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Making the Paradigm Shift
If you are like most people, you were taught to believe:
'No Pain No Gain'
'Train longer and harder if you want more results'
'The heavier the weight, the bigger the results'
'If you are not sore, you did not work hard enough'
These old beliefs no longer apply when you use B3 Bands
People who use B3 Bands think differently:
'No pain is a good thing'
'Train fast, with less weight, and get more results'
'The greater the burn with B3 Bands, the bigger the results'
'Why would I want to be sore the next day'
Exercise in ½ the Time, with ½ the Work and get Better Results!
Why it Makes Sense
1st Set with B3 Bands
With the B3 Bands in place, we are limiting the ability of the muscle to recover from otherwise easy exercise by restricting or impeding its blood flow. During light exercise we only use a fraction of the fibers in the muscle to perform the movement. However, the first fibers that are recruited are heavily dependent on blood flow to operate. Because they don't get their normal blood flow during the 1st set, they begin to fatigue. You feel a light burn.
Then during the 30 second "rest" period when muscle is supposed to recover, normal blood flow is not moving. Therefore, rather than recovering, the muscle stays in metabolic crisis.
2nd Set with B3 Bands
When you start the 2nd set you are starting on fibers that have not recovered. This results in those fibers failing to generate necessary force. Additional fibers (not normally recruited for easy exercise) then have to take over. These fibers are usually less trained and achieve a state of stress even faster, resulting in even more metabolic trouble.
Now during the 2nd rest phase, most, if not all fibers in a muscle are now in "metabolic trouble" and aren't recovering.
3rd Set with B3 Bands
The 3rd set finishes the whole muscle off and makes virtually all fiber populations contract. For the duration of your workout you have been limiting recovery of the initial fibers recruited and ended up recruiting all fibers. The metabolic waste of all these fibers triggers a systemic hormone response.
In total, the "failure" or "fatigue" generated from 3 sets with light weights creates the specific signal that stimulates hormone release that triggers increases in strength and function in muscle.
Or you can lift longer and harder with heavy weights or do maximal training intervals such as super intense running, biking or swimming!
Walking, Running, Biking, Swimming, and Exercise Classes
Regardless of how and what kind of exercise you do, when you start using the B3 Bands you are going to notice you get a failure response with less time and less work.
- Less wear and tear, which means less injury and quicker recovery
- Increased Growth Hormone release and more positive adaptation
- Improved Performance
Alternate Upper and Lower Body
Wear the leg B3 Bands for 5-10 minutes or until failure. Then switch and wear the arm B3 Bands for 5-10 minutes or until failure.
Do Intervals
Do Intervals to get more results: use the B3 Bands on the legs for 3-5 minutes during your favorite exercise. Then, rest for 30 seconds and repeat for 2-3 minutes. Rest once more for 30 seconds and do 1 more session to failure for 1-2 minutes.
Wear all 4 B3Bands
After getting accustomed to having the B3 Bands on your arms and legs separately for a few sessions (5 or more), try wearing all 4 bands. If you are doing exercises that work the entire body, you are going to get an incredible workout like nothing you have ever experienced before!
Exercise the Old Way . . . Really?
People always ask us, why would I exercise the old way?
We have no good answer as to why you would want to work out harder and longer without the B3 Bands. Our only thought on this is that maybe you enjoy longer and harder exercise that puts more stress on your body and does more damage.
Or maybe you just really like being sore the next day!


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Body cameras: coming to a school near you soon
In the UK, video cameras have been seen primarily as a way of supporting police officers to better enforce order or collect evidence. Whereas in the US, their use has been very much driven by the need to control police behaviour – particularly in light of the high number of police shootings of young black men.
The first study in the UK to evaluate the blanket roll out of cameras to all front line officers in a single jurisdiction was carried out on the Isle of Wight. And our research showed that public order and assault crimes went down by nearly 20% when all front line police officers wore the body cameras. It is not surprising then that police forces across the world, including in China, have made the decision to use these body worn video cameras.
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In the US, it tends to be that these cameras are worn by "school resource officers" rather than teachers. These are sworn law enforcement officers – otherwise known as police officers – responsible for security and crime prevention in US schools.
Of course, not everyone is happy with the move, and The American Civil Liberties Union has argued against the relatively recent trend. The union believes the presence of these enforcement officers in schools – many of whom have not been trained to work with children – will lead to criminalisation of routine school disciplinary matters, and will enhance the "school-to-prision" pipeline. This is the idea that children are "funneled" out of public state schools into the criminal justice system.
Consequently, it may surprise you to know that front line teachers in two schools in the UK are already using body cameras to deter bad behaviour in the classroom. Industry sources have also told me how they are working to develop and support body cameras for use in "non-enforcement" environments, including schools.
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Both schools are using the body cameras in line with education board approved policy and guidelines, meaning that all footage is recorded with government approved encryption. The footage is also securely stored on a dedicated cloud platform – like the ones used by the most advanced police forces.
Filming only occurs when it is legitimate, proportionate and necessary. This reduces the threat of oppressive and continuous surveillance of all pupils at all times and requires the approach to be "incident specific".
The cameras are there to assist teachers in reducing persistent low level disturbances and resolving conflict by capturing evidence of misbehaviour. This means teachers can use the body cameras to resolve problems that prevent them from teaching.
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Hide AdWhile the cameras in schools can be used as an enforcement tool to provide evidence for disciplinary actions, the footage can also be used as a self-reflection tool with the students. The footage can also be shared with parents to help come up with joint approaches to problem behaviour. And in an educational setting, there is also further potential to use the body cameras to capture moments worth sharing or to celebrate a student's development and positive achievements. This is obviously quite different to the more restricted ways the police use these types of cameras.
Early feedback from teachers suggests the cameras give them more control in difficult situations by deterring bad behaviour, and by giving them confidence that they have an independent witness to support their account. This can also improve transparency and accountability which in turn improves trust and the relationship between parents and the school.
It has previously been suggested that a world with more cameras might be more pleasant to live in. This is because if surveillance becomes the norm, it might make our society more tolerant as everyone will have the potential to be embarrassed.
While cameras can be viewed with suspicion, it is important to consider the wider and rapid technological changes that will impact the classroom and school environment. Teachers could be filmed at any moment by anyone with a smart-phone – whether they are made aware of it or not. Body cameras are not only a way to balance this out, but they also offer security to teachers who – if properly trained – will be able to provide high quality footage of events with narrative and evidential value.
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Hacker Targets Clinton Confidant In New Attack
Breach exposed e-mails with Hillary Clinton
3/18 UPDATE: Blumenthal sent confidential memos to Hillary Clinton
MARCH 15--The hacker who has spent the past several months breaking into the e-mail accounts of family, friends, and political allies of the Bush family has crossed party lines and illegally accessed the AOL account of a former senior White House adviser to President Bill Clinton.
The intrusion into Sidney Blumenthal's e-mail account apparently occurred this week, days after the hacker--who uses the alias "Guccifer"--defaced Colin Powell's Facebook page and breached the former Secretary of State's AOL account.
The 64-year-old Blumenthal--who was unaware that he had been hacked by "Guccifer"--worked as an assistant and senior adviser to Clinton for about 3-1/2 years, ending in January 2001. He worked as a senior adviser to Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign and has remained one of her closest confidants.
Blumenthal is pictured at right with the Clintons.
By breaching Blumenthal's account, "Guccifer" was able to access his correspondence (dating back to at least 2005) with an array of Washington insiders, including political operatives, journalists, and government officials. As with the hacker's other victims, it is unclear how Blumenthal's account was illegally accessed or why he was targeted.
However, based on screen grabs made by "Guccifer," the hacker specifically zeroed in on Blumenthal's extensive correspondence with Hillary Clinton, sorting Blumenthal's account so as to single out all e-mail sent to Clinton. Additionally, "Guccifer" further sorted the mail to list (and presumably download) all Word files attached to e-mails sent to Clinton.
It is unknown what plans "Guccifer" has for these documents, which include foreign policy and intelligence memos that Blumenthal sent to Clinton while she served as Secretary of State.
Blumenthal told TSG that when he attempted to access his e-mail yesterday morning, he could not successfully log in. He then contacted an AOL representative and was told that his account had been compromised. Blumenthal said that he subsequently reset the password and regained control of his account.
In e-mail screeds, "Guccifer" seems to subscribe to dark conspiracies involving the Federal Reserve, the Council on Foreign Relations, and attendees of Bohemian Grove retreats. "the evil is leading this fucked up world!!!!!! i tell you this the world of tomorrow will be a world free of illuminati or will be no more," the hacker declared.
Over the past few months, the list of "Guccifer" hacking victims has included several Bush family members and friends; Powell; U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski; a senior United Nations official; Rockefeller family members; former FBI agents; security contractors in Iraq; a former Secret Service agent; and John Negroponte, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. A majority of these breaches have involved AOL e-mail accounts.


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Here's a common problem that arises in Bayesian computation. Everything works just fine until you have more data than you've seen before. Then suddenly you start getting infinite, NaN, or otherwise strange results. This post explains what might be wrong and how to fix it.
A posterior density is (proportional to) a likelihood function times a prior distribution. The likelihood function is a product. The number of data points is the number of terms in the product. If these numbers are less than 1, and you multiply enough of them together, the result will be too small to represent in a floating point number and your calculation will underflow to zero. Then subsequent operations with this number, such as dividing it by another number that has also underflowed to zero, may produce an infinite or NaN result.
The instinctive reaction regarding underflow or overflow is to use logs. And often that works. If you wanted to know where the maximum of the posterior density occurs, you could find the maximum of the logarithm of the posterior density. But in Bayesian computations you often need to integrate the posterior density times some functions. Now you cannot just work with logs because logs and integrals don't commute.
One way around the problem is to multiply the integrand by a constant so large that there is no danger of underflow. Multiplying by constants does commute with integration.
So suppose your integrand is on the order of 10^−400, far below the smallest representable number. Do you need extended precision arithmetic? No, you just need to understand your problem.
If you multiply your integrand by 10^400 before integrating, then your integrand is roughly 1 in magnitude. Then do you integration, and remember that the result is 10^400 times the actual value.
You could take the following steps.
- Find m, the maximum of the log of the integrand.
- Let I be the integral of exp( log of the integrand − m ).
- Keep track that your actual integral is exp(m) I, or that its log is m + log I.
Note that you can be extremely sloppy in this process. You don't need an accurate estimate of the maximum of the integrand per se. If you're within a few dozen orders of magnitude, for example, that could be sufficient to carry out your integration without underflow.
One way to estimate the maximum is to use a frequentist estimator of your parameters as an approximate MLE, and assume that this is approximately where your posterior density takes on its maximum value. This might actually be very accurate, but it doesn't need to be.
Note also that it's OK if some of the evaluations of your integrand underflow to zero. You just don't want the entire integral to underflow to zero. Places where the integrand is many orders of magnitude less than its maximum don't contribute to the integration anyway. (It's important that your integration pays attention to the region where the integrand is largest. A naive integration could entirely miss the most important region and completely underestimate the integral. But that's a matter for another blog post.)


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Opening Passage:
I take pride withal in my humiliation, and as I am to this privilege condemned, almost I find joy in an abhorrent salvation; I am, I believe, alone of all our race, the only man in human memory to have been shipwrecked and cast up upon a deserted ship.
Thus, with unabashed conceits, wrote Roberto della Griva presumably in July or August of 1643.
Summary: Roberto della Griva, a spy for Cardinal Mazarin trying to discover the details of a secret experiment for determining longitude, survives a shipwreck and finds himself cast up on a deserted ship anchored a way from an Island that is visible in the distance; but he cannot reach the Island because he is unable to swim. He will eventually meet up with Father Caspar Wanderdrossel, a German Jesuit, who is also castaway. They reason that they have actually reached the antipodal meridian, and that between the ship and the Island runs what we would call the International Date Line. Thus the title, of course: the Island is separated not just by space but by the fact that it exists in the day before. This gets us quite a few amusing bits, as when Father Caspar explains how God got all the water for the Flood, namely, by getting all the water across the line, thus adding to the oceans all of yesterday's ocean-water. A bizarrely mechanical and overly ingenious explanation, perhaps, but ingenious device and machination -- whether literal or metaphorical -- are major themes of the work.
For Roberto della Griva is the seventeenth century, and the novel is actually an exploration of the seventeenth century, the age that gets us to where we ourselves are. All of the seventeenth century comes before us, albeit in a jumbled form and not always named, in Roberto's increasing delirium aboard his deserted ship. We see the rise of modern astronomy and engineering and even the literary form of the novel. Kenelm Digby, Emanuele Tesauro, the great Jesuit scientists, Galileo Galilei, Rene Descartes, Blaise Pascal, Benedict Spinoza, all make some kind of appearance, just to give a small selection. And the seventeenth century can indeed be summed up in the Idea of the Machine: machines like clocks, the world as machine, the human being as machine, politics as machine, science as understanding of machines, and, most comprehensive of all, the attempt to reduce ingenuity, whether human or divine, to machine. The problem with this Baroque mentality, of course, is threefold: there always seems some residue of ingenuity that cannot be captured, the human ingenuity that is captured can never anticipate the full surprise of the world, and something always seems irretrievably lost in the attempt to capture ingenuity as a machine in the first place. All of the burgeoning technology and scientific discovery of the early modern period, and the Island is always just out of reach. Even the idea of the Island is in a sense out of reach; with its endless promise of providing the Fixed Point of the World, and the theological resonances of the mysterious Flame Dove, it is a medieval idea. The machines of the seventeenth century can never reach the promise of the day before. TRUTH, all capitals and glory, is a medieval notion. And the attempts to reach that Island get crazier and crazier until the Island has to be located on the other side of death itself.
One of the difficulties of the novel is that, despite its novelistic conventions and pretensions, it repeatedly verges very near allegory. This, I think, is a way in which the work is weaker as a novel than The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum. All three novels involve an implicit critique. The Name of the Rose put into question the idea that there was the sort of objective order to the world that the great medieval minds assumed there was. But it showed the divine, living beauty of that assumption, shining through despite all of human corruption and failing. The Island of the Day Before puts into question the idea that the rise of the modern age could reach the order of the world -- and we get so tangled up in the endless machinations of the age that Roberto and his contemporaries just look crazy. Foucault's Pendulum dealt with the same sort of incoherence in the modern age, but it showed us the human fascination of that 'psychosis of resemblances'. The Island of the Day Before gives us the incoherence of the age without all that much of its fascination. The characters never seem to stand out as more than allegorical representations, figures in a tableau, or (at best) goofy caricatures. Ironically, given the importance of the idea of the novel or romance to the story, tying everything together (as Descartes, in presenting his scientific ideas to the world, presented them explicitly as a kind of romance so as not to commit himself to the claim that they were True, and as the notion of progress can be seen as imposing the conventions of a novel on history), the book is the least successful of the three as a novel. Like the Baroque period it represents, it gets so caught up in ingenious representation and device that it is difficult to see it as anything other than highly artificial.
Nonetheless, this is Umberto Eco, and the ingenuity is a real ingenuity; the gimmicks are genuinely clever and the sheer torrent of images he pours into the book gives it a richness most novels lack. There are many charming episodes, many lovely passages, and genuine stretches of fun. It's just that the incoherence of the rise of what we call the modern age defeats even Eco's extraordinarily ingenious attempts to turn it into a coherent story that works as a story. Everything breaks down into a barely comprehensible delirium. The reader could very well be forgiven for concluding from the tale that in the post-medieval period the lunatics took over the asylum.
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But it was on that occasion, Father Caspar assured Roberto, that Noah and his family rediscovered the language Adam had spoken in Eden, which his sons had forgotten after the Fall, and which the descendants of Noah would almost all lose on the day of the great confusion of Babel, except the heirs of Gomer, who carried it into the forests of the north, where the German people faithfully preserved it. Only the German language--the obsessed Father Caspar now shouted in his native tongue--"redet mit der Zunge, donnert mit dem himmel, blitzet mit den schnellen Wolken," or, as he inventively continued, mixing the harsh sounds of different idioms, only German speaks the tongue of Nature, "blitzes with the Clouds, brumms with the Stag, gruntzes with the Schweine, zlides with the Eel, miaus with the Katz, schnatters with the Gandern, quackers with the Dux, klukken with the hen, clappers with the Schwan, kraka with the Ravfen, schwirrs with the Hirundin!" And in the end he was hoarse from his babelizing, and Roberto was convinced that the true language of Adam, rediscovered with the Flood, flourished only in the lands of the Holy Roman Emperor. (269-270)
Recommendation: Recommended, unquestionably, although, as everyone says, The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum are both better. I have to give kudos to William Weaver's translation, though; it is quite as good as we got with the other works.
Quotations from Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before, William Weaver, tr., Harcourt Brace & Company (New York: 1995).


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Box and Google Cloud Deepen Strategic Partnership to Transform Work in the Cloud
Sunnyvale and Redwood City, Calif, July 23, 2020 — Google Cloud and Box, Inc. (NYSE: BOX), a leader in cloud content management, today announced a strategic partnership to help customers transform the way they work. Under the strategic partnership, Box will leverage Google Cloud and its advanced capabilities to enhance the scale, performance, and the intelligence of its cloud content management platform globally. Box and Google Cloud will also create a seamless experience for the thousands of enterprises using G Suite with Box to power secure, remote work in the cloud.
"We're in the middle of a major transformation in how business gets done. The ability to work from anywhere, leverage global talent and virtual teams, and to collaborate securely with colleagues, partners, and customers is the 'new normal' for every business," said Aaron Levie, cofounder and CEO of Box. "Google Cloud is an incredibly important partner as we innovate and scale to bring secure collaboration to our customers globally, and we're excited to continue making the combination of Box and G Suite as intuitive and seamless as possible for our customers."
"We are excited to extend our partnership with Box as a key global cloud infrastructure partner, and to enable more seamless integrations between Box and G Suite environments," said Thomas Kurian, CEO at Google Cloud. "By building on Google Cloud and continuing to invest in the integration between Box and G Suite, we believe we can provide optimal experiences for our joint customers and for remote teams."
Box and Google Cloud
As more businesses shift to remote work in the cloud, Box is significantly expanding its usage of Google Cloud to enhance its core infrastructure. As part of this extended partnership:
- Box will leverage Google Cloud as a key provider for data storage across the globe.
- The companies are also building on their advanced machine-learning integrations to deliver Google Cloud's Document AI as part of the Box Skills Kit to improve intelligent data processing, and are exploring further integrations to enhance intelligent security and compliance use cases to help customers safeguard sensitive content.
- On the identity front, Box currently supports Google Cloud Identity. Later this year, Box plans to build single sign-on (SSO) enhancements, enabling customers to set up their identity configurations with minimal effort. In addition, Box plans to add support for Google Authenticator for two-factor authentication of managed users and external collaborators via time-based OTP (one-time password).
Box and G Suite
Box and Google Cloud have taken several steps to integrate Box and G Suite, helping joint customers simplify how they work and collaborate securely in the cloud. Box and Google Cloud announced an initial integration between Box and Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides in December 2018, and since then the companies have continued to develop additional enhancements, including:
- A seamless sharing experience natively within G Suite to simplify sharing Google files stored in Box, enabling customers to keep the same access settings and privacy controls they have in Box, as well as to easily navigate their files and folders.
- Reciprocal transfer for Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides between Box and Google Drive allowing customers to move their content wherever they choose while maintaining the Google file formats.
- Box is developing a new G Suite Add-on to enable a "save to Box" experience for G Suite, allowing customers the ability to start a document within their G Suite environment and save back to Box.
Earlier this year, Box was named a Google Cloud "Partner of the Year" for Collaboration, and thousands of enterprises today leverage the seamless interoperability of the two platforms to drive productivity.
Pricing and Availability
The additional Box for G Suite enhancements are expected to be available for joint customers by Q4 at no additional charge.
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Box (NYSE:BOX) is a leading cloud content management platform that enables organizations to accelerate business processes, power workplace collaboration, and protect their most valuable information, all while working with a best-of-breed enterprise IT stack. Founded in 2005, Box simplifies work for leading organizations globally, including AstraZeneca, General Electric, JLL, and Morgan Stanley. Box is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, with offices in the United States, Europe, and Asia. To learn more about Box, visit http://www.box.com. To learn more about how Box powers nonprofits to fulfill their missions, visit Box.org.
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Treatment of Priests, Part 1 (with Tamil)
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami , 2000-01-09
Today Gurudeva explains how to keep a Hindu temple running smoothly by making sure that the priests are the Servants of the Gods and never ever the servants of the temple trustees and managers. With Tamil translation! (Tamil Translation in the Audio)


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Un multimedia di matematica a colori, che illustra con fotografie il legame tra matematica e realtà, e mette in evidenza a colpo d'occhio ciò che è importante imparare.
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An animation created for the museum dedicated to Archimedes in Syracuse .
The animation shows an experiment in optics.
The animation shows the 13 Archimedean solids ie highly symmetric, semi-regular convex polyhedra composed of two or more types of regular polygons meeting in identical vertices.
The animation shows the law of conservation of energy: it is one of the most important conservation laws observed in nature. In its most intuitive form this law states that, although energy can be transformed and converted from one form to another, the total quantity of it in an isolated system does not vary in time.
The animation describes the physical concept of "work" : that is, the kinetic energy transfer between the two systems by the action of a force or a resultant of forces when the object undergoes a displacement and the force has a non-zero component in the direction of the displacement.
Infmedia is the author of the project and of almost all materials . In particular Infmedia
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• design , software and graphic design of the entire work
• scientific documentation and iconography, storyboarding, graphics, animations,
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Six games with interactive multimedia
• multimedia guide
• simulation of real physical phenomena or technological devices
All games and multimedia materials were created by Infmedia.
In particular, we have taken care of :
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Inside Earth Sciences, the new book by Alba Gainotti and Alessandra Modelli is characterized by a soft communicative style that addresses gradually theoretical explanations.
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Nearly 300 Missing After South Korean Ferry Capsizes: Officials
JINDO, South Korea (Reuters) - Almost 300 people were missing after a ferry capsized off South Koreaon Wednesday, despite frantic rescue efforts involving coastguard vessels, fishing boats and helicopters, in what could be the country's biggest maritime disaster in over 20 years.
The ferry was carrying 459 people, of whom 164 have been rescued, coastguard officials said.
It was not immediately clear why the Sewol ferry listed heavily on to its side and capsized in apparently calm conditions off South Korea's southwest coast, but some survivors spoke of what appeared to be an impact prior to the accident.
"It was fine. Then the ship went 'boom' and there was a noise of cargo falling," said Cha Eun-ok, who said she was on the deck of the ferry taking photographs at the time.
"The on-board announcement told people to stay put ... people who stayed are trapped," she said in Jindo, the nearest town to the scene of the accident.
Survivors there huddled on the floor of a gymnasium, wrapped in blankets and receiving medical aid. One woman lay on a bed shaking uncontrollably. A man across the room wailed loudly as he spoke on his mobile phone.
Furious relatives of the missing threw water at journalists trying to speak to survivors and at a local politician who had arrived at the makeshift clinic.
Most of the passengers on board the ferry appeared to have been teenagers and their teachers from a high school in Seoul who were on a field trip to Jeju island, about 100 km (60 miles) south of the Korean peninsula.
An official from the Danwon High School in Ansan, a Seoul suburb, had earlier said all of its 338 students and teachers had been rescued. But that could not be confirmed by the coastguard or other officials involved in the rescue.
The school official asked not to be identified.
The Ministry of Security and Public Administration earlier reported that 368 people had been rescued and that about 100 were missing.
But it later described those figures as a miscalculation, turning what had at first appeared to be a largely successful rescue operation into potentially a major disaster.
There was also confusion about the total number of passengers on board, as authorities revised the figure down from 477, saying some had been double counted. It added to growing frustration and anger among families of the passengers.
Witnesses said many people were likely to be trapped inside the vessel.
According to a coast guard official in Jindo, the waters where the ferry capsized have some of the strongest tides of any off South Korea's coast, meaning divers were prevented from entering the mostly submerged ship for several hours.
The ferry began to list badly about 20 km (12 miles) off the southwest coast as it headed for Jeju.
A member of the crew of a local government ship involved in the rescue, who said he had spoken to members of the sunken ferry's crew, said the area was free of reefs or rocks and the cause was likely to be some sort of malfunction on the vessel.
There were reports of the ferry having veered off its course, but coordinates of the site of the accident provided by port authorities indicated it was not far off the regular shipping lane.
Several survivors spoke of hearing a "loud impact" before the ship started listing and rolling on its side.
Within a couple of hours, the Sewol was lying on its port side. Soon after, it had completely turned over, with only the forward part of its white and blue hull showing above the water.
Coastguard vessels and fishing boats scrambled to the rescue with television footage showing rescuers pulling passengers in life vests out of the water as their boats bobbed beside the ferry's hull.
Other passengers were winched to safety by helicopters.
The ferry left from the port of Incheon, about 30 km (20 miles) west of Seoul, late on Tuesday.
It sent a distress signal early on Wednesday, the coastguard said, triggering a rescue operation that involved almost 100 coastguard and navy vessels and fishing boats, as well as 18 helicopters.
A U.S. navy ship was at the scene to help, the U.S. Seventh Fleet said, adding it was ready to offer more assistance.
The area of the accident was clear of fog, unlike further north up the coast, which had been shrouded in heavy fog that led to the cancellation of many ferry services.
The coastguard said one person was found dead inside the sinking ferry. An official from the Mokpo Hankook hospital on the mainland said another person died soon after arriving at its emergency ward. That person was identified as one of the students on the school trip.
Four people were confirmed dead in total.
The ship has a capacity of about 900 people, an overall length of 146 meters (480 feet) and it weighs 6,586 gross tons. Shipping records show it was built in Japan in 1994.
In 1993, the Seohae ferry sank, and 292 of the 362 passengers on board perished.
(Additional reporting by Ju-Min Park, Choonsik Yoo, Meeyoung Cho and James Pearso
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Sallie Talbot is most content when her life on the Carolina seashore is calm, quiet, and peaceful. She is therefore most unsettled one evening when her spunky Great Aunt Ruth is unexpectedly checked into the hospital. Even more unsettling, however, is what Aunt Ruth says when Sallie comes to visit. Ruth tells the story of her secret, long-lost love, Arturo Zuruec, whom she met in an obscure Peruvian village and fell in love with many years ago. An unfortunate twist of fate separated the two, and Ruth hasn't seen or heard from Arturo in over fifty years. Being separated from him is a decades-old regret that Ruth insists only Sallie can set right.
You've used 113 words here to say one thing: Sallie's Aunt Ruth wants her to find a long lost love.
When I see this kind of word sprawl I know I'm going to find the exact same kind of writing in the novel. I stop reading right here. Pare this down. You don't have to be James Ellroy; you do have to practice an economy of words.
Unable to deny her aunt's dying plea, Sallie agrees to fly to Peru, track down Arturo, and deliver a message on Ruth's behalf. Easier said than done. In her sickly state Ruth cannot recall many details about the place she and Arturo met, and only remembers that it was a northern Andean city 'in the clouds.' What kind of people live in the clouds? Ruth also entrusts Sallie with Arturo's ring, a precious golden relic that boasts beautiful ancient American artwork but is hardly helpful for tracking Arturo down. With nothing but Ruth's scant testimony to go on, Sallie quickly realizes how utterly unprepared she is for the journey.
A lost ring? A city in the clouds? These are both so closely identified with other books and movies that they don't sound either fresh or new here.
And honest to helvetica, I absolutely fail to understand why Sallie doesn't just soothe Aunt Ruth with lies and forget the whole thing. Why would she do this? What's in it for her?
Amidst the chaos of unknown cities and villages, and virtually unable to communicate with the locals, Sallie grapples with the fear of making wrong decisions. How fully should she trust the memories and directions of her ill, aging aunt? What will happen if she decides to accept the help of Gabe Foster, an irresistibly handsome stranger who, after hearing about the 'clouds' and seeing the priceless ring, says he knows the way? Even if Sallie does accept Gabe's help, she can't help but wonder what chance they really have of finding Arturo anyway, when steaming jungles, belligerent natives, and fifty long years are standing in their way. With Ruth's happiness and Sallie's own survival on the line, will Sallie be able to abandon her self-doubt and quiet ways to get the job done?
Ruth's happiness is on the line? Wait a second here. She's been without Arturo for FIFTY FRIGGING YEARS!! You can't just say things about characters because you need them to be true for the book to work.
For a book to have a cohesive emotional framework, readers must be convinced that the characters are acting in a way that makes sense. Makes sense to the reader AND makes sense to the character. Because we don't know Ruth at all (and can't in the brief space of a query letter) you have to tell us WHY her happiness suddenly depends on this.
And honest to hortonwhoheardawho, there are a lot of unhappy people in the world. I sure as heck wouldn't be traipsing off to CloudCuckooLand for anything other than cold hard cash or a signed representation agreement with Thomas Pynchon. In other words, logical tangible benefits to ME. Altruism is a very sketchy motivation.
Wander Me Home is complete at 89,000 words. I have previously had shorter selections published in (redacted) magazine, was named a notable essay writer for (redacted) and am winner of the 2009 (redacted) Creative Writing Contest. I am a graduate of (redacted), with a BA in American Studies.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
I stopped reading at paragraph one and sent a form rejection.
Dear Query Shark,
Start with the story. The paragraph above is drenched with generalities that don't entice me to read further down the page, let alone the book.
Sallie Talbot may not have the life she's always dreamed of, but she prides herself on finding joy in the simple things. Sure, she wastes her talents every day working for a two-faced employer who has all the intelligence and grace of a burnt-out light bulb, but at least she has a roof over her head.
Sallie maintains that life is good as long as things are quiet, calm, and running smoothly. Her quiet life is occasionally interrupted because she has the unenviable task of running interference between her famously hot-tempered mother and beloved Great-Aunt Ruth (a woman of questionable sanity immensely fond of spinning tales of youthful exploits in mysterious Peruvian villages), but for the most part Sallie's life is quite calm.
Again, start with something interesting. The fact that Sallie likes calm can be dealt with in one phrase: Sallie values a calm*, well-running life.
We know something is going to disturb that calm. Get on with telling us what it is:
However, when a cool, Carolina October brings with it a series of sickening shocks, Sallie's serene, easy life is turned upside down, especially when her vibrant great-aunt takes ill and makes a startling confession, followed by a desperate plea: Will Sallie please drop everything and fly to an unnamed Peruvian village in search of Ruth's long lost love, Arturo Zuruec, whom she hasn't seen or heard from in over fifty years?
You told us Aunt Ruth was insane. If Sallie values inner peace why would she do something so obviously irrational? You have all the description here except that matters: WHY Sallie decides to do this. What does Aunt Ruth say that persuades her? Or does she just say "oh fuck it, I'm tired of inner peace, bring on the
You have to give me enough to make me believe the character's choices. You can't just send her to Peru cause you need her there.
An uncharacteristic, blind leap of faith lands Sallie in faraway Lima, Peru, with her best friend and baby brother at her side. (she's taking a baby?? Be careful how you use words) Festivals, jungles, natives, and not-so-unexpected betrayals are just a few of the things that mark Sallie's uncertain path towards Arturo Zuruec, and when a golden Adonis of a stranger, the handsome Gabe Foster, unexpectedly comes to Sallie's aid in a moment of distress, she begins to think that Gabe is meant to save her in more ways than one. Sallie can't help but wonder if she has anything to offer in return.
Golden Adonis is Greek. You're telling us a story set in Peru.
Who or what is Cadence?
Leave this whole paragraph out. It doesn't say anything. Use the words you save here to elaborate on what's important: What choices does Sallie face, what decision does she have to make; what's at stake, and why will I care. SHOW me the answers to these questions, don't tell me.
Although it is my first complete novel, I have previously had shorter selections published in (redacted) magazine, was named a notable essay writer for (redacted) and am winner of the 2009 (redacted) Creative Writing Contest. I am a graduate of (redacted), with a BA in American Studies.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
This is essentially a different take on Romancing The Stone. You've got to give me something more specific to your book so it doesn't look like an 80's movie.
Start over.
Form rejection.
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A man who attempted to sign up for Obamacare online was told that a fine of over $4,000 dollars a year for refusing to take out mandatory health insurance could be taken directly from his bank account, and that his drivers license would be suspended and a federal tax lien placed against his home, according to an entry on the HealthCare.gov Facebook page.
If true, the implementation of Obamacare is going to be a whole lot more draconian than Americans have been led to believe.
Will Sheehan claims that when he tried to sign up for Obamacare and then register to opt out, he received an ominous warning. Sheehan's full Facebook post reads;
"I actually made it through this morning at 8:00 A.M. I have a preexisting condition (Type 1 Diabetes) and my income base was 45K-55K annually I chose tier 2 "Silver Plan" and my monthly premiums came out to $597.00 with $13,988 yearly deductible!!! There is NO POSSIBLE way that I can afford this so I "opt-out" and chose to continue along with no insurance.
I received an email tonight at 5:00 P.M. informing me that my fine would be $4,037 and could be attached to my yearly income tax return. Then you make it to the "REPERCUSSIONS PORTION" for "non-payment" of yearly fine. First, your drivers license will be suspended until paid, and if you go 24 consecutive months with "Non-Payment" and you happen to be a home owner, you will have a federal tax lien placed on your home. You can agree to give your bank information so that they can easy "Automatically withdraw" your "penalties" weekly, bi-weekly or monthly! This by no means is "Free" or even "Affordable."
Sheehan went on to point out that the site makes you input all your personal information before giving you an indication of the costs, meaning a database of the "uninsured" is being built. He added that he could not afford to pay the premium so would have to break the law and pay the fine, leaving him with no health care coverage.
The federal government has consistently denied that any fines pertaining to Obamacare non-compliance could be seized from bank accounts, despite reports last year that the IRS had hired 16,500 new agents to harass citizens who attempt to evade the new law.
"There's no criminal sanctions for not paying this, and there's no ability to levy a bank account or do seizures," then-IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman said in April 2010.
In addition, Americans who refuse to pay for mandatory health insurance "shall not be subject to any criminal prosecution," according to the law itself.
Section 1501(g)(2) of the Affordable Care Act also states that the IRS cannot "file notice of lien with respect to any property of a taxpayer by reason of any failure to pay the penalty imposed by this section."
EIther Sheehan's claim that he received this notice is a lie, or the feds have been dishonest with the American people all along, and the revolt against Obamacare is about to take "don't tread on me" to a whole new level.
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Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, Dr. McCoy, Scotty, and Chekov are forced to re-enact the gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone as the team that lost the gunfight.
On a mission on behalf of the Federation to establish contact with the reclusive and xenophobic Melkotians, Captain Kirk decides to ignore the message of a space buoy warning the USS Enterprise to immediately withdraw from Melkotian space and go back the way it came. Kirk hears the warning in English, but Spock, Chekov and Uhura hear it in Vulcan, Russian, and Swahili; their respective native languages. This leads the crew to deduce the message was transmitted telepathically. Kirk orders Uhura to further contact the Melkotians, but there is no response.
When Spock, Kirk, Scott, Dr. McCoy, and Ensign Chekov beam down to the Melkotian planet, they materialize in a fog bank not recorded by sensors. Their tricorders and communicators do not function. The landing party encounters a Melkotian. The Melkotian emerges from the fog and tells the Enterprise officers that their warning was plain, they have disregarded it, and will now be punished.
Act One[]
The Melkotian informs them that they are "outside" – a disease that must be destroyed. They learn that their trespassing is to be punished by death and how they will die will be taken from Kirk's mind, since it was he who ordered that the Melkotians' warning be disregarded. The Malkotian tells Kirk that "yours shall be the pattern of your death."
The landing party suddenly finds itself teleported to a facade of a 19th century American frontier town, albeit one with a dark red sky. All of their Starfleet equipment is gone, and instead each now has an Old West-style gunbelt and revolver. They observe the curious "incompleteness" of the town: buildings with only a front wall, with others open to the air on the sides and back; as well as signs and clocks strangely hanging in mid-air. (In fact, the town looks similar to a set one would see in either a 20th century movie or a theater play.) Kirk reads from a copy of the Tombstone Epitaph, a newspaper with the date of October 26th, 1881. Kirk wonders "Why here? And why now?" Spock notes that the time and place is based on the patterns of Kirk's memories. A man with a sheriff's badge greets them, acting as though he knew them well. He refers to Kirk as Ike, Spock as Frank, Scott as Billy, and McCoy as Tom. Recognizing the sheriff's name, Johnny Behan, Kirk quickly puts the names together. Ike Clanton, Frank McLowery, Tom McLowery, William Claiborne and Billy Clanton. He further recalls that the Clantons were one of the factions who fought for control of the town of Tombstone; the other being the Earps: Wyatt, Morgan, and Virgil, who were the town marshals, as well as "Doc" Holliday. Spock notes that the famous gunfight of the O.K. Corral took place on October 26, 1881 and that the Clantons lost. Kirk warns that the antique guns they all are carrying can be as deadly as phasers at close range.
They witness the shooting of a bar patron by Morgan Earp, and conclude that death is one thing that is real in this surreal scenario. Inside the bar, Chekov is accosted by a woman named Sylvia who claims to know him as Billy. Kirk recognizes Morgan as the man who kills on sight, and rises to confront him. Spock cautions him to back down, without moving a muscle, as he would be quickly gunned down in a "fast draw." Kirk says he does not want any trouble from Earp, but Earp says he will get them to draw soon enough, and then leaves.
Kirk and Spock discuss what is expected to happen based on history, that they are supposed to be killed at the OK Corral at 5:00 p.m. Kirk says that they will not be there. Kirk tries to convince Ed the bartender vehemently that he is not Ike Clanton, that he and his group are from the future, Kirk is the captain of a starship, but to no avail. The bartender tells him it makes no difference who he thinks he is, but rather whom the Earps think he is, while walking away still laughing.
Kirk then attempts to make peace with the Earps, saying there is a mistake. Virgil Earp says that he always felt the Clantons were "yellow" and then hits Kirk. Kirk strikes him back, Wyatt Earp then draws on Kirk, but Virgil stops him. Wyatt Earp warns Kirk that if he is in town at 5:01 p.m., the Earps will kill them.
Act Two[]
Kirk returns to the bar, and discusses what options they have with Spock, McCoy and Scotty. Kirk and the landing party try to leave town, but they are stopped by a force field. Spock notes that the Melkotians will not allow them to leave. Recognizing that they must fight, Kirk asks if they can find some way to stop the Earps using materials at hand in this recreation of Tombstone. McCoy and Spock cooperate to build a tranquilizer gas grenade which will incapacitate the Earps. McCoy encounters the town dentist, "Doc" Holliday, while acquiring the chemicals needed for the tranquilizer, asking to borrow a small quantity for a serious emergency. Holliday tells McCoy that his "emergency sure is real", and lets him take the chemical, but warns him to be finished by 5:00 p.m., because at "one minute past five, you'll find a hole in your head". Holliday then points his gun at McCoy to confirm this.
Meanwhile, Chekov has fallen in love with Sylvia, telling her outside the general store that he is looking forward eagerly to the dance next week. Sylvia asks if they can turn the dance into a wedding ball, but Chekov says that would not be possible, because he is not someone she could marry. The two share a passionate kiss, but then Morgan Earp appears and knocks Chekov down, and starts to walk Sylvia away. When Chekov gets up and shouts at Morgan to get his hands off Sylvia, Chekov draws for his gun, then is shot and killed by Morgan. Sylvia screams, which alerts Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Scotty. They come out onto the street, as do the Earps. McCoy examines Chekov and tells Kirk that there is nothing he can do. Wyatt tells Kirk to "Do it now," and Scotty says that they must do something. Kirk however says that it's not yet time and they are not prepared.
Act Three[]
Back in the bar, McCoy and Spock work on the gas grenade. McCoy and Scotty give Spock a hard time for not showing any feelings over Chekov's death, as Scotty points out, he and Chekov worked closely together on the Enterprise. Kirk asks the two of them to stop but Spock notes that they forget he is half-Human. Spock observes that Chekov as Billy Claiborne died, but in the actual gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Billy survived. Kirk takes it to mean that the outcome of the conflict does not necessarily correspond with the historical outcome.
Kirk finds the sheriff and asks him to stop the fight, but Behan says that no one wants to stop the fight, and that it is a little late for Kirk to decide he "does not have the belly" for it. The sheriff tells Kirk that the people in the town are counting on Kirk to get rid of the Earps for them, and that no one would deny them their revenge for killing Billy. Kirk angrily says they just can't just kill them, but the sheriff says that there will be no questions asked as Kirk puts his hands around his neck. Upon seeing he will get no help from the sheriff, Kirk walks away.
With time running out, Scotty volunteers to test McCoy and Spock's gas grenade. Despite McCoy and Spock's careful preparation, it does not work — even when Scotty deeply inhales it. Spock finally realizes that nothing around them is real and that the entire scenario has been taking place in their minds.
Kirk vows they will not leave the bar until "well after 5 o'clock", but suddenly finds himself and the others teleported to the O.K. Corral where they cannot leave either, as it is surrounded by force fields.
Act Four[]
The corral is encircled by a force field so that escape is impossible. Spock, realizing this situation is only as real as their minds accept it to be, tries to convince the others that if they recognize that the situation is not real, they will not die and Kirk observes that the "smallest doubt" would be enough to kill them, just as it had killed Chekov. McCoy argues that they don't have that "clockwork ticker" in their heads like Spock, that they can't just turn it off and on at will. Kirk says that they must. Using a mind meld, Spock is able to convince everyone else that the bullets are not real, they are merely "shadows" and "illusions"; and "spectres without body… to be ignored."
The Earps arrive and demand that the ersatz Clantons draw, but the landing party refuses. The Earps begin shooting when Kirk reaches for his gun, but the bullets harmlessly pass right through the landing party, hitting the fence behind them. When the Earps deplete their ammunition, Kirk attacks Wyatt Earp and knocks him to the ground. Kirk draws his gun, and is about to shoot him, but upon seeing the abject terror in Wyatt's eyes, he releases him. The Earps then all fade and vanish.
Suddenly, the landing party finds themselves back on the bridge of the Enterprise. Chekov is alive and well, sitting at his station, and wonders "Where have I been?" Kirk suggests they have been on the bridge the whole time, and that Chekov survived because the only thing that was real to him was the girl. The Melkotian buoy once again appears on the main viewscreen directly in front of them, begins to emit M-rays beyond measurable levels, and then explodes. A Melkotian then appears on the viewscreen, noting that Kirk did not kill. Kirk explains that they fight only when there is no choice, and prefer peaceful contact. The Melkotian is silent for a moment, as if considering Kirk's explanation, then extends an invitation to establish relations with the Federation – asking Kirk to send a delegation to the planet.
Spock then asks Kirk a "personal" question: did he actually want to kill the Earps? Kirk agrees that is exactly how it was that afternoon, and how it was in 1881. Spock wonders how Humanity managed to survive. Kirk says that Humans overcame their instinct for violence, receiving a doubting look from Spock as he moves back to his console. The Enterprise then begins its orbit of Melkot.
Log entries[]
Memorable quotes[]
"History cannot be changed."
- - Spock to Kirk, on the OK Corral
"Is this a dead man, doctor?"
"Very dead, Mr. Spock."
- - Spock and McCoy after checking on a man Morgan Earp kills outside of the saloon
"I always said you was yellow, Clanton."
"I'll make one more attempt to get through to you, Mr. Earp. My name is not Clanton; it's Kirk."
"Oh, yeah. We heard the talk about your jokes."
"I'm not joking."
"Sure. Well, I'm glad to meet you, Mr. Kirk!"
- - Virgil Earp and James T. Kirk
"We don't want any trouble. We'll be glad to co-operate."
"Five o'clock, Clanton. Is that clear? If you're in town at 5:01, we'll kill every one of you whether you draw or not. Is that clear?"
- - Kirk and Wyatt Earp
"The emergency is real. I need these things."
"Your emergency sure is real. Go on, take the stuff. Have some more fun. Take my bag. Only best you be finished before five o'clock."
"That is my intention, Doctor."
"Because at one minute past five, you'll find a hole in your head. Right from this gun."
- - McCoy and Doc Holliday
"Captain, it's quite all right. They forget I am half Human."
- - Spock, after McCoy and Scott criticize his lack of grief over Chekov's shooting
"It's to kill the pain."
"But this is painless."
"Well, you should've warned me sooner, Mr. Spock. Fire away."
- - Scott and Spock, as Scott gulps down some bourbon before testing the tranquilizer
"Physical reality is consistent with universal laws. Where the laws do not operate, there is no reality."
- - Spock to McCoy, at the OK Corral
"Ten minutes, and it's all going to end at the OK Corral. Well, we're going to wait right here until well after five o'clock. We're not going to move from this spot!"
- - Kirk
"We don't have that clockwork ticker in our head like you do. We can't turn it on and off."
- - McCoy, to Spock
- - Wyatt Earp, before the fight
"I wonder how Humanity managed to survive."
"We overcame our instinct for violence."
- - Spock and Kirk, on killing
Background information[]
Story and script[]
- The story outline titled "The Last Gunfight" was dated 18 March 1968 and submitted 22 March 1968. The outline was retyped and dated to 19 April 1968 and submitted to NBC for approval on 22 April 1968 by Fred Freiberger.[1] The revised final draft was dated 14 May 1968, and filmed in late May.
- James Blish's adaptation in Star Trek 3 has the title as "The Last Gunfight". Among the differences in the adaptation, the tranquilizer is delivered via darts; whereas in the episode, it is in the form of a nerve gas.
- The writing of this episode was influenced by a series of memos which were sent between Gene Roddenberry and the executives at NBC, by the end of the second season, and which proposed that Chekov be featured in the third season more than he had been, up to that point. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 22, No. 5, p. 40)
- The episode originally aired only one day before the 87th anniversary of the original gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
- Clocking in at approximately five minutes and 25 seconds, this episode's teaser is the second longest in the original series, lasting 10 seconds shorter than the teaser for "I, Mudd".
- This was the first episode produced for season three. As such, it was the first episode produced to feature blue text, rather than the yellow of the first two seasons, in the opening credits sequence.
- A very subtle change in the third season was the use of new sound effects for the pushing of buttons on the bridge.
- Another difference this episode brings is the "singing plant" background noise from "The Cage", used for nearly every planet in seasons one and two, is replaced here by a warbly sound used before on the planet Triskelion. This will again be used intermittently throughout season three – for example, in "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky" and "The Cloud Minders".
- Jerry Fielding's unique score adds atmosphere to this episode. When the villains are first seen in the saloon, Fielding has the piano play stereotypical "menace" notes and a bizarre rendition of "Buffalo Gals". Fielding's other Star Trek contribution was his score for "The Trouble with Tribbles".
- A short clip in the third season blooper reel shows the Melkotian head wearing a fake mustache and horn-rimmed glasses. (Star Trek: Lost Scenes) Writing in an issue of the fan magazine Enterprise Incidents, James Van Hise said that the glasses belonged to co-producer Robert H. Justman.
Sets and props[]
- The original script specified filming the episode on location in an outdoor Western town. However, due to budget restrictions, filming was confined to the regular studio stages. To avoid having to build a complete Western town set, the concept of an incomplete town, put together from "bits and pieces" out of Kirk's mind, was developed — therefore allowing the episode to be filmed within budget. (The Star Trek Compendium; Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, p. 403)
- This is TOS's only foray into surrealism, with unique set designs by Matt Jefferies.
- The sign that says SHERIFF has an identical font to the show's main titles. [2]
- Mike Minor was the designer of the Melkotian's mask.
Cast and characters[]
- George Takei (Sulu) does not appear in this episode.
- According to an interview in The World of Star Trek, James Doohan intensely disliked the back combed hairstyle he debuted in this episode, which was not his own choice. By the filming of "The Tholian Web", this style is gone for good, though viewers would see it again in "The Empath" and "Elaan of Troyius", which weren't aired until December of that year.
- Several of the actors in this episode, including DeForest Kelley and Charles Seel, acted extensively in Westerns throughout their careers. Kelley previously played Ike Clanton in a 1955 episode of You Are There and Morgan Earp in the 1957 film Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
- Rex Holman (Morgan) later played the settler J'onn in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.
- This is one of three episodes that confirm Uhura's native language of Swahili (the other two being "The Man Trap" and "The Changeling").
- This is the second time that McCoy believes he cannot be harmed by a weapon (this time due to Spock's convincing in a meld); the first time, when he stands his ground as the Black Knight charges him in "Shore Leave", this strategy was unsuccessful, as the weapon (a lance) was physically real, not merely an illusion.
- This is the only episode to end with the Enterprise heading toward a planet rather than heading off into space.
- Star Trek characters revisited the Old West in TNG: "A Fistful of Datas". That episode used outdoor sets, something the Original Series episode was unable to achieve due to budget constraints.
Production timeline[]
- Story pitch by Lee Cronin, titled "Execution, 1872", 6 March 1968
- Story outline by Cronin, titled "The Last Gunfight", 18 March 1968
- Story outline re-dated to 19 April 1968
- Submitted to NBC for approval on 22 April 1968 by Fred Freiberger
- First draft teleplay, 30 April 1968
- Second draft teleplay, 9 May 1968
- Revised first draft teleplay, 10 May 1968
- Final draft teleplay by Arthur Singer, 14 May 1968
- Additional page revisions by Fred Freiberger, 16 May 1968, 17 May 1968, 20 May 1968, 22 May 1968, 24 May 1968, 27 May 1968, 28 May 1968,
- Filmed: 21 May 1968 – 29 May 1968
- Score recording: 5 July 1968
- Original airdate: 25 October 1968
- Rerun airdate: 4 April 1969
- First UK airdate (on BBC1): 15 September 1971
- First UK airdate (on ITV): 29 April 1984
Video and DVD releases[]
- Original US Betamax release: 1988
- UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 29, catalog number VHR 2381, 3 September 1990
- US VHS release: 15 April 1994
- UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 3.1, 1 September 1997
- Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 28, 10 July 2001
- As part of the TOS Season 3 DVD collection
- As part of the TOS-R Season 3 DVD collection
Links and references[]
Also starring[]
- Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock/Frank McLowery
- DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy/Tom McLowery
- Ron Soble as Wyatt Earp
- Bonnie Beecher as Sylvia
- James Doohan as Scott/Billy Clanton
- Walter Koenig as Chekov/William Claiborne
- Nichelle Nichols as Uhura
- Charles Maxwell as Virgil Earp
- Sam Gilman as Doc Holliday
- Charles Seel as Ed
- Bill Zuckert as Johnny Behan
- Ed McCready as Barber
- Abraham Sofaer as Melkotian Voice
Uncredited co-stars[]
- Richard Anthony as Rider (deleted scene)
- William Blackburn as Hadley
- Charles Cirillo as illusory bar patron
- James Doohan as Melkotian buoy voice
- Roger Holloway as Roger Lemli
- Jeannie Malone as yeoman
- Bob Orrison as Cowboy
- Gregg Palmer as Rancher (deleted scene)
- Eddie Paskey as Leslie
- Unknown actors as
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Tombstone Epitaph references[]
1930s; bicycle; chief counsel; Commerce Department; depression; dollar; economy; election; Europe; furnishing; gent; gold; month; quarter; Skipworth and Co; social hall; town; year
External links[]
- "Spectre of the Gun" at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- "Spectre of the Gun" at Wikipedia
- "Spectre of the Gun" at MissionLogPodcast.com
- "Spectre of the Gun" at the Internet Movie Database
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Previous episode aired: "Is There in Truth No Beauty?" |
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Previous remastered episode aired: "The Cloud Minders" |
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On Monday, the PS22 Chorus of 2010 helped add some holiday cheer to the Saks 5th Avenue Windows Unveiling in Manhattan. The kids gave a Christmas-themed performance, singing some holiday classics as well as some of their biggest hits thus far this year. The chorus opened the performance with "Fireflies" by Owl City. They rocked it big-time, as did soloists Justin F. and Kayla S., who did their best job yet!
Brielle leads the chorus in a fantastic rendition of "Halo" by Beyonce! And man, if that girl is not getting better by the minute....
Here's the Christmas traditional, "Joy To The World," which the kids put together at rehearsal that afternoon just before the performance!
This version of "Jingle Bells" (traditional) was another song the chorus learned that day! The kids bring their own flavor to this holiday classic, and were quite happy to perform it (especially John apparently!). After the song is done, stay tuned for some great PS22 Chorus testimonials from Phil Donahue and Marlo Thomas, and even a peek at some of the unveiled windows and the kids' reactions.
The kids topped off their performance with "Run This Town" by Jay-Z, Rihanna, and Kanye West. Check it out!
When the chorus was through, Tony Award-winning actress, Kristen Chenoweth took the stage to perform a beautiful rendition of "I'll Be Home For Christmas." Here she is below with the chorus.
It was an amazing time for the kids and for all who were lucky enough to witness the performance, including such notables as Phil Donahue, Marlo Thomas, Fern Mallis, and Nannette Lepore. Below is Phil and his wife Marlo posing for a shot with the chorus.
Saks was awesome to the kids, giving them each beautiful hard cover copies of Twinkle Twinkle Little Flake, the book that inspired the theme for this year's windows.
In addition, the kids were given the hats and scarves they were wearing for the performance. Big thanks to everyone on hand at Saks for taking such good care of our chorus!


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This evening at Kensington Palace, the official home of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the London glitterati will enjoy champagne and canapés in a grand state room. Then, one by one, they will take off their shoes and climb into the Royal Bed—a $175,000 creation from bespoke British bed makers Savoir Beds.
"No one can deny that it's a lot of money," says Savoir's managing director Alistair Hughes. "But for the kind of people who spend $10,000 a night staying in presidential suites or driving a fabulous car, it's something that could very well appeal."
It may seem over-the-top to throw a launch party for a bed at a palace, but the bed does have tenuous royal connections. When dreaming up the Royal Bed designers at Savoir took inspiration from the beds used by British monarchs throughout the 17th and 18th centuries. Among the Royal Bed's regal elements are its attractive half tester, elaborate headboard and regal embroidery. The crests are sewn by artisans at the Royal School of Needlework—the same hands behind the lace motifs on Kate Middleton's wedding dress.
For Savoir's clients, who reportedly include Oprah Winfrey and Madonna, the grandeur of such a bed matters less than its comfort. The limited-edition Royal Bed boasts a mattress made with cashmere, cotton, and curled Latin American horse tail. (Horse tail wicks away moisture, helps maintain body temperature, and provides natural spring). The silk threads involved in the manufacture of just one bed would stretch all the way from New York to Miami.
It takes a lot of manpower to create the perfect night's sleep: Each bed takes 700 hours to complete. Among the more esoteric skills involved is "hand-teasing," a process by which artisans lay out the horse hair and cashmere, and comb through it to determine how much they need for an individual bed. The amount usually weighs in around 22 pounds. "It's like a massive cloud of hair that's puffed up and they're pulling it up through their fingers," Hughes says. "It's like they are playing a concert piano."
Given how personal and private sleeping is, Hughes doesn't expect all of tonight's guests to warm instantly to his latest offering. "It's a bit like going to a catwalk show," he says. "You watch the dresses come down the runway, but of course most of them won't fit you." Fortunately each bed is customized for the client, who can adjust the shape of the headboard, the feel of the mattress, the colors of the fabric, and the design of the crest. "We buy clothes to quite detailed specifications of fit and at the very top end of the market you have them made for you," Hughes says. "You spend a third of your life in bed. Why wouldn't you have it made for you too?"
Savoir will only make 60 Royal Beds. For bed connoisseurs who miss out this time around —and for those who rather use their $175,000 to buy a house—Savoir does have more affordable, if still expensive, options. Each year they produce around 1,000 beds, ranging from $8,000 to $80,000.
Hughes likes to point out that life's most important events—conception, birth, and death—usually take place in a bed. "The bedroom should really be celebrated," he says. "In the last 15 years we've all gone nuts on our kitchens. Well I say it's time to move on to the bedroom."


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On the trail of pirate booty
- On 28/04/2012
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From Sydney Morning Herald
Nobody knows what's buried on Oak Island in Mahone Bay, nor does anybody know who put it there. Nobody knows if the Money Pit, as it has come to be called, hides the lost jewels of Marie Antoinette, though some have suggested as much.
It has been excavated sporadically - and unsuccessfully - since 1795. Some have argued that the pit holds documentary proof that Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays.
If it wasn't for booby traps (with six fatalities to date), Canada could finally pin this great mystery on Freemasons, the Knights Templar or Sir Francis Drake.
Even Captain Kidd has been fingered as a possible culprit: perhaps pirates, returning to the Caribbean by way of the Gulf Stream, stopped off in Nova Scotia to hide their booty, like dogs hiding a bone, on the edge of the northern Atlantic.
Spanish scissors and coconut fibres have been found in the pit - odd, given that the closest coconut tree is more than 2000 kilometres away.
The chairman of the Friends of Oak Island Society, Charles Barkhouse, remains unconvinced by the Captain Kidd theory.
"No pirate did this because it's a massive feat of engineering," he tells me one morning when I stop to see the island, closed to visitors though clearly visible from the shore.
"Still, somebody went to a lot of trouble to bury something of great value out there."
Maybe he's right, along with past believers such as Errol Flynn, who tried to scour the island in 1940 until he discovered that search rights already belonged to John Wayne. Maybe, on Oak Island, the two unknowns of "who" and "what" really do equal something incredible.
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Coffee sugar scrubs are easy to make, package adorably and are good for your skin! Homemade scrubs are one of the best gifts ever! They are my new latest craze and after the recent success of my Lemon Sugar Scrub for Mother's Day gifts I decided that a Coffee Scrub for Teacher Appreciation was the perfect crafty gift.
I found the recipe for this coffee scrub on A Cup of Mo. The recipe was super simple. I added nutmeg to my recipe, however. I can't stress enough how easy this recipe was to make. Plus, the sugar scrubs can be used on the hands, feet and body. I love to use sugar scrubs in the shower because they are such great exfoliators and the hot water dissolves the sugar crystals before they can be too abrasive.
Coffee Scrub Recipe
Mix Together {this recipe fills 4 of those little 4 oz. mason jars}
- 1 cup ground coffee (any that you like, I used regular coffee, no special flavoring)
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 1 Tbsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp nutmeg
How to Use:
- Apply scrub over clean, damp skin. Rinse and pat dry.
- Decorate Jar ~ {or don't if you are keeping for yourself and decorations are not necessary} I used embellishments I had at home. A ribbon and felt flowers I had in my craft supply closet and then made a tag using a punch I have. It was super easy and the whole project took me a total of 20 minutes including a run to the store for coffee. It's THAT easy.
That's it! The Coffe Scrub is read to use or give!
More Sugar Scrub Recipes
- Peach Sugar Scrub Recipe {with free printable tag}
- Cherry Sugar Scrub Recipe {with free printable tag}
- Lemon Sugar Scrub Recipe