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For the last 2 years, I've worked on being a positive person. I've learned that staying positive is a daily task! Each day, you'll find that there are different things that will affect you daily, but by intentionally and strategically being positive, you will see that eventually it won't be hard for you to stay positive and happy, without even trying!
Here are a few tips, I've learned along this journey:
1. Start your day positive.
You have to literally wake up everyday, determined and intentional about how your day is going to be. Starting your day with positivity helps set the tone for how your day will go. If you wake up and think, no matter what happened yesterday or what will happen today, I know today is going to be a good day, it will be.
2. Listen to something positive first thing in the morning.
Each morning, find YouTube videos or podcasts that you can listen to each morning to get your day started on a high note. I literally woke up each morning and listened to the same YouTube videos, over and over and over again, each morning until I could literally repeat every word from the videos, lol. Literally just search 'inspirational speech' or 'motivational video' and there are so many that will come up! Here are a few that I love:
- Dream – Motivational Video
- Why Do We Fall – Motivational Video
- Claim Your Dream – Denzel Washington
- What Are You Reaching For – Sade Burrell
- Guru Story – Eric Thomas
- It's Not Over Until I Win – Les Brown
3. Keep positive thoughts, posts, and quotes nearby.
After listening to positive speeches and videos, there were so many quotes and positive thoughts that came out of each of them. I created a 'quote journal,' that I use to keep track of positive quotes and thoughts. I go to this journal regularly because I'm always adding more quotes, but I also go back over old quotes to refresh my positivity radar, lol. I also have sticky notes that I keep near my computer and on my way to remind me to stay positive. I've found that writing them down isn't enough, I have to put them somewhere so that I can look at them regularly! This really helps me a lot! And this is also extremely fun to look at. (Check out my DIY post: 4 Easy DIY Blog). I also find lots of great quotes from books that I read and I keep them in my journal as well. You can always search for positive or inspirational quotes. There are so many out there for so many different topics! Keep them fresh and search for different things that work for you each day or for specific situations. I.e. happy quotes, morning quotes, success quotes, love quotes, friendship quotes, self love quotes, Oprah Winfrey quote-just to name a few. Here are a few of my favorites:
- When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you achieve it. -Paulo Coelho
- The only way to do great work is to love what you do. -Steve Jobs
- You don't get out of life what you want, you get out of life who you are.
- The biggest adventure you can take, is to live the life of your dreams. -Oprah Winfrey
- Don't cry to give up, cry to keep going. -Eric Thomas
- Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.
- If you can't stop thinking about it, don't stop working for it.
- You become what you believe.
- Anything could happen.
4. Find positive affirmations to live by daily.
Finding words and affirmations to live by will help you encourage and motivate yourself. Find things you believe in and stick to them! It's kind of like the power pose thing. I once heard that standing in a super hero position and saying positive things to yourself, actually increases your confidence! You can literally search positive affirmations, use the quotes you find, and take them in. Seriously. When you find an affirmation that you love and believe in, take it in and believe in what it means for you and your life. This has helped me stay positive and focus on my own goals and dreams. Here are a few I like:
- Today is going to be a good day.
- You can do anything you set your mind to.
- The world is yours.
- I'm happy, healthy, strong.
- This is my life and I can ANYTHING with it.
- I am beautiful, confident, and happy.
5. Find positive people to be around.
We all know people who really don't have anything positive to say, ever! I've been that person at time, lol. So I know how easy it is to fall into the negativity trap, but this is no good when you're trying to be positive. I've had to let friends go, stop communicating with certain family members, and even avoid certain functions. Happiness and peace is something you control and create! Sometimes we can't identify when other people aren't being positive, because we too are negative. But when you get to a place where you notice that the people around you don't really bring the best out of you or haven't contributed to your happiness or positivity, you need to leave those people alone. You don't have to break off your friendships, but you may want to learn to distance yourself or redirect the conversation-(I could-and I might-write an entire blog on friendship)-The point is, the way you think and behave is often a direct influence of the people around you, so as you're moving towards being a more positive person, be sure to find people with the same mission!
6. Speak, think, see, and BE positive.
Embody positivity in everything you do! Speak positively, put your positive thinking caps on, and see positivity in everyone. When you surround yourself with positivity, eventually you really start to become a positive person. Just BE POSITIVE! It sounds simple, because it kind of is. Just make the choice, everyday, to be positive. When you focus on being a more positive person, eventually you will start to exude and really become a positive person. You start being known as a positive person.
7. End your day with gratitude. I find that ending my day grateful and happy with all that life has given me that day, has really helped me appreciate life, no matter what happens. Life is not always going to be easy. There will certainly be days when you want to scream, cry, kick, and maybe even give up. But I find that if I decide to find good things in everything, I am more happy throughout the day, because I am constantly thinking of the good that comes from a situation. When I end my day with gratitude, it opens the door to starting the day with positivity.

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Anarchists, Shark Bicycle Man, The Ducks, & Cetma Racks
Molly mentioned recently that a messenger friend [Lane Kagay] was in town [in Portland] and included a link to his bicycle rack making business on her blog, his business is Cetma Racks. They're nice looking Porteur style racks solidly constructed in three styles out of tubular steel. His site further supports my belief that for cyclo-touring all you need is a good front rack.
Anyhow, I was flipping through the pictures in the gallery of racks and paused when I happened across this one:
As far as I can tell this is a picture of Ryan Swanson with a sweet Shark / Man / Bicycle rig wearing his standard Portland, Oregon costume. Note how the shark head is attached to the Cetma rack. This bicycle seems to have taken the place of Ryan's old black Bianchi hybrid. Granted this is all speculation, the masked man may very well be a good impostor Ryan Swanson.
Another telling image from the gallery was this one:
I guess if I had spent more time in either Eugene, Oregon or Olympia, Washington this would've been me. This kid seems pretty intent on welding some mean bicycles.
As a final image, Wikipedia's image entry of the modern Cogswell Porteur:
See http://kogswell.com for less nonsense, go to Eugene to weld.


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3 Critical Life Lessons We Should All Learn from Lee Kuan Yew
No matter which side of the political spectrum you stand on, it's safe to say that Singapore wouldn't be what it is today without Lee Kuan Yew. And Singapore has come a long way since he became Prime Minister in 1959 – transforming it from a vulnerable city-state to a global financial hub within a generation.
He was not a man known for his warm personality, empathy, or acceptance of opposing political viewpoints – but no one can doubt that every decision he made, no matter how controversial, was made with Singapore's best interests in mind.
Here are 3 critical life lessons that all of us should learn from Singapore's founding father:
#1 Success Requires Preparing Well Into the Future
Successful leaders plan ahead – and Lee was a master at anticipating challenges that could affect Singapore's future, and identifying the solutions. He was especially keen on finding long-term answers to the following Singapore issues:
- Urban planning: For urban planning, he established a long-term plan to clear land, build public housing units, and resettle Singaporeans into "towns" all around the island.
- Infrastructure: For infrastructure, he put into action the building of an expressway network and the MRT system to connect the island's towns and business district.
- Racial integration: For racial integration, he sought to build a greater sense of community by integrating Chinese, Malays and Indians into public housing communities and schools.
- National defence: For national defence, he established National Service (NS), adopting a conscription scheme similar to that of Israel and also helped broker the Five Power Defence Agreement to protect Singapore's sovereignty.
How you can apply this lesson to your life: By preparing well in advance for any career or financial problems that may arise in the future, you can mitigate their impact. For example, if you are a 30-year-old working professional, you should start preparing for retirement by purchasing enough insurance coverage and building up a diversified investment portfolio.
#2 Build Strong Relationships and Continually Expand Your Network
It's a sad fact – but small nations without ties to larger, more powerful nations don't remain autonomous very long. Lee was well aware of this reality and merged with the Federation of Malaysia in 1962, only to get expelled three years later in 1965. It became an independent nation the same year.
Despite this major setback, Lee continued to expand Singapore's "network" by becoming a member of the UN (1965), co-founding ASEAN (1967) and building strong relationships with China, India and the United States during his tenure as Prime Minister.
How you can apply this lesson to your life: By continually growing your network and nurturing business and personal relationships, you gain access to new knowledge and opportunities that would have otherwise been inaccessible. For example, if you are a business owner who has a problem hiring good employees, you can join a business owner network to find out how more experienced business owners solve their hiring problems.
#3 Know Your Weaknesses and Focus on Strengths
Lee understood that Singapore's biggest weakness was its lack of natural resources. This meant that the nation needed to import practically all of life's necessities – including food, water and building materials such as sand. Instead of focusing on the weakness, Lee sought to limit its impact on Singapore's growth by developing the nation's strengths instead.
He utilised Singapore's strategic position as a sea- and air-trading hub to manufacture and export technological products such as semiconductor wafers and refine oil and chemicals. He also established the business-friendly environment that helped transform Singapore into the financial/technology hub that it is today.
How you can apply this lesson to your life: By acknowledging and understanding your weaknesses, you can limit their impact on your professional or financial well-being – and ultimately overshadow them by focusing your energy on developing your strengths instead. For example, if you are a business development executive who communicates better in conversation than in writing – develop your speaking ability and focus on networking events.
A Man With a Lifetime of Lessons to Offer
He was a man who never made excuses for his mistakes (nor was he apologetic about his shortcomings) and he stuck to his decisions, no matter how unpopular.
He was also intensely determined to transform Singapore into the first-world nation that it is today. This trait – determination – is best exemplified by a quote from his book, The Man and His Ideas:
"If I decide what something is worth doing, then I'll put my heart and
soul into it. The whole ground can be against me, but if I know it is
right, I'll do it. That's the business of a leader."
Perhaps that is the greatest life lesson we can learn from Singapore's founding father – have the determination to pursue your life's passion, even if the world is against you.
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You guys, I love lifestyle sessions. I'm not into props. I can't get newborns to be cute little naked bundles. I can't get kids to sit still and smile. BUT...I can instigate rough housing and cozy cuddles and real life moments that are beautiful. So that's what we did at the Hambidge Household!
Liam the Preschooler got to revel in some individual mommy-daddy time while new Baby Brother Beckham napped quietly in the next room. It's easy for the older ones to feel looked-over in the hustle and bustle that surrounds newborns, but Liam did not lack for love. Mama showered him with tickles and stories and caresses, and Daddy wrestled him into a story. Mama and I tiptoed to Baby Beckham and captured some beautiful moments in their Pinterest-worthy nursery. Once Beckham was full and drowsy we caught some family time and then went for a stroll for some fall glory and fresh air.
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The Brazilian bombshell defended her decision to save herself and live "purely" until the right guy came along. That guy is her hubby, NBA star Marko Jaric.
We really respect that a hot woman like that can ward off all the sucio men out there to wait for Mr. Right. Adriana is now 32.
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From cosmopolitan Corfu to beach-blessed Zakynthos and Kefalonia, destinations whose glowing reputations precede them but with stories still untold: film-set architecture, the nesting site of the caretta caretta sea turtle and award-winning wine-makers. And then on to the hidden gems of Paxi and Meganisi, the watersports of Lefkada and the poetic beauty of Ithaca.
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Pride and Prejudice - it is my favorite because who doesn't love a good love story? It also reminds me that relationships between two people can be so easy if you just get out of your own way and remember the core of the connection.
What movie or TV show reminds you of your childhood?
M.A.S.H. - we watched the show every night at dinner. I've seen every episode probably 5 times. It brings me back to family time around the dinner table.
Go-to genre for movie night?
Suspense - I love a good spy movie. I like "heady" movies that make you figure them out.
What movie or show could you watch endlessly?
If I like a movie, I will watch it several times - I've watched So I Married An Axe Murderer probably a hundred times!
Favorite movie quote?
Favorite director?
Judd Apatow. My favorite film of his is The 40-Year-Old Virgin.
Comedy scene that makes you bust a gut?
Melissa McCarthy in pretty much any scene in Spy!
Favorite action scene?
When Scarlett Johansson kicks butt in Iron Man and again in Lucy.


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Mouse Party by University of Utah – Game demonstrates the effects of different drug use on the brain
National Institute on Drug Abuse – activities to teach about drug abuse, and promote a healthy, drug-free lifestyle
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Shaffer: Jumbo jerky store opens its meaty doors in Garner
Of all the world's edible delights, few can rival beef jerky. It's the meat you can carry in your pocket or leave in your car, the snack that needs no garnish or condiment, the treat you rip apart like prey – channeling your inner timber wolf.
I've often wished our family Advent calendar contained little chunks of it behind each door, that strips of it hung in garlands from our tree, and that each holiday fruitcake came with a beef jerky center.
But in all my life, nearly every strip of jerky I've ever purchased has come from a gas station, usually in a dusty plastic bag, positioned between the lotto tickets and those hard-boiled eggs floating in a gallon jug of blue juice, sold with those little white packets that warn "Do Not Eat."
My meat-free friends might want to skip this column, for today I celebrate Lisa Adams, who on Saturday opened a 1,400-square-foot jerky market between Cabela's and Five Guys in Garner, a dried-meat emporium that offers 200 varieties stored in waist-high barrels. Her store, the only Beef Jerky Outlet in the Triangle, finally elevates this delicacy to the height it deserves – a shelf, for me, only slightly lower than filet mignon.
"Think about it," Adams said. "It's really fun to eat. You're, like, gnawing on it, trying to tear it with your teeth. You're eating a piece of meat with your hands."
A king of the snack-meat industry, jerky has seen its sales rise enough to command headlines. Earlier this year, Fortune magazine announced a "dried-meat explosion" and called jerky the new cupcake.
Driven by Atkins, paleo and other diet crazes that appreciate jerky's low fat content, Fortune reported, the market has widened to include bison jerky for $70 a pound at Dean & DeLuca, the gourmet grocery chain. That puts it several meat classes apart from the Slim Jims once made in Garner before the corporate-giant-that-must-not-be-named unkindly split town.
This Beef Jerky Outlet marks Adams' second store and one of 50 nationwide, a number that is expected to soon double.
"I love my job," said Adams, 44, who started out in industrial real estate. "Everybody else has to deal with cranky people. No one's ever angry with me."
Inside Adams' barrels, a jerky dilettante can sample ostrich, pheasant, alligator, buffalo, elk, antelope and wild boar. My Australian friends might want to skip this column, for this is the part where I confess that I ate a strip of jerky made from the noble kangaroo, finding it subtle in flavor without a hint of gaminess.
Jerky in Garner comes flavored with teriyaki, garlic, rum, moonshine, ghost pepper and Carolina Reaper, which earned itself a Guinness World Records mention in 2013 for hottest chili pepper. You can buy a single strip for $2.50 or five for $10. You can mix, match and fill a 2.5-pound bag.
My tradition-minded friends might want to skip this column, for I have written a jerky carol. It has only one verse, which I will print here in the spirit of beefy frivolity: Oh jerky store, oh jerky store, you make me love the jerky more.
I shall also include this cherished passage from "A Christmas Carol," in which Scrooge throws open his window and calls down to a passing child on Christmas morning:
"Do you know whether they've sold the prize jerky that was hanging there – not the little prize jerky: the big one?"
"What, the one as big as me?" returned the boy.
"What a delightful boy!" said Scrooge. "It's a pleasure to talk to him. Yes, my buck."
"It's hanging there now," replied the boy.
"Is it?" said Scrooge. "Go and buy it."
For those of you still reading, peace and dried meat be with you.
Josh Shaffer: 919-829-4818, firstname.lastname@example.com, @joshshaffer08


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This homeowner did not want to divert water by digging rain drains and ditches. Super nice yard, didn't want dug up.
One option is to trench the water to off of the tanks and direct water downhill. Frenchdrains work great for this too. But in this case, the homeowner's yard would have been destroyed to his house as that's where the raindrains are, down hill.
So we chose another alternative means to divert groundwater and rainwater off of his septic tank.
This is another option, put in a dry well to a pump. This is a rough backfill, because the area is super soppy. It will need cleaned up better when dryer weather is back.
This system just sits plugged in and waiting. Costs nothing to run when water levels are low. But when water levels come up and it starts raining hard, the pump will kick on and send the water away from the septic.
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How to use Gamification to Influence Your Friends
You can usually tell when someone is trying to persuade or influence you.
However, I actually like the idea of being influenced or persuaded to do things that I want to do.
Is this true for you?
In general, it feels good to be included in interesting, unusual, or fun events or gatherings. It piques your curiosity when a friend who knows you well sends you information or a book or a gift that makes your life better. And when your friends forget to invite you, you get upset.
So, if you care about being influenced, then your friends do too. It's part of our makeup as humans. We are nodes in social spheres of influence: individual to family to friends and society. And you are a node across many of these networks.
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I kept clicking on Illustration Friday and wondering why it wasn't changing to a new theme. I almost wrote Penelope! Then I'd remember it was Thursday.
I was wondering why so much cool stuff was on tv, since Fridays are usually dead. Then I'd remember it was Thursday.
I thought that I had better call Best Buy again about my camera (still in service!!!) since it's been two weeks and one day when it had just been two weeks. But still!
I was so excited to go to First Friday downtown and it wasn't First Friday yet.
I need the weekend to come sooner. Today the weather is so gloomy and dark. There was even fog! It's supposed to be in the 40s so I doubt I'll be going to the art walk. Two months in a row without an art walk? Bumming me out. Happy Cinco De Mayo people.
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News room staffs have shrunk by one-third over the past decade even as competition with leaner, more profitable Web sites has intensified. The remaining reporters are forced to produce more stories with less time to prepare for them.
Reporters increasingly find themselves working on stories on unfamiliar topics, leading to a real risk of errors, misleading stories or the type of pack journalism where everyone interviews the same source regardless of relevance or real expertise.
University PR departments and think tanks also prey on overworked reporters. The most aggressive ones pounce on major news stories, offering reporters interviews with their faculty, whether they are relevant or not to the actual story. Harried reporters feel time pressure to accept this.
My project, Expertpedia, aims to be a newsroom tool to help reporters quickly locate the most relevant experts on the needed topic.
1. Users would input a search phrase on the site. Expertpedia would then input it into Google Scholar. The author of the first article to pop up, the most cited academic paper, would become the first person on our list.
2. That person's name would then be rerun through Google Scholar along with the original search to call up all the relevant academic papers he/she has written on the topic.
3. The author's name would then be run through a Google News search to come up with op-eds and analyses he/she may have written in the mainstream media.
4. The site would then trawl through university Websites to pull up contact information on the author.
5. There would also be space for the author's to be rated by Expertpedia users based on their ability to explain their ideas well on TV, radio and in print.
Expertpedia is not a database that needs curating or updating, like some other Websites that aim to bring experts to journalists. But instead, it operates more like a search engine.
There are some problems here. One issue could be timeframe. A plane crash paper about engine failures in WWI era fighter planes might have more citations just because it's been out longer than other ones. Also, some scientific papers could have more than a dozen authors.
Using Google news to get op-eds would only turn up current ones, not older, but still possibly relevant ones.
Also, how would we get contact information from people retired from academia? How does it deal with people with common names and would bad ratings for one academic accidentally tarnish another one? How do we prevent PR departments from gaming the ratings system?
And the searches initial Google Scholar searches are not always relevant. The fourth entry on the page of Plane Crash Experts is somehow Mercer Mayer, the author of such children's books as ''Frog, Where are You?"
Nonetheless, I am confident these hurdles could be overcome in development, leaving reporters with a valuable time-saving tool and the public with better, more relevant information.


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There are many reasons why an employee may result to violence in the workplace... loss of work, perceived injustice... The key to preventing an event is to have open communication and encourage employees to report violent (or potentially violent) situations.
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In order to be as flexible as possible, DashThis added this new metric "Users Who Clicked Rate (Clicks/Opens)". And, for clarity, we renamed the first one as "Users Who Clicked Rate (Clicks/Recipients)".
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DIY Sprouts/
By Jackson Pittman
As the cold draws closer and our gardens may not be producing as many of the fresh leafy greens we depend on for our organic intake, we find ourselves looking for alternative indoor growing methods.
While our aquaponics bed forever supplies us with fresh lettuce, dill and sage, we have come across a great new salad supplement with tremendous health benefits: sprouts.
Grown from seed to salad in a matter days, sprouts can be brought to fruition solely off water and air and consumed as a little premature plant. Because the only growing procedure for them is soaking and rinsing, they require no spacious potting container and care only twice a day, making them ideal for the working gardener or busy salad eater. Not only that, they are also much healthier than any store-bought vegetable, as each sprout contains the nutrition of a fully grown plant! Put them in the salad or eat them as they are for a crisp snack, read on to learn stunning health benefits and about how to grow sprouts.
|Better Farm's organic sunflower sprouts.
*Health Benefits*
Sprouts are rich in vitamins, minerals, proteins and enzymes, all of the things which are wonderful about mature plants. In some ways, they are even healthier than fully grown plants. Sprouts have been found to have 400 percent more protein than lettuce, and 3900 percent more beta-carotene—and that's for each sprout—so eating a handful of sprouts is like eating more than a dozen fully mature vegetables! In addition, broccoli and brassica sprouts have been found to contain 20-50 more times the amount of sulforaphane, a natural cancer-fighting compound, than the mature broccoli plant itself. That's only in one sprout! Another beautiful thing about sprouts is that in contrast with store-bought vegetables, which start losing nutrients the moment they're plucked, sprouts continue to gain nutrients right until they are eaten! This is why it is great to eat them raw, although they can be stir fried or juiced (oreven apparently fed to chickens!).
They're truly powerful healthy foods, packed with more enzymes and lots of other fancy sounding vitamins and minerals (such as phytochemicals, nitrosmines, anti-oxidants and isoflavone) that boost your immune system more so than any other time in the plant's life. When considering all of these factors, they truly are miraculous for the health conscious grower, and not only that, but they are ridiculously easy to grow considering how beneficial they are!
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*How to Grow*
Sprouts are incredibly easy to grow. They can be purchased online as organic seeds, or you can just use any leftover seed you already have and don't intend to plant. They can be grown in specially designed hemp mesh bags made for the draining and soaking process or using a jar with a mesh lid (like us!). Specifically, any container that has a mesh fine enough to let water in but keep tiny seeds from falling out in the soaking and draining processes will work perfectly. You can also find plenty of cool sprout growing devices online! Once you have your sprouts and container, all of the difficult work is done.
From then on it's these three simple steps:
- Submerge the seeds in water and let soak for 12 hours.
- Drain the water they soaked in and then begin to rinse and drain seeds 2-3 times every 12 hours.
- Continue rinsing 2-3 times twice a day until desired sprout growth in achieved. Depending on the seeds, sprouts are usually good and edible after 4-6 days! A good idea is to start the first step of soaking a full 12 hours before you wake up in the morning so you can get into a cycle of rinsing them as soon as you wake up (or before you leave for work), and then once again 12 hours later. That's how we do it here at Better Farm!
Many thanks to Shelly Botuck for all these wonderful, organic seeds for sprouting!


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Taiwanese 12-year-old holding a beverage stumbles and tears through 17th-century oil on canvas art work
A 12-year-old Taiwanese young boy lived out a slapstick headache at the weekend when he tripped at a museum and broke his fall with a painting, smashing a hole in it.
Exhibition organisers stated the painting was a 350-year-old Paolo Porpora oil on canvas work called Flowers, valorado en $1.5 metro.
Footage launched by the organisers of the Face of Leonardo: Images of a Genius exhibit in Taipei reveals the kid– in shorts, fitness instructors, a blue Puma T-shirt and holding a beverage– stroll past the still life, capturing his foot and stumbling over.
He searches for at the canvas, revealed later on to have a fist-sized gash at the bottom, and freezes, browsing at other individuals in the space.
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A senior Hong Kong official continues to feel the heat a week after a public spat with a resident during a neighborhood visit to promote political reform.
And now, there are some numbers to show how much — or how little — he has suffered.
Secretary for Food and Environmental Hygiene Ko Wing-man saw his net approval rating plummet nine points in a survey by the University of Hong Kong (HKU), Apple Daily reported Wednesday.
However, Ko's 66 percent net popularity rating is still the highest among government officials.
Ko lost his temper during a heated exchange with a Ngau Tau Kok resident over the government's election reform proposal and later said he should have handled the matter differently.
The survey by the HKU Public Opinion Program interviewed 1,003 respondents between May 4 and 7.
It shows a seven percentage-point fall in the job approval rating of Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying to negative 37.
Leung's public support rating slipped to 43.2 and continues to hover below the 45-point red line.
Chief Secretary Carrie Lam has a public support rating of 57.4. She has a job approval rating of 54 percent against a disapproval rating of 17 percent for a net popularity rating of positive 37 percentage points, down 6 percent from a previous survey.
Financial Secretary John Tsang remains the most popular department secretary with a 58.2 percent public support rating. He has a job approval rating of 49 percent against a disapproval rating of 13 percent for a net popularity rating of positive 36 percentage points.
Secretary for Justice Rimsky Yuen has a 50.1 public support rating, a job approval rating of 35 percent and disapproval rating of 22 percent for a net approval rating of positive 13 percentage points.
Seven of 12 bureau directors saw their net approval ratings go up from the previous month. The rest went down.
Secretary for Security Lai Tung-kwok and Secretary for Education Eddie Ng registered significant increases of 13 and 7 percentage points, respectively, in net approval rating.
Their net popularity ratings were 17 points and negative 26 points, respectively.
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|This is an excerpt from an interview with John Rea, part of the SMCQ video interview compilation Composing?!, 12 Portraits, Volume 1.
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|Why do I compose? It's a good question. One can imagine that a composition or compositions are like pieces of paper or pages out of a diary. My compositions contain my memories or my experiences. I listen to all sorts of music, I'm quite proud of that. It started when a friend of mine, a friend who gave me a record a vinyl LP. It was something he had just discovered himself, he told me that I must listen to it and that it was incredible. It turns out it was Stravinsky's Rite of spring and it was troubling, it was very troubling to listen to it. Then I had another friend who was a jazz man and he introduced me to jazz and obviously on the radio, of course there was rock and roll. Can I try to answer the question, what use is my music? That's really, really a tough question. I'd say that my music has two goals. The first which may seem a bit surprising is that my music helps improve myself as a person and it helps my musical thinking. I remember having written a work, some 20 years ago, for which throughout the entire process of composition I was in a state of euphoria. The piece is called Treppenmusik, that's a German word and it was a very intense period of perhaps five months. So imaging to be happy for five months, that's quite special.
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Visual Crossovers with Other Series/Movies
by Jörg Hillebrand and Bernd Schneider
Other Series/Movies in Star TrekStar Trek in Other Series/Movies
Props from other TV series or movies repeatedly appeared in Star Trek, sometimes to save budget, sometimes as deliberate in-jokes or homages. Vice versa, visual cues to Star Trek can be found in a large number of otherwise unrelated series and movies. Please take the following pictures with a grain of salt. It is not our intention to endorse theories that any of the crossovers could be canon.
Other Series/Movies in Star Trek
The Outer Limits of exobiology
The stuntman and animal imitator Janos Prohaska worked for many TV productions of the 1960s, including Star Trek and also notably The Outer Limits. It appears that Prohaska brought a couple of costumes and masks to Star Trek, which benefited the show with its notoriously low budget. Prohaska shows up as soon as in "The Cage", where he portrays the anthropoid ape and the humanoid bird. The mask of the former creature is definitely a re-use of Calco from the Outer Limits episode "Fun and Games". It is quite possible that the latter originates from The Outer Limits too, more precisely from the Megasoid in "The Duplicate Man". The beak and some details are different though.
There is another possible re-use from The Outer Limits that is often hinted at. The famous Horta (TOS: "The Devil in the Dark") is said to have previously appeared as the microbe beast in The Outer Limits: "The Probe". However, while there is definitely a resemblance, the microbe beast has some sort of tentacles, unlike the Horta.
A hazard vest from The Outer Limits, more precisely from the episode "Production and Decay of Strange Particles", appears in two Star Trek episodes. It can be briefly seen in "The Corbomite Maneuver", and the dead Barnhart wears it in "The Man Trap" (here complete with the helmet).
Gilligan's trip continues
The sorcerer's robe from the Gilligan's Island episode "Lovey's Secret Admirer" could later be seen as Korob's costume in TOS: "Catspaw". Many years later, this same costume would also appear in Bewitched.
In the same Gilligan's Island episode, the character Mr. Howell dons the same cloak (not the jacket) that previously appeared in TOS: "The Squire of Gothos", worn by Trelane (so technically this rather belongs into the category "Star Trek in other shows"). This costume was not designed by William Ware Theiss but rented from Western Costume Company, which easily explains why it would show up in unrelated series as well. According to Betty Jo and John Trimble, William Campbell loved his role as Trelane so much that he was given such a jacket purchased from the Western Costume Company by a fan at Equicon one year.
It is barely recognizable, but the label on a monitor in DS9 reads: "Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip. That started from this tropic port, aboard this tiny ship."
Logan keeps running
The Sandmen Headquarters from the science fiction movie "Logan's Run" (1976) appears on two occasions in Star Trek, in TNG: "Final Mission" and "Tapestry". A portion of the cityscape with is characteristic pyramids appears on the Enterprise's viewscreen, behind Admiral Bennett, in "Star Trek V".
From the 25th to the 24th century
The planet matte of Aldebaran II from Buck Rogers: "The Plot to Kill a City" was re-used for Relva VII in TNG: "Coming of Age". The painting was modified in a couple of details. A dish antenna left of the main dome was replaced with a ball-shaped structure, instead of the red palm symbol on the dome there is now a Starfleet arrowhead, there are additional blue lights around the landing platform and new details on the rearmost buildings, including a small dome and some sort of garden around them. The apparent mesa at the middle distance was reshaped to a hill chain, and the otherwise unchanged mountains in the background are partially covered by a layer of mist. The sky looks somewhat different too.
Another re-use from Buck Rogers can be found in the form of the Boslic vessel in TNG: "Babel". The miniature was originally built by Ken Larson as the "Ranger", Buck's own ship, but remained unused. It was purportedly visible in a throw-away shot at the end of the first season, of which we have no visual evidence though. In Star Trek, the model continued its career as Jaheel's ship on DS9 and formed the basis for Neelix's Baxial, albeit the latter is pure CGI.
The toy-like rifle that Guinan uses in TNG: "Night Terrors" is yet another re-use from the Buck Rogers series, where it appeared as a laser weapon.
Mel's Maid
We can see the same tunnel in TNG: "Too Short a Season" and, a few years later, in "Legacy". This painted extension was originally made for the access tunnels inside the "Mega Maid" in "Spaceballs"!
Indy's idol
A replica of the fertility idol from "Raiders of the Lost Ark" can be seen in Dax's quarters in DS9: "Dax". Dax's version is not as shiny as the original, possibly in order to cover up its origin in another franchise. The prop from "Raiders of the Lost Ark" is very closely based on a real pre-Columbian artifact. It depicts Tlazolteotl, the Aztec goddess of licentiousness.
Odo dreams of Jeannie?
In DS9: "A Simple Investigation" we can see the same type of bottle that we know from "I Dream of Jeannie".
Data's purple ancestor
In Clara Sutter's quarters in TNG: "Imaginary Friend" we can see a small statue of Maria, the Maschinenmensch from "Metropolis". This particular replica was produced by Masudaya in 1984 at 1/5 scale and in purple color.
Wesley's politically incorrect game
In TNG: "The Dauphin" we can see Wesley with the game "Nukem" from "Robocop". His figures are from a 3D chess game, instead of the original tall metallic figures. The black cards with the atomic symbol, on the other hand, belong to the Trek version of the game as well.
Found in Space
The lamp-like device on the ceiling of the (fake) Romulan holodeck in TNG: "Future Imperfect" is a replica of the spacecraft Jupiter II from "Lost in Space", according to Ed Miarecki. Also, the Jupiter II purportedly appears in the form of a chessman in TNG: "Unnatural Selection" (reported at Timecon '89). It is not really verifiable on the screen capture. But the chessman in TNG: "Conundrum" clearly based on the robot B-9, also from "Lost in Space", confirms that the first one is meant to be the Jupiter II.
Use the Force!
In TNG: "Sub Rosa" we can make out the grave of a Mr. or Mrs. Vader, next to that of a certain McFly (or one of his time-traveling incarnations). The criminal Ibudan from DS9 has listed the departure from a spaceport called Alderaan in his schedule.
That's no moon, it's too angular
In "Star Trek: First Contact" one of the Federation vessels fighting against the Borg cube is actually a Millenium Falcon, as was confirmed by ILM VFX artist John Knoll.
Another Star Wars ship appears in the form of the Talarian warship and the designs derived from it. The main hull was taken from an Imperial Star Destroyer.
The Force is strong with Abrams
Presenting Starfleet's newest acquisition in the field of robotics. The technology of R2-D2 from a long time ago in a galaxy far away was no help against the Narada in orbit of Vulcan though. R2-D2 reappears in "Star Trek Into Darkness" when the Enterprise is first attacked by the Vengeance.
A creepy ancient ship
The Promellian battlecruiser from TNG: "Booby Trap" originally appeared in the horror movie "Night of the Creeps" (1986).
A rather harmless visitor ship
The Batris from TNG: "Heart of Glory" re-uses the modules of a Visitor shuttle from "V" (the original series). The front section of the Batris, on the other hand, was ripped off from a ship that appeared in the shortl-lived Disney series Earth Star Voyager.
More than seven days into the future
The same buildings (most likely actual aircraft hangars) appear in the science fiction series Seven Days and in ENT: "First Flight".
UFO alert in the Delta Quadrant
We can see many CG models of ships that previously on Star Trek Voyager in Abaddon's Repository in VOY: "Alice". One model, however, is a UFO from the Gerry and Sylvia Anderson series from 1970.
Starfleet's submarine
seaQuest DSV borrows many motives from TNG, and likes to cite Star Trek. There is one mention of seaQuest DSV in TNG too, the name "Seaquest" of Darien Wallace's ship on a list in "Eye of the Beholder".
Sisko puts the band back together
The registry BDR-529 of the Santa Maria in DS9: "Paradise" previously (and arguably more famously) appeared as the number plate of the Bluesmobile.
Illustrious family tree
In TNG: "The Neutral Zone" Deanna Troi sifts through Clare Raymond's family tree to find relatives of the woman who had been frozen since the late 20th century (actually the display claims she died as late as 2035 as opposed to the spoken dialogue). Clare Raymond learns that her two sons were married to "Ginger Grant" and "Maryann Summers" from "Gilligan's Island". Her four grandchildren were named "Jonathan Frakes Raymond", "Denise P. Raymond", "LeVar Burton Raymond" and "Cheryl Gates Raymond". Their spouses were "Brent Spiner Raymond", "Marina Sirtis Raymond" and "Wil Wesley Raymond". The next generation has "Charles E. Winchester", "Sherman T. Potter", "Francis J. Mulcahey", "Margaret Houlihan", "Walter O'Reilly" "Kelleye Nakahara" - all characters from "M*A*S*H". In the fifth generation we can make out "William Hartnell", "Patrick Troughton", "Jon Pertwee", "Tom Baker", "Peter Davison", "Colin Baker" - all of whom played the Doctor in "Doctor Who". In addition, we find "Mary Richards" und "Louis Grant" in this generation, from "Mary Tyler Moore". The following two generations are almost illegible owing to the smaller font size, but eagle eyes may make out "Kermit T. Frog" and "Miss Piggy".
The screen displays were completely revised for the HD edition. The sometimes rather silly in-jokes referring to the TNG cast or to characters from other series were altered to be less obvious. The first generations are composed of: "Clare Raymond", "Donald Raymond", "Edward Raymond", "Ginger Summers", "Thomas Raymond", "Mary A. Grant", "Jonathan F. Raymond", "Marina S. Despina", "Denise C. Raymond", "Brent S. Jay Raymond", "Levardis B. Raymond", "Cheryl G. Raymond", "Wil W. Lachance Raymond", "Charles W. Raymond", "Sherman P. Raymond", "Francis M. Raymond", "Margaret H. Raymond", "Walter O. Raymond", "Kelleye N. Raymond", "Craig Weiss Raymond", "Nicki Kreitzman", "Chris Tezber Raymond", "Kiki Morris Raymond", "Sarah Paul Raymond", "Wade Felker Raymond", "Keven Scotti Raymond" and "Wendy Ruiz Raymond". The names of the crew working on the HD edition, such as Wendy Ruiz and also Niel Wray, were newly added. Also, the family tree now includes the place of birth and the dates of birth and of death for each member of the Raymond family. Finally, the spelling of Clare Raymond was changed from "Claire" to "Clare" on the first screen, and the date of her death was fixed.
The 8th Dimension in Equilibrium
The DS9 episode "Equilibrium" has two references to the 1984 movie "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension". The first is another re-use of the oscillation overthruster prop from the movie, this time as a medical scanning device of the Trill. The second is the alleged name "Whorfin Dax" of a former Dax host on a monitor, as a homage to the character of John Whorfin, played by John Lithgow. We can spot other humorous names in the alphabetical list, such as "Batman Androbin", "Bedrock Townof" or "Bell Pacific".
Regarding "Buckaroo Banzai", the movie also appears in the form of the ship SS Buckaroo Banzai BBI-993, "commanded by Captain John Whorfin, launched in 2137 on a mission to Planet 10 (DIM 8) in the Ficus Sector". At least, this is listed on an Okudagram in TNG: "Up the Long Ladder". Whorfin is also the class name of the two passenger transports in "Star Trek Generations".
A dirty pair of Klingons
There are several references to the anime series "Dirty Pair" on displays in TNG. For instance, "Op Kei" and "Op Yuri" appear beside the graphic of the Klingon BoP in TNG: "A Matter of Honor" and in the form of a "Kei/Yuri Submodule" in "The Measure of a Man". Kei and Yuri are the protagonists of that show. "Dirty Pair" returns the favor on a couple of occasions.
Death Wing
The casualty list from VOY: "Imperfection" has three "real" casualties listed, namely those of Marie Kaplan, Lyndsay Ballard and Timothy Lang who all died in the course of the series. The rest of the names seem to have been taken from "West Wing" characters!
Horizon Events
Some of the frightening dream images from VOY: "Random Thoughts" were originally filmed for "Event Horizon".
Look Who's Watching
On the more light-hearted side, VOY: "Someone to Watch Over Me" shows us shots of a human ovum from "Look Who's Talking".
Star Trek in Other Series/Movies
Battlestar Galactica
We can see a vessel with two suspiciously long jump drives as a part of the ragtag fleet. And in the 4th season episode "The Ties That Bind" the pivotal scene in which Cally learns that her husband, Chief Tyrol, is a Cylon, takes place in "Weapons Locker 1701D".
In the episode "Samantha's Bad Day in Salem" we can see a re-use of Korob's robe from TOS: "Catspaw" (that also appeared on Gilligan's Island).
Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey
We can see the often re-used Tillman Water Reclamation Plant as "Bill & Ted University". After watching TOS: "Arena" earlier in the movie, Bill and Ted are transported to Vasquez Rocks, where they are tossed off the cliff and encounter Death (William Sadler aka Sloane).
Black Mirror: USS Callister
The virtual reality scenario in this Black Mirror episode is very obviously a parody of TOS, not only because of its look but also because of the story clichés that are incorporated. In the teaser of the episode, the "USS Callister" is still shown in standard definition and a narrow screen ratio, other than the scenes supposedly taking place in real life, as it used to be an old TV show in the Black Mirror Universe.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
We can see models of the original Enterprise and of a Klingon battlecruiser that belong to the character Roy Neary.
We can see Trek vessels in at least three episodes of the series.
In addition, an LCARS layout appears on a console. This prop can be rented from Modern Props, and at it has obviously retained the LCARS panel from an appearance in Star Trek Voyager.
Futurama has Star Trek references in most of its episodes, from story concepts over character similarities to re-used sounds. The DOOP is a spoof of the United Federation of Planets, just like Zapp Brannigan is modeled on Captain Kirk (or rather, on a Kirk who is more like William Shatner). "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" is a whole episode concerned with Star Trek and its cultural impact in the future.
George Takei appears as Hiro Nakamura's father in the episode "Distractions". The license plate of his car reads "NCC-1701".
James Bond 007 - Goldeneye
Hacker Boris Grishenko has a spinning cube graphic on his screen. One of the images appearing on the cube as it spins is a communicator and the Starfleet logo.
In the MacGyver pilot episode we can see the torpedo hatch on the Enterprise as it first appeared in "Star Trek II".
Mork & Mindy
In the episode "Mork Goes Public" Mindy's father is wearing the protection suit from TOS: "The Naked Time" with the helmet from "The Tholian Web". Mork is wearing Colonel Green's uniform from "The Savage Curtain" with slight modifications. His helmet, by the way, originates in the Outer Limits episode "Soldier".
Schlag den Raab/Henssler/Star/Besten
The German game show "Schlag den Raab" (famous for usually lasting over 5 hours) borrowed the olive (or laurel) leaves around its logo from the Federation emblem. The design is almost perfectly congruent. The three spin-offs "Schlag den Henssler", "Schlag den Star" and "Schlag den Besten" use very similar logos with the Federation-style wreath.
seaQuest DSV
seaQuest DSV is also known as "Underwater Star Trek" as the series borrows many character and story concepts from TNG, but usually without direct references. There are two exceptions, though. The episode "Hide and Seek" has William Shatner as a guest star. When he appears on the viewscreen, we can spot James Tiberius Kirk's initials "JTK" along with a familiar starship registry at the bottom. On the top of the screen we can also see "WS" for William Shatner. In "Dream Weaver", we can see a commemoration plaque for Nomad Mk-25A, the "first interstellar probe to seek out evidence of new life-forms".
There are references to Star Trek in various Stargate SG-1 episodes. In the Stargate Universe, Star Trek is "only" a TV show and is quoted as such. For instance, in the episode SG1: "Unnatural Selection" Jack O'Neill suggests the name Enterprise for the spaceship X-303. In SG1: "Children of the Gods" the character Louis Ferretti can be seen doing the Vulcan hand salute. SG1: "200" even shows the crew in a Star Trek parody with according uniforms.
SG1: "The Other Guys", however, has a genuine in-joke, as we can see a bat'leth behind Khonsu's throne. The episode also features John Billingsley (Dr. Phlox) as a scientist who loves to quote Star Trek.
The A-Team
In the movie "The A-Team" we can see the credits of a movie in which an actor named "Reginald Barclay" is credited. Of course, this is a reference to Dwight Schultz, who played Reginald Barclay on TNG as well as Murdock in the A-Team series.
The Big Bang Theory
No other TV series is so full of references to Star Trek as "The Big Bang Theory". The perhaps most noteworthy episode in this regard is The Bakersfield Expedition". Here we can see Sheldon dressed as Data, Leonard as Captain Picard, Raj as Worf and Howard as a Borg. Vasquez Rocks also appears in the episode.
The Orville
The whole look and feel of The Orville is clearly modeled on Star Trek, and specifically on the TNG era. Definite Star Trek references, on the other hand, are comparably rare. For instance, in the season 2 premiere, "Ja'loja", we can see a Map of the Milky Way Galaxy, which is very similar in its style and segmentation to the one from TNG: "Conspiracy". The original Star Trek map already appeared in The Sarah Jane Adventures (see below).
The Sarah Jane Adventures
In the pilot episode of this Doctor Who spin-off series a map of the Milky Way Galaxy can be seen, which was originally produced for TNG: "Conspiracy". Unlike the Trek-inspired map that would be created for The Orville (see above), we can see the original map (or a reprint thereof).
The Time Machine (2002)
In this remake of the classic film based on the novel by H. G. Wells, the time traveler arrives in a public library of the future where he asks the holographic guide questions about time travel. The guide, however, claims that this is science fiction and says goodbye with the Vulcan greeting. We also hear a TOS door noise when he disappears.
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
In this Transformers movie Wheelie is watching the Star Trek episode "Amok Time", "the one where Spock goes nuts". Furthermore Leonard Nimoy voices Sentinel Prime in the movie, saying "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few".
West Wing
In the West Wing episode "Manchester, Part I" the Botany Bay is listed on a situation chart along with several actual US Navy ships. This is no surprise, considering that no one else but Mike Okuda made this display.
The Real Ghostbusters
The episode "Ain't NASA-sarily So" is full of references to Star Trek. It begins with the captain's log (of the space station). The emblem of the station is a slight variation of the familiar Starfleet arrowhead and the communications officer looks conspicuously like Uhura.
Dirty Pair
The Dirty Pair episode 1 "How to Kill a Computer" shows a list with some familiar names. DeForest Kelley is not spelled correctly though. In episode 2, "Do Lovely Angels Prefer Chest Hair?", we see a random bit of decoration in the meeting room of a space cruiser company who are discussing why their ships are being destroyed in so many "accidents". On a further note, Dirty Pair forms sort of a symbiotic relationship with Star Trek as the latter returns the favor with several references to "Kei" and "Yuri" and with Rick Sternbach basing the design of the exocomp on the Dirty Pair character of Nanmo.
In the Dirty Pair episode "No Way! 463 People Disappeared?", there is a clear shot of Arthur having a model Enterprise hanging from his ceiling. On closer inspection, one can almost make out the full registry. The episode "But They're Only Children!" features a team of rowdy children taking over a military base and demanding that every station play only cartoons. Hidden within the generic kiddie stuff is the Enterprise transforming into some butt-kicking robot.
Other Anime
Star Trek is referenced in several more Japanese anime series. In "Daphne in the Brilliant Blue" we look at the motor in a character's car. The dialogue actually mentions the names as it refers to the type of engine. Note that "NC1701D" is missing a "C".
In "Gunsmith Cats", surprisingly a non-sci-fi instance, we can see a license plate with a rather out-of-this-world registry.
In "The Irresponsible Captain Tylor" the English dub mentions phasers and photon torpedoes as two of the weapons that the two warring factions use. However that can only be noted for the dub and may not hold true for the original dialogue. There's even a point where the characters are enthralled by some nebula and the The Blue Danube plays in the background as an obvious homage to "2001: A Space Odyssey" (again this can't be confirmed from original Japanese). Also of note is the fact that the UPSF and the Ralgon Empire in the anime looks like the Federation versus the Romulan Star Empire, also because the Ralgon have pointed ears. Anyway, an obvious visual reference is in the ship designs, of which one is clearly inspired by Klingon cruisers such as the Vor'cha.
Speaking of Easter Eggs on monitors, there is one on the SDF-1's bridge in Robotech season 1 (or "The Super Dimension Fortress Macross"), mentioning "Klingons", "Enterprise" and "Ph Torps". Also note that it takes "09 years to repair" the damaged computer. ;-) More specifically, this is a reference to the BASIC computer game "Star Trek" that was popular in the late 70s. The screen imitates the text-based interface of that game.
There are a couple of Trek references in the Tenchi Muyo series, among them a one-eyed Spock in the Episode 4 prologue.
A clear Trek reference in the form of the Galileo shuttle with the registry "NCC-1701-A" can be found in "The Darkest Day" of the Dragon Ball Z series.
In "Sonic: The Movie" we can see a ship inspired by the Enterprise as part of the wreckage on Sonic's island.
In the Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon series from 1993 on ABC, Princess Sally's personal computer, NICOLE, looks like the tricorders from Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager.
During a trippy hyperdrive flight in "Heavy Metal", we come across the wreckage and debris of many spacefaring objects including an unmistakable Enterprise.
In "Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou" ("His and Her Circumstances"), episode 8, time index 11:45, we can see the Enterprise registry on the big bottle in the lab.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012)
Leonardo watches the show "Space Heroes" that is very blatantly a Star Trek knock-off, specifically The Animated Series. The show is done in 2D ink & paint style almost distinguishing it as animated within the show. Further adding to this is the various nuances (limited animation particularly) actually serving as homage to TAS itself versus a cut & paste TOS parody. In one episode, we can also see a movie poster for "Space Heroes III", which is obviously based on the "Star Trek III" poster.
See Also
Re-Used Planet Sets - including the buildings from "Logan's Run"
Re-Uses of the Vasquez Rocks Location - observations about Star Trek's most famous filming location
Re-Used Props - Engineering Tools - including the oscillation overthruster
Visual In-Jokes - deliberate in-jokes on displays and props
Some screen caps from TrekCore. The information about Trelane's cloak comes from an article at startrek.com. Thanks to Robert Heckadon, Paul Eisner and Michael Minnick for several contributions! Special thanks to Michael Minnick for tending to the Japanese anime. P.O. Holland found the "Tenchi Muyo" reference, Branden Lee Wilson saw the shuttle in "Dragon Ball Z", Josh Wagner discovered how "The Super Dimension Fortress Macross" mimics the interface of the old Star Trek game, Artur A. Tello spotted the NCC-1701 in "His and Her Circumstances", Andrew Friden found the references in "The Real Ghostbusters", SonicJordan noticed the tricorder in the Sonic series, Shaun Aki spotted the Trek ship in "West Wing", LearnedHand found the references in "seaQuest DSV", Greg Tyler found additional in-jokes in "seaQuest", s47 found the NCC-1701 number plate in "Heroes", Joe pointed out the Trek references in "Transformers" to me, TechniMyoko spotted the Trek map in The Orville. Lee discovered the real-life origin of the Indiana Jones idol, Michael Zock spotted the hangars in "Seven Days", Greg Price found the rifle in Buck Rogers, Matt Wright pointed us to the Star Wars references in the movies, Jochen provided the screen caps of the Millenium Falcon. The "Mega Maid" corridor was found by Dan Carlson, and the Mork & Mindy references are from a thread at the TrekBBS, with an additional hint from Frederick. The costume in Gilligan's Island was found by CRM-114 at the TrekBBS.


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February 16, 2015Red Dragon listed for sale
Alloy Yachts | 52 m | 2008
February 13, 2015Vicem 107 listed for sale
Vicem | 33 m | 2013
February 13, 2015Codecasa yacht Emelina listed for sale
Codecasa | 51 m | 2008
February 13, 2015Happy Day on the market again
Overmarine | 40 m | 2007
February 12, 2015Namoh central agency change
Cheoy Lee | 38 m | 2003
February 12, 2015Price reduction on I Love this Boat
Christensen | 44 m | 2002
February 12, 2015Step one listed for sale (View in Miami)
Amels | 55 m | 2012
February 11, 2015Maratanix X listed for sale
Sensation Yachts | 45 m | 2006
February 11, 2015Moon Goddess listed for sale (See in Miami)
Danish Yachts | 35 m | 2006
February 4, 2015Price reduction SS Delphine
Great Lakes Engineering | 78.3 m | 1921
January 30, 2015Price reduction on 46m Hakvoort Allegria
Hakvoort | 46 m | 2004
January 30, 2015Price reduction on Mustique
Trinity Yachts | 55 m | 2005
January 26, 2015Price reduction on Murphy Law at RJC
Delta Marine | 38 m | 1998
January 23, 2015Price reduction on the 38m Odalisque
Feadship | 38 m | 1973
January 21, 2015Price reduction on Aria
C-Boat | 27.3 m | 2009
January 8, 2015Cheers 46 sold
Azimut | 35.36 m | 2011
January 8, 2015Danae listed for sale
Cammenga/Viudes | 31.68 m | 1990
December 26, 2014Edmiston reports the sale of sailing yacht Matelot
Southern Wind | 24 m | 2005
December 24, 2014Benetti yacht Sai Ram sold by Edmiston and Burgess
Benetti | 51.8 m | 2004
December 24, 2014Camper Nicholsons sells Ocean Emerald
Rodriquez Yachts | 41 m | 2009
December 24, 2014IYC sells superyacht Rebel
Trinity Yachts | 48 m | 2005
December 21, 2014BVB 44m available for inspection
Bloemsma Van Breemen | 44 m | 2013
December 21, 2014Yacht History listed for sale at Sea Independent
Troy Marine | 25.91 m | 2002
December 20, 2014RJC announces sale of 105 Azimut Lady Siliva
Azimut | 32 m | 2010
On the 3d of November, upon the end of the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show 2019, one of the exhibited boats was arrested by local authorities. The 22.5-metre motor yacht Sunseeker is reportedly worth over $ 4 million. That way, the yacht was secured from 'being handed over to a wrong person'.Courtesy: Kevin Turner From the exhibition area, the boat was driven to an undisclosed place, where she will be kept until the court resolution is stated. National Maritime Services, court-appointed third-party custodian, will taken responsibility guarding her.Four parties are participating in the trial related to her. So far, the failed buyer of the 22-metre is Kevin Turner. In May 2019, he filed a lawsuit against Sunseeker International, its US distributor Sunseeker USA, and Fort Lauderdale-based broker Rick Obey & Associates, one of the largest Sunseeker dealers in the United States.Turner accused the broker of refusing to ascribe to him $ 4 million, which Turner transferred on the construction of the boat. At the same time, Obey and Sunseeker are mired in another lawsuit: the manufacturer refuses to take responsibility for the catastrophic engine failure on the yacht of Obey's customers on their first trip in May 2018.As a result, the payments that Obey transferred to Sunseeker for projects under construction or sales on spec first slowed down and then completely stopped even before Turner's boat was delivered to the owner. According to Sunseeker's USA spokesman Stacy Schwartz, Obey simply could not pay for the construction of Turner's boat.'In order to prevent future damage,' the contract between Sunseeker USA and Obey was terminated in March this year. In June, the broker received a court order to stop positioning itself as a partner at Sunseeker USA. Turner claimed, it took about 10 days of hard work to find out that 'his' boat had departed to the USA from the UK. Identification numbers in the carrier's waybill proved it was the same Sunseeker. Obey admit that Turner has become an innocent hostage to the situation, and are trying to help him get his boat.According to Alan Swimmer, head of National Maritime Services, vessel arrests are routine but rare. About 100 yachts get arrested annually around the world. In Fort Lauderdale, which is considered the yachting capital, such incidents happen 5-10 times a year. Most often, it takes place when a boat becomes the subject of a commercial dispute.
November 8, 2019
The 69.7-metre charter superyacht Sherakhan built in 1966 as merchant navy training vessel by Dutch yard Vuyk, underwent a conversion into a superyacht in 2005. She has recently returned to Holland and has been pictured at Shipyard de Schroef in Terneuzen.Photo: Dutch YachtingBack in 1965, the classic yacht started out as Princess Margaret. Her present owner, Dutch hospitality entrepreneur Jan Verkerk, managed to breath a new life into the boat in 2005, when it was rebuilt at his yard and renamed to Sherakhan.Maintaining the vessel's beautiful classic 1960s lines and style, Verkerk upgraded the interior with Rijntjes Interior Design and carried out a complete technical overhaul.Certified to accommodate up to 26 guests, with a dedicated crew of 20 including Michelin-starred Chef Toine Smulders, Sherakhan has undergone several more extensive refits, with the most recent one conducted at Icon Yachts in 2017.Photo: Dutch YachtingThe most noticeable upgrade of 2017 was the 70-metre hull repainted to a minimalistic white colour from its original vintage blue hue. Along with cosmetic adjustments to the yacht's interior areas and A/V upgrades, her main generators were replaced with low emission ones.The onboard layout of Sherakhan is trademarked with double-height dining room with galleried atrium, skylight courtesy of the glass-bottomed sundeck Jacuzzi and seating for all 26 guests at a dining table. The interior colour palette is calm and neutral, with creams and tan-coloured wood allowing the natural textures and tones to harmonise. The layout comprises 13 ensuite cabins, including a full-beam master suite.Sherakhan offers a choice of guest deck areas, from the generous wicker seating on the main deck or several loungers on the large foredeck to the stellar sundeck with an 18-person Jacuzzi, wet bar and barbecue, dining tables and multiple sun loungers. The toy storage can fit a pair of 7.3-metre tenders, three Waverunner jetskis, wakeboards, surfboards, a number of inflatable towables and an 8-metre custom-made slide.What is more, Sherakhan comes with a full wellness suite including a beauty salon, massage room, gym and sauna. Sherakhan's technical characteristics allow her to cruise to the most remote areas of the planet, accommodating up to 24 guests within her 12 staterooms.The yacht's winter charter rate starts from $ 425,000. Sherakhan can usually be found in the Mediterranean during the summer season and the Caribbean over the winter. However, she is claimed capable of exploring more remote areas and has many circumnavigations.
November 8, 2019
Italian builder Perini Navi has announced the sale of the first 47-metre hybrid sailing yacht out of their E-volution line, where the 'E' stands for electric. With the yacht's construction already begun on spec, the delivery to her European owner is scheduled for summer 2021.The hull of the 47-metre is currently in build at the yard in Tuzla, Istanbul, and will arrive into the Viareggio shipyard in spring 2020 for completion.Edoardo Tabacchi, Perini Navi Vice Chairman & Majority Shareholder, comments:The S/Y 47m E-volution is a project we believed in strongly from the very start. This is why we accepted the challenge of starting construction on spec and we are very happy that the market has proved us right.Built from aluminium with a carbon-fibre boom and rigging, this sloop features naval by the Perini Navi in-house team and a 1,275 sqm sail surface. Perini Navi has evolved its classic keel design in this new version. It offers a shallow draft to allow the yacht venture closer to the coast. A sophisticated swing system also guarantees optimal safety in case of collision.Perini Navi Style & Design Director Franco Romani penned the vessel's exterior lines. The yacht's interior design will be developed by Perini Navi in collaboration with Marco Costanzi Architects. Like the other vessels in the E-volution series, the S/Y 47m introduces a new concept of space, while extensive glazing draws exceptional light into the interiors. The transom has been innovated, too. It now opens to the sea through a large beach area with a sunbathing zone and a fold-down platform. The saloon on the main deck feels like an effortless extension of the cockpit and aft deck with which it creates an open-plan space of around 20 metres in length.The S/Y 47m E-volution has three guest cabins in addition to the master suite aft and a versatile cabin which can convert to an office or a gym depending on the owner's needs. A spacious flybridge of around 90 sqm offers uniquely generous space for a craft of this type.After the S/Y 42m E-volution and the S/Y 42m E-volution GTS, the S/Y47m is the third vessel in the E-volution gallery sold by the yard in the last 15 months, and is a testament to the success of this modern and high performance new line. The yard has also recently presented new Falcon Rig Gallery.Meanwhile, Perini Navi currently has the largest number of over-40-metre sailing yachts under construction in the world. Its production plans span the building of seven yachts, five of which are sailing yacht and two motors.
November 11, 2019
At the recent Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show 2019, the 43-metre superyacht Majesty 140 by UAE-based shipyard Gulf Craft received a prestigious "Best in the Show" award. The vessel took delivery earlier this year, ahead of the Monaco Yacht Show.The title of the "Best in the Show" boat is annually awarded to new models at FLIBS. Independent experts, who are not directly related to the yachting industry, evaluate architecture, design, technology and technical characteristics of applicants. For instance, this year's jury included American IndyCar racing champion Ryan Hunter-Reay, the designer and head of the Creative Workshop Studios, Jason Wenig, and the marketing director of Ulysse Nardin, Francoise Bezzola among others.The builder first introduced this model during the 2018 Dubai International Boat Show and has sold four units since then, with a fifth under negotiations. The tri-deck Majesty 140 represents a collaboration between the shipyard's in-house Design Studio developing her exterior lines and naval architecture and Cristiano Gatto Design Team responsible for her interiors.Majesty 140 features a spacious beachfront deck with balconies on both sides aft of the main deck, a Jacuzzi on the sundeck and two large opening sunshades on the hardtop. The full-height glazing in the main and upper decks, large and expansive interior and exterior spaces meant that the guests can enjoy a limitless flow throughout the yacht.The collaboration with Cristiano Gatto Design Team comes following the successful introduction of the Cristiano Gatto designed Majesty 175, the brand's first megayacht project due for launch end of this year. The Majesty 140 features five staterooms with the full-beam master in the forward main deck. The owner's stateroom also features a private extendable balcony, a bathtub and walk-in wardrobe among many other amenities.Key interior materials include Italian leather, Onyx Costa Blanca marble and crystal door handles. The open-plan saloon on the main deck includes an L-shaped wrap of seating and a dining area for up to ten guests, while other key features include a superyacht beach club and a skylounge of 55 square metres.With her 398 GT of interior volume, the vessel was built in compliance to MCA LY3 Cayman Island registry. The Majesty 140 is powered by twin MTU 16V 2,600hp engines toa top speed of 20 knots. She cruises comfortably at 16 knots and can reach an extended range of 4,000 nautical miles at an economical speed of 10 knots. This is not the first award for Majesty 140, which also received World Yachts Trophies award for "The Best Interior Design" among yachts from 30 to 50 metres, during the Cannes Yachting Festival.
November 11, 2019
Italian La Spezia-based yard Baglietto has presented its new 40-metre yacht project Abaco. The vessel was signed by Maria Magnolfi during the 2019 Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show.Ideal for sailing in shallow waters, Abaco is the perfect vessel to enjoy the warm crystal waters of the Bahamas, from which she takes her name. The Abaco project is a tribute the Italian shipyard and designers wanted to make to the people of one of the islands most affected by Hurricane Dorian. Baglietto, as part of a humanitarian initiative, will give a percentage of the proceeds from the sale of the first project to the reconstruction of the Abaco island.Innovative, modern, and robust lines, open spaces, and the proximity to the sea, as well as generous volumes for the interior, are some of the main features of this yacht.The main deck can boast over 120 square meters of outdoor spaces, harmoniously stretched towards the stern where the cockpit and the beach club join in a single space in direct contact with the sea. In this ample space, there is an infinity pool and a comfortable sunbathing area. Behind it, a conversation area can become, if necessary, a dining area for 16 guests. Going forward, there is a real "winter garden" occupied by a bar and living space, which can be fully opened if required thanks to floor-to-ceiling sliding glass doors. The connection between the interior and exterior continues in the main saloon, which was designed with the same logic of opening both aft and in the large side windows. This extreme modularity makes it possible to get 150 square meters of outdoor spaces on a single bridge.The owner's suite has an office and a his and her bathrooms. The accommodation area is located in the lower deck, occupied by four large cabins. On the same deck, at the bow, the crew mess and crew area are found.The upper deck, sundeck, and bow area add 170 square meters of open space, offering different areas for long conversations, gratifying lunch, or relaxation in the sun, satisfying every guest's needs.The interior design was created as a continuity of the exterior, using natural materials and bright tones such as teak, straw, raffia, linen, and tropical woods, which give an exotic touch, freshness, and elegance.The yacht is equipped with a garage capable of accommodating a tender of 6 meters in length, and a forward garage that can fit a rescue tender or yacht toys.The power will come from two CAT C32 ACERT D rate engines able to bring the boat to a maximum speed of 17.5 knots and a cruising speed of 12 knots. Alternatively, a hybrid solution is also envisioned.Baglietto currently offers its customers a full range of products between 35 m and 65 m in length in the planning and displacement segments, plus the 'tender' line, with a 13 m and a 19 m MV model. Meanwhile, during the recent Monaco Yacht Show, the builder revealed the Francesco Paszkowski Design of its new 65-metre superyacht V-Line.
November 8, 2019
New listings
$ 2,700,000
West Bay Sonship | 29.7 m | 2003
€ 2,100,000
Van der Valk | 24.6 m | 2014
Price on request
Royal Falcon Fleet | 41.14 m | 2019
€ 10,900,000
Sanlorenzo | 36.5 m | 2017


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