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I believe the creator of this map was Ascension, anyone feel free to correct me on this, if you want something in this style you're best dropping a message to him and maybe negotiating from there
Okay, so I am in desperate need of a map with this style -----> (C) to original owner, however! I would like it more zoomed in than that. What I mean by this is not size but that is shows more landmarks rather than just the land itself { ie. Showing a wrecked ship and some large boulders and a pier }. I would love for the map to go AS CLOSE AS POSSIBLE to this layout but more zoomed in { this time I am reffering to the size. I know, complicated } -----> (C) to meh! Now I should probably explain the layout so you understand a little better yes? Okay. The 't' shaped object in the bottom right corner is a pier, the long jagged line that stretches out to sea is a jetty {next to the pier}. The half circle attached to the jetty is VERY IMPORTANT. It is a hill ( with sand not grass ) that cuts short. So instead of being able to go downhill on the other side of the circle there is a cliff that drops off into the ocean. ( To express the cliff I have made what looks like a jetty surrounding the half circle if you can see it.) Now. The contents of the half circle. There is a bunch of irregular circles with shaded spots on each one. Those are boulders with hollowed out insides. ( So basically, mini caves ) The shaded spots are indeed, the entrances. The AMT of boulders and their positioning is VERY IMPORTANT. Now the boulder at the top-center of the half circle has a dead tree next to it. Also VERY IMPORTANT. Hmm lets see. Oh yes! The sand. The space between the left corner ( which I will explain in a min. ) and the half circle is almost just like a regular beach. Simply sand. Now the thing in the middle of the ocean, is a wrecked ship. ( I hope that was obvious, because I drew this : p ) Please do not put the wrecked ship further out in the sea. If anything, place it closer to land, even if it is halfway in the sand and halfway in the water it would be better than further out in the ocean.NEXT- The left corner is complicated. So there is a path from the beach going uphill to a forest. The spikey things on the side of the hill and surrounding the forest are more rocky cliffs. The forest is kinda dark, erie, dead, and kinda foggy. It would be REALLY cool if you could put fog surrounding dead burned trees, but thats just an extra. Now If you are uncertain about ANYTHING pleaseee pleassee consult me so I can help futher your understanding. IF you need to make ANY adjustments pleasee pleasssse consult me. And there is no need to lable anything, I am fine with just the map. Now I know what you're thinking. This person is asking for ALOT of stuff and seems very picky and she isn't even offering any money for it, not to mention the fact she obssesively CAPS things wayy to much. Well urr... that is true, but I can offer you my graditude and put in a good word to anyone for you. I am not really sure how things work around here as far as that goes but I really really want this map and if anyone would be kind enough to help me I would greatly appreciate it from the bottom of my heart. Thank you so much!
I believe the creator of this map was Ascension, anyone feel free to correct me on this, if you want something in this style you're best dropping a message to him and maybe negotiating from there
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Oh ur, thanks. I suppose I should mention that I am new to this site, so I am not allowed to PM anyone till I make 5 posts in a thread. But when I posted that pic of the map I was just trying to give an example of what I would like it to be similar to. I was just trying to show that I wouldn't prefer a black and white layout or graphic, but a map. If anyone could do something like the first 5 maps on the slideshow on the homepage, they would be accomplishing what I mean by 'this style'. Sorry, I should've specified that.
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Now sure it doesn't hurt to ask, but asking for "something like the first 5 maps on the slideshow on the homepage, they would be accomplishing what I mean by 'this style' " then I'm going to let you know now that you shouldn't hold your breath. The ones on the homepage (albeit it's a now defunct system as the admins don't have the time to keep updating, so they've been there a while) are some of the best maps the community has had to offer and they have generally taken a hell of a lot of time.
Honestly, I think the reality is that if you have set the bar at that level then no one is going to meet your expectation or be willing to put in the kind of effort needed for that kind of quality as a freebie.
Most people who pick up the unpaid jobs are either looking to improve their style/skills or might have a little free time to knock something together; not the labors of love you see on the front page. So if you can lower your expectations then you might be in with a shot, but if you want something that is as jaw droppingly beautiful as the homepage maps then you are in for a long wait
Oh, and welcome to the community!
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Haha Tried to take the sting out of it Rob. Just regurgitating what I saw in one of your posts a little while back when someone asked how to get on the front page.
I look forward to the new maps so that "The Butcher.." map stops taunting me with its awesomeness.


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Research Fellow Stephen P. Halbrook, author of Gun Control in the Third Reich, appeared on "The Daily Ledger" show on One America TV News Network. The discussion ranges from Second Amendment rights and concealed weapons permits, to gun registration and ultimately gun confiscation by German officials in the 1930s and 1940s.
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Mary Theroux, Senior Vice President at the Independent Institute, is interviewed by Bob Weeks of WichitaLiberty TV. Mary reflects on the
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Recorded: Monday, October 28, 2013
Maura McEnaney, author of Willard Garvey: An Epic Life, speaks before the Rotary Club of Wichita on October 28, 2013, about her new book published by The Independent Institute's LibertyTree Press.
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It's been almost a year since London's self-proclaimed "Last Sweetheart," Laurel, released her self-produced track "Blue Blood"—one of a few demos that secured the artist a contract with Turn First Artists (Ellie Goulding, Iggy Azalea and Rita Ora). The 19-year-old songstress and Next-signed model splits her time between the busy streets of London and her quiet sea-side hometown of South Hampton. The latter environment seeps into the fantastic lyrical narrative of Laurel's latest musical offering, "To The Hills," that transports you into the sleepy British countryside.
Between the moody lyrics, ill-fated love, and orchestral melodies its hard not to draw comparisons to fellow songstress Lana Del Rey, but Laurel seems to be carving her own niche in a burgeoning somber-pop genre. Speaking with Laurel, one is instantly hypnotized by her enchanting energy and passion for life—making her "sweetheart" title a founded one. What comes as a surprise is Laurel's (admittedly charming) affinity for swearing.
As you know, we're premiering your "To The Hills" Jane Doze remix.
LAUREL: Oh yeah. I'm really excited. Have you heard it yet?
I have. Its so different from the original.
L: Its quite a club banger. Its quite fun for me because I do really sultry, down-tempo stuff so its quite weird to have everything change.
Your songs feel so personal. How do you feel about having your song remixed?
L: It's really strange having your stuff remixed. I've done some remixes myself of other people so I definitely get it. Its really fun to see your music in a different way, but its hard not to be protective over it. There's been a few times where I've said "No, no I don't like that" and then I realize that its actually really good. I'm just so protective over my song.
Can you explain what "To The Hills" is about or what inspired it? [See the official video for the original in the slideshow above]
L: It's based on a short story by Ramond Carver. The [song's video] director had mentioned the story to me a while back and thought it was a wicked story that I needed to read. So I read the story—it's only like four pages long. Basically, these two kids travel off and run away from home and happen upon a yard sale, but this old man is there… it's all very strange. They all start dancing, getting a bit drunk. There's nothing significant that happens in it—just a strange atmosphere. So when I read it I thought this is amazing and its perfect. He said lets make it into a film and I said, Fuck yeah!
What is the song-writing process like for you?
L: I used to find all the words for songs in my magazines. So usually I sit with some of my favorite magazines and just pick out loads of words and concepts that I really like.
L: Yeah it is really interesting because there's lots of words that you wouldn't think of using and lots of magazines have really descriptive ways of talking about things. There's a song I wrote called "The Desert" which was based on me looking for a Vogue editorial about tanned clothing. Which is quite funny! So yeah I just start with that and then play with different chords. It just kind of comes out…or it doesn't come out. A lot of times it doesn't work.
Is self-producing your songs a conscious choice, or something that happened organically?
L: It's quite random actually. I was never that interested in it until probably about a year ago. I just wanted to write songs and not produce them. I never had the ambition to do it. I was just getting quite frustrated in the studio because every time I wanted to write I had to have someone else there. They were taking away from what I wanted to do sometimes and it was quite a hard process. I just found in the end that I like to write on my own better. I just started playing around on the computer and then I wrote "Blue Bloods." That was the first song I really tried to produced. After that I thought "This is fun. I want to keep doing this." So then I've been learning loads more now though. So no, it wasn't conscious.
Do you produce at home?
L: I produce everything in my flat. There's a small room that was filled with shit and everyone was leaving all their stuff at my house. I went in one day and said, "This is going to be my studio." So I took everything out. It was a really small room that I covered the walls with magazines. Thats where I write everything. We go to studio sometimes if we need to.
Can you tell me a little bit about going to DSquared's Fall/Winter '14 show?
L: It was my first trip to Milan! It was so exciting. I'm really interested in fashion so we wanted to do some fashion shows. I did a bit in London and then I had the opportunity to go to DSquared. Their clothes are so cool. Really classic. Exactly my style. They dressed me and I got to meet all of them. I drank way too much champagne though!
Did you meet anyone at the show?
L: Yeah I met this girl named Sai Bennett who's really fun. She's in a show here called Mr. Selfridge. So I sat with her the whole time and I didn't realize who she was. Then afterwards I said "Oh shit. I watch you on TV every week."
You've talked about magazines being inspirational. You write lyrics based off of them and you plaster your studio walls with them. What is it about magazines that you find so fascinating?
L: I just love the visuals in magazines. The way magazines are set out is so useful. It's classic. White background. Its just really nice looking and I love looking through them. I keep magazines in my house to have and look through. Its fun to go on Tumblr and look at things there. I make moodboards on walls with the images and put them into the studio for inspiration. I change it like every month or two and put up new pictures and words. Thats how I get going. I set up color schemes. If it's wintery I'll choose dark, rich colors and if I'm feeling happier I'll choose florals and pastels.
What does success look like to you?
L: Success is just happiness. I consider myself successful right now because I'm happy with where I am. I like how things are going. As long as you're happy with it then you are successful. Everyone's got different ambitions so there's not a real way of finding it.
Last, but not least. What app do you use for your Instagram?
L: I use an app called Afterlight. I'm obsessed with it. I only paid like 60p and I've probably used it more than any other app on my phone. There's like a "Seasons" pack of filters and I like overlapping those.
To The Hills EP is set for an April 7th release on Laurel's own label Next Time Records available for pre-order here.


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Prairie State Generating Leverages Kronos for Energy Solution for Productivity and Compliance ImprovementsJan 03, 2013 | Kronos IncorporatedPrairie State Generating Company is focused on utilizing domestic coal resources to deploy clean generation technologies in an efficient and environmentally friendly manner, generating enough electricity to serve approximately 2.5 million families in eight states. PSGC began with 20 employees and...
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DTE Energy, a Detroit-based utility company, made a decision in March 2009 to no longer charge its customers a convenience fee to pay their utility bill with a payment card. The business case for doing so was supported by increased revenues collected, reduced cost of bill presentment and...
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The TIDES project (Transportable Infrastructures for Development and Emergency Support) is a research effort to encourage information sharing and develop Communities of Interest to support populations in stressed environments. Such environments include Stabilization and Reconstruction (SSTR), Humanitarian Assistance-Disaster Relief (HADR), and Building the Capacity of Partner Nations (BPC). Phase I of TIDES included demonstrations in Oct-Nov 2007 at the National Defense University (NDU) and the Pentagon's center court. TIDES is one part of a broader effort called STAR (Sustainable Technologies, Accelerated Research).
- TIDES-related environments include: domestic and foreign, short term (disaster relief) and long term (displaced persons), military involvement, or not. Each has different needs.
- DoD usually is not in the lead for these efforts, but often supports others, such as DHS/FEMA domestically, and the State Department/USAID/OFDA overseas.
- TIDES does not try to address all problems in these situations, but focuses primarily on seven infrastructures: Shelter, water, power, integrated cooking, cooling/lighting/heating, sanitation and Information & Communications Technologies (ICT). Medical support will be added in the future.
- The goal is to build the broadest possible communities to suggest innovative solutions to support those who are dealing with real world situations.
- Participation in TIDES does NOT imply endorsement by the US govt.
TIDES' focus is on information sharing and low-cost, transportable infrastructures, not the capital-intensive infrastructures of the developed world, or the deployable, integrated (and expensive) ones used by the military. TIDES infrastructures should be able to be turned over to the affected populations at the end of an operation.
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- October 2011: Patricia McArdle, of Solar Cookers International, demonstrated solar cooking with Afzal Syed and volunteers, Sherry and Cecily, at the TIDES exhibit on the campus of the National Dense University. Afzal brought several pots of raw ingredients for Pakistani dishes that were prepared by his wife Samina, including: masoor dall, spiced potatoes, okra, and chawal rice. Patricia baked a loaf of banana bread, which was consumed in less than five minutes. They used the parabolic SK10 (similar to the SK12), purchased from Deepak Gadhia several years ago, to keep a pot of water boiling from 9 a.m. in the morning until the event ended at 5 p.m. There were a number of senior military visitors from other countries. Several have expressed an interest in learning more about solar cooking technology and how it can be used in their countries. The most surprising visit yesterday was from a Vietnamese general, the most senior Vietnamese military officer to visit the U.S. since before the war with Vietnam started in the sixties. Several 'very important people' who came to the demonstration assumed that it would take us 10 to 12 hours to cook food in a panel or box cooker. They were astounded that the food was cooked in less than three hours--in October-- in Washington D.C.--which is 40 degrees north of the equator.
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Canalave City (Japanese: ミオシティ Mio Shiti) is a city in western Sinnoh. It includes the Harbor Inn, a Pokemon Center, a PokéMart, the Gym Leader, Byron, and the Canalave Library. You can also talk to a sailor there, who can take you to Iron Island, Fullmoon Island.
In the bottom left corner is a house with a sign outside. Inside is the sailor's wife and son. After obtaining the National Pokedex, The Sailor's son gets struck with nightmares of which he cannot awake. He thrashes around in his sleep and says "Dar... Dark... Is watching me...". To awaken the Sailor's son, you must go to Fullmoon Island and retrieve the Lunar Wing from Cresselia which will cure the Sailor's son of nightmares.
A locked house in the top right corner is a house (The Harbor Inn) that requires the Member Card to open. Before opening, you must obtain the Lunar Wing and help the Sailor's son of the nightmares. Not long after opening the Inn, an old man will talk to you, asking if you would like to sleep. Accepting this will make you have a nightmare of which you go to Newmoon Island, to battle/catch Darkrai. After catching/defeating Darkrai, you will wake up from your nightmare. Sleeping in the same bed will take you back to Newmoon Island where you can battle Darkrai again if you fled/fainted in battle.
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pgCon 2013 Unconference Day
The PostgreSQL Community is having our first Unconference Day at pgCon 2013 in Ottawa! This event, sponsored by Salesforce.com, extends pgCon and gives us additional opportunities to share, collaborate, and discuss about PostgreSQL development, hacking, usage, and community.
For more about unconference days and why we're doing this, see the Unconference Day FAQ.
If you are interested in holding a session, or you want someone else to do a session on a particular topic on the Unconference day, please add your proposal to "session ideas" below.
Basic Information
pgCon Unconference Day
Saturday, May 25th
10am to 5:30pm
Rooms: MNT202, MRT221, MRT256
Unconference Schedule
Not final, may be revised based on conference logistics.
|10am to 11am
|Introduction and selection of sessions in MRT 202
|11am to 12pm
|First sessions (3 rooms)
|12pm to 1pm
|Second sessions (3 rooms)
|1pm to 2:30pm
|Lunch discussion groups
|2:30pm to 3:30pm
|Third sessions (3 rooms)
|3:30pm to 4:30pm
|Fourth Sessions (3 rooms)
|4:30pm to 5:30pm
|Spillover Sessions (3 rooms)
How Sessions are Selected
No predetermined schedule is set for the Unconference Day beforehand. Instead, participants in the Unconference bring their ideas, demands, wishlists and discussion topics, and propose sessions at 10am in MRT 202. Anyone can lead a session. Sessions are accepted by acclaim, and scheduled collaboratively in the first period from 10am to 11am.
In order to get things started quickly on the Unconference Day, participants are encouraged to post session ideas on the wiki, below, before the unconference actually starts.
For more information, see the Unconference Day FAQ
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If you wish to lead a session at the Unconference Day, or if you wish someone else would hold one on a specific topic, please propose it below. Copy this template and add your session proposal:
=== My Session Idea === Proposed By: Me Session Type: Presentation/Round-table/Open Discussion/Hacking/Other Description: write a few lines of description of your session idea here Attendees: anyone who thinks they'll attend this, add your name here
PostgreSQL.org Testing Brainstorming
Proposed By: Josh Berkus
Session Type: Open Discussion
Description: the regression tests and the Buildfarm don't cover anywhere near all the kinds, or scope, of testing we want to do with Postgres, especially during the Beta Testing period. What other kinds of testing could we be doing? How can we increase test coverage? How can we get new contributors involved in testing?
Attendees: put your name here:
Enhancement of PostgreSQL testing framework
Proposed By: Galy Lee
Session Type: Presentation/Open Discussion
Description: We had enhanced three parts to current PostgreSQL regression test suite, those are: new replication testing framework, kernel testing framework for index/transaction/buffer page module, enhancement of isolation testing framework with synchronization mechanism. I will introduce our works and hope to discuss with the community how to make our testing framework better.
Attendees: Galy,
Trigger-Based Replication Brainstorming
Proposed By: Christopher Browne
Session Type: Open Discussion
Description: What are people liking/not liking about Slony, Londiste, Bucardo? What features are not available that would be valuable to have? What backend features would be useful to make implementations better/faster/more reliable?
Attendees: cbbrowne, me (Susanne),
Open Hack Session
Proposed By: Quinn Weaver
Session Type: Hacking
Description: Bring a project or come looking to join, work in a team or solo, use IRC and sneakernet to help each other out — just hack!
Attendees: Quinn, Satoshi
Planned projects:
- Quinn: I will be giving pg-version-compare some much-needed love (top priority: adding data for recent PostgreSQL releases).
- Satoshi: I will be hacking pgperf-snapshot to catch up to the 9.3 (and add some unit tests). See docs for more details.
The Future of Postgres
Proposed by: Josh Berkus
Session Type: Open discussion
Description: where do you think PostgreSQL should go in 2 years? 5? 10? What features do you see as essential to Postgres continuing to thrive? Who's going to work on them?
Lower Level Tuning
Proposed By: Susanne Ebrecht
Session Type: Presentation and Open Discussion
Description: Databases are real I/O and RAM eater. The talk gives an overview what administrators need to consider on buying new hardware, what they need to tune on Linux level and which variables they might want to change in postgresql.conf to get better performance.
Attendees:: anyone who thinks they'll attend this, add your name here
Why VACUUM?
Proposed By: Susanne Ebrecht
Session Type: Presentation and Open Discussion
Description: For what does PostgreSQL need VACUUM? Why should it run? When is autovacuum triggered? Why autovacuum not alwys works ...
Attendees: anyone who thinks they'll attend this, add your name here
InnoDB - purge_thread instead of VACUUM
Proposed By: Hartmut Holzgraefe
Session Type: Presentation and Open Discussion
Description: PostgreSQL and InnoDB/XtraDB are both implementing MVCC in similar ways, differ at the detail level though. One of the differences is how to get rid of MVCC records that are no longer needed ... where PostgreSQL requires explicit VACUUM operation (or semi-implicit AUTOVACUUM) the InnoDB storage engine uses one or (in recent releases) more background threads to get rid of old MVCC entries (almost) completely transparantly ... I'd like to have a look at the implementation details and the advantages and disadvantages of both approaches ...
Attendees: anyone who thinks they'll attend this, add your name here
What more is needed for better JSON use?
Proposed By: Andrew Dunstan
Session Type: Open Discussion
Description: Now we have a lot of enhanced JSON functionality in 9.3, what more is needed for more effective and useful JSON?
Attendees: add your name here
Don't be afraid to give a talk on PGCon
Proposed By: Susanne Ebrecht
Session Type: Open Discussion
Description: How to prepare a good talk, ...
Attendees: add your name here
Speaker wanted!
Upgrading a running HA system without downtime and without lost of HA
Proposed By: Susanne Ebrecht
Description: Hot upgrading to a new release by always minimum have running one master and minimum one slave .....
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Wolf 359 was the primary of the Wolf system, located less than 20 light years from Sol in the Alpha Quadrant. This system was the site of the historic Battle of Wolf 359. (TNG: "The Best of Both Worlds", "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II")
On several occasions in 2364, viewscreen readouts aboard the USS Enterprise-D showed the location of Wolf 359, in the form of charts from the Enterprise-D library computer. (TNG: "The Naked Now", "The Last Outpost", "Conspiracy")
Wolf 359 appeared in the starchart Data and Picard were studying in Stellar Cartography in 2371. (Star Trek Generations, display graphic)
Battle of Wolf 359
- Main article: Battle of Wolf 359
Wolf 359 was the site of the first large-scale engagement between Starfleet and the Borg. In 2367, a fleet of forty ships under the command of Admiral Hanson engaged a Borg cube commanded by Locutus at the Battle of Wolf 359. Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise-D had been assimilated by the Borg, and as Locutus, unwillingly provided them with a decisive advantage through his knowledge of Starfleet technology and tactics. This led to the Federation fleet, tasked with preventing the advance of the Borg to Earth, being quickly overwhelmed and utterly destroyed. Of the forty vessels that engaged the Borg cube, thirty-nine were destroyed, resulting in approximately eleven thousand deaths. (TNG: "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II")
The Enterprise-D arrived late to the scene of the battle at Wolf 359 only to find the wreckage and debris of the starships destroyed by the Borg. Among the ships lost at Wolf 359 were the USS Melbourne, command of which had been offered to Commander William T. Riker, and which he had declined. (TNG: "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II") Also lost was the USS Saratoga, on which then Lt. Commander Benjamin Sisko was serving. Sisko lost his wife Jennifer in the destruction of the Saratoga, and Sisko long blamed and disliked Picard for his role in her death. (DS9: "Emissary")
Background information
The location of Wolf 359 was depicted in the chart naming stars within 20 light years of Sol. The chart was drawn by Rick Sternbach for the Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology in the late 1970s. Found on page 77, this chart showed Earth commercial and exploration routes after the use of warp drive began. Wolf 359 was located in the same general area as Alpha Centauri, Sol and, Sirius. This area of space was identified in "The Explored Galaxy" star chart as being between the Tholian Assembly and Romulus. Both were identified in DS9: "The Search, Part II", "Call to Arms" as being located in the Alpha Quadrant.
According to Star Trek: Star Charts (Page 45), Wolf 359 was located in the Beta Quadrant. Wolf 359 was a M class star with a magnitude of +9.
In non-canon sources, comics of the DC TNG volume 2 series mention Wolf 359 was maintained as a wreckyard of the doomed ships, as depicted in the stories "The Worst of Both Worlds, Part I!" and again in "And Death Shall Have No Dominion". Star Trek Online also depicted such a memorial.


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Source(Pub. L. 106–387, § 1(a) [title IX, § 907], Oct. 28, 2000, 114 Stat. 1549, 1549A–70.)
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(A) a disbursing official if the President decides the advance is necessary to carry out—
(c) Before the Secretary of the Treasury acts on a requisition for an advance, the Comptroller General shall act on the requisition under section 3522 of this title. The Comptroller General does not countersign a requisition for an advance.
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In subsection (c), the words "Comptroller General" are substituted for "General Accounting Office" for consistency.
In subsection (d), before clause (1), the words "On and after April 15, 1926" in 31:686–2 are omitted as executed. The word "agency" is substituted for "department or establishment" because of section 101 of the revised title and for consistency. The words "may pay in advance from appropriations available for the purpose" are substituted for "may transfer in advance . . . such amounts as may be necessary to defray the expense of" for clarity and consistency. In clause (1), the words "Secretary of the Army" are substituted for "Signal Corps of the Army" because of 10:3012. The title of Secretary of War was changed to Secretary of the Army, and the Department of War was designated the Department of the Army by section 205(a) of the Act of July 26, 1947 (ch. 343, 61 Stat. 501), and by sections 1 and 53 of the Act of August 10, 1956 (ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 157, 676). Clause (2) is substituted for 31:530a and 530b to eliminate unnecessary words. The words "or the municipal government of the District of Columbia" are omitted because of sections 441–445 and 736 of the Act of December 24, 1973 (Pub. L. 93–198, 87 Stat. 798, 823).
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The Vidiians were a species found in the Delta Quadrant. For two millennia the entire race suffered from a disease called the Phage that ate away at their DNA and organs. The Vidiian government is called the Vidiian Sodality.
Continuous organ transplantation led to the Phage-infected Vidiians having a wide variety of alien organs and skin on their body, resulting in a hideous appearance. When uninfected with the Phage, the Vidiians had a standard humanoid appearance. The Vidiians' facial appearance was similar to that of a Human with two eyes, a nose and a mouth, but they also possessed a swept back hairline and a slightly enlarged forehead with no eyebrows. There was also a slight ridge that ran from the hairline down the center of the forehead to the top of the nose.
The Vidiians were a civilized culture, renowned specifically for their artistry until the Phage attacked approximately 2,000 years ago. Their civilization was ravaged and they turned all their attention to treating the disease.
By the 24th century, they had been forced to use their technology to harvest other species' organs to replace their own as they failed. In their desire to defeat the Phage, the race lost all sense of moral perspective and began to remove organs from live subjects as necessary, although some exceptions objected to these practices and were prepared to help others. A profession called a Honatta had even developed that was dedicated to harvesting organs and biomatter from others, typically from corpses, for those suffering from the Phage. (VOY: "Phage")
The first Starfleet encounter with the Vidiians occurred in 2371 when the USS Voyager visited an asteroid used by the Vidiians as an organ storage facility. A Talaxian crewmember, Neelix, had his lungs removed and implanted into one of the two Vidiians on the asteroid. Consequently, Captain Janeway was faced with killing the Vidiian to recover the organs. Feeling that this would be morally wrong, she agreed to release them with a warning to their species not to interfere with Voyager again. The Vidiians agreed to use their advanced medical technology to transplant a lung from an Ocampan crewmember, Kes, into Neelix. (VOY: "Phage")
Later that year, B'Elanna Torres was captured by Sulan, the chief surgeon of the Vidiians, and separated into her Human and Klingon halves. The Klingon half proved resistant to the Phage but was killed as the other captive Starfleet personnel escaped from the Avery III mines. (VOY: "Faces")
Another encounter occurred due to a temporal incursion. In this encounter, a future version of Kes, driven mad by her enhanced powers, became convinced that Voyager had corrupted her with ideas of exploration, prompting her to develop her mental powers to such an extent that her people would be afraid of her, and became determined to change her history. Once in the past, she contacted a Vidiian ship, and agreed to give them Voyager if they would take her past self home. However, Janeway realized what was happening and confronted the future Kes, killing her as Voyager escaped the Vidiian ship. (VOY: "Fury")
The species was encountered three times during 2372. In the first instance, Voyager rescued Denara Pel, a dying Vidiian hematologist. Her condition was stabilized by The Doctor and she proved to be the first Vidiian who disapproved of the practice of organ harvesting, even assuring Torres that she didn't want her to go through an operation that would help Pel if she didn't want to. Pel and The Doctor developed a relationship (the first time The Doctor had ever developed romantic feelings), but she left Voyager to help her people, although they both treasured the time they spent together. (VOY: "Lifesigns")
The second encounter was less positive. After passing through a subspace anomaly, Voyager was mysteriously duplicated. One of the two duplicates was attacked by a Vidiian vessel and invaded by hundreds of Vidiians. With numerous crewmembers such as Tuvok now dead, the Captain Janeway of that ship destroyed Voyager rather than let it fall into enemy hands. As a result, almost the entire crew of that Voyager was killed, with the exception of Harry Kim and the newly-born Naomi Wildman, who were ordered to escape to the surviving duplicate Voyager (their counterparts having died due to a hull breach and birth complications, respectively). (VOY: "Deadlock")
Several months later, Captain Janeway and Chakotay were bitten by an insect while exploring a planet and were infected by a virus. The Doctor was unable to find a cure and only exposure to the planet's ecosystem held the symptoms at bay. With no other option, Voyager continued its journey, leaving the two officers behind.
Some weeks later Voyager encountered a Vidiian convoy. After initially avoiding contact, Tuvok decided to ask them about the virus. Shortly afterwards they were contacted by Denara Pel, who agreed to give them the anti-viral agent that the Vidiians had developed many years before.
Upon meeting the convoy, the Vidiians attacked, but Denara Pel, shocked at her own species' actions, offered to transport the anti-viral agent anyway, talking briefly with The Doctor one last time before they parted ways forever. Voyager then disabled the Vidiian ships and returned to pick up Janeway and Chakotay. (VOY: "Resolutions")
In 2375 the Think Tank stated they had cured the Phage. In doing so, the Think Tank also stated that "you wouldn't recognize them now," insinuating that they had returned to their pre-phage pursuits, ideals, and morals. (VOY: "Think Tank")
Vidiians had a very sophisticated device which was a combination weapon, medical scanner and surgical instrument. With this device, Vidiian organ harvesters would attack a victim who the device indicated had healthy and Vidiian-compatible organs or tissues, and transport such bio-material from the victim into the transporter device used. The organs were then transplanted into another Vidiian requiring organ transplants. They also had force field technologies, including the ability to cloak the force field as an object, like a rock face. They had an advanced medical technology, superior to even that of the Federation, but this was not enough to cure the Phage. Their anti-starship weaponry included hypothermic charges. (VOY: "Deadlock")
- The Vidiians were originally supposed to be called the Vaphorans, but their name was changed because the original was considered too difficult to pronounce. "Phage", the episode that introduced the species, was shot using the original name, and the new name was looped in post-production.
- According to the Star Trek: Star Charts, on page 78, the homeworld of the Vidiians was named Vidiia Prime. This was the main planet in the Vidiia system. Vidiia Prime was a Class M world. On page 83, it was said that first contact with the Vidiians occurred on stardate 48532.
Additional references
- "Infinite Regress" (Season 5)
- "Think Tank"
- "Good Shepherd" (Season 6)


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New Faculty Start-Up Funding Opportunity (FY2016)
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New Faculty Start-Up Funding Opportunity
Issued: June 10, 2014
DEADLINES: Letter of Intent: Noon, June 26, 2014
Proposals: Noon, August 7, 2014
TO: NDSU Deans and Chairs in the Sciences, Engineering, and Mathematics (SEM)
FROM: Kelly A. Rusch, Ph.D., Project Director, ND EPSCoR, NDSU Office
RE: New Faculty Start-Up Funding Opportunity
Department Chairs, Deans recruiting Department Chair/Head positions, and Directors of the ND EPSCoR-designated Research Initiative are invited to submit proposals requesting start-up funds for tenure-track research faculty to be hired during FY2016. The major goal of this program is to attract highly qualified tenure-track faculty to our research-intensive universities who will be nationally competitive for grants from federal agency research programs in science, engineering, and mathematics.
A Letter of Intent is requested no later than June 26, 2014. Failure to submit a Letter of Intent by this date will not affect the proposal reviews. Proposals are due in the ND EPSCoR campus office by no later than Noon, August 7, 2014. Proposals will be reviewed by an external panel in September, 2014 on the NDSU campus. The external panel will interview only the Dean, Department Chair, or Research Director submitting the proposal. The interviewee is welcome to bring five copies of supplemental hard copy handouts to this session, but no audio/visual aids will be allowed. Awards will be announced in late October, 2014. ND EPSCoR anticipates making up to 5 awards for up to two years of support. Awards are contingent on continued funding from the National Science Foundation and the State of North Dakota. If funding continues, award dollars should be available July 1, 2015, to hire a new Department Chair and September 1, 2015, for new faculty.
Key Points Relevant to this Award Program:
1. ND EPSCoR is focused on building research capabilities that are aligned with the research-intensive universities' institutional long-term research objectives; the research commitments of the higher education roundtable; and research that builds the economic base of North Dakota as expressed by the Governor and the State Legislature. Applicants should consider these points to devise an appropriate Research Infrastructure Development Plan (primary evaluation criterion 5).
2. Department hiring processes will be at various stages during proposal review. Thus, it is not necessary that individual recruits be named in the proposal. Rather, the evaluation will be based on the Primary Evaluation Criteria listed below.
3. Proposals will be reviewed externally, and this committee makes recommendations for funding. The Project Administrator, in collaboration with the campus Vice President for Research and Creative Activity negotiates award levels with the successful departments.
4. These funds should be allocated for faculty summer salary (two months maximum per summer), graduate research stipends (academic year and summer), research-related travel, critical permanent equipment, supplies, and other resources deemed essential for a promising investigator to launch a nationally-competitive research program. No academic year faculty salary is allowed.
5. These funds must supplement and not replace resources that would be used to recruit a new professor.
6. These funds are targeted for the new faculty member's exclusive use.
7. Departments are expected to employ effective search and hiring processes to recruit high-quality diverse faculty.
Primary Evaluation Criteria:
1. The quality and sustainability of the Research Infrastructure Development Plan for recruiting and hiring high-quality diverse faculty with exemplary academic/professional qualifications.
2. The extent to which the applicant department can provide the environment; i.e., research space, reasonable teaching load, access to equipment and support staff, and the support of her/his colleagues necessary for building a nationally-competitive and sustainable research program via successful proposals, publications, and graduates in an area normally supported by the National Science Foundation.
3. The department, college, and other support available to the new faculty member provided by the applicant. Typically, though not required, the proposed department support level equals the amount requested from ND EPSCoR. It may be larger or smaller than the amount requested from ND EPSCoR. Support may be from sources within the university or from extramural (non-federal) funds.
4. The quality of plans to ensure successful research mentoring for graduate student and/or postdoctoral positions.
5. The impact of the department's Research Infrastructure Development Plan on areas of research that address state/regional interests.
6. All SEM areas are eligible to apply, but preferences include: disciplines related to NDSU's ND EPSCoR research cluster of Sustainable Materials Science, nanoscience/nano engineering, optics, remote sensing, genomics and bioinformatics.
DISCUSSIONS WITH THE CAMPUS ND EPSCoR OFFICE ABOUT THE PROGRAM AND EXPECTATIONS REGARDING INSTITUTIONAL COMMITMENTS ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED.
Checklist Requirements: (Failure to comply with this checklist may result in the proposal being rejected.)
Submit both paper and electronic versions:
Paper Proposal: CHANGED to Original + 2 copies. No more than 11 double-spaced, one-sided pages, margins ≥ 1", with no less than a 10-point font. Staple all copies in the following order:
1. ND EPSCoR Cover page−available at the top of this page.
2. Executive Summary (one page) which also must describe the long term plan for the department.
3. Proposal description (no more than eight pages).
4. NSF style budget sheet-available at the top of this page.
5. Appendices (20-page maximum) limited to and in the following order:
a) One-page fact sheet describing the state-of-the-department, including current faculty and their research expertise, active and recently expired grants and contracts, and average teaching loads.
b) Letters of commitment for support from department, college, or other sources.
c) Interdepartmental support letters if specific collaboration is proposed.
d) CVs of candidates who have received invitations for interviews from the applicant department (if appropriate, and if particularly strong candidates have been identified).
e) Graduate and Postdoctoral Research Mentoring Plan
f) One-page describing department plans for recruiting a diverse candidate pool and ensuring effective and equitable hiring processes are employed.
g) Up to one page describing benchmarks for new faculty hires (timelines/metrics).
6. Summary of Department's research expenditures over past 5 years.
7. List of research expenditures for each faculty member over past 5 years.
Electronic Proposal: A complete proposal in a single PDF file via e-mail attachment to email@example.com
Please indicate subject line as New Fac Start-Up Prop.
Please direct your questions to the ND EPSCoR office at 231.8400 or Elizabeth Jung at 231.1048;email@example.com
For information about ND EPSCoR and other funding opportunities, please visit the Web site at www.ndepscor.nodak.edu