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Union employees at the Hostess Brands plant in Biddeford have been on strike since Friday, joining workers at many other Hostess plants around the country. They're protesting a new contract from the company which includes significant cuts in wages and benefits. As Samantha Fields reports, they're doing so despite Hostess' warning that a strike could force the company to liquidate.
It's rainy and cold on Precourt Street in Biddeford, where a couple dozen people are walking the picket line. A rotating group of workers has been maintaining a constant presence here since Friday in front of both entrances to the Hostess Brands plant.
Jerry Leighton (left), a maintenance mechanic, says employees are protesting cuts to their pay, their pensions and other benefits that the company just imposed on them.
"They didn't give us a chance to negotiate on it, they just said, 'You're going to take these pay cuts and you're going to like it,'" he says.
Instead of accepting the cuts, union employees at a number of Hostess Brands plants across the country are now on strike. And workers at other plants are honoring the picket lines.
In Biddeford, there are some local employees who have crossed the line and others who have been brought in from out of state to keep it operating.
Here comes their blackout vehicle now," Leighton says. "It's coming down the driveway. You can see it. It's a big Chevy SUV. It's gray in color and they have blacked out windows. They've got a security guard driving it. They've hired private security in here. Another expense that they really didn't need to put out. It's pretty well known as the scab mobile or the loser limo. Whatever you want to call it."
The majority of the plant's more than 300 union workers are on strike. Their employer, Hostess Brands, Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in January. The company has said the wage and benefit reductions are necessary for its survival.
But union employees like Jerry Leighton say they're are fed up with how Hostess Brands has been managed, and the way it treats its workers. "It's too bad that it has to come to this," Leighton says. "But in order to stop them from basically grilling people into the ground, we have to do it."
Calls to Hostess Brands were not returned by airtime. But in a written statement issued Friday, the company warned that "a widespread strike will cause Hostess Brands to liquidate if we are unable to produce or deliver products."
Ernest Curtain is a molder operator at the plant. He says he hopes that the strike doesn't lead to the company's demise, but that, either way, it's the right thing to do.
"Regardless of whether we shut their business down or no - hopefully we don't - but I mean if that's what it takes to make a statement," he says. "I'm sure the whole nation is looking. We gotta stand strong and do whatever it takes until the bitter end."
And fellow striker Jerry Leighton says that, despite the risk, it's worth it to stand up for what he believes in. "And most of these guys that are standing out here believe it too," he says. "You stand out in the rain, you stand out in the cold. We have people here all the time. And tonight's going to be a little frosty for them. But they're going to be right out here on the line, and they're going to do what they have to do."
Biddeford City Manager John Bubier says there is no indication that the Biddeford plant is likely to close.
But if it does, some workers say they're optimistic that another baking company would be interested in taking over the plant, and keeping it - and many of its employees - working.
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Needs to be changed from japan version.
too good in a file destruction file. Multisphereing too easy so multiple sphere handicap not enough.
Maybe 3sp cost /. Self grim locks ?
Also maybe remove ability to remove opponents units from grave
Lots of files pack this grim as it is so could. My 3 cards cancel 6 of your cards gl with fighting me with 1/4 of your file gone for 1/8 of mine. Dedicated file destruction / hyprid files are super strong using it.
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for gon. one card trade for 2 for a cost of 2sp. Combined with the other cards in file destrution it can easily empty the opponents file.Even moreso it removes opponets carrds from grave so works verses stuff like undead very well. More so than this removing opponents card is extra good when combined with miffyre soul skill possibly to fund death maker for the field wipe needed to win. Then if you field wipe opponent once you win.
Possibly on its own it is not op but in a dedicated file destruction file in conjuction with other cards like sumer &fellena which is also a 2 for 1 trade, and simulacrum of annarose(surprise surprise another set 11 card) which can stall and file destruct it is op. Plus the usual 3sp soul skill generator( to fund sp to spam grim) and triple engage ss to stall. Very little reason to not pack triple rasam or the like as it helps most files.
While I am at it set 11 is too strong especially since it was free and power creeps all other sets. This would be fine it future sets were similarly op but set12 was more balanced.It needs to be seriously balanced. nerf set 11 especially maybe only soul skills as it was too good as it was a japan copy and since many people have a playset no reason to spend. Also alienates any new players or those who missed it for some reason.


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Section 2217a,Pub. L. 87–195, pt. I, § 272, as added Pub. L. 89–583, pt. I, § 106,Sept. 19, 1966, 80 Stat. 800, related to a number of criteria to be taken into account in providing assistance under the Southeast Asia Multilateral and Regional Programs.
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Councillors in Songea Municipal Council have rejected engineer Maximilian Kabairuka and district education officer (DEO) charged with secondary schools, Hanji Yusuph, claiming the duo did not qualify to hold the positions due to poor performance.
The two executives were rejected during the full council meeting on Monday held at the Council Hall.
Before there was a hot discussion whereby municipal deputy mayor Mariam Dizumba said the engineer had lost the capacity to supervise roads causing them to be constructed below standard.
"Honourable mayor, this engineer has proved inefficient in this municipality. Everything he does is substandard, just look at the Majengo Road, a grader scrapped the surface and the compressor came over without even wetting the ground first," she said.
She cited another example of a joining section between Subira and Lizaboni wards, whose construction tender was announced since early last year but only started last March, while there was no explanation for the delay.
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As for the secondary education municipal officer, a motion to reject him was moved by Lilambo ward councillor Yobo Mapunda, who claimed the officer had caused education standards to fall in the municipality because of his poor performance and that he was not in good terms with colleagues including teachers.
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COPD: Keeping Your Diet Healthy
If you have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), you may have little appetite or feel too tired to prepare and eat meals. But eating regularly and eating healthy foods is important because food:
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- Provides you with the energy you need for daily activities.
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COPD affects your eating habits in many ways. You may not have the energy to prepare or cook meals, or you may have no interest in food, take medicines that reduce your appetite, or find it difficult to eat because you are short of breath.
If you have COPD, eating regularly and eating healthy foods is important because:
- Food provides you with energy, including the energy you need to breathe. You need more energy to breathe than a healthy person.
- You need nutrients for a healthy immune system. If you have COPD, you are at increased risk for lung infections. A healthy diet and strong immune system can help you prevent and fight infections.
- If you are overweight, your heart and lungs have to work harder, which makes breathing more difficult. Eating healthy foods can help you lose weight.
- If you do not eat enough or are underweight, you generally feel tired, which in turn makes it more difficult to do everyday activities. Being underweight may also increase your chance of getting infections. Eating healthy foods can help you gain or keep your weight.
Test Your Knowledge
Eating regularly and eating healthy foods can help prevent lung infections in people who have COPD.
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Eating healthy foods regularly keeps your immune system strong. A healthy immune system makes it easier to avoid and fight infections.
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Eating healthy foods regularly keeps your immune system strong. A healthy immune system makes it easier to avoid and fight infections.
People with COPD often have trouble preparing foods and eating. The following tips can make eating easier and help you get necessary nutrition. But if you have other health problems that may restrict the foods you can eat, talk with your doctor or a registered dietitian before making changes in your diet.
Make eating easier
- Choose foods that are easy to prepare.
- Eat in a relaxed atmosphere.
- Eat with friends and family.
- If you eat a main meal, try to eat it early. This way, you will have energy throughout more of the day.
- Try to include a favorite food in your meals.
Avoid shortness of breath while eating
- Stop smoking. It is never too late to quit smoking. No matter how long you have had COPD or how serious it is, quitting smoking will help slow the disease and improve your quality of life.
- Use medicines that make breathing easier and/or clear your airways about 1 hour before eating.
- Rest before eating if eating makes you short of breath or tired.
- Eat while sitting up. This helps remove pressure on your lungs.
- If you use oxygen, use it while eating. Eating and digestion require energy, which causes your body to use more oxygen.
- Eat six small meals each day instead of three large ones so that your stomach is never extremely full. A full stomach can interfere with breathing by pushing on the diaphragm.
- Drink your beverage at the end of the meal. Drinking before or during the meal can fill you up more quickly.
- Avoid or eat only small amounts of gas-forming foods (they bloat the abdomen and make breathing difficult). These include onions, cauliflower, broccoli, melons, peas, corn, cucumbers, cabbage, brussels sprouts, turnips, raw apples, and beans (except green beans). Fried and greasy foods can also cause gas or bloating.
- Eat and chew slowly so you are less likely to become short of breath. Try putting your spoon or fork down between bites to slow your eating speed.
- If you have a hard time breathing in the morning, do not skip breakfast. Have a liquid nutritional drink (such as Ensure) instead.
Eat healthy foods
- Eat a varied diet. Eat fruits and vegetables, dairy products, cereal and grains, and meats.
- Avoid foods that are difficult to chew.
- Use less salt. Too much salt can cause you to
retain fluids, which may interfere with your breathing.
- Use herbs or no-salt spices to flavor your foods.
- Don't add salt to foods while cooking.
- Buy packaged foods low in salt.
- Don't waste energy consuming foods with little nutritional value, such as potato chips, candy bars, and soft drinks.
Test Your Knowledge
If you have COPD, what you eat is not as important as how much you eat.
This answer is incorrect.
If you have COPD, you need to eat enough food and make good food choices. Some foods may make it more difficult to breathe because they produce gas and bloat the abdomen. Other foods, such as candy bars or soft drinks, can fill you up without providing good nutrition.
This answer is correct.
If you have COPD, you need to eat enough food and make good food choices. Some foods may make it more difficult to breathe because they produce gas and bloat the abdomen. Other foods, such as candy bars or soft drinks, can fill you up without providing good nutrition.
If you have COPD and are worried about your weight, see your doctor or a registered dietitian. He or she can help you plan a healthful diet.
If you are eating regularly and are losing weight, see your doctor.
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Diagnostic mode
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A computer system's diagnostic mode is used to ascertain whether or not there are problems or inconsistencies in a starship's main systems, including the transporters.
When Miles O'Brien, Data and Deanna Troi, taken over by Ux-Mal criminals, wanted to make sure that nobody could use the transporter to beam them back to Mab-Bu VI, O'Brien took the entire transporter array off line and placed the transporter in a diagnostic mode which would take hours to complete its cycle. (TNG: "Power Play")
Types of diagnostic modes
Level 1 diagnostic
A Level 1 diagnostic is a troubleshooting/test series that requires taking the associated system off-line.
In 2369 Chief Miles O'Brien ran a level 1 diagnostic of the runabout Ganges' systems, including the central power linkages. (DS9: "Q-Less")
The same year he told Julian Bashir that he was thinking of running a level 1 diagnostic of the phase coil generator when he was back aboard the station. (DS9: "The Storyteller")
O'Brien ordered Neela to run a level 1 diagnostic of the runabout's computer interface in 2369 after they've discovered that Ensign Aquino was murdered there. (DS9: "In the Hands of the Prophets")
One of the peculiarities that allowed William Riker to discover that what he originally thought was the future was actually a fabricated reality was noticing that La Forge's level 1 diagnostic had lasted for more than 30 hours, displaying an uncharacteristic level of incompetence, as it would have never taken the real La Forge more than 4. (TNG: "Future Imperfect")
Level 2 diagnostic
- "Remember Me"
- "Aquiel"
Level 3 diagnostic
Lieutenant Farrell requested permission from Geordi La Forge to run a level 3 diagnostic on the USS Enterprise-D's port plasma relays, as she had noticed one of the generators was fluctuating. (Star Trek Generations)
In 2369 Commander Benjamin Sisko ordered a quick level 3 diagnostic of the graviton generator because of the residual charge readings. (DS9: "Dax")
The same year Chief Miles O'Brien ran a level 3 sensor sweep through the promenade to detect anomoulos readings after he found the program ANA. (DS9: "In the Hands of the Prophets")
- "The Nth Degree"
- "Schisms"
- "Cause and Effect"
- "Aquiel"
- "The Chase"
- "Phantasms"
Level 4 diagnostic
Locking a starship's transporters diagnostic mode, effectively putting it into a diagnostic cycle, will keep any inert matter in the pattern buffer. Ordinarily, inert matter can only remain in the pattern buffer for seven minutes before becoming irretrievably lost, but Montgomery Scott was able to reconfigure a transporter, locking the pattern into a level 4 diagnostic cycle to keep his pattern in the pattern buffer for 75 years. His pattern was retrieved with minimal degradation. However, another occupant was not so lucky and was lost. (TNG: "Relics")
Level 5 diagnostic
- TNG: "The Mind's Eye"
- "Drive"
- "Repression"
Security diagnostic
- In 2369, the Bajoran engineer Neela ran a diagnostic of the modifications she did before. (DS9: "Duet")
- Complete systems diagnostics. (VOY: "Parallax")
- Transtator assembly diagnostic. (VOY: "Time and Again")
- Janet's Star Trek: Voyager Sitewbm


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Panera Bread Puts Artificial Ingredients on 'No No List'
Panera Bread joins the growing list of restaurants and food companies dropping artificial ingredients to meet customer demands for healthier foods.
Panera Bread joins the growing list of restaurants and food companies dropping artificial ingredients to meet customer demands for healthier foods.
More locations increased revenue, but adjusted net income declined 9 percent from a year earlier, pushed down by higher food costs and labor expenses.
Panera is increasing customer counts, receipts and outlets, but the rub on the bottom line is that margins continue to contract.
Panera is adding touch-screen tablets that customers can place orders on and inviting orders via smartphones -- and the orders are delivered to the table.
Some of the hottest food and beverage chains started with run-of-the-mill concepts. Consider Chipotle, Starbucks, Panera Bread and Buffalo Wild Wings.
From Sept. 16-29, McDonald's is giving away small coffees to its morning customers to promote its brew, and to tout its entry into the home coffee market.
Red Lobster wants to be seen as a purveyor of quality seafood, so it's trying new strategies to appear more upscale to increasingly value-conscious diners.
Psy's "Gangnam Style" video marks 2 billion views on YouTube, and MySpace channels Throwback Thursday - badly - by emailing old photos to dormant users.
The Dow rang up its first record of 2014 Wednesday thanks in part to a strong report on job growth, and despite negligible first quarter GDP growth.
Panera is installing Apple iPads at kiosks in stores to allow guests to place their own orders, in an effort to speed up ordering and customer service.
After five straight quarters of strong gains, the market rode a treadmill for the past 3 months -- lots of movement, but ending up pretty much where it started.
Stocks turned lower Wednesday after President Obama took a harder line against Russia, calling for more sanctions in the wake of the invasion of Crimea.
Fast-casual dining chains Potbelly and Panera Bread struggled to grow in the latest quarter, with comparable-restaurant sales barely keeping up with the U.S. inflation rate.
It was a Charles Dickens type of day on Wall Street: a tale of two markets. The Dow slid, the Nasdaq rose, and the S&P 500 split the difference by closing virtually flat.
Stocks fell as investors weighed disappointing earnings from several notable manufacturing and technology companies, ending the S&P 500's four-day streak of record highs.
The rapid rise in college tuition is moderating. That's one of five money stories you need to know Wednesday.
Panera Bread CEO Ron Shaich is calling attention to food insecurity this week by spending only $31.50 on food -- the weekly allotment for people on SNAP benefits.
The Golden Arches are looking a bit drab. McDonald's had just reported tepid August numbers, despite the fast-food giant doing everything possible to amp up sales.
From Microsoft having to rebrand its cloud service to KFC trying to fly up-market, here's a rundown of this week's best and worst results from the business world.
It's not the best of times to be running a casual dining or fast food chain. Their sales are sputtering because another restaurant category is eating their lunch.
Wendy's first-quarter net income falls 83 percent from a year ago, as the fast-food icon seeks to transform its image.
Order a bowl of turkey chili at a St. Louis-area Panera Bread cafe and it'll cost you a penny. Or $5. Or $100. In other words, whatever you decide.
McDonald's, Wendy's, and Burger King have been rolling out new sandwiches that will pit them against Subway, Panera, and even the gourmet burger joints.
Consumers' increasing preference for fast-food outlets such as Chipotle and Panera take a toll on Darden's third-quarter earnings.
Secret menus. McDonald's (MCD) has one. So do Burger King (BKW), Subway and most other fast-food chains. These are items that, for various reasons, are not on the regular menu, but can be had if you know what to ask for.
Panera Bread and Chipotle Mexican Grill are the leaders in this new trend of 'fast casual'. That's the position between fast food and more formal restaurants with waiter service. Itâs also the sweet spot in price. Both companies are out with solid quarterly earnings.
Among the things sure to help shape the week ahead on Wall Street, Visa will tell us whether we've been choosing plastic over paper; Disney will tell us how much magic it has in its financials; and Panera and Chipotle will serve up their quarterly results.
McDonald's said Monday that a key sales figure rose in November, as U.S. customers snapped up the world's biggest hamburger chain's breakfast offerings and limited-time Cheddar Bacon Onion sandwiches. The increase follows a decline in October.
McDonald's in October suffered its first monthly decline in comparable-store sales since 2003 -- and October is usually a good month for the burger giant. So what did Ronald do wrong? Too much focus on premium menu items, too little on what its customers really want: Low cost eats.
Wendy's pigtails are getting a tweak. The Dublin, Ohio-based fast food company is updating its logo in a move intended to signal its ongoing transformation into a higher-end hamburger chain.


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Hi eleran, and welcome to the Guild!
I don't use CC3 myself, but all the users of it give the same advice: Follow the tutorials before you do anything else!
Feel free to post up the results here!
I am brand new to CC3 and mapping in general. I would like to learn to use CC3 to make maps and other things for my RPGs. I just bought the program yesterday, so I am VERY new. All advice is appreciated. Hopefully, one day I can get to the point where I can be giving advice to newcomers as well.
Hi eleran, and welcome to the Guild!
I don't use CC3 myself, but all the users of it give the same advice: Follow the tutorials before you do anything else!
Feel free to post up the results here!
Welcome, eleran! We have some amazing CC users here, so be sure to post those questions and attempts--you're sure to get great advice!
Once again, welcome!
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I am a seasoned pro (in my mind at least ), at the whole CC3 thing.
If you bought the software, and I am assuming you got it via download, you will find in the:
profantasy>CC3>documentation folder a PDF called CC3 essentials. This is a 40 page PDF that will step you through the process of making both a simple overland map, and a simpe dungeon map.
If you have any questions, please post here.
Daniel the Neon Knight: Campaign Cartographer User
Never use a big word when a diminutive one will suffice!
Any questions on CC3? Post them with CC3 in the Subject Line!
MY 'FAMOUS' CC3 MAPS: Thunderspire; Pyramid of Shadows; King of the Trollhaunt Warrens; Demon Queen's Enclave
Thanx for the friendly greetings. I started the tutorial in the essentials pdf last night, but got so frustrated switching back and forth I decided to wait til tonight after I printed it out here at work.
Last edited by eleran; 01-28-2008 at 01:53 PM. Reason: answered my own question
I do have a couple of questions to start.
I have a hand drawn map I want to digitize using CC3. Can I scan it in and use it for tracing purposes, or I do I just need to recreate it as faithfully as possible freehand?
After I got frustrated with the tutorial, I decided to play around on my own a little just to put what I had seen so far into practice. I made a landmass bordering a sea area. I tried to run a river from inland down to the coast and link it to the coast, but when I would get to the sea area, my river would jump itself up to the top map edge every single time. What am I missing? When I did this using the tutorial maps it worked just fine, but my own map it didnt work well at all.
I dont like the width of the default river. Can I change the width it is drawn at?
Thats it for now. Thanx in advance for any assistance.
You can scan your hand-drawn map, import to CC3 as a PNG file in order to trace it. Somebody else ought to give you the steps, but I believe a tutorial may exist here that describes that...
Plus as a workaround, I create my larger rivers at the same time as I create a Coastline, so the river in a sense becomes part of the coastline, in that I'm drawing the river using the coastline tool. Of course you have to be careful not to cross the bank, when drawing the other side of the river. For larger rivers this technique works well enough.
I believe the line width for the river tool is set to a standard - don't know if you can change the line width...
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Here is what I do.
First, if you have a pre drawn map, you should know what the dimensions of your map is (The whole paper, ocean everything). Once you know that, start a new map using the NEW MAP wizard. Select a size as close to yours (or even a little bigger or smaller if you have a lot of ocean around the map).
Once you have the map made, create a SHEET and a LAYER for your map image. I call mine BMP as I usually insert BMP images. It doesn't matter what you call them, as long as you know what they are. Make sure the SHEET you select is as close to the top of the Sheet List as possible (This puts it on the bottom).
Ensure you have both the Layer and SHeet selected, and the select the following:
You will get a choice to select an insertable type file into your drawing. Navigate to your image (BMP or PNG), select Open, and you will get a copy of you image to place on your map.
You will likely see a command box coming up saying the image is too larger to place in the or something to that effect, and you can select to eitherstore the image's path relative to the drawing, or USe the absolute path. This means, when you open the CC3 file, the program just needs to know where to look for the file.
Select one, and click OK
It will now ask for the 1st corner. For now, ALWAYS select 0,0 (this is 0 miles East/West and 0 miles North/South), press enter. You will now see your file there and as you move the mouse around it grows and shrinks and everything else based on the mouse's movement which will represent the second corner. Because you know the dimension of you map (remember I asked you to do that above), you can type that absolute information into the command bar (width x height).
You have now imbedded your 'paper version likely' in to the map. You can select things coast, rivers, vegetation etc, and place them all on the CC3 file where your old map says to place them.
AND TONIGHT, I will wright this up as a nice tutorial and put it in the tutorial forum with images.
Daniel the Neon Knight: Campaign Cartographer User
Never use a big word when a diminutive one will suffice!
Any questions on CC3? Post them with CC3 in the Subject Line!
MY 'FAMOUS' CC3 MAPS: Thunderspire; Pyramid of Shadows; King of the Trollhaunt Warrens; Demon Queen's Enclave
Let me be the latest to say (because I doubt I am the first) U DA MAN!!!
Thanx very much for your help.
I started the tutorial again from scratch and have already run into a problem. I am in the section where I am adding mountain symbols. I selected the 1st mountain in the catalog as they told me, I right clicked and changed the scale to 0.01 which they said would make the mountains the appropriate scale for the for the selected map template. However, after doing that, the mountain is a REALLY tiny dot almost imperceptibly small. Did I do something wrong, or is the tutorial not quite right, or is it supposed to be this small?
2nd question; How do I know the proper size? Is that something you just eyeball? I am using the 100x80 size map the tutorial suggests.
Nevermind #2, I just noticed the sidebar about scaling symbols. It says most symbols should be roughly the width divided by 1000. Which leads me to believe the original scale the tutorial suggests is incorrect. The map is 80x100 so the scale should be 0.1 instead of 0.01.
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In the various military-style service organizations throughout the galaxy, and probably beyond, military parlance is the unique forms of speech of the servicepeople in the common agency or service organization.
All hands
All hands is a collective term for all crewmembers aboard a starship or starbase. A shipwide announcement may be addressed to "all hands." A ship that has been lost with no survivors is said to have been "lost with all hands."
In 2368, when the USS Enterprise-D was trapped in a temporal causality loop, Captain Picard ordered all hands to abandon ship just before a warp core breach. (TNG: "Cause and Effect")
"Brace for impact"
"Brace for impact" was an alert usually declared from the bridge of a starship, before it achieved an impact that the inertial dampers could not adequately compensate for. When this alert was sounded, usually through the order of the captain or first officer, all hands were to secure their stations and prepare for impact. This alert was also used when the inertial dampers could not sufficiently level out the ship and a possible collision with an interstellar object was imminent. (This alert could also be used to warn a ship's crew of possible emergency landing procedures)
In 2369, Benjamin Sisko told Kira Nerys, Julian Bashir, and Kai Opaka to brace for impact before the USS Yangtzee Kiang crashed on the moon of the Ennis and the Nol-Ennis. (DS9: "Battle Lines")
In 2371, Commander William T. Riker warned the crew of the USS Enterprise-D to brace for impact when the secondary hull was breached and necessitated an emergency landing of the saucer section (primary hull) on the surface of the planet Veridian III. (Star Trek Generations)
In 2374, Martok told the IKS Rotarran crew to brace for impact when it appeared a Jem'Hadar fighter was firing on them. In fact, Alexander Rozhenko had confused the reading with a battle simulation. (DS9: "Sons and Daughters")
Captain Kathryn Janeway warned the crew of the USS Voyager to brace for impact in 2375 when the ship was attempting to escape from the the Void through its vortex by riding the incoming shock wave from the vessel's aft. (VOY: "Night")
Later in the same year, Voyager was thrown out of a quantum slipstream corridor and headed to a nearby L-class planet to make an emergency landing. When Janeway realized they were coming in too hard, she ordered her crew to brace for impact. (VOY: "Timeless")
Captain Jean-Luc Picard warned the crew of the USS Enterprise-E to brace for impact when he ordered the ship to ram the Reman warbird Scimitar in 2379. (Star Trek Nemesis)
|Alert signals
|Colored alerts:
|Red • Double Red • Yellow • Blue • Gray
|General alerts:
|Battle stations • "Brace for impact" • General quarters
|Battle • Evacuation • Fire • Intruder • Perimeter • Proximity • Security • Standby • Tactical
Cannon fodder
Cannon fodder refers to soldiers who are seen as expendable. The term derives from soldiers who were ordered to charge into the face of artillery fire, which was practically a suicide charge.
During the Dominion War, the Romulan military integrated Reman infantry into its ranks. They were used as shock troops in the most violent encounters, which Picard described as "cannon fodder". (Star Trek Nemesis)
"That's a Starfleet expression for 'get out!'"
Dismissal was usually used as a formal release of a crewmember from an official military function, such as a debriefing or other meeting. The senior officer typically gave such a command.
On board the Federation Starfleet vessel USS Voyager, Captain Janeway used "dismissed" to end her conversations, especially those in her ready room. Neelix once demanded to be let off the ship because he was feeling uncomfortable with the risk the ship was taking. Janeway firmly denied his request and then when Neelix asked "Are we done?", she replied "dismissed." (VOY: "The Cloud")
Users of "dismissed"
- Captain Jonathan Archer (ENT: "Fight or Flight")
- Acting captain Data (TNG: "Gambit, Part II")
- Degra (ENT: "The Council")
- Gul Dukat (DS9: "A Time to Stand")
- Lieutenant Commander Michael Eddington (DS9: "For the Cause")
- Captain Kathryn Janeway (VOY: "Parallax")
- Captain Edward Jellico (TNG: "Chain of Command, Part I")
- Inspector Kashyk (VOY: "Counterpoint")
- Captain James T. Kirk (TOS: "Shore Leave")
- General Martok (DS9: "Soldiers of the Empire")
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard (TNG: "The Schizoid Man")
- Q (Colonel) (VOY: "The Q and the Grey")
- Rear Admiral Gregory Quinn (TNG: "Coming of Age")
- Commander William T. Riker (TNG: "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II")
- Third Remata'Klan (DS9: "Rocks and Shoals")
- Captain Benjamin Sisko (DS9: "Captive Pursuit")
- Commander Charles Tucker III (ENT: "Awakening")
- Cadet Tim Watters (DS9: "Valiant")
- Lieutenant Tuvok (VOY: "Learning Curve")
- Lieutenant Commander Worf (TNG: "Redemption", "The Drumhead")
Duty was a term that conveyed a sense of moral commitment to someone or something. When someone recognized a duty, they committed themselves to the cause involved without considering the self-interested courses of actions that may have been relevant previously. The first duty of every Starfleet officer was to the truth, whether it was scientific truth or historical truth or personal truth. (TNG: "The First Duty")(VOY: "Fair Trade") The first duty of any captured officer was to attempt escape. (DS9: "'Til Death Do Us Part")
A duty shift was the portion of the day that various scheduled personnel aboard a starship or space station were on duty. The three shift rotation schedule was common in the Federation Starfleet. (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country; DS9: "The Assignment"; TNG: "Chain of Command, Part I")
Crew evaluations were part of the duties of the senior staff aboard the USS Enterprise-D to discuss candidates for promotion. William T. Riker and Deanna Troi were not fond of writing the required crew evaluation reports. (TNG: "Man of the People", "Lower Decks", "Tapestry")
A starship was on detached duty when it was sent on a special mission, or was "detached", from what it would normally be doing. The USS Enterprise-D was placed on detached duty in 2370, in order to investigate the disappearance and death of Captain Jean-Luc Picard. (TNG: "Gambit, Part I")
"Helm, lay in an intercept course and engage at maximum warp."
- - Captain John Harriman to Ensign Demora Sulu (Star Trek Generations)
Engage was mostly used as verbal confirmation to an earlier order given to the helmsman about the warp engines or impulse drive. It could also be used as a verb within the order referring to some other technological device, such as a tractor beam. The term execute was also used, namely by Captain Styles, while ordering the USS Excelsior to use its transwarp drive for the first time. (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock)
Users of "engage"
- Zefram Cochrane (Star Trek: First Contact)
- Fleet Captain Christopher Pike (TOS: "The Cage", "The Menagerie, Part II")
- Martok (DS9: "Soldiers of the Empire")
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard (TNG: "The Best of Both Worlds")
- Captain Benjamin Sisko (DS9: "The Search, Part I")
- Thomas Riker (DS9: "Defiant")
- Julian Bashir/Rao Vantika (DS9: "The Passenger")
- Commander William T. Riker (TNG: "The Best of Both Worlds")
- Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge (TNG: "Deja Q")
- Captain Kathryn Janeway (VOY: "Caretaker")
- Captain James T. Kirk (TOS: "The Corbomite Maneuver")
Front line
Front line was a military term for the outer-most edge of combat in war. It is often shortened as "front", which centers around a specific geographic location, such as the "Bolian front", "Vulcan front", or "Chin'toka front". (ENT: "Storm Front")
Three months into the Dominion War in 2374, Benjamin Sisko told Jadzia Dax that he hoped the USS Defiant would be sent back to the front lines. (DS9: "A Time to Stand")
Vulcan was one of the nearest major Federation planets to the front lines, as was the Kotanka system. The Federation pulled the Second and Fifth Fleets from these lines in 2374. Gul Dukat later pulled several Dominion ships from the front lines soon after. (DS9: "Favor the Bold")
The Bolarus system was also on the front lines. (DS9: "Penumbra")
The Rutharian sector was considered a long way from the front lines in 2374, whereas AR-558 was considered to be on the front lines in 2375. (DS9: "The Sound of Her Voice", "The Siege of AR-558")
After it was taken by the Federation Alliance, the Chin'toka system also became a major front in the war. Before the Second Battle of Chin'toka, Weyoun expressed his concerns to the Female Changeling that her proximity to the front concerned him. (DS9: "The Changing Face of Evil")
Starfleet regulations state that personnel should be rotated off the front lines after ninety days. (DS9: "The Siege of AR-558")
The USS Destiny arrived at Deep Space 9 in early 2375 for supplies, as they were headed to the front lines of the Kalandra sector. (DS9: "Afterimage")
Vulcan Captain Solok considered DS9 to be "behind the lines", something Benjamin Sisko disagreed with, telling him that the station had seen its "share of action". (DS9: "Take Me Out to the Holosuite")
The USS Defiant traveled to the front lines in early 2375 on a supply run. Julian Bashir took several recordings of Vic Fontaine's songs although the hologram questioned whether or not the troops of the front lines wanted to hear them. Quark was also aboard the Defiant, as he was on a fact-finding mission for Grand Nagus Zek to give a report of life on the front lines. This made Quark uneasy, as he told Ezri Dax that war was not as profitable the closer you are to the front lines. The mission was also the first time Ezri had been to the front lines. (DS9: "The Siege of AR-558")
Late in 2375, the Female Changeling told Thot Pran that "the sooner we can regain the offensive on the front lines, the better." She believed this could be done by accelerating installation of Breen weapons on Dominion ships. (DS9: "Tacking Into the Wind")
Later, during the Battle of Cardassia, Pran told the Female Changeling he felt that the situation demanded his presence on the front lines. (DS9: "What You Leave Behind")
Now hear this
Now hear this was a term used to preface shipwide announcements aboard Starfleet starships to call the listener's attention. The announcement may then issue orders to the entire crew or direct an individual crewmember to report to a particular location. (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country)
The phrase was used by Captain Jean-Luc Picard on at least two occasions during the Farpoint Mission in 2364 (TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint") and by an unidentified crewmember on-board the USS Enterprise-D in the alternate timeline in which the Federation was at war with the Klingon Empire. (TNG: "Yesterday's Enterprise")
On report
"I'm putting you on report, in case that means anything anymore."
- - Captain Janeway, addressing Chakotay, expresses her predicament of not being able to communicate with Starfleet about personnel issues. (VOY: "Maneuvers")
On report was a term referring to the punishment of a crewmember that enabled them to continue their duties, but with stricter supervision or more regular assessments, similar to being on probation. Regular reports would be filed about the crewmember's performance, usually by his or her superior officer. Being on report might be recorded in one's crew report or personnel file. (VOY: "Maneuvers", VOY: "Meld")
Commander William Riker once told Lieutenant Reginald Barclay that he was tired of seeing his name on report. (TNG: "Hollow Pursuits")
Users of "on report"
- Commander Chakotay (VOY: "Meld")
- The Doctor (VOY: "The Swarm")
- Captain Janeway (VOY: "Maneuvers")
- Cadet Nog (DS9: "The Ascent")
- Chief Engineer Scott (TAS: "The Practical Joker")
- Lieutenant Worf (TNG: "Sarek")
Permission to speak freely / frankly
As part of a military organization, lower-ranked officers generally do not have the authority to speak their minds to their superiors. They may be granted it, however, by asking for "permission to speak freely." In some cases, if the officer wishes to speak in a particularly acrimonious manner, this may be amended to "permission to speak frankly." An officer that speaks their mind without first asking for this permission may face penalties such as being placed on report or being charged with insubordination. The commanding officer may choose to either grant the request ("granted") or deny it and, if denied, the lower-ranking officer may again be subject to penalties. The commanding officer may also choose to simply state "always," indicating that they value the opinion of the lower-ranked officer at any time, with no further need to ask for permission. This permission, however, may be withdrawn later. The request for "permission to speak freely" is often accompanied by the commanding officer's rank, or the terms "sir" or "ma'am." In some cases, officers were known to make this request and then simply speak their mind without waiting for the granted permission. It was up to the commanding officer to decide whether or not to enforce a penalty for this.
In the alternate reality split in 2233, Leonard McCoy asked Spock for permission to speak freely following Spock's marooning of James T. Kirk on Delta Vega. Spock stated "I welcome it." (Star Trek) When having dinner with Lyndsay Ballard, Captain Kathryn Janeway told her "We're not on the Bridge, Lyndsay. You have permission to speak freely." Ballard asked if she really meant this, and Janeway replied that she wouldn't have said it if she didn't. (VOY: "Ashes to Ashes")
Users of "Permission to speak freely / frankly"
- Ensign Travis Mayweather (ENT: "Fortunate Son")
- Commander Charles Tucker (ENT: "First Flight")
- Captain Willard Decker (Star Trek: The Motion Picture)
- Lieutenant Valeris (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)
- Doctor Leonard McCoy (alternate reality) (Star Trek)
- Commander William Riker (TNG: "Silicon Avatar")
- Lieutenant Worf (TNG: "Sins of the Father", "Time's Arrow, Part II")
- Ensign Sito Jaxa (TNG: "Lower Decks")
- Commander Chakotay (VOY: "Parallax")
- Lieutenant Thomas Paris (VOY: "Thirty Days")
- Ensign Harry Kim (VOY: "The Disease")
- Captain Kathryn Janeway (VOY: "Ashes to Ashes")
- Ensign Jenkins (VOY: "Warhead")
- Major Kira Nerys (DS9: "The Search, Part I")
Sir was a term used by Starfleet and Bajoran officers to address officers of higher rank. Although the term was generally considered to be male specific, it was also used when addressing female officers as well.
Protocol also allowed for its use between officers of identical rank, particularly where one held a higher overall position in a command structure. Upon his promotion to Captain in 2285, Montgomery Scott addressed Captain Styles as "Sir" whilst serving as Chief Engineer under the latter's command aboard the starship USS Excelsior. Scott later addressed his fellow Captains Kirk and Spock as "Sir" when serving with them aboard the Enterprise-A. (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock; Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)
Chief Miles O'Brien called Doctor Julian Bashir "sir" because Bashir was his superior officer. Bashir did not like the term and asked O'Brien if he would call him simply Julian. (DS9: "The Storyteller") The doctor was not the first person to turn down O'Brien's use of the word - in 2367, after he referred to Sergey Rozhenko, Worf's adoptive father, as "sir" upon meeting him, Rozhenko lightheartedly asked his fellow chief petty officer not to use the term, as he had worked for a living. O'Brien also called Commander Sisko "sir". (DS9: "If Wishes Were Horses")
Nog adressed Chief O'Brien as "sir" when O'Brien inspected the cargo, self-sealing stem bolts, Nog and Jake Sisko recently traded. (DS9: "Progress") Later, when Nog was beginning his Starfleet Academy training, O'Brien wryly commented that after graduation, he would have to address Nog as "Sir." (DS9: "Facets")
Captain Kathryn Janeway disliked being called "sir;" notwithstanding Starfleet protocol, she preferred to be addressed by her rank. She also accepted "ma'am," but only when the crew was "in a crunch." (VOY: "Caretaker")
While being interrogated by Rear Admiral Brand, ensign Wesley Crusher addressed the female admiral as 'sir'.
After Deanna Troi had passed the Bridge Officer's Test and had been promoted to commander, she told Data, "From now on you can call me Sir". (TNG: "Thine Own Self")
The skeleton crew of the USS Enterprise-D called Doctor Beverly Crusher "sir" in TNG: "Descent", as she was their commanding officer at the time while Picard and the rest of the senior officers were on the surface attempting to retrieve Data. (TNG: "Descent"; TNG: "Descent, Part II")
"Sir" was also used from time to time when speaking to the masters of other vessels. Harry Kim addressed Supervisor Yost in this way. (VOY: "Gravity") Shipboard guests were also to be addressed as "Sir" or "Ma'am," irrespective of status, as shown by Jean-Luc Picard when welcoming Minister Campio aboard the Enterprise-D (TNG: "Cost of Living") and by Tuvok when attending to Neelix in guest quarters on Voyager. (VOY: "Caretaker")
Warning shot
A warning shot is the use of a weapon in the direction of a target, but not intended to hit the target. This can be done for many reasons, but is commonly done to send the message that direct fire will occur if the target does not give an appropriate response. (ENT: "Minefield")
According to Ambassador Soval, Vulcans usually did not fire warning shots. (ENT: "Awakening")
A Type 3 stealth assault involved firing a warning shot at a targeted vessel to force it to comply with the demands of the Hierarchy vessel employing the tactic. (VOY: "Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy")


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Wil Myers enjoyed a big day at the plate in Saturday's win over the Dodgers, going 2-for-3 with two doubles, two walks, an RBI and a stolen base.
Brandon Drury temporarily tied the game with a two-run homer in the sixth inning against the Rockies on Saturday, but the Diamondbacks ultimately lost it in the ninth.
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Derek Holland scattered four hits in six scoreless innings on Saturday against the Angels, picking up his third win of the year.
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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/41674
- Title
- Failure during thermal cycling of plasma-sprayed thermal barrier coatings
- Author(s)
- Berndt, C. C.; Herman, Herbert
- Abstract
- The thermal cycling behavior of plasma-sprayed ZrO//2-12wt. %Y//2O//3 coatings was studied. Coatings were produced with and without bond coats of Ni-Cr-Al-Zr and in some cases the substrates were heated to above the optimum temperature prior to spraying. The coatings (attached to the substrate) were thermal cycled to 1200 degree C and their cracking behavior was followed by acoustic emission (AE) techniques. It was possible to examine the failure mechanisms by statistical analysis of the AE data and to evaluate the influence of preheating and bond coating. It is shown that the AE spectrum changes when a bond coat is used because of the presence of microcracks which, in turn, dissipate energy and improve the coating integrity.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Source
- Thin Solid Films, Vol. 108, no. 4 (Oct 1983), pp. 427-437
- Publication year
- 1983
- Keyword(s)
- Acoustic emission; AE; Failure analysis; Protective coatings; Thermal cycling; Thermal effects; Zirconium compounds
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- 0040-6090
- Publisher URL
- Copyright
- Copyright © 1983 Published by Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
- Peer reviewed


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Vasily (Russian: Василий, Vasiliĭ) is, in 2008, a resident of Liberty City and is an associate of Oleg Minkov. He agrees to meet Minkov at a jewellery store on Tulsa Street, allowing Niko Bellic to discover Minkov's location and kill him. It is possible to kill him in a drive-by but it does not have any effect in the storyline.
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Ash and co. finally arrive at Nimbasa City, where Ash hopes to get his fourth badge. Cilan is happy as a kid in a candy store to be on a subway as he's a Metro Connoisseur, and as they were riding, they suddenly stop and saw a mysterious ghost train passing through. They meet Ingo and Emmet, the Subway Bosses of the Battle Subway who are investigating the cause of this disturbance. However, as Ash and co. got to the Pokémon Center, all communications has been cut offline, and the Driftveil Drawbridge is offline too. Plus, Meowth's plan had come to fruition, but what is it? He's going to betray Ash and co. by going back to Team Rocket as he steals every Pokémon in the Pokémon Center including Pikachu and Axew in their ghost train.
The gang has arrived to Nimbasa City. Cilan is quite happy, as he can explain the way people use transport - the trains. To get in a specific location, people use the trains instead. Cilan tells them that the trains are specific to the Nimbasa City and has once been in the train convention, even if Iris is unhappy that Cilan is a Connoisseur specializing in trains. When they wait for a train, they do spot a train passing, but did not stop.
The Subway Bosses, Ingo and Emmet arrive, meting Cilan once more. They explain that some days ago the haunted train has came to the subway and they are powerless against it, they cannot stop it, much to Cilan's shock. Ash still wants the Gym battle, but Meowth tells him they should go to Pokémon Center first. When they come, Nurse Joy tells them that they have a relaxation room for Pokémon. Meowth is eager to come, so Ash, Iris and Cilan give their Pokémon.
As Ash, Iris and Cilan go to eat, Meowth wants to make a call. Meowth calls some people, telling them to initiate the operation and goes back to go to the relaxation room. Ash also reminds himself he needs to make a call. He calls Prof. Oak and tells him he is in Nimbasa City. Oak is pleased to hear that, but unexpectedly, the link to Oak is lost. Ash tells this problem to Iris and Cilan, so they go to the Driftveil Drawbridge, seeing it offline. Cilan begins to think... and realizes their Pokémon are in danger!
Pikachu and Axew are asleep, so Meowth begins to throw the Poke Balls, along with Pikachu and Axew in cages. Axew and Pikachu awake as they are thrown in vents. Ash, Cilan and Iris came to the Pokémon Center and tell Nurse Joy of danger. When they enter the relaxation room, they see it empty. Ash, Iris and Cilan spot the opened vent shaft, so they go inside. At the end, they spot Team Rocket, Meowth and the haunted train. The truth is revealed: Meowth was only lying about being fired from Team Rocket and was traveling with Ash and his friends only to earn their trust, so Team Rocket could steal their Pokémon. They go to get them, but the train starts to move. Cilan reports this to Subway Bosses, so they tell him there is a cart nearby.
They get aboard the cart and start the engine. They are near the haunted train, so Ash jumps, but the train is revealed to be fake! The cart crashes, so Cilan reports the damage. Ingo and Emmet see the dot on the underground map, but at the center, more dots appear! Team Rocket must've made more fake trains, as the inflatable ones are reproduced from the original.
The rest of the event follows in next episode.
"But I want to look at the pretty trains some more." Cilan
- Meowth tricks Ash again by going back to Team Rocket. This also happened in Jumping Rocket Ship in the Diamond and Pearl series.
- It is revealed that Meowth was not fired from Team Rocket after all. He co-operated with Ash and the gang until they arrived at the station (BW045).
- Meowth was in 4 episodes since (BW045).
- Ash's attitude toward Team Rocket is shown once again wavering between hostile and frenemy, as he explains he liked travelling with Meowth despite his betrayal and even let them escape without commanding Pikachu to chase after them.
- The Official site listed this episode under the title "To Catch a Ghost Train."
- This episode was shown in the UK before it hits the US not once but twice.
- This marks the first time since the start of the Diamond & Pearl series to mention Tracey.
- Who's That Pokémon?: Woobat (US)
- When Ingo and Emmet pointed their fingers up in the original Ingo said "We need to investigate further" however in the dub Ingo said "Always follow safe triangles. Point your finger to signal OKAY!"
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TRON: The Next Day
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|TRON: The Next Day
|Media Type
|Short film
|Kurt Mattila
|Brian Hall
Christina Hwang
|Kurt Mattila
Robert Auten
|Kurt Mattila
Robert Auten
|Dan Shor
Bruce Boxleitner
Garrett Hedlund (cameo)
Jeff Bridges (voice)
|Prologue Pictures
Walt Disney Studios
|Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
|Running Time
|10 min
TRON: The Next Day is a 10-minute short film, released on the Blu-ray edition of TRON: Legacy in April 2011, that fills in the backstory between TRON and TRON: Legacy. It features scenes from the real-world Flynn Lives ARG as well as purely in-universe content. The short film also reveals the full chronology of the Flynn Lives Organization, naming Roy Kleinberg as the secret figure heading up the operation and Alan Bradley as its financial backer. Some scenes in the short also set up the story for a potential third film.
Present day - the mysterious character and founder of the Flynn Lives movement, "ZackAttack", is seen entering a basement room, presumably the organization's headquarters, as he sees news reports of the recent takeover of ENCOM. Another TV news report catches his eye, announcing that the city's police department have started investigating the organization that he has headed for so long. Realizing that the whole operation is in danger, he flips a camera on, and starts recording his last video log, saying that "the landscape has become too difficult to operate in" and thanking those people who backed the campaign.
The scene shifts to a tape recording from 1989, of Alan Bradley speaking to an ENCOM executive of Kevin Flynn's disappearance. Alan decides to assume the position of "interim CEO", and says that he is "only doing this for Sam's sake", and suggesting "the board not forget who the biggest shareholder will be if Kevin doesn't come back".
ZackAttack explains how the movement was "born out of loss", and how Bradley tried to "continue Flynn's legacy", but failed as ENCOM's rival company, Dillinger Systems (presumably run by Ed Dillinger) took the software market from ENCOM.
November 29, 1990 - Kurt Hardington demands a complete corporate restructuring operation at ENCOM, saying that there will be a new future, and that the company needs to "grow up" and that it can "get there without Kevin Flynn". It also mentions a list of employees who are to be terminated - essentially fired from ENCOM.
Then footage is shown of several employees being terminated, some stating that ENCOM was "founded around a chess game" and that "Flynn's spirit totally got away from the top". Alan Bradley is also heard confronting Hardington, asking him how many employees is he "letting go", and saying that Hardington's plan "represented everything that Flynn was against" and that ENCOM is "writing Flynn off". Roy Kleinberg (RAM's user from the original TRON) is then shown in an interview, stating that "ENCOM was no longer in the video game business" and that "getting fired is the best thing that ever happened to me".
1996 - Bradley is shown in an interview discussing the origins of his "Tron" nickname, saying that Flynn took to calling him that after he wrote the program. Bradley is then shown stone-faced by a question regarding Flynn's disappearance, and whether anyone thinks that he is alive.
1998 - Footage is shown of several computers being infected by the so-called "Flynn Lives virus" that reportedly infected 40 million PC's in 1997. Matthew Roth, the writer of the virus, says that it's "more of an Easter Egg than a virus" and that Flynn Lives wasn't involved with it at all. He also mentions that a user knows as "ISOlated Thinker" kept Roth out of jail and covered his legal fees, and also says that the movement is "totally dead".
1999 - Bradley is then shown again in an interview, saying that he acknowledges, along with ENCOM, that Flynn is gone, and that it was "a massive blow personally and professionally". Also, footage is played of some people being interviewed about Flynn's disappearance. ZackAttack is then shown saying in his video log that "Flynn was not dead, but gone", and that they "needed to find a new way to reach people; we needed to think like Kevin".
2009 - Sam Flynn's involvement in restarting Flynn Lives is shown. It is said that he "started doing work" that the movement had "almost given up 10 years ago". Then, several press cuttings show Sam interrupting the Space Paranoids Online launch event, and also newer cuttings are shown of Sam's takeover of ENCOM. ZackAttack concludes the video log by saying that they "may have not found Kevin Flynn, but Flynn Lives in all of us who want to believe in him".
After ZackAttack finishes recording the video log, he then retrieves a hard drive which acts as a secret archive of all the evidence needed for the operation. As he prepares to erase the hard drive, a man enters, revealing himself as Alan Bradley. ZackAttack is then revealed to be Roy Kleinberg, and that he ran the operation all along. Also, the user "ISOlated Thinker" is revealed to be Bradley himself, revealing him as the financial backer of the operation. Bradley convinces Kleinberg to "put Flynn Lives behind" them, and also offers him a place at the newly-restructured ENCOM, naming him as ENCOM's "moral compass". Kleinberg reluctantly accepts, and "Tron" and "Ram" walk out of the room while Roy is asking why Flynn gave Alan "the cool nickname".
The scene then shifts to ENCOM Tower, where a journalist is reporting Sam Flynn's arrival for his first board meeting. As Sam arrives on his Ducati, he is instantly flooded with paparazzi, and when asked the question "what do you think your father would have said about your actions today", Sam responds by revealing his Flynn Lives t-shirt. The scene cuts to black as ENCOM's entrance door closes.
Behind the Scenes
The short film was filmed before Thanksgiving. Some of the clips used in the short were used as part of the ARG, and some were specifically shot for the short. The existence of the short has started with a rumour about 3 "teaser" scenes setting up TRON 3, being Easter Eggs on the Blu-ray release of the film. Two of those scenes were featured in the actual short: the scene between Alan Bradley and Roy Kleinberg, Ram's user from the original TRON, and the scene with Sam Flynn arriving at ENCOM Tower, albeit Quorra was originally the one who turned up at ENCOM, revealing that she "spoke to Kevin Flynn yesterday". The third rumored clip featuring the Dillingers has ended up as an Easter Egg on the TRON: Legacy US Blu-ray release. The short film itself is an official extra on all international versions of the Blu-ray release.
- To access the easter eggs on the feature, when it goes to a screen that looks like a high scores board of Space Paranoids, type in ALL or DJR for Edward Dillinger Jr .'s chat with his speculated father adressed as the MCP from Tron. To access Alan Bradley's tapes, type in CEO. TO access Alan Bradley's CEO's interview type in MKT. To access Sam Flynn dropping in at a Press Confrence, type in Sam. To Acess Sam Flynn "tagging graffitti" on Encom's backdoor, type in TAG. To access Flynn Lives Recruting Video, type in FLV. To access Kevin Flynn's Commercial on his book "The_Digital_Frontier", type in DFB. To access Flynn's arcade reopened type in GAM. To access Vintage Space Parnoids commercial, type in SPC.
- The TRON logo appears at the start in similar fashion to the first film, before transitioning to the city.
- The scene with Alan grabbing some of Roy's popcorn is a reference to the scene in the original film, where Roy asks Alan for some of his popcorn.
- The name of Ram's user was never revealed inTRON. Instead, TRON: The Next Day presents the first use of the name, Roy Kleinberg.
- Behind Roy in the scene where Alan asks him to join ENCOM are two of the Marvel Comics Tron variant covers, one of them being the Iron Man variant.


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Witnesses say the shooter wasn't aiming at anyone.
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Areas of Interest
Pokémon Tower
Pokémon Tower is the main area to visit in Pokémon Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, FireRed, and LeafGreen versions as it has impact on the storyline and allows you to move forward in the game(s). The area is surrounded with many tombstones, with a healing area that is powered by "white magic"
In all six games, the Tower inhabit Channelers and Rocket Grunts. The wild Pokémon encountered are Gastly, Haunter, and Cubone. A dead Marowak also appears at the end, but it is uncatchable.
The tower consists of seven floors that the player ascends until the final floor. On the final floor, Mr. Fuji is found being held captive by Team Rocket grunts. After battling and losing to the player, the grunts leave, letting Mr. Fuji go.
The Pokémon Tower is the only place that Pokémon can be caught in Lavender Town.
Radio Tower
Three years later, the resting place for Pokémon is now converted to a Radio Tower in the same vein as the one in Johto. Some graves are kept Underground, however the majority is changed. This Tower, however, is unable to be explored or entered, due to what happened with the one in Johto. You can get an EXPN Card here to listen to Kanto radio from the receptionist.
House of Memories/Soul House
House of Memories in Generation IV, Soul House in Generation II. All graves from the former Pokémon Tower have been imported here. There are chambers here that cannot be accessed. The area is owned by Mr. Fuji.
Name Rater
The Name Rater will rate the current Nickname your Pokémon and can change it. If the Pokémon has been traded, he will not change it and say its perfect.
Pokémon Center
A Pokémon Center is at the upper-right corner of the town.
A PokéMart stands either below Pokémon Tower (Generation I, Generation III) or right of the Pokémon Center (Generation II, Generation IV).
Generation I, Generation III
Generation II
- Great Ball
- Potion
- Super Potion
- Antidote
- Parylz Heal
- Burn Heal
- Max Repel
Generation IV
- Poké Ball
- Great Ball
- Ultra Ball
- Potion
- Super Potion
- Hyper Potion
- Max Potion
- Full Restore
- Revive
- Antidote
- Parylz Heal
- Awakening
- Antidote
- Burn Heal
- Ice Heal
- Full Heal
- Escape Rope
- Repel
- Super Repel
- Max Repel
In the anime
Ash, Pikachu, Brock, and Misty travel to Lavender Town in search of Ghost-Type Pokémon to defeat Sabrina. Ash and Pikachu die and their spirits are taken by Gengar, Gastly, and Haunter who wish to play with them. At the end of the episode, Ash and Pikachu return to their bodies and Haunter comes with them to defeat Sabrina.
In the manga
Pokémon Adventures
Red passes though while it is raining. Mr. Fuji takes him in when no one else would. He found him while he was paying respects to his deceased Doduo. Later at Mr. Fuji's house, he tells Red of the cemetery and how people are afraid because they believe it is haunted. He then told him Green passed by months prior.
Red then went there to investigate and saw hundreds of graves. A zombie Golduck came out of the shadows, followed by other zombies. Razor Leaf does not work, but Vine Whip does, turning them to dust. Soon, more came, under control of a ghost, which would later be revealed as a Gastly. Green and his Charmeleon appear and they begin fighting Red. They are possessed by Gastly, but Red lifts the curse by attacking Gastly. Koga then appeared and ordered his Arbok to spew poison. It did so, but Green had his Charmeleon cut Arbok in half. Koga, realizing he was in trouble, and fled on his Golbat.
The electric Tale of Pikachu
In the Manga, Ash, Brock, and Sabrina travel here do to reports about a Giant Haunter. They work to capture it, however it selfdestructs before being captured.
Conspiracy Relating to the Original Music
- In the first version of Pokémon Red and Green, the music was dubbed the scariest theme tune of its time. This music was only present in Red/Green and the international releases Pokemon Red/Blue. When the updated version arrived, the theme was changed slightly to remove frequencies, which was also the case for the Version 1.0 music of the Pokémon Tower.
- The original music found in the Japanese Pokemon Red & Green Versions has a high-pitched tone at different points in the music, known as the infamous "Lavender Town Syndrome", which caused headaches and nausea in children ages 7-12. This was removed in the International Red and Blue versions. Some Pokemon creepypastas state that the Tone sometimes caused children in this age group to commit suicide during the initial releases of Red and Green. However, this has been proved false. For some, after listening to it, would constantly play in your head.
- Lavender Town is the target of many Pokémon "creepypastas," or horror stories, most of them involving the ghosts in the Pokémon Tower or the background music of the town in the games.
- When you see Blue in the Pokemon Tower and he asks if you know what it's like to have a Pokémon of yours pass away, it is presumed that his Raticate from the previous battle on the S.S. Anne somehow died between encounters (Along with some creepypasta stories stating that he was at the tower to lay his Raticate to rest).
- In the House of Memories/Soul House, if you stay there too long in Generation IV, the Pokémon outside of your Party will become sad and eventually angry.
- Interestingly, you need to have the Silph. Scope in order to see the pokemon in there, without this item, all pokemon are shown as ghosts, and cubone is one of the pokemon found in there. So It is debatable on if Team Rocket killed the child of the Marowak while killing it.
- According to a theory about Pokemon Black (Hacked game, creepypasta), you can activate the actual hack by being able to catch the ghost with a master ball, hinting that the mother Marowak ghost may have been caught and might have taken its rage out on the Pokémon and people in the "hacked game".
- In Pokémon Yellow, if you talk to Pikachu in the Pokemon Tower, it gives a sad face, indicating it is sad at all the dead Pokémon.
- In Pokemon Red/Green, there is a boy who will ask you if you believe in ghosts. When you answer no, he will say that the "white hand in your shoulder is not real". Many sources say that there was an enemy called a "White Hand", with the sprite "WhitHand.gif", that was coded to be fought the the 3rd floor of the Pokemon Tower. It was to have 2 attacks, seemingly named Fist and Brutal. However, this is to be unlikely, since the pokemon cartridge being unable to render .gif images.
- They say that if you run the Lavender Town Tune on a spectrogram, you will see the ghost sprite, and eventually, another one with 8 Unowns saying "LEAVE NOW".


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