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The Raptors open up what could be a real game changing three game series with the Milwaukee Bucks. The Bucks and Raptors could be in a dog fight for the final playoff position this season. They meet today in Toronto and than in March and April in Milwaukee. The bad news for the Raptors is the Bucks have swept the season series for the last two seasons winning the last 7 contests between the two clubs. Historically the Bucks have been a tough team for the Raptors to beat. They are just 12-20 vs. Bucks in Toronto and an even worse 10-22 on the road.

This is a personal rivalry for DeMar DeRozan who is good friends with Brandon Jennings. While at times DeRozan has got the individual nod over Jennings he has just one team victory in ten tries in his NBA career. Ironically though, it is DeRozan with the more secure future in Toronto and Jennings likely exploring his options elsewhere in the off-season as things played out.  Jennings did not get an extension from the Bucks and has more than hinted he would like to be elsewhere over the years.

While DeRozan is having perhaps the best year of his NBA career you can argue that Jennings has slipped back slightly or at least reached a plateau. Jennings is earning a reputation as volume shooter he is only slightly above his career field goal percentage of 39.5% entering play at the ACC with just a 40.9% from the field. DeRozan in contrast is better with a career 45.4% and slightly behind that with 43.9% this season but still better than Jennings. There scoring averages are as close as they have ever been in their careers with DeRozan averaging 17.8 a game and Jennings just slightly better at 18.5 per game.

The comparison is a valid one beyond their close relationship as they were selected back to back in the draft. The Raptors selecting DeRozan first at the ninth pick and Jennings going at ten to the Bucks in the 2009 NBA Drafted Jennings was able to reach the playoffs early in his career in 2010 while DeRozan continues to dream of that opportunity.

While things have calmed down surrounding the Raptors it has not been the case with the Bucks. Scott Skiles recently parted ways with the Bucks. It was said in some reports that Skiles hated his team. Keeping in mind the Bucks still hold a playoff spot in the East and a record above .500 at 18-17 currently in eighth and the final playoff spot after recently being passed by Boston. They still are some what comfortably ahead of both the Sixers and Raptors who are 3 and half and 4 and half games behind them in the standings.

The Raptors will look to make that 3 and half with a win in a matinee at the ACC. The Raptors are the hotter team despite the terrible history in the head to head of late. Winners of 10 of their last 13 games as the Bucks are just 4-6 and come in off a loss to Detroit.

It seems with the coaching change the Bucks are much in a mode like Dwane Casey was in earlier in the season looking for answers. They dressed 13 players against Detroit and played them all. Beyond Jennings the Bucks have Monta Ellis, Larry Sanders, Ilyasova and others. But much like Toronto they really lack that consistent star to perform night in and night out.

It is a team that under Skiles at least was focused on defense not unlike the Raptors under Casey. They really do have a lot of similar type traits. But ultimately the Bucks despite all of that have consistently found a way to beat the Raptors.

Still, history in the last match-up was not on the Raptors side against the Bobcats either. A win over the Bucks would be a significant step towards playoff contention and shift the pressure on the Bucks to sweep the two remaining games on their home floor in March and April. Who is to say what either of these squads look like at that point.

The Raptors and how they manage trade deadline could go a long way to determining how capable they will be to make the post-season. The Bucks might consider moving Jennings if they truly feel he will want out in the off-season. It is not like that has not been done elsewhere.

In any case that is the future for both these sides. The present will be very important down the line as these two clubs are expected to be in battle down the stretch for a final invite to the playoffs. Funny when we entered this season that is about what I said the Raptors would be doing. I guess they really have started to put the awful start to the season behind them. If they want to keep climbing in the right direction they need to break a streak of domination by the Bucks and win two out of three games starting with this one at the ACC. They fail to do so and it seems unlikely the Raptors could win twice in Milwaukee. It could come down to that when deciding who gets an invite to the playoffs and who is a spectator.

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    US Air updated their schedule in the past few days, and all of my flight times changed.

    They emailed me about one of the changes, but not (yet) for two others. I was proactive and logged in to see if the others had changed, and lo-and-behold, not only had one of the flights moved by more than an hour, they had screwed up our seat assignments...had my one and four year olds sitting by strangers and my wife and I together (I think there was an equipment change or a merger of two flights).

    Anyway, it's worth a look. None of my flights were to/from Orlando, but the three upcoming flights were all to different destinations, so it looks to be a system-wide schedule change.
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    Had them change my upcoming Vegas trip. Now I only have 31 minutes to switch planes and in Philly of all places!!! They said I couldn't switch flights because it falls within their 30 minute connection window for PHL. I only booked on US Airways to use up some of my FF miles and now I know I am going to really regret it!
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    Feb 15, 2003
    Just checked my 3 US Airways reservations. None have changed.
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    Jun 22, 2001
    I have one at the end of this month from Orlando to DCA. It has not changed.
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    Jun 28, 2008
    THANK YOU for posting this!

    Just checked.... my late June flight PHL to MCO changed.
    Was at 11:30 - and they switched me to 1:45 - oh, no, that's too late to get to WDW!
    I called and they were able to get me on the 10:00 flight... which is fine. Unfortunately will hit stupid work traffic into Philly now that day, and gotta get out butts outta bed earlier (hate arriving tired and cranky to the happiest place on earth, lol - but always too excited to sleep and that hour and a half later flight was better for us!)

    But they may change it again still... heck, may even end up putting back our 11:30 flight -happened to my friends in November... flight gone, stuck on different flight, yet couple months later their original flight time showed up again.

    Now my only confusion is guessing should redo our dining that day. Should move our ADR to earlier - but would hate if we end up changed again and on a later flight... then will miss that ADR and by then may be all booked up and not able to change it.

    but thanks for posting this! Had booked pretty early and had nice close seats.... now are farther back. Eh, that's okay!
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    Aug 25, 2001
    Run it by them again, hand pick flight you would like and ask to switch flights (not agreeing to pay any more money).

    Then write to the airline, higher up.

    The minimum connection permits booking of flights by those who choose to but it is unreasonable to insist that passsengers intentionally booking longer connection times accept such a short connection time.

    If you missed the connection, would the airline put you in its next operating flight regardless of how booked that flight is? I doubt it.

    Watered down average. One in four flights deboards more than 15 minutes late (OT: One in fifty is cancelled.)

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Postby coogs » Wed Jun 28, 2006 6:24 pm

Ok, I need some help with an issue I'm having once I step foot onto the course. During practice, whether it be putting, driving, etc., I'm money. All putts from within 30' fall in and I have nice, solid drives. However, once I step on the course to play a round, it's as if all those good things have gone out the window and I'm back to square one.

I miss putts from within 20' and I can't make it to the pin on a hole that's only 290'. If anyone can help, what's my problem with the transition from practice to round?
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Postby Rooster » Wed Jun 28, 2006 6:48 pm

i seem to have the same problem. my thought, it's all mental. you don't realize it and you don't feel it but the pressure is there. i don't know how to tell ya to fix it becuase i haven't fixed it yet. its weird, i know, but im sure eventually it will go away. at least i hope it does.
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Postby presidio hills » Wed Jun 28, 2006 7:30 pm

i know what you're talking about. i think part of it is that a lot of the shots you're forced to execute on the course are different than the ones you practice. it's hard to transfer the feel of practice shots into new shots that you weren't practicing... which is why it's important to practice a lot of different lines, ranges, winds, woods vs. field etc...
it's good to go out and get the overall feel of 'throwing' vs. getting the feel for a simple hyzer, flat, anhyzer all seperately.
i think the same is true with putting. it's good to practice straddle and traditional stance. putts from the knees. anhyzer/hyzer/flat putts. nose up nose down. whatever you can think of.
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Postby The Clergyman » Thu Jun 29, 2006 8:46 pm

Yup. I hear ya'. Next time you're putting in a game try to remind yourself to stop just before you putt (or get a partner to tell you) and then assess how tense you are. I bet you're tight, especially in the arms and upper back.
That tension takes away your feel for depth and the result is that the disc can go anywhere.
Frankly, during a game, I convince myself that I'm just throwing a warm up shot and I'm way more loose in the arms. Usually works for me.
Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.
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Postby Weebl » Thu Jun 29, 2006 11:51 pm

Practice how you play. I've been trying to practice lately, instead of just fireing away disc after disc, I think what line I want the disc to take, envision it, watch it flip up in my mind, go through the pullback and pullthrough in my mind, take a few deep breaths to loosen up the muscles and execute. I give myself a routine to work with so I can do the same thing on the course flawlessly. For putting, I make sure I don't Sally it, gun it to the chains loose wrist with a snap at the end, stare at the smallest speck of rust/weld on the chainlink I want to hit and block all other senses but touch and sight.
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Postby TexasOutlaw » Sat Jul 01, 2006 10:07 pm

Your mental game needs work. For putting, I have slowed down my routine way down. Of course, I got a warning today for too much time; it seems they've changed the time alloted to 10 secs.

How do you practice? Do you have a chance to practice holes? I like to go out about noon because there will not be anyone out here in the high noon heat so that I can practice holes that have given me trouble.
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Postby Torg » Sun Jul 02, 2006 6:28 pm

I find that when I practice I throw disc after disc, not really taking a lot of time between them. As I get a little into the practice my throws get smoother, with less hitches in the middle and my drives get better because of that. The same is true of my putting. If I overthink a putt I miss, I need to step up and throw pretty quickly.

My advice...When you get ready to throw a drive on a course make the whole thing smooth and fast. I actually spend more time making sure my grip is right as I step on the pad than I do getting ready for the shot. If a drive feels smooth and fast (assuming I practice correct form) it will come off as long or longer than the drives in my practice throws.
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Postby branley » Wed Jul 05, 2006 9:43 pm

I think attempting to visualize yourself in the situation of a real game is key. I'm new to disc golf, but am trying to use some of the same principles I used in my 15 years of Martial Arts training. When I would prepare for a tournament then I found that visualization really helped me prepare. I visualized things going wrong and how I would deal with them, and I worked to try to be able to calm myself and focus. I felt like it made a difference over time. Trying to make your practice as much like a real game is important too. I just wrote an entry on my disc golf site about practice earlier today too. Not sure if it will help:

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When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was born in 1984, Nancy Kramer was already three years along in running her digital-marketing agency, Resource Interactive.

Kramer is one of those people to whom people like Zuckerberg might owe allegiance for envisioning, developing and evolving digital communications into the societal force it is today.

If Kramer’s name isn’t familiar, you might recall the Victoria’s Secret Super Bowl ad in 1999 that sent millions of people to the company website, crashing it. She and her Columbus-based agency were behind the ad.

Now 30 years old, Resource Interactive remains young in outlook. The average age of its 350 employees is “about 34 or 35,” she said, “although it used to be younger. I think all the people here could be my kids. Being in this environment is so energizing. I couldn’t imagine keeping up with it (technology) if I didn’t do what I do.”

Keeping in step with the cutting edge is something that Kramer and company have been doing since they gained their first major client — Apple Computer.

In 1981, she met two folks affiliated with Apple and found that the company had no plan for regional marketing. Having worked with radio broadcasters on just that kind of marketing, Kramer sensed an opportunity and created a business proposal to market Apple in the Midwest.

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Or off and dancing, perhaps. Kramer literally had the first dance with Jobs at an Apple sales meeting in Acapulco, Mexico, in 1982.

“There was a dinner party with live music in the evening,” she said. “The music was Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, and Steve came over and asked me to dance. There weren’t very many women there, but it was remarkable. He was a good dancer. It was a blast. I thought Steve Jobs was amazing.”

Even though she became an admitted fan of Silicon Valley, Kramer was born and raised in Columbus. She graduated from Ohio State University and wanted to stay in town.

So, she made Resource Interactive a little piece of Silicon Valley.

“Working with Apple for 18 years highly influenced us in many ways, as all of our clients have,” she said. “But Apple probably more so than any other client.”

Some of those influences are in ready evidence. Resource Interactive employees typically dress in jeans and hoodies and sprawl out with their laptops in whatever area of the company’s Arena District offices strikes their fancy. And if employees feel the need for four-legged companionship while they work, they are allowed to bring their dogs to the office.

That casual, vibrant atmosphere is one of the strengths of Resource, said Michael Bills, executive in residence at OSU’s Fisher College of Business.

By thinking young and being in touch with young consumers, “They have a really good grasp about why younger consumers and women buy things, and they understand how they use digital technology in everyday lives.

“This is an agency that specializes in creating digital solutions for the Internet — digital advertising, digital applications,” Bills said. “They have an understanding of e-commerce but also mobile and social media. So, as more and more media dollars flow toward the Internet, Resource has benefited.”

One of Resource’s biggest ideas came out of an experience with Apple, when the computer company mulled over an idea for its famous “1984” TV commercial.

“There was a tremendous amount of argument over whether that commercial was going to air,” Kramer said.

“I worked with Apple doing marketing with the retail channel for the launch, and I had seen the commercial. Steve (Jobs) introduced it to all of us at the international sales meeting in October 1983, and we were over the moon. It was so cutting-edge, so breakthrough. We were all standing on our chairs, screaming and yelling, ‘Play it again! Play it again!’ ”

Years later, Kramer and Resource Interactive CEO Kelly Mooney were looking for a way to make a splash as they expanded their client list beyond tech companies into big retailers. One of their first big retail clients, Victoria’s Secret, was preparing to launch its website — and the memory of Apple’s “1984” ad surfaced.

“If I had not lived through that experience, I would never have had the idea to do the Victoria’s Secret live show,” Kramer said.

The idea was simple: The lingerie retailer would run its first-ever Super Bowl commercial announcing a live webcast of its spring fashion show.

Because Kramer and company had developed the idea for the commercial only a few weeks before the big game, she knew it would be difficult to get airtime. After some tricky negotiations and much discussion about the wisdom of running the ad at all, the commercial aired during the first quarter of the Super Bowl.

It was a sensation — not only for Victoria’s Secret but also for the Internet.

“We literally did shut down the Internet,” said Ed Razek, chief marketing officer at Victoria’s Secret parent, Limited Brands. It was crude, it was jittery, it was a small image, but 1.5 million left their TVs in the first quarter of the Super Bowl to log on to the Victoria’s Secret website, a site that wasn’t going to have the fashion show for four days.

The Victoria’s Secret event marked a turning point in technology, Razek said.

“Steve Jobs called it one of the 10 seminal events in the history of the Internet,” Razek said.

Such high-profile achievements naturally led to a rapid expansion. Resource Interactive’s clients include familiar names such as Procter & Gamble, Hewlett Packard, Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola and L.L. Bean.

To service those clients, “We’ve created 350 jobs,” Kramer said, with most employees in Columbus, a few dozen in Cincinnati, 20 working out of their homes (in seven states) and about a dozen in Palo Alto, Calif.

As the business side of the Internet continues to evolve and grow, the company does, too.

Resource Interactive does such things as develop advertising campaigns that appear on websites, on Facebook and other social media, and on mobile devices; create marketing campaigns that are sent out via email; and track consumer searches online to give companies a better idea of who is looking for their products.

“We’re just getting started,” Mooney said. “We could reasonably double the size of the company in the next five to seven years.”


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BEREA, Ohio — Cleveland Browns quarterback Brandon Weeden threw a football yesterday morning for the first time since he suffered a sprained right thumb on Sept. 15 against the Baltimore Ravens.

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“Don’t get hurt,” Weeden said. “I don’t know how else to put it. Injuries suck. They happen. Things happen for a reason, and we’ll see how it plays out.”

With Weeden ruled out for the second consecutive game, Brian Hoyer will start at quarterback on Sunday when the Browns (1-2) play host to the Cincinnati Bengals (2-1). Browns coach Rob Chudzinski has said he wants to keep his options open at the position, even when Weeden is healthy.


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She and her father stood on the curb this afternoon waiting to cross Main Street for opening day ice cream at Rita's.  Traffic whizzed by...and she became impatient staring at the line at Rita's but unable to get there.  Just then several ducks from the waterway behind began to cross the street.  The cars immediately began to stop.  She looked at her father and asked "why do the cars stop for the animals and not the humans?"  What an incredible gift we have been given of being in a front row seat watching this little girl's mind develop.

  1. She is such a doll. I am glad God gives you the opportunity to be her Mommy. It is a great privilege for sure. Are they kids glad that Winter is finally over? Doesn't the whole world seem lovely now that it is Spring? I miss you and your beautiful pictures. I love seeing them on Facebook. Sending you love from Philadelphia this afternoon. Love, Becky

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One Little Ship

Series : Deep Space Nine Rating : 3
Disc No : 6.4 Episode : 137
First Aired : 18 Feb 1998 Stardate : 51474.2
Director : Allan Kroeker Year : 2374
Writers : Bradley Thompson, David Weddle Season : 6
Guest Cast :
Aron Eisenberg as Nog
Christian Zimmerman as Third Lamat'Ukan
Fritz Sperberg as Second Ixtana'Rax
Kevin Quigley as Gelnon
Scott Thompson Baker as First Kudak'Etan
YATI : If the Defiant is, as Sisko said, nothing more or less than a warship, then why does it keep getting scientific research missions? It was used for generating a wormhole in "Rejoined", and for investigating the anomaly in this episode. Surely a dedicated science vessel would be far better equipped?

When O'Brien has to leave the ship, he quite correctly says he will have trouble breathing because his body can't absorb the very large (to him) Oxygen molecules. Great, excellent bit of clear scientific thinking by the writers! Of course... he could just put on an environmental suit from the Runabout, which would have an Oxygen supply with molecules that had shrunk just as much as he had.

Great Moment : Seeing the little Runabout zipping around in side the Defiant. Seriously cool!
Factoid : Fritz Sperberg also played Ranek in Voyager's "Body and Soul".

A peculiar spatial anomaly reduces a Runabout and its occupants to just a few inches long. But after the Defiant is captured by the Jem'Hadar, their only hope rests with one little ship.
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Series : The Next Generation Rating : 4
Disc No : 4.1 Episode : 78
First Aired : 22 Oct 1990 Stardate : 44161.2
Director : Cliff Bole Year : 2367
Writers : Lee Sheldon Season : 4
Guest Cast :
Bill Erwin as Doctor Dalen Quaice
Colm Meaney as Miles Edward O'Brien
Eric Menyuk as The Traveller
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Perspective : The world may be your oyster, just make sure that your whole world isn't the size of an oyster.
YATI : Beverly has to go to engineering to find the way out of the warp bubble at the end of the episode. Yet every time an attempt was made to extract her previously, the apeture appeared wherever she was at the time. Also, LaForge claims that the bubble is collapsing at 15 metres per second and that it will vanish in four minutes. At this point the bubble has already grown small enough to cut off parts of the ship. Is the ship really 3,600 metres long?

At one point Data reports that there are 114 people on the Enterprise and Beverly responds emphatically that there are now "over 900 people" missing. At the end of the episode Data reports that there are 1,014 people aboard and Beverly responds that that is "exact number there should be". If the latter number is correct then there are exactly 900 missing earlier on, not over 900.

Great Moment : The whole concept of the episode is very intriguing. I especially liked Picard trying to justify a half mile long Starship with a crew of two!
Body Count : You might say that everybody in the universe except Beverly ceases to exist. But they're all back by the end.
Factoid : This is the second of the three episodes to feature the Traveller from Tau Alpha C.

This episode features the first mention of "Cochranes" as a measure of warp fields. Named for Zefram Cochrane, inventor of warp drive, the unit will be used in future episodes.

Gates McFadden learned that she was pregnant whilst filming this episode.

The Enterprise visits a Starbase, giving Wesley a chance to run an experiment on warp bubbles and allowing the ship to pick up some new crewmembers along with Doctor Dalen Quaice, an old friend and mentor of Dr Crusher. Crusher is worried when Quaice goes missing shortly after departure - and even more concerned when no trace of him ever even existing can be found.

Worry begins to turn to panic when more and more members of the crew start to vanish. All record of them is erased, and nobody but Beverly remembers ever serving with them. All investigation completely fails, with hundreds upon hundreds of people vanishing from the crew until eventually only Picard and Beverly are left. Beverly wonders if she is going mad, whilst Picard blandly insists that the ship has never had or needed any crew before. When Picard himself vanishes, Beverly continues her investigation, and soon comes to realise that something has gone fundamentally wrong with the entire universe...

Meanwhile, back in the real universe the Enterprise-D crew struggle to free Beverly from the warp bubble which she was trapped in, a micro-universe which her own thoughts shaped and which is slowly collapsing around her. All appears hopeless, until an old friend comes to help out...

Overall, I like this episode. It's a rare chance to see Gates McFadden in the spotlight, and she does quite well with it. The episode premise is interesting and unusual, and on first viewing I didn't realise what was happening until the reveal towards the end, so it kept me guessing and involved.

I have to say, I was sorry to see the traveller return. He's just not that good a character. For one thing, he has a strange habit of talking as if he's about to fall asleep. For another, he constantly makes statements that come across as the kind of thing that is meant to sound deep, but actually is completely meaningless. "The equations are only the first step; we will be going beyond mathematics... you must open yourself to time and space and the intricate threads that bind them... see past the numbers, trust yourself..." What, exactly, is any of that supposed to mean?

Still and all, a good episode that was fun to watch.

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Series : Enterprise Rating : 3
Disc No : 4.1 Episode : 80
First Aired : 29 Oct 2004 Stardate : 17 May 2154
Director : David Livingston Year : 2154
Writers : Ken LaZebnik Season : 4
Guest Cast :
Abby Brammell as Persis
Alec Newman as Malik
Big Show as Orion Slaver #1
Bobbi Sue Luther as Orion Slave Woman
Brent Spiner as Doctor Arik Soong
Dave Power as Pierce
Dayo Ade as Klingon Tactical Officer
Dorenda Moore as S. Money
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J. G. Hertzler as Klingon Captain
Joel West as Raakin
Paul Sklar as Corporal R. Richards
Thom Williams as Klingon Soldier #1
YATI : When the "Augments" are taking over the Klingon ship, one of them kicks a Klingon in the chest and sends him flying down the corridor twenty feet or so. No matter how strong we assume the Augment to be, simple laws of action and reaction would dictate that he would go flying off in the other direction.
Great Moment : Brent Spiner. I never once thought of Data during this episode, Spiner is brilliant!
Body Count : The entire crew of a Klingon Bird of Prey - probably a dozen or more people. Various Enterprise crew are beaten up or shot in the raid to recover Soong; it's not clear if those shot are killed, though the Augments are apparently using Klingon weapons and you have to wonder if those would have a stun setting.
Factoid : This is the first episode of a three part story which ties Enterprise into the Eugenics wars which were part of the back-story to TOS Space Seed and Star Trek II. It's also the first episode to ever show an Orion male, a group about which there has been much non-canon created.

Lots of interesting little touches in this episode. For instance, there's a Human Y Class freighter in orbit of the Orion slaver's planet - are Humans buying slaves? Or something else - Soong did say he bought supplies and equipment here. Also, several TNG-era aliens are seen in the Orion compound - there's what looks like a Boslic male, the folks we saw on DS9 who wear blue bags on their heads, and I think there was a Nausiccan in there somewhere. I'm not sure, but I also thought I spotted one of Tash's people - he's the guy from "The Voyager Conspiracy", the one with the subspace catapult.

Archer's father died young of Clarke's disease. He was in great pain in the last stages of his life.

Archer's new chair was built as a new Enterprise-E chair for a deleted scene in "Nemesis". The two slots on either side of the shoulders originally had seatbelts which wrapped around you at the touch of a button.

A group of "Augments" - genetically engineered Humans created in Earth's 20th century - capture a Klingon birg of prey, murdering the entire crew. As the fastest ship with the most experienced crew, Enterprise is sent to capture them before the Klingons retaliate against Earth. Archer enlists the help of Doctor Arik Soong, the scientist responsible for creating the Augments. Unfortunately, whilst looking for the ship Enterprise is raided by Orion slavers and several crewmembers captured.

A pretty solid episode all in all. My only real complaint is that the whole section dealing with the Orions felt like a big wad of padding that was only really there to take up time and help spread the story out over three parts. On the other hand I don't mind all that much - it was nice to finally see the Orion males, forty years or so after we saw the first female.
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Series : The Next Generation Rating : 4
Disc No : 2.3 Episode : 36
First Aired : 20 Mar 1989 Stardate : 42609.1
Director : Joseph L. Scanlan Year : 2365
Writers : Beth Woods, Steve Gerber Season : 2
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Carolyn Seymour as Subcommander Taris
Colm Meaney as Miles Edward O'Brien
Dana Sparks as Ensign Williams
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Viruses : Computer viruses can be as deadly as the biological ones
YATI : The Yamato's entire complement was killed in the warp core breach - why didn't Varley separate its saucer section before going into the Neutral Zone so he could leave the civilians behind? Isn't this kind of thing exactly what the separation capability is for?
Great Moment : The death of the Yamato is staggeringly well done considering the relatively poor special effects of the time.
Body Count : The entire crew of the Yamato, presumably some 1,000 individuals.
Factoid : The Yamato is the second (real) Galaxy class starship we've seen.

The Enterprise responds to an urgent request for assistance from Captain Donald Varley, a old friend of Captain Picard. Captain Varley's ship, the USS Yamato, has been crippled by a series of systems failures which have left it stranded inside the Romulan Neutral zone. As the Enterprise arrives and makes contact with the Yamato, Varley claims to have located the homeworld of the mythical Iconians within the Zone. The communications channel abruptly fails and the Yamato suddenly explodes; a Romulan Warbird approaches moments later. Picard challenges the craft but it cloaks. The crew are left uncertain as to whether the Yamato suffered some incredibly unlikely accident, or was destroyed by a new Romulan weapon.

Picard researches Varley's logs, which were transmitted to the Enterprise, for clues whilst Geordi and Data investigate the Yamato's loss. It is determined that the ship lost antimatter containment, with systems designed to vent the antimatter starting up but then being shut down. The worrying possibility of a design flaw in the Galaxy class is raised, but cannot be confirmed. Meanwhile Varley's logs reveal that he discovered some Iconian artifacts and was able to calculate the location of their home world with markings on them. The logs show his ship arriving at the planet and being approached and scanned by some form of automated probe. The system failures began shortly afterwards. Trying to leave his ready room, Picard notices that the doors initially fail to function...

The Enterprise proceeds to Iconia, slowly beginning to suffer from their own systems malfunctions. On arrival they find the planet largely destroyed, but at least one building survives - and launches a probe towards the ship. Geordi frantically warns Picard to destroy the probe, which he does. Geordi explains that the probe's scan transmits a computer program into a ship's computer system, causing the systems failures. The Enterprise is already infected, having picked up the program from the Yamato's logs when they were transmitted, but a direct scan would have created a far worse infection. As Geordi works on trying to clear the program, Picard beams down to Iconia with Data and Worf in search of something that may help. They discover a fully functioning Iconian base, complete with a technology which allows a person to step across light years to other worlds without use of a ship.

As they investigate, the Romulan Warbird reappears in orbit - apparently to attack, but it soon becomes evident that the ship is likewise crippled, having intercepted Varley's transmission of the Yamato logs. On the surface Data becomes infected himself, collapsing on the floor. Worf uses the Iconian technology to return to the Enterprise bridge with Data, but the android's systems shut down shortly afterwards. Picard, meanwhile, initiates the launch of an Iconian probe after sealing the launch bay doors to initiate an explosion and destroy the base. He steps through the same portal, finding himself on the Romulan Warbird's bridge.

Data comes back online, restored to normal function having wiped the Iconian program in the shutdown. Geordi does the same to the Enterprise, shutting down the ship's systems completely to purge them. The process works and the ship is restored to function. Riker beams Picard off the Warbird and transmits them the solution to restoring their systems, and the ship flees the Neutral Zone as the Iconian base explodes.

A pretty good episode, this one, all told. I liked the use of the Yamato here; by having Varley call for help and transmit the needed information to Picard, the episode avoids having to use up time showing the Enterprise crew discovering all this for themselves. The loss of the Yamato is a gorgeous sequence. It would have been nice to see two Galaxy class ships working together, but I can appreciate why they needed to get it out the way once its role in setting things going is over. Dangling the possibility that the Warbird destroyed the ship is a nice little threat, too.

Once we get to Iconia things get a little more improbable. One facility left functional on an entire planet? And remaining functional for 200,000 years? Then there's the gateway, which is apparently drifting between random places on distant planets - and yet just happens to choose the Enterprise-D and Warbird's bridges to offer, as well. Still, the story flows well and everything makes sense and works as it should.

One nit here is that the big reveal to solve the problem is... shutting down the ships systems and restarting. So the way to defeat the ultimate computer virus is a reboot? It's just about the most obvious thing anybody does when any computer goes wrong, but it's presented here as some blinding clever idea that nobody ever thought of.

Still and all, a great episode all around.

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Unimatrix Zero, Part 2

Series : Voyager Rating : 2
Disc No : 7.1 Episode : 147
First Aired : 4 Oct 2000 Stardate : 54014.4
Director : Mike Vejar Year : 2377
Writers : Brannon Braga, Joe Menosky, Michael Sussman Season : 7
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Clay Storseth as Alien Man
Jerome Butler as Korok
Joanna Heimbold as Laura
Mark Deakins as Axum
Ryan Sparks as Alien Child
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YATI : Everywhere the Borg Queen goes in this episode, she is constantly lit by green lights. Even in Unimatrix Zero, where the lighting is completely natural, she has green lighting on her. Does she have a crew of drones who follow her about with green lamps or something?
Great Moment : It's a fairly weak episode, but the Queen's chat with the little boy was a little bit creepy so that's my choice for this one.
Body Count : At least 75,000 drones killed on two Borg vessels when the Queen self destructs them. At least a dozen other vessels self destruct, so the total off-screen casualties are likely to be at least several hundred thousand.
Factoid : Jerome Butler, who plays Korok in this episode, was also in "Star Trek: Insurrection" and the Voyager episodes "Killing Game, Parts I and II".

Janeway, Tuvok and Torres have been assimilated as part of a plan to spread the unimatrix zero effect through the Borg collective. But when the Queen shows her determination to wipe out the infection, Janeway faces a choice - compromise with the borg or see countless millions die. Meanwhile, Seven of Nine battles her feelings when she finds that she had a romantic relationship with one of the residents of Unimatrix Zero.
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Over the past few years hip-hop’s gone askew, weighted towards disposable music and dishonest emcees. DMV standout Lyriciss is here to to help right those wrongs with his new quickstrike project, The Balance EP: Respect. The project contains four original and hard-hitting selections, including reader-approved leaks Stop Scheming and title track The Balance.

Vocal duties on Respect are handled entirely by Lyriciss. Production comes from beatsmiths Grussle, J-Scrilla and Chop-La-Rok and contains bonus clean versions of each record for the spinning pleasure of DJs worldwide.

Respect is the first of four EPs from Lyriciss’ The Balance series, all available exclusively via The DJBooth. Keep an eye out for the second EP, Money, due to drop in early 2012.

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After spending a morning packing for a trip, I have discovered the biggest annoyance of modern life: Cords!

All of our precious gadgets require cords. Some require two!

For this trip, I had to pack a cord for my laptop, another for my iPod, two for my camera, some earphones, and a cord for my cell phone.

The tangled bundle of cords in my bag looks like it could serve as a nest for a large predatory bird.

You get to the hotel room, and what is the toughest job? Not unpacking clothes. That's easy. Not figuring out the air conditioner. Not figuring out how to turn on the TV.

All those things are easy compared to the job of untangling the cord nest and finding an outlet to charge all the gadgets. Usually the cell phone ends up charging on the sink in the bathroom, just where it might get wet.

I am not eager to try it, but what if one of the charging gadgets fell in the bathtub? Would you get electrocuted with direct current or A/C? Does it make any difference?

Another hotel room hazard: Tripping over all the cords. Especially when the cell phone rings in the middle of the night and you have to work your way through a nest of cords to find the phone on the bathroom counter.

For every cord that is presently in use, I have ten or more in the garage in a big bin, my cord bin, where I keep cords and adapters of gadgets long forgotten.

What a tangled nest! Black cords, beige cords, long cords, short cords, USB cords, fire wire cords, adapter cords, A/C cords, direct current cords, speaker cords, computer cords, camera cords, phone cords.

Why don't I just throw the cords? Well what if you sometime needed a cord? Wouldn't there be some chance that it would be in the bin?

No chance. No chance at all. I have tried it. I needed a cord to hook up a speaker. None of the cords worked. I had to order one for $29.95.

Needed a cord to charge a phone. Would any of the cords for the last three cell phones work? No chance. No chance at all. I tried all forty-three cords in the cord bin.

You see, there is a conspiracy. Every year, the companies change cord endings. Nothing, I mean nothing, works for two different phones. No cord works in two different years. No cord works for two different computers.

If some entrepreneur wanted to make a billion dollars, the sure way to do it would be to figure out a unified cord system.

One cord for everything. One cord to charge the phone. One cord to hook up the iPod. One cord to charge the laptop.

The same cord could transfer pictures from the camera to the computer. It would also hook up to the printer. And it could power the blender. One cord for everything.

If a presidential candidate ran on a unified cord platform, he or she or it would have my vote. No contest.

Let the oil companies have their profits. Let the lobbyists get their perks. Let the Cayman Island-headquartered companies pay no tax. But force all companies to adhere to the unified cord system!

Look at all the openings on the side of your computer. Half a dozen holes, all with different shapes. Wouldn't it be a boon for our economy if you didn't have to dig for the right cords and try to match them to the right hole?

Before I went to kindergarten, we had to go in for screening where you match shaped blocks with the same-shaped hole. If you don't get put the right shapes in the right hole, they put you in Special Ed right away.

My Mom saved me. She threw a fit. She said the test was humiliating and unnecessary for a kid as brilliant as me, and she refused to let them administer it.

Deep down, she knew I'd flunk.

Perhaps that is why I hate cords so badly. It is because I spend so much time trying to match the different endings with the right holes.

If they could figure out a unified cord system, it would make life easier for everybody--from preschool on up!


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Pork Lo Mein
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An Asian inspired pork and spaghetti dish.

Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 25 minutes
Difficulty: Easy

Nutrition Facts

Makes 4 servings
Amount Per Serving
Calories 344.4
Total Carbs 16.4 g
Dietary Fiber 2.9 g
Sugars 3.8 g
Total Fat 21.2 g
Saturated Fat 7.7 g
Unsaturated Fat 2.0 g
Potassium 505.9 mg
Protein 20.5 g
Sodium 337.6 mg
Dietary Exchanges
3 Fat , 1 1/2 Vegetables , 2 1/2 Meat , 1/2 Starch , 1 Lean Meat
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Ingredients Directions
  1. In a large skillet cook pork, mushrooms, carrots, red pepper, and garlic until meat is brown and vegetables are tender.
  2. Drain fat. Stir in corn starch, chicken broth, soy sauce, ginger, red pepper flakes, and curry powder until thickened and bubbly. Continue to cook for 2 more minutes.
  3. Stir in cooked spaghetti, bean sprouts, and 1/2 cup green onions; heat through. Serve, garnished with additional green onion, if desired.

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