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1 What is the percentage of religions in Greece?
2 Does anyone worship Greek gods today?
3 What is the religion in Greece today?
4 What was Zeus afraid of?
5 Why did they stop believing in Greek gods?
7 How did Christianity spread in Greece?
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What is the percentage of religions in Greece?
Religions: Greek Orthodox (official) 81-90%, Muslim 2%, other 3%, none 4-15%, unspecified 1% (2015 est.) Definition: This entry is an ordered listing of religions by adherents starting with the largest group and sometimes includes the percent of total population.
Does anyone worship Greek gods today?
Hellenism originated in and is practiced in Greece and in other countries. Leaders of the movement claimed in 2005 that there are as many as 2,000 adherents to the Hellenic tradition in Greece, with an additional 100,000 who have "some sort of interest". No official estimates exist for devotees worldwide.
What is the religion in Greece today?
What was Zeus afraid of?
Zeus is the king of the Greek gods and the supreme ruler of Olympus. Zeus is the supreme deity in Ancient Greek religion and is also known as the Father, the god of thunder, or the "cloud-gatherer" because it was thought that he ruled the skies and weather. However, Zeus was afraid of Nyx, the goddess of night.
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How did Christianity spread in Greece?
Christianity was first brought to the geographical area corresponding to modern Greece by the Apostle Paul, although the church's apostolicity also rests upon St. Andrew who preached the gospel in Greece and suffered martyrdom in Patras, Titus, Paul's companion who preached the gospel in Crete where he became bishop,
What religion is Greek Orthodox similar to?
And so came the birth of the Greek Orthodox (Eastern Orthodox ), similar to Roman Catholicism in ways largely related to the teachings of the Apostles and Jesus Christ. As these two religions were nourished, however, certain differences emerged; they are carried by their believers' faith to this day.
Is Greek a religion?
Greek religion, religious beliefs and practices of the ancient Hellenes. Greek religion is not the same as Greek mythology, which is concerned with traditional tales, though the two are closely interlinked.
What food do they eat in Greece?
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Taramasalata. A mainstay of any Greek meal are classic dips such as tzatziki (yogurt, cucumber and garlic),melitzanosalata (aubergine), and fava (creamy split pea purée).
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Fresh fish.
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The official language of Greece is Greek, spoken by 99% of the population. The most common foreign languages learned by Greeks are English, German, French and Italian.
How safe is Greece?
Greece is a very safe country to travel to. Tourists are unlikely to experience any crime or violence. The only concern is petty crime on the streets, but if you apply the basic precaution measures, your trip should go smoothly.
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[Letter] 1973 Febrero 3, Buenos Aires, Argentino [to] Leonilda González, Club de Grabado
Berni, Antonio, 1905-1981
This essay is on the letter from Antonio Berni (Buenos Aires) to Leonilda González (president of the Club de Grabado de Montevideo [Engravers Club of Montevideo], CGM) on occasion of the twenty-year anniversary of the CGM and on having requested from Berni an etched woodcut for their special edition. The letter is a testament to the link maintained by the institution with the prestigious artists from the region.
While the letter itself lacks relevance, its importance lies mainly as a fundamental testimony to close links that existed between the Argentinean painter and engraver Antonio Berni (1905–81) with various Uruguayan artists, and in this case with those aligned with the CGM (Club de Grabado de Montevideo) group. This relationship began with his visit in 1936 to the Uruguayan capital and would continue until the end of his life. On occasion of its two decades of operation (1953–1973), this cultural institution, the CGM, solicited works specially made for the occasion to various important Latin American engravers, including the Puerto Rican Antonio Martorell, Vasco Prado, Berni himself, and others. The latter declined the invitation, as he would be travelling to Paris, at that time to assist with the installation of an exhibition on his works, stating he'd had an earlier meeting with Leonilda González in Madrid and aimed to continue said dialogue.
This letter was written at an historical moment during a period marked by determinant internal changes in the CGM, one of the only art institutions of instruction and application that survived the dictatorship and internally generated a nucleus of work and theoretical debate. Those years reflected the highest decreased ever recorded in membership at the institution, an inseparable fact caused by changes to the artistic language affecting the graphic productions at the CGM and additionally due to a climate of social retraction that has taken placed since the coup-d'état of 1973.
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Berni, Antonio. [Carta manuscrita dirigida a Club de Grabado de Montevideo (Leonilda González)]. Buenos Aires, 3 de Febrero de 1973.
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"The Swarm"
Written by Mike Sussman
Directed by Alexander Singer
"You filled your memory with nonsense."
"It was only during my off-hours."
"You're supposed to be OFF during your off-hours!"
— Zimmerman hologram and the Doctor
Nutshell: An uneven mixed bag. Solid, greatly entertaining character work sabotaged by yet another forgettable subplot.
There are moments of "The Swarm" that are so good that we want to look past the problems of the script. But the problem with this episode is that ignoring the flaws ultimately becomes impossible—the show is so uneven and the subplot is so unmotivated and inconsequential that one begins to wonder why the subplot even exists. This is the same problem that plagued last week's "Chute"—a strong main story is undermined by a subplot that proves quite, well, forgettable.
The show opens with the seldom-seen pairing of Torres and Paris in a shuttle for a character-based teaser that is somewhat entertaining. Then the show launches its (sub)plot when some strange aliens beam in and attack Torres and Paris, rendering them unconscious with an energy blast as punishment for inadvertently invading their space.
Torres regains consciousness and pilots the ship back to Voyager and the two are taken to sickbay, where the show introduces its main plot involving the Doctor. Doc begins having memory lapses—at first minor things like forgetting where he laid down a medical device, but later he completely forgets the entire procedure for a crucial operation that Paris needs. (Quick observation: Why did Doc begin the operation on Paris knowing that he didn't remember how to do it? It strikes me as rather silly that he would proceed with such delicate work without first investigating his own problem.)
Torres discovers that Doc's circuitry pathways are degrading, and if they continue to degrade he will be permanently incapacitated. The only known solution is to completely re-initialize his program—meaning he would lose all the memories experienced since his activation nearly two years ago.
This is an interesting idea—one that I had hoped we would see someday. While Doc is a person in many respects, this can't change the fact that he exists because of hardware and software, and that his existence can be threatened if there's a problem with the equipment. Further, this is another good use of the Trekkian Human Question, which asks whether the Doctor has feelings as we know them, and whether the crew can give those feelings priority over practicality, which states that the program should be re-initialized immediately to avoid further damage to the Doctor's system.
So, to look for other options, Torres activates the EMH diagnostic program in the holodeck. The diagnostic is a holographic representation of Doctor Zimmerman (also played by Picardo), the Jupiter-stationed creator of the EMH. Zimmerman is exactly the irascible rascal we figured he would be. Picardo's rendition of the character is skillfully done, not to mention an awful lot of fun. Zimmerman's dialog, mannerisms, and facial expressions are dead-on perfect, and Picardo demonstrates a knack for comic timing as he plays a scene opposite himself that has a fountain of quotable lines.
Zimmerman explains that the EMH has amassed too much "worthless" data in his personality subroutine, which is causing an overload and a breakdown of his other routines. ("Look at all this useless information floating around your buffer. Friendships with the crew, relationships with... women? Do they find you attractive?") He concludes that the only viable option is re-initializing the program. Torres wants another option. Zimmerman has no option to give her.
It's about here that the subplot involving the aliens becomes more urgent (or, perhaps, more distracting). According to Neelix, these aliens are bad news. Those who wander into their territory are usually never heard from again. And it turns out that going around their space (which is huge) would add well over a year to Voyager's trip. Janeway decides to violate Starfleet regulations and trespass in their space, much to Tuvok's (somewhat overstated) ire.
Janeway's decision here bothers me a bit. I don't understand why she is willing to break this rule but wouldn't break other rules in past episodes (even if it meant getting home). "I don't like bullies" doesn't seem like much of an explanation to me; it seems more like a forced line to make Janeway appear more imposing, which I really don't think is necessary. As a result, her decision seems more arbitrary than anything else.
While trying to cross the aliens' space, Voyager encounters a ship floating dead in space which was also foolish enough to wander into this territory. They paid with their lives. Naturally, there is one survivor clinging to life who "tells the tale." Pretty by-the-numbers, not very interesting.
The show continues to switch back and forth between the A/B-stories. The transitions decidedly could have been better, as, for example, one scene features the Voyager in grave danger and then cuts to a humorous dialog between Doc and Kes. With this standard story structure, the script simply gives us a little more information in each succeeding scene—which is fine but also means the B-plot's significance rides almost solely on the conclusion. Unfortunately, the payoff is hardly what I hoped for.
Sure, these aliens—that is, the impressive sight of a thousand of their little ships racing after a fleeing Voyager—are a somewhat fresh idea (which is at least somewhat reassuring of the new season), but what the creators do with them is hardly fresh. Once again, we have a powerful foe with a unique advantage that is defeated with Voyager's usual tactical technobabble. The show's inevitable battle seems to demonstrate that the writers can come up with any alien derivation one could imagine, but can provide them with no dramatic purpose beyond being defeated in a sudden turn of the tables that is hardly imaginative or impressive, but plenty insipid and perfunctory.
And Alexander Singer's direction over this battle scene is clunky and lackluster, despite some decent special effects. The invasion of the bridge by the aliens did nothing to increase my pulse rate, and the suddenness with which the entire situation was resolved was far too swift to feel anything but artificial.
I was extremely grateful, at least, to find out that the Doctor's malfunctions had nothing to do with the alien swarm. (I was half expecting another one of those reset button endings where Voyager leaves the aliens' space and everything returns to normal.) A good decision was made here.
So what about Doc, anyway? His deterioration takes him into a sort of state of Alzheimer's for holograms, which is milked for some genuinely funny moments (the "he's a very sick man" passage, for example, was hilarious). Just as Zimmerman predicted, Doc's intellect descends to that of a parsnip.
His problem is also solved with a rather technical procedure, although it's much more interesting than the angle with the aliens. It's driven more by Zimmerman and Kes' character interaction than by arbitrary workings of shield modulations or phasers.
This solution does not, however, guarantee Doc's memory will be restored, and the ending, in which he indeed does not appear to remember Kes or Torres, had my attention. But I have mixed feelings about the very last shot where Doc begins singing opera from his previous holodeck experiences. There are a number of ways to read this. (I personally didn't care for the vague ending all that much because I don't really like to be toyed with when it comes to character truths.) Some possible implications of this ending include:
Doc was merely joking with Kes and Torres. This has about 0.1% likelihood, but I just thought I'd throw it out there because it would be an amusing and atypical approach.
Doc's memory will slowly return, the way many TV cases of amnesia resolve themselves. That would be too dramatically easy, but it's possible.
Doc will remember some things, but not others. This is the most probable, most plausible, and probably most interesting way to deal with it.
Doc will remember nothing (except some opera). It would be a brave choice on the part of the producers, but I certainly would not like it because it would be character stagnation, not character development.
No matter how this is ultimately resolved, I found the setup to be just that—setup without dramatic payoff. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but I think the story would've been much more effective if the ending hadn't been left so open.
It's unfortunate that this episode can't get more than an "okay" rating in my book. It really is. I enjoyed much of the Doctor's story. But as long as Voyager's creators give us subplots that go nowhere with weak conclusions that weigh down the main story, I don't see any way that such episodes can transcend overall mediocrity.
Yes, "The Swarm" was fun at times. Yes, it featured an interesting character we figured we would never see. Yes, it had great performances by Robert Picardo. But it didn't add up to enough; it didn't have the payoff or subplot development it needed. It was a potentially great show that shot itself in the foot. It's not a total loss by any means, but (like "The Chute") not nearly what it could've been.
Unfortunate indeed.
Previous episode: The Chute
Next episode: False Profits
Tue, Oct 14, 2008, 10:21am (UTC -5)
Jammer leaves out one possibility:
1) Reset button. Doc's memory issues will never be an issue again. Probably the most annoying possibility, so of course....
Anyway - solid review of the problems and good aspects of this episode. A Star Trek 'B' story should never be "the ship might be destroyed", and this episode shows what happens when it is; you can't take the danger seriously.
I do like that we get a Kes episode, however (spoiler warning: I like Kes). In season 3 it appears the writers may finally have come up with things for Kes to do...too late for her character, unfortunately.
Ah, and we also get the first hints of the Torres/Paris relationship at the beginning.
Keb Egervari
Thu, Oct 8, 2009, 2:00pm (UTC -5)
This is the break down of the series right here. It's not that voyager was "great" by any means, but this episodes marks its downfall and represents everything I dislike about the show.
- Janeway violating principals so easily is the first time she has done this in the series... and from this point on, it becomes part of her wishy-washy character. While she was a promising captain, she has lost all credibility at this point. It destroyed her character.
- Resetting the doctor ruins character development. His relationship with Kes was easily one of the strongest points to his character. You get rid of that... honestly, what is left of him?
The subplot was particularly bad, but the repercussions of this episode are far worse.
Terrible episode. Not 2-3 stars.
Sun, Jan 10, 2010, 7:20pm (UTC -5)
I think Janeway's decision to break the rules marks a turning point for her character, because after their experiences in the first two seasons, she has realized that the most important thing to her is to get her crew home. It might have come on a little suddenly, but it makes perfect sense given their situation. But I agree the 'swarm' aliens were not even interesting enough to sustaion half of the episode.
I love the final scene and I think of all the possible outcomes this one has the greatest emotional impact. The Doctor did mention his "recent memory loss" in the next episode (that is, the next episode to be written), so the second of your options would seem to be the case.
Fri, Jan 28, 2011, 1:53pm (UTC -5)
@ Nic,
Yeah, it is a differetn Janeway from around here froward. THough I'm probably overreaqding writer intent, I'd say maybe it has something to do with being stranded for weeks on the monkey planet at the end of Season 2 in "Resolutions". After rejoining the crew, she was in a more "back to business" mode....
I agree with Nic. If anything, Janeway's transition from 'by the book' to 'will do anything to get home' is the true arc of the Voyager story.
Anyway, I liked this episode but was disappointed that it was never really followed up on.
Tue, Aug 7, 2012, 9:18am (UTC -5)
For me, the most absurd part of the whole "swarm" story line was the motivation of this alien race. If they had wanted to "feed" on ships straying into their territory, why would they warn the Voyager not to enter? Would a lion warn a zebra not to enter its territory, or just wait for it silently and happily?
Moreover, what could possibly motivate the swarm race to decide on convoluted borders with a conveniently narrow band which Voyager could cross in 4 hours? Without naturally occuring borders or other empires in the vicinity, the swarm's empire would have taken the shape of a *sphere* - which would have been less convenient for the script, I guess.
Mon, Sep 10, 2012, 10:01pm (UTC -5)
"His circuits and pathways are degrading?" We've got to do a "graft" of another hologram onto his to save him? That's not how computers work, damn it!
At least the grafting solution somewhat acknowledges the absurdity of having a faulty EMH while the computer can easily create a lifelike simulation of the EMH's creator (or a Cardassian war criminal, or Leonardo, or Einstein, or a sentient lounge singer). If anything, "grafting" is just a roundabout way of describing the obvious solution: junk the faulty EMH and have the computer *simulate* a healthy one. In the end, what's the difference??
Sun, Sep 15, 2013, 2:38am (UTC -5)
just came across this on memory alpha, thought i'd share:
Prior to the writing of this episode, actor Robert Picardo suggested a story idea that was similar to how this episode turned out, as both involved a holographic depiction of Lewis Zimmerman. Shortly after completing work on Star Trek: Voyager's second season, Picardo explained, "I would like an exploration of the man that developed my program. I have suggested a story idea to them about this Doc Zimmerman character, and what would make him design the emergency medical hologram program. Specifically, I've suggested that he no longer practices medicine. In doing volunteer work in the most upsetting medical emergency situations, he witnessed something that has rendered him unable to practice anymore, so he creates the holographic doctor program to complete him as a doctor. He doesn't have it anymore to interact directly with patients. In other words, he is a very frightened, and uncommunicative, an unentitled, shy, pathetic man, versus his creation. We would meet them both on the Holodeck. He would be in the ship's memory banks.
while the swarm story was beyond boring i really like the two docs interaction, along with kes' involvement in the story. i hadn't seen this episode yet when they showed a clip in the star trek 30 years special back in 96, but rather than be spoilerific it was actually quite fun for 14 year old me to see, as if i was seeing something from the future.
Tue, Mar 11, 2014, 9:34am (UTC -5)
Jammer says it all, really. The Swarm subplot was a good idea, but rushed and ultimately inconsequential.
I think Janeway's command decisions were also bizzare. At the very least, the episode should have seriously wrestled with her decision to break through Swarm space. There should have been scenes in which she and Tuvok battled with the issue. The crux of the episode should have been the political and ethical implications of breeching swam territory, instead we get run-of-the-mill action sequences.
Sat, Mar 29, 2014, 2:25am (UTC -5)
One of the worst arcs in Voyager, just a one star from me. I can't get over Janeway's decision making. Violating other people's space before you can talk to them, risking their lives for a shortcut and calling them 'bullies'?
The Picardo arc deserved the episode to itself.
Mon, Jun 16, 2014, 11:14pm (UTC -5)
Nothing would have happened if Voyager didnt stop to aid the attacked ship inside the alien territory. Even if it got detected by the attached alien ship (doubtful), it would be long gone in warp 9,75.
When u make a command decision (fly through foreign space), stick to it. Dont remember the next second ur an explorer/humanitarian etc.
Vylora
Sun, Aug 24, 2014, 6:55am (UTC -5)
While the B plot feels a bit rushed at the end and ultimately becomes a foregone conclusion; both A and B plots serve up interesting dilemmas in what is an overall worthwhile installment. Some cross-cutting between the two could have benefited from some better editing choices.
Janeway's decision here to cross into the aliens territory showed growth of character in that she is learning from past experiences since being stuck in the Delta Quadrant. Truth is, the aliens struck first and Voyager continued efforts to communicate despite that. Stopping to examine a damaged vessel and helping the injured alien makes logical sense. One of the best ways to learn about an antagonist species is to, very obviously, glean whatever information you can from other victims. Not to mention it's the humanitarian thing to do, which is a hallmark of ST.
The A plot revolving around the doctors intermittent memory loss brings forth some of the usual fantastic performances from Picardo in dual roles. An explanation at the end on how his memory may or may not return would have been helpful. I would like to think that it just took time for that part of the programming to establish itself after the grafting of the two matrices took hold.
All in all, though, quite an enjoyable hour. Nothing groundbreaking to be sure, but pretty solid.
Mon, Sep 29, 2014, 4:42am (UTC -5)
The ending bothered me too. Having seen the rest of the series, we know that his memory loss never really comes up again in any meaningful way. It also never happens again, even though he continues to expand his program. I don't think he shows up at all in the next episode, 'False Profits', so maybe he was recovering. (i.e. B'lana or Harry was recovering his memories and downloading them back into his file). It would have been nice if they had mentioned it though. I actually think it would have wrapped things up better if he had winked at Kes and B'lana at the end, and let them know he was joking.
@Tricia - No argument about the lack of followup, but he DOES mention it again in Future's End.
"STARLING: Try to be a little more grateful, Doc. The schematics I downloaded from your ship indicate you were stuck in the sickbay twenty four hours a day.
EMH: I recently suffered a severe programme loss and I'm still in the process of retrieving my memory files, but apparently on a few occasions I have been projected into other locations. Undoubtedly you're using a similar procedure. "
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I was about to post the sane thing.
My interpretatiohn was it took a few months for B'Elanna to track down the files and it happened "between" episodes.
Tue, Sep 30, 2014, 8:47am (UTC -5)
What's interesting about the phrasing "apparently on a few occasions I have been projected into other locations" is that it sounds like some of his memories were not perfectly reintegrated, but instead more uploaded like they were someone else's, but he knows they happened to him.
I wonder if he remembers the events of important Doc episodes like "Lifesigns" in that manner, or if at some point they were able to integrate them in such a way that he actually remembers them.
Tue, Sep 30, 2014, 11:43am (UTC -5)
Remember, all of the Doc's initial medical knowledge, and his basic functions like sensory intake and language ability, were all "uploaded" to begin with. *He* never learned English (or Fed-standard, or whatever). *He* never went to medical school. He 'knew' the feel of a hypospray in his hand before he ever touched one.
If all of that can be integrated to create the basis for his existence in the first place, I'm not sure that there should be any difference when later memories, that he did make for himself, are broken off and then restored.
The line is intriguing, but I hear it as saying that the process is simply incomplete. He *doesn't* have certain memories but he 'sees' where they should be, recalls references to them in other memories.
Thu, Jan 22, 2015, 9:29pm (UTC -5)
This feels like it could have and should have been better. There were two potentially interesting ideas here, and both got shortchanged by being intercut with each other.
First of all, about the swarm. This is quite possibly the most blatant and most pathetic case of the writers not caring about characters so far in the series. Janeway's ENTIRE persona up to this point is that she will not sacrifice her principles to get the crew home in a faster or more convenient manner. This has been drilled into our heads over and over and over since the very first episode. So what happens here? She decides to trespass through a region of space controlled by a hostile species after being warned not to. Sovereignty? Respecting other species? Prime Directive? Screw it, I want a shortcut. No explanation given for her sudden change of heart, just a stupid line about them being bullies. Completely and totally out of character for her.
And completely irrelevant. They could have accidentally stumbled upon the swarm. They could have been responding to a humanitarian crisis. They could have been misinformed as to the swarm's intent. But no, we'll just have Janeway act wildly out of character for no reason whatsoever. Hurray!
But I feel the need to harp on this issue, because a couple commenters suggested that this is part of Janeway's character arc. Sorry, it doesn't work that way. If you want to have Janeway evolve from principles over expedience to ends justify the means over the course of the series, so be it. But there needs to be reasoning behind it. Either it needs to happen slowly, breaking down her resolve over time, weighing her decisions more and more before sacrificing just a few principles, or else there needs to be something big to justify her change. Neither happened. It was just "Starfleet principles morals Prime Directive, oh hi shortcut!" No agonizing decision, nothing. Just a quick change.
If they wanted to do that, they should have waited for Scorpion. The Borg are big enough to accept that Janeway might change her perspective. But a little shortcut? A quick line about bullies? Stupid.
Meanwhile, we have a potentially interesting alien species here. There's not a lot about them that is similar to people we've met previously. Perhaps it would be worthwhile to explore this race in more detail? Perhaps we might want to see what makes them tick? Nah, just show some random action scenes and call it a day. No need to develop them. No need to make them a recurring villain (after all, it sounds like their space is pretty big). Just show some special effects and have the bridge shake like normal, and we're good.
As for the Doc scenes, they're good, but they should be really, really good. I like a lot of how it went down. The fact that Kes was adamant about saving the Doc's memories and refused to back down is very consistent with her character. The fact that the Doc immediately was fine with wiping his memory was surprising, but in a good way. After all, his primary purpose is to be a Doctor. His lack of concern for his "life" is refreshing and shows that he still is, in fact a program. Some of my favorite Data scenes were the ones that made it clear he wasn't just a funny human, but rather still an artificial life form. That little scene in the beginning is the same.
So there was a lot of good going on there. Everyone's character seemed to be natural, and everyone's choices seemed a logical extension of what we've seen so far. But the ending was just a bad reset option.
For one, there was no drama. The Doc was rapidly degrading; he was clearly "dying". This meant that something had to be done, and that there was a clear time limit to when it had to be done. That leads to fake drama sometimes. If I have a life threatening injury and will die within hours unless I try a risky surgery that has a 50% chance of killing me, I will obviously try the surgery. The only drama is seeing how the cosmic author wants my surgery to go: successful or not. But if I have a serious but not immediately life threatening injury? Should I take the risk on the surgery or not? Now the drama depends on my choices, not a cosmic roll of the dice.
What if, instead of Kes treating the other person, the Doc was needed for another surgery? And what if, instead of an unknown solution, B'Elanna was reasonably confidant she could find a solution but it would take time? Then, drama. Do we force the Doc to dump his memory so that he can perform the surgery, or risk waiting so that B'Elanna can perform her surgery? Would Janeway order the Doc to die? Would Kes be conflicted between her role as a medic and her friendship with the Doc?
How about another option: the solution isn't to merge Holo-Zimmerman with the Doc, but rather to store the Doc's personality in the Holodeck computer? The holodeck can still be used for simple recreations, but no more advanced holocharacters. Will the crew be willing to give up their primary form of escapism just for a holographic program, most of whom probably don't work with him and thus still don't think of him as sentient? Would this be the way to finally accept him as a person?
Instead, we got a plotline that was pretty much just on the rails, with no chance for deviation. A "risky" solution is found, but the only risk is that it might not work, not that it involves any sacrifice on anyone's part. Since the Doc is all but dead anyway, a chance of a cure is better than none. So of course it's used.
And then the cheap reset ending. The Doc apparently doesn't remember anything, then starts singing. And other than a throwaway line a few episodes later, it's never mentioned again.
I mean, if you're going to press the reset button so blatantly, at least play with it a bit. Have him lose his memories, but still a backup exists in the ship's computer (it just can't be integrated into the program). Then you can have a few episodes of Kes grieving for her friend and trying to teach the Doc to become a person again, while Picardo can have some fun playing him like he did in season 1. Then hit the reset button later with magical new tech. Maybe even in Future's End. Do something rather than an ambiguous scene that is never brought up again.
Like I said, a lot of lost potential.
No argument about the lack of followup, but he DOES mention it again in Future's End.
@Robert, the person you were replying to said "in any meaningful way".
That counts as meaningful on VOY!!!! :P
Fri, Jan 23, 2015, 5:56am (UTC -5)
Totally agree with Skeptical.
Thrackerzod
Tue, Feb 24, 2015, 4:04pm (UTC -5)
One thing that bugged me is how Zimmerman said his program would no longer exist after the procedure. Is there some reason that they cannot make copies of programs in the future? I could do it with floppy disks decades ago but for some reason they can't make a backup copy of a holodeck program. *shrug*
Skeptical,
No more needs to be said. Well done.
This could be the funniest moment yet in Voyager:
"EMH: What are you doing now?
TORRES: I want to see if the data corruption is affecting your optical sensors. What did that do?
EMH: I can't see! I'm blind!
TORRES: All right.
EMH: Oh! That is extremely disconcerting. Please don't do it again! Now what are you doing?
TORRES: Attenuating your forcefield projectors. Doctor, forgive me, but this is very delicate work. Could you please sit over there for a few minutes.
EMH: How extremely rude. May I remind you that I am, in a way, your patient, who's suffering from an unknown and obviously debilitating condition. I would think you'd be a little more sensitive to my needs.
TORRES: You are questioning my bedside manner?"
I about split a rib... :-)
This episode is palatable because of the performances of Lien and Picardo.
1.5 stars for coming up with a cool new alien. Janeway's decision to enter their space here really got on my nerves, especially right after she said Kirk & CO would get thrown out of the academy now because they don't follow the rules.
" Janeway's decision to enter their space here really got on my nerves, especially right after she said Kirk & CO would get thrown out of the academy now because they don't follow the rules. "
@Yanks - Janeway has DID. I really like one of her personalities though!
"has did" Robert?
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). It's the current name for multiple personality disorder.
** slaps forehead ** lol
Sun, Sep 20, 2015, 9:26pm (UTC -5)
@ Skeptical:
I think the events of Resolutions were meant to have had that effect on Janeway. The Janeway that emerged from that is quite different. Whether the writers intended that is another matter...
This episode is the first to beg the question of why they don't have/dont make/cant make/ backups of the Doctor. Its standard procedure even today and we don't live on a stranded starship where our only hope of not dying from being near Neelix's cooking is a computer program. It can't be a size issue or they wouldn't have been able to have the Zimmerman program or have two EMHs in one sickbay like we've seen a couple of times or have a lifeforms entire knowledge downloaded into the computer. They say several times in the series that the Doctor is irreplaceable and go rescue etc when he goes missing instead of just loading the most recent backup. "Living Witness" then magically shows that they do have a backup module which was never mentioned before when it would have been useful. And apparently the backup module lost on the Kyrian/Vaskan planet wasn't replaced either...
I know duplicating a character cheapens the character to being no more than a tricorder you replace when you feel like it, but in universe, they should be backing him up everyday and activating a new one whenever the last was lost/stolen. Or even creating Emergency Emergency Medical Hologram copies to solve their staffing shortage! Certainly would have helped Ensign Jehtal if there were two Doctors...
Tue, Jan 26, 2016, 10:14am (UTC -5)
A curious episode in which what you'd expect to be the B-story becomes the A-story and vice versa. I'd agree that ship threatening incidents shouldn't really be relegated to B-story status, but that's just personal preference.
The Doctor story is quite good, and pretty well played. I've always enjoyed Kes being a sort of moral compass and it's shown again here. The Swarm - an interesting idea, but less well explored and really shouldn't have been shoe-horned in here. 2.5 stars.
The trailer for Star Trek Beyond made me think of this episode.
Sun, May 29, 2016, 12:03am (UTC -5)
Main plot:This was a great Doctor episode it really made me sad at the prospect that he might have to start all over again with the crew. Picardo is a really great actor.
Subplot:So Janeway decides to pass through another species space regardless of what they think about it. and kills tens of thousands of border guards. She probably killed a few thousand more when they reached the other side to. would have been nice to see them capture one alive and convince it to speak with their leaders, or at least some form of communication.
belowzero
I like this episode, not the swarm story so much. But the interactions between the doctor and torres and the doctor and zimmerman are great.
Its fantastic when the doctor grabs zimmermans shoulder and spins him around.
Sat, Aug 20, 2016, 4:32pm (UTC -5)
Three hospital shows in a row. Now I have to watch the hologram doctor convalesce. no thanks.
Mon, Aug 22, 2016, 1:41pm (UTC -5)
I don't like bullies,So i'm going to bully these people into letting us through their space!
Janeway makes so much more sense if you look at her as a Bipolar psychopath like I know do.
There may be a trend that the better episodes of Voyager have a minimal amount of Neelix ...
Especially when in his minimal screentime he's actually competent or at least helpful.
nothingoriginal55
I only have one very serious question...
why would a holigram need to scrub before an operation?
Tue, Jan 3, 2017, 11:42pm (UTC -5)
His holographic skin is a solid surface and could likely pick up bacteria, dirt, etc like human skin would..... he isn't "see through".. he has mass and if you touch him he is solid. He could get dirty if you dumped garbage on him, etc...
Gooz
Bacteria that stick to holographic skin woul fall off when he dematerializes. Seems like deactivating and reactivating (1 sec) would be faster than 15 seconds of scrubbing and infinitely more effective . Another example of the "dressed to heal" TV trope, but a minor annoyance when you consider all the other crap the writers on Voyager pull on every episode.
Sat, Feb 25, 2017, 8:27am (UTC -5)
It would also help if the doctor didn't immediately recontaminate himself by touching everything.
Stuart M
So the swarm have transporter technology. Despite numerous times being told it didn't exist in the delta quadrant.
Janeway couldn't spare Torres to reinitialize the doctor. But...there is an entire engineering staff on the ship.
Stark Trek does that a lot. It makes like the chief engineer is the only one capable of doing anything. It's quite tiresome.
Agreed with the points that people above made about Janeway's decision to go into Swarm Space. Yes, it could have been done in a way that clarified that this is a matter of Janeway's position evolving. No, I don't think the episode did that. That bullies line doesn't nearly account for how big a change this is in her overall policy. I do like how the camera kept focusing on Tuvok's look of confused disapproval (well, confused for Vulcans anyway). I guess the obvious point to make is that *even if* Janeway is going to disregard regulations, there is no guarantee that they can survive in this mysterious space of the damned, and they only marginally do, and even then there's no guarantee at the end of the episode that they won't just get attacked by another deadly swarm before they make their several-hour trek through this short part of the corridor. Additionally, it seems obvious that if the Swarm or whatever catch up to them, they *will* get into a fight, and that could lead to deaths -- either on Voyager or of the aliens. I'm not really saying Janeway shouldn't defend herself, but isn't it relevant to consider that they will be intruders and may have to, you know, murder these bullies when encroaching into their territory? The episode's end relies on Voyager's shield harmonics being radically altered, then the crew doing nothing about it, which presumably would indicate that they can't change them, so that they are completely helpless against the swarm, until suddenly they can change their shield harmonics in a tech tech way so that if they shoot one ship they all blow up or something, I sort of stopped paying attention. I'm snarking a bit, but wow the tech stuff here just flies by and doesn't make sense anymore.
Also noteworthy: Janeway's blase attitude when Kes comes onto the bridge to say that they might be losing the EMH is not a good look. I get it; the ship was in danger. But at the same time, the EMH is *the only doctor on the ship*. Even if his individual rights aren't respected, or even if any individual crew member's death would not be worth finding some crew member to attend to them, the ship needs a doctor if they are going to survive, particularly since if they do get boarded by the swarm the casualties will start piling up immediately.
Anyway, the Doctor stuff is okay -- particular props to the role Kes plays in it as the Doctor's staunchest advocate; this episode seems to play an even stronger role in her character arc (increasing confidence, willingness to stand up to the captain) than in the Doc's. It's moving to see Picardo play the Doctor getting into a point of senility. The idea that the Doctor's program degrades because it is not designed to withstand the amount of data going into the Doctor's "personality" is an interesting one and as a result it makes a lot of sense to address it now. And the solution is not a total cheat, given that the diagnostic program was introduced early in the episode. The contrast between the Doctor and the Zimmerman diagnostic program, wherein the Zimmerman program is essentially who the Doctor started the series as and has slowly moved from, works fairly well. And yet, the ending still feels a little bloodless -- a strange term, I know, to talk about a hologram. By framing the Doctor's program breaking down as a somewhat inevitable result of the realities of the Doctor being run far beyond his initial parameters, the episode seemed to demand a solution that would require some sort of sacrifice or innovation to allow the Doctor to continue growing and changing. Sacrificing the diagnostic program doesn't feel very strong because we haven't seen it before this episode and have no real way or knowing how important it actually is. I guess a slight modification could have been something like what we do see in this episode, but with the added statement that after the graft takes place, and with the diagnostic program destroyed, it will be impossible to restart the Doctor, and so if more problems do develop, the ship will completely lose the Doctor and be without him. The episode sort of gestures to this -- Kes opts for a risky procedure to save her friend and the ship's CMO, over the safer procedure which will save the CMO but not her friend -- but I think having Janeway or someone else besides Kes make that call, and to make clearer that the precariousness will outlast the end of the episode, would have strengthened it. Of course the hard reset at the episode's end doesn't quite work (though I guess someone said that the amnesia here will come up again).
Maybe 2.5 stars for the Doctor material and a 1 for the Swarm stuff, so I'll go with 2 stars.
Actually, the Doc stuff mostly did work for me, even if the ending isn't thrilling, so I'll go up to 2.5 stars for the ep overall.
Skarble
Why didn't the aliens kill Torres and Paris? They killed everyone on that other ship they find (except for the one conviently left alive to explain what happened of course), and were trying to kill everyone on Voyager later apparently, so why would they leave those two alive? I'm guessing it was sort of a message like 'that's your first and final warning, now leave, or else', since they also later say 'too late, should have listened'.
Janeway enters their space anyway, when clearly she shouldn't for several reasons. The implicit warning not to, which Janeway promptly ignores. Regulations say she shouldn't, which Janeway also ignores, and obviously this is an incredibly dangerous area as Neelix had warned her, which Janeway ignores. But, yeah, they're somehow bullies so who cares? Let's violate their territory and risk everyone's life to save some time. And when all is said and done ends up having murdered who knows how many of them to do it. But hey, they saved a few months right? Worst captain ever.
And good thing Voyager happened upon their territory, which covers 'hundreds of sectors', right at the one place that only takes 4 days to cross.
As far as the Doc scrubbing up before doing the procedure on Paris, of course that's ridiculous on it's face, but especially so, considering all he ever does is wave magic wands in people's general direction anyway.
Kes begging them to try to save the Doc is silly as well, because of course they would have tried to do that in the first place, not jump automatically to 'reset him'. And if they had an EMH diagnostic program, why wouldn't they do that immediately instead of debating things, then having Torres doing a bunch of tests and putzing around for who knows how long?
And I also find it very frustrating that there is no way to copy a computer program in the future for some reason. Using the diagnostic matrix to fix the Doc will destroy it forever. Why? Ugh.
The Doc's program uses 50 million gigaquads, so adding 15 thousand gigaquads to it wouldn't seem like it would be that big of a deal. That's only a .03% increase in size. But who knows with gigaquads, I suppose.
At the end the aliens are trying to capture the ship, and their big plan is to beam one single guy over, and get him shot, then beam one more over, and get him shot, then beam one more single guy over, and have him shot. Great plan aliens! Next time beam like 100 guys at once maybe, heck, even 5 at once probably would have done it.
So yeah. A pretty lame episode. The Doc plot gets a 2 and the swarm plot gets a 1.
1 1/2 stars overall from me.
Forgot to mention the bridge crewman who died too. So having a person die, and a bunch of aliens die, is totally worth getting home a little sooner. Great job Janeway!
Thu, Nov 9, 2017, 6:12pm (UTC -5)
What the hell, Janeway?
So they violate the prime directive by interfering. They had a warning and obviously understood it, chose to ignore it, tried to sneak through alien space without making sure the aliens knew they meant no harm and ended up killing dozens of people who probably thought they were protecting their home?
Think of it from the alien's perspective. They gave a warning, then they see voyager, a ship with advanced weaponry, sneaking past their defences heading deeper into their territory at high speed. They don't know if voyager is peaceful. Janeway made no attempt to make sure their message and intentions was clear and understood.
How would the federation react if they told a romulan warbird not to enter its space, then found it cloaked and heading at high speed into the middle of federation space?
Janeway is completely in the wrong here and committed a crime by killing those aliens who were defending their home.
Thu, Feb 8, 2018, 11:22pm (UTC -5)
Really enjoyed this episode with its 2 subplots, although they were quite different in nature and completely unrelated. The ending is quite fortunate on both counts: re-initializing Doc with Dr. Zimmerman's program and Voyager's technobabble to disable the swarm. While the episode has a weird structure (sometimes odd switches between the subplots), it was consistently entertaining.
The swarm is a pretty cool menace, good concept here. Finding the freighter captain explaining what happened to his ship -- reminded me of Decker on the Constellation after they had met the Doomsday Machine. This reinforces the swarm's menace. The problem is the swarm does everything right to start destroying Voyager and so it seems a tad farfetched and convenient that Kim and Janeway whip up some technobabble BS to destroy the swarm so quickly.
What's more intriguing is Janeway decides to abandon Star Fleet principles here by not going around the aliens' space because it would add 15 months to the journey. Wonder if she'd want to redo her decision in Caretaker now... Could be a sign of her becoming more pragmatic as it's been 2 years now since Voyager's been stranded.
Random observation: There should be more aliens in the DQ where the UT doesn't work. Finally nice to see some aliens who truly come across as aliens.
Doc's Alzheimers plot is the strength of the episode clearly. It hits Kes like a ton of bricks -- portrays the disease as harder on those who love the patient than the patient himself.
Gotta love Doc's facial expressions when realizing his memory loss and during the discussion on re-initializing his program or not. Doctors make lousy patients they say but Voyager's doc makes an interesting one. And with Picardo getting to play Dr. Zimmerman, it's like how Doc was when he was first used on Voyager.
I actually really liked the ending with Doc singing opera again -- I take it (however implausible it was made to sound) that he has regained his memories and all the additional "useless" stuff he picked up in the 2 years.
3 stars for "The Swarm" -- entertaining stuff in A/B plots but Doc's memory loss and Kes's determination to help him were good stuff to watch. Picardo's great in this episode. Unfortunately, for a threat as formidable as the swarm, it was dealt with too conveniently, but at least it was a creative and credible threat. Nowhere near a perfect episode but a lot of great stuff here.
SouthofNorth
Tuvok: If we use the array we can be home in 1 hour, otherwise we won't make it home for 70 years.
Janeway: I won't violate Starfleet regulations. Destroy the array!!
... 2 years later ...
Tuvok: If we got through their territory, we can be beyond it in 2 days, otherwise it will take 15 months.
Janeway: Screw Starfleet regulations. We're going in!!!!
Tuvok: (to himself) Humans, oy!
The major flaw I see in this story is the same one I keep seeing in many Voyager episodes.
Janeway knows the doctor's program is having problems but she decides to just drive the ship right into hostile space without asking "What happens if we get into trouble and have a bunch of injuries with a doctor who can't help them?". They do have Kes but is she really a substitute for the doctor? We don't know. It isn't even really addressed.
Seems like it would have made a lot more sense for them to just sit there in relative safety until they found a way to fix the doctor before heading into hostile space.
This happens repeatedly on Voyager. Janeway makes dumb mistakes that could have easily been avoided because they need a plot and the writers apparently thought the viewers were too dumb to notice. How can we respect a captain who doesn't have any regard for danger and nearly gets the ship destroyed in every episode?
They kind of did this in TNG but the writing was usually a lot better and they usually at least asked "What if something goes wrong?". At least Picard was smart enough to weigh the options before doing anything. Janeway doesn't ask "Is this risky?" She just does it
I enjoyed the swarm plot but the doctor plot was filled with way to much technobabble, Zimmerman was annoying and this plot kept getting in the way


The weather this week made me mad as hell. I was told that we're in the month of December. In South Africa, that translates to: KE DEZEMBA, PEOPLE!
Time to roll out of bed and put on arm bands! Time to get the braai smoke smell infused into our whole wardrobe! Time to get outside and in Durban, time to sweat!
Yet there we were, sitting with jerseys, staring at the grey weather outside. No one could believe this was December. I almost gave up trying to holiday and went back to work.
Durban doesn't have a ton of things going for it, but if there's one thing we did have going for us, it was the weather.
"The hottest place to be," they said.
And I ask myself, "Well, IS IT the end of the world???" and then I take a couple rescue remedy and ignore scary realities like any normal adult would.
However, a bit of small talk with a certain Prof of Sciences had me a little… shook. I complained about the poor weather, in an attempt at general conversation, and his reply came as a pleasant opener.
He said (to paraphrase) that the earth has been through many different ages and states, and is continually changing. At one point, it faced an Ice Age, and at another, extreme heat. It's natural that climates will change, but human interferance has definitely sped up the effects.
So there's the thing I didn't want to say this was about: climate change.
The cars, the factories, the waste.
We killed Dezemba, and now there's nothing we can do about it.
But hey… even if it isn't all our fault, we should absolutely do all that we can to slow it down. Tread gently upon the earth. Considering everything the earth has given us, returning the favour just seems to be… the polite thing to do.
Because actually, life is one huge Dezemba, and we're just visitors here, after all.
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In God's name: Nazism
Posted on December 13, 2019 by ΉΣᄂIᄃӨП,
I've previously covered Adolf Hitler in a retrospective that can be read here, and I've covered clerical fascism which can be read here, but in this article I'm going to present facts that show that the Christian movements in Germany actively supported the Nazi party's (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterparte – National Socialist German Workers' Party) uprising.
This isn't going to be about proving that Hitler wasn't an atheist, as I've covered it in the article A retrospective: Adolf Hitler, and it's not going to be about whether anyone else in the Nazi party was a believer, as that's also been covered with Johan Heinrich Ludwig Müller, who was Reichsbischof, which meant the chief Bishop of the Nazi party, in this article, Clerical Fascism.
This is where I will discuss Christianity's active involvement in the Nazi party, and how, especially in the Catholic Church the involvement went all the way to the top, and even the Pope Pius XII (Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli) never condemned their actions, and met Hitler on several occasions, and signed the Reichskonkordat, which was treaty between the Nazi party, and the Vatican when he was the Cardinal Secretary of State, before he became the Pope.
Christian apologists use desperate measures to try and make society believe that the Catholic Church wasn't in bed with the emerging Nazi party, in the 1930s, previous to the events of World War II, but it's been covered by many historians, and especially in the book 'Hitler's Pope' by John Cornwell.
Scholars have researched, and studied Nazi records, and it's been clarified that the non-religious played next to no part other than victims of the Axis forces. At the time of the rise of the Nazi party, the majority of Germany was of some branch of Christian faith, and most of them were strong supporters of Hitler and his values. The support from Christianity and its churches continued even after Germany started World War II, and the true nature of the cruel dictatorship came to light.
The only way that fascism could rise to power, was through support, but why did it gain support in Germany, Italy and other European countries that were predominantly Christian? In Germany 2/3rds were Protestant Christian and the rest Catholic leaving a tiny percentage adhering to paganism.
Johan Heinrich Ludwig Müller, was a Prussian member of the Nazi party, and was a prominent member of the 'German Christian' movement, which was a sect of the German Evangelical Church (Deutsche Evangelische Kirche), where he became Reichsbischof (Reich Bishop). The 'German Christian' were associates with Positive Christianity (Positives Christentum) which was a combination of Nazi ideology and Christianity with an obsession with 'Christ Killers', who were Jews. They encouraged Christian anti–Semitism which became responsible for the Holocaust, and wish to 'de–Judaize' the Bible and refused to accept that Jesus was a Jew and believed that he was the first true Aryan.
In Europe from the start of the 20th century, the Jews were seen as being materialistic, and supporters of modernism, which angered both Catholics and Protestants and enforced anti-semitism, and the Germanic nations began to consider the Jews as a curse. Many agreed with Müller that Jesus was the first true Aryan soldier who was put on earth to cleanse it of Jews, and that the Aryans are the only real humans that are descendants of Adam and Eve. Hitler himself said in several speeches that he was continuing God's work in his fight against the Jews.
The term Untermensch became a common way for the German population to describe the Jews, which means 'Subhuman'. The anti-semitism in Germany was so strong that they considered the Jews to be children of Satan, and like vermin, they needed to be exterminated. Even as Jews were taken from their homes and taken to Nazi death camps, the support from the common German remained strong. Germanic Aryanism was described as the Volkisch movement, and Joseph Goebbels, who was Hitler's close friend, and the minister of Propaganda, publicly stated that if the Nazi party had adopted this ideology sooner, then they'd have gained power after Germany's defeat in World War I.
"What does Christianity mean today? National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious practices and putting new ones in their place. We lack traditions and ritual. One day soon National Socialism will be the religion of all Germans. My Party is my church, and I believe I serve the Lord best if I do his will, and liberate my oppressed people from the fetters of slavery. That is my gospel." – Joseph Goebbels
The Nazi party gained much support from the German nationals because they were scared of democracy which brought secularism, and with Communism also spreading around Europe, fascism was Germany's defence against its influence. Many of the high ranking Nazis were born into Catholic households, were baptised and attended churches regularly. Adolf Hitler went to school at a Monastery, and found the power the priests had to be intoxicating, and according to some scholars he even considered priesthood before his interest in politics began.
In 1933 he gave a speech to the Reichstag where he said that 'Christianity was the "foundation" for German values', which received a standing ovation. Obviously the Nazi party used propaganda, and perhaps some of Hitler's speeches were designed to touch the hearts of the listeners, but it cannot be denied that the 60,000,000 inhabitants of Germany, as a majority supported Hitler and the Nazi party. Germany became a socialist, nationalist state, and the people who lived there couldn't have been prouder of that fact. To be fair, if any dissent towards the Nazi party came to light, the Nazi secret police, the Gestapo were quick to respond, and often the consequences weren't favourable, and this led to fear being one of the reasons the church stayed in line, but even despite this, many top theologians continued to openly support the ideology of the Nazi party.
The youth of Germany as a whole supported the Nazi regime, and the majority of university lecturers, and theologians promoted Nazi ideology to the students. The German population wished for Germany to rise to a strong nation again, after their decline after the Great War (World War I), and by allowing Hitler to rise to power, in the mind's of the voters, this would become a reality.
Franz von Papen, who became chancellor of Germany in 1932, was born into an aristocratic Roman Catholic family, and he remained devout his entire life. Due to little support from the Reichstag, Papen had no option but to resign, and helped convince the German president, Paul von Hindenburg, to appoint Hitler as the new German chancellor in 1933.
Even after the war ended, many religious leaders refused to take accountability for their support of the Nazi brutality, and openly encouraging the Nazi uprising, and some never, ever showed remorse or acknowledged their guilt. It's true that as the war effort continued, and more atrocities and brutality occurred, the churches' support declined, but the damage had already been done by then.
Religious leaders, politicians and the general public as a majority supported Hitler's rise to power, and accepted his totalitarian dictatorship, and the brutality of the Nazi party, the Schutzstaffel (SS), and the Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo). Whether a large number of them regretted their allegiance is probable, but not forgivable. Christianity allowed, and supported the rise of the Nazi party, and are complicit in the butchering of Jews. Apologists insist that Germany, and the Nazi party were predominantly atheist, and this couldn't be any further from the truth. Religious groups looked to the regime to rid Germany of non-theism, and the traditionalists despised leftist, liberal and secularist ideologies.
In 1933 there was a vote by the Protestants, and two thirds of them were in favour of the churches combining into one 'German Christian' sect, and Müller was chosen to lead them, and history states that the racial Nazi ideology that we are all aware of was implemented into the Christian faith of Germany. Christianity clearly had no concerns with racism, and Christianity forced non-Aryans out of representing the churches and attending them, but let's blame Nazi Germany on atheism, as it's often used as a scapegoat for religious apologists (ἀπολογία), but in this instance there is no defence!
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On Wednesday evening, October 13th, the amazing Lynn Appelbaum, Professor and Director of the Ad/PR Program at the City College of New York, was awarded the first Bravo! Educator of the Year Award from the Hispanic Public Relations Association. The HPRA National Bravo! Awards are the most prestigious awards in Hispanic communications recognizing the industry's finest campaigns across several categories. This is the first year that it has honored educators who serve the industry.
This impressive achievement recognizes Professor Appelbaum's contribution over the course of a career dedicated to educating a diverse student body and making them profession ready. The HPRA accolade is not only well deserved, but no surprise to those of us who work with her and have seen her in action. Lynn is the lead author in a recent landmark study on diversity in the PR industry. Read it HERE.
The Hispanic Public Relations Association (HPRA) is the foremost organization of Hispanic public relations practitioners in the US with chapters in Los Angeles, New York, and other major cities.
Read more about this momentous evening HERE.


RuneHeads, the independent developer behind 2017's Fall of Light, announced today that it will once again be partnering with publisher 1C Entertainment for it next game: Conglomerate 451. It's an interesting mix of cyberpunk, first person dungeon crawling, and elements you'd expect to see in an XCOM game, so Conglomerate 451 has definitely made its way onto my radar.
In Conglomerate 451, players control a team of cloned policing agents that players can customize with things like weapons, implants, and cyberlimbs that can completely change how a character plays. In order to unlock and find new enhancements, players must take advantage of their own R&D Department. These features, along with permadeath and procedurally generated levels, are the clearest XCOM influences on Conglomerate 451.
That being said, every mission through Conglomerate City Sector 451 plays out moment to moment a first person grid based dungeon crawler. Engaging in combat engages players in a turn-based VATS like system where they can target individual limbs and weak points on enemies. Enemies can do the same to the player's agents though and horrible injuries can turn into negative status modifiers that will impact future runs. Hacking is also going to be a major part of the game, and can give players an edge early on in each dungeon.
Conglomerate 451 is poised to hit Steam Early Access "soon".
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I see lots of articles on how to set up Outlook Express for IMAP but I can't find any for Microsoft Outlook - not the Express version. Is the set up for IMAP the same?
The set up should be same.
Well, I agree that it should be the same, but once again Micros*ft makes things harder than they need to be - the setup screens are significantly different.
That said, the "different" screens collect essentially the same information. If you read through the Outlook Express instructions, and then explore the Outlook screens, you should be able to tell what goes where.


Hi everyone and welcome to my blog. I have had a little chuckle to myself over the new Polkadoodles Challenge theme because the weather in Australia is anything but wintery at the moment!
Where we live we don't see snow either but I think of white and snow when I think of Winter and hence my choices for my card.
The gorgeous little fox is from Polkadoodles and is available as a single digi for you to colour or you canget the Work and Play10- Country Life collection including all of the patterned paper I've used, the sentiment and the image along with heaps of other goodies. Great value!
I wonder what you will make for the challenge!?
Adorable little Fox....I am wondering if he is thinking 'will it ever warm up'...that is what I am thinking here in Michigan..lol..super cute card, thank you for joining our "Brr' chalelnge!
Awe what a sweet image and your coloring is amazing!!! Great job on the design! Love it! Thanks so much for joining in the fun at Double D Challenges! We hope you'll come back often.
He is too cute...fabulous card.
Thank you so much for sharing with us at the Southern Girls challenge..
Such a cute fox! Love your card!
A beautiful fox, wonderful background. Oh, my goodness, I love this! You have inspired me to go take a peek at this digi site. Thanks for sharing this in our Double D Brrrr Challenge!
love this Jackie and I must look out for that forest die cut!
This is super and the fox is just the sweetest, I haven't seen that die cut before - love it.
Fab make and stunning colouring.
This is just beautiful. I love the coloring against the white winters background.


(Denver, Colo.) — Continuing a trend that started 12 years ago, enrollment is up at Metropolitan State College of Denver. The college recorded 24,008 students enrolled for the fall 2010 semester, which is a 4.8 percent increase over last fall.
A small portion of the increased enrollment is due to the addition this fall of master's programs to the college's offerings. The two new graduate programs, in accounting and teacher education, enrolled a total of 50 students. Undergraduate enrollment, at 23,958, is up 4.6 percent.
Full-year full-time equivalent students increased by 4.1 percent. Full-time students increased by 2.9 percent and part-time students increased by 7.5 percent.
The number of students of color jumped 19.8 percent over last fall—from 5,683 to 6,806—and now account for 28.4 percent of total enrollment, compared to 24.8 percent last fall. The majority of this growth was in the category of Hispanic or Latino, who now number 3,824 students, or 16 percent of the total number of students. This represents a 23.8 percent increase in Latino students over fall 2009.
Early this year Metro State was identified by Excelencia in Education as one of only four institutions recognized nationally as an emerging Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI). Federal recognition as an HSI requires a 25 percent Latino enrollment.
The number of Black or African American Non-Hispanic students also increased, by 13.9 percent, to 1,511 or 6.3 percent of the student population. Interestingly, the "All Other/Unknown" category totals 1,844, which is a decrease of 19 percent from last year. According to Ellen Boswell, coordinator of institutional research, the recent federally mandated changes allowing students to select more than one ethnicity has had a significant impact in reducing the "All Other/Unknown" category.
"As predicted, when we change to the two-question format for collecting the ethnicity and race information, the students coded as All Other/Unknown decline significantly," she says.
Continuing students showed an increase of 6.5 percent, which can be attributed to Metro State's retention efforts, Boswell says. Although new students decreased by 0.9 percent, transfers students increased by 2.8 percent.
Resident students increased by 1,039 to 23,091, and now total 96.4 percent of the students. Students from the seven-county area increased by 4.5 percent, with the largest increases coming from Denver County (493 students) and Adams (161 students).
There are 2,193 students seeking teacher licensure, which is slightly lower than Census Fall 2009. The breakdown is as follows: 1,559 students who are seeking a degree and licensure, 582 students who are seeking Teaching Licensure only (post-baccalaureate), 52 students who are interested in Teacher Licensure but are not yet admitted.


The recent Francis Report heavily criticised the health service but what about local government's role?
The report into the tragic events that took place Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust was published on Wednesday this week (6 February 2013). Robert Francis QC had been charged with examining why the elaborate system of checks and balances within the NHS system and beyond failed to identify at an early stage what was going wrong with patient care at the trust.
His damning conclusion – that the failings went right to the top of the health service – and his key recommendations to address this, including a new statutory duty of candour for doctors and nurses and a new criminal offence of failing to adhere to basic standards of care leading to death or serious injury, have been widely reported. What has attracted much less attention is what the report said about the role of local government in the sorry story and the recommendations for changes in how that role is carried out.
Both Stafford BC and Staffordshire CC had a scrutiny and oversight role in relation to the main trust hospital, exercised through Overview and Scrutiny Committees (OSCs). The relevant legislation and guidance make it clear that OSCs have an important role to play in looking at safety and quality issues affecting their community.
Robert Francis' conclusion was neither OSC had properly fulfilled that role and he was particularly damning of Staffordshire CC's OSC. "This committee appears to have been wholly ineffective as a scrutineer of the Trust. councillors are not and cannot be expected to be experts in healthcare. They can, however, be expected to make themselves aware of, and pursue, the concerns of the public who have elected them. That is surely the purpose of giving a local scrutiny role to councillors," the report said.
That they should have powers to inspect healthcare providers, rather than relying on local patient involvement structures to do this, or should actively work with those structures to trigger and follow up inspections.
The government is going to respond in detail to all of the recommendations in March. In relation to OSCs there are clear resourcing issues to be considered and some creative thought may be needed on just how "appropriate support" can be provided in a cost effective and efficient way. The suggested power of inspection is wholly new and careful thought will need to be given as to how, if it is introduced, it can best be used.
Pending any formal changes in position, one thing that OSCs need to consider now in light of the Francis report is whether they are successfully capturing patients' and the broader public's views on the healthcare organisations that they scrutinise and then how those views are used to inform their activities. A theme running throughout the report is the failure of pretty much every institution involved to do this and it is something that OSCs, along with everyone else, needs to think hard about now.
I think the lessons of Francis are wider than this for local government. Culture was a big aspect of the review and we need to be mindful of the top down rhetoric from DCLG, DfE, DH. Budgets are being cut more severely in local government than in health, of which adult and children's social care is now a major component. We need to be very mindful that our behaviours do not lead to the same tragic consequences as at mid-Staffs.


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Review - The Fuse #1
Review by Paul Fiander
Story By: Antony Johnston
Art By: Justin Greenwood
Cover By: Justin Greenwood
"THE RUSSIA SHIFT," Part One
Genre fusion is a wonderful way to tell a story from a new angle. It also allows our imaginations to run wild, whether it's a play where your Action Force (GI Joe) characters are able to reinforce your Star Wars figures to create an ultimate battle for the universe or in Antony Johnston's case a new Detective/Sci-Fi story. Our writer does delve into this in his back matter, it's a good piece explaining why he finds the detective a brilliant plot device and I tend to agree with him. Detectives give you a freedom to explore their professional and personal lives in a way other characters don't. At work they can be in complete control of their emotions why a mess in their private world. Johnston's take is slightly different and I really like this quote to some up one of his ideas;
A detective can go anywhere, from the lowest slum to the highest society, asking all the awkward, impertinent, misanthropic questions nobody else dares to.
This sums up the one of the reasons we love a detective and why I think from Holmes to Mackey we cannot help but watch with wonder as they do their job.
Now to the Fuse itself, the story is set in a future where humans have started to colonise Space. I say space as the Fuse is a space station and from the outset it feels like an essential part to the tale. We follow an oddly paired detecting partnership formed by an enthusiastic youngster fresh from earth and a cynical older detective with a lifetime of experience on the Fuse. There are more than a few cop clichés but they are handled with a mixture of subtly and force where needed.
I enjoyed the plot from the outset; the speed with the way the characters are introduced along with their interplay feels familiar but not stale. The interplay between our two leads is fun and when mixed with the seriousness of their jobs you get the feeling of a natural partnership that is in its infancy.
Artistically this is a strong issue; the main players are always a stronger colour than the backgrounds making them pop off of the page. It gives the reader a sense of what's important. It's nice to see backgrounds handled this way instead of being completely ignored.
Overall this is a strong first Issue and I will be continuing with the story for the issues to come. The creative team seem to be in sync and I hope the page duo get the chance to explore their relationship as time goes on.
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For a little more detecting you could try
Sherlock Holmes; Moriarty Lives #1
Every great Detective needs an arch rival and Moriarty is the Prince of all Nemesis.
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A mix of Detective work with just a smidge of violence. Our Lobster is more than capable of filling the void left once the Fuse has been read.
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After nearly a year of production struggles, Cambridge-based Genzyme is facing growing pressure from shareholders and customers to catch up with demand for drugs to treat some rare genetic disorders. Genzyme is expecting federal regulators to levy a fine of at least $175 million for quality control problems at its manufacturing facility in Allston. The plant is back in operation, but Genzyme says it needs more time to get all of the needed medications out.
Gary Pisano, a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, joined WBUR Friday morning to talk about quality control and the impact it could have at Genzyme.
This program aired on April 23, 2010.


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The RealVNC window tells me that it "Failed to read configuration" while my terminal window reads
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I'll be honest, I have no clue what I am doing so I am pretty sure it's something obvious. I am running Ubuntu 20.10 on a Raspberry Pi 3B+ (I'm aware that isn't ideal, I'll be upgrading to the RPi4 down the line). I just now realized the instructions I followed were for Ubuntu Mate. Would that make a difference? Regardless, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.


Hope is the only daughter of Billy O'Dare.
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