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Category: Appearance
- Fill Color Top ... Fade Down To
- This feature will allow you to specify colors of the background for your website. Optionally, you can choose to have either a single, solid color - by entering only a color selection in the Fill Color Top field OR you may choose to fade your start color to another color - by entering a color in the Fade Down To field. When two different colores are added, this will create a gradient for your background fading down to the second color.
- Fill Image or Fill Image File
- You can select one of the pre-loaded backgrounds from the drop down selection OR you may upload your own image which will appear as the background image.
Smaller images will be "tiled" or repeated in the page background. You may also use a larger image that may not be tiled.
Custom Designs: LeagueAthletics.com offers custom design services for a one-time fee. For more information, feel free to contact email@example.com.
- Tile Fill Image
- This selection will determine how images are repeated in the page background.
- Align Horizontally
- This selection will determine the horizontal alignment of your background image.
- Align Vertically
- This selection will determine the vertical alignment of your background image
- Upload Logo File
- Upload an image file to your website that will be placed on the top of the left navigation. Optionally, you may include your logo within your banner. If included in the banner, the logo will not appear at the top of the left menu column.
Images wider than 120 pixels will be resized to that width. Pictures taller than 160 pixels will be reduced to that height. Note that only .jpg and .gif files are permitted. If you've already uploaded a logo to the site with this form, you don't need to specify the file again.
If you want to delete the Logo File, uncheck the box to the left of the File box and click submit. The logo image will be deleted if this field is not checked.
- You can optionally upload a banner image file here. This image will be displayed in the horizontal banner space where your organization's full name is normally displayed. You can use any popular drawing program to create the image file but it must be a .jpg, .gif. or .png file and it must be at least 720 pixels wide. The height is up to you, but don't go too high or you'll push your site's content out of view.
Recommended sizes: 1000px wide (or site width) x 150px tall
If you want to delete the Banner File, uncheck the box to the left of the File box and submit the form. The banner image will be deleted if this field is not checked.
Note: If you adjusted your site width, you should keep in mind that when the website is stretched wider than your banner image, the extra space will be filled in with a strip of pixels taken from the rightmost row of pixels from your banner image. If the image has a solid or horizontally striped background, this will not be a problem but if you instead have a textured or complex background, the right edge will appear blurred or striped. In this case, you can force a solid color fill using the Banner Background Color field. - Banner Alignment
- Use this field to control the horizontal alignment of your banner image. You can choose to have the image stay against the left side of the framework, centered within it or aligned to the right side.
- Create Banner Using
- This tool will allow you to create a graphic banner for your site. Using the tools provided in this section, you can incorporate pictures that have been uploaded in your site, select from several of our standard backgrounds or simply use a color. You can also choose to include your organizations logo, and/or a standard sport specific image, as well as selecting shading effects, shading colors and text colors.
- Banner Background
- Select from any of our pre-built backgrounds or select from the set of most recent photos that have been uploaded to your site. Optionally, you can upload you own custom background for your banner. You may also select "None", in which case only a color selection will be used. If you have selected to use uploaded photos, these photos will be selected from the most recent photos that have been uploaded to your site that are not in albums. You can also create a photo album named "Banner Montage" and photos kept in the album will be used. Keep in mind that only a few photos - 4 to 5 in most cases - will be used to create the banner.
If you are using your own custom banner background, the recommended size is 1000 X 150 pixels. If the custom background is smaller than the recommended size, the 'Shading Color' will fill in the remainder of the space. - Include Logo On
- This selection will allow you to choose whether to use your logo (uploaded in the Logo tab of this section) and how to align the logo on your homepage:
Left Nav: places the logo at the top of the left homepage navigation
Left Banner: places the logo on the left side of the banner
Right Banner: places the logo on the right side of the banner - Accessories
- Optionally, you can choose to include an "Accessory" image in your banner. These choices are sport specific images, such as Baseball, Basketball, Football, Hockey Puck, Lacrosse Stick, Soccer Ball, Softball and Volleyball. The accessories cannot be used if you have uploaded your own banner image file.
- Shading Effect
- This selection will allow you to add a shading effect to your banner. Effects included are: Curves, Glass, Ellipse, Shine, Pan Head, Ribbon,Sky and Plain Text. You can also choose to have no banner shading effect.
- Shading Color
- This selection determines the color of your auto-generated graphic banner or text banner. If this field is left blank, the auto-generated graphic banner will use the color entered in the Menu Text Bar field.
If you are using a custom banner and it does not completely fill the banner image area, the extra area can be filled with the color you specify here. If this field is left blank, the extra area will instead be filled with a pattern taken from the rightmost edge of the image file. - The entry made here will be the name that is shown on your banner.
- Font
- This selection will allow you to control the font of your banner.
- Text Color
- This entry will determine the color of text of the graphic banner. If this field is left empty, the graphic banner will use the color entered in the menu text.
- Supplemental Text
- This text will appear under the Banner's Main Title. This will default to the original location information given for the site.
- Left Navigation
- Un-checking this box will remove the left navigation bar on your website. Visitors will now navigate the site using only the drop down menus from the Menu Tabs located at the top of your site.
- Drop-down Menus
- Checking this box will enable drop-down menus throughout your primary and left navigation tabs. Unchecking this option will require users to click on a tab name to navigatet to the next section of your website.
- Menu Tab Color
- This field is used to specify the background color of the left hand menu strip and horizontal buttons.
Advice: Use a background color that contrasts well with the foreground color you select below. You want it and the bar pattern to contrast well with text. - Menu Text Color
- Use this field to specify the foreground color of the text on menus.
- Tab Contour
Admin > Config > Appearance > Menu
The selection made here will determine the look and feel of your horizontal Menu Tab buttons. You can select from: "Flat," "Round Head," "Pan," "Glass," or "Rounded". This is a great way to give your site a unique look.- Menu Contour
- The selection made here will determine the look and feel of the your vertical Menu Page buttons. You can select from: "Flat," "Round Head", "Pan" or "Glass". This is a great way to give your site a unique look.
- Accent Color
- You can optionally specify a color that will accent the right edge of the menu bar and also your graphic banner. This allows you to bring in perhaps a second team color and/or enhance the visual interest of your site. The color specified here will also be used to highlight selected menu items.
- Menu Pattern
- You can choose from of a number of different background patterns for the menu bar. Click the button in the middle of a pattern to select it.
- Page Background Color
- Choose the default page color for custom pages on your site. The color entered here will be used as the default for all pages, but can be overridden individually using the color field on individual pages.
Note: You can choose a transparent background color by typing the word "transparent." In this case, the website's background will shine through. - Body Text Color
- The color of text on your site will default to a dark version of the menu bar color specified above. If you'd prefer another color, you can specify it here.
- Page Default Font
- This section will allow you to determine the font for all pages of your site. You will be able to choose from: Arial, Courier, Lucida, Stencil, Tahoma, Times, and Verdana.
- Hyperlink Color
- This field specifies the color of links on the web site's pages. You'll want to pick a color that goes well with the menu colors you chose above. Once again, you can use the palette to help you choose the correct color.
- Advanced CSS
- This can be used to adjust the cascading style sheets that are used to control the appearance of your website. If you are familiar with css and how to use it, feel free to view the page source of the website and adjust any of these templated settings. Using the classes and ids used in the page source in this area will take precendence over LeagueAthletics.com template and apply your styles. For more information about css, visit http://www.w3schools.com/css/ .
- Headline Style
- You can chose a number of different styles that are used for headlines on your home page and other bulletins.
- Home Page Layout
- Choose from three layouts for your home page's content.
- Page Background Style
- By default, all home page messages - News Items and Welcome Message - will have their own separate box with a 3-Dimensional appearance. The boxes will have a white background with their messages and will appear to be on top of a light grey background.
You can choose not to have the 3-Dimensional appearance and select a color of your liking for the message boxes to appear on. This can be done in theAdmin > Appearance > Home Page
section of your site. Select the "Choose Color" option and enter whatever color you wish. If you would rather not have separate boxes for each news item, simply select White (#FFFFFF) as the background color. - News Articles
- Choose default colors for news items. The colors entered here will be used by default for all new news items, but can be overridden individually using the color fields on the message form.
Note: You can choose a transparent background color from the pop-up color display or type in the word "transparent." In this case, the page's background will shine through.


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Category: Welcome Message
The welcome message will be the first message displayed on your home page and will always remain on top of any news messages that you create.
This is a great place to welcome visitors and tell them a little about your organization. Don't tell them too much, though, or the news items that appear on other parts of your site will be so far down that no one will notice them. One brief paragraph is probably all you need. You might also want to include a photo in the message that captures the essence of your club. A player in action usually works well.
- Author
- This is the name of the person that will post the welcome message on your homepage. This information will appear in the top left corner of the posted message when added to the site.
- Email Address
- Enter an email address so people who read the message can direct questions to you about the information you have posted.
Note: If you want to broadcast this message to your members via email and text messaging, this field is required. - Publish Date
- This field will be filled in automatically with today's date whenever you create a message. You can change this to a date in the future if you'd like to hide the message until that date. Enter any date you wish as long as it is in the correct format: "MM-DD-YYYY" or "MM/DD/YYYY."
- Expiration Date
- This field specifies the date after which the message will no longer be displayed. As above, dates should be in the format: "MM-DD-YYYY" or "MM/DD/YYYY." This is option for the Welcome Message and can be left blank if you wish.
- Archive:
If you have an expiration date set it will be removed from your site 15 days after the expiration date. To prevent the item from being deleted from your site and maintaining the expired state of the message, choose to Archive the message. The message will remain expired but will not be removed from your site. This will allow you to use this message again in the future by changing the posting and expiration date, and unchecking the Archive option.
- Archive:
- Title
- This is the headline for your message. This should be something "catchy" and to the point. Overly long titles may not fit in the display window and are often overlooked by readers. In any case, titles longer that 64 characters will be truncated.
- Message
- This is where you type the body of the message you want displayed to readers. It can be any type of free-form text you wish.
- Picture File
- You can specify a picture file (.gif or .jpg) on your computer to upload and display with your message. Press the "Browse" button to find the file on your computer.
If a file has already been uploaded for this message, the check box can be used to turn the picture's display either on (checked) or off. Note that images wider than 310 pixels will be truncated to that width. Pictures taller than 400 pixels will be reduced to that height.
If you have enabled the News Slideshow option, this picture will display in the news slider - Picture Caption
- Enter a caption for the photo you uploaded above. This can be any text you like up to 255 characters in length.
- News Slideshow
This option will allow you to show a news slider on the homepage of your website. News items that are added to your site will display here with the title and image of your news article, or the title and article text.
- Above - will display the news slider above of all content in the welcome message
- Below - will display the news slider below all welcome message content
- Off - will not show a homepage news slider
Enable/Disable News Slideshow
This option can be found by editing the Welcome Message of your site. Navigate toAdmin > Messaging > Welcome Message
and find the option at the bottom of the page. To turn on the slideshow, select "Above" or "Below." To turn off the slideshow, choose "Off." - Picture Slideshow
- Use the picture slideshow option to showcase pictures in your photo albums or team picture albums within any news item or on the welcome message of your homepage. When selected, the picture slideshow will place the pictures in the album you've selected into a moving gallery. You can select to show the images on Top or Below the text in the message, and choose which album to pull the images from. For example, if you are writing an article about the great tournament your teams just played in, you might create a photo album of the tournament pictures and choose this album to display within the news item. The picture slideshow will show the first 30 pictures in your album.
- From Album - Select the album you want to pull pictures from
- Or Team - Or you can select a Team's pictures to use
- Broadcast this message
- Check this box to have an email copy of your message sent out via email. If this is a News or Exchange item, it will be sent to all members who have an email address. If this is a Team Bulletin, it will be sent to all members of the specified team(s) and their parents.
If this is a news item, you can choose to send it to only club members who are currently assigned to a team (and their parents) or to all members. If you choose the second option, all members will receive the message regardless of whether or not they are still active. The first choice is more appropriate for organizations that have operated for more than one year and have members on file who are no longer active. You can choose which team seasons to broadcast to by selecting from the season menu below. When you choose team seasons in this way, only members of teams whose seasons are selected will receive the message. This way, only the appropriate people will receive the message.

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Spotlight on Domestic Nuclear Safety Leads National Media to CNS Experts
The state of emergency caused by a series of failures at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan after the massive earthquake and huge tsunami of March 11 has led to a serious re-examination of safety issues at nuclear power facilities in the United States. Many local and media outlets have turned to the experts at the Monterey Institute's James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) for comments and opinions. Following are some notable examples:
On March 22, CBS Evening News with Katie Couric featured Dr. Jeffrey Lewis, Director of the CNS East Asia Nonproliferation Program in the story "States Demand Nuclear Waste Reform."
On March 22, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists published the article Japan's Nuclear Crisis: The fine line between security and insecurity by CNS senior research associate Miles A. Pomper.
On March 22, Americas Radio News Network interviewed Dr. Patricia Lewis, Deputy Director of CNS and scientist-in-residence, for the second time since the disaster asking her to shed a light on the dangerous situation in Japan as well as possible dangers the United States.
On March 19, the most emailed article on TIME.com was about reaction in the U.S. to the nuclear crisis in Japan featuring a comment from Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress, a CNS research scientist.
On March 18, China´s decision to halt construction on new nuclear power plants pending additional security reviews was the topic of discussion on NPR´s popular morning show Morning Edition. Dr. Jeffrey Lewis was interviewed about the prospects of nuclear power in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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Passengers wait to be picked-up after two commuter trains collided in Bridgeport, Connecticut causing one to derail injuring numerous passengers, May 17, 2013. [Photo/Agencies] |
FAIRFIELD, Connecticut - Two commuter trains serving New York City collided in Connecticut during Friday's evening rush hour, injuring about 50 people, authorities said. There were no reports of fatalities.
The Metro-North Railroad, a commuter line serving the northern suburbs, referred in a news release to a "major derailment" near Fairfield, just outside Bridgeport. It said emergency workers were at the scene of the accident, which came shortly after 6 pm.
Bill Kaempffer, a spokesman for Bridgeport public safety, told The Associated Press approximately 49 people were injured, including four with serious injuries. About 250 people were on board the two trains, he said.
Photos taken at the scene showed a train car askew on the rails, with its end smashed up and brushing against another train. Amtrak suspended service indefinitely between New York and Boston.
"At this stage, we don't know if this is a mechanical failure, an accident or something deliberate," Fairfield police spokesman Lt. James Perez told the Connecticut Post.
The railroad said a train that departed New York City's Grand Central station en route to New Haven derailed. A westbound train on an adjacent track then struck the derailed train. Some cars on the second train also derailed as a result of the collision.
Bridgeport Police Chief Joseph Gaudett said everybody who needed treatment had been attended to, and authorities were beginning to turn their attention to investigating the cause.
"Everybody seemed pretty calm," he said. "Everybody was thankful they didn't get seriously hurt. They were anxious to get home to their families."
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And where I'll be exhibiting the Paris Facade watercolors!You're all invited to the 'Private View' on Tuesday June 8th 6-8
143 Old Church St. Chelsea SW3
Well 40 of you are.
Please email me if you'd like to attend.
If you show up the day after moaning "I missed it" they will not let you in unless I'm there. It's a private club...ahem
There will be macarons bien sur.
I'll be visiting with Ian Sidaway, watercolorist par excellence. I was an 'artist resident' at a Tuscan workshop he taught. Ian has written like 800 superb artbooks and he's going to let me use his studio to cut mounts/mats.Ian recently sent me this photo from our painting adventure. I've made a mess, comme d'habitude in the Tuscany landscape just like in my studio. So PLEASE tell me what 2 do in London besides the above list.
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Is there a gamer on your holiday shopping list? Maybe someone you just want to get your game on with, or someone who's been complaining their old system isn't up to the demands of the latest titles, like Dishonored, Hitman: Absolution, or Call of Duty: Black Ops 2? Hook them up with a custom-built gaming PC this holiday season and they'll love you forever.
We've featured some great all-around PC builds before, but we're going to focus in on gaming this time around. Whether you just want to give the gift of passable frame rates or you're giving away the fine whiskey and caviar of the gaming PC world, we're breaking down our suggested builds into three categories:
A modest but powerful machine that can play anything you throw at it, but with a few compromises.
A solid and powerful gaming system that'll let you turn up the effects and enjoy the most all of your favorite titles have to offer.
The Crazypants Gaming Build: A high-end, ultra-powerful rig that won't blink at today's games—or anything else you do with it—and probably won't blink at tomorrow's GPU and CPU-testing tasks either.
We'll throw down some parts here that we think will work in most cases, but in case you have specific brand loyalties or prefer to make adjustments, we'll provide customization options so you can tweak each build as you wish. Keep in mind that prices are accurate at the time of writing, but can change at any time, especially around this time of year.
The Modest and Affordable Rig
This entry level system hovers around the $500 mark, and it'll still play anything you throw at it. Older titles will fly with all of the settings turned up and even newer titles will give you decent frame rates and smooth gameplay, although you may need to make some compromises in the graphics settings of the most intensive titles. Most notably, we give the nod to AMD's second generation APUs, which are quickly approaching Intel's processors in quality at a much lower cost:
Case and Power Supply: Rosewill Blackbone ATX Mid Tower ($49)with a Corsair Builder 430W 80 PLUS Certified ATX12V Power Supply ($43)
Motherboard: ASRock A55M-HVS Micro ATX FM1 Motherboard ($69)
APU: AMD A8-3870K 3.0GHz Unlocked Quad-Core Processor ($100)
RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3-1600 Desktop Memory ($39)
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Drive ($79)
Optical Drive: Asus 24x DVD-RW Serial ATA Internal Drive ($23)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8 (OEM) (64-bit) ($100)
Upgrade Options
If you want to take this build to the next level, here are some affordable upgrades you can swap out or add to the components above for a beefier, more powerful system.
Get a Bigger Hard Drive: 2TB Western Digital Caviar Black 7200 RPM Hard Drive ($173)
Get an SSD: 256GB OCZ Vertex Series 4 SSD ($160)
Double Your RAM: G.SKILL 8GB (2 x 4GB) Ripjaws X Series DDR3 1600MHz Desktop Memory ($49)
That's all there is here. The beauty of AMD's APUs is that you don't need a graphics card and they come with AMD's graphics built-in and on-board. We didn't even have to go with the A8 here, we could have backed up to the A6 to save a few bucks. Plus, if you run into something that the APU isn't good enough for, you can always add a card later (like the 1GB/2GB Nvidia GeForce GTX560 Ti for $160/$180) without paying for one now that you'd have to toss out. This overclockable A8 APU is DirectX 11-capable and can be tweaked to offer even more graphics performance when you're not using the CPU so you're not bound in one area or the other. Plus, omitting a discrete graphics cards keeps the cost down. Way down.
Buy this build with PCPartPicker ($395.93)
The Powerhouse
Most PC gamers I know walk a very fine line when building their systems. They want machines that can play the titles they love now, but are also up to the challenge of some of the games they know are on the horizon and are coming soon. They're willing to spend more to futureproof as much as they can, but don't want to throw money away at the same time. If that sounds like you, this is the build for you:
Case: NZXT Tempest 210 ATX Mid Tower Case ($55)
Motherboard: ASRock Z77 Extreme4 ATX LGA1155 Motherboard ($125)
CPU: Intel Core i5-3570 3.0GHz Quad-Core Processor ($179)
GPU: HIS Radeon HD 7850 2GB ($190)
Storage: OCZ Vertex 4 128GB SSD ($75) and Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Drive ($79)
RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3-1600 Desktop Memory ($39)
Power Supply: Corsair Professional 650W Power Supply ($111)
Optical Drive: Asus 24x DVD-RW Serial ATA Internal Drive ($23)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8 (OEM) (64-bit) ($100)
Upgrade Options
Get a different/larger SSD: 256GB Crucial m4 Series SSD ($187)
Get a More Powerful Graphics Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 660Ti 2048MB GDDR5 ($290)
Get an Even More Powerful Graphics Card: Gigabyte AMD Radeon HD 7970 OC 3GB GDDR5 Graphics Card ($390)
Double Your RAM: G.SKILL 8GB (2 x 4GB) Ripjaws X Series DDR3 1600MHz Desktop Memory ($49)
Upgrade or Overclock the Processor: Intel Core i7 3770K 3.5 GHz CPU ($350)
There's no doubt about it, this machine will fly. When we asked you what computer parts you wanted for the holidays, you noted that OCZ, one of our favorite SSD manufacturers is in the middle of some financial trouble. We still love their drives, but if that makes you nervous, that Crucial in the upgrade options section makes a fine replacement, and if you don't need that much space, this Crucial 128GB m4 SSD ($100) will do the trick as well. We also stuck with 4GB of RAM, per our standard recommendation, but don't hesitate to add more if budget allows, especially if you run VMs or use apps that can leverage the additional RAM.
Buy this build with PCPartPicker ($871.40)
The Crazypants Gaming Rig
Finished parking your Bentley? Ride your Segway up to the PC parts store and pick up the components for this ultimate gaming rig. It's super-fast, water-cooled, and has many best in slot components we could find easily, no compromises made and money no object. It's not for everyone, but if little Timmy deserves only the best (yes, we know you're "Little Timmy") this holiday season, this is the system to build:
Case: Cooler Master HAF X ATX Full Tower Case ($160)
Motherboard: Asus P8Z77-V PREMIUM ATX LGA1155 Motherboard ($550)
CPU: Intel Core i7-3770K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($320)
GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX680 SuperClocked 2048MB ($470)
RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($92)
Storage: Samsung 830 Series 512GB 2.5" Solid State Disk ($489) and Western Digital VelociRaptor 1TB 3.5" 10000RPM Internal Hard Drive ($219)
Power Supply: Corsair 1200W 80 PLUS Platinum Certified ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply ($329)
Optical Drive: Pioneer BDR-206DBKS Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Writer ($74)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8 (OEM) (64-bit) ($100)
Upgrade Options
Upgrade Your PC Case: Cooler Master Cosmos II ($319), the Silverstone TJ07 ($320), or the Thermaltake Level 10 GT LCS ($342)
Get a Ridiculously, Insanely Powerful Graphics Card: EVGA GeForce GTX690 4096MB GDDR5 Video Card ($1000)
...And Then Put Them in SLI: EVGA GeForce GTX690 4096MB GDDR5 Video Card - Capable of Quad SLI ($1000/each)
Get a Different/Another SSD: Crucial 512 GB m4 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive ($400)
Max Out Your RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
Add A Larger, but Slower Hard Drive: 2TB Western Digital Caviar Black 7200 RPM Hard Drive ($173)
Your Own Homebrew Watercooling Setup: See our post on water cooling your computer ($150-$300)
Buy this build with PCPartPicker ($2739.01)
It's hard to believe this behemoth could possibly be upgraded further, but...to be fair we held back a little bit so we had somewhere to go. Seriously, this machine won't blink at anything you throw at it, and anything you're likely to throw at it likely won't even come close to using most of the resources available in this build.
The motherboard in this build is so expensive because it's an overclocker's dream and comes with pretty much every possible port on the board than you could possibly ever want or need, and if you really wanted to, you could spend $4000 just on the video cards and run them in quad-SLI. We picked the Cooler Master HAF X as the case because you voted it as your favorite, but you could go crazier if you choose. It's ridiculous, and we love it.
Putting Them All Together
Once you've got the parts, consult our computer building guide to learn how to put them together and get everything up and running nicely so that special person can just plug it in, power it on, and spend hours this holiday season getting their game on. Don't forget to check out the Steam sales to grab some affordable titles to put your rig to the test, and happy holidays!
A special thanks goes out to everyone who provided suggestions last week! It made putting together these guides a lot easier, and a better fit for you.


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Live from Reading, it's Trevor May
Top pitching prospect Trevor May continues to dazzle at Double-A.
Last night, in front of an audience that included dignitaries like Phillies president David Montgomery, assistant general manager Benny Looper and pro scouting director Mike Ondo, May held the Richmond Flying Squirrels to one hit and two walks in six scoreless innings, striking out seven in the process.
May, ranked the No. 69 prospect in the minors by Baseball America prior to this season, has had a dominant start to his Double-A career. Through four starts (all of which have resulted in his picking up the win, if that kind of thing matters to you), May has logged 23 innings with 26 strikeouts, eight walks (a 3.25 K/BB ratio) and no home runs. In fact, he has allowed just one extra base hit, which came in his first start of the season. Over his last three starts, May has allowed two runs, nine hits and five walks with 20 strikeouts in 18 innings.
May's performance will be interesting to monitor this season given the current plotlines swirling around the team. Despite all of the young talent the Phillies have traded away over the last three seasons, they still have the pieces it would take to swing a high-profile trade. At 22 years old, May's stock is still rising. Many people think he will prove to be the same caliber of prospect as Kyle Drabek, who was the centerpiece of the Roy Halladay deal in December of 2009.
The other plotline is Cole Hamels' potential free agency. My gut says he ends up signing here, but I also expected a deal to be done by now. So who knows. Fact is, the Phillies have Cliff Lee, Roy Halladay and Vance Worley all under contract through at least 2013, and likely 2014 (Halladay has a vesting option for that season). At some point, they need to find a way to remodel the offense. Maybe they can do it by using May as a trade chip. Or maybe they decide that their best option is to save money by letting Hamels walk and then spend the savings on offense.
The smartest play, obviously, is to re-sign Hamels and look to deal for offensive talent. May still has considerable work to do before his is major league ready. As far as I can tell, the only Top 100 prospect he has faced is Giants outfielder Gary Brown, who was No. 38 on this year's Baseball America list. Last night, May walked Brown in the fourth inning but got him to ground out in the first and then struck him out looking in the sixth. In an earlier meeting, he again walked Brown, got him to ground out, and struck him out (swinging, this time).
Anyway, that's your Trevor May update for the day. I'm here in Reading watching the Phillies take on Flying Squirrels before a long bus trip up to Portland, Maine. Lots of talent on this Reading team, including outfielder Jiwan James and catcher Sebastian Valle.


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Angels' groundskeepers to hold 12th annual Canned Food Drive
The Angels' Groundskeepers will host their 12th annual Thanksgiving Holiday Canned Food Drive from Friday, November 16th thru Sunday, November 18th at Angel Stadium of Anaheim (weather permitting). All proceeds will benefit the Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County in the fight against hunger during the holiday season.
Fans will have the opportunity to step up to the plate at Angel Stadium and take a swing for the fences.
Donations of three cans of non-perishable food or $2 will be good for one swing against a pitching machine with a maximum of 20 pitches per participant. A donation of two canned food items or $1 per pitch will allow fans to test their pitching skills in the bullpen. Fans will also have the opportunity to shag fly balls in the outfield for a donation of $25 for 15 minutes.
The Angels will provide bats, balls and helmets.
The Angels Clubhouse Attendants will also provide a tour of the Clubhouse for a donation of $10.
Friday, November 16th thru Sunday, November 18th at Angel Stadium of Anaheim.
Hours for the food drive will be 8AM - 4PM.
Participants will enter Angel Stadium through Gate #1 and proceed to the Field Level.
Those who are unable to attend, but would like to make a monetary donation, may send checks to: Second Harvest Food Bank, 8014 Marine Way, Irvine, CA 92618.


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NEW YORK – Pierre Jackson has saved some of the best basketball of his career for the end of it.
Jackson earned himself and Baylor another game, putting up his third straight double-double with 24 points and 10 assists to lift the Bears back into the National Invitation Tournament championship with a 76-70 win over BYU on Tuesday night.
"We got one more," Jackson said. "If we win on Thursday, I'll probably be here shaking because I'm too excited."
The Bears will play Iowa or Maryland on Thursday night. Baylor's Cory Jefferson scored 21 points and Isaiah Austin had 14 points and 10 rebounds for the Bears, who are in the championship for the second time in five years, after losing to Penn State in 2009.
Tyler Haws scored 25 points for the Cougars, who couldn't buy a shot from 3-point range for much of the game. Baylor (22-14) pulled away in the final eight minutes or so, and then withstood a late furious rally by BYU, led by Matt Carlino on 5-for-15 3-point shooting. The rest of the Cougars (24-12) went 0 for 6.
Carlino, who finished with 19 points, made three late 3- pointers to give BYU one last chance. His third one, with about 38 seconds to go, bounced three times on the rim and fell through to make it 71-68.
Jackson missed one of two free throws on the other end to make it a four point game. Carlino put up another 3, but this one finally bounced wide, and Baylor was able to finally finish off the Cougars.
"I'm really proud of our guys," BYU coach Dave Rose said. "We out rebounded them, and I think that speaks volumes to the effort that we got from our players."
Jackson has been closing out his career in style, entering Tuesday's semifinal averaging 19 points and 11.7 assists in the Bears' three NIT games. For the season, he has led the Big 12 in scoring and assists, and is on track to be the first player to lead a major conference in both since Jason Terry at Arizona in 1998-99.
He helped personally close out the Cougars with about four minutes to play. He made a mid-range rainbow to give Baylor a seven-point lead. Then he sank a 3-pointer with three-and-a-half minutes to go for a 10-point lead that seemed to settle matters.
"That was huge," Baylor coach Scott Drew said. "Saved me a little hair — until Carlino started making 3s from halfcourt."
It was Jackson's third straight double-double and fifth of the season. He's reached double figures in 41 of 42 games this season. Austin got his 11th double-double.
The Cougars were blown out at Baylor in December, but hung with the Bears for the first 30 minutes of this one, and even looked like the better team at parts in the first half.
Baylor went on a 7-0 run midway through the second half to take a five-point lead, but Brandon Davies made a pair of free throws, and Carlino made his first 3- pointer to tie it with about 7:30 to play.
But Jackson took over to put Baylor and coach Scott Drew in the NIT final a year after the Bears made the NCAA's Elite Eight.
"Well, I think there's only two happy teams at the end of the year," Drew said. "The team that wins the NCAA and the team that wins the NIT. We want to be one of those happy teams."


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This Is the Manicure You Should Get, Based on Your Astrological Sign
The Ultimate Full-Body Skin Care PlanThis guide will give you the tools you need to really take care of your most-neglected spots -- from the backs of your arms to your cracked heels |
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I admit sometimes I'm too lazy to put moisturizer on all these parts of my body! And I hate getting chicken skin on the back of my arms, I wish I could get rid of it forever! Thanks totalbeauty for the heads up, now I know which ingredients to look for :)
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Neck and chest, only plenty people care about it. Thanks for the tips
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Guilty of neglecting all of those parts
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Overview | What Is the Scientific Evidence for Detoxification? | Safety Issues | References
The concept of detoxification plays a major role in many schools of alternative medicine, including Ayurveda, naturopathy and chiropractic. In this context, the term refers to a belief that toxins accumulated in the body are a major cause of disease, and that health can be promoted by removing them through various means.
The toxins referred to in this theory are said to have several major sources:
These toxins are said to cause a wide variety of chronic illnesses, from multiple sclerosis and migraine headaches to cancer and rheumatoid arthritis, and alternative practitioners use various methods with the intention of removing the toxins. One such recommendation has made it into conventional wisdom: drinking at least a quart (or a half-gallon) of water per day. Other detoxification methods include fasting (on juice, water, fruit, or brown rice), using "cleansing" herbs and supplements (such as olive oil and lemon juice to flush the liver, dandelion root to purge the gallbladder, or psyllium seed to cleanse the colon), taking high colonics, receiving intravenous vitamin C, and/or removing mercury fillings.
Removing toxins is often said to cause a temporary flare-up of illness. This reaction is generally interpreted as a positive sign, but also as a call for careful medical management to avoid causing harm on the way to healing.
In general, there is little to no scientific support for detoxification methods. Aside from specific toxicities such as lead or arsenic, medical researchers have observed no general phenomenon of toxification. For this reason, it is difficult to scientifically validate whether detoxification methods actually work.
Most detoxification approaches essentially remain unexamined, rather than proven or disproven, and rely on reasonable concepts but no hard evidence for their justification. Mercury-filling removal is a typical example. Many alternative practitioners believe that the mercury in silver fillings is a cause of numerous health problems and should be removed to prevent or treat disease. However, although it is a matter of indisputable fact that mercury can be toxic, scientific evaluation generally indicates that mercury levels in people with mercury fillings are far below those necessary to cause toxic symptoms.1 Anti-mercury advocates respond that some people are sensitive to mercury in very low amounts, and that those people will therefore benefit from filling removal even if they are not experiencing actual toxicity. This could certainly be true. However, despite numerous unreliable anecdotes, there is as yet no meaningful evidence that removing mercury fillings can treat or prevent any disease. (For information, see Why Does This Database Rely on Double-blind Studies?)
Much the same can be said about all of the other popular detoxification methods. However, in the case of one form of detoxification, colon cleansing, the theory behind the technique is definitely wrong. According to this nineteenth-century theory known as "colon health" or "colon hygiene," years of bad diet cause the colon to become caked with layer upon layer of accumulated toxins. This accumulation is said to resemble sedimentary rock. High colonics, which are essentially enemas that reach far up into the large intestine, are said to release the accumulated buildup and thereby restore health.
However, in recent decades, physicians have performed colon examinations to search for colon cancer in millions of patients, and their findings do not support the theory. Most of the patients given these examinations are at least middle-aged, and not very many have devoted their lives to healthy diets and clean colons. According to the colonic hygiene theory, colon examinations on such patients should turn up concrete-like deposits. However, all that shows up during a typical colonoscopy is fresh, pink flesh. Unfortunately, proponents of colonics do not seem to have assimilated this information; they continue to recount theories about the colon that were shown to be untrue decades ago.
The safety of detoxification methods varies widely. While drinking a quart of water a day is undoubtedly benign and mercury-filling removal is unlikely to harm anything but one's pocketbook, other methods might be risky. High colonics have occasionally resulted in serious internal injury, and intravenous therapies, being highly invasive, must be handled with a certain degree of sophistication to avoid causing harm. Considering that detoxification has not been proven useful, we recommend sticking to the more moderate of its various methods if you wish to try it at all.
1. Dodes JE. The amalgam controversy. An evidence-based analysis. J Am Dent Assoc. 2001;132:348-356.
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It's been lauded as one of the greatest survival stories of all-time.
Nearly 100 years later, a group of British and Australian adventurers have discovered why. They re-enacted Ernest Shackleton's journey to save his crew when their ship got stuck and sank in Antarctica's icy waters.
Tim Jarvis and Barry "Baz" Gray reached an old whaling station on remote South Georgia island Monday, 19 days after leaving Elephant Island. Just as Shackleton did in 1916, Jarvis and his team sailed 800 nautical miles (1,300 kilometers) across the Southern Ocean in a small lifeboat and then climbed over crevasse-filled mountains in South Georgia.
The modern-day team of six used similar equipment and clothes. But the harsh conditions forced several of them to abandon their attempt along the way.
"It was epic, really epic, and we've arrived here against the odds," Jarvis told his project manager Kim McKay after reaching the station, adding that "we had more than 20 crevasse falls up to our knees and Baz fell into a crevasse up to his armpits."
McKay said Jarvis was suffering frostbite in his right foot after the journey. He planned Tuesday to hike to the grave site of Shackleton, who was buried on the island years after his journey.
Jarvis wasn't the only one suffering foot problems. Three of the men couldn't complete the climb after suffering the ailment trench foot, caused by prolonged exposure to cold and wet conditions.
"The boat was only 22½ feet (6.8 meters) long. At any one time, only four men could be below deck, while the other two had to be on deck. They had 8-meter (26-foot) waves crashing onto the boat," McKay said. "It was like they were playing a game of twister. If one moved, they all had to move. They were constantly wet and cold and they all arrived with varying degrees of trench foot."
Shackleton completed the climb without a tent. Jarvis and his team were planning to do the same but were forced to use modern-day tents and sleeping bags when a blizzard hit. One member of the team turned back and then later rejoined Jarvis and Gray with more provisions and wearing modern-day clothing.
Shackleton's survival story was remarkable in that the final two legs of his journey came after the 28 crew had endured more than a year in Antarctica. Their ship "Endurance" was trapped and then crushed by the ice pack and the men later sailed in lifeboats to Elephant Island, where 22 of them stayed, waiting for help. After reaching the whaling station, Shackleton was able to raise the alarm and save all his crew.
While Jarvis, who lives in Australia and also has British citizenship, and his team tried to recreate many of the conditions, there were limits — they decided to eat salami rather than the penguins and seals on which Shackleton's crew subsisted.
"These early explorers were iron men in wooden boats," Jarvis told McKay, adding that he hoped "we've been able to emulate some of what they achieved."


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The use of someone else's name to send email, post material, create social networking accounts, or contact other people in any way is called online impersonation or e-personation, and parents should be aware of how online impersonation can be used to harass adults (e.g. teacher, principal, coach) and children.
Since there's currently no way for most online platforms to verify account information, it's easy to make an email or social networking account in someone else's name. Using someone else's name is a powerful tool for damaging reputations and harassing others. An account made under someone else's name, especially if its a trusted individual, can be used for everything from cyberbullying to phishing to extortion.
As parents discuss internet safety with their children, they should include discussions about making fake and impersonating profiles online. Show children how to report a fake account (most email or social networking platforms have a "report abuse" option). Discuss the consequences both ethical and legal for impersonating someone else. For example, California passed recently legislation which makes e-personation punishable by a $1,000 fine and up to one year in jail. Parents should also use the topic to reinforce the importance of never sharing personal information online with anyone and reporting incidents of cyber-abuse to an adult.


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A long-held southern favorite, Texas Sheet Cake, is the lightest, fluffiest, perfectly sweet, rich and delectable, melt in your mouth, best chocolate cake ever. No matter how hard you try you will not be able to eat just one piece.
Tommie's Brownies aka Buttermilk Chocolate Texas Sheet Cake
I got this big batch brownie recipe several years ago from Tommie, a friend of mine from Oklahoma, but it's essentially one of those recipes that has been around in one form or another, and by one name or another, for as long as I have, and probably longer.It originated with Hershey many years back, and was on the back of the cocoa tin. One year, I can't even remember how many orders of this sheet cake Tommie said she did for a church bake sale, but it had to be a few dozen all told. As soon as somebody would find out she was making them for the bake sale, they'd be calling to place an order for a full tray before the bake sale even started! I can certainly see why.
Tommie calls them brownies, but most of you know it as Texas Sheet Cake. Most often, it becomes associated with whoever it is that brings it most often to family gatherings, as in Aunt Mary's Chocolate Cake. Some folks refer to this as Lunchroom Ladies Brownies, based on what they had in school. I don't remember being that lucky to have these in school!
Some call this Big Batch Brownies, Mexican Chocolate Cake, Chocolate Candy Cake, Chocolate Sheet Cake, Dream Cake - which I believe may be the original name from Hershey and I can see why. It's also been called "Cocoa Sheath Cake" - in fact, in one of my old Bell's Best cookbooks from the early 80s, it's listed as a Cajun Sheath Cake. Have no idea how they slipped a Cajun name in on this one, but you'll see it by all sorts of odd names, some that make no sense!
The cake is fairly rich, so it is traditionally made as a thin, single layer cake baked in a half sheet pan - what we call a jelly roll pan (11 x 17 inch or 13 x 18) - which makes it ideal for taking to a party, to the classroom, or a Sunday School class, potlucks and to treat your coworkers. Just bake it on the tray, slice into small squares and place it on a platter or on cupcake liners. At home, it is sometimes made in a 9 x 13 inch pan, though the sheet pans are much more traditional for this cake.
I don't make this cake often just to have around the house, because frankly it's dangerous. Seriously. This is a take somewhere, gathering, giveaway and share with a boatload of folks hanging around to help you eat it kinda cake, meant to tote to a pot-luck, or church supper, reunion, or for a funeral. My picture does not do it justice, because it is the lightest fluffiest cake, that is perfectly sweet, rich and delectable, melt in your mouth awesome and chocolaty, and I guarantee no matter how hard you try you will not be able to eat just one piece. One row maybe. But not just one piece.
If you do brave making this one just to have, I assure you, every time you pass this tray, you'll grab a piece. In fact, you'll probably find excuses just to pass the tray because you will not be able to stop thinking about this cake sitting in that other room. I know it looks so innocently simple, but it is deliciously addictive. So, there. I have sufficiently warned you. If you eat the whole pan over the course of a day or three, don't blame me! ;)
You'll use butter and cocoa twice, but since this is done in stages I've separated the amounts in the recipe according to when you need them. If you're making this for yourself and not a gathering where you have to worry over nut allergies, you can add 1/2 to 1 cup of chopped nuts to the icing, whipping them in just before you pour the icing over the cake, or simply sprinkle them all over the top right after you pour on the icing.
So go on ... I'll bet that you have everything in the pantry you need to make this cake honestly and it really doesn't take long to pull together. Then come back and tell me how you feel about
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Recipe: Buttermilk Chocolate Texas Sheet Cake
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Prep time: 15 min |Cook time: 25 min | Yield: About 12 to 15 servings
For the Cake:
For the Frosting:
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 2 eggs
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon, optional
- 2 sticks (1 cup) of unsalted butter
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
- 1 cup water
- 6 tablespoons of unsweetened cocoa
- 1 teaspoon of pure vanilla extract
- 1 stick (1/2 cup) of unsalted butter
- 6 tablespoons of milk
- 4 tablespoons of unsweetened cocoa
- 1 (1 pound) box of powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup of chopped pecans, toasted,optional
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. For a sheet cake, spray a jellyroll pan (a half sheet, sheet cake pan approx. 18" x 13" x 1") with butter flavored non-stick spray, or spray a 9 x 13 inch pan for a regular cake. In a measuring cup, measure out 1/2 cup of buttermilk. Add 2 eggs to that and beat until well blended; set aside. Whisk together in a large bowl, 2 cups sugar, 2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and the cinnamon. Make a well in the center and set aside.
In a medium saucepan, combine the 2 sticks of butter, the 2 tablespoons oil and 1 cup of water and bring to a near boil. Remove pot from the heat and whisk in 6 tablespoons of cocoa, until smooth. Stir in 1 teaspoon of vanilla and add this mixture to the sugar and flour mixture; stir until well blended. Slowly add in the buttermilk and egg mixture and stir well.
Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake at 350 degrees until the center is set, about 20 to 25 minutes for a sheet cake, about 35 to 40 minutes for a regular 9 x 13 inch pan. While the cake is cooking, toast the pecans in a dry pan, tossing regularly until fragrant, about 5 minutes, set aside to cool.
When cake is about 5 minutes from being done, prepare the frosting. Do not do the frosting ahead of time because it will quickly stiffen. Heat the stick of butter and 6 tablespoons of milk in a saucepan just until it comes to a boil. It will need to be very hot. Remove from the heat and whisk in the remaining 4 tablespoons of cocoa. Mixture will thicken. Add in the powdered sugar and vanilla and quickly beat with a wooden spoon until smooth, returning to a low burner if mixture thickens too quickly. Immediately pour the frosting all over the cake. Working quickly, use a spatula to gently push the frosting out to the edges and to cover the cake evenly. Sprinkle top evenly with the cooled toasted pecans, if desired. Set entire pan aside on a wire rack and allow the cake to cool completely before slicing.
Cook's Notes: When the cake comes out of the oven, quickly poke holes all over it and then pour the icing on top. For brands, I prefer White Lily flour, Hershey's cocoa, Land O'Lakes butter and Domino sugar. May also use cake flour if you like.
Tips: This will be a very moist cake, so you aren't looking for a dry surface when it is done. As always, take care to not overcook your cake. If you shake the pan and the cake doesn't jiggle, it's done! Frosting will set fast, so ya gotta move fast! If your frosting stiffens too quickly, you can also thin it with a little additional milk if needed, and return it to a low heat.
Texas Turtle Sheet Cake: Prepare as above except right after pouring icing over the cake, sprinkle with 1/2 cup chopped pecans and 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips. Finish with caramel sauce, drizzled over the top.
White Texas Almond Sheet Cake: Prepare as above, except substitute 1/2 cup sour cream for the buttermilk, omit cocoa and substitute almond extract for the vanilla. For the frosting, also prepare as above except omit the cocoa and substitute sliced almonds and almond extract.
Pecan Praline Icing: Heat one stick butter with one cup of light brown sugar; bring to a boil. Remove from heat and whisk in milk, beat in 2 cups powdered sugar and vanilla and quickly beat with a wooden spoon until smooth, returning to a low burner if mixture thickens too quickly. Quickly stir in pecans and immediately pour the frosting all over the cake and gently push the frosting out to the edges and to cover the cake evenly.
Candy Cane Cake: Prepare cake as above, except for the icing, cream together 1/2 block (4 ounces) cream cheese and 1/2 stick (1/4 cup) butter. Add in 2 cups powdered sugar, 1 teaspoon pure vanilla and 1 to 2 tablespoons milk, until desired consistency is reached. Spread icing on cooled cake and sprinkle top with 1/3 cup crushed peppermint bits.
Chocolate Buttercream Icing: If you prefer not to use the classic or praline icing, my buttercream frosting is also good on these. Click here for the full recipe with instructions.
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George F. Slavin
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Main Cast :
James Doohan
Montgomery Scott
DeForest Kelley
Leonard H. McCoy
Walter Koenig
Pavel A. Chekov
Nichelle Nichols
Nyota Uhura
Leonard Nimoy
William Shatner
James T. Kirk
George Takei
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Admiral Fitzgerald
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When Kirk tries to contact the crew on the empty Enterprise, we get several shots of empty corridors and rooms. Strangely, sickbay seems to be on red alert.
A key plot point of this episode is a deliberate confusion over beam down co-ordinates. Spock performs the transport when Kirk beams down (presumably the transporter chief was on his break or something), and is given the co-ordinates 875-020-079. They are read to him very carefully by Uhura, three digits at a time, and Spock repeats each group of three back to her to be sure he has them right. Then, when Kirk turns out to be missing, Spock asks the Gideon people for the co-ordinates again and is again given 875-020-079. Later in the episode, they decide to test the transporter by beaming somebody up from the Gideon council chamber and are given the co-ordinates 875-020-709. Two of the digits in the last set have been transposed... yet apparently this is not noticed. By Spock. Spock! It is, just barely, conceivable that a crewmember might not notice that these co-ordinates differ. One would think there would be checks and safeguards in place for this kind of thing, given that messing up a number like this could beam somebody down inside a wall or something. Yet mistakes are made even by professionals, and after all the numbers are very similar. And people do sometimes have a tendency to see what they expect to see. But Spock?! The man with a mind like a computer, who routinely cites obscure facts and figures from memory, who can calculate the odds of pretty much any given event in an instant. He was present both times, clearly heard both sets of figures, and he did not notice the discrepancy right away? I find this inconceivable!
Interestingly, Gideon shows absolutely no signs of mass habitation. From Earth orbit the effects of Human habitation of our planet are clearly visible, especially at night when the lights of cities can easily be seen. One might expect that Gideon would be a planet of of vast sprawling cities, perhaps even one of those "planet cities" so beloved of sci-fi, like Asimov's Trantor. One might suggest that the Gideons all live underground, and use the surface for agriculture or something - but that's not really possible, since Odona states that "there is no place... no street, no house, no garden, no beach, no mountain that is not filled with people. Each one of us would kill in order to find a place alone to himself." Clearly the surface is meant to be crammed with people, so there must be dwellings, roads, houses, all that stuff. Yet we see absolutely nothing, even on the remastered version.
Are we
supposed to believe that the deep thrumming sound Kirk and Odona hear is the sound of the
of all the people outside? Because that's just absurd.
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There are a thousand different ways they could have solved their problem without going to all the trouble of kidnapping a starship captain and building a replica of his ship. All they want is a sample of Kirk's blood! They could have bashed him over the head the instant he arrived and drawn a whole pint of his blood. They could have kept him busy for days, and snuck in to hypo some blood out of him whilst he sleeps. If they just wanted him to naturally infect somebody they could have arranged for a suitable volunteer to get up close and personal with him - they did arrange exactly that, after all, but why bother with a replica of the Enterprise to do it? She could have just been assigned to him as a local guide or assistant or something. Absolutely nothing about it makes a lick of sense!
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Factoid :
Stanley Adams, who co-wrote this episode, also played Cyrano Jones in ""The Trouble With Tribbles". Adams was seriously worried about what he saw as the rapid overpopulation of Earth, and talked to Gene about this whilst filming his episode. He suggested that the subject of a massively overpopulated planet might make a good episode for the show.
The Enterprise visits the planet Gideon, a potential Federation member. Negotiations with the planet have proved extremely difficult as they have refused to allow Federation representatives on their soil; the Enterprise is visiting because the Gideons have finally agreed to allow a single representative on the sole condition that it be Captain Kirk. Beaming down, Kirk finds himself mysteriously still aboard the Enterprise - with the ship apparently empty of her crew. As he searches the empty vessel he finds a young woman, Odana, wandering the corridors. She professes to know nothing of the situation, leaving Kirk even more confused.
Meanwhile, Spock and the Enterprise crew are unaware of any of this - as far as they are concerned the ship is perfectly normal. The Gideons deny all knowledge of the Captain's whereabouts and continue to refuse to allow anybody else to beam down. After long negotiations, Spock discovers that the Gideons gave the Enterprise a set of beam-down co-ordinates which are slightly off, sending Kirk to another location. Spock beams to there without permission and finds Kirk alive and well.
It transpires that the Gideons have been carrying out an elaborate ruse; they built a replica of the Enterprise on their planet in order to trap Kirk so that they could extract Vegan-choriomeningitis from his blood and infect Odona. Kirk contracted this disease in the past and narrowly avoided death. The Gideons plan to use Odona to infect much of their population; their people enjoy long lives, with disease unknown and death rare even in old age as their bodies can regenerate. These conditions have led to a colossal overpopulation problem, with the Gideons literally pressed in against one another on much of the planet. It is their hope to use the disease to cull their vast population.
Kirk beams Odona back to the real Enterprise and she is treated. The ship departs, leaving her behind to implement the plan.
A mixed episode, this one. The idea of a planet suffering from massive overpopulation is an interesting one, and the Gideon's proposed solution is rather macabre but makes a twisted sense given the situation. The practicalities of their approach don't stand up too well though - why the elaborate plot to kidnap Kirk and procure a disease? Surely there must be weapons which could do the job just as well in some mass suicide program. And why strand him on an exact replica of the Enterprise - the stated goal is to "confuse his mind" and "make him susceptible to some extraordinary experiment." But all they need is a blood sample, so why does he need to be confused about anything? They could have strapped him down to a bed somewhere and took a hypo full of blood and been done with it just as easily. This is especially confusing because given the nature of Gideon, coming up with the space to build something like a replica of the Enterprise must have been a truly mindboggling problem.
Speaking of which, it's fun to speculate just how many people would be on Gideon. Every exterior shot we saw had everybody literally standing shoulder to shoulder! If an entire Earth-sized planet was covered to that density we're talking about a thousand trillion people! Of course there might be uninhabited seas, there might be large farmlands needed where people can't go - though that would be hard to enforce in a society where the entire population is said to be willing to literally kill or die for a chance to be alone. And equally, any seas might be covered in floating cities and with Federation technology you can "feed a thousand people where one was fed before", as Kirk once put it. Large numbers of high rise buildings could also multiply the carrying capacity of the planet greatly. Ultimately speculation is all we can do, but Gideon probably has a population at least in the trillions, if not considerably greater than that.
I am going to editorialise for a bit, because in the real world the overpopulation issue is a bit of a sore spot for me. The alleged overpopulation of the Earth has been claimed to be a major problem for the last two centuries, at least. I mention below that actor/writer Stanley Adams was very concerned about overpopulation; his concern may have been inspired by the best-selling book published just a year prior to this episode, "The Population Bomb" by Paul Ehrlich. Ehrlich claimed in the book that "The battle to feed all of humanity is over... In the 1970s and 1980s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate, although many lives could be saved through dramatic programs to 'stretch' the carrying capacity of the earth by increasing food production and providing for more equitable distribution of whatever food is available. But these programs will only provide a stay of execution unless they are accompanied by determined and successful efforts at population control."
Well, the population continued to grow - from 1968 to the end of the 1980s, it went from around 3.7 to 5.3 billion. And yet, the mass widespread famine never happened. This is not to say there was no famine; famine in Africa was worldwide news in the 1980s, and has been periodically ever since. Yet these famines were largely
affairs, affecting certain countries or certain regions. And they were the result of bad harvests or, in some cases, political issues - war and such in those regions. This is not to minimise the suffering of those involved at all, but these were emphatically not the end-of-civilisation-as-we-all-run-out-of-food Ehrlich was talking about.
Indeed, even today a good portion of the world goes to bed hungry each night. But there are two things to bear in mind about that; one, the overall trend in that percentage is a gradual decline, and has been for decades and decades. And two... the Earth produces, or could easily produce, more than enough food to feed everybody. Hell, in the west we subsidise farmers to keep them in business! We could feed everybody in the world, if we chose to, and could do it easily. We
not to do so. Famine is, in the modern age, fundamentally a political problem.
Related arguments are made for overpopulation - that we are running out of fresh water, that we are wiping out all of the species in the biosphere, that the world is getting ever more polluted. I don't intend this to become a lengthy attempt at rebuttal of all those problems, but what they have in common is an issue that is at the heart of the overpopulation claims; people take the idea that there is a fixed supply of a given resource, note that we are consuming it, and project that with more people it will be completely consumed in a certain timeframe. Thus, overpopulation is a terrible danger. In every case, what is missing from the argument is that people
generate new resources
. People come up with ways of growing more food, of creating fresh water from sea water, of extracting materials from the Earth in new and better ways. And more people means more minds working on those problems. The history on this point is abundantly clear - in 1800, English writer Thomas Malthus was one of the first to become widely known for doomsday predictions about overpopulation - and today the population of England has increased some sixfold from his time, and one of the greatest problems facing his countrymen is
. And this story can be told again and again; Ehrlich continued making his predictions of disaster long after 1968, always telling us that disaster was looming, merely a decade or two away. He still claims it now, and is still widely celebrated for his claims in many circles, despite decades of being flat wrong.
In this context, this episode has always stuck out to me as a particular oddity. I know Trek never laid claim to be accurate prophecy of the future, but this is one episode that pretty clearly got it badly wrong.
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Days after Steve Alford left the University of New Mexico to become the head coach at UCLA, his longtime right-hand man was hired as his replacement in Albuquerque.
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Neal, 49, spent the past six seasons as the Lobos' associate head coach under Alford. Before that, he was an assistant for three years at the University of Iowa.
The University of New Mexico announced that Neal's five-year contract will pay $750,000 per year plus incentives. Neal will meet the Albuquerque media in a Wednesday afternoon press conference.
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Chad Billingsley (2-2, 3.19) vs. Tim Lincecum (2-2, 5.68).
For the rubber match of this series, we've got the thighs of Chad Billingsley going against the hair of Tim Lincecum (pictured, above). Bills has had four starts with only two or fewer ER, but two bad losses where he didn't look like himself. Lincecum, on the other hand, has had only two of six starts with two or fewer ER; he has been lit up for 5+ earned runs in half of his starts this year.
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A lot of people have been asking me for a release date, and to be honest at this point I'm not really sure I have one. The last 2 PTR builds (13561 and 13580) were both flagged as Release Candidate but the last one isn't even deployed on PTRs.
Also, someone did something funny with the official blog and put up a Patch 4.0.6 Official Notes [PLACEHOLDER] post as a test, it would be logical to see Patch 4.0.6 on live realms next week after that but with an undeployed PTR Build in my hands I'm not really going to confirm anything before Monday, and personally I wouldn't be surprised if it happened the week after.
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Nefarian World 2nd kill by Method
Method killed Nefarian a few hours ago and is the 2nd guild in the world to take down the big black dragon. It's also the world first kill since the hotfix preventing class stacking but technically, that wasn't an exploit, so I'll just let people debate endlessly about it in comments. Congratulations to them!
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Nefarian down, putting us at 13/13 (finally a breath of fresh air!!!). Thumbs up for the dedication shown by our raiding team.
The current heroic difficulty of raiding is both enjoyable and demanding. We can all welcome, with open arms, the more challenging raid content, but the sheer quantity of content available since Cataclysm launch has required more time investment than ever before to remain competitive. Personally I would have welcomed a 'reasonable' gate-system or similar to allow for more real life time the past ~2months, especially with xmas/new years/exams etc. Taking a few day breaks over the festive period only to be notified that other guilds were currently raiding obviously wasn't ideal!
This tier of raiding has unfortunately contained multiple bugs, with bosses like Atramedes, Sinestra, and Nefarian standing out. Sinestra had some notable issues for us; having infinite lines at Twilight orbs making progress prior to this current reset difficult. Twilight Flames properly spawning at the Egg locations in phase 1 was also fixed recently on the fight (can see they are non existent @ Paragon's video). The issues on Nefarian are of more concern, with Blizzard seemingly overlooking certain class abilities on a key encounter mechanic. Unsure as to why it was waited with until after a guild had killed Nefarian before applying the fix, especially with "top guilds" apparently under surveillance, such delayed fixes are harmful to the 'PvE race'.
Hoping that Blizzard can keep up with the quality of heroic raid difficulty while considering the quantity available and as always more vigorous encounter testing/monitoring.
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