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There's no excuse for Philadelphians to succumb to boredom this week. The City of Brotherly Love will host a plethora of philanthropic events, shopping extravaganzas and holiday-themed happenings. From flea markets and concerts to races and the annual Thanksgiving Day Parade, here's what's going on this week in Philly.
Philadelphia Marathon
When: Friday, Nov. 16 – Sunday, Nov. 18
Where: See the full marathon schedule and route
Philadelphia, PA 19102
(215) 683-2122
Now in its 19th year, the Philadelphia Marathon kicks off Friday and continues through Sunday, with a route that starts at 22nd Street at the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. The course travels through Fairmount Park alongside the Schuylkill River, passing University City and the historic district, and ends at the Philadelphia Museum of Art for one of the most scenic fall routes for runners this side of the Hudson. Also, be sure to check out the sixth annual Health & Fitness Expo at the Pennsylvania Convention Center on Friday and Saturday. The expo will feature more than 80 vendors showcasing running apparel, shoes and top-of-the-line accessories. It will also host seminars and other activities. On Sunday, bring the whole family along for the Kids Fun Run event.
Spring Garden Indoor Antique and Vintage Market
When: Saturday, Nov. 17
Where: 820 Spring Garden St.
Philadelphia, PA 19123
(215) 625-3532
Bargain chasers and treasure hunters, rejoice! The Spring Garden Indoor Antique and Vintage Market at 9th and Spring Garden streets will feature more than 50 vendors from the tri-state area this Saturday. Shop antiques throughout the ages, vintage furniture and jewelry, and tons of clothing, accessories and other collectibles. For those looking for home decor, the flea market is also well known for its glassware and pottery vendors. Enjoy free parking and admission, and a food court to re-fuel at before hitting the vendor booths for round two.
Rookie Card Presents: Calling All Turkeys!
When: Saturday, Nov. 17
Where: The Raven Lounge
1718 Sansom St.
Philadelphia, PA 19103
(215) 840-3577
Price: Pay what you can
The monthly Rookie Card comedy variety show promises to give you a belly laugh–a good warmup for the Thanksgiving feast. Shows are improvised but you can bet that the performers will have a witty take on Turkey Day this month. The show often serves as a jumping off point for local Comedy groups and stand up comedians, so look out for host Brandon "Ketchup" Wilson and opening act Bed Savage. But the real stars are the players of Rookie Card, a comedy troop that has pushed the boundaries of the Philadelphia comedy scene in the past few years and performs at festivals around the country.
The Scott Arboretum Highlights Tour
When: Saturday, Nov. 17
Where: Scott Arboretum, Swarthmore College
500 College Ave.
Swarthmore, PA 19081
(610) 328-8025
Price: Free
Designed for gardeners ranging from novice to expert, the free tour at Swarthmore College this Saturday will provide visitors with a chance to learn more about its beautiful botanical collections. Scott Arboretum offers tours throughout the year to demonstrate how to combine landscape elements with botanical and horticultural specimens. The collection of woody taxa, witch hazels, hollies, roses, conifers and other North American plants regale horticulturists and gardening enthusiasts alike. Guests also have the opportunity to ask experts about gardening issues to take that brilliant knowledge back to their own yards.
Philadelphia Thanksgiving Day Parade
When: Thursday, Nov. 22
Where: View the parade map
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Touted as the oldest Thanksgiving Day Parade in the country, Philadelphia's annual holiday celebration got its beginnings some 92 years ago when Ellis Gimbel put on the first parade in 1920. He did this as a clever attempt to take the marketing campaign for his department store to the streets. What once began as a small parade march featuring 50 Gimbel employees now boasts hundreds of balloons and floats, and thousands of onlookers. The parade unofficially signifies the beginning of the holiday season here in Philadelphia. The 1.4-mile parade route begins at 8:15 a.m. 20th Street and JFK Boulevard and continues from 16th Street to the Ben Franklin Parkway.
Help the Homeless on Thanksgiving Day
When: Thursday, Nov. 22
Where: Municipal Services Building
1601 JFK Blvd.
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(215) 851-1811
There's no better way to give thanks this holiday season than to give back to the people in your community. For many, volunteering for the Global Citizen's annual Help the Homeless event on Thanksgiving Day has become a holiday tradition. The gathering will be held at the Municipal Services Building and is operated by volunteers from the African Daughters of Fine Lineage in Philadelphia. Homeless men, women, children and families are provided with a hot Thanksgiving meal, along with gift packages of non-perishable food and clothing items. This year, event organizers expect to distribute more than 600 hot meals. The event begins immediately after the conclusion of the Thanksgiving Day Parade and runs until 6 p.m. Volunteers and donations are still being accepted.

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When it was added to the calendar nine years ago, the Chinese Grand Prix was supposed to give Formula One a path to a vibrant new market that offered access to millions of racing fans and big name sponsors.
It hasn't worked out that way.
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The race, which takes place this weekend in Shanghai, has struggled to fill the stands in recent years, and F1 found that Chinese viewership fell steeply last year. Sponsors also have been slow to sign on to the series with only a handful of Chinese companies endorsing any of the 11 teams.
"I'm worried about China," McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh told The Associated Press.
"The potential is huge, the importance is massive and we must make it successful there," he said. "But we haven't done enough to say, 'Hey, we are here and come have a look.' F1 improves with knowledge. It's a complex sport and you have to go out there to promote interest, promote the knowledge and the enthusiasm for the sport."
The Chinese market at first would seem an ideal match for F1.
It is the world's largest market for motor vehicles and has a growing middle class flush with money to spend on the latest exotic trend. There are also plenty of Chinese companies looking for international exposure, and F1 is desperate for new funding to offset the losses of several big names including ING and Credit Suisse due to the global financial crisis.
The growth of the series has been hurt by the fact China has one of the youngest fan bases of any country, with 10 percent of fans under 16 and a quarter under 25. As a result, the young fans often don't have the nearly $500 for a three-day pass to the races — or for that matter money to spend on F1 merchandise, according to Frankie Mao, a Shanghai-based journalist who covers F1 for Sohu.com.
"At the end, it is all about culture of motor sport in China," Mao said in an email. "We have fans, but they are young and can't afford the high expenses of luxury goods and F1 is luxury. China does have rich people. They love sport cars but they don't understand what motor sport really is."
Whitmarsh and other team principals also said the series has suffered from its failure to reach out and educate fans from the moment it arrived in 2004. Unlike basketball or football, F1 requires an understanding of the latest technology and often the arcane rules that can decide a race.
"If you take a new product into a new market, ordinarily you have a marketing plan and you advertise," Whitmarsh said. "We've put ourselves outside of Shanghai and we expect them to come and find us. We need to work a little harder. We as a sport are a little bit arrogant. We're F1. We arrive and people will want to come to see us. But China doesn't need us."
The other challenge is finding a Chinese Michael Schumacher or Fernando Alonso to help market F1. It worked with Li Na for tennis and Yao Ming for basketball, but so far no Chinese driver has reached the grid.
That could change with the addition of Ma Qing Hua as a reserve driver this year for Caterham. He will also race in the lesser GP2.
"Once people see their same nationality in the top of the sport, they will focus on that and see what's going on and start to know the sport and start to know the story," Ma said.
"I still need time to become a F1 driver to race in the championship," he said. "Once I'm on the grid, I think I will be a target that the people will want to chase. Now, the way to the top is more clear than before. A lot of young (Chinese) drivers are racing in go kart, racing in Europe and Asia. They take the sport more seriously."
Three-time F1 champion Jackie Stewart agreed the series could do more, including sending representatives to promote the sport beyond the race weekend. But he said China and other emerging destinations must be given time to catch up.
"I think it will take a little time because the motorized community is a new generation. It's a new business altogether," Stewart said of China. "To begin with, they are not going to be interested in motor sport. … Motor sport whether it be Germany, Italy, Britain or France have lived with it since they removed the red flag from the horseless carriage. That hasn't been bred into the new generation of nations so we need to help them with that."
Supporters insist the series is growing in China, noting that attendance at the Chinese GP has picked up since 2010 when F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone accused local organizers of not promoting the race "properly" and suggesting no one in Shanghai would have known a race was taking place.
This year, 90 percent of tickets for this weekend's race have been sold.
"There were some tough years, but it's been getting better ever since," circuit sales manager Yang Yibin told local media.
Promotions are also on the rise, with the presence of new companies and organizations on the midway outside the main stands, including the British Consulate and South Korean tourism authority. Local firms in Jiading district near the track are eager to capitalize, and those tied to the automotive industry are running electric car demonstrations and other activities to draw fans.
Ma has seen the changes first hand.
Since moving up to F1 this year, the 25-year-old Ma says he has gone from a relative unknown to a minor celebrity at home. He is featured in the Chinese press and often is surrounded at restaurants and even on flights home by curious Chinese who want his autograph and to have their photo taken with him.
"For me, we just need some time to let people understand this sport," Ma said. "At the moment, F1 is already a top-five sport in China. It's quite big and growing very fast. In a few years, F1 will be a big sport in China."
Contributing: AP writer Christopher Bodeen in Beijing


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Medicaid is updating its Provider Agreement with Mental Health Clinic and Psychosocial
Rehabilitation providers in order to ensure that all providers are operating under standard terms and conditions statewide. This should eliminate the confusion regarding which version of the Medicaid Provider Agreement is in effect. Additional Terms are now incorporated into the Medicaid Provider Agreement. The updated Provider Agreement will replace all existing Provider Agreements held by Mental Health Clinic providers and Psychosocial Rehabilitation providers and will replace all existing Supplemental Service Agreements now held by Psychosocial Rehabilitation providers.
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Psychosocial Rehabilitation Agency providers will need to sign a separate Provider Agreement for each physical location. A physical location is an agency office or building used by facility staff to meet with or provide services to participants. For each subsequent location, a provider application must be completed so a unique provider number can be issued for each physical location. The provider agreement will cover services for both adults and children. A single physical location that serves both adults and children will sign one Provider Agreement and be issued one provider number. There will no longer be a requirement for separate Provider Agreements for serving adults and children.
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Currently, the Department must approve the physical location of each Mental Health Clinic prior to the provider delivering services at that site. A separate provider agreement will now need to be signed for each Mental Health Clinic location, and a separate provider application completed for each subsequent clinic location so a unique provider number can be issued. Locations not approved by the Department prior to January 1, 2006, must apply and obtain approval through the new Credentialing Program prior to providing Medicaid services at that site.
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The Doctor is informed that he is actually Lewis Zimmerman, the creator of the EMH, he is trapped on a holographic Voyager on Jupiter Station, and his whole Voyager experience was on a holodeck.
The Doctor materializes in an empty sickbay, but finds no one present. Unable to contact anyone, he asks the computer who is in command and learns that no one is aboard. Replaying the last bridge log, he discovers that the ship has been attacked causing sufficient damage to force the crew to abandon ship.
The Doctor makes a log entry and prepares to deactivate himself when suddenly Torres enters sickbay, explaining that the ship had been attacked by two Kazon warships. She and Captain Janeway had remained behind to attempt to prevent a warp core breach, which they did. The crew's life pods have been tractored by the Kazon, and Janeway is injured on the bridge. The Doctor attempts to discern her injuries, only to find the medical tricorders aren't registering her life signs. Torres informs The Doctor that holo-projectors have been installed on other parts of the ship including the bridge so that The Doctor can enter them. By diverting power from life support systems to activate the holo-projectors, Torres is able to send The Doctor to the badly damaged bridge and revive Janeway.
Janeway and Torres coordinate their efforts to repair the ship, while The Doctor prepares to assist the captain with bypassing a power relay. Then a call for help is received from Neelix, and The Doctor is transferred to the mess hall where Neelix has cornered a Kazon. After helping Neelix subdue him, The Doctor finds something that surprises him... he's bleeding and able to feel pain from the wound. Having his program transferred back to sickbay he runs a medical tricorder over himself and finds that his body is projecting life signs. He attempts to run a diagnostic on his program, only for the computer to deny that the program exists and instead lists Lewis Zimmerman as the ship's chief medical officer. The Doctor recognizes the name as the man who created his program and resembles him, but knows that Zimmerman is on Jupiter Station in the Alpha Quadrant. Checking Zimmerman's service record, he finds that he looks exactly like him and the computer confirms it... The Doctor is Zimmerman. Janeway, Torres, Neelix, and the Kazon arrive in sickbay and Janeway prepares to question the Kazon, but The Doctor explains what's happening with his program apparently being real. Janeway theorizes that the holoemitters are confusing the computer and tries to shut his program down, and nothing happens. Janeway then has the computer shut down all holograms throughout the ship... at which point Janeway, Torres, Neelix, and the Kazon vanish.
The Doctor is now very confused, and asks the computer what happened to the crew, to which it confirms that their programs were shut off before showing a memory block with holograms of the entire crew. Reginald Barclay appears and informs The Doctor he is actually Lewis Zimmerman, currently working on Jupiter Station, and trapped in a malfunctioning holoprogram. The Doctor is told that Zimmerman created a holo-program about the fictional USS Voyager, theoretically lost in the Delta Quadrant, in order to study the long-term effects of deep space isolation. He was injured by an unexpected malfunction, and is now living the delusion that he is actually Voyager's EMH, a character whose role he set up for himself, so that he could observe the crew from within the program. Zimmerman programmed only two possible endings to the program: success or destruction. Barclay tries to convince The Doctor that he is Zimmerman and being in the holodeck is killing him. Trapped while the program is running, he needs to end it so he can survive; within the program, Voyager must be destroyed. The Doctor endeavors to get proof of Barclay's claim.
The Doctor suddenly finds himself back at the moment when Voyager found itself in the Delta Quadrant; Barclay explains that they cannot stop the program, only reset it. The Doctor deletes the Paris and Kim holograms. After The Doctor questions Barclay, the man responds that indeed, he had programmed Paris to be annoying, like Barclay's cousin, Frank. The Doctor concludes that he must destroy the main holographic matrix. That will stop all holographic programs and prove once and for all that The Doctor is not a hologram, and is indeed Zimmerman.
The Doctor arrives in main engineering to find Captain Janeway. She promptly asks how he is in engineering and who Barclay is. The Doctor tries to delete Janeway but it doesn't work. Barclay explains that the protocols are freezing up and no longer working, including the safety protocols. Faced with an angry Janeway and armed security officers, The Doctor attempts to explain himself then tells Janeway they are about to be transported to the Caretaker's array. The crew begins to get transported to the Array and Janeway looks at The Doctor wide-eyed before vanishing.
With the crew gone, The Doctor destroys the holomatrix and is surprised to find he is still there. He promptly asks the computer if any holographic programs are running and the computer replies that none are. Barclay tells The Doctor that ending the holographic programs on a ship that is itself a holographic program is futile; he has to destroy the warp core (necessary for the destruction of the ship, and therefore the program ending) and hands him a phaser.
As The Doctor is preparing to fire at the warp core, Chakotay appears and tells The Doctor to stop. The commander explains that The Doctor is on the holodeck on Voyager and had taken a day off at the suggestion of Captain Janeway. They passed through a radiation field and it disrupted the holodeck, trapping him there. The pain he is feeling is the sensation of his memory circuits being destroyed. Chakotay urges The Doctor to wait because they almost have the problem fixed.
The Doctor falls to the ground in pain and a Human Kes appears, telling him that she is being projected from Jupiter Station, saying how much she loves him and doesn't want her "husband" to die. Chakotay states that every person is a result of memories colliding, and that it doesn't matter what their body is made of. When Kes kisses him, The Doctor begins: "I always wanted to tell you, Kes..."
Suddenly, The Doctor finds himself in sickbay and completes his sentence: "...that you are beautiful", very embarrassed as the Ocampa Kes is standing over him and heard everything he said. Kim and Tuvok explain that they had retrieved him from the holodeck, then exit the room. The Doctor goes to continue the catalogue he started that morning. Kes starts questioning him on what he said and asks him if he meant it. With The Doctor making polite excuses, assuring that he finds her merely beautiful in a platonic way, Kes presumes that he doesn't love her anymore and their "marriage" is over, calling him "Lewis". Thoroughly confused, The Doctor's consciousness wavers. He turns and sees Barclay who claims that he can still destroy the warp core to save himself. A hand is placed on his shoulder The Doctor sees Paris on his first day in the Delta Quadrant. Paris yells that a crewmember needs help and brings The Doctor to a biobed where Dr. Zimmerman himself lies, injured. Zimmerman begins speaking in Janeway's voice.The real Doctor suddenly finds himself in the holodeck grid. Captain Janeway is there and asks him if he knows who he is, and where he is. Though a little unsure of his true identity during the holodeck problem, he answers both decisively. He is Voyager's Emergency Medical Hologram, and he is on the Holodeck. To be sure that he is truly back, he asks Captain Janeway whether Kes is not his wife. When the captain's reaction is mere surprise, it is obvious that he is truly back. He is transferred back to sickbay.
The Doctor tells Kes of his adventures, keeping in mind that Kes is his assistant, not wife. Kes laughs and warns The Doctor not to tell Neelix, as he might get jealous. "It will be our secret!" she cautions. The Doctor puzzles over why his program created an elaborate delusion rather than detecting the radiation's threat. Kes says everyone asks themselves existential questions at some time, but The Doctor is entirely confident as to his own nature and purpose. He is Voyager's EMH. Kes playfully asks him if he's sure about that, prompting The Doctor to pass his hand through the open sickbay doors. It can't be projected outside, providing him with the confirmation he needs, and returns to his duties, content.
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Log entriesEdit
- (log entry made by Captain Kathryn Janeway)
- ...heavy casualties. The warp core is going critical and the ejection system is off-line. I've ordered all personnel to abandon ship. Lieutenant Torres and I are...
- Chief Medical Officer's log, stardate 48892.1. It appears that Voyager has suffered a disaster. What kind I don't know, but one thing is clear – the crew was forced to abandon ship. It would therefore seem that my usefulness has come to an end. I am terminating my program. If anyone finds this log, I can be reactivated by...
Memorable quotesEdit
"Did I program Mister Paris to be so annoying?"
"Actually, I programmed him. I modeled him after my cousin Frank."
"Computer, delete Paris."
- - The Doctor and Barclay
"Computer, delete Janeway."
- - The Doctor, annoyed by a holographic Janeway who is asking inconvenient questions.
"He looks a lot like me. In fact, he looks exactly like me. Computer, is this me?"
- - The Doctor and the Computer, upon seeing the personnel file for Lewis Zimmerman
"Missed me!"
- - Neelix
"You mean... the ship's empty?"
- - The Doctor inquiring to Voyager's computer on who is in command
"You're starting to think you're part of the program and that... that's not good!"
- - Barclay, to The Doctor
"Don't Panic!'"
- - Barclay, visibly panicking
"It doesn't matter what you're made of, what matters is who you are. You are our friend and we want you back."
- - Commander Chakotay
"The array you discovered is controlled by an entity you will come to know as the Caretaker... or, Banjo-Man."
- - The Doctor
"No one gets the best of me in my kitchen!"
- - Neelix
"Well, I'm glad everyone bothered to say goodbye."
- - The Doctor
"Doctor, are you listening to me? That man needs HELP!"
- - Tom Paris, in The Doctor's delusion
"Well, it's bigger than I thought."
- - The Doctor, describing the bridge of the USS Voyager
"Barclay was part of the original engineering team that designed your program. He was in charge of testing your interpersonal skills."
- - Ensign Kim, to The Doctor
Background informationEdit
Introductory detailsEdit
- Like "The 37's", this episode was written and produced for the first season of Star Trek: Voyager (following "Learning Curve" and preceding "Elogium"), but was held back for airing during the series' second season.
Story and scriptEdit
- Making The Doctor unsure of his reality provided the genesis for this episode. Writer Brannon Braga recalled, "I just wanted to do a doctor show, and basically a one-liner just popped into my head one day: What if the doctor discovers that Voyager is a hologram and he is real? Then I got into the argument 'I think, therefore I am'; what does being real mean? I just thought it was an opportunity to do a real mind-bending kind of story." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages) Soon after having penned the episode, Braga noted, "The one-liner was, 'What if The Doctor started to realize that he was a real person, and Voyager was the holographic simulation?' It becomes a kind of creepy, philosophical quandary for The Doctor [....] It has been a while since I've done one of those reality-bending stories. The great challenge in this episode was to keep the audience wondering, 'My God, could this really be happening?' The fun is not in believing it, the fun is in considering all the different twists and turns along the way. As I always say, the tale is in the telling." (The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine, issue #5, p. 50)
- After coming up with this theme, Brannon Braga struck upon the idea of involving a character from Star Trek: The Next Generation in the story. Originally, however, this character was to have been Geordi La Forge. Braga recollected, "We came up with the idea of putting Geordi La Forge in there, but then I thought it would be much more fun to have Barclay [a recurring character from TNG] and the doctor." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages)
- Analyzing the story shortly after having written it, Braga mused, "At one point, Barclay comes in and says, 'You're real; we're at the holo-programming center. I'm your assistant; you're having a mental breakdown; nothing here is real.' In essence, it becomes analogous to the stories written by the philosopher René Descartes, of the man plagued by an evil demon, out to prove that he doesn't exist, and in this case, the demon is Barclay. The story culminates in Descartes' famous quote, 'I think, therefore I am.'" (The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine, issue #5, p. 50)
- The episode's final draft script was submitted on 30 March 1995. [1]
Cast and charactersEdit
- Ultimately, Brannon Braga was highly pleased with how this episode depicted the relationship between Barclay and The Doctor, remarking afterwards, "Those two were so good together they should have a spin-off series." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages)
- Barclay actor Dwight Schultz was pleasantly surprised to be asked to appear in this episode. He commented of the installment, "'Projections' was an interesting use of Barclay. It wasn't really Barclay. It was some idea of Barclay. I will say it was nice to be brought back. I had no idea that they'd ever think of me for Star Trek: Voyager, so it was a lovely surprise." (Star Trek Monthly issue 30, p. 34)
- After working on this episode, director Jonathan Frakes noted that Robert Picardo, the performer of The Doctor, and Dwight Schultz "were brilliant together." (Star Trek: Communicator, issue #105; Star Trek Monthly issue 11) Concerning his relationship with Robert Picardo, Schultz recalled, "Meeting Bob Picardo was a pleasure. We knew a lot of the same people in New York City, spent a lot of time doing silly voices and cracked each other up on the set. We just reminisced about our pasts in New York City and talked about the theater, which is what stage-trained actors tend to do when they get together." (Star Trek Monthly issue 30, p. 34) For his part, Robert Picardo said of the episode, "It was great fun to work on, primarily because of Dwight Schultz and Jonathan Frakes." Picardo went on to enthuse how much he liked Dwight Schultz. (The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine, issue #10) Additionally, Picardo commented that this episode was "a wonderful shooting experience because it was a delight [to work with] Jonathan Frakes, and Dwight Schultz." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 28, No. 4/5, p. 95) Picardo also stated that, between him and Schultz, filming this episode was like having a party. (Delta Quadrant, p. 54)
- Robert Picardo also cited this episode as being one of the two finest outings for The Doctor in the first two seasons of Voyager, the other episode being "Heroes and Demons". (Star Trek Monthly issue 20) On a separate occasion, however, Picardo implied that he thought this episode had not been quite as good for his character as "Lifesigns" had been, going on to imply that it also had been less challenging (in certain ways). Nevertheless, Picardo still counted this episode as being one of the two best Doctor-oriented episodes from the second season. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 28, No. 4/5, pp. 95 & 96)
- Tom Paris, B'Elanna Torres, Neelix, and Tuvok appear only as holograms in this episode.
- After directing this episode, Jonathan Frakes said it had been "a real joy to do." (Star Trek: Communicator, issue #105; Star Trek Monthly issue 11)
- This episode is a bottle show. (Beyond the Final Frontier, p. 285)
Reception and aftermathEdit
- Of all the episodes that were produced for Voyager's first season, this episode was Brannon Braga's favorite as well as the one he most enjoyed writing. (The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine, issue #5, p. 50; Star Trek Monthly issue 7) He commented, "I'm very proud of that one." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages) Braga also opined, "It's a really fun story." (The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine, issue #5, p. 50)
- Executive producer Michael Piller enjoyed how the episode questioned The Doctor's reality, enthusing, "This is a wonderful show [....] It's a fascinating episode." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages)
- This episode achieved a Nielsen rating of 6.1 million homes, and a 10% share. Along with the later Season 2 installment "Persistence of Vision", this was the joint fourth most watched episode of Voyager's second season (on first airing), with the same Nielsen rating as "Persistence of Vision" but a slightly higher share percentage than that episode. [2] A contemporaneous fan poll, to which executive producer Jeri Taylor paid particular attention, ranked this installment as the third highest-rated episode of the second season. (Star Trek: Communicator issue #108, p. 18)
- Cinefantastique gave this installment 2 out of 4 stars. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 28, No. 4/5, p. 78)
- The unauthorized reference book Delta Quadrant (p. 55) scored the episode 8 out of 10.
- This episode was one of a few that Paramount Pictures studio executives reviewed, when evaluating Jonathan Frakes' ability to handle the film Star Trek: First Contact. (Star Trek: Communicator, issue #112, p. 19) Having become friends with the director while working on this episode, Robert Picardo was able to arrange a cameo appearance in that film. (The Making of Star Trek: First Contact, p. 45)
- After appearing in this episode, Dwight Schultz considered returning to Star Trek: Voyager as the starship Voyager's holographic Barclay. Schultz remarked, "[Barclay]'s there in the USS Voyager's computer, so he could turn up again. Of course, I'd love to go back and do another episode." (Star Trek Monthly issue 32, p. 54)
Continuity and miscellaneous triviaEdit
- After his appearance in this episode, Barclay made a brief appearance in Star Trek: First Contact before featuring in five more episodes of Voyager – Season 6's "Pathfinder" and "Life Line", plus the seventh season episodes "Inside Man", "Author, Author" and series finale "Endgame". Owing to the fact that the character appears in this episode only as a hallucination, his future appearances make no reference to this episode.
- As Tom Paris does once in the second episode of Voyager, "Parallax", Barclay here refers to Voyager using the definitive article "the" several times.
- Barclay is not the only connection this episode has to Star Trek: The Next Generation; Brannon Braga once remarked that the plot is a cross between the TNG episodes "The Measure Of A Man" and "Frame of Mind" (the latter of which is another episode he wrote). (Star Trek Monthly issue 7) In both this episode and "Frame of Mind", the main character (in that case, Commander Riker) must decide which of two realities is the correct one.
- The crew's data in The Doctor's fantasy/illusion is stored in memory block 47-alpha.
- The Doctor refers to the Caretaker as the "Banjo Man", which is how he is credited in the series pilot "Caretaker".
- This episode has the second shortest teaser of Voyager's second season, being slightly shorter than the teaser of "Maneuvers" but slightly longer than the teaser of "Non Sequitur", both of which are (like this episode's teaser) under a minute in duration.
Video and DVD releasesEdit
- UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 1.9, catalog number VHR 4009, 4 December 1995
- CIC Video released the four season 1 "hold-over" episodes in their production order, as part of the first season release. This is the first episode in Volume 1.9, which continues with "Elogium". Volume 2.1 begins with "Initiations".
- As part of the VOY Season 2 DVD collection
Links and referencesEdit
Main castEdit
- Kate Mulgrew as Captain Kathryn Janeway
- Robert Beltran as Commander Chakotay
- Roxann Biggs-Dawson as Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres
- Jennifer Lien as Kes/"Kes Zimmerman"
- Robert Duncan McNeill as Lieutenant Tom Paris
- Ethan Phillips as Neelix
- Robert Picardo as The Doctor/Lewis Zimmerman
- Tim Russ as Lieutenant Tuvok
- Garrett Wang as Ensign Harry Kim
Special guest starEdit
- Majel Barrett as the Computer Voice
Uncredited co-starsEdit
autonomic response analysis; "Banjo Man"; Barclay, Reginald (holograph); brig; Caretaker; Caretaker's array; concussion; coronary bypass; crew manifest; Delta Quadrant; dilithium matrix; dizziness; Emergency Medical Hologram; emergency power; Federation; Frank (cousin); frying pan; headache; holodeck; Holo-Doc; holo-engineer; holomatrix; holographic emitter; holo-transference dementia syndrome; Jefferies tube; Jupiter Station; Jupiter Station Holoprogramming Center; Kaplan (Doctor); Kazon; kinoplasmic radiation; life pod; magnetic constrictor; Maquis; medkit; memory block; memory center; memory circuit; mess hall; meter; Milky Way Galaxy; nausea; neotrinate; neural tissue; Nondoran tomato paste; Ocampa; orderly; plasma relay; plasma torpedo; power relay; Predator-class; pus hog; red alert; reserve power; shore leave; snake; Starfleet; subspace anomaly; tractor beam; tricorder; turbolift
Other referencesEdit
- Crew Manifest: Cabot, Zayra; Canamar, Valerie; Charnock, Jr., Ed; Chattaway, Jay; Chess, Joe; Chichester, John; Christenberry, Ian; Chronister, Richard; Codron, Art; Curry, Dan; D'Angelo, Dick; De La Garza, Bob; DeMeritt, Michael; De Moraes, Lisa; Djanrelian, Jon; Dorton, Louise; Livingston, David; Lowry-Johnson, Junie; Madalone, Dennis; Magdaleno, Jim; Mayer, Michael; McCarthy, Dennis; McKay, Shawn; McKnight, Scott; Mees, James; Miller, Patricia; Moore, Ronald B.; Moore, Tom; Mossler, Helen; Nelson, Greg; Nemecek, Janet; Speckman, Gary; Sternbach, Rick; Stimson, Mark; Stipes, David; Stotler, Simon; Stradling, Michael; Surma, Ron; Tampoya, John: Taylor, Jeri; Thomas, Jamie; Thoms, Bill
- Lewis Zimmerman Biographical Information: 2320; 2342; 2361; Fritz, Sandra; Grover's Mill; New Jersey; Starfleet Academy; Starfleet Academy Command School; Starfleet Command; Zimmerman, Gregory
External linksEdit
- "Projections" at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- "Projections" at Wikipedia
- Projections at StarTrek.com, the official Star Trek website
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By David Poole, 2012/01/31
When I first ran SQL Profiler against nHibernate I noticed that calls to the database were being made via sp_prepexec. in sp_prepexec and nHibernate. I did quite a bit of digging around to find out more about sp_prepexec which I wrote up in "sp_prepexec and nHibernate".
To summarise the article, until recently sp_prepexec was an undocumented stored procedure and even today very little documentation is available for it.
Given its undocumented nature and a natural DBA aversion to putting undocumented system procs in production systems I asked our developers to set the nHibernate configuration switch to use sp_executesql instead.
<property name='prepare_sql'>false</property>
At this point a number of problems came to the fore which have been fixed as part of nHibernate V2.2
What I hope to cover here is not nHibernate but a write-up of the issues were found in the way that dynamic and parameterised SQL were called using sp_executeSQL.
Sp_executesql is fully documented both in books-online and MSDN. Its purpose is to allow queries with the same signature but different parameter values to use the same query plan.
To show an example of this run the following code
USE AdventureWorks go DECLARE @EmployeeID int, @Statement nvarchar(2000), @ParamDefinitions nvarchar(2000) SET @Statement = N'SELECT * FROM HumanResources.Employee WHERE ManagerId=@ManagerID AND MaritalStatus=@MaritalStatus' SET @ParamDefinitions = N'@ManagerID INT,@MaritalStatus char(1)' exec sp_executesql @statement, @ParamDefinitions,@ManagerID=21,@Maritalstatus='S'
go DECLARE
'SELECT * FROM HumanResources.Employee WHERE ManagerId=@ManagerID AND MaritalStatus=@MaritalStatus'
'@ManagerID INT,@MaritalStatus char(1)'
Then run the following query
SELECT ST.dbid, st.text, cp.usecounts, cp.size_in_bytes, qp.query_plan, cp.cacheobjtype, cp.objtype, cp.plan_handle, qp.number FROM sys.dm_exec_cached_plans cp CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_sql_text(cp.plan_handle) st CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_query_plan(cp.plan_handle) qp WHERE st.text like '%SELECT * FROM HumanResources.Employee WHERE ManagerId%'
'%SELECT * FROM HumanResources.Employee WHERE ManagerId%'
What you should see in the recordset with a line containing
(@ManagerID INT,@MaritalStatus char(1))SELECT * FROM HumanResources.Employee WHERE ManagerId=@ManagerID AND MaritalStatus=@MaritalStatus
Now if we go back and change the marital status from S to M by changing the sp_executesql statement from
exec sp_executesql @statement, @ParamDefinitions,@ManagerID=21,@Maritalstatus='S'
exec sp_executesql @statement, @ParamDefinitions,@ManagerID=21,@Maritalstatus='M'
Execute the query and run our query plan statement again you will see that although sp_executesql gave us a different recordset our query plan statement still returned the same record.
In fact, as long as all we change is the parameter values sp_executeSQL will reuse this plan.
There are a couple of points to note with our query plan statement.
The significance of these figures will become apparent later.
Now let us try changing the case of the SELECT statement used by sp_executeSQL from
SET @Statement = N'SELECT * FROM HumanResources.Employee WHERE ManagerId=@ManagerID AND MaritalStatus=@MaritalStatus'
SET @Statement = N'select * FROM HumanResources.Employee WHERE ManagerId=@ManagerID AND MaritalStatus=@MaritalStatus'
'select * FROM HumanResources.Employee WHERE ManagerId=@ManagerID AND MaritalStatus=@MaritalStatus'
Running our query plan statement now reveals that we have two separate plans even though as human beings we can see the two queries are the same.
Just for the sake of completeness let us try changing the case of the parameter definitions from
SET @ParamDefinitions = N'@ManagerID INT,@MaritalStatus char(1)'
SET @ParamDefinitions = N'@ManagerID INT,@MARITALSTATUS char(1)'
'@ManagerID INT,@MARITALSTATUS char(1)'
Again, running our query plan statement reveals that we now have 3 separate plans!
LESSON ONE: The cache is case sensitive.
For nHibernate this isn't an issue as the objects are predefined and statements always follow the same pattern. If your application developers do not use an ORM framework and call sp_executeSQL this is something to bear in mind.
You can see that parameterised SQL is case sensitive but what about calls to stored procedures?
I ran the following T-SQL in the AdventureWorks database
USE [AdventureWorks] GO DECLARE @return_value int EXEC @return_value = [dbo].[uspGetEmployeeManagers] @EmployeeID = 21 SELECT 'Return Value' = @return_value GO
'Return Value'
Closely followed by
USE [AdventureWorks] GO DECLARE @return_value int EXEC @return_value = [dbo].[USPGETEMPLOYEEMANAGERS] @EmployeeID = 21 SELECT 'Return Value' = @return_value GO
Using our query to have a look at the proc cache revealled the following
CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[uspGetEmployeeManagers] @Emp...
<ShowPlanXML xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com...
Here you can see that the case in which the stored proc is called has no bearing on the number of entries in the proc cache.
Let us try adding in a variable length parameter into the statement we use with sp_executeSQL
DECLARE @EmployeeID int, @Statement nvarchar(2000), @ParamDefinitions nvarchar(2000) SET @Statement = N'select * FROM HumanResources.Employee WHERE ManagerId=@ManagerID AND MaritalStatus=@MaritalStatus AND Title=@Title' SET @ParamDefinitions = N'@ManagerID INT,@MaritalStatus char(1),@Title nvarchar(50)' exec sp_executesql @statement, @ParamDefinitions,@ManagerID=21,@Maritalstatus='S',@Title='Production Supervisor - WC60'
'select * FROM HumanResources.Employee WHERE ManagerId=@ManagerID AND MaritalStatus=@MaritalStatus AND Title=@Title'
'@ManagerID INT,@MaritalStatus char(1),@Title nvarchar(50)'
Execute the script then change the definition of @Title from nvarchar(50) to nvarchar(40) and re-execute it
SET @ParamDefinitions = N'@ManagerID INT,@MaritalStatus char(1),@Title nvarchar(40)' exec sp_executesql @statement, @ParamDefinitions,@ManagerID=21,@Maritalstatus='S',@Title='Production Supervisor - WC60'
'@ManagerID INT,@MaritalStatus char(1),@Title nvarchar(40)'
'Production Supervisor - WC60'
If we run our query plan statement we will see two separate entries for our query.
LESSON TWO: A separate query plan will result if parameter sizes differ for what is essentially the same query.
Prior to nHibernate V2.2 this was a problem because nHibernate sized the parameters to the contents of the value being passed to it.
Take a look at the variable length fields in the Adventureworks.Person.Address table.
Running the query below tells us that there are 1,320 possible variations of lengths for combinations of those fields in the table.
SELECT LEN(AddressLine1) AS Ad1Length, LEN(AddressLine2) AS Ad2Length, LEN(city) AS CityLength, LEN(PostalCode) AS PostalLength FROM Person.Address GROUP BY LEN(AddressLine1), LEN(AddressLine2) , LEN(city) , LEN(PostalCode)
A parameterised INSERT statement is 25K so factor in the variability and our 25K query plan is now 25K x 1,320 = 33MB!
That is one query against one table!
Adventureworks is a small sample database with 71 tables so considering the different combinations of variable length fields for each table and the number of different queries that are to be run across the database you can soon see why the our proc cache starts to balloon into the GB range!
There is another problem associated with varying parameter sizes for what is essentially the same query.
Whenever a new query is run it has to pass through the cost based optimisation process. A simplified illustration of this process is shown by the diagram below.
This is a phased process so if the query cost falls below the threshold for stage one then it that plan will be cached and executed.
If it is exceeds the threshold for simple optimisation then it is passed to the 2nd phase optimisation and if it can be optimised within the limits of the 2nd phase then again, its plan is cached and the query executed.
There is a 3rd and 4th phase and obviously each phase gets progressively more expensive. A colleague mentioned that he had seen a complex query take 17 seconds just to go through the optimisation process.
Most of the queries I have seen coming out of nHibernate are relatively straight forward and have had a modest cost but you still have the overhead of compiling the query prior to execution.
I have often asked the question as to what is the optimum memory for a SQL Server instance and the answer always seems to be "as much as you can afford".
At this point it is a good idea to take a look at what SQL Server uses its memory for. The principal items are as follows
Data cache known as the buffer pool
Ideally we need enough memory to hold the active data portion of our database in memory.
Being able to retrieve data from memory is absolutely key to giving good performance.
Query cache known as the proc cache
If the proc cache bloat gets out of hand then pages will be "stolen" from the buffer pool to allocate to the proc cache.
94KB + (3 x network package size - typically 4096KB)
Clearly we would need a very high number of users for connection memory to pose a problem.
What those connections actually do in terms of querying is another matter, particularly if they are running heavy weight queries bringing back loads of data.
64 bytes 32 bytes per owner.
Lock escalation is a trade-off between concurrency and memory usage.
Lock escalation occurs when 5,000 or more locks occur on an object. If it didn't occur then the risk is that the amount of memory used to maintain those locks would start to eat into the memory available for the buffer pool.
Obviously memory is consumed by the operating system, CLR functions, full text index service, SSIS processes and a whole range of other things.
If you get proc cache bloat on a 32 bit server then to a certain extent this gets masked by the fact that the proc cache can't stray into AWE memory. Effectively it is constrained to a 2GB maximum.
Switch to 64 Bit however and such constraints vanish and it will continue to grow as much as it needs to until it starts to eat into the buffer pool.
When this happens your server will start to show symptoms of coming under memory pressure.
Data can stay in the buffer cache until the allocated memory is needed for newer data. If your server has more memory than there is data then it is conceivable that the data will remain in the buffer cache until the SQL Server service is restarted.
Query plans age out of the cache eventually based on an algorithm that checks when they were last used and how complex the plan was.
If you run a query on your development box tonight, check the existence of the execution plan and come back the next day then it will be gone by the morning.
Internally SQL Server is constantly cycling through the proc cache aging the items in the cache until they qualify for removal.
sp_executesql dynamic columns in select statement
Dynamic query using temp tables and sp_executesql and cursor
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I have been working out a steady 5 days a week for a while now. I was reading a few posts here about people who wanna get in shape and lose weight etc etc. A few suggestions:
1. Eat only natural fresh foods. Anything that comes in a can or a box is garbage (unless its whole wheat pasta, or frozen veggies). Whole wheat is ONLY whole wheat if it says 100% on the front. If its not real whole wheat, its like white bread on steroids and it actually becomes more healthy to eat the white bread, not the fake whole wheat.
2. Avoid supplements. Protein shakes are only good as an entire meal replacement. But too much of those shakes cause kidney stones and other chemical imbalances in your body. These supplements provide way too much protein, and all that extra protein you eat but you dont need gets stored in your body as adipose tissue, aka fat. You can caculate your protein necessity by converting your weight into kilograms (Ex: 140 lbs. Divide that by 2.2- 63 kilograms.) Then you multiply that by your activity level. Sedentary- .8. Active- 1.0 and Athlete 1.2. These protein shakes provide too much protein for an average individual. We eat plenty of protein in our diet alone. Believe me, you dont need them.
3. Creatine. Your body makes enough. It makes exactly what you need, and when you need more it makes more. Creatine is what your body makes to make ATP= energy. Only really serious athletes need to supplement to get that extra creatine. If they dont, their body will begin to 'bonk'. You wanna know what it is, look it up. I dont wanna type it all lol.
4. Your not gonna get a 6 pack with any fat on your stomach. Not gonna happen. Stop doing 1000 crunches its not gonna get you anywhere.
5. WEIGHT. Its all about how much weight you lift. The more weight you lift, the higher your RMR is going to be, your resting metabolic rate= How many calories your body expends by just sitting in a chair. Believe me, you start lifting more weight your appetite is going to sky rocket. But then comes the question of what you are eating. Your body fat will decrease tremoundsly by lifting more weights. Your muscles are gonna be looking for that extra nutrition to feed itself, therefore eating all your stored fat and so on.
Eat right. Work out. It will happen. Dont waste your money on hydroxycut on trim spa and all that garbage. Its all about what you do to lose weight. Your not gonna lose weight by swallowing a pill.
Also---dont lose too much weight to fast. It will all come back. BELIEVE ME. Lose up to a pound a week.
Any other questions feel free to ask!!! I go to school for this stuff
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Tuvaluan is a Polynesian language spoken by about ten thousand people in the independent nation of Tuvalu, consisting of nine small islands in the south-central Pacific, and small groups of Tuvaluan migrants in Australia, Fiji, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Zealand and the USA.
On one of the Tuvaluan islands, Nui, a Micronesian dialect of Kiribati is spoken. However, most Nui islanders are now bilingual in their vernacular and in Tuvaluan.
Within the Polynesian family of languages Tuvaluan belongs to the so-called Samoic-Outlier group, and is most closely related to the languages of Tokelau, Futuna and Samoa, but also - though more distantly - to Tongan, Tahitian, Hawaiian and Maori.
Each island has its own dialect but all Tuvaluan dialects are mutually intelligible. There are two dialect areas: Northern (consisting of the islands of Nanumea, Nanumaga, Niutao and Niulakita), and Southern (the islands of Vaitupu, Nukufetau, Funafuti and Nukulaelae). For historical reasons, the dialects of Vaitupu and Funafuti have been dominant since the first half of the 20th century. They now constitute together a kind of standard language which is called te 'gana māsani ("the common language").
Tuvaluan first appeared in writing during the 1860s when Samoan pastors of the London Missionary Society began to convert the islanders to Christianity. However no standard orthography exists as yet, and several systems (designed by linguists or missionaries) are in use (see below). System no. 4 is the one recommended by the now defunct Tuvalu Language Board (TLB), but most Tuvaluans use the one called here "common" (no. 6) in which no distinction is made between short and long phonemes.
The vowel inventory of Tuvaluan consists of the five "cardinal" vowels, and is similar to most other Polynesian languages in that respect. All vowels can be short or long (short vowels have approximately Spanish values).
The consonant inventory comprises of eleven consonants as listed below. Some Northern dialects have [h] where the Southern dialects have [s]. For example: the word for "one" is tahi in Nanumea and Nanumaga, and tasi in the South. Unlike all the other languages inside the Polynesian triangle (Hawaii - New Zealand - Easter Island), the Southern dialects and Nanumea have both short and long (or lengthened) consonants. They share this feature with some of the Polynesian Outlier languages in Melanesia. Lengthened consonants are in most cases the result of reduplicated syllables with subsequent loss of the unstressed vowel between the two identical consonants, e.g.: 'pono < popono ("to close").
The Tuvaluan syllable structure may be summarised as follows: (C(:))V(:), i.e.: an optional consonant which could be short or long, followed by an obligatory short or long vowel.
Stress is always on the penultimate syllable, except when the last vowel is long, in which case the last syllable is stressed.
Full and partial reduplication as well as prefixes and suffixes are used extensively for word formation and the expression of various grammatical and semantic categories (intensive, diminuitive, causative, passive, nominalisation etc.)
Very often the word order is subject - verb - object, but this is not necessarily so and ergative constructions are quite common in Tuvaluan, e.g.: ne fai te gāluega nē ia, "he did the job" - lit. "past tense particle - do - the - job - ergative particle - he/she".
The Tuvaluan lexicon is not yet well adapted to present-day needs and will have to be actively developed further if "Pidginisation" of the language by freely borrowing from English is to be avoided. Apart from English loans, Tuvaluan - due to the influence of the missionaries - also contains a large number of words borrowed from Samoan.
There is still not much printed literature available in Tuvaluan but a revised translation of the Bible has been completed recently (the original translation dates from 1977/1984), and a Tuvaluan hymnbook is in use by the state church EKT (Ekalesia Kelisiano Tuvalu). This church also publishes a monthly bilingual bulletin. Jehovah's Witnesses issue an excellent translation of their magazine "The Watchtower" as Te Faleleoleo Maluga twice a month. The governmental media department on Funafuti publishes a monthly bilingual newspaper called "Sikuleo o Tuvalu - Tuvalu Echo" (previously: Tuvalu Echoes), and the department's Radio Tuvalu broadcasts several hours a day in English and Tuvaluan.
Tēfea toku vaka?
Where is my canoe?
Kāfai e tō te vaiua kā 'siu tātou.
If it rains we shall get wet.
E isi se mea e manako koe ki ei?
Is there something you want?
Koe e fano ki fea?
Where are you going?
E sēai se vakalele mātaeao.
There is no airplane tomorrow.
Ne faka'tū nē lātou olotou fale i te taisala.
They errected their houses in the swamp.
E 'lei mea katoa!
Everything is all right!
E fā'nau mai a tino katoa i te saolotoga kae e 'pau telotou tūlaga fakaaloalogina mo telotou aiā. Ne tuku atu ki a lātou a te mafaufau mo te loto lagona, tēlā lā, e 'tau o gā'lue fakatasi lātou e pēlā me ne taina.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with
reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
The information on this page comes from Emanuel Fuchs, a linguist from Vienna, Austria.
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What are you going to be using it for?
About to go pick up my first Dremel! Super excited.
Anyhow, I was headed out the door to grab a 4000 6/50 kit, but just noticed they recently released the 4200 with "EZ Change."
Still planning to grab that 4000-- I like that it comes with a Flex Shaft attachment.
But, are there any major reasons to consider the 4200 instead? Thanks all!
What are you going to be using it for?
Whichever one you buy just don't get one that's rechargeable. I've had bad luck with those.
I have a 4000. It has worked great for me. Just the other day I put a finger choil on my SOG visionary 2 blade. Not sure how the two are different, never had the need to research.
4200. Bigger number=better. Right?
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I've been looking into these as well. For one thing, the 4000 is 1.6 amps, where the 4200 is 6 amps. That makes it almost 4 times more powerful? Do I need that much more power?
Also the 4200 has the quick release collet. Still looking while trying to make a decision.
I looked up the specs on both, they are both 1.6A .
I personally get the 4000. The flex shaft is nice to have. I don't know if the quick release collet handles different sized shafts. The I have a few different collet inserts that let me use different sized shafts. There is also less mechanism to break or malfunction with the 4000.
My 2 cents worth.
Hi Ric, Everywhere I looked they said 6 amps. http://www.cporotarytools.com/dremel...l-rotary-tools
I even called a friend that has one and he verified. He said it was both bigger, and used 6 amps.
However, I looked at Dremel dot com and they say 1.6 amps? I'm thinking typo maybe?
PS, It's billed as the most powerful Dremel Tool yet, so it has to have more amperage?
FWIW, I ended up going with a 4000 kit largely because of the included Flex Shaft.
Most of the sites I have looked at say the 4200 is 1.6 amps also? Anybody have one in their hand that can look at the specs on the plate? I was looking at one on the big auction site that gave good closeup images of everything "but" the spec plate. I "did" see the made in China on the bottom though.
Maybe that's why there is so much conflicting information?
I have read that you can use the flex shaft with either, but I'm now thinking of just getting the 4000 also as I've now found the kit that includes the flex shaft.
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Research team discovers new kind of signalling mechanism in plant cells
June 25, 2013 in Biology / Cell & MicrobiologyPlants possess receptors which are similar to the glutamate receptors in the brain of humans and animals. Biochemists at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) with colleagues from the University of Würzburg and the Agricultural University of China in Beijing have discovered that these receptors do not, however, recognise the amino acid glutamate, but many other different amino acids. The team reports in the journal Science Signaling.
Glutamate-like receptor in Arabidopsis recognises many amino acids
To exchange information, cells send out signalling molecules that are recognised by receptors of other cells. Fifteen years ago, researchers discovered glutamate-like receptors, in short GLRs, in a plant. A team led by the RUB biochemists Prof. Dr. Michael Hollmann and Dr. Daniel Tapken has now identified the respective signalling molecules for one of the, in total, 20 GLRs from the thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana). "Surprisingly, the receptor responds not only to one amino acid, but to many different ones – just not to glutamate", says Hollmann. The most effective is methionine, an amino acid that humans have to obtain from food, but which plants can produce themselves. When the research team mutated the plant so that it no longer contained the receptor AtGLR1.4, it hardly responded to methionine.
Plant receptor is an ion channel
In some respects, the receptor AtGLR1.4 behaves in a way similar to the glutamate receptors in the brain. It is a channel, so it opens – activated by a signalling molecule – a pore and allows various positively charged particles to flow into the cell, thus triggering an electrical signal. "A special feature of this receptor is that not all amino acids that bind to it trigger an electrical signal. On the contrary! Some suppress the signal by displacing methionine from the receptor", says Daniel Tapken.
Function of methionine receptors in plants unclear
"Why the plant recognises methionine and similar amino acids at all is still absolutely unclear", the Bochum biochemist goes on. "One possibility is that it reacts in this way to nutrient sources in the environment that contain amino acids. However, it is also possible that the plant deliberately produces amino acids itself to send signals – similar to the way it happens in the human brain."
Receptors expressed in frog egg cells for analysis
For the analyses, the RUB team isolated the glutamate-like receptor from plant cells and implemented it in a cell that has no similar receptors – an unfertilised frog egg cell. "It is almost impossible to examine the receptor directly in the plant", Hollmann explains. "There are so many processes operating at the same time that it is extremely difficult to filter out the critical signals."
More information:
Tapken, D. et al. (2013): A plant homolog of animal glutamate receptors is an ion channel gated by multiple hydrophobic amino acids, Science Signaling. DOI: 10.1126/scisignal.2003762
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"Research team discovers new kind of signalling mechanism in plant cells" June 25, 2013 https://phys.org/news/2013-06-team-kind-mechanism-cells.html


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As large trade shows come through Las Vegas, producers are looking to small business to supply innovation.
At conventions such as last week's ConExpo-Con/Agg and January's International CES, it's often the small guys who can make the biggest splash.
While ConExpo took over nearly 2.5 million square feet at the Las Vegas Convention Center, much of the show featured school-bus yellow, neon orange and frog green construction equipment covering about 41 football fields. Produced by the Association of Equipment Manufacturing, the show attracted about 125,000 attendees who created an estimated nongaming economic impact of $157.3 million for the city, according to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.
In all, 2,500 companies exhibited, many of them small businesses.
"For a trade show, a lot of the small companies are the engine of innovation," GES President Steve Moster said.
This rings so true at the annual International CES that the Consumer Electronics Association created specific areas for attendees looking for those innovations backed by small companies, in two areas named Eureka Park and Eureka Park: Next. Those zones have produced products such as touch technology for grocery store freezer doors and ultraviolet "baths" for smartphones.
Trade shows can be expensive, but Moster said there are mostly positives in attending.
"I think trade shows in general are a great opportunity for new exhibitors," he said. "The best part of it is they're able to see a wide range of potential customers all in one (place.) Purely from an economic standpoint, it allows them to get much more visibility to their potential customers."
And, Moster noted, for many businesses, there's a real value proposition for small businesses to come.
"It creates an opportunity to be a part of the culture or environment of the industry they're in. That's very valuable," he said.
Leading up to large trade shows such as ConExpo, attendees use social media to get prepared and see what's on the trade show floor even before they arrive. For the first time, the Association of Equipment Manufacturing noted an uptick in its social media use ahead of the convention this year.
Megan Tanel, the association's vice president of exhibitions, said much of the social media use revolved around attendees encouraging each other to go up and down every aisle because often it's that one small business that you otherwise won't hear about that can help out your business or give you an edge.
"A lot of people come to shows to see what they don't know about," Tanel said.
Keep that in mind the next time you're debating whether to attend.
"If you're not here, you could lose your existing customer," Tanel said. "And if you are here, you could gain new ones because they're looking to shop around."
ConExpo-Con/Agg comes to Las Vegas once every three years, but Las Vegas hosts thousands of conventions and trade shows every month that cater to industries valleywide.
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Yesterday, City Auditor LaVonne Griffin-Valade released an audit of the Portland Housing Bureau (PHB), "Bureau acting on risks, though more remains to be done."
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The Joystiq app brings everything you love from the site to your iPhone: the latest video game news and commentary, game videos and screenshots, reviews and previews – all presented with as much excitement, enthusiasm, insight and fun as the laws of physics allow. Notable features include: offline viewing (goodbye, boring subway ride), built-in video streaming (both in posts and a list of videos), in-app tipping (did you see someone playing Kinect sitting down?), photo galleries, and more.
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Ex-Rep. Rivera's Pal Pleads Not Guilty To Federal Charges
From the Herald's description, Alliegro has had an unpleasant week. She was arrested by Nicaraguan police last Tuesday at the request of the U.S. embassy there. She then spent several days in a Nicaraguan facility under "some pretty terrible conditions," according to her lawyer, before being sent to the United States on Friday, which happened to be her 44th birthday. She then spent the weekend in solitary confinement in the U.S. because she had yet to have a medical examination.
Prosecutors have now accused Alliegro and unnamed "co-conspirators" of steering $82,000 in unreported contributions to the unlikely 2012 congressional campaign of a man named Justin Lamar Sternad. Sternad pleaded guilty in a federal case last year, and recently updated his federal campaign finance documents to indicate that he had received campaign help from Rivera "and/or" Alliegro. Rivera has denied wrongdoing.


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NEW YORK—I think there is a great urgency for people to let their representatives in Congress know if they are in favor of the Atoms for Peace Program.
It was the President's own suggestion that started the idea of developing the peacetime uses of atomic energy for the good of mankind. It took a long while to think it out, but finally 81 nations met here to discuss what kind of an agency should be set up and how it should be related to the U. N. At any other time, this event would have captured the attention of the whole world. But unfortunately both the Near East question and the Hungarian question had taken up everyone's thoughts, so that this meeting of 81 nations drew practically no public attention whatever. As one result, certain members of Congress are now saying that setting up this agency is unnecessary, that it requires too much money, that we are inclined to remain away from other people and not to give them any more secrets which will tie us closer together.
This is the old isolationist approach, and we have some Congressmen who make this plea very often. But I think there is potentially a different sentiment in the country as a whole. If the people knew that this plan was actually under consideration and that we could cooperate with many nations and do so much for human beings, there would be no question but what we would tell our representatives that such an agency must be set up and that we must be members of it. I hope very much that those who read my column will have enough conviction about the value of this peaceful development to write their representatives immediately that they wish to be a part of it.
In the American Association for the U.N. we believe strongly that our collegiate councils for the U.N. can play a very important role in educating young people to an understanding of the work of the U.N. The time is approaching when these young people come together in our CCUN institute at Finch College from June 16 to 22. No matter whether or not you belong to a collegiate council, you can come to this meeting if you apply to the Collegiate Council for the U.N., 345 East 46th Street, New York 17, N.Y., pay a registration fee of $10.00, and are accepted by the committee in charge. If you want to come, however, you should apply at once, because registration time has already passed. I have not thought to tell you about this meeting before, for which I am rather sorry, as two people have told me of their interest in the past few days.
When you register on June 16, you will have to pay $40.00 for room and board during the week which begins on Sunday and ends on Saturday afternoon. You must also have enough to pay small expenses like local carfare and three meals away from Finch College. All students must live at Finch College and will be taken care of except for the three meals mentioned.
If you are interested in the U.N., whether you belong to a collegiate council or not, you will find this a most rewarding week.


text: This New Montage Of The Last Of Us Mixes Bloody Violence And Wistful Hank WilliamsKirk Hamilton8/14/12 2:23pmFiled to: The last of usGamescomGamescom 2012SonyPS3Naughty DogKotaku CoreKotaku melodic47EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink This new trailer for Naughty Dog's The Last Of Us doesn't show a whole lot of new stuff, but it shows it in a way we haven't yet seen—accompanied by the wistful words of Hank Williams' "Alone And Forsaken."AdvertisementThose lyrics, via A Hank Williams Journal (where they have chords, should you want to strum along):We met in the springtime when blossoms unfold The pastures were green and the meadows were [Am] gold Our love was in flower as summer grew on Her love like the leaves now has withered and [Am] gone.The roses have faded, there's frost at my door The birds in the morning don't sing any-more The grass in the valley is starting to die And out in the darkness the whippoorwills cry.Alone and forsaken by fate and by man Oh, Lord, if You hear me please hold to my hand Oh, please understand.Oh, where has she gone to, oh, where can she be She may have forsaken some other like me She promised to honor, to love and obey Each vow was a plaything that she threw away.The darkness is falling, the sky has turned gray A hound in the distance is starting to bay I wonder, I wonder – what she's thinking of Forsaken, forgotten – without any love.And at the end of the trailer (where, apologies, our feed crapped out for a second), Ellie asks Joel how he saw the bandits' ambush coming.Advertisement"I've been on both sides."Such a flip-flopper, that Joel.Reply47 repliesLeave a reply


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Alex's Sundance 2010 Review: Spencer Susser's Hesher
by Alex Billington
January 23, 2010
Going into the Sundance Film Festival, Spencer Susser's film Hesher was one of my most highly anticipated films. I had seen writer/director Spencer Susser short film I Love Sarah Jane previously (watch it here) and loved it. I was hoping to discover that his first feature film was also as exceptional as that short, especially with a cast that included Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Natalie Portman, and Rainn Wilson. Unfortunately it didn't meet my expectations. And the more I think about it, the less I like the film. The best part about it is that Gordon-Levitt is totally crazy in an awesome way and plays a character that I've never seen him play before.
Hesher follows the story of a boy named T.J. (Devin Brochu), a loner who hates the world, and his father Paul (Wilson) who are still both grieving from the death of T.J.'s mother / Paul's wife. It kicks off with T.J. chasing after the car that his mother was in when she died on his bike. He's bullied by an older kid at school and doesn't have much of a life. One day he comes across Hesher (Gordon-Levitt) a crazy hard rock badass with long hair, no shirt, tattoos, and a doesn't-give-a-shit-about-anything-or-anyone attitude. He follows T.J. home and starts staying in his house without permission, becoming both is tormentor and mentor.
While that concept may sound interesting on paper, unfortunately the story doesn't really go anywhere. Eventually T.J. meets and befriends a supermarket worker named Nicole (Portman) but nothing really happens with that friendship either. In essence, we just watch Hesher kick everyone's ass for 90 minutes (and I mean everyone). Sure, he helps T.J. beat up the kid who bullies him at school, but Hesher never really changes as a person. He's the same asshole from beginning to end having hardly any impact on the family (at least until the end). T.J.'s story wasn't all that interesting either and the rest of it was just lackluster.
I'm hoping Spencer Susser can do a better on his next few features (including a feature length version of I Love Sarah Jane), but I wasn't that impressed with Hesher. It was a bit too dull and needed a lot more polishing, both on writing and directing. But I will say that Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character is awesome and he does bring some good entertainment to the film. I don't think it's worth going out of your way to see.
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The former president and COO of News Corp (NASDAQ:NWSA) Peter Chernin has bid around $500 million for Hulu, the popular online content streaming service, according to Reuters. Hulu was founded in 2007 with help from Chernin, who sat on its board. The company is currently jointly owned News Corp (NASDAQ:NWS), Walt Disney Co (NYSE:DIS), and Comcast Corp (NASDAQ:CMCSA). However, Comcast has no corporate control of Hulu as a condition of the deal in which it acquired NBC Universal.
Since leaving News Corp, Chernin founded the Chernin Group, which holds stakes in a number of media enterprises in film and television. The group also owns part of Pandora Media Inc, the popular online streaming radio service. After selling its 10% stake of Hulu back to the company a year ago for $200 million (which valued Hulu at $2 billion), Providence Equity Partners invested $200 million in the Chernin Group. Providence Equity Partners originally invested $100 million in Hulu to help start it.
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Two newly granted Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) patents uncovered by Apple Insider could give the California-based company's future mobile devices several new fascinating capabilities. In the first patent, titled "Touch and hover signal drift compensation," Apple outlined a method for increasing the accuracy of its touchscreen panels for both direct contact events and hover events.
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