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tag:Community Blogs:blogCommunity Blogshttp://www.destructoid.com/ul/user/2/228948-52ba8-50.jpgJack1the3Ripperhttp://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Jack1the3Ripper2014-04-03T22:38:34ZCommunity Blogs:273767I WANT THE FAME AND THE GLORY, but I want your help! No money needed! - Jack1the3RipperJack1the3Ripper2014-04-24T14:51:23Z2014-04-24T14:51:23ZI have high expectations.

So when my first two blogs bombed like I knew they would. (Read my bio, I say they suck). I was not surpirsed

However I did expect more than 5 up votes and 10 comments. (5 of which are probably my own).

In order for my blog to successful I need suggestions, topics, and followers for it to feed off of.

The above is not so you feel bad for me. Its just another look into who I am and what I am about. I want to write a blog formed by followers and I want feedback. All it takes is one person to get me started. I am not saying I will be the best blogger out there. But I do feel I have the skills and insight into life, to make Real World Gaming catch on.

So whatever you the people want me to reflect on let me know and I will bring it to you.

In the meantime, follow the blog, follow the twitter, and be amazed. Also you can check me out on BDutch podcast on YouTube. The man is a good friend of mine and I was happy to be a part of this podcast and many more. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sYwvsWU-Uc Also, check the kid out on Twitch, he is one of the top PS4 streamers. http://www.twitch.tv/bdutch/profile

After the blog gets going and the topics come pouring in, if you think I suck, well then I guess I do and you can just unfollow. But all I want is a chance.

So hit me up.

And as always keep it real.Community Blogs:272899Gaming and Relationships...COMBINED! - Jack1the3RipperJack1the3Ripper2014-04-04T17:05:46Z2014-04-04T17:05:46ZBeing a gamer is tough. Not only do you have to save worlds and lives, but you also have to develop and maintain relationships in an out of the digital realm. And no, having a bunch of Xbox Live and PSN friends does not count, unless of course you have met and spoken with them in real life.

I am not saying that all gamers are lock in loners who do nothing but game and have no concept of what it means to have a social life. But, being a gamer, I know how hard it can be to balance a relationship and maintain a passion for gaming. Though you may not agree with my insights, you cant argue with my results.

There is a reason my bio says love life.

If you read my first blog, you know I recently graduated college, have a job that I love, and am set to be married to the woman I love within the coming year. And on top of all of that, I have some of the best friends a man can ask for. Yet, my journey to the happiness I experience nowadays was not an easy one. But, when I look back on it, I can take insights and information from it. That everyone can use not just gamers.

Ill start with friends. Since no man is complete without good friends.

Growing up, I was a closet nerd. I loved all types and gaming. Yet, I was surrounding by friends who did not share my interests. So when my friends came over I took my Dragon Ball Z seasons, my latest version of Pokémon, and my Magic the Gathering trading cards and hid them away. See, I knew these friends were not accepting of these nerdish items, and did not want to be judged for my interest. Looking back, I dont know why I wasted my time with these people. If someone cannot accept you for what you enjoy, then how can you enjoy yourself around those people?

So what is the key to finding good friends?

A good friend is not something who has the exact same interests. A good friend is someone you trust, care about, and accepts you for who you are. The example of this would be the relationship between my best friend and I. My main interests are gaming, comics, and sports. My best friends interests are sports, sports, and sports. So yes we do have some similar interests, but my main interests could not be further from his. Does he enjoy a good Marvel movie? Well, who doesnt? Is he going to read the comic attached to that movie? Absolutely not. Yet, even though our interests are different, when we are together it doesnt matter. We can carry a conversation, share a laugh, and completely enjoy ourselves doing absolutely nothing. Find a friend who doesnt give a shit about your interests and you have found a friend worth having.

However, I do have my gaming friends. These are the guys I spend a Friday night LANing Halo and Saturday night playing 5 stock Super Smash. Yet, even though we are a group of nerds, we would be friends without gaming. We go out to bars together, workout together, and live life together outside of gaming.

So what do I hope you learned about friends from the past two paragraphs? That a friend is someone who doesnt share the same interest as you. A friend is someone you can still hang out with when those interests arent available. So if youre a gamer who can only hang out with a friend of yours when youre gaming. It might be time to take a step back and reevaluate the friendship.

So now its time to get down to brass tacks.

Gaming and Girlfriends.

Think you need this .eh

Growing up a gamer, I always thought I had to find a girl who loved games just as much as I did. And I am sure there are many gamers who feel this way right now. However, love doesnt mean similar interests.

Want proof?

I met my fiancé during the Competitive Gaming Saga of my life. (if that statement confuses you, take a quick peek at my first blog.) This meant about 21+ hours of my week were dedicated to Halo and honing my craft. O and did I mention, she has no interest what so ever in comic books, gaming, or anything to do with the nerd culture. We started dating my Junior year of high school and this was the beginning of the decline in my gaming skill. There were no longer 21+ hours that could be dedicated to gaming. This was not because she stopped me from gaming. It was because I would rather spend time with her, than play Halo. It was this girl who forced me into the Real World Gaming saga of my life. And by forced, I mean she was better than competitive gaming to me. So, I changed my habits to maximize my time with her.

I will never regret that choice.

But, the one thing that told me this was the girl for me. Was the day I went full disclosure. For the first year of our relationship I hid my interests. I finally told her one day that I love comics, I am a huge gamer, and have interest in all things nerdy. Her answer I dont care. She had no interest in changing who I am, she loved me for me.

So what do I want you to take away from the story of my fiancé and I? Does the perfect partner for you have to have the same interests? I cant say yes and I cant say no. If you find yourself changing naturally due to love embrace it. If you find yourself changing because she demands it run.

Again, every opinion above is based off my experience. If you have a question or different opinion, feel free to share it. As long as its a conversation and not an argument, I will be happy to converse. I promise the blogs will get funny and interesting. These frist two were stories I just had to share.

So until next time everyone...keep it real

 Community Blogs:272866History of a Real World Gamer - Jack1the3RipperJack1the3Ripper2014-04-03T22:38:34Z2014-04-03T22:38:34ZI assume that the reason you are reading is this blog is because you are a gamer, and like many others, you have an interest in gaming that goes beyond gameplay. I share this interest with you, yet my ideas and thoughts on gaming have changed throughout the years.

I always dreamed of writing for magazines or sites such as Game Informer and IGN, getting to play games in advance and review them. I thought I knew what it took to score a game and let others know what makes this game great, or what makes it suck. Yet, now reviewing games is something I have no interest in. I have moved on to bigger and better things, my only interest now is to be a Real World Gamer. Someone who can share the insights, struggles, and joys of gaming in the real world.

For those of you who are thinking, WTF does he mean a real world gamer? Youre just going to have to hang around and see.

Spoiler alert my gaming views will not be expressed in this entry. I am going to take this time and introduce myself. Give you a view of my journey through gaming so you have an idea on where my views come from. This way future blogs will make more sense and come together as something you can relate to.

Just so you know, I am not going to share every system and every game I have every owned. I am going to break my gaming life into 3 parts or sagas if you will. This is to save you the boredom cause even I can admit this is going to be pretty boring. But, if you dont know where I am coming from, you will never understand my future blogs.

So lets begin.

The first saga of gaming for me was all about the adventure so I guess Ill call it the Adventure Saga. (Very original I know) From my first whiff of gaming on the Super Nintendo all the way to saving Spira from Sin on my PS2. This part of my life was all the joy of completing an adventure and emerging myself in different worlds. I would spend hours upon hours lost to the real world completing quest and saving galaxies. And at that time there was nothing more enjoyable than finishing a game.

Then came Halo. More specifically Halo 2. This was the first FPS I ever played and the game that started the Competitive Saga of my gaming history. Halo 2, 3, Reach, 4, CoD Modern Warfare, MW2, MW3 these were the games that consumed me. Every free second I had was these games. And I played them cut throat. Yet, when I look back at it, this time wasted on constant gameplay to keep up with competition was all wasted. And its time that I can never get back. No will ever care I had a 2:1 KD, and quite frankly at this point in my life .neither do I.

Now for the final saga, the Real World Saga. To this day I still love gaming. But, I have had to lay my competitive side to rest and only bring it out for the rare LAN party I attend. The world has caught up to me and I no longer have the time, money, or drive to keep up with the competitive gaming community. I have prioritized my life the way it should be. I went to college, got a job, and more importantly found a woman who I love. So I have come full circle. Through the help of eBay, I have repurchased Super Nintendo, N64, GameCube, PS2 and traded my Xbox 360 for the adventure exclusives of the PS3. As for the next gens PS4 and Xbox One, well as I said I have priorities and spending $500 on a console is not one of them. I only play story driven games nowadays, such as Uncharted and Last of Us. This way, if I dont find the time for gaming because real life calls, I wont be the NOOB who went 5 and 12. Instead I will be able to pick up right where I left off in the story of Joel and Ellie or Nathan Drake. And by buying all the classic systems, I can relive the games of my childhood that I hold so close to my heart.

So there you have it. The gaming history of Jack the Ripper. It may have been boring to read and even more boring to write. But, believe me, when I give my insight in future blogs, they will make sense (and I promise much more interesting). And when I refer to myself as a Real Life Gamer, hopefully you will at least have a slight idea of what the hell I am talking about.

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The Pilgrims and the First English Settlement in the United States
The United States might have been settled quite differently if the Pilgrims had managed to settle where they had originally intended …
Most Americans know that the Pilgrims set up a the Plymouth Colony which was later incorporated into the Massachusetts Bay Colony and later the state of Massachusetts. Only a few Americans, however, realize that the Massachusetts Bay Colony could have easily been set up somewhere else. Indeed, it should have been set up somewhere else. The United States might have been settled quite differently if the Pilgrims had managed to settle where they had originally intended.
Even among those Americans who remember that Cape Cod was not where the Pilgrims intended to settle, few know where they originally intended to land. This is a bit confusing because it was the London Virginia Company that granted the Pilgrims their land grant. The name is deceiving, however, because the company controlled much more territory than what is now the state of Virginia. Like the Louisiana Territory, the Virginia Territory was later carved into many small territories. When King James I of England Granted the London Company its charter in 1606, however, the London Company controlled territory from New York to the Carolinas. When the Pilgrims obtained a land grant to settle in the Virginia Territory, they were given permission to settle at the mouth of the Hudson River in the modern states of New York or New Jersey.
Of course, the Plymouth company is in Massachusetts, so what happened? While crossing the Atlantic, the Mayflower was blown far north of its intended destination. Thus, the first land that the Pilgrims saw of the New World was Cape Cod. The Pilgrims realized that they were too far North and attempted to sail south along the coast, but they encountered dangerous shoals. Given the danger of navigating those unknown waters, the pending onset of winter, and a low supply of food, the Pilgrims decided to settle close to Cape Cod instead of the mouth of the Hudson River.
This was a hard decision, however. Not only was Massachusetts outside the territory they were authorized to settle in by the London Company, but it was outside the area controlled by the London Company. It was technically under the jurisdiction of another joint-stock company, the Plymouth Company. This company had set up a settlement in Maine the same year that the London Company established its famous Jamestown settlement, but the Plymouth Company's settlement had quickly failed. Without the funds to make another attempt, the company left its patent unused. Thus, the London Company's charter was eventually expanded to include that territory which had been given to the Plymouth Colony.
The Pilgrims attempted to settle any question about their legal right to settle along Cape Cod in their famous document, the Mayflower Compact. This document affirmed that the colony would be governed like any other English colony and was the first written legal document of the American colonial period. After taking reasonable precautions to prevent anyone of accusing them of settling in an unauthorized area, the Pilgrims departed the Mayflower and eventually found the spot suitable for settling. That settlement remains today, although it is now more of a tourist attraction than anything else. Many of those tourists probably do not realize, however, how easily the Plymouth Colony could have been given a totally different name and could have been located in New York. That might have made the American colonial period develop quite differently.
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Lesh's chops are as nasty as they've ever been, playing the bass is only part
of what he's doing these days. Phil brings people together – musicians, fans
and complete strangers who help each other without even meeting. The There
and Back Again tour featured over a dozen different supporting acts ranging
from legends like the Allman Brothers Band
and various Dead side projects, to emerging talent such as moe.,
The Disco Biscuits and Soulive.
Phil and Friends made festival stops along the way at The Gathering of the Vibes,
Bonnaroo and, more recently, Jazz Aspen, giving a nod to the bustling new music
scene that emerged in the Dead's wake. He also paid tribute to his musical roots
at the Grateful Dead Family Reunion at Alpine Valley, with his band and The
Other Ones. All the while, Lesh extends his gratitude for a second chance
in music and life, encouraging anyone who hears him to give someone else the
same opportunity through blood and organ donations.
To see Phil Lesh perform is to take part in collaboration on a grand scale.
band ended its tour with a magical two-night stand Labor Day weekend at the
historic Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison,
CO with the help of Ratdog, Willie
Nelson and Family and an acoustic set by Warren Haynes. The shows were the
last ones on the immediate horizon for the quintet, leaving some to wonder what
the future will hold for Lesh's current touring lineup.
Warren Haynes got the ball rolling the first night at Red Rocks with
his solo performance, as the crowd began to fill into the venue. Ratdog took
the stage next, opening things up with a jam that led into "Cassidy." The band
seemed a little shaky during the first part of the set, with a few awkward transitions
and Bob Weir's voice barely filtering through the mix. As the set moved
on, they began to pick up steam, and the crowd responded accordingly.
Brook's saxophone complimented Weir's take on "Eyes of the World," which
segued into an interesting bass/drum/turntable jam by Rob Wasserman,
Kenny Brooks and DJ Logic respectively. Ratdog's set ended on
a high note, with an appropriate version of "One More Saturday Night" that left
the crowd primed for the rest of the evening's action.
Phil's band seemed to be in a playful mood for Saturday's performance – with several teases throughout the show. After an opening sequence of "Help on the Way > Slipknot!," the band pulled away to take on a lengthy version of "Turn on Your Lovelight." Haynes's commanding slide mixed beautifully with Jimmy Herring's precision finger work, and John Molo's inventive drumming locked down the backbeat with Lesh's masterful playing. The set ended with a blistering run through "Mason's Children."
second set got started with a short instrumental take on Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant
Song" before an extended rendition of "Dear Mr. Fantasy," which showcased some
of keyboardist Rob Barraco's most spirited playing of the weekend. The
set was long and strong, highlighted by "The Eleven > St. Stephen" – an inverted
take on the classic coupling obviously a wink to the Deadheads in the audience.
Keeping with the fun, the band book ended the night with a "Slipknot! > Franklin's
Tower" encore to close out the suite that opened the show.
Willie Nelson and Family got things started on Sunday with an energetic set, kicked off by a crowd-pleasing performance of "Whiskey River." Nelson was obviously thrilled to be in the venue – clapping his hands, pointing to the crowd between songs and trying on any piece of headwear that got tossed on stage, proving that the showman's age is in no way indicative of his enthusiasm. Throughout the set he played old classics like "On the Road" and "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys," while also sampling newer tunes such as "Maria (Shut up and Kiss Me)" from his recent release, The Great Divide. The set also featured an inspiring version of "Will the Circle Be Unbroken," which segued into "I'll Fly Away."
It was dark when Phil's band opened up with a raucous ride through "Shakedown Street," getting the crowd moving early to Haynes' soulful vocals. The tune flowed effortlessly into a stunning version of "China Cat Sunflower," in which Lesh took hold of the reigns, steering the band into a dynamic instrumental section. Willie Nelson's harmonica player Mickey Raphael appeared during "I Know You Rider" to stick around for the remainder of the first set, standing beside Herring and watching him closely for cues.
second set got started with a magnificent rendition of "Unbroken Chain," and,
like the late set the night before, there wasn't a pause in the music until
the band left the stage. Sliding in and out of epic masterpieces among the likes
of "Wharf Rat," "Terrapin Station," and "Viola Lee Blues," the quintet weaved
a tapestry of sound only achievable by truly accomplished musicians. After extending
a few warm words of gratitude to the audience, Phil signaled the band to start
"Not Fade Away," which ended with the emotional lyricism of "We Bid You Goodnight"
to end the tour.
As always, the band embraced and bowed before leaving the stage, but they seemed to relish in the moment a little longer this particular occasion. Perhaps they were soaking in the venue, or maybe it was simply because it was the last booked show for the group. It's always hard to tell with these five musicians, who seem to treat every performance with the same kind of deep spirituality and friendship.
With the first tour by the reunited incarnation of The Other Ones lurking on the horizon and rumors swirling that Haynes wants to spend more time with Gov't Mule, it will be interesting to see what lies ahead for Lesh's longest-running side project. They've managed to capture something that, in a sense, helped spark the newfound solidarity within the Grateful Dead community through nothing more than truly inspired playing. Though it may be anyone's guess as to what will happen in the months ahead, it's a pretty safe bet that Phil Lesh will be there searching for the sound.
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Cremation ceremonies, interactive Web sites, unusual tombstones, singalong funerals - bereaved families are beginning to use a variety of creative means to keep alive the memory of their loved ones
All my life the children were hanging around my neck. Now I'll be hanging around theirs," said the first customer of Alon Nativ, director of the Aley Shalechet (Autumn Leaves) funeral home. She was joking about the fact that after her death, she has asked that her body undergo a process of "turning into ashes" (cremation) that will thereafter be made into an artificial, diamond-like stone, which will be set in a piece of jewelry to be given to her children. This is a process that is still rare in Israel, but is definitely familiar in the United States, where some people have, for example, asked that their ashes be inserted in fireworks and launched skyward in a festive ceremony instead of a funeral, sent into space inside a special capsule, or incorporated in a device used for rehabilitating coral reefs.
Now locally as well the burial and commemoration market has begun to develop. Cemeteries catering to secular customers offer grassy burial expanses, artists create special gravestones, and new companies advise clients on organizing funerals, documenting the ceremony and maintaining graves. Private initiatives are also on the rise and include trips to commemorate the deceased, memorial sports competitions and scholarships.
Two such initiatives were invented by Yossi Zur - who in the past year alone received 700 packages and letters containing stones from all over the world - and by Ron Kehrmann, who during the same period received about the same number of drawings of camels. Zur and Kehrmann are both bereaved fathers from Haifa. Their children, Asaf (Blondi) Zur, almost 17, and Tal Kehrmann, almost 18, got onto a No. 37 bus on March 5, 2003. At about 2:10 P.M., on Moriah Boulevard, at the entrance to the Carmelia neighborhood, a terrorist blew himself up in the bus. Seventeen people were murdered in the attack, including the two children.
Since then the two fathers have been investing many hours in commemorating their children. A former swimmer, Kehrmann initiated a swimming competition named after his daughter, Taharutal (the Tal competition), and every spring he organizes a trip in her memory. In his printing house he has printed car stickers (see: www.tal-smile.com), with a picture of a camel, Tal's favorite animal, and next to it the inscription (which rhymes in Hebrew): "Tal's smile never wilted."
He got the idea of using Tal's love of camels about a year ago. He took a drawing of a camel she had made, enlarged it, posted it on his Web site and asked surfers to color it in, scan it and send it back to him via e-mail. These are the hundreds of drawings mentioned above, including those of a "rocker" camel, a cola-drinking camel, a singing camel and an astronaut camel. The oldest person to color the camel is 90; the youngest, a year old.
Zur's collection of stones developed gradually. "As a high-tech person, I travel quite a lot on business, and I always used to take a stone with me and bring it back to the grave. This year Asaf would have been 21, and I thought about the fact that he would probably have gone on a trip abroad. I decided that if Asaf didn't get to see the big, wide world, maybe the big, wide world would come to him - to his grave. I went into some Web sites, sent e-mails, wrote the story, and people responded and sent stones."
They arrived from 70 countries, and many are unique - like one stone from the Berlin Wall and another from the Great Wall of China. They have all been placed in a large pot next to the grave.
In addition, Zur, together with other parents, helped build a playground in his neighborhood, which his two-year-old son now frequents, and set up one Web site to commemorate Asaf (www.blondi.co.il) and another called Eretz Zocheret Yoshveha (A People Remembers; www.ezy.co.il), which is entirely devoted to commemorating the victims of terror acts and displays pictures of memorials from all over the country.
Kehrmann and Zur are active not only privately: Together with Yossi Mendelevitch, the father of Yuval, who was killed in the same Haifa bus attack, the two founded the Three Fathers - a movement whose purpose is to have victims of terror included among the victims of Israel's wars. They believe that memorialization of their children is not related to the way in which they were killed, but simply to their loss. "Commemoration is in my blood," says Kehrmann. "It's like a motor that propels me forward." The problem, he adds, is that as time passes, the story loses its power. What new things can be said about a girl who was killed four years ago?
Zur also tells of the difficulty of finding a new angle each time to commemorate the teenager who was killed and therefore remains at the same point in time: "Asaf should have met people, built a life. Now that's my job, and I'm willing to go to the ends of the earth to tell his story, so people will know him, so he won't disappear."
Many bereaved parents choose to set up commemorative Internet sites. Most of them are set up by men, and the women join later, according to Liav Sadeh Bek, a doctoral student in the department of behavioral sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, who has written a study on the subject. The interactive sites enable strangers to get to know the deceased person, to react emotionally to his or her loss, and to take an active part in commemoration.
"It's heartwarming," says Kehrmann, describing how he feels when a new picture of a camel arrives. "It shows that we're not alone. Usually people try not to encounter bereaved persons directly, and here people are writing to me and thinking about Tal. I also walk around with a camel pin on my shirt, and tell anyone who's interested about the girl behind the pin. Thanks to this activity she exists all the time. It makes me happy that people continue to remember her. I'm not willing to accept the fact that she no longer exists, and I'm not willing to forget that I had a daughter."
Zur describes similar feelings: "I can't escape it. Just as I wake up every morning and the children are walking around here, Asaf also remains with me and goes with me everywhere. If I'm not involved with Asaf on a daily basis, how will he remain my son?"
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The desire to commemorate a person in a way that will reflect the private nature of the sorrow is also evident in the choice of unique gravestones, which today are sometimes created by artists. In new parts of local cemeteries one can see colored gravestone, such as one from black marble with a natural pinkish stone on top; another constructed of a wooden-and-iron frame, containing brown pebbles; a third made of an unprocessed block of stone. Many of them bear stylized inscriptions, and the texts go beyond the dates of birth and death, and include citations from poems or stories. Occasionally, the text even raises a smile, like "the sweetest boy in the Middle East!" Sometimes a decoration is added, such as a colored drawing of a butterfly or a clock, or a bell, an oil lamp, a little angel figurine, a mobile. In some of the gravestones there is a place for putting small objects, like a note in a bottle, dwarves, plasticine mushrooms. Flat river stones have been placed on many of the graves, with drawings or an inscription, such as "To Grandpa, I love you very much and I'm happy you're my Grandpa."
Sculptor Chen Winkler, who also makes standard gravestones as part of the family business, says that about half his clients want a unique one. "There are people to whom the design is so important that they plan the gravestone even before they die," says Winkler. "These are mainly people who are close to the subject, like architects."
He mentions gravestones in the shape of a certain element related to the deceased, such as a pack of cigarettes and a lighter (designed by Roni Koresh), or a huge strawberry for a moshav member who grew the fruit.
Shahar Anav, who died of cancer 10 months ago at the age of two years and three months, particularly loved trains and locomotives. "We didn't know that there are creative gravestones, if they can be called that," says his father, Ofer, "but we knew that we wanted to make one with a locomotive for Shahar." He turned to Roni Koresh of Merhavia, who crafted the stone for him, in the children's section of the Yarkon cemetery, incorporating the image of Thomas the Tank Engine. Every time Anav comes to the cemetery he brings his son a toy; last month he even installed a special box in which he and members of the family place letters for Shahar. "We miss him terribly and time doesn't help," explains Anav, "and precisely because of that it's important to us that the gravestone be something that is connected to Shahar, to which we can feel a connection. The uniqueness gives us a feeling that it's not just another gravestone, but the gravestone of our Shahar."
Yaffa Raz, from Moshav Shaal on the Golan Heights, was also forced recently to deal with the design of a gravestone for her son Asaf, 27, who was killed about a month ago in a traffic accident. She says it was important to her to invest in the gravestone, which was designed by Chen Winkler, and to have it contain motifs that characterize her son.
"Asaf loved the Golan very much, and therefore it was important to me to put basalt in the gravestone. However, I wanted it to have grandeur, a shine and elegance, and therefore I chose a color-play of ruby-red marble and polished black granite. We scattered brown river stones around it. Alongside the gravestone we chiseled a large basalt stone in the shape of a guitar, and from the sound box emerge musical notes that ascend to the sky, from the song 'Ma avarech' ("How Shall I Bless Him"): 'Oh God, oh God, oh God, if only you had blessed him with life.' That is a line that is very suited to Asaf, who was talented in so many ways. He painted and studied philosophy, worked in education and served as a youth coordinator in the Golan and played many instruments," says Raz. The family placed flowerpots, planted a palm tree and bushes, and installed an awning for shade and a wooden bench with antique-style fixtures near the grave. They plan to plant roses around it in the future.
Yitzhak, the husband of Dalia Vatnik of Afeka, died suddenly three years ago at the age of 64. He was an engineer who loved inventions, gadgets and technological innovation, and was always among the first to buy all kinds of new devices. "I wanted to create a gravestone that would have something clever, like the things he liked," explains Vatnik. The result was a gravestone with a waterfall that works once a day, at sunset, and is operated by a solar cell that is charged during the day. "This solar cell is simply Yitzhak," his widow says. "And when I come here, I want to see signs of life at the grave, I'm looking for renewal."
At the gravestone built by Shlomi Gabel of Atzmon for his wife Ruthie, there is similar use of water and a solar cell. Ruthie, who died of cancer about four years ago at the age of 40, was a gymnast, a dancer and a choreographer.
"After her death I began to think how I could create something special for her," says Gabel. "I wanted something that would reflect her, and soon understood that I wanted something with water, which would symbolize her beauty and her flowing nature. I wanted the grave to be a dynamic place, and not a cold and alienated one. Artist Yossi Barel of Binyamina suggested creating a kind of 'wound' inside the stone, with Ruthie's name descending into it, as in a movement toward the ground, and disappearing in it, with a stream of water below. As painful as the gravestone is, it's pleasant to look at. It's as though it removes the negative associations and somehow conveys her character."
On the gravestone of Ofer Botzer, in the cemetery in Ramat Hasharon, there is a statue of a surfer. Botzer, who died about half a year ago of cancer at the age of 41, was one of the first windsurfers in Israel. He trained many people and won the national championship. "This surfer is simply him," says his father Aaron, also a surfer, a referee at competitions and the chair of the ISAF Windsurfing Committee. "It's the essence of his life."
After Botzer died, fliers from gravestone companies began to arrive at the house. "We're a family with a sense of humor," says Sharon, Ofer's widow, "and we started to talk about all kinds of things that we could do with the gravestone. Laughing and crying. Our house is full of surfers and suddenly, when I looked at a powerful marble statue of a surfer, I understood that it was the right thing to put on the gravestone." Botzer has five children (three from his first marriage), and Sharon says that the gravestone helps their own two children, a four-year-old daughter and a year-old son, to deal with death. "It's impossible to take a girl aged three and a half to a funeral and to expose her to this difficult thing. But it's possible to take her to the gravestone, to show her the surfer, and to tell her that it's a statue in honor of her father, who is no longer alive."
'Standing out'
"In the past gravestones were also supposed to be attractive, but the aesthetic of the past was one of modesty," says Prof. Maoz Azaryahu, an expert at commemoration and myths from the department of geography at the University of Haifa. "Today the aesthetic is one of being different and standing out, athough sometimes, the result of the attempt to be different is many variations on the same theme."
"All our lives we are busy with self-fulfillment and with emphasizing our uniqueness. Why should that end with death?" wonders Roni Koresh of Merhavia Koresh, who began to create gravestones after his father's death in 1991. "I like to see a gravestone to which I can relate, which represents something of the personality of the deceased, and not something alien," he explains.
In order to understand the personality of the deceased, the creators of gravestones try to learn about the person - they see pictures, hear about him from his relatives, sometimes even travel to his house. Some of them, like Yossi Barel, sculptor Gershon Heiman and glass artist Ronen Kandel, create only artistic gravestones.
"Death is part of life," says Kandel, "and just as in life we like beautiful things, it's natural that the family wants to see a beautiful gravestone as well. If you try to create something beautiful and to express something through it, that's art in my eyes. Others may call it kitsch."
Naomi Shalev, an artist and a curator, made a connection between her profession and the death of her son, and built an art gallery on his grave. The gallery, in the cemetery in Ramat Hasharon, is actually a glass case - like those she uses in curating exhibitions at Dizengoff Center in Tel Aviv. When Shalev speaks of the cemetery she calls it "my cemetery." Buried there are her father, who died 22 years ago, her mother, who died about a month ago at the age of 93, and her son, artist Itai, who died about five years ago at the age of 29.
"Before Itai's death I was afraid of cemeteries. I couldn't enter one. I was afraid of this terrible, horrible, threatening and frightening place. Even after his death I couldn't go in there; it took me half a year to put up the gravestone. I don't come to the cemetery in order to talk to Itai. He's not there. I'm always busy with practical things: I wash the gravestone, water plants and set up exhibitions. The glass case helped me a great deal. It became a place of the dead and a place of life, too."
Every year, in May, on Itai's birthday, Shalev holds an official opening for an exhibition in the little gallery at the grave site, and sets a table there. "Many people were shocked at the idea," she says. "To build a gallery on your son's grave? It's not proper, it's crazy! Some of them told me that later. But I feel that the gallery at the grave saved my life. I feel that I, Naomi Shalev, must deal with Itai's death and must deal with it there, in the cemetery. Dealing with it is difficult, but I mustn't run away, and spending time there makes things easier for me. Slowly but surely, I learned to fall in love with this place. It's a long and complicated process, but today I feel at home in the cemetery. I walk among the graves, read the texts and look at the arrangements of the stones, which are sometimes like flower arrangements."
Surprisingly, even "her bosses," as Shalev calls the ultra-Orthodox directors of the cemetery, like the gallery. She says they say to her, "Oy, there hasn't been a new exhibition for a long time. We're bored."
Among secular people, even the funeral itself is beginning to change. Civil burial, which became possible thanks to the struggle of the Menucha Nechona (Rest in Peace) association, opened a variety of possibilities for the ceremony, including professional moderators and even singalongs. Itai Plaot, a singalong leader, organized his brother-in-law's funeral about three years ago, and since then has been asked to plan other funerals and memorial services. Plaot says that he also leads "singing tours" of cemeteries (for example, to the grave of songwriter Ehud Manor in Binyamina, or to that of songwriter Naomi Shemer and of the poet Rachel at Kibbutz Kinneret). The requests for singing or singalongs are more characteristic of memorial services than of funerals.
"I bring a loudspeaker system, act as moderator and play a song or two on the guitar. It's usually short and to the point, but the result is moving and cultured," he says.
Other funeral planners can be found via the Machon Hatekasim Hachiloni association (www.tekes.co.il) and the Secular Jewish Ceremonies in Israel (www.tkasim.org.il). In the Aley Shalechet funeral home, for example, they suggest that families hold a farewell ceremony in the "cultural language" of the deceased, in the spirit of Judaism or not, accompanied by music, prose or poetry selections, according to the family's wishes. The guests can sit down during the ceremony, and they all receive a piece of paper with a picture of the deceased and details about him, so that even someone who didn't know him personally, and came to console the family, can know to whom he is paying his last respects.
Even the burial itself is no longer an obvious sort of ceremony. During the past two years cremation has also become available, and people choose to do various things with the ashes: to scatter them in the sea or in the garden, on a running route that the deceased liked, or to keep them in an urn or a box and place them in a special site, whether in the yard or the living room. There are families who divide the ashes among several urns, so each child can take one for himself.
"A cemetery is a distant place, which is sometimes hard to get to, especially for the elderly or the ill. It's very convenient to have the urn in the living room, and one can simply approach and unite with it," explains Nativ, from Aley Shalechet.
Documentation is another element that has been added recently to funerals. About 15 families in the country already have at home, in addition to wedding albums, an album that records the funeral of a loved one who has passed away. Photographer Maya Kapelushnik decided to offer "documentation of the final journey" after someone who couldn't get to a certain funeral asked her to record the event for him.
"Before that I participated in a project that documented the Jewish community in Slovakia," she says, "and I photographed 3,000 graves there. I felt a connection to it. I was approached by ultra-Orthodox families who are interested in sending pictures to relatives from abroad who can't come, and I was also approached by families with open minds who are interested in documentation and aesthetics."
Kapelushnik tries to be as inconspicuous as possible, and works from a distance with telescopic lenses. When mourners see her, they often raise an eyebrow, and she has already heard whisperings such as "Were they the ones who invited the photographer?"
The Hevra Kadisha (religious burial society) also offers ways of commemorating a funeral in real time, for the sake of people who can't come. The viewers can see the funeral via a Web site, online, or receive photographs on a disc.
The forevergreen.co.il site offers to take and send by email a photograph of the grave (to customers of the company, which operates in the southern region). Their Web site advertises gardening and maintenance of graves, for people who have difficulty getting there, but are interested in keeping the sites and gravestones in good condition. W


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At 8:10 when Danny says "come forward with the rook now that your king protects it", I think black has an immediate draw with Rxg7. When white recaptures Kxg7, his king has left the defense of his rook and black plays Kxe5. Is this correct?
A "Light Bulb Moment"!! I know the Lucena and the Philador but to use the Philador to stop the Lucena from being played - I hadn't made that connection before.....until now. Thanks for another informative video....Cheers
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MatDenoncourt is correct. The Java play key position vs computer here on chess.com incorrectly gives a draw on certain moves when it goes down to King vs King + Rook.
GabrieleMiceli , your solution doesnt help, as the black king can still take the rook. Surely the simple Rf4 blocks any checks allowing the king to advance to f7 and promote the pawn
I've watched a lot of videos here and I think this series is the best on the entire website for tournament players.
King Stig is right :) First white must check with Re6+, black king moves and Then Rg5 winning!
At 8:09 : And how do you respond to Rxg7? (with the plan Kxg7 Kxe5) You just blundered the draw! ;)
Holes in my knowledge?! I've been a member for a while, My OTB rating had declined. So I started from the beginning of " study plans". There I found King and pawn knowledge, and rook and pawn knowledge. That I thought I knew?! I will master these subjects! Thanks! I believe this will help me become a expert/master. Rated 1600+, was almost 1900?! Thanks again IM Rensch!
thanks IM Rensch. Helped me a lot
Another interesting variant (at least to me, but I share it anyway ) is if White has the rook on the h-file, in which case their king is protected from checks:
The final rook capture seems to be a common pattern in this type of endgame (occurs also in video 2, but there it's the defender who loses the rook)
To answer my own question below about ...Rh4 with the consequence that White cannot build the bridge anymore: White doesn't need the bridge, because Black's rook is too close (at least for the moment):
In the Philidor Defense: would it make sense to say that, as the defender, one should give check from the side whenever possible? I've played a bit against the computer, not following this potential rule, and the situation became the following (diagram removed in edit; see new one below). So, Black doesn't have to move the pawn and can enter the third rank with the king. Is this lost for White? EDIT: I guess it doesn't lead anywhere for Black:
Great video! I've learned a great deal already, and I am looking forward to the other ones. Has anyone thought about the position when it's Black to move and they play 1...Rh4? In my analysis, white cannot build the bridge anymore, and the game
turns into a queen-vs-rook endgame. Have I overlooked something?
Great video series, thanks!
Very instructive! Thank you, IM Rensch!:)
Note to anybody who came straight to this video knowing NOTHING about endgames like me, if you feel confused, I recommend watching Pawn Endgames series by IM Zierk first, and then come back to this IM Rensch's series. I watched the whole Pawn Endgames series twice and then came back to this series and now I'm able to follow what's being taught :) Good luck!
While testing this possition against a 3rd party computer, I came across a rather interesting move for black.
If after 1:Re2+,Kd6 2:Re4,Rg1 3:Kf7,Rf1+ 4:Kg6,Rg1+ 5:Kf6 ..,Kd5 is played, white's idea of Re7 will no longer work. In this case, white should instead play 6:Re5+, and after 6..,Kd4 white plays 7:Rg5 which is winning for white, because, after 7..,Rf1+ white has 8:Kg6
These videos are amazing and I find myself to be extremely tempted to jump too far ahead and watch video after video. By analysing these positions over the board against a strong (computer) opponent, you tend to run in to these kind of tricky positions, which amplifies the abillity to remember and master these techniques/positions.
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There was an uneasy calm among the Celtics as they reflected on their fourth straight defeat Wednesday night at TD Garden, and looked toward what promised to be an intense practice in Waltham on Thursday.
They weren't where they wanted to be, and they knew it. They weren't going to get where they want to go just because they are the Celtics and have done it before, and they wanted to make sure fans, media and some of their newer teammates knew that as well.
Yet the four men — Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Rajon Rondo and Doc Rivers — who won a championship together in 2008, and came within a few minutes of doing it again in 2010, weren't throwing chairs and calling out fellow men in green this week. They all talked about what it was going to take to turn this around just like they turned it around in 2010, and in 2012, and all talked about their confidence that the pieces are there to do it once again in 2013.
"We sit in here and we talk about being positive, don't get our heads down," Pierce said following Wednesday's loss to Memphis. "We understand we feel you can always get the next one. It's just like any confident person, when things don't go your way you feel the next thing is going to go your way, and that's how this team feels."
"I am staying positive," Rondo said before a Thursday practice that rookie Jared Sullinger later characterized as like going "back to training camp" more than two months into the regular season. "I haven't lost faith and hope in this team. I have high expectations. I know we will turn it around."
That turnaround may — just may — have begun Friday night in a deliciously thorough beatdown of the Indiana Pacers.
The 94-75 shellacking, in which the Celtics allowed the Pacers to shoot just 32 percent, was only one game, of course, and still left them at 15-17 — their exact record at last year's All-Star break — heading into Saturday night's game in Atlanta. But from Avery Bradley's defensive pressure, to Rondo's attack mentality, to the toughness in the paint from Garnett and rookie Jared Sullinger, to the aggressiveness of Pierce and Courtney Lee, it was a glimpse into what Rivers and Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge still see when they look at what this team can become.
Even the starting lineup had that fuzzy, fond, familiar feel as Brandon Bass joined Bradley, Garnett, Pierce and Rondo to form the unit that fueled the resurrection from virtually the exact same spot last year and pushed them to Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals.
The Celtics have been forced to take the long view once again this season. Any doubt about that was erased after Friday's victory when Pierce talked about what he talked to his teammates about before the game.
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Ask any Las Cruces resident about the Fourth of July and two things come to mind — fireworks and rain. The start of the monsoon season in southern New Mexico has a habit of wreaking havoc with plans for outdoor festivities.
Maybe that had organizers planning the city's Fourth of July concert thinking, "Who'll Stop the Rain?" Could the band that produced that quintessential 1970 hit, Creedence Clearwater Revival, be called upon to ensure clear skies?
Well, the California band with the Southern rock sound has long since broken up, but two original members — bass player Stu Cook and drummer Doug "Cosmo" Clifford are still touring and performing CCR hits (of which there are many) under the name Creedence Clearwater Revisited.
The revised CCR will take the Las Cruces Hadley Complex stage Saturday night to help residents celebrate our nation's birthday. "And I wonder, still I wonder, who'll stop the rain?"
"Well, no promises," laughed Cook, when asked the extent of CCR's abilities.
One thing's for sure though — revisiting a legendary rock band is never a bad thing, especially one with as impressive a résumé as CCR.
In a little more than three years, from late 1968 to early 1972, Creedence Clearwater Revival recorded 18 songs that charted on the Billboard Hot 100 (13 songs that were in top 10), good enough to cement CCR's place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Although the band never had a single reach No.
Internal bickering did stop the band's reign on the charts and by the mid 1970s, lead singer John Fogerty and his brother, lead guitarist Tom Fogerty, had each begun solo careers. John Fogerty found much success as a solo artist and is still touring today. Tom Fogerty died in 1990.
After the breakup, Cook and Clifford, best friends since middle school, retreated to their roots in the Bay Area and dabbled in music production projects before beginning Revisited in 1995. The duo originally intended to play CCR songs at private functions, but high demand made national touring a possibility. As success came, the revised group had to go to court for the right to use the name Creedence Clearwater Revisited.
The lawsuit brought to the forefront the public opinion that it wasn't CCR unless former lead singer John Fogerty — who gets much of the credit for the band's success — was at the helm.
In response, Cook told Pulse that Revisited hasn't heard any complaints after shows. "We're here to revisit, celebrate and honor the band's music," he said. "If you don't think we're the real deal, you'll have to come see us and make up your own mind."
Cook also gives credit where credit is due: "John wrote some great songs for the band. We have a catalog that very few can match."
In Revisited, John Tristao takes over as lead singer, Tal Morris is the lead guitar player and multi-instrumentalist Steve Gunner chips in with guitar, keyboard, harmonica, percussion and backup vocals.
The band plays "as many CCR hits as possible," Cook said, adding that he's surprised at the amount of songs the younger generation sings along to during shows.
"These new fans, they had no idea what the late 60s/early 70s were like. This is not a nostalgia thing for them," Cook said, "but they seem to be having as much fun, if not, more fun, than the rest of us."
According to national weather services, there is a 10 percent chance of rain Saturday in Las Cruces. Hopefully, that roar you hear before the fireworks won't be from thunder clouds, but from a satisfied crowd celebrating our nation's birthday with one of its finest bands.
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If you go
Who: Creedence Clearwater Revisited, for the city of Las Cruces' Fourth of July show
When: 8 p.m. Saturday
Where: Hadley Complex, 1600 Hadley Ave.
How much: free
Info: creedence-revisited.com
Creedence Clearwater Revival's hits
(with the song's highest rank on pop chart) and year released
"I Put A Spell On You" (58) 1968
"Bad Moon Rising" (2) 1969
"Commotion" (30) 1969
"Down on the Corner" (3) 1969
"Fortunate Son" (14) 1969
"Green River" (2) 1969
"Lodi" (52) 1969
"Proud Mary" (2) 1969
"Long As I Can See the Light" (2) 1970
"Lookin' Out My Back Door" (2) 1970
"Run Through the Jungle" (4) 1970
"Travelin' Band" (2) 1970
"Up Around the Bend" (4) 1970
"Who'll Stop the Rain" (2) 1970
"Have You Ever Seen the Rain" (8) 1971
"Hey Tonight" (8) 1971
"Sweet Hitch-Hiker" (6) 1971
"Someday Never Comes" (25) 1972
"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (43) 1976


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Big deal! It's just another pregnant cow at Walmart. Why is that special? Wait, that's Kim Kardashian? The rich and famous self-proclaimed fashion entrepreneur? The idiot who actively avoids maternity wear in favor of ridiculous looking dresses even though she's huge? That's Kim Kardashian? WAHAHAHAHA! YOU'RE AVERAGE NOW!
lol umm she was far below average before
Just another single momma….Nothin but a thang chicken wang…..She should have stuck with Chris……Kanye is out the door typical black male….He will be up in the strip club,chasing white girls if you need a baby payment…..OUT!!!
"I am going to need a wider lens"…said the guy behind her.
she actually looks a lot better than I expected she would at 6+ months…better than jessica simpson did
More like Kim Whoredashian
No one was allowed at the deposition, so this "a source tells Radar exclusively" is such bs. Or a court reporter just got herself fired over a $200 story-which I highly doubt. Radar online is such a bogus site!
Or the source is Kim releasing the information to get sympathy.
Kim looks beautiful ….it's very sad how much people can be so jealous about the other happiness…good luck ..best wishes …xoxo
What an idiot
Great….yet another demon spawn that the world will be expected to fawn over, and think is somehow more special than the average rat of the rug….and will, no doubt, become the next marketing tool in KK's toolbox….and if the French welcome that pretentious prick ("I'mo lechyou finish…") with open arms, like they probably will, there's another good indicator we should've let them rot back in WWtwice
What? A black gets a girl pregnant and he leaves her????
I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT would ever happen……..
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Jersey hoops games rescheduled
gary milesWith the regular season ending on Saturday, many of Thursday's games that were lost to the inclement weather, won't be rescheduled. One case is the Pennsauken at Camden boys' interdivisional Olympic Conference boys' basketball game. Thursday's boys' basketball... Read more
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Carroll boys beat La Salle, 51-47
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Ice hockey: St. Augustine stuns Delbarton
Roman Amiratto scored all four goals as St. Augustine Prep stunned previously unbeaten Delbarton, 4-2, tonight in Gordon Cup ice hockey action. John Stevens, the son of the former Flyers' coach, added four assists and goaltender Joe Pantalone made 31 saves for St. Augustine. Delbarton (23-1) had... Read more
Perfect season ends for Strawberry Mansion with a loss to Franklin
Gary MilesBY THE INQUIRER A perfect season suddenly became imperfect Tuesday. The Strawberry Mansion boys were cruising along with a 23-0 record and reached the Class AA semifinals of the Public League playoffs. That's where the season came to a screeching halt for the Knights. Jeffrey Giddings struck... Read more
AC-Holy Spirit & Ocean City/LCM In Cape Title Games
Marc NarducciAtlantic City's girl's basketball team will face Holy Spirit and the boys' teams from Lower Cape May and Ocean City will meet in Saturday's Cape Atlantic League championship games at Egg Harbor Township. The Atlantic City-Holy Spirit game will take place at noon, followed... Read more
S.J. boys excel at indoor track meet
Gary MilesHoly Cross' Justin Ramsey won the 400 meters in 53.13 seconds, and Bishop Eustace's Ron Griswold grabbed second place in the 1,600 at 4:32.04 in the NJSIAA state Non-Public B championships at the John Bennett Indoor Complex in Toms River. Read more
Vineland girls reach hoops milestones
Gary MilesBY THE INQUIRER The fans at Vineland were treated to a pair of girls' basketball milestones Friday night, when guards Alicia Cox and Jasmine Lewis did what they do best — put the ball through the hoop — in the Clan's 80-49 romp past visiting Mainland in a Cape-Atlantic League... Read more
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|December 12 2010, 10:22 PM
Lieutenant Commander
Location: The Perseus Galactic Arm
The Future Of Federation Tech
But I got to thinking and realised that the future of Federation technology will require them to only build one class of ship.
The Galaxy class and Prometheus class utilises the ability of separation and reconnection.
So all the Federation needs to do is design one class of vessel that has the ability to connect an extra section to the hull.
So for an example the Federation builds 5 of this new class of ship.
The 1st ship is for deep space exploration so the ship is connected to a deep space exploration module which houses extra crew quarters and extra science bays.
The 2nd ship is being sent to the Gorn border due to recent hostilities so this particular ship is connected to a battle module which contains extra weapons arrays, extra torpedo launchers, extra ordinance and a more powerful shield generator.
The 3rd ship is being sent on a rescue mission and needs to transfer several thousand people, so this ship is connected to a rescue module which houses extra facilities such as medical bays, quarters, replicators for aid replication etc
The 4th ship is for a diplomatic mission. Well, I'm sure you catch my drift.
There really is no need for a multitude of ship classes. All taht is required is one class of ship that has the capability of connecting to specific modules designed for specific types of missions.
The ships can of course function without the modules, the modules are just an added bonus to help that ship better function whilst on mission.
Imagine if during the Dominion war there was one class of ship and all those ships replaced their deep space modules, science modules etc with battle modules?
All the Federation ships would in an instant be transformed from scientific, exploratory and diplomatic ships in to ships prepared for full scale war.
The modules can also be of varying sizes, so the deep space module is not necessarily as large as the battle module.
Last edited by Lorna; December 12 2010 at 10:39 PM.
|December 12 2010, 11:01 PM
Location: Wingsley
Re: The Future Of Federation Tech
Having said this, there are definite possibilities for technological improvement and improved maintenance by standardizing on a single "platform" with multiple ship types based on that platform. Your multiclass could be the standard basis for multiple types of cruisers. I think the best Sovereign-derived art I've seen on the web to follow this philosophy would have to be the Starship Poseidon. I started a thread about this a couple of years ago to see if anyone had any additional information on this beauty. You can read the reactions I solicited in that thread.
I was pleased with people's responses. I saw Poseidon as a possible late 24th century successor to the general line of cruiser-type Federation starships of the same ilk as the old Constitution and Intrepid/Voyager. My take on it was that after the Dominion War the Federation had limited resources, and they decided to consolidate starship classes and designs on fewer standardized platforms "to get the most bang for the buck." By utilizing the components of the existing Sovvie, Starfleet would be able to kill two birds with one stone by filling more than one classification of starship fleet on a single design.
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|December 12 2010, 11:28 PM
Lieutenant Commander
Location: The Perseus Galactic Arm
Re: The Future Of Federation Tech
Even without a module attached, the ship is still mission capable and still has the standard firepower of the other Federation ship classes such as the Intrepid. The modules simply add extra capability and therefore a ship of this class fitted with a battle module would be more powerful vs the Dominion.
It would be no different than the USS Voyager going into battle, the difference being that Voyager could be fitted with a battle module.
Did the Klingons prove weak against the Dominion with their very few ship classes? Were the Vor'Cha and Negh'Var ship vulnerable just because those were the two popular designs of their fleet?
|December 12 2010, 11:36 PM
Lieutenant Commander
Location: The Perseus Galactic Arm
Re: The Future Of Federation Tech
The modules could also be warp capable so they can head towards the ship they need to connect to. This way the ship and the module meet half way and make the module switch. So the ship can get back underway without travelling so far and the module that was dropped off can set it's own course to dock at the ship yard.
Thing is though, the ships wont need to keep changing modules all the time. If a ship is fitted with a science module that ship will spend the rest of it's days on those type of missions, only when the ships mission is changed will the module need changing.
|December 13 2010, 12:41 AM
Vice Admiral
Location: Turkeystan
Re: The Future Of Federation Tech
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|December 13 2010, 12:51 AM
Lieutenant Commander
Location: The Perseus Galactic Arm
Re: The Future Of Federation Tech
The Intrepid Class has regular armaments, same armaments of most Starfleet ships. No Starleet ships is built without adequate firepower. I don't think I've ever seen a Starfleet ship that did not have 2 fore and aft torpedo tubes and topside and underside phaser banks.
The Multiclass vessel will, like all Starfleet ships have these armaments.
Now as for my saying it would be like Voyager going into battle with a battle module I meant it would be like Voyager detaching the font of it's saucer and replacing it with a battle module. The whole point is the that Multiclass ship will have a detachable front section.
What I am trying to convey here is that the Multiclass ship could be similar to Voyager but with the front section of saucer capable of detachment and reattachment.
I was simply using Voyager as an example. The point being that the Multiclass ship can perform just as good as an Intrepid class can but during a time of war it could be given a new module that makes it far more powerful in battle.
Look at the ship in my avatar. Imagine that saucer made of 8 modules, you can either replace a single module or a full 8 modules at one time.
That's the new idea, my original really was only for the saucer being split into two with the front being the detachable module.
|December 13 2010, 12:54 AM
Rear Admiral
Re: The Future Of Federation Tech
You need niche ships to fill niche roles, otherwise your jacks of all trades are too tied up filling those niches to do really important things, and too many people get hurt or die.
I promise you I will listen to what has been said here, even though I wasn't here.
|December 13 2010, 01:08 AM
Lieutenant Commander
Location: The Perseus Galactic Arm
Re: The Future Of Federation Tech
Instead of having an Akira Class ship and an Intrepid Class ship there could be two Multiclass ships, one Multiclass has the battle module in place and the other one has the Science module in place.
The Multiclass with battle module can go take care of the Romulans and the other ship can go check out that negative space wedgie.
It would be no different than having those two separate classes of ship except that the Multiclass ships can swap roles whenever they wish by a simple change in module.
The Multiclass also allows ships to be given more weaponry and firepower in times of war.
Look at the ship in my avatar, the ship could be exactly the same design no matter what its role is, all it needs is the module necessary for the mission at hand.
|December 13 2010, 01:23 AM
Rear Admiral
Re: The Future Of Federation Tech
Then there's the issue of propulsion systems - is the standardized ship class going to favor efficiency range and reliability, or power and speed? What happens when your enemy outlasts you or outspeeds you?
No design can be perfect and the less designs you rely on, the more you invite yourself to being outfoxed, outpowered, outgunned out-everythinged by the universe.
I am familiar with the Insignia-Class, and it is ingenious with its pie-slice saucer and its implementation would eliminate the need for so many mid-size cruiser designs like the Akira, Excelsior, Sovereign, etc., but wouldn't eliminate the need for small cheap scouts, survey ships, couriers, dedicated research ships, light escorts, etc. When you send a big ship to do a little ships job, you send more crewmembers and a larger hull than you need to get the job done.
I promise you I will listen to what has been said here, even though I wasn't here.
|December 13 2010, 01:28 AM
Lieutenant Commander
Location: The Perseus Galactic Arm
Re: The Future Of Federation Tech
If all you want is a fast scout with a minimal crew then don't connect a module. It's THAT straight forward and simple.
You're under the mistaken impression that these ships are swapping modules every other day. That's not the case. One of these ships could use the same module throughout the ships entire lifespan. The ability to switch modules is a bonus.
You don't need different ship classes to perform different roles. All you need to do is change the layout/makeup of the saucer sections or if you want a scout ship just simply don't add the majority of the saucer section and the bit of saucer you do add make sure they have extra engines.
You asked the question What happens when your enemy outlasts you or outspeeds you?
Well can you not say that about ANY ship class?
|December 13 2010, 01:32 AM
Rear Admiral
Re: The Future Of Federation Tech
I promise you I will listen to what has been said here, even though I wasn't here.
|December 13 2010, 01:50 AM
Lieutenant Commander
Location: The Perseus Galactic Arm
Re: The Future Of Federation Tech
|December 13 2010, 01:58 AM
Rear Admiral
Re: The Future Of Federation Tech
I promise you I will listen to what has been said here, even though I wasn't here.
|December 13 2010, 02:07 AM
Lieutenant Commander
Location: The Perseus Galactic Arm
Re: The Future Of Federation Tech
Does the Federation need scout ships? What the hell are they scouting? The federation has sensors and space bases along it's borders. Any sign of movement and they can send a multiclass ship for a more detailed scouting.
By building scout ships they're wasting materials and resources, those scout ships likely see very little use and so they were built for nothing.
Any scouting that needs doing could be done by Multiclass ships, drop off the saucer section, go do the scouting and once the scouting is done the ship can re-attach the saucer section and actually do something else when scouting is no longer required.
Building scouts would be a waste of time when scouting is a minimal requirement.
But what the hell, let's have little scout ships for scouting. That still does not make any difference to the fact that a Multiclass ship can replace all other classes of vessel.
So the Federation can go from having dozens of ship classes to just two classes, a scout class and a multiclass.
Your entire argument has been based on the scout ship, I've just compromised with you on the scout ship and said we'll build scout ships. You now have no possible argument against the multiclass replacing all other classes.
|December 13 2010, 02:28 AM
Rear Admiral
Re: The Future Of Federation Tech
Your argument relies on the idea that the multiclass can replace everything, but fails to account for the fact that frontline ships aren't the only ship types and that mundane tasks better suited for cheap, rugged ships form the backbone of any fleet, such as - (off the top of my head)
-High-speed Couriers
-Recovery Ships (For retrieving damaged starships)
-Survey ships
-Medical ships
It also fails to account for the amount of time and effort that replacing modules could take, and fails to take into account that Starfleet's ships are its frontline defense against any threat power, or extreme emergency.
At the end of the day, the Insignia-class is just a cruiser, and there are going to be logistics requirements. Every spaceframe has its limitations, every production line has its limitations. Smaller warp engines are easier to build, fewer replicators are easier to build.
Feel free to argue that the Insignia Multiclass would make a great recovery ship, or hospital ship. I'd love to see the Federation's frontline cruiser, and greatest defense against enemy starfleets recklessly used as a logistical support ship.
It may fly in fanfiction, but field it in theory in something like a real-time strategy game, and your opponent will destroy you with an armada of smaller, cheaper, more versatile ships, while your handful of larger multirole ships are spreading themselves thin trying to do everything.
I promise you I will listen to what has been said here, even though I wasn't here.
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