regarding WDSybil, it's a developmetn tool that you can use to create software. You can see if the developer has used it as the software resemble OS/2 software, but the
notebook tabs have a slightly different coloring and look a bit different from the original. Example of software developed with WDSybil:
* TCPConfig, Excellent software to configure TCPIP and network (Packed with warpin, need a new developer)
* USBRes, the tool to find out about USB devices that has been attached to the computer. (Included with eCS)


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UPDATE: A study is under way to find a fix for a fence around the Atwood Mansion with a history of torturing and killing moose in Anchorage. Natasha von Imhof, a spokeswoman for the Atwood Foundation, said she walked the fence line on Thursday with a representative of Triple A Fence and asked for suggestions and bids on a plan to either remove the spike-topped steel fence or cap the spikes to keep moose from impaling themselves there. She expects the foundation board to address the issue in the fall.
Read more here, and for the original story, read below.
The city of Anchorage has no distinctive urban identity or iconic landmarks. In "Coming Into the Country," John McPhee described Anchorage as "an American spore." In another metaphor he wrote: "A large cookie cutter brought down on El Paso could lift something like Anchorage into the air." Unintentionally confirming McPhee's impression, the best tourism incentives the city has come up with are marketing slogans like" "Wild About Anchorage" or "Big. Wild. Life." In other words, the city's identity relies primarily on a perception of wildness, not any urban characteristic.
Anchorage has no unique skyline like New York or Paris, no canals like Venice, no soaring bridge like San Francisco. In a city with no inherent identity, residents are free to choose any style that suits their fancy and budget. And of all the idiosyncratic choices, one of the most incongruous examples is the Atwood Mansion, also known as the Marilaine.
The Atwood Mansion squats in a quiet corner of Turnagain. It features the requisite white columns, statues, a large, well-tended lawn, and a decorative metal palisade fence. Ironically, the rear of the mansion bears a passing resemblance to a well-known house on Long Island, in New York state, an infamous house named the Amityville Horror.
This resemblance is more than just a matter of appearance. If a house can have a personality, and surely a mansion with its own name can be said to have its own personality, the Atwood Mansion is one haunted by ghosts, the ghosts of moose.
Something at the Atwood Mansion has killed four young moose in the last three years, each one disemboweled and draped limply over its gothic fence like the corpses of Vlad the Impaler's victims.
Killer has been identified
The killer is no mystery. It's not an unspeakable evil residing deep within the bowels of the mansion. It's not Vlad Dracula or any of the phantasmagorical creatures inspired by his bloodthirsty excesses. It is the fence itself.
A metal palisade fence surrounds the manicured grounds of the mansion. Like most palisade fences it bristles with closely spaced pales, or points, fashioned to look like spear tips or arrowheads. Metal palisade fences are unusual in Anchorage. Several have killed moose, either by puncturing their abdomen or snagging their hind legs. But none of the other fences have racked up a body count like the Atwood Mansion.
Have you ever attempted to leap over a fence but were only halfway successful? This happens all the time to urban-dwelling moose. Luckily, a moose has four legs, so it doesn't land on its crotch, it does a belly slide. When a moose jumps a fence higher than its back, it often slides its abdomen and hind legs across the top rail. No problem. Unless the fence is a phalanx of metal spears.
Urban moose are not intimidated by fences. They can't afford to be. Moose have to move to eat, and there are thousands of miles of fences in Anchorage. Like us, moose tend to believe the grass is greener on the other side. If they can see trees or shrubs on the far side, they'll attempt to jump any fence up to seven or eight feet high.
The Atwood Mansion's fence varies in height from about four to seven feet. Adult moose have no problem negotiating a four-foot fence, but calves are much smaller than adults. Even fences less than three feet high can kill a month-old moose calf attempting to follow its mother.
Dissecting the Atwood disembowelments
The mansion's latest victim, a moose calf, was found hanging over the fence in mid-July. The calf had struggled until the sharp points were buried to the hilt in its midsection, its front and rear hooves grazing the ground on either side of the fence. Several neighbors were unable to rescue the calf before it died.
About three years ago, Jessy Coltrane, a wildlife biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, responded to a call from an adjoining property owner. A moose calf was hung up on the fence surrounding the Atwood Mansion. When Coltrane arrived, the calf was alive. However, it had been gutted by the spear-like points. Slick loops of entrails hung to the ground. The calf's mother and a second calf paced nearby. Both were highly agitated. Dodging repeated charges by the cow, Coltrane shot the mortally injured calf in the head to end its suffering.
This was also in July, as Coltrane recalls now, so the calves weighed about 100 pounds. She wasn't able to lift the dead calf off the five-foot-high fence, even with assistance, so she cut it off the jagged points with a knife and dragged it away. Removing the calf left a large gout of blood and gore pooled under the fence.
The cow refused to leave the scene. The homeowner was distraught. Coltrane thought it would be a good deed to flush the blood off the fence and lawn, so she borrowed a hose. At that point, the cow decided to jump the fence again to chase Coltrane away from the dead calf. In a horrifying flash, Coltrane saw the inexorable wheels of fate turning. If the cow jumped the fence, her remaining calf would try to follow.
Coltrane sprayed the cow with the hose in a futile attempt to dissuade it, but you cannot turn an 800-pound moose from its mission. The cow jumped the fence. The calf made it halfway over, driving one of the spear points into its axilla, or "armpit." It struggled for a couple of minutes, driving the point deeper, while the defensive cow made it impossible for Coltrane to help. Eventually, the calf lunged backwards off the fence, staggered under a nearby tree, and collapsed.
The cow jumped the fence again, hastening to protect the injured calf. Coltrane hoped for the best. But as the second calf struggled to rise, she saw part of its right lung protruding from a sucking chest wound. Trying to get close enough to humanely dispatch the second calf with a 12-gauge slug, Coltrane risked disemboweling herself on the fence as she scrambled back and forth, advancing and retreating from the furious cow several times. The shotgun blast sent the cow running for the far fence line. It cleared the fence and ran out of sight.
Afterwards, Coltrane talked to Jennifer Gunter, the mansion's housekeeper who was also in charge of routine maintenance and the administrative assistant of the Atwood Foundation Board. Coltrane strongly recommended removing or capping the points on their fence. Gunter told Bob Reeves, the foundation president. The foundation capped the points on the short section of fence where the two calves were impaled. But hundreds of yards of fence were not modified. Another moose, a yearling bull, was impaled on the mansion's fence about six months later. It died. Once again Coltrane talked to Gunter. Once again the fence was not fixed. Last week's moose was impaled less than four feet from the previously capped section.
According to a neighbor, a fifth calf was impaled on the Atwood Mansion's fence prior to the last four. It kicked itself off the fence. Because it walked away, the incident wasn't reported. The calf almost certainly died a few days later from internal bleeding or, more likely, infectious peritonitis.
Other gruesome incidents
Metal palisade fences are rare in Anchorage. Most are in swanky neighborhoods, but institutions and businesses sometimes use a gothic-looking fence to imply a heightened level of security. Merrill Field has a metal palisade fence along the Glenn Highway and the Federal Bureau of Investigation surrounded its downtown office building with one.
Despite their rarity, metal palisade fences have impaled at least six other moose in Anchorage over the last decade. Most died.
A young bull attempted to jump the decorative palisade fence at the Boniface gate of Elmendorf Air Force Base, now Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, a few years ago. The fence was a little too high, even for the belly slide. One spear-like point plunged into the hollow between the bull's front shoulder and chest, and the weight of the moose drove it deeper. Fish and Game biologists were called, and we immobilized the moose with drugs. The only way to disengage the bull from the fence without heavy equipment was to saw off the embedded point. Luckily, the point had not penetrated its body cavity or torn any major blood vessels. The section of fence was unfastened and, with lots of help, the bull was lowered to the ground. The moose lived to jump other fences. Elmendorf personnel quickly capped the points on the fence to avoid impaling more moose. But saving a moose impaled on a fence is the exception.
My first experience with a moose killed by a decorative metal fence was in the mid-1990s on the Hillside. This was also the first, and last, time I chain-sawed a moose in half. A homeowner noticed a dead adult moose in his backyard during a mid-winter thaw. It had probably been dead for several weeks. Judging from its tracks, the moose had stepped over a four-foot-tall fence nearly buried in snow. In shifting its weight, the moose's hooves settled deeper in the snow and one or more points punctured its abdomen.
This was early in my career, and I foolishly agreed to remove the slowly decomposing moose from the premises. The snow was deep and the fence complicated dragging the carcass with the truck or a winch. The only way to move the half-ton beast was to cut it into quarters and lift the pieces over the fence. My assistant, Jackie Kephart, volunteered to operate the chainsaw. Unfortunately for her, the moose's midsection wasn't completely frozen. We knew that, but the gory consequence didn't quite register until the chainsaw starting throwing a stream of putrid blood, fermented stomach contents, and finely shredded body parts up Kephart's leg and torso and over her shoulder.
We finished the job. I don't remember what happened after that, but I hope I gave her the rest of the day off.
Even when a moose avoids impalement, palisade fences can prove deadly. Sometimes the moose almost clears the fence, but grazes the top rail with its lower legs. A slim lower leg can slide through the gaps between points, but often the fence catches one or both hooves. Without prompt human assistance, this can kill a moose quicker than a punctured abdomen. Moose aren't designed to be suspended by their hindquarters. The part of a moose's stomach where much of the digestion takes place, the rumen, is full of fluid, which can leak out the esophagus of an upended animal and be inhaled, drowning the moose in its own digestive juices.
Surely one of the shortest metal palisade fences in the world, in the backyard of a south Anchorage home, snared a yearling moose in spring 2010. The fence enclosed a children's play area of about 10 by 20 feet, the two sections of fence merely bridging the space between the house and a tall wooden fence. Instead of ambling around the front of house, the yearling took a short cut, jumping into the play area then out the other side. The upright pales of the second fence snagged both hind hooves. The housekeeper didn't know how long the moose had been suspended by its hooves, but it was hours if not a day or more.
I freed the moose by unscrewing the section of fence, but it was unable to rise. I left it in a comfortable position, hoping it would recover. I had to shoot the moose the next day, after it dragged itself on its belly into the neighbor's yard.
Simple solutions
Reeves, the Atwood Foundation's president, passed away in late 2009. Natasha von Imhof, a grant administrator who inherited Reeves' responsibilities, said she hadn't heard about moose impaled on the mansion's fence until she got an email from Gunter last week about the latest incident. According to von Imhof, who has been the de facto president since Reeves passed away, none of the foundation's board members had heard about the previous incidents. She also said the board had never received written notice of the problem from Fish and Game. Since the last incident, the board is looking into the feasibility of capping the sharp points with a solid rail, like the short section that was modified three years ago.
Metal palisade fences are expensive in Alaska, which limits the number of customers. AAA Fence, Inc., built the Atwood and Elmendorf fences and has erected other metal palisade fences at Anchorage residences. Roger Channing, a sales representative and project manager, estimated a metal palisade fence costs approximately $60 per foot, more for gates. Unfortunately, Lowe's is now advertising cheap "decorative metal fencing" for do-it-yourselfers that will make gothic-style fencing more affordable in Alaska.
Channing said he "steers customers away" from the metal palisade fences with points. He's heard of moose being impaled, but was more concerned about children, "especially with the amount of snow that can accumulate." A six-foot fence can become a three- or four-foot fence. Channing advises customers to choose decorative fencing with a smooth top rail.
Despite its medieval semblance, a metal palisade fence isn't difficult for a person to climb over. Any sense of increased security is a facade. That leaves aesthetics as the primary reason for choosing such a fence. I'm not inclined to tell anyone what kind of fence looks best with their home or place of work. But I wonder if a decorative metal fence is worth the pain and suffering.
Every Alaskan can recite a list of things that strike them as un-Alaskan. Of course, everyone's list is different. Here are three items from my list: A sunny day in July. Naughty Monkey pumps. Gothic fences.
Here's the thing. Erecting a metal palisade fence in Anchorage suggests you're trying to look like you live somewhere else -- El Paso maybe. And fences are easy to fix. A metal palisade fence can be capped or the points can be removed, leaving a defanged fence that won't torture and kill moose.
You don't want moose in your yard, you say? Try a taller fence.
Rick Sinnott is a former Alaska Department of Fish and Game wildlife biologist. The views expressed here are the writer's own and are not necessarily endorsed by Alaska Dispatch. Contact him at email@example.com


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I don't always see eye to eye with U.S. Sen. Mark Udall, but I've never doubted his sincerity. Last week, he floated a simple but potentially revolutionary idea to change the partisan tenor of the annual State of the Union address. Rather than have Republicans and Democrats separated by party affiliation, Udall suggested, why not mix things up and let political adversaries sit next to one another?
Senator Udall, that's a terrific idea.
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A scout in Massachusetts ended up with $80 in counterfeit $20 bills, discovered by her troop leader when they went to bank the money in the troop's account.
In Virginia, a scammer returned twice to a cookie-selling booth, both times using fake $50s to buy a single box of cookies.
The fake-money epidemic is serious enough that Secret Service visited Girl Scout headquarters in California to teach them about how to identify counterfeit money.
Fresno station KFSN reported:
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Last week, the Girl Scouts received two counterfeit 100 dollar bills at their store. And a woman tried to pass another bad bill at a cookie booth on the northeast side.
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Now that the Astros are off to such a great start are you going to drop the hate and come onboard?
Too soon?
OK, how about clicking here to see Justin Maxwell's Facebook page so you can tell him how excited you are about the opener? Is that too much to ask?
Maxwell, the outfielder with adorable kids, Ivy League-level intelligence and GQ looks, promises to keep you Facebookers updated throughout the season.
The Astros are going to surprise some this season. Bo Porter simply doesn't know how to lose, so the Astros might avoid the funk that undermanned teams typically drift into as they move away from the pack and slide toward the bottom of the standings.
Baseball is a sport where the best team doesn't always win and the hardest working team often wins more than its collective talent indicates it should.
Now, I'm not saying I'd go anywhere near those dynamic prices the Astros will charge for marquee games, but they could very well be worth watching in April.
In the last three seasons the latest the Astros were .500 was April 14, so a good start would be worthy of celebration.
And if you're like me and not among the 40-percenters, you might want to get to Minute Maid while the getting is good.