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Synergetics is an interdisciplinary science explaining the formation and self-organization of patterns and structures in open systems far from thermodynamic equilibrium. It is founded by Hermann Haken, inspired by the laser theory.
Self-organization requires a 'macroscopic' system, consisting of many nonlinearly interacting subsystems. Depending on the external control parameters (environment, energy-fluxes) self-organization takes place.
Order-parameter concept Edit
Essential in synergetics is the order-parameter concept which was originally introduced in the Ginzburg-Landau theory in order to describe phase-transitions in thermodynamics. The order parameter concept is generalized by Haken to the "enslaving-principle" saying that the dynamics of fast-relaxing (stable) modes is completely determined by the 'slow' dynamics of as a rule only a few 'order-parameters' (unstable modes). The order parameters can be interpreted as the amplitudes of the unstable modes determining the macroscopic pattern.
As a consequence, self-organization means an enormous reduction of degrees of freedom (entropy) of the system which macroscopically reveals an increase of 'order' (pattern-formation). This far-reaching macroscopic order is independent of the details of the microscopic interactions of the subsystems. This supposedly explains the self-organization of patterns in so many different systems in physics, chemistry, biology and even social systems.
In management science, synergetics was first applied to deliberative structures by Stafford Beer, whose syntegration method is based so specifically on geodesic dome design that only fixed numbers of persons, determined by geodesic chord factors, can take part in the process at each deliberation stage. Beer's earlier work was briefly applied by the government of Salvador Allende in Chile in the early 1970s. This was Project Cybersyn- a portmanteau word from "Cybernetic synergy". The approach is applied today as a series of related management methods. All of these seek some macroscopic order of priorities by taking some path of integrating diverse positions or attitudes to some problem, making the synergetic assumption that priorities will converge under the constraint of viability.
There are similar themes in the work especially of Jay Forrester and Donella Meadows who sought leverage on social and management problems by seeking out an emerging macroscopic order. Under synergetic assumptions, this could often be reliably found by determining the points of greatest resistance to change by an older or inertial macroscopic order. The twelve leverage points of Meadows apply the order parameter concept but without making the assumption of "enslaving" lower-leverage points to the higher-leverage. A similar view is expressed in the deep framing theory of linguist George Lakoff, in which basic conceptual metaphors partly but do not completely determine the actions of their users.
As in all social sciences, conscious goals, choices, free will, self-interest and self-awareness prevent any control groups or strictly predictive models from applying to human problems as they do in natural sciences. In Meadows' leverage model the leverage of self-organization is explicitly below that of goal-setting, and much below that of mindsets and the ability to change them. The synergetic assumptions apply mostly to the lower leverage factors, while the higher leverage factors follow principles more like Lakoff's. However, the basic relationship remains: fast-relaxing (stable) modes are at least partly determined or strongly biased by the 'slow' dynamics of only a few parameters. Lakoff argued in his Moral Politics that there could be as few as one basic metaphor (state as parent) determining a vast range of political choices and policy making patterns.
- H. Haken: "Synergetics, an Introduction: Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions and Self-Organization in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology", 3rd rev. enl. ed. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1983.
- H. Haken: Advanced Synergetics: Instability Hierarchies of Self-Organizing Systems and Devices. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1993.
- H. Haken: Synergetik. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York 1982, ISBN 3-8017-1686-4
- R. Graham, A. Wunderlin (Hrsg.): Lasers and Synergetics. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York 1987, ISBN 3-540-17940-2
- Korotayev A., Malkov A., Khaltourina D.: Introduction to Social Macrodynamics: Compact Macromodels of the World System Growth. Moscow: URSS, 2006. ISBN 5-484-00414-4 [1].
See alsoEdit
External linksEdit
- Homepage of the former Institute for Theoretical Physics and Synergetics (IFTPUS)
- Center for Synergetics homepage
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The Bayreuth Festival has a new Dutchman, this one presumably minus a swastika tattooed on his chest. The bass-baritone Samuel Youn will take over the title role in Wagner's "Flying Dutchman," which opens on Wednesday, news reports said. Mr. Youn is replacing Evgeny Nikitin, who withdrew from the performances over the weekend after German news media reported that he had acquired a swastika tattoo in his youth, when he played in a Russian heavy metal band. Images show another tattoo partially covering the swastika.
"It was a major mistake in my life, and I wish I had never done it," Mr. Nikitin, 38, said of the swastika tattoo, in a statement released by the festival. "I was not aware of the extent of the confusion and hurt that these symbols would cause, particularly in Bayreuth and in the context of the festival's history."
Festival officials said Mr. Nikitin's decision matched their "absolute rejection of any form of National Socialist thinking," Bloomberg reported. Hitler and the Nazi regime embraced the music of the notoriously anti-Semitic Wagner, who founded the festival to celebrate his operas. It was managed through the war years by Wagner's daughter-in-law Winifred Wagner, a close friend of the Nazi dictator. She was banned from the festival after the war, and the festival has grappled with its past since reopening in 1951.


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The Central Connecticut swimming & diving team wrapped up day one of this weekend's Blue Devil Duals on Friday. The meet will continue in New Britain on Saturday.
In the 50 yard freestyle, sophomore Helene Neuhaus took first place completing the event in a time of 24.74. Junior Katie Lang finished fifth (25.74) and senior Kristen Malski finished eighth (26.79).
The women's 500 yard freestyle was won by junior Allison Rasile who finished first with a time of 5:14.36.Junior Christine Smith finished second (5:18.82), and freshman Karen Novak finished third (5:20.85).
Junior Hannah Packer placed third (2:10.78) in the 200 yard backstroke. Freshman Kaylin Sylvester finished seventh (2:23.35) and senior Kelly Kreho finished eighth (2:24.23).
In the 200 yard breaststroke, sophomore Kristina Gulia finished first (2:26.74). Senior Alex Czaplicki finished tied for third (2:31.25) and senior Shauna Lynch finished seventh (2:39.49).
Junior Taylor Friedmann took first place (2:07.74) in the 200 yard butterfly. Junior Lauren O'Kelly finished third (2:15.69) and sophomore Kathryn Kiely finished seventh (2:21.53).
In the 200 yard freestyle relay, Friedmann, Lang, Neuhaus, and Czaplicki finished first (1:39.43).
The 800 yard freestyle relay was topped by the team of Friedmann, Lang, Rasile, and Novak (8:00.11).
Senior Madison Vestergaard and freshman Kaitlyn Dwyer were the Blue Devil divers at the event. Vestergaard scored a 178.25, that was the top mark in the one meter board. Dwyer scored a 127.95, good for fourth place.
Day two of the Blue Devil Duals will take place on Saturday, October 15th in the Jack Sudyam Natatorium in New Britain.


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After joining the Dynamo Academy in 2009, Navas Cobo impressed first Academy-level and then first-team coaches and was given the chance to attend the Dynamo preseason training camp. He soon made a positive impression and was signed to the first team in March as the youngest player to be contracted by the Houston Dynamo, an honor well deserved.
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Star Trek franchise
This article is an overview of all the Star Trek productions. For the original television series, see Star Trek (original series)
The Star Trek franchise began with Star Trek, a television series produced by Gene Roddenberry (1966–69), and includes four other TV series and several movies. These television series and movies are set in a science fantasy future when mankind is exploring the galaxy in spaceships and encountering other sentient inhabitants of the galaxy.
Star Trek has a large following among fans (known as "Trekkies"), with books, magazines, websites, and conventions.
- 1 The series
- 2 The Movies
- 3 Extraterrestrial life
- 4 Religion in Star Trek
- 5 Political themes
- 6 Relationship views
- 7 Pedophilia and hard-core Star Trek fans
- 8 Institutions
- 9 Technology
- 10 The Prime Directive
- 11 Star Trek in culture
- 12 See also
- 13 References
- 14 External links
The series
|Series name
| Original
air dates
| Number of
|Star Trek (TOS)
|Star Trek: The Animated Series (TAS)
|Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG)
|Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (DS9)
|Star Trek: Voyager (VOY)
|Star Trek: Enterprise (ENT)
|Star Trek: Discovery (DSC)
|Star Trek: Picard
Seven live-action series have been made, plus one animated series.
The Original Series
For a more detailed treatment, see Star Trek (original series).
The original series has the mostly-human crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise exploring the galaxy and performing various missions for Starfleet, the authority which controls the ship. These missions may be diplomatic or defensive, particularly in connection with the hostile races, the Klingons and the Romulans.
The Next Generation
The Next Generation followed the theme of the original series, but set about 100 years later with a new crew and a new ship, also named the U.S.S. Enterprise, specifically the U.S.S. Enterprise-D. By this time, the Klingons were at peace with the Federation, and the crew included a Klingon security officer, as well as various other non-human races. Also on the crew was Data, an android.
The Ferengi were introduced, and were initially meant to be villains. However, as the series went on, they became a more comical foe. A major foe introduced with this series was the Borg, a "collective" of drones, beings from various races who were "assimilated" into the collective. When encountering another spaceship, the Borg would often introduce themselves with the statement ""We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile!". The "resistance is futile" phrase has since entered popular culture.
Deep Space Nine
Unlike each of the other series, Deep Space Nine was set on a space station near the planet Bajor, about a year before Next Generation finished its run. The station, originally built by the Cardassians, was administered by Starfleet and with a mixed Starfleet and Bajoran workforce.
The space station protected the only known stable wormhole through which ships could pass to another part of the galaxy. One of the characters on the space station was a "shape-shifter", a being that could assume any form.
Voyager was the name of a Starfleet ship that became trapped in another part of the galaxy, the Delta Quadrant (with Earth being in the Alpha Quadrant), and the series revolved around the crew's attempts to return home, encountering many new races along the way. The series was set around the same time as Deep Space 9.
The part of the galaxy Voyager was trapped in was on the far side of the galaxy from which the Borg originated, and they needed to enter the Borg area to return home. For this reason, the Borg is an enemy they encounter numerous times. Voyager features the Borg more than either The Next Generation or Deep Space Nine had. Additionally, one of the characters who joins the series part way through is "Seven of Nine" (born Annika Hansen), a former Borg drone, originally human, who is largely transformed back into a human, although retaining some of the Borg implants and struggling to adapt to human society, having been assimilated into the Borg at a young age. Voyager also featured a female captain, Kathryn Janeway.
Enterprise is set roughly a century prior to The Original Series, at a time when the United Federation of Planets has not yet been formed, and when humans are first starting to travel well beyond Earth, and develop much of the technology that would be common-place in series set later. The mostly-human crew travel in a ship also named Enterprise. It is the only series not affected by the events of the Kelvin Timeline Star Trek films.
Discovery is set a decade before the Original Series. It follows a war between the Klingons and the Federation.
Picard is set near the end of the 24th century, about 20 years after the events of Star Trek Nemesis. Jean-Luc Picard, who had been promoted to Admiral in the years since Nemesis, is now retired and running his family's vineyard in France. However, when a young woman comes to ask for his help, he returns to Starfleet.
The Movies
Twelve Star Trek movies have been produced. Star Trek I-VI follow the original cast after the events of the original series. Star Trek: Generations to Star Trek: Nemesis follow the cast of The Next Generation (although Generations featured William Shatner, James Doohan and Walter Koenig). Star Trek, Star Trek Into Darkness, and Star Trek Beyond act as reboots and prequels to the original series. The films are referred to as "The Kelvin Timeline."[1] They are also more action-oriented, and are said by many to be similar to Star Wars in that sense. They also act as sequels, as an older version of Spock appears in both films, coming from the year 2387, eight years after the events of Star Trek: Nemesis.
|Movie Name
|Date of Release
|MPAA Rating
|Star Trek: The Motion Picture
|December 7, 1979
|Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
|June 4, 1982
|Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
|June 1, 1984
|Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
|November 26, 1986
|Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
|June 9, 1989
|Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
|December 6, 1991
|Star Trek: Generations
|November 18, 1994
|Star Trek: First Contact
|November 22, 1996
|Star Trek: Insurrection
|December 11, 1998
|Star Trek: Nemesis
|December 13, 2002
|Star Trek
|May 8, 2009
|Star Trek Into Darkness
|May 16, 2013
|Star Trek Beyond
|July 22, 2016
|Star Trek XIV
Extraterrestrial life
For a more detailed treatment, see Extraterrestrial life in Star Trek.
The drama of the shows typically arises from the crew's contact with various forms of extraterrestrial life, mostly, but not always, humanoid (e.g. the "Crystalline Entity"). In various ways, the premise of the ancient astronaut theory is used to assert the seeding of life throughout the galaxy as brought up in The Next Generation, although not to the overt extent of a later, unrelated, TV series, Stargate SG-1.
Religion in Star Trek
As a humanist, Gene Roddenberry infused Star Trek with humanism's dream of a world (or galaxy in this case) where humanity (and many other intelligent beings) were constantly improving the life quality of all beings both through improving technology and improving societal conditions. People worked together for the common good, rather than for money, and without any class or other distinctions. This is a small part of what is expected in the Christian view of heaven, except that humanism believes that mankind can achieve this through its own efforts, rather than with the help of God. In reality, however, God is needed for humanity to reach its full potential.
Roddenberry rarely had the shows overtly reject religion, although some episodes would make reference to it as a part of culture. For instance in an episode with a man who could not die, it was noted that in one of his personas in Earth history he had been Lazarus (who Jesus raised from the dead). In another episode, a virtual clone of Earth where the Roman Empire never fell was now chasing down followers of "the son" (which the crew mistook to be "sun") and their message of peace and love instead of violence and oppression.
Roddenberry's initial concept of Star Trek included a man with pointed ears, angles eyebrows, a tail, and red skin to be the captain's (Kirk's) second in command. This was an intentional imitation of the cultural depiction of Satan. However, others advised him to tone this down lest the Christian population be offended, and he did so. The result was Spock and all other Vulcans.
Later series, under the control of other producers particularly after Roddenberry died, also brought religious concepts into the show, but seldom with the same direct references to Christianity, but rather to more generic religious thought.
The Next Generation
An episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation has one major example of anti-religion bias. The third-season episode entitled "Who Watches the Watchers," implies that an alien culture discarding religious beliefs is a positive development. In the episode "Tapestry", Captain Picard dies and goes to the "afterlife" where he meets his erstwhile adversary "Q", who implies that he is God. Picard refuses to believe this, and makes a comment that "The Universe is not so badly run." However the majority of episodes remain silent on religion. In another episode where the ship is trapped and an alien will perform experiments that will kill up to half the crew, Picard discusses with "Data" (actually the alien in disguise) what happens after one dies and says some believe in a god who keeps them in their present form forever and others believe that this is all there is. When questioned further, he says that he finds the universe is too orderly to believe that this is all there is and thinks that we will go on existing in a reality that we cannot currently comprehend.[2][3]
Bajoran religion
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine included religion more than any other series. An overarching theme of the series was the relation of the main character, Captain Benjamin Sisko, to the Bajoran religion in his role as the emissary to the Bajoran prophets. The prophets were beings who lived in a stable wormhole (a unique phenomenon in the Star Trek universe referred to by the Bajorans as the Celestial Temple) that perceived all of time as a single event with no concept of past, present, or future. Despite their immense dissimilarity to other races in the galaxy, the Prophets took unusual interest in Bajor, sending "orbs" which were used as tools of prophecy by the Bajoran clergy, and in Sisko who it is revealed exists solely to fulfill a predetermined historical path in an Armageddon-like showdown as the avatar of the prophets against the Pah Wraiths (aliens like the Prophets who were expelled from the Celestial Temple).
Other religions
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine also had the Dominion, in which the Founders (shape-shifting aliens sometimes called Changelings) are treated as living gods by the races under their control.
In Star Trek: Voyager, the first officer (Commander Chakotay) repeatedly speaks of and engages in seeking guidance from his "spirit guide." He also introduces others to his pagan belief, including Captain Janeway. He is also able to speak with the dead, such as his father. In the series, this is shown as an interesting but harmless ability, although Christians recognize it to be a representation of demonic activity. As well as being interspersed with other themes in a variety of episodes, almost an entire episode was also dedicated to this religion.
The Klingon religion in various series suggests that the first Klingons realized they had no need for their gods, and killed them, although they still hold to an afterlife where the honorable dead join with the deified Kahless and the dishonorable dead are forced to spend eternity on the Barge of the Dead with the demon-like figure Fecklarr.
The Ferengi (mainly in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) had a religion of sorts based on the concept of The Great River (as shown in "Faith, Treachery and The Great River"), which was similar to "The invisible hand" a phrase coined by Adam Smith. Ferengi also hold that if they achieve enough profit during their lives, they will meet the Blessed Exchequer who will grant them access to the Divine Treasury, whereas an unsuccessful Ferengi may find himself left in the Vault of Eternal Destitution.
Political themes
Producer Gene Roddenberry emphasized his "utopian vision" of humanity's future. Following this vision, humanity is considered to have achieved perfection in Star Trek. This includes overcoming greed, hate, jealousy, as well as ethnic and national rivalries.[4] In the original series, this vision is illustrated by the use a Russian man and a black woman as regular minor characters (Chekov and Uhura). The Federation's charter, in fact, was a word-for-word copy of the United Nations charter, and by extension, the constitution for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.[5]
Negative characteristics are generally found only in alien races. In a typical episode, one alien race is trying to enslave another, and the Enterprise intervenes to restore balance. The principle of equality is thus applied universally, with the Declaration of Independence sometimes mentioned explicitly.[6] In these episodes, the Federation stands in for the United States, while the villain species stands in for Communists or Nazis.[7] In other episodes, an alien species is used to comment on imperfections in contemporary America. One episode depicts a species divided into two races by skin color.[8] For one race, the left side is white, and right side is black. For the other race, these colors are reversed.[7]
In the original series, the military nature of Starfleet combined with the need for adventure and dramatic conflict were sufficient to limit the influence of Roddenberry's left-wing views. These episodes were recorded prior to the feminist era, so gender relations are according to nature and tradition. The early seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation suffered severely from the Roddenberry vision. For example, the character Q was used to parody God. Roddenberry's skeptical view of religion was detailed in several dialogs between Q and Picard.[4] As Roddenberry's health declined, Rick Berman's influence grew. He was promoted to executive producer during the third season of TNG. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, a Berman creation, broke with the Roddenberry vision in several ways. It included various flawed human characters, and we learned that Starfleet has a secret agency called Section 31 that was responsible for various atrocities.[4]
As the citizens of the Federation have access to goods in unlimited supply, it does not have a conventional economy. However, various characters are depicted as running small businesses such as vineyards or restaurants, presumably just for the fun of it.[9] On the issue of money, the show is inconsistent. Some episodes claim that the Federation has abolished money, others depict Federation citizens bartering for latinum, the Ferengi currency. The Ferengi are traders and businessmen and have an unfettered free market economy. Although it is never made clear what kind of economy the Federation itself has, the Ferengi and other races are depicted as envious of it.[10]
Relationship views
In addition to his views on religion and politics, Roddenberry had controversial views on relationships. A kiss between Kirk (William Shatner) and Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) was aired in 1968.[11] This is generally considered the first interracial kiss on American television, although Sammy Davis Jr. did give Nancy Sinatra a peck on the check almost a year earlier.[12][13] Picard and Lily had an interracial kiss in Star Trek: First Contact (1996), although this was only a brief goodbye kiss.
Roddenberry was also supportive of same-sex relationships, and wanted to integrate homosexual characters into his second series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, reasoning that by the 24th century "no one would care." According to his personal assistant, Ernie Over, "He had an agenda (see homosexual agenda), which was to get gay people onto 'Star Trek.'"[14] However, this proposal was met with resistance by Paramount Television, who reasoned that because the show would eventually be syndicated, it would be accessible to young children for whom such material would be extremely inappropriate. There are some hints of Roddenberry's in early episodes of TNG, such as the notorious background extras wearing skirts.[15]
An early episode of TNG, "Blood and Fire," was intended to be an allegory for AIDS and was to feature homosexual characters. It was never produced, but went on to be used in the fan-produced Star Trek: Phase II.[16] Roddenberry repeatedly promised to broach the issue in later seasons but never did before his death. Notably, Whoopi Goldberg attempted to use politically correct, gender-neutral language when explaining sexuality but was rebuffed. She said, "This show is beyond that. It should be 'When two people are in love.'" And so it was decided on set that one of the tables in the background should have two men holding hands — or two women, or whatever. But someone ran to a phone and made a call to the Paramount production office and that was nixed. [Producer] David Livingston came down and made sure that didn't happen."[14]
Despite the absence of major homosexual characters, several story lines have indirectly depicted homosexual and other relationships in a positive, or at the very least ambiguous light. For example, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Commander William Riker (presumed heterosexual from a previous relationship with Deanna Troi) falls in love with an individual from an androgynous race.[17] In DS9, Lieutenant Commander Jadzia Dax (a Trill, a being comprising a humanoid host of a member of another, asexual, species) briefly resumes a relationship with a wife from a previous lifetime (a male host of the same symbiont), and they are shown kissing on screen.[18]
According to Ira Steven Behr, DS9's showrunner, "I know they got a lot of negative feedback, which only goes to prove a point I always believed in, which is that science fiction fans and Star Trek fans are much more conservative than people want to believe, and this whole Gene Roddenberry liberal Humanistic vision is truly not shared by a significant portion of them."[19] As of 2013 with the release of Star Trek Into Darkness no openly gay characters have been featured and the liberal media consider this "a glaring double standard."[20] However, prior to 2016's Star Trek Beyond, it was revealed that Sulu will be gay. George Takei said that while he was glad that a gay character will be featured in the film, he felt the move interfered with Roddenberry's original vision.
Pedophilia and hard-core Star Trek fans
Ellen Ladowsky wrote in Huffington Post:
| The LA Times recently ran a story about the Child Exploitation Section of the Toronto Sex Crimes Unit, which contained a mind-boggling statistic: of the more than 100 offenders the unit has arrested over the last four years, "all but one" has been "a hard-core Trekkie." Blogger Ernest Miller thought this claim was improbable. "I could go to a science fiction convention," he explained "and be less likely to find that 99+ percent of the attendees were hard-core Trekkies." While there may be quibbling about the exact numbers, the Toronto detectives claim that the connection is undeniable.
In fact, Star Trek paraphernalia has so routinely been found at the homes of the pedophiles they've arrested that it has become a gruesome joke in the squad room. (On the wall, there is a Star Trek poster with the detectives' faces replacing those of the crew members). This does not mean that watching Star Trek makes you a pedophile. It does mean that if you're a pedophile, odds are you've watched a lot of Star Trek.[21]
The United Federation of Planets is the multi-world government based on Earth, and under which auspices Starfleet operates.
Starfleet is the exploratory and defensive organisation which operates the various starships.
The Academy is where Starfleet officers and crew are trained.
The universe of Star Trek has an array of advanced technology, some of which has foreshadowed real developments. This technology includes computer speech recognition, atom-level fabrication, massive energy production, and faster-than-light travel.
All Starfleet members from the time of The Next Generation on wear broach-size devices on their uniforms which allow instant two-way communication between crew-members or between the crew-member and the ship's computer.
The transporters, being developed at the time of Enterprise, disassemble and reassemble inanimate and animate things, including people, allowing them to be transported over moderate distances. For example, transporters are frequently used to send people from a spaceship in orbit to the surface of a planet and return.
Replicators, introduced in The Next Generation use similar technology to fabricate inanimate objects from a molecular or atomic level. This includes spare parts for the ships. Specialized food replicators can fabricate a wide variety of food, which is suitable for everyday use, but can on occasions not be quite as good as the real thing.
Holodecks and holosuites (the latter on Deep Space Nine) are rooms containing holoprojectors that project holographic images with solidity, allowing people to interact with the images. A computer controls the images, which includes holographic people who appear just like real people. The Voyager series introduced an "emergency medical hologram", a holographic doctor which could be activated in the case of an emergency. In this case, the ship's real doctor was killed, and the holographic doctor was a regular character, with enhanced abilities including being able to activate and deactivate himself. He also managed to acquire a portable holographic projector that he could wear, allowing him to leave the confines of the ship's sick bay and its fixed holographic projectors.
Phasers are the classic "ray gun", emitting a beam that, depending on the setting, was capable of stunning or killing the person on the receiving end.
Tricorders were hand-held devices combining the functions of a computer, communicator, and laboratory for sensing and testing objects. Specialized medical tricorders were also used by medical officers.
Warp drives allow spaceships to travel vast distances by creating a sub-space "bubble" around the ship, allowing faster-than-light travel, a necessity when travelling around the galaxy as part of a day's work.
The Prime Directive
Starfleet had The Prime Directive, first introduced in Star Trek: The Original Series, which said that its personnel should not interfere with the natural progression of a species. The directive sometimes clashed with morality or common sense and on many occasions was ignored by Starfleet officers. There was also a Temporal Prime Directive, introduced in Star Trek: Voyager, which said that when going into the past (by various means) they should not try to alter the course of history. When someone from Starfleet (or elsewhere) violated the directive, officers were justified in working to stop them as long as they did not violate the directive themselves. The plot point of the Prime Directive was largely created as a response to the Vietnam War by Gene L. Coon, with the intended message being to denounce American involvement in the war.
Star Trek in culture
Various concepts from Star Trek have entered popular culture, including the following:
- The Vulcan greeting, Live long and prosper.
- The Borg warning that resistance is futile.
- The Klingon language has been developed as a complete artificial language.
- The first space shuttle, Enterprise, was named for the ship in the original series.
See also
- ↑ http://spinoff.comicbookresources.com/2016/06/27/bye-bye-abramsverse-alternate-star-trek-timeline-gets-official-name/
- ↑ Episode Where Silence has Lease on Memory-Alpha.
- ↑ Episode Script
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Walker, J., Same As It Ever Was?: Star Trek After Gene Roddenberry, This Was Television
- ↑ Articles of Federation on Conservative News and Views
- ↑ "The Omega Glory", March 1, 1968. Watch Kirk read the Declaration of Independence here. It's with feeling; He is obviously an American.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Cantor, Paul A., Gilligan Unbound: Pop Culture in the Age of Globalization, p. 46.
- ↑ "Let This Be Your Last Battlefield", Jan. 10, 1969.
- ↑ Yglesias, Matthew, "The Star Trek Economy: (Mostly) Post-Scarcity (Mostly) Socialism", Slate. Nov. 18, 2013.
- ↑ See e.g. this video.
- ↑ "Plato's Stepchildren," Nov. 22, 1968.
- ↑ Movin' with Nancy, Dec. 11, 1967.
- ↑ Miss Cellania, "TV's First Interracial Kiss", Neatorama, April 10, 2013.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 https://www.salon.com/2001/06/30/gay_trek/
- ↑ Here is an image.
- ↑ http://spinoff.comicbookresources.com/2013/09/11/tv-legends-revealed-star-trek-tng-wouldnt-air-episode-with-gay-crewmen/
- ↑ The Outcast, originally aired Mar. 16, 1992.
- ↑ Rejoined, originally aired Oct. 30, 1995.
- ↑ Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Official Poster Magazine, issue 5 (credit to Memory Alpha for finding the quote)
- ↑ https://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/05/star-trek-lgbt-gay-characters/
- ↑ Pedophilia and Star Trek fans
External links
- Star Trek: a tarnished jubilee (Intro) on Conservative News and Views
- Communism: the Star Trek economy on Conservative News and Views
- Articles of Federation on Conservative News and Views
- Philosophy and theology in Star Trek on Conservative News and Views
- Star Trek science controversies on Conservative News and Views
- Future in, and of, Star Trek on Conservative News and Views
The author of these articles has republished them to Conservapedia in essay form, as follows:
- Essay 1: Star Trek: A Tarnished Jubilee
- Essay 2: Communism: the Star Trek economy
- Essay 3: Articles of Federation
- Essay 4: Philosophy and theology in Star Trek
- Essay 5: Scientific controversies
- Essay 6: The future in, and of, Star Trek


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Critical Miss: Garrus: Badass Burnout
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He has reach and an awesome utility belt!
Isn't it obvious?
And then it turns out Shepard is Garrus in Mass Effect 3.
Heh. I think you guys just earned yourselves a huge heap of love from the escapist community.
Personally, I never quite understood all the Garrus worship. I mean, don't get me wrong, I do like him. He's fairly well characterized and fun to have around, but he never quite stepped into awesome territory. At least not for me.
Same with Tali, come to think of it.
I should probably go into hiding now.
EDIT: Clarification for all the people quoting me and saying, "Yeah, I hate them too." I don't dislike those characters, not in the slightest. I think they are pretty good, at least by video game standards. Especially once they got a bit more exposure in ME2. I just never quite understood the adoration. That is all.
Tali I agree with, never got why everyone loved her. Garrus is a total badass though.
Never underestimate the power of memetic badassery.
I liked Garrus better in ME1. He really acts like Batman in ME2 and I don't like that. He's too dark/badass and there are a lot of dark/badass characters in ME2 already. He was better when he was like some sorts of space police man/alien with emotions. The new Garrus is like "Let's nuke the place and call it quits".
Turns out Garrus has a twin sister, who is just as awesome as Garrus, except, you know, you can have sex with her.
Maybe he'll be a Space-Highlander.
There is but only one way left to go then beyond Batman
Well, in ME2 he is arguably already a vigilante, if I'm not mistaken it's even stated.
Although a Dirty Harry reference would be so golden.
"Well, if a rogue Salarian is out trying to commit heinous genetic experiments, I shoot the bastard. That's my policy."
Damnit, all this talk about Mass Effect 3 makes me want to replay Mass Effect 1 and I really don't have the time.
Specter, he's earned it by now.
Well Tali was basically written to be loved by all. So its not really surprising. As for Garrus, well I don't know. Guess he just struck a chord with people.
Implying he needs to go anywhere?
They should just go ahead and make him your 2nd in command, because there's no way in hell that unlikable sow Miranda was my 2nd
Where else is there to go?
Why will she be lesbian then :P
surprised it took 10 replies for chuck norris to be mentioned.
I don't care, he can still calibrate my guns any day. Damn Bioware and the lack of gay romances in Mass Effect...
Give this man a prize... also, Garrus batman? Overload of awesome.
Chuck Norris is a not that great actor who got egotistical and made a lame TV show. Where's the love for Bruce Lee? Or Audie Murphy?
That fit in with his story arc though. His emotions are really tested in the first mass effect and in the second he seems to have snapped.
I like it
I would love to see Garrus repent his life of killing and retire to a Monk-like existence, hiding out in Shepard's quarters just to chat about the healing power of laughter.
Judge EFFIN Dredd, that's where! ^^
I liked Tali just because she seemed like the "fish out of water" who never let that get in the way. She got shit done because it was important to get it done. Also I thought the whole space gypsy thing was kind of interesting.
How many peoples deaths would you have to be responsible for before you turn a bit vicious?
Ew. Lower lip. Remove it.
I appreciate it's not as obtrusive as usual this week, but it's still there, and it's like ugly facial hair that won't go away and damnit i'm going to keep bringing it up and protesting it until it does.
Fun comic as always, but i never got the popularity behind Garrus. Perhaps because i never really used him in either game. He always struck me as a bit of a cowboy that was too big for his britches.
Burn him! burn the heretic! But seriously, I agree on Tali, Tali is a little girl and frankly I don't get why people want to get under her suit. I always preferred to go after the actual, full grown women (If Miranda's not back I'll be pretty disappointed) and treat Tali like a little sister. As for the people's love of Garrus? You can't not like Garrus. He's a bad-ass with a heart of gold.
Add to that he's pretty competent. He and Shepard are basically equals and you can rely on Garrus's loyalty and ability to get the job done. It's less a Batman and Robin relationship than say Enkidu and Gilgamesh or Riggs and Murtaugh. If only he'd finish with those calibrations though. I want to see a bit in Mass effect 3 where he announces "The calibrations are finished!" and something annihilates the enemy. As it does it's bloody work, or after it has he turns to Shepard and says "I think I could improve it with a few more calibrations".
To be honest I would be happy if Garrus just finished his calibrations and had more personal quests, cos he kicks ass
just saying if I dont get Garrus and Tali as my team in ME3 like the last 2 games Ill be very very sad T_T.
This. I think it would be cool to see him become one and it would allow us to have a new turian in the party too.
Hey guys, nice thread and all, but...can it wait a bit? I'm in the middle of some calibrations.
Garrus didn't change that much. He still kills bad guys without remorse. Batman doesn't kill bad guys - he renders them unconscious OR they die occasionally.
I always hated this. I never got to romance him as Fem Shep because his damn calibrations.
OT: Well, he could just become a complete psychopath if you did renegade with him, or try to be a better person if you did Paragon with him.
I would pay for that DLC skin pack if it had Garrus in a Batman Battlesuit.
After Mass Effect 3, Garrus becomes a Spectre and stars in his own Sci-Fi RPG series, Garrus Effect.
OH, COME ON. I would so buy that!
Where can he go from there? Let me put it this way:
"Varkarian, Garrus Vakarian. I'll have a martini, Dextro DNA."
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Unless you experienced it like I did, you cannot believe all the false starts and endless linked genealogies I examined and rejected. This is the original online family tree before such a concept was even dreamed about.
Over the next few years, I researched and tried to verify this huge mountain of information. This process took me years. Now, ironically, most of that huge collection is online but available only to members of the Church. The record collection is called Family Group Records Collection, Archives Section (FamilySearch Historical Records) and contains 5,337,178 images.
For the last few years I have been telling people about the inclusion of these records in the form of the Ancestral File in New.FamilySearch.org and now in FamilySearch Family Tree. For an extensive discussion of these records see the FamilySearch Research Wiki article Family Group Records Collection.
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Three million family group records were submitted to the Patrons Section between 1926-1979. The purpose was to share genealogical information and identify others working on the same lines. Each collection has some names that cannot be found in other filmings. The family group records often included a brief list of the sources used to compile the record. Sometimes the sources specify old film numbers or book numbers used by the Family History Library. Some records also included biographical histories for the family members listed on the form. In many instances several records have been submitted for the same family unit. Comparison of these records will sometimes reveal discrepancies. The collection binders have been removed from circulation so these records are available only on microfilm.Where I was able to verify the records or trusted the sources and/or the person submitting the records, I used this information as the basis for my family file. Ultimately, I ingested all of the records I found into my current database, hence the title to this post.
I often say that the time I spent at the Family History Library could now be accomplished online in the matter of a few weeks instead of years. But from my perspective today, the real question is whether I would do it all over again? The answer to that question is very complex and is yes and no. Yes, I would still feel compelled to examine everything that had been done before in my family, but now I would not be so eager to copy the records. Even when you have extensive family files handed to you by your ancestors, given the amount of information available today, the is a greater need to verify and provide sources than was ever done in the past.
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Berkeley Rep Raises $6,000 To Help Student Newspaper
The Berkeley Rep announced last Thursday that it had raised $6,000 at the world premiere of Yellowjackets to help the Berkeley High School student newspaper, The Jacket, stay afloat.
The Planet reported in August that the Jacket, an award-winning bi-weekly non-profit independent paper which has about 50 student editors, reporters, photographers, and business staff members, was in danger of folding next year due to rising print and mailing costs and a bleak economic scenario.
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"I definitely want to thank the Berkeley Daily Planet," Ratcliff said over a telephone interview. "The article helped to put the Yellowjackets in touch with our situation. We also got a lot of wonderful response from the community."
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During her interview with the Planet in August, Ratcliff had said that printing expenses for the paper could run up to $12,000 and $16,000 every year—with individual issues costing between $800 to $1,000 to print—and that Jacket staff were hoping to raise between $8,000 and $10,000 through community outreach.
"It's really wonderful that we have $6,000 from the Rep," she said. "We have enough money for this year already but we won't have to worry about our future generations. There won't be a need to scramble for resources."
The paper, which typically prints 2,600 copies for every issue, around 200 of which are distributed to subscribers and the rest free-of-cost to students, also reported a drop in advertising and subscriptions, according to former staff members.
Ratcliff said that the paper had raised annual subscription rates from $70 to $80. The subscription price for one semester is $55 and sponsors pay $225.
"A lot of people are actually paying the full subscription fee now instead of just making a donation," Ratcliff said. "We are comfortable now but still worried about the future."
Susan Medak, managing director of Berkeley Rep, said that she had read a news report about the Jacket's financial problems during a Yellowjackets rehearsal which initiated an effort to save the paper.
"We have a special interest in all things Berkeley but a particular interest in the Jacket because the play Yellowjackets highlighted the value of a student newspaper," she said. "We are blessed in Berkeley to have an unusual student newspaper. We [the Berkeley Rep] are about words and we want to see good journalism continue in this community and other communities. We think it's important to encourage young journalists. There are times when we have the opportunity to be a bull pulpit and this was one of those times when we had an opportunity to help another non-profit."
Medak said the Rep raised the money through old-fashioned civic engagement: by asking their patrons to donate money in a coffee can on their way out of the theater.
"People have responded with tremendous generosity," she said. "They've already contributed $6,150—enough to keep the paper alive for at least another year—and there are still five shows left in the show's run."
Written by Berkeley native Itamar Moses, the play Yellowjackets takes a look at racial tensions which surface at Berkeley High—Moses' alma mater—when the school paper publishes an insensitive story which leaves students and teachers perplexed.
Moses, 31, reported for the Jacket as a teenager and now lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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koontz1973 wrote:The oil texture works but it does not fit the map. Now if you wanted to make the map like an oil painting, then so be it, but the cartoon is what works now and cartoons are drawn on paper. If you need help on anything, post here as I always look in when I log on or send me a PM.
It's not really a cartoon, per se - it's meant to look like it was painted.
Maybe a canvas-type texture for the background and such?


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Objective: the aim is to generate sub-projects developing high technology products, processes, systems or services contributing to solving some of europe's major environmental problems.
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Raising the productivity and competitiveness of European businesses through technology. Boosting national economies on the international market, and strengthening the basis for sustainable prosperity and employment.


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This week I was successful in using Webex – a web conferencing application from Cisco – to assist a genealogy colleague with some tricky research issues. You can read more about Gini's story here at her blog Ginisology.
The Process
- The challenge: find information using German records on Ancestry.com to find Gini's great-grandfather, Hans Bacher.
- The issues: Gini was ready to upgrade to a World level subscription with Ancestry but she wasn't certain that it would yield the results she needed. In a way she wanted a "test run" but as a current Ancestry customer, this wasn't possible on her own.
- The solution: participate in a collaborative effort using my Ancestry World subscription here in Chicago and allowing Gini (and her mother) who were located 1760 miles away to interpret the results in German.
Webex To The Rescue
I've been using Webex over the past few months including teaching to the California Genealogical Society and Library in Oakland, California from my home here in Chicago. For Gini's situation, I decided to make the distance education process more personal and do a one-on-one session.
So I sent Gini an invitation to join my Webex session set for a pre-determined date and time. We also contacted each other on Skype which meant no telecommunications charges. For the next two hours, I was able to display my computer desktop and perform searches, enlarge images, discuss records on the phone, and also maintain a research log of the items located for later reference.
While we were not able to conclusively determine what happened to Hans Bacher once he found out Gini's great-grandmother was pregnant, we found strong evidence that he may have ended up – of all places – in Chicago, Illinois!
A Proper Use of Ancestry?
I wanted to answer this question – whether it was proper for me to allow Gini access to my Ancestry World subscription – and give my thoughts on the issue.
- First, I'd never give out my user name and login to anyone, even a good friend like Gini. I don't think that is wise and I do think that would violate the Ancestry terms and conditions.
- Second, in this situation, Gini was already an Ancestry subscriber and thus couldn't get a free 14-day trial for the World subscription.
- Third, it is my belief that when all is said and done, that Gini might very well upgrade her subscription because she was able to really see the value of the product and the depth of the German record holdings. The World War I military records especially for Bavaria – which is where Hans Bacher was located – are phenomenal. I think this type of "sneak peak" which allows a potential customer to interact with the records can convert that person to a paying customer.
Webex has its own "taste it, try it" option with a free 14-day trial and any genealogist can use this to perform the same collaboration as I did with Gini. In fact, this past February, another genealogy colleage – Craig Manson of Geneablogie – was able to use the trial version of Webex to teach two sessions from his home in Sacramento to the same CGSL crowd in Oakland.
If you are interested in working with Webex or even have me lead a session for your genealogy society or even one-on-one sessions, please contact me. Currently, I am working with several genealogy societies and plan to appear at their upcoming meetings as a speaker at one-half my normal speaking rate if I appear "over the ether" using Webex.
© 2010, copyright Thomas MacEntee


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In the true spirit of Pop, Peruchetti often aestheicizes unconventional items. However, instead of the pedantry, the artist often chooses to aesthecize deadly forms as a channel of scathing commentary. Pow, for example, may appear at first glance as an elegant scent bottle encased in hued glass. It is only when one looks more closely that one realizes these are not scent bottles but representations of hand grenades. The commentary he places, therefore, is tacit and yet, powerful.
Mauro Perucchetti was born on 1 January 1949 in Milan, Italy. A pioneer in the field of resin, Mauro matches social critique with Pop aesthetics and art that demonstrates his astonishing technical skill, style and wit. Currently based in London, the artist has achieved immense international acclaim in recent years with a range of solo and group shows around the world, including London, Paris, Oslo, Vienna and Miami. Some of Mauro's significant public installations include his Jelly Babies installation at Marble Arch, London, and prominent placement in front of the Palace du Louvre during FIAC 2012.
A video of the set-up of the Jelly Babies installation at Marble Arch can be viewed here: http://youtu.be/TdMHl6edBZs
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Mauro Peruchetti's work is a mixture of Minimalism and Pop, fused together with an elegance and an ironic wit that seem typical of a certain kind of Italian sensibility. For example, one of his key symbols is the Jelly Baby – a little sweet in rudimentary human form, which for him symbolizes the disposability that permeates all aspects of the contemporary consumer society. He uses it to mock the aspirations that this society claims it has, but which so often cynically betrays. What we meet in this exhibition is a Jelly Baby converted into a giant image of Buddha, and rows of Jelly Babies in different colours who come together to create the model of a skyscraper – an imaginary headquarters for the United Nations in New York, slightly grander and more elegant than its present building. We also meet a roll of toilet paper entirely covered in Swarovski crystals – as pithy a metaphor as one can imagine for useless, senseless and perhaps injurious luxury.
The Swarowski crystals are an unusual material for Perucchetti. What he is really in love with is the glowing transparent resin that is his primary material. A small group of works here are abstract and make no specific moral or political point. In two, the plastic forms a kind of rippling pool, coloured a glowing orange. Looking into the depth of these pools, one can perhaps imagine the presence of submerged images – from "200 Orange & 4 Purple," a giant eye seems to gaze back at oneself, while in "Evaporating Thoughts" one can perhaps discern a submerged medusa, her head surrounded by floating strands of hair. My reaction to these panels reminds me of Leonardo's famous instruction to a painter seeking original composition – to look at an old mottled wall, and find a figurative image in its random markings.
Another piece, entitled "LSD (Limited Slip Differential)", genuinely rejects figurative imagery. It consists of projecting triangles of resin placed against a white ground. The edges of the triangles are coloured, the centres are clear. When light strikes this array of shapes, a magical play of different hues appears. This is 'optical art', but of a very different kind from the Op Art of the 1960s and 1970s. The punning title hints that the optical effect is due to a hallucinatory drug, but really what it springs from is a savvy use of contemporary technology. Yet there may be an underlying moral here, even if there is no specific image. LSD speaks of the way in which technology can be used to produce delusions about society itself.
It is interesting to contrast this piece with another which looks superficially similar but is in fact very different in both intention and in effect – in this second case the white panel offers what look, at first glance, like elegant scent bottles in various hues. It is only when one looks more closely that one realizes these are not scent bottles but representations of hand grenades.
There are other instances of this aestheticisation of the deadly included here – for example a replica of an AK47 rifle in transparent red resin, and another of an artificial leg, also in resin, but with a metal foot. These works are political statements but the idiom is resolutely Pop. It is interesting to compare some of them with their direct predecessors in the history of Pop Art, since Perucchetti is clearly not afraid of comparisons of this sort. "The American Flag" alludes to the celebrated series by Jasper Johns, the first of which was created in 1954. It's crackled surface suggests the way in which a split America seems to have compromised its moral authority in the interim. "USSR" combines the hammer-and-sickle emblem of the now-defunct Soviet Union with dollar signs gradually creeping in from the margins. It refers to Andy Warhol's dollar-sign series made at the beginning of the 1980s, when the Soviet cosmos and the American one still seemed to be rigorously opposed, and has something to say about the impact made by Enron-style capitalism on the Soviet Union's successor state.
The idea of a 'moralised' Pop may at first seem paradoxical, since Pop, in its original American form was amoral in the most literal sense, uninterested in social issues and also in codes of conduct. However, it is at this point that one has to recall that Perucchetti is Italian, though he lives and works in Britain. The Italian Arte Povera movement, founded in 1967, took over ideas from American Minimalism and Conceptual Art and used them as the basis for a powerful social critique that was not to be found in the transatlantic originals. Perucchetti operates the same way vis-à-vis his Pop source materials. The works in this show have a studied elegance which seems, to use the adjective in a loose sense, very Italian. But they also make pithy comments on a wide range of moral issues.
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A Tax Optimality IndexRaimondos-Møller, Pascalis; Woodland, Alan D. (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper introduces an index of tax optimality that measures the distance of some current tax structure from the optimal tax structure in the presence of public goods. In doing so, we derive a [0, 1] number that reveals immediately how far the current tax configuration is from the optimal one and, thereby, the degree of efficiency of a tax system. We call this number the Tax Optimality Index. We show how the basic method can be altered in order to derive a revenue equivalent uniform tax, which measures the size of the public sector. A numerical example is used to illustrate the method developed. JEL Code: H21, H41. Keywords: Tax optimality index, excess burden, distance function. Authors Affiliations: Raimondos-Møller: Copenhagen Business School, CEPR, CESifo, and EPRU. Woodland: University of Sydney. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7534
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Abstract: This paper examines the welfare implications of non-discriminatory tariff reforms by a subset of countries, which we term a non-preferential trading club. We show that there exist coordinated tariff reforms, accompanied by appropriate income transfers between the member countries, that unambiguously increase the welfare of these countries while leaving the welfare of non-members unaltered. In terms of economic policy implications, our results show that there exist regional, MFN-consistent arrangements that lead to Pareto improvements in world welfare. JEL code: F15. Keywords: Trading clubs, non-preferential tariff reform, Kemp-Wan-Ohyama proposition. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7540
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Abstract: This paper introduces the concept of a steepest ascent tariff reform for a small open economy. By construction, it is locally optimal in that it yields the highest gain in utility of any feasible tariff reform vector of the same length. Accordingly, it provides a convenient benchmark for the evaluation of the welfare effectiveness of other well known tariff reform rules, as e.g. the proportional and the concertina rules. We develop the properties of this tariff reform, characterize the sources of the potential welfare gains from tariff reform, use it to establish conditions under which some existing reforms are locally optimal, provide geometric illustrations and compare welfare effectiveness of reforms using numerical examples. Moreover, being a general concept, we apply it to the issue of market access and examine its implications. Overall, the paper's contribution lies in presenting a theoretical concept where the focus is upon the size of welfare gains accruing from tariff reforms rather than simply with the direction of welfare effects that has been the concern of the literature. JEL code: F15. Keywords: Steepest ascent tariff reforms; piecemeal tariff policy; welfare; market access; small open economy. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7565
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text: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 May PTJ: Clinical Decision Making by Physical Therapists This month's PTJ includes several articles that illustrate clinical decision making by physical therapists, highlighting opportunities for screening and referral and for screening and thoughtful clinical intervention. Hear Editor in Chief Rebecca Craik, PT, PhD, FAPTA, summarize articles on direct access, exercise prescription for fall prevention, using the six-minute walk test for people with traumatic brain injury, hippotherapy for children, and more in her latest Craikcast. The May issue also includes 2 engaging case reports and a health policy perspective on the role of physical therapists in smoking cessation.


text: Sex work is unprotected, increasingly dangerous and needs to be decriminalized, according to a new report published in the Canadian Review of Sociology. Co-authored by Concordia University and University of Windsor researchers, the study calls for sweeping changes to sex work performed on and off the streets. "We must not only change our laws, we must also revamp our attitudes and implement policies that protect the social, physical and psychological rights of sex workers," says first author Frances Shaver, chair and professor in Concordia's Department of Sociology and Anthropology. "Regardless of where and how they conduct their business, sex workers are left on their own to ensure their health and safety on the job." Along with colleagues Jacqueline Lewis and Eleanor Maticka-Tyndale, from the University of Windsor, Shaver compiled data from over 450 interviews conducted with sex workers. The team also gathered intelligence from 40 law enforcement officials and public health advocates on the perils of the trade. "Even when victimized by others, sex workers are not afforded the rights of protection and redress that any other person in Canada can expect," Shaver observes. Marginalized and denied protection In 2007, sex workers launched legal challenges in the Ontario and British Columbia Superior Courts against sections of the Canadian Criminal Code. They sued, claiming federal laws put them at higher risk, intensified their marginalization and violated the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. While a ruling in the B.C. case is pending, the Ontario court agreed the provisions in the Canadian Criminal Code deny sex workers protection and resources to ensure their well-being. "Sex workers are out of sight and out of mind," she deplores, noting assaults include rape, gay bashing, robbery and harassment. "They've been pushed into industrialized or isolated neighborhoods, where lighting, access to public places and even people are sparse." Shaver says the 2010 Ontario ruling brought to light issues most people never consider. "The public needs to be educated on this industry. Canadians generally don't know much about sex workers and that's created unwarranted fears," she says. "What little is known comes from media reports on crises, such as underage girls forced into sex rings. The reality is only a small number are in crisis." The vast majority of sex workers are consenting adults who enter the field in order to pay their bills. "Most get into the business because they know someone who knows someone," says Shaver. "It's rare that boyfriends force girlfriends into sex work." Most sex work conducted off streets By most estimates, only 10 to 20 per cent of sex workers solicit clients off the street. The majority - 80 to 90 per cent - work from home, brothels and private establishments such as escort agencies, strip clubs or massage parlors. That's why federal laws need to be amended. "Sharing and referring clients to each other makes the world safer for a sex worker but both involve procuring," she says, adding home-based practice is illegal, too. "That's considered operating a bawdy house. Indoor sex work is safer yet it involves breaking our current laws if the location is fixed or shared with others." New Zealand decriminalized its sex industry without negative consequence, although Shaver cautions against adopting that model. "You can't just pick policy from another county and move it in," she says. "It has to be developed as it was in New Zealand: in consultation with all stakeholders including sex workers, the ministry of health, other government organizations, police and citizens." As for the number of sex workers who operate in Canada, no figures have ever been put forward. "It's hard to know just how many sex workers there are across the country, since many work under the radar," Shaver says."But one thing's for certain - until new rules are in place, it will continue to be dangerous under the radar." Partners in research: The research was supported by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the National Network on Environments and Women's Health, the National Health and Research Development Program, the Laboratory Centres for Disease Control and Health Canada. About the study: The paper, "Rising to the challenge: addressing the concerns of people working in the sex industry," published in the Canadian Review of Sociology, was authored by Frances Shaver of Concordia University as well as Jacqueline Lewis and Eleanor Maticka-Tyndale of the University of Windsor. Source: Concordia University


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Moderators are volunteer administrators of the FamilySearch Wiki who help encourage contribution within a subject area on the wiki, monitor its content, and guide others as they contribute.The Research Wiki is always looking for additional volunteers to act as Moderators. Their duties include the following:
In addition, there are additional levels of review and support including a Support Team. There are also a team of Administrators who have overall responsibility for the content and operation of the Research Wiki.
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Without this support staff, the Research Wiki would not be a nearly accurate and focused as it is. All of these volunteers (and a few paid employees of FamilySearch) are dedicated to making the Research Wiki the most valuable genealogical resource on the Web. They are one of the main reasons why the Research Wiki is growing so dramatically and yet maintains its integrity. So, there is no mystery. The Research Wiki grows and becomes more valuable through the efforts of the hundreds of contributors, while at the same time, the Moderators, Support Staff and Administrators watching, correcting and constantly maintaining the basic structure of the Research Wiki.


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Hawkins to deliver Lane Lecture on Sustainable Tourism at UH TIM School
2006 TIM School 40th anniversary event -University of Hawaiʻi
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HONOLULU — 2005 World Tourism Organization Themis Foundation Science Fellow Award recipient Dr. Donald E. Hawkins will deliver this year's Lane Lecture on Sustainable Tourism at the University of Hawaii' at Manoa's School of Travel Industry Management (TIM). Dr. Hawkins will speak on "Understanding Tourism in a World of Uncertainty — a Paradox Approach" on Thursday, February 9, 2006, from 5:00 — 6:30 p.m. at the TIM School's George Hall Room 227.
The presentation will focus on paradoxes influencing tourism globally such as globalization/localization, conservation/development, competition/cooperation, virtual/actual experiences, among others. As a case in point, the National Geographic Society has advanced the paradoxical notion that conventional and niche tourism can co-exist through the sustainable adoption of geotourism principles and practices. The geotourism global movement will be cited in this presentation as a possible benchmark which might have implications for the Hawaiian Islands.
As Eisenhower Professor of Tourism Policy at the School of Business at George Washington University since 1994 and a Professor of Tourism Studies since 1971, Dr. Hawkins has developed undergraduate and graduate level management education and conducted policy-related research in the field of tourism and hospitality management. He served as first chairman of the Department of Tourism and Hospitality Management in the School of Business. Until 1999, he served as the Director of the International Institute of Tourism Studies (IITS), which was initiated in 1988, and is jointly sponsored by the World Tourism Organization and the University.
In 2003, he received the first World Tourism Organization (WTO) Ulysses Prize for individual accomplishments in the creation and dissemination of knowledge in the area of tourism policy and strategic management. He coordinated the WTO Tourism Policy Forum focused on using tourism as a development assistance strategy for LDCs, conducted at GW, October 18-20, 2004.
He has extensive consulting experience over the past 30 years for multilateral and bi lateral development assistance agencies focused on tourism development and strategic planning throughout the world. He has also provided consultation services and capacity building activities for the private sector, including the World Travel and Tourism Council. He is credited with writing or editing over 98 publications.
The lecture is open to the public and there is no cost. Refreshments will be served in the George Hall Sunset Reference Center following the event. For additional information or reservations to the event, call Kristi Bates at (808) 956-4885. Seating will be limited.
About the TIM School
The School of Travel Industry Management (TIM School) is a leading professional institution in the development and dissemination of knowledge on all aspects of the travel industry in the Pacific. The School specializes in the Asia-Pacific region; however its student body and faculty come from all over the world. The School offers quality degree and professional educational programs including a Bachelor of Science Degree with emphasis on hospitality management, tourism management or transportation management, a Master of Science Degree and the e-TIM On-line Graduate Certificate Program. The School also offers the Executive Development Institute for Tourism (EDIT) and the Hawaiʻi International Hotel Institute (HIHI), professional training programs for travel industry executives and professionals. The School is accredited through 2007 by the ACPHA (Accreditation Commission for Programs in Hospitality Administration) and has received the TedQual (Tourism Education Quality) certificate designation by the WTO (World Tourism Organization).


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Win3D Dusk (part 3 of 6)By JamesT
Here's a new set of icons that were completely rendered in 3D software. These 200 icons have taken me a great deal of time to create, but it has been a lot of fun and quite a learning experience. I hope everyone enjoys them. I've broken up the individual icons into smaller sets of 33-34 icons each to keep the file sizes down.
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As with all of my individual icons, these include 128x128 32-bit XP icons for anyone that uses a program like ObjectDock from Stardock.


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LETTER: Car wash big help to St. Patrick's School
Our St. Patrick's School family would like to thank the Community Car Wash for the recent fundraiser they did and all the advertising they have done for us. It was a very generous event and will directly benefit St. Patrick's students, faculty and their families.
Again, thanks so much for all you've done for St. Patrick's School.
-- Peg Brown, Principal,
St. Patrick's School