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The black woman who will decide Oscar's fate
Talk to South Africans and many will tell you the "most incredible sight" on display at the trial of Oscar Pistorius is not their country's favourite son in the dock charged with the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, but that of the black woman who will decide his fate.
Judge Thokozile Matilda Masipa, 66, grew up during the cruellest years of her nation's apartheid regime yet rose to become just the second black female judge in South Africa.
Thanks partly to the difficulty of finding jurors untainted by the racial perversions engendered by that political system, South Africa abandoned jury trials in 1969, with cases now decided by a judge, aided by two assessors. In the Pistorius case those people are Masipa and Janet Henzen-du Toi, an advocate who is a white woman, as well as, Themba Mazibuko, a former legal academic, who is a black man.
As one former advocate said to me: "For a South African of my age, it is really quite amazing to look up and see the judge is not only a woman but black".
"For an entire generation of white South Africans, a black woman was either their maid or nanny and judges were almost exclusively white males. To see Masipa presiding over the trial of not only a white man but a rich, famous, white man, this is a stunning symbol of just how far the country has come," he said.
Another South African told me "it is almost beyond my comprehension" the level of determination Masipa must have had to get an education, then find "the passion and drive in such a racist society to suceed like she has".
In comparison to judges in other high-profile "celebrity trials" like Judge Lance Ito in the O.J. Simpson murder trial and Judge Michael Pastor in Dr Conrad Murray's trial for the involuntary manslaughter of Michael Jackson, very little is known about Judge Masipa save that she likes dancing, gardening and yoga, is married and has one son.
Despite having worked as a newspaper reporter earlier in her career and being on the record as saying judges should interact with the media to explain their decisions, Masipa has kept a low public profile.
A 1999 announcement of her appoinment to the judiciary says she was born in the Johannesburg township of Orlando East, Soweto in 1947, the year before apartheid became an official ideology in South Africa.
She received a Bachelor of Arts degree, with a specialisation in social work, in 1974 and was later employed as a journalist for The World, The Post and The Sowetan newspapers before earning a law degree in 1990 from the University of South Africa. She became an advocate in 1991.
In her time on the bench, Judge Masipa has shown little tolerance for crimes against women, handing down a 252-year sentence last year to a serial rapist and robber and, prior to that, a life sentence to a policeman who shot and killed his wife during an argument about a divorce settlement.
During that trial she said: "No one is above the law. You deserve to go to jail for life because you are not a protector, you are a killer."
No one is above the law. You deserve to go to jail for life because you are not a protector, you are a killer."Judge Thokozile Masipa
In 2001, Masipa sentenced two rapists to life in prison, commenting: "Women feel unsafe, even in the sanctity of their own homes, and look to these courts to protect their interests, which courts can only do by meting out harsh sentences."
While some might speculate this does not bode well for Pistorius, Masipa was not appointed to the trial for political reasons, merely chosen by luck from a routine allocation of court cases. Though her opinion on the blade runner's guilt or innocence is foremost, if both assessors disagree with her, Masipa's judgment can be overruled.
Nonetheless, Pistorius's unctuous use of the honorific "My Lady" every time he answers a question, has also struck many South Africans as over-kill on his part and might obscure the fact that outside of courtrooms, blacks in South Africa still occupy third place on the social ladder behind whites and Indians.
"Apartheid as a political system may be dead, but an economic Apartheid is still firmly in place. The poverty amongst blacks is endemic. Don't let one black, female judge fool you into thinking this is anything approaching the norm," said one observer.
The inversion of the social dynamics in Pretoria's North Gauteng High Court over the last month might be "incredible" but it is still rare.
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Russell Maston
Russell Maston has been named a deputy warden at the Parkersburg Correctional Center in Parkersburg, W.V. He has worked with the West Virginia Department of Corrections for 15 years, beginning as a correctional officer I at St. Mary's Correctional Center. He was soon promoted to correctional officer II, and later held the rank of corporal, sergeant and programs specialist. Maston is a lifelong resident of the St. Mary's area and attended both Parkersburg Christian School and West Virginia University at Parkersburg. He has also been active in the department's honor guard and Emergency Response Team.

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NEW ORLEANS – Day by day, LA Galaxy forward Edson Buddle is returning to full fitness and the next potential mark on his rehabilitation process could be an appearance in Wednesday's CONCACAF Champions League match against the Puerto Rico Islanders.
Buddle was effective in a 12-minute stint during last Friday's 2-0 LA victory over the Colorado Rapids, nearly tallying a goal in an active performance. While Buddle is hopeful that he can earn a start soon, he understands that his recovery will only be completed through a gradual process.
READ: Buddle "ready to play" against Colorado
"Every day, I feel like my knee is getting stronger. Some days a little sorer than others, but each and every day I feel more comfortable on the field," Buddle told reporters during a brief stop in New Orleans while the club's charter plane refueled. "I'm getting used to the timing, getting used to everything. My knee is still not as strong as my left. I think that I have to keep strengthening it and work on my balance. It'll all come together."
The 32-year-old forward 's recovery has been a steady one with Buddle making a pair of Reserve League appearances while also playing 19 minutes in LA's 4-0 win over the Islanders on August 29 before returning to league action a few days later against Vancouver. Following his latest stint last Friday, head coach Bruce Arena was full of optimism about his ability to return to form.
"He's coming around. He's looking like the old Edson," Arena said. "I think that he's past the injury and now it's just the matter of getting him in form and his first touch a little bit better."
The Galaxy may opt to give Buddle his next jaunt on Wednesday in the club's return to Champions League play against the Islanders in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. The setting of the Estadio Juan Ramón Loubriel is sure to invoke more than a few memories for Buddle as he went 75 minutes—picking up a yellow card— in the club's ill-fated match in 2010 that saw the Galaxy booted from the CCL in the Preliminary Round, despite a 2-1 road win.
"It was a tough game, we had to win," said Buddle. "It was humid, the field was very bumpy and I know that it won't be an easy place to play. I was surprised about how many people came out to watch the game so I'm expecting a good crowd."
With a victory eliminating Puerto Rico from knock out round contention and inching the Galaxy closer to a berth in the quarterfinals, Buddle is well aware of the task at hand.
"Every win and every goal counts. You just want to win and advance," said Buddle. "They have a lot to play for. I'm sure they remember the loss in LA so I'm sure that it's going to be hard game…I know that it didn't rub them the right way, us beating them 4-0."
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I'm attempting to use Apple's DNS-SD library in an application of mine. At this point, I'm just trying to compile dns_sd.h in my project without errors to set up for usage later. When I go to compile though, I get the following error at the following code, respectively:
dns_sd.h|120|error: 'UINT8' does not name a type|
dns_sd.h|121|error: 'INT8' does not name a type|
dns_sd.h|122|error: 'UINT16' does not name a type|
dns_sd.h|123|error: 'INT16' does not name a type|
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I'm sort of at a loss on this; I take it that the compiler can't figure out the uint8_t type? Is this just syntax error to the compiler? I need a little insight to this problem.Code:
#elif defined(_WIN32)
#include <windows.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#define _UNUSED
#ifndef _MSL_STDINT_H
typedef UINT8 uint8_t;
typedef INT8 int8_t;
typedef UINT16 uint16_t;
typedef INT16 int16_t;
typedef UINT32 uint32_t;
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Windows 7


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PHOTOS: A day in the life of a sponsored child
What do your sponsored children do on their days off from school? Have you ever wondered what a weekend or school holiday looks like for them? Meet 10-year-old Peggy from Zambia and see how she spends a free day. (Photos by Collins Kaumba/World Vision.)
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6 a.m. -- Wake up and pray!
The roosters are crowing, the sun is rising, and Peggy jumps out of bed, refreshed after sleeping in. On a school day, she usually wakes up at 5 a.m. No matter the day, Peggy starts each one with prayer. "When I wake up from my bed, I kneel down to pray. In my prayer, I say, 'Jesus, you have blessed me that I have seen a new day.' Then, I also ask God to protect me," Peggy says.
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6:30 a.m. -- Morning chores
Peggy leaves her sleeping hut and grabs a broom to sweep the house's surroundings. Her next chore is to wash plates, but she has to draw water first from a nearby stream. As the eldest of four children, Peggy is a busy girl who happily helps her parents without being asked.
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8 a.m. -- Breakfast time
Peggy's mom has been cooking for much of the morning, and now it's time to eat. "Today, we are having some pumpkins and fresh (cooked) groundnuts for breakfast," says Peggy.
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8:30 a.m. -- Picking tomatoes for neighbors
One of Peggy's friends stops by to ask for some tomatoes. World Vision trained Peggy's parents to grow nutritious foods for their family to eat and to sell for income. They also generously share the produce with their neighbors.
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10 a.m. -- Digging up cassava
The morning is warming up, and the sky is getting clearer. Peggy sets out with her two brothers, carrying two hoes and a machete, for a 20-minute trek to their fields. They work hard harvesting some corn and digging up cassava roots. Cassava is a nutritious plant that requires little water to grow. Its leaves can be cooked like spinach, and its roots can be boiled like potatoes or ground into a vitamin-packed powder for porridge.
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11 a.m. -- Preparing lunch
Peggy returns from the fields and helps her mother prepare a lunch of 'nshima' — a corn porridge — served with chicken, okra, and pumpkin leaves.
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2 p.m. -- Studying
Even though it is a school holiday today, Peggy insists on studying. Much of her incentive to study comes from her World Vision sponsor, who gave her pens, pencils, and inspiration. "About two years ago, I received a letter from my sponsor, but I could not read it because I didn't know how to read English. Someone had to read it for me. This is why I am working hard to learn how to read, write, and speak. (Now) I am able to read English well, and I want my sponsor to know this so that we can be communicating."
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3 p.m. -- Playtime and more chores
Every day, Peggy gets together with friends, and they play her favorite sport called "Game," a keep-away game with a ball. Then, it's back to work! "When I finish playing, I come home to assist Mum with cooking, washing plates, and babysitting while she is preparing dinner for us," says Peggy.
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7 p.m. -- Dinner and bedtime
Peggy's father has returned from selling tomatoes at the market. His hard work is an inspiration to Peggy, who dreams of being a successful businesswoman when she has finished her education. For today, the sun is setting, and Peggy and her family gather for dinner. "After having my dinner around 7 or 8 p.m., I go to prepare my bed, pray, and sleep," she says.
Sponsor a child in Zambia today. You can form a personal relationship with a child like Peggy, sharing in her joys and dreams as she grows up to be a healthy, productive adult, thanks to your love and support.
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Sunday 11th November 2012
First House
£15.00 - £18.00
Tipitina deliver their own unique take on the blues, barrelhouse, boogie and gospel of New Orleans, in the footsteps of Professor Longhair, Dr. John, James Booker, Fats Domino and Allen Toussaint. Following on from their acclaimed debut album 'I Wish I Was In New Orleans', Tipitina are now on a roll with 'Taking Care of Business', recorded at 2011's Birmingham
International Jazz & Blues Festival supported by Colmore BID. Already the House Full signs are going up at Ronnie Scotts and elsewhere, encouraged by uniformly enthusiastic album reviews:
"A wonderful CD, it superbly captures how this incredible band sound au naturelle...phenomenal 10/10 [Blues In Britain].
"A joyous ride through up-tempo feel-good rockers, gospel-tinged ballads and crowd-pleasing sing-alongs. They're a barnstorming live act, few do this with such conviction. [Rock 'N' Reel]
"Tipitina seem to tick just about all the boxes in the stack" [Blues Matters]
"Tipitina, already recognised by thousands of fans, can bring any crowd to its feet"
[The Jazz Rag]
"Tipitina takes us to a dance at Hotel Du Vin in Birmingham with this live recording. This is music that breathes New Orleans, feels New Orleans and takes you to New Orleans - and that is because Tipitina does it so well and it is alive with love. Besides this they are all fine musicians that hit the right tone and atmosphere. Debbie Jones has got a strong and warm voice, Justin Randall is a skilled pianist, Andy Jones a driving guitarist with a mellow jazzy tone, Tom Hill a great bass player and Nick Millward makes it all come together. What dominates the record is of course the piano as they choose material from the songbooks of Professor Longhair, Huey Smith and Dr. John as well as from the pen of Randy Newman and their own material. Randy´s Louisiana 1927 is a great song where Tom adds a nice solo on bass to give it that extra touch. The Fess Medley is not so good as everyone gets in the way of each others and it turns out quite messy. That Debbie has a background in choir singing is evident. Safe and sound when it comes to hitting the right tones while listening carefully to those around her. She is assissted by four colleagues from the choir and they back her well. The final number on the record is a piano instrumental Sweet Louisiana which takes us back to the early 1900s and a bar at the break of day when the staff sweep the floor and put the chairs on the tables while a lonely pianist hits the 88´s.
A nice end to a fine concert."
[Jefferson Magazine, Sweden]
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ORLANDO, Fla. - A billboard that protestors say is too racy for the streets of Los Angeles is coming to Orlando.
The billboard is an advertisement for the dating website CougarLife.com and seems to sexualize the act of breastfeeding.
It features a naked woman breastfeeding her baby with the slogan, "Jealous?" The advertisement also pixelates the image where the baby's lip meets the mother's breast, much like is used in conjunction with adult content.
The billboard was put up in L.A. on Mother's Day but was taken down Thursday morning because of community pressure. Its location near the West Hollywood Farmers Market was a problem for residents because children go there with their families.
CougarLife.com representatives told Local 6 that despite the backlash, the billboard will be rolled out nationwide across 20 different cities, including Orlando, though the timing and exact locations are not yet confirmed.
The company maintains the billboard is not offensive.
"There was no reason for this billboard to be taken down prematurely," said Miss CougarLife.com Marlo Jordan. "The Farmers Market was actually the perfect place to showcase this ad. There is nothing more natural than a woman breastfeeding. People may have been offended by the message of older women dating younger men, but I find that shocking in this day and age."
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Age: 23
Sponsors: Oakley, Santa Cruz, Vans, Ratiopharm, SP, Grenade, Elm
Years snowboarding: Nine
Roots: Munich, Germany
Home: Breckenridge, Colorado and Munich, Germany
Height: 5'5″
Weight: 120 lbs.
Stance: Goofy, 22 inches wide, with twelve-degrees angle on the front foot and negative-twelve on the back.
Forward lean: Just a tiny little bit-last winter I once forgot to set up any forward lean and I got used to it. When I noticed it, I couldn't ride with forward lean anymore.
Board: I ride my Santa Cruz Guerilla Division SM 148 ($399)-it's an awesome jibboard for powder. Still, I love riding the 151 anywhere, too, because I never have to change my bindings and never need to travel with more boards.
Boots: Vans Omni Focus, size 8 ($249). I always choose Boa! I love Boa!
Bindings: SP Misstroid ($179) in white/gold-bindings for a real princesses!
Personal settings: I always take time to mold my liners. I also keep the old liners when I get new boots. I only rotate the highbacks on my bindings. Oh, and Mike Casanova told me about "lucky bands," when you find a band (rubber, hairband, et cetera) on the ground, you put it over your highback and it turns into a lucky band-I like that.
Tuning techniques: Normally, I dull the edges when I start riding a new board and then just go from there. With time, my edges get worse and worse, but I don't sharpen them ever. I only fix possible bumps with a stone every once in a while. I'm better with waxing-I wax a lot and try to keep my base healthy. If you're not too heavy but want to hit all the big-boy jumps, a fast base can be your best friend!
Jacket: Oakley Abominable jacket ($295) in ultra marine-it's puffy and warm and has this awesome long cut, so you never get snow or cold air inside it. Besides, it's pretty chic, I wear it not only for snowboarding but also just during the day or even to go out. It's the perfect all-around jacket.
Pants: Oakley Hacker pant ($160) in caramel. They have an awesome big cut, but still look pretty.
Gloves: Grenade-my favorite ones are the black/white striped Eddie Kruegers ($50).
Goggles: Oakley Stockholm goggle ($85-$130) with the black iridium lens-it's for very sunny days and I love sunny days!
Riding style: I try to ride everything, but my favorite thing is park riding. My ideal conditions look like this: a line of five perfect, good-sized park jumps; it snowed the night before and the snowcat just groomed them; I know the speed and there're no big crowds up there-just a bunch of friends. That's my perfect setup.
A perfect day, a perfect Breckenridge kicker, and a perfect switch backside five by Silvia. Photo: Christian Brecheis


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It's near the end of the year. Some of the students are getting squirrelly. You are running out of steam, but this is the time that you need to push your hardest. What to do . . . what to do?
To be honest, right now you are not going to get much new material delivered in a memorable way. Brain research does not support cramming, so I prefer to concentrate on cementing what I have already taught. I do it with several rounds of Jeopardy. In the true spirit of the Kagan teachings, this maximizes student engagement.
- About one month before the end of the year I make a list of all the topics we have covered. I have the students each sign up for four different topics they would like to cover in their own Jeopardy game. I allow three to five students to cover a specific topic (e.g., fractions, the planets, the respiratory system).
- For about three days the students furiously write questions and then bring them to me for approval. The questions must be worded perfectly so there's only one correct answer. Yes/no, true/false, and multiple choice questions are not allowed.
- We then spend two to three hours in the computer lab over the course of the next several weeks to modify a Jeopardy PowerPoint template.
- During the last week of school we play round after round of Jeopardy. Each student gets to host their own game show on the SMART Board. A SMART Board is not required, but it makes it fun.
- I put the students in groups of about five. I switch the groups after every couple rounds.
- I use a buzzer system. I purchased this Eggspert system, which works great. It is not the most durable, but it has worked for over 200 rounds of Jeopardy so far! It is about $50.
- To determine a final winner, I keep an Excel spreadsheet. After each round, I give each member on the winning team six points; on the second place team, five points; third place, four points, etc. The person with the overall highest score is deemed the winner.
- This is a great activity for showing the need for precision in writing.
- Students refine their PowerPoint skills.
- Students are not only reviewing as they write the questions, but as they respond to those of their peers, so the whole last month of school is spent reviewing.
- It is a final comfort zone-stretching activity. Many leaders emerge as they show their excitment to share their Jeopardy games.
Make sure the students do not delete or add any slides in the PowerPoints below. It can mess up the intricate interlinking. I remind them to (1) save often, and (2) hit Control-Z (undo) if they get into trouble.
Jeopardy 1: This version looks good, but I am not sure that the dollar amounts on the main screen change color to show they have been used.
Jeopardy 2: This teacher-created version is the one I prefer and have used over the year. It seems pretty reliable.
What do you do to cement the year's learning?
2i2 is trademark of Mr. Vasicek's class. It denotes living a life of integrity while pushing yourself to your potential.


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Was thinking about it .. .did MJ actually do us a favour by reneging on the deal a few years back? OR in Light of Tyson Chandlers 3rd straight 20-rebound Game, was that still the better trade if we could have had it?
Was thinking about it .. .did MJ actually do us a favour by reneging on the deal a few years back? OR in Light of Tyson Chandlers 3rd straight 20-rebound Game, was that still the better trade if we could have had it?
Tyson is good and all, but Rudy is just a superior talent - creates his own offense with ease, is a good defender, while Chandler is very steady and good-if-not-great defender (not phenomenal/dominant though) and has a below average offense. Even though 7 footers are of extra value, with JV in the picture I think that is negated as well.
Rudy all day long.
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its funny when you put it like that... If we had Chandler Dallas wouldnt have won that championship and it would have been most likely OKC, and BC wouldnt have took DC from Dallas to coach here and Chandlet would most likely be looking for a way out of the city by now... very strange when you think about it all.
Glad things turned out in the end I always watched Memphis to see Rudy Gay play he really is a allstar snub.
I think Chandler's defense is better than Gay's offense, but on this Raptors team it's Gay's skill set that is of more value. If Melo wasn't playing for New York, Chandler would have the same affect as he did playing in Charlotte. So my vote goes to Gay.
We probably wouldn't have drafted Jonas if we had Chandler.
If we had Chandler then Colangelo would have correctly drafted Kemba Walker and we'd still have our first round pick. Calderon could still be traded for Rudy Gay.
Basically, today's roster would be:
c: Chandler
pf: Johnson
sf: Gay
sg: DeRozan
pg: Walker
your pal,
Acquiring Gay has somewhat increased Toronto's status as a free agent destination. Now, we just need to start winning some games, lol.
i dont think it's fair to compare the two trades
AT THE TIME, the Chandler trade made all the sense in the world... and the immediate impact would have been huge..
seriously, Aaron Gray is an upgrade from the bigs we had that year... Alabi, Dorsey, David Anderesen, Ed Davis hadn't grown pubes yet... all we had was Bargs and Amir, and a buncha guys who barely showed up every 4-5 games..
And losing Jose that year wouldn't have left us as high and dry at PG as now... back then we had Jack, Bayless, and Barbosa.. right now, there's nobody to share Lowry's minutes other than Lucas... and if Lowry goes down, there really isn't anyone who can slide over and take over point duties in his stead..
That is a good question.
There are too many variables.
Personally, I'd rather have Rudy and am pleased the way Calderon's contract worked out to benefit the team moving forward.
Super tough to guage. Agree witht he earlier comment that if we get Chandler then we likely don't have Casey as the coach. Far too many dominoes to track. Chandler would have been a huge improvement to the team's identity at the time and perhaps we chart a different course entirely. (Perhaps we win enough to keep Triano as coach *gulp*).
I like Chandler and think he is exactly what this team has been missing, but if JV can fill that role and Gay turns out to fulfill the scoring need, then perhaps things are best as is.
Heir, Prince of Cambridge
or Jose of today and Ed Davis for Rudy Gay
I think that contextually, turning Jose into Tyson chandler and Diaw at the time would have been a stroke of genius. Bargnani was not the dud he is today, Calderon was not as good as is today, and we would have had a really serviceable front court combination similar to the one which Dallas used to win the championship.
At the same time, Bargnani ended up being terrible, so we would have built our whole team around him. Chandler would have left because...well...he just came from charlotte...so he would have been suicidal by the time he got to us, let alone after playing with Bargnani. We also had Jay Triano as a coach (i think?), who was BY FAR the worst coach in the history of the league
That being said....The Gay trade wins all day. He will probably be an all star on our team, and this allows us to grow guys like Amir into high value players, and we are in the same place we probably would have been with Chandler, but with upside that lasts more than a couple of years
like, the Chandler trade in 2010, on the 2010 Raptors... with no outlook into the future... purely looking at that specific time and team... vs Rudy Gay and the current team and his impact on THIS season..
i'd say i'd prefer the 2010 trade.. it addressed a desperate team need at the time, without sacrificing too much.. ed davis was barely mentionable, and giving up jose wasn't too bad since we had a decent arsenal of stand-ins at PG
but really it's a pointless argument i'd be making... because right now i love the Rudy Gay trade, despite it leaving a blackhole at PG position
But as I mentioned in my previous post, this particular Raptors squad has more of a need for what Rudy Gay brings to the table as opposed to what Tyson Chandler brings.
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Discussion in 'Trek Literature' started by E-DUB, Nov 25, 2012.
Shakar Edon
Kyle Riker
Scotty (depending on who you talk too.)
Any others?
Owen Paris died in the Destiny trilogy.
Mr. Homn.
We had a thread about this back in '09:
Although I guess a few names have been added to the memorial wall since then.
Looks like more than a few... and some names will need to be taken off of that list.
If I get some time IRL (of which I had quite a bit of recently because of the Thanksgiving holiday), I think I will try to do some updating work on that list myself. Unless, of course, someone else would rather do it themselves.
Treklit seems to be going head to head with Marvel comics in the resurrection stakes.
Q Junior (The Eternal Tide)
Amanda Q (The Enternal Tide)
Kathryn Janeway in every single other universe but this one (The Eternal Tide)
The Deep Space Nine station (Plagues of Night)
Noonien Soong (Peristence of Memory)
And if living with the Wormhole Aliens counts...
Kira Nerys (Raise the Dawn)
^Not sure Soong counts, because he was already presumed dead in canon anyway. So he was both un-killed and then killed later in the same book, which more or less cancels out.
I'll take the rap for killing Isis . . . although it was John Ordover's idea!
Scotty's more of a cliffhanger- we don't actually know for sure, all we know is that the other characters were convinced he's dead
Joseph Sisko.
Do Mirror Universe counterparts of canon counterparts count? Because Mirror Kira*, Worf*, Kassidy Yates, Cal Hudson, Zek, Riker, Tasha Yar, Elizabeth Shelby, Klag, Martok, Kes, Janeway, Seven of Nine, Chakotay, and Leeta* are dead (at the very least).
*These people showed up in actual episodes, so they are canon either way.
I think the MU Bashir is dead as well.
You can add Mirror Soong and Mirror Vash to the hit list. (I took out those two.)
How do we define canon characters? Extras who barely showed up and had names only in the script count?
I'm pretty sure the Federation President from Homefront/Paradise Lost was killed.
Any character who originated in TV/film Trek.
Although, when I think of Selar or a few others, it's their role in the novels that comes to mind, not the TV episodes.
He died of old age in Articles of the Federation, actually.
In a book written by Krad - now in exile from writing star trek lit.
If bringing the character back is in the least advantageous for some future plot, he will be brought back - and 'Articles of the federation' will go the 'didn't happen in universe' route of 'Indistinguishable from magic'.
Separate names with a comma.


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Was 'very, very big buck' taken illegally?
Goodhue County (Minn.) prosecutors are considering charges against an area man in a possible poaching case involving what officials said may be a trophy buck.
"It's a very, very big buck," said a state official who asked not to be named pending charges.
Assistant County Attorney David Grove said charges could be filed this week in the case.
Rumors circulating on the Internet have touted the buck to be a world-record eight-pointer. Investigators are believed to be checking into whether the buck was shot by a rifle in bow season.


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September 10, 2009
Rob Music Site Launched
I love these videos (I'd heard the songs before but not seen the footage) of Rob singing Marcus Foster's "I Was Broken" (where he looks deep in Dali mode) and "Stray Dog" - thanks Anon 12.11 ;)
- Lorabell
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- AnonymousSeptember 10, 2009 at 12:25 AM
Lorabell, he has an amazing voice, don't you think? But he sounds like a totally different person when he sings. It's amazing. I don't know how he does that. His singing voice reminds me of Bruce Springsteen.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 10, 2009 at 12:38 AM
God i love his singing....i hope he makes some more music soonReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 10, 2009 at 5:11 AM
The second video is "Stray Dog", not "Never Think"... I saw these a couple of days ago - love them! Just wish they were better quality!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 10, 2009 at 5:15 AM
i dont think he is broken anymoreReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 10, 2009 at 5:23 AM
Wow, thank goodness your blog worked for me now. I almost had a heart attack when I checked more than 5 times earlier today and it said the blog no longer existed. I went on a hunt for another blog similar to this one fearing this blog was gone for good, none of them lived up to my expectations, never stop blogging...ReplyDelete
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Can't wait to go home in the afternoon and watch these :-)ReplyDelete
omg, robert was so drunk :p but, it doesn't matter! IT'S RPATZZ :DReplyDelete
just when you though life couldn't get any better with all this Rob Kstew and Twilight mania. It does.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 10, 2009 at 3:29 PM
My Robert Pattinson has put together a really inviting pub, The Pattinson Arms. The site is beautifully done for all who love Rob's music.ReplyDelete
I am so amazed, when I listen to him sing. It is so emotional and deep. He sounds much older and experienced than you would think a guy his age would.... *still deep in my thoughts*ReplyDelete
These are old, but have always loved them- love his voice, musical ability. Love his rendition of I'll be your lover too-by Van Morrison- he's so sexy/blues when he sings love the deep voice!! Ok I have to go take a cold shower now:))ReplyDelete


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Philip K. Hopke, Clarkson University's Bayard D. Clarkson distinguished professor, director of the Center for Air Resources Engineering & Science (CARES) and director of Clarkson's Center for the Environment, has been appointed to the Climate and Atmospheric Sciences Committee of the State of New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection's (NJDEP) Science Advisory Board.
Hopke, who was named director of Clarkson's Center for the Environment in December, has served for nearly a decade as director of CARES, which fosters research in air sampling and analysis, receptor modeling, atmospheric deposition, and the application of computational fluid dynamics to air pollution problems.
In December, Hopke was named to the Residential, Commercial and Industrial Technical Advisory Panel for the preparation of a Climate Action Plan for the State of New York. In January, he also became a member of the National Research Council Committee to Develop a Research Strategy for Environmental, Health, and Safety Aspects of Engineered Nanomaterials.
Hopke has served at the U.S. Department of State where he served as a Jefferson Science Fellow, as chair of EPA's Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee, and as a member of the National Academy of Engineering's Committee on Energy Futures and Urban Air Pollution in China and the United States, the EPA's Science Advisory Board, and the National Research Council's (NRC) congressionally mandated Committee on Research Priorities for Airborne Particulate Matter and the Committee on Air Quality Management in the United States. He has also served on seven other NRC committees.
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Cpl. William Sweetwood and his wife heard their garage door open about 1:30 a.m., said Dan Bender, spokesman with the La Plata County Sheriffs Office, which investigated the incident.
Sweetwood armed himself with his service handgun and went to investigate while his wife called 911, according to a news release from the Sheriffs Office.
Sweetwood found a man inside his garage. He fired his gun once at the intruder, but apparently missed. The burglar ducked under a partially open garage door and fled on foot, Bender said.
The suspect was described as about 5 feet 10 inches tall, 170 pounds, and wearing a black T-shirt and tan shorts.
The Sheriffs Office searched the area, but deputies were unable to locate the suspect.
The burglar gained entry by using a garage-door opener taken from an open window in Sweetwoods truck, which was parked in the driveway, Bender said.
There was no evidence to indicate the intruder was hit by Sweetwoods shot.
Durango Police Department is conducting an internal review to determine whether department policies were followed. Sweetwood will remain on patrol duty while the review is conducted, said Lt. Ray Shupe, in a news release.
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CARSON, Calif. -- The batteries recharged after a rare weekend off, the LA Galaxy returned to the training ground on Monday in preparation for Thursday's CONCACAF Champions League opener against El Salvador's Isidro Metapan.
The Metapan match on Thursday signals the beginning of another long stretch of games for LA, who play four games over the next ten days. Ahead of another long stretch, the Galaxy admitted that the week end off was key for their physical and mental state heading into CCL and the closing stages of the league calendar.
Below are a series of thoughts from head coach Bruce Arena and defender A.J. DeLaGarza on the club's state after a bye.
ARENA: "I think it was important, we've had a very difficult stretch and a very difficult year. we've basically finished all our games on the road in the league. I think we have two remaining; it's been a long haul. To get a little time off is good and hopefully, our guys will be fresh for these next four games that will be very challenging."
DELAGARZA: "It was good, we had a lot of weekend, week day games for quite a while so it was good to get a couple of days off and clear our minds heading into another physical challenge in these next four games. It's another big stretch, obviously CONCACAF is huge and for our first two games to be here, they're must win games and with the league games, we can kind of separate ourselves and really push for maybe a top spot."


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Washington: By sending secretary of state Hillary Clinton to the Middle East to put an American imprimatur on a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, President Barack Obama has thrust himself squarely into a conflict he has largely avoided over the past two years.
The stakes for him, and for the United States, are high. If Washington can help broker a deal to quell the violence, it could set the tone for Mr Obama's second-term relationship with three pivotal players in the region: Israel, the Palestinians and, most crucially, Egypt.
Mr Obama has been unstinting in his public support of Israel over the past several days, while a US-financed anti-missile system, Iron Dome, has destroyed scores of incoming Hamas rockets. The crisis holds the possibility of resetting the president's often-fraught relationship with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
But Mr Obama has also reached out many times to Egypt's recently elected president, Mohammed Mursi, urging him to play a calming role with Hamas, the militant group that governs Gaza. As the United States gropes for a relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood-led government in Egypt, much will depend on how Morsi navigates this perilous moment.
At one level, Mrs Clinton's emergency mission seems deeply familiar — a US secretary of state jetting in to yet another Middle East conflagration. Mrs Clinton's predecessor, Condoleezza Rice, spent her final weeks in office in 2009 desperately seeking an end to the last major outbreak of fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
But for Mr Obama, such direct involvement is a sharp shift from his hands-off posture of the past two years. Having expended energy and prestige on a futile effort to restart peace talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians during his first two years in office, a frustrated Mr Obama had largely pulled back from that effort — as did his secretary of state.
When his special envoy to the region, George J. Mitchell, resigned in May 2011, Mr Obama replaced him with David Hale, a career diplomat with a much lower profile and a less ambitious portfolio. Mrs Clinton, having made frequent trips to Israel, stopped traveling there regularly.
Mr Obama's waning appetite for Middle East peacemaking coincided with his re-election campaign, which made any attempt to jump-start a moribund process seem politically unwise. His relationship with Mr Netanyahu, which soured early on because of his demand that Israel stop building Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, deteriorated further when Mr Netanyahu appeared to favour Mitt Romney in the election.
For Mr Obama, the timing of the Gaza eruption underscores what is likely to be a recurring tension in the second term: his desire to reorient the United States to Asia, while the ancient conflicts of the Middle East keep pulling the United States back to that region.
The president made a historic postelection visit to Burma, capping a diplomatic opening that is part of a heightened US engagement in the region. But Mr Obama found himself working the phones late at night with Mr Netanyahu and Mr Mursi, pleading for "de-escalation" in the Gaza conflict.
Mrs Clinton, too, has devoted much of her time to Asia, developing a fast friendship with the Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. But a day after Mrs Clinton accompanied Mr Obama on a visit to Ms Suu Kyi's lakeside home, she had to race to her plane and fly overnight to Tel Aviv to meet with Mr Netanyahu and to travel to Ramallah to meet with the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas.
For Mrs Clinton, whose final days at the State Department seemed destined to be dominated by questions over the deadly attack on the US mission in Benghazi, Libya, the fighting in Gaza may instead bring her term to a close on a more familiar theme.
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Carter to Deen: 'Let the dust settle'
Former President Jimmy Carter has advice for his friend and celebrity chef Paula Deen.
"I've known Paula Deen quite well for a long period of time. I advised her to let the dust settle and to make apologies," Carter said in interview clips aired Friday on CNN. "My heart goes out to her but of course there's no condoning the use of a word that abuses other people."
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CNN reported that Deen reached out to Carter, an old friend, for his take on what she should do after the fallout that came when it was confirmed she had a used derogatory term to describe African-Americans in the past. The former president, sympathetic, though making no excuses for Deen, told her that her best bet was to reach out to her community, which she has helped.
"She has some very beneficial human programs in Savannah, Georgia, where she lives that benefit almost exclusively oppressed and poverty-stricken black people, African-American citizens in her own community. And I advised her to get some of those people who she's helping every day to speak out and show that she has changed in her relationship with African-American people, with minorities in the last number of years," Carter added.
The politician-turned-humanitarian also weighed in on the same-sex marriage debate, days after the Supreme Court repealed the Defense of Marriage Act. However, he wasn't completely happy with this move, believing the court didn't take the ruling far enough.
"I think it should be nationwide and I believe that inevitably, over the next coming years, the legal cases to be brought [are] going to show that not only within 12 states … but in the other states as well, that men and women should have equal rights to marry each other … So this is something that's coming," he told CNN.


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V-Mart out of lineup with cut right thumb
By Jason Beck / MLB.com
DETROIT -- Victor Martinez was out of the Tigers' lineup for Tuesday's series opener against the Blue Jays after cutting his right thumb on the bat rack in the dugout. He's listed as day to day.
Martinez was not available to hit at all Tuesday.
The cut happened after an at-bat in Sunday's series finale against the Yankees. The bat rack has a metal top with some bolt heads that rise out of the top, and Martinez sustained his cut on the top of his right thumb against the metal part of the rack.
The Tigers were off on Monday.
Andy Dirks took Martinez's place in the lineup as the designated hitter, batting fifth behind Prince Fielder. Don Kelly entered the starting lineup as the left fielder, batting eighth.
Martinez had a slow opening week at the plate. He showed no signs of rust in Spring Training, after he missed last season recovering from knee surgery. Martinez's 3-for-21 opening week included an 0-for-4 performance Sunday against the Yanks. He flew out to shallow center in his final at-bat with runners at the corners and one out against reliever David Robertson.
Hunter knocks career hit No. 2,000 in win
DETROIT -- Just 29 of Torii Hunter's 167 hits last year went to right field, according to baseball-reference.com. A week into the 2013 season, he's already better than 20 percent toward that opposite-field hit total.
Thanks in part to that opposite-field hitting, he reached the career 2,000-hit mark earlier in the season than many might have imagined.
Hunter's three hits Tuesday were all centered up the middle, not to the right side. The third of them, a sixth-inning line drive off Esmil Rogers, drew a standing ovation from a crowd of Tigers and Jays fans alike as the scoreboard mentioned the feat.
"It's awesome, man," Hunter said. "I'd been playing for the Twins for all those years, and when I'd come here, I still felt a little love. And now that I'm here, they've seen me play, they've seen me grow as a player. They saw a young 22-year-old Torii Hunter. They saw the 25-year-old, the 27-year-old, the 30-year-old.
"They saw me grow and play this game. To get 2,000 hits, I'm thankful that they showed the support."
Hunter already had a milestone in Detroit, even if it didn't occur as a Tiger. He hit his first Major League home run at Tiger Stadium on April 15, 1999, off Brian Moehler.
Hunter is showing an opposite-field ability batting second that he didn't have earlier in his career. He has had two hits to right field with Austin Jackson taking off from first, but neither of them have been hit-and-run plays, according to Tigers manager Jim Leyland. Instead, they've been reactions when Jackson has taken off.
"I think he's pretty professional at shooting the ball through the hole there when Jackson's on," Leyland said. "He's a smart player. He does a lot of things pretty smart, and he sees what's there. He tries to take what's there. I think that's how I'd put it."
Smyly's role can be critical in rainy April
DETROIT -- The weather forecast the next couple days calls for a high chance of Drew Smyly.
It's actually a high chance of rain. But if rain happens in the middle of the game, there's a very good chance Smyly is going to be utilized for long relief. Even after Smyly pitched two-thirds of an inning Tuesday, manager Jim Leyland said Smyly will be available if need be on Wednesday.
These are the times when Smyly's role becomes critical. If a starter gets roughed up early, there's a good chance the game is out of reach. An injury or an ejection to a starting pitcher can be a tougher situation, but it isn't that common.
Rain delays, especially in April, can put a premium on long relief. Tigers manager Jim Leyland will almost always bring his starter back if a rain delay lasts 45 minutes or less. If it lasts an hour or more, Leyland will usually go to his bullpen. In between, the decision usually comes down to the starting pitcher.
Smyly had two opportunities at long relief in the opening week. His first was an Opening Day struggle cut short in the middle of his second inning of work. His second was a four-inning save on Friday.
"I saw the first time, he probably pitched like a reliever," Leyland said. "The second game, he pitched like a starter."
Clearly, the Tigers would prefer the latter. Though he's a left-handed reliever, the presence of Phil Coke and Darin Downs means they don't need Smyly as a lefty specialist.
"When I come into an inning clear, I try to pitch like a starter," Smyly said.
If he's coming in with runners on base, Smyly said, he might change his pitch selection to try for a strikeout or a ground ball.
Garcia nears resuming baseball activities
DETROIT -- The Tigers are hoping to have outfielder Avisail Garcia resume baseball activities this week as he tries to work his way back from a bruised right heel.
Garcia hasn't played since March 16, when he injured his right heel trying to beat a throw to first base during Grapefruit League play. It's a longer absence than a bruise would normally suggest, but head athletic trainer Kevin Rand said it was a severe bruise on a player with a large body frame.
"He had a pretty significant heel injury," Rand said. "There was significant soft tissue swelling."
Garcia is putting his regular weight on the heel now without pain, Rand said.
When Garcia resumes game action, he'll do so in extended spring games. Once he is deemed ready to move on to the next step, he'll progress to Triple-A Toledo.
Quick hits
• Former University of Michigan quarterback Denard Robinson threw out the ceremonial first pitch Tuesday, a one-hopper that bounced to the edge of the dirt before reaching ceremonial catcher Smyly. Robinson, who was in Atlanta to watch the Michigan men's basketball team in the Final Four, flew back to Detroit on Tuesday morning to make it. "I babied it," Robinson said of the throw. "I should've just thrown the ball."
• The Miguel Cabrera Foundation and The Detroit Tigers Foundation raised more than $56,000 at the live auction at Cabrera's fundraising dinner Monday night. Cabrera also received a $10,000 donation personally from Hunter.
Jason Beck is a reporter for MLB.com. Read Beck's Blog and follow him on Twitter @beckjason. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Patches. They're pretty commonplace in games nowadays. When a product releases, usually developers or publishers find something that needs refining. For instance, this week's Xbox Live Arcade release, Hybrid, an online multiplayer shooting from 5th Cell, was in dire need of a whole lot of patching, to the point that the game was briefly taken off the Xbox Live Marketplace so it could be addressed.
However, there's a small but significantly disturbing trend making the rounds, in terms of patches that are being offered at first to fix problems that are in a game, but then end up being delayed or cancelled due to technical errors. Just ask anyone who's been waiting for the Skyrim patch 1.7 to drop on PlayStation 3, only to find out that – maybe – it's coming within a matter of days. If a game's not going to be fixed, it could spell a worse problem than you might think.
Let's take a look at Fez, for example. The game is a masterstroke of design, after Polytron took a great deal of time to make sure that it was everything that it could be. And while most players are quite pleased with it, there are a certain few who were affected by the offering of a title update for it. See, by downloading this update, some players' save files were corrupted, mainly those who had beaten the game and felt like playing through it again. A select few, to be sure, but you can bet they're steamed.
Rather than working on a patch to defuse the problem, the game's main developer, Phil Fish, stated that it would not be fixed. But rather than taking the "development team tried its best" approach, he instead pointed the blame at Microsoft, stating that the company would charge "tens of thousands of dollars" to recertify the game with a fixed patch. And even with Fez's immense success, that's something Polytron didn't feel like facing.
This poses a problem that's two fold. On the one hand, you have the gamers who feel that this could very well affect what Polytron is working on next, or, worse yet, provide bad word-of-mouth for Fez where it clearly doesn't deserve it. Secondly, what will Microsoft think whenever their next game is finished and they try to offer it on Xbox Live? The company retorted Fish's statement by saying, "Polytron and their investor, Trapdoor, made the decision not to work on an additional title update for Fez." Furthermore, they stated, "While we do not disclose the cost of Title Updates, we did offer to work with Trapdoor to make sure that wasn't a blocking issue." So it led to unnecessary – and in some cases, ugly – finger pointing that could have an affect on future business.
Then, most recently, Konami ran into some trouble regarding its Silent Hill HD Collection, which was released earlier this year for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The collection was already in trouble due to the fact that only two games out of the entire series were released. But now, with its latest update on a patch for the game, the company's in even more trouble.
According to a statement, an online title update is coming for the PlayStation 3 version very soon, which will address a number of glitches and technical errors. However, when it comes to the Xbox 360 version, that patch isn't coming. Why, you ask? Simple – "due to technical issues and resources." So, the patch that is supposed to fix the technical errors is itself loaded with technical errors?
Even though Konami issued an apology for the inconvenience (as well as a customer service number for those who wanted to vent), we can't help but think this isn't a wise business choice. They should've found their way around these "technical errors" and at least made the game resemble what the developers originally wanted. And what's more, what will stop gamers from thinking that future HD Collections will end up this way? We'd shudder to think that folks won't snag Zone of the Enders HD Collection because of this, because that game is definitely worthy of a purchase from what we've seen.
This is a practice that needs to die down before it becomes a serious issue, because nothing really good comes out of it. Game buyers show doubt when it comes to small glitches and errors that could hinder having a good time with the product; finger pointing gets nothing done when it comes to future business; and developers and publishers could easily face scrutiny for upcoming releases when even the smallest of games shows big problems. Sometimes it's best to just delay a product and make sure everything is right before you have to worry about working on a patch that can cripple it further. Just our two cents…


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Still a waiting game...
My better half loves the 'Cafe, and I've been curious to see one of these come together. I have been kicking around the idea of a DR650 based scrambler/tracker, but I'd like to see how yours come out first.
Not a whole lot new.
Ryca did upload a CS-2 Assembly vid on YouTube as well as a well as a written guide. Links below for those interested.
Got tired of waiting on the kit - picked up a sportbike project bike a couple of weeks ago, so I've been working on that and the KLRE a lot. Three projects in my half of the garage. What a mess...
Oh, and got T-shirts goin' in color now too - pics on KLRE build thread.
Looks like the kits can be ordered. That's the good news.
I spoke with Ryan @ Ryca on the phone today and the kits are almost ready - some parts are held up in shipping due to the Long Beach strike or some such thing.
Will be sending them my tank and hub tomorrow! The parts are boxed up and ready to go - duder at Ryca said that about 1 in 5 tanks show up with shipping damage, so pack carefully, and consider shipping the parts separately... I took him up on both recommendations.
On the T's- are you printing and using transfers?
Look forward to the scrambler.
Yep! Got a big heat press, an inkjet, and transfers. Lovin' it so far!
I put in my preferences over X.mas vacation - for a Scrambler kit with most of the options it was a hair shy of $4,000. I did screw one preference up, you basically only want unpolished rims if you're going to powdercoat... look to add $25 for a polished rear rim to match the front if you're leaving the front stock. Luckily, the guys at Ryca set me straight.
You pay when the kit is ready to ship. Very much looking forward to it.
Wow, had no idea they were modding the little Suzuki. That Scambler kit is very interesting. Look forward to seeing your progress and finished bike.
Been on this site for a while now and never really looked farther than local rides. Some Assembly Required is great.
E-mailed the guys and they said they got my parts in w/o issue. My tank is cut apart and ready for welding - I guess they're still waiting on parts for the kit.
Can't believe it's 2013 already... ah well, at least I had time to get a couple of projects sold to fund the Scrambler.
Came across an older Savage on CL if anyone out there is looking for one. Doesn't look like much, but might be a good donor if you can get it for the right price.
I never knew suzuki used the S40 engine in another bike this looks quite good
would make a nice cafe in my opinion.
We didn't get those in North America.
Hilarious that we (USA) never get many of the cool models. That, to me, is a WAY better bike than the Savage. I know lots of people that would ride that, but not a single one that considers the Savage a viable option. Incredible, really.
That bike would be a much better platform to make a scrambler or cafe bike, too.
That bike looks perfect as is, I'll take mine decaffeinated. It's kind of strange to see a drum on the front of a newer bike, though.
I like the wheels, not the brakes, would make a nice cafe.
Looks like that tank has a nice capacity, too.
wow.... that front brake is straight off a late 60's Triumph
and ya... I'd buy one of those
This is an S-40 I changed around. I pounded the fenders out of 18 guage steel, made the exhaust, moved the controls to midmount, longer shocks, 18" rear wheel. I took the Emgo muffler off and put on a Harley Dyna. The Emgo was loud enough to make my ears bleed. Carl
Awesome - and very unique. That's what it's all about.
How big of a deal was it to move the controls? I would be a lot more interested in a savage/s40 if it had mid-controls.


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This the latest article in the NY Post reads :
"I'd like to see him retire here," Houston told The Post. "He deserves to for what he's put into this franchise. It's a long time 10 years. It's just his toughness and intangibles he brings to the team. I think people who really know the game, they notice it. Then there's some people who look at the flashy parts of the game and that's not really the right way to look at it. Does he help you win games or doesn't he? That's to me what matters. I would like to see him stay."
this is a joke - the 2 of them should be shipped outa town.
This is also telling us alot about Houston's vision.
He doesn't see past next week from what I can tell.
I'll borrow a few words from Rasheed Wallace and call these 2
Dumb & Dumber....
If ward can be used in a package to make the Knicks better
then that is what needs to be done.
End of story....
jersey's are not selling in the NBA store
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A lightweight bout between Ramsey Nijem (5-2 MMA, 1-1 UFC) and Anthony Njokuani (14-5 MMA, 1-1 UFC) has been targeted for next month's UFC 141 event.
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Nijem, a runner-up on "The Ultimate Fighter 13" who suffered a knockout loss to Tony Ferguson in the show's live finale, got back in the win column and returned to the lightweight division with a dominant unanimous-decision victory (via 30-25, 30-26 and 30-27 scores) over Danny Downes at UFC 137. Going back two years, the former NCAA Division I wrestler and Utah-based fighter is now 4-1 over his past five fights.
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Discussion in 'Trek Tech' started by Bill Morris, Jan 31, 2009.
I've tried to fix this up. What have I gotten wrong?
LOOKS good to me,but I am preety sure SOMEbody here will say otherwise. Oh is it just me or does the Stargazer look a wee bit SCRUNCHED up? I mean the top of the suaser section looks SWOLLEN! Almost like a borg cube sukerpunched it.
The mass figure looks pretty light to me. Volumetrically, that ship isn't too different from Voyager.
Not bad, a few things though.
1) I'm pretty sure the torpedo launchers should be at the extremes of the nacelle struts (where you have the orange strip on the upper one). The ones on the model don't precisely match those found on the refit Enterprise, but there do seem to be tube openings there.
2) The impulse engines shouldn't cross through the centerline, and should run vertically in the two 'blocks' to either side of the rear section. Also, according to an article written for the Star Trek: Magazine a few years back, the antimatter pods should be stored basically where you show the impulse engine now, because they can be ejected out the back. (That article also had a cross section from forward. It can be found on Ex Astris here, down the page a bit.)
3) I blinked at the launch date of 2291. It seems a little early for a ship with a registry of NCC-9754. Maybe more like 2305?
Other than that, very nice.
Thanks, Praetor. I was guessing at the launch date. I'll make it 2305.
Here's a nice shot of a fliming model:
That seems to show the impulse engines on the center line but forward from where I had them, and the antimatter storage goes a little more aft than the warp core in special compartments that allow quick emergency ejection at the drop of a sombrero. And there seems to be a single warp core, part of which acts as a spare.
Here's the latest update of the image, with probably more left to change.
An update:
Better, I'd say. Still not sure about the impulse... I had always thought those were more hatches - there seems to be another one on the little pod at the bottom of the nacelle strut platform, but arguably that could be another impulse engine. For the MSD it may be the best compromise where you have them though. Also not sure about the forward launcher placement, but there are enough greeblies that I guess they could go there. It just seems odd to me on a Constitution-refit style saucer I guess.
But still, very nice
Granted that most reference photos are fuzzy, but it seems to me that the junctions of the T-shaped engine pylons each hold the standard torpedo tube pair that we can see on the neck of a refitted Constitution or the pod of a Miranda. The assembly sits just below (or, in the lower pylon, above) the horizontal part of the T. The muzzles just aren't painted or lit particularly prominently - much like the impulse assemblies lack the lighting arrangment found in the original Constitution application.
In contrast, there's nothing in the saucer to indicate the presence of torp tubes there. There are just those three paired phaser emitters on each side, plus five single ones on the dorsal side - and supposedly at least one corresponding single emitter just below the bow because a single beam is fired from there in the "Peak Performance" mock fight.
The big square feature at the bow of the ship isn't painted or lit all that clearly, either - allowing us to select between two functions. Yeah, it could be a giant shuttlebay door. But the ship already has two doors per side for such a function. So the square could just as well be a deflector dish. We only see a total of three Constellation class ships in Star Trek, and the first two ("The Battle", "Peak Performance") are wrecks whose deflectors could justifiably be dark, while the bow of the third ("Redemption") is never seen.
Timo Saloniemi
Edit: Whoops, there's also a fourth Constellation briefly glimpsed: the Victory makes a bow-first appearance at the end of "Elementary, Dear Data", without a glowing bow. Then again, we know that TOS movie era deflectors don't glow much unless the ship is underway, while TNG era deflectors always have a very subdued glow...
Dunno if you've seen these:
The Jein model
The kitbash seen in Picard's office.
Yeah, that demonstrates pretty well the torpedo thing: the "original" kitbash had its engine pylons made of Constitution neck pieces that had the torpedo decks in their usual places, while the full photographic model was somewhat differently shaped but still retained this feature without accentuating the torpedo muzzles.
Timo Saloniemi
Okay, I moved them like this. That should be reasonable, Picard's model nowithstanding.
Now, what about that auxillary bridge and what I have labeled sensory array in a thing shaped like a Tucker turret on the underside of the saucer?
And here's collection of photos of the filming models.
http://www.starfleetmodeler.com/Starships/Constellation Class/default.htm
I might suggest the "auxiliary bridge" is in fact the location of the warp core. For one, it would have an unobstructed vertical path for ejection, unlike in the case of a vertical core in the pylons. And its hatchlike elements could be how the fuel tanks are topped up. The drive plasma would fire up along the leading edge of the pylons, then.
The lance-like protrusion underneath the hull could be a sensor element - but it also shares something with the cylinders we see at the corners of Miranda class roll bars.
So perhaps a supergun, even though we never saw those cylinders act in a gunlike manner on the Mirandas. Or, as I'd prefer, this cylinder could be a miniature form of the front end of Kirk's ship: this could be the main deflector of the Constellation, just like the pods on the Miranda would be its main deflectors.
Also, the big bulges on the underside flanking this "lance" could be the fuel tanks of the ship. That is, instead of the neat multiple "canisters" inside the hull, this ship could have two large volumes basically similar to the tanks of the Galaxy.
Just wild suggestions. The ship appears just fine as it is in that latest MSD.
Timo Saloniemi
Thanks for the link to the ready room kitbash. It'd be pretty easy to miss the torpedo tubes from the refit models which were used to build it, though that's partly because they'd only seem capable of covering the ship's aft arc.
That's a nice idea, but that would also lead to a LOT of power transfer conduits. Still, other ships seem to have a lot of PTC, and perhaps the main part of the core with the dilithium chamber can be ejected after the antimatter pods anyway, leaving behind just PTCs? Alternatively, it could be some type of dedicated astrometrics-type 'observatory.'
I think Rick Sternbach wrote in his writeup for the Star Trek Magazine that it was a long-range 'sensor gun' more or less like you say it's analagous to the main sensor on the Constitution. The main deflector could still be kept where it is.
You know, those have always bothered me. I'd say they're either deuterium tanks or the Starfleet ship equivalent of 'radar domes.'
I had a vision from the wormhole aliens, telling me I had gone astray . . .
. . . and must walk a different path.
Hmm... I'd still argue that the torpedo tubes indicated by the model are all pointing forward from the pylon junctures, as per the reuse of Constitution-refit neck elements, and that this ship lacks aft torpedo tubes since there aren't suitable surface features for them. Or if there's an aft tube or a pair of them, it would go between the impulse engines where there are some greeblies on the desktop model and a greebled cover plate for the motion control arm in the photographic model.
Also, the warp core should probably have a central reaction chamber thingamabob, as portrayed in "Peak Performance", rather than a featureless straight shaft. Okay, so the Hathaway might have had a reactor refit, as many of her consoles also looked more modern than those of the Stargazer. But in that case, the reactor in this MSD might be made more "TMP'ish" still.
Timo Saloniemi
I would also put at least a few antimatter pods back between the impulse engines. Also, why did you make the warp core shorter?
Thanks, Timo. This shot of one of the filming models shows a door at the rear for the strut between the top two nacelles that I assumed was for a probe\torpedo launcher. Am I wrong about that?
I also mistakenly took other features on this model for the impulse engines before seeing th error of my ways.
About the intermix chamber and adjacent equipment, I thought I was moving that away from the impluse engines just to make it easy on the viewer but ended up not putting it in the new location. I'll fix that. Thanks for spotting my error.
Thanks, Praetor. Locating the anitmatter pods between the two sets of impulse engines depicted sounds good. I think I'll do that.
The reason I shortened the core was for conformity with this aft cutaway published in Star Trek: The Magazine, which I could perhaps just as easily ignore, since it's not really canon.
Those are actually the bottom nacelles... The ship is mounted upside down in that picture!
Okay, that could be a door covering a torpedo tube - especially when the torpedo decks on the pylon junctures also have doors (or, in reality, don't have the muzzle bits glued on). Or, if we want to get fancy, it could be a door for a trailing sensor array...
Timo Saloniemi
I may be wrong (and maybe Timo wants to have a look to see what he thinks, or maybe we could conjur up Rick Sternbach) but I think that's a Shane Johnson/'Mr. Scott's Guide' style computer core coming up from the 'processors' at the bottom to connect to the underside of the bridge.
At least that's always what I thought since it wasn't explicitly labelled 'intermix chamber' and seemed to flow into the part labeled 'computer core.' It never entered my mind that it might be the warp core but now I'm having my doubts.
And that mystery door... that I just can't figure what would be most logical for it to be.
Here and here are great links from Doug Drexler's blog where the Constellation/Stargazer is discussed a bit, particularly the differences between Picard's model and the filming model.
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The multidisciplinary teams working on projects for the exhibition Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream have three weeks to go in the workshop phase before the final public Open Studios at MoMA PS1, on Saturday, September 17.
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Project: The Garden in the Machine
Site Location: Cicero, Illinois
Knowing visitors to the final exhibit will inevitably be drawn to the model in all its foam-and-aluminium glory, we've elected to use the video monitors at our disposal to counterbalance our polished, parallel future with the messy realities of Cicero's present. Why is Cicero "foreclosed?" they'll ask. Whose dream are we changing, and how does it involve living in a former factory with its own brewery? The best way to tell that story, we decided, was to let Cicero residents tell it themselves.
Early in the process, our teammates Roberta Feldman and Theaster Gates worked with Cicero's Interfaith Leadership Project to interview residents about their own personal foreclosure crises. Those sessions (with more to come) have been taped and edited by Spirit of Space's Adam Goss, and we intend to display them across three screens. The first will depict Cicero's forlorn industrial landscape, another piece of which went up in smoke last week when a warehouse burned to the ground.
The second screen will feature Interfaith Director Cristine Pope in her office (as seen above), describing lenders' predatory tactics prior to the crisis, as well as the Town of Cicero's pathetically inadequate response to the foreclosure tidal wave: out of 1,066 homes foreclosed in the city last year, federal neighborhood stabilization funds were only used to buy, rehab, and resell a dozen of them. This type of predicament is all new to her, and its irony is clear. "We never worked on housing issues in the past, because Cicero was the community where everyone moved to be able to buy their first house," she says.
The third and final screen will be devoted to the residents themselves, whose accounts of their stories are organized by theme: the bungalows in which they live; the two or three jobs they hold (including one woman who works two shifts at two different JC Penney stores on the same day); their large families and dwindling support networks; and, finally, their dream homes—"mansions" with balconies and hallways wide enough to allow their inhabitants to slide past each other without turning sideways. Perhaps we're fortunate that the dreams we've been charged with changing are so modest.
WORKac – Amale Andraos and Dan Wood
Project: Nature-City
Site Location: Salem-Keizer, Oregon
Our team continues to grow, with new arrivals and help coming at the same time some of the original group returns to school. We have decided on the materials and format of the big model—primarily etched white paper backed with plexi for the windows—and started the CNC milling of the big landscape base. The first buildings are taking shape in the office and looking good. We have ordered model trees from a specialist who charges by the inch. As the model powers along, a new second crew is beginning work on the final renderings and layout of the exhibition, and we have our own creative team of art director and copywriter at Wieden + Kennedy, with whom we plan to start working on the video at the end of the week. HR&A are calculating costs and crafting the financial argument and we gave an interview to the Salem Statesman, who—not to be outdone by the Keizer Times—will publish an article on the project next week. We are weeks behind where we wanted to be, but at least things are moving.
Michael Bell: Visible Weather – Michael Bell and Eunjeong Seong
Project: Simultaneous City
Site Location: Temple Terrace, Florida
In the building(s) its possible to take a midnight walk to a small grocery store in the complex and to encounter a wide spectrum of experiences; there is a small spot on a plaza level at grade where two ramps meet that would allow anyone in the near 10-acre project to converge. The entire building can empty out and everyone would come face to face at this zone—casting the entire architectural work into the background—behind you.
"Periodic Table of Houses"
Zago Architecture – Andrew Zago
Project: Property with Properties
Site Location: Rialto, California
In our project, a few basic house types replace, parcel by parcel, the houses originally planned for the subdivision. By creating a duplicate of these houses and adjusting their location via larger site block shifts (our term for this is mis-registration), we significantly increase the overall density of the project and create—via their intersection with one another—a very large set of house, duplex, and multifamily variations.
Final production of our 1:40 site model is underway. 236 houses are awaiting their first coat of paint. Color studies and painting technique tests are complete. By week's end each house will have received two colors, one carefully and intentionally mis-applied over the first—slipping onto the ground plane. Both a diagram for the project and an object in and of itself, the site model is a key component of our exhibition.