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The Starfleet uniform of the 2250s experienced a slight change due to an alteration of the timeline by the renegade Romulan Nero. As a result of Nero's changes, which included the premature death of George Kirk and the destruction of the USS Kelvin, Starfleet by the mid 2250s was using a different uniform than that which had been seen in the "normal" timeline.
The original uniform of the 2250s and 2260s had seemingly phased out as early as 2255, and in its place, Starfleet was using the same "red/gold/blue" shirt design which in the prime reality was not introduced until at least 2266. The rank insignia had also changed slightly, consisting of silver bands on the sleeve, but with a thinner secondary band, rather than the previously used "hashmarks", for the ranks of lieutenant commander and captain.
The Starfleet insignia of this reality was the delta/arrowhead design for all personnel, contrasted with unique insignia for each ship or base in the "prime" reality. The arrowhead design was originally the insignia of the "prime" Enterprise only and was not adopted as the insignia for all of Starfleet until about 2270. (Star Trek)
Standard duty uniforms
The duty uniform consisted of a black undershirt, and a colored overshirt featuring the officer's division color and the Starfleet insignia. The undershirts also featured the arrowhead design present on the overshirt. It was acceptable for cadets and those unassigned to Starfleet to wear a Starfleet undershirt.
Rank stripes were displayed on the sleeves. Black pants and boots were issued with the uniform. Female officers wore either a uniform similar to the standard male uniform or alternatively short-skirted uniform not dissimilar from the prime universe equivalent - which itself had two variations, one with no sleeves and one with full sleeves. Without the sleeves however, these dresses did not display the rankings of each officer on them. (Star Trek)
Medical outfit
Some members of a shipboard medical staff wore a white overcoat, white trousers or dress. (Star Trek) Violet scrubs were also avaliable for use. (Star Trek Into Darkness)
Engineering suit
A technician performing last-minute maintenance on Shuttle 89 was seen wearing blue coveralls. (Star Trek)
Environmental suit
The EV suit was used for operations within unstable atmospheres. The suit was available in all three division colors with a Starfleet insignia displayed prominently in the center of the chest piece and featured breathing equipment, including a helmet, for use outside of Class M environments. It could also be equipped with a parachute for orbital skydiving missions. A communicator was placed in the left glove. (Star Trek)
An orange armor-plated suit was used for inhospitable environments, such as the inside of a volcano. (Star Trek Into Darkness)
In 2259, a black-and-gold thruster suit was introduced for space dives. (Star Trek Into Darkness)
Field outfit
For cold environments like the planet Delta Vega, officers were given appropriate wear including a hooded jacket, gloves and boots. (Star Trek)
Wetsuits came in two varieties: male crewmembers wore blue wetsuits with division colored piping. Female crewmembers wore a reversed wetsuit in division colors and blue piping. (Star Trek Into Darkness)
Flight suits
Introduced in 2259, these gray overalls were worn on shuttles. They had transparent yokes to show the division color, and the insignia was emblazoned on the upper arms. (Star Trek Into Darkness)
Dress uniforms
For formal gatherings, Starfleet personnel wore gray uniforms and caps with rank indicated by shoulder pins. Admirals wore uniforms with white jacket fronts. Ceremonial officers wore black uniforms with blue sashes. (Star Trek Into Darkness)
Starfleet Academy uniforms
Training uniform
While training on the Kobayashi Maru simulator at Starfleet Academy, cadets wore a simple blue-gray jumpsuit with the Starfleet insignia stenciled on the left chest, with no rank or class insignia. (Star Trek)
Junior officer dress uniform
Starfleet Academy cadets and junior officers (ranked Ensign, Lieutenant, and Lieutenant Commander) wore a red jumpsuit and jacket with a stand collar over a red turtleneck-like sweater; men wore pants while women wore skirts. On both male and female designs, the Starfleet insignia was displayed prominently on the collar of the jacket. On some occasions, cadets wore a red cap with the uniform. (Star Trek)
Senior officer dress uniform
Senior officers (ranked Commander and Captain) wore a black version of the junior officer's dress uniform; instructors at Starfleet Academy also wore this uniform. Barracks officers and shuttle officers wore a variation of this uniform which included a black cap. (Star Trek)
Flag officer uniform
Admirals and flag officers wore a cream-and-grey uniform for ceremonial purposes. Admiral Christopher Pike wore one such uniform when transferring command of the Enterprise to James T. Kirk. Starfleet Command Admirals such as Richard Barnett wore a silver tunic without any division colors while serving on the Starfleet Academy Board in 2258. Other flag officers wore this uniform with a cap of the same design, featuring the Federation emblem on the front. (Star Trek)
Section 31
Section 31 duty uniforms were a variant of the science division uniform with black sleeves. They also wore the black dress uniform. (Star Trek Into Darkness)
Assignment patches
Rank insignia
Lieutenant commander
The insignia used in the 2250s consisted of silver bands worn on the lower sleeve of the uniforms of line officers, or gold bands for flag officers. Enlisted personnel and officers holding the rank of ensign wore no rank insignia. As seen with Admiral Pike, Admirals can also wear epaulettes on their shoulders.
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Background information
The uniforms seen in the film Star Trek were designed by Michael Kaplan. They are quite different from the pilot uniforms seen in "The Cage" and "Where No Man Has Gone Before". It can be assumed that Nero's time tampering had something to do with the shift, although the real-life explanation is that the uniforms seen in Star Trek were intended to associate the audience with the much more familiar Original Series uniforms seen through the late 1960s, in contrast to the pilot uniforms, which were only seen in two episodes. A similar situation arose in "Friday's Child" where Leonard McCoy is shown in a flashback video wearing an Enterprise tunic whereas, historically, he should have been wearing an earlier pilot episode uniform. The filmmakers expressed surprise in Star Trek - The Art of the Film that the classic uniforms were never used in a film.
Kaplan explained in The Art of the Film that he selected red for the dress uniforms because of the strong patriotic feel the color gave. Admiral Pike's dress uniform was based on Admiral Kirk's dress tunic from Star Trek: The Motion Picture.


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Every applicable large employer required to meet the requirements of section 4980H with respect to its full-time employees during a calendar year shall, at such time as the Secretary may prescribe, make a return described in subsection (b).
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A return is described in this subsection if such return—
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To the maximum extent feasible, the Secretary may provide that—
(1) any return or statement required to be provided under this section may be provided as part of any return or statement required under section 6051 or 6055, and
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In the case of any applicable large employer which is a governmental unit or any agency or instrumentality thereof, the person appropriately designated for purposes of this section shall make the returns and statements required by this section.
Source(Added and amended Pub. L. 111–148, title I, § 1514(a), title X, §§ 10106(g), 10108(j)(1)–(3)(D), Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 256, 911, 914, 915; Pub. L. 112–10, div. B, title VIII, § 1858(b)(5),Apr. 15, 2011, 125 Stat. 169.)
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Section 2701 of the Public Health Service Act, referred to in subsec. (b)(2)(C)(i), was classified to section 300gg of this title, was renumbered section 2704, effective for plan years beginning on or after Jan. 1, 2014, with certain exceptions, and amended by Pub. L. 111–148, title I, §§ 1201(2), 1563 (c)(1), formerly § 1562(c)(1), title X, § 10107(b)(1),Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 154, 264, 911, and was transferred to section 300gg–3 of this title. A new section 2701, related to fair health insurance premiums, was added and amended by Pub. L. 111–148, title I, § 1201(4), title X, § 10103(a),Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 155, 892, and is classified to section 300gg of this title.
Prior Provisions
A prior section 6056, added Pub. L. 91–172, title I, § 101(d)(3),Dec. 30, 1969, 83 Stat. 521; amended Pub. L. 94–455, title XIX, § 1906(b)(13)(A),Oct. 4, 1976, 90 Stat. 1834, required an annual report by private foundations having at least $5,000 of assets at any time during a taxable year, and prescribed contents, form and availability of the report, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 96–603, § 1(c),Dec. 28, 1980, 94 Stat. 3504.
2011—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 112–10, § 1858(b)(5)(A), struck out "and every offering employer" after "calendar year".
Subsec. (b)(2)(C). Pub. L. 112–10, § 1858(b)(5)(B), struck out "in the case of an applicable large employer," before "the length" in cl. (i), inserted "and" at the end of cl. (iii), struck out "and" after "plan," at the end of cl. (iv), and struck out cl. (v) which read as follows: "in the case of an offering employer, the option for which the employer pays the largest portion of the cost of the plan and the portion of the cost paid by the employer in each of the enrollment categories under such option,".
Subsecs. (d)(2), (e). Pub. L. 112–10, § 1858(b)(5)(C), struck out "or offering employer" after "large employer".
Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 112–10, § 1858(b)(5)(D), amended subsec. (f) generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. (f) defined the term "offering employer" and provided that any term used in this section which was also used in section 4980H of this title would have the meaning given such term by section 4980H.
2010—Pub. L. 111–148, § 10108(j)(3)(A), substituted "Certain" for "Large" in section catchline.
Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 111–148, § 10108(j)(1), inserted "and every offering employer" before "shall".
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 111–148, § 10106(g), inserted at end "The Secretary shall have the authority to review the accuracy of the information provided under this subsection, including the applicable large employer's share under paragraph (2)(C)(iv)."
Subsec. (b)(2)(C)(i). Pub. L. 111–148, § 10108(j)(3)(B)(i), inserted "in the case of an applicable large employer," before "the length".
Subsec. (b)(2)(C)(iii). Pub. L. 111–148, § 10108(j)(3)(B)(ii), struck out "and" at end.
Subsec. (b)(2)(C)(iv). Pub. L. 111–148, § 10108(j)(3)(B)(iv), inserted "and" at end.
Pub. L. 111–148, § 10108(j)(3)(B)(iii), which directed substitution of "employer" for "applicable large employer", was executed by making the substitution for "applicable large employer's", to reflect the probable intent of Congress.
Subsec. (b)(2)(C)(v). Pub. L. 111–148, § 10108(j)(3)(B)(v), added cl. (v).
Subsecs. (d)(2), (e). Pub. L. 111–148, § 10108(j)(3)(C), (D), inserted "or offering employer" after "applicable large employer".
Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 111–148, § 10108(j)(2), amended subsec. (f) generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: "For purposes of this section, any term used in this section which is also used in section 4980H shall have the meaning given such term by section 4980H."
Effective Date of 2011 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 112–10effective as if included in the provisions of, and the amendments made by, the provisions of Pub. L. 111–148to which it relates, see section 1858(d) ofPub. L. 112–10, set out as a note under section 36B of this title.
Effective Date of 2010 Amendment
Pub. L. 111–148, title X, § 10108(j)(4),Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 915, provided that: "The amendments made by this subsection [amending this section and section 6724 of this title] shall apply to periods beginning after December 31, 2013."
Effective Date
Pub. L. 111–148, title I, § 1514(d),Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 258, provided that: "The amendments made by this section [enacting this section and amending section 6724 of this title] shall apply to periods beginning after December 31, 2013."
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Naath is an island in the Summer Sea located off the northwestern coast of the southern continent of Sothoryos, west of the Basilisk Isles and east of the Summer Islands. It is the home of Missandei.
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In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Naath is a large, curving island. It is known as a land of peace where war does not exist. The people of Naath are known as Naathi, also known as the Peaceful People. As is typical of the peoples of the continent of Sothoryos, the Naathi are dark-skinned. In addition, typical Naathi features are a flat face and golden eyes.
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The preliminary votes Tuesday set the bill up for final approval. The bill was submitted by Republican Gov. Paul LePage and sponsored by Democratic Senate Assistant Majority Leader Troy Jackson of Allagash and Democratic House Assistant Majority Leader Jeff McCabe of Skowhegan.
It comes up days after a Bangor newspaper issued a request for the names last week. The Bangor Daily News later dropped its request.
The emergency measure would only last until April 30, allowing lawmakers more time to consider releases of permit data in more depth.
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- "There's a ship leaving for Eastwatch-by-the-Sea tonight. From there, I'm afraid it's rather a long walk to Castle Black."
- ―Tyrion Lannister to Janos Slynt
Eastwatch, or Eastwatch-by-the-Sea, is a castle and port located at the far eastern end of the Wall, where the Wall drops into an inlet of the Shivering Sea called the Bay of Seals. There are nineteen castles along the Wall, but as their numbers fell over the centuries the Night's Watch had to abandon sixteen of them. Eastwatch-by-the-Sea is one of only three manned castles left on the Wall, along with Castle Black and The Shadow Tower.
As the only castle on the Wall located on the sea, Eastwatch-by-the-Sea serves as the port for the Night's Watch. The capital city of King's Landing, as well as the cities of White Harbor and Gulltown, are also located on the eastern coast of the continent, so it is relatively easy for provisions and news to reach Eastwatch.[1]
Known residents
- Cotter Pyke, a bastard of the Iron Islands, commander of the Eastwatch garrison.
- Borcas, head steward of Eastwatch.
- Dareon, a newly-made steward, assigned to Eastwatch.
Season 1
Dareon is assigned to the Stewards and Maester Aemon sends him to Eastwatch and ordered to report to Borcas.[2]
Lord Commander Jeor Mormont tells Jon Snow that four of Cotter Pyke's men found four wights in the snow near Eastwatch. Unlike the men at Castle Black, they had the sense to burn them.[3]
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Tyrion Lannister takes tremendous pleasure in dumping Janos Slynt onto a boat headed for Eastwatch-by-the-Sea.[4]
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When Jon Snow infiltrates the wildlings, Orell asks him which of the nineteen castles along the Wall are still manned by the Night's Watch. Jon admits that only Castle Black, Eastwatch-by-the-Sea, and the Shadow Tower are still manned.[5]
In the books
In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Eastwatch-by-the-Sea serves as the main resupply post for the Night's Watch, with ships stopping there from King's Landing, the Free Cities far to the south, the island of Ibben, and even some wildling fisherfolk who are permitted to trade there. There is also some clandestine smuggling going on there, which is tolerated only as far as that it helps the Watch. The Night's Watch possesses a small "fleet" of ships at Eastwatch, but they are not frequently used and thus often left unmanned and tied up at anchor.
At the start of the books, less than 200 soldiers are based at the Eastwatch.
In the novels, the castle is named Eastwatch-by-the-Sea almost constantly. In the TV series, it is called "Eastwatch" the one time it is mentioned in dialogue in the first season, as well as on the map on the HBO website. However, in the second season it was also called "Eastwatch-by-the-Sea" on-screen, indicating that the two terms are interchangeable. Jon Snow also refers to it in Season 3 by the full name "Eastwatch-by-the-Sea".


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I'd say that you have done your homework quite well...A+. The author of Wilbur is a member here, Waldronate, and he should be able to help you with anything there. Other than that, welcome and great work so far.
Recently after a 20 year gap I returned to thinking about D&D. I had ran a campaign many years ago and now my daughters are older and interested I wished to run a small campaign for them. This time however I wanted to learn more of the art of making a fantasy world live and breath. Luckily I had joined this website a while ago, when I felt the urge to do some role-playing returning.
My first thought was to make a map, I had often found in the past that just the act of putting something onto paper started me thinking about what was happening in that area of the map. So after some time spent looking at all the cool tools available to people these days I was most intrigued by a product used by a number of people here, Fractal Terrain Pro. I already had access to Photoshop and Illustrator at work, so I went and purchased Campaign Cartographer and Fractal Terrain Pro to round off my Software collection.
Fractal Terrain Pro turned out to be fascinating and the tutorials on this site and the authors helped make it usable. After attempting to make three or four worlds from the ground up, I finally got the hang of it (no expert mind, but I could get it to do most of the things I want). My latest world with the right touch ups, desert making and temperature fiddling turned out the way I wanted it to be. It took that long for me to "get" that I had to use the product to make the worlds I wanted, rather expect it to churn out perfect worlds from scratch. Once I "got" it, it turned out to be a great tool for the job and I would recommend it to anyone "making worlds"!
Armed with a world, I set out to find a 200mile long island to play with. After a quick look I noticed one perfectly placed in the southern hemisphere, and after a quick session of mountain raising and temperature fiddling it met my requirements perfectly. Oddly I also notice it had not had any generated rivers on it, although the rest of my world had a number, but more on this later.
Having found my Island, I named it the "Isle of Cathava" and saved the "View" of it in the view manager, and set about extracting the useful information from Fratal Terrain Pro. First of all I produced a large JPG file about 4096 pixels wide, with the shading turned on for land, and all the altitudes set to white, and the sea was black. I took this and opened it up in Photoshop, where I captured and moved the shading to a new layer, made a blank white outline of the island on another layer and saved it all for later as a PSD file. You can see an example below and if clicked upon will take you to a higher resolution image.
In FTP the island is pretty much covered in Temperate forest, apart from the top of the large mountain, which has some ice and tundra. The background story had a fallen Hobgoblin civilisation inhabiting the island, which had fragmented into a number of different tribes of Hobgoblins, Goblins and Bugbears (with a few other nasties thrown in here and there). Human settlers had arrived 40 years or so ago on the southern tip of the island and had rapidly spread north deforesting and settling en route.
Moving forward I wanted at least three maps, showing terrain, contours and political. As the contour information is held in FTP, I saved my view as a CC2 file, took it into campaign cartographer, where I saved it straight back out again as a DXF file. I loaded the DXF file into Adobe Illustrator, selected all the contour lines and cut and pasted them as a smart object onto my map in photoshop in another window. After a small amount of resizing and placement it fit exactly where I wanted it to and I had the start of my contour map.
With a little selecting and painting of Hypsometric colors stolen from an 1880's french map on reliefshading.com I had the basics of a reasonable contour map, after quickly turning on the shading layer (relief from now on) and halving the opacity we end up with a contour map which you can see below, click on it for a larger version: -
With the contour map almost finished (still need rivers), I moved onto playing with textures for the terrain map, this process was more complex than I can explain here. Suffice to say the southern tip has significantly less forest to account for the encroaching settlers. Anyway to cut to the chase here it is, unfinished, but starting to come together. Again, you can click for a larger version: -
As you can see I added a scale, compass rose and some text, I am still unhappy with the scale and plan to remove it and try again with something less modern looking, the rest is ok. Also please note no rivers ...
Then with increasing confidence I grabbed hold of Wilbur (from the author of FTP), exported the view of my island as an MDR and headed off to generate some rivers. Only to be sadly thwarted, when the rivers seemed to do all kinds of weird things. If anyone else can get it working, I would love to see the result, here is a link to the MDR file I exported from FTP.
Not being one to be put off, until I can work out how to get Wilbur to do what I want, I read the river police thread and attempted to add my own rivers. It would be most helpful if anyone could check them over for me and tell me where I have made any mistakes in placement. Once again please click for a larger image, in addition this time a yet larger image is also available below: -
Much larger image (2mb)
There are notes regarding river placement on the map itself, these reflect changes which need to be transferred back to the source maps.
Please note these maps are all works in progress and as such may be a little rough in certain parts. I would be interested in any comments anyone has to share as this is my first foray into mapping.
I'd say that you have done your homework quite well...A+. The author of Wilbur is a member here, Waldronate, and he should be able to help you with anything there. Other than that, welcome and great work so far.
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My suspicions are that your two doubly-forked rivers immediately above your compass rose might actually join via the little "point" of the lower contour. AND that many of your rivers will be "streams/creeks/things that aren't rivers but still drain water"
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Rivers. Always a touchy point with software. The models are always wrong and the users demand so much.
The most likely reason that FT didn't find any rivers is that FT runs rivers at fairly low resolution. If the map area is 200 miles across then FT might be able to put almost one river simulation grid cell across the area. Not conducive to getting godo results. Pulling the area out and trying it in Wilbur is a good idea. There is a difficulty with this process, however, as you have found out.
FT uses an algorithm that generates information at all scales. To get a semi-plausible fractal forgery, the algorithm generates both positive and negative values that sum to zero on average. The BIG lumps during the initial generation process (positive lumps = continents, negative lumps = oceans) are modified with progressively smaller and smaller positive and negative lumps to get the final result. This process unfortunately gives little basins all over the place at all scales. Rivers run into these basins and stop because the river routing tool in Wilbur and FT both assume that the landscape flows downward to desired basins. See the attached image for an example of what rivers look like when routed from your MDR before and after fill basins.
To fix the problem with river routing in Wilbur, do a fill basins operation before finding rivers. It will fill in your lakes, but that's a minor nuisance that can be easily fixed (see http://www.ridgenet.net/~jslayton/Fu...ol5/index.html for an example). The second image is the result of playing with the tutorial referenced above.
The river network shown is fairly plausible, but there are some minor issues. When you're routing rivers on a contour map, remember that rivers ALWAYS cross contour at right angles. It's the path of steepest descent. The rivers joining in the little basin in the middle-right of the map seem a little awkward. Otherwise a pretty good job. I'm too lazy to put that much effort into my work, though.
I added a mask to get only the lake you wanted (to a first approximation) and added a little noise to prevent the rivers from being too straight to get the image shown below. It's still the generic Wilbur color scheme, though. I should probably stop now.
@ Everyone : Thank you for your comments, I am pleased at the response for a first try.
@ Waldronate : You definitely shouldn't stop, its really good to see what can be achieved with Fractal Terrain Pro/Wilbur at such a scale. It looks amazing ... You don't perchance have the MDR file available do you? <grins> I would love to see how you did that and it would save me a lot of work!
Its exactly what I was trying to achieve, thank you so much for all the effort. Its nice to know I was on the right track heading to Wilbur to add the river detail and even more pleasing to see it looks great.
Is there any easy way to extract the river data from the MDR, so I can convert it to a vector form in Illustrator or some such ?
I kind of get the feeling that at this point, I leave the work in FTP and work up close in Wilbur for each section of the map that I am interested in adding detailed rivers to, before moving to the final phase of making it prettier in Photoshop / Illustrator.
Ok I am off to experiment some more with Wilbur!
I didn't keep the MDR file. It only takes a couple of minutes to generate it so there didn't seem much need. It was pretty much a basin fill followed by selecting everything above 0 followed by a uniform noise of 10 followed by a height clip between 0.1 and 100000. Then a basin fill and river run to get the river mask.
The final image was assembled in Photoshop from bits and pieces made in Wilbur as per the Wilbur Rivers and Lakes tutorial. The only things I did differently were to use the basins image and select only the lakes I wanted, turn that image into a black and white mask, then feed it back into Wilbur as a selection mask for another Basin Delta round.
I keep hoping to get some new features into Wilbur that would simplify this sort of thing but I just can't seem to get the magic combination of free time and enthusiasm at the same instant.
The next step would be to extract the colors from the base map you were using and set those colors as the height information followed by slapping a contour shader on top of that.
There isn't a good way to export the vector contours from Wilbur. Note that you can take the MDR that you modified in Wilbur and then put it back into FT as a new world as shown in http://www.ridgenet.net/~jslayton/ThereandBackAgain/ - just fudge the boundaries so that the top and bottom are at +/- 90 and the left and right at whatever place is appropriate to keep the image aspect ratio. All of the FT tools including river finding will then be available with effectively greatly increased resolution. Note that some of the tools won't be semantically correct (great circle distance computations, for example, will be totally meaningless; climate, temperature, rainfall, etc., will also be incorrect), but most of the tools don't try to deal with context too much.


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A PRIDE legend who once was White's arch nemesis has become one of the UFC's best ambassadors since joining the once-rival promotion.
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Regardless, before he rejoined the UFC following the collapse of PRIDE, Silva and Liddell were the world's preeminent light heavyweights. But multiple attempts to book the cross-promotion fight failed (even after the UFC sent Liddell to PRIDE for a pair of fights in 2003). The fight eventually took place at UFC 79, but it lost a lot of its luster. Still, White said it set the stage for Silva's current run in the promotion.
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(A) The members of the Committee shall be appointed by the Secretary from the general public and shall include—
(ii) individuals who are recognized authorities in fields pertinent to disabilities prevalent among former prisoners of war, including authorities in epidemiology, mental health, nutrition, geriatrics, and internal medicine; and
(b) The Secretary shall, on a regular basis, consult with and seek the advice of the Committee with respect to the administration of benefits under this title for veterans who are former prisoners of war and the needs of such veterans with respect to compensation, health care, and rehabilitation.
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This incident mirrors that of the four people killed in Pueblo just this week. Firefighters there remind us that house fire was one of their most devastating fires in more than 25 years.
Saturday the Pueblo Fire Department said another fire started because the homeowner, an elderly woman, was smoking near her oxygen tank.
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Although they're not without their detractors, the Top Safety Pick awards from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety still represent something like a "seal of approval" for many customers. Along with the New Car Assessment Program run by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)—which uses "star" ratings for its crash-test evaluations—the IIHS effort is one of the two most-watched third-party safety evaluations in the country; in other words, drivers take it very seriously.
How seriously? When the Institute developed a new test of vehicle roof strength in 2010, requiring a significantly higher level of protection in rollovers, automakers actually made changes on the fly—instead of following the "normal" timing for vehicle redesigns—to ensure their products would still pass the new evaluation and earn Top Safety Pick status (even on vehicles that would have still have received five-star ratings from NHTSA without modifications). For those who are curious, the IIHS' current roof-strength test requires a vehicle to withstand a metal plate being pushed against its roof with a force equal to four times its weight, without being deformed by more than five inches.
The IIHS evaluates performance in three other crash scenarios as well. To determine how a vehicle stands up to frontal impacts, the Institute test crashes each one at 40 mph into a barrier that's offset from what would be a head-on collision. Experts then check the vehicle's cabin to see how well it maintained its integrity, examine data from a driver's-seat crash-test dummy representing a male in the 50th percentile for size, and watch slow-motion video recordings of the tests to examine the performance of the seatbelts and other components of a vehicle's restraint system.
In side-impact evaluations, the vehicle is slammed with a barrier moving at 31 mph. Here, the IIHS ratings are based on the extent of "injuries" to a pair of crash-test dummies representing women in the 5th percentile for size. Also under scrutiny: the performance of a vehicle's head-protection measures and the extent of damage to its structure. Notably, the barrier used in this part of the testing has been specifically engineered to represent a pickup or SUV to take into account some of the most potentially dangerous scenarios.
2012 IIHS Top Safety Picks: The Full List
The procedure the IIHS uses to rate rear-crash protection follows two separate steps. First, engineers take precise measurements of each vehicle's head restraint system for a math-based evaluation of potential safety protection. Vehicles that get "good" or "acceptable" ratings in this area are then put to the test in impacts that mimic a rear-end collision at 20 mph. Another crash-test dummy does its part, too, providing the IIHS with data regarding how crash forces could affect a person's neck.
The IIHS previously required Top Safety Picks to have electronic stability control, but since the government recently mandated that all new vehicles from the 2012 model year forward need to have this as standard equipment, it's now a moot point.
Speaking of which, the first batch of 2012 Top Safety Picks was recently revealed, with 115 different vehicles earning the recognition by achieving top scores in all four crash-test evaluations; 18 are new to the list, with the remainder being carryover winners from 2011 that did not get any significant changes for the 2012 model year.
The automakers with the most awardees:
Toyota (including Scion and Lexus), 15 winners
GM (including Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet and GMC), 14 winners
Volkswagen (including Audi), 13 winners
Ford (including Lincoln), 12 winners
Honda (including Acura) 12 winners
Two more important caveats: the IIHS Top Safety Picks aren't comparable across different vehicle classes; that is, a Top Safety Pick in the subcompact segment is not going to protect occupants to the same degree as a Top Safety Pick from the full-size pickup category. Also, the Institute will continue to test more 2012 vehicles on a rolling basis throughout the next year, updating its list of Top Safety Picks along the way.
And speaking of which, here's that complete list of the 2012 IIHS Top Safety Picks, as broken down into the Institute's different vehicle classes:
2012 IIHS Top Safety Picks: The Full List
FIAT 500 (built after July 2011), Ford Fiesta (sedan and hatch), Honda Fit, Toyota Yaris (four-door hatch only).
2012 IIHS Top Safety Picks: The Full List
Small Cars
Chevrolet Cruze, Sonic and Volt; Ford Focus; Honda Civic (sedan), CR-Z and Insight; Hyundai Elantra; Kia Forte (sedan) and Soul; Lexus CT 200h; Mazda3 (sedan and hatch); Mini Cooper Countryman; Mitsubishi Lancer (but not the Ralliart or Evo models); Nissan Cube, Juke and Leaf; Scion tC, xB and xD; Subaru Impreza (except WRX models); Toyota Corolla and Prius; and VW Golf and GTI (four-door models only for both).
2012 IIHS Top Safety Picks: The Full List
Midsize Moderately Priced Cars
Audi A3, Buick Verano, Chevrolet Malibu, Chrysler 200 (sedan only), Dodge Avenger, Ford Fusion, Honda Accord, Hyundai Sonata, Kia Optima, Subaru Legacy and Outback, Toyota Camry and Prius v, VW Jetta (sedan and wagon) and Passat, and Volvo C30.
2012 IIHS Top Safety Picks: The Full List
Midsize Luxury/Near Luxury Cars
Acura TL (built after September 2011), Acura TSX (sedan and hatch), Audi A4, Lincoln MKZ, Mercedes-Benz C-Class, VW CC (except four-wheel-drive models), and Volvo S60.
2012 IIHS Top Safety Picks: The Full List
Large Family Cars
Audi A6, BMW 5 Series (except four-wheel-drive and V8 models), Cadillac CTS, Hyundai Equus and Genesis, Infiniti M37 and M56 (except M56x four-wheel-drive models), Lincoln MKS, Mercedes-Benz E-Class (sedan and coupe), Saab 9-5, and Volvo S80.
2012 IIHS Top Safety Picks: The Full List
Small SUVs
Honda CR-V, Hyundai Tucson, Jeep Patriot (only with optional side torso airbags), Kia Sportage, Subaru Forester and VW Tiguan.
2012 IIHS Top Safety Picks: The Full List
Midsize SUVs
Chevrolet Equinox; Dodge Durango and Journey; Ford Edge, Explorer and Flex; GMC Terrain; Honda Pilot; Hyundai Santa Fe; Jeep Grand Cherokee; Kia Sorento; Subaru Tribeca; and Toyota Highlander and Venza.
2012 IIHS Top Safety Picks: The Full List
Midsize Luxury SUVs
Acura MDX, Audi Q5, BMW X3, Cadillac SRX, Infiniti EX35, Lexus RX, Lincoln MKT and MKX, Mercedes-Benz GLK and M-Class, Saab 9-4X, and Volvo XC60 and XC90.
2012 IIHS Top Safety Picks: The Full List
Large SUVs
Buick Enclave, Chevrolet Traverse, GMC Acadia, VW Touareg.
2012 IIHS Top Safety Picks: The Full List
Chrysler Town & Country, Dodge Grand Caravan, Honda Odyssey, Toyota Sienna and VW Routan.
2012 IIHS Top Safety Picks: The Full List
Large Pickups
Ford F-150 (crew cab models only), Honda Ridgeline and Toyota Tundra (crew cab models only).


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