It's been a while sense I was able to post anything I am busy as my Seasonal Jobs have now kicked in plus my birthday is Thursday and I will be at Hat's Games on 29th and Alvernon celebrating with a fun filled day of games. Happy Thanks Giving every one!

Good morning everyone Happy Halloween! I am off and running around town today in my Original TOS Movie Tunic for Halloween here in Tucson  AZ! Sorry I don't Have a current picture but I no longer have a camera phone or smart phone will see if I can get someone to upload one from the Halloween party i am going too later on today!

I have been reading and running a King Arthur Pendragon Roleplaying Game for nearley two years now out of the Great Pendragon Campaign! Here is A few books I have read and would recommend are worth a look:

Pendragon or King Arthur Pendragon, is a Role playing game (RPG)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendragon_(role-playing_game)

Here is Greg Staffords Story of publishing Pendragon.
http://www.gspendragon.com/publicationhistory/publicationhistory.html

Grail Quest
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grail_Quest

Warlord Chronicles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Warlord_Chronicles

Hear Lies Arthur
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_Lies_Arthur

Saxon Stories
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Saxon_Stories

The Pendragon Cycle is a series of fantasy or semi historical books based on the Arthurian legend written by Steven R. Lawhead
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pendragon_Cycle

Books by Rosemary Sutcliff books
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_Sutcliff

Phyllis Ann Karr's books
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Ann_Karr

Mary, Lady Stewart books
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Stewart_(novelist) 

I will post more later on Cheers,

Day Of The Dead:

The Day of the Dead celebrations might seem to be very similar to Halloween. In both celebrations people dress up in costumes, there are a lot of skeletons everywhere, and there are special sweet treats and candies given out. Also people spend a lot of time in graveyards and death imagery is everywhere.
But there are some big differences between the holiday that promotes fear of the dead and the holiday that celebrates the dead. The Day of the Dead holiday is about celebrating the dead, not being afraid of the dead. It’s a holiday for people to honor their ancestors and loved ones who have passed away and invite those spirits back into their homes to be part of the family once more. It’s a celebration of family and a show of respect for those who have passed away.

Day of the Dead ANNA MARINE, ART PRINT

The practice of celebrating the dead goes back thousands of years in South American cultures. In the Aztec culture the celebration of the dead was in August and went on for a month. During that time the people paid tribute to Catrina, the Goddess of Death, who was portrayed as a skeleton. When the Catholic faith became entrenched in South America the festival of the dead was changed into the Day of the Dead and timed to coincide with All Saints Day and All Souls Day. November 1st and 2nd are national holidays in Mexico and other South American countries. During those days people welcome back the spirits of the family members that they have lost.

They pay their respects to their loved ones by tending to their graves, cleaning up graveyards, planting flowers and trees, and leaving offerings at the graves. They also wear the clothes of their deceased relatives, paint their faces as skulls or wear skeleton masks and costumes, and build altars in their homes to honor their loved ones.

Offerings of sweets, special bread, and the same foods and drinks that the family members loved in life will be placed on the altars along with marigolds to draw the spirits of the family members who have crossed over. Marigolds are said to attract spirits so they are visible everywhere during Day of the Dead celebrations.

One of the most well known ways that people celebrate the Day of the Dead is to turn themselves into skeletons using elaborate makeup and masks. The skeletal appearance highlighted with flowers, bright colors and artwork is a striking image that has now become an icon of the Day of the Dead. These looks are based partly on the decorated sugar skulls that are left on altars as offerings to the spirits and partly on a piece of artwork called La Calavera Catrina. It’s a zinc etching that was created at the turn of the 20th century and is a depiction of the Goddess of Death wearing a very fancy hat with lots of flowers. That image has inspired over a hundred years worth of stunning sugar skull makeup. 

Good morning every one! 

I have not made a post here sense September 15th I have been busy with other things that I am currently dealing with. But sense it is October and it is a time for farmers to harvest their crops ranchers to prepare their live stock for the winter, for Hunters to gather and get in their meat for the winter, I thought I would  re post the old series of articles I wrote back in 2007 for our very 1st Halloween Urland Spooktacular. I know what some will ask does that mean I am going and restarting the Urland Universe website again? the answer is NO! I am not going to restart the Urland Universe at this time, it was a fun time in my life and yes I do miss it but I have moved on with my life and this blog will have to serve as your entertainment for now. That does not mean I won't restart it later!

History of Halloween

Halloween is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31. The word Halloween is a shortening of All Hallows' Evening also known as Hallowe'en or All Hallows' Eve.

Traditional activities include trick-or-treating, bonfires, costume parties, visiting "haunted houses" and carving jack-o-lanterns. Irish and Scottish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century including Ireland, the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom as well as of Australia and New Zealand.

Halloween has its origins in the ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain (pronounced "sah-win"). The festival of Samhain is a celebration of the end of the harvest season in Gaelic culture. Samhain was a time used by the ancient pagans to take stock of supplies and prepare for winter. The ancient Gaels believed that on October 31, the boundaries between the worlds of the living and the dead overlapped and the deceased would come back to life and cause havoc such as sickness or damaged crops.

The festival would frequently involve bonfires. It is believed that the fires attracted insects to the area which attracted bats to the area. These are additional attributes of the history of Halloween.

Masks and costumes were worn in an attempt to mimic the evil spirits or appease them.

Trick-or-treating, is an activity for children on or around Halloween in which they proceed from house to house in costumes, asking for treats such as confectionery with the question, "Trick or treat?" The "trick" part of "trick or treat" is a threat to play a trick on the homeowner or his property if no treat is given. Trick-or-treating is one of the main traditions of Halloween. It has become socially expected that if one lives in a neighborhood with children one should purchase treats in preparation for trick-or-treaters.

The history of Halloween has evolved. The activity is popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, and due to increased American cultural influence in recent years, imported through exposure to US television and other media, trick-or-treating has started to occur among children in many parts of Europe, and in the Saudi Aramco camps of Dhahran, Akaria compounds and Ras Tanura in Saudi Arabia. The most significant growth and resistance is in the United Kingdom, where the police have threatened to prosecute parents who allow their children to carry out the "trick" element. In continental Europe, where the commerce-driven importation of Halloween is seen with more skepticism, numerous destructive or illegal "tricks" and police warnings have further raised suspicion about this game and Halloween in general.

In Ohio, Iowa, and Massachusetts, the night designated for Trick-or-treating is often referred to as Beggars Night.

Part of the history of Halloween is Halloween costumes. The practice of dressing up in costumes and begging door to door for treats on holidays goes back to the Middle Ages, and includes Christmas wassailing. Trick-or-treating resembles the late medieval practice of "souling," when poor folk would go door to door on Hallowmas (November 1), receiving food in return for prayers for the dead on All Souls Day (November 2). It originated in Ireland and Britain, although similar practices for the souls of the dead were found as far south as Italy. Shakespeare mentions the practice in his comedy The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1593), when Speed accuses his master of "puling [whimpering, whining], like a beggar at Hallowmas."

Yet there is no evidence that souling was ever practiced in America, and trick-or-treating may have developed in America independent of any Irish or British antecedent. There is little primary Halloween history documentation of masking or costuming on Halloween in Ireland, the UK, or America before 1900. The earliest known reference to ritual begging on Halloween in English speaking North America occurs in 1911, when a newspaper in Kingston, Ontario, near the border of upstate New York, reported that it was normal for the smaller children to go street guising (see below) on Halloween between 6 and 7 p.m., visiting shops and neighbors to be rewarded with nuts and candies for their rhymes and songs. Another isolated reference appears, place unknown, in 1915, with a third reference in Chicago in 1920. The thousands of Halloween postcards produced between the turn of the 20th century and the 1920s commonly show children but do not depict trick-or-treating. Ruth Edna Kelley, in her 1919 history of the holiday, The Book of Hallowe'en, makes no mention of such a custom in the chapter "Hallowe'en in America." It does not seem to have become a widespread practice until the 1930s, with the earliest known uses in print of the term "trick or treat" appearing in 1934, and the first use in a national publication occurring in 1939. Thus, although a quarter million Scots-Irish immigrated to America between 1717 and 1770, the Irish Potato Famine brought almost a million immigrants in 1845-1849, and British and Irish immigration to America peaked in the 1880s, ritualized begging on Halloween was virtually unknown in America until generations later.

Trick-or-treating  spread from the western United States eastward, stalled by sugar rationing that began in April 1942 during World War II and did not end until June 1947. Early national attention to trick-or-treating was given in October 1947 issues of the children's magazines Jack and Jill and Children's Activities, and by Halloween episodes of the network radio programs The Baby Snooks Show in 1946 and The Jack Benny Show and The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet in 1948. The custom had become firmly established in popular culture by 1952, when Walt Disney portrayed it in the cartoon Trick or Treat, Ozzie and Harriet were besieged by trick-or-treaters on an episode of their television show, and UNICEF first conducted a national campaign for children to raise funds for the charity while trick-or-treating.

Trick-or-treating on the prairie. Although some popular histories of Halloween have characterized trick-or-treating as an adult invention to re-channel Halloween activities away from vandalism, nothing in the historical record supports this theory. To the contrary, adults, as reported in newspapers from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s, typically saw it as a form of extortion, with reactions ranging from bemused indulgence to anger. Likewise, as portrayed on radio shows, children would have to explain what trick-or-treating was to puzzled adults, and not the other way around. Sometimes even the children protested: for Halloween 1948, members of the Madison Square Boys Club in New York City carried a parade banner that read "American Boys Don't Beg."

That's what we said back years ago but now days most American boys do have to beg in order to keep food in their stomachs and a roof over their heads. Many families live a life of homelessness because no one in America cares about any one but them selves except for those few Christians who try to provide meals and clothes for the less fortunate.

Good Morning everyone I was going through my old website files readin through and trying to figure out what would be relevant today and what would not be  from the old website when I ran accross a seris of articles we ran concerning the following! I have compiled all three posts here in massive post for today's weblog as I have limited time at the library!

          

Star Date Update

    A timekeeping system used to provide a standard of galactic temporal reference, compensating for relativistic time dilation, warp-speed displacement, and other peculiarities of interstellar space travel. To those interested in the minutiae of star date computation read on Star dating is the standard; Federation terminology for measuring date and time. It is sequential only while a person remains in one place and time. Keeping track of star date is harder than one might think on a faster than light ship because of Einsteinium time compression, and the method for computing star dates is complex. Thus the time between star date 2244.0 and star date 2245.0 will be one day only if the ship remains at one location in the star trek universe, but it may be entirely different if the ship travels at Warp-Speed between two points.

                

    Saturate is given in the form of XXXX.XX, with ether one or two digits given after the decimal point. Star dates begin at 0000.00 to 9999.99; then they start over again. Star date 3305.06 would read as “star date thirty-three oh five point six not star date three thousand, three hundred five point six.”

    Star date 0001.01 is the base date for January 1 2000 for reference to star date system On this date the science council of Luna declares itself independent of the governments of the U.S.A and Japan and requests status as a united nations protectorate. Such status is granted forming the first interplanetary human government.                

   

    Star Trek fans often create “Star dates” from normal 20th century calendars dates by listing the last two digits of the year, month expressed as a two-digit number, a decimal point, and then the date expressed as two digit number. Thus July 4 2000 would be expressed as Star date 0007.04. This is not the way Starfleet figures out the Star date.

Now then I have looked up and dune a lot of research about star dates and how to calculate them the best information that I have seen and/or found is James Dixon’s website he had an article about stardates  by Shane Johnson Here is the link to his website below I suggest you retrieve this article it helped me a lot in deriving this article so after clicking the link go to Notes and look up stardates. Thanks to them and an un-named former friend who originally found these documents for me, and who also contributed to this article thank you? Now I can finally write the following update for my website for all of you to enjoy.

James Dixon Timeline, Notes and Introduction: Index [Click Here]

I am deriving this article from what I learned and how I calculate Star Dates For Star Trek Voyagearl the Episodes. dedacation plauque and logs although these may not be accurate they are only ball park figures but will get with me in the ball park for a particular event and/or Captains Log in stead of arbitrarily putting stardates at just a bunch of random numbers. If you want to calculate your own star dates I think I came up with an easy method for doing so but let it be known that I could not have done it with out retrieving the document from the above website mentioned.  I have Started to Calculate Stardates using this system Starting with Earls Graduation date Which is June 5th 2289 would roughly be translated into Stardate 8819.43 in the Star Trek Voyagearl Timeline According to their article in which I used  the following Calculations and Stardates are derived from using the following table:

1 Year =10000 Stardate Units

1day=2.74  Stardate Unites

1 Hour= 0.114 Stardate Unites

1 minute=0.0019 Stardate Unites

1 Secound=0.0000317. Stardate Units

I have included the NUMBER of days per month for your convenience:

JAN=31

FEB=28

MAR=31

APR=30

MAY=31

JUN=30

JUL=31

AUG=31

SEP=30

OCT=31

NOV=30

DEC=31

How do you know if a year is a leap year or not?  Consider these rules very carefully, or your calculations may be incorrect.

1. Years divisible by four are leap years, unless...

2. Years also divisible by 100 are not leap years, except...

3. Years divisible by 400 are leap years.

Leap Year.  don't forget, people that there Is a leap year to take into account, 1 Year =10000 Stardate Units

(A Leap Year =10002.74 Stardate Units)

So if 1 year Equals 1000 Stardate Unites then 1000 Divided by 12 Equals 83.3333333 Then Adding the year you want to this date so if we add up June 5th  2289 the Stardate equals 2881.94

Here is how I came up with that number Taking the year 2289 and adding to it 83.3333333 which equals 2372.3 then figuring out how many days are in each month which was 186 days multiplied by 2.74 which Equals 509.64 then Adding the two numbers together got me the Stardate of 2881.94 I took off the extra three’s sinse I did not need the hour minute or second but if you need them then you will have to calculate them in your calculation.

Another example: December 1st 2298  would be 2298+83.3=2381.3; 335 days x 2.74= 917.9; 2381.3+917.9= Stardate 3299.2

In Star Trek Voyagearl Episode Crisis in the Artilline Sector Part 1, I needed the stardate for Jan 1st 2301 19:00 Hours which would translate into stardate 2389.24 if we use the above table and only keeping only the first two digits beyond the decimal point and dropping the rest. Formulia I used is below

You take the actual year you want to use.+Month=83.3333333 X How many Months; + How Many Days x 2.74; +Hour 0.114 X Military Time: + the Minute=0.0019 X How Many+ the Second=0.0000317 X How many=Stardate

Now I hope this helps all of you Trekies out their be able to create your own star dates, so have fun and enjoy this update while I get back to writing my Episodes.

2367.3333333+509.64

Sincerely Captain Hedges

Stardates by Shane Johnson From James Dixon’s Website

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Whenever possible I've added stardate references drawn from the episodes. Note that when two stardates are given they do not represent the true "upper and lower bounds" for the episode but rather the first and last stardates given.

Unaired stardates given in this version of the Chronology need some explanation, as I was reluctant to feature many of them in the first place. Stardates for "The Cage" and most birthdates of the crew (excluding Kirk's stardate of birth taken from his tombstone in "Where No Man Has Gone Before") are from the U.S.S. "Enterprise" Officers Manual. Bjo Trimble's Star Trek Concordance was the source for the additional stardates of "City On The Edge Of Forever," "A Piece Of The Action," and "Patterns Of Force." These were never incorporated into the episodes, as far as I know. The first two episodes' stardates were also used in the Photo novels (providing an additional closing stardate for "A Piece Of The Action"), and All (including the erroneous stardate of "Beyond The Farthest Star") were used in Asherman's Star Trek Compendiums--proof of plagiarism, rather than research, on his part. The Photonovel of "Day Of The Dove" provided stardates for that episode. The novelization of "Relics" was where the stardate for the U.S.S. "Jenolen's" disappearance came from. The stardate for "The Next Phase" comes from Ro's death certificate display screen in sickbay. Alternate stardates for the animated episodes from Alan Dean Foster's 10 books are provided, in brackets, whenever available or not matching those in the actual aired cartoons. They're considerably more consistent, like TNG stardates, but the 1 stardate unit = 1 solar day rule does not hold up. All animated episode stardates are therefore given and the only unknown stardates for the original episodes are for "Assignment: Earth," "Mirror, Mirror," "The Omega Glory," and "That Which Survives."

Episodes in the original series, animated series, and novels do not follow sequentially. If stardates were in order, then the animated episode "The Magicks of Megas Tu" (sd. 1254.4) would precede "Where No Man Has Gone Before" (sd. 1312.4), the first episode with Kirk in command. This simply cannot be. Even in the latter episode, on Kirk's tombstone, his stardate of birth reads 1277.1 (even though his middle initial is "R" instead of "T" on the same stone). Other episodes overlap stardates. "Miri" begins at stardate 2713.5 and goes through 2717.3. "Dagger of the Mind" is from 2715.1 through 2715.2! In other instances, stardates jump back and forth in individual episodes (listen carefully to the logs in "The Enemy Within," "Spock's Brain," "Gamesters of Triskelion," "Mudd's Women," and many others). Either Kirk and Spock are very careless or else there's something to stardates being nonsequential.

According to Gene Roddenberry himself, in The Making of Star Trek: "This time system adjusts for shifts in relative time which occur due to the vessel's speed and space warp ability. It has little relationship to Earth's time as we know it. One hour aboard the 'Enterprise' at different times may equal as little as three Earth hours. The star date specified in the log entry must be computed against the speed of the vessel, the space warp, and it's position within our galaxy, in order to give a meaningful reading."

"I'm not quite sure what I meant by that explanation, but a lot of people have indicated it makes sense," Gene later said. I wish it did make sense, it's been bugging me since the first time I watched Star Trek. One theory is that the U.F.P. Treaty Zone might be divided up into "time zones" where stardates may increase and decrease. This would explain why the date crashes down to 1254.4 in "Magicks of Megas-Tu" when the "Enterprise" is at the galactic center. Why the dating system should be this way is beyond me. If stardate shifting is indeed tied to warp travel, another theory is that Cochrane's Factor (see Star Trek Maps' Intro to Navigation Manual) might play a vital role. Anyhow, stardates are "supposed to" progress normally outside of warp travel in a fixed place--at least all the research I've done into it says so. Under these conditions, the numbers to the left of the decimal point are days and the digit to the right of the decimal represents the time (in tenths of a day). So an example would be stardate 4213.5 being noon of one day and 4214.5 being noon of the next day. For more accuracy it may be extended to two digits after the decimal point. This was the case in "Requiem For Methuselah," the only episode from the original series to do so. Time was of the essence as Kirk desperately needed Ryetalyn to combat the plague aboard ship, as you recall. Note that this timekeeping system in use aboard ship is not necessarily in synch with the ship's own timekeeping system of military hours, but in the case of the episodes "Contagion" and "Identity Crisis" (regarding visual logs) they WERE. If the digit is a true representation of the time in tenths of a solar day, then the following table could be used:

                                         Duty Shift Sections

                             (IF Stardates are in synch with ship's time)

      .041 =  1:00 A.M.

      .083 =  2:00 A.M.

      .1   =  2:24 A.M.

      .125 =  3:00 A.M.

      .167 =  4:00 A.M.

      .2   =  4:48 A.M.

      .208 =  5:00 A.M.

      .250 =  6:00 A.M.

      .292 =  7:00 A.M.

      .3   =  7:12 A.M.

      .333 =  8:00 A.M.          Gamma Section off/Alpha Section on

      .375 =  9:00 A.M.

      .4   =  9:36 A.M.

      .417 = 10:00 A.M.

      .458 = 11:00 A.M.

      .5   = 12:00 P.M.

      .542 =  1:00 P.M. [13:00]

      .583 =  2:00 P.M. [14:00]

      .6   =  2:24 P.M. [14:24]

      .625 =  3:00 P.M. [15:00]

      .667 =  4:00 P.M. [16:00]  Alpha Section off/Beta Section on

      .7   =  4:48 P.M. [16:48]

      .708 =  5:00 P.M. [17:00]

      .750 =  6:00 P.M. [18:00]

      .792 =  7:00 P.M. [19:00]

      .8   =  7:12 P.M. [19:12]

      .833 =  8:00 P.M. [20:00]

      .875 =  9:00 P.M. [21:00]

      .9   =  9:36 P.M. [21:36]

      .916 = 10:00 P.M. [22:00]

      .958 = 11:00 P.M. [23:00]

     1.000 = 12:00 A.M. [24:00]  Beta Section off/Gamma Section on

                                 (Note: Duty shift sections rotate by 8

                                        hours every two weeks.  Source:

                                        Line Officer Requirements Manual,

                                        Vol. I).

As if there isn't enough confusion, Star Trek III showed us excerpts from the flight recorder of the "Enterprise" moments before Captain Spock's death in the engine room. Admiral Kirk reviewed the following on his monitor: Stardate 8128.76 (McCoy: "You're Not going in there.") Stardate 8128.77 (McCoy: "No! You'll flood the whole compartment!") Stardate 8128.78 (Spock: "Ship: Out of danger?") These also support the sequential nature of stardates, the second place after the decimal representing minutes. More precisely 1.666 minutes, judging by the two digits immediately to the right on the display, which are seconds (from 00 to 99). Assuming the "seconds counter" is indeed the stardate taken to the 4th and 5th figures then each full stardate unit is 166.666 minutes, or 2.777 hours (which naturally conflicts with the previously described stardate system associated with the classic series). So rather than being based on tenths of day, this variation is built upon 100 seconds. More insanity: ST II begins at stardate 8130 as spoken by Chekov in the "Reliant's" log! Theories abound, ranging from different stardate systems to the flow of time being different aboard a starship (The Best of Trek #1).

Stardates used in The Next Generation are taken much more seriously. They consist of 5 digits to the left of the decimal point. According to the Writer's Guide, the first digit (a 4) is used to represent The Next Generation, the following digit represents the season, and the remaining 3 digits vary. This was done strictly for continuity, to keep the numbers within an acceptable range: 4xxxx.x. A very reasonable range, too: stardate 7412 (STTMP) + 36500 (100 years converted to days) = stardate 43912, or late in the year 2366--less than a year off, taking Star Trek-The Motion Picture as taking place in mid-2267 A.D. Too bad this doesn't work for all stardates, but the range is what matters. Even with this degree of refining stardates, the episodes are still not in order. Stardates jumped all over in the first season of The Next Generation. The second season episodes were almost aired in stardate order. By TNG's third season and onwards, episodes were almost aired in stardate order. Taking this a step further, we know from "The Neutral Zone," a first season episode, that the year was 2364 and all stardates of this time began with 41. Likewise, stardates of TNG's 2nd season began with 42, and the third season 43. Therefore, to calculate the year a TNG stardate falls in, take the first two digits of the stardate and add 2323 (fans of R.A. Wilson & Robert Shea's "The Illuminatus! Trilogy" should LOVE this). One may reason therefore that 1,000 stardate units equals one year and by dividing this up we can determine exactly where in the year a specific stardate falls in relation to the old Terran calendar. This system, while extremely logical, is flawed because Next Generation episodes once again don't progress in stardate order and even if sorted by stardates simply do not hold together for the various reasons stated. Recent episodes have also almost entirely destroyed this system, such as Lwaxana Troi's marriage on stardate 30620.1 in "Dark Page" which is seemingly after Deanna Troi's birth. Stardate 47329.4 is also logged as being one day after the Battle of Wolf 359's fourth anniversary in "Second Sight"--but "The Best of Both Worlds" was set around stardate 43990 not 43328. Then there's the curious case of almost every star- date's right-most digit lining up with the ship's time whenever displayed side-by-side as in the logs of the "Yamato" in "Contagion" as with classic stardates. Yet assuming there is truth to the reasoning that one year is equal to 1,000 stardates and they progress normally, I have employed a simple conversion program and have expressed the theoretical Earth date in braces ({}) following the given stardate(s) when- ever available. Whenever a TNG Earthdate was given I have also provided the approximate stardate in braces. Still, let me emphasize that these are only "computer generated approximations" and again do not hold up 100%, especially when you examine the sequence of stardates in TNG's first season. They are meant to serve as rough references using our calendar system. Leap years are another factor, the program I employed (StarDateCalc 1.02 by Afonso Infante) supposedly takes these into account. The TNG Technical Manual gives the "Enterprise's" commissioning date in both stardate and Terran Old Cal- endar and they match up perfectly with this program. Wilford Nusser and other Trekkers likewise have written similar programs and have gotten the same results. According to this system, 1 day is equal to about 2.74 stardate units, 1 hour is 0.114, 1 minute is 0.0019, and one second is 0.0000317.

Comparison With Other Trek Timelines

     Timeline   TOS   TAS   TMS   TNG   Comments

     --------   ---   ---   ---   ---   --------

     Blish     +260    X     X     X    Based on "The Squire Of Gothos"

                                                 [700] & 'Cities In Flight'

     FASA      -52     ?   -65   -61    Based on "Space Seed" [200] &

                                                 "Encounter At Farpoint" ['78]

     Okuda      +5     X    -2     0    Based on "Sarek" [202] &

                                                 ST VI [27]

     Roden     +10   +10    -1     0    Based on "Encounter At

                                                 Farpoint" [137]

'Cities In Flight' is a non-Trek collection by James Blish featuring many technological elements later to be approached in "Spock Must Die!" "Mudd's Angels" and the 12 Blish novelizations. The FASA timeline also includes the Goldstein Spaceflight Chronology book and the contributions of Shane Johnson. The Okuda Chronology features nothing but live-action episodes and films. The Roden timeline is from History Of The Vessel "Enterprise."

Where: TOS = The Original Series TAS = The Animated Series TMS = The Movie Series TNG = The Next Generation X = Not covered/featured ? = Unsure (Spaceflight Chronology claims the "Enterprise" completed only 3 of her 5 years under Kirk without the animated series although elements from TAS are touched upon) The differential is expressed in years relative to this Chronology and represents average values only. Specific events may vary by several years.

For history's sake, here is a copy of the Original Trek timeline which started it all, reproduced in its entirety and exact wording. It's certainly interesting to compare these early dates against the ones in the Chronology, for some dates have changed radically over the years while others haven't changed in two decades:

Ok I have looked up and dune a lot of research about star dates the best information that I have seen is James Dixon’s website he had an article about stardates  by Shane Johnson

If 1 year Equals 1000 Stardate Unites then 1000 Devided by 12 Equals 83.3 Then Adding the year you want to this date so if we addup June 5^th  2289 the Stardate equals 2799.74

2372.3

1day=2.74  Stardate Unites

1 Hour= 0.114 Stardate Unites

1 minute=0.0019 Stardate Unites

1 Secound=0.0000317. Stardate Units

Okay now, the article is roughly written.  You mention "the following formula"

too many times.  Say it once, show the formula, THEN talk about how you've

used it.  The first thing you should write after presenting the formula is how

this is for calculating a Universal Stardate which would appear on the clocks

at Starfleet HQ.  It doesn't take Warping into account, since warping alters

Time as well as Space.  The faster one travels, the more warped time becomes.

My Favorite Princess who is Odette the Swan

 and I think Kyo-En makes an awesome one in real life

I am dune for the weekend enjoy the rest of the weekend see all on Monday or Moonday!

Hello and good morning everyone I thought sense it is the weekend of Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. I thought would re-post an old article from my old weblog that the urland universe PIB page hosted. Happy reading!

Saturnday, Sunday, Moonday

The ancient Greeks inherited the practice of astrology from the

Babylonians, but introduced many new features.  For example,

where the Babylonians tended not to place the major planets in

any physically significant order, the Greeks ordinarily listed

them on horoscopes like this

     Sun  Moon  Saturn  Jupiter  Mars  Venus  Mercury

Even though they didn't have a heliocentric model of the solar

system, they were still able to deduce the order of the planets,

beginning from Saturn as the furthest out and descending to Mercury

as the closest in, based on the their periods of their "wanderings"

across the night sky.

On this list the Sun and Moon are placed somewhat arbitrarily at

the beginning, since their apparent motions obviously aren't of the 

same nature as those of the planets.  It was also common for the

Greeks to place the Moon last, so that it was considered to be 

even "lower" than Mercury.  In addition, the Greeks could distinguish

between the "interior" planets (Venus, Mercury) and the "exterior

planets (Saturn, Jupiter, Mars) based on their apparent motions,

and they sometimes placed the Sun in the "center" between these

groups.  This led to the arrangement

     Saturn  Jupiter  Mars  Sun  Venus  Mercury  Moon

Now, each of the 24 hours (an Egyptian invention) of the day was 

though to be "ruled" by one of these 7 planets, and the rulers would 

cycle around in the arrangement shown above.  Thus, if we denote 

the planets by the symbols T,J,R,S,V,Y,M respectively, and begin 

the first day with the Sun, we have

                            Hour

 Day    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4

  1     S V Y M T J R S V Y M T J R S V Y M T J R S V Y

  2     M T J R S V Y M T J R S V Y M T J R S V Y M T J

  3     R S V Y M T J R S V Y M T J R S V Y M T J R S V

  4     Y M T J R S V Y M T J R S V Y M T J R S V Y M T

  5     J R S V Y M T J R S V Y M T J R S V Y M T J R S

  6     V Y M T J R S V Y M T J R S V Y M T J R S V Y M

  7     T J R S V Y M T J R S V Y M T J R S V Y M T J R

After the 7th day the cycle repeats, so the 8th day is the same as

the 1st, and so on.  (Fortunately, 7 is coprime to 24.)  Each day 

in the cycle was said to be "ruled" overall by the planet that 

rules the first hour of that day, so the rulers of the seven days 

were S,M,R,Y,J,V,T, which is to say

      Sun  Moon  Mars   Mercury  Jupiter  Venus  Saturn

According to Neugebauer, this is also the arrangement of the planets 

that was used most often in Hindu astronomy.  From this we get the 

names of the days in the week

              Latin         French      Saxon        English

  Sun       Dies Solis     Dimanche    Sun's day      Sunday

  Moon      Dies Lunae     Lundi       Moon's day     Monday

  Mars      Dies Martis    Mardi       Tiw's day      Tuesday

  Mercury   Dies Mercurri  Mercredi    Woden's day    Wednesday

  Jupiter   Dies Jovis     Jeudi       Thor's day     Thursday

  Venus     Dies Veneris   Vendredi    Frigg's day    Friday

  Saturn    Dies Saturni   Samedi      Seterne's day  Saturday

Wodin (or Odin) was one of the principal gods in Scandinavian and 

Teutonic mythology, and he seems to have somehow become identified 

with the Roman Mercurius.  Likewise Tiw was identified with Mars.  

Frigg was the wife of Odin, and likened to Venus.  The Germanic god 

Thor is similar to Jupiter, in the sense of being regarded as the 

"main" god in most northern European countries.  This shows how 

the common names for our days of the week have been influenced by 

a wide range of peoples and traditions, including the Babylonians 

(astrology), Egyptians (24 hour division of the day), Greeks 

(arrangement of the planets), Romans (Latin names of the gods), 

and Scandinavian mythology (for the Germanic names).

August 29th  we saw Isle of Games Grand Opening RPG Day, through September 1st I was playing games at isle of games met new people and had a lot of fun you can find pics from this weekend 
here https://www.facebook.com/isleofgames/posts/1538967866332985 and here https://www.facebook.com/isleofgames/photos_stream

Also if you could like their page for me.

captainhedges2010STC

captainhedges2010STC This was the last star trek convention I attended in 2011 I <issed the 2012 and the 2013 and will miss the 2014 one as well http://s1306.photobucket.com/user/captainhedges/slideshow/Star%20Trek%20Convention%202011

As Frodo once said how do you, pick up the pieces of your life when so much evil has been dune to you where do you begin again. I know a lot of people asked me what really happened to me, mom and dad. So here goes another quick retelling in March of 2007 we lost our house we had lived in sense April 1971, I was six months old at the time and had no clue how cruel the world can be. That was a long time to live in one place sense then in the last few years I myself some with my parents some without have lived in 7 different places. I moved my parents from Flagstaff Arizona to Las Vegas Nevada, My Dad lived just short of 1 year and a day sense we moved and died on June 15^th 2009 Ironically after we had burred him I discovered it was exactly 10 years to the day sense we buried his mother my grandmother who was known to all as Kay Hedges. 

After words I was home less for a month because we had no income coming in dud to SSI having to reissue Dads check to mom and mom no longer getting her check and me waiting on the state of Arizona to reissue dads check to me after that I managed to get me and mom a 1 one bedroom for us to live in. Fortunately for mom she was in a rehab facility at the time, so she had a place to stay I just slept in a van and ate whatever people gave me.

Due to this lack of money and that most of the people who was helping to keep urland universe up and running bailed on me they had their own worries to worry about and I understood why they bailed and harbor no ill feelings towards them. But like a good captain my digital self-went down with the digital ship. I should say it was the economy taking a dump I was not the only one who lost their house a lot of people did and they lost their jobs as well. So for lack of money I closed Urland Univese dot com. 

Star Trek the Experience was closing by the time the website went off and I thought it was fitting the website that was started by Star Trek the Experience opening is now being closed around the same time STE closed a good 10 year run for both. I am sure most of my friends and former customers will probably ask will I restart it again? The answer is no that is why I started this blog instead to retro-aspect my past accomplishments and failures and move on with my life.

Mom ended up in July of 2011 going to the hospital then to another facility from there she did not last long and went into hospice and died September 29^th 2011 it was almost 2 weeks after her 73rd birthday. I was resigned to move back into to storage with the little bit of money I had live out of the fan like a homeless person but an aquatinted gummer friend I had met was not about to let that happen so her comes the tales I could write about me and Jimmell Akers he became my roommate and a good friend and I still, miss your zany smile and off the wall humor. I will always be grateful to you for helping me out during what would have been a dark time in my life you were my light then who kept me going when I wanted to give up and help me to put my life back together again even though we had to use super glue to do it with haha. Jimmell got me to finally get on face book where I trolled and lived for nearly a year and half meeting new friends like David Wayne Newman and hooking up with old ones, like Linda Pruitt, Ron Burrell and others. I find I am retelling the tales all over again haha.

Any wase I had fun in Las Vegas and wanted to stay but instead I had to move back to the state of Arizona and decided to move to Tucson rather back to Flagstaff because I knew I was going to be homeless for a while and new I would probably Freeze to death without shelter another reason why I choose Tucson was it was cheap to live here. I moved here on April 11^th 2013 and started on a long journey to find a place to live 3 weeks of wondering around I managed to get into a transitional housing program ran by the Primavera Foundation where I was directed to by a friend on fb Restless  Jim Davis who said he helps veterans in my situation also a few bus drivers told me about them too. They helped me to get off the streets and for 7 long months I had to do my part of the program at times I wondered to myself is this worth it and I kept telling myself it was better than the streets plus I had David Wayne Newman on texting who was my voice of reasoning during this time period, thank you David for your support. 

I finally got and was able to move into a studio apartment inside the Alamo Apartments furnished by the Primavera Foundation, on November 3^rd 2013 and guess what I am here now writing this update on my note book before I head out to the library to post this and other things I have planned to post today, but wanted to get this off my chest.

2013 Retro spective for me

December 27, 2013 at South Tucson, Arizona

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Looking back over this year I had a lot of ups and downs, but I dealt with each problem that arose and tried to find solutions. Which I did and I am grateful for all the people who helped me thus far thank you all!

I will talk about this topic in other posts as well as other things as well by for today my friends!

Good Morning everyone I decided to start a new blog for what purpose you might ask at this point I have no Idea but am sure I will figure out about something to write about lol!