Match. At the start, Viswanathan Anand played 1.d4 for the first time in the match. The challenger and world’s top rated player responded with his trusted Nimzo-Indian defence.

Anand repeated the line that he has already used in the match with Vladimir Kramnik in Bonn 2008. Black was obviously well prepared, as he made a rare recapture on move 7 (exd5 instead of more common Nxd5) and then immediately closed the Queenside with 8…c4.

Anand got the pawns rolling towards the Black King, while Carlsen created a passed pawn on b3, deep within opponent’s territory. Anand spent around 30 minutes to calculate complicated lines before going all in with 23.Qf4.

White went directly for the checkmate and Black promoted a new queen on b1. However, playing too quickly, Anand erred withpart of Team Carlsen.

"I remember an instance when I was delivering an online lecture to the national U-20 team, Carlsen scrambled up the chair beside me, curious. I let him join me. I cannot help but admit that during the course of the entire lecture, I was actually hoping he would not be pressing all the keys. He was just restless. I can see that restlessness in him even now, restlessness to win."

While Torbjoern trained the 22-year old challenger to the world title for a year, it was under Simen's decade-long tutelage that Carlsen found his footing. "I think he could be a little nervous since it's his maiden World Championship match, at least I am", says Simen, before pausing to add, "I trained him for 10 years


till he finished high school. To me, Magnus is playing chess the way we talked about when he was nine and discussed what a world No. 1 would play like in the era after Kasparov. More practical, less computer chess."

Simen, who is in Chennai to witness the match, is still recovering from a dislocated jaw which he suffered after falling over a lumber. Brother of Carlsen's manager Espen, the 46 year-old feels the match will be all about nerves. "Being well-rested before the games and handling of the nerves will hold the key."

Having had a run-in with Anand during the world junior championship in 1987, Simen only knows too well what could possibly be in store for Carlsen. "I first met Anand in Luzern in 1982. He beatto that! Game 8 at the Chennai World Chess Championship on Tuesday was a quick draw. That leaves Magnus Carlsen still in lead with a score of 5-3.

Four games are still to be played in the World Chess Championship Match if Viswanathan Anand is to force a tiebreak. Wednesday is the rest day and Anand returns with White in Game 9 on Thursday.

World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen now needs only three draws or 1.5 points from four games to become the next World Chess Champion.

Game 8 - lasting just 75 minutes and 33 moves - saw Carlsen fire off his moves in only 20 minutes. The only excitement of the game was that Magnus Carlsen battled his own poison - the Berlin - that he uses as a


weapon when playing with Black against 1.e4. Anand played took the same route against Carlsen in Game 8.

From Carlsen’s perspective, the draw takes the Norwegian a step closer to the title. Magnus Carlsen played 1.e4 for the first time in the Match. Quick exchanges followed and the chess board came down to pawns and Kings grid-locked in a draw.

Speaking at the press conference, World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand said, "Given the match situation I am expected to liven things up, I will try to do it in the next game."

Dr Jana Bellin conducted the doping tests on the players after the end of Game 8 as part of the FIDE endeavour to become a part of the Olympic family. Anand side-stepped the subject of doping tests at thepress conference and went straight to discussing the game of the day. -- Rajat Khanna

The closely fought 199-player Under-9 championship saw the top four players remaining undefeated. The top four places were taken by players from each of the four southern states, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. The winners of both the Open Under-10 and Girls Under-10 sections started as second seed.

Divya Deshmukh recovered from an early loss to Chinnam Vyshnavi and won by a comfortable one point margin. Divya had previously won the National Under-7 girls’ championship and the Asian Under-8 Girls’ championship.

The top finishers will represent India in the World Under-10 Championship at Durban in South Africa in 2014.

Saturday, November 16, 2013

Chennai World Chess Championship Game 6 - Viswanathan Anand - Magnus Carlsen 0-1:


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Game 6 press conference

The game was very much level even after Carlsen neutralised Anand's subsequent central operations. Anand tried to push considering the previous loss in Game 5 and walked straight into an endgame to the liking of the World No. 1. Carlsen was quick to end all White's chances with a series of exchanges diluting down to a Queen and Rook plus pawns endgame.Anand, unable to deny his inherent human element, faltered while facing Carlsen's adamant chess. Even then, versus someone else, such minute mis-steps by the World Chess Champion would not have mattered. Unfortunately, for fans rooting for Anand, Carlsen pounces upon even the slightest of errors like a carnivore looking to devour.

Thereafter, it was Carlsen playing for a win or draw, while Anand wason the backfoot trying to save a draw. Carlsen soon went pawn up even though the position was still theoretically a draw. This was exactly the case in Game 5 as well. Magnus Carlsen played on and on to win again.

In the post-game press conference, Carlsen said he was happy to have a nice lead at the half-way stage in the World Chess Championship Match. Viswanathan Anand said the loss was a blow and he would not try to pretend otherwise.

Magnus Carlsen needs just 2.5 points more from six games to become the new World Chess Champion. Sunday is a rest day and Game 7 will be played on Monday. -- Rajat Khanna

Friday, November 15, 2013

Chennai World Chess Championship 2013 Game 5 goes down in history as the


first game won by Magnus Carlsen at the event versus Viswanathan Anand: What was it? The overnight stay at Fisherman's Cove, the Pyjama Girls' effect, sister Ellen's intuitive tweets of a victory for Magnus Carlsen, more supporters at the venue, or just pure chess? Possibly all combined.

This one's going to be one for both history and chess classrooms: World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand lost to World No.1 Magnus Carlsen after 58 moves (five and a half hours) in a Rook ending that really wasn't losing until the very end. Finally, Anand blinked on Friday. All earlier four games at the World Chess Championship Match have been drawn so far.

The Challenger, for the first time in the match, played 1.c4 instead of 1.Nf3 which he had tried so farplayed a lot of football as well.

At what point did you realize that he was a gifted chess player?When he started taking interest in chess, he could really focus on it. He wasn’t interested in anything else at all. It was only then that we realized that Magnus could focus on only one thing, unlike other children who would be interested in several things. For Magnus, it was chess and chess alone.

That was the time when we realized that he was somewhat different from other children of his age. He must have been 8 or 9 at that time.

By the time, he turned 9 or nine-and-a-half, he started beating me at chess. So, looking at his drive from within, we thought maybe Magnus wants to play chess seriously.


play the Caro Kann as he had done with Black in Game 2.

The Berlin defense became famous after Vladimir Kramnik used it to beat Garry Kasparov in the World Chess Championship Match of 2000 in London. Carlsen deviated from the more popular line of 10...Ke8 with 10...Be7. It's not a novelty, but it has particularly been played lately by Jon Ludvig Hammer - Magnus Carlsen's friend and second. Also, on the 15th move, Carlsen went Be6 instead of the more popular Bc6.

The 64 moves of Game 4 were pure gold. Anand had won a game versus Sergey Karjakin earlier this year by using the 4.d3 sideline. However, he used the main line against Carlsen in Game 4.

Magnus Carlsen went into a long think at the 18th move toup to the challenge all through. The game lasted just about six hours.

Eight classical time-control games are still to be played in the 12-game World Chess Championship Match. The score is now tied at 2-2. The last two games have been deadly energy-draining fights to the bitter end. More exciting chess is surely likely after the second rest day on Thursday. -- Rajat Khanna

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Defending champion Viswanathan Anand on Tuesday gave his Norwegian challenger Magnus Carlsen a scare despite playing with black pieces even though the third game of the World Chess Championship clash ended in a long-grinding draw.

The third game turned out to be a hard fought affair lasting 51 moves after a rather sedate start that had seen the first two games ending in


draws without any real excitement.

Midway into the third game today, Anand appeared to have seized the initiative with some 'spot on' manoeuvres, but the world number one Carlsen saved the situation with his counter play.

Later at the post-game conference, Carlsen conceded that he felt "scary" though he averted the danger.

The Game 3 handshake: official website

"I was worse, and then I probably made it more worse. I missed some simple things in the middle game, may be I had enough play and it was not a disaster but it was scary," Carlsen said.

After the third draw on the trot, the deadlock continues with none of the two rivals refusing to blink so far, but what happened at the Hyatt on Tuesday was probably a clear indication that a roughbattle is now shaping up.

The scores stand at 1.5 points for both players and the five-time world chess champion Anand will have the advantage of playing with white pieces in the fourth game tomorrow.

Carlsen showed his intentions of a bloody battle when, contrary to the popular belief, repeated the Reti opening.

"I was expecting that Carlsen would jump from one opening to another," said Grandmaster RB Ramesh, who is a part of the live commentary team here.

As is typical of the Reti opening, the changes to several set ups is possible. Carlsen went for a position akin to the English opening that was more of a Sicilian Dragon with colours reversed.

The Middle game took a major turn when Carlsen deviated his attention to the King side by a queen


sortie but Anand was alert enough.

With some 'spot on' manoeuvres, the Indian world chess champion then seized the initiative pushing the white queen to the edge of the board only to see Carlsen avert the danger with his counter play.

As the game progressed, Carlsen got back in his groove and got his counter play in the form of a thematic central break through. Thereafter, the Norwegian was pretty much at ease as the game quickly changed shape once again.

Anand knew there was sufficient play for both sides when he allowed liquidation to a position that had Bishops of opposite colours. The Indian had a small weakness on the king side that could be easily covered.

"Obviously for black what he is getting is the two Bishops, if I canrole my queen side pawns down I would be better," Anand noted in the post-game chat.

Anand won a pawn in the small tactical battle that ensued but it was not enough. Carlsen was quick to launch some threats and the Indian decided to go for further liquidation by trading the last pair of rooks on the 37th move.

Carlsen accepted the exchange offer and won the pawn with his next few precise moves and after that it was a completely drawn position on the board.

However, the players continued the battle almost till the last nail. It was just the two Bishops remaining on board when the players signed the truce after 51 moves.

In the fourth game on Wednesday, Anand will get his second white in the 12-game match that


to hear that." The Commissioner switched back to colloquial English. "So you're ready for the C120-37?" he added, referring to the upcoming expedition by its serial number. "I take it that you've completed your research."

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"I'm meeting with the _Miranda_ team later in order to work out the final details." Lea raised her left arm, touched her wristcomp. "Here's the preliminary report, as you've requested."

"Thank you." The frail fingers of Sanchez's left hand glided across the keypad on his armrest. The chair swiveled to the rightwas a kid." Murphy shook his head in puzzlement. "But this is too weird to be a coincidence. A science fiction novel about timeships..."

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Lea didn't say anything for a moment. She watched Murphy as he studied the man on the screen. For a few seconds, he didn't seem to recognize him... then his mouth fell open in astonishment.

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During the opening remarks of his speech on Tuesday, Trump boasted that his administration "has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country in its first two years."

Audience members began chuckling, and the laughs grew louder when Trump said "so true."

Trump smiled and paused, before adding, "I didn't expect that reaction, but that's OK."

Trump said Wednesday that he was surprised by the response because many of the people in attendance "aren't big into clapping, applauding, smiling."

He suggested that the reaction was a sign of respect.

"They respect what I’ve done," he said. "The United States is respected again."

Trump's comments echoed those of U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki HaleyAmerica's Got Talent judges Gabrielle Union and Julianne Hough had complained about alleged racist jokes and a toxic environment behind the scenes of the show before their contracts were not renewed earlier this week.

The conflict was reportedly sparked when Jay Leno made an anti-Korean slur during his guest appearance on the show back in April, according to a new report by Variety.

The former Tonight Show host dropped by the Los Angeles-based taping as a guest judge.

Suspicious circumstance: Gabrielle Union, 47, and Julianne Hough, 31, were let go from America's Got Talent after they reported racist jokes and complained about a toxic work environment, according to Variety

Shocking: Jay Leno (left) appeared on the show in April, during which he made the alleged racist joke which was later edited out

During


his appearance, Leno taped a short interstitial segment in North Hollywood to be used between performances with Union and Hough nearby.

The comedian did a possibly ad-libbed joke about a painting of executive producer Simon Cowell surrounded by his dogs, saying it looked like something one might see 'on the menu at a Korean restaurant,' according to four people who heard him.

One Asian staff member among the 'very few' Asian members of the crew and creative team was allegedly offended by the crack, which was viewed as perpetuating stereotypes about Asians as barbaric dog eaters.

The consumption of dog meat in South Korea and in other Asian natures has decreased in recent years, and younger citizens and animal rights activists have harshly condemned the practice.

Slur: The comedian made a possiblyad-libbed joke about a painting of executive producer Simon Cowell surrounded by his dogs, saying it looked like something one might see 'on the menu at a Korean restaurant,' according to four people who heard him

Offensive: Union urged the shows producers to report the incident to HR, but that step was never taken

Despite having only come on board with the most recent 14th season, Gabrielle urged the show's producers to report the incident to human resources in order to make it clear why the joke could offend the staff, live audience members and viewers at home.

Gabrielle's husband Dwyane Wade took to Twitter Wednesday morning, where he addressed the report.

The former NBA player, 37, wrote: '"Men lie, Women lie, numbers don't" Over this past year I've been approached by


producers take any issues on set seriously.'

The conflict over the racist joke was just the most visible symptom of a toxic work culture.

Unequal treatment: Union and Hough were reportedly criticized for their appearances far more than their male co-stars Simon Cowell, Howie Mandel and Terry Crews

During one episode this season, a white contestant impersonated multiple celebrities while in a large garment, including Beyoncé.

In order to play the singer, his hands appeared to be black, according to sources at the audition.

Gabrielle immediately request that the contestant be removed for the invocation of black face and racial mimicry, though producers disagreed that the routine was offensive, though they said, 'We’ll take it out later,' in order to appease her.

She pushed further to prevent the contestant from doing the routine infront of the live audience, but the producers she complained to nevertheless allowed them to perform onstage, though the segment was cut from the broadcast.

The move to film the racist act gave producers the option to still air it, though they ultimately decided it was unwise.

Union and Hough were criticized for their appearance considerably more than their male co-stars, including Cowell, Howie Mandel and host Terry Crews.

Though the two women often wore stylish and eye-catching ensembles on the program, Cowell was regularly featured in a T-shirt and jeans.

Two insiders claimed that Julianne in particular received excess criticism for her hair styles, makeup and wardrobe choice, all of which led to tensions on set and negatively affected her morale.

'I had a wonderful time on America’s Got Talent,' she said


than the previous year, though it still came out on top in the coveted 18–49 demographic.

Another important metric is social media impressions, which doubled with the ouster of previous judges Heidi Klum and Mel B of the Spice Girls.

In particularly, Union was responsible for around half of the show's 25 million social media impressions, according to Nielsen Social, a compelling statistic suggesting she was the most popular judge on the show.

So far, Union has yet to speak out about her departure.

Doesn't add up: Union and Hough's sole season was the top performer in the coveted 18–49 demo. Social media impressions are an increasingly important marker of success, and Gabrielle was responsible for half of the shows 25 million impressions

Workout: On Wednesday morning, Gabrielle took to her Instagram storiesto chronicle her gym session

Hard work: The star gave her Instagram followers a look into her grueling workout

Gym time: The star was joined by husband Dwyane Wade for the workout

Wise words: Gabrielle captioned her strength training segment with 'stress relief like a mug'

Powerful: The actress did another workout move as she captioned it 'Together we can do anything'


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I was in a few conversations this week where people were sharing opinions on what makes aFalcons owner Arthur Blank said Tuesday he has seen enough of the NFL's investigation of fake crowd noise at Atlanta's home games to acknowledge wrongdoing.

The NFL is trying to determine if the Falcons pumped artificial crowd noise into the Georgia Dome for home games the past two years. Apparently, the answer is yes.

Arthur Blank said he expects the NFL to conclude its investigation into the Falcons pumping crowd noise into the Georgia Dome "in the next couple of weeks." Daniel Shirey/Getty Images

Blank had a quick response when asked if there was a fine line for crowd noise not allowed by the league.

"It's not really a fine line," Blank told The Associated Press. "I think what we've done in 2013 and 2014 was wrong. Anything that affects the competitive


have rich ‘human-like’ cultures and societies

Whales and dolphins (Cetaceans) live in tightly-knit social groups, have complex relationships, talk to each other and even have regional dialects – much like human societies.

A major new study, published today in Nature Ecology & Evolution (Monday 16th October), has linked the complexity of Cetacean culture and behaviour to the size of their brains.

The research was a collaboration between scientists at The University of Manchester, The University of British Columbia, Canada, The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and Stanford University, United States.

The study is first of its kind to create a large dataset of cetacean brain size and social behaviours. The team compiled information on 90 different species of dolphins, whales, and porpoises. It found overwhelming evidence that Cetaceans haveMichael Muthukrishna at an awards ceremony during the Council’s 56th Annual Meeting. Dr. Cushing completed his PhD in 2015 at West Virginia University in Physics, and Dr. Muthukrishna received his PhD in 2015 from the University of British Columbia in Psychology.

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Rachel Blum around age 20, about five years after surviving the Holocaust.

It was a daunting assignment: speaking to 120 eighth grade girls about the Holocaust in the last hour of the last day of their school year. Compounding my challenge, it was gloriously sunny outside. The girls would be anxious to take leave for their summer vacation.

In my favor, I was going to tell them a remarkable story: that of my mother-in-law, Rachel Blum, may her soul rest in peace – a story I have told to spell-bound audiences and have recently published in book form under the title Nothing Bad Ever Happens.

I told these teenage girls that my mother-in-law was roughly their age during the war years, beginning in June 1941 when the Nazis invadedher town, until July 1944 when the Russians liberated Lublin where she had been hiding with a non-Jewish family.

Then I dove into the story, which is truly incredible and gripping – including a Hollywood-worthy climax as Rachel rides in the caboose of a speeding train transporting a thousand SS soldiers to Germany. Fearful an SS officer is about to discover she is Jewish, she convinces the conductor – Ivan Roluk, husband of the non-Jewish couple who took her in – to overturn the train by speeding up around a sharp bend and blowing the horn just beforehand to allow her and his family to jump. (It worked, the family survived and many Nazis were killed; 15-year-old Rachel was responsible for the death of more SS Nazis in one


her family survived thanks to an ingenious attic hideout. And for the next year, she survived by staying in hiding, smuggling in food for her family and ultimately joining the few thousand survivors in the Ludmir ghetto who had been conscripted into brutal slave labor battalions. Over the year, though, each family member was killed or died of starvation.

Finally, on December 25, 1943, the Nazis came to finish off everyone left in the ghetto. In miraculous fashion – Rachel found a hiding place beneath a wooden porch. A few days later she emerged and made her way to a Polish woman her family knew before the war.

This woman risked her life to keep Rachel – until one day when an anti-Semitic neighbor discovered her. Frightened for her ownlife now, the Polish woman told her she had to leave by the early morning.

It was January 1944. A fresh layer of deep snow lay on the ground. The air was biting cold. And a little girl, improperly dressed, was alone and on the run again.

She wandered the streets of non-Jewish Ludmir for a while before entering a barn. Her entire body chilled to the bone, she found a spot at the far end and stuck her feet into a stack of hay to warm them up.

Suddenly, a woman walked in. Their eyes met. Rachel pleaded with her to be quiet, promising she would be gone by the next morning. The woman said nothing, gathered some items and left.

As the day turned into evening, Rachel prepared to leave.


The night before she had experienced a powerful dream where her recently-deceased father appeared to her and told her everything would be alright. Drawing courage from the dream, she exited the barn and approached the house next to it.

She knocked on the door. The woman she had seen earlier in the day opened it and invited her inside. The woman then introduced husband and their seventeen-year-old son (who Rachel later found out worked in the local SS office!). They offered her a bowl of soup. During conversation it emerged that this family, the Roluks, knew Rachel’s father. They praised him for being a very righteous and honest man they had had business dealings with. If they did not have money to pay for the items he gave themHerring Press: An Eye for Architecture

By Anne Feltus, published in Photo District News (New York),1990

When Carlo Mariotti wanted to produce a photo book on his family's century-old stone quarrying and finishing enterprise in Italy, he approached Jerry Herring to do the job. His timing couldn't have been better. The book had a ready-made market, within the architecture and stone industries in general and among the Mariotti clan in particular. After several years of producing picture books for the upscale general public, the Houston-based publisher was more receptive to projects with quicker payoffs.

"We've had problems with distributing books for the general market," Herring says. "We're small, and don't have the ability to blanket the market like a large publisher would. We have books that are selling well in certain


places, but they're not selling well enough across the board to make it worth the risk."

Since 1984, book publishing has been an extension of the graphic design business that Herring started 16 years ago. After graduating from the Kansas City Art Institute, Herring paid his dues working at the prestigious Stan Richards & Associates design firm in Dallas and at two other firms in Houston. He created his own company in 1973. Over the years, he has built an impressive client list that includes Gerald D. Hines Interests, developer of Houston's Galleria, and the Houston Grand Opera as well as Intermedics, which produces heart implants.

Herring has attracted books for several reasons. "I like the high profile nature of books," he explains. "I think at the base of everygraphic designer is the nagging feeling that, even though we create good communication tools for our clients, their use and purpose is generally of a short nature. Everything we do is thrown away. Books are forever."

Herring's first major venture into publishing grew out of a design project he had undertaken in the island city southeast of Houston. "I was doing some work in Galveston and fell in love with the architectural images there," he recalls. "I realized that there wasn't any book that celebrated Galveston architecture the way I thought it should be done."

To fill the gap, he commissioned noted architecture photographer Richard Payne to capture the town's turn-of-the-century façades on film. Payne's pictures — his images of mansions, warehouses and villas, banks and churches, hotels, cottages and


dance pavilions — appeared in Historic Galveston, a handsome 100-page photo essay, published in 1985, which set the standard for Herring's future projects.

"One of the hallmarks of our books is that the photos jump out and grab you," Herring says. "Often, they're displayed very large. And when they're not, they're set off in a way that gets you involved with the photos."

The book featured Galveston's buildings in full glory, and it sold well is Houston bookstores. Still, Herring was disappointed that it wasn't accepted enthusiastically in its home market.

"Galveston is a city that doesn't see itself as a tourist destination," he explains. "We could only sell the book in one or two locations there."

Another Herring Press book, published the same year, paid homage to Houston's super-skyscraper, the monolithicthe book received a good response and was even on the local bestseller list for awhile. Still, he admits. it never broke even.

While the Transco book included work by one photographer, Houston, A Self-Portait featured 29. The photos were selected from hundreds that Herring received after he wrote members of the local American Society of Magazine Photographers chapter introducing his idea for a pictorial celebration of the city and asking them to submit suitable shots.

The book, which included some of the biggest names in Houston's photography community, hit the top of the city's best-selling nonfiction book list in 1986. "It was a nice book," Herring says. "Still, it took us almost three years just to break even."

A more recent coffeetable creation, Santa Fe, has been Herring's most successful


publishing effort. Produced in 1987, it's now in its third printing and continues to sell well in and around this New Mexico tourist town. The photographer was noted travel and interiors photographer Lisl Dennis. Her husband and longtime collaborator, Landt Dennis, wrote the text.

What made Lisl's book different," Herring explains, "is that she knew the need existed and went out and photographed with that need in mind. Santa Fe has more than a million tourists a year. There were plenty of books about some aspect of Santa Fe — black-and-white history books of books on painters, for example — but no large-scale, coffeetable-type destination book had been done on the area.

"Lil saw a review of the Transco book and contacted us," he continues. "She had been talking tosuch famous buildings as Lincoln Center in New York, One Shell Plaza in Houston and Sears Tower in Chicago. The photographer was Taro Yamasaki of Michigan, son of noted architect Minoru Yamasaki. Because of their relationship with his family, the Mariottis had hired him to photograph their buildings over a period of time. By the time Herring Press was brought into the project, the camera work was about 85 percent complete.

Like Lisl Dennis, the Mariottis had talked with other publishers. But they were drawn to Herring Press because of the beauty of the Transco book, a quality which Herring says sets his company apart from his competitors: "In some of the larger publishing houses," he points out, "its more of a business than an art."

The project appealed to


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ground that DOC cannot impose community placement absent entry by the trial court of an amended judgment and sentence.

FACTS
On July 12, 1988, petitioner Mickey Davis was arrested for possession of stolen property and possession of cocaine. On June 22, 1989, he entered a plea of guilty to the charge of possession of cocaine. His statement on plea of guilty said nothing about community placement. The prosecutor states in his response to the petition "that community placement was not contemplated by any party" and that "nothing in the record indicates the defense informed anyone of the community placement requirement." The prosecutor also states that the guilty plea was entered in exchange for dismissal of the possession of stolen property charge and the prosecutor's recommendation of a particular sentence onclient's sentence." She suggested that the prosecutor arrange for petitioner to have trial counsel reappointed for purposes of amending the judgment and sentence. The judgment and sentence was never amended.
On March 15, 1991, petitioner filed the instant petition seeking a decision prohibiting DOC from subjecting him to community placement until his judgment and sentence is amended to include that condition. Petitioner's appointed counsel argued in the alternative that community placement should be stricken from petitioner's sentence because *4 it is a direct consequence of his plea, and he was never informed of that consequence prior to entry of his plea.
On November 18, 1991, petitioner was released from confinement and transferred to community placement. He absconded from community placement several weeks later and was arrested on an escape warrant


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The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) kicked off its biannual summit in Cambodia Tuesday, basking in the glow that its "inclusive" approach to Myanmar appears to have paid off.
Often criticised for its policy of "non-interference" in members' affairs, ASEAN was roundly chastised when it admitted Myanmar into the bloc nearly 15 years ago.
Critics pounced again when ASEAN promised Myanmar the rotating chairmanship in 2014 after Yangon implemented a series of reforms.
This included installing a civilian government led by President Thein Sein, easing media restrictions, and freeing hundreds of political prisoners.
Yangon took another critical step forward over the weekend, holding largely orderly by-elections that gave opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi her first seat in parliament.
Indonesia's foreign minister Marty Natalegawaand bridge the gaps which are the obstacle for the realization for the ASEAN economic community at the planned date."
But other pressing issues may hog the limelight.
North Korea's planned rocket launch looms over the summit. The launch has been condemned by the U.S. and its allies as a thinly disguised missile test.
Regional tensions with China over disputed islands in the South China Sea are another vexing issue for the ASEAN leaders.
China has competing territorial claims in the sea with Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam.
The Philippines has been leading a push for ASEAN to form a united front and present China with a binding "code of conduct" for the area, but other members say Beijing should be involved from the start.
Arnold Gay, Reuters.

Reuters, the news and media division


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Doris Jones, writing on her Facebook page on Sunday, announced that she now has a British passport after Putrajaya refused to renew her Malaysian passport. She’s in the UK and she had wanted to return to face the warrant.

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To the wandering traveler, the land is beautiful and peaceful. The countryside stretches to the ends of the Earth, while the sun cascades over the rolling hills and sparkling streams.

To the people who


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NYX

I don't know any old man with white eyes. Just the soldiers I'm with.

WIL

If these soldiers don't like Uniques, why are you part of--?

Nyx cuts him off.

NYX

We're here.

They arrive at Cailan's tent.

NYX

Don't tell the captain about your crazy white eyed friend.

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WIL

I said that last night!

BALIN

I know what I'm doing. And the sooner you can do this, the sooner you can return.

Balin starts to teach Wil the correct form of the earth manipulation technique. He stands side by side with Wil, guiding him through the proper motions.

BALIN

Place your open palm one stip from the ground.

Wil follows the instruction and crouches down to place his hand hovering close to the ground.

BALIN

Now, concentrate, focus, and will the ground to rise up.

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BALIN

You need to keep your focus. The goal of this exercise is to raise a platform


of Upton's sword and pulls it hard towards himself, causing the blade to swing back up and strike Upton in the thigh. This causes Upton to collapse and fade. No smoke is seen. One of Ormon's arrows goes through the hole in the wall and strikes Wil in the side of the upper arm.

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WIL

Good job. We're running late, so we need to hurry to the castle. Let's move.

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                                               905

    Locomotor Ataxia                                                 911

    Colds                                                        1040

    Menus for the Nursing Mother                                    1042

    Miscellaneous Menus:

    Weak Digestion


   Liberal portion of boiled onions
    Spinach, with egg
    A potato; prepared choice

All of the menus for Colds can be taken in cases of La Grippe and
Influenza.

[* See "Bran Meal," p. 683.]

NASAL CATARRH

The following menus, in their various groups, are composed of the most
easily digested foods that will give to the body all the elements of
nourishment it requires, during the several seasons of the year.

The calories of energy, remedial elements and counteractive properties
these menus contain, have been very carefully compiled from long
experience in the treatment of catarrh. The nutritive factors they
contain are proportioned or leveled so that under ordinary conditions
there will be no deficiency to produce unnatural craving, and no
surplus to be decomposed and converted into mucous or catarrhal
discharges.

These menus   sweet fruit), with whipped         corn bread or green corn
      cream                            One glass of milk
    Two or three egg whites
    One or two tablespoonfuls
      of nuts--choice
    Cantaloup or melon

All sweets may be omitted if they do not appeal to the taste. However,
if something sweet is desired, make either the luncheon or the dinner
of vegetables and home-made ice-cream, omitting all other articles.

EMERGENCY MEAL

(To be taken in lieu of luncheon or dinner, if languid


   MENU II

BREAKFAST

    Cantaloup or peaches               One banana
    Three or four egg whites,          Melon or peaches with thin
      whipped--mix with two              cream
      glasses of fresh milk            Three eggs, whipped with
    A spoonful of nuts (choice)          very little sugar and
             an egg--egg preferred
      turnips                          A boiled onion and a baked
    A baked potato with fresh            potato
      butter                           A bit of green salad

From one to two glasses of water should be drunk at each of these
meals, preferably a cup of hot water at the beginning, and a glass of
cool water at the close.


radishes, cucumbers, cabbage, and sourcrout.

Fresh corn and dried beans often produce serious intestinal trouble in
the young child. Eggs should never be eaten when there is the slightest
fever.

The diet of the nursing mother should be confined chiefly to the more
readily digestible foods such as are named in the menus which follow.

SUGGESTIONS FOR NURSING

The mother should remember that her baby should never be nursed when
she is tired, fatigued, overheated, angry, frightened, excited, or
laboring under any mental disturbance. Both her mental and her physical
condition are instantly conveyed to the child, through her milk, often
in exaggerated form. Children are sometimes thrown into convulsions by
nursing the breast of an excited mother.

SUGGESTIONS FOR RELIEVING INTESTINAL CONGESTION

If either mother or child has a tendency toward intestinal congestion
(constipation), the mother should take wheat bran, thoroughly cooked,
withV, pp.
1343 to 1346. Give special attention to deep breathing.

/Second Day/: Same as the first, slightly increasing the
quantity of food, if the quantity named does not seem sufficient.

/Third Day/:

BREAKFAST

    Oatmeal simmered over night
    Two extremely ripe bananas, baked, eaten with
      thin cream
    Raisins, nut butter, and cream

LUNCHEON

    A small portion of asparagus or green peas, with
      a baked white potato
    A cup of junket

DINNER

    Asparagus, green peas, or beans
    Fish, lobster, white meat of chicken, or whipped
      eggs
    A potato

From one and one-half to two glasses of cool water


butter            Farina, or oatmeal with
    A cup of hot water                   cream
    A glass of milk                    One whole egg
                                       Two cups of chocolate

LUNCHEON

    Boiled rice, or corn hominy,      cooked
    Two whole eggs, either whipped or lightly
      poached
    A glass or two of milk or a cup or two of
      chocolate

LUNCHEON

    A pint of milk
    Whole wheat bread
    Two very ripe bananas, with nut butter or dates

DINNER

    A cup of hot water
    Choice of two fresh vegetables:
        Asparagus                      Carrots
        Beans


   butter
    Two or three eggs; preferably uncooked

DINNER

    Two or three eggs, with two teaspoonfuls of
      sugar; whip seven or eight minutes; add two
      glasses of milk; mix thoroughly; drink slowly
    Bran meal gems
    Half a cup of bran, cooked

/Fifth Day/: Same as the fourth.

/Sixth Day/: Same as the first.

/Seventh Day/: Same as the second, repeating the menus for
a period of thirty to forty days, varying them by selecting such
vegetables as appeal most to the taste.

If the bowels should become constipated, take half a cup of cleansed
wheat bran, cooked, with the breakfast, and, just before retiring,
another half cup in hot water.

If possible, spend fromRelated Events

The lender to the owner of the historic Century Building in downtown Indianapolis is seeking to foreclose on the property, claiming it’s owed $10.5 million on a loan default.

Minneapolis-based U.S. Bank filed Feb. 8 in Marion Superior Court to foreclose on the seven-story building at 36 S. Pennsylvania St. The owner is Century Building Investment Group LLC, a unit of California-based Blue Real Estate.

The building, built in 1901, is the corporate home of Steak n Shake, ExactTarget and Denison Parking.

Blue Real Estate, which entered the Indianapolis market as an investor in 2006, lost most of its local holdings last year after lenders took control of several properties.

In September, Blue surrendered its 360,000-square-foot, seven-building portfolio in Park 100 after defaulting on a $17.5 million loan affecting six of


the seven buildings. Blue bought the collection of mostly office/flex space from Duke Realty Corp. in 2007 as part of a move into Indianapolis that began with the purchase of four Castle Creek office buildings in 2006.

Along the way, it scooped up a 17-building, 800,000-square-foot portfolio in Park Fletcher and acquired the Century Building. By late 2008, family-owned Blue controlled 1.6 million square feet of real estate in the Indianapolis area valued at about $120 million.

But, in early 2011, the Castle Creek buildings and the Park Fletcher portfolio came under the control of firms working on behalf of the lenders that held the debt on the properties.

U.S. Bank claims in its Century Building foreclosure suit that Blue received a loan in December 2006 from original lender Countrywide Commercialto the complaint.

Phone calls from IBJ to both Summit and Blue Real Estate were not returned Wednesday morning.

The Century Building contains 115,426 square feet of rentable space, ranking it as the 22nd-largest office buiding in downtown Indianapolis, according to IBJ statistics.

The latest figures available show the building was 89-percent occupied at the end of 2010.

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The Cronulla Sharks are one of 16 professional rugby teams that are part of the National Rugby League (NRL) in Australia.

Several entities own the broadcast rights to live-stream NRL games, including a consortium that consists of the ARL Commission, News Corp. Australia, FOX Sports and Aussie telco Telstra.

After Facebook launched a live-streaming API at F8 in April, the rugby team used Ooyala to live-stream post-game recaps and pre-game features to Facebook using commercial-grade camera equipment.

Although game day is the “crown jewel” for a professional rugby league, according to Scott Maxworthy, head of digital commercialization for the Cronulla Sharks, it’s hard for a league to get around rights restrictions with live game content.

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Authorities in Florida say a woman arrested for killing and dismembering her ex-boyfriend may be linked to another, 10-year-old case.

The Daytona Beach News-Journal reports that 67-year-old Nelci Tetley is a person of interest in the 2007 case of Michael Scot Louis, whose chopped-up body was found in garbage bags along the Tomoka River.

Tetley was arrested Thursday and charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death of 55-year-old Jeffrey Albertsman.

Daytona Beach police officers found Albertsman's body six months ago. He'd been shot in the head, and his arms and legs were missing.

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Cadillac Ranch! Mr. H and I went to Cadillac Ranch the day of the wedding to kill some time. The ceremony wasn't until 7:30 so we fooled around most of the day and made a pit stop at the ranch.

Off historic Route 66 are 10 Cadillacs half buried nose down in a wheat field. They range in years from 1948-1963 and have been a roadside attraction since 1974.

Over the years they have been graffitied and are currently caked in paint inches deep mutating the original lines of the car. It's really neat to see but it's kind of sad too. It's like a graveyard of sorts for these old Caddy's.

In 2002, they restored the vehicles to their original colors but were eventually covered up again.


Citing the broad aversion among U.S. media outlets, politicians, and the American public at large to grapple with the untold amount of death and human destruction suffered by the civilian population of Afghanistan after almost 12 years of U.S.-waged war, The Nation magazine this week has released an in-depth report on the issue in hopes of correcting "this unconscionable oversight."

Written by staff writer Bob Dreyfuss and investigative journalist Nick Turse, the report—titled America’s Afghan Victims—includes a comprehensive look at the various efforts made throughout the course of the war to track, assess, or otherwise tally the number of civilian deaths and casualties caused by military-related violence in Afghanistan.

In addition to offering a thorough history of those efforts, The Nation also produced an interactive database drawn from the report'sfindings, providing a visual interpretation of some of the casualty statistics.

With a look at the role of independent investigators, the Afghan government, numerous NGOs, the United Nations, and the US/NATO military establishment itself, what the report found was a colossal failure—despite earnest and important work by some and willful disregard for Afghan human life by others—to accurately document the number of civilians killed over the course of the conflict.

Though their investigation notes that a large portion—indeed, likely the majority in recent years—of civilians killed in Afghanistan since 2001 perished due to attacks by the Taliban or their allies, the authors chose to focus on Afghan civilians killed by U.S. and allied forces, "because Americans, collectively, should be accountable for the violence committed in their name."

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Among the many efforts it surveyed to achieve a sense of how the war's destruction has been documented, The Nation report cites The Asia Foundation and their annual Survey of the Afghan People as the one that has "perhaps come closest to gauging the war’s toll." As Dreyfuss and Turse explain:

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KABUL, Afghanistan — The number of children killed and wounded in Afghanistan’s war jumped by 34 percent last year as the Taliban stepped up attacks across the country and continued to lay thousands of roadside bombs, the United Nations said Saturday.

Overall civilian casualties werecivilian casualties caused by such fighting rose by 43 percent over the previous year.

In terms of deaths and injuries, 2013 was also the worst year of the war for Afghan women and children, with most of the casualties caused by either stepping on or driving over roadside bombs or getting caught in fighting.

“It is the awful reality that most women and children were killed and injured in their daily lives — at home, on their way to school, working in the fields or traveling to a social event,” said Georgette Gagnon, director of human rights for the U.N. mission, calling on all sides to work to protect civilians from harm.

UNAMA said 561 children were killed and 1,195 were wounded in 2013, a rise of 34 percent in the


combined number of casualties. Also last year, 235 women died and 511 were wounded, a rise of 36 percent in combined casualties. The breakdown for deaths and injuries for children in 2012 was not available.

On Saturday, another child was killed when a roadside bomb detonated near a high school in the city of Jalalabad. Eight other people were wounded, said Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, spokesman for the governor of Nengarhar province of which Jalalabad is the capital.

The U.N. reported that a total of 2,959 civilians were killed in the war and 5,656 were wounded last year.

By comparison, there were 2,768 civilian deaths and 4,821 civilians wounded in 2012, and 3,133 deaths and 4,706 wounded in 2011.

The report blamed insurgents for 74 percent of the civilian casualties. Afghan police andinjuries in 2013 was the highest number of combined casualties since the U.N. began documenting them in 2009 after a sharp rise in violence.

But the deadliest year of the war was 2011, when 3,133 civilians died as the Taliban launched a fierce pushback with roadside bombs and other attacks against the increased number of international forces who wrested back much of the territory controlled by the insurgents.


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None of the six countries under the proposed ban are renowned soccer powers, but many immigrants from Iran, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Libya and Yemen have used the sport to help integrate themselves into their new home. We spoke to players from each of the six countries about how the current climate has affected their lives.

Sa’ad Hussein, 24, Somalia

Hussein is a soccer hero in Somalia, an international midfielderabout my family’s safety. That’s the whole reason I am here. Because if I was in Somalia and Al-Shabaab saw that documentary, they would kill me and my family. In the meantime, I’m still worried about my family.”

Ali Eldrasi, 40, Libya

Opportunity brought Eldrasi to the United States after a long playing career in the Libyan Premier League. He left his homeland shortly before the fall of the Gaddafi regime, later gained green-card status in the US and currently works to get his wife and two sons out of his home city of Benghazi. He coaches the next generation of youth soccer in the Austin area.

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By staff writers

November 5, 2009

Diplomatic representatives from the USA and France are the latest to condemn a recently tabled anti-gay Bill in Uganda, which calls for the death penalty for "aggravated homosexuality".

Humanitarian groups have called the legislation "appalling". But there is deep concern about the number of religious figures inside and outside the country who have supported, condoned or failed to speak out on a measure which the US embassy in Kampala told news agency AFP yesterday (4 November 2009) "would mark a major setback in the promotion of human rights" if it became law.

"If adopted, a bill further criminalising homosexuality would constitute a significant step backwards for the protection of human rights in


views those involved in homosexuality as sinners who can repent and reform, adding: "We have to be a moral fibre of the society."

Critics, including human rights and pro-gay faith groups, say the church's stance in justifying prejudice and violence against gay people is immoral and unChristian.

Homosexual acts are already a criminal offence in Uganda, with the maximum penalty being life imprisonment.

The new measure, introduced by lawmaker David Bahati, proposes a seven-year jail term for anyone who "attempts to commit the offence" or who "aids, abets, counsels or procures another to engage in acts of homosexuality."

If passed, the law would also punish the publishing of information, the provision of funds or premises for homosexual activities with a seven-year jail sentence or a fine of US$50,000, the PlusNews service reported.

Thejob as Dr. Julian Bashir (called Amoros at the time). But what grabs even more attention are some of the names who auditioned for Benjamin Sisko, the starring role which eventually went to Avery Brooks.

The UK actors who auditioned for Sisko include Anthony Head (Rupert Giles of Buffy The Vampire Slayer) and Peter Capaldi, who plays the soon to be departing Twelfth Doctor on the BBC sci-fi show Doctor Who. This documents tweet was followed up quickly by the Twitter account of for the What We Left Behind DS9 documentary, which showed screen caps of the auditions of Capaldi and Head.

Was The Doctor almost The Sisko? – probably not

Capaldi, while best known for his more recent roles in Doctor Who and The Thick of It, has a career


mood different going into the second one, such as how did you feel about Gene Roddenberry no longer being in charge?

I don’t remember the sequence of my feelings, but Gene Roddenberry had very strongly held opinions about what to do and how to do it. And the fact in the first season of Star Trek he was no longer the line producer, but became the executive producer and other producers were brought in by the studio. What it meant was they were going for efficiency, both in the storytelling and in the filming. And that was the way it went for three years. Gene had essentially left Star Trek by the second year, certainly the third.

So this script that was hammered out for the first Star Trek moviewas written by good people and had all kinds of credits belonging to it. There was a disappointment in that it took so long and there were so many delays in getting it made. They used to talk about the film being “wet,” it literally was. It was taken out of the lab and flown to Washington in a can and Robert Wise never had a chance to properly edit his film and especially the special effects, which had no editing at all.

William Shatner with director Robert Wise, producer Gene Roddenberry, DeForest Kelley, and Leonard Nimoy on the set of Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Working with Nicholas Meyer

Wrath of Khan brought in a young and less experienced director – Nicholas Meyer. I just spoke to him last week


urges after ogling his teacher during class. This is when he stumbles upon a dead girl, face down in the toilet with her bare tokhes sticking up in the air. Pollini then spends a full four and a half densely-worded pages describing how nubile the corpse still is and how conflicted Ponce feels over whether or not he should sexually molest it. At this point I yawned so hard my eyes rolled too far back into my skull to continue reading the book, and I haven’t picked it up again for more than a referential skim since.

The film itself starts off similarly, but with the opening credit sequence following Ponce on his scooter as he rides to school. Once he gets to the bathroom and finds the pronebody he does momentarily reach for her rear, but as soon as it’s obvious she’s dead he at least makes a run for help. The sexualization of female-focused violence is pretty common in today’s media, whether it’s “edgy” cable TV shows, horror films, or video games, but even by 1971 it had become more banal than shocking. Roger Ebert, who panned Pretty Maids in his review of it, had only one year earlier written the film Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, in which a woman fellates a gun before it blows her head off. Dirty Harry, which came out the same year as Pretty Maids, features a nude woman’s long dead body being pulled slowly out of a hole in the ground. She isn’t blue or rotting


no one really enjoys it.

Comedy was also a no-no on The Original Series, the first season of which is remarkably grim. Some specifically comedic episodes show up in the second season, including “The Trouble With Tribbles” and “A Piece of the Action.” This kind of hilarity, as well as the inappropriate bridge jokes that would often end episodes that year, were the work of line producer Gene Coon. This brought him to blows with Roddenberry who wanted the series played straight. Though he still contributed storylines well into the third season, Coon was dropped from his production duties because of this rift.

These attitudes toward sex and comedy change after Pretty Maids. Gene’s first original television production after Star Trek, Genesis II, features a society called Tyrania whose mainwith the alien race known as the Deltans. Initially created for the scrapped television sequel, Star Trek II, the Deltans were described in the writer’s guide as having sex during every social interaction, sort of like bonobos. So strong was their drive and so great was their skill that Deltans had to take an oath of celibacy before serving on a Starfleet vessel. When Star Trek: The Next Generation was conceived, Betazoids replaced Deltans as the sultry Greek letter aliens du jour. Possessing almost all of the same social characteristics and abilities of Deltans, Betazoids upped the ante by requiring nudity at important social events, such as weddings. Their women were also supposed to have four breasts each, but Dorothy Fontana put the kibosh on that one. Both


when you first answer the door. He was Captain Kirk! And I learned how to write for a star.

He also had some more detail about one specific change Shatner wanted to make, but it was something he entirely understood, explaining:

Nicholas Meyer: The cast of the Enterprise had been in show after show and dealt with all different writers and they were very good and very tactful at dealing with whoever was stepping into the commander’s chair and very diplomatic. And yes this was a different script. It was definitely stretching and much more on a personal level and there was not a big debate. They went with it. The only thing Bill [Shatner] said to me was – because originally I specified how old Kirk was – andthat started with his grandfather George, who established the first movie makeup department in cinema history. George’s five sons all went into the same business; Westmore’s father, Monte, designed Paul Muni’s makeup for Scarface (1932), helped create the flapper sensation with Clara Bow’s “It” girl look, and worked on Gone With The Wind.

The book covers the Westmore family history, then takes a deep dive into Michael Westmore’s astonishing career. He worked on all of the Rocky films, and was the ONLY makeup artist on the first one, having to keep meticulous records of each cut, swelling, and bruise on the faces of both Sylvester Stallone and Carl Weathers. This came in handy when he was working on Raging Bull with Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese, too.

He has


some rubber tubing and ran it down his back. But the only way to inflate it to get the effect they wanted was for Westmore to lie on the floor behind Schenkkan and puff into the tube whenever the director told him to. It required a lot more takes than he expected, so with each retake he slowly changed from light pink to dark pink to red until he was so exhausted he had to just lie there, helpless, for a while before he could breathe normally again.

Fun fact: Robert Schenkkan is a playwright who has won both a Tony and a Pulitzer, and co-wrote Hacksaw Ridge.

Those neck bulges got their fresh air from Michael Westmore.

8. LeVar Burton had a very specific morning routine.LeVar Burton used to looka small space near his mouth to breathe, his ears were covered and the director had to shout for Crofoot to hear instructions. More challenging still, getting the right look meant he had to wear full latex body pants glued in place, coated with an adhesive-based bronze makeup, and was then rubbed down with a bronze powder so he wouldn’t stick to everything he touched. The entire concoction was was so confining that he couldn’t go to the bathroom while he was in it. He spent one very long 14 hour day in that makeup, and avoided all food and drink because 14 hours is a very long time to not use the bathroom!

Leonard Crofoot’s makeup covered him from head to toe.

For many more reasons than Star Trek


set back up to show condition and to display it for fans to enjoy. The campaign came up short, bringing in just $68,000, but Huston pressed on, seeking corporate and foundation donations as well as expanding the project into what has become the planned Hollywood Science Fiction Museum. The HSFM will have original props, models and replicas from Star Trek, Star Wars, Alien, Blade Runner and much more. The goal is to have a permanent museum open by 2022.

For this bigger effort, the HSFM has been set up as a non-profit, and also brought on board a number of Star Trek vets including Dan Curry, Doug Drexler, David Gerrold, Ronald D. Moore and Andrew Probert to sit on the board. In the past few years, work on restoringthe bridge has continued and components have been shown at various conventions including the Star Trek Las Vegas convention and San Diego Comic Con. Huddleston tells TrekMovie the Enterprise D bridge will be fully restored and ready to be part of an exhibition tour of props and replicas from the planned museum, which begins at the end of the year and will run for a number of years. There will actually be two tours, one in North America (starting in Los Angeles) and one internationally (starting in Germany). The museum recently released a video of Doug Drexler showing off just a few of the other original Star Trek: The Next Generation props and model pieces that will be part of the planned tour and museum:

Campaign to fund restoring


the Star Trek Movieland Wax Figures

Also planned as part of the museum and upcoming tour will be a replica of the original series Star Trek bridge that was displayed at the Movieland Wax Museum in Buena Park, CA, until it closed in 2005. The set and the wax figures were recently donated to HSFM. While they have been held in climate-controlled storage and are in pretty good condition, they could use some restoring, especially regarding the makeup and hair. This work will be overseen by Emmy-winning makeup designer Greg Nicotero, best know for his work on The Walking Dead. Nicotero is a big Trek fan and a board member of the HSFM. In order to get the figures ready for the tour, they are launching a new crowdfundingwill take place in the coming weeks. These include a new roundtable discussion with Denise and Mike Okuda and the visual FX team for DS9. Kai also tells TrekMovie they plan to reach out to fans to “gather their thoughts and reactions to DS9, its original run, and it’s reemergence in modern society.”

Sneak Peek – Terry Farrell on Dax: Yoda or Grace Kelly?

Also new from the documentary team: a snippet of an interview with Terry Farrell talking about the confusing direction she received from executive producer Rick Berman on how, exactly, she should play Dax:

More fun DS9 Doc campaign promo videos

Throughout the campaign, the production team has released a number of fun promotional videos to get fans engaged. Watch them below.

Missed the whole history of the crowdfunding campaign


Captains.” Like the Kirk book, this bio about the Star Trek: The Next Generation’s captain will be written from an in-universe perspective. Returning to pen the book is David A. Goodman, who wrote the Kirk book and Titan’s in-universe history book “Federation: The First 150 Years.” As a life-long fan, Goodman is well-versed in Trek lore and served both as a writer and producer on Star Trek: Enterprise and as a writer/producer for Futurama, where he scripted the love-letter-to-Trek episode “Where No Fan Has Gone Before.”

Cover for Jean-Luc Picard bio coming this fall

Here is the official description:

The Autobiography of Jean-Luc Picard is an in-world memoir chronicling the story of one of the most celebrated names in Starfleet history. His extraordinary life and career makes for dramatic reading: courtmartials, unrequited love, his capture and torture at the hand of the Cardassians, his assimilation with the Borg and countless other encounters as captain of the celebrated Starship Enterprise.

“The Autobiography of Jean-Luc Picard” will be released in hardcover this fall with a retail price of $24.99.

First Discovery Book Gets A Title

As previously reported, David Mack will be writing the first novel tie-in to the upcoming CBS All Access series Star Trek: Discovery. Mack has now updated his website with a title for the book which is Star Trek: Discovery – Desperate Hours. His site lists the date of the book as January 2018, however Mack tells TrekMovie this is only a guess and that for now all he knows for sure is the book will come out after


a mail order catalog but ultimately went the way of, well, the mail order catalog. Although its time was finite, the Federation Trading Post had a huge impact on Trekkies of all ages. Chris Gilleece grew up in Brooklyn, watching Star Trek as it aired in syndication in the 1970s. He had the distinct pleasure of visiting the Trading Post, and below he shares his memory of the iconic store.

In the 70s, when I was a kid growing up in Brooklyn, New York, Star Trek used to air at 6:00 p.m. Monday to Friday on WPIX TV, Channel 11. One night, right after the show, a 30-second commercial flashed across my TV set: there was now a retail store in New York City called The Federation Trading Postthe king of second (and third, and forth, and fifth) chances. After Genesis II was passed on by CBS, ABC was willing to give the idea another shot on their dime. The outcome was Planet Earth (not to be confused with the BBC documentary series), a completely retooled and recast version of the adventures of 20th Century scientist, Dylan Hunt, in a post-apocalyptic future.

Aired a little over a year after Genesis II, Planet Earth hit TV screens in April of 1974. Most critics felt it was the better of the two efforts, comparing John Saxon’s interpretation of Hunt favorably to Captain Kirk and praising its improved pacing. While Genesis II was not as well paced as its sequel and more than a bit corny, there’s a lot I


a Sega Master System box artist proud. The credits font, however, is identifiable as Lydian Bold.

Adam Nimoy, who did such a beautiful job with For the Love of Spock, is directing, Behr is producing, and the finished doc will feature interviews from the main cast as well as guest stars, behind-the-scenes production people, and a gathering of five of the writers who talk about what they’d do if DS9 had an eighth season.

Cast members Terry Farrell, Nana Visitor, Armin Shimerman, Max Grodénchik, Casey Biggs, Jeffrey Combs, and Chase Masterson all showed up for the video with Behr to screen a bit of the footage and talk about why they need help from the fans. Costs include everything from post-production to licensing, as every clip from the show theyand it was mostly on a planet…” And then we interviewed Elinor Donahue, who played Nancy Hedford. And she was wonderful. She was just a nice person and opened up and really enjoyed talking to us about that episode. So those two are my favorites.

TM: And then interviewing Leslie Parrish—she’s a fascinating person, she has a very interesting history. Did she talk about any of that? Because she was an activist, and coined a famous anti-war phrase…

DENISE: Yes!

MIKE: We didn’t get to include as much of that kind of material as we wanted to, but yes, she’s a lovely person. We flew up to her home and she gave us an entire afternoon, and just to hear her talking about working with Michael Forest, and her feelings toward


wiles to convince William that there is no need for him to go to London. All the talk of her brother Geoffrey being possessed was a mistake, and every supernatural goings-on was easily explainable. The interaction brings to mind Jim Kirk and every single woman he’s ever encountered in space. William is having none of it and keeps attempting to get the succubus to touch something religious in nature until he finally thrusts the Book of Tobin into her chest and she begins to painfully vaporize. Ham attempts to enter the room during her death throes, but William pushes him out and locks the door until the succubus is fully extinguished.

Ham, partially out of loyalty but mostly to find out what happened to the hot chick, finally agreestime travel, the Guardian of Forever, and Sarek and Amanda. In the story, the Enterprise returns to Earth to find bodies floating in space. They eventually discover that history has been changed by the Klingons and the Federation no longer exists. As to why the Enterprise still exists when the Federation does not, well the answer is that anyone traveling at warp speed when the change in the timeline occurred is immune.

With the Federation never having existed, Earth is populated with a savage race of protohumans. The crew learns that the Klingons used the Guardian of Forever to go back in time and change history. When more Klingons arrive at Earth, the Enterprise hides behind the moon to evade detection.

In San Francisco near the site of what would


Kirk is not forced to ask the President to sacrifice himself to correct the timeline. Instead, the crew repair the timeline (mysteriously) that the Klingons disrupted and return to the 23rd century. To their surprise, Dr. McCoy returns to a wife due to the changes the Enterprise crew had made in the past.

Further Revisions

Eddie Egan, the unit publicist on Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, stated that there was a revision that made the events of Roddenberry’s Star Trek II similar to the classic Original Series episode “The City on the Edge of Forever.” In order for history to be restored, Kennedy had to die. In this version, Spock appeared behind a fence and fired the fatal gunshot that assassinated JFK. This proposal reportedly horrified Paramount.

Fans evenIn celebration of this November as National Aircraft Carrier Month, we gathered together some of Trek’s finest in a tribute to the US Navy and the men and women who serve and to make sure that history never forgets the name Enterprise.

With a new real life aircraft carrier named USS Enterprise and a new Star Trek television series both in the pipeline, Trek and the Navy are both continuing its celebration of Naval traditions and visions for the future. What better time than now, during National Aircraft Carrier Month, to reflect on the role the Navy and its traditions have had on our favorite franchise.

Rod Roddenberry (son of Gene Roddenberry and Executive Producer of Star Trek: Discovery), Ronald D. Moore (writer/director The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine),


23rd century and beyond, but an account from the first days with legendary designer William Ware Theiss at the couturial helm, to Robert Fletcher, Robert Blackman and others.

“In a sense, working on Star Trek Costumes was very similar our work on the Deep Space Nine Companion, in that they both were chronological in structure,” Block explained. “The Costume Book is a historical document, and the logical thing to do was write it in a chronological order.”

Sadly, as the Star Trek franchise ages, so do the people responsible for its creation. Theiss passed away in 1992, and Fletcher had long since retired, so Block and Erdmann had to track down previous interviews with those designers. However, they were able to interview Blackman, who also wrote the book’s introduction, assome trivia about the first ever Star Trek episode to air.

“The Man Trap” was ultimately chosen as the first episode to air because of the interesting plot device of the shapeshifting creature, it offered a monster-of-the-week, a familiar idea from The Outer Limits and Lost in Space, and of course, demonstrated the central idea of exploring a strange new world.

The strange ancient ruins on Planet M113

The first group of episodes all have a bit of a different feel to them, thanks in part to many of the production crew coming from more moody black and white productions.

Filming The Man Trap

“The Man Trap” is a rather unique episode:

• It is one of a small handful of episodes that have a captain’s log entry narration done in hindsight, rather than


Jonathan Frakes is extremely good at being tall, handsome, and charming. Apparently that’s about the extent of his range though as he confessed to Whoopi Goldberg a few years ago that the reason he moved behind the camera is because “I wasn’t that good an actor.”

And honestly, his contributions behind the camera may be more valuable than anything he did in front of it.

3. William Shatner was not the 1st choice to play Kirk

Although both he and his bombastic performance style are now synonymous with Capt. James Tiberius Kirk, William Shatner was not the first choice to play him. Jack Lord was first approached and turned the role down. Lloyd Bridges was almost cast as the first Enterprise captain, Chris Pike. Bad for them, but good decision forwon both sound editing and sound mixing Emmys.

Jones released his score for the two-part episode as an album, which won the American Association of Independent Music’s Best Soundtrack Album of the Year award.

Regardless of his contributions, controversial Trek kingpin Rick Berman went on to fire Jones because his music was “too noticeable.”

Yeah. Noticed by people who were giving him awards and buying his album.

20. Yet it took 30 years to snag an Oscar

As primarily a television series, it’s not surprising that Star Trek hasn’t done too well with the Academy. (Some of that has been bad timing: The Undiscovered Country got crushed by Terminator 2.) It took until the 2009 reboot for Star Trek to finally win an Oscar for make-up.

Fans still complained relentlessly that the make-up failed


have pointed ears and a green color.” Kelley blew him off and told him he’d rather do a Western.

Luckily, Roddenberry found the right role for him later.

27. “He’s dead, Jim” – DeForest Kelley’s last performance

Kelley’s popular Dr. McCoy character appeared in almost every episode of The Original Series and all of the movies – but the actor died in 1999, long before any of his co-stars. If you want to catch his final performance as the Old Country doctor, it was in the 1993 video game Star Trek: Judgement Rites.

28. Sulu starred in the most controversial Twilight Zone episode ever

There are a lot of connections between Star Trek and the old Twilight Zone – both sci-fi shows from the 1960s – but perhaps the coolest is “The Encounter“,a 1964 episode where George Takei as a young Japanese-American squares off against a veteran of the WW2 Pacific Theater. It maturely and frankly deals with the issue of race following the conflict.

So naturally it was only ever shown once then pulled from the airwaves for 52 years.

29. And Enterprise did a clever Twilight Zone promo once

The two franchises remained intertwined – to the point of John Lithgow and William Shatner both joking about “There’s something on the wing of the plane!” on 3rd Rock from the Sun – to the point that when UPN premiered a new version of Twilight Zone in 2002 they had Commander Tucker explicitly reference the show in the preceding episode of Enterprise that night.

30. Star Trek invented the term “Bottle Episode”

The TV


Back in the day actress Jeri Ryan (Seven) was married to Illinois politician Jack Ryan, who was favored to win an open state Senate seat in 2004… until word came out during their divorce proceedings about some of the creepy sex stuff he demanded from her. A humiliated Jack was forced to drop out and the election went to a then-unknown Barack Obama, who leveraged the race to a plumb speaking spot at the DNC that year, then a US Senate seat, then the presidency.

OK so you’ve all probably seen the hour-long reviews of the Star Wars prequels by the YouTube channel Red Letter Media – honestly the reviews are better than the movies themselves. But the channel actually got its start doing reviews of the TNG movies.

They’redisplay today in the main lobby of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. Previously, it had been at its sister museum in Chantilly, Virginia (displayed prominently in the gift shop) and then dry-docked for a couple years while it was restored to its former glory.

While the ship (excuse me, the model) has been redone to appear just as good – if not better – than it did in 1966, the restoration process left the visible electrical wires on its port side visible. The wires ran the lights on the ship, but were never filmed.

The Smithsonian has always endeavored to tell not just the story of advancing science and technology, but also of the people who were involved and the broader cultural impact, Dr. Margaret Weitekamp,


already know (Eye of the Beholder, It’s a Good Life) or the ones famous for starring Trek actors (Nick of Time, Nightmare at 20,000 Feet, Quality of Mercy). I’ve also included some from the two subsequent TZ series to spice things up for those who may only know the 1960s show.

10 – The Encounter

So controversial at the time, this episode only aired once on broadcast television. It features a (very) young George Takei and lingering Japanese/American hostilities after World War 2.

Bonus GIF of George Takei jumping out a window with a katana

9 – The After Hours (1986)

So this episode is a remake of one from the original series, where a woman encounters mystery at a department store, but more remarkable to Trek fans because the lead is playedwatching The Original Series and even became a graphic artist on Star Trek: Insurrection, the third Next Generation film outing. He designed animations shown on various starship computer monitors in the film. This gave Hanson a chance to make Star Trek a part of his career and further foster his love of the series.

Hanson has an extensive collection of props and memorabilia on display in AccuRadio’s Chicago office. We’re not taking a few tricorders or a comm badge here and there – staff meetings are held at a TOS conference table, you can pretend to order your raktajino from a DS9 replicator, and have a seat at the ops station from the Enterprise E. Sounds like my kind for workplace for sure.

The famous Galileo shuttlecraft model from Star


effects-driven film in the late 1970’s and illustrates the unique challenges inherent in trying to revive a classic television show for the big screen. The book is an absolute treasure trove, and will appeal to both Trek and film fans alike.

Virtually all of the key players involved in the production are present, from then-Paramount executive Jeffrey Katzenberg, to Gene Roddenberry, to many of the cast and crew(the notable exceptions being visual effects supervisor Douglas Trumbull and the man he replaced, Robert Abel).

The book is presented as it was intended to be published in 1980, and as such is a remarkable snapshot of an era before Star Trek became a giant multimedia franchise, a time when all there was were three seasons of a cult tv show. There isEnterprise). There are gems like these, both big and small, throughout the book.

Because this is a book about TMP, much of it is devoted to the film’s myriad problems, particularly post production. It was clear to many people early on(including some of the actors) that Robert Abel & Associates, the FX company contracted to do the film, were in over their heads. Paramount, already laying out huge sums to Abel, resisted entreaties from Doug Trumbull to take over the work. By the time he was brought in to consult on and ultimately take over the job, months had passed, and the production had little more than one year to get the effects ready, resulting in a mad dash to meet the film’s locked-in release date.

One figure who emerges