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In the autumn of 1966, NASA asked President Lyndon Baines Johnson's Bureau of the Budget (BOB) for $100 million in Fiscal Year (FY) 1968 to begin Phase B contractor studies of Earth-orbital space stations. With the Apollo Program's culmination drawing near, the U.S. civilian space agency was eager to establish post-Apollo goals, and topping its wish-list was a space station - an Earth-orbiting laboratory for testing the effects on men and machines of long-term exposure to space conditions and for performing scientific and technological experiments and Earth and space observations.
NASA had performed internal Phase A space station studies almost since it opened its doors in October 1958. If NASA had had its way, a space station would have preceded Apollo's reach for the moon. President John F. Kennedy's May 1961 call for a man on the moon ahead of the Russians and before the end of the 1960s had, however, preempted space station development. The FY 1968 funding request was in some sense a plea to restore NASA's program to the traditional space station/moon/Mars progression spaceflight thinkers had promoted since the 1920s.
The BOB turned down NASA's request; then, in January 1967, the Apollo 1 fire profoundly altered the space policy environment. NASA came under increased scrutiny and funding for post-Apollo space goals became even more restricted. Congress dealt the only approved post-Apollo manned program - the Apollo Applications Program (AAP), which would reapply Apollo lunar mission hardware to new goals, including a series of Earth-orbiting laboratories based on spent S-IVB rocket stages - a nearly half-billion-dollar funding cut in August 1967.
NASA recovered from the fire - in November 1967, the successful first flight test of the three-stage Saturn V moon rocket did much to restore confidence - but funding for post-Apollo programs was still not forthcoming. When NASA Administrator James Webb, who had led the agency from Apollo's beginning, announced in September 1968 that he would step down, he told journalists that NASA was "well prepared. . .to carry out the missions that have been approved." He added, however, that "[w]hat we have not been able to do under the pressures on the budget has been to fund new missions. . ."
Webb's deputy, Thomas Paine, became Acting NASA Administrator. Webb, whose earliest Federal government experience dated to 1932, had deftly piloted NASA through Washington's political shoals; Paine, by contrast, had just seven months of experience in government service. Paine displayed his inexperience almost immediately by pressing President Johnson for a space station decision in the final weeks of his Administration. Johnson deferred the decision to the next President.
Soon after President Richard M. Nixon's January 1969 inauguration, Democrat Paine submitted his resignation as was customary; Republican Nixon, however, surprised everyone by keeping him on and appointing him as Webb's formal replacement. Paine then made another Space Station pitch. He apparently hoped that Apollo Program successes would induce the new President to give NASA a blank check for future projects.
Though the Apollo 8 Command and Service Module (CSM) had triumphantly orbited the moon and returned its three-man crew safely to Earth less than a month before his inauguration, Nixon refused to commit to new NASA programs. Instead, he postponed any decision on NASA's future direction at least until after the newly appointed Space Task Group (STG) completed its report in September 1969. Paine was a voting member of the STG, which was chaired by Vice-President Spiro Agnew.
It is widely assumed today that Nixon kept Paine on in case Apollo failed. In the event that the first moon landing ended in grief, he wanted a hold-over from the Democratic Johnson Administration upon whom he could hang the blame. At the time, however, even as savvy an aerospace trade publication as Aviation Week & Space Technology assumed that Nixon was impressed with Paine's abilities. Nixon, it must be said, was less impressed with the talents of the people with whom he surrounded himself than he was with their obedience.
Paine chose not to await the outcome of the STG's deliberations. In January-February 1969, he oversaw creation within NASA of a Space Station Task Force, a Space Station Steering Group, and an independent Space Station Review Group. These bodies prepared a Phase B Space Station Study Statement of Work (SOW), which NASA released to industry on 19 April 1969.
The SOW solicited proposals to study a 12-man Space Station, the design of which would eventually serve as a building block for a 100-man Earth-orbital Space Base. The 12-man Space Station was to reach orbit on a Saturn V rocket in 1975 and to remain in operation for 10 years. Of the contract0r effort expended in the Phase B study, 60% was to be devoted to the 12-man Space Station, 15% to its future role as part of the 100-man Space Base, 15% to an interim logistics spacecraft for delivering early crews and supplies to the 12-man Space Station, and 10% to 12-man Space Station interfaces with an advanced logistics system (specifically, a winged, fully reusable Space Shuttle).
Grumman, North American Rockwell (NAR), and McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company (MDAC) submitted proposals. On 22 July 1969 - two days after the successful Apollo 11 moon landing - NASA awarded to NAR and MDAC Phase B Space Station study contracts worth $2.9 million each. This was a far cry from the $100 million Webb had sought in late 1966 to fund Phase B studies.
Phase B study work began formally in September 1969, though the contractors had begun to put together industry teams and spend their own money on the study even before NASA issued its SOW. The MDAC and NAR Phase B study teams each included more than 30 subcontractors. NAR and MDAC were eager to move forward at their own expense because they expected that the eventual Phase C/D Space Station development contract would be extremely lucrative.
NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) in Houston managed the NAR Phase B study, while Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, Alabama, managed MDAC's work. This division of labor reflected pre-existing center/contractor relationships. MSC managed NAR's contract to manufacture Apollo CSMs, while MSFC managed MDAC, prime contractor for the S-IVB-based AAP Orbital Workshop.
In March 1969, the U.S. Department of State had come out cautiously in favor of NASA's proposed Space Station/Space Shuttle program because it expected that it might open up opportunities for international cooperation. With that in mind, NASA invited foreign representatives to participate in the Phase B study's quarterly reviews. In early June 1970, as the Phase B study neared its planned conclusion, the European Space Research Organization (ESRO) returned the favor by inviting NAR and MDAC to present briefings on their Phase B studies in Paris.
AAP, meanwhile, was renamed the Skylab Program in February 1970. The new name reflected AAP's abandonment of all missions not related to the Orbital Workshop. The first of two planned Skylab Orbital Workshops was designated Skylab A.
C. J. Dorrenbacher, MDAC's Vice President for Advance Systems and Technology, began his presentation by drawing links between his company's 12-man Space Station design and Skylab A, which he said was scheduled to launch during 1972. The Skylab Program, he told the Paris meeting, would see NASA manned spaceflight evolve from "cockpit to space ship accommodations." He explained that Skylab would contain "many systems that are prototypes of those to be used on the Space Station," and added that "experience in the operation, maintenance, and habitability of [Skylab] will significantly extend our knowledge and, thus, our confidence in the Space Station Program."
Like Skylab, MDAC's Space Station would leave Earth on a two-stage Saturn V. Designated INT-21, the rocket would comprise S-IC and S-II stages measuring 9.2 meters in diameter. This established the maximum diameter of MDAC's Space Station. The S-II second stage would inject the bullet-shaped 34-meter-long Station into a 456-kilometer-high circular orbit inclined 55° relative to Earth's equator. Its labors completed, the S-II stage would then detach and deorbit itself over a remote ocean area.
MDAC's Station would comprise two main modules: the two-deck, roughly conical artificial-gravity module at its front end and the four-deck, drum-shaped core module. The 15-meter-long core module would be divided into two independent sections, each with a research deck and a living deck. The artificial-gravity module would make up a third living deck/research deck combination. Each of the three sections would have independent life-support systems and could house the entire Station crew in an emergency. The artificial-gravity and core modules would also each include an unpressurized equipment compartment.
Soon after reaching orbit, MDAC's Station would discard a streamlined nosecone covering its front docking port. A "telescoping spoke" linking the artifical-gravity and core modules would then extend to separate the two modules by a few meters. This would expose the core module's equipment compartment, enabling four large radio dish antennas to deploy and exposing waste heat radiators for the Station's twin Isotope/Brayton (I/B) nuclear power units. The I/B units, which would each produce 10 kilowatts of electricity, would be designed to jettison from the Station in an emergency and safely reenter Earth's atmosphere.
By the time of the Paris briefings, NASA had pushed back the planned launch of the 12-man Space Station to 1977. Though this move was inspired by increasingly disheartening NASA budget projections, space agency officials hoped that the two-year slip would also help to ensure that the Shuttle would be ready to deliver astronauts, supplies, equipment, and experiment modules to the orbiting Station, eliminating any need for an interim logistics vehicle. For its study, MDAC assumed a Shuttle consisting of a piloted winged Booster and a piloted winged Orbiter with a 4.6-by-18.3-meter cargo bay.
Flight controllers on Earth would remotely check out the Station's vital systems. If it checked out as habitable, then 24 hours after it reached orbit its first 12 residents would lift off from Cape Kennedy om board a Shuttle. Eight hours later, their Orbiter would rendezvous with the Station and open its cargo bay doors. The crew would depart the cargo bay inside an 18,000-kilogram Crew/Cargo Module (CCM). MDAC's CCM, an Apollo-CSM-sized independent spacecraft, resembled designs for drum-shaped cargo spacecraft and small space station modules based on Gemini spacecraft hardware put forward by McDonnell Aircraft as early as 1962. Gemini, which carried 10 two-man crews into Earth orbit in 1965-1966, was manufactured by McDonnell before its April 1967 merger with Douglas Aircraft created MDAC. The company probably viewed the CCM as a way of salvaging its interim logistics vehicle design in a Shuttle-based logistics resupply system.
The CCM would deploy four side-mounted engine modules and maneuver to a docking at the Station's aft port on the core module. The astronauts would then enter the Station and begin checking out its systems. If initial Station manning came off without a hitch, the Orbiter, which would remain close by the Station but would not dock, would commence its return to Earth twenty-five hours after the CCM bearing the Station crew left its cargo bay.
A Shuttle would subsequently deliver a CCM to MDAC's Station every 90 days with fresh astronauts and supplies. Of the CCM's mass, about 13,000 kilograms would comprise cargo. After a new CCM docked carrying a new crew, the crew already on board the Station would board their CCM, undock, maneuver to the waiting Orbiter, and enter its cargo bay. The Orbiter would then close its cargo bay doors and return to Earth.
The 1.5-meter hatch through which the first astronauts would enter their new home would open into the core module's central "tunnel." Besides forming the main "artery" linking the core module's four pressurized decks, the three-meter-diameter cylinder would provide emergency living quarters for the entire crew, a 180-day supply of emergency food, a passageway for ducts and conduits, radiation-shielded photographic film storage, and space suit storage. MDAC thus rejected the concept of a separate Space Station life boat that could evacuate the crew in the event of trouble while a Shuttle Orbiter was not present in favor of a "fall-back" shelter where the crew could await rescue.
At the forward end of the four-level core module tunnel, a 1.5-meter hatch would open into a cylindrical airlock. The airlock would occupy the center of the core module's unpressurized equipment compartment. A hatch in the airlock wall would open into the equipment compartment, which would contain liquid and gas tanks, the twin I/B units, their waste heat radiators and power conditioning and distribution subsystems, and unpressurized storage. A 1.5-meter hatch in the airlock ceiling would open into the telescoping spoke leading to the artificial-gravity module.
The telescoping spoke would link to a central tunnel connecting the artificial-gravity module's two decks. A 1.5-meter hatch at the forward end of the tunnel would open into a cylindrical airlock at the center of the artificial-gravity module's unpressurized equipment module. A hatch in the airlock's side would provide access to unpressurized storage, gas and liquid tanks, and small thrusters and propellant tanks. The equipment compartment would also include a place for the eventual installation of a third I/B power unit. A hatch in the airlock ceiling would connect to the Station's front docking port.
Dorrenbacher told his European audience that the Station's first crew would almost immediately begin a 30-day artificial-gravity experiment. This would entail extending the telescoping spoke to its maximum length. Six crew members would take up residence in the artificial-gravity module, while "some" would occupy a small "zero-gravity cab" inside the spoke at the Station's center of mass.
The astronauts would then ignite the small thrusters in the artificial-gravity module's equipment compartment to set the Station spinning at a rate of four rotations per minute about its center of mass. This would produce acceleration which the crew would feel as gravity. On Deck 1 of the core module, 19.2 meters from the center of mass, the astronauts would feel acceleration equivalent to 0.35 Earth gravities. On the artificial-gravity module's living deck (Deck 6), 39.3 meters from the center of mass, the astronauts would feel 0.7 Earth gravities.
After a month of artificial-gravity experimentation, the astronauts would halt the Station's rotation using the small thrusters, restoring it to a zero-gravity condition. The artificial-gravity module thrusters would carry enough propellants to permit up to four similar experiments.
Dorrenbacher described the 12-man Space Station as "a research facility to accommodate all experiment disciplines. . .a general-purpose laboratory." Of its three experiment decks, Deck 2 would at launch from Earth be dedicated to the study of living things in zero gravity. It would include the Station's medical dispensary and isolation ward. Deck 4 would constitute a general purpose laboratory that would serve both scientific support and engineering roles. It would include a drum-shaped experiment & test isolation facility, a mechanical lab, an electronics/electrical lab, a hard-data processing facility, an optics facility, and a small experiment airlock. Deck 5 would include a centrifuge with a pair of cabs large enough to accommodate men and experiments.
Based on NASA input, MDAC defined eight experiment disciplines for its Station. These were astronomy, space physics, space biology, Earth survey, aerospace medicine, space manufacturing, engineering/operations, and advanced technology. Not all disciplines could be accommodated simultaneously; for example, the artificial-gravity experiment series would preclude experiments which needed a stable platform and zero gravity.
Dorrenbacher then provided a rough schedule of the Station's experiment programs. Biomedical experimentation would begin with the arrival of the first crew and continue without pause throughout the Station's planned 10-year operational lifetime, as would "man-system integration" experiments. In general, early research not associated with the artificial-gravity experiment series would focus on Station operations and habitability. "Component test" experiments would end in early 1978, "maintenance and logistic" experiments would conclude in late 1978, and "occupancy and space living," "contamination," and "exposure" research would end in mid-1979.
CCMs would deliver new experiment apparatus to replace and augment that launched with the Station, Dorrenbacher told the Paris meeting. Disused experiment hardware and other equipment and furnishings would be packed into CCMs for return to Earth. He suggested that, following the conclusion of the artificial-gravity experiment series in late 1978, furnishings on Deck 6 should be returned to Earth so that it could be converted into a physics & chemistry laboratory using new apparatus delivered by CCMs.
By then, the first Attached Modules (AMs) and Free-Flying Modules (FFMs) would arrive at MDAC's Station in a Shuttle Orbiter cargo bay. One AM, devoted to Ultraviolet (UV) Stellar Astronomy, would dock with a port on the core module's side linking it to the deck 4 general-purpose lab. Another AM, devoted to Earth Surveys, would dock either at Deck 4's second port or at a port on Deck 2. Two FFMs, devoted respectively to Solar Astronomy and High-Energy Stellar Astronomy, would dock with the Station's front port when they needed servicing; for example, after they had expended their supplies of photographic film. AMs would rely on the Station for electrical power, while FFMs would each sport a pair of electricity-generating solar array wings.
CCMs, meanwhile, would deliver experiment subjects: besides a steady supply of new astronauts, beginning in early 1979 they would transport to the Station small vertebrates such as rats and invertebrates such as fruit flies. Vascular plants would first reach the Station late that same year.
Also in late 1979, the general Stellar Astronomy FFM would arrive near the Station. MDAC envisioned that UV Stellar Astronomy and High-Energy Stellar Astronomy would conclude at the beginning of 1981, while Solar Astronomy, general Stellar Astronomy, small vertebrate, invertebrate, and plant studies would continue until the Station reached its planned end-of-life in 1987. Biomedical centrifuge and fluid physics AMs would arrive in late 1981, with the former remaining with the Station until end-of-life and the latter departing in late 1985. Small Vertebrates Centrifuge and Infrared Stellar Survey AMs would arrive in late 1982 and remain docked until Station end-of-life.
Late 1983 would see arrival of the Remote Maneuvering Satellite (RMS), which would take up residence in a "hangar" in the airlock linked to the Station's front port in the artificial-gravity module. Dorrenbacher called the RMS a "subsatellite," but did not otherwise describe its role. At about the same time, the X-Ray Telescope FFM and advanced particle & plasma physics experiment apparatus would arrive. The X-Ray Telescope FFM would operate through Station end-of-life. Some advanced physics experiments would cease in early 1985, and RMS operations and the remaining advanced physics experiments would cease in late 1986. Late 1985 would see the arrival of materials science experiment apparatus and the Cosmic-Ray Physics FFM, both of which would remain in operation through Station end-of-life.
Dorrenbacher described how the vast quantity of data generated by Station experiments could reach Earth. MDAC estimated that 9070 kilograms of magnetic tape, microfilm, exposed photographic and X-ray film, and photographic plates would need to be returned to Earth each year. The Station's four large dish antennas would enable continuous two-way television communication direct through ground stations or through relay satellites so that Station and Earth researchers could work together continuously in real time. The antennas would be capable of transmitting up to a trillion bits (one terabyte) of data to Earth each day.
The Station's impressive experiment capability would demand careful management of crew time. MDAC assumed that the astronauts would work around the clock, with six men on duty and six men off duty at any one time. Each 12-man crew would include eight scientist/engineers and four Station flight-crew. Four scientist/engineers and two flight-crew would work during each 12-hour shift. One scientist/engineer would serve as principal scientist; he would work with the flight-crew commander, who would have responsibility for the safety of the entire crew, to ensure that science interests were taken into account during Station operations. Two scientist/engineers would serve as principal investigator representatives; they would work directly with scientists on Earth.
Off-duty crewmembers would spend most of their time on the living decks (Decks 1, 3, and - during the artificial-gravity experiment - 6). There, Dorrenbacher explained, they would have at their disposal private staterooms with 4.6 meters of floor space for "relaxation, recreation, study, and meditation." Each living deck would include six staterooms, which together would take up about half the deck's floor space. Staterooms would each include a small viewport, a folding bunk, a desk, and storage cabinets.
When not in their staterooms, off-duty crewmembers could hang out in the multi-purpose wardroom, which would include portable dining tables with zero-gravity restraints in place of conventional seats. Dorrenbacher explained that the wardroom could be "quickly and easily" converted into a gym, theater, meeting room, or recreation room.
Cabinets in the galley, adjacent to the wardroom, would be kept stocked with enough food for 90 days. Crewmembers could choose to serve themselves or could take it in turns to prepare meal trays for their crewmates. Dorrenbacher told his audience that meals would be "selected for maximum palatability with various degrees of wet and even fresh foods," but provided few details about how the food would be handled in zero gravity.
The three living decks would each include a hygiene facility. Apparently configured for men only, these would each include a toilet, two urinals, two handwashing units, a shower, a clothes-washing machine, and a clothes dryer. Hygiene facilities would be located next to the water-recycling life-support machinery on each living deck.
MDAC proposed a novel approach to Station orbit maintenance. Some processed waste water would be electrolyzed (split into oxygen and hydrogen using electricity) and the hydrogen used to fuel low-thrust orbit-reboost resistojets on the Station's hull. MDAC calculated that water delivered to the Station in food would be sufficient to maintain its orbital altitude.
MDAC placed the core module control consoles on the living decks adjacent to the wardrooms. The artificial-gravity module would include an identical control console on Deck 5. The primary control console - the Station's "bridge" - would be located on Deck 3. The control consoles on Decks 1 and 5 would be considered secondary. They would serve as backups for the Deck 3 primary console, and would also support experiments: they might, for example, be used to monitor data arriving from the FFMs.
Dorrenbacher then described an arbitrarily selected moment in the MDAC Station's 10-year career to illustrate possible activities of on-duty and off-duty crewmembers. At 2030 hours Greenwich Mean Time on 26 March 1985, the flight-crew commander would be at work conducting safety checks on space suits stored on level 3 of the core module central tunnel. The shift's other on-duty flight-crew member would, meanwhile, sample the Deck 1 water system to ensure that it contained no harmful bacteria.
Two of the scientist/engineers would be at work in the Deck 2 labs and two elsewhere. The physician would analyze crew blood and urine samples in the biomedical lab, while the psychologist would analyze data on "crew skill retention in extended zero gravity" in the man/system integration lab. The geologist/photo-optical engineer, meanwhile, would install and align sensors in the Earth Survey AM docked to Deck 2, and the astronomer/systems engineer would monitor data from the X-Ray Telescope FFM at the secondary control console on Deck 5.
The six off-duty crewmembers, having just finished their late meal, would all be found on Deck 3. The operations director, a flight-crew member, would take a shower in the hygiene facility, while the physician, a scientist/engineer, would watch a video-taped television program in his stateroom before going to sleep. The other off-duty crewmembers would be in the wardroom. The station controller, a flight-crew member, would compete against the astrophysicist, a scientist/engineer, in a simulated time-distance race on stationary exercise bikes. Nearby, the biologist and the electro-mechanical engineer, both scientist/engineers, would compete at "computer football."
Dorrenbacher concluded his presentation by assuring his audience that MDAC's 12-man Space Station would be a "low-cost, flexible, international research facility" built using known technology (that is, mostly adaptations and upgrades of Skylab hardware). Furthermore, its modules would be readily adaptable to future NASA/ESRO missions: specifically, to serving as building blocks in the 100-man Space Base.
As noted earlier, NASA had instructed MDAC to design its 12-man Space Station to be launched on a Saturn V. Dorrenbacher failed to mention to his European hosts, however, that NASA Administrator Paine had announced on 13 January 1970, six months before the Paris briefing, that Saturn V production, already on standby, would be permanently ended, and that the last Saturn V, previously assigned to the Apollo 20 moon mission, would be reassigned to launch Skylab A. He also neglected to mention that NASA had directed NAR and MDAC in early May to begin considering designs for Space Stations that could be assembled solely from modules launched in the Shuttle Orbiter's cargo bay.
On 30 June 1970, NASA issued Phase B extension contracts to MDAC and NAR. Less than two months after the Paris meeting (29 July 1970), NASA directed MDAC and NAR to study only Shuttle-launched modular stations. A week later, Paine announced that he would step down as NASA Administrator. Following his departure on 15 September 1970, NASA moved rapidly to toe the line on the Nixon Administration's emerging space policy. That policy gave lukewarm support to the Space Shuttle and left the Space Station it was meant to serve in limbo.
On 5 January 1972, NASA Administrator James Fletcher announced that President Nixon's FY 1973 NASA budget request included modest funds to begin development of a partially reusable Space Shuttle. Though little mention was made of a Space Station, Phase B studies lingered on until late in the year. On 29 November 1972, Fletcher formally abolished NASA's Space Station Task Force and established the Sortie Lab Task Force. The Sortie Lab was intended to ride in the Shuttle Orbiter's cargo bay, providing an interim Space Station-type research capability during Shuttle missions ("sorties") lasting up to 30 days. In August 1973, NASA and ESRO agreed that the latter should develop the Sortie Lab, which became known subsequently as Spacelab.
Development and Use of a 12-Man Space Station, MDC G0583, C. Dorrenbacher, McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Company; Briefing to the European Space Research Organization on Space Station Plans and Programs in Paris, France, 3-5 June 1970.
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It turns out Larry Miles had two angels on a New Jersey highway August 8 when a motorcycle accident severed his femoral artery and almost took his life.
Two women worked together to tie a tourniquet around his leg that doctors say prevented him from bleeding out.
Debbie Parisi, a hospice nurse for Samaritan Healthcare, was driving to her aunt's house to go swimming with her children that Friday morning.
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When she came upon the accident, Parisi said the first thought to cross her mind was: "Oh man, this guy's in trouble."
Blood was pouring from Miles' leg following a collision outside a Wawa on Route 30 in Winslow Township, New Jersey.
Parisi pulled over, sat down next to him and asked if anybody had a shirt to make a tourniquet.
"I don't know why, but I just knew I had to stop the bleeding," Parisi said.
Standing nearby, Maria Lopez offered her husband's jacket.
The second woman to come to his aid, Lopez works at Ancora Psychiatric Hospital and has training to deal with emergencies, including first aid and CPR.
"By the time I got there, there was too much blood," said Lopez, who was driving to the Wawa Friday morning when she saw Miles lying in the middle of the road. "Nothing was being done."
Unable to tie the jacket tightly enough on their own, the two women used a stick to constrict the blood flow as much as possible.
Minutes later, paramedics arrived and took Miles to Cooper Trauma Center in Camden. He remained hospitalized Friday evening, recovering from multiple surgeries to repair his severed artery.
Parisi and Lopez saw the story NBC10 published Thursday and reached out to Miles on Facebook. Parisi visited him Friday, and Lopez had plans to do the same.
Doctors said they expect Miles to make a full recovery, which would not have been possible without the help of Parisi and Lopez.
"There's good people out there that aren't afraid to get their hands dirty — or in this case, their clothes bloody," Miles said. "Girls rule, man!"


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Joyce Elaine Meyer
June 25, 1937-Oct. 3, 2011
Pleasanton, California
Joyce Elaine Meyer, a resident of Pleasanton for 44 years passed away on October 3, 2011. She was 74.
A memorial service celebrating her life will be held Saturday, Nov. 5 at 1:30 p.m. at Centerpointe Presbyterian Church, 3410 Cornerstone Court, Pleasanton. Joyce was born June 25, 1937 on the way to the hospital from the family farm outside Assiniboia, Saskatchewan. She graduated from Assiniboia High School in 1955. She finished high school while living with friends and then enrolled in nursing school. She graduated in 1958 after putting herself through Regina College and the hands-on training at Moose Jaw Union Hospital. She was recognized at graduation with honors.
Joyce moved to California from Canada in 1962, living on the Peninsula and then Pasadena where she met and married Rod Meyer. When Joyce was 39 she gave birth to her son, Ken.
They moved to Pleasanton in 1977 and Joyce joined the maternity room team at Valley Memorial Hospital in Livermore. After Joyce and Rod divorced, she raised Ken as a single mother, supporting them working as a Charge Nurse. ValleyCare Medical Center opened in Pleasanton in 1991, just three blocks from home for Joyce. She served there until she retired from full-time nursing.
Even after she retired, she loved nursing and the good people she worked with so much that she continued to work part-time shifts and served ValleyCareâ??s patients for 33 years. She spent more than 52 years as a registered nurse before her failing health forced her to retire in March 2010
Cindy Noonan, the chief operating officer at ValleyCare, met Joyce soon after she joined the hospital system 21 years ago.
â??Joyce was an outstanding labor and delivery nurse who was compassionate, caring and extremely competent. The OB physicians had a huge degree of trust in her skills as she served as their eyes and ears with their patients.
â??We could always depend on her to come in when she was off-duty to help her fellow nurses when we had a surge of patients. She was always calm in times of stress, was dependable, and always had a smile on her face.â?
In 2001, she met, Dave Lewis, and they became close friends and eventually soul mates. After retiring from full-time employment, Joyce and Dave traveled widely. Her favorite destination was the ruins of Ephesus on the coast of Turkey.
Joyce and Dave were active members of the Centerpointe Presbyterian Church in Pleasanton.
Dave remembers her as a great cook who loved to entertain and be around her many close friends.
â??She liked to have four, six or eight people over for dinner,â? he said.
She is survived by her son Ken Meyer in Gilbert, AZ, brothers Ken Westerlund of Edmonton AB and Bryson Needham of Ashcroft BC, Canada; grandchildren Dylan and Natalie Meyer; and her life partner of the last 10 years, Dave Lewis of Pleasanton.


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As one who has locked horns with corporate moghuls all my life I can tell you CV's are OK but it is not what gets you a job. You have seen Pampalona Bull run? It is free for all. Job interviews are like the bull run. With a CV you get some mileage but as the interview gets going your tongue gets on and on,- you are not sticking to facts (Pardon,Jack Webb), you are outside the safety zone. You are treading on lot of bullshit. Out of so many applicants some get gored. In my case I am bored. I got to have some vital facts: like my salary,vacation time.
Let me tell you some hands on fact: both are put- offs.
In my case I always let curiosity get an early start. Like asking, 'How much are you gonna pay me?'. To ask such a question after handing a CV that could have penned by Webster himself is a potential red flag. Your language on paper is precise and faultless. Why not mind your language all the way? There is a way of mangling English, but sounding 'pay' at the interview is a big NO!
Every time I asked I felt a hands- on experience accompanied by a painful feeling my interlocutors are well seated around a table and I am just hitting the pavement.
In one interview the talking heads painted a glorious picture of their company philosophy and said,'We expect you to feel at home while you push profit figures.
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In a letter dated April 10, 1891, Mr Lawson writes to Stephen C Duryea of Lewisboro, Westchester County, New York.
From this letter, it seems that Stephen C Duryea would show Mr Lawson's property to people. There seems to have been an expectation of manipulation depending on the circumstances: "If they come by the way of New Canaan and complain of the ride out, tell them Ridgefield way is more pleasant and much short drive. If they come by Ridgefield, that they could make better time by travelling the other way. See."
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Lewisboro, Westchester County, New York
Household of Stephen Duryea
Stephen C Duryea was born about 1857 in New York City. His father, George W Duryea, was killed in 1864, shot while working as a policeman. Around 1870, branches of the family left New York City. Stephen's uncle, Stephen C Duryea, moved to Pound Ridge, Westchester County, New York. Stephen may have lived with his mother, Rene Brewer, in Jersey City for a time, but eventually made his way to Pound Ridge to establish a family with Susan Ophelia Austin, a neighbor of his uncle. By 1880, Stephen and Susan had established their own household on a farm in nearby Lewisboro.
This letter tells us that Stephen may have been a persuasive salesman of some sort.


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Wis. GOP removes Kramer as Assembly majority leader
Pat Strachota of West Bend chosen to fill remainder of term
A Waukesha lawmaker has been removed by his party as majority leader.
VIDEO: Rep. Bill Kramer removed as Assembly majority Leader
Assembly Republicans voted Tuesday morning on removing Rep. Bill Kramer as majority leader, the second highest post in the Assembly.
WISN 12 News reporter Kent Wainscott said the GOP's caucus reopened at 11:40 a.m. and unanimously voted to remove Kramer from the position.
"These are alleged incidents, but I think we have credible witnesses," Republican state Rep. Dan LaMahiue said.
Rep. Pat Strachota, of West Bend, was chosen to fill the role of majority leader for the remainder of the session.
She becomes the first woman to serve as Assembly majority leader. She has previously announced plans to retire and won't seek re-election.
Kramer has not commented on the allegations that he groped a woman and verbally abused another one while in Washington for a fundraiser.
Kramer's chief of staff said he was not be at the vote because he is in treatment.
Speaker Robin Vos said that the legislature does not plan to censure Kramer during this session, and hopes that Kramer will simply choose to not seek reelection.
"I think by unanimous vote that we saw today, our colleagues were definitely convinced that the actions that he took were reprehensible, should never have occurred and certainly something that he should be embarrassed by," Vos said.
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A Day in the Life: Max Falkowitz, New York Editor
Welcome to "A Day in the Life," our new behind-the-scenes series exploring what SE staffers are working on, and, of course, eating. Up today: New York editor Max Falkowitz.
Wednesday, October 30th, 2013
6 a.m.: I'm inexplicably awake, and since I know I'm not falling back asleep, I decide to check my inbox. There's an email from one of my writers that came in two hours earlier—he can't submit regular posts for me anymore because his real job is taking up too much of his time. I mourn the loss of a great writer and think about who can take up his beat.
7 a.m.: Time to take another look at a post I wrote at 1 a.m. the night before. Thank god—I sound like a crazy person. There's a famous Hemingway quote about "write drunk, edit sober." For me that mostly means "write sleepy, edit a different kind of sleepy."
7:30 a.m.: First bite of the day—a pomegranate sorbet I spun the night before. Too much sugar; needs work. I put up a little note on the freezer door for the roommates: "Pomegranate Sorbet — Eat Me!" When you develop ice cream recipes weekly and go through multiple test batches, roommates come in handy.
8:30 a.m.: I hop on the subway and get ready to commence Email Power Hour! for the rest of my commute. I'd say 80% of the important correspondence I make during the day takes place while I'm on the train in the morning. That means responding to pitches from two months ago, talking with writers about their stories, ninja-ing my way through PR emails, and dealing with office stuff. To all the writers, publicists, and generally good and decent people out there who are still waiting for a reply from me: I'm sorry. I mean it. I really want to write back to you, but until I master the basic adult skill of Dealing With Email while Dealing With Other Things, power hour is the best I can manage at the moment.
10 a.m.: Power Hour concludes a little late with me pushing out some of the Hurricane Sandy stories we've been running to other media venues and our social media accounts.
10:05 a.m.: Tea time. Coffee has a nasty habit of either not affecting me at all or transforming me into a shaking, crumbling shell of a human being, so I generally drink tea in the morning. Today I'm steeping the last of my da hong pao, a Chinese oolong that tastes a little like whiskey except that it's okay to drink it at 10 a.m. One batch of leaves generally gets re-steeped all day.
11:30 a.m.: The tea kicks in and I'm in full-on editing mode. Writers submit posts a few days before publication and stories are usually scheduled—editor talk for line edited, fact checked if need be, and programmed to publish at a specific time—the day before. Today looks like it's going to be an editing day instead of a writing day. On editing days I'm all business time at the office, planning out stories and getting ahead on my scheduling.
Writing days, when I'm hunkering down to actually write some feature story, are much more free-form, which is to say I generally spend half of my total allotted writing time jerking around on the internet while some puny lobe in the back of my brain figures out how a story should be structured. Then once I realize it's 5 p.m. and this when normal people start packing up to go home, I dash out copy in a flurry of keystrokes until something barely readable and probably too long is on the screen. Then it's back to edit sleepy mode.
Of course every day involves a little writing and a little editing—between big features, small stories, and tiny posts, I write 35 to 40 posts a month—but editing days vs. writing days determine if I'm being an order or chaos muppet for the next 12 hours.
12 p.m.: With a morning's worth of work mostly done I start thinking about lunch. I actually have leftovers from a home cooked meal, the first I've made for myself in, oh, three weeks, a nice healthy-ish mix of bulgar, roast broccoli, and tahini dressing. But I'm feeling pretty good about my whopping two hours of morning productivity and decide that sad, no-longer-crisp broccoli is for suckers and goddamn it I'm gonna roast some fresh cauliflower to finish off this bulgar.
12:15 p.m.: I have been to four markets in Chinatown now and not a single one of them sells cauliflower. 18 varieties of choy? You bet. Dried oysters? Sure. But no cauliflower. None. Oh well, that squash looks pretty nice. I'll roast that instead.
12:30 p.m.: I return to the office to find more of Jamie's Uzbek leftovers out on the counter. That plov (Uzbek rice pilaf; my favorite) looks mighty tempting, and my sad lamb-fat-less bulgar doesn't, so see ya bulgar, I'm roasting squash and eating it with plov.
This is what happens to me every time I bring leftovers, and it is why I can't have nice things.
[Note: One week later and I'm finally writing this diary two hours before deadline—today is a writing day—and the bulgar remains. I'M SORRY, BULGAR.]
1:30 p.m.: Back to editing. I plan out a project for one of our interns to work on, a round-up you'll see in a couple weeks.
2:10 p.m.: Ah yes, the lobster rolls are here. We're tasting a gluten-free lobster roll bun against its gluten-ful standard bun, so Serious Eats Lunch #2 is lobster.
2:20 p.m.: This is about the time Ed ambles up to the editorial area, and there's a 50/50 shot that he has some absurd quantity of cake or pie in tow, because it is cold outside and he is worried we are not eating enough cake and pie. Ed is a very sweet boss who is going to give us all the worst case of diabetes.
3 p.m.: My morning of productivity has slowed to a halt. Time to shake things up and edit some photos for an upcoming story. Oh wait, I have photos to edit from last spring? Hahahaha yeah those'll get edited....not today.
3:20 p.m.: Maybe some ice cream will help wake me up!
3:21 p.m.: It does not.
3:50 p.m.: I have officially left tea time and entered bitters and soda time. Look away from your screen and three feet to your left. If you were me, you'd be looking at the office bar. Now when drinks editor Maggie moved to California, we stopped getting good booze, and these days the bar is mostly flavored vodka, questionably spiced whiskey, and some acceptable tequila. But we still have plenty of good bitters, and nothing's as refreshing as bitters in plain soda water. We're fresh out of Peychaud's so today's bitter of choice is rhubarb. Seriously, try this while working. It's magic.
4:10 p.m.: More cake. Damn you, Levine!
5 p.m.: Start wrapping up some work for the day, finally working up the courage to answer the slog of emails that have built up over the past seven hours. There's a story for tomorrow that won't come in until late tonight so I make some last-minute schedule rearrangements.
6:30 p.m.: I'm out of the office early for a review meal tonight. I'm still in the process of reviewing the place so I'll keep mum on the details, but suffice it to say too much food is ordered.* I will say that it's yet another restaurant meal where I order all our food, clearly say we're sharing all our courses, and the fish still arrives in front of my date while I get the red meat. Restaurants: please stop gendering your table service and assuming I'm drinking all the whiskey, eating all the red meat, and never touching salad. This happens way too often when I eat out to be dumb luck and it's plain atavistic. You can sous vide and CVap all you want, but if you gender your service you are not a modern restaurant.
* Astute readers will note the use of the passive to absolve me of responsibility.
8 p.m.: Dinner is over but after-dinner drinks elsewhere are still on the agenda. Huh, looks like other people are just getting their night started. How nice for them. Per the above, I switch the whiskey cocktail in front of me for the gin drink I actually ordered. But it turns out a diet of rice, squash, pretzels, ice cream, cake, ice cream, cake, and three courses of too-much does not leave one very alert come nighttime.
10 p.m.: I am in bed and falling asleep to the Walking Dead, because to hell with twentysomethings going out and living the nightlife in New York City, this is the absolute best part of the day.
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Politics 24/7 is undergoing a renovation of sorts.
For months now, Politics 24/7 has been dormant. Most of my attention has been on Politics 24/7's satellite blog, White House 2012, a blog which has been covering the presidential race.
But now Politics 24/7 is undergoing a transformation.
While White House 2012 focusses on the presidential election, Politics 24/7 is going to discuss politics on a broader scale while also placing on emphasis on the other important races of 2012.
With 33 Senate races, 11 gubernatorial contests, and 435 congressional elections, Politics 24/7 will be a source for news, information, analysis, and opinions on each of these races. In addition to unique perspectives on each these contests and the ramifications that they will have nationally, Politics 24/7 will provide you with informative links to each of the candidates. Links that will quickly send you to everything from their websites to their voting records.
Gathering all this information takes some time, but within a matter of days, Politics 24/7 will be back up and running. In the meantime, I invite you to visit White House 2012. You will find it to be one of the most informative resources on the Republican race for White House that you can find on the internet.


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Forensic Accounting Shines Light on Internal Theft
Few in business want to admit their employees are ripping them off. But they are. The international auditing firm Bevinco has determined bars and restaurants have lost a staggering 23 percent of their inventory to theft in one form or another. Especially now, in a down economy, recouping those losses has become of crucial importance.
Fortunately, operators today have the capability of analyzing their bars with forensic-like precision, which has given rise to the concept of variance management. Simply put, variance management is the comprehensive initiative aimed at narrowing the gap between what's sold and what's depleted from inventory. The more adept managers becomes at shrinking variance, the more financially stable the operation will become. If you're intent on staying in the food and beverage business for the long haul, rendering variance a non-issue is a necessity.
One of the most expensive fallacies about operating a bar is the belief that managing pour cost is effective at detecting bartender theft. Determining your liquor, beer and wine cost percentages is a fundamental business practice and essential to determining operating margins. But the truth is that while tracking the bar's combined pour cost accomplishes a number of important things, uncovering whether you're getting ripped off isn't one of them.
In fact, a savvy bartender can steal cash and inventory all night long and do it in such a manner as to make your cost percentages actually drop. Pour cost measures the change in inventory levels between one accounting period and the next and compares it with the gross sales that product generated. Bartenders can cover up their theft and leave pour cost unaffected if they replace the stolen inventory with an equal volume of water or smuggled goods.
Forensic Accounting
Another costly misconception held by bar owners and beverage managers is that direct supervision is how you best thwart bartender theft. Actually, you could erect a lifeguard stand at the end of your bar and still not catch them in the act. Most behind-the-bar schemes involve misdirection and sleight of hand, making them challenging to detect even when watching the bartenders in action. Only the most brazen of scams are committed in the open.
The process of slamming the door on theft begins with conducting a variance report, which involves determining the amount of product depleted from inventory over a period of time and comparing it to how much was recorded as sold.
It works like this: A physical audit of the inventory establishes how much product remains on the shelves. Subtracting that figure from the combined beginning inventory plus purchases determines the amount of product used. Offsets include inventory depleted due to spillage, transfers and complimentary drinks.
During that same period of time, the bartenders enter sales information into the point-of-sale system. Calculate variance by subtracting the amount of product that is recorded as sold from what was actually depleted from inventory. The best-case scenario is for both quantities to be the same. A negative variance indicates more product was depleted than sold and represents the losses attributable to theft. Conversely, if your calculations determine that more product was sold than used, the likely explanation is that the staff is tampering with the inventory.
A pioneer in variance analysis, Bevinco uses an efficiency rating for its clients based on variance. Essentially, the narrower the gap between the amount of product used and product sold, the higher the operation's efficiency rating. Optimal efficiency means the bar is recouping every ounce of profit possible from the inventory it purchases.
Scrutinizing beverage sales is another important aspect of shutting down theft behind the bar. While there are a number of ways to analyze revenue, none have more far-reaching implications for the beverage operation than tracking bartender productivity, or sales per hour. Productivity is calculated by dividing a bartender's gross sales for a shift by the number of hours he or she worked. One benefit of tracking productivity is identifying those on staff with the highest hourly sales. In addition to meriting recognition, your top earners deserve first shot at the busiest, most lucrative shifts.
On the flip side, a bartender with chronically low sales per hour warrants close scrutiny, as the explanation often indicates a problem. The individual may make lousy drinks, so customers leave without ordering a second or third lousy drink. His attitude could be so off-putting that people don't stick around for the abuse, or perhaps he works too slowly and can't physically keep up with demand. Then again, low sales per hour could mean that the bartender is ripping off the house.
How do you know which it is? If the first four reasons don't fit, the only remaining explanation is the person is stealing from you. Each dollar diverted from the till negatively impacts his or her sales per hour. Regardless of the scam, theft will take a toll on productivity.
Old School
One reason behind-the-bar schemes are so effective is that most bartenders conduct themselves professionally. Faced with the same opportunities to pad their income, they choose instead to look out for the best interests of the house and perform their jobs sans a hidden agenda. Paradoxically, it's the ethical behavior of the majority that obscures the actions of the few, making it harder to diagnose the problem.
There are field-tested defense measures managers can implement that are designed to make it riskier for bartenders to steal cash and product. "Old school" tactics include:
• Pulling Cash Drawers: Bartenders often stash stolen cash in their cash drawers. Closing out the POS system immediately at the end of a shift and removing all of the cash drawers will force them to risk withdrawing the cash while people are still milling about instead of the privacy of closing. Bartenders should also be prohibited from checking out their own cash drawers for the same reason.
• Tip Jars: Bartenders should be prohibited from taking money out of their tip jars while on duty. If they're padding the cash drawer with stolen funds, the money is all too easily retrieved under the pretense of making change.
• Maintaining Control: Running a bar requires maintaining a significant investment in liquid inventory; liquid assets can disappear at an alarming rate. To remain profitable, you need to know what inventory you have, how much you paid for it, at what rate you use it and where it is at any point in time. It requires accurately tracking inventory from the moment it comes through the back door until it's depleted.
• Physical Audits: Auditing a bar's inventory is exclusively a management function. A bartender can take advantage of the opportunity by altering the results. Overstating the amount of liquor on-hand essentially will have the same effect as if the theft never occurred.
• Fast and Loose: There's no more fundamental form of loss prevention than ensuring portion control. The problem is that lax or nonexistent controls invariably lead to bartenders over-pouring or under-pouring liquor. Each is used to steal from the house and the clientele.
Effectively containing internal theft behind most bars is no easy task, and eliminating it altogether unrealistic. Nevertheless, it's essential to implement an operational strategy aimed at reducing its impact on your cash, inventory and clientele. NCB


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Just in today, VeloNews has been sold to Competitor Group Inc. One of the big reasons for their sale was…
Inside Communications CEO Felix Magowan said the decision was driven largely by the realization that the company was "too undercapitalized to take advantage of all the growth opportunities available to us on the web, in print, books, events and mail order."
The article does say that they plan on keeping the HQ in Colorado.
I wonder what changes will come? I wonder if their new upgrade to the new site put them way behind finacially.


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Just wanted to let you know why I reverted the Andorian logo. We decided some time ago, especially in the case of this logo, to use the original (albeit fuzzy) screencap and not use one of the many reproductions of the logo, for copyright reasons, amongst other things. The version of the logo you uploaded was created by Thweimann at [1] don't know if we have the permission to upload it here. --Jörg 22:55, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
Image SizeEdit
Whenever possible, please refrain of setting a specific thumb size. Thumbs are ajustable in user preferences, and many users prefer to set their own sizes for best viewing on their computers. -- Jaz talk 05:49, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
- A different image sizing issue: Please keep image file sizes in the neighborhood of 30kb to 60kb. Your recent image upload of 128kb is much larger than what we prefer to use. Thanks. --Alan del Beccio 11:10, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
Phase pistol additions Edit
The phase-pistol article is for anything and everything relating to the phase-pistol, no matter how minor or insignificant it may seem: when they were used, how they were used, why they were used, who used them, where they were used, etc. The same goes for every article on MA; it's all about completeness. Removing information about phase-pistols from the phase-pistol page simply because they do not describe how a phase-pistol works is not a good reason to remove it.; in fact, by removing said information, you remove the possibility of readers gaining a full understanding of what the weapons do and how they are used. in any case, for future reference, topics like this are best suited for that article's talk page. Hope this clarifies matters, though. ;) --From Andoria with Love 03:58, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
The reason those examples you listed haven't been mentioned in the article yet is because no one has added them yet. I only added ones that came to mind at the time; the rest someone else or myself will add later. --From Andoria with Love 09:34, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
Troi image Edit
Just wanted to say that the new Troi image you uploaded a few days ago (File:Deanna Troi, 2379.jpg) is great. I was wondering when we were gonna get rid of that darker, crappier (imo) image. Good job. :) --From Andoria with Love 03:56, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
- thanks, i had to photoshop her autograph out of it, that's why it looks a little funky. but that old one was just bad. but thanks. Deevolution 07:12, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
File:Farpoint picard.jpg Edit
Hello there. Hereby letting you know that I submitted the image File:Jean-Luc Picard, Encounter at Farpoint.jpg you uploaded for deletion. We already have an image of Picard in 2364, and I couldn't see what makes the image you uploaded special enough to keep. Drop by at the Memory Alpha:Files for deletion page in case you would like to object. Ottens 11:34, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
Voyager's orange nebula Edit
Just curious, as you just added that new image, is the image (right) also part of that trailer? Is this the Voyager+Orange nebula mentioned on Star Trek: First Contact? Cause I've been trying to find a citation for this for quite some time... - AJ Halliwell 07:00, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
- AJ, wish i could be more help. that image, is, i think a doctored image from a voyager episode. i don't remember which, but i think it's the one with the weird space tornado, that sucked things into subspace...or another realm...or something. i can't be too sure, but i'm positive it wasn't in the FC trailer. the orange you see in the trailer, is actually fire, or explosions, but in this image here, you can actually see the debris that was inside the vortex.
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I know you occasionally get some slack for uploading so many headshots of the main characters, and sorry about that. But if your interested, a task someone's been needing to do for a long time is get some "relationship" images. IE: Notice how on Guinan and Chakotays pages how when there's a section for 'relation with so and so', there's an image of some significant even between the two of them. (With Chakotay, his being stranded on the bug planet giving Janeway a massage for example) Well *most* of the main character articles have just a generic head shot of the person, where it's preferred that there be a significant moment between them (Some examples of these not so good articles: Kathryn Janeway, and Benjamin Sisko, which is a featured article!) So if you could find some good 'significant moments between so and so', that's be greatly appreciated! - AJ Halliwell 02:18, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
- (Guinan not being the best example, as many are just her at the bar, but notice the Worf, Riker, and Picard pics.)
- hey, might be fun. will take some digging, but i'll see what i can do... Deevolution 02:24, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
Recently, the assignment patches for the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) and Defiant (NCC-1764) have been given white backdrops. For reason of consistency, we should probably also do the same for USS Exeter (NCC-1672) and Constellation (NCC-1017). So I'm submitting a request for just that. Thanks. --AC84 03:01, 26 September 2006 (PST)
Paramount Stages and YearsEdit
I just skimmed through your Paramount Stage articles and made a couple of minor tweaks to the way that you linked the years. Years in the "POV universe" are linked as [[2006]] (for example), and years in the "Real World" are linked to their production articles, such as {{y|2006}}. In the first case, it would simply link to the year, 2006, and in the second, it links to the productions for that year, 2006.
Just to let you know. Good job on the articles too. -- Sulfur 16:49, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
- thanks for the heads up! Deevolution 06:12, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
Uniforms edit Edit
Hi, De. This is in regards to your edits at Starfleet uniform. Just to let you know, you can't just remove information because it only references an element from one series (in this case, TNG). If you can, you may expand on the section, but just removing relevant content because it doesn't refernce more than one episode isn't really an option. Anyways, the edit was reverted by Gvsualan and if you still feel the content should be removed, please bring it up in the article's talk page first. Thanks, mate! :) --From Andoria with Love 04:20, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
- hey yeah sorry about that, i was going to add it to the TNG-era part, but got interrupted. the reason i removed it was, as i said, beause it just didn't really seem to belong within that particular article. but anyway, thanks for the heads up. Deevolution 06:11, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
Re:weird images Edit
Wow, that was odd. I had to purge the page for it to look the way it does to you (adding "?action=purge" to the end of the url). It looks like B'Elanna got left out in the bug-fixing... either that, or a problem still exists. Reverting the image seems to have fixed it, but I still need to bring it up with the folks at Wikia. Thanks for pointing that out! --From Andoria with Love 04:12, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
- It is possible that is one that I missed. I did not notice us having touched it in Recent Changes during the bug (I manually re-uploaded all of the images I could find that we messed with during the bug). I know this was an early one that was caught as a problem, and I could only go back 500 edits. It is possible it was just too far. Oh well. --OuroborosCobra talk 04:39, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
- I'll fix Kes. Send me any more, I know how to fix them. The problem is not the file, but how MA has decided that the dimensions are different. I just need to download the file and re-upload it. --OuroborosCobra talk 05:04, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
File:JonathanArcher2155.jpg Edit
I just wanted to thank you for replacing that image. I have hated that "angry look" image that was there. It did not seem like a good way to show Archer. --OuroborosCobra talk 13:37, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
Re: Son'a ImagesEdit
Hey, I noticed you uploaded some pretty sweet images, among them [[File:WorfOnBaku.jpg]], and I was wondering if you had any good screenshots of the Son'a from different angles, or maybe a user album? Or would you be able to supply some? (The bigger, the better.) --Sasoriza Adm • Tlk 08:03, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
- Close-ups of facial features. The stretched skin, anything like that. I'd sure appreciate it. --Sasoriza Adm • Tlk 08:15, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
Image replacementEdit
Hi Deevolution. Thanks for all of your work with adding or replacing images recently. However, I do have a request: please upload under a new filename if an image is not either a better quality replacement of the same image or an overwrite of a copyright vio or unsourced image. Uploading an image of something completely new over an existing filename seems like a shortcut around the images for deletion page and may compromise the specific use of an image on another page. Thanks! -- SmokeDetector47( TALK ) 05:37, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
Tweaked ImageEdit
Didn't my note come up on the change list? The one I replaced was so dark and murky that you coldn't see squat. I could get a different cap and try to rebalalnce it again I suppose.Capt Christopher Donovan 04:46, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
- I took your cap and did a fresh rebalance on it (brighter AND more saturated)...see if that's more to your likingCapt Christopher Donovan 04:57, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Brighter than the first one you posted :) but still a bit dark...it may well be differences between monitors...I find myself doing a LOT of "tweaking" of DVD based images I find on line because they're "murky"...Capt Christopher Donovan 09:12, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
how so? Edit
This probably wasn't a "minor edit". I don't know whether you meant to check that box or not, but I doubt that you intended to mark that edit as such. — THOR =/\= 18:38, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
- yeah probably just force of habit. um, are you like mad about it or something? Deevolution 18:43, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
- Very. In fact...you're fired. Actually, I am curious about this edit? That's a lot to remove without explanation. --Alan del Beccio 08:07, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
- wha??? i didn't remove a bunch of stuff. as far as i am aware, i rearranged it and reworded it, but i was being too lazy to completely overhaul it so i just filtered the information a bit. what do you miss? maybe we can put it back...unless it's about Kevin Uxbridge. Deevolution 09:38, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
Images Edit
Thank you for the advice.– Orr6000 02:58, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
Images for DeletionEdit
When putting images up for deletion on the IFD page, please make sure to add the {{delete file}} template to the image too, as it categorizes it properly for maintenance and cleanup. Thanks! -- Sulfur 02:12, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
- yeah brain fart, sorry. Deevolution 02:15, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
- Also please remember to orphan the image. --Alan 02:22, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
Icheb's Picture Edit
I changed it because the one I found, I think, give him a more pleasant look. In the current pic, he kind of looks like a deer caught in headlights. :) – 220.127.116.11 00:35, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
Icheb's Picture Edit
I changed it because the one I found has a more pleasing look, I think. In the current one, he kinda looks like a deer caught in headlights.:) – Orr6000 00:36, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
RE: VOY Cast Photos Edit
I always use the DVD photos at my first option in looking for images. However, none are available for the cast members in question, except for Robert Beltran and Tim Russ, both of which are, in the opinion of one who is only trying to make constructive contributions to the site, namely me, horrid. The point is, the website states clearly that they are all Paramount copyrighted. Thus I have followed regulations. The sight may have access to image material from paramount that is not on the DVDs. Quality? Are all the photos on the DVD's top class? Not at all. I have followed regulations. Further, it is not only Voyager cast photos I have done, but several TNG cast photos as well. Unlike Voyager cast, there is no shortage of TNG cast pictures from the DVDs.
I am getting extremely tired of this. I have seen other images here that are not of the best quality and images that clearly constitute copyright infringment that sit untouched and unflagged. In fact, this past Saturday I found a copyrighted image of Zoe McLellan that came from wireimage.com, which has been here for two years. Did anyone flag it or post it for deletion? No. I did it. I can name others. There is one of Vaughn Armstrong from a German site, for example. And then there is this one of Avery Brooks from Yahoo. They still sit unposted for deletion. As for quality, how about Xon? Or Gul Dukat? Or the Jemhadar image? Or the image of Joe Murphy as a Borg drone? Or the 1972 Star Trek Convention in New York? Any posting for deletion because of quality? No. But yet anything I upload is pounced on within hours. And these examples are just from the Performers Images. I am really starting to feel unfairly singled out and am seriously wondering if to continue to contribute or even visit at all. – Orr6000 03:11, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
- ok, as i said earlier, you shouldn't feel bullied, you shouldn't feel singled out nor should you question whether or not to continue contributing. it would be very sad to see you go because it is not a personal thing, nor is it a conspiracy against you.
- it is inevitable that you will find copyrighted material on this site, but i would say that the people here have done a fairly thorough job monitoring and preventing it. nevertheless, we do this for fun and things are bound to fall through the cracks. lately, though, it seems many have taken a more active role in weeding out copyrighted material or potential violations. this has nothing to do with you. it began before you started contributing.
- again, as i said in my previous comment, i sincerely call into question the copyright disclaimers used on the websites you used. i understand it's difficult to find decent images of the actors, but just because a website credits paramount, it is not necessarily correct. as i said, many of the images appear to be headshots which do not generally belong to the studio, they belong to the actor.
- regarding image quality, i did not say that i would put these images up for deletion based upon quality. though i would expect them to be replaced with something clearer and likely from a one of the DVDs which seems to be the easiest way to go about doing things. none of us are trying to impede your work or give you a hard time and the emphatic italics aren't really necessary. -- Deevolution 03:35, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
No accusation against you. Edit
Please understand that I am not accusing you. You have always been courteous and helpful to me. It is simply that the unfairness which I have been perceiving, real or not, has really begun to bite. What I think needs to be done is:
1. A major housecleaning of the entire site for images and material that violate copyright or are of unacceptable quality.
2. Clear guidelines that state that images and material must either be from a recognized Paramount affiliate or from the franchise DVD collection. Images and material from any other source must be accompanied by a verifiable notice of permission from the copyright owner to use said material.
Do you agree? – Orr6000 21:12, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
- i agree to an extent. i can point out the efforts of users like Gvsualan and myself - both of us have gone through and done our best to remove or at least flag possible copyright infringements, that could be considered housecleaning.
- the guidelines to me, however, are pretty clear. the upload page itself contains a link to the image use policy. i am fairly certain, though, that there is no rule saying that you can only acquire images from DVD screen captures, but it was my suggestion to you because searching the web is often problematic. as i said before, many websites will simply credit paramount for material rather than researching the real ownership.
- cast photos aside, you've done a really good job with the episode summaries, it would be a loss if you stopped contributing. - Deevolution 22:29, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
Thank You and Good News Edit
Thank you. And I have good news. I have established contact with one Ms. Maria Nausch. She has a website that is a tribute to Tim Russ, with many nice images of Mr. Russ and other Trek Actors. She owns the copyright to all the images. I e-mailed hr asking her permission to use an image of Mr. Russ, She acquiesced. The image is already uploaded. So that settles that. Nobody can touch that one. I have asked her permission to use an image of Robert Beltran, Garrett Wang, Ethan Phillips and Robbie McNeill. I await her response. I have also emailed Mr. McNeill's website asking permission to use an image from there. Once permission is obtained, nobody will be able to raise any objections. I cannot tell you how much I am enjoying this.
In fact, since she seems to be a Trek Enthusiast, I invited her to become a contributor to Memory Alpha. – Orr6000 22:49, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
Permission gotten Edit
As you can see, the lack of voyager actor images is now a thing of the past. See for yourself.– Orr6000 23:28, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
The Voyager Crash Image Edit
Thank you for changing it to a less similar image to what was there before. I hadn't thought of that.– Orr6000 17:12, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
- hey no problem, i hope i didn't step on your toes. great work with the summaries by the way. - Deevolution 22:09, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
Same person, new name. Edit
Orr6000 here. New login name. Everybody has something interesting: Sulfur. Shran. Deevolution. Admiral EnzoAquarius! I got tired of Orr6000. What's interesting about that? So...may I introduce you to...– Obsidian One 00:18, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
Superfluous? Edit
Begging your pardon, sir, but 'superfluous'? What is that supposed to mean? What makes this image superfluous as opposed to any other Torres image? Is it that these images that are there in the sidebar presently have been there for a long time? I thought wiki policy allowed images to change. I chose it partly because, in my opinion as a contributor, she looks better in this image than the others. I did it to enhance the sidebar. An MA administrator I spoke to after uploading it agrees with both my choice of image and the placement of it in the sidebar. I can give you his name and point you to his comment supporting it on his user page if you so wish. Are you saying that one is to show what she looked like at the start of the series and the other to show her at the end? I see no change in appearance. To me, that it superfluous. Only one image is therefore necessary, not two. True, I chose it for looks, but if I as a contributor did not feel that it did not enhance the article where I put it, I would not have done so, or even uploaded it. Are you saying aesthetics are superfluous? I do not make any contribution here superfluously, sir, and, frankly, I am offended by your characterization. I also uploaded a new image of Naomi Wildman, and replaced the first image of her on her article because I think it looks better than what was there before. I suppose you think that is superfluous too.
– Watching... listening... 02:14, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
Misunderstanding Edit
Yes, the policy was explained to me and it indeed makes sense. But I did not know at the time that it was MA policy.. So, not knowing the policy and seeing coincidentally that you and Shran were the uploaders of the two sidebar images, the logical impression I got was that you and Shran were simply banding together to keep your images up and prevent others from changing or replacing them. This impression was strengthened when I moved my image back up to the sidebar and Shran put it back in the body again.
But, let us move on, as it was obviously only a misunderstanding, aggravated by my unawareness of the policy.
– Watching... listening... 21:30, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
For my response to your Orphaned images post... Edit
...see here.
– Watching... listening... 11:15, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
The Method To My Madness Edit
You told me you do not agree with the image changes I made to the Seven of Nine sidebar. I shall now explain to you why I chose these images. Let me take you to school.
Firstly, as you see, the images conform with established practice of a recent and an early appearance. The top image is from "Endgame", the finale of the series. The bottom image is from her earliest appearances in "Scorpion, Part II". The previous images did not conform to this practice; the bottom was from Scorpion II, but the top was from "The Gift", the very next episode after Scorpion II, a whole 4 years before her final appearance.
This brings me to the second reason: the two pictures I chose fully illustrate the development of the character from drone to Human. They illustrate her regaining of her Humanity. The bottom image, of her as an ice-cold, unfeeling drone who would plunge her assimilation tubules into the neck of a child as he/she screams in abject terror and incredible pain without hesitation and without a shred of compassion or empathy, shows what she entered the show as: as far from her Humanity as she could possibly be. But the top image shows the end of the road she walked; she is seen with her Borg implants removed, and smiling warmly, now in touch with her Humanity, nothing like the monster she started out as.
Makes sense, does it not? I think so too.
As I said...there is a method to my madness.
– Watching... listening... 23:02, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
Orphaned Images Edit
For the record, I do not agree with deleting images simply because they used to be on a page, but are not, or are currently unused. They can be kept for possible future use at some point. Images should only be deleted in my opinion if they are:
- Non-canon
- Fanon (whatever that means, but I do know it is unacceptable here. Logically, I would think it means 'fan-canon', which puts it into the same category as non-canon and therefore unacceptable)
- Copyrighted and used without permission
- Poor quality
– Watching... listening... 21:28, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
doorstop Edit
"File:Doctor not a doorstop.jpg"
this is honestly the best filename I've seen on memory alpha to date
keep up the good work champ --184.108.40.206 03:16, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
haha thanks. aw sadly i have fallen out of the habit of updating. Deevolution 03:49, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
File:Sarek2293.jpg Edit
This is the best image I have ever seen of the old man. Well done!
– Watching... listening... 22:53, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
Borg queen image Edit
First, Happy New Year.
I see you reverted the BQ and Seven of Nine images I changed.
I agree with the reversion of the Seven image; mine had the top of her head cut off, and yours is a complete bust image. But I really think my BQ image is better. Nothing made Alice Krige's portrayal of that character more memorable than that silky, malevolent smile. So I re-reverted it. This is a wiki and everyone has the right to make reasoned contributions, even if they supersede others.
– Watching... listening... 00:29, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
Different Borg Queen Image!Edit
Hi. Could you tell me how you changed File:Locutus of Borg and Borg Queen.jpg? I'd be very interested to know if you uploaded an all-new cap or used the one I uploaded and made adjustment(s) to it - what program(s) you used and, if you did adjust the pic I uploaded, what that/those adjustment(s) were. As much information as you can provide would be much appreciated, friend! :-) --Defiant 10:19, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
Bluray Edit
How did you obtain a bluray capture when the movie has not been released yet?--31dot 00:31, October 14, 2009 (UTC)
If you do not provide more information about how you obtained these images, I will be forced to assume they are from an illegal copy of the movie and remove them.--31dot 00:48, October 14, 2009 (UTC)
- presumably not an illegal copy: http://reboot.trekcaps.net/index.php?cat=Star_Trek Deevolution 00:53, October 14, 2009 (UTC)
We shouldn't presume anything. Please see this discussion, but we should not upload those images unless it can be proven that they obtained them from a legal copy of the movie. We only have a little longer to wait for one.--31dot 00:57, October 14, 2009 (UTC)
late reply Edit
Hey. Just wanted to let you know I replied to your comment on my talk page. Sorry for being so late with my response. --From Andoria with Love (talk) 11:13, October 16, 2012 (UTC)
McCoy Image Edit
I reverted your changes for a reason. The image that you have changed was being used already for the sidebar. See the talkpage of McCoy to learn more. Please do not revert again. If you think it should be changed then discuss it on the talk page Thank you. --BorgKnight (talk) 01:36, March 23, 2014 (UTC)
Image uploadsEdit
A few things:
- Do not put the episode/movie/etc name in the title.
- Name the files appropriately (most of yours are done properly, a few not so well).
- Add appropriate categories to the images. These may only be in the Category:Memory Alpha files category tree.
Thanks for your understanding. -- sulfur (talk) 16:19, September 13, 2015 (UTC)
Revert Edit
You've just reverted a file I uploaded, "Jaylah". I want to point out that your reason "the whole open mouth thing" seems not really a reason since on the (now) current file, the mouth is also open. Sometimes you just need to accept when someone else is uploading a different file and believe me, the current one will not stay that long as the character is not really well presented. At least, please give a reasonable comment to see why you've reverted a file. Thanks. Tom (talk) 06:33, July 27, 2016 (UTC)
- yeah this is a little attack-y. but point taken, in any case i noticed the open mouth only after i reverted the image, so please accept my apologies. Deevolution (talk) 08:23, July 27, 2016 (UTC)
Yorktown concept artEdit
What's the ACTUAL source of this image? Where did it actually come from, as it's NOT from the movie, which is what the current licensing and description half-suggest. -- sulfur (talk) 11:53, August 24, 2016 (UTC)
Paul Sutherlin page Edit
Do you have any on-set pictures or screencaps to contribute to this page? It would be nice to build up some info for your "characters" (ie. Shipyard Bar visitors) in the corresponding articles of relevance. --Alan (talk) 00:56, April 17, 2018 (UTC)
SHN 03/Archimedes shuttleEdit
First off -- please spend some time checking out the talk page discussion and go from there.
Secondly, don't create a new page and then edit an old to turn it into a redirect. If you're insistent on moving a page, actually MOVE it. -- sulfur (talk) 05:37, February 27, 2019 (UTC)


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