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House Finally Passes Farm Bill, Drought Decimates California, and More in Food Policy This Week
A roundup of news clippings we're reading that affect the way we eat.
House Finally Passes Farm Bill; Sends to Senate for Approval
Almost two years behind schedule, the House has finally passed a 939-page, $956.4 billion Farm Bill and sent it to the Senate for approval. The Bill was held up for months amid debates regarding farm subsidies and cuts to the food stamp program. The final version of the bill cuts $8 billion over ten years from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and ends direct payments to farmers, which will cut about $16 billion in government spending over ten years. Both sides are likely unhappy with the final compromise— Republicans wanted more cuts from SNAP and other programs, whereas Democrats argued that any significant cuts to SNAP were unacceptable. But many agricultural groups are urging Congress to pass the Bill so that farmers can see an end to two years of indecision and political infighting.
Drought in California Affects Agricultural Industry
California is the country's leading agricultural state, with an industry-based economy of around $45 billion. But drought in that state has cost many farmers millions of dollars. 2013 was the driest year on record for the state, and farmers anticipate that the impact of that water loss will be felt for several years. Industry experts predict that drought will cost California about $5 billion in agricultural business. Some farmers will reduce the number of crops they plant this year in anticipation of a difficult harvest season. With average rainfall around 7 inches last year, irrigation costs are rising as producers struggle to maintain their livelihoods.
Large U.K. Grocery Chains to Disclose Food Waste Figures
After Tesco recently admitted to wasting over 28,500 tons of food in the first six months of 2013, other retail grocers in the U.K. are under pressure to reveal how much food waste they generate. Large grocery stores have been known to waste large amounts of produce in an attempt to maintain fully stocked shelves at all times. In one example, Tesco said that between in-store waste and consumer waste, over two-thirds of salad greens and 40% of apples were thrown out. This disclosure is one step in an ongoing "greening" of U.K. supermarkets, including cutting carbon emissions and landfill waste. It remains to be seen whether U.S. supermarkets will face similar pressure soon.
Adulterated Extra Virgin Olive Oil Is More Common Than You Think
This fun graphic at the New York Times illustrates how little imported olive oil is truly extra virgin. This phenomenon has been reported on at length, most prominently by author Tom Mueller. Many of the olives used to produce olive oil are grown in countries like Morocco, Spain, and Tunisia, then shipped to Italy, where extra virgin oils are cut with less expensive oils. Officials have attempted to increase regulation of the industry by raiding factories and conducting taste tests, but it remains difficult to trace adulterated extra virgin oil. There are a few brands that sell only "legitimate" EVOO, such as Whole Foods' 365. Keep an eye on your oils' labels to see where the olives originated.
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Thanksgiving Tales: True Stories of the Holiday In America
Imagine a Thanksgiving with so much food that nobody noticed the turkey was never served. Or, trying to host Thanksgiving in China where holiday staples like turkey and dinner rolls are almost impossible to find. Not every Thanksgiving in America is a folk-art painting. They are as varied as Americans themselves, and run the spectrum of emotion and experience—from as rural as watching Grandma slaughter the holiday bird by the barn, to the traditional with family football games in the yard, and to the modern with multicultural meals complete with eggrolls.
It is a holiday for everyone—regardless of whether arrival to the United States was via the Mayflower, Ellis Island, international airport, or any other way. It is a holiday steeped in traditions (which are either faithfully followed, radically ignored, or adapted to individual circumstances), memories and images.
In Thanksgiving Tales: True Stories of the Holiday in America, 48 writers from across the United States share their individual stories and memories of Thanksgiving and provide insight into the variety of ways the holiday is experienced, celebrated, viewed and cherished by Americans. But, whether held in a country farmhouse, amid the frantic pace of New York City, or in a restaurant, there are a number of common elements. These stories reveal how seemingly simple things—like the passing of a tradition to the next generation, sitting next to Grandpa, favorite foods and recipes, or certain sounds, sights, and smells—can have special meaning and leave warm and indelible memories.
Some of the humorous and funny Thanksgiving stories describe chaos and mishaps of meal preparation, family arguments and first-time hosts—all disasters then, but now looked upon with laughter. Other inspirational Thanksgiving stories recount family traditions, meaningful moments, memorable guests and hosts, remembering those no longer with us and being alone for the day. There are even some stories about out-and-out hating the holiday. Thanksgiving Tales is a reflection of Americans, as much as it is a look at the holiday.
It is a testament to the importance of the holiday that Americans will go to great lengths for Thanksgiving—spending money to travel long distances or taking days to prepare meals, sometimes only to find themselves seated next to the weird cousin or sick all night from bacteria-laden food. Yet, it's done all over again the next year.

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Why Are Kids Playing 'The Choking Game'?
Kids have always been good at inventing their own playground games.
One game, however, has proven to be quite dangerous for the little guys and gals. It goes by a dozen different names, but it can best be described as the 'choking game.'
The Oregon Public Health Division conducted a study of 5,400 eighth graders and found that 6.1 percent had played the game at least once in their lives.That's in line with studies done in other states, as well as Canada.
Among the group of kids in the Oregon study, a staggering 64 percent of them tried it more than once and nearly 27 percent of them played it more than five times.
The game is known by several other monikers, including 'Knock Out,' 'Space Monkey,' 'Flatlining' and 'The Fainting Game.' And it's pretty much what you think it is — players use various means to cut oxygen and brain flow to their necks in a quest to create a high that comes once they allow blood and oxygen to flow freely again.
The game, however, can be quite dangerous and deadly. Eighty-two children from ages 6 to 19 died from 1995 to 2007 as a result of playing it. The Centers for Disease Control reports, however, those are the only known deaths since they were gathered from media reports and often those types of deaths are ruled as suicides or accidents.
New Hampshire's chief medical examiner Thomas Andrew said parents should be on the lookout for signs such as marks on their children's necks and if they suspect they are involved in such behavior, they should talk to them and listen to what they have to say.


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Auburn rises to set up top-five Iron Bowl matchup against No. 1 Bama
BY foxsports • November 24, 2013
Auburn moves up to No. 4 in The Associated Press college football poll, setting up the second top-five matchup with Alabama in the history of the Iron Bowl.
The top-ranked Crimson Tide receives 56 first-place votes and runs its streak of consecutive top-five rankings to 46, tying for the fourth-most in the 77-year history of the AP rankings.
When Alabama plays at Auburn on Saturday it will be the first time since 1971 the heated rivals were both ranked in the top five. The winner takes the SEC West.
No. 2 Florida State receives four first-place votes. Undefeated Ohio State moves back to No. 3 after Baylor lost for the first time. The Bears slipped to No. 9 after a 49-17 loss at Oklahoma State. The Cowboys are No. 7.
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Thursday, January 27, 2011
The art of the march
Why are marches the poor relation of classical music? Writing my earlier post about the cuts at the BBC World Service reminded me that during my time at Bush House the march Lilliburlero was used as the World Service identity signal. The tune of Lilliburlero (also spelt Lillibullero) is usually attributed to Henry Purcell but probably orginated as an Irish folk melody. Lilliburlero is one of the marches on the LP seen above which was recorded in 1967 for the World Record Club division of EMI by Sir Adrian Boult and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Other marches on it include John Philip Sousa's Stars and Stripes and Liberty Bell, the Battle Hymn of the Republic and Eric Coates' Dam Busters. For reasons that totally escape me it appears the only CD transfer was as a Sony release in 1999. Despite the unlikely repertoire this disc is prized by Boult afficionados for its superb performances and sound and is well overdue for re-release. The unlikely combination of Sir Adrian and a black lace bra features here.
* Fact is stranger than fiction - the BBC's recently launched Persian TV service uses a re-mix of Lilliburlero. Listen to it here.
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Then there is - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Prussian-Austrian-Marches-Ludwig-Beethoven/dp/B000025I50
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- Ninox said...
This post awakened a long dormant questions I have had about Lilliburlero.
I was at a school run by the Presbyterian Church in Australia which embraced kilts and other Scottish things. Every Friday in our assembly we sang in unison from a school song book which included Bonny Dundee, Ho Ro my Nut Brown Maiden - and Lilliburlero. As far as I remember we were never taught anything about the history of the songs, and I later wondered why we had been given what seemed to be a Jacobite song to sing.
Later, before satellite broadcasting and the internet, sunspots permitting, I would listen to the BBC World Service news at thirteen hours Greenwich Mean Time. The time signal was preceded by the orchestral version of Lilliburlero mentioned here, heard with all the fading, wow and flutter of shortwave wireless. I wondered if the BBC had learned of the Glorious Revolution.
Until today I never looked for answers to my questions. I find that, according to the Wikipedia, the original song was a satire, and that when we sang "...that we shall have no Protestant heir.." we were actually holding the followers of James II up to ridicule. There seem to be many versions of the words and most of those on the internet substitute "dat" for "that" but I don't think our school version was in a comic dialect. But I have forgotten most of the words we sang and I no longer have a school song book.
The Wikipedia entry also gives an answer to my question about the BBC:
" The engineers who selected it were unaware of its origins, though a BBC World Service history states that the choice of interval theme at the time was that of "the transmission engineers who found it particularly audible through short wave mush, and anyway [the BBC] knew it as a tune for the old English song "There was an old woman tossed up in a blanket, 20 times as high as the moon".
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About the Sony reissue: here in the USA this Boult LP (and another one, Tchaikovsky as I recall) were on the CBS budget label Odyssey. CBS also licensed World Record Club material for the Columbia Record Club; one example in my own collection is an LP by Cherkassky.
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SURF: World Records and Winners at Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards
May 6, 2013
World Records and Winners at Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards
Press Release from Billabong XXL
Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards
Presented by Pacifico
Grove Theatre, Anaheim, CA, USA
Friday, May 3rd, 2013
Anaheim, CA, USA: Hawaiian surfer Shane Dorian (Kona, Hawaii, USA) has walked away with one of the sport's most-prized accolades, the 40 year old winning the Ride of the Year award at the annual Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards ceremony, held at The Grove theatre in Anaheim, California last night.
Dorian received USD$50,000 for the monumental wave he successfully paddled into and surfed at Jaws, Maui, last October. Dorian's wave also included a gigantic tube ride, which earned him an additional $5,000 and the award for Pacifico Tube.
Dorian's feat edged out other Billabong XXL Ride of the Year nominees; rides by Californian surfers Shawn Dollar at huge Cortes Bank, CA., Greg Long at Jaws, Maui, and fellow Hawaiians Dave Wassel and Reef McIntosh who both surfed memorable waves during an historic swell at Cloudbreak in Fiji, June 2012.
It was a special night that highlighted a breakthrough year for Dorian, he made XXL history by becoming the first surfer in a single year to be nominated in five categories; Ride of the Year, Pacifico Paddle, Pacifico Tube, XXL Biggest Wave and Surfline Men's Performance.
Dorian, who is already a multiple XXL Award winner, (he is previous two-time winner of the Surfline Men's Performance award 2011 & 2004, Ride of the Year winner 2008, Tube 2006) accepted his awards on stage in front of nearly 2,000 industry VIPs, invited guests and peers at the gala show considered the Oscars of surfing.
"I had such anxiety heading up onto the stage, all the boys were up there and all the rides were so incredible, it must have been so difficult to choose between them. It was an amazing year, to win Ride of the Year is huge for me," said Dorian.
"For Shawn Dollar to paddle into the biggest wave, tow or paddle, all year is absolutely incredible. We're seeing a change, we're seeing the best big wave surfing we've ever seen. I'm pretty psyched still, I feel like a grom at heart," he added.
Dorian had trouble explaining what it was like to be inside such a huge tube "like time is standing still" but believed big wave surfing was witnessing the dawn of a new era.
"In terms of performance I think we're going to see a heck of a lot more tube rides, I think we're going to see guys really attacking the waves … there's some new spots that are going to be thrown into the mix, things are happening in Europe, Ireland, Portugal, those places catch a lot of swell."
Reflecting on his career, which included a career high 4th on the ASP Men's World Tour in 2000: "I had no idea I was going to be having this much fun. I spent a lot of years on tour competing, I loved it, it was great times, but I could have never foreseen having this much fun surfing, this long, great waves – I feel like I am doing the best surfing I have ever done at this point and if someone had told me that was going to happen, I never would have believed them," said Dorian.
While Dorian's ride was exceptional, it was not considered the Biggest. Ride of the Year runner-up, Shawn Dollar (Santa Cruz, CA, USA), scooped that honor to win the XXL Biggest Wave Award as well as the Pacifico Paddle Award for a Cortes Bank behemoth.
Dollar's history-making wave was estimated by experts to be 61ft in height, a new paddle world record. Cortes Bank is the legendary seamount and mega-wave magnet located 100 miles southwest of Los Angeles.
Dollar previously set the world paddle-in record of 57 feet at Maverick's in Northern California in 2010, only to have Dorian snatch the spot in the record books in 2011 with a 58 footer at Jaws.
This is the first time in the event's 13-year history that any waves caught by paddle power have been nominated in the XXL Biggest Wave division, until now that division had been only accessed by surfers using tow-in assists by personal watercraft.
"Is this really happening? Are we really paddling into waves bigger than what we used to tow?" exclaimed Dollar. "It's surreal, it's such an honor. This is what I'm passionate about, I'm as big a fan as anyone – to be the guy that set the record? Phenomenal. Stoked. Over the moon. 61ft? It's hard to put numbers on those things, but it was the biggest wave I've ever seen in my life," said Dollar.
"It's seriously so heavy to go and do something that you might not come back from, but there's a compulsion for me to go do it. I'm so glad I made that wave."
"When I first saw it, I was absolutely scared to death. I thought I was toasted, I thought it was going to break on my head … 100 miles out to sea … it was worst case scenario type stuff. But the thing backed off and I turned my board around and whipped it and I went from a situation where I thought I wasn't going to make it, to a situation where I went 'Fu#k! I just rode the wave of my life!'" explained Dollar.
Dollar dedicated his wave to fallen big wave surfer and friend, Sion Milosky, who drowned at Mavericks in March 2011.
"Death and drowning are absolutely prevalent. I've seen people die out there with me. It's the real deal out there. I've kissed the ground when I've come in," said Dollar.
San Clemente surfer, Greg Long, 29, cemented his reputation as a bona fide living legend when he was awarded the Surfline Men's Performance Award.
Long's season has included standout performances right round the globe. He distinguished himself during landmark sessions at Jaws, Mavericks, Pico Alto, Mexico, Fiji and Cortes Bank, where nearly lost his life.
After a three-wave hold down, Long was resuscitated at sea before being airlifted to the mainland by US Coast Guard helicopter. Long walked the red carpet at the XXL awards with three of his rescuers - Pilot Lt. Joseph Plunkett, Rescue Swimmer Michael Linehan and Flight Mechanic Kevin Bates.
"Simply put, at Cortes, I drowned. Had I not had a water safety team near right there in that very moment I wouldn't be here today. That's just a reality of what we do out there. We're dealing with forces of nature that are far greater than you. You can train and prepare and I do, intensively. But I found myself in a situation that I personally couldn't get myself out of," said Long.
"I'm so glad it happened. It forced me to open my eyes, to not just the surfing world, but the safety aspect and it has helped others too. We're here to learn and grow and share that information with others. I took life lessons from that moment."
While Long lost consciousness, his heart did not actually stop.
"There was a very surreal, spiritual moment where I wasn't present in the physical body that I know and I was actually looking alongside it. It was one of the most beautiful experiences of my life. It was intense while it was happening, don't get me wrong, but at the same time mentally I was always okay with what was happening, as strange as that sounds," Long said.
Long is one of the most regular nominees in the XXL's 13 year history, having won numerous Awards including Ride of the Year 2009, Monster Paddle and Best Overall performer 2008 and Biggest Wave 2007.
Keala Kennelly (Kauai, Hawaii) claimed her second Billabong Girls Performance award. The unmistakable, hard charging goofy-foot has come close on numerous occasions, putting in do-or-die performances at venues she has become synonymous such as Teahupo'o in Tahiti and of course her native Hawaii.
"Big wave surfing is something I'm passionate about and I'd do it if there were no awards. But it was an incredible year and some crazy big wave surfing went down so it's nice to be recognized," said Kennelly.
"I think people have a preconception about what women can do in the water so I like to shatter the s#!t out of that and always try and do better and inspire. I'd also like to dedicate this award to my son," added Kennelly.
Australian Chris Shanahan (Denmark, WA, AUS) accepted his award for XXL Wipeout of the Year over the phone, all the way from the Land Down Under.
Shanahan's attempt to abort one of the ugliest, meanest below-sea-level slabs very nearly brought the house down. The Aussie natural footer mistimed his entry into the wave, tried to pull out and was forced to hit the eject button and ended up freefalling into the abyss without his board, making for a truly memorable and gut-wrenching XXL moment.
The wipeout eclipsed other horrifying entries from Jaws, Nazare-Portugal, Mavericks-California and The Right-West Australia.
In all, over $120,000 in cash and prizes was awarded to the world's greatest big wave surfers in this the 13th edition of the Billabong XXL Awards presented by Pacifico.
A truly global event, this year's Billabong XXL entries included hundreds of images and video clips of scores of surfers in action in dozens of countries spanning all the world's oceans.
The competition window closed on March 20, the start of spring, with every wave ridden at every big wave break around the world in the previous 12 months in contention.
The show was webcast live via BillabongXXL.com, and will be broadcast as a one-hour program on ESPN2 on Sunday, June 9 at Noon PT.
The Billabong XXL Global Big Wave Awards is presented by Pacifico Beer. Pelican Products is the official provider of waterproof cases. Surfline.com is the exclusive surf forecaster of the XXL. The event is sponsored by Surfing Magazine and Air Tahiti Nui Airlines.
Presented by Pacifico
WINNER: Shane Dorian (Kona, Hawaii, USA) at Jaws, Maui, Hawaii Oct 9, 2012 ($50,000)
Video by Elliot Leboe ($5,000)
Second place: Shawn Dollar (Santa Cruz, CA, USA) at Cortes Bank, Dec 21st, 2012 ($5,000)
Third place: Greg Long (San Clemente, California, USA) at Jaws, Maui, Hawaii Oct 10, 2012 ($1,500)
Fourth place: Dave Wassel (Kaneohe, Hawaii, USA) at Cloudbreak, Fiji june 8, 2012 ($1,500)
Fifth place: Reef McIntosh (Kauai, Hawaii, USA) at Cloudbreak, Fiji june 8, 2012 ($1,500)
Shawn Dollar (Santa Cruz, CA, USA) at Cortes Bank, Dec 21st, 2012 (Wave was 61ft, new paddle world record) ($20,000)
Photographed by Frank Quirarte ($4,000)
Shawn Dollar (Santa Cruz, CA, USA) at Cortes Bank, Dec 21st, 2012 (First time a paddle surfer has won this category) ($10,000)
Photographed by Rob Keith ($4,000)
Shane Dorian (Kona, Hawaii, USA) at Jaws, Maui, Hawaii Oct 9, 2012 ($5,000)
Photographed by Fred Pompermayer ($2,000)
Greg Long (San Clemente, California, USA) ($5,000)
Keala Kennelly (Kauai, Hawaii, USA) ($5,000)
Chris Shanahan (Denmark, WA, Australia) at The Right, West Australia ($2,000)
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Petrus, I just updated my 'trek guide for hire' posting from 30 july 2012 to today....however rather than editing it can I delete it and post it now as a new posting with a current date and frankly, to be near to the top. Couldn't find any rules on this and didn't see any delete option either. thanks, Roger Ray
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This route has a recommended itinerary of 14 days trekking, although at a push it can be completed in up to 10 days by combining some of the shorter days. It can also be extended several days for those who wish to visit some of the nearby glaciers, peaks or lakes. A rest day on the trek is also a good idea.
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Hi Petrus, roger_ray (TT) here....just saw your name as moderator on this site....hey, I posted an ad for 'guides looking for clients' a couple of days ago, haven't seen anything yet, will it get posted.
Thought I would give it a try...my going to china and Tibet plans are kaput due to the chinese rulings so now have more free time....I usually post handmade/computer made ads in a few hotels and restaurants in KTM if I have free time btwn other things but this time thought I'd get formal about it! Thanks, Roger


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Version 10.61 of the Opera resolves a heap overflow vulnerability involving the HTML5 Canvas components of the browser. Left untreated, the flaw would create a possible mechanism for hackers to inject hostile code onto vulnerable systems, possibly via drive-by download-style attacks.
Opera version 10.61 - a cross-platform release for Mac and Unix as well as Windows machines - also fixed two less severe security flaws involving tabs and embedded scripts in news feeds. Windows (here) and Mac (here) release notes explain that the latest version of the browser also contains various stability and interface tweaks.
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Largely by word-of-mouth, 120 million computer users worldwide chose to download the free open source-based Firefox onto their desktop and laptop computers since it was introduced in 2004.
The Mozilla Foundation is a nonprofit organization that supports the Mozilla open source community while Mozilla, a for-profit subsidiary of the foundation, markets Mozilla products such as Firefox and the recently-introduced Thunderbird e-mail application.
Traditionally in the US, wireless carriers dictate to handset makers the specifications and features of phones they will support on their network. Also, Apple recently faced criticism for limitations it places on customer use of its iPhone devices. Apple only allows third party applications to run on iPhones through its Safari Web browser and does not support apps installed directly on the device. And after learning some users were able to unlock their iPhones and use them on a network other Apple's chosen AT&T, Apple issued a software upgrade that disabled those iPhones.
"I would have difficulty giving you examples, historically, in technology battles, where closed solutions won over open solutions in the long run," said Schroepfer.
Mozilla has recently stepped up efforts to develop Firefox Mobile, he said, but it won't be available before the release of Firefox 3, a beta version of which is due later this year with a final version expected in the first half of 2008.
The catalyst for Mobile Firefox is the move to mobile devices for Web access, Schroepfer says, citing industry statistics that mobile devices outsell personal computers worldwide by a margin of 20-to-1.
Also, handheld devices are improving to offer a richer browsing experience. He cited the iPhone, with 128MB of RAM and up to a 600MHz processor, and the Nokia N800, a handheld offering Web access and e-mail that also features 128MB of RAM, as both "reasonably capable" of offering a decent browsing experience.
He expects that the sophistication of mobile devices will improve steadily in the next few years to offer the same performance as a laptop or desktop computer.
But here's the point, Schroepfer said: Nokia ported the Firefox browser to its N800 on its own. Mozilla knew about it and offered some advice, "but they did it mostly on their own."
"That's the beauty of open source," he said. "They don't need to sign a contract or break out the lawyers. They can just grab the code and do what they want."


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RM1.8 Million Facebook Promo: Actual Expenses Revealed
PUTRAJAYA: Yes, you heard it – RM1.8 million for 6 Facebook-related campaigns – Cuti-Cuti 1Malaysia, Citrawarna 1Malaysia, Karnival Jualan Mega 1Malaysia, Festival Pelancongan Seni Kontemporari 1Malaysia, Kempen 1Malaysia Bersih and Fabulous Food 1Malaysia – which averages to RM300k for each page.
Tourism Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ng Yen Yen defended RM1.8 million Facebook promo with explanations. Everything was all well, that's until Tourism Assistant Minister Datuk Tak Seri Ken Wooi stepped up.
Afraid of being reported to the Malaysian Anti-Crimes Commission (MACC) as warned by Anthony Loke (Rasah-DAP), Datuk Tak Seri Ken revealed that there are other costs as well.
After more speculations from the Malaysian community and the never ending corruption accusations, he agreed to share the real story behind the whopping amount. "The Malaysians deserve to know!", Ken claimed.
Here are the actual legitimate expenses from the RM1.8 million price tag:
1) The term "1Malaysia" is copyrighted by Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, hence Tourism Malaysia was required to pay the Prime Minister for using the copyrighted term.
Since all 6 Facebook pages use the term "1Malaysia", Najib's panel of 10 lawyers demanded RM50k per usage – hence pocketing RM300k, a lucrative incentive just for a phrase with 1 number and the name of his country.
2) First Lady Datin Seri Rosmah is an avid Malaysian traveler and she was given the privilege to endorse the social media advertising campaign – with reported RM50k for each Facebook page.
As stated in the contract, her motherly figure will be displayed on all 6 Facebook pages once they are completed.
Hence, she also earned a total of RM300k – which explains her ability to travel the world and stay in world class hotels. Also, expensive hair-grooming sessions.
3) Facebook founders, Mark Zuckerberg & co, also demanded miscellaneous fee from Tourism Malaysia for charging the Facebook Page service (which is actually free for all) with a whopping US$600k (RM1.8mil).
To maintain a good relationship with the Internet big-shots, Tourism Malaysia agreed to pay US$100k (RM300k) to Facebook.
4) Citrawarna 1Malaysia campaign spent RM100k with Tourism Malaysia signing a contract with Nippon Paint. The Tourism sector aims to purchase paints to mewarna-warna (colour-colouring) the whole Malaysia.
It's a well-known fact that Malaysia has many colours, therefore this campaign is targeted to show that unity can form with any colours.
"Look at the citizen's reaction when we used Nippon and painted on Malaysian faces!", exclaimed Ken while pointing at the billboard.
5) Kempen 1Malaysia Bersih took a large sum of RM500k to hire cleaners to clean the whole Malaysia. According to Tourism Assistant Minister, about 5000 unemployed citizens were hired to make Malaysia sparkling clean.
"After all, it's a campaign and it needs reasonable funds. RM500k is reasonable right?", Ken commented, while erecting the 'Littering is Prohibited' signboards.
It's like killing 2 birds with a stack of money – cleaner country and decreasing unemployment rate. There will be lots of "Cleanliness Process Engineer" job openings created.
6) In order to promote food, the Fabulous Food 1Malaysia campaign is reported to spend about RM100k. The amount is used to hire famous chefs, food critics and winner of 1Malaysia Burger Competition.
Also, professional cooking lessons will be provided to all Malaysian ministers. They will undergo intensive trainings in preparing famous local dishes such as nasi lemak, roti canai and 1Malaysia Burger. The lessons are reported to cost RM10k each.
A portion of the Fabulous Food 1Malaysia campaign will be channeled to the upcoming MasterChef Malaysia!
7) Besides that, a total of RM50k was spent on purchasing Facebook ads to promote the country and iconic personalities in Malaysia.
The sample advertisement above is one of the proposed advertisements.
According to various news reports, it was said that the RM1.8 million included costs for designing, flash programming and coding, testing and debugging, uploading and launching the application, system server deployment and campaign management.
But actually, after deducting the now-revealed expenses – a total of RM150k was just spent on all the geeky project technical developing stuffs. The advertising agency in-charged confirmed the finalized figure.
As for the Facebook pages, this is how they currently look like…
The simple Facebook layout.
With the extra RM150k (which is still a big amount) injected into the campaigns, this is how the Facebook pages should look like in the future…
Yes, it's the same because as mentioned earlier – "It was not used for Facebook pages". So don't expect artsy-fartsy design or any changes.
After the interview with Datuk Tak Seri Ken, he advised all concerned Malaysians to calm down and not speculate regarding this issue. "The money is safe with the ministers!", Ken assures, while receiving his paycheck of RM50k for leading the Not-So-Facebook Tourism Promo Campaigns project.
– This news is reported by Kenwooi News Network (KNN), which took a cut of RM10k for publishing this informative and important news article.
P/S: Do share this article with with your Malaysian friends as the stated information will be beneficial to everyone. Thank you.


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What is micropenis?
Micropenis (sometimes also referred to as microphallus) is a penis that is more than 2.5 standard deviations below the average size for age. In a newborn, a stretched penile length less than ¾ inch (1.9 cm) is micropenis.
Micropenis is a hormonal problem that takes place sometime after 14 weeks gestation when the penis has already formed. Hormone levels need to be checked. A boy's chromosomes should also be checked to see if there is an underlying genetic syndrome. An MRI may be needed to look at the hormone secreting glands. If the penis grows when a 3 month-trial of testosterone is given, the outlook is good for normal adult penis size and function.
If micropenis does not respond to testosterone stimulation, the difficult question of re-assigning gender arises. This decision has been made even more difficult by conflicting and changing recommendations of experts in the field. (Van Wyk JJ, Calikoglu AS, Should boys with micropenis be reared as girls? Journal of Pediatrics. 1999; 134(5)) At one time, gender re-assignment was the routine choice, even though it involves castration, surgical reconstruction, estrogen supplements, and huge emotional issues for the child and family. (Many people based their opinions on the case of a baby boy whose penis was accidentally amputated during circumcision. When he was 22 months old, he was castrated and reassigned a female sex. He had surgery to make his genitals appear female. He was raised as a girl. At puberty, he was given estrogens to promote breast growth. Reports said that he had a very good adjustment to the female sex, but it later became clear that from an early age he had rejected the idea that he was a girl. During his teen years, he insisted on switching back to living as a man. He later married as a man. (Diamond M, Sigmundson HK. Sex reassignment at birth. Long-term review and clinical implications. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 1997;151:298-304.)
The most recent consensus statement on the management of intersex disorders recommends raising boys with micropenis as males (i.e., no gender re-assignment). The reasoning is that this decision prevents surgery while allowing for fertility (Lee, Peter, "Consensus Statement on Management of Intersex Disorders," Pediatrics, v118:2, August 2006, e488-e500).
Recent long-term studies of micropenis have found that even if the penis remains small, most boys-raised-as-boys end up as sexually active, heterosexual males who stand to urinate, have a strong male identity, normal erectile function, and who enjoy sex. (Reilly JM, Woodhouse CR. Small penis and the male sexual role. J Urol 1989;142:569-71.) Their partners also report sexual satisfaction. (van Seters AP, Slob AK. Mutually gratifying heterosexual relationship with micropenis of husband. J Sex Marital Ther 1988;14:98-107.) Teasing from peers can be a real problem, though. A penile prosthesis may help.
Adults who have themselves had intersex issues argue strongly against reassignment before the child is old enough to choose. (Van Wyk JJ, Calikoglu AS, Should boys with micropenis be reared as girls? Journal of Pediatrics. May 1999. 134(5).) Their opinion should be listened to carefully.


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Ref rage, gay All Blacks and a tale of two tackles
Graham Jenkins
January 8, 2013
Leicester's Toby Flood sends Worcester's Andy Goode crashing into the turf during their recent clash at Sixways © ESPN
Welcome to the The Red Zone - our new feature that aims to score a few points by delivering our verdict on some of the topical issues in the game.
Ref rage
'Tis the season to be jolly'? Don't think so. Directors of rugby have been fuelled by rage in recent weeks with referees the target of their anger. "Where is the consistency? 'Guessing' is the word I use," ranted Leicester boss Richard Cockerill so incensed was he by the performance of ref Andrew Small following his side's Premiership victory over Gloucester. His Northampton counterpart Jim Mallinder was another to go public with accusations of wrong-doing but Quins' Conor O'Shea sent the rage-o-meter into the red in the wake of his side's victory over London Welsh at the weekend: "Everything was wrong - it was incredible. The offside line was irrelevant, trailing runners coming back was irrelevant, backing into the maul, not releasing in the tackle - all irrelevant... You'd have to go a long way to see worse."
O'Shea opted for the nuclear option having run out of patience with a referee feedback process that he clearly feels is not feeding back to anyone - especially not the RFU's referee management triumvirate of Ed Morrison, Brian Campsall and Tony Spreadbury.
As ill-fitting his outburst in a sport that prides itself on the dignity shown by the vast majority of its leading figures - he appears to have a point. He rightly finds fault at the fact that not all the Premiership referees are full-time officials yet they are making decsions that impact on the careers of players and coaches fighting for their lives on and off the pitch. Premiership Rugby has embraced professionalism in many areas and should perhaps demand the same from the Rugby Football Union's Professional Referee Unit (PRU), who provide the officials.
Action must be taken to quell this fire and offer reassurance that concerns are being both acknowledged and addressed. But at the same time the directors of rugby cannot expect to escape with their very public criticism of the officials. Such outbursts do not reflect well on the game as a whole and we do not want to see the sport descend into the mud-flinging farce that appears to follow every Premier League football match.
Wanted: Gay All Black
Kiwi media personality Steve Gray has caused a bit of a stir by claiming he has slept with an All Black who played in the 1970s. His comments followed calls by gay rights advocates for a homosexual All Blacks player to openly declare his sexuality and act as a role model in the fight against bigotry.
Gray has since suggested that such is the all-encompassing nature of the rugby culture in New Zealand, it may 'not be a place a gay man would want to be.' But what a statement it would be if a leading player from the world's most famous team would follow the lead of former Wales and Lions star Gareth Thomas and admit they were gay - especially when so many other high profile sports continually fail to tackle the issue and as a result discourage sportsmen to come out.
Common sense suggests that many gay men have played international rugby and are currently doing so now. It is a shame that fear of reprisal, ridicule or even loss of commercial income would prevent them from coming out. They, like Thomas, may find support where they expected isolation. But you fear there is more chance of Wales hosting their World Cup clash with England than an All Black breaking cover.
A tale of two tackles
Two incidents during the latest round of Premiership action highlighted the continued and worrying disparity in interpretation when it comes to 'tip' or 'spear' tackles - and offered further amunition for those with referees in their sights. First up was Toby Flood's ugly-looking challenge on Andy Goode during Leicester's Premiership victory over Worcester on Friday night. Amazingly the challenge was missed by all the officials but not by the citing commissioner who will have noted Flood's lifting of his rival beyond 90 degrees and the driving - no matter how intentional - of Goode into the ground head first. It was a yellow card offence at the very least with the contribution of hooker George Chuter likely to save the England international a more significant ban when he faces a disciplinary hearing this week.
Wasps' Tom Varndell was also guilty of lifting Bath's Horacio Agulla beyond an acceptable limit and his strength and momentum resulted in another wince-inducing impact. The referee wasted no time in brandising a yellow card having consulted with his assistant much to the surprise of the majority of those who witnessed the tackle. Varndell was clearly attempting to dive his man into touch - not the ground - and thankfully Agulla landed on his side saving his tackler from a more ludicrous fate. A yellow card may have been the right decision according to the rules but that level of pedantry does the sport no favours and highlights a worrying trend that is in danger of detracting from one of the sport's major draws - the physicality.
The decision to sin-bin Varndell was almost as laughable as Nick Abendanon's trip on Eliot Daly in the closing moments of the game. The Bath fullback's leg waft in the direction of his Wasps rival could not have been more expertly staged for Sky Sports' touchline camera had it been choreographed by Busby Berkeley. Quite rightly he saw yellow, quite simply Varndell should not have been subjected to the same fate.
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Prophylactic Bilateral Salpingectomy and Laparoscopic Myomectomy
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01929148
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Recruitment status was: Recruiting
First Posted : August 27, 2013
Last Update Posted : November 18, 2016
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We already demonstrated that the addiction of PBS to Total Laparoscopic Hysterectomy (TLH) has no negative effects in term of ovarian function, evaluated by anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH), Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH), Antral Follicle Count (AFC), mean ovarian diameters and Peak Systolic Velocity (PSV). In addition, in our experience, no negative surgical outcomes (in terms of operative time, intraoperative blood loss, postoperative hospital stay, postoperative return to normal activity and complication rate) are related to PBS step in TLH.
Although the good statistical reliability of our retrospective data, we want to prospectively confirm our results. Moreover we aim to refine PBS safety demonstration by collecting also 3D ultrasound parameters [AFC, ovarian volume (OV), Vascularization Index (VI), Flow Index (FI) and Vascularization Flow Index (VFI)]. Hormonal and ultrasonographic parameters may possibly be unified into a new diagnostic algorithm (already at an advanced stage of production in UMG Department) able to estimate the ovarian function both in term of reproductive ability that in term of distance from menopause.
|Condition or disease
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|Procedure: Prophylactic bilateral salpingectomy Procedure: Laparoscopic myomectomy without PBS
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We will enroll the first 77 patients who will agree to implement PBS to laparoscopic myomectomy (LM) (study group), starting from September 1, 2013. Other 77 patients who will ask us to undergo LM without the addiction of PBS will constitute the control group. For each patient, ovarian reserve modification before and after surgery will be recorded as the primary outcome. Specifically, one month before and three months after laparoscopy, on day 1 to 4 of menstrual cycles serum AMH, FSH and E2 will be evaluated and a transvaginal ultrasound examination (Voluson E8 Expert or Voluson-i - GE Healthcare Ultrasound) to assess AFC, OV, VI, FI and VFI, will be carried out by the same experienced ultrasonographist responsible for the ambulatory of ovarian reserve in each Unit.
Ovarian reserve modification will be defined as the difference (expressed as Δ) between post-operative and pre-operative values of AMH, FSH, AFC, OV, VI, FI and VFI. For each surgical procedure, moreover, operative time, variation of hemoglobin level, postoperative hospital stay, postoperative return to normal activity and complication rate will be recorded as secondary outcomes.
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Experimental: Laparoscopic myomectomy plus PBS
A Laparoscopic myomectomy plus Prophylactic bilateral salpingectomy will be performed in women which have accomplished their reproductive desire
Procedure: Prophylactic bilateral salpingectomy
Salpingectomy will be performed by coagulation and section of the tube, beginning from the very distal fimbrial end, carefully preserving the ovarian vascularization, and proceeding toward the uterine cornu
Other Name: PBS, bilateral salpingectomy
Active Comparator: Laparoscopic myomectomy without PBS
A standard laparoscopic myomectomy without any prophylactic salpingectomy will be performed
Procedure: Laparoscopic myomectomy without PBS
Standard laparoscopic myomectomy without salpingectomy
Other Name: LM
- Ovarian reserve modification [ Time Frame: three months after laparoscopy ]Ovarian reserve modification will be defined as the difference (expressed as Δ) between post-operative and pre-operative values of anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH), Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH), Antral Follicle Count (AFC), Ovarian volume (OV), Vascularization Index (VI), Flow index (FI) and Vascularization Flow Index (VFI)
- Surgical outcomes [ Time Frame: one day to one month after laparoscopy ]For each surgical procedure operative time, variation of hemoglobin level, postoperative hospital stay, postoperative return to normal activity and complication rate will be recorded as secondary outcomes.
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- Indication to laparoscopic myomectomy
- Accomplished reproductive desire
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- Age older than 50 years
- family history of ovarian cancer, BRCA positive
- basal FSH value of >20 IU/mL and/or E2 levels >60 pg/mL
- presence of menopausal symptoms,irregular (cycle-to-cycle variation over 12 months >20 days orpresence of any breakthrough bleeding) menstrual cycles, hormonereplacement treatment and/or hormonal contraception for the last 3 months, history of previous uterine or ovarian surgeries, and imaging suggestive of ovarian cyst or tubal pathology at transvaginal ultrasound.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01929148
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It is 1765, and as the American Revolution ignites to the north of America, the south comes under a different threat. Spanish forces plot to take control of Louisiana, but one remarkable woman stands in their way.
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(By Delegate Poore)
[Introduced February 14, 2012; referred to the
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A BILL to amend and reenact §48-14-204 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to providing procedures for issuing a writ of execution, suggestion or suggestee execution because of overdue child support or spousal support obligations; providing procedure for contesting an affidavit and requesting a hearing; authorizing a court, in its discretion, to require obligor to give security or post bond or order the bureau to hold collected amounts in escrow; issuing an abstract by the clerk; and increasing the statute of limitations on child and spousal support orders from ten to fifteen years.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §48-14-204 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
§48-14-204. Execution, notice and limitation on enforcement of judgments.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this code to the contrary, executions on an overdue obligation arising from an order for child support or spousal support shall conform to the following procedure:
(1) Upon receipt of an affidavit of accrued support, the clerk shall issue a writ of execution, suggestion or suggestee execution.
(2) The clerk shall mail a copy of the affidavit and notice of the filing of the affidavit by first-class mail to the obligor at his or her last address known to the clerk. Service is complete upon mailing. If applicable, the clerk shall provide a copy of the affidavit and notice of the filing to the Bureau for Child Support Enforcement.
(3) The notice required in subdivision (2) of this section must inform the obligor that if he or she desires to contest the affidavit on the grounds that the amount claimed to be in arrears is incorrect or that a writ of execution, suggestion or suggestee execution is not proper because of mistakes of fact, he or she must, within ten days of the date of the notice:
(A) File a written objection with the Bureau for Child Support Enforcement; and
(B) Where a court of this state has jurisdiction over the parties obtain a date for a hearing before the court and mail written notice of the hearing to the obligee and, if applicable, to the Bureau for Child Support Enforcement.
(4) The court shall schedule the written objection for a hearing within fourteen days of the request for a hearing being filed. Pending the hearing the court may require the obligor to give security, post a bond or give some other guarantee to secure payment of overdue support. If a suggestee execution has been issued and the Bureau for Child Support Enforcement is involved in its collection, the court may order the bureau to hold any or all of the collected amounts in escrow.
(5) Prior to the issuance of a suggestee execution it is not necessary for the clerk to prepare or issue an abstract of order if one has been issued within the previous ten years or to prepare or issue a writ of execution or writ of suggestion.
(6) For any order of child support, an execution may be issued within fifteen years after the youngest child who is the subject of the order reaches the age of eighteen or is otherwise legally emancipated.
(7) For any order of spousal support, an execution may be issued within fifteen years after the date of the order.
(8) For any order of child support or spousal support, an action for judgment or an execution may issue at any time within fifteen years next after the date of the order or within fifteen years from the return day of the last execution or within fifteen years from the date of issuance of an administrative notice to withhold income or the date of issuance of an attempted intercept of a state or federal income tax refund.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to rewrite the section relating to procedures for writs of execution, suggestions and suggestee executions relating to child support and spousal support obligations. The bill also increases the statute of limitations on child support and spousal support orders.
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If you file your return using the IRS e-file, the system will automatically decide which form you need.
Here are some general rules to consider when deciding which paper tax form to file.
Use the 1040EZ if:
- Your taxable income is below $100,000
- Your filing status is Single or Married Filing Jointly
- You and your spouse – if married — are under age 65 and not blind
- You are not claiming any dependents
- Your interest income is $1,500 or less
Use the 1040A if:
- Your taxable income is below $100,000
- You have capital gain distributions
- You claim certain tax credits
- You claim adjustments to income for IRA contributions and student loan interest
If you cannot use the 1040EZ or the 1040A, you'll probably need to file using 1040. Among the reasons you must use 1040 are:
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Suspect in Chicago car-bomb plot pleads not guilty
A young man accused of trying to set off what he thought was a car bomb outside a Chicago bar has pleaded not guilty to terrorism-related charges.
Adel Daoud of Hillside, a Chicago suburb, was arrested following a sting operation last month.
Prosecutors say he told undercover agents he believed the U.S. was at war with Muslims, but Daoud's attorney says the plot was the agents' idea.
During his arrangement Thursday, the 19-year-old joked with the judge, telling her the maximum life prison sentence he faced couldn't be longer.
Asked how he pleaded, the bushy-haired Daoud politely said: "Not guilty."
Dressed in an orange jail jumpsuit, Daoud smiled and waved at his family during the hearing. His teary-eyed father, Ahmed Daoud, later told reporters his son is a good kid.


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I guess I should have filed this under "all grain". More attenuative yeast is the obvious answer especially posted under "yeast and fermentation ". How would one mash to achieve a wort that is 100% fermentable with no long chain sugars?
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- 1 Summary
- 2 Memorable Quotes
- 3 Background Information
- 4 Links and references
The USS Enterprise is summoned to a space station without explanation. Commodore Bob Wesley, commanding officer of the USS Lexington, explains that the Enterprise will be a test vessel for a revolutionary tactical computer called the M-5 multitronic unit, designed by the brilliant Dr. Richard Daystrom. The M-5 will handle all ship functions without human assistance.
Act One
- "Captain's log, stardate 4729.4. The M-5 computer has been installed on board ship, and we have left the space station for test maneuvers."
Dr. Richard Daystrom, who designed the computers used on the Enterprise, arrives on board to install his new M-5 computer, which is capable of running a starship without personnel. The system is to be tested in a war games exercise against four other starships, led by Commodore Wesley. Daystrom describes the M-5 as "a whole new approach" to logic systems; what he has done, in fact, is to create a computer that thinks like a person by impressing Human "engrams" – his own – onto the circuits. "The relays are not unlike the synapse in the brain," Daystrom explains to Captain Kirk. "M-5 thinks, captain."
Kirk, meanwhile, wrestles with his own unease about the advance in technology and his own possible obsolescence. Daystrom, on the other hand, defends the advance as liberating man from hazardous duties. Dr. McCoy notes that Daystrom reacts toward the computer as a father to his child.
The Enterprise, under M-5 control approaches a planet, achieves standard orbit and makes its recommendations for the landing party. Kirk is at odds with the M-5's call, and disagrees with its recommendation, which doesn't include Kirk and McCoy in the landing party, calling them "non-essential personnel." While this is going on, power on decks 4 and 5 is cut, along with environmental controls for each deck. Scotty traces the source of the power shutdowns to be the M-5 itself.
Act Two
Dr. Daystrom examines the situation, but explains that the M-5 simply turned off the power to those decks since there was no one there that needed it. Eventually, Dr McCoy arrives on the bridge, since the sick bay's power was also cut. He is understandably infuriated by this computer's actions.
The Enterprise is approached by two ships, one of which turns out to be the Federation starship USS Excalibur. They engage in an unscheduled wargames drill, and the M-5 responds swiftly to simulated attacks, hitting back the "enemy" ships and maneuvering more quickly than it would have were a human in command. Kirk tries to be gracious to the computer's ability, telling Spock that such applications might be practical, but Spock tells Kirk that although true, such a thing as a computer running a starship would be undesirable. He goes on to explain that a key attribute of Human command is loyalty, loyalty to one man, and that this should never change. Captain Kirk, whose ego has been somewhat beaten up by all that is going on, appreciates the comment. Meanwhile, the M-5 is seen to be drawing increasing amounts of power.
Afterward, Enterprise's sensors detect a ship moving slowly. It is the automated ore freighter Woden. M-5 abruptly changes the Enterprise's course to intercept the ship, speeding up to Warp 3. It then engages the ship with photon torpedoes, destroying it, though it gave no threat to the Enterprise, and then resumes its prior course. Captain Kirk tried to disengage the M-5 in the process, but neither he, nor Sulu, nor Scotty is able to regain manual control.
Act Three
Dr. Daystrom still tries to make excuses and explanations for this, but there is clearly now something wrong.
Kirk, Spock, and Scotty go to engineering, and Kirk tries to approach the M-5 to shut it off, only to be thrown back by a force field. They attempt again to cut its power, but when an engineering ensign with a power coupler moves to cut the power, the M-5 vaporizes him and makes a direct connection to the warp engines using a power beam of its own devising.
In setting up the programs, Daystrom also – unwittingly – instilled the urge for survival in the computer, to the point where the automated freighter Woden, encountered on the way to the war games coordinates, is perceived as a threat and destroyed. In addition, M-5 taps into the matter/antimatter reactors as a new power source, giving it virtually unlimited power with no one able to shut the computer down.
Act Four
When the war games exercise begins, M-5 attacks the opposing starships with all weapons at full power (destroying the Excalibur in the process), and cuts off all communication from Enterprise to the fleet. When Commodore Wesley cannot raise the Enterprise by radio, he requests approval from Starfleet Command to destroy her.
- "Captain's log, stardate 4731.3. The M-5 multitronic unit has taken over total control of the Enterprise."
Dr. Daystrom attempts to reason with his M-5 in an effort to stop the attack, but goes mad in the effort. Kirk then forces the computer to recognize its responsibility in the deaths of hundreds of people. Feeling Daystrom's regret over the deaths, M-5 shuts down, dropping the deflector shields and leaving itself open to attack to atone for its crime. Spock and Scotty then disconnect the computer from ship's control. With communications not quite restored, Kirk orders that the shields be kept down, gambling that Wesley will be both compassionate and cautious and break off the battle force. Dr. Daystrom, meanwhile, is cared for in sickbay under sedation and heavy restraint to await transfer to a total rehabilitation facility.
Memorable Quotes
"There are certain things men must do to remain men."
- - Kirk to Daystrom, after the M-5 is installed on the Enterprise
"Did you see the love light in Spock's eyes? The right computer finally came along."
- - McCoy to Kirk, after they walk away from Spock and Daystrom
"Only a fool would stand in the way of progress."
- - Kirk, on being replaced by the M-5
"We're all sorry for the other guy when he loses his job to a machine. When it comes to your job, that's different. And it always will be different."
- - McCoy, on technological progress
"Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them. Captain, the starship also runs on loyalty to one man. And nothing can replace it, or him."
- - Spock to Kirk, after the war games exercise
"Our compliments to the M-5 unit, and regards to Captain Dunsel. Wesley out."
- - Wesley, comparing Kirk's role to a part which serves no useful purpose
"To Captain Dunsel."
"To James T. Kirk, Captain of the Enterprise."
- - Kirk and McCoy, toasting in Kirk's quarters
"All I ask is a tall ship, and a star to steer by."
- - Kirk, quoting the poem "Sea Fever" by John Masefield
"Fantastic machine, the M-5. No off switch."
- - McCoy, as the Enterprise chases the Woden
"Come along, Dr. Daystrom. M-5 is out of a job."
- - Kirk, to Dr. Daystrom
"Please, Spock, do me a favor and don't say it's fascinating."
"No. But it is ... interesting."
- - McCoy and Spock, on the M-5's increasing control of the Enterprise
"You don't shut a child off when it makes a mistake. M-5 is growing, learning."
"Learning to kill."
"To defend itself. It's quite a different thing."
- - Daystrom and McCoy, on the growing threat of the M-5
"Men no longer need die in space or on some alien world! Men can live and go on to achieve greater things than fact-finding and dying for galactic space, which is neither ours to give or to take!"
- - Daystrom, defending the need for the M-5
"Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis."
- - Kirk to McCoy, on Daystrom
"You can't simply say, today I will be brilliant."
- - Kirk, on Daystrom's ingenuity
"It appears, Captain, we've been doing what used to be called pursuing a wild goose."
- - Spock, after M-5 outsmarts an attempted manual override
"Commodore Wesley is a dedicated commander. I should regret serving aboard the instrument of his death."
- - Spock, after Wesley receives orders from Starfleet to destroy the Enterprise
"Murder is contrary to the laws of man and God."
- - M-5, on why it cannot commit murder
"Compassion. That's the one thing no machine ever had. Maybe it's the one thing that keeps men ahead of them."
- - McCoy, on why Wesley did not attack the Enterprise
"It would be most interesting to impress your memory engrams on a computer, Doctor. The resulting torrential flood of illogic would be most entertaining."
- - Spock's last jab at McCoy, on comparing Humans and machines
Background Information
Production timeline
- Teleplay by Laurence N. Wolfe, 9 November 1967
- Filmed in mid-December 1967
- Original airdate, 8 March 1968
- Rerun airdate, 28 June 1968
Story and production
- Mathematician Laurence N. Wolfe wrote the original story for this episode, which was based on his fascination with computers. However, it emphasized the M-5 unit and its creator, Dr. Daystrom, and barely featured the Enterprise crew. It was heavily rewritten by D.C. Fontana, who focused the storyline around Kirk's fear of being replaced by a machine. [1]
- This episode was a social commentary on the American job losses caused by increased mechanization during the 1960s. (Star Trek Compendium)
- The evocative music by George Duning, composed for "Metamorphosis", was re-used when Kirk romanticizes about sailing on a tall ship.
Cast and characters
- Barry Russo, who played Commodore Wesley in this episode, had previously portrayed Commander Giotto in "The Devil in the Dark".
- Sean Morgan, who portrayed Harper in this episode, also played Brenner in "Balance of Terror" and O'Neil in "The Return of the Archons" and "The Tholian Web".
- James Doohan provided the voices of the M-5 computer and the unseen Commodore Enwright.
- Fifteen of the 20 crew members who stay aboard the Enterprise during the M-5 exercise include: Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scott, Sulu, Chekov, Uhura, Harper, Phillips, Rawlins, Carstairs, Brent, Hadley and Leslie (the two security guards who escort Daystrom from the bridge), and an unnamed medical technician who appears by Daystrom's bedside in sickbay.
Sets and props
- Commodore Wesley's high-backed command chair appears to be the same one used on the ISS Enterprise's command chair in "Mirror, Mirror".
- Daystrom's scanning device, which he used to analyze the M-5, resembles McCoy's medical scanner. It also resembles the one used in "The Naked Time", when Scotty used it to point out the critical engineering wall circuits and when Joe Tormolen used it on the surface of Psi 2000.
- A close-up of the three scanning heads on the trident scanner in this episode seem to be a re-use of the disruptor weapons from "A Taste of Armageddon".
- This is the second time Kirk tells McCoy he would like to be on a long sea voyage. The first time happened in "Balance of Terror".
- Kirk recites the poem, "Sea Fever". He recites it again in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. Quark paraphrases it in "Little Green Men" and it appears on the USS Defiant's dedication plaque.
- Spock mentions that there is nothing in 23rd century computer technology to replace a starship's medical officer. By the 24th century, Federation starships are equipped with Emergency Medical Hologram (EMH) technology.
- Spock describes M-5's diversionary tactics as "pursuing a wild goose". After McCoy calls Spock's search for Kirk, Uhura and Chekov a wild goose chase in "The Gamesters of Triskelion", Spock retorts by stating he was not chasing "some wild aquatic fowl".
- In "The Menagerie, Part I" and "The Menagerie, Part II", General Order 7 was the only Starfleet directive which included the death penalty. M-5 states that the penalty for murder is also death. However, its remark that murder was "contrary to the laws of man and God" suggests that it might be referring to its – and perhaps Daystrom's – interpretation of what the punishment for murder should be, rather than Federation law.
- This is the fourth time Kirk "talks a computer to death". He used this skill in "The Changeling", "The Return of the Archons", and "I, Mudd".
- Alpha Carinae, whose second planet was scheduled for exploration by the scientific survey team, is better known as Canopus.
Other information
- "The Ultimate Computer Affair" was an episode of The Man From UNCLE in 1965. Roger C. Carmel was a guest star.
Remastered information
- The remastered version replaced the stock footage used in this episode. The space station, now named Starbase 6, used images of Deep Space Station K-7 from "The Trouble with Tribbles" in the original broadcast. In the remastered version, it was remodeled to look like Starbase 47, as seen in the Star Trek: Vanguard series of novels. The Woden, which used footage of the SS Botany Bay from "Space Seed", was redesigned as an Template:ShipType vessel. The crippled USS Excalibur, which reused footage of the USS Constellation from "The Doomsday Machine", and the space battle were redesigned with new computer generated images.
Video and DVD releases
- Original US Betamax release: 1986
- UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 28, catalog number VHR 2380, 6 August 1990
- US VHS release: 15 April 1994
- UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 2.8, 21 July 1997
- Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 27, 10 July 2001
- As part of the TOS Season 2 DVD collection
Links and references
Also Starring
Guest Stars
- William Marshall as Richard Daystrom
- James Doohan as Scott
- Enwright (voice, uncredited)
- M-5 computer (voice, uncredited)
- George Takei as Sulu
- Nichelle Nichols as Uhura
- Walter Koenig as Chekov
- Sean Morgan as Harper
- Barry Russo as Wesley
Uncredited Co-Stars
- William Blackburn as Hadley
- Frank da Vinci as Brent
- Roger Holloway as Roger Lemli
- Eddie Paskey as Leslie
Alpha Carinae II; Alpha Carinae system; Carstairs; chicken soup; class M; computer; death penalty; Dunsel; duotronics; Einstein, Albert; engram; Excalibur, USS; Finagle's Folly; general quarters; Harris; Hood, USS; Kazanga; Lexington, USS; M-5 computer; multitronics; nervous breakdown; nitrogen; Nobel Prize; Orion; oxygen; Phillips; Potemkin, USS; Rawlins; Sea-Fever; Sitar; Starbase 6; Starfleet Academy; Starfleet battle simulation; Starfleet Command; suicide; warp power indicator; Woden; Zee-Magnees Prize
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