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Google is still the search king when it comes to online news, but Facebook is quickly, and almost quietly, becoming more influential, according to results of a study released Monday.
While Google still accounts for 30 percent of visitors for the top 24 news sites, Facebook accounts for a high of 8 percent for The Huffington Post and 5 percent for the New York Times in a new Pew Research Center study with Nielsen Co. statistics, GigaOm reported. However, if there is an article referral on Facebook, chances are it isn't coming from Google News, and vice-versa. (Twitter wasn't seen as a much of a traffic-driver, according to the study.)
The gist of the study is that Facebook referrals are growing and a social network may mean more repeat readers. Google News has no such social aspect and so is unlikely to grow past what it is today. This could explain the New York Times's contradictory new pay wall policy that also allows free views if referred to an article on Facebook -- the so-called "social loophole."
The study also mentions that many site visitors are rarely repeat visitors. Instead, they visit maybe once or twice a month. That's one of the reasons publishers are seeing the importance of their articles and content traded on Facebook and are making it easier to do so -- the same are visitors seeing and partaking of their content over and over again.


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Broadside Shot
The broadside shot is preferable for all of Montana's big game animals. In a broadside shot, the bullet doesn't have to pass through the stomach and intestines which might slow the bullet down. Also, on larger animals it is important for the bullet to pass through both of the lungs for an effective and rapid kill.
To place the broadside shot, wait for an animal to turn broadside and then put your sights on the back of the front leg, bring them up the back of the front leg, ¼ of the way up the body. A shot placed in this area hits the lung/heart area and misses the shoulder and leg bone. Study the following pictures to learn more about shot placement.

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Getting torn down this summer! FINALLY!!!
The new dorm looks amazing!
Getting torn down this summer! FINALLY!!!
The new dorm looks amazing!
Trojan Warrior
Donor Club
Atlanta Trojan on Sun Beltbbs
Dang it, I am only 27 years to late. This was needed bad!!!!
Lifetime T-Club Member
Trojan Warrior
Proud Former Troy Football Player
Proud Troy Alumni
Proud Troy Dad
Yes. The students who move into this dorm when it opens will not know how lucky they are. I was living in Alumni in the middle of the last decade, and it already was in desperate shape then, and probably long before that as well.
I saw someone talking on facebook about how they should sell the bricks. I know they won't do that, but it's a cool idea. I would definitely buy one to put on a shelf on the "Trojan/FSU" wall of my office.
I'd be lying if I said I had fond memories of the place, but it was also a formative experience in my life as the first place I lived away from home.
Boy, I sure got in a lot of trouble in that dorm, but not near as much as other folks I knew there.
It always seemed to me that the poor scholarship / Pell Grant kids ended up in Alumni. Are there any dorms that are actually not in good condition now? I would bet that everyone on campus will have a nice place to live now. Nothing compared to Alumni in my time - maybe Dill (?) Hall before it was demolished, it looked pretty nasty but I never stepped inside.
My other team is a National Champion.
Wait, on second thought, have the graduate student fundraisers start calling everyone who lived in Alumni, sell the bricks at $20 a piece, sell about 1000 of them, and put it towards the end zone palace.
My other team is a National Champion.
I would buy one and put a plaque over it that says, "From the building where I spent my one year of post-Apocalypse training"
I am what I am and thats all I am.
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Muffuletta Grilled Cheese
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What? Muffuletta grilled cheese doesn't sound good to you? Who are you anyway? Certainly not the same somebody I used to know.
You're saying that capicola should never be served warm? (And yes, you heard right. I pronounced it gabbagool. Got a problem with that?). But why not, when it's oh so delicious that way? And huh? Hot soppressata? Fuggedaboudit! It's freaking delicious. That's why I put it in there. I'm surprised you even had to ask.
No, it's not inappropriate to call it an "olive salad," even if it's really a condiment, and even if it's in a sandwich, and even if it's served hot. It's olive salad. Olives, capers, pickles of all sorts, tons of olive oil. Olive salad. Got it?
And yeah, perhaps my choice of provolone cheese for this 'wich is a little high brow for you, and I'm with you. Nothing wrong with good old Kraft Singles. But a muffaletta's gotta do what a muffaletta's gotta do, and this muff's gotta do provolone. Fair enough?
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- See also: Intrepid (disambiguation) for other Intrepid references.
The Intrepid-class starship was a Federation design that entered service in the latter half of the 24th century. The USS Voyager was of this class.
General overview
When first commissioned, the Intrepid-class featured many innovations then becoming available, not least being the tricyclic input manifold of the warp core and variable-geometry pylons. The class was also the first to incorporate bioneural gel packs and was equipped with the Mark 1 Emergency Medical Hologram system.
Capabilities upon introduction were equally impressive. The class boasted the best navigational sensors, and the highest top speed of any Starfleet vessel until the development of the Template:ShipClass. Its multi-mission design was backed up by a main computer processor capable of simultaneously accessing 47 million data channels and sustaining 575 trillion calculations per nanosecond. (VOY: "Relativity", "Concerning Flight")
Class history
Development and construction of the Intrepid-class occurred at the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards with the class entering service by 2370. The second ship, USS Voyager, was commissioned in 2371. She was the first ship to test the class 9 warp drive in deep space. (VOY: "Caretaker", "Relativity")
The performance of the Intrepid-class was well reflected by Voyager. That ship was notable for independently, and successfully, completing an unscheduled seven-year journey across the previously unexplored Delta Quadrant, 70 thousand light years from Federation space, from 2371 to 2378. The vessel was completely cut off from communication with Starfleet until 2374, and had no access to any Starfleet supplies or facilities for the entire length of its journey. (VOY Season 1 through VOY Season 7)
Technical data
Physical arrangement
The hull configuration of the Intrepid-class adopted the saucer-type shape of previous starship classes, that of primary hull, secondary hull, and nacelles driven by the physics of warp generation and control. One of the Intrepid-class' most notable characteristics were its warp nacelles, which angled when going to warp, a quality which has not been observed in any other starship. The Intrepid-class used a duranium hull structure, a plasma-based power distribution system, and tricyclic life-support systems. (VOY: "Drone")
Following the Starfleet standard, Deck 1 was reserved for the main bridge, with the briefing room and captain's ready room located to port and starboard sides of the bridge. Located in the front section of Deck 2 was the crew's mess hall, served by three windows that offered a spectacular view of space in front of the vessel. One deck below, located in the front section of Deck 3, were the quarters of the starship's commanding officer, served by five windows. Further down the primary hull was the diamond-shaped primary sensor array, immediately beneath which was the secondary navigational deflector dish. (citation needed • edit)
The dorsal saucer section was covered by four phaser arrays, two of which extended from the aft curvature along the length of the saucer and stop short of the auxiliary deflector incision. The aft firing arc was covered by two smaller arrays, angled on the rear of the saucer section. The relative bottom of the ship was protected by two similar arrays as on the dorsal saucer section, extending to the rear of the saucer and following the curve to the auxiliary deflector incision. (citation needed • edit) Docked to the underside of the Intrepid-class' primary hull was the vessel's aeroshuttle.
- The aeroshuttle was first seen as a separate craft in ENT: "Future Tense".
Further aft, the main navigational deflector dish was found at the foreside of the Intrepid-class' secondary hull. Located right above the deflector were the forward photon torpedo launchers. On the underside of the secondary hull were located three sets of plates that support the warp propulsion system. The forward plate covered the reserve intermix chamber; the middle plate contained the antimatter loading port, a large magnetic valve that kept the antimatter from coming in contact with matter during the transfer to the storage pods; (citation needed • edit) and the aft cover plate contained the operational intermix chamber hatch, for ejecting the warp core in case of emergency. (VOY: "Day of Honor")
One of the few Starfleet starship classes capable of atmospheric entry and planetary landing, the Intrepid-class starship was equipped with antigravity generators as well as impulse and lifters strategically placed at the mass and stress points on the bottom portion of the secondary hull. Prior to and during landing or takeoff procedures, the vessel typically went to blue alert, indicating to the crew they were to assume their code-blue stations. (VOY: "The 37's")
Command and control systems
The main bridge of the Intrepid-class starship was ovoid and served as the nerve center of the vessel. At the bridge's rear was a large bank of consoles and data readout screens. Center of that area was the master systems display; control consoles flanked it on both sides. (citation needed • edit)
Starboard of the information center, past the starboard side turbolift, was the station of the chief tactical officer. This area was maintained mostly for internal security and combat situations. Other systems that could be commanded by tactical included long- and short-range sensor arrays, sensor probes, message buoys, and tractor beams. An identical station was found on the other side of the bridge, where the operations console was found. This panel presented the operations officer with a continually updated list of current major shipboard activities. This list permitted Ops to set priorities and allocate resources among current operations. This was especially critical when two or more requests required the use of the same equipment, entailed mutually exclusive mission profiles, or involved some unusual safety or tactical considerations. (citation needed • edit)
Forward of the upper ship operations areas were doorways to the briefing room at one side and the captain's ready room at the other. There, the commanding officer could engage in administrative work with all relevant office equipment at hand without interfering with bridge operations. Also, this room was usually the preferred place where the captain could hold private discussions or receive classified communications. Aboard the Intrepid-class starship, the work desk was the focal point of the ready room, located ahead of the main entrance door. A raised level in the forward section of the room featured a small table, a curved couch, and a replicator. The wall behind the couch featured three windows looking toward the bow of the vessel. Compared with the much larger Template:ShipClass starship, the Intrepid-class curiously had a more spacious, luxurious ready room. (citation needed • edit)
In the center of the Intrepid-class' bridge was the command area. Here, seating was provided for the vessel's commanding officer and his or her first officer, seated to the captain's left. Between these chairs was a miniaturized status display. Using keyboard or vocal commands, the commanding officer could use these controls to override the basic operation of the starship. Directly aft of this area, integrated in the handrail encircling the aft section of the central command area, was another command console that could be operated to perform more bridge duties. (citation needed • edit)
On Voyager, it was shown to be a console that assisted mostly in operations and tactical stations, due to Seven of Nine's expertise.
Directly forward of and two steps lower than the central command area was the conn station. From here, the flight control officer served as helmsman and navigator for the starship. Despite many of these functions being heavily automated, their critical nature demanded a humanoid officer to oversee these operations at all times. During spaceflight at impulse, conn monitored relativistic effects as well as inertial damping system status. When the ship was traveling at warp speed, conn monitored the subspace field geometry in parallel with the engineering department. During warp flight, the conn console continually updated long-range sensor data and made automatic course corrections to adjust for minor variations in the density of the interstellar medium. (citation needed • edit)
To the conn's right sat the chief engineer. Though the position was far better served in main engineering, situations arose where the engineer's presence was needed on the bridge. The console allowed complete control over all engineering systems. Directly opposite sat the chief science officer at a similar console. (VOY: "Caretaker")
Propulsion systems
Main engineering aboard an Intrepid-class starship was located on Deck 11. The room was constructed around the matter-antimatter reaction assembly (also known simply as the warp core), featuring two levels. In front of the warp core was a large monitoring area on the lower engineering level. Also located on this level was the chief engineer's office and an open work area for special projects or situational analysis. A second tier ringed the upper level of main engineering. A small, single-person elevator, as well as a ladder on the opposite side, provided access to this catwalk. (VOY: "Caretaker")
The main impulse engines on an Intrepid-class starship were located on the aft end of the pylons leading to the warp nacelles. Intrepid-class starships were also equipped with auxiliary impulse reactors. (VOY: "Phage")
Warp core ejection
In the event of a warp core breach, the Intrepid-class starship could eject the warp core. This procedure required the authorization code of the chief engineer or a member of the senior staff. The core was ejected through the ejection port on the underside of the secondary hull. Magnetic rails inside the channel accelerated the core once disengaged from the vessel and fired it away from the ship. Under normal circumstances, the vessel then moved away from the core as fast as possible under impulse power. (VOY: "Renaissance Man")
Should the core not go critical, the vessel could recover it with tractor beams and careful manipulation. (VOY: "Day of Honor")
Tactical systems
Phaser systems
The Intrepid-class utilized a ship-mounted phaser array system. The dorsal saucer section was covered by four phaser arrays, two of which extended from the aft curvature, along the length of the saucer and stop short of the auxiliary deflector incision. The aft firing arc was covered by two smaller arrays, angled on the rear of the saucer section. The relative bottom of the ship was protected by two similar arrays as on the dorsal saucer section, extending to the rear of the saucer and following the curve to the auxiliary deflector incision. More protection was provided by an array that extended across the ventral engineering hull just fore of the warp core ejection port. Far-aft strips were provided on the underside of the mobile nacelle pylons and under the shuttlebay landing deck on the underside of the ship for a total ship's complement of thirteen arrays. (Star Trek: Voyager)
- An additional phaser emitter was seen firing from the ventral surface of the ships right nacelle in "Unimatrix Zero".
Torpedo systems
The Intrepid-class housed five standard torpedo launchers (two fore and two aft, with one on the center ventral side of the engineering hull) (VOY: "Resolutions"). The USS Voyager was loaded with type-6 photon torpedoes in 2371. She also had at least four class-10 photon torpedo and two tricobalt devices in her torpedo arsenal. (VOY: "Caretaker", "Dreadnought", "Scorpion, Part II", "In the Flesh")
Deflector shields
The Intrepid-class' deflector shield was a symmetrical, oscillating subspace graviton field. During combat, the shield sent data on what type of weapon was being used on it and what frequency and phase the weapon used. Once the tactical officer analyzed these data, the shield could be configured to have the same frequency as the incoming weapon, but different nutation. This tactic dramatically increased shield efficiency. There were a total of fourteen shield grids on the Intrepid-class. (citation needed • edit)
Tractor beam
Each Intrepid-class tractor beam emitter was directly mounted to the primary members of the vessel's framework. The forward emitter was located on the underside of the secondary hull under the main deflector dish. The second emitter was located at the aft end of the secondary hull in the aft section of Deck 14. (citation needed • edit)
Crew support systems
Medical facilities
There was one large sickbay facility located on Deck 5, equipped with an intensive-care unit (ICU), biohazard support, critical care, a morgue, the chief medical officer's office, a load-out of three standard biobeds and one surgical bed in the main ward, and a small medical laboratory. The standard medical staff consisted of a doctor and a nurse, supplemented by the Emergency Medical Hologram, the Intrepid-class being one of the first to be equipped with this medical technology. (VOY: "Tuvix")
Three biobeds lined the walls of sickbay's ICU; these were for patients receiving medical care and were equipped with biofunction monitors. Located in the corner of the main ward was a surgical bed, where major surgeries were performed and critical patients were treated. A large, sophisticated sensor cluster was installed in the ceiling directly above this bed. Working with a medical tricorder, the sensor suite could give detailed information about a patient's condition. The bed was also designed to use a surgical support frame. The small area that the surgical bed was located in could be isolated by a force field. If necessary, surgery could be conducted in the intensive care ward if there was an overflow of patients or if another patient was present to donate blood. (VOY: "Phage", "Latent Image")
Located in the center of the sickbay facility was the chief medical officer's office. Here, the CMO was provided with an area to work in privacy or conduct meetings with patients, staff, and others. Its proximity allowed the CMO to be present in sickbay almost immediately. Located behind this office was a small medical laboratory facility. The medical staff or other associated personnel could monitor experiments or run tests here during their duty shifts. Just off the medical lab was located a tiny area for storage of the deceased. (VOY: "Macrocosm", "Basics, Part II")
Recreational facilities
There were two medium-sized holodecks aboard the ship. Located on Deck 6, these holodecks were proprietary Federation technology and could comfortably support up to fifteen people at a time. The Intrepid-class' holodecks were of a next generation of holographic technology, even further advanced than those applied on board Starfleet vessels during the 2360s, being able to impersonate matter even at the molecular level. (VOY: "Phage")
On the Intrepid-class vessels, the mess hall was on Deck 2, Section 13. Some ships were equipped with four food replicators, with a private captain's dining room just behind the mess hall. This dining room could be reconfigured to serve as a kitchen, as done by Neelix aboard Voyager. The USS Bellerophon's mess hall was also fitted in this manner. (VOY: "Phage"; DS9: "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges")
The mess hall was typically host to many social gatherings, including diplomatic affairs, birthday parties, and holiday celebrations. The mess hall could also serve as a makeshift sickbay whenever that facility was disabled or otherwise overwhelmed. (VOY: "Someone to Watch Over Me", "Latent Image", "Macrocosm", "Homestead", "Before and After", "Year of Hell", "Course: Oblivion", "Memorial")
A crew's lounge was located in the far aft section of the vessel's secondary hull, providing a view of space aft of the Intrepid-class starship. (citation needed • edit)
The Intrepid-class also had a gymnasium. (VOY: "Eye of the Needle")
Crew accommodations
All crew and officers' quarters (except the captain's quarters on Deck 3) were located on decks 2, 4, 8, 9, and 13, with special variable environment quarters on Deck 11 for crew with special comforts. Although the Intrepid-class was highly advanced, the quarters in general were smaller than those of other vessel classes because of its smaller dimensions. (citation needed • edit)
There were several types of crew quarters aboard:
- Standard crew quarters:
- These small quarters units were located within the primary hull and lack windows. They included a living area, a bedroom, and a bathroom. Crewmembers of lieutenant junior grade were given their own quarters; ensigns and crewmen were required to share their quarters (except for senior officers; Ensign Kim had his own quarters). The living area contained a replicator terminal and was customizable with a variety of furniture and decorations. (VOY: "Good Shepherd")
- Officers' quarters
- These quarters lined the edge of the saucer section and contained a living area, a bedroom, and a bathroom area. They were generally reserved for those of ranking lieutenant or higher. Members of the senior staff were typically assigned quarters featuring a pair of larger, wider windows. (citation needed • edit)
- Captain's quarters
- The captain's quarters, located on Deck 3, were similar to the officers' quarters but were slightly larger. The captain had a large desk area and work terminal. His or her quarters featured five windows (below the navigation lamp), which offered an excellent view of space in front of the vessel; the captain's quarters were positioned below the mess hall. (citation needed • edit)
Transporter systems
The Intrepid-class featured three transporter facilities that were located on Deck 4. In case of emergencies, injured personnel could be directly transported to sickbay from anywhere in transporter range, including inside the ship. (VOY: "Shattered")
Auxiliary spacecraft systems
Located in the aft dorsal portion of the secondary hull, the main shuttlebay was the primary port for entrance and egress, as well as management of auxiliary craft and shuttles. The main shuttlebay was managed by a team of pilots, engineers technicians, and operations personnel that were based on the flight operations office under the supervision of the flight control officer. (citation needed • edit)
Inward from the main shuttlebay was a secondary storage and maintenance area behind huge inner airlock doors. This secondary area was almost as large as the main shuttlebay and was commonly referred to as Shuttlebay 2. (VOY: "In the Flesh")
The Intrepid-class starship was typically equipped with the following types of shuttlecraft:
The crew of the USS Voyager, stranded in the Delta Quadrant, constructed the Delta Flyer for more complex auxiliary spacecraft operations. The craft was in operation since early 2375. The Intrepid-class was also equipped with an aeroshuttle, which was visible on the underside. (VOY: "Extreme Risk", et al.; ENT: "Future Tense")
Ships commissioned
- USS Bellerophon (NCC-74705)
- USS Intrepid (NCC-74600)
- USS Voyager (NCC-74656)
- Star Trek: Voyager
- DS9: "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges"
- ENT: "Future Tense" (database image)
Apocryphal appearances
- The Intrepid-class starship was featured in Activision's Star Trek: Armada II and Star Trek: Starfleet Command III, while the USS Voyager appeared in Star Trek: Voyager - Elite Force and Star Trek: Elite Force II.
- In Bethesda Softworks' Star Trek: Legacy, the Intrepid-class is a playable ship, with the USS Voyager as one of the possible names of this class of ship.
Background information
The earliest concepts for Star Trek: Voyager came in September 1993, during the last season of The Next Generation and the second season of Deep Space Nine. Star Trek producers had already begun to plan for a new series set on a smaller starship than the Enterprise-D, but instead of waiting for more clarification, Rick Sternbach immediately started making sketches of this unnamed vessel.
Sternbach's early sketches had Voyager as a streamlined, dart-like primary hull, with a flattened, elongated engineering hull, sporting swept-back runabout-like warp pylons. Later on, it was decided that Voyager would be able to land on a planetary surface, requiring deployable landing gear and other arrangements of resting-on-hull components to be sketched out. Variations filled more paper as the proportions of different parts changed, pieces were added and subtracted, and hull contours, both gently curved and angular, were explored in perspective. Even in the rough sketches, a lot of design ideas got worked out, concerning placement of familiar items like impulse engines and phasers. Not surprisingly, this exercise would be repeated in greater detail with each new approved version of the hull. Preliminary hull cross-sections were drawn in blue pencil to check different internal deck heights, total number of decks, and possibly overall ship length.
During April and May of 1994, the first real sense of the new starship emerged. The slightly angular dart front was smoothed off and nestled into the engineering sections, still assuming a separation capability, and sweeping pylons ended in a set of long nacelles. Doors on the nacelles could open, exposing the warp coils for some new kind of energy jump. Impulse thrusters were buried underneath, as in the runabout, and a large triangular wedge sat atop the ship, possibly acting as a scout craft or long-range sensor array. In this design, all of the familiar Starfleet parts were added, in type and location, much the way they eventually were. A few cut-and-paste variations were assembled, along with a sleeker version that left out the long-range sensor pod and combined a few shape ideas from the runabout and the Template:ShipClass. Here, a few more details crept in, notably the large forward sensor cutout, and a stepped engineering hull that supported a ring of large cargo bays and impulse engines. This particular variant received additional approval from the producers and proceeded to the initial blueprint and study model stages. Sternbach scaled up a top plan view sketch of the ship to a length of 48 inches – the presumed size of the motion control model at the time. From the top view, Sternbach derived bottom, side, fore, and aft views. The side elevation (and resulting cross-section) showed 14 decks, and that the ship was about 1,000 feet long (the same size as the upgraded Enterprise from The Motion Picture). This would make it about 303 meters.
There seemed to be no insurmountable problems from the design standpoint in giving it all the proper fictional starship systems, or of building and filming the miniature. The set designs could be matched in shape and color. This version of Voyager looked fast, with a hint of solid engine hardware showing on the outside. Just as Sternbach was about to produce a final set of modelmaker's blueprints, the producers asked if he could make Voyager a bit more blended, more curvy; just as a physical model of the USS Voyager had been completed, the producers called for softening the hull contours. Sternbach also still worked on the nacelle placement, mounting them on pylons like on the Enterprise-D, or downturned like on a runabout, and horizontal pylons that evolved into wings.
Following the Starfleet standard, Sternbach reserved spaces for the bridge on Deck 1 and a variety of placeholder windows on the hull, which would be built into standing sets. Windows are an important design factor because of the coordination necessary between various studio departments and an outside modelmaker over continuity of the exterior of the ship and the interior. Since Voyager would be smaller, structures like windows would be proportionately larger and more visible, requiring more model details matching the stage sets. The large windows that appear on the upper side of the Voyager model were designed by Rick Sternbach to accommodate the living quarters of the starship's senior officers, the five windows located underneath the officers' mess on the foreside of the ship being allocated to the captain's quarters. For all quarters, the same set was used on the show with removable wall segments being used to make it either a two-, three-, or four-window quarter (presumably the fifth window of the captain's quarters serviced its bathroom).
The Voyager prototype
The "Voyager Prototype" was a study model designed by Rick Sternbach during the pre-production of Star Trek: Voyager. This was a mock-up only, it was not built as a filming miniature. Featuring many details that would make it into the producer's final choice for the design of the Intrepid-class USS Voyager, this prototype featured sharper, more angular shapes, and long, downswept warp nacelles mounted on pylons designed similarly to those on the Template:ShipClass runabout. This is very similar to the kitbashed filming model that was labeled USS Elkins, leading to those two models to be sometimes confused.
Non-canonically, this design has been referenced by the Last Unicorn Games' role playing game books; they assign the name of the Template:ShipClass to this ship, although this bears no regard for the producers' and creator's intentions. The Voyager's registry number on original plans was NCC-73264, but this was changed before the study model was built.
Designing the bridge
After six years as production designer on The Next Generation, Richard James was no stranger to the legacy of Star Trek and the production requirements of episodic television. When given the assignment to create a new starship from the inside out, he had to start up from scratch. Nothing had yet been established, and thus for his first meeting with Star Trek: Voyager's creators and producers, James decided to push the boundaries of everything that had gone before. Early concept sketches show bridge designs without the large viewscreen in the front of the bridge and command functions decentralized, obviously breaking the traditional bridge mold.
However, by exhaustively reexamining the dramatic requirements and technological underpinnings of the Star Trek bridge without preconceptions, James rediscovered the strengths of the basic template laid out by Matt Jefferies almost thirty years earlier. But with the broad strokes of the bridge's layout firmly embedded in Star Trek's past, James and his team went on to bring a fresh new interpretation to the heart of every Star Trek adventure, investing it with a sleek, efficient, and welcoming appearance that made Voyager something of its own – the Star Trek for the nineties and beyond.
- The Art of Star Trek, Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, Pocket Books, 1997.
- "Designing the U.S.S. Voyager", Star Trek: The Magazine, November 2000, issue 19 and July 2001, issue 28.
- Interview with designer Rick Sternbach at Forgotten Trek, July/August 2005.
- Some of the information in this article is adapted from Rick Sternbach's guide to the development of the class from Star Trek: The Magazine Vol 3, Issue 1, under the Starfleet Technical Database banner.
- The USS Voyager's MSD is from the Star Trek: The Next Generation Sketchbook: The Movies.
- Although the writers of Voyager insisted on trotting out the 9.975 cruising speed figure in dialog once every season or two, this was never borne out in any episode. In "The Swarm", there was some question as to whether or not the ship could hold warp 9.75 for the twelve hours necessary to cross a region of alien controlled space. At no time in the series did we see the ship go faster. Actual observed performance would suggest a cruising speed of warp 9.75 (though that might also be the twelve hour maximum) and an emergency speed of 9.975 for ten minutes, rather like the 9.8 speed as attained by an original Template:ShipClass starship.


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TAHOE/TRUCKEE, Calif. – We have two dogs; a 4-year-old German Shepherd named Harry and a 2-year-old terrier mix named Rascal. We've been married for one year. My husband rescued Harry when he was 1-year-old (before we met) and I've had Rascal since he was a puppy. Harry is a scary resource guarder. Rascal has learned to stay away from him whenever he is eating or has a bone, but Harry has attacked him and drawn blood. He also growls at me if I come anywhere near him when he is eating or has something special. I just found out that I'm pregnant and the thought of having this dog around a baby really scares me. Please let us know what you think we should do?
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Dear Parents,
The situation you describe is very concerning. I've addressed dog-on-dog resource guarding in this column before (July 31, 2012, sierrasun.com), but not dog-on-human guarding. Harry does both which makes it especially problematic.
Resources can be anything at all that a dog deems important. Some common high-value items are bones, pig ears and toys, but some dogs will guard their bed, your bed, their crate or a personal item of yours like a shoe. Resource guarding is a normal survival skill that allows smaller, weaker and lower-status dogs to keep possession of a highly valued object and it is not uncommon in dogs who come from bad situations or have had to fend for themselves. Since Harry was rescued, you don't know what happened before your husband adopted him.
In my earlier columns about dog-on-dog resource guarding, I recommended using management to control the situation. This will be impossible with an infant. Once your baby starts to crawl at around 9 months of age, you will not be able to manage all interactions 100 percent of the time, which will place your baby at great risk. We know Harry is capable of drawing blood to defend his stuff because he's done it to Rascal. I have no doubt he would also bite a baby who is innocently reaching for something. Babies have extremely soft bones and skin and one bite can do immense damage.
I recommend you re-home Harry before the baby is born. I know this will be hard, but your child's safety must come first. You didn't mention much else about Harry, but if resource guarding is his only major issue, you should be able to find an adult only, one-dog home who would love to have him. You can contact a rescue organization in your area or look up German Shepherd breed rescue.
– Carla Brown, CPDT is a certified professional dog trainer and owner of The Savvy Dog Training and Education Center in Truckee. If you have a pet topic/issue you would like to see covered in the Ask the Trainer column, please email her at email@example.com


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San Diego, CA: Former San Diego Chargers player Shawne Merriman today took athletic equipment giant Nike to court in San Diego alleging unfair competition and trademark infringement of his LIGHTS OUT® brand which has been synonymous with Merriman his entire career. The suit was filed by his company, Lights Out Holdings, LLC in California Federal Court and demands immediate injunctive relief to stop Nike's actions, and millions of dollars of damages including "statutory damages of up to $2 million per content mark per type of goods or services sold, offered for sale or distribution . . ." as noted in the complaint.
"I earned my 'Lights Out' nickname in high school when I knocked out four opposing players in one football game," said Merriman. "I made things official by securing the federal rights to my LIGHTS OUT trademark and have been using it ever since. I am suing Nike as a last resort, not only to protect my brand, but to protect other athletes who are trying to develop a brand after their professional career, like myself.
The LIGHS OUT trademark registration covers a broad range of apparel: "clothing for men, women and children, mainly, bottoms, boxer shorts, caps, hats, headwear, nightwear, shirts, shorts, sleepwear, sweatshirts, tank tops, tops, t-shirts, underwear." Because Merriman's company has had rights in the LIGHTS OUT mark for so long, the trademark has been deemed incontestable by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
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Take a minute and think about the last few purchases you made. How many of them were paid for with a credit card or cash? By 2020, we'll all be reaching for a third option, a survey of experts is saying, using our phones by default. Are you willing to leave paper and plastic behind?
As the likes of Near Field Communication payment systems and app-to-register purchases become more popular, the death of physical currency is pretty much assured at some point, but 65 percent of experts polled said it'd happen as swiftly as within eight years.
The study, conducted by Pew Internet & American Life Project, didn't pull from a random sampling, as reported by Mashable's Samantha Murphy:
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The study was conducted among a non-random sample of 1,021 technology stakeholders and critics in the mobile payments industry, from executives and Google and Microsoft to professors at distinguished universities nationwide.
That's a lot of brain power, and as stated 65% agreed with the following:
By 2020, most people will have embraced and fully adopted the use of smart-device swiping for purchases they make, nearly eliminating the need for cash or credit cards. People will come to trust and rely on personal hardware and software for handling monetary transactions over the Internet and in stores. Cash and credit cards will have mostly disappeared from many of the transactions that occur in advanced countries.
So, think PayPal, Amazon and Google payments, LevelUp (and to a lesser extent Square) and so on.
The dissenting 33% (leaving an undecided sliver) said that worries over privacy and the fragmented landscape of today's digital payment systems make 2020 an optimistic target. For others, it was the size of the payment that mattered, with a respondent saying, "I'm happy to buy my $2 Starbucks using my Android but I don't know that we will ever feel secure enough to make much larger purchases that way."
So, the experts have weighed in, now how about you? I imagine a lot of us haven't waited until 2020 to go digital. That said, this study is talking less about digital on the whole (sitting at your computer and buying something off Amazon, for instance), and more about the power of the smartphone to make that kind of transaction mobile.


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Levi Chavez jailed briefly after bond raised
Judge says Chavez confronted witness in May
Former Albuquerque Police Department Officer Levi Chavez, who is charged with the murder of his wife, Tera Chavez, was ordered back to jail.
A Valencia County judge believes Chavez confronted a witness in the case in May.
"I'm going to remand him. I'm going to double the bond, so that the bond will be $200,000, (with) 10 percent to the court," district court Judge George Eichwald said.
Chavez's lawyer, David Serna, said he couldn't believe the judge's decision.
"I'm very surprised by the judge's decision, but it's a very, very brief setback. Levi is going to be back out of custody within a day," Serna said.
A witness in the upcoming Chavez murder trial, Josh Cordova, Tera Chavez' twin brother, said Chavez confronted and verbally attacked him in a bathroom on the CNM campus.
The judge said a confrontation with a witness is a violation of the condition of Chavez' release.
Chavez took the stand to defend himself, calling Cordova and his entire family liars. Outside of court, Cordova's father reacted with dismay.
"How would you feel if he called your family a liar? That was rough. And if you noticed he went high-pitched when he called us a liar. I'm surprised he didn't make the sign of the cross on his chin like he did in his deposition," Cordova's father, Joseph Cordova, said.
Chavez said the Cordovas have been out to get him ever since his wife, Tera, was shot and killed.
The family admits Josh Cordova and Levi Chavez have had bad blood brewing for years, but family members said they would never make up a story.
"We're not liars. We don't make up stuff to put my family through this," Cordova said. "We're not after Levi. We want justice."
Records show Chavez has already posted the $200,000 cash surety bond.
The judge said if Chavez is found guilty of confronting a witness again, he will be held without bond until trial.


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Prototyping Built Around Press Brake, Offline Programming
The four-employee operation is built around a TruBend 5230 press brake and TruTops offline-programming software from TRUMPF Inc., Farmington, CT, backed by secondary equipment such as fastener-insertion and tapping machines. Fabricating Solutions typically contracts with metal-fabricating and stamping job shops supplying medical, automotive-aftermarket, military and other markets, working with a variety of materials in thicknesses from foil to 1 in.
Geared Toward Prototyping, Capability for More
Fabricating Solutions, a Solon, OH, prototyper, used offline programming to design a wheelchair housing for a medical customer, then fabricated it on a press brake. The new design replaced a costly and time-consuming assembly.
Fabricating Solutions, a Solon, OH, prototyper, used offline programming to design a wheelchair housing for a medical customer, then fabricated it on a press brake. The new design replaced a costly and time-consuming assembly.
"We also design and develop tooling," Lockwood continues. "We will laser laminate a tool to prove out a process before a customer buys $10,000 worth of tooling to stick in a press brake. Our customers come to us and say, 'we are really good at stamping out 100 to 1000 cookies, but making the recipe for the first cookie is not our thing.'"
The heart of the prototyping operation, the press brake at Fabricating Solutions features redesigned pressure cylinders that, according to Trumpf officials, optimize working space while optimally transferring the press force, resulting in ideal conditions for processing unusually large or thick sheets, or long bends with tight angles. Other plusses include high workpiece quality due to virtual elimination of thermal load on the press-brake frame, and a space-saving roller cover that has replaced doors on the TruBend series. This enables unlimited access to the machine area and offers a small footprint while providing useful storage areas.
Fabricating Solutions performs production work only to bridge the gap between prototyping and a customer having the tools in place to undertake production itself. In addition, the company buys all of its blanks, as, Lockwood notes, prototyping will not support the capital cost of blanking equipment. In fact, many of its customers supply Fabricating Solutions with blanks.
Raised on Press Brakes
"My uncles and father were millwrights, so I was a 'millrat' as a kid, spending my summers at work with them, and I rebuilt a press brake in their shop when I was 14," Lockwood recalls.
Armed with his budding expertise at the Connecticut shop, he took a job just a couple miles down the road with TRUMPF Inc. in Farmington, where he honed his press-brake skills and made a discovery that changed his life.
"As my boss would explain to customers, if the controller was ripped off of the press brake, I could hotwire it and produce parts," says Lockwood, "so I knew how press brakes worked and how they could be controlled. The development of offline programming—development of a part and bending routine at a computer without tying up the press for trial-and-error bending—made me feel like a kid in a candy store. There had als been a gap between engineering and the bending process, and offline programming closed that gap. I understood modeling and making the part, but until offline programming came along, there was no to glue them together. I knew then that I wanted to do this for the rest of my life."
Offline Programming Pays Off
Lockwood has put that philosophy into practice ever since. As an example, he relates a project for a medical OEM best known for wheelchairs and other patient-mobility products.
"When I was still with Trumpf, this customer was looking to improve its fabrication capabilities," he says. "One of my jobs at the time was to take a customer's part, apply it to the equipment, and show the customer how we would make the part. I noticed two engineers from the customer fitting parts together to make an assembly. I looked at the parts and told them the three-piece assembly could instead be made as a single piece. When they were at lunch I went into my 3D modeling software, placed the parts together as a single piece, unfolded it and went out to a laser-cutting machine and made the new one-piece part. They were amazed."
|Being a prototyper, Fabricating Solutions
creates many unique parts, including this cornice molding the company designed and formed for
renovation of a Cleveland skyscraper.
Lockwood has brought that penchant for simplifying part design and removing unnecessary manufacturing steps to Fabricating Solutions, in one case reducing the number of press-brake programs needed to create different types of door parts from 140—one for each part—to three.
"We had a Trumpf V130 press brake with standard tooling, and were programming it each day for about 140 head-hinge and strike-jamb parts," recalls Mike Kolovich, engineering manager at Amweld Building Products, Stow, OH, noting that the programs weren't being stored in the press brake. "We asked Fabricating Solutions to program all of those parts into the brake so that our operator would spend his time making parts instead of constantly programming for each job. Dewey Lockwood looked at the part profile drawings and designed some tooling for us that would let us make all these parts using only three programs. Now, instead of constant programming and constant tool changeovers, we use one set of tooling and three different programs depending on the part profile. This has increased our efficiencies so that instead of producing 50 parts/day we are making 250."
A Logical Approach to Prototyping
Offline program enabled a successful resolution to Amweld's dilemma and plays a big role in the success of Fabricating Solutions.
"Prototyping was performed totally backward ever since Henry Ford came out with the production line," says Lockwood. "Essentially, an engineer takes a lot of time to develop a part and then another engineer takes the time to develop the flat, and then everyone carries it over to a press brake and scratches their heads wondering how to make the part. Offline programming has flipped that around with no need to waste time and waste a blank. On a PC you prove that a part can be made, process the blanks, and then, if the 3D modeling software is tied to CAM software, you prove the part out. Such a setup provides a 99 percent chance of producing the right part the first time and speeds time to market. Internally, many of our customers would burn 28 days going from a 3D concept to a finished part due to all of the steps involved in prototyping the old . So we eliminate all of those layers and put all the thinking up front, not in the rear when the machine is idling, and everyone is figuring out how to make a part." MF
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Nolan lifts NH past Reading
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Nashua's Kevin Nolan drove in two runs with a single in the top of the eighth inning to put the Fisher Cats in front and they went on to a 7-3 win over Reading on Saturday night at FirstEnergy Stadium.
In the decisive frame, Ryan Schimpf led off with a walk and Clint Robinson was hit-by-pitch. Brad Glenn's first career sacrifice hit moved the runners into scoring position before Nolan singled up the middle to put the Fisher Cats up 4-3. Nolan later scored on a wild pitch to give New Hampshire its second consecutive win over the Fightin' Phils.
Glenn came up again in the top of the ninth inning with Ricardo Nanita (single) and Schimpf at first (single) and ripped a double to left, scoring both runners, to open up a 7-3 lead.
New Hampshire (11-12) scored twice in the top of the first inning. Ricardo Nanita singled and scored on a triple by Schimpf to make it 1-0. Robinson followed with a single, plating Schimpf.
Reading (11-10) bounced back in the bottom of the second inning. Cameron Rupp beat out an infield single and Troy Hanzawa followed with his first home run of the season to tie the game at 2-2.
The Fightin' Phils took the lead in the bottom of the fourth inning. Tyler Henson singled and Rupp followed with an RBI double to make it 3-2 in favor of Reading.
Deck McGuire started for New Hampshire, allowing three runs in four innings with six strikeouts. Matt Wright, Chad Beck and Evan Crawford combined to work five scoreless innings in relief with Beck (1-0) credited with the win.
Reading received a solid start from David Buchanan, who left after 6.2 IP with the lead. Jay Johnson (0-1) took the loss in relief.
The series concludes in Reading on Sunday at 1:35pm. RHP Tyson Brummett (0-1, 6.75) will start for New Hampshire against LHP Jesse Biddle (2-1, 2.16) for the Fightin' Phils. Coverage of the game with Bob Lipman and Chris Shuker begins at 1:15pm on the WGIR Fisher Cats Radio Network and online at www.nhfishercats.com.
The next home game at Northeast Delta Dental Stadium will be Friday, May 3 when the Fisher Cats host Reading at 6:35pm. An Atlas Fireworks Show presented by Hyundai will follow the contest. For tickets and information visit www.nhfishercats.com.


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Friday, August 10, 2007
Goodbye, Farewell and Amen to the Mustard Man
Right now, I feel like I am in that sort of position. In a little more than 72 hours I will have to say goodbye to a very dear friend of mine, Chardal. On Sunday, he will be returning to Israel. The honest truth is, he belongs there. I have not met anyone else so devoted to Torah, the Jewish people and Israel as much as he is. But still, I am very sad he has to leave. He has become a mentor to me in Torah. He has taught me more than any rabbi that I have ever met. He has had an open ear, an open mind and an open heart to all that I have been through in my path to attain some sort of truth in Judaism. I don't think I could have bared these last couple of years without him. Honestly, I am amazed he has been able to deal with all my ramblings and rehashing of the same arguments...but he did. He was always there for me. And now, he is leaving.
In the finale of M*A*S*H, it was all a matter of time. They knew the war was over and it was only a matter of time before they had to say goodbye to one another. You were able to see the emotions not only in the end, but during the whole show. I think the same is happening here with me. I know I will have to say goodbye, but I don't want to. It's too hard. Sometimes, you just wish things can stay as they are, but you know change is around the corner.
So before this post starts sounding cheesy :), I just want to say thank you to my friend Chardal. I won't forget the friendship you showed me and I am sure you won't forget the mood swings I showed you :). I will always remember the fun we had blasting some of the bloggers. And even though we did not finish the kuzari, I think you taught me some skills that I can proceed further on my own. And ofcourse, I have to thank you for introducing me to the works of Rav Kook. I wish you luck and happiness in Israel. Continue to be a light to those around you and who knows, maybe one day, we will be neighbors again.
Wherever I am, my blog turns towards Eretz Yisrael
8 comments:
- Unknown said...
Oh, and *right* before I came to LA to visit, too. Hmph.
- 3:11 AM, August 10, 2007
- The back of the hill said...
Bon voyage, safe journey, & bleib gazunt.
- 3:48 AM, August 10, 2007
Los Angeles is losing a very precious family. Baruch Hashem they are going to Israel!
- 8:30 AM, August 10, 2007
- haKiruv said...
HH, you softy. Sounds like a nice friendship. Meaningful times like that are very precious.
- 11:09 PM, August 10, 2007
- chardal said...
Wow! You spent all that time writing my moniker and then renting a helicopter to take a picture of it! Why didn't you just use photoshop?!?! :)
Hey, I will miss you too!
Hazak VeAmetz!
- 6:41 AM, August 12, 2007
- Ye'he Sh'mey Raba Mevorach said...
HH we look forward to welcoming you too.
Chardal, baruch haba, ken yirbu.
- 9:32 AM, August 12, 2007
- Jameel @ The Muqata said...
HH: Oh man!
1. Among the things I have collections of...is a last MASH episode collection! I have a whole scrapbook based on the last episode. I should find it...
2. You're fortunate that you were able to learn so much from him.
3. While I'm sure it doesn't make it any easier; LA's loss is Israel's gain.
Shavua tov.
- 11:57 AM, August 12, 2007
Wow, that was a tearjerker. I don't know if it was the analogy to the last MASH, the fact that anytime I think of MASH, I think of my father, a"h or the simple purity of your friendship, put the pic was the clincher.
Happy Trails, Chardal. HH, I'm sure there's room over there in EY for you!
- 6:29 PM, August 12, 2007


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Why every bank will soon be a tax collector for every government everywhere
Governments around the world are turning to financial repression to pay their national debts. And now a new American-born tax could be about to take it to a whole new level.
Financial repression. A few years ago when a few people (Gillian Tett, Russell Napier, etc) started predicting that it would be the thing that made our crisis go away, not many were convinced. The phrase refers to the various methods that hideously indebted governments use to channel the money knocking around an economy to itself rather than anywhere else.
It can include anything from capping interest rates on government debt or deposit rates (as seenall over the world at the moment); forcing institutions to buy government debt; or, at its most obvious, putting in capital controls to prevent anyone taking their money out ofthe country.
All these things have the same effective result: by taking away other investment options they allow governments to issue sovereign debt with much lower interest rates than they would otherwise be able to. That brings down the cost of debt nicely. But if you then chuck in a little inflation you can make the real value of the debt come down too. Keep that up for a couple of decades and you can repress your way out of trouble.
This, of course, is exactly how many countries dealt with their horrible post-war debts: let's not forget that the UK was subject to capital controls until 1979. However, even a few years back, there was a general view that in our new deregulated world, it wouldn't be possible for governments to use these time-tested methods to get themselves out of trouble. Turns out that it is entirely possible. As Edward Chancellor pointed out in the FT, even in a time of apparently free capital movement, financial repression is entirely possible if everyone does it at the same time.
And doing it they are. "Negative real interest rates are to be found not only in the US but also in China, Europe, Canada and the UK", where headline inflation is running at 3.4%, "far above both short and long-term interest rates... Western governments have learnt the lessons of history", so they are all maintaining interest rates at levels well below inflation. At the same time, inflation is pushing up nominal GDP, and will in time "reduce the real value of outstanding debts, both public and private".
But the authorities aren't leaving it there. Far from it; they are going for more explicit repression as well. At the same time, everyone is pushing for their banks to hold more debt for "macro prudential reasons".
And even when regulation isn't actually put in place, political pressure is. An article in the Wall Street Journal late last year noted that "senior bank executives" from Italy and Portugal said they were being cajoled into buying government debt. Last year, the idea started circulating in Ireland that pension funds should be forced to sell foreign assets and buy Irish government debt. It makes no sense, said one commentator, that pension funds should hold bunds yielding 2-3% when they could hold Irish debt on 6-10%.
Hmmm. This year, Irishprime ministerEnda Kenny is about to make it "easier" for pension fund managers to shift from bunds to Irish debt by transferring the risk of holding it from the pension fund to the pensioner. Hungary has gone thewhole hog and annexed pension funds. In 2010, for example, in an effective nationalisation of their private pension fund system, Hungarians were told to hand their private pension fund assets to the state or lose their state pension.
And capital controls? The idea sounds extreme to modern consumers, but they are certainly back under discussion (see Gillian Tetton them), and you could even argue that, in some ways, they are already with us.
Those who work in the investment business will know of a new US regulation known as 'Fatca' (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act). Fatca is an extraordinarily wide-ranging, arrogant and intrusive piece of legislation (enacted in 2010) that requires all "foreign financial institutions" that's non-US banks, fund managers, custodians and so on, to tell the US taxman about all US taxpayers they deal with both directly and indirectly by the middle of next year.
This is quite clearly an admin nightmare (what is an 'indirect client'?) so you might think that most non-US institutions would simply ignore it. After all, what jurisdiction does the US have over them? You'd think wrong. No one can ignore it: if they do, the Internal Revenue Service(IRS) will charge them a 30% withholding tax on all dividends, interest and sales proceeds made in the US.
The tax will begin to be deducted at the beginning of 2014. There will be no refunds. Failure to comply will also be a criminal offence under US law. How is this repression? It makes it harder for US citizens to invest abroad already institutions, wary of the fact that they aren't or can't be compliant, are turning down US business until they see how the whole thing shakes down (how can you find out all you need to about all your clients and 'sort of clients' without running into confidentiality problems, for starters?).
The whole thing very dramatically changes the investing and tax landscape for Americans with money abroad. Worse, the crazy US rules won't be the end of it. No, read this piece by William Hutchings in Financial News, and you will see that Fatca is about to go global.
"In the last three years, the Federal Reserve, Bank of England, European Central Bank and Bank of Japan have taken on an extra $10 trillion of debt, according to risk management consultancy CheckRisk, taking their collective balance sheet to $15 trillion.
"They are looking at every possible way to help pay it off. Ramping up their powers of tax collection is one of the few things they can do to help themselves. It is not such a big jump from there to the introduction of a global Fatca, an international framework obliging foreign financial institutions everywhere to act as tax collector for every government."
John Redwood pointed out in his blog this week that the UK state is currently spending around 48% of GDP a year. Yet the maximum ever tax take is 38%. The gap has to be made up by someone just as it does in every other Western country.
Financial repression creates that someone by making a population hold debt that loses them money in real terms be it via their pension funds or banks, by cutting the return they get on their deposits, by upping their taxes and by letting inflation chip away at their assets. That someone is you.


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With Capital Bikeshare, you can get dockblocked. With Bixi in Montreal, you can get dockblocquebecois.
I rode part the park and down Massachusetts to the still not yet fully paved Columbus Circle and I battled buses and taxis for space, but mostly just stuck in the middle of the right lane because traffic was slow and I didn't want to get hemmed in by a driver who thought that there'd be room for both of us. I watched someone I presume is a new bike commuter try to sneak past traffic on the right and then bailing to the sidewalk when he realized there was no room and then getting off the sidewalk half a block later and then weaving to the left side of the street, only to find himself once again stranded on a median waiting for traffic to clear so he could move again. Dude, I think you're over-thinking it. As do your legs and lungs, your ability to see traffic patterns improves the more you bike to work. You learn to pick your spots and the times to hustle and the times to relax, the places where it makes sense to filter past slowed traffic and the places where there's no point in rushing. It's not always faster to rush.
I decided to take Massachusetts to New Jersey, a diagonal avenue of no small importance, but amply roomy enough to accommodate bike traffic without currently hosting any bike lanes or sharrows. This was my first commute on New Jersey Avenue, NW. It was fine. It'll be better when there's bike lanes. It got a little sketchy around the intersection with New York Avenue/the highway entrance, but from there to R Street, it was basically fine. New Jersey intersects with R between 4th and 5th street NW and after my left turn onto R, it was fairly familiar territory.
I've never noticed this before:
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I did not stop at Kafe Bohem. I wanted to stop at Kafe Bohem. If Kafe Bohem takes off and DC develops a taste for Central European coffeehouses, someone should really buy the vacant Eastern Thifty Market across from my house and open a Hungarian kávéház. You'll make all the money, or at least all of my money.
At different times during this ride I found myself behind riders who were traveling a pace much slower than I normally would but rather than pass them I decided to follow behind (not at a lurky distance or anything) and just go slower. Much as choosing a different route can break up your routine, so can choosing a different pace. Variety is the pumpkin spice latte of life.
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As a young ones parent or a schoolteacher you need to plan activities with the child for coloring pages. For the most part the parents tend to give those coloring pages to kid to keeps him busy. However, the fact is that these kids need to get some mental exercise from this whole practice and it should be construed by the kid as a mundane exercise.


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FT sits down with Chen, who has now been in America for a few months:
Lunch, ordered in by Chen's minders, is an excellent, enormous Italian meal of pasta, pizza and salads from Otto Enoteca Pizzeria on nearby Fifth Avenue. Before we start eating, he asks if he can hold my digital recorder. "I have a deep fondness for audio recorders," he tells me, as he examines my device with his fingertips. "I was given one in 2005 that I used to document accounts of the government's violent family planning practices. It survived countless confiscation raids on my house and I still have it today."
When I ask whether he's worried about becoming irrelevant back home, as has happened to other dissidents once exiled to the west, he disagrees forcefully. He can, he says, still communicate with people in China. "When I was in prison I couldn't even call my wife on the telephone, except for once a month," he says. "But did I have more influence when I went into jail or when I came out? Do you think my communication with friends in China will be easier or harder now than when I was in prison? I believe I've answered your question."
Chen's "first demand", as he calls it, is that the Chinese government obeys its own laws and its own constitution, which ostensibly guarantees human rights, freedom of speech and many other values that are taken for granted in the west. "When you read China's constitution, you realise that if we could only fulfil those basic requirements then China would be a great country," he says. "China's laws themselves are not the problem, the problem is that they are not properly enforced in real life."
This is both what makes Chen's case poignant and what makes him so dangerous for China's rulers – his activism is based on simply asking the authorities to live up to their own pronouncements.
He continues, emphatically: "China will see democracy, I'm one hundred per cent sure – it just needs time. If everyone makes an effort to build a more just and civil society then it will come faster and if everyone stands by and does nothing, then it will come slower but is still inevitable. Whether the authorities wish it to or not, the dawn comes and the day breaks just the same."


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Title Sixteen Acres: Architecture and the Outrageous Struggle for the Future of Ground Zero
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"Quirky, discursive, and highly opinionated"--a frank and devastating assessment of architecture and the rebuilding at Ground Zero (Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times") Maverick architecture critic Philip Nobel takes us deep into the inner workings of Ground Zero, tracing the redevelopment of this battleground construction site from smoke-shrouded ruin to controversial master plan. Nobel gathers the huge cast of players at war with one another: real estate developers; grieving families; ambitious politicians; and most of all the architects, in the national spotlight as never before, charged with satisfying impossible demands and reconciling a sacred zone with daily life. By turns tragic and comic, "Sixteen Acres" is a riveting story of high culture and low dealings, confronting the essential questions: Can buildings provide meaning? Are modern architects up to the job? What are the limits of architecture? "Estimable . . . Nobel steps in where others] fear to tread--by making sense of the spectacle."--"The New York Times Book Review""""Vastly preferable . . . Nobel, in refreshing contrast to others on the subject], regards the circus-like chain of circumstances with skeptical detachment . . . and harrowing humor."--"The New York Review of Books"
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Year in Review II: The best enterprise IT news, tips, blogs, cheatsheets and tech videos of 2007
Well, somehow it happened again. Another year has come and gone, to this eye even more quickly than the one before. I can't help but think that as the speed of our connections goes up, time itself seems to pass more quickly. That may because I have relativity on the brain, given that Schrodinger's cat was the Word of the Day, but the pace of news and technology certainly didn't slow down in 2007. Find out what was important in our Enterprise IT Year in Review.
Vista and Leopard hit our desktops, the iPhone slipped into our back pockets and Google's growth accelerated. Facebook created new connections and rebuilt old ones. Green computing became the IT term of the moment, though cloud computing looms on the horizon. The writers strike accelerated our move to watching video on our computers, whether it was offered on Joost, Hulu, Miro or, of course, YouTube. Next up: HD IPTV.
Viruses, worms, phishing attacks and good old spam all conspired to make cleaning out your inbox a dodgy proposition at best. Simply writing about the Storm Worm or Rock Phish could make you the target of a denial of service attack. We discovered new repetitive stress injuries with the Wii and rocked hard with Guitar Hero. Blu-Ray and HD-DVD recalled the format wars of the 80s. The Web 2.0 buzz moved towards a Web 2.0 bubble, even as blogs, wikis, RSS, social networking and AJAX all started to see meaningful adoption in the enterprise and beyond. Net neutrality became real, as stories of ISPs throttling P2P applications surfaced. Mobile broadband is now a legitimate, if pricey, option for connectivity.
In a mega-roundup of the best enterprise news, tips and stories for 2007, we've pulled together the stories and tutorials that mattered to you. As you look ahead to the new year, remember the news that mattered. Review the tutorials that helped you do your job better. Browse through the blogs and trivia that informed or entertained you. Read the first installment of the year in review here or surf on over to Overheard in the Blogosphere for a 2007 What's In/What's Out Technology Roundup.
Then, look ahead to 2008, where we promise to do it all over again.
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This lesson introduces students to some of the myth-building techniques of television, by comparing real world (s)heroes with TV world (s)heroes and by looking at stereotypes in the world of TV (s)heroes.
In this lesson, students become aware of the idea of stereotyping and the role that stereotypes play in the stories and movies that they enjoy.
"Media Literacy for Development & Children's Rights" was created by UNICEF Canada to help young people in grades 6 - 8 understand the role played by the media in influencing their attitudes and perceptions about developing nations and development issues. This module contains a series of lessons, exercises and background information to help familiarize students with the issues and challenges surrounding representation of other countries and cultures by the media. There are two activities in this lesson: Point of View: Children in the Media, and Censorship Case Studies: Who Decides What We See?
«Television Newscasts» helps students develop a critical awareness of how television news is shaped and manipulated and how they, as audience members may be affected by this.
In this lesson, students discuss television programming aimed at children and how girls and boys are portrayed in it. Students illustrate what they dislike about portrayals of girls or boys and then create their own TV character who will counter the illustrated negative portrayals.
These lessons are an adaptation of Grade 8 lessons from the Curriculum Healthy Relationships, by Men For Change, Halifax, Nova Scotia, a 53-activity, three-year curriculum designed for teens.
This lesson helps students become more aware of the stereotypes associated with portrayals of students and teachers on TV. (It is also a good follow-up to the elementary lesson TV Stereotypes.)
In this lesson, students learn how the media construct reality by studying the families portrayed on television, and comparing them to the real-life families they know: their own, and those of their peers.
This lesson familiarises students with stereotypes and helps them understand the role that stereotypes play in television's portrayal of life.
In this lesson, students are introduced to the ways video games may impact their mental and physical health. Students start with a reflection on their use of video games, specifically the amount of time they play and the role of games in their lives. This is followed by a class activity based on several key questions relating to the positive and/or negative effects video games may have on our health. Finally, students will be given an opportunity to debate key claims on the health effects of video games.


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BEIJING, China - Police in China have discovered 790,000 fake ID records in their system, which can be used to gain benefits, hide assets and circumvent property ownership restrictions.
The fake records that included the same people registering with different details came to light when police used image matching technology, the Ministry of Public Security said Sunday.
The IDs have been nullified and those involved in the forgeries punished, said the statement from the Ministry of Public Security, which did not give details. It also said that any police officers found to have been involved would be fired.
In China, citizens have to register their residency with police. This gives them access to housing and education benefits and an ID card.
People with multiple IDs can gain access to additional benefits.
In a high-profile case last year, a former vice-president of a rural bank, Gong Ai'Ai, was found to have acquired multiple identities and more than 40 pricey Beijing apartments. Dubbed "Sister House," she was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for forging and trading official documents.
The official Xinhua News Agency reported that a former police officer was sentenced to one year in prison for helping Gong to obtain the fake IDs.


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Brantley Gilbert Unveils Details for Third Studio Album, 'Just as I Am'
BG Nation fans, listen up! Brantley Gilbert has finally released details for his third studio album, 'Just as I Am,' delivering the album cover art, track listing and release date.
The 11-track record is set for release on May 20 and is a follow-up to Gilbert's 2012 Gold-selling disc, 'Halfway to Heaven.'
"This one's definitely gonna be rockin'," the singer tells Billboard in a recent interview. "It'll have the girl songs on there, too, of course, the little softer side, but it's pretty intense."
Gilbert's latest collection of songs, which he whittled down from 250, tells the story of his life from when 'Halfway to Heaven' left off to the present. The course of this album has been a wild ride for the star, who went through a broken engagement with fellow country singer Jana Kramer in 2013. It comes as no surprise that she will have a place on the album as a muse for several of the songs.
"'I'm Gone' is kind of a breakup song. But there were some goodbye situations in there and some hell-raisin' situations," Gilbert dishes. "There was a lot to write about."
"I have gone through a lot the past few years… a lot of highs and lows and all of that is reflected in this project," notes the singer. "My fans know I'm a straight-shooter, so I didn't leave anything out. I think there is something for everyone -- from my party side to the gentler stuff."
Fans can pre-order the album here, and they'll soon have a chance to hear Gilbert's new tunes in concert. His Let It Ride Tour kicks off on March 27, with Thomas Rhett and Eric Paslay as openers. He'll also be appearing at the 2014 Taste of Country Music Festival in June.
Brantley Gilbert, 'Just as I Am' Track Listing:
1. 'If You Want a Bad Boy'
2. '17 Again'
3. 'Bottoms Up'
4. 'That Was Us'
5. 'I'm Gone'
6. 'My Baby's Guns N' Roses'
7. 'Lights of My Hometown'
8. 'One Hell of an Amen'
9. 'Small Town Throwdown'
10. 'Let It Ride'
11. 'My Faith in You'