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Joseph J Baez
The Journey of the Man...
JOSEPH J BAEZ was 'bitten by the theater Bug' when he attended his FIRST Professional Show at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia called Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Since that performance, Joseph was hooked.
His theatrical debut came during his freshman year of high school performing the roles of "Radio Operator Bob McCaffrey" and "an Islander" in South Pacific. He continued to perform throughout his high school career playing such iconic roles as "Max Detweiler" in The Sound of Music and "Jack" in Into the Woods.
Joseph graduated High School and ventured to New York City's 'forgotten borough': Staten Island, where he pursued a BA in Musical Theatre at Wagner College. He performed in their productions of The Who's Tommy (Ensemble) and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Judah).
After leaving Wagner College, Joseph found himself moving to Charlotte, NC! If you were to ask, he would tell you that Charlotte was where his professional career began. He performed among the many Fringe companies in town, which helped him experience the many different positions of the theatre world. He was grateful when the theatre community awarded and nominated him for a few of the shows he was a part of in "the Queen City".
From Charlotte, Joseph began his 'Gypsy' life that he is still living, traveling the United States performing in Regional Theatre, Dinner Theatre, Theme Parks and anywhere there is a stage. He has ventured outside the borders of the US to Mexico, the Caribbean, Europe and even as far as Asia. He truly became a World traveler.
He looks forward to what the future has in store for him and where the next adventure may lead!
See You Onstage!
Please leave a Comment and have a great day!


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Bear Jumping Hurdles est un film américain muet et en noir et blanc sorti en 1899.

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Film américain sorti en 1899
Film documentaire américain
Court métrage américain
Court métrage documentaire
Film muet américain
Film américain en noir et blanc
Film documentaire animalier
Film documentaire sur le spectacle

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The K. J. Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and Research (KJ SIMSR) now known as K.J. Somaiya Institute of Management (KJSIM) is an autonomous business school located in Somaiya Vidyavihar, Mumbai. It was established in 1981 as a part of the K. J. Somaiya Trust and Somaiya Vidyavihar.  SIMSR was granted the status of autonomous institute by the University Grants Commission in May 2013.

It offers programs including Post Graduate Diploma in Management, Master of Management Studies, Ph.D. pprograms in Management, and Management Development Programs. It is affiliated with the University of Mumbai and/or approved by AICTE. The institute is certified as ISO 9001:2008. It has received the SAQS Accreditation by AMDISA. It is a member of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).

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Birdlife Botswana weighs up impact of Elephants on threatened bird species
The statistics are quite astounding. For one poisoned elephant carcass, five hundred vultures perish. For years now, Birdlife Botswana, an NGO that deals with protection of birds in order to prevent any extinction of bird species in the wild has been using different means to sensitise the government and other stakeholders on the issue.
Fifty years down the line, citizen economic empowerment still remains largely elusive
Instead of enjoying watching the ongoing Russia 2018 World Cup, the folks at my rural village of Moroka in the North East District over the weekend bombarded me with the difficult yet interesting questions of whether after more than 50 years of independence Botswana has done enough in terms of citizen economic empowerment, especially indigenous citizen economic empowerment.
Khama magic a curse for Wilderness Holdings
Name African Presidents who are trying to grow their tourism sector and chances are more than half have Keith Vincent's business card.
It's time to stop ignoring the problem of obesity in Botswana
Botswana's obesity crisis appears more unstoppable than ever. According to Cardiovascular Journal of Africa, Botswana is struggling with an obesity problem and the trend has been progressively increasing in both children and adults.
My history of the World Cup since 1982!
Memories of my first World Cup are from Phikwe and revolve around a small black and white television set owned by a local mentor called Tom who allowed his favourite boys in the neighborhood to come over and watch. Viewing games as a guest was solemn business. No noise making, kids pranks or even cheering of the teams on the pitch.
How Law can we go?
The laws criminalising same sex relationships continue to haunt the Lesbian Gays Bisexual Transgender Intersex (LGBTI) community in Botswana. LEGABIBO, an organisation which advocates for the rights of the LGBTI fears that laws that criminalise same sex relationships is whipping up public hysteria against the marginalised LGBTI community.
'Khama endangers his own life by flying planes'
On the face of it, there was absolutely nothing wrong with the Botswana Democratic Party Secretary General, Mpho Balopi, revealing a private arrangement between President Mokgweetsi Masisi and his predecessor, Lieutenant General Ian Khama, but there really is.
The difficult transition from the classroom to the workplace
It's one of the recurring topics in which there is consensus amongst employers – the job unpreparedness of many new graduates who enter the job market. So how real and/or widespread is it?
Criminal suspect in NPF case is board member of authority that regulates NPF
Section 12 of the Botswana Energy Regulatory Authority (BERA) Act is very clear on what should happen when a board member is the subject of a criminal offence: "The Minister may, in writing, suspend from office a member against whom criminal proceedings are instituted for an offence in respect of which a sentence of imprisonment may be imposed, and whilst that member is so suspended, he or she
DIS could be spying on Khama and Kgosi
On the second day of his second month as president, Mokgweetsi Masisi embarked on the second phase of his redesign of the civil service.
Kapinga debuts political onslaught: Warns Batswana not to vote BDP
In a tell it all interview with The Telegraph, Kenny Kapinga who is a devout member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church and private practicing lawyer in Shakawe sternly warned Batswana against voting the ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) into government in the upcoming 2019 general election because the party which has been in power since 1966 at independence has absolutely nothing new to o
When Confucian capitalism meets Batswana's legendary laziness
While they admit that the salaries they offer are not good, Chinese shopowners 'continuously stress that the salaries are in line with government regulations', 'do not think the shop assistants deserve better pay' and believe assistants are poor because they are 'lazy and wasteful'
Masisi begins dismantling Khama's 5Ds Roadmap
There was only ever one D in President Ian Khama's 5Ds roadmap and the personality of one individual came to define the institutional character of that D.
Pioneering civil servant and founding BCP member dies
The fact that this man had a work ethic, mindset and skillset with which he had distinguished himself in a colonial First World work environment should not have raised eyebrows when, in 1977, President Seretse Khama appointed him Permanent Secretary (PS) in the Ministry of Home Affairs.
Extremely high nicotine levels found in blood of non-smoker waitress
The law is supposed to protect citizens but as the case of Imen (anagram of subject's real name in translation) shows, the Control of Smoking Act and Worker's Compensation Act fail to protect non-smokers like her who work in cigarette smoke-filled establishments.
Your waitress was cleaning No.2-ed toilets 10 minutes ago – bon appétit!
The food that your waitress just delivered to your table looks appetizing but it is certainly in your best interests to gen up on some unappetizing facts about food hygiene and safety standards at even some of the most popular high-end restaurants.
Saleshando walks tight political rope as BCP president and UDC vice-president
Botswana Congress Party, a contracting member of the Umbrella for Democratic Change (UDC) on March 14 issued a political writ for its 2019 general election primaries which should have been concluded by end of June 2018. The writ notwithstanding, the party has however not yet made a public pronouncement on its leader's envisaged constituency.
A tribute to the Gibson Ramukonki Nshimwe – What a life!
I never personally got close to the late former MP until he settled in Maun a couple of years ago where he set up the popular Qhwigaba Guest Lodge, located at Maun's Matshwane area. He also used to come to Maun on official duties as he belonged to various parliamentary committees. I had also known him to be a close ally of former Botswana Congress Party (BCP) president Gilson Saleshando.
'Le magodu!' an unrestrained opposition MP tells BDP bench
The longer it takes to resolve the issue of the P250 million, the graver the consequences for the public image of the Botswana Democratic Party will be.
Masisi quietly resumes silent diplomacy
With no foreign policy doctrine in place, Botswana's has been largely guided by who is president. Never once did Presidents Sir Seretse Khama, Sir Ketumile Masire and Festus Mogae publicly attack other leaders, preferring to talk over contentious issues behind closed doors.

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Our goal is to teach each camper how to ride and care for their horse in a safe and supportive environment.
Campers receive two English Riding lessons, a stable management lesson and other horse and barn related activities, in addition to a daily recreational swim. Campers can opt for a daily instructional swim (additional fee applies). Registration is on a two week basis. A horse show is organized for parents at the end of the two weeks for campers to demonstrate their progress.
Cedar Creek Horse Back Riding Camp has 4 grass rings, a sand ring plus an indoor arena as well as a viewing room. The barn lends a cozy feeling of closeness to horses. A renovated barn provides a well-ventilated place for riders to gather in comfort to discuss lesson plans and programs.
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Aug 15 Moments I Never Showed You by Natalia Poniatowska
Anniversary Team
Born in the industrial realm of the Silesian region in the Southern part of Poland, Natalia Poniatowska has been working with the medium of photography for more than a decade. She recently graduated from the fine art photography program of The Glasgow School of Art and is now developing projects where the meaning of images is articulated through a point of view that is, at once, conceptual and personal.
"Having spent the majority of my life away from my motherland, I often return to the theme of homesickness and belonging in my artwork. "
— Natalia Poniatowksa
This project has been shot in several countries. Mainly consisting of outdoor sites, the series shows places the artist don't belong to and people she has never got to the chance to meet. It is a departure from previous work that had nostalgia, homesickness and belongs at their heart. This project accepts personal and visual encounters that speak of a connection that is grounded in the photographic composition. As such, it is a pause in the flow of time: transitory.
"My approach to picture making is to present ordinary, non-idealised, never staged reality. Such practice is the formulation of an interest in things as they are."
"I am capturing the moments and non-moments that drag my attention; I am a sentimental and nostalgic artist and the camera is the best tool to anchor oneself to memories and emotions that are constantly fleeting."
Poland, Natalia Poniatowska, Glasgow, Photoprapher, Artist, Featured
Aug 27 Through the Eyes of Photographer Marcus Schaefer
Aug 15 Make It Malmö : Designed and Curated by TypeO
Sep 12 Alicja Kwade Presents Out of Ousia at Kunsthal Charlottenborg
Oct 23 How Likely Is It That Only I Am Right in This Matter? : Wolfgang Tillmans at David Zwirner
Jan 28 Random Access Memory by Miroslaw Balka Presented at White Cube, London


sensenet has a powerful feature for defining and accessing content operations called the Smart Application Model. The basic building blocks of this model are actions and applications. Usually you want to provide users with a set of actions that they can choose from. This kind of action grouping can be done with a scenario. The previous articles contain information for portal builders on how to organize actions into scenarios using the built-in method. This article describes the way for developers to create a custom scenario that uses a different algorithm for collecting actions.
A custom scenario from a developer's point of view is a .Net class that inherits SenseNet.ApplicationModel.GenericScenario. We will create a scenario for managing Articles in an Article Section.
Notice the Scenario attribute on the class. It is used for providing a name for the scenario - if you want to provide a different name than the class name. If the class name is appropriate, you do not have to mark the class with the attribute.
- Before sensenet version 6.1.2, there was a possibility to override the Name property of the scenario.
- Add the `Scenario` attribute to the class and provide the same name as you did in the Name property before.
- Remove all the action and scenario type registrations from the unity section of the web.config and application configuration files, they are not needed anymore.
To achieve that, you have to add the name of the scenario (in our case ManageArticles) to the two applications' Scenario property. You can do that in Content Explorer on the Edit page of the two applications.
The ActionMenu control above will display our scenario for the current context (selected by a ContextInfo control).
If you navigate to the Internal News page (http://localhost/NewsDemo/Internal), you will see a Manage articles menu at the top of the article list, containing the two actions you marked with the scenario name.
The real purpose of creating a custom scenario class is to include actions that otherwise would not be in the scenario. In our case we will add an Add action to the scenario so that editors can create new articles in that article section from choosing a menu item.
To achieve that you need to expand the scenario class to override the CollectActions method. This is responsible for collecting the actions that will be displayed.
If you build your code and check the Internal news page again, an Add action will apear in the menu that you can use to add Articles to this Section.
Scenarios may use parameters to customize their behavior. This can be useful when you want to display the same scenario in different environments or the scenario needs information about its sorroundings (e.g. the portlet that resides in).
- It is important to know that if the scenario uses a parameter, it is not stateless anymore.
- This means the system will have to create a new scenario object every time.
To use parameters you need to extract them during scenario initialization. The following code displays the full class that has a new property called Extended. If this parameter is set to true, we will add a CopyTo action to the scenario.
To add a parameter you only need to modify the action menu control statement we use to display the scenario. The ScenarioParameters property of the control takes key-value pairs that will be passed to the scenario. Though we use static parameters here, you can add new dynamic parameters too. See Portlet template replacer for more information.
After you added the parameter abouve you should see the Copy to action in the action menu on the Internal news page.


Statistical Techniques Research Group, Section of Mathematical Statistics, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton, N. J.
Problems of process optimization and in particular automatic optimization are currently being approached from many different directions. Investigations in process control and instrumentation, studies in statistical methods for the design of experiments for obtaining optima, studies on noise spectra and on numerical maximization subject to restraints as represented by linear and nonlinear programming, all throw light on the directions in which we must advance.
Box GP. Some General Considerations in Process Optimization. ASME. J. Basic Eng. 1960;82(1):113-119. doi:10.1115/1.3662496.


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Open Surface Microfluidics
Collective Behaviors
Multiphase Flows
Multiscale Multiphysics Group
Siddhant Mohapatra
Siddhant Mohapatra is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in the field of modeling of collective motion under the guidance of Dr. Pallab Sinha Mahapatra. He has completed his B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from National Institute of Technology Silchar in 2019. His research interest includes biophysics, biological fluid dynamics & heat transfer and multi-body simulations.
Application of collective behaviour to targeted drug delivery
Nature shows us some of the most fascinating social and behavioural patterns through the display of self-organisation. The coordinated motion of organisms to form a single collective entity is termed as collective behaviour or self-organisation. Examples of such phenomena include flocking of birds, schooling of fish, swarming of bacteria, and even, the intricate behaviour of humans in a crowd. If the social interactions leading to such behaviour can be mimicked, it is possible to implement the same using microbots to carry out drug delivery to afflicted cells and tissues.
Dynamics of active matter:
Active matter models involve particles that are able to propel by virtue of their internal energy. These particles are assumed to be indicative of organisms such as bacteria. The physics of a system of self-propelling particles in the presence of competing forces of alignment and repulsion is examined. Formation of novel spatial patterns such as ring-shaped mills and hybrid mills-clusters is observed. Dynamical analysis carried out through the study of chaos and synchronisation in the system shows the formation of weak chimera composite among the particles. A new state of weak chimera coined as 'multi-band weak chimera' with multiple synchronised oscillator groups is also detected. This study serves as an ideal case study for the DEM-based model used for the simulation of active dry matter.
Two species antagonistic interaction model:
Collective behaviour might occur due to a plethora of reasons such as the presence of danger or need for foraging or reduction in energy consumption or facilitating smooth movement in a crowded environment. Among these situations, the majority of animals portray self-organisation when subjected to predation. Especially in the case of fish, a rich variety of pattern formation is observed, such as mill, ball, fountain, split, and more. The physics underlying the collective behaviour in the presence of a predator is studied in the purview of self-propelling particles inside a confined domain. A novel force-based Vicsek model is utilised to simulate the interactions among the particles. It is observed that the information about the presence of the predator is passed from the afflicted prey to its neighbours, which then pass it onto their neighbours and so on. The signal intensity, however, is found to be diminishing with distance, which, in other words, means that there is a localisation of transfer of information. This study lays a groundwork for the development of a model that is able to simulate the interactions between a pathogen and healthy cells or between a drug molecule and the diseased cells.
Awards and recognitions:
Awarded the Prime Minister Research Fellowship in May 2019.
An article What determines the prey survival to a predator attack in a closed space: IIT Madras researchers answer published in IITM Tech Talks (Link).
Siddhant Mohapatra, Sirshendu Mondal, and Pallab Sinha Mahapatra, Spatiotemporal dynamics of a self-propelled system with opposing alignment and repulsive forces, Physical Review E, (2020), 102, 042613.
Siddhant Mohapatra and Pallab Sinha Mahapatra, 2019, Confined System Analysis of a Predator-Prey Minimalistic Model, Scientific Reports, 9(1), 11258.
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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/siddhant-mohapatra-0818
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Siddhant_Mohapatra2
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Pere Estupinyà and "The Brain Thief": passion for Science journalism
Pontas January 13, 2011 News
According to Pere Estupinyà, Science is the most fascinating adventure that you can set out on.
Pere Estupinyà (Tortosa,1974) is a Chemist and Biochemist that after a short stage as a PhD researcher moved to the field of Science Journalism. He has been the editor of "Redes", the most influential Spanish television program on Science, and lecturer in Science, Technology and Society at the Ramon Llull University. In 2007-2008 he spent one academic year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. He writes about science for different Spanish magazines, collaborates on radio programs, gives conferences, and owns an acclaimed scientific blog in El País: Apuntes Científicos desde el MIT.
He currently lives in Washington DC, working at the National Institutes of Health, and writing as a freelance journalist for different Spanish and US media and institutions.
Last November 2010, Pere Estupinyà's first book, The Brain Thief, was published in Spanish by Debate (Random House Mondadori) and it´s already being reprinted –in the photo below, the author and his Spanish publisher, Miguel Aguilar. And these first days of January 2011, it has been published in Catalan by La Magrana.
In The Brain Thief Pere Estupinyà infiltrates the most important laboratories and investigation centres of the world to steal the knowledge of the real heroes of the 21st century – the scientists – and share it with his readers.
Through the entertaining stories of the book, the reader doesn't only get into the hottest debates of neuroscience, cosmology, genetics, human psychics and climate change. The Brain Thief also follows the flow of a virus through the body, scans his brain to see if he can detects his own lies, digs deep down into the conflict between science and religion and creationism, gets his hormones to explain why you fall in love, understands why women's pupils dilate during orgasm, finds the origin of superstition, analyses why there are more mistakes in magazines such as Science and Nature than in less recognised ones, goes crazy trying to understand antimatter and quantum entanglement, and observes electricity that flows without wires. A truly interesting and entertaining book that is not only for scientists but for everybody.
The media coverage has taken Pere Estupinyà even to TV talk shows such as Buenafuente's (an icon in Spanish and Catalan televisions). See a part of the interview here.
All translation rights available at the Pontas Agency: anna@pontas-agency.com
C.P. Surendran: the first new Pontas client of 2011
"Content for Films" at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2011
Pontas networking in New York
Renato Cisneros across the media
Saskia Vogel's 'Permission' tour
May book haul
Forrest Gander wins Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 2019!
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Department store retailer Macy's invested in tech startup b8ta earlier this summer to develop The Market, Macy's experiential-based retail concept.
Markets are spaces within already existing Macy's stores that allow online brands to maintain a physical presence so potential customers can try out items before purchasing.
B8ta already works with brands to design and create retail experiences and mostly focuses on allowing customers to try out new tech products. Brands that primarily operate online can use b8ta to provide a small-scale physical presence to customers. B8ta provides the space and software for inventory, checkout, point of sale, staff scheduling, and more, which is what will help Macy's to scale The Market quickly, according to TechCrunch.
B8ta currently operates ten stores, including locations in Austin, Houston, San Francisco, Santa Monica, and Seattle. It has partnered with brands like Thync, a wearable meant to improve meditation practices; Gi Flybike, a folding electric bicycle; and Netgear, a networking hardware company.
As Macy's has faced slower sales and the pressure to close stores, the company is looking to pivot its strategy and invest in tech. Its concept The Market will give online brands the chance to sell products in a physical setting, boosting sales for those brands but also attracting customers into the rest of the Macy's store. Markets will carry goods from all of a typical Macy's sections including apparel, beauty, and home.
According to CNBC, there are 10 Market locations already operating inside existing Macy's stores, and Macy's plans to open more shortly.
Brands that are interested in placing items in a Market location can apply to be featured here.
Jessica is a recent graduate of ASU where she studied political science and journalism. She is currently a researcher at a local cybersecurity company. Her hobbies include reading up on hacker forums on Tor and giving unsolicited podcast recommendations.


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Roughly how many starships are in Starfleet?
In the Star Trek universe, the Federation's Starfleet has a large number of ships in its fleet. But there's something bugging me about the scale of it. The battle at Wolf 359 is presented as being some great loss, which it was, but we're talking only a few dozen ships lost. Compare this to the battles that take place late in Deep Space 9, we have hundreds of ships battling on screen. This makes Wolf 359 seem pretty tiny in comparison.
What's the scale of Starfleet's fleet? Are there thousands of ships? Tens of thousands? Millions? I know a precise number of ships is pretty impossible to have, but do we have a rough idea of the scope of their fleet?
I kind of think the losses a Wolf 359 cause Starfleet to beef up production of ships, so they had more by the later DS9 episodes, but I'm not sure. – thedaian Jan 23 '12 at 21:44
Hardware is often easy. Crews are harder. You can ramp up how fast you build a ship with parallel lines, but people are slow learners in comparison. – geoffc Jan 23 '12 at 21:47
Perhaps limited cloning is used to fill out crews? This would explain why some enlisted personnel look like others but have different names (i.e. regular guest-stars and one shot actors that get tapped for full time parts, ex. Robert Duncan McNeill as Nick Locarno on TNG and Tom Paris on VOY) – Xantec Jan 23 '12 at 22:03
@Keen The thing is, you can parellel production lines to speed up production of ships. You can use technology to speed up the minimal time for a single ship to be built. But 9 women cannot make a baby in one month. Its nice having a large population to pull from, but it still takes too long to train people. – geoffc Jan 24 '12 at 0:57
DS9 battles and Wolf 359 aren't comparable. The engagement at Wolf 359 was an emergency response to a surprise peacetime attack on Earth. Starfleet only had hours to assemble the fleet. In comparison, large scale DS9 battles were in the middle of a war, after each side has had weeks or months to assemble their fleets. – Lèse majesté May 3 '14 at 19:08
I would postulate that there were probably on the order of 10-30,000 active ships in Starfleet around the time of TNG/DS9/Voyager. This is from the fact that there are no ships seen with more than 5 digits in the registry, and that Starfleet has been around for a hundred and fifty years.
It would appear that most ships are in service for only about 20-30 years (if not destroyed).
I would consider the loss of the fleet at Wolf 359 analogous to the loss of the NATO Atlantic Fleet - there are still a large number of ships operating in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Similarly, the battle of Wolf 359 would have been fought by the "home fleet" gathered from around Sector Zero-Zero-One - other ships would have been around in the outer sectors of the Federation, but the loss of the home fleet is pretty catastrophic.
Also - note the shift in ship designs - prior to Wolf 359 we see large ships like the Galaxy, Ambassador and Excelsior classes dominate the fleet. Afterwards, smaller vessels like the Defiant, Akira, and Steamrunner classes are built in great numbers. Mind you - the final battle against Cardassia at the end of DS9 does show a huge number of Galaxy class starships.
After writing all of this, I discovered http://www.ditl.org/index.php?daymain=/pagarticle.php?14 - which follows some of the same reasoning regarding the ships lost at Wolf 359. It also follows some other lines of reasoning to arrive at similar numbers - upwards to about 30,000 (allied, not just Starfleet) ships at the end of DS9.
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Excelsior class ships were a staple of the fleet. Thanks to a consistent design and upgrades some of those ships saw service lifes in excess of 70 years. en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Excelsior_class – Jack B Nimble Jan 23 '12 at 22:36
Actual ships saw 70 years service? Or the class saw service? – HorusKol Jan 23 '12 at 22:48
Hmm maybe I imagined it. But the Stargazer was salvaged, repaired, and it available for duty if needed. A ship that saw at least 45 years of service. en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/USS_Stargazer#Background – Jack B Nimble Jan 23 '12 at 23:18
With so many ships, how does it happen that the Enterprise is so frequently "the only ship in range" when an emergency arises? – Xantec Jan 24 '12 at 0:06
@Xantec Space... is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. – user1027 Jan 24 '12 at 1:31
I asked this question some time ago, along related lines but generally disbelieving the scale that was suggested. Since then, I've found this page which deals with the size of Starfleet at any given time, based on things both seen AND said.
The link I posted above suggests that Starfleet has roughly 6,000 to 9,000 ships through most of the TNG arc, based primarily on things said in dialogue during the series. This is a best guess based on the Federation having ten "fleets" (like the US Navy's Atlantic Fleet vs Pacific Fleet) of about 600-900 ships apiece. This is arguable, as it's based on the Tenth Fleet being the highest fleet designation, and each fleet being composed of more than 300 ships (as 300 ships was an "element" of a fleet, two such elements making up one of the attack forces in a DS9 episode. A fleet could in reality have as few as 112 ships (the Seventh Fleet is mentioned as having lost 98 of 112 ships at a particular battle of the Dominion War), which could mean Starfleet has as few as 1000 ships. Or, there could be eleven Fleets, or a hundred and eleven.
Going by numbering system, and discounting the possibility of large gaps in the numbering (which may or may not be logical; the numbers may have some system based on ship class and/or generation, shipyard, or Federation appropriations bill), the link agrees there could very well be over 70,000 ships still in service, numbering from the extremely-old but probably oft-overhauled Repulse (NCC-2544) and Stargazer (officially still in service but mothballed; NCC-2893), up to the USS Bellerophon at NCC-74705. This is rationalized by considering the size of Federation space; it is stated to encompass an area of 8,000 cubic light years. Travelling between Earth and DS9 is about a month's trip at maximum warp. Getting to Amargosa or Veridian from Earth is several times that distance, would require crossing Klingon space according to at least one map, and would thus likely take a period of months or years at "cruising speeds" (Warp 6-7). To be able to respond quickly at any corner of Federation space with a sizable fleet, you'd need a LOT of ships.
KeithSKeithS
If there were only 6,000 or 9,000 ships, the Federation would have been wiped out in the Dominion War. – Sovereign Inquiry Apr 30 '20 at 16:25
I have come to the conclusion that the Federation Fleet at Voyager; Endgame must be roughly 20 to 25,000 active Starfleet Starships. Voyager's Registry # is NCC74656. The first Enterprise under Archer was/is NX01 and the USS Enterprise under Kirk was/is 1701. So obviously, the UFP being about 150 years old by the end of Voyager, Season 7, would have had to produce around 70,000 ships.
Now between ships being de-commissioned, scrapped, and destroyed over that period, and with continued construction and refits, the fleet would fluctuate to this amount. Remember, Runabouts and Peregrine Fighters are numbered also. The Rio Grande had a registry number NCC72452. Their small size and necessity for a small craft with easy construction would account for around 5,000. Other fighters, another 5,000.
Now back to the Primary fleet. Starship fleet. Given the vast area of Federation Space, the size and amount of Starbases and such, they would have only been constructed to facilitate a large fleet of thousands of ships. Despite the battle of Wolf 359 and the dialogue of TNG, there is just no way it would consist of a few hundred or even a few thousand. At the end of 'Best of Both Worlds' Commander Shelby stated that the fleet would be up in a year. But "the Fleet" can be a subjective term. The fact that JUST one ship (A Borg Cube) could destroy 38 Federation Starships made it seem like a bigger deal than it was. In DS9, there were constant examples given that Starfleet was much larger. And the Klingon Fleet was almost as large. Together they would have surpassed the Romulan Fleet, but not separately.
Remember, the Romulan Star Empire was the Dominant superpower throughout TNG. In DS9 during the Dominion War, it took all 3, to challenge the Dominion's Alpha Quadrant fleets plus the Cardassians, and then the Breen fleets. The Cardassians were threatened by the UFP and in DS9, beaten quickly by just the KDF. During the war, when the Dominion got a hold of DS9, The Dominion, was almost able to get in another 3800 ships when the cloaked minefield was taken down. That would have "sealed the deal" in winning the war. Obviously that's not all of the Dominion's fleet, but around 1/8th (est.). Their fleet would most likely be close to 30,000 total.
The Romulan Fleet, 25,000 with much of it being the large D'deridex Class Warbird. They had the Reman Slaves to manpower such large construction efforts, unlike the UFP. Clearly Starfleets' bulk is the Miranda Class, the Excelsior Class and the Nebula Class. Followed by the Galaxy Class and Akira ships. They would have had to double their efforts building and housing larger ships to combat possible Warbirds. More advanced mission focused ships were built on demand. Like the Intrepid, Defiant or Olympic.
Dan MathisDan Mathis
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In STTOS, Captain KIRK tells USAF Captain Christopher, that "...there are only twelve like her in the fleet...", referring tof course too the CONSTITUTION class. Those ships seemed to be the first part of the registry numbers 1700 et,al. They had been around for perhaps fifthteen too twenty years, including the commands of Captains April and Pike. That was roughly a century after the founding of the UFP. And yet, in less than a century we see 70,000 odd ships, shuttles etc... I suppose this could be rapid expansion of the Federation. – templerman Sep 19 '18 at 21:01
Keep in mind in the real naval world, to field one ship in constant permanent formation you need a minimum of 3 ships to a maximum of 5. You need 2 enlisted crews ( a blue or gold crew in American naval parlance) per ship and one crew of officers permanently attached to each ship. Most navies around the world use a 3 to 1 ratio for available ships. This means, if you want 1 ship on constant patrol you need 1 ship actually operating and 1 in training or extended equipment trials, as well as this ship being ready in an emergency to respond to a threat and the 3rd ship either docked and inactive or in a heavy maintenance cycle.
Extending this to the Star Trek universe maybe a fleet 50,000 means that only 16,666 are actually available for use at any time warfare exasperates this 3 to 1 ratio to probably 5 to 1. Thus with the massive physical volume of the Federation, that explains why only small squadrons are available for quick emergency response. Starfleet also had a large reserve fleet of old inactive fleet ships that, in the event of an emergency like a highly destructive war can be quickly re activated according to Gene Roddenberry & Rick Berman.
As for the Romulans, it was said that the large Romulan D'deridex warbird fleet had actually been a big disadvantage because they were actually far less combat capable than first thought. As combat vessels they were too easily damaged which complicated time sensitive repairs during wartime (the famous glass jaw syndrome). There large size and odd shape was obviously meant for intimidation and maybe cloaking field effectiveness, not combat. Thus the smaller Valdore Warbirds armed with a greater number of medium to heavy energy weapons instead of a smaller number of all very heavy energy weapons, appears as far more effective combat ship and economically more viable as well. For example, during WW2 British, Canadian, Australian and American naval Corvette, Destroyer and Light Cruiser production limited the number of screws and propulsion shafts to one per ship. Yes, the ships were more vulnerable to equipment break downs. However, more than one drive shaft held up the building and repair times thus lowered wartime production and combat availability/effectiveness.
As for the size of the Klingon and Romulan Fleets they are obviously smaller in peace time compared to the Federation due to their much smaller economies. Its said several times during movies and TV shows that, the Klingon Empire especially is a very poor Empire economically and must use a much larger percentage of the budget for defence than the Federation. The Romulans probably had a much larger fleet during the Dominion War because they were late arrivals and didn't have a very large percentage of their entire fleet either being repaired because of battle damage and other ships in need of emergency of resupply, which is hinted at several times during DS9's 3 seasons at war. Not to mention, the Federation needed to build new ships as replacements and re-activing old ones as quickly as possible, most likely using up every available ship berth in every fleet yard, station and starbase, throughout the Federation.
The Romulan Fleet is also smaller or otherwise there would be a far greater number of incursions by Romulan ships everywhere. There cloaking devices are probably the main reason for this because such a delicate device that needs so exacting standards of maintaining ship and engine emissions not to mention odd shapes that physically assist the cloaking device's ability. This would severely limit production of shipping.
Fraser PollockFraser Pollock
You make a good argument, but how many starships are there in Starfleet? – Blackwood Dec 12 '16 at 16:16
If you have 10 fleets, not every ship is assigned to a fleet. You have to realize that you need patrol ships, escorts ships, training ships, etc. The 98 out of 112 ships destroyed at the Tyre system were two attack wings of the 7th Fleet. The attack on DS9 was an attack group of elements of different fleets. A fleet rarely engages its entire force in one battle. In Earth history, look at the battle of Midway. The Japanese had their carrier task force, battleship task force, and landing task force. The US fleet destroyed only the carrier task force, causing the rest to retreat. The assault group of 600 odd ships attacking DS9 was not a full fleet as they had to keep fleets in place to hold the line.
The Federation, being the strongest of the three Alpha Quadrant super powers, had to contain a fleet to keep in check the Romulans and Klingons as well as the smaller powers. Because of a peace treaty they could not develop cloaking technology, and that is obviously a big disadvantage, but the Federation has proven to have better shield technology than the other two powers to balance. I would surmise that the 10 fleets, with primarily combat ships, equal 1000-1200 per fleet. Totaling 6000-8000. Based on DS9 episodes, the majority of these ships are capital ships. The beginning of the war saw many older ships like the Excelsior. As the war went on, these ships were replaced by newer, dedicated warships and stronger capital ships (Galaxy, Defiant, Sovereign...). I would guess that just like a wartime Earth fleet, you would see a ratio of 1 capital ship for 4-6 escort ships like destroyers, cruisers, and such. I believe the fighters would not number more than 200 per fleet. You see in a TNG episode how easily fighters are dealt with for a capital ship. You also see in that the Enterprise E did not see many engagements during the war yet had a top-of-the-line ship and crew. You had ships patrolling the Romulan border before they joined the war. The Romulans joining the war not only added the Romulan fleet but at least 3000 ships that were freed up from the border. I say at least 3000 because you had to have enough ships to hold or make a tactical retreat if the Romulans tried to take advantage of the war.
With the supply lines long given the size of the Federation, and the ability for Earth to be attacked so far from the front lines, the Federation had to keep many ships in reserve for patrol and escort duties as well as guarding shipyards and refit facilities; 3000 at least. You see the Defiant taking assignment this way. Side note, as you see with the Defiant, you rotate your ships and crew from front line duty to refit/resupply to patrol/escort then back to the front line.
8000 ships in the 10 fleets fighting the war, 3000 ships guarding against the Romulans, 3000 patrol/escort. The Federation needs fewer ships as their ships are stronger. The war brought the Federation new life as they were slowly dying. Their ships were old and they built new ships very slowly. With new ships like the Defiant made for combat and minimalist in nature, they could build faster. Just as Sisko received Defiant 2 so quickly. The Dominion had 25000-30000 ships. If the Federation had 12000-14000 roughly as I estimate, the Klingons starting the war with probably 8000-10000 ships, (smaller territory) they could barely match the Dominion and were at a disadvantage with the large sensor grids that could monitor all Federation fleet movements. As the war progressed, the Klingons lost many ships quickly and the Federation lost their older ships and it took time to replace them. That is why the Romulans were needed. At the end of the war I would say that the Federation fleet went from 12000 with 70% being older ships and mothballed fleets to 15000, with over ⅔ being new ships. Look at the end of VOY. Within less than an hour a small fleet appeared to meet the Borg sphere and they consisted of mostly new more powerful ships.
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ChrisChris
This appears to be mostly unsourced speculation. Also, you say ≥ 1000 ships per fleet; 10 fleets ≤ 8000 ships total. Can you explain that math? – Peregrine Rook Jan 12 '16 at 16:50
Fleet size: I base my math on both star trek history and earth history. A fleet rarely engages it's entire strength at one. In WW2 you had the Carrier fleet, which is seperated into battle groups with one or two carriers per group, a battleship fleet, and a landing fleet. Fleets would vary in size and if there are 10 fleets the fleets that are engaged would be larger. – Chris Mar 15 '16 at 14:59
You never really see an entire fleet in one battle but rather attack wings or parts of a few fleets gathered to take DS9. A good example is the battle of Leyte Gulf, You had 3 separate engagements.The American fleet sent their carrier fleet north, there protective battleships east, and the landing fleet and their destroyer escorts had to fight off a surprise Japanese attack by themselves. 3 separate fleets in 3 different engagements. So 10 fleets, 800-1200 ships a piece with a ratio of for every capital ship is 4-5 escort ships. – Chris Mar 15 '16 at 14:59
My math has the fleets totaling roughly 8000 ships. Now think, the Federation couldn't leave the Romulan, Ferengi, Izanathi, and Tholan Expanse borders unguarded. The Federation would need a force in place to be able to hold the Romulans or at least make a tactical retreat against Romulus forces. 3000 roughly is my educated guess. – Chris Mar 15 '16 at 15:03
Also, you have to realize that you have to protect shipping lanes and escort supply ships to and from the front. The Defiant did as such. We don't see the Enterprise-E or hear about them. They primarily did escort and diplomatic duties. You also had ships protect construction yards, being refitted, or training ships. With such a large terriorty like the Federation compared to the Dominion controlled Cardasia space I surmise that these ships would be roughly 3000. That is why Romulus joining the war was so important, it freed up Federation ships as well as added the romulan fleet. – Chris Mar 15 '16 at 15:08
Starfleet had around 6 thousand-9 thousand ships, varying between 10-15 different classes of Starships, numbers of 30,000 were in combination of ships in Dominion war not just federation.
1500, be said about be outnumber 20-1, was just a mistake or more likely means 1500 bird of pray only, which are not the most powerful ships and are pretty much only good in groups of 3.
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jamesjames
What are your sources? – Ryan Sep 29 '15 at 20:13
First of all, there are at least 64 different known Starfleet classes. Second, if there were only 6,000--9000 ships, the Federation would have been totally wiped out by the end of the Dominion War. I think that 20,000-30,000 is a better guess. – Sovereign Inquiry Apr 30 '20 at 16:31
In one of the final episodes of DS9 I remember a reference to 1500 klingon ships being deployed to the front line, and then the remark between the Jem'hadar, the Cardassians, and the Breen they'd be outnumbered 20 to 1 (simple math) giving the Dominion a fleet a number of 30,000 in the alpha quadrant. The combined forces of the Federation, Klingons, and Romulans has to be somewhere in the neighborhood of that. I would guess around 15,000 - 20,000. The number I have arrived on for the Federation is ~ 6000 ships, the Klingons (being warriors probably have more) ~10,000 and the Romulans (being in a balance of power for so long with the Federation would match the federations 6000) giving the alliance about 22,000 seems like a good guess.
Dan GoertzenDan Goertzen
I follow your logic regarding the Klingons and the Dominion fleet, but what are you basing the rest of the numbers on? – phantom42 Oct 13 '13 at 22:52
The numbers for the Federation, Romulans & Klingons are an educated guess. I don't think there's any reference to compare fleet numbers for the Federation or Romulan fleets in any of the series. Don't take my numbers as fact, its just pure conjecture. – Dan Goertzen Oct 14 '13 at 5:48
Ok. I'm no expert, however, if the federation is 8000ly across and we are assuming that the said star-ship could maintain a warp of 9.0 and at that it would take over 5 years to cross the federation. And even at Voyager's top speed of 9.975, again assuming she could hold it, that would only make it in one year and 161 days. Now with that said, to have an effective fleet able to respond in reasonable time periods with the fleets we saw in deep space nine, the federation must have a fleet near the 35,000 maybe up to 50,000. In Star Trek canon especially in the books the UFP is the superpower of the alpha quadrant, during the late 23 century / early 24th century. They must have that amount to cover that many sectors and be able to assemble enough assets to counter threats, like in the dominion war and against the Borg. The math simply wouldn't work to defend an area of space that size with any kind of effectiveness. In the Sacrifice of angels episode to defend against fleets with 1,200 ships the federation assembled 600 ships. Now, they were taking time to do this and with this math they must have at least 40 to 50 ships spread across 10^2 sectors to have a fleet assembled in a period of week or so. Just my thoughts.
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lukeluke
Starfleet at start of Dominion War had strength of ca. 30,000 spacecraft. However, this included transports, supply vessels and other auxiliaries. The size of the UFP and the fact that it seems to comprise at least 4 regional cores; original Fed Core, Antares, Deneb and Rigel, would imply a widely dispersed fleet as much for political reasons as strategic necessity.
There is apparently only one Academy churning out the officer corps. How many graduate per year? 1,000 or fewer? And these graduates have to man several hundred Starbases as well as the glamorous frontline Starships.
Since 2364/65 UFP have faced Romulan resurgence, the Borg threat, the brief Klingon War of 2372-73 and total war vs. the Dominion. Until mid 2360's it seems complacency and lack of any obvious strategic threat meant Starfleet dispersed its assets widely and could assemble a patchwork force of 40 starships at Wolf 359 within 24-36 hours.
2366-2373 increased production of combat-capable starships and upgrade of many older ships, and since the fleet would be 'back up within a year' after Wolf 359 presumably Starfleet is already building ca. 40 starships and/or will redeploy vessels from other sectors to rebuild the so-called Home Fleet.
I accept Brannon Braga's (?) assertion that Starfleet had around 8,000 starships in service ca. 2373. However, at least 2,000 of these would be Oberth type science vessels with another third in refit, en route to and from missions or otherwise unavailable except in a dire emergency. Also, large numbers of ships would be deployed in the outer regions and possibly months away from UFP inner core.
That is why I think that 'Enterprise' is only ship avaliable, apart from dramatic requirements of a fictional TV show. Furthermore, from 2371 Starfleet seems to have, logically, begun to concentrate its assets within the inner core, hence the "sudden" appearance of huge fleets of 100-300 ships, and lest we forget these fleets included smaller vessels like Fighters which will have given these fleet's an artificially powerful appearance based on numbers alone.
Stephen GriffithsStephen Griffiths
You could dramatically improve this post by referencing or backing up the figures you've given. Are they from a reliable source or just your own opinion? – Valorum May 3 '14 at 18:55
First off it was called the federation alliance and from what weyoun said "without the federation the others are nothing". Would lead me to believe that starfleet had the greater number of ships involved in the war. The seventh fleet had a 112 ships at the battle of tyra and lost 98 ships. But in an episode a bit later in the series, the seventh fleet was at half strength. So I am thinking there were at least 250 ships in the seventh fleet(it took just under a year to replace 39 ships destroyed at wolf 359). Then we move to operation return sisko used components of a couple of fleets to get 600+ starships not full fleets and the ninth fleet was on its way. So from this and just taking a look at our own military here on earth(circ2014), I am going to guess they would have at least 50000 yes fifty thousand ships spread across 8000+ light of space, and that about 6000-8000 could be made available to the offensive segment of the war. Planets still need defending after all. This is purely a guess but if you look at say the US navy has about 300+ ships one country. With a 150+ member worlds and thousands of colonies and outpost I might even be a little conservative on that number STARFLEET IS HUGE AND WEALTHY. Thats why everyone wants to conquer the federation the..BORG..DOMINION..SONA..and who knows who else. Please chime in.
SteveSteve
You might want to edit this with an axe. There's a good answer hiding in there somewhere. – Valorum Sep 21 '14 at 15:28
Starfleet was powerful, but I don't think it was powerful enough to produce 333 ships a year for 150 years. The amount of tritanium, dilithium, and other materials needed would be unimaginably huge, as well as the number of people, engineers, scientists, and crew members. If they had 50,000 ships, they wouldn't have to worry about battles like the Battle of Sector 001, Wolf 359, the Dominion War, or others. – Sovereign Inquiry Apr 30 '20 at 16:37
Dominion War: as for the Romulans, who knows? However, based upon their apparent all-eggs-one-basket approach to capital ship policy re: the D'deridex class, their innate arrogance and racial contempt for the UFP and the fact that they seem to need to detach the Klingons from their alliance with the Feds before considering an invasion of the UFP (with exception of Shinzon, but he was unbalanced), and the fact that there can't be too many of 'em considering they've only been around for less than 2,000 years, I doubt they have more than 1,000 frontline capital ships and probably far fewer, maybe 600-800? When they join Dominion War they have advantage of surprise and concentrated numbers to launch surprise attacks along Cardassian border.
Presumably they have other, smaller vessels e.g the 'Scout ship' which could function as a light escort/heavy fighter if deployed in large numbers. Considering their heavy losses during the final battles of the war in 2375 it seems that they would be unlikely to pose much of a threat to the Feds post war until a renegade like Shinzon made the effort.
One piece of 'evidence' from "Nemesis" is that of battle group Omega, deployed to provide support to the Enterprse in event of a Romulan incursion. It comprised 7 ships, hardly a major force considering Starfleet was fielding hundreds of ships in battle groups less than 4 years earlier. However, this might imply that the pacifist and anti-militarist politicians of UFP had in the interim forced Starfleet to resume its pre-2366 policy of fleet dispersal and that 7 ships was the minimum available and the maximum considered politically correct to avoid provoking the Romulans.
Anyhoo, ultimately assessments of Romulan strength are even more speculative than Starfleet. However, we can make a reasonable attempt based on Romulan character, their impact on Dominion War and after 2375 on their defence of captured Cardassian worlds, Shinzon's apparent power over the military and presumed continued watchfulness over their border with the Klingon Empire. Either way, I reckon that they remain powerful but strategically and economically overstretched.
If that were the case, Star Trek: Voyager would not exist, or any movies set after the Dominion War, because Earth would have been captured by the Dominion, and the Federation would be extinct. So it has to be about 10,000-30,000 ships, as HorusKol said. – Sovereign Inquiry Apr 30 '20 at 16:48
I think all the estimations go out the window with the Dominion War. It was mentioned several times towards the end of DS9 that the majority of the fighting capable ships in Starfleet were destroyed. They were able to make new ships but they were running out of officers, specifically captains to crew the ships. The lack of officers enabled Nog to end up a LTJG without even finishing half of the Academy.
Nemesis took place a short time after that. All Alpha Quadrant powers were greatly weakened. My guess is however many fleets Starfleet had before, by the end of the war/Nemesis time frame, there would be less than 100 ships, and 100 seems way high.
In my heart, Star Trek will forever be on pause until they make a canon show taking place post Nemesis-DS9-Voyager. I thought it would be really interesting to have series take place where the Federation is in shambles, even classically peaceful prosperous planets like Betazed were rubble. Ships would be out on their own.
This seems completely out of kilter with what we see in the show. Some of the single battles toward the end of DS9 had in excess of 100 ships and we see many/most of those surviving. – Valorum Jul 8 '17 at 10:11
"I thought it would be really interesting to have series take place where the Federation is in shambles, even classically peaceful prosperous planets like Betazed were rubble. Ships would be out on their own." - sounds like Firefly. – Rand al'Thor♦ Jul 8 '17 at 10:19
This is true, however it is also stated that those battles were the combined entire forces of the Federation, in addition to Klingon and Romulan ships. They have a debate towards the end whether or not to commit everything, because if they failed they would be open to complete invasion. They decided on putting everything in. So that was the entire Federation fleet in the final battle. – Joshua Dec 11 '17 at 7:27
If that was the entire fleet, why did they show the large numbers of Akira, Saber, Norway, and other ship classes in Voyager? The Federation would have never recovered, and there would be no way they were producing Sovereigns, because starships also help to deliver materials. In ST: PIC season finale, they had a huge fleet of Inquiry Class starships. That proves that Starfleet definitely had ships remaining. – Sovereign Inquiry Apr 30 '20 at 16:46
I could obviously be wrong. Or it's some kind of mix of both where they attacked with everything (that was available and in the region, the Federation being as large as it is, and ships needing to repair from constant war, that would exclude an amount). I'm not sure what you mean about Voyager. I assumed Picard takes place decades later, any amount of production is possible since then. And bad writing or ignoring canon are always possibilities. – Joshua May 1 '20 at 22:35
If I was to make a guess at the strength given to the UFP starfleet strength prior to the Dominion War would be between 2000 and 6000 ships. Most of the ships were large capital ships used for long-range exploration, not mainly for combat operations. The ships in one timeline with a 23 year war with the Klingons a galaxy class starship could carry over 6000 troops into a landing. There were several thousand light cruiser/heavy fighter ships mostly for patrol and civil defense. Each of the worlds also would have only a military, albeit a limited one not used for outside combat operations. In the series after the the wars with the Borg and the Dominion, Andoria seceded for the UFP and quickly reconstituted the Imperial guard or had a home battalion. The Vulcans also had a home defense force with elements of the high command still in place. In the book The Battle for Betazed, they never really gave up the security force, but they were also not very well trained in combat operations having turning over most of the defense to starfleet. And from the time of the Khitomer Accords to the time of the Borg, starfleet only fought border skirmishes with the Tzenkethi and the Cardassians. Most of the fleet was engaged in long term exploration and science discovery. So, for 60 to 80 years the UFP had no real enemies to contend with. The Romulans went silent after the Tomed incident, the Klingons were abstract allies to a point. Most of the budget was cut and the money directed to colonization efforts and other potential "social projects."
Jack RyanJack Ryan
There's a lot of guesswork and precious little actual evidence here. Who's to say that the Federation didn't use this lull in hostilities to construct huge numbers of exploratory vessels or vast fleets of colonisation ships. You can use the same logic either way. – Valorum Feb 23 '15 at 1:44
Were there REALLY over 73,000 Federation starships commissioned?
Why is the Federation so poorly patrolled?
How did Starfleet replace 39 ships in a year?
Roughly how many humans are there in the Star Trek universe?
How many ships did Starfleet have during Star Trek Enterprise?
How many Federation Starships did James T. Kirk destroy?
How many security guards were onboard D7-class starships?
How many Federation starships are at any one point involved in exploration missions like the Enterprise?
How many admirals are in Starfleet?
How come Ferengi starships work?
During Star Trek TOS - how many starships were there in all of Starfleet?


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After lowering taxes on property and equipment for data centers, the Virginia Beach Development Authority has taken another step to boost the industry, awarding Bitcoin mining venture BCause LLC a $500,000 grant towards a $65m commercial facility.
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The Virginian Pilot reports that once operational, the data center will house thousands of privately owned GPUs as well as lease machines to individual customers.
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Bitcoin is the world's highest valued cryptocurrency, but this growth is mostly fueled by speculative trading, since ways to use it are still few and far between.
Bitcoin relies on the blockchain technology; an open source architecture which allows users to embed contracts in secure, transparent digital code, helping process transactions without the need for a trusted middleman.
Despite its limited applications, lack of recognition as legal tender, and unstable value - which peaked at $17,549 on December 11th 2017, up from just $780 on December 12th 2016 - BCause founder Tom Flake believes that "the economy is going to be disrupted in a meaningful way" by the technology, and that the facility will provide the necessary infrastructure to capitalize on it.
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Not a spy, but a cool story
December 10, 2015 Lars Walker	Leave a comment
There was big news in the world of C. S. Lewis studies today. Christianity Today released an article by Harry Lee Poe about the discovery of a previously unknown recording of a radio talk by C. S. Lewis. Not a talk for the BBC, but for Iceland, on Her Majesty's Secret Service, so to speak:
Until now, the general public and the world of scholarship had no idea that C. S. Lewis began his wartime service by undertaking a mission for MI6. Long before James Bond, Lewis rendered service to this clandestine branch of British Intelligence, which was so secret for so long that few people knew of its existence, and few of those knew its actual name. Alternatively known as Military Intelligence, the Secret Service, and MI6, its actual name may be the Secret Intelligence Service. Ian Fleming gave the head of this spy network the code name of M, but in real life he is simply known as the Chief. When Lewis came on board at the beginning of World War II, it was still a fledgling group of amateurs desperately working to save their island home from disaster.
The story is interesting, not only for the revelation of Lewis' work for British Intelligence, but because it involves one of his all too rare explications of his passion for Norse literature and myth.
I think the title's a bit misleading, since Jack Lewis was nothing like a spy, but the story's a big deal nonetheless. Kudos to Harry Lee Poe for his discovery.
British IntelligenceC.S. LewisHarry Lee PoeIcelandWorld War II


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When police descended on a USC-area house party attended by African American students over the weekend, some were quick to claim racial profiling.
Sgt. Susie Padilla, speaking to the Weekly, emphasized a few key contentions, including that the department was really responding to both parties, that officers came under fire from debris-and-bottle throwers, and that those at the African American party did not comply with orders to shut it down.
Nonetheless, the LAPD's response would be investigated by the department, she said. At the same time, police brass, including Captain Paul Snell of the Southwest Division Chief John Thomas of USC's Department of Public Safety planned to meet with concerned students at 6 p.m. tonight at the Ronald Tutor Campus Center.
Padilla said that cops were called to both parties based on noise complains sometime after 2 a.m. Saturday and that the first residence to receive officers' request to shut down was the black party.
Police then went to the event across the street and made the same request, she said. During that time the first party's music went back up and officers returned only to be met by resistance and debris and bottles, she said.
That prompted a back-up call, and some of the arriving officers were prepared with helmets and batons, Padilla said.
USC public safety officers also responded.
There's two parties going on, the music shut down, and people were starting to leave. A lot of people were gathering in the street.
Six people were arrested, including one on suspicion of felony interfering with police, one on suspicion of misdemeanor interfering and four for allegedly failing to disperse, Padilla said.
The LAPD has fielded formal complaints about its response Saturday and will investigate, police said.
One witness told the Weekly that police have broken up four other parties this semester -- all, apparently, in the wake of a Halloween-party shooting last year that prompted tighter security measures on campus.
We have heard from many students who are upset with the events of early Saturday morning at an off-campus party. We understand their concern and are working closely with them and commit ourselves to doing all we can to ensure respectful treatment of students at peaceful social gatherings.
[Clarification at 1:22 p.m. on May 8]: The LAPD's Padilla wants to make clear that she never referred to any of the parties as having predominantly African American patrons. Those descriptors -- "black party," et. al. -- were entirely our own, added to make the facts clear to our readers. Padilla simply referred to the events as party 1 and party 2.


The current turmoil in the Middle East has produced calls for Israel to move toward peace with the Palestinians and withdraw from the occupied West Bank, and for the creation of a viable Palestinian state. These calls have come from many long-time friends and supporters of Israel.
Writing in The Wall Street Journal March 1, Andre Aciman, who teaches comparative literature at the City University of New York and is the author ofOut of Egypt: A Memoir, noted that, "Israel…cannot afford to wait and see which way the wind blows as rebellion sweeps through the Middle East. Rather, it should seize the moment and show that it can bring about changes as momentous as those witnessed elsewhere in the region today. That means striking an honorable deal with the Palestinians, vacating areas whose occupation is unjustifiable and allowing the Palestinians to have a country with a capital Israel learns to share. Israel must show its Arab neighbors that it can up the ante on their revolution and produce the long-awaited miracle of peace in the Middle East."
At J Street's February conference in Washington, DC, Egyptian journalist Mona Eltahawy emphasized that "The hatred of Israel will not end until you start treating Palestinians with freedom and dignity. This is the time for Israel to sit down and make concrete concessions."
Even before the recent and historic Arab uprisings, however, criticism of Israel's role in the West Bank and Gaza had been growing on the part of many thoughtful Jewish observers.
Toward the end of 2010, a small book by a 93-year-old man unexpectedly reached the top of the best seller list in France. Indignez-vous ("Time for Outrage!") by Stéphane Hessel sold more than 600,000 copies between October and the end of December.
Hessel has lived an extraordinary life. His father, Franz Hessel, was a German Jewish writer who emigrated to France with his family in 1924. The younger Hessel served in the French army during the Battle of France and became a prisoner of war. Following his escape from a POW camp, he joined Gen. Charles de Gaulle and the Free French resistance. He parachuted into occupied France in advance of the Allied invasion of 1944 to organize Resistance networks. The Gestapo captured and tortured him. He was transported to Buchenwald and Dora concentration camps–"then, while being transferred to Bergen-Belsen, escaped.
After the war, Hessel became a diplomat and was involved, along with Eleanor Roosevelt, in drafting the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. He received the 2008 UNESCO/Bilbao Prize for the Promotion of Culture and Human Rights. His book is a testament to his belief in the universality of rights, as his defense of Palestinians under Israeli occupation and of illegal immigrants in France attests.
Regarding current violations of human rights, Hessel writes: "Today, my strongest feelings of indignation is over Palestine, both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. The starting point of my outrage was the appeal launched by courageous Israelis to the Diaspora: you, our older siblings, come and see where our leaders are taking this country and how they are forgetting the fundamental human values of Judaism. I went to Gaza and the West Bank in 2002, then five more times until 2009. It is absolutely imperative to read Richard Goldstone's report of September 2009 on Gaza, in which the South African judge, himself Jewish, in fact a self-proclaimed Zionist, accuses the Israeli army of having committed 'actions amounting to war crimes, possibly crimes against humanity' during its three-week 'Operation Cast Lead.' I went to Gaza in 2009 in order to see with my own eyes what this report described."
Hessel and his wife also visited the Palestinian refugee camps established after 1948 by the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, where more than three million Palestinians live–"the descendants over the past 40 years of the 750,000 driven from their homes, first in l948-9, then in l967. "As for Gaza," he writes, "it is an open-air prison for a million and a half Palestinians. In this prison they must organize to survive. Even then the physical destruction from Operation Cast Lead, such as the destroyed Red Cross hospital, it is the behavior of the Gazans–"their patriotism, their love of the ocean and the beach, their constant preoccupation with the well-being of their countless laughing children–"that haunts our memories…I share the South African judge's conclusions. For Jews themselves to perpetuate war crimes is intolerable. Unfortunately, history gives few examples of people who learn the lessons of their own history."
Sadly, many in France did not want to hear Hessel's views. Students at the Ecole Normale invited him to address them in Paris in January, but the authorities stepped in. Monique Canto-Sperber, the school's director, withdrew the invitation and refused to allow Hessel to give an address. She objected to his insistence that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights applied as much to Palestinians as to the French. An ultra-Zionist French Web site, Des Infos, praised Canto-Sperber's decision: "There are men and women in this country of intellectual courage. Mme. Monique-Canto-Sperber…is an example. She has on the afternoon of 12 January 2011 canceled a scandalous conference-debate."
According to Charles Glass, author of Americans In Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation, "This may be the first time, in an ostensibly free country, that praise has been applied to the 'courage' of canceling a debate. Such courage was not confined to the censorious director of the school. The Conseil Représentatif des Institutions Juives de France [Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France] lauded those who favored suppressing Hessel's right to speak. They included Minister of Higher Education Valérie Pécresse, self-styled philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy, Alain Finkielkraut, Claude Cohen-Tanoudji and Arielle Schwab. The administrations at other colleges succumbed to the pressure and refused to allow Hessel to speak on their campuses."
To charges that he is either anti-Semitic or anti-Israel, Hessel replies: "I feel that I am completely in solidarity with Jews in the world, because I know what it is to be a Jew. I've seen what it is, I am myself of Jewish origin, and therefore I can only be fully in support of the idea that Jews, after all they've suffered, need a country where they are at home. I shouted my joy when Israel was founded. I said, 'At last.'"
To his critics, he states: "My love for Israel is stronger than yours. But I want it to be an honest country."
New Yorker editor David Remnick wrote an article in the magazine's Feb. 28 issue titled "The Dissenters," about the Israeli newspaper Haaretz and its publisher and owner, Amos Schocken.
"As a newspaper proprietor," wrote Remnick, "Schocken faces all the familiar challenges of his peers around the world…His ideological focus, however, is distinct and unyielding. He is thoroughly committed to ending Israel's 44-year occupation of East Jerusalem, Gaza and the West Bank. He is also a singular force in Israeli journalism on issues such as free speech, equal rights for Israeli Arabs, the independence of the Supreme Court, and the exposure of military abuse. On the 60th anniversary of Israel's independence, Schocken published an article saying that 'Hatikvah,' the national anthem, should be changed, as its lyrics are about only Jewish aspirations."
In that editorial, Shocken wrote: "Hasn't the time come to recognize that the establishment of Israel is not just the story of the Jewish people, of Zionism, of the heroism of the Israel Defense Forces and of bereavement? That it is also the story of the reflection of Zionism and the heroism of IDF soldiers in the lives of the Arabs: the Nakba–"the Palestinian 'Catastrophe,' as the Arabs call the events of 1948–"the loss, the families that were split up, the disruption of lives, the property that was taken away, the life under military government and other elements of the history shared by Jews and Arabs, which are presented on Independence Day, and now only on that day, in an entirely one-sided way."
In mid-June 1967, little more than a week after the end of the Six-Day War, while nearly all of Israeli journalism joined the country in what became a prolonged period of postwar exultation, Amos Elon, then a young Haaretz reporter, traveled to Aqbat Jabar, a refugee camp near the West Bank City of Jericho. He wrote: "Whatever the fate of the occupied territories in our hands at the moment may be–"we can already do something with respect to the problem of the refugees who have remained in the areas under the control of the state of Israel. We have a moral obligation to do this. For on the backs of these people Israel's independence was plowed and they paid with their bodies, their property and their future for the pogroms in Ukraine and the Nazi gas chambers. We owe a huge debt to these forlorn people…They are victims of our independence."
Unlike many in Israel, Haaretz has welcomed the movement toward democracy in Egypt. "Israeli leaders have always preferred to do business with Mubarak, and his ilk," it editorialized, "on the assumption that they would 'preserve stability' and forcibly repress the radical forces seeking change in the region. This view led Israel to disregard the citizens of neighboring countries, viewing them as devoid of political influence in the best case and as hostile Israel-haters in the worst case. Israel viewed itself as a Western outpost and displayed no interest in the language, culture, and public opinion of its immediate surroundings. Integration into the Middle East seemed like a trivial, if not downright harmful, fantasy."
While establishment Jewish groups in the U.S. remain passive about the growth of democracy in the Middle East, critics argue that they should stand firmly with the Arab dissidents in spite of their fears about what the future may hold.
"Egyptians are as entitled to human rights as we are," said Andrew Apostolou, senior program manager at Freedom House and also a board member of the Jewish Community of Greater Washington. "We cannot call for Egyptians to live under despotism because we deem it strategically convenient. It is embarrassing to make a song and dance about Israel being the only democracy in the Middle East and then oppose the emergence of other prospective democracies."
"There was quite a bit of hypocrisy on this issue," noted Ori Nir of Americans for Peace Now. "It [Jewish groups' rhetoric] was a means to divert attention from the peace process and the occupation…it was undemocratic regimes that for years maintained a stable status quo that serviced Israel's interests. If undemocratic regimes serve stability, why rock the boat?"
This line of thought is flawed, argued Nir. Jewish groups would best serve Israel's interests by using this opportunity to push for a final peace agreement with the Palestinians. Moves such as this, he declared, would foster trust in the region.
Those Jewish groups who urge Israel to move toward peace with the Palestinians, reported the March 3 Washington Jewish Week, "say that if Israel does not resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict quickly with a peace deal, the new generation of leaders emerging in the Arab world won't be able to see Israel as anything other than an occupier and repressor of Palestinian rights. Arab commentators echo that thinking."
If ever Israel needed a proper incentive to move toward genuine peace, the current upheaval in the region surely provides it.
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Your condition will be monitored carefully while you are receiving this medicine. You will need important blood work and urine testing done while you are taking this medicine.
Do not become pregnant while taking this medicine or for 6 months after stopping it. Women should inform their doctor if they wish to become pregnant or think they might be pregnant. There is a potential for serious side effects to an unborn child. Talk to your health care professional or pharmacist for more information. Do not breast-feed an infant while taking this medicine and for 6 months after the last dose.
This medicine has caused ovarian failure in some women. This medicine may interfere with the ability to have a child. You should talk to your doctor or health care professional if you are concerned about your fertility.


Dr. Varma is the lead psychiatrist, Ms. Eck is a nurse practitioner, Dr. Smigiel is a psychiatry pharmacy specialist, and Ms. Brooks is a licensed clinical social worker, all in the Buprenorphine Clinic at the Salem VA MEdical Center in Virginia. Dr. Sapra is a staff psychiatrist at the Salem VA Medical Center, Drs. Varma and Sapra are also assistant professors in the department of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville.
As the number of veterans with multiple injuries and hepatitis C virus increases, these clinicians address concerns regarding the best course of treatment while considering opioid abuse disorders, liver safety, and mental health disorders.
Prescription opioid use disorders are the fastest growing type of drug use disorders in the United States.1 All federal practitioners are treating increasing numbers of returning Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) veterans.
a umber of these veterans have sustained multiple combat injuries, and their injury-related painful conditions have made them candidates for opioid therapy.


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Vehicle fleet - APS d.d.
The vehicle fleet of the company APS d.d. comprises 45 vehicles, consisting of 28 buses, 8 combined vehicles, 6 automobiles and 4 trucks.
The majority of the fleet represent buses and combined vehicles of the following brands: SCANIA, MERCEDES, MARBUS, SETRA, MAN, HIGER, RENAULT, OPEL, WW, KING LONG, NEOPLAN, ROSERO.
Tourist bus equipment: air conditioning, DVD/CD player, refrigerator, toilet, safety belts, navigation and microphone.
Ref. no. Vehicle (make and model) No. of seats Toilet Air conditioning Refrigerator Video Luggage compartment Reg.no.


A few nights ago when it was raining (I think this was Monday, maybe?!?!?! I've apparently lost all track of time. ha!) Gibi stopped by to check out this bizarre rash Luke had going on on the back of his neck (we think it's from a bug bite). We're working on potty training and so before she left he wanted to go potty (which often involves removing all of his clothes) and afterward, when he went to walk her to the door, he decided to just run out in the rain! NAKED!
Ouch! That is a nasty rash! :( Poor Luke.
Ummmm...I'd watch out if I were you. Rumor has it there are some old cranky people in your neighborhood who like to call the cops :).


A new Whiskey Distillery and Visitors Centre has been inserted within the existing protected structures of the Stable yard of the Castle. Additional mash house, cask stores and anaerobic digestion buildings have been sensitively augmented. Historical walkways, walled gardens and boundary walls to the demesne have also been respected during the insertion of new drainage and the extensive services required for a distillery.
The entire stables complex had suffered from years of water ingress with extensive structural damage to the roofs and floors. An Enabling Works Contract entailing the re-roofing and temporary propping of the floors facilitated both inspection and drying out of the structure during the design phase of the works.
This approach allowed the Design Team to examine the structure in greater detail and understand the detailing required for the roof and floor repairs and upgrade to allow re-use as a distillery and visitors centre. Detailed condition reports were compiled to support the planning application for re-use of the stable/ farm complex.
Throughout the existing structures have been respected, repaired and enhanced with localised modern additions. The derelict silted up millpond has been brought back into use.


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Q: GitLab CI use untracked files in repository I'm evaluating GitLab CI/CD at the moment and trying to get the pipelines working, however am having a simple(?) problem.
I'm trying to automate the build process by automatically updating ISO images. However these ISO images are not tracked by the repository and ignored in a .gitignore file. But this leads to the issue of when I try run make that it can't find the ISO image...
I'm just using a simple .gitlab-ci.yml file:
stages:
  - build

build:
  stage: build
  script:
    - make

And when I try running this in the GitLab CI interface, it clones the repository (without the ISO images), and then fails, as there is no rule to that make target (as the ISO images are missing). I have tried moving the files into the "build" directory which GitLab creates, however that gives the error of saying it has failed to remove ...
How do I use the local repository rather than having GitLab clone the repository to a "build" location?

A: You can't use Gitlab CI with the files that are on your computer, at least you shouldn't. You could do it with an ssh-executor that will login to a machine that stores the iso files (and it should be a server rather than your development machine) or you could have the docker executor pull them from ftp/object store. For testing purposes you can run the builds locally on your machine.

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Hicks is having the best offensive season of his career with the Tigers.
Seattle — It appears John Hicks found what he was searching for.
Three years after making his major league debut with the Seattle Mariners, Hicks is having the best offensive season of his career with the Tigers. Hicks has hit safely in 13 of 16 games during May and is batting .351 with 11 runs scored, two home runs and nine RBIs in the month. His two-run double in the first inning of Friday's 5-4 loss to the Mariners gave the Tigers the early lead.
Along with getting steady playing time, Hicks credits some of his success to Seattle Mariners third baseman Kyle Seager, who saw Hicks struggling early in his rookie year.
Hicks started the year as a backup catcher for the Tigers, but has moved to first base with the hamstring injury suffered by Miguel Cabrera. Getting regular at-bats has proven helpful for the 28-year-old Hicks, who has four home runs this season after hitting six in his first three seasons.
"He's playing every day and any time you're playing every day you have a chance to get more at-bats and you get to see more pitches," Tigers manager Ron Gardenhire said before Friday's game against Seattle. "... Unfortunately, he's playing behind (catcher James) McCann and then also behind a big first baseman named Cabrera, so you don't get many at-bats. But, getting the opportunity, he's taken advantage of it right now.
Hicks acknowledged how far he's come since his debut in 2015. A fourth-round pick by the Mariners in 2011, Hicks got a hit in his first at-bat but struggled from the plate after. He said that season was one of the worst, offensively, of his professional career.
Gardenhire said Hicks has done a good job of filling in at first base while Cabrera is one the mend, both at the plate and on defense.
Hicks hopes to show he's worthy of a lineup spot, even after the Tigers' star first baseman can return.
Outfielder Leonys Martin was activated from the 10-day disabled list prior to Friday night's game. Martin started in center field for the Tigers. JaCoby Jones, who was originally scheduled to start in center, moved to left field.
Martin went 0-for-4 in his return, reaching base on a fielding error in the fifth inning.
The outfielder was placed on the disabled list retroactive to May 8, with a left hamstring strain. He had been working toward getting back quickly and Gardenhire said he was ready to go as soon as his 10-day DL stint was up.
Martin, who was batting .294 this season with five home runs before his injury, confirmed that he was eager to get back on the field.
To make room for Martin on the active roster, left-handed pitcher Ryan Carpenter was optioned to Triple-A Toledo.
Gardenhire became solemn when discussing Friday morning's shooting at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas.
The Tigers manager discussed the tragedy that saw 10 people killed and another 10 injured at a high school about 40 miles southeast of Houston.
"I just don't understand it. How do those things happen?" Gardenhire said. "… It's really tough. It's tough news. You see too many of it. You're reading the news every day and all these things happen. You don't have any answers for it. Just don't understand why it keeps happening.
Tigers pitcher Alex Wilson, who is on the disabled list as he recovers from a left plantar fascia strain, tweeted about the shooting at the school, which is his wife Kristin's alma mater.
"Praying for everyone involved at my wife's hometown high school in Santa Fe TX," Wilson tweeted. "This one hits closer to home than ever before #EnoughIsEnough".
As can often be the case, walks proved costly for the Tigers in Friday's loss.
Detroit pitchers walked four Seattle batters — all coming in the Mariners' five-run seventh inning. Every Seattle player who drew a walk in that inning scored.
Detroit starter Michael Fulmer looked sharp early and retired 14 of the first 15 batters he faced. Fulmer only allowed three hits in the game, but started the fateful seventh inning with a pair of walks.
Reliever Buck Farmer came in and walked two more batters in the inning. Farmer (0-2), was tagged with the loss for the Tigers.


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NC3Rs e-newsletter - August 2020
Download the latest issue of Tech3Rs
The August edition of our Tech3Rs newsletter for animal technicians is now online. This issue includes a special feature on Lockdown Champions, celebrating technicians who have continued to put the 3Rs into practice during the COVID-19 lockdown, as well as post-lockdown return-to-research advice.
Download and read Tech3Rs
Read about our 3Rs Prize winners in The Biologist
In June we awarded the International 3Rs Prize, sponsored by GSK, to two scientists whose work is reducing the use of animals in research: Dr Francesca Nunn (Moredun Research Institute) and Dr Marta Shahbazi (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology). The latest issue of The Biologist magazine from the Royal Society of Biology features an article on their work and the impacts it is having in veterinary parasitology and developmental biology.
Non-aversive mouse handling in practice
An increasing number of research organisations are moving away from picking up mice by the tail and instead using a tunnel or cupped hands, a change that is often initiated and led by animal care staff. In our new series of videos, six champions based at facilities around the UK share how they succeeded in switching, the positive changes they have seen in their mice, and top tips making the transition as smooth and efficient as possible.
Organ-on-a-chip end-users: last chance to share your views
We are currently running a survey to gather information on the current use of organ-on-a-chip technology and to gain insight into its impacts on the 3Rs. The survey deadline has been extended to Monday 31 August – if you are currently using, considering using or have used organ-on-a-chip technology, please take 30 minutes to complete the survey and help inform the NC3Rs' future strategy in this area.
Learn more about this year's CRACK IT Challenges
This year we have worked with Sponsors to identify five Challenges focused on developing innovative 3Rs tools, technologies and approaches:
Challenge 35 In vitro TDAR: A human immune response assay for the assessment of immune modulation
Challenge 36 Animal free in vitro: Replacement of animal-derived reagents in an established human cell-based in vitro assay associated with an OECD Test Guideline
Challenge 37 STRATIS: Soft Tissue Regeneration after Traumatic Injury
Challenge 38 Mouse Mapp: An application to monitor the welfare of mice
Challenge 39 Tat-Fit: Tasteful tamoxifen for inducible transgenesis
If you're interested in applying for funding to solve one of these Challenges, register for our briefing webinars in September to find out more.
New technology partnering opportunities on the konfer platform
We have teamed up with konfer to provide small companies and academic researchers with a platform to showcase their 3Rs tools and technologies to over 130,000 academics and 27,000 businesses across the UK. Current collaboration opportunities include developing intelligent monitoring of fish welfare and using in silico models to reduce animal use in drug development.
If you have a 3Rs model you want to develop further, validate or share, get in touch via the konfer platform to find out how we can help you make new connections.
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Establish your career with this year's Training Fellowship scheme
There is less than a month to go until our 2020 Training Fellowship scheme closes for applications. Our Fellowships support promising early career researchers with less than three years' post-doctoral experience, focusing on developing new skills and gaining a breadth of research experience.
To avoid missing out, submit your application via Je-S by 4pm (BST) on Tuesday 15 September.
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REGISTER: Compassion fatigue in laboratory animal research
Wednesday 26 August, 3pm (BST)
This joint webinar from the NC3Rs and the North American 3Rs Collaborative (NA3RsC) will be presented by Dr Megan LaFollette, 3Rs Fellow at the NA3RsC. Megan will discuss the latest research on compassion fatigue and how it can affect the mental wellbeing of animal care staff, as well as risk factors and considerations for improving staff welfare. The webinar is free to attend and relevant to anyone involved in laboratory animal care.
Missed our previous webinars?
Recordings of all our past webinars are now available on our website, so you can enhance your 3Rs knowledge at a time convenient for you. Topics recently covered include animal-free antibodies, experimental design and 3Rs advice for project licence applicants.
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Six things we've learnt about the brain using 3Rs methods
For World Brain Day on 22 July, we took a look at some of the latest findings of NC3Rs Grant holders who are using 3Rs methods to provide insights into neuroscience – from how the shape of your brain influences how nauseous you feel to how zebrafish can regenerate their spinal cords by controlling inflammation.
Andrew Blake Tribute Award 2021: applications now open
Are you an animal technician/technologist working primarily in the UK who has made a significant contribution to improving laboratory animal welfare standards over the last year? Don't keep your good work to yourself – apply for the IAT's Andrew Blake Tribute Award! The prize includes free attendance at the 2021 IAT Congress, an engraved glass plaque and a £250 cash award.
The closing date to submit your application is Friday 13 November.
Apply for the EPAA 3Rs Science Prize 2020
Every two years the European Partnership for Alternatives to Animal Testing (EPAA) awards their 3Rs Science Prize to a researcher who has made an outstanding contribution to the 3Rs within regulatory testing. This year's call for applications is now open – scientists from both industry and academia are encouraged to apply.
Applications should be sent to grow-epaa@ec.europa.eu by 12pm (CEST) on Monday 5 October.