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As a wind power market, Norway remains an enigma. The country harbours a massive wind resource, it has plenty of space for using it, electricity is in short supply where winds are good, the Norwegian people say they want more renewable energy, and the government is using considerable resources to process applications to build hundreds of megawatt of wind plant. That same government, however, is replacing a six-year old program of grants for up to 25% of a wind project's capital cost with a purchase price subsidy of just EUR 0.01/kWh, albeit to run for 15 years. In view of the price that electricity fetches on today's Scandinavian power market, more support is needed, say potential wind power producers. Until it is forthcoming, the prospects in Norway are dismal.
Before even asking for subsidy, all wind projects must apply to the Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) for a building concession. NVE has so far granted concessions for 1.5 GW of wind development, of which just 30% has been realised (Windpower Monthly, March 2007). The directorate is now trying to speed up the permitting process. Since December it has granted concessions for ten wind plant. There is a distinct possibility, however, that none will be built.
Despite the bleak outlook for turning a concession into a viable investment, NVE's Bjørn Wold says the directorate is still working its way through a backlog of applications. "We have about 70 preliminary applications and 30 full applications," Wold says. The work is hampered by insufficient human resources. "I'd say about 30-40 of that total are in process and moving along." In 2006, NVE got a 20% increase in manpower, but "wind power has the least priority," says Wold. The application process -- which favours projects proposed for energy deficient mid-Norway and near Bergen -- should take around two years, he says, though with current resources he predicts four to five years.
Even though a project has a concession, that is not the end of the permitting gauntlet. Appeals have been lodged by individuals or non-government organisations (NGOs) against all ten of the recent concessions. Until they are settled by the ministries of energy and environment a project remains in limbo. "We've seen a huge increase in resistance," Wold says. "At this point all projects, offshore and onshore, are controversial. It doesn't mean most people in Norway are against wind, far from it. But many NGOs are making their protests heard."
NVE is just doing its job, says Arne Jakobsen, a wind power proponent at Greenstream Networks in Oslo. What is lacking is any real commitment to wind development from the current government, an alliance led by the Centre party. "I think the government is making it look like they are making environmental policy when in fact it is just a sham, a political story," he says.
Despite a much lauded NOK 20 billion renewable energy fund, Jakobsen points out that the government conveniently forgets to mention that only interest from the fund is being used to subsidise renewables. "I'm getting bored with it. You can't keep banging your head against the same old wall." Jakobsen says these days small-scale hydro is looking more viable than wind for Greenstream, which has its core business in emissions trading,
Once a wind project has won a concession, its sponsor may apply for subsidy to ENOVA, an agency set up under the energy ministry in 2001 with a budget of NOK 5 billion to administer grants to renewables projects. In January, the government added NOK 10 billion (EUR 122.7 million) to the budget, with another NOK 10 billion promised for 2009, creating the EUR 20 billion fund.
Viggo Iversen, team manager of ENOVA's renewables power program, says revenues from the fund amounting to NOK 1.1 billion (EUR 135 million) are available for projects selected in 2007 for capital grants of up to 25% -- the last year in which such grants will be made. Iversen declines to say what proportions of the NOK 1.1 billion will be allocated to wind, energy efficiency and district heating projects. Since 2004, six wind projects have received a total of NOK 504 million (EUR 62 million), but just one is in operation (table).
From 2008, the wind market flips to a production subsidy of NOK 0.08/kWh (EUR 0.009/kWh). Any wind power producer in receipt of ENOVA money before January 2008 must pay the original grant back if it wants the NOK 0.08/kWh, which ENOVA will also administer.
With so many newly permitted projects under appeal, Iversen predicts only three might meet ENOVA's criteria for possible 2007 funding: Norsk Miljøkraft's Kvitfjell (200 MW), Jaeren Energi's Høg-Jaeren (80 MW) and an unspecified expansion of Nord-Trøndelag's Ytre Vikna project, 70 MW of which has already won support. Only the most cost effective projects with solid financial backing and a short term development schedule get chosen for ENOVA money, he adds.
Still optimistic
Not everybody is as pessimistic as Iversen. Asgeir Andreasson, manager of the 160 MW Andmyran project in the Norwegian north, one of the largest NVE concessions granted in December, says he is optimistic it will be built: the 8 m/s average wind speed at the site makes it a prime location, he says. Budgeted at NOK 1.7 million (EUR 230 million) for about 60 turbines, the project is still assessing its economic feasibility and seeking financing, says Andreasson. He already has a list of waiting investors, including a branch of the Swedish real estate company Wallenstam.
"Key question number one is what are the turbine prices going to be?" Andreasson says. "Question two: will there be anything happening around the feed-in price?"
The production incentive Andreasson refers to as a feed-in subsidy must be larger if there is to be any major development of the Norwegian market beyond this year, say industry players. As Robin Borgert, Enercon's sales manager for Norway puts it: "For the long term we have to be optimistic that the government will improve the currently proposed support," he says. "Considering the ambitious goals, the growing energy demand, the great wind conditions, the ready-to-go projects and the utilities' willingness to invest it is hard to imagine the government will take no further actions."
As the international market is currently so competitive, Borgert says he believes the government is "putting its young wind business in the firing line." For while Enercon still considers Norway to be a viable long term market and just recently sold 25 E-70 turbines to Trønder Energi for the 57.5 MW Bessakerfjellet project, Borgert says: "It appears to me that some turbine manufacturers have, or are about to pull the trigger and retreat."
All are starting to agree that Norway's aim of generating 3 TWh of wind by 2010 is a fast receding goal. "Not by 2010, that's fairly sure now," says NVE's Bjørn Wold. "Even if sufficient projects got permits and then in addition got financing, it would be hard simply to get the equipment in place by then."


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The Last Airbender director is returning to his mysterious roots: He's shopping a carefully guarded script around Hollywood, with Bruce Willis, Bradley Cooper, and Gwyneth Paltrow already on board. Remember: He did the same thing with The Happening.
After The Sixth Sense, Shyamalan could do no wrong — and to protect his precious twist endings, the newly powerful writer-director took secrecy to new extremes. Only studio heads could read copies of his newest scripts, and even then with an M. Night representative sitting in the room with them. While one part of that obsessiveness was to reinforce the branding of Shyamalan — if he really wanted to be secretive, it wouldn't be public knowledge how secretive he was — but no one could dispute the results: The Sixth Sense was huge, while Unbreakable and Signs were legitimate blockbusters.
But then came The Village, The Lady in the Water, and The Happening (the wind!) — all of which fared progressively worse, critically and financially — and it became obvious that, just maybe, more people needed to see these screenplays before spending hundreds of millions of dollars producing them.
Now, while the buzz around The Last Airbender — the first Shyamalan that didn't spring directly from his head — is beginning to swell, the filmmaker is returning to his old modus operandi, shopping a script that, according to the Hollywood Reporter:
Only top studio execs have read...and they were required to allow a Shyamalan assistant to supervise the process. When the execs finished reading, the assistant took the script back and left.
No studio has stepped up to the plate yet — maybe they're waiting to see if Airbender will break Shyamalan's streak — but with those stars attached, it seems like a foregone conclusion.
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Even before the famous visit of Queen Victoria, Killarney had earned its stripes as a tourist hub
Killarney is the place that launched a billion postcards. And now that postcards are a dying art form, it's becoming the place that launched a billion tweets, Facebook posts and Instagram photos.
Simply put, this is the Grand Central Station of tourism for the south west, a vibrant crossroads where paradise meets good old-fashioned fun.
The paradise you'll find in Killarney National Park encompasses every kind of terrain for which Ireland is famous. Kerry's crown jewel is home to Ireland's tallest mountain (Carrauntoohil, at 3,406 feet), to spellbinding lakes and forests, to the rain-ravished Torc Waterfall.
Little wonder Kerry is known as The Kingdom.
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At the heart of it all is Muckross House, where Queen Victoria stayed in 1861. The Queen gave six years notice of her visit – plenty of time for the house to be redecorated – and arrived with her own bed and a 100-strong entourage. Over 50 years later, the 19th-century house and landscaped gardens are a national treasure to explore.
The gateway to the National Park – if not Kerry itself – is Killarney, a town that first flirted with visitors when Thomas Browne (Lord Kenmare), put the word out over 250 years ago. Queen Victoria followed, and by 1895, Thomas Cook had brought his first package tour.
Killarney is a thumping hub, but it's not all about shamrock and shillelaghs (a traditional wooden walking stick). This is a place where you can order boxty – a traditional Irish potato pancake – or bruschetta in the same restaurant. You can clap your way through an Irish-American cabaret, or tune into local footballing hero, Paul Galvin, spinning hip-hop and grime on Radio Kerry.
You can kick back in a five-star hotel, or bike 9 miles for a well-earned pint at Kate Kearney's cottage.
The Ring of Kerry, a 111 mile-long loop of the Iveragh Peninsula, is well known both at home and abroad, and Killarney is one of its traditional starting points. The route is ripe for driving, but those with heartier dispositions could do far worse than spotting the spectacular landscapes of west Kerry by bike or foot.
Killarney is the starts of the Kerry Way, a 125 mile-long walking route typically undertaken over eight days. Gentler rambles include the woodland paths at Ross Castle, or the four-hour circuit of Muckross Lake.
Friends or family could always hail a jarvey, too – the horse-drawn carts have been taking tourists to see the sights since the earliest days.
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Lee Jensen posted a useful forum post Accessing your DB externally, but this advice doesn't work so well for windows users so here is a brief tutorial.
First, download putty if you haven't got it already, open it up and configure an SSH connection with the IP address and SSH port of your slice. You can get these from the welcome email you were sent:
Next, go to the Connection -> SSH -> Tunnels config section and configure as following:
In this example I have used mysql50-staging-1 as the MySQL server hostname, replace this with the one you are trying to access. When you have entered the source port and destination click 'Add', then 'Open'. You should see a screen like this:
Enter the slice login details (not the MySQL login details!) and you should see a standard login prompt:
Right, that's the last of putty for now. Open up your MySQL GUI (I am using MySQL Administrator in this example) and configure it like so:
Make sure you have specified localhost as the mysql hostname, that you are using the MySQL database login credentials and that the port matches the local port you set up in Putty, in this case 13306. Click connect and you should see something like this:
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"Even if China's population multiplies many times, she is fully capable of finding a solution; the solution is production. Of all things in the world, people are the most precious."
Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Communist Party of China, made this statement in 1949 soon after the People's Republic of China was formed. During this time, China experienced a massive increase in population, which at the time was considered a positive direction for China to go in. The mentality of people during this time was that population growth meant economic growth. After centuries of generations suffering from political unrest and epidemics, high population rates were not considered damaging to the Chinese people. This generation wanted to create new lives in a positive time in Chinese history.
It wasn't until 1955 that the government introduced a birth control campaign that supported abortion in an effort to control the population growth. After a series of natural disasters and poor government planning a reported 20-30 million people in China starved to death between 1958 and 1961. The need to regulate the population started to become a serious issue.
It was in 1978 that Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping established the one child policy that limited the number of children people could have to only one. If a family did not comply with this law and produced a second child, there would be substantial fines. At a 2007 press conferences with Chinese officials, Zhang Weiqing was eager to exemplify the success of the one child policy, "Because China has worked hard over the last 30 years, we have 400 million fewer people." This policy has created an enormous debate on whether it is hindering the basic human rights of Chinese citizens. Zhang Hui, mother of one little girl, believes that one child is enough and she would want one no matter the government regulations and fines. "I'm too busy at work to have any more," stated Beijing native Zhao Hui. She also went on to say she is not alone in thinking this way. Many of her friends feel the same. A 2008 Pew Research poll three-in-four Chinese people (76%) approve of the policy. Professor Wang Feng, of the University of California, Irvine, confessed that because of the one child policy the Chinese citizen's attitudes have evolved since the policy was instated in 1978. "A lot of people simply don't want that many children. People have accepted the policy," said Wang. Over the years, the Chinese people have adapted to the childbearing regulations. For past generations, when it was typical to have many children in family, this policy would have seemed unrealistic.
For many in China there has been an acceptance of the one child policy but in some cases people are against it. Mother of two, Liu Shuling, escaped the traumas of a forced abortion when she decided to pay fines, amounting to four times her annual income, in order to have a second child. Liu Shuling and her husband were pleased to have a second son even if it was at the risk of loosing all financial stability. Liu Shuling's husband admitted in an interview that a son was really what they wanted in order to help them when they reached an older age. Liu Shuling added, "To have a girl doesn't work."
Because of the one child policy, sex discrimination has become a huge repercussion. Most people prefer sons to daughters and will go to drastic lengths to have their one and only child be a boy. Abortion, neglect, abandonment, and even infanticide have become consequence of the one child policy. Everyday in China, 20,000 babies are born, but for every 100 girls there are 120 boys. The future generation of China will have to deal with the vast number of single men unable to find brides. There is also a fear that with such a high number of single men in China's future society, there will a drastic increase in crime and violence. Jo Ming, a school principal with a belief that there needs to be a cultural balance between men and women, states in reference to the one child policy, "Once born, we are all equal, and we are all human beings. We need to respect each other. I think, even though some older people don't agree, it should be eliminated." The mentality that females are not as preferable as males is not a new attitude in China but only one that has worsened with the one child policy.
The one child policy was created to regulate the population and avoid poverty; however, there are still 600 million people living in China who earn less then $2 a day. Multiple generations will feel the effects of the policy. Because of the one child regulations, generational dynamics within a family have altered. In past generations, the parents were able to rely on their children in old age. For the present and future, a single child must take care of his or her parents and four grandparents. The one child policy has effected generations differently but all people in China are interconnected. A solution made during one generation seems to inevitably make way for an entirely new problem for the next generation. The one child policy was meant be a temporary solution and only last a generation. In 2010, after 30 years of the policy being enacted, the government shows no sign of stopping the regulations.


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A 29-year-old former bank teller pleaded not guilty Monday to allegations that she embezzled more than $60,000 from elderly patrons, some of whom suffered from dementia.
Jeanne Ann Dey of Indian Hills faces four counts: three charges of embezzlement involving a victim age 60 or older, and one count of embezzlement.
The crimes reportedly took place in 2010 and 2011.
Dey is accused of setting up accounts, then archiving the accounts so the victims didn't receive statements.
She would then allegedly withdraw money from the accounts.
Judge Michael Gibbons set alternate dates for a trial which is expected to last 4-5 days. The first date is April 23, depending on whether a scheduled trial is vacated.
According to the Douglas County Sheriff's Office, the thefts came to light when the relative of an account holder who died, discovered $8,000 had been withdrawn from her mother's account within 12 hours of her death.
The daughter said that the withdrawal occurred on Aug. 23 using a forged withdrawal slip.
According to the criminal complaint, Dey is accused of embezzling $16,000 from the 82-year-old victim who died; $29,000 from an 89-year-old man and his 85-year-old wife, and $8,000 from an 83-year-old man and his 86-year-old wife.
The fourth count involves $13,675 from a victim who is not elderly.
The losses were covered by the bank which is out $58,675, according to court documents.
Dey is out of custody on $50,000 bail.
Her attorney, Ron Cauley, asked Monday that his client be allowed to relocate to Houston where she has a job lined up which reportedly pays $125,000 a year.
He asked that her trial be set out to enable her to save money, and help with expenses.
Cauley declined to answer prosecutor Karen Dustman's inquiry whether Dey's potential employer knows of the charges she is facing.
"We were not aware of the fact she's proposing to move to Texas," Dustman said Monday. "I don't know if the employer is aware of pending charges. How realistic is it to have a job with a pending four-count felony?"
Gibbons allowed Dey to leave Nevada, but said she must provide her address and telephone number, and keep in contact with her lawyer.
Dustman asked for a speedy trial date, noting "the victims are extremely elderly with failing memories and failing health."
Cauley said negotiations were ongoing with the district attorney's office, but he was not confident that a resolution could be reached.


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CINCINNATI -- The last time Ryan Ludwick was seen on the field, the Reds outfielder was in pain after separating his right shoulder following a head-first slide on Opening Day. The injury required surgery to repair a torn labrum and a lengthy rehabilitation.
Ludwick is poised to turn a big corner in his comeback effort and could begin a rehab assignment early next week.
"As long as this weekend goes well, no setbacks or something, he'll start the rehab assignment," Reds head trainer Paul Lessard said.
Ludwick has taken batting practice with the team on Thursday and Friday. He had been hitting on his own for about the last 10 days.
"He looked real good," Reds manager Dusty Baker said of Ludwick's Thursday session. "These other guys are four months ahead of him, and he's kind of a slow starter anyway. ... We have to give him enough at-bats so when he comes back, it's not Spring Training."
By rule, Ludwick's rehab assignment in the Minors can last up to 20 days. He has long been targeting an August return to the Reds' lineup.


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Sony's Resistance: Fall of Man was one of the better games to be released at the launch of the PlayStation 3. One of the more striking scenes in the game occurs when a gunfight breaks out between the US and British forces and the otherworldly Chimera inside the walls of the Manchester Cathedral, a location the Church of England is now saying wasn't cleared for use in the game. "For a global manufacturer to recreate one of our great cathedrals with photo-realistic quality and then encourage people to have guns battles in the building is beyond belief and highly irresponsible," the Bishop of Manchester told BBC News.
Sony claimed in a prepared statement that they believed they had sought all the necessary permissions for the inclusion of the cathedral in the game and also noted that the title is "a fantasy science fiction game and is not based on reality." This response isn't sitting well with the Church of England's employees in Manchester, who believe they are facing a very real gun problem and feel that the use of their holy space for such a violent scene in the gaming undercuts their work with the community.
This isn't the first time the religious community has dealt with violent use of their imagery and places of worship. In 2002 the Sikh Coalition began a petition against the Eidos title Hitman 2 based on the use of holy temples in the game. The petition lays out their feelings clearly, "The Harmander Sahib is a holy Sikh place of worship that serves as a religious and a political center for the Sikhs worldwide. The Harmander Sahib is held in reverence, just as the Vatican by Catholics... such a graphical portrayal of violence within the sacred grounds of any religious place—whether a Gurdwara, a Temple, a Church or a Mosque, is completely unacceptable."
Eidos responded to the petition less than a month later by removing the offending content from the website, making a new version of the game on existing platforms without the offending content, and removing the level from the GameCube port. The developer also offered a formal apology to the Sikh community and stressed that no offense was intended.
It's unclear if Sony will be willing or even able to remove the section of the game that takes place inside the cathedral. It's also odd that it has taken this long for the Church of England to bring up the complaint; the game was released on March 23 in Europe. This is a problem that we may see more of as games try to recreate real-world locations with greater and greater accuracy. Even the mayor of Las Vegas was worried about the depiction of terrorism in the game Rainbow Six Vegas, thinking the violence could hurt tourism, while New York officials are also nervous about their city's picture-perfect depiction in Grand Theft Auto IV.
While Sony promises to contact the Church of England about their concerns, the bigger issue of context when depicting real-world locations is one that is far from settled.


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list of gone NY buildings--
am looking for info on------
1. Spite House -Lexington Avenue Between 82nd and 83rd Streets
need picture
2. Hanover Bank Building
any pix, info whatsoever
3. The Manhattan Hotel
architect? general info?
4.Coogan Building 776 Sixth Ave. at 26th St.
any pix, info whatsoever
5.West Side Viaduct
any pix, info whatsoever
6. New York Tribune Building
any pix, info whatsoever
7. Post Office at the triangular tip of City Hall Park
any pix, info whatsoever
many thanks
please--I dont want to see any more added to this list!!!
Crying out loud stop the pain. Pleassssssssssssssse!
Gone but not forgotten. My favorite lost building in New York City is the Singer Building designed by Ernest Flagg.
And nothing compares to the old Penn Station. We're the only city on the Northeastern Corridor that does not have an architectural gem as an Amtrak station.
hey, you can't forget Madison Square Garden
and the gruesome end of its architect Stanford White in it---
The opening night celebration was attended by 17,000 people, some of whom paid as much as $50 per head. In the audience were some of the wealthiest, most influential figures of the age: J.P. Morgan, the Pierponts, the Whitneys, General William Tecumseh Sherman, and the architect Stanford White,
White, ironically, would spend his last hours in the roof garden cabaret 16 years later. It is a story that still fascinates.
Stanford White was not only America's leading urban architect but also one of the most notorious of playboys. His name had been linked with many of the beauties of the age, including the Floradora Girls who performed nightly at the Garden¹s Casino. One of those girls was a beautiful young woman named Evelyn Nesbitt who had married a Pittsburgh millionaire named Harry Thaw. White's name had been romantically linked with Nesbitt before and after her marriage to Thaw.
On the night of June 25, 1906, Thaw was attending a dinner-show with his wife at the cabaret, when he rose to leave the dining room, he suddenly turned on his heel and walked to White's table where he drew a revolver and fired three times at White's head.
White died in the building he designed, Thaw after one hung jury, was found not guilty by reason of insanity. The story has been depicted in several movies, notably in "The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing" and "Ragtime."
although I agree, Penn station was indeed something...... (another McKim Mead and White building!)
I've said it before, I'll say it again: karma's a bitch. The Penn Central Railroad went spectacularly bankrupt a few years after the demolition of Penn Station.
There ought to be a rule about not posting Penn Station pictures..
From the posted picture, the old post office building looks almost identical to the Old Executive Office Building next to the White House in DC.
It really is a shame to see such masterpieces of beau arts go to waste...and they sure don't make them like that anymore...
I believe they demolished the Post Office to extend the City Hall Park.Post Office at the triangular tip of City Hall Park
any pix, info whatsoever
It was demolished to renovate the park...the 1939 World's Fair led to a desire to beautify the park and demolish it. The post office was really liked while it was standing.
According to the museum it wasn't very well liked:It was demolished to renovate the park...the 1939 World's Fair led to a desire to beautify the park and demolish it. The post office was really liked while it was standing.
Personally I like the buildings overly-ornate architecture.After a competition with no winner, a committee headed by A. B. Mullet was formed to design the building. Never liked, it was dubbed "Mullet's monstrosity," and as early as 1920 efforts to demolish it were underway. Because of a land-rights dispute between the city and federal authorities, the building stood until 1938, when the beautification of City Hall Park for the 1939 World's Fair hastened its demise. Abbott recorded the much-maligned building a month before it was razed.
I tried editing it to say "wasn't" liked but my computer crashed when I was doing that.....Anyway I like it too. It looks odd with the Mansard roof and the symmetry of it's windows reminds me a little bit of the cast irons in Soho.


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In the beginning of his show, Steve Harvey answers relationship questions for audience members — after all, he is the author of the bestselling garbagey gobbledy-gook called Think Like A Man. Today, a lady on the show asked how she could keep her husband involved in the family's day-to-day life, since he travels all the time for work. Harvey said the question "required" the "female perspective," then said he would "have a female answer the question." Surprise: Michelle Obama!
The First Lady emerged, looking gorge in a pantsuit and raw geode earrings, although, honestly, it was sad she was there at all. Steve Harvey is The Worst™. And it's not like she has anything new to say. She did emphasize how important it is to vote. But most of the cute stories she told — about her first date with Barack Obama, about how romantic he is — were ones we'd heard before, on The View or in 2008, the first time her husband was running for office.
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I make one inch wide long lines, any length. They are flat nylon webbing, with a handle and clip at one end (so you can hold it, but it's also easy to hook the lines around things) and a clip on the other (for attaching to the dog. duh. )
They aren't pretty like Liz's but they work.
If people are interested I can sell them, what lengths would you want?


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Beloved doctor, medical educator dies following car crash
Editor's note: This article has been updated with information about a memorial service for Dr. Steven Gradwohl.
Dr. Steven E. Gradwohl, known as a "physician's physician" devoted to high-quality patient care and training future physicians, died Saturday after an automobile crash on I-94 at Zeeb Road west of Ann Arbor.
|Dr. Steven Gradwohl
Gradwohl, 51, who had been on the Medical School faculty since 1994, was a clinical assistant professor of internal medicine and practiced general internal medicine at the Briarwood Medical Group. An investigation of the crash is underway.
"Steve was not only a very caring and outstanding clinician, he was also a dear friend to many of us in the department and across the university," said Dr. John Carethers, chair of internal medicine.
Dr. Laurence McMahon, chief of the General Medicine division, noted, "With a ready smile, full of energy and always willing to help, he will truly be missed. His devotion to his patients and friends was only exceeded by that to his family."
Gradwohl is survived by his wife, Lisa Mann, and their two daughters, Alexandra and Kelsey.
A graduate of Carleton College and the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine, Gradwohl had been named by his peers as one of the Best Doctors in America several times.
He was a U.S. Army veteran, having served on active duty while in medical residency at the Letterman Army Medical Center in San Francisco, and in medical leadership posts at Fort Lee in Virginia and the Presidio in San Francisco. He came to Michigan in 1994, attracted by the opportunity to take part in medical education in an outpatient setting.
"He was an outstanding teacher of his colleagues, our resident physicians, and medical students," said Dr. Thomas O'Connor, medical director of the Briarwood Medical Group. "Steve was an outstanding physician devoted to his patients from the day he first joined us."
Said Dr. James O. Woolliscroft, dean of the Medical School, "Steve was a wonderful colleague, friend and one of our finest physicians. From his dedicated, empathic and compassionate care for his patients, to his ready availability and willingness to assist colleagues, to his commitment to the education of the next generation of physicians, everyone who came to know Steve was better for it. We will all miss his warmth, humor and intellect. May his family find comfort in knowing how much he was respected and admired by his friends and colleagues at U-M."
Gradwohl won the Medical School's Outstanding Clinician Award in 2012, and was cited for excellence in teaching outpatient medicine, and for serving as the internist to many patients with complex medical conditions. He volunteered regularly at the health clinic run by U-M physicians at the Ann Arbor Shelter Association's homeless shelter, and served on a universitywide committee on employee health and wellness.
"To lose any of our dedicated clinicians in such a way is a tragedy, but our loss is compounded by the fact that Steve played such a key role in our academic medical center," said Dr. Ora Hirsch Pescovitz, CEO of the U-M Health System. "Our hearts and thoughts go out to his family."
Gradwohl was a member of the Executive Committee on Clinical Affairs, a team of top clinicians from across the U-M Faculty Group Practice who advise top leadership on many clinical topics and credentialing of physicians. An advocate and teacher of evidence-based medicine, he led the development of, and co-authored, a key guideline for the treatment of urinary tract infections and a self-study online course for physicians and other health care providers anywhere.
During his military service, Gradwohl earned the U.S. Army Surgeon General's Physician Recognition Award, two Meritorious Service medals and two Army Commendation medals. He was chosen as an inaugural member of the Clinical Excellence Society, an honor bestowed on few of U-M's hundreds of internal medicine physicians.
A memorial will be conducted Thursday from 6-9 p.m. in the Rogel Ballroom on the second floor of the Michigan Union. All are welcome. Memorial donations, to endow the Steven E. Gradwohl "Art of Primary Care" Award and Lectureship Fund, will be accepted at the memorial event and online at giving.umich.edu/gradwohl.


text: The movie story deals with Tony who does anything for money. When Tony went to Kashmir he met a young girl named Niharika while being kidnapped by terrorists. He falls in love with her and then rescues her. But Tony found out that Niharika was already engaged to Rakesh. Rakesh is a goon but Niharika doesn't know that. When Niharika found out that he was a goon, she dumped him. And she also came to know that she is in love with Tony. Later on Tony kills Rakesh and captures his son DSP Jr. Later on when Tony, Niharika, and Chitra go to the temple, Chitra sees Tony killing someone. And then there is a flashback about how he and Niharika met before but she lost her memory. That happened because Niharika's brother was an undercover cop and when goons found out they killed the whole family. The only one who survived was Niharika but she had a bullet in her head. The doctors said that she would lose her memory soon. So, she tells Tony to kill the people who killed her family because she had seen Tony beating up a bunch of people. In the end tony kills all the goons who killed Niharika's family.


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The second proposed constitutional amendment Minnesotans will see on the ballot Nov. 6 would mandate new photo ID requirements for voters.
The following question will appear on the ballot: "Shall the Minnesota Constitution be amended to require all voters to present valid photo identification to vote and to require the state to provide free identification to eligible voters, effective July 1, 2013?"
Supporters of the amendment argue it would improve the integrity of the state's election system.
Opponents of the voter ID amendment, however, point out that there have been few reported cases of election fraud. They argue that the amendment will disenfranchise many eligible voters who don't have a government-issued ID.
The ballot measure comes as similar laws requiring voters to show IDs across the country are facing legal challenges.
A judge in Pennsylvania issued a ruling Oct. 2 to delay implementation of the state's law requiring voters to have photo IDs.
Following the ruling Luchelle Stevens, campaign manager for Our Vote Our Future — the official statewide campaign working to defeat the proposed Minnesota amendment — issued the following statement: "Minnesota's Voter Restriction Amendment is more restrictive than the Pennsylvania law blocked today. Pennsylvania exempts absentee voters who are serving in the military overseas, elderly or disabled. The amendment here in Minnesota as written does not."
The League of Women Voters Minnesota (LWVM) has posted three key arguments against the amendment on its website: 1) The photo ID requirements "create hurdles for otherwise eligible voters"; 2) the requirements "are not necessary for election integrity because no one in Minnesota has ever been convicted for voter impersonation"; and 3) the requirements "add more costs to our elections."
In Indiana, a state of similar size to Minnesota, it cost $10 million for the state to provide IDs in the first three years of implementing a new ID law.
A report issued by the Minneapolis City Clerk's office earlier this year predicted it would cost nearly $4.9 million to implement the changes required by the amendment.
The City Clerk's report also raised concerns about the amount of time election officials would have to implement the changes required by the amendment if it's adopted. As proposed, local governments would have to be ready by the November 2013 election.
"This creates a nearly untenable timeline for election officials — especially those with planned elections in 2013, like the City of Minneapolis," the report notes.
The Secretary of State's office estimates that there are about 215,000 registered voters in Minnesota without a valid state driver's license or ID card.
Those least likely to have valid government-issued IDs include senior citizens, minorities, voters earning less than $35,000 a year and people with disabilities. Many young people between the ages of 18 and 24 also lack IDs with their current addresses.
In other states that have passed similar laws, many people have been exempted from the voter ID requirement — including members of the military, residents of nursing homes, disabled people and absentee voters, among others.


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Ormond man charged in attack on women
Jason Dorava, 36, held at Volusia County Branch Jail
One man was arrested Friday after attacks on two women in Volusia County.
About 6 p.m., authorities with the Ormond Beach Police Department said they responded to a string of four crimes and arrested Jason Dorava, 36.
Investigators said Dorava forced his way into the room of a 60-year-old woman at the Royal Floridian Resort on South Atlantic Avenue.
Officials said Dorava pretended to have a gun, and after robbing the woman, he tried to throw her over a second-floor railing. When that did not succeed, officials said he repeatedly kicked the woman after she fell to the floor.
Minutes later, authorities said Wanda Hajdin, who lives nearby on Vining Court, called 911 to report that a man pushed in a screen at her home and confronted her in the kitchen.
"I could tell he was on drugs, and he was bleeding," Hajdin said. "I don't scare easy. My son says, 'Mom, you're like a dog with a bone, and you never give in,' so it's just me."
Police said Dorava demanded Hajdin's car keys, and she told him she did not have a car.
Officials said Dorava grabbed a knife in Hajdin's kitchen and cut off the GPS monitoring device on his ankle and fled.
A few minutes later, police said they were notified of a burglary at a home on Seton Trail. The man in that home reported that a man matching Dorava's description barged in through the unlocked front door. The victim confronted the intruder, and chased the suspect out of the house.
Authorities said Dorava went to Tim Cruze's home on Bosarvey Drive and kicked in the door.
Cruze said he was thankful his wife and children weren't home at the time.
"Nothing was taken or missed. We assumed he was just trying to hide from everybody because there was a helicopter circling the area," Cruze said.
Police searching the area said they found Dorava on Bosarvey Drive, where a struggle ensued, and the assailant was stunned with a Taser gun and captured.
Investigators said all of the victims identified Dorava as the one who committed the crimes, and he admitted to officers that he had swallowed cocaine to avoid arrest for drug possession. However, officials said he had cocaine when he was arrested and was charged with the offense.
The list of felony charges Dorava faces includes robbery with a deadly weapon, false imprisonment, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, being a fugitive from justice, criminal mischief, obstructing an officer without violence and three counts of burglary.
Dorava is a registered sex offender for a 2005 sexual battery conviction in Wisconsin and was on supervised probation. He is being held without bond at the Volusia County Branch Jail. The jail showed he had eight arrests in Volusia County since 2003.


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- Title: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Director: Mike Newell
- Date: 2005
- Studio: Warner Brothers
- Genre: Fantasy
- Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Robbie Coltrane, Warwick Davis, Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon, Robert Hardy, Jason Isaacs, Gary Oldman, Miranda Richardson, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, David Tennant
- Format: Color, Widescreen
- DVD Format: R1, NTSC
"Dark and difficult times lay ahead, soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy. But remember this – you have friends here, you're not alone." — Professor Dumbledore
With Goblet of Fire, the Harry Potter series take a turn for the darker, and the new director, Mike Newell, doesn't shoot the film and its environment the way his predecessors did. Rather than giving us lovely, beautiful shots and placing the characters in them perfectly – Newell concentrates on showing us close-ups of the characters' faces. Not as interesting an approach to watch, but, on the other hand, it does add to the emotional feel of the film.
This is the first Harry Potter film to have a very episodic feel to it. We see a brief, almost prologue, at the Quiddich World Cup, which is broken up by a show of force by the Death Eaters, the first and second Tri-Wizarding Tournament tasks, the Yule Ball, and the final task and Harry's confrontation with Voldemort. Each episode is well realized and told, but of course details from the book are lost, as they have been for all of the Harry Potter films.
Still, it is a very good movie, and a good adaptation of the novel. The Wizarding World is again expanded and Harry goes with Ron and his family to the Quiddich World Cup; then at Hogwarts, exchange students from Drumstrang and Madam Beaux Batons Academy come to Hogwarts for the Tri-Wizarding Tournament. It's interesting to note that apparently Drumstrang is a boys school and Beaux Batons a girls school. Only Hogwarts, of the three Wizarding Schools, appears to be co-ed. A champion is to be chosen from each school, but he or she must be seventeen or older. Yet, not only is Hogwarts represented by Cedric Diggory, but also by Harry. This causes Harry some problems, as even Ron is jealous and angry. However, Ron and Harry work out their differences after Ron sees the danger Harry is in during the first task of challenging a dragon. During the second task, Harry comes in last as he's determined to rescue all the kidnapped people (Ron, Hermione, Cho, and Fleur's younger sister). Cedric and Krum save their "treasures" and Harry rescues Ron and Fleur's sister. His bravery and determination, however, earn him extra points for moral fibre, and he ends up in second place behind Cedric.
The third task is a maze, with the Tri-Wizarding Cup hidden somewhere inside. After spooky challenges, Harry and Cedric take the Cup at the same time. But it's a portkey, transporting them to the graveyard where Tom Riddle's parents are buried. Cedric is killed. Wormtail performs an incantation which brings back Voldemort. Harry and Voldemort duel, but their wands become locked. Harry escapes, bringing Cedric back and sobbing.
In a sober end-of-year lecture, Dumbledore informs all the Hogwarts students that Cedric was killed by Voldemort, who's back.
Recommendation: See It
Rating: 5 of 5 Stars
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Valley View Hospital (Glenwood Springs, Colorado, USA)
During the mid-1950s the Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities was asked to operate a new hospital under construction on 4.5 acres of Garfield County-donated land. The site was formerly part of the county poor farm, just southwest of the existing boundaries of Glenwood Springs, a small town on the west slope of the Colorado Rocky Mountains. Construction of the city-built and owned Valley View Hospital began on 4 July 1954, and the facility with some 30-plus beds was dedicated on 14 August 1955. In April 1956 the former Garfield County Hospital located nearby was leased to the Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities to be operated as the Mountain View Nursing Home. Samuel Janzen, who had previously served for five years as Mennonite administrator of the Kiowa County Memorial Hospital at Greensburg, Kansas, became the administrator and executive director of the new hospital and nursing home and Orpha Zimmerman was named Director of Nursing.
Janzen and his family moved to Glenwood Springs in June 1955, several months before the opening of the hospital, to work with the hospital board and help plan staffing for and furnishing of the new facility. He brought several key Mennonite personnel with him and complemented these people by hiring local residents. The original Mennonite board consisted of Janzen along with Eli Welmvin, Henry T. Oliver, and H. Ernest Bennett. A Voluntary Service (VS) unit was established at Glenwood Springs, and some 70 Mennonites served at the hospital and nursing home as VS workers between 1955 and 1965. The workers lived in a dormitory-style house that was built for them near the hospital – the men upstairs, the women downstairs.
The date of the hospital's dedication was also the date of Glenwood Springs' first formal Mennonite Sunday morning worship service which met in the basement of the John and Grace Hershberger residence with 65 persons in attendance. The group was formally organized as the Glenwood Mennonite Church on 18 March 1956 with 18 charter members, and Janzen served as its first pastor. Construction of a church building began in April 1957 under the direction of the VS unit, and the completed structure was dedicated on 27 July 1958.
In 1961 the first of several hospital expansions was completed, including an outpatient wing, emergency room, and enlarged laboratory. In 1965, after ten years of Mennonite administration, Janzen reported that gross volume of hospital services during the decade had been $2,450,387, a statistic that included treatment of 14,234 inpatients and 39,097 outpatients, and the birth of 2,117 babies.
In 1967 Janzen resigned as administrator of the hospital and nursing home to take a pastorate in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Leo Swartzendruber, who began his career with Valley View in 1958 and had earlier moved from bookkeeper to office manager, succeeded Janzen. During his five-year tenure as administrator, a three-bed intensive care/coronary care unit was developed. Al Herron took over as the new administrator in 1972, and served until 1974 when he was replaced by Elbert Detweiler.
In 1977 Mennonite administration of Valley View Hospital ended. The 50th anniversary of Valley View Hospital was marked by a succession of important, historic, and celebratory events. The opening ceremonies for a new modern hospital facility in Glenwood Springs coincided closely with the return of Janzen and some of Valley View's other original Mennonite staff members for a reunion and sessions of the Rocky Mountain Mennonite Conference in September 2005.
Glenwood Mennonite Church, 2306 Blake Avenue, Glenwood Springs, Colorado, 1955-2005. 2005.
Nelson, Jim. 50 Years of Caring: The History of Valley View Hospital, 1955-2005. [2006].
Unrau, Harlan D. In Pursuit of Land, Health and Mission: A History of Mennonites in the Mountain States Region. Printed in Canada by Blitzprint Inc. 2007.
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Original Article from Mennonite Encyclopedia
Vol. 4, p. 798 by Melvin Gingerich
Valley View Hospital, Glenwood Springs, Colorado, administered by the Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities (Mennonite Church), was dedicated in 1955. It was a $500,000, 36-bed hospital, with 10 bassinets, serving a large mountain region on the western slope of the Colorado Rocky Mountains, including rural ranching areas as well as a number of small towns. During the 1957-1958 fiscal year the hospital had a total of 1,681 inpatients and 2,908 outpatients, with a daily inpatient average of 23 adults. A voluntary service unit served in the hospital as well as in the nearby Mountain View Nursing Home. A Mennonite (Mennonite Church) congregation was organized in Glenwood Springs in 1956, and its meetinghouse was dedicated in July 1958. Samuel Janzen was administrator of the hospital and Orpha Zimmerman director of nursing service in 1959. The hospital was built and owned by the city.
|Harlan D Unrau
|Date Published
|October 2011
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Unrau, Harlan D. "Valley View Hospital (Glenwood Springs, Colorado, USA)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. October 2011. Web. 30 Nov 2020. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Valley_View_Hospital_(Glenwood_Springs,_Colorado,_USA)&oldid=140988.
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Unrau, Harlan D. (October 2011). Valley View Hospital (Glenwood Springs, Colorado, USA). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 30 November 2020, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Valley_View_Hospital_(Glenwood_Springs,_Colorado,_USA)&oldid=140988.
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Higher res?
Higher res screens might be a problem. Not from 'fragmentation' - there's already support in the OS for scalable screen elements, so long as it's the same aspect ratio existing apps would just scale up nicely just like they do on the iphone4.
The problem would be games. The ipad already has a LOT of pixels to push for a mobile GPU. If they went iphone4-style crazy and quadrupled the pixel count, most games would slow to a crawl. Unless there's a new, 4x more powerful gpu, or it's only a doubling of pixel count.


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OTTAWA – Ottawa has effectively eliminated a fee charged to international musicians that critics complained was deterring acts from abroad from playing in Canadian bars, pubs and restaurants.
The removal of a work permit requirement for foreign musical acts, part of the government's overhaul of the controversial temporary foreign worker program, went largely unnoticed amid a spate of other measures announced last week.
Last summer, in their zeal to start cracking down on temporary foreign workers in the face of mounting criticism, the Conservatives added a $275 processing fee on top of a $150 work permit for each member of a musical act from outside the country who were hired to play small Canadian venues.
The government said at the time the fees were aimed at helping to cover the costs of determining whether a Canadian should be hired instead of a temporary foreign worker in the music sector.
Larger venues and concert halls were exempt from the new fee, leading to criticism that the measure unfairly penalized small businesses.
NDP MP Andrew Cash, a longtime musician who was harshly critical of the move, had faint praise for the Tories on Wednesday.
"They corrected something incredibly dumb that they shouldn't have implemented in the first place," he said.
"The music sector wasn't abusing the temporary foreign worker program, and there was no consultation in advance of the government's decision," he said. "There was no one asking for it, in fact."
The Canadian music industry has praised the Tories this week for doing away with what had been dubbed the "tour tax."
Alexis Pavlich, spokesman for Citizen and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander, said the government decided to scrap the regulation as a matter of fairness.
"While the previous regulation was meant to protect opportunities for Canadian performers, it often had the opposite effect," she said in an email late Wednesday.
The easing of the rules "will ensure that Canadian performing artists have the opportunity to expand their audience by performing with well-known international acts."


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text: Hello, we from the German Star Trek Fan page TrekZone Network (http://www.trekzone.de) had the chance to interview Mr. Christopher L. Bennett for our literature newsletter. We want to thank Mr. Bennett for this great interview and post it now down here for all of you. Greetings from Germany (and greetings to my trekBBS friend Kopernikus)! Joern Podehl TrekZone Network: When did you start writing fiction and for how long have you been a professional author now? Christopher L. Bennett: I dabbled with writing in high school, but made my first attempts to write professionally around 1991. I made my first professional sale in 1998. TZN: You studied physics first and a couple of years later history, too. Was this in preparation to become a professional author or did you originally have different career plans? If you hear that somebody studied physics, the idea that that person writes fiction novels does not come to mind immediately. CLB: I majored in those subjects mainly because I was interested in them. I never really accepted the idea that education should be a means toward a specific career rather than learning for its own sake. The only reason I declared a physics major the first time was because I had to declare something. When I went back for my history degree, I did focus on global and cross-cultural history because I knew it would be helpful for my writing, but mainly I wanted to satisfy my curiosity, compensate for the profoundly Western-biased history education I'd gotten earlier, and hopefully meet girls. Sadly, I had mixed results with that last part. And there have actually been a lot of physicists and astronomers who write science fiction, including Hal Clement, Gregory Benford, Robert L. Forward, David Brin, Catherine Asaro, Carl Sagan, Charles Sheffield, and TNG writer/producer Naren Shankar. TZN: Who is Christopher L. Bennett: What can you tell us about your person and what your interests and hobbies are? What does your family think about your work - and about Star Trek? CLB: There's not much to tell. My work pretty much defines my life these days. My main hobby is surfing and posting online, but that's closer to an addiction. I read, I watch TV, and I try to eat right and stay in shape. The only family I'm close to is my father, who isn't particularly into ST but enjoys my work. I've heard positive responses from other family members, though. TZN: What kind of books do you like to read and what kind of TV shows and series do you look in your free time? CLB: Most of what I read and watch is in the science fiction, fantasy, and superhero genres. I sometimes watch other dramas such as "Law & Order" and "House". TZN: To what extent can you (and do you) draw on the knowledge you gained through your studies of physics and history in your writings? CLB: I make pretty heavy use of my knowledge of science and history. They're both very useful disciplines for writing SF – science for understanding how nature works, history for understanding how societies work, evolve, and interact. TZN: You have written mainly for Star Trek. How come? CLB: I'd prefer to have a lot more original fiction under my belt, but it hasn't worked out that way. But I was lucky enough to be given an opportunity to write ST fiction, and I've repeatedly been asked to come back and do more. I haven't pursued many other franchises because there are only so many that I'm interested in or qualified for. I am still working on branching out into original fiction, though. TZN: Within the Star Trek universe, you have authored stories for nearly all of the different shows. Do you have a favorite show that you like to write for in particular? If you do, why that one? CLB: I don't have a single favorite series to write for. What I find most satisfying is writing stories that give me a lot of freedom to be creative, whether it's a novel that features an original crew like the Titan books, that advances continuity beyond the end of the series like Greater Than the Sum, that fills in an unexplored gap like Ex Machina or The Buried Age, or that takes place in an alternate history like Places of Exile. TZN: You have written short novels, such as "Places of Exile", which you have written recently for the "Myriad Universes" anthology, as well as full-blown novels. Which format is more fun to write? CLB: Writing is rarely fun. It's satisfying and rewarding, but writing a novel of any length is grueling work. I suppose that a short novel would typically be easier, but that wasn't true of Places of Exile, because I had a very big, epic story to tell and it was difficult to cram it into 55,000 words. TZN: You are one of the few authors who provide ample annotations for their novels online. 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GTTS is an integral part of the TNG continuity, moving the series forward and setting the stage for what's to come. TZN: As a fan of "Star Trek", what's your opinion on the TNG relaunch in general? The project has been criticized by some as too Borg-centric. Do you share that sentiment? And what do you think of the controversy of Peter David's book "Before Dishonor"? It was criticized very hard. CLB: It's not really my place to comment on the controversy. My responsibility is to tell my own stories and to make the most of what I'm given to work with. My priority in GTTS was to move the series forward and set the stage for what followed, but I also tried to put what came before in context and show how it could all work as a cohesive whole. I don't think there's really such a thing as a "Borg-centric" story, since story comes from character and the Borg are basically an impersonal force of nature. The essence of a Borg story lies in how its characters cope with the Borg threat, or else in exploring how liberated drones (such as Picard, Seven, or Hugh) deal with their past. So each "Borg story" is really a story about people coping with the consequences of the Borg, and thus each one is different. TZN: The upcoming "Destiny" trilogy by David Mack is said to fundamentally change the Star Trek universe. You're currently working on a post-"Destiny" novel ("Titan: Over A Torrent Sea"). How did "Destiny" impact your work on "Over A Torrent Sea"? In what ways did you have to coordinate with David Mack and Marco Palmieri? CLB: Since Titan's adventures take place far beyond the Federation, there was very little overlap between OaTS and the other post-Destiny books. Mainly what I dealt with was the personal toll of the trilogy's events, how Titan's personnel deal with tragedy and move forward with their lives. Still, Dave, Keith DeCandido, Bill Leisner, Kirsten Beyer, and I have been staying in touch and sharing our manuscripts with each other to make sure all our books fit together. Marco is overseeing it all on his end, but he doesn't micromanage. TZN: What can you tell us about "Over A Torrent Sea"? In how far will it differ from your previous "Destiny" novel, "Orion Hounds"? CLB: It's another story exploring exotic alien life forms and environments, but on a different scale from Orion's Hounds. It's mostly set on a type of planet that was only theorized four years ago: an "ocean planet," a world that's mostly water and ice by volume. No continents, no islands, just an endless ocean that might as well be bottomless too, since at around 90 kilometers down, the pressure becomes so crushingly huge that the water itself is forced into ice even though it's boiling hot. It's a planet full of exotic and unusual life forms that shouldn't even exist there. And it's grounded in cutting-edge planetary science. Naturally, since it's an ocean world, the story focuses heavily on Aili Lavena, Titan's water-breathing navigator. She's even on the cover of the book, in an impressive painting by Cliff Nielsen. This is the first time we've really had a chance to get to know her, and she won't have many secrets left by the end. Heck, the cover alone leaves practically nothing to the imagination. TZN: Star Trek producer Damon Lindelof said in a recent interview that the first thing the creative team behind the new movie did was to evaluate the State of the Union of Star Trek. From an author's perspective, what's Star Trek's current State of the Union according to you? CLB: From an author's perspective, it's great. I don't think there's another media franchise where the tie-in books have such scope, originality, and freedom, and that's a great environment to work in. ST literature has always thrived when the onscreen franchise has been dormant. And I'm hoping that print and onscreen Trek will complement each other in the future better than they have at certain times in the past. TZN: Regarding your future work: Do you have plans for other tie-ins beyond the Star Trek universe or maybe even original work in the near future? CLB: I'm developing a few original projects, including a novel based on my first published story. As for other tie-ins, nothing's on the table at the moment, but I'm open to the possibility. TZN: We like to cap off our TrekZone Network interviews with a distinct question, so here it is: Where do you see mankind in 100 years from now? CLB: Almost certainly, the planet will be warmer and many of our coastal cities will have been submerged. I'm hopeful that we'll manage that transition wisely, but more likely we'll live in denial until it becomes desperate and make things a lot rougher for ourselves than they have to be. So we will most likely have gone through harsh times by then, but hopefully will be wiser and better for it. Probably we will have colonized space, mainly through the efforts of private enterprise with government backing, as has historically been the case with frontiers. The resources of space will have played a major role in helping Earth through its crisis, or else will provide a refuge for humans abandoning an increasingly inhospitable Earth. Our technology will have advanced in ways beyond anything ever seen in TV science fiction, probably including the genetic and bionic enhancement of our bodies, but I'm skeptical that we'll reach the godlike "Singularity" level proposed by many futurists and SF writers, since history shows that technological progress tends to be intermittent rather than exponential. We'll probably still be confined to our own star system but be aware of numerous other habitable planets and have unmanned probes en route to the nearer ones. And we'll probably be watching a reimagined Star Trek in some form and learning about the original series in school the way we learn about Dickens and Melville today.