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Problems with Industrial & Health Applications
The authors of this sourcebook have attempted to collect problems from the area industries that we surveyed. Every attempt was made to use realistic numerical values, and most of the problems do reflect the types of mathematics encountered on the job.
A few of the problems were included to serve as a springboard for student discussion, and to sharpen the logical and mathematical skills students need in what teachers call the "real world."
It is intended that teachers, students, and interested business and industry leaders will send problems to the authors at this website and give us your comments to include in our storehouse. As this page builds, we may re-categorize the problems by type, by difficulty, or by discipline. We need your input.
The authors understand that the problems contained within this site serve only to begin the process of collecting good mathematical problems to connect the student to the "real world."
- A road in a subdivision is to have a slope of 1% (that is a one foot rise or fall for every 100 horizontal feet). How much fall does the road have over a distance of 840 feet? (Note: a 1% slope is considered the minimum for good drainage.)
- An Interstate highway cannot have a slope greater than 6%. If a highway with this slope goes down a mountain, how much elevation change would there be over a half mile horizontal distance?
- If a highway rises 84 feet during a horizontal travel of 1600 feet, what is the % slope? (Note: this slope is similar to the slope of I-24 at Monteagle mountain.)
Teaching point: Why would drivers, especially truck drivers, need to know about the slope of a highway?
- The county needs to gravel a new road 2 miles long and 16 feet wide. The gravel needs to be 6 inches deep to meet specifications. How many cubic yards of gravel does the county need?
- If there are 1.8 tons of gravel per cubic yard, how many tons of gravel will the county need for the job?
- A typical dump truck holds 25 tons of gravel. How many dump trucks will it take to deliver the gravel?
- If a good grade of gravel costs $8.50 per ton delivered, what will be the cost of the gravel for this road?
- A roll of printing stock paper weighs about 3000 pounds. How many rolls of this paper can be loaded onto a trailer if the maximum capacity of the trailer is 18 tons?
- A child is entered into the hospital after ingesting 12 aspirin tablets. The Merck Index indicates that renal failure can occur if as little as 3 grams is ingested, and may be fatal if as much as 10 grams is eaten. If each aspirin tablet contains 300 mg of aspirin, is the child in danger of death or renal failure?
- The dosage of a certain drug is 1.5 milligrams per kilogram of body weight. How much drug should be administered to a 140 pound woman?
- An IV order states that 1000 cc of D5W must be given over 8 hours. The IV tubing delivers 15 drops/cc. What drop rate (drops/min) must be administered?
- A patient receives an IV solution of D5W contains 5% dextrose dissolved in water. Dextrose is also called glucose, and delivers 4 kilocalories of energy per gram. If the density of this solution is 1.02 g/cc.and a patient is administered 1000 cc of D5W, how many kilocalories will the patient receive?
Teaching point: A kilocalorie is also called a big Calorie. These are nutrition Calories.
- Aspirin is dispensed using the old apothecary unit "grain". A standard tablet contains 5 grains of aspirin. The maximum effective dosage of aspirin is 650 milligrams. If 60 milligrams is equal to one grain, how many aspirin tablets should a person take?
- A patient loses 2 pints of blood in an accident. To prevent shock, determine how many cc's of IV solution must be given to replace this amount if whole blood is not available?
- In some states, like Alabama, airplanes are used to check speeds. To do this, a plane files over a highway marked with white lines every quarter mile. The pilot/trooper determines the time for a car to traverse from one white line to another. The resulting time is then used to calculate the speed of the car. The pilot/trooper then radios an awaiting patrol car, which then may surprise the unlucky motorist with a ticket. If the pilot/trooper determines that a car traveled a quarter mile in 15 seconds, what is the speed of the car?
- If the posted speed limit is 70 miles per hour, what is the shortest time that a car can legally travel a quarter mile?
- A car traveled a quarter mile in 18 seconds. If the posted speed limit is 55 mph, was the car speeding?
- The strength of the acid in a vat of cleaning solution is to be determined. During a titration, A 10 cc sample of the acid completely neutralizes 8 mL of a 2 M (molar) solution of sodium hydroxide. What is the concentration of the acid?
Teaching point: The formula V1 x C1 = V2 x C2 may be used to solve this problem. V is volume and C is concentration, the subscript "1" is used for initial values and the subscript "2" represents the final values. Molarity is a chemical concentration unit. This type of problem is found in quality control labs where acids are used to clean and prepare metals for coatings, and the strength of the acid is monitored closely.
- Sodium hypochlorite in a water solution is commonly known as Clorox or Purex. It has a strength of approximately 5% (5 grams dissolved in 100 mL of water solution.) It may be used for irrigating the bladder at a strength of 0.125%. How much 5% sodium hypochlorite solution should be used to make 500 mL of a 0.125% solution? Use the same formula as shown in the teaching point in the previous problem.
- A chemistry teacher has a laboratory with 16 students. For a certain lab, each student needs to perform 4 titrations. For each titration, each student will use at least 12 mL of 0.100 M hydrochloric acid. At least how much 0.100 M HCl should the teacher need for the lab?
- If the only acid the teacher has available is 12 M hydrochloric acid (the strongest available), then for the problem above, how much 12 M HCl should she use to prepare enough of the 0.100 M HCl for the students to use?
- A typical automobile brake pad is 1/2 inch thick. If an average person wears off 6.8 x 10-4 inches of the brake pad in a day, how many years should the brake pad last?
- If the brake pad in the previous problem has a 30,000 mile guarantee, and a driver averages 46 brake applications per day, how much of the brake pad is worn off during each stop? How much is worn off per mile?
- A typical new car tire has 5/8 inches of usable tread. If the tire has a 70,000 mile guarantee, and if the driving conditions remain constant, how much tread should be worn off per mile?
- A cheapskate determines that his old tires have 3/16 of an inch of tread left. If the cheapskate uses the treadwear per mile from the previous problem, how much longer before the tire is completely slick?
Best Buy Problems
- A manufacturer can purchase soap solution in two ways: 500 mL for $13.00 or 4 L for $53.57. Which product is the better buy?
- A quality control lab needs a constant supply of sodium hydroxide solution. The purchasing manager can either buy 20 liter bottles of 50% w/w sodium hydroxide solution for $181.81, or buy 50 kg drums pure sodium hydroxide beads for $476.68. Which is the better buy? The density of the 50% sodium hydroxide solution is 1.53 g/mL.
Estimation Problems for Fun
- Estimate the number of years an average person sleeps in a lifetime.
Teaching point: Get the students involved in these dimensional analysis problems by having them guess at how many hours an average person sleeps per night. They must consider that older people may only seep a few hours per night, and infants sleep many more hours per day. Do this in groups, and then compare the group results. Also, what is an average life span?
- Estimate the yearly aspirin usage by the residents of the state of Tennessee. How many 100 tablet bottles could be filled this be? If each bottle sells for an average of $4.75, calculate the amount money Tennesseans spend on aspirin.
Teaching point: What must the student know? Have them make an educated guess at their weekly use of aspirin, keeping in mind that older persons may use more.
Here is a problem we use in our chemistry classes to teach both dimensional analysis and density.
- A real stupid thief prepares to break into Fort Knox with an 5 gallon bucket and a blowtorch. His feeble plan is to melt down the gold bars with his blowtorch and pour the molten gold into the 5 gallon bucket. Then, in his foggy mind, he plans to carry the solidified bucket of gold into an awaiting van to make his getaway. Let us help this misguided person, and tell him how much the bucket of gold will weigh. The density of gold is 19.3 g/cc.
- If one roll of printing stock paper has a diameter of 4 feet and a height of 6 feet, calculate the volume of the roll in cubic feet and cubic meters.
- A manufacturer packs a car window motor into a box 12 cm long by 7 cm wide by 2 cm deep. The warehouse supervisor of Ford Motor Company needs to rent a warehouse to store 150,000 of these motors for the 1999 model year. How much space will he need to store these motors? Is a warehouse space 32 feet by 18 feet, with a height of 8 feet adequate for these motors?
- A company builds a warehouse 200 feet long by 90 feet wide. The ceiling is 18 feet high. The company needs two aisles 10 feet wide to run the length of the warehouse, and six aisles the same width to run the width of the warehouse. How much space is available for storage?
- The same company needs to store boxes 2 feet long by 18 inches wide by 2.5 feet deep in this warehouse. If the boxes can be stacked only 5 high, what is the maximum number of boxes that can be stored in the warehouse in the previous problem?
- A city office building is to have two floors, both rectangular: the first floor is to be 80 feet long, and 60 feet wide. If the second floor has the same dimensions, and the architect calculates the building to cost $36 per square foot, estimate the cost of the building.
- A spool holds 400 feet of steel wire that is 1/4 inch in diameter. According to reference books, the density of steel is approximately 7.6 g/cc. If the empty spool weighs 10 pounds, what is the weight of the spool and the wire?
Teaching point: The concept of density may need to be explained. Ask the students to calculate the density of steel in pounds/cubic inch, and pounds per cubic feet also. Many industries still use the English system, but most still use a mixture of English and Metric units.
- If finished steel wire costs approximately $40.00 per ton, how much does one spool of wire cost?
- The spool in the problems above unwinds and passes through a reducing die at a speed of 11 feet per minute. How long should it take for the spool to completely pass through the die?
- A wire with a diameter of 10 mm passes through a reducing die that lowers the wire diameter by a ratio of 4:1. What will be the final diameter of the wire?
The problem that follows was given to us by a worker at one of the factories we visited.
A tank 26 inches in diameter and 64 inches long is buried on its side. A hole is made on its topside, and a stick is to be inserted into the tank, which will contain gasoline. From noting the wet line on the stick, the amount of fuel in the tank can be determined. How should the stick be calibrated to read the gallons of fuel contained in the tank?
Teaching point: The problem may be worked with calculus using integration techniques. Also, a solution may be found using experimental techniques, such as pouring a gallon of fuel at a time into the tank and measuring how far it comes upon the stick. To start a classroom discussion , ask:
- Why not turn the tank on its end. Wouldn't the volume be easier to measure that way?
- Does it take the same effort to pump gasoline out of a tank turned on its side as it does if the tank is standing on its end?
- Is there a difference in fluid pressure on the seams of the tank if it is standing vs. lying on its side?
- Will the tank be more likely to leak straight up or on its side?
- How do gas stations bury gasoline storage tanks? Is there a reason they bury them the way they do in terms of cost?
- How do distilleries store their casks of fermenting liquor?
- What is the volume of the tank in the problem above in gallons? In liters?
- In some Latin countries, the cost of gasoline is 82 centavos per liter. If one cent is about 1.05 centavos (that is, the ratio of cent to centavos is 1: 1.05), calculate the cost of gasoline there in dollars per gallon.
Research Problems
Assume that you have just received a $30,000.00 grant to create a museum exhibit. You have 2000 square feet of temporary space in which to display it. Describe in detail, from conception to installation, the steps necessary to complete this project. You must not exceed your $30,000 and you must justify every expenditure.
Teaching Points:
- What kind of lighting will you use (e.g. track lighting, indirect lighting)?
- What kind of display cases will you use and who will build them?
- What about mounted exhibits on pedestals with perhaps acrylic hoods to protect them?
- What will be the storyline or theme of the exhibit?
- Who will decide the theme or storyline and develop it?
- What kind of signage will be used?
- What kind of art and graphics will be used? Who will do it?
- What problems will you encounter obtaining the desired objects to be displayed?
- What will be the cost?
- Can some objects be donated by individuals?
- What security measures will this involve?
- What can the community and the local businesses contribute?
- What phases of the project will absolutely have to be sub-contracted to someone?
- What else is there to think of?
- Remember that you must make maximum use of your $30,000.00.
Remember, we urge teachers and anyone working in industry to please send us any unique math application problems, and we will include them in our storehouse with credit given to the sender.


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Webster founded W&W Public Relations in 1991. She represented celebrities in almost every field, including Halle Berry, Dwight Howard and Steve Harvey, and organizations including Creflo Dollar Ministries.
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Four people were taken to the hospital after a head-on collision Saturday afternoon. Only 11 News talked to the family of two people involved the crash.
The accident happened on Constitution near Trent, just a few blocks from Circle Drive.
Family members of the victim said it was a really scary situation for them. They were on the way to the hospital, not sure of the extent of their family's injuries, when had to drive past the crash.
According to Colorado Springs police, the white Chevy truck was going westbound on Constitution when the dark Chevy Malibu crossed over the lanes of traffic into the oncoming truck. The crash happened just before 4 p.m. Saturday.
Two people were inside the Malibu and taken to the hospital with critical and life-threatening injuries.
We talked to the family members of the two women inside the truck. They told us the women were taken to the hospital and are suffering serious injuries that require surgery. Tiffani Ballesteros said her sister-in-law was driving and saw the Malibu swerving before crossing over to the wrong side of traffic.
"She was paying attention to (the Malibu) for quite a while, and you know, trying to avoid having a collision with them but she just wasn't sure what they were doing. If (the Malibu was) turning or just trying to get back in their lane," Ballesteros said.
"Once we got pretty close (to the accident scene) we saw (the truck) was my aunt's car and it didn't look good at all. Thank God they were wearing their seat belts, my aunt and my grandma, they're doing ok, they're strong, they'll do (well) and I just hope for the best for the other people," Jacob Ballesteros said.
At this time, investigators aren't saying if drugs or alcohol are involved. They're also looking into why the air bags were never deployed in either vehicle.
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I, like many of my generation, spent a fair percentage of my youth firing foam darts at my older brother . We used to throw our Ninja Turtles against the wall until they broke and then re-arrange the body parts, but somehow we never thought to take apart our NERF guns to enhance their speed, range, or firepower.
Maybe it was just a simpler time, when all one had was their Arrowstorm and the second amendment to keep from becoming a Nerf P.O.W.
Things have changed since 9-11, but thanks to people like YouTube user uin13 we can rest assured knowing that good old-fashioned American ingenuity will help maintain our technological edge against the twisted minds of terrorists and older brothers alike. In the following MagStrike Mod, he walks us through how to double your clip capacity without pumping in between. Terrorists hate freedom, but they really really hate foam darts.
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Since the end of October more than 26,000 Burundian former refugees have been assisted by UNHCR and its partners to return home from the Mtabila camp in northwest Tanzania. The operation is organized with the Government of Tanzania to help some 35,500 Burundian former refugees go back to Burundi by the end of 2012, when the Mtabila camp officially closes.
Refugee status for most Burundians in Tanzania formally ended in August following individual interviews to assess remaining protection needs. A total of 2,715 people will continue to be hosted as refugees in Tanzania, while the rest, the last of a population of refugees who left Burundi some 20 years ago, must return home. This is not an easy move after having spent most of your life -- and sometimes all of it -- in exile.
While awaiting their turn to join one of the daily convoys to bring them home, Burundian former refugees are preparing themselves for a fresh start…
Africa is the continent most affected by the tragedy of forced displacement. While millions of refugees were able to return to Angola, Burundi, Liberia, Rwanda and South Sudan over the last 15 years, the numbers of internally displaced people continued to grow. At the beginning of 2009, in addition to some 2.3 million refugees, an estimated 11.6 million people were internally displaced by conflict in Africa.
To address forced displacement on the continent, the African Union is organizing a special summit on refugees, returnees and internally displaced people from October 19-23 in the Ugandan capital, Kampala. Heads of state and government will look at the challenges and at ways to find solutions to forced displacement. They are also expected to adopt a Convention for the protection and assistance of internally displaced people (IDP) in Africa, which would be the first legally binding instrument on internal displacement with a continental scope. This photo gallery looks at some of the forcibly displaced around Africa, many of whom are helped by UNHCR.
Burundian humanitarian worker Maggy Barankitse received the 2005 Nansen Refugee Award for her tireless work on behalf of children affected by war, poverty and disease. The Nansen medal was presented at a grand ceremony in Brussels by H.R.H. Princess Mathilde of Belgium and UN Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees Wendy Chamberlin.
Accepting the award, Barankitse said her work was inspired by one single goal: peace. "Accept your fellow man, sit down together, make this world a world of brothers and sisters," she said. "Nothing resists love, that's the message that I want to spread."
Sponsored by UNHCR corporate partner Microsoft, the ceremony and reception at Concert Noble was also attended by Belgium's Minister for Development Co-operation Armand De Decker, European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid Louis Michel, renowned Burundian singer Khadja Nin, Congolese refugee and comedian Pie Tshibanda, and French singer and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Julien Clerc. Among others.


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Many business jet charter operators these days are opting to focus on a single aircraft type. The Eclipse 500 has received much publicity because high-profile businesses, such as Boca Raton, Fla.-based DayJet and Concord, Mass.-based Linear Air, have recently launched air-taxi services with that model. But an increasing number of operators are now focusing on another aircraft: the Cirrus SR22.
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As I noted in my February/March column, the salesperson for your fractional provider will do his best to convince you that everyone signs the same simple contract and that the terms are "just boilerplate." In fact, as I explained, those terms require careful consideration because they govern your rights and obligations with respect to what likely will be a multimillion-dollar investment--and th
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Nothing says luxury like leather. That's the gospel according to business jet interior designers and many of their customers. As a seat covering, leather wraps the passenger in butter-soft comfort. On bulkheads and sidewalls, leather softens the shine of exotic wood veneers and polished metals. Instead of screaming "money," the cabin softly whispers "success."
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I stopped paying serious attention to fashion years ago. But just out of curiosity, I do check with younger colleagues every now and then to see whether my Ray-Ban aviator sunglasses are in or out of style. I'm told they're in again. That makes at least six cycles since I bought them. By the time you read this, it could be seven.
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Have you ever looked around a corporate jet and wished you had more room? Room perhaps to transport not only your closest advisers but also dozens of staff members, in a space the size of a large home? That's what private customers for Airbus' mammoth A380 will have.
April 1, 2008
The very light jet industry wasn't exactly flying high last year. A major supplier told me last summer that he expected half of all VLJ makers to fold soon. By the end of 2007, he looked clairvoyant; first the Aviation Technology Group suspended work on the two-seat Javelin and then, early in 2008, after sputtering for almost two years, Adam Aircraft shut its doors.
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As if getting sick abroad weren't bad enough, add to that the possibility of being quarantined or placed in isolation when you come home by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ("Quarantine" refers to the separation of people who have been exposed to an infectious disease and might be contagious. "Isolation" is the separation of people who already exhibit symptoms.)
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Ending protracted speculation about how it would address the aging fuselage cross section of its large-cabin business jets, Gulfstream Aerospace last month unveiled the G650. The model will topple the G550 from its perch as the biggest Gulfstream business jet when it enters service in the first half of 2012. (At least initially, however, the G650 will not replace the G550.)
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Membership has waned in the nation's largest Christian bodies– the Roman Catholic Church and the Southern Baptist Convention — while mainline Protestant churches continue to shrink, according to the "Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches."
With more than 67 million members, the Catholic Church continues to far outnumber other American denominations. But Catholics lost nearly 400,000 members between 2006 and 2007, according to the yearbook. The Southern Baptist Convention, which ranks No. 2 in the nation with more than 16 million members, declined by about 40,000 at the same time, according to the yearbook.
Meanwhile, every large mainline Protestant church reported losses.
The United Church of Christ — President Obama's home denomination — suffered the deepest drop percentage-wise, with a 6 percent decline to 1.1 million.
Produced annually by the National Council of Churches, the yearbook is considered one of the most reliable recorders of church growth and decline in North America. The membership figures were compiled by denominations in 2007 and reported to the yearbook in 2008, according to the NCC.
The Rev. Eileen Lindner, the yearbook's longtime editor, writes that counting church members is an "imprecise art."
"This lack of precision derives, in part, from the wide diversity of practice among the churches concerning the definition of `membership,"' Lindner writes in the yearbook's introduction. For example, many Orthodox and historically black churches base their membership estimates on the ethnic or racial population in surrounding neighborhoods, according to Lindner.
In addition, some denominations rarely adjust their numbers. The National Baptist Convention of America, Inc., has been reporting 3.5 million members every year since 1987; likewise, membership in the National Baptist convention U.S.A., Inc., has been unchanged at an even 5 million for several years.
Of the nation's 25 largest denominations, only four are growing, according to the yearbook: the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (up 1.6 percent to 5.9 million); the Assemblies of God (up 1 percent to 2.9 million); Jehovah's Witnesses (up 2 percent to 1.1 million) and the Church of God of Cleveland, Tenn. (up 2 percent to 1 million).
Membership of the top 25 churches in the U.S. totals 146.6 million, down 0.5 percent from 147 million the year before, according to the yearbook.
After the UCC, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church posted the largest percentage of members lost (down 3 percent to 1.4 million), followed by the Presbyterian Church (USA) (down 2.8 percent to 2.9 million); the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (down 1.4 percent to 2.4 million); and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (down 1.4 percent to 4.7 million).
The 10 largest Christian bodies reported in the 2009 yearbook are:
1. Roman Catholic Church, 67 million members
2. Southern Baptist Convention, 16.3 million members
3. United Methodist Church, 7.9 million members
4. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 5.9 million members
5. Church of God in Christ, 5.5 million members
6. National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc., 5 million members
7. Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, 4.7 million members
8. National Baptist Convention of America, Inc., 3.5 million members
9. Presbyterian Church (USA), 2.9 million members
10. Assemblies of God, 2.9 million members
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- Is Atatürk's dream of a secular Turkey lost?
- Are Wisconsin's startling election results a sneak peek at November?
- Will the Game Show Network win with Bible trivia?
- Will black voters stay home in November?
- So, the GOP finally has a candidate
- Did Jesus influence America's Founding Fathers?
- After years of terror, corruption, cancer-stricken Chavez cries out to Jesus on state TV
- Understanding Christian Political Engagement
- Why would "anti-bullying" youth convention speaker mock the Bible, Christian teens?
- Are Americans finding God in cyberspace?
- Are "unacceptable religions" fatal for U.S. presidential candidates?
- U.S. Marine dies after rescuing ORU trustee's daughter from deadly air crash
- Twitter, texting, Facebook bring Malaysia's street protests to worldwide audience
- T.D. Jakes: It's time to forgive
- Chuck Colson: Beyond Watergate
- Can The Lucky One's Zac Efron portray a convincing U.S. Marine Corps sergeant?
- Is Iran about to drag us into Armageddon?
- Hollywood loses a quiet giant of the faith
- Challenges to faith, tradition swirl in Britain
- Texas town turns other cheek, helps atheist who threatened their nativity scene
- Billy Graham's daughter Ruth has been through the fire, says it's time for honesty
- Is there anything to all the buzz on Twitter about Obama's weekend executive order?
- The Blaze: Atheists use "unholy water" to scrub away olive oil used to bless highway — because they're not going to tolerate 'bigotry'
- Rescued elephant herds inexplicably gather to mourn South Africa's "Elephant Whisperer"
- Amid violence, Egypt's Christians rely on Muslim friends, worry about future
- European tourists packing the pews at Harlem's historic black churches
- Ramadan, Iranian hijabs, Sikh daggers add unexpected drama to the London Olympics
- Internet spreading new accusations connecting Rick Warren with "Chrislam"
- Bestselling novelist Frank Peretti's "Illusion" is a love letter to Barbara, his wife for 40 years
- "Act of Valor" showcases real Navy heroes, wives and kids; and the bullets are real, too
- Bestselling author tells Oprah she's in a cancer battle for her life, but no longer mad at God
- British soccer sensation is a rural Texas boy who looks to Heaven after each goal he scores
- Trying to be a better parent, ex-Beatle Paul McCartney swears off of smoking marijuana
- Did Obama mean to pick a fight with America's two largest denominations?
- Did Rastafarian spokesman Bob Marley become a Christian on his deathbed?
- Are U.S. colleges hostile to Christian students?
- Building a Temple to Atheism
- Romney Nabs Second Primary Victory in Florida
- Science Whiz Gets a New Home
- Paying It Forward
- Surprising Twist in Gingrich SC Victory Speech
- Ottawa Girls Hockey Team Earns Spirit of Sport Story of the Year
- Search for Survivors on Italian Cruise Ship Continues
- So, you're getting married! What kind of wedding do you want?
- Does Bible ban tattoos? No, scoffs shopping center church that also offers cage fighting
- World Week of Prayer for Christian Unity faces an elusive challenge
- Why is New Hampshire's primary so important?
- Behind the scenes, Charlie Sheen rescued dad's, brother's inspiring movie "The Way"
- Texas, Alabama, Arizona groups ignore threats from Wisconsin atheists
- Barna: 8 out of 10 young Christians can't apply their faith to everyday life
- PETA wants equal time for dogs on TLC's reality TV show "All-American Muslim"
- Australia worries gambling hurting kids
- Atheists embracing faith for their kids
- Amazing 7-year-old actress stuns NYC
- Santa saves two from burning car
- Pretending to be Jesus renews skeptic's faith
- California carolers surprise shoppers
- Tebowing goes international
- Graphic novelist tackles Christmas
- Air Force base will keep its nativity scene
- Great Christmas gifts for your … dog?
- Thousands rally to save Texas nativity
- Over morning coffee, five friends inspire "Merry Christmas" billboards nationwide
- Last minute gift: a Jesus toaster!
- Bureaucrats decide Congressmen cannot write "Merry Christmas" in official mail
- Silent monks "sing" the Hallelujah Chorus
- All across America, "Secret Santas" anonymously paying off strangers' layaways
- Joy to the World! Take the word to the mall!
- American Idol star to take a two-year break from music, serve as a Mormon missionary
- Survey: poor economy hurting churches
- Christmas caroling meets "flash mobbing"
- Did atheist N. Korea's leaders really say they'll "pray" for deceased tyrant Kim Jong-il?
- British Prime Minister admits personal doubts, calls for Christian revival, values
- 15,000 Czechs tell census they're Jedi knights
- High schooler sues, says Constitution allows him to defend Christian morality in class
- Arizona to Wisconsin atheists: Quit whining!
- China "revokes probation" of Christian lawyer already jailed at secret location for 2 years
- Muslim women to shun bananas, cucumbers?
- Should 80-year-old "Bird Lady" go to jail for feeding her neighborhood's ducks?
- Food Safety News: Just because the label says "Honey" doesn't mean a bee would eat it
- Remembering Pearl Harbor and 70 years ago
- Saudis say female drivers lead to hedonism
- Church of the Nativity scheduled for a facelift
- Christmas stage collapses, but kids OK!
- "Openness" party calls for less openness
- Pope charged with not wearing seatbelt
- BBC unveils Prince Albert's sexy oil painting of Queen Victoria
- Pentagon retreats from Bible ban in U.S. military hospitals, but how did it happen?
- Dog shoots man? Yes, says baffled deputy
- It's 'Christmas tree,' say irked Rhode Islanders
- Iran official says illegal churches harm youth
- "Earthscraper" would bury an eco-friendly 65-story pyramid under Mexico City
- Miracle cross inspires tree-cutting crew
- American Legion: We wish Wisconsin atheists "would leave us alone"
- Christians the "target of every progressive thinker and half-witted comedian"
- "Tweet the Bible" starts 86-year project
- New film to highlight mystery of Elvis' faith
- Billionaire had a plan to prevent the Iraq war: Fly Mandela in to get Saddam to resign
- Who was missing from President's Obama's Thanksgiving Day message?
- Today's girls growing up in a "moral abyss"
- Pakistan bans "Jesus" cellphone texting
- Will Egypt become the next Pakistan?
- Do you remember Pearl Harbor Day 1941?
- Rick Warren: Bible has answers as Americans reel under a worsening economy
- Inventive doctor helps patient undergo radiation, deliver healthy baby boy, too
- Stephen Hawking says mankind's survival depends on manned space exploration
- Principal calls cops over 12-year-olds' kiss
- Brave 10-year-old brother yanks 6-year-old sister away, foils attempted kidnapping
- Pope warns against witchcraft
- Tebow faithful tweet, Facebook their prayers
- Conservative pioneer fund-raiser calls for boycott of annual Catholic offering
- French play depicts Jesus as "madman, dog, pyromaniac, messiah of AIDS, terrorist"
- Pastor, sergeant close church service with more than your average benediction
- Where does faith fit in with politics?
- NY Post: Scabies, lice at Occupy Wall Street prompt mayor to hose the place down
- A powerful prayer for Penn State
- NY Post: Timberlake says taking blonde corporal to the Marine Ball "changed my life"
- Baseball player rescued from kidnappers: "Thanks to God, He gave me the miracle"
- Amid a cesspool of rumors, charges and scandal, is God speaking to Penn State?
- Washington Post: Evangelical leaders adding sex to their sermons
- Will "Mecca Time" replace Greenwich Mean Time?
- Tennessee preacher holds church service at "Cotton-Eyed Joe" honky-tonk saloon
- Judge orders NY to OK "Choose Life" car tags
- NY Times: 10-foot teen angels stand silent vigil in murder-plagued Juarez
- Family Circus cartoonist Bil Keane brought quiet faith to the daily comics for 50 years
- Miss World 2011: from convent to crown
- Couple's restaurant quarrel goes international, thanks to Twitter
- African leaders cite Christian, Muslim beliefs, tell British to quit pushing immorality
- Ancient Christian ruins in danger
- Egyptian Muslims, Christians reach agreement to ease church repair rules
- Good Samaritan's act saves his life
- Gallup: Fewer Democrats attending church
- 71 tattooed Texas Pentecostal preachers roar up to Israel's Wailing Wall — on Harleys!
- British Conservatives losing Christian voters
- Philippine priest lights a candle in the darkness … and adds smoked fish
- Supreme Court Justice says it's past time to resolve "separation of church and state"
- Muslim: Britain needs to be more Christian
- Popular squirrel checks for fan mail
- Will FDR's D-Day prayer be added to Memorial?
- Study says only 18 percent of Christian kids abandon their faith when they leave home
- After 12 years of praying with kids at flagpole, pastor says offended atheists won't stop him
- What if you wanted to save the world, but could not speak or even feed yourself?
- Lawmaker says prayer saved her life; fights for American students to have freedom to pray
- Obama says God wants jobs legislation
- Catholics fined for 'illegal worship'
- Would they mock Quarterback Tebow's faith if he were Jewish or Muslim … or Buddhist?
- Judges rescind fine for Janet Jackson's Superbowl "wardrobe malfunction"
- "There is a God; He listens to prayer," says sheriff as missing 8-year-old boy is found safe
- Congress confirms: "In God We Trust" is America's official motto
- "Occupy DC" protesters decline job offers
- A 5-year-old's prayer is answered
- Rupert Murdoch adds Thomas Nelson publishers to HarperCollins empire
- Libya's Gadhafi used Jewish contacts to try to patch up relations with the United States
- Israel nabs terrorist leader Hassan Yousef, father of bestselling "Son of Hamas" author
- Feds crack down on church TV shows
- Turkish 'zombies' raise funds for earthquake
- Burma tries to regulate fasting and prayer
- Berlin restaurant caters to cavemen
- World's 7 billionth baby born Monday
- Outrage follows reports teacher, students killed Christian boy over crucifix, tattoo
- Charles Colson: China Bible exhibit a farce
- Doomsday? End of the world? Well, that was embarrassing, admits Harold Camping
- Quit your job … with a musical flair!
- Sexual promiscuity may cause heart attacks
- Now British monarchs may wed Catholics
- Complaint says crosses at Catholic school offensive, prevent Muslim prayers
- 3,000 pray against town's destruction
- Crystal Cathedral picks university as "preferred buyer" in bankruptcy sale
- South Africa bans commercial depicting fallen angels as "offensive to Christians"
- End of the world rescheduled AGAIN!
- And you thought your neighbor's Halloween lawn display was too much …
- Did Earth's magnetic field block Harold Camping's end of the world?
- Polish resistance fighter who sneaked his Jewish girlfriend out of Auschwitz dead at 90
- "Occupy London" forces St. Paul's Cathedral to close, first time since WWII blitz
- Complex disputes may close Mughrabi Bridge walkway giving Jews access to Temple Mount
- Who is this amazingly talented little boy?
- King of Jordan: Israel must be assured of its security
- Washington Post: Will Knights of Columbus have to remove ski slope's Jesus statue?
- Will Libyan democracy, religious freedom flourish now that Gaddafi is gone?
- Couple married 72 years dies an hour apart, holding hands
- "Shakespearean Insult Kit" offers tips on how to be sharp-tongued with class
- Burmese Catholic priest tells of gunfire, raid at church, being forced to carry soldiers' gear
- October 21 comes and goes, world doesn't end, Harold Camping not issuing any statements
- Goddess worshipers cite Barry Lynn, blast Christian prayer campaign for America
- Is it time to impose a church dress code?
- With doomsday deadline looming, Harold Camping's faithful ponder doubts
- Conflicting reports swirl as Iranian Christian pastor condemned to death awaits verdict
- Homosexual kiss at school assembly prompts student walk-out, parental fury
- Researchers discover that kids often start cussing if their role models do
- Orthodox sect livid over ice cream cone lickers
- British media, theaters celebrate 400th anniversary of the King James Bible
- 96-year-old gets baptized at Cowboy church
- Lions, tigers and bears! Town shuts down while hungry animals shot, recaptured
- Why are U.S. Hispanic Catholics joining Pentecostal, Evangelical churches?
- 100-year-old Sikh runs Toronto marathon
- Toddler in hit-and-run lies bleeding in street as 18 passers-by step around her, don't help
- Hundreds of British babies aborted accidentally, according to medical study
- Mexico City considers two-year marriage licenses
- Silent vigil fills Cairo cathedral as Egyptian officials try to blame massacre on the victims
- Saudis underwrite organization to bring world's religions under one roof
- Pakistani police tell family of kidnapped, raped 12-year-old girl to return her to captors
- Teachers told to stay 3 feet from students
- Were the Last Supper's portions healthy?
- NY Times: Churches adding pet ministries
- Directions withdrawn that told schools to push gay issues despite parental objections
- Tear gas fired as mob protests TV station cartoon image of Allah
- All women political candidates must be veiled and silent, says Egyptian politician
- Evangelical, Catholic chaplains say they'll perform no same-sex weddings
- Witchdoctors blamed for epidemic of child sacrifices around African nation's capital
- Christian pastor condemned to death awaits Ayatollah's decision
- Columbian soccer star arrested in Saudi Arabia for failing to cover tattoo of Jesus
- One of Warren Jeffs' 78 wives escapes, describes captivity at FLDS cult
- President says he will veto bill that bans ObamaCare abortion funding
- Survivor of Tiananmen Square massacre tells of return to complacent China
- Iraq's Kurds offer homes to refugee Christians
- Ayn Rand Institute: "Occupy Wall Street" seeks to end capitalism
- State Department reports no churches or Christian schools survive in Afghanistan
- Did N. Korea assassinate activist pastor?
- Pollsters: 75 percent of pastors say Mormons "not Christians"
- Decision on Iranian pastor's execution now up to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei
- Egypt: Hamas will free Israeli soldier held 5 years in trade for 1,000 Palestinian prisoners
- "Courageous" movie-makers like being in the top ten, but say success is "changed lives"
- Peaceful protest sparks deadly riots, opportunity to point accusing fingers
- Is the UN stamping out religious freedom?
- Power of prayer credited for hostage's escape
- Fantasia has "Mahalia" singing the blues
- Tea Partying never was any fun; if you want to make love not war, go Occupy Wall Street
- What do you call a female Episcopal priest who converts to Roman Catholicism?
- From within the "Occupy Wall Street" ranks, a call for a new "confessing movement"
- Nobel Peace Prize goes to Leymah Gbowee, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Tawakkul Karman
- Small-town Tennessee mayor seeks legal help to fight atheist "terrorists"
- Arab nation needs Muslim law, says leader
- Israeli author Yoram Kaniuk wins court battle to be ethnic Jewish, but not religious
- NY Times: Pastor says Romney not a Christian
- Vatican asks bishops to create ministry roles for priests who left to marry
- What is "Chrislam" and who preaches it?
- Go ahead! Smile! It's World Smile Day!
- Muslim expert: Let the pastor go free!
- Tony Blair Tells Norfolk and America: 'Don't Lose Heart'
- Exiled Christian Iranians receive death threats
- Steve Jobs dead at 56; he defied the mediocrity of the corporate model
- The world will end October 21, says Harold Camping … but no billboards this time
- Obama administration tells Supreme Court there should be no "ministerial exception"
- Will there soon be no Catholic priests left in Australia?
- Pat Buchanan in a dour mood, releases audio version of "Suicide of a Superpower"
- Daily Mail: Christmas gone from new "Thomas the Tank Engine" children's cartoon
- Hollywood discovers the public loves inspirational Christian movies
- Students at more than 1,200 schools to participate in October 18 day of silence
- Is Indonesia in danger of becoming another Pakistan?
- Did Jesus also die for Martians and Klingons?
- Kids pray school officials will quit cowering in fear of the American Civil Liberties Union
- Arutz Sheva: Egypt, Qatar promise at Iran meeting to cut off Israel's natural gas
- 300 Buddhist nuns learn self-defense from Kathmandu monastery's kung-fu masters
- Amanda Knox's prayer answered; Italian judge acquits her of murder
- Orange County Register: Crystal Cathedral $50 million fundraiser nets $4,737


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Call to save UK's hummingbirds, albatrosses and whales
By RSPB, Wed, 30/11/2011 - 09:20
Almost 17,000 people have called for the British Government to step up and honour its responsibilities to the UK Overseas Territories, which contain over 85% of the UK's globally threatened species. The UK's Overseas Territories are home to an assortment of species, from penguins to parrots and hummingbirds, seabirds and whales. Their unique environments are home to hundreds of species found nowhere else, a third of the world's albatrosses and the largest and most pristine coral atoll on earth, the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean. Tackling the threats of habitat destruction, invasive species and climate changes to Europe's Overseas Territories is one of the 10 key actions needed to prevent further bird extinctions identified by BirdLife International. The pledges for action are being handed in to Henry Bellingham MP, Minister for the Overseas Territories in response to the UK Government's ongoing consultation on the Overseas Territories. Representatives from the RSPB (BirdLife in the UK) presented Mr Bellingham with an image of a Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross – one of the 33 bird species in the UK Overseas Territories threatened by extinction – made up of the names of supporters who have added their voice. The UK Government is currently consulting on a new strategy for Overseas Territories. Results of the consultation will eventually feed into a White Paper and the RSPB hopes the Government will step up to the environmental challenges faced by the Territories. Dr Tim Stowe, the RSPB's director of international operations, said: "These pledges are a clear demonstration that people care about Overseas Territories and want the Government to take action. "We are urging the Government to consider its 2020 biodiversity obligations and commit to developing and implementing its Overseas Territories Biodiversity Strategy in the upcoming White Paper. This could save hundreds of British species from the threat of global extinction." All 14 territories, mostly made up of island groups, are a treasure trove of spectacular species, some of which are found nowhere else on Earth, but hundreds of them are sliding towards extinction. Put together, the Overseas Territories occupy an area of land far smaller than the UK mainland, yet their wildlife value is immeasurably more significant. A major driver of the economies for the islands is tourism, and wildlife and the natural environment are major attractions. Wildlife on Overseas Territories faces several threats, but non-native species, fisheries, habitat degradation and climate change are the factors affecting the greatest number of species. Dr Stowe added: "We must take care of our islands and the exceptional species that live on them. We welcome the UK Government's new approach to the Territories, and hope it will fulfil this promising new engagement by developing its Overseas Territories Biodiversity Strategy. "Three hundred and fifteen species in the Overseas Territories face extinction. Their survival is in our hands but time is running out." Find out more about the BirdLife Preventing Extinctions Programme
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By MARIA SONIA EST... (not verified) on Thu, 01/12/2011 - 15:12
By Simone Schomberg (not verified) on Thu, 01/12/2011 - 14:47
The greed destroying our planet and its biodiversity. Because politicians are puppets of the profiteers, they should finally prove character and backbone. But I think this is utopian, because the clique estates in the universities, are continued later. So the people must finally stand up and show CLOSED, we finally paid the salaries of politicians and they are OUR employees. With the bribes and the salary as a supervisor ego Council member in the industry anyway it is a travesty that those who call themselves representatives of the people!
By michael (not verified) on Sat, 03/12/2011 - 18:32
I don´t think Cameron cares wildlife in UK overseas territories, neither in mainland UK.
By Martin Parr (not verified) on Mon, 05/12/2011 - 14:56
I don't think that enough people know about our overseas territories and the wonderful wildlife they contain. It would be a great theme for a wildlife programme!! Come on David, if you've finished at the Poles, how about it?
By Greg Barret (not verified) on Wed, 07/12/2011 - 10:01
It´s sad that one of the countries with more birders and nature lovers has its overseas territories abandoned.
By Dru Ann (not verified) on Thu, 01/12/2011 - 19:37
Please protect these valuable and beautiful animals.
By H Hollone (not verified) on Thu, 01/12/2011 - 22:50
We must all do what we can to help save our planet and the people and animals that inhabit it.


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Paris, France (Sports Network) - Reigning champion Maria Sharapova and her
fellow former world No. 1 Victoria Azarenka were a pair of third-round
winners Saturday at the French Open.
The second-seeded Sharapova got past China's Zheng Jie 6-1, 7-5, while the
third-seeded Australian Open titlist Azarenka needed all three sets to hold
off 31st-seeded French crowd favorite Alize Cornet 4-6, 6-3, 6-1 on the famed
red clay at Roland Garros. Cornet was fresh off her clay-court title in
Strasbourg last week.
Sharapova completed a career Grand Slam by beating Italian Sara Errani in last
year's French Open final.
Up next for the Russian superstar will be 17th-seeded American Sloane
Stephens, while Azarenka's fourth-round opponent will be French Open-
loving Italian Francesca Schiavone, who upset 13th-seeded Frenchwoman Marion
Bartoli 6-2, 6-1 on Day 7 of the fortnight. Schiavone titled here in 2010, was
the Roland Garros runner-up in 2011, and is now 18-2 in Paris in her last
four trips.
Americans Stephens and Bethanie Mattek-Sands reached the round of 16, as
Stephens outlasted New Zealand's Marina Erakovic 6-4, 6-7 (5-7), 6-3 on Court
1, while Mattek-Sands overcame Argentine Paula Ormaechea 4-6, 6-1, 6-3.
Stephens is now 8-1 at the Grand Slams this year, having reached the Aussie
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Ruger was surrendered to animal control by a family who obviously didn't know what a wonderful little boy they gave up. The shelter called rescue and we were happy to take him to his foster home.
Ruger is a 1-2 year-old smooth black and tan miniature dachshund weighing 11 pounds. We feel he was not bred perfectly since his ear flaps are shorter than they are supposed to be. But the rest of him is all dachshund. He is a very sweet boy and likes to give you kisses. He loves to run and play outside with his foster brothers and sisters. He is still in the process of crate training and house training. We are not yet sure how he will do with kitties. He has such a likable personality that his foster mom thinks he would do well with older kids, but we will be sure before sending him to a family with children. He has puppy energy, but will settle down after a good romp outside. A fenced-in backyard will be a bonus for this little dog who loves the outdoors. He gets along well with his foster brothers and sisters. If someone growls at him because he is too close to their food bowl (we're looking at you, Rascal), he will walk off to look for another bowl. He seems to like everyone he meets and will steal a kiss if you let him.
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I'll be honest and say that creating this thread and just waiting for a reply from it the next day... slipped my mind!
Sorry I forgot everyone!
Heartyace, I don't think I would like to try Wakfu.. I'm not sure yet..
But are we all still deciding on a game to play together?
I have started Dragon Nest and enjoy that if anyone's down?
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Star Trek
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"It's dead, Jim."
"No, you're dead!"
A long long time ago, when men were men and women were women and Klingons were – well to be perfectly honest - just basically men as well - Star Trek burst onto the screens of a grateful American nation.
Gene Roddenberry (Star Trek's creator) hated the planet Earth after falling off his bike onto it, badly grazing his knee."The only reason every damn television series is set on this damn planet is because of institutional racism - nothing more, nothing less", he commented - his words here spoken by an actor in a weak attempt to conceal inebriation at the hands of Klingon Mind Lager. " But it's ridiculous; there's billions of planets out there and only one of them is Earth. Unless of course you count parallel universes, which I do...but that's just a hobby…and to be honest I've lost count."
Roddenbury also much preferred the future to the past as he hadn't had a nasty bike accident in the future. "The present day is only one day out of about 3000 billion days available to set a television show in." Roddenberry continued, naked as the day he was born and starting to sway wildly, "I wanted to set my television show on one of those other 3000 billion days."
Roddenberry set to work, asking his mother if he was allowed to create a television series not set on Earth and not in the present day. Her answer was apparently 'yes', as long as it wasn't set next Wednesday after 15:00 - as that's when she was getting her hair done by Ms Haddison around the corner. With next Wednesday out of the picture Roddenberry set the show in the mid twenty-third century - a century that hasn't, even to this day, happened.
- Star Trek: Enterprise - The prequel and the newest TV series, Enterprise takes place a hundred years after First Contact with the Vulcans and a hundred years before Captain Kirk. It's theme tune is shit in the greatest of proportions. With nicer graphics. But for the most part, it's just really boring unless you want to waste your time looking at asexual Vulcan boobs in the decontamination room.
- Star Trek: The Original Series - Terrible acting, terrible fight scenes, terrible writing, terrible directing, and terrible everything else. Just plain terrible, and yet somehow it is touted as the most brilliantest thing ever.
- Star Trek: The Animated Series - TAS got canceled due to bad ratings, and the viewers were disinterested. But apparently, the people making the show wanted to make more terrible episodes. Thankfully, they only got two seasons.
- Star Trek: The Next Generation - A British Shakespearian actor plays a French starship captain. Somewhat better than the original series, this was a macabre television drama documenting the destruction of the universe due to the infestation of human vermin in the 2360s. It originally aired across the late 1980s and early 1990s. Nobody can be sure of the exact dates and years of broadcast due to this period's tendency for every moment to merge into one continuous dull blur.
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - This series had a gigantic space station (filled with all of the final frontier's waste) designed to evacuate planets of low class minorities. Network executives have confirmed that the character of Benjamin Sisko was meant to inspire black people to leave behind their miserable lives on Earth and go in search of opportunity elsewhere in the universe.
- Star Trek: Voyager - Star Trek was to forever commit blasphemy with this show, by having a female captain, a white female Klingon, and a black Vulcan.
The Star Trek series has been generous in how many movies they've given us with the same characters. Unfortunately, these movies start out barely watchable and just get worse and worse.
Original Series
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture - Captain Kirk gets promoted to a much nicer job, but decides he's too cool to be admiral. So he handpicks the captain of the next Enterprise, and subsequently throws him out in the most insulting way possible at the young captain's first opportunity to prove himself. Moviegoers don't care, because a three-minute scene where the camera slowly pans across the new ship and the old theme plays, has them all in tears of joy. An attractively bald alien girl falls in love with the dethroned captain, whose name everyone has already forgotten. And then...a giant robot alien ball with a solar system sized plasma wave comes to destroy the Earth. It instead kills the bald alien, who then tries to complete the mission of V-GER. The ousted new captain, realizes he can't ever do anything of value as long as Kirk is alive, completes V-GER by merging his PE-IS with it. Then he creates life in a new universe or something, and Kirk gets to go on more missions again!
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - A psychopath who has always wanted a warp-capable ship and a terraforming device finally gets them. But he gives up his life to attempt to defeat Captain Kirk. Obviously, he would never win because bad guys always die in these kinds of movies. But that didn't stop him. Oh well. And an indestructible main character dies and comes back. But you're not supposed to know that until the next movie.
- Star Trek III: The Search for Spock - Spock gets replaced in Kirk's crew by Mr. Vulcan Woman. Kirk doesn't mind because no one can understand her and she has a K in her name. Spock's ghost self-rapes Dr. McCoy, prompting Spock's father Sarek to rape Kirk to save his son's honor. Then they go into the Garden of Eden to discover a soulless Spock's body regenerating to adulthood. Klingons come to take the planet but the Enterprise blows up with it, prompting Kirk to steal the Klingon ship. They take Spock's pubescent body and have that Vulcan lady I told you about earlier do a "healing ritual" on his body. Everything is back to normal. The end.
- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home - They go back in time to 1986 where they witness humpback whales having sex, and Kirk has sex with an 80's chick and brings her back to the present. Kirk gets punished by being allowed to be captain of the Enterprise, making it not really a punishment.
- Star Trek V: Final Frontier - They meet God who apparently lives in the center of the galaxy and needs a spaceship to travel.
- Star Trek VI: Undiscovered Country - A bunch of fast deaths, action sequences, and Klingons. One of the explosions was so good they reused it in Generations.
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Riverside was a town in Iowa, on Earth.
Riverside was the location of the Riverside Shipyard, where the USS Enterprise was constructed, and it was the hometown of James T. Kirk. (Star Trek)
Background information
Long before Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home established that Kirk was from Iowa, Stephen E. Whitfield and Gene Roddenberry had stated in their book The Making of Star Trek that Kirk had been "born in a small town in the State of Iowa." However, they had not been more specific.
In March of 1985, Riverside was looking for a theme for its annual festival. Steve Miller, who was a member of the Riverside City Council, had read The Making of Star Trek and suggested that Riverside proclaim itself the future birthplace of Kirk. This motion passed unanimously. [1] The council contacted Roddenberry for permission to be designated as the official birthplace of Kirk. Roddenberry agreed, and designated Riverside as Kirk's birthplace.
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Situation: You see a person using tobacco products on UTSA property.
Response: "Hello. I want to make you aware that we are a tobacco-free campus. Tobacco products are prohibited on our grounds. We would appreciate if you would not use tobacco products while visiting our campus. Thank you for your cooperation."
Q6. Does the policy apply to areas within campus housing?
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A. UTSA has both university and city streets. The use of tobacco including smoking will be prohibited on all university-owned or university-controlled streets and sidewalks starting July 1, 2014. (There are university-controlled city streets and sidewalks only at the UTSA Downtown Campus.) The Tobacco-free Campus policy does not apply to city streets or sidewalks not owned or controlled by UTSA.
Q8. Does the Tobacco-free Campus policy apply at university-sanctioned events or sporting activities occurring at off-campus property (i.e., Alamodome)?
A. The Tobacco-free Campus policy applies only to university owned, operated, leased, occupied or controlled property. Events or activities scheduled off campus are bound by the policies and procedures set by the property or property manager.
Q9. What is the UTSA definition of a prohibited tobacco product for this policy?
A. All forms of tobacco products including but not limited to cigarettes (of any kind including herbal/spice cigarettes), cigars, pipes, water pipes (hookah), bidis, kreteks, electronic cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, snuff and chewing tobacco. (Note: Medications with controlled amounts of nicotine that are used to aid in quitting smoking are not considered tobacco products. A list of these medications can be found at the SmokeFree.gov website.
Q10. Are there signs to tell people they can't use tobacco?
A. Notices bearing the message "Tobacco-Free Campus" and signs with the international symbol for "tobacco-free" or something similar will be posted at major vehicular, pedestrian and building entrances. However, the Tobacco-free Campus policy applies to all university property, whether or not a notice or sign is posted.
Q11. What will the university do if there are reports by property owners adjacent to campus involving tobacco litter?
A. UTSA officials will work with business and other property owners adjacent to university properties to address their concerns about the possibility of litter being left behind by tobacco users from a UTSA campus.
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A. Yes, some as early as 2003, and the number continues to increase. More than 600 college and university campuses across the United States have smoke- or tobacco-free campuses. In the UT System, Arlington, Brownsville, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Southwestern and Austin are tobacco-free. Texas State University, Austin Community College and all San Antonio Alamo Colleges also are tobacco free.
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