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Discussion in 'Odds & Ends' started by oscar_2424, Jul 18, 2006.
Would love to see her doing a 'Courier' thus go swimming into that river
Nicole Gibbs:
Caro on golf-courts part ...
Angi at her parents' academy (2010)
The Rads
Maybe they will follow Martha's example one day:
^^Man, is that Legal ?
I say something is wrong if the racket is prettier than the girl.:shock:
^^lol, well i think she looks decent, i'd date her because a girl that plays tennis is automatically twice as hot as non tennis players...especially good players.
Sorry, but you know the other thing she would be good at besides tennis...
Yeah, I don't know what to think about that pic either (the one of Sharapova-I think-and the cow). There's a dirty joke somewhere in there. :lol:
Roberta Vinci (Left) and Sara Errani (Right)
I think Roberta Vinci is prettier.
Although I miss my RDS003, I will take Kerber over the stick any day.
^^^wouldn't any straight guy. those were old pix, this is what she looks like now
Damn... She could ruffle my feathers anytime..
LOL - not a bad job, really..
Vera Zvonareva
The irony is that she was never an all-star..
Victoria Larriere
Her.... ehmmm...., two good reason dont get the credit they deserve, in my opinion.......
Michael Jordan dunk impression?
Woman is Jarmila Gajdosova
No wonder why he missed the cut at the Farmers open!! Is it me or did she get bigger or is it the bra?
Oh, Marta!
^ Anybody seen it yet (other than Marta)? BTW, I suspect that they are both real and spectacular!
Shameless repost...
Noel Scott?
That's a fabulous round and full......
My thoughts... :mrgreen:
Amen! (Thanks RP)
Subscribing to this thread sure pays off because I don't think the post survived the mods.
Although it's NSFW, its still only "R" rated, not that there's anything wrong with that!
Sorry, mods.
The links survived at a more liberal location. Still waiting for HQ's, although I think I've seen enough to know that the HQ's still won't be enough. I found Bepa's post more provocative... http://thetennistimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/vera-zvonareva-nude.jpg
Considering that it's PB, they're a lot of what I expected. The level of exposure is fine to me. Hey, it's frickin' MARTA.
somebody pleaaase give a shout-out when you's got Martitas PB pics!
(RP................. I KNOW you already got em)
That's a good outfit for her.
Check your e-mail, Pabs.
Marta's talents live up to expectations from the pics I've seen.
A good pic !
A very good pic, thank you
I've seen all the Marta playboy pics now and all I can say is....wow.
I must say, I found them to be rather underwhelming. I may be jaded though.
Well, Euro-Playboy is a bit different than the US style. But any nude Marta is nice.
And hey--she's buddies with Kirilenko. Maybe this'll spark a lightbulb over Maria's head.
Links plz or at least some suggestions.
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EAST FLAT ROCK — It was Sage Cornatzer's turn to play the role of hero for Henderson County Post 77 on Tuesday night.
EAST FLAT ROCK — It was Sage Cornatzer's turn to play the role of hero for Henderson County Post 77 on Tuesday night.
With two runners on base and two outs, the Lander freshman breathed life into a team that had been reeling in recent weeks.
Cornatzer doubled to drive in Carson Smith and Patrick Jackson to give Henderson County an 8-6 lead over Cherryville. Post 77 (8-9, 6-8) had dropped its previous six games, with five of those coming on the road, and were in dire need of a big win.
They got it on Tuesday night with an 8-7 win over Cherryville and it was from the revival of their bats, which coach Ray Gill said was the missing component during the tough run that saw Post 77 drop from the upper echelon of the Area IV standings to a more crowded middle of the pack.
And Cornatzer was happy he could provide that spark. His bat has been coming on in the last couple of games, and he said that the double was a big boost for his summer confidence.
"It was awesome," he said. "It was a pretty long at-bat."
That at-bat culminated on a pitch that Cornatzer was waiting on — a curveball.
His hit wasn't the only big hit of the night, though, as the Post 77 bats woke up from a midseason slumber.
Post 77's biggest inning came in the third. Starting pitcher Zack Oberlies got the inning started with a single. Smith reached second base on an error and Oberlies stopped at third. Cornatzer singled to drive in Oberlies and move Smith to third. Austin Fisher followed with a single to load the bases for Wes Brady.
The big first baseman followed with a grand slam to left field.
Smith reached base in the fourth inning on a single and was driven in on a Jackson single.
Cherryville scored one in the first inning, two in the third inning and three in the seventh.
Post 77 came to bat in the bottom of the seventh deadlocked at 6.
With one out, Cornatzer, Fisher and Brady walked to load the bases, but Post 77 was unable to get a run across.
It didn't matter, because Smith slammed the door on Cherryville in the top of the eighth to cue up Cornatzer's late-inning heroics for the bottom half of the inning.
Cherryville managed one run in the top of the ninth before Smith got Brandon Alexander to fly out to right field and then picked off Chandler Jenkins at first base to clinch the victory for Post 77.
"That was a pretty good Cherryville team," Gill said. "(It was) definitely a good ballgame."
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Before there were interstates, when everyone drove two lane roads at leisurely speeds, Burma Shave signs were posted all over the countryside in farmers' fields. Five small red signs with white letters, about 100 feet apart, each containing 1 line of a 4 line couplet……and the obligatory 5th sign advertising Burma Shave, a popular shaving cream.
Appalachia had them, sure. Appalachia also had a roadsign painter for God by the name of Henry Harrison Mayes (1898-1986). Mayes, a Kentucky coal miner, began his roadside mission in 1917. Feeling that his life had been spared after a mining accident, Mr. Mayes decided to serve God by sharing the Good News with passing motorists. Mayes used money he made as a free-lance sign painter to support his advertising crusade, an effort that resulted in crosses being erected in forty-four states. All the while Mayes continued to work, full time for 43 years, for the Fork Ridge Coal Company in the mines of Mingo Hollow.
Mr. Mayes fashioned crosses by using homemade wooden molds and hand mixing and pouring concrete crosses in his backyard. After producing a substantial inventory he hoisted his artwork on his truck and set out for well traveled areas. Without permission, he would dig a hole on property near the highway and set his massive cross in place.
Mayes was known in his hometown of Middlesboro as the Sign Man or the Cross Builder. He lived near the valley's center in a cross-shaped house, the ten commandments displayed on his front gate, with Jesus Saves painted in huge letters across the roof. He kept its lawn filled with cross-shaped signs. He created a massive cross of electric lights which to this day hangs about ten feet from the ground along a mountain at the base of the town's main avenue.
In Harrison's later life he became somewhat of a local celebrity riding his bicycle (which he called his "Jeep") in parades with a huge sign on it reading "GET RIGHT WITH GOD" and "ADVERTISING GOD SINCE 1918." He sometimes wore a white dress coat that had 278 crosses drawn on it with a ballpoint pen representing the number of denominations of churches he was aware of at the time.
Henry Harrison Mayes eventually attracted the attentions of Newsweek, Life, and Foxfire 9. He constructed and erected his concrete crosses for some sixty years. Many of his original crosses no longer exist because of highway expansion programs, traffic accidents, and natural erosion. Today, some of his items are on display in the Museum of Appalachia in Norris, TN. And his first bicycle can be seen at the Tennessee State Museum in Nashville, TN.
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Walter: the man and the meth
With the final series of Breaking Bad on air this week, Bryan Cranston comes clean.
You've called your Breaking Bad character Walter White ''the role of your career''. Why is that?
Because it's so damn good! You look at the trajectory of where my character goes from the first episode to where we're coming now down to the end. No other character in the history of television has made that transition. No one has changed completely from when we saw him: a mild, depressed man who loves his family, doesn't get a speeding ticket, everything is controlled and orderly and he's eating his little sandwiches. His life is turned upside down with his diagnosis and for the first time he takes a risk. He's got nothing to lose: he's going to die in two years. When anyone alters their morality for financial gain, you are on a slippery slope; you are doomed.
Were you ever sceptical about how audiences might react?
The fact that Breaking Bad became a hit was so out of my control. The planets all have to align. When we premiered, people were ready for it: they wanted a change, they didn't want things that were usual. Perhaps if it came on the air a year or two earlier they wouldn't have been. We thought we'd get hit by people saying we're glorifying drug use or manufacturing. None. Not a peep. Because the truth is it's not about that. I often say Walter went into manufacturing drugs because he was a chemist; that's what he knew. If he were a mathematician counting cards, trying to learn some scheme or system to beat the casino, it wouldn't work. It was appropriate to what he already was. That's why I think it made sense: you can follow it and believe it.
Walter is a multifaceted character; is there a part you enjoyed playing the most?
That's why it is the greatest role of my life, because it's all of those things. Usually, they go, ''OK you're the vixen, the slut, the kidnapper, you're the goofy fun neighbour and you usually stay in your slot.'' And mine just goes all over the place. That's why I didn't get bored. I was always looking forward to the next script, ready to go. It constantly surprised me.
How has it been working with Aaron Paul?
That's one of the lucky breaks. I have come to not only appreciate him but to truly love him. I look at him like a younger brother and people say, ''Whaddya mean? You mean like a son? He's that young!'' And I say, ''All right, like a son! So what!'' He is not only a terrific actor but [also] his outlook on his life is exactly what you would hope and want it to be. He accepts the fact that we are extremely lucky to be able to do what we do: storytelling. He's humble, he's sweet, he's kind, sensitive. He's just a really lovely man. And there are elements of Jesse that are unmistakably Aaron Paul. The sweet, sensitive nature. That's him.
Walter is so mean to Jesse …
I'm not mean to him. I'm trying to protect him. He just needs tough love.
Is someone like Walter inherently evil?
I think human beings are born with the capability of every single human emotion that is possible. It's just, it either develops or not. When we first meet [Walter] he is meek and innocent, law-abiding, a good guy. And the set of circumstances that befell him pushed him to a place like a cornered animal. I bet you the meekest person you can find could become dangerous with the right set of circumstances - if the right buttons were pushed.
Before the drama of Breaking Bad, audiences knew you as a comic actor. Which do you find more difficult?
Comedy is harder to do because it's more fragile. Drama can work with pauses placed just about anywhere. You have to be really specific with comedy and, boy, if you lean too hard on something you can kill it. Comedy is delicate and it's like, ''Oh, it rose. Quickly, patiently, get it out of the oven.'' Drama is like meat loaf: it will be good tomorrow.
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City officials on Wednesday announced an aggressive, $2.6 million plan to inoculate 35,000 ash trees against the emerald ash borer and trim about 20,000 additional parkway trees.
The city will have a dedicated workforce to inoculate ash trees, the Department of Streets & Sanitation said in a statement. In 2013, the city will invest about $2 million in an ash borer program, compared to $110,000 in 2012.
"We'll be able to treat nearly double the amount of trees in one summer than we've been able to inoculate since the treatment was available in 2009," said Streets & Sanitation Commissioner Charles Williams.
The city has hired and trained 26 laborers to implement the first year of the multi-year plan to combat the insect, which threatens about 85,000 of the city's parkway trees. In 2013, 35,000 ash trees will be treated, in addition to the 18,000 total parkway trees inoculated since the treatment became available in 2009, the statement said.
In addition, Streets & San has hired seven additional forestry crews to provide regular tree maintenance, including trimming and removal, for the nearly half million trees that line city parkways. These crews will also support emergency forestry response during storms. Streets & San anticipates trimming up to 20,000 trees this year.
Forestry crews are expected to begin inoculating ash trees in early May and continue through September, when treatment is believed to be most effective.
The trees will be inoculated with Emamectin Benzoate, which has been proven to kill 99 percent of ash borers within a tree, according to the statement. It also protects the tree for up to three years.
The average cost to inoculate a tree is $46, compared with $1,000 to remove and replace it, according to Streets & San.
The emerald ash borer has killed more than 30 million ash trees in southeastern Michigan alone, with millions more dying in Illinois, Ohio, Indiana and other states.


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Philosophy, psychology, and computer science may not seem like they have a lot in common, but one relatively new course has fused them together to create a hands-on, interdisciplinary experience that resulted in an intelligent robot revolution.
Cognitive Robotics was the topic of a recent faculty forum, in which instructors Steven Huss-Lederman and Robin Zebrowski discussed the objective of the course, its successes, and the importance of its team-taught aspects.
Offered in the spring of 2011 and again in the spring of 2013, Zebrowski originated the course.
"In cognitive science we study the mind, and for a long time no one talked about the body, but now people are saying the body plays an important role in what the mind does," says Zebrowski, an assistant professor of cognitive science. "The nature of the mind isn't something psychology alone can answer without philosophy, and it isn't something philosophy and psychology can answer without the modeling that comes from computer science and robotics and building. You need all these disciplines to even start answering the question."
While Zebrowski handles the theoretical aspects of the course, she teamed up with Huss-Lederman, an associate professor of computer science, who teaches the computer programming.
On average they spend half the class, held for approximately two hours three times a week, discussing the theory and history and the other half broken up into groups learning principles of programming or constructing the robots.
To appreciate the interconnectedness of the ideas, Huss-Lederman and Zebrowski urge the students to work with classmates from other majors.
"Bringing different ideas and backgrounds often bring different philosophies and orientations to the table," Huss-Lederman says. "We think of our teaching as a model of how we want the class to go. We're both there full-time in all the classes working together, and we expect the students to do the same thing."
Using robot-building kits called Lego MINDSTORMS, the students start off building simple robots before completing the course with much more complex ones. Some of the final projects included robots that were able to draw spider web patterns and mimic sounds like parrots do.
Through these assignments, students have learned−among other concepts−that the environment does a lot more work than they thought and also that the reasoning behind certain behaviors of animals are not as complex as they believed. For example, the students discovered that an intricately designed spider web is actually made using just three simple rules.
"One of the lessons we hope that they'll walk away with is that humans are probably a lot like that too," Zebrowski says. "That a lot of our really complex behaviors are much simpler than we like to believe they are."
Cognitive Robotics, which is supported in part by Mellon grant funds, will next be taught in the spring of 2015, but before then can next be seen on display at Family Discovery Night on Friday, Nov. 8 in the Center for the Sciences.


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- 2 cups sugar
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- 1/2 cup butter or stick margarine
- 3 cups quick-cooking oats
- 1 cup flaked coconut
- 6 tablespoons baking cocoa
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1. In a large saucepan, combine the sugar, milk and butter; bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Boil for 2 minutes. Remove from the heat.
- 2. Stir in the oats, coconut, cocoa and vanilla. Working quickly, drop by rounded tablespoonfuls onto waxed paper. Let stand until set, about 1 hour. Yield: 3 dozen.
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"Love these. They are so easy to make. I was thinking that I might add some peanut butter to the recipe the next time I make this. I'm glad to see others have already done this with good results. Thanks for sharing."
"I also added peanut butter to the liquid mixture after boiling it... turned out great!"
"I've been making these for years they are great. I also add peanut butter to my recipe and it makes them even tastier. I just add half cup of it to mixture. i leave out the coconut since some of my grandkids like it and some dont."
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Inflation at four-year low of 1.7%
The prospect of a steady rise in real term wages for the first time since the start of the economic downturn came a step closer today as official figures showed inflation fell to a four-year low of 1.7% last month.
Pay growth has been lagging behind the rise in the cost of living for six years, effectively shrinking workers' spending power.
But a fall in petrol prices and a moderation in energy price hikes helped the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) measure of inflation fall for the fifth month in a row February, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
It has not been lower since October 2009, when it was 1.5%.
Official forecasts revealed by George Osborne in last week's Budget revealed that pay is finally expected to overtake inflation later this year with some experts predicting this to happen by next month.
Ministers will be hoping an end to the squeeze spikes the guns of Labour's charge that a "cost of living crisis" means ordinary people are yet to feel the benefits of the economic recovery.
Earnings have not increased at a higher rate than inflation since a brief spike in March and April 2010 and have not consistently been improving since 2008.
Latest labour market figures showed annual wage growth in the three months to January was 1.4% but suggest private sector wages have already caught up with inflation, at 1.7%. Ordinary public sector workers rises lagged behind at 0.9%.
Monthly total pay rises - which are more erratic - were measured at 1.7% in December and January, suggesting they may also have already caught up.
Prime Minister David Cameron welcomed the inflation figures while the Chancellor tweeted: "The job is far from done but another sign our economic plan's working."
But Labour and the unions pointed out that the squeeze was still under way and said pay packets had effectively stalled at the same level they were a decade ago.
The fall in inflation from 1.9% in January also means it remains below the Bank of England's 2% target, easing any pressure on rate setters as they seek to maintain low borrowing costs to support the recovery.
A first rise from the historic low of 0.5% is not expected until next year.
Savers will also be helped by lower inflation as the value of their nest eggs has been eaten away by the rock-bottom interest rates.
The latest CPI figure was partly driven down by a fall in petrol prices of 0.8p per litre between January and February this year, compared with a 4p rise for the same period in 2013.
Diesel was also down by 0.8p, compared with a 3.7p increase the year before, the ONS said.
Meanwhile, energy bills saw a combination of prices and cuts, compared with an overall rise for the same period in 2013.
Households were also given a boost by inflation in food and non-alcoholic drinks falling to a near four-year low of 1.8%.
Martin Beck, senior economic adviser to the EY Item Club, said: "There is now a distinct possibility that real wage growth will hit positive territory in April, helping to support household spending."
Samuel Tombs, of Capital Economics, said lower import prices - helped by a strong pound - together with flat commodities and recovering productivity in the economy meant inflation could fall as low as 1% by the end of the year.
David Kern, chief economist at the British Chambers of Commerce, said: "The current economic environment of low inflation and low interest rates should make it easier for businesses to plan ahead and invest."
But Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit, said while the low figure gave the Bank of England greater leeway on interest rates, a sharp rise in pay could fuel fears of inflation rising, resulting in pressure to lift them.
TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said: "Lower inflation is good news, but this cannot hide the longest cut in real wages since the 1870s. Pay packets are about the same level that they were ten years ago.
"These figures underline just how far we have to go to restore living standards so that ordinary people share in the recovery. Britain needs a pay rise."
During a visit to Hull, Mr Cameron said: " We're seeing unemployment falling, we're seeing more people getting into work, new businesses being set up.
"Crucially, all the time we're doing this with low inflation which actually helps people live a better standard of life."
The Prime Minister added: "We've got to stick at it.
"There's a lot more work to be done - more people to be got back to work.
"But to see that improvement in living standards, it's good news today that inflation is down."


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London - If you have blue eyes, this could make you a bit green.
Men and women with brown eyes are seen as more trustworthy.
But before blue-eyed boys and girls reach for coloured contact lenses, the results may simply be to do with the facial shape of those with brown eyes.
Researchers took pictures of 80 men and women and asked almost 250 volunteers to rate them.
Overall, brown-eyed faces were judged to be more trustworthy than the blue-eyed ones and the women as more trustworthy than the men.
Faces that were rated as attractive were also seen to be trustworthy, science journal PLoS ONE reports.
Women with brown eyes marked pictures of blue-eyed females lower than those whose eyes were green or brown.
And in a show of blatant eye-colour bias, those ladies with brown eyes rated brown-eyed female faces more highly than blue-eyed ones. The colour of the eyes on the pictures were then changed, to see if this affected perceptions.
For male participants the change did not make a difference, suggesting there is something about the shape of brown-eyed faces that conveys honesty.
Photos of men with brown eyes tended to have bigger eyes, noses and broader chins. Smaller facial features may lead to a man being perceived as less masculine, and so less trustworthy, the researchers, from Charles University, in Prague, said. - Daily Mail


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Went out of the port again and caught some nice Tripletail. Some on buoys, some on seaweed, and some free swimming/sitting. Got them from 30ft all the way to 50ft It's cool, because I kill the motor as I get close and they hide under my boat. It's like they think it is floating garbage. :P
This was the biggest one at 21lbs.


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We should have kept Bargnani
My understanding was the MU arrived in the NBA with a skill set that included recruiting "foreign" players. He knows the African continent and where to find talent there. How does this perception align with your suggestion that he wants to reduce the non-American content on the team?
Perhaps he's been in the NBA long enough to realize how important player development in America is to success in the NBA. I mean check out the "Canadian" talent being drafted to the NBA recently - did they develop in Canadian universities? I think not.
Hmmm seems like people are misinterpreting me. My logic isn't that international players aren't talented (of course there are many, some of you listed several examples). What I was implying was that perhaps the management has made a conscious decision to stop building a team with international flavour overall to be successful. Maybe they even avoid international players unless they are clear-cut fantastic, game-changing players. Making an effort to go Euro was how Raptors fans and the rest of the league described/perceived it 6-7 years ago was it not (and even more recently than that)? It's just interesting to see the style change, no matter what the reason may be.
Of course it could be coincidence, absolutely! But its a strange one at least warranting discussion, considering how many people bashed the Euro flavour, and now it's almost completely "domestic".
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I missed the days when we had Bargnani, Calderon, Turkoglu, Nesterovic, Brezec, Bellinelli, Ukic, Garbajosa, Slokar...
only in the off season would I give a shit about looking up that info
google is a powerful tool
There's a certain irony to this whole European vs USA player discussion - as our only European will most likely be our best player.
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DUNDEE, Scotland, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- Researchers in Scotland say they have developed a see-through soil that will enable scientists to study roots in detail for the first time.
The underground world of plant roots is called the rhizosphere and scientists at the University of Abertay Dundee and the James Hutton institute, writing in the journal PLos ONE, say creation of the new transparent soil marks a research milestone that will have applications in many different areas.
The artificial soil that becomes translucent when saturated with a special water-based solution is a substrate very similar to real soil in terms of physical and biological variables, researchers said.
The soil is a synthetic composite utilizing Nafion, often used in power-generating fuel cells, and replicates natural soil chemistry, they said.
"There are many different scientific disciplines that could benefit from this research," Hutton researcher Lionel Dupuy said. "Transparent soils could be used to study the spread and transmission of soil borne pathogens.
"In crop genetics, transparent soils could be used to screen the root systems of a range of genotypes. This would help breed crops with more efficient root systems so that agriculture can rely less on fertilizers."


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DETROIT - The original swaps deal with UBS and Merrill Lynch/Bank of America was for $280 million.
The first deal Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr negotiated with the banks was for $230 million, or the banks netting 81 cents on the dollar.
Early on, Judge Steven Rhodes gave it thumbs down, calling it too rich. So Orr went back to the negotiating table and offered a deal of $160 million or 66 cents on the dollar.
Again, Judge Rhodes said no.
Swaps deal No. 3 -- $85 million, or 30 cents on the dollar
This deal -- deal No. 3 -- has the city of Detroit paying $85 million or 30 cents on the dollar. Plunkett Cooney bankruptcy practice chief and bankruptcy expert Doug Bernstein said this one may very well stick.
"If this settlement's approved it may lead to other settlements with other classes of creditors, so you may not have as a much to litigate further down the road before confirmation," he said.
For his part, Orr said the following in a statement:
"We appreciate the bank's willingness to work with us to reach a solution that we think balances our goal to provide realistic recoveries to creditors while freeing up critical funds that we can invest to improve the quality of life in Detroit. We look forward to Judge Steven Rhodes' decision on our proposed settlement, and we hope the 'swaps' resolution serves as a model for compromise on other matters related to Detroit's finances."
By that he means this may set up other creditors for taking big losses in what's known as a cramdown.
"Potentially, through the cramdown provisions of the bankruptcy code, the plan could get confirmed by Judge Rhodes over the objections of other parties," said Bernstein.
More: Hearing on Detroit's $85 million deal with banks is Wednesday
Complete coverage: Detroit bankruptcy
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Here are some of the notable quotes from around Major League Baseball this week:
"My wife and I have been before, but our three girls never have. Pretty good timing, huh?"
-- Marlins pinch-hitter Jason Wood announcing plans to take his family to Disney World the day after he hit a game-winning thee-run homer. (South Florida Sun-Sentinel)
"Everybody knows I throw hard. You can hear the buzz when I come in. You know they're waiting for that first pitch and the reading on the radar, and all of that works to my advantage.
"But I've been trying to plant another seed as well, drop some 85-mile-per-hour hammers, some changeups as well. There's more than one way to create a buzz, and I won't always be able to throw 100."
-- Tigers pitcher Joel Zumaya on how radar gun readings influence both the crowd and the game. (Los Angeles Times)
"It's just nice to be able to play in all the ballparks. I missed a couple. I missed Minnesota because I was hurt. I didn't play in Detroit. I wish I had the opportunity to play there, but I know I'm not retiring, so my chance might come."
-- Barry Bonds on the significance of homering in Fenway Park. (San Francisco Chronicle)
"What an amazing blessing for my first hit to be a home run, for my dad to see it, and to win the game. I wanted to contribute in some way."
-- Angels outfielder Terry Evans on his first start in the Majors Wednesday versus the Astros. (Los Angeles Times)
"No, my wife does sometimes and I tell her to be quiet."
-- A's pitcher Dan Haren when asked if he was amazed with his 1.78 ERA and if he wondered if he could keep it that low all season. (San Francisco Chronicle)
"You don't change things overnight. It's a gradual thing. My last two starts have helped me gain the confidence and helped me feel good physically. Today was the day it just came together."
-- Mariners pitcher Jeff Weaver on his complete-game shutout versus the Pirates Wednesday for his first win of the season. (Seattle Times)
"I'm feeling good and I am more comfortable. I'm gaining confidence, and I am learning more every day."
-- Cleveland Indians outfielder Franklin Gutierrez, on what playing at the Major League level has done for his knowledge of the game. (Akron Beacon Journal)
"I've been booed so many times, one more time is no big deal. I don't care. It's good to be in a big spot and do your job."
-- Philadelphia Phillies reliever Jose Mesa, on being booed regularly when he plays in Cleveland. (Philadelphia Inquirer)
"Yes, I was watching the next hitter. I know he was waiting."
-- Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Masumi Kuwata, on getting his team out of an eighth inning jam on Tuesday night as the Mariners' Ichiro Suzuki waited on deck. Suzuki was left waiting on deck when Kuwata got out of the jam. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
"Compared with when I saw him in Japan, he looks very comfortable. We need to get a hit off him there but, watching him come out from the bullpen, half of me feels like he's going to get us out."
-- Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki, on Pirates reliever Masumi Kuwata. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
"Just to fit in, I guess."
-- Pittsburgh Pirates first baseman Adam LaRoche, on his decision to give himself a spiked haircut just before the Pirates visited Seattle. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
"A baseball field's a baseball field. No difference."
-- Cincinnati Reds rookie pitcher Homer Bailey, on starting a game on the road after his first two starts were at home. (Cincinnati Enquirer)
"It's surreal staring at them on the other side of the field, but it's something I'll have to get used to."
-- Former Cincinnati Reds and current Oakland A's pitcher Chris Denorfia, on seeing his former team for the first time this week when the Reds visited Oakland. (Cincinnati Post)
"You need to respect your elders -- don't you feel bad that you've got two guys older than you playing in the field and you're not?"
-- Cincinnati Reds outfielder Ken Griffey Jr.,, asking teammate Scott Hatteberg about his role as the team's designated hitter in Oakland while Griffey and Jeff Conine were both playing in the field. Griffey, 37, is 23 days older than Hatteberg while Conine is 41. (Cincinnati Post)
-- Scott Hatteberg's response to Griffey. (Cincinnati Post)
"I've already felt 10 times more comfortable over at first than I did in the outfield. I felt comfortable in the outfield, but I'm not a natural outfielder. I just feel playing first is more of a natural position."
-- Kansas City Royals rookie Billy Butler, on his recent stint at first base. Earlier in the year, Butler had been playing most of his innings in the outfield. (Kansas City Star)
"Just relief."
-- Detroit Tigers first baseman Sean Casey, on the feeling he had after hitting his first home run of the season on Tuesday night in Washington. (Detroit Free Press)
"I think we've tried to take into account that he has gotten older, and Craig's gotten more realistic about that too. Even up to last year Craig resisted days off. But one of the things that makes these guys great is they don't give in to fatigue, they don't give in to pain, they don't give in to injury. They tend to think they can be just as good now as they ever could be."
-- Houston manager Phil Garner commenting on 40-year-old second baseman Craig Biggio being more accepting of days off this season. (Houston Chronicle)
"He doesn't try to do too much," shortstop Michael Young said. "He comes to the park and works hard and is a professional. He's great in the clubhouse. I expected that. But he has a real mental toughness and confidence. That's something all of us can learn from."
-- Texas shortstop Michael Young on teammate Sammy Sosa and how the slugger works hard every day when he comes to the ballpark. (Dallas Morning News)
"This was the best game we've played in a while. It's good to get everybody going. We did everything right tonight and that's what you want to see."
-- New York Mets catcher Paul Lo Duca, commenting on the team's 8-1 victory over the Minnesota Twins Monday night. (Newsday)
"It wasn't fun. I didn't enjoy it. It was like playing a video game."
-- New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter, commenting on the team's last trip to Colorado five years ago, before the Rockies started to store baseballs in a humidor to counter the affects of the thin air in Denver. New York scored 41 runs in the three-game series while the Yankees and Rockies combined for a total of 70 runs. (New York Daily News)
"We ran him out there three days in a row, but [Sunday] we warmed him up very slowly. There are a lot of factors we take into consideration. In talking to him, he's thrown a lot less than he has in Japan, and from listening to him talk, when he pitched there, they warmed up two innings. Days off, they threw a complete side. That's just the culture. He's not doing this here. We're trying to maximize the innings, but I don't feel like we've overused him. I think he feels better at this juncture of the season here than last year where he was."
-- Boston manager Terry Francona commenting on reliever Hideki Okajima, who was not available to pitch Monday after appearing in three straight games, and the amount of work he is getting this season for the Red Sox. (Boston Globe)
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge on Monday sentenced a hacker to 10 years in prison after he broke into the personal online accounts of Scarlett Johansson, Christina Aguilera and other women and posted revealing photos and other material on the Internet.
U.S. District Judge S. James Otero sentenced Christopher Chaney in Los Angeles after hearing from a tearful Johansson in a videotaped statement.
The biggest spectacle in the case was the revelation that nude photos taken by Johansson of herself and meant for her then-husband Ryan Reynolds were posted online.
"I have been truly humiliated and embarrassed," Johansson said. "I find Christopher Chaney's actions to be perverted and reprehensible."
Chaney, 35, of Jacksonville, Fla., also targeted two women he knew, sending nude pictures of one former co-worker to her father. The judge noted the damage to the women was in some ways worse than what Chaney's celebrity victims endured.
The women, identified in court filings only by initials, wrote in letters to Otero that their lives have been irreparably damaged by Chaney's actions. One has anxiety and panic attacks; the other is depressed and paranoid. Both said Chaney was calculated, cruel and creepy.
"It's hard to fathom the mindset of a person who would accomplish all of this," Otero said. "These types of crimes are as pernicious and serious as physical stalking."
Chaney apologized in court but denied that he had sent naked photos of women he knew to their relatives.
"I don't know what else to say other than I'm sorry," Chaney said. "I could be sentenced to never use a computer again and I wouldn't care."
Chaney previously pleaded guilty to counts that included wiretapping and unauthorized access to a computer.
Actress and singer Renee Olstead said in court Monday that she attempted to kill herself after Chaney leaked nude photos of her. She said she had never before considered suicide.
"I just really hope this doesn't happen to someone else," she said, crying. "You can lose everything because of the actions of a stranger."
The accounts of the cybervictims served as a cautionary tale for those, even major celebrities, who snap personal, and sometimes revealing photos.
Aguilera said in a statement issued days before the sentencing that although she knows that she's often in the limelight, Chaney took from her some of the private moments she shares with friends.
"That feeling of security can never be given back and there is no compensation that can restore the feeling one has from such a large invasion of privacy," Aguilera said.
Prosecutors said Chaney illegally accessed the email accounts of more than 50 people in the entertainment industry between November 2010 and October 2011. Aguilera, Mila Kunis and Johansson agreed to have their identities made public with the hopes that the move would provide awareness about online intrusion.
Some of Aguilera's photos appeared online after Chaney sent an email from the account of her stylist, Simone Harouche, to Aguilera asking the singer for scantily clad photographs, prosecutors said.
Chaney was arrested in October 2011 as part of a yearlong investigation of celebrity hacking that authorities dubbed "Operation Hackerazzi." Chaney's computer hard drive contained numerous private celebrity photos and a document that compiled their extensive personal data, according to a search warrant.
He continued to pursue his victims after the FBI seized his computer, a factor Otero said warranted a harsher penalty.


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The sticker "Run Hillary Run" may already be slapped on bumpers across America, but one group isn't so sure she should run in the 2016 presidential race: Hillary Clinton's closest friends and confidants. Despite the significant advantage with which Mrs. Clinton would enter the race, some of those friends worry that another campaign would test the former secretary of state's stamina and could prove personally painful if old scandals were revived. Those concerns add an unpredictable element as Mrs. Clinton weighs whether to seek the presidency again, a decision she says she plans to make later this year.
The cautions show a gulf between friends and aides attuned to the personal toll of presidential campaigns and the much larger circle of activists and admirers who are cheering for her to run without hesitation. It's not clear how much weight Mrs. Clinton is giving to the warnings—many in her camp say she is determined to run despite the costs, lured by the chance to make history as the nation's first woman president, among other reasons. Still, Mrs. Clinton will be 69 years old on Election Day, and some friends question why she would spend the next years campaigning when she could be pursuing projects of her own choosing.
Should Mrs. Clinton choose not to run, it will leave the party in a tricky position. Her potential candidacy has made it hard for other Democrats to draw the money and staff needed to gain a foothold in the race. If Mrs. Clinton opts out, those Democrats will be getting a late start, particularly compared with the broad swath of Republican contenders who have already been trekking around New Hampshire and Iowa. Peter Nicholas reports: http://on.wsj.com/1nC5srb
–Rebecca Ballhaus
Businesses have a mixed outlook for the coming year in terms of dealing with legislation in Washington. Although many are pleased with compromises in budgets and spending for 2014, other issues affecting businesses, including immigration and tax reform, have not made much movement. VIDEO: http://on.wsj.com/1qTtcWY
Conversations about America's public-education system can be confusing and dispiriting. Charter schools? Teach for America? No Child Left Behind? What works? It's not simple. Into this debate come two economists, Greg J. Duncan and Richard J. Murnane with an encouraging message: We do have evidence that a few approaches work. Read David Wessel's full post in Washington Wire: http://on.wsj.com/OvY7tq
TRADING SCRUTINY: Regulators are taking aim at the relationship between high-frequency trading firms and major exchanges, examining whether the preferential treatment that market operators offer the firms puts other investors at a disadvantage. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is investigating deals between large high-speed firms and the two futures-exchange operators. Scott Patterson and Jenny Strasburg delve into regulators' concerns: http://on.wsj.com/1nC8Ke1
U.S.-RUSSIA RELATIONS: Negotiations between Washington and Moscow over the future of Ukraine have have underscored the Obama administration's inability to penetrate the Kremlin and its struggles to understand Russian President Vladimir Putin's calculations, five years after President Barack Obama decided to reset ties between the two countries. Now, the Obama administration is left crafting a more confrontational policy toward Mr. Putin, but it remains unclear how far it will go. Jay Solomon and Carol E. Lee report: http://on.wsj.com/1nC6aEU
HEALTH LAW: Obamacare is a failure—that's Republicans' message, and they're sticking to it. That point isn't just being made in the campaigns of those running for Congress to try to change the law. It's being featured by candidates for state legislatures, attorney general jobs, and even state public utility commission positions. The health law's ubiquity is a measure of how potent the GOP believes the issue has become in motivating voters, and opposition to the law has become a signal of a candidate's philosophy about government. Laura Meckler reports: http://on.wsj.com/1nC3Bme
FOOD STAMPS: A new food-stamp fight is brewing in Congress, as more states move to prevent cuts signed into law a little over a month ago. House Republicans say some states are trying to game the system that calculates food-stamp benefits—which takes heating assistance into account—by raising heating aid to boost payouts. Democrats have applauded governors' moves to maximize food benefits, while House Speaker John Boehner has vowed that Republicans will take steps to stop them. Kristina Peterson reports: http://on.wsj.com/1nC3xTu
–Compiled by Rebecca Ballhaus
As the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 drags on, a new theory is emerging, writes Peter Liljas in Time: A fire broke out on board and the crew were simply doing everything they could to save the passengers and themselves. http://ti.me/OvWtIj
The Barbour family is riding to the rescue of embattled Mississippi Republican Sen. Thad Cochran, who's facing a tough primary challenge from a conservative state senator. Alexander Burns writes in Politico that Cochran's most important allies are former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour and his two politically astute nephews, Henry and Austin Barbour. http://politi.co/OvWBHH
While some have compared President Obama's cautious approach to foreign entanglements favorably to the strategy of former President Dwight Eisenhower, James Jeffrey argues in Foreign Policy that Eisenhower's policies succeeded because he also showed a tougher side: "While 'ending wars' (not starting new ones) was important to Eisenhower, he did not give the impression, as we have seen at times with the current administration, that this was his only goal." http://atfp.co/OvWJXI
Garrett Epps hears people suggest Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ought to retire, but he doubts she's listening. Writing in The Atlantic, he says her work on the Court belies her 81 years: "Her questions are aggressive and insightful, and her written opinions are more vigorous than ever." http://bit.ly/OvWM63
Michelle Obama's mother, who lives with the First Family, will accompany the First Lady and her two daughters on an upcoming trip to China, and Heather Timmons writes on Quartz that the Chinese people will appreciate the picture of a grandmother who lives with and cares for her grandchildren: "It's an unusual arrangement in the U.S., where over-65-year-olds make up more than 35% of people living alone—but not in China, where migration patterns, cultural tradition and an early retirement age often makes grandparents the primary child care providers." http://bit.ly/OvWV9D
A survey of U.S. companies operating in China released Wednesday shows that 50% cite the falloff in growth—to 7.7% last year from a peak of 14% in 2007—as among the biggest risks they face. http://on.wsj.com/Ow48X5
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@aburnspolitico: Revenue raiser: $3 penalty for each use of "Big Data" where just "data" would work equally well http://bit.ly/Ow9PnP
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Ever since the Jetta was redesigned in 2011, we've had trouble accepting its new mission in life. Jettas of the past represented the best of European cars, more refined and better to drive than competing compact sedans. The 2017 Volkswagen Jetta is all about offering big interior for a small price, as if it were designed not for demanding drivers but for stingy warehouse-club shoppers.
To be fair, Volkswagen has made a lot of changes to the Jetta over its model run, refining the interior and replacing some of the low-cost mechanical bits with more sophisticated hardware. And when it comes to passenger and trunk space, the current Jetta trounces its predecessors, not to mention a few midsize sedans. Backseat comfort is excellent and trunk space is generous.
That said, the Jetta's cabin consists of staid styling and cheap trim bits. Lower-trim models are characterized by hard, shiny plastic, a cheap material that most automakers did away with years ago. At least the Jetta's technology is up to date, with Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, and ? finally! ? a proper USB port in place of VW's proprietary media port (which required an expensive dealer-supplied connector to hook up a smartphone).
Base-model Jettas used to come with an ancient 2.0-liter eight-valve engine that (literally) dated from the last century, but VW has since replaced it with a slick 1.4-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine rated at 150 horsepower. However, it's the 170-hp 1.8-liter turbo that's the real gem. You can also get a 210-hp 2.0-liter turbo engine (sourced from Volkswagen's vaunted GTI) in the sporty Jetta GLI model. EPA fuel economy estimates range from a high of 33 mpg combined (28 city/40 highway) for the 1.4T manual down to 27 mpg combined for the GLI.
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2017 volkswagen jetta 1.4T SE 4dr Sedan (1.4L 4cyl Turbo 6A), 6-speed shiftable automatic, regular unleaded 32 combined MPG 28 city MPG/38 highway MPG
2017 volkswagen jetta 1.4T S 4dr Sedan (1.4L 4cyl Turbo 6A), 6-speed shiftable automatic, regular unleaded 32 combined MPG 28 city MPG/38 highway MPG
2017 volkswagen jetta 1.8T Sport 4dr Sedan (1.8L 4cyl Turbo 6A), 6-speed shiftable automatic, premium unleaded (recommended) 32 combined MPG 28 city MPG/38 highway MPG
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Endangered Sharks
Well-known species of sharks such as the great white shark, tiger shark, blue shark, mako shark, and the hammerhead shark are apex predators—organisms at the top of their underwater food chain. Well man is actually at the very top. Many sharks are endangered as are many other creatures. CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) is an international agreement between governments. Its aim is to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival. CITES has just accepted Committee recommendations to list five species of highly traded sharks under the CITES Appendices, along with those for the listing of both manta rays and one species of sawfish. Japan, backed by Gambia and India, unsuccessfully challenged the Committee decision to list the oceanic whitetip shark, while Grenada and China failed in an attempt to reopen debate on listing three hammerhead species. Colombia, Senegal, Mexico and others took the floor to defend Committee decisions to list sharks.
The meeting reached a climax after an attempt to reopen the debate on these species in the closing Plenary was narrowly defeated. The Parties confirmed a decision made by one of the Conference's Committees earlier in the week to include five commercially valuable shark species in Appendix II.
The oceanic whitetip (Carcharhinus longimanus), scalloped hammerhead (Sphyrma lewini), great hammerhead shark (Sphyrna mokarran), smooth hammerhead shark (Sphyrna zigaena) and the porbeagle shark (Lamna nasus) are harvested in huge numbers for their valuable fins and, in some cases, meat. From now onwards, they will have to be traded with CITES permits and evidence will have to be provided that they are harvested sustainably and legally. These listings mark a milestone in the involvement of CITES in marine species.
In the Committee meeting, the oceanic whitetip shark had been adopted by 92 votes in favor, 42 against and 8 abstentions. Colombia introduced the proposal, supported immediately by co-proponents Brazil and the United States of America. Those against the listing argued that regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs) were best placed to tackle the decline in shark stocks.
Ecuador introduced proposal 46 for the inclusion of manta ray species in Appendix II. The proposal was adopted with 96 votes in favor, 23 against and 7 abstentions. Manta rays are slow-growing, large-bodied migratory animals with small, highly fragmented populations. They have among the lowest reproductive rates of any marine animals, with females giving birth to only one pup every two to three years, making them extremely vulnerable to over exploitation. Most known populations are small in size, although there is an exceptional population of one species in the Maldives, estimated at 5,000 or more. Manta gill plates fetch high prices in international markets and have been traded in significant numbers in recent years.
Manta rays are recognized by their large bodies, 23 feet in width, triangular pectoral fins, horn-shaped cephalic fins and large, forward-facing mouths. They can be found in temperate, subtropical and tropical waters in much of the world ocean.
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Pineapple Oatmeal Cookies
1/2 c. soft butter or margarine
1/2 c. granulated sugar
1/2 c. firmly packed brown sugar
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1 c. (9 oz. can) crushed pineapple
1-1/2 c. rolled oats
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1/2 tsp. each baking soda,
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dash of ground nutmeg
1/2 c. chopped walnuts
Cream butter. Add sugars and beat until light. Add egg and beat well. Add pineapple, oats, sifted dry ingredients and nuts; mix well. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets. Bake in preheated moderate 375 degrees oven for about 15 minutes. Makes about 4 dozen.


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Discussion in 'Trek Tech' started by Wingsley, Feb 25, 2013.
I didn't say that Vega was a constellation. I've said that it was in the Lyra constellation.
If Vega isn't by the galactic rim then it probably isn't the Delta Vega we're looking for
There you go.
I think Timo brought up Vega not being a constellation, because historically in the real world, the bright stars in the sky were designated by Greek letter plus constellation. Syntactically, Delta Vega would fit that nomenclature, if only Vega were a constellation. "Delta Vega" sounds like a legitimate astronomical otherwise, and that's just a trope, by the way.
Now in ST TMP we saw an accidental wormhole. Here was a thought. Maybe at the time of Valiant's loss no one really knew what kind of FTL to expect. There is space being warped--but how exactly. A warp ship surfs a true wormhole near instantly connects and a jump drive displaces similarly.
Now perhaps, as we saw from the Varduaar from Voyager, you can get the answer maybe a little too soon. Valiant might have been what the first Star Wars hyperspace ship looked like, and a possiblity missed.
Then we get bogged down in warp factors and all the technological spin-offs that result from more straightforward field manip'
Backing up Timo's statement, the new system that was discovered - Wise [a short list of numbers], its location, from our perspective, was obscured by galactic dust. Its discovery came about by a detailed examination of images over a span of time, decades in this case, that showed that there was something moving across the night sky. I think one of the lessons to be learned from this new discovery is that nearness to the observer doesn't automatically apply to knowing that something is next to you. We discovered the nearest systems in the past two centuries, which means that for thousands of years humans didn't even know there was an Alpha Centauri, a Proxima Centauri, or a Barnard's Star.
Well, one of those stars you chose isn't the best example to make your point. Alpha Centauri, being the brightest star in the constellation Centaurus, and the third brightest star in the night sky, has been observed since prehistoric times. Of course, it wasn't known to be really a binary star system, until the 17th century.
Perhaps Vega is the name of a non-Human constellation?
I've given the scenario more thought, some of which is probably unorthodox and outrageously heretic, and would like to present an attempt to provide solutions:
A) The energy barrier has only "negative" properties and one of the physical properties of hypothetical "negative matter" is the repulsive effect it would have on normal matter which has also been suggested by Bob Forward and others as a means of spaceship propulsion.
Apparently, as witnessed in "By Any Other Name", one problem was to break through this energy barrier, so in WNM the barrier's repulsive effect could have provided the Enterprise with enough kinetic energy of being catapulted away from the barrier (obviously they just needed to maintain helm control to determine which direction the ship was catapulted to).
B) While the warp engines were switched off some time after the encounter, I can't help but wonder how the warp coils actually perform from a strictly TOS in-universe point of view. The big problem of both nuclear fusion and matter-antimatter annihilation is that the major product is gamma radiation. Either the dilithium crystals convert the reaction energy into some form "exotic" energy the warp coils need or the warp coils themselves are actually exotic as they react to any exposure of gamma radiation.
Frankly, I find all these nautic references in Star Trek to be rather pathetic ("All I ask is a tall ship...", "Let the wind be at our backs"). Essentially the Enterprise (and any spaceship for that matter) is a space going submarine and I haven't heard of any submarine commander who'd quote sailing ship poetics (most of these would rather pray "All I ask is a steady concentration of salt in the sea water...").
However, if natural gamma radiation would actually qualify as the "wind" for a warp driven spacecraft, we'd be dealing with something completely different (notice that most of the TOS starships are named after sailing vessels...and Vulcan has no oceans to sail on ).
In theory, a warp driven spacecraft could be constantly on the move as the natural gamma radiation would stimulate the coils. So when a ship has come to a full stop that would only tell us that the warp coils have been shielded from receiving natural gamma radiation.
To reach higher warp speeds the Enterprise would be merely adding / increasing artificial gamma radiation.
Back to what we saw in WNM, one could argue that it was no longer possible for the ship to supply artificial gamma radiation ("the ship's space warp ability gone") but the ship was still receiving natural gamma radiation to move at a speed like warp factor 1 or the like.
C) The impulse engines provided additional thrust to get to Delta Vega faster. As odd as this may sound, we've seen in "The Immunity Syndrome" that Scotty combined warp and impulse power into one major thrust.
Of course, impulse power itself wouldn't qualify as an FTL drive, but it could play a more significant role to support "natural" warp travel.
Quote from The Making of Star Trek: Originally the Enterprise was said to be powered by something loosely called a 'space warp'. ..."
In general terms, TOS makes it clear that the warp engines are capable of very high speeds even when carefully designed not to be. Supposedly, warp eight for the Constitution class means redlining the poor bairns, and isn't recommended for any length of time - yet warp 14+ can still be achieved, simply by sitting on the safety valve.
It wouldn't be at all unexpected, then, for the Valiant to be briefly capable of, say, warp ten. Or even more briefly, of warp fifty. The relevant question then becomes, does speed times duration give the distance necessary for going to the galactic rim at any value of speed or duration - or do high speeds always blow up the ship too soon?
The bounce effect of the Barrier sounds quite plausible. It's probably weirdly directional, too, so that you can end up bouncing like a flipper ball inside the barrier basically forever unless you know which direction to push ("Is There In Truth") or happen to guess right ("Where No Man").
Timo Saloniemi
That sounds something like Cavorite from Wells' FIRST MEN IN THE MOON.
Admittedly it does, but so do the enigmatic dilithium crystals or - for comparison - AVATAR's unobtainium.
In his main thread blssdwlf has presented substantial evidence that the Enterprise is capable of re-energizing itself amidst classic particle exhaust propulsion principles (impulse drive).
Even if the weight of the ship mentioned by Scotty in "Mudd's Women" were only attributed to the bulk of impulse fuel and assuming they use fusion "rockets" they'd still require more fuel for exhaust particles than what ramjet or ramscoop technology would probably gather to get to Delta Vega.
Of course, if the ship were propelled by natural gamma radiation (like wind drives a sailing vessel) you'd have more solutions than technical obstacles to overcome, IMHO.
It's all highly exotic stuff but still one might want to examine which exotic approach is the least incredible one.
I might buy bouncing off the barrier after going into it a ways. Valiant doing more than 1-2 for any length of time should burn out the warp coils. Did that design use Dilithium, if not the speeds attainable without external help could not be warp 10 or 50.
If the barrier repelled ships how did the Valiant get back into the galaxy? Remember the storm swept them out of it and they had to flight half a light year back to just go through the barrier.
An unprepared Andromedan ship was torn to pieces in "By Any Other Name", but the pieces were thrown inward into the Milky Way...
It's quite possible that the Barrier exerts forces on all objects, or at least all warp coils, but apparently those don't have a single easily recognizable direction. Sure, we could argue that getting out is difficult and getting in is destructive but easy, but even that model is confused by "Is There In Truth No Beauty?" where a ship entering the Barrier is unable to get out either with or without engine power.
Of course, "Is There" features a slightly different shade of treknobabble from the rest of the Barrier episodes: the ship is said to have ended relatively far outside the Milky Way (and supposedly well beyond the Barrier), and entered a "spacetime continuum" where warp navigation is impossible for some reason. Or possibly the "continuum" briefly confused inertial navigation and then went away, and Spock is saying it will come back if they try to re-engage warp.
The act of going through the Barrier is mentioned separately and, in synch with "Where No Man", is stated to require warp power because impulse engines won't suffice. Or, more accurately, sublight speed doesn't suffice, possibly indicating that the Barrier is so thick that sublight travel would take forever and/or expose the ship and the crew to dangers for too long. If the latter interpretation is taken, then there's no problem for the Valiant's engines in the act of going through the Barrier from outside in (the storm took care of the other direction), but a slow passage would increase the odds of divine emergence...
Timo Saloniemi
Just a quick post to report in as the O.P. in this thread "I'm Back!"
My aged laptop died recently, so I haven't been able to spend any time on TrekBBS. I'm now on a brand-new machine.
This particular discussion has certainly taken on a life of its own in my absence, hasn't it?
I have some thoughts I will try to post later. I'm still catching up on reading this thread. Wow. Talk about a lengthy dialogue. I had no idea that an old, destroyed spaceship that was never even seen (nor was her crew ever seen) in one ep of TOS could spark such a lively conversation. Wish I would've started this one a long time ago.
And we haven't even begun to discuss what the Valiant's crew was probably served for dinner before all the shit went down.
Indeed! Were protein resequencers invented between the Valiant launch and ENT? Or were they only ever introduced to ENT due to the Temporal Cold War, and Captain Tarasco actually had replicators aboard the Valiant but the Borg incursion of ST:FC made those disappear so that Janeway thought they hadn't been invented yet in Kirk's time? When exactly were colored cubes and celery adopted as the haute cuisine of astronaut food?
How many crew did they have to feed anyway? If suspended animation was used, would a stash of Ben&Jerry's in starboard Cryochamber #12 have sufficed? Or did the crew plan to forage on alien worlds?
Possibly it's all a horrible misunderstanding and Tarasco's crew were all mutants from WWIII to start with, some with godlike powers, but all without an appetite for anything but the thorium in the engine department?
Timo Saloniemi
They probably had the same kind of food that Dave Bowman and Frank Poole ate in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
First, let me just say how impressed I am with how this thread has evolved. Going back over the technical and historical details of "Where No Man Has Gone Before", "Space Seed", STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT and STAR TREK ENTERPRISE has revealed some interesting tidbits, arguments and points-of-view.
Back to my O.P. for this thread:
My original intent was to start a discussion about the Valiant, (the ship itself) with technical and historical issues obviously being interwoven into the discussion.
This thread has evolved into more of a discussion about STAR TREK history and how the various subsequent post-TOS series have retconned "what happened back in the 21st century". While this thread-within-a-thread is extremely interesting and fun for me and for everyone else who's been participating, it seems to have taken on a life of its own in my absence. (My aged MacBook Pro recently died an unexpected and sudden death, and it took me several days to acquire this new iMac I'm typing on) So from my perspective, this thread has really surprised me, but also seems to have left me behind.
Let me try to start catching up:
I quoted the above passage from blssdwlf because it dovetails so perfectly with what I had said on page #2 of this thread:
I know some people either like "Maps" or don't like it... while others simply don't acknowledge it at all because it is not officially "canon".
I enjoyed "Maps" (published about the same time as TMP was being released in theaters) because its details (especially its listing of planets, plus its graphical content) was obviously closely matched to the "canon" content of TOS and TAS.
blssdwlf's posting from page #9 of this thread, quoted above, underscores an obvious canon recurrence throughout the STAR TREK franchise: warp speeds vary relative to the speed of light. There are numerous instances (especially in TOS and TNG) that underscore that a warp-capable space vessel, even one traveling at only Warp 1, can travel major interstellar distances in weeks, months or only a few years; not decades, centuries or millennia. This kind of amazing velocity is not constant throughout the STAR TREK Universe; "Maps" suggests that these velocities only occur under the proper conditions.
Quoting from the "Introduction to Navigation: Star Fleet Command", an attachment-booklet included in "Star Trek Maps" (Bantam, 1980) page 6:
This passage goes quite a distance in explaining why spacecraft in the STAR TREK Universe are able to travel significant interstellar distances while typically travelling at Warp 1 to Warp 3. In "Friday's Child", there is the following exchange:
And, indeed, throughout most of STAR TREK's various series and movies, high warp factors are only accessible to starships-of-the-line, and then only reserved for emergencies. Ships usually cruise along at speeds of Warp 4 or less. ("The Corbomite Maneuver") And the most common command to leave orbit is either "Ahead warp factor one" or "warp factor two", not five or seven.
It is my supposition that the Valiant was one of several early Earth starships launched shortly after the "Flight of Cochrane's Phoenix"/"First Contact", and that these crude vessels, in combination with probes like Friendship One, were more or less blindly exploring space following courses that capitalized on the "trade winds" of Cochrane's factor. (This would be before the Vulcans urged Earth's authorities to curtail such perceived over-reach.) So Earth probes and manned ships started seeking out x-friendly courses through deep space, and this is no doubt part of why the Valiant was lost. (NOTE: ENT's "First Flight" made it clear that, prior to the NX Program, no Earth ship ever reached Warp 2; this echoed a similar sentiment in "Broken Bow")
Where was Valiant headed? It's not clear, but there are a couple of obvious objectives that an over-ambitious Earth space program might foolishly shoot for:
1: Delta Vega (this is in close proximity to where the Valiant wound up, and apparently a previous probe could've detected the planet's desirable mineral deposits)
2: a dark matter / dark energy halo shrouding our galactic arm (if we revise the Cochrane's factor concept from "Maps" to assume a strong relationship between warp velocities and the effect of dark matter / dark energy on warp engine technology, it might make sense to naive, over-reaching humans to seek out an unusually strong presence of this mysterious phenomenon to try to capitalize on it; this might also explain why the Enterprise's warp engines shut down when they came into contact with the Dreaded Negative Energy Barrier (D-NEB).
I agree with others in this thread that it seems unlikely that the magnetic storm mentioned on the Valiant's "black box" would be responsible for sweeping the ship hundreds of parsecs. It also seems silly that the ship only made it out here because of a freak mishap with a wormhole. (There is no evidence of that.)
Instead, it seems much more logical that the Valiant followed probes sniffing for lithium/dilithium or other minerals or more likely dark matter/dark energy and they got more than they bargained for.
As for the S.S. Valiant herself, based on the material in this ep and subsequent loosely related inferences about warp speed, starship technologies and so on sprinkled throughout TOS, it would seem we can assume these things about the ship:
S.S. Valiant
1: crude, perhaps SPACE: 1999-esque modular space vessel; this would give Valiant at least some familial connection to the DY family of spacecraft.
2: unlikely her flight crew relied upon suspended animation, but they could have carried extra personnel on-board in this fashion.
3: based on what ENT indicated, Valiant probably had a non-suspended flight crew significantly less than NX-01 Enterprise's 83, and based on the recorder-marker's "black box", she had well over 8. So we can assume anywhere from a couple dozen up to maybe 50.
4: as suggested by FIRST CONTACT and "First Flight", Valiant employed Cochrane-style crude warp nacelles, probably designed by Cochrane himself.
5: The Valiant's maximum speed was certainly less than Warp 2.0, and she probably cruised along typically at Warp 1.0.
6: It is at least possible (and plausible) that Valiant and other early Earth starships of the 2060s were responsible for deploying deep space probes like Friendship One.
7: Earth of the post-Phoenix era was brimming with optimism, ambitious space plans, and over-reach, which resulted in at least some of these early space missions going awry (Valiant, Conestoga, Friendship One, etc.)
At this moment, I would like to thank aridas sofia for starting a similar thread called "S.S. Valiant Appearance" over in the Trek Art forum on TrekBBS. This is a little closer to what I was originally driving at. Neat images over there, BTW.
Now I'll have to get back to reading and digesting the rest of this thread. I only made it as far as page #9.
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[Verse 1: Petey Pablo]
Carolina Bird Dog
You niggas is lucky
Motherfuckers hot for the moment
But when the moment's over
And the roller coaster you been coasting on
Comes to a halt and the conductor pull the handle on ya'
You ain't got shit to kick up the paper
What it cost
And he waving his hand for ya', telling y'all to come off
You ain't got no more tickets and everything closed
You look down in my hand and I'm holding the Row
And you know in your soul
I'm a loner, I don't fuck with y'all
Never have, never will
Nigga I don't fuck with y'all
Them ain't my homeboys
I just spit on their tracks
I sent the call for em'
And they ain't call back
I guess they got caught up in what the hood call a big head
Get the nigga that did shit for y'all for no bread
Next time ya' see me out
Ain't a need in acting scared
Just close your mouth and turn your head
Before I predict that I'm a
[Hook: Petey Pablo] 2x
Hop, skip, and a jump
Away from the pen
Been there done that
My niggas miss me in there
If a nigga out here fuck up I'm gonna tear in his ass
This nigga here is short a couple cards in the deck
[Verse 2: Petey Pablo]
I'm so awesome, I perform when I walk
I'm a monster
No ??? I gotta be responsible for
I hit hard and plus I'm armed with firearms
So alert the security, tell em to get prepared for it
Holy moses, jeeper creeper, this nigga throwed off
I done dropped all of my marbles in the floor of my car
Ready to brawl so give me some church hall
And turn up my vocals dog
And let me kick this track in the balls
Put me in this car before you take insurance off it
And I'm gonna drive this bitch until I blow the doors off it
And while you're at it, run in there, smash on em'
Turn over table, kick him in his asshole
Take the paper, grip him up and stick a lighter to him
Stay there and watch all of em' burn
Tired of talking to em'
[Hook] 2x
[Verse 3: Kurupt]
You ain't never did what you say you did
I seen so many different changes in the way you live
But I ain't tripping
You know I keep it straight O.G
And everything you think you done that you think I don't see
I don't fuck with these bustas
I don't fuck with these bustas
Let me explain myself
Let me restrain myself
Let me reflame myself
Nigga, black Chevrolet on all gold D's
Just too motherfucking original ??
It's me, and the army's in a Cutlass Supreme
Dipping through the streets
I got the heater, me and ?
On the way to ?????
I see y'all niggas and you just don't know it
It ain't nothing if you don't live for it, motherfucker
I'm gonna show these niggas by not even responding
Just posted, heater staying open minded
Cause I'm a
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Road west across PA, then down through West Virignia to visit my unlce in Harrisonburg VA. Was an Amazing ride. Stayed one night is Morgantown WV. Next Day headed south
Road west across PA, then down through West Virignia to visit my unlce in Harrisonburg VA. Was an Amazing ride. Stayed one night is Morgantown WV. Next Day headed south
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Monongahela National Forest... Was Amazing. Lots of really nice forest roads.
This place was Rider Karma! For sure. I was getting low on gas...One of the routes I picked out with Delorme did not pan out...Gated! So i was working my way around and found this Perfect spot!
Crossing The Shenandoah Mountain Pass... Really Nice!
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Enjoyed it so Much.. I returned a couple months later in the summer and camped in the George Washington NF on my way to Little Switzerland.
To Bad the Weather Did Not Cooperate. Had the campground almost to my self. About 2 am...Storm passed through but my little MSR kept me dry...That was a prelude to the rest of the Trip.. Rain.. And Lots of Fog.
The next day not only treated me with Lots and Lots of Rain, Fog and Chilly temps for July... BUt I was also rewarded with a ticket for excellent high speed ridding from Tennessee's finest. He was a very nice, and even appologized for giving me the ticket. I told him No Problem.. Thanks for not making me empty my bike to get my registration.
After slogging through Rain and Fog over rogers Mt and more rain and fog up 226a, I finally arrived in Little Switzerland. Great place that I must return to cause in all the fog I could not see much. BUt I did see a few of these go down! It was a great Ride... Rain and all, cant wait to do it all again.
Rt. 72 is an amazing road, especially between Rt. 32 and 219 - a little narrow and chewed up in parts but amazing nonetheless! Did you happen to map your route out? I'd be interested to see what roads you took and whether you liked them or not.
"A good stick is a good reason"
Moto Pages
Nice report!
And yes, you definitely need to go back to the roads surrounding Little Switzerland...
spring trip 2.jpg(4 of us, 2 BMW's, a Triumph and a Honda) were down that way last weekend (4/19/13). Left Lancaster, PA area Friday morning, rode down in mostly overcast weather in the mid to low 70's, and finally hit rain about a half hour from our campsite in Seneca Rocks. We pulled the bikes into the pavillion just as the rain let loose. Saturday morning we woke up to 34 degrees but dry. One of the guys had to head home for his Mom's 60th birthday party so the rest of us headed south and west. At one 3700 foot pass, the thermometer dropped to 30 and we saw some snow. Not the coldest I've ridden in, and balmy compared to what some of you ride in, but chilly considering the temps the day before. We ended up heading home early, as no one wanted to tent camp with overnight temps forecast to be below freezing Sat night.
Still a fun get away, did just over 300 miles Friday and 430 Saturday.
Planning on going through parts of WVa on my way to Asheville in June for the RA rally. And probably on my way back.
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