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101. Save the Cat(ian) (Prodigy 1.09)
In the future, everyone will be Chakotay for fifteen minutes
It is the PENULTIMATE episode of Prodigy for now, and we LOVED it! Anika and Liz plan a reverse heist and discuss:
Drednok: the Swiss army knife of henchmen (henchdroids)
We love our fictional children
We also love terrible dads in fiction and we don't apologise
(HOWEVER, Anika has been accused of being a Gul Dukat apologist, and she wants us to know SHE WOULD NEVER)
Maybe the Diviner has really good reasons for hating the Federation, but the CHILD SLAVERY makes it a bit difficult to sympathise…
New uniforms means we have OPINIONS!
Does Anika have to explain how animation works?
Liz: Welcome to Antimatter Pod, a Star Trek podcast where we discuss fashion, feminism, subtext, and subspace, hosted by Anika and Liz. This week, we're discussing Star Trek: Prodigy season one, episode nine, A Moral Star, part one. And congratulations to the writers for coming up with an anagram for their title
Anika: I'm proud of them that they get to do a big mid-season finale. Very exciting.
Liz: I enjoy how carefully the two-parters have been sprinkled through this season. Both hiatuses began with the end of a two-parter. Everything about this series feels really planned and careful and coherent in a way that I really admire. And I have every confidence that they're going to stick the landing.
Anika: I agree that it is very well thought out. More so than any of the other Star Treks going on right now, this one seems to be following through with its own narrative. It has courage in itself. Lower Decks sort of has that, too, where it trusts itself and its audience to just do what it wants.
Liz: But also, it's telling very different stories.
Anika: Oh yeah, absolutely. Very different … Purposes is not quite the right word, but this series is teaching something, and Lower Decks is celebrating.
Liz: Yes,
Anika: And they're both also doing the other, but it's like a primary, secondary kind of thing.
Liz: no, I think that puts it really well. And, you know, to an extent, Discovery and Picard are also celebrations of Star Trek, but they're the shows that are really pushing the story forward first and foremost. Then Prodigy comes along, where it's sort of telling its own story, completely separate from that, so far. And then Lower Decks is deliberately just doodling in the margins.
Anika: Yes.
Liz: That is not to disparage a single one of them. I'm really glad that we have all of these completely different Star Treks that are not even a little interchangeable.
Anika: I love it. That's a celebration, too. And just having all of the different points of view and perspectives and ways to engage with Star Trek.
Liz: Yes.
Anika: That even when we had two or three shows on in the nineties, they all had the same flavor.
Liz: Yeah, even Deep Space Nine was just the same flavor, but tipped a little more savory than the others, say. And obviously Voyager was under a lot of pressure to reproduce The Next Generation. Vanilla is a great flavor, and I love it, but not everything has to be vanilla.
Anika: So I think this was a really good setup.
Anika: It was a good first part. I ended it ready for the second one, wanting to — you know nothing was resolved. And I had a lot of questions.
Anika: Which I think is what you want out of a part and one of two type story.
Liz: Absolutely. I was afraid that they'll go to leave it in a really dark space and traumatize some children in real life, as well as fiction. But no, we had the last minute twist that actually Dal and the others have a plan. And I think that's great.
And I'm going to take a moment to talk about the Save the Cat storytelling structure device, which is very much on the mind of the writers. They tweeted a Save the Catian joke the other day. So I think this is intentional, but this two-parter is perfectly following the Save the Cat story beats.
They had the debate beat, where they take three minutes out of a 24 minute episode to argue about whether or not they should accept the challenge in the first place. And it didn't drag. It lasted exactly as long as it needed to, and it wasn't boring.
And then we end at the perfect midpoint, which is traditionally, if you're following the Save the Cat guidelines without any variation, it's either a false win, where everything is going really well, and then the ground is pulled out from under the characters and they realize actually their situation is much worse than they realize, or what they've done here is a false loss, but either way, it's a dramatic change in mood and priorities and circumstances, which throws the characters and the audience into the second half of the story.
Anika: Very exciting.
Liz: As a structure nerd, I just admire this so much. I think Save the Cat can be, overused, obviously it's not applicable to every story or every genre, but for television, and particularly short format television, like this, where structure is really, really important. I think they're using it incredibly well.
Anika: You have have said in a few of our recaps of Prodigy that you knew what was going to happen. And this episode, I think because they did the whole montage of planning before they entered the bridge and did the uniform reveal, and so literally everything that happened after that moment, I was thinking, which part of this is the plan and which part of this is, you know, thinking on your feet. Cause I got to the end and we had that false loss, and it really felt like everything that happened was part of the plan in some way. And that was fun.
Liz: Yeah, it was a reverse heist.
Anika: Right. Yes. Leverage likes to do this, right, where you think that they're failing, but in fact, all of that was what was supposed to happen in the first place
Liz: And that is a key part of the structure of any heist.
Anika: Right. So it was a lot of fun. It kept me on my toes, even though, like you, I felt like, oh, I'm an adult, and I've watched enough of these stories, and I know the Save the Cat structure, and I like a heist and I know what's going on. But it was still very engaging.
I've said before that I am the person who doesn't mind spoilers, and who likes something better the second time anyway, because I don't like anticipation.
Liz: Yeah. Yeah.
Anika: That makes me anxious.
Liz: I completely understand.
Anika: It's not that I don't like surprises, it's that I feel better when I know what the surprise is going to be.
Liz: No.
Anika: I know that makes it not as surprise, but it does, in a way.
Liz: It's like when you're listening to a song that you really, really love, and you're holding your breath, waiting for that moment where you know, the music is going to swell, and the bass will kick in, and that's your favorite bit.
Anika: Yes. Which is all to say that I really think that this episode did a good job of being surprising and safe at the same time.
Liz: I saw a tweet from one of the writers, saying that they wanted to reproduce, no, educate kids on how fandom felt at the end of The Best of Both Worlds, Part One. And obviously, I respect that, but this is not Riker giving the order to fire on Picard. And that's good. That's great. I'm not saying that they've done the wrong thing.
For me, even though I knew how the shape of the story would play out, I was still really engaged in seeing how they would get there. Whereas with previous episodes where I've gone, yeah, but I've seen this, I was not that engaged in seeing how the story would play out.
It was just a great episode all around. Drednok is both downloadable and a communications device. He's like the Swiss army knife of henchmen.
Anika: Every episode we get more that Drednok can do, and I just find that really funny, because he was introduced just as that, like, creepy robot General Grievous type.
Liz: Yeah. He's become so much more.
Anika: Yeah. Yeah. Have thought about what a droid henchman actually could be? It's like, wow, I hadn't.
Liz: It's almost as if, with the addition of replicator technology to the mix, Star Trek has taken Star Wars's droid concept and turned it all the way up to eleven.
Anika: Yes, it's super fun. I really enjoy it. Like, nothing about Drednok was ever going to surprise me, and yet now everything about Drednok is a surprise to me. That's the amazing thing. So, well done on the Drednok.
And I also really liked that Jankom got a big play.
Liz: I was going to say, speaking of characters, who surprised me, I've gone from not really caring about Jankom a couple of weeks ago to being one hundred percent team Jankom Pog. His sadness and hope last week, and then his heroic, this is stupid and I want to do it, stance, I just … Like, Team Jankom.
Anika: It was so well done. When he jumped up on the table, it was like Les Mis, you know, it's like, this is exactly what I want Jankom Pog to be, someone who is ridiculously idealistic, but hides it. And it was great. Good job, Jankom
Liz: And good job trip to the writers for adding to his character and giving him a lot more depth that he definitely didn't have in the first half of this season. You know, our problems with Jankom – I'm not saying that our opinions are necessarily correct, but our opinions didn't come from nowhere.
Anika: Hmm. And then we get Captain Dal being like … It was so good. It was so well done. Because you thought that he was being the same kid that was avoiding reality by playing his video game last week. And he wasn't at all. He was really taking it very seriously, that his decision was going to put Rok-Tahk in danger.
Anika: And that is like, boom, an amazing, wonderful arc from Dal in the first episode to Dal now. And, looking back, you can see all the little steps that it took. I'm amazed at how beautiful that moment was, because, you know, he said, if it was just me, you know, sure, fine, of course I'm going to do it.
It reminds you that he is still that reckless teen boy who thinks he's invincible, but he's gained some maturity, and he's gained that responsibility. Being captain doesn't mean I just get to be in charge and, you know, give orders and sit in the big chair, being captain means I actually have to be responsible for other people's lives.
Liz: And also, I think, after last week, he has a better appreciation for how young Rok-Tahk is. I think I complained in the murder planet episodes that the vibe was very much of teenagers and a younger kid tagging along and the teenagers not really understanding her needs. And I think now he does have a better understanding that Rok-Tahk is super smart and incredibly strong and immensely brave, but also she is a little girl and she is vulnerable in ways that the older kids aren't.
Liz: And I'm so glad that they've realized that. I will allow these kids to babysit my fictional children.
Anika: And then Gwyn was really great too, in that she did that following the captain and being the sounding board and not making the decision for him, but laying it out, this is what the decision is, and we will support you, but you have to make it. She was a Riker in that moment, she was accepting being that second in command. She didn't try to convince them to let her be in charge in any way. There was no competition. She was really like, I'm supporting you, but I'm also supporting the crew. I'm the person who has to do both of those things at once.
Liz: It didn't feel like a gendered situation of the girl being subordinate. It actually felt like they were close to equals, having a conversation as such. And also, that's where the, I think, first intentional thread of romance between them flickers into light.
I don't want to make too much of it, but having gone from barely friends to people who trust each other, I think they're ready to start moving further.
Anika: It was just that one moment where he said you and I don't mean you. I was like, oh, you, do. Yes, you do.
Liz: You mean both, Dal. And that's okay. Also, these kids have been so traumatized that it really makes sense to me that it would take time, like, they need time away from that traumatic situation to begin to learn to be people before they can begin to learn to have romantic feelings.
Anika: Oh, absolutely. I think that it's at most, it's almost rushing it. But, for me, the person that I am, and since I've been literally shipping them since the first episode,
Anika: I gasped out loud. I was like, yes, that was for me.
Liz: I definitely don't want it to turn into a full-blown romance [yet], but I do think that they have planted a seed, and we'll see if it grows, and we'll see if we like the plant that comes out of it.
And meanwhile, Gwyn's father is the worst.
Anika: He's really the worst. That message in the Drednok – the communication device was so passive-aggressive. I could not.
Liz: Oh my God.
Anika: It was just dripping.
Liz: I have watched the first two seasons of Farscape and in the first season, Captain Crais, who was Aeryn Sun's commanding officer, is pursuing her and her friends. And he leaves these messages around the Uncharted Territories, and they're like wanted posters, and then she hacks them and there's a passive aggressive message to her. And so that's what it reminded me of. But Crais is … Crais thinks he's her love interest. And so obviously the vibe is much different to the passive aggressive father daughter, dad knows best vibe.
You are the one who put the Good Sam reference into our notes this week, so that's not on me, but my first thought on watching the episode was, thank God that the worst father in my personal TV lineup is not played by Jason Isaacs.
Anika: I wrote out Gwyn and the Diviner, and I was thinking about what my bullet points were going to be I was like, you know what? My bullet point was going to have been, it's so interesting to me how the Diviner is so happy when he sees himself in Gwyn. Like, he's really thrilled when she's a good negotiator, cause he's like, yeah, I taught you to be ruthless like me, good job.
Anika: That is very Sam and Griff. It's the same, I am horrible to you in order to turn you into the type of person that I want you to be, which is me.
Liz: But with, Griff, that's the extra layer of, he doesn't actually want her to be like him. And so he undermines her because he knows on some level that she is better than that, that he could have been better than that. I am really into that.
Liz: As long as we're comparing apples and oranges and making a mixed TV fruit salad, uh, ever since I was a kid, I have always been drawn to the oldest characters in a cast. Picard and Crusher, Janeway, and Chakotay. In Legend of Korra it was Lin Beifong, and Tenzin. Even in Avatar, it was the oldest teenagers. So, you know, the 17 and 18 year olds.
And it's a problem for Good Sam that their most interesting and dynamic characters are the people in their fifties and sixties. Very much not a problem for me. I like it a lot.
I don't have this problem with Prodigy. I am completely on board with the kids. And maybe it's just that they saw me coming and deliberately didn't give Gwyn a mother? But so far, as much as I'm curious to know what Chakotay is up to and what his relationship with holo Janeway was like, it's really the kids, and Janeway, whose age is ambiguous, that concern me.
Anika: Yeah, and you know, me who loves a villain, although not Gul Dukat, I just want to put that in the record.
Liz: You have been slandered on Tumblr!
Anika: I don't care about the Diviner at all. And I also love terrible fathers. Terrible. It's a dynamic…
Liz: In fiction, we love terrible fathers.
Anika: Yes. I hugely I love Gwyn. Gwyn is so important to me as a character. And so I care about her response to the Diviner, and her relationship to the Diviner, and what it does to her, and what she thinks about it. But I don't care about him at all. He is very much an obstacle in Gwyn's story,
Liz: Yeah,
Anika: I think that's not a problem. I think that the kids should be the most dynamic characters in this show, and it's okay in, again, media that is, at most, for 12 year olds, that the villain has less nuance.
Liz: One hundred percent. But you know, even in Avatar, Fire Lord Ozai was a terrible, terrible person with very little nuance aside from being intensely handsome, but I could still write fic from his perspective. And it was an interesting challenge to sort of see the world from the point of view of the terrible dad character.
Whereas, beyond being curious about the Diviner's motives and background, I don't really care about his perspective.
Anika: So I think that when we find out what his motives and his background is, maybe then we'll care more. Like, he's really a question mark. I have no idea why he's doing anything he does.
Liz: No, no. And I guess Gwyn was about to learn and then he discovered her secrets instead. So, whoops!
Anika: The one most interesting thing about the Diviner is this vendetta against Starfleet. Like, he is not just, I don't like the Federation.
Liz: It goes beyond political differences.
Anika: Yeah. It goes beyond political differences. Exactly. This is, something bad happened that he takes personally, and that he blames on the Federation slash Starfleet.
Liz: Yeah.
Anika: Which is interesting.
Liz: It is. And I've seen speculation that Voyager, or Chakotay with the Protostar, accidentally did something that destroyed the Diviner's people, and this is why he is so determined to get the Protostar and also hates the Federation. But I don't know, it could be something completely unrelated. Maybe he just really hates delta shaped badges.
Anika: I think, because we've discussed how there seems to be some kind of time travel aspects to this story, you know, we've seen time travel as a plot piece in things like the 2009 movie and in Year of Hell, which the 2009 movie super reminds me of, because they both have that antagonist who just wants his family back, who is trying to recover from the trauma of losing the people he loved.
And I could be one hundred percent wrong, but it feels like the Diviner is half Nero, I'm going to destroy everything because my planet blew up, and half Annorax, that guy who literally just wants to use time-travel technology to revive his wife and children. And the Diviner, because we know that he is the last of his race and he made a test tube baby.
Anika: So something happened to his planet. You're not born the last of your race. I mean, you start out with other people,
Liz: Presumably he had parents.
Anika: Unless you're Gwyn. Even she at least has the Diviner. So there is definitely something there about, like, I can imagine, I'm the last of my race, and from my perspective, Starfleet destroyed it. Maybe Voyager, maybe something to do with the Protostar. And then being feeling very justified in doing whatever you have to. But it's like, he chose child slavery.
Anika: I have no sympathy. You chose child slavery!
Liz: There is legitimate political action. And then there's, I'm going to enslave some children.
Anika: Nero and Annorax do horrible, terrible things like genocide, yet Diviner still seems worse, because that baby cat…
Liz: Annorax's genocides were pretty abstract. Like, even to him, they were just lines on a display screen. Whereas the child slaves are right there in front of the Diviner. He is sending his child to go and talk to them.
Anika: There's just nothing good about that. There's nothing redeemable about, yeah, I am going to create a daughter and then enlist her to enslave other children.
Liz: Yeah. It's like, dude, you cannot even pretend to have a moral high ground. Having said that I love Gwyn. I love that the plan required her to hand herself over to her father. I think that's brave and horrible. And she probably suggested it.
Anika: She does have that side to her. She does have that manipulative, able to see and do the worst things for whatever your goal is. But she is choosing to free slaves with it. So good job, Gwyn!
Liz: Gwyn has never been presented as a purely good character, or a purely bad one. And she's using that ambiguity a strength.
Anika: Right. So this is why Gul Dukat is not one of my favorite characters, and Gul Dukat is the worst and I don't, I do not support him in any way.
Liz: You're really mad about this Tumblr anon, aren't you?
Anika: I'm mad about this Tumblr thing. Someone on Tumblr, an anonymous person on Tumblr, thinks that I would get a tattoo that says 'Gul Dukat did nothing wrong.' And I would just like to unequivocally say no. Because the thing about Gul Dukat is that he is given the opportunity to change, and he chooses not to.
Anika: Gwyn was given the opportunity to change, she is doing it. So does Ben Solo. So does Loki. So does Draco Malfoy. These are characters who do terrible things, and choose to continue to do terrible things over and over again, but then choose not to.
And here's the thing. Another character in Star Trek, another Gul Dukat, is Gabriel Lorca, mirror universe version. I loved Lorca until his last episode. And then I was like, yeah, I don't care about you at all. Because he was given the opportunity to change. He was literally put in a different universe where he could start over and no one knew anything about him. And instead of becoming a good person…
Liz: He attempted to corrupt that universe.
Anika: He chose to corrupt that universe. I'm not interested in that character anymore. That is not one of my wonderful villains that I love.
Liz: I think he is an amazing and outstanding villain, and I love him the why I love Gul Dukat. But there are villains that I love because they're terrible, and then there are characters I love who can be redeemed.
And I actually think Gwyn's redemption arc is really good, because she has not done terrible things in her own right, and when she has had the opportunity to make choices, she generally made good ones. But she still understands that she is complicit in her father's crimes. On various levels, she has to work to gain people's trust and to compensate for the crimes that she has committed. And I think that's good.
You cannot just decide, oh, I'm going to be a good person, and then walk away from the consequences of your bad decisions.
Anika: Right. Exactly. Which is why atonement arcs are so much better than redemption arcs. And certainly a hundred thousand times better than death by redemption.
Liz: Oh, we've ranted about, you know, I think this is one of those things that I should just make into a sticker. Just say no to death by redemption.
Now, how do you feel about the Protostar uniforms?
Anika: It's fun because it's animation. I've been looking at them and I'm like, I don't know exactly how you would do that in reality. It's different from 'my sewing abilities aren't strong enough to recreate this Discovery uniform.' It's, 'I'm not quite sure how those angles would actually fall in actual fabric.' But that's fun, I don't mind it.
Liz: No, it's one of the fun things about animation.
Anika: I started straight up crying, like, real big tears when that uniform scene happened. When Dal came out in his uniform, I was like, oh no. And then everybody came out one by one, and they all got their moments. It was just so powerful to me. And I just cried and cried, and then Janeway transformed into hers, and I had to pause the show and get my emotions under control before I could continue watching.
Liz: No, it was great. Because she didn't do that for Chakotay and his crew. So she feels like part of this crew in a way that maybe she didn't with her previous…
Anika: Yes. And maybe it's because real Janeway knew real Chakotay. And so it was like this weird, I'm Janeway, but not Janeway, and so I can't really be a part of this crew. Whereas now, like these are her children, and they're also her siblings. And it's like, it's beautiful. They're a collective, they're a crew. They're just everything.
I loved how everybody was wearing the uniform differently. I have my little note here, you know, cause Murf, obviously, doesn't get to be in the uniform and I was like, can Murf wear a communicator? Can he wear clothes? Can Murf wear anything? That I had this crazy thought that, what if Murf is clothes, then there's another Murf inside Murf…
Liz: It's Murfs all the day down.
Anika: Making Murf happen. There's a little tiny, like, Ant Man Murf inside of blob Murf…
Liz: What I want now is like Russian dolls, but Murf. And then the smallest one inside is made of gel or slime, or whatever.
Anika: Aww!
Liz: Aesthetically, I find the uniforms a little bit colorless, and they're a stark contrast against the very, very bright colors of the series. But I think I'll get used to that contrast. And it certainly makes the character stand out.
I definitely miss the individualism of all their different outfits, but you know, it's animation. They have unlimited wardrobe budget. So they can wear whatever they want in some scenes.
Let's talk about Goth Janeway!
Anika: Talk about cosplay goals! That happened, and I was like, oh, the black lips?
Liz: I KNOW!
Anika: I cannot handle it.
Liz: I'm like, okay, white face paint and red blush and some red eye shadow, like, under the eyes, black lipstick, if I can get a black wig and style it … I have quite short hair right now, and I have contact lenses. So I really, the hard bit will be the uniform, and also waiting for the pandemic to end so that I can go to a convention.
Anika: I know. I really want to go to the convention in April, but April seems really soon.
Liz: I know
Anika: Based on what is happening right now.
Liz: Yeah. Yes. Now, there is a new, bad theory going around the internet.
Anika: An amazing one.
Liz: Yes. Last week, fans were theorizing that Chakotay was Drednok. This week, they're theorizing that Chakotay is the Diviner!
Anika: Amazing. Now, okay. So the tweet that I linked you to, it has a screen cap of Chakotay and a screen cap of the Diviner side by side. And I guess they look alike? I would like to explain animation to these people. They look alike because they were literally drawn by the same team of people.
Anika: That is why they look alike.
Liz: Also, I am looking at this screen cap and it's like the tilt of the eyebrows, and I guess they both have eyes and a mouth and chin, but this is not even like–
Anika: You chose a screen grab of them both frowning! You made that decision. That was not a choice by the animators. That was a choice by you.
Liz: This is not a case of late Disney era sameface.
Anika: As an animation connoisseur, I can tell they were drawn by the same team of people. You can tell they're in the same series. They look alike because they are animated, and they're animated by the same people.
And this is just crazy to me. It's just hanging your hat — and I know I just was floating the idea of crazy time-travel, you know, Diviner villainy, who is trying to get back his family slash planet that the Federation destroyed. But no way, no way is Chakotay part of that. First of all, they would never do that to Chakotay. Chakotay is a character that people like. Some people love him.
Liz: Also, let's talk about how absolutely tasteless it is to posit that a Native American character, whose people have survived a genocide, is now a genocide survivor who copes with child slavery.
(Sir, those are my emotional support child slaves.)
Anika: It is offensive to even think that that is a possibility. I'm sorry to be slapping down fan theories, but that one, I really cannot stomach.
Liz: This is an animated series for children, and they are not going to make a beloved member of the franchise a supervillain and an abusive father who keeps child slaves.
Anika: And like, why, why do you cast John Noble to pretend to be Robert Beltran? Like, no! No. None of that makes sense.
I am just really disturbed by the whole, you know, Chakotay being caught up in it, Chakotay having something to do with it, like, he's somehow responsible. He's the main Starfleet guy that the Diviner hates, maybe? But he never hated Starfleet. He the most collaborative Maquis on the ship.
Liz: He is basically a born collaborator. Like Odo.
But anyway. I saw you shared that, and I was like, oh, for fuck's sake. And then I saw a serious discussion about the possibility in the comments at the TrekMovie review. And I was like, this is bad and it needs to stop.
Obviously, Chakotay is Murf. I think that's pretty clear.
Anika: I mean, I would accept a Murf over the Diviner every time. I think that part of this is wrapped up in adult fans needing a quote unquote secret box and or twist to solve. And no.
Liz: I think it's, in part, a need to tie the Diviner to grown up Star Trek and established Star Trek canon. And in part, particularly since season one of Discovery, everyone is looking for the next big twist. Which is kind of silly because we have not had a big twist since Lorca was revealed. Star Trek did one season of mystery box storytelling, and we've never recovered.
Anika: And we need to let it go. I'm going to go out on a limb and say, all of storytelling needs to let it go.
Liz: I was going to say, I love a mystery. I love finding things out as the story unfolds, but.
Anika: But that's different.
Liz: And the twist for the sake of the twist, and the mystery for the sake of being mysterious, is something that television is moving away from. You know, Yellowjackets, the big twist is right in front of us the whole time.
Anika: Everything doesn't have to have a twist. And I'm saying this to the people making the media, and I'm definitely saying it to the people consuming the media, because it's not necessary. You don't have to guess what –WandaVision is another one where there was never a twist. And yet people inserted all that into it. The closest it came was Agnes, and even that, I feel like, wasn't shocking.
Liz: Yeah
Anika: And also wasn't the plot. At the end of the day, having a big battle with Agnes or Agatha was because it was an MCU thing and it needed to have a big battle. That's not what the story was about at all. That was all, you know, sound and fury.
Liz: Yeah. And it was the least interesting part of the story.
Anika: So therefore the Diviner is not Chakotay. Murf is not Chakotay. Chakotay has a role in this story that we're going to learn and it's going to be great. And again, let's go back to the beginning of our conversation. The showrunners and the writers of Star Trek: Prodigy, they are confident. They know what story they're telling, and they're going to tell it. And that is great. That is what I want for everyone.
Liz: And ultimately, this is not a story about the adult characters. So–
Anika: Exactly.
Liz: –when Chakotay turns up, he is going to be dealing with the children.
Anika: Right. We are supposed to be paying attention to their story. Their story is what's being told. And I love that story. I love all of them. I want to spend more time with all of these characters And I'm very excited
Liz: Yeah. And if I, as the person who is always attached to the adult characters everywhere, can focus on the kids. Anyone can do it
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Produced in conjunction with Already Alive, the short video walks you through a silent New York City where streets were devoid of the normal foot traffic in a city that, until recently, never slept.


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MUSIC: A show in tribute to victims of the attack in Manchester that targeted the fans of the singer, Ariana Grande on the 22nd May …
A concert to defy fear. Less than two weeks after the attack suicide bomber who killed 22 people and over one hundred injured at the previous concert of Ariana Grande in Manchester, and a few hours after a new attack in London, thousands of people from Manchester lined up several hours during Sunday night to return to see the singer.
In the audience, a majority of teens , whether or not accompanied by their parents, wearing bracelets "we stand together", the headband cat ears and bee t-shirts, an insect that became the symbol of the resistance of a whole city the face of terror. Thousands of people attending on Sunday lived the horror of the 22nd May; some of the wounded were also in wheelchairs to watch a show that has not lacked emotional moments.
When a policeman danced with children
This was to be a simple cut plan, while Justin Bieber was speaking to the crowd. The image of the uniformed policeman, wearing a yellow vest and dancing with children, yet largely overshadowed the singer in the heart of Internet users. Meanwhile, Bieber recommended "fight evil with love." Beautiful illustration.
A moving minute of silence Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Coldplay, Robbie Williams, Pharrell Williams, Miley Cyrus, The Black Eyed Peas, etc., a host of stars made the show during the three hours of this concert called "One love Manchester," whose recipes will be entirely donated to the victims. A minute of silence was observed before the emergence of artists who joined Liam Gallagher, former Oasis frontman and surprise last minute guest.
The minute of silence was a beautiful and powerful way to start #OneLoveManchester pic.twitter.com/bB78aCrbEg
— 8YearsABelieber❤ (@JDBHoldMeTight) June 4, 2017
But those who had hoped for a reunion of Oasis were disappointed Liam tweeted Monday to insult his brother Noel and blame him for not coming.
Noels out of the fucking country weren't we all love get on a fucking plane and play your tunes for the kids you sad fuck
— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) June 5, 2017
The audience sang with Robbie Williams
"Manchester we're strong, we still singing our songs" ❤ #OneLoveManchester pic.twitter.com/ma6Q6rjfjA
— Miley Cyrus Poland (@MCUpdatePL) June 4, 2017
Ariana Grande accompanied by a choir of 24 students
Chaining duets with other artists, Ariana Grande was also accompanied by a choir of twenty four students from Parrs Wood school, some of them at the Manchester Arena on the 22nd May by running onstage and the public in tears. "I would thank you for being so strong, so united, so loving. I love you so, "commented Ariana Grande to the public, often very young.
Coldplay sing Don't Look Back in Anger
"She would not have wanted to see tears," the tribute to Ariana Grande fan killed May 22nd
The singer told how the mother of one of the victims, Olivia Campbell, 15, told her that her daughter would not have liked to see tears Sunday night but "hear the tubes." The public responded by crying certainly it a bit sometimes, but mostly singing and dancing.
"She would have wanted to hear the hits"
Ariana speaks movingly about 15-year-old Manchester attack victim Olivia Campbell pic.twitter.com/m0KBW7GsDL
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) June 4, 2017
Tears of the singer at the end of the concert:
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Taro Prasarnkarn (, * 27. November 1997) ist ein thailändischer Fußballspieler.

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Taro Prasarnkarn erlernte das Fußballspielen in der Jugendmannschaft von Muangthong United. Hier unterschrieb er am 1. Januar 2016 auch seinen ersten Profivertrag. Der Verein aus Pak Kret, einem Vorort der Hauptstadt Bangkok, spielte in der ersten Liga, der Thai League. Die Saison 2016 wurde er an den Phrae United FC ausgeliehen. Der Verein aus Phrae spielte in der dritten Liga, der damaligen Regional League Division 2. Im Juni 2017 wechselte er ebenfalls auf Leihbasis zum Zweitligisten Bangkok FC. Am Ende der Saison musste er mit dem Verein in die dritte Liga absteigen. Nach Vertragsende bei Muangthong unterschrieb er am 1. Januar 2019 einen Vertrag beim Police Tero FC. Der Hauptstadtverein spielte in der zweiten Liga. Am Ende der Saison wurde er mit dem Verein Vizemeister und stieg in die erste Liga auf. Nach dem Aufstieg verließ er den Verein und schloss sich im Januar 2020 dem Zweitligisten Ayutthaya United FC an. Hier stand er bis Ende Juni 2020 unter Vertrag. Den Rest des Jahres spielte er beim Drittligisten Surat Thani City FC in Surat Thani. Wo er 2021 unter Vertrag stand ist unbekannt. Am 1. Januar 2022 verpflichtete ihn der Zweitligist Ranong United FC. Sein Zweitligadebüt für den Klub aus Ranong gab Taro Prasarnkarn am  12. März 2022 (27. Spieltag) im Heimspiel gegen den Phrae United FC. Hier stand er in der Startelf und stand die kompletten 90 Minuten im Tor. Ranong gewann das Spiel durch ein Tor von Suphachai Phuthong mit 1:0.

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History of Saint-Joachim, Montmorency, Québec, Canada
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Visit Saint-Joachim, Montmorency, Québec, Canada. Discover its history. Learn about the people who lived there through stories, old newspaper articles, pictures, postcards and genealogy.
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Saint-Joachim, Montmorency, Québec, Canada
The parish was placed under the patronage of Saint Joachim because of its neighbor, Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré. It seemed appropriate to put the "husband" next to the "mother" of Mary, mother of Jesus Christ.
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The missions St. Joachim & Cap de la Madeleine de la Province de Quebec is established this year.
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This manual is for use with Global Specialties' trainer, DL-020 which is second in its series of Embedded Systems Design Trainers. The DL-020 teaches students the basics of sequential digital logic design, a foundation for microprocessor/microcontroller design. This lab manual is also available in electronic format on itunes (search Global Specialties).


Every Saturday, I host a feature called Kid Konnection -- a regular weekend feature about anything related to children's books. This week, I'm going to share with you an adorable picture book that's perfect for this time of year!
Summary: The end of the school year is here, and Very Fairy Princess Gerry is getting ready to graduate! She always loves a celebration, but can't help but feel a little sad as she empties her cubby, takes down her art projects, and says goodbye to her class pet, Houdini the hamster. She's also a little nervous about leaving Miss Pym... what if her new teacher doesn't let Gerry wear her wings and crown? Change can be hard, even for a fairy princess! Thankfully, she realizes that new things can bring their own sparkle.
The latest installment in the #1 New York Times best-selling Very Fairy Princess series by Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton is now available. It's called THE VERY FAIRY PRINCESS GRADUATION GIRL!, and it's certain to delight fans of Princess Gerry.
In THE VERY FAIRY PRINCESS GRADUATION GIRL!, Princess Gerry is approaching the end of the school year; and while she's always excited to celebrate, she's finding that graduation is a little bittersweet. As her teacher takes down their art projects and cleans out the classroom, Gerry isn't so sure she wants to leave behind Miss Pym for a new teacher. The new teacher might not understand Gerry and be a fan of her princess gear!
Gerry learns that change can be new and interesting, and that the next school year has the potential to be even more fun that the current one!
I loved THE VERY FAIRY PRINCESS GRADUATION GIRL! Of course, it didn't hurt that it was written by the mother/daughter team Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton since I adore all things Julie Andrews.
Both of my children are well past the age for picture books, so I wasn't familiar with this series, but I have to say that I quickly became a fan of Princess Gerry. She is just precious! In addition, the illustrations by Christine Davenier are the perfect complement to the story. Little girls will especially love the cover which has iridescent glitter on it!
I still am attracted to princess stories and sparkles, so THE VERY FAIRY PRINCESS GRADUATION GIRL! was right up my alley. However, it was the messages in the story that really made it special. I love how young readers will see Gerry's fear of change, and also how Gerry eventually realizes that change can be exciting. I think many youngsters will be able to relate to Gerry and learn from her story!
For more information about the book, you can visit The Very Fairy Princess website or follow Little, Brown Kids on Twitter and Facebook.
THE VERY FAIRY PRINCESS is so darn cute and perfect to help kids transition from the end of the school year to the new one. Highly recommended!
Giveaway alert: Two (2) winners each receive a copy of The Very Fairy Princess: Graduation Girl! To enter, just fill out the form below before May 23rd at 11:59 pm. EST. I will randomly select and notify the winners the following day. This giveaway open to US addresses only. Prizing & samples courtesy of Little, Brown. Good luck!


Drew Fulfer frustrated his dad.
A hard-working machinist, his father couldn't convince his son to join him in his shop. The boy was too obsessed with sports to learn to work with his hands.
Fulfer, 30, laughs about it now. His work managing Shannon Medical Center's Orthotics Department, which builds custom braces that support deficient extremities, has landed him on this year's 20 Under 40 list.
Fulfer has grown a reputation at Shannon for performance that is neither half-hearted nor deliberate in its pace.
He joined the Orthotics Department as a technician in 2011 "by accident." Having just graduated from Angelo State University, he was seeking a higher-paying job. At the time, he was working at a windows company, which gave him his first opportunity to work with his hands. A fellow congregant encouraged him to apply for the tech position.
Fulfer did on a whim … and proved so adept at building braces that he was soon seeing patients with the then-manager.
He was promoted to manager two years ago after earning a master's degree in orthotics. He is fascinated with the tools used to create orthotics and the problem-solving needed to build a brace that exactly serves a patient's need.
Working for the windows company showed him he was good with his hands … and that he enjoyed it. He often stayed after work until midnight toiling on personal projects. A talented woodworker, he volunteered with Helping Hands, a charity that performs home repairs for the disadvantaged, before launching his own nonprofit, FREEDOM HOMES, which does similar work.
Fulfer said such efforts are fueled by his faith, which led him and his wife to become foster parents. True to form, they completed their training in less than half the normal time, receiving their first foster child the day they were certified.
Fulfer is not yet satisfied with every aspect of his life, which would likely make his precision-driven father proud.


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Q: Questions for $\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \frac{x^{2n}}{(2n)!}$. Consider the power series
\begin{equation*}
\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \frac{x^{2n}}{(2n)!} = 1+\frac{x^2}{2!}+\frac{x^4}{4!}+\frac{x^6}{6!}+\ldots
\end{equation*}
1. Show that the series converges absolutely for all $x\in \mathbb{R}$.
Remark: From this, it follows that its sum defines an infinitely differentiable function $f:\mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$, given by
\begin{equation*}
f(x) := \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \frac{x^{2n}}{(2n)!}.
\end{equation*}
This series does converge absolutely because
\begin{equation*}
\left|\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \frac{x^{2n}}{(2n)!}\right| = \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \frac{x^{2n}}{(2n)!}
\end{equation*}
converges. To see that this does converge, we can use the ratio test. It follows that if we let $a_n = \frac{x^{2n}}{(2n)!}$ then we get
\begin{equation*}
\begin{split}
\lim_{n\to\infty} \left|\frac{a_{n+1}}{a_n}\right| &= \lim_{n\to\infty} \left|\frac{\frac{x^{2(n+1)}}{(2(n+1))!}}{\frac{x^{2n}}{(2n)!}}\right| \\
&= \lim_{n\to\infty} \left|\frac{\frac{x^{2n+2}}{(2n+2)!}}{\frac{x^{2n}}{(2n)!}}\right| \\
&= \lim_{n\to\infty} \left|\frac{x^{2n+2}}{(2n+2)!}\times \frac{(2n)!}{x^{2n}}\right| \\
&= \left|x^2\right|\lim_{n\to\infty} \left|\frac{(2n)!}{(2n+2)!}\right| \\
&= \left|x^2\right|\lim_{n\to\infty} \left|\frac{2n\times (2n-1)\times (2n-2)\times \ldots}{(2n+2)\times (2n+1)\times 2n\times (2n-1)\times (2n-2)\times \ldots}\right| \\
&= \left|x^2\right|\lim_{n\to\infty} \left|\frac{1}{(2n+1)(2n+2)}\right| \\
&= \left|x^2\right|\times 0 \\
&= 0 < 1
\end{split}
\end{equation*}
for every $x\in \mathbb{R}$. Thus, $\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \frac{x^{2n}}{(2n)!}$ converges by the ratio test and so $\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \frac{x^{2n}}{(2n)!}$ converges absolutely for all $x\in \mathbb{R}$ as required.
2. Determine whether $f$ is even or odd.
$f$ is odd because
\begin{equation*}
f(-x) = \sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \frac{(-x)^{2n}}{(2n)!} = -\sum_{n=0}^{\infty} \frac{x^{2n}}{(2n)!} = -f(x).
\end{equation*}
3. Find the power series for the first and second derivatives of $f$.
Differentiating term-by-term gives the power series
\begin{equation*}
f'(x) = 0+\frac{2x^1}{2!}+\frac{4x^3}{4!}+\frac{6x^5}{6!}+\ldots = 0+\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{2nx^{2n-1}}{(2n)!} = \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{x^{2n-1}}{(2n-1)!}
\end{equation*}
and
\begin{equation*}
f''(x) = \frac{2}{2!}+\frac{12x^2}{4!}+\frac{30x^4}{6!}+\ldots = \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{(2n-1)x^{2n-2}}{(2n-1)!} = \sum_{n=1}^{\infty} \frac{x^{2n-2}}{(2n-2)!}.
\end{equation*}
4. Is there a simple relationship between $f''$ and $f$?
Not sure about this one.
5. Show that $f$ is bounded below, i.e., there is an $m\in \mathbb{R}$ with $f(x)\geq m$, $\forall x\in \mathbb{R}$, but is not bounded above, i.e., there is no $M\in \mathbb{R}$ with $f(x)\leq M$, $\forall x\in \mathbb{R}$.
 Since the sequence of partials sums defining $f(x)$ are increasing, we have
\begin{equation*}
f(x)\geq 1+\frac{x^2}{2!}.
\end{equation*}
Thus,  $f$ is not bounded above (since $x^2$ is not bounded above). How do I show its bounded below? I'm guessing because the former is true about not being bounded above.

A: A number of your answers are not correct.  If you have learned Taylor series you can see (by adding the appropriate Taylor series) that the series you're given is $\frac 12 (e^x + e^{-x}) = \cosh x$.  That will help you see what the correct answers should be.
For number $2$, it's not correct that $(-x)^{2n} = -(x^{2n})$.
For number $3$, you can simplify the expression for the second derivative by changing the lower limit of summation from $1$ to $0$ (and making the appropriate change inside the summation).
That should help you answer number $4$.
As for $5$, as long as $x$ is real, every term of your power series is positive, which tells you something about the sum.

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I started the strict diet around October of 2012 as a desperately uncomfortable college student. Constipation, binge eating, yeast infections, and fatigue/brain fog controlled my life ever since I took myself off birth control. I was on the Pill for the duration of my freshman year. Before college I was the seemingly healthiest kid in school besides the occasional yeast infection. After I stopped taking birth control I started to experience constipated for days, had many yeast infections, got drunk once in a while, had poor sleeping habits, was subject to stress, and ate A LOT.
During my last year in college I worked 3 jobs, which didn't help the stress but I went to bed at 10pm and woke naturally at 6:30. I ate MUCH healthier, started Able's candida diet, and changed my life for the better—no yeast infections, less constipation, did not drink alcohol, but still binge fed myself the healthy foods. Unfortunately, I studied in Ecuador for the second half of the year and was unable to continue with the diet. In South America I ate whole wheat, white rice, lots of corn, and had about six bacterial issues from drinking water and bad food.
Now that I am back in the USA I do not eat gluten, cheese or milk. I do eat eggs, ground flax, chia, buckwheat, almond flour, quinoa, amaranth, teff, millet, occasionally potatoes, lots of mostly organic vegetables, sprouts, fermented foods, grilled trout, various herbs, homemade kefir from store-bought "organic" cow milk, fulvic ionic mineral in water, and kombucha. Also, I have been eating raw honey, dried apricots and prunes. About 50% of my diet is raw food. Nothing fried or broiled. Some baked goods. I take no medications and try to avoid anything "unnatural".I am 22 years old.
My problem: Although I eat healthily I am on the toilet during about 2 hours of the day desperately trying to poop. When I do it is never firm stool, skinny-small pieces, and breaks up into tinier pieces when I flush. I even see many undigested pieces (quinoa, sprouts, some vegies). I am afraid that I am not digesting or absorbing my food. Before I reattempt the strict diet I want to ensure that I do not suffer malnutrition. I want my stomach lining and entire digestive system to be healthy first.
1.If I am not absorbing my food well how do I go about ensuring that I do? My hair does not grow as fast as it used to, which I assume is a sign. Also, my teeth are sensitive and discoloring whereas before they were very white.
2. How do I get my stool back to firm, large, uniform pieces as it was for my entire life?
3. Does alkalinity/acidity play a factor in reestablishing my stomach lining?
4. Does anyone take fulvic ionic minerals? I buy mine from Optimally Organic and feel it helps. Supposedly this mineral concentrate helps with absorption when diluted in certain liquids.
Since this is your first post and you just joined the forum yesterday, I assume that you were previously using the 'old' diet which I had posted on the forum or else you've changed your user name. Have you been on the forum before under a different user name? If so, please send me the other name so that I can read your past posts, that is if there are any to read. You can send the name by private message if you choose. If you had the old diet, I've removed that diet from the forum and made some important changes to it. If you would like a link to the newer diet, let me know and I'll send it to you by private message on the forum.
I think you're on the right path as far as taking a general mineral tonic is concerned. Just as long as you choose a quality brand with as many different minerals as possible, it should be fine. In what way do you feel that the minerals are helping you?
How much kefir do you drink a day?
If I am not absorbing my food well how do I go about ensuring that I do?
That depends on why you're not absorbing your food. Did you have leaky gut syndrome when you had the Candida overgrowth? Do you have any symptoms of a Candida infestation at this time?
This is my first time on the forum. This is my first and only username. Please send me a message with the updated diet information.
The mineral tonic (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005474RBM/ref=ox_sc_sfl_title_6?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=AMHGKU8ZAN5YB) has over 77 trace minerals. When I first took it it was accompanied by probiotics and a good diet that ridded me of yeast infections and itching. Now that those are gone I feel liberated beyond words. I also formed better sleeping patterns, had regular bowel movements, and felt more capable of exercise and mental work. During my 3-month trip to Ecuador I stopped taking both the probiotics and the minerals and my digestion has gotten worse. I am back on the minerals, kefir, and considering drinking kombucha more frequently. Also, throughout the last year I have gone through several Doterra GX Assist cleanses, which uses essential oils.
I drink about 1/2 cup of kefir milk throughout the day.
If I did have leaky gut syndrome in the past I believe it was in reaction to the birth control and antibiotics. I think I have leaky gut syndrome more so now than ever. I am almost certain that the Candida has come back but with less bothersome issues.
Thank you for the quick reply, Able.
I would cut out wheat for a very very long time if you want to get better…this only causes health problems and has little nutritional benefit. Same with the white rice and other refined carbohydrates. I'd even consider cutting out honey which is sugar essentially, amaranth which is high in starch (easily converted to sugar), and milk which contains lactose which converts to sugar.
Also, since you see that you have quinoa in your stool, I would stop this as well because you need to avoid foods fermenting in the gut at all costs. You also may not be chewing your food correctly and this can be hard for your body to digest.
You aren't that far away from what the candida diet is, so I would continue in this direction and eliminate the harmful foods.
It sounds like you have learned about one good constipation remedy already, which is trace minerals.
I also think you have the wrong mindset about the diet.
Before I reattempt the strict diet I want to ensure that I do not suffer malnutrition. I want my stomach lining and entire digestive system to be healthy first.
UM, this is what the diet is for in the first place, to help restore your digestive system, the stomach lining, etc. If you can heal leaky gut, then your body will absorb more nutrients because it has a greater surface area and thus you can gain weight.
What are you doing to prevent malnutrition and to strengthen your stomach lining? You haven't explained this yet…are you not eating enough food?
I will look into the links you provided. I read a post earlier today about chewing food and I followed suit during lunch today.
At this point I plan on eliminating sugars, grains, and foods I am sensitive to but only when my garden begins to produce organic vegetables and plan to have enough diet food until I can grow some more (this will further prevent starvation and/or breaking diet rules). Although I'm sure all the supplements and vitamins are important, are there a set of them which are absolutely necessary? I have spent a lot of money on the coconut flour, coconut oil, essential oils, and olive oil. Also, I prefer to get as much nutrition from herbs and whole food before seeking supplement in tablets or other concentrated forms.
I would consider finishing your bottle of multivitamins and then stop and move on to getting individual vitamins. For instance, biotin is pretty important for the diet and its not easy to get this in your diet…same goes with vitamin C.
There are a lot of vitamins that necessary to get better. For instance, if you have leaky gut, the best way to reduce the inflammation is to take anti-inflammatory supplements such as fermented cod liver oil (or regular). This is way more strong than almost all food grade sources. Additionally, sf722 which is a fatty acid, is one of the best long term antifungals to have on the diet and is quite effective. Enzymes or digestive bitters help break down the foods you eat and these are quite important for healing the gut and improving the digestion. A good probiotic is also very essential to get better because it'll contain strains that aren't found in the kefir (we have a probiotics post on the sticky tab). Most candida sufferers are deficient in stomach acid and taking betaine HCL helps break down the food you eat, and destroys pathogens/parasites in the gut, etc. creating a better environment for digestion. These basically are the most essential supplements and its hard to replace them with food grade sources.
One thing I know about cactus is that its good for the heart, but I haven't heard about its other healing properties.
Also, for me, spinach is hard to digest so if this is coming up undigested in the stool, you might want to avoid it.
This is all extremely helpful. I am interested in specific, proven brands for the necessary components in the diet. I would value any specific information you want to send me and will also do my own research and search this forum for aid.
I got a email from you but did you send me the private message with the strict diet? I will start it as soon as I get all the information I need.
Kenisha, I sent you the strict diet. Check your inbox please.
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Is it an error or is it not?
I'm a novice in the coin collecting game and I'm too chicken to go to have my coins looked at so im seeking help here. Sooooo I really want to understand my most recent find (and current favorite) could anybody help me? Its an unknown date d mint washinton quarter. Oh and It weighs 5.4. It came in a bank roll with the silver quarter actually.
The image with my grosslooking grimy fingers is of a 1954 silver washington quarter(left) the quarter in question(middle) and a regular old 1996 washington quarter(right).
Any and all.comments and questions et cetera will be greatly appreciated. Thanks y'all.
I agree this coin has been worn down and someone did this on purpose and it has worn even more from circulation. So this would not be a mint error but I can see how odd it would be to find in a roll of normal coins.


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Participate in a special look at Other Echoes Inhabit The Garden featuring artists Meena Hasan and Tommy Kha. Other Echoes Inhabit The Garden takes its title from T.S. Elliot's first poem in his Four Quartets. The artists in Other Echoes Inhabit The Garden interrogate colonialism and consider the history of their families. Hasan, a South-Asian-American is a painter while Kha, an East-Asian-American is a photographer. Kha's family settled in Memphis, TN after fleeing China and Vietnam. Hasan's settled in NYC in the 70s during Bangladesh's tumultuous efforts for Independence from Pakistan. Together, the artists attended Yale's MFA programs in 2013 and they borrow strategies and themes from each other's mediums, creating echoes between painting and photography and finding spaces between the two.
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What about Us? For Girls between Worlds: How Black Girls Navigate White High Schools
by Billingsley, Cryslynn C., Ph.D. University of Missouri - Saint Louis. 2018: 179 pages; 10977071.
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Energy and data conversion circuits for low power sensory systems
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The effects of the classroom schedule and teacher beliefs on Head Start teacher-child interactions
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Kids aren't buying what we are selling: A quantitative analysis of student dropout and school supports for dropout prevention
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Assessment of transient negative affect in synesthesia
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Design and synthesis of medium-ring lactam libraries inspired by the antitumor agent octalactin A
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Structural changes and neighborhood homicide trends in St. Louis, Missouri, 1980–2000: A multi -level and spatial analysis
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British and American approaches to Shakespeare: A selective study
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Multicultural music therapy: Exploring the approaches to, and changes in, music within the Native American communities
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Influence of grain size on leachability of mine tailings with social indicators assessment of a mining area population
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How African American Parents Prepare to Homeschool Their Children
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Practical applications of infrared, Raman and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopic techniques for qualitative, quantitative and structural analysis of pharmaceutical drugs, cementitious material and organic molecules containing phosphorous
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The relationship between adult basic and adult secondary educational instructional styles and learner outcomes when measured as educational gain on the national reporting system
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A pilot study evaluating the effect of collagen sponges on healing and pain following tooth extraction
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The relationship between secondary school teacher perceptions of grading practices and secondary school teacher perceptions of student motivation
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Quantitative assessment of the impact of residential rural development on groundwater recharge and pollution potential
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I've been listening to songs by the Celtic Women lately. In particular, one song—Isle of Hope.
It's a song about Ellis Island and the immigrants of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. By coincidence, my father at age two, his parents and his five other siblings immigrated to the US via Ellis Island.
I've visited Ellis Island. My parents and I took a trip and one stop was at New York. Dad had a nephew living in Manhattan. While we were there, we also toured the city and took a trip out to Ellis Island.
This was in 1959, if I remember correctly. The island was closed during WW2 and when we visited, most of the buildings were needing repair. One small building housed the National Park Service staff and all the records of immigrants since 1892 when the Island opened.
I remember my father going through the records for November 1904. I don't remember the exact date but he found the entries of his family arriving via a German ship via Hamburg. The Park Ranger said that each country, at that time, had a quota—not of individual citizens, but by point of departure. That year, November 1904, the UK and Ireland had filled their quotas. Germany had not. Therefore, my father and his family entered the country from Hamburg and were counted against the German quota.
When Dad searched the records, he discoved his family was almost sent back to Hamburg. Once of his sisters was sick. The medical examiner placed her, and the entire family, in quarantine for two weeks—if my father's family could pay the cost of their food and board during the quarantine. Since I'm here, they paid the costs were released at the end of the quarantine to enter the country.
There is so much controversy about immigration now. The libs what open borders. more welfare recipients, more mouths dependent on government, i.e., democrat largess using taxpayer money. When my father and his family entered the country, there was no benefits—no welfare, no food-stamps, no government housing, nothing that they couldn't pay for themselves.
One of the requirements, at that time, was that all adult males must have a usable skill, a skill or trade that would allow them to become self-sufficient. My father's family were miners, a skill in high demand. Specifically, my grandfather, and later my father, was a Master Blaster. He prepared and set off explosions in the mines to provide access to the mine's coal or ores.
How different are the days from then until now. My father's parents and his family came to the United States to take advantage of the opportunities present here. My father followed my grandfather working in the mines as a Master Blaster. My two uncles became engineers. My aunts married and moved across the country from the glassworks of Pittsburgh, to the factories at Chicago and Indiana to the plains of eastern Colorado.
The immigrants of today evade the entry requirements. They bypass the legal immigration path to sneak across the border in violation of our law. They commit crimes coming here illegally and continue to commit crimes by staying here. They don't and won't assimilate into our culture but by refusing to assimilate, wreck great harm to the United States. These illegals provide no benefit to our nation.Rather, they are parasites, leaching off our country and our taxpayer dollars.
Most men my age, served during Vietnam in one form or another. After I graduated from Southern Illinois University, I entered the Air Force. Ken went into the Army.
I was born and grew up in Illinois, southern Illinois in Benton, IL, the Franklin County seat. I attended Benton Consolidated High School along with several hundred others. One of those in my class was Kenneth W. Tate, a very distant cousin from my mother's side.
Ken was a tall, lanky, farm boy, who lived, if I recall correctly, to the northeast from Benton. I lived on another farm in the opposite direction. If it weren't for the occasional family get-togethers and high school, I'd probably never have met him. But we were distantly related and we did attend high school together. We ran around with the same bunch and were geeks and band-members. I played a trombone, Ken played the drums.
For him, like many of us, being in the band was more of an opportunity to get out of PE class that is was for music. The school felt that being in the marching band in the fall was sufficient to meet the state's PE requirement. That drew many into our band clique.
Ken and I took the same math and science classes. We were lab partners for Biology, Chemistry and Physics…the standard college-prep curriculum. When we graduated in 1964, I went off to Southern Illinois University. Ken started classes at a nearby Junior College but he didn't attend long.
The draft was in force during that time. It was a strong motivator to remain in school with a 2-S deferment. Rather than being drafted, Ken enlisted in the Army. I lost track of him until a couple of years later when I received a letter from my father. Inside with the letter was a clipping…Ken's obituary. I didn't know the details until later.
A trip to Northern Illinois by a U.S. Army veteran resulted in an emotional tribute to a Benton man who died in the Vietnam War.
Joe Hare of Columbia, Ky., on Tuesday honored the memory of fellow Black Lions 28th U.S. Infantry member Kenneth W. Tate, who was killed in action on Sept. 6, 1967 — two days after his 21st birthday.
Hare and his wife, Pat, were joined by some of Tate's family members and friends at his gravesite in the Masonic & Odd Fellows Cemetery.
Tate was the first person from Franklin County to die in Vietnam.
There's a bit more information here at the Virtual Wall. I didn't know Ken was a LRRP (Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol). All that we heard was that he was on a patrol and was killed. Someone, I don't remember who now, said he was killed by a mine. I don't know if that's true or not. It doesn't really matter, now.
I don't know why I keep thinking of Ken. We weren't all that close. Circumstances put us together fifty years ago for a period of time. I can still remember his face.
Perhaps it is, as someone once said, that as long as we remember, they aren't really gone but live within us. I have no doubt Ken and I will meet again…and laugh remembering when we made nitroglycerin and bombed pigeons outside the window of our 2nd floor High School Chemistry lab using an eyedropper.
The Court has been down for about a week. I'm not sure why.
I noticed a week ago that when I tried to open the 'Court, that nothing appeared. I was finally able to get an error message. One database table got corrupted and I followed the instructions on how to repair it.
However, the 'Court didn't reappear after the fix. it's taken me a week to figger out the cause. To repair the database, you have to add a line to the config file. I had failed to remove that line after the repair. A few minutes ago I did—AND IT'S BACK!!!
I haven't blogged in a while. but I did for eleven years. I would really hate to have lost it all.
I originally wrote this post in 2012 after Sandy Hook. After the events yesterday at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, it's still as pertinent as it was six years ago. It was a school shooting, The difference was that this was at a high school instead of an elementary school.
Similarities exist. A shooter walks into a No Gun Zone and kills. Contrary to the Connecticut shooting, there was a, one, law enforcement officer on campus—on the other side of the high school campus.
Why is this important? The school contained 3,200 students, more than many of the small towns in the area, and with multiple buildings. Think on that for a moment. Over 3,000 kids, teachers, administrative staff and one, ONE!, protector.
The libs scream for gun control. That has never worked and they know it. But gun control is all the libs have, nothing else.
The current talking heads, including Florida's 'Pub governor call for more mental healthcare, and over-watch of those who have mental problems. That won't work either. How can you know if someone, who has never drawn anyone's attention, is homicidal? You can't.
Then what is the solution?
One that has been proposed for years and the libs block at every instance. Arm the teachers, arm the administrators, and, hire some guards who have proven themself in critical situations—like veterans and retired or former police officers.
A single security guard for a campus larger than many small towns across American is a sure path to failure, as we have just seen.
The events in Connecticut triggered a memory. A memory from nearly 60 years ago at a time when I was in grade school.
The school I attended was rural…a country school of three classrooms with a peak enrollment around seventy students. There were three classrooms, first through third grade, fourth and fifth grades, and in the largest room, sixth through eighth grades.
There were three teachers—Mrs. Williams, Mrs. Rhodes, and Mr. Helfritch the Principal; one full-time janitor/school bus driver and two older ladies as cooks. The school was rich. It sat in the middle of a half-section of land; property deeded to the school district after WW1. The property also contained two oil wells whose royalties made the school one of the best funded in the county.
This incident occurred early in the fall of the school year. A family rented an old dilapidated house about 300 yards from the school connected by an overgrown track reduced to a foot-path. That family had three children in our school; one boy my age, a younger sister and a younger brother.
On this day, the older boy had done something, or perhaps, not done something to cause the ire of his father. We were at morning recess when we saw the father enter the front of the school, followed shortly by loud voices and words we weren't suppose to know, much less speak. The father was quickly escorted out of the school by Mr. Helfritch.
I don't remember his first name. I may not have known it. All our teachers had similar first names—Mister, Miss, or Misses. I remember Mr. Helfritch as a slight, blond-haired man of medium height with a flat-top haircut. He was a WW2 veteran and a state policeman before being recalled for the Korean war.
Lunch recess was the longest of the day; an hour at least. I suppose it gave the adults time to savor lunch, coffee and to talk a bit. On this day, Mr. Helfritch was, uncharacteristically, outside watching the kids. Some friends and I were playing marbles in an bare area we'd hacked from a small grove of man-high saplings and briers. It was "our" place. We hadn't been there long when we saw the father returning accompanied by two of his brothers.
They walked up to Mr. Helfritch demanding the older boy. My friends and I were close enough to hear some words, enough to understand some of the conversation. When Mr. Helfritch refused, one brother took a swing. In an instant, two of the three visitors were on the ground. The remaining one had a knife in his hand and Mr. Helfritch had a .45 pointed at the knife-wielder's nose at a distance of about two feet. He carried the pistol in a shoulder holster every day my Father later told me.
Someone called the Sheriff and Mr. Helfritch kept the three covered while Rudi, the Janitor, looped a few turns of rope around their legs. They were going nowhere quickly. A Deputy arrived some time later and hauled them off.
My Father, who was an auxiliary Sheriff's Deputy, told that Mr. Helfritch was a reserve police officer. He had been a full-time state trooper before being recalled for the Korean War. When he came home from Korea, he decided to be a teacher instead of a state trooper, but, like many in those times, he kept his reserve police commission. It was the only way he could legally carry a concealed weapon in Illinois. It was the same reason my father was an auxiliary Deputy Sheriff.
I'd forgotten that incident for many years. Dad told me Mr. Helfritch said the school kids were under his protection. He would allow no one to threaten his students. I have no doubt, and it was proven in Connecticut last week, teacher's today would do the same…if they had the tools to do so. Unfortunately, as was proven last week, those tools have been denied and those teachers did their best—dying defending their students.
It should not have happened. The best defense for our children is still people—armed people—armed teachers willing to do what is necessary to protect their charges.
I can remember celebrating Armistice Day. My earliest memory was standing along one of our town's main streets with my family watching a parade of returning Korean War Veterans marching down main street accompanied by Tanks, bands and floats (tractor hauled wagons.) That changed by a proclamation by Dwight D. Eisenhower on October 8th, 1954 that designated November 11th as Veteran's Day.
Under this law, Veteran's Day was observed on October 25th causing much confusion. President Gerald Ford moved Veteran's Day back to November 11 by an order in 1975.
Considering all the wrangling over the holiday, one result of having Veteran's Day on November 11th is that no one remembers that it was originally set aside to celebrate the end of the First World War. Before the two holiday were merged, each had their own observances. Veterans are also honored on other days such as Memorial Day, Flag Day and and even the Fourth of July.
I would much prefer that Veterans have a holiday all our own. A day solely for us and not usurping a celebration intended for others.
Until that happens, however…Happy Veterans AND Armistice Day!
The Marine Corps was created on November 10, 1775, in Tun Tavern, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by a resolution of the Continental Congress. In 1834 the marines became part of the Department of the Navy.
The globe and anchor signify worldwide service and sea traditions. The spread eagle represents the nation itself. The motto, Semper Fidelis, or Always Faithful, is clenched in the beak of the bird.
His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
My wife and I was at dinner recently and we were discussing some long-ago event. It occurred to me that there was a single point that changed the direction of our life. A point that created a fork in our life, a divergence from the life before us. That pivot point was an invitation to lunch.
It happened in January, 1976. I was working in an administrative job for a flour milling company. The company owned a number of flour mills across the country and one charcoal plant. My job, depending on the day of the week, was Payroll Manger (hourly employees), Data Processing Manager, Assistant Treasurer, Payroll Accounting Manger, and on Friday, Manager of the company Benefit Program—paying medical claims for the salaried employees.
A couple of weeks after New Years in January, 1976, I received an invitation to lunch by a Ham Radio friend. I had been a Ham Radio operator for four years and was interested in RTTY, Radio Teletype. So was my friend.
I had spent my Christmas Holiday building a RTTY demodulator. The device decoded two RTTY tones received over the air and converted the tones to Baudot code for the TTY printer. In transmit mode, it received Baudot code from my TTY keyboard and converted that code into two tones that would be transmitted over the air. I had designed and built the demodulator from scratch. I was very proud of it and, at the request of my Ham Radio friend, took it with me. My Ham buddy wanted to see it.
When I arrived, I found my friend sitting with another. My friend was a field maintenance engineer for a Texas-based distributed computing company. The other person sitting at lunch was his boss. The boss was based in Minneapolis and visited Kansas City monthly. That day was his January monthly visit.
The lunch went well. I presented my pride-and-joy, described the circuitry and the techniques I had used in its construction. After twenty minutes, my friend received a customer call, some equipment needed maintenance. He departed leaving me with his boss.
It was a job interview. My friend had accepted a position within the company to be an instructor in the company school in San Antonio, TX. However, as part of the deal, he couldn't leave Kansas City until he found a replacement. Me.
I impressed my interviewer. I lacked knowledge of digital computing but I did have more knowledge of basic electronics than many of the current field engineers of the company. By the end of lunch, I had a job offer, for the Kansas City area, at twice my salary of my job at the milling company.
I took it! My wife was five months pregnant and my salary of $600/mth was small compared with the cost of a growing family.
I had been coasting since leaving the Air Force. My job at the milling company was dead-end. It was a family owned business and all the higher positions were limited to family members or very close family friends. The new job had more opportunities and the potential for a much larger salary.
That pivot point changed our life. I became a field engineer. A few years later, I was second level support covering a four state territory. Not long after that, I was third level support for a seven state area and a regular visiting instructor in the company school teaching disk-drive maintenance, software design and programming and telecommunications.
I have no idea what our life would have been if I hadn't accepted that invitation to lunch. I've lost touch with my Ham Radio friend. A decade later the computer company was bought by a financier who broke up company and sold the pieces.
That field engineering job eventually lead to position with Sprint that lasted until I retired as a Principle Network Design Engineer. While working at Sprint I was a programmer, manager, systems design enginer and finally a project manager. I acquired seven patents along the way. All in all, it's been a good life.
I wonder if I will meet Mike Rathbun again. I think I will.


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OpSens to Host First Quarter FY 2023 Financial Results Conference Call
OPSENS TO HOST FIRST QUARTER FISCAL YEAR 2023 FINANCIAL RESULTS CONFERENCE CALL ON THURSDAY JANUARY 12, 2023
Conference call to be conducted at 11:00 am ET
Quebec City, Quebec, January 5, 2023 – OpSens Inc. ("OpSens" or the "Company") (TSX:OPS) (OTCQX:OPSSF), a medical device cardiology-focused company delivering innovative solutions based on its proprietary optical technology, will report financial results for its first quarter of fiscal year 2023, ended November 30, 2022, on Thursday, January 12, 2023, before the open of the market. The Company has scheduled a conference call the same day, at 11:00 am ET, to review the results.
Interested parties can access the conference call by dialing 1-833-756-0865 or 1-412-317-5754 or can listen via a live webcast, from the link available in the Investors section of the Company's website at https://opsens.com/investors/ or at https://app.webinar.net/rJaVjbNjoW1, 5 to 10 minutes before the beginning of the conference call.
A replay will be available after the call, in the Investors section of the Company's website at https://opsens.com/investors/.
About OpSens Inc. (www.OpSens.com or www.OpSensmedical.com)
OpSens focuses mainly in interventional cardiology. The Company offers an advanced optical-based pressure guidewire that aims at improving the clinical outcome of patients with coronary artery disease. Its flagship product, the OptoWire, is a second-generation fiber optic pressure guidewire designed to provide the lowest drift in the industry and excellent lesions access. The OptoWire has been used in the diagnosis and treatment of 200,000 patients in more than 30 countries. It is approved for sale in the United States, European Union, Japan, and Canada.
OpSens has recently received FDA clearance and Health Canada approval to commercialize the SavvyWire for transcatheter aortic valve replacement procedures (TAVR). This unique guidewire is a 3-in-1 solution for stable aortic valve delivery and positioning, continuous accurate hemodynamic measurement during the procedure, and reliable left ventricular pacing without the need for adjunct devices or venous access.
The TAVR procedure is growing rapidly globally, driven by the aging population and recent studies that demonstrate its benefits for a broader array of patients. The global TAVR market is currently estimated at over 200,000 procedures and is expected to reach 400,000 in 2027.
OpSens is also involved in industrial activities in developing, manufacturing, and installing innovative fiber optic sensing solutions for critical applications.
Louis Laflamme, CPA, CA, Chief Executive Officer, 418.781.0333
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