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A New York-based residential real estate firm is targeting Fairfield County, and it has staked a claim in the region with the sale of a $9 million waterfront estate in Old Greenwich.
Douglas Elliman Real Estate, which has more than 70 offices and this year opened offices in Beverly Hills, Calif., and Scarsdale, N.Y., as of now does not have a Greenwich office, but expects to open one soon, according to Dottie Herman, president and CEO. For the time being, it is serving the region from its office in Chappaqua, N.Y.
Elliman, which also has offices in New York City, Long Island, Westchester and Putnam counties, Los Angeles and South Florida, has accumulated listings in lower Fairfield County.
"This is a huge milestone for Douglas Elliman as we continue to expand in new markets. We go where our clients want to be, and this is a prime example of the power and reach of our vast network," said Dottie Herman, Douglas Elliman president and CEO, referring to the sale of the estate on Hendrie Extension and the move into Fairfield County. "The move to Fairfield County is keeping pace with the market momentum, and we like to be a stop ahead."
Fairfield County's demographics match Douglas Elliman's typical client base, according to Herman.
"We have been helping people in Fairfield County for years who are buying second homes in the Hamptons or South Florida," she said. "We felt that now was the right time to help our customers with our full-service brokerage approach in their backyard."
Gabriel Pasquale, executive vice president of Elliman's Westchester brokerage, is leading operations for Douglas Elliman Connecticut.
Area real estate agents said they can handle the added competition.
Greenwich real estate agents have developed a good rapport with their clients and are confident in their relationships, said Barbara McKee, manager of Shore & County Properties in Greenwich and president of the Greenwich Multiple Listing Service and the Greenwich Association of Realtors.
She said she is not concerned about more competition, commenting that the market has continued to fare well after Houlihan Lawrence opened an office in Greenwich in 2013.
"Houlihan Lawrence for years sold in Greenwich without being in Greenwich, but they eventually moved here. I think they (Douglas Elliman) should have an office in Fairfield County if they want to be in the county," McKee said, commenting that several smaller firms have been gobbled up or closed in the past several years in Greenwich.
With its impressive demographics, Greenwich is a natural target for Douglas Elliman, said Rick Higgins owner and CEO of the Fairfield-based Higgins Group, which has offices throughout much of the county, including Greenwich.
"Greenwich is a very inviting target. I'd be surprised if they weren't there," Higgins said, but much of the rest of the county should not be affected by the firm's arrival.Read Full Article
It's essential that any firm be located in the community it serves, he said.
"Real estate is local, local. If they (Douglas Elliman) want to open in Greenwich, it won't be easy," Higgins said, adding that Houlihan Lawrence grabbed most of the local agents who were interested in making a move.
Barbara Cleary, broker/owner of Barbara Cleary Realty, said the arrival of Douglas Elliman is simply another change in the region's ever-changing real estate market.
It's natural that New York City-based real estate agencies want to get established in Fairfield County and Long Island because of the many people who commute to and from the city.
"There's always going to be competition, but everyone has their own style. We offer things others don't. You have to have your own identity. I'm not concerned about changes," Cleary said.


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I am still on the hunt for a great shampoo that is kind to my scalp and is affordable and works well too!
A reader alerted me to Tara Smith's Shampoo and Conditioner range, which she found at Tesco.
The products do not contain:
* Parabens
* Sodium Laureth Sulphate (SLES)
* Glycols
* Phthalates
* PEGs
* Artificial colouring
* Synthetic fragrance
* Animal derivatives
Tara is a celebrity hairdresser – the tagline on the products is, "Tested on film stars no on animals." Damn right!
There's four kinds of shampoo and conditioners to the range:
Feed the Root Shampoo & Conditioner
Big Baby Shampoo & Conditioner
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Styling Range:
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I got Feed the Root Shampoo & Conditioner, Straight Away Shampoo & Conditioner, Base Coat Serum and Top Coat Glosser. The shampoos and conditioners come in 100ml and 250ml sizes, at £2.25 and £4.99 respectively, so it's great value!
So my main purpose of trying this range out was because I wanted something without too many chemicals in it and something to help my flaky, sore scalp – so Feed The Root was the range I was the most interested in was that.
About the shampoo:
Key ingredients are:
* Bambusa Vulgaris leaf/stem extract which has been used for centuries in Asia and Hawaii to cure skin disorders. Bamboo's smooth shiny properties are due to silica deposits within its stem.
* The five yeast extracts are from zinc/copper/magnesium/iron/silicon which provide nutrients and have moisturising and cell renewing capabilities for both skin and hair
* Menthol gives the shampoo its tingle factor
* Organic fragrance
* Cool Head 100% organic essential oil blend dominated by Cooling Peppermint and enriched with Patchouli, Cedar and a twist of sweet Aniseed.
It certainly did give my scalp a lovely tingle and didn't irritate at all. My scalp has been particularly dry lately though, so I don't think I enjoyed the full benefits (I have been massaging virgin coconut oil into the scalp twice a week – this has been helping) along with this shampoo. The conditioner is most effective if you give it a good 3-4 mins on the hair – my hair is very very knotty so most conditioners do struggle with my mop.
It's actually very hard finding a genuinely scalp friendly shampoo that doesn't contain SLS and parabens for less that £10. I know that when I was scanning the shelves in Boots, apart from their Naked range, it was nearly impossible to find something SLS free.
I have only tried these two out once but once again no complaints – once again, no nasty additives.
The products come in very cute, rounded bottles too, they look more expensive than they actually are. You can get these in good old Tesco or Cult Beauty. Will I buy it again? Yes! But a bigger bottle!

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An alien scientist finds evidence linking his species' ancestry to Earth, but government officials refuse to accept his evidence because it conflicts with existing doctrine.
Summary Edit
A pair of Voth, a species of reptilian humanoids, named Forra Gegen and Tova Veer conduct an archaeological investigation in a cave on an M-class planet. They search the cave with their flashlights and Veer discovers a tattered piece of cloth; while he does not appear to recognize it, it is a gold-colored Starfleet Operations division uniform. Gegen journeys a bit further into the cave where he delicately unearths a Human leg bone. Upon realizing what it is, he emits a series of clicking sounds to summon Veer and scans the bone with a small round device similar in function to a tricorder.
Veer asks if the discovery is a genetic match, although to what he does not say and Gegen confirms it is. "Could this be it? The proof?" Veer asks eagerly. "If it is," responds Gegen, "We've just made the most important discovery in Voth history." He shines his light on a nearby Human skull as he speaks and the camera fades out.
Act One Edit
Now aboard their vessel, Gegen and Veer have laid the bones collected out on a table, forming an approximation of what the skeleton would look like if complete. They study the incomplete skeleton much as paleontologists would study a dinosaur fossil and determine it is related to the Voth. They decide to present their findings to the Ministry of Elders.
However, Minister Odala does not take kindly to their findings. She claims the similarities are coincidental, accusing Gegen of questioning Voth Doctrine. Once he realizes that he will get nowhere with her, Gegen decides to mount an expedition on his own.
His daughter Frola wants to believe in him but she finds it hard to believe that the Voth are related to mammals from elsewhere in the galaxy. Unfortunately, Tova informs him that he has been charged with heresy against The Doctrine and all of his supporters have abandoned him. Determined to find the truth, Forra and Tova set out on their own.
The two of them find one clue on the uniform of the corpse they recovered: they need to find something called USS Voyager.
Act Two Edit
- "Across the vastness of space, to find one ship among a sea of stars is no simple matter, and for many weeks we found nothing. And then, fortune glanced in our direction. A trader from a space station bordering the Nekrit Expanse informed us of a curious group of explorers claiming to be from the other side of the galaxy. The merchants there spoke of a vessel called Voyager. They were able to help us clarify certain details. With this new information, we began to acquire other items and new evidence. Our most significant find: a canister of warp plasma from Voyager's engines. For now, we are scanning space for a matching signature. Little is known about these explorers but they call themselves Human, and they claim to be traveling home to a distant planet. My thoughts are with you, Frola, as are those of my colleague Veer."
After deciding to observe Voyager, the two board Voyager undetected under an interphase cloaking device and wander around the ship looking at several things such as the computer, the "male and female interacting" and "courting behavior" between Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres. As they observe, they seem to think of the Humans as primitive compared to their own species. On the bridge, still cloaked, they assume that the social hierarchy is matriarchal due to Kathryn Janeway being the captain. At this time the crew discovers two unknown hidden beings on board. Gegen and Veer attempt to leave only to realize they cannot transport off their ship. While the bridge is being sealed by a level 10 force field, Gegen and Veer teleport to the mess hall. Lieutenant Tuvok makes the two appear and when Veer instinctively shoots Chakotay with a small dart, Gegen instantly transports himself and Chakotay away to his vessel.
Act Three Edit
In sickbay, Janeway attempts to converse with Veer to find that he speaks with clicks. The Doctor finds that his body temperature and metabolism have dropped as he enters protective hibernation and Janeway orders others to examine the new species.
On Gegen's ship, Chakotay discovers that Gegen is a molecular paleontologist, and Gegen explains that he couldn't reach Veer in the mess hall and took Chakotay instead as a living specimen of Human. Gegen questions whether there are any of his species on Earth, but Chakotay asks Gegen to drop the force field around him. After Gegen shuts off the force field around Chakotay, he and Chakotay make formal first contact between the two.
The Doctor finds that the DNA of the Voth and Humans are remarkably similar (47 genetic markers in common, a conclusion Gegen and Veer had reached earlier) and Janeway makes the conclusion that the Voth evolved on Earth. Janeway goes to holodeck 2 and tries to picture the closest relative to the Voth from Earth. On the holodeck, she and The Doctor see various reptiles from the Cretaceous era, most notably a hadrosaur. The Doctor predicts that the hadrosaur continued to evolve after the extinction of other beings to the present Voth civilization.
On Gegen's ship, Chakotay and Gegen propose that any existence of the intelligence of the dinosaurs could have been deep under the surface, never to be found by the Humans on Earth. Gegen begins to see that the Humans and mammals as a whole are not as inferior as he once thought. When Chakotay requests to beam back to Voyager, Gegen denies his request and says that he must bring Chakotay to the Ministry to prove that Humans exist.
Back on Voyager, Tuvok and Paris are attempting to understand the Voth cloaking technology. Suddenly an enormous Voth city ship several times the size of Voyager de-cloaks. Voyager goes to red alert, then begins to be probed with an energy beam that cuts through the shields before the entire vessel is beamed into a large hangar onboard the Voth ship.
Act Four Edit
With Voyager inside the massive Voth city ship, the ship and weapons begin to lose power and Janeway orders to crew to repel boarders. Heading for the bridge, Tuvok is shot by a dart from behind and orders Paris, who is with him, to leave without him. The Voth manage to easily take over the ship, with Janeway and Harry Kim being interrupted by them while attempting to restore power. The Voth interrogate the Humans about their origin. When Janeway mentions Earth, the Voth suspects Gegen of spreading rumors. Paris is able to make it to Main Engineering and attempts to fire a full spread of photon torpedoes through the city ship, however the Voth are able to detect and block his attack.
Meanwhile, Gegen gets a communication from the Ministry threatening to destroy Voyager if he doesn't return. He reluctantly sets course back to the ship. Professor Gegen meets the Ministry again and is accused of going against The Doctrine. He does not retract his statements, so Odala begins the trial.
Act Five Edit
On trial, the Ministry further accuses Gegen of disputing Doctrine through the Distant Origin Theory and being a destructive influence on society. After given a chance to deny of the evidence, Gegen refuses. The Minister states that the Humans are not related at all to counter Gegen's theory. Chakotay responds by saying that Voyager's fossil records prove otherwise. The Ministry stops and begs Gegen to admit that his interpretation and theory is wrong. Gegen again refuses and claims that the entire Voth civilization is from the Human planet of Earth.
When the Minister brings forth Veer and questions him about the theory, he states, rather unenthusiastically, that Gegen's research was flawed. The Minister praises him for his testimony and he shuffles off sadly when she dismisses him. Once again, Gegen is questioned about his theory whether or not he has been mistaken. Gegen questions why Veer would have spoken against him, strongly suspecting that the Minister threatened the younger scientist in some way, perhaps from taking away his honors all the way up to threatening the man's family. He challenges the plan of the Voth to keep their "myth" of their history and beliefs. When the Minister asks yet again, Chakotay speaks against the Minister about how their beliefs are so clouded just as Gegen's theory is and that Gegen and he found out that the genetic structure of Voth is incredibly similar to almost every species found on Earth, which is too much to be coincidence. Chakotay states that the Doctrine was changed when transwarp technology was introduced, just as Gegen's theory is attempting to be introduced. The Minister states that she does not want to believe the theory because it might show weakness on the Voth's behalf, depicting them as a race of cowards who fled their home. Chakotay responds that the Voth culture had a great past, surviving on Earth against great odds and subsequently coming to leave Earth and thrive in a distant part of the galaxy, their denial of the past shows the denial of their true heritage. To deny this heritage would be to ignore what their ancestors accomplished, and all that they sacrificed, in order to save the species.
Despite Chakotay's plea, Gegen is found guilty and is sentenced to life imprisonment on a detention colony, which he accepts. However to the scientist's horror and protests, the Minister then tells Chakotay that he and the entire Voyager crew are to be imprisoned along with Gegen and their ship destroyed. At the last moment, Gegen, defeated and unwilling to see the Voyager crew being dragged into his predicament, gives in to the Minister's desire and heartbroken, recants his theory. Satisfied, the Minister reassigns Gegen to a "more rewarding vocation" in metallurgical analysis and frees Chakotay, ordering Voyager to leave Voth space.
Back on Gegen's personal ship, the scientist, professing at not being that good at chemistry, sadly resigns himself to an unremarkable career in metallurgical analysis and thanks Chakotay for his help and friendship. Chakotay commends him on his bravery, and gives Gegen a small hand-held globe of modern Earth in the hope that one day the Voth will see it as their home. Chakotay bids Gegen farewell with "Eyes open" that Gegen returns, before beaming back to Voyager.
Memorable quotes Edit
"It would be in your best interest if I never saw you again."
- - Minister Odala to Chakotay
"Did your eyes see the planet of our origin, the true home of our race? Was it beautiful? Was it covered by oceans? By sand? Were there nine moons above your head? Were there none?"
- - Forra Gegen, to the Human skull
"I'll see you tonight. BYOB."
"Bring your own bat'leth."
- - Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres
"Note how the female through the feigned antagonism encourages the male in his attempt to mate."
- - Gegen to Veer, while observing Paris and Torres' verbal sparring
"Tuvok, I hope that's your stomach."
- - Tom Paris, upon hearing the clicking sounds of the Voth while Voyager was being boarded
"Who's that?"
"My helmsman. Sounds like he's about to blast a hole in the side of your ship."
- - Haluk and Captain Janeway
"We are not immigrants! I will not deny twenty million years of history, and doctrine, just because one insignificant Saurian has a theory!"
- - Odala, to Forra Gegen
"Someday every Voth will see this as home."
- - Forra Gegen, to Chakotay while holding a globe of Earth
"This should do the trick."
"An apple?"
"You said you wanted an organic test subject."
"I was referring to a bio-cylinder, but the fruit will suffice."
- - Tom Paris and Tuvok, while testing the Voth personal cloaking device
Background information Edit
Story and script Edit
- This episode started as a premise that co-writer Joe Menosky described as "basically dinos with automatic weapons." Menosky added, "That was the fun of it. [Co-writer] Brannon [Braga]'s a big action guy, a perverse horror story kind of a guy. That's the direction we had." He also referred to the premise as "basically Aliens II, as it were, with automatic weapons." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 29, No. 6/7, p. 86)
- Brannon Braga and Joe Menosky then took this premise and several other story ideas to executive producer Jeri Taylor's office. While they were there, executive producer Rick Berman happened to walk into the office and influence the story considerably. Joe Menosky remembered, "He happened to come into the room when we were talking about this show. The first story notion that Brannon laid out to Rick in Jeri's office was [the action-oriented story idea] and Rick just hated it. He said, 'All I see is a bunch of lizards with AK-47's. Where's the humanity? This should be Galileo.' As soon as he said Galileo, I thought, that's perfect. I've done a lot of research in Italian history, so I knew exactly what he was talking about [....] Rick Berman's participation at that basic story level made this episode happen." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 29, No. 6/7, p. 86)
- As they proceeded to work on the episode, Brannon Braga and Joe Menosky continued to use, as a historical point of inspiration, Galileo's trial by the Catholic Church. Joe Menosky said of the episode, "It's our retelling of Galileo's trial, in science fiction, Star Trek terms." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 29, No. 6/7, p. 86)
- The writers enjoyed detailing the alien culture of the Voth. "What was really fun about this episode," Joe Menosky reminisced, "was basically creating a culture, and all the little sort of texture details, knowing that we might not ever see these guys again." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 29, No. 6/7, p. 112)
- This episode's final draft script was submitted on 23 January 1997. [1]
Cast and characters Edit
- The story's Galileo-related roots were personified in the character of Gegen, who Brannon Braga described as "this Galileo lizard." (Star Trek Monthly issue 28, p. 17) Joe Menosky noted, "It's as if Chakotay were on trial along with Galileo." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 29, No. 6/7, p. 112)
- Joe Menosky was thrilled by the performance that Chakotay actor Robert Beltran gives in this episode. Moments after citing the episode as one of two Season 3 Voyager installments (the other being the third season finale "Scorpion") that have "these scenes where Chakotay basically talks for an entire page of dialogue without break," Menosky remarked, "Robert Beltran was just awesome in 'Distant Origin'. He's just got massive amounts of charisma." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 29, No. 6/7, p. 94)
- One aspect of this episode that Brannon Braga liked was "the acting", generally. (Star Trek: Voyager Companion, p. 179)
Production and effects Edit
- According to the unauthorized reference book Delta Quadrant (p. 182), the opening shot of this episode was an establishing shot leftover from the production of the third season premiere "Basics, Part II".
- Also according to Delta Quadrant (p. 182, et al.), this episode reuses a stock set that was previously utilized in the Season 3 installments "The Chute" (as the Akritirian maximum security detention facility), "Fair Trade" (as Bahrat's space station) and "Unity" (as the Cooperative's colony).
- Make-up supervisor Michael Westmore was challenged by the large quantity of Voth shown in this episode. "We only had time to make one basic head," he recalled, "so we did a face cast of one of the females and designed a different version for the rest of them. Then they had the gloves, which were basically one size fits all. We had six or seven of them running around, and that's a lot for ST:VOY." (Star Trek Monthly issue 32, p. 75) Both director David Livingston and visual effects producer Dan Curry were highly pleased with the final look of the Voth. Livingston enthused, "Michael Westmore created this really compelling makeup." Curry agreed, "That was a virtuoso makeup job by Mike Westmore and his department." (VOY Season 3 DVD special features)
- During production, Gegen actor Henry Woronicz wore an undersuit padding lot (as did, presumably, the other performers portraying Voth). [2]
- While filming this episode, David Livingston endeavored to accentuate the other-worldly quality of the aliens. He recalled, "I chose to shoot them with a really wide-angle lens, in close, to magnify and get as much detail and distort even the makeup that [Michael Westmore] had done. And by doing so, it made them look even more terrifying and weird and stuff. To me, distorting those dinosaurs was going to be really cool. So we put the camera right up against their face, and they did – they look really weird and somewhat, a little bit terrifying. It's a technique to make the makeup even weirder. You can't do that to Humans, because if you do that to Humans, they look distorted and stuff. But you can get away with that on aliens." (VOY Season 3 DVD special features)
- Although David Livingston usually found that filming trial scenes was very difficult to make visually interesting, shooting the trial in this episode was much easier for him. He remarked, "Trials are really hard, because you want to keep it moving […] That one worked out okay because you had weird things to look at. You can do really weird angles of coming up, and really strong profiles, and do weird kind of tracking shots because you're in a weird courtroom. That particular trial scene was okay, because of the elements that we had to work with." (VOY Season 3 DVD special features)
- Representing the holographic dinosaurs in this episode involved the use of physical models, as opposed to CGI depictions. The first stage of visualizing the holograms was the creation and utilization of life-size mock-ups. "There are a couple of moments where we saw dinosaurs recreated in the holodeck," Dan Curry recalled, "so [Janeway and The Doctor] could determine how [the Voth had] evolved […] And so the actors would have a sense of how big they were, I made full-scale mock-ups of how big the dinosaurs would really be, putting them together like slot puppets so they could stand up, even though they were made out of two-dimensional foam core." (Red Alert: Amazing Visual Effects, VOY Season 3 DVD special features) "That way the director and the actors would have something to relate to on the set as a reference," Curry further explained. "Their sight lines would be good, and we'd have a reference when we replace it with the detailed miniature dinosaurs." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 29, No. 6/7, p. 111) The two dinosaur models that were used in the episode's final version had their own separate genesis. "The actual sculpture that was used for the Eryops was […] made out of modeling clay that a sculptor named Jordu Schell made," Curry remembered, "and then I did the final painting on it. And the large parasaurolophus-type creature was one that we rented." The latter type of holographic dinosaur was actually much smaller than it appears on screen. Dan Curry noted, "On screen, it looked like it was about 12 feet high." (Red Alert: Amazing Visual Effects, VOY Season 3 DVD special features)
- Visual effects were also used to depict the Voth vessels. Mitch Suskin, who served as visual effects supervisor on this episode, related, "There are a couple of [alien] ships in the show, a lot of shots of these enormous ships […] We see a cloaking effect, and the Voyager gets beamed inside of their enormous mother ship." In fact, the Voth city ship was said to be one of the largest ships ever created for Star Trek. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 29, No. 6/7, p. 112)
- The effect of the Voth ships speeding through space was adapted from the second season installment "Threshold". Mitch Suskin explained, "There's an effect that was established in ['Threshold'] which is the episode where they're experimenting with transwarp. We're just going back to the transwarp effect. These people [meaning the Voth] have technology where they travel in transwarp, so we see them come out of transwarp a few times." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 29, No. 6/7, p. 112)
- Brannon Braga was ultimately highly satisfied with the visuals of this installment. He said of the episode, "It looks great. Great effects." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 29, No. 6/7, p. 112) On another occasion, Braga stated that he enjoyed "the effects, and the directing…" of this episode. (Star Trek: Voyager Companion, p. 179)
Reception and aftermath Edit
- Ultimately, Brannon Braga and Joe Menosky were both very pleased with this episode. Moments after describing the possibility that dinosaurs had evolved to be bipedal organisms as "sort of a neat science fiction idea," Braga enthused, "It's the perfect episode in my mind." (Star Trek Monthly issue 28, p. 17) However, Braga also commented, "It was one episode that was just about perfect." Moments later, he remarked, "It was a very complex [and] ambitious show that really turned out great." (Star Trek: Voyager Companion, p. 179) Shortly after completing work on Voyager's third season, Braga said, "We think it's the best show that we did this season, and I think it's the best show I've written on Voyager. It's a very special episode." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 29, No. 6/7, p. 91) He also included this episode among a few examples of third season Voyager installments that he thought were good (the other episodes being "Scorpion" and "Unity"). He said of this particular installment, "That's a classic that I'm really happy with. That's good." (Star Trek Monthly issue 29, p. 13) For his part, Menosky commented, "I think [it's] classic Star Trek, with all the kind of humanity that Trek is supposed to have." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 29, No. 6/7, p. 86) In fact, Menosky believed this episode captures the flavor of some of the most successful installments of Star Trek: The Next Generation. "It felt as close to TNG in spirit, as anything I've ever been involved on, since I've been writing for Voyager, frankly closer to the spirit of the kind of best TNG's than a lot of TNG's I've done." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 29, No. 6/7, p. 112) Menosky particularly liked "the courtroom scenes" of this episode, saying, "I think [they] are just really wonderful." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 29, No. 6/7, p. 112)
- A particular facet of the episode that Joe Menosky thought was "very unique" is the alien perspective that the installment initially takes. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 29, No. 6/7, p. 112) Brannon Braga also thought this element was notable, believing that it partly made the episode's entire story very unusual. He observed of the episode, "It's a 'what if' science fiction premise [....] It's a really rich metaphor for the creation/science debates and Galileo-type struggles. And it's got a totally unique structure, which is them tracking us [....] It's rare that a Star Trek episode can have all three of those things, and this one does." (Star Trek Monthly issue 28, p. 17)
- Story consultant Michael Piller was so impressed by this episode's teleplay that he sent a memo to Joe Menosky which said, "The best Voyager script I've ever read." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 29, No. 6/7, p. 112)
- Executive producer Rick Berman also liked this episode. He referred to it as "a great Voyager episode" and also said, "It's a really classic piece of Star Trek." (Star Trek: Communicator issue 111, p. 8)
- This episode achieved a Nielsen rating of 4.4 million homes, and a 7% share. [3](X)
- Cinefantastique rated this episode 2 and a half out of 4 stars. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 29, No. 6/7, p. 111)
- Star Trek Monthly scored this episode 4 out of 5 stars, defined as "Trill-powered viewing". (Star Trek Monthly issue 32, p. 93)
- The unauthorized reference book Delta Quadrant (p. 183) gives this installment a rating of 8 out of 10.
- The undersuit padding lot that Henry Woronicz wore for this episode was later sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. [4]
- In 2017, Kirsten Beyer cited this as one of three favorite VOY episodes (the other two being "Living Witness" and "Scorpion, Part II"). [5]
Continuity and trivia Edit
- Voyager's crew complement, as of this episode, is 149 (148 stated life signs plus The Doctor)
- The Voth scientists' discovery of the Human skull and their subsequent search for Voyager are examples of continuity with previous episodes: the skull was left in the third season opener "Basics, Part II", which establishes that the bones and uniform fragments found in the same scene of this episode belonged to Ensign Hogan, and the canister of warp plasma that the Voth retrieve at Bahrat's space station in this episode is an acknowledgment of the events of "Fair Trade".
- The events of this episode are referred to in the seventh season episode "Friendship One".
- The Star Trek: Voyager Companion (p. 284) states that the throne chair that Minister Odala is sitting on was later reused as Doctor Chaotica's throne in VOY: "Bride of Chaotica!" and that it was originally created for the Coneheads movie.
- Another reference to the number 47 – the number of genetic markers shared between Humans and Voth.
- Janeway and The Doctor mention that Earth's hadrosaurs were cold-blooded, but today most scientists believe they were warm-blooded.
- None of the main characters appear for the first fifteen minutes of the episode.
- The name "Gegen" might be derived from German "gegen", which means "against, contra" - a possible reference to his stance against doctrine.
Video and DVD releases Edit
- UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 3.12, 29 September 1997
- As part of the VOY Season 3 DVD collection
- The Netflix release made an error in the episode description, referring to two Voth scientists as "A Saurian scientist".
Links and references Edit
Starring Edit
Also starring Edit
- Robert Beltran as Commander Chakotay
- Roxann Biggs-Dawson as Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres
- Jennifer Lien as Kes
- Robert Duncan McNeill as Lieutenant Tom Paris
- Ethan Phillips as Neelix
- Robert Picardo as The Doctor
- Tim Russ as Lieutenant Tuvok
- Garrett Wang as Ensign Harry Kim
Guest stars Edit
Special guest star Edit
- Concetta Tomei as Minister Odala
Co-stars Edit
- Nina Minton as Frola Gegen
- Majel Barrett as the computer voice
Uncredited co-stars Edit
- Steve Carnahan as operations officer
- Tracee Cocco as Nekrit alien
- Damaris Cordelia as Foster
- Tarik Ergin as Ayala
- Ken Gruz as Tak Tak trader
- Dennis Madalone as Voth guard
- Louis Ortiz as Voth guard
- John Tampoya as Kashimuro Nozawa
47; academic circle; anodyne relay; apple; area of research; asteroid; automated message; autonomic nervous system; auxiliary power; bat'leth; bio-cylinder; body temperature; BYOB; cartilage; Circle of Archeology; Circle of Exobiology; Circles of Philosophy; Circles of Science; cold-blooded; common people; communicator; computer extrapolation; containment field; courting behavior; cranial capacity; Cretaceous; dart; decalcification; Delta Quadrant; dilitus lobe; dinosaur; dispersion frequency; Distant Origin Theory; Devonian; DNA; DNA analysis; Earth; endotherm; Eryops; field trip; first contact; fossil; Fourth Colony; genome projection algorithm; gigahertz; hadrosaur; Hanon IV; Hanon IV sector; harpoon; heart rate; heresy; hibernation; Hogan; Hokath; holodeck; Holographic Voth; interphase; interrogation surgeon; immigrant; Jefferies tube; kilometer; Klingon martial arts program; lagoon; lower lifeform; mammalian; matriarchy; medical tricorder; mentor; metabolism; metallurgical analysis; microcellular scan; Milky Way Galaxy; minister; Ministry of Elders; molecular paleontologist; napping; Nekrit Expanse; paleontological database; phase variance; phaser burn; photon torpedo; plasma conduit; polymer; portation; prejudice; red alert; refugee; replication technology; saurian; spatial fluctuation; spatial displacement; subspace frequency; sulfur; temperature; test subject; tetryon radiation; thoracic region; transwarp; tricorder; Towt; turbolift; vocation; vasodilation; Voth; Voth city ship; Voth Doctrine; Voth research vessel; warm-blooded; warp plasma; weapons control
External links Edit
- "Distant Origin" at StarTrek.com, the official Star Trek website
- "Distant Origin" at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- "Distant Origin" at Wikipedia
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Hi Frank. I always like to start these interviews by getting to know the artist a bit better. Could you tell us about yourself?
I grew up here in the San Francisco Bay area. Watching a lot of Bob Wilkins and Creatures Features. Monsters and monster movies were a big part of my life growing up. From that first issue of "Famous Monsters of Filmland. The one with the beautiful painting of the Saucerman by Basil Gogos, I was hooked bigtime. Reading about Jack Pierce, Dick Smith and Rick Baker, gave me direction about what I wanted to do for a living. The book "Making a Monster***8221; became my Bible and "Pressmans Horror Make-up kit" by Dick Smith was the greatest thing known to man in my book. Later to be joined by his "King of the Gorillas" make-up kit. What a great time to be a ***8216;monster kid.***8217; My parents and family were always so supportive of my dreams. My father, who worked in a auto body shop at the time, let me make him up one morning before work in full face gorilla make-up. What a sight that was to watch Dad drive off in his Jeep with our dog Oscar' at his side. My dad was the best guy in the world.
But back then there was no internet, no websites, no easy way for a kid to gather information about becoming a SFX make-up artist. The only thing I really had at the time besides my monster mags was the telephone. I remember I'd call information for make-up shops in the Los Angeles area. Hoping I'd get someone on the phone who might want to take pity on me and share some info about their craft or better yet, a story. One time, I managed to get Tom Burman on the phone. I was really into "Phantom of the Paradise" at the time.
I also found Don Post Studios and talked with Don Post Jr. It was during this time that I'd graduated from the Pressman kit to actual crude latex mask making, which I'd told Mr. Post about over the phone. He said to me "kid, if your ever in N. Hollywood, come on by. And I'll give you a tour of the facility.
That was the first time I'd actually seen in-person "professional monster sculpts". I spend a good many years after that trying to better my sculpting skills. Practicing make-ups, doing sculptures and the like. I was determined to go to LA and work in the film industry doing SPX make-up someday***8230; Or so I thought.
That all changed in when I was in Junior High and Star Wars was released. Followed by ***8220;The Empire Strikes Back", then Jedi a few years later. I no longer wanting to move to southern California, I wanted to be apart of this place called "Industrial Light & Magic.
Working in the famous ILM Creature Shop! This was my new direction.
But as I recall, I couldn***8217;t just call ILM and say "Hello, my names Frank Gravatt, can I talk to someone in the creature shop please?...CLICK!. I needed a contact. Wesley Seeds name came up. I forget how but I got his name. Through a friend of a friend***8217;s friend I think. Anyway, so I nervously called ILM. The receptionist answered and I said calmly "hi, can I speak with Wesley Seeds in the creature shop please?"
"Yes, hang on. I'll connect you". I was freaking out. What was I going to say to this person? What if I blew my delivery line and came off sounding like a fanatical fan?, which I was of course. But I didn***8217;t want him to know that! Anyway, Wesley spend sometime with me on the phone, talking monsters, clay and mold making. He invited me down for a tour and to show him some of the work I had at the time, a mask I was in the midst of creating and a few sculpts. I was totally blown away by what I saw in the creature shop at that time. Props and sculpts from the film Willow were sprinkled throughout the shop along with a variety of other past projects.
I'll never forget that moment. It wouldn't be until 1993, five years later, that I was hired by ILM. Not as a sculptor mind you but as a maintenance worker.
I spend 2 yrs in maintenance, moving people, assembling furniture, plunging toilets (talk about paying your dues) and continuing my art when I could.
Ken Maruyama , director of animation and creature development at the time discovered my sculptures on the desk of a co-worker and friend Jillian Rittenberg, and asked me if I'd like to train in CG as a modeler. I've been here ever since...
What you do at ILM?
Creature Modeler, Concept artist, and Digital Supervisor.
How long have you worked for ILM?
14 years and counting***8230;
What work did you do for the Spiderwick Chronicles?
Early in the production I shared rapid proto-type duties with Jung-Seung Hong and Andrew Carwse also here at ILM. Once the proto's were approved by production they'd be rebuilt up to production standards. I was also a part of the facial development team for Thimbletack and his alter ego, the Boggart. In addition, I did the displacement work using ZBrush on the character Mulgarath and I modeled the griffin, Byran.
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How did you use ZBrush on Spiderwick?
On Spiderwick, Mulgarath, designed by Carlos Huante, was as a combination of demonic nastiness, snake skin, monster skin, and forest trees. He's quite the combination of creatures. Once the model by Gionvanni Nakpil was completed, the models divided into multiple partitions, head, arms, legs, torso and back, then U/V'd. Groups of partitions (head group, etc ) were then imported into ZBrush for displacement goodness. The first stage of the work was importing "tree bark" reference images as alpha's. Adjusting the radial fade, in combination with the "Drag Rect stroke" the alphas were applied to the surface. Other alpha's created were done using the "simple brush" drawn in 2D mode. Then simply picked up using the "Grab Doc" option in the alpha menu window. This allowed me the freedom of creating a texture stamp on the fly when ever I needed something custom. Working in this fashion I was able to bridge the different types of tree bark image alphas to one another and their neighboring monster or snake skin surroundings. Other times I'd use a Start Up Alpha in combination with the "Inflate" brush or other and produce some really organic results. "Crop and Filling" an alpha to screen, was another method. I'd modify this with one of the 2D brush tools and then pick it the back up with the 'Grab Doc" option. Simplicity was key for me; the more inventive I got with a simple approach, the better the results I was able to achieve. I was blown away by what I could do in ZBrush.
Were there things that you created that you could not have with out ZBrush?There***8217;s a certain harmony of sorts when combining different neighboring textures together. Making them very different from one another but ultimately having them all sing together. I don***8217;t think I could have done it to this extent using a traditional approach to displacement.
How has ZBrush changed you as an artist?ZBrush has allowed me total freedom as a sculptor in a 3D world. Being able to take a model so much further than before sculpturally has been a dream come true.
What do you enjoy most about using ZBrush?With ZBrush I believe I've come full circle with my goals in life.Having originally wanting to do SPX make-up and creature work back in the day, I believe now I've actually achieved those goals in a 3D sort of way. And it***8217;s only getting better! I feel there***8217;s another plateau of sorts coming soon for creature design. I know ZBrush will be big part of it!
Why do you use ZBrush instead of other 3D packages?Options galore. High poly count.Oh, and the "Trans Pose" masking tool" rocks beyond belief!!
What other projects have you worked on for ILM?
1. My CG career started with Tim Burtons "Mars Attacks" building various props and gags. The Martian hand that disconnects then crawls and stabs President Jack Nicholson was one of my first builds. I was so thrilled with that scene. I think every step of that film was a thrill for me.
Other film credits include (in chronological order):
2. Speed 2, Cruise Control - Modeler
3. Small Soldiers - ModelerBuilt the CG character, Chip Hazard
4. Starwars Episode 2 Attack of the Clones.Wow! To have the opportunity to work on a Star Wars film was another dream come true. I modeled Dexter Jettster and his facial library and several Geonosians. I nearly fell out of my seat when I saw my credit for the first time in that Star Wars blue font.
5. Minority Report ***8211; ModelerModeled a variety of CG props
6. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - ModelerHaving the opportunity to model the CG character "Dobby the house Elf" was a real growing point in my career. It was the first time that I'd created a complete facial library for a character that was human like in its facial proportion. Unlike Dexter***8217;s face from Episode 2 who was somewhat frogface/monster like. Dobby***8217;s face had to adhere much closer to human. It was a fantastic learning experience.
7. Hulk - ModelerBuilding upon what I had learned while working on Dobby, I created the facial library for Hulk.
8. Terminator 3, Rise of the Machines - ModelerI modeled Arnold***8217;s digital double head and the different stages of the Terminator***8217;s facial damage.
9. Van Helsing - Digital Model SupervisorModelled and created the facial library for Mr. Hyde.
10. War of the Worlds ***8211; ModelerModeled the "Aliens
11. Pirates of the Caribbean: Deadman***8217;s ChestI Modeled the complete Kraken, separate types of tentacle from large ship crushers, to mid-size one to small ones for grabbing sailors. I also modeled (shot by shot)individual sucker movement shapes for each tentacle. Finally, I ZBrushed the tentacles and the kraken***8217;s nasty mouth textures.
And many thanks to you, Frank, for having shared your work here at ZBC and also for taking the time out of your busy schedule to speak with us!


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Three Flushing candidates with histories of failed bids for office are now eying another election.
Democrat John Scandalios and Green Party candidate Evergreen Chou will try their luck at unseating incumbent Councilmember Peter Koo in the 20th District in this year's City Council election.
Republican Sunny Hahn, a retired city human rights specialist, said she is contemplating a run but has not decided. She is the only one so far to register a campaign committee with the state's Board of Elections.
"I was not sure what I was doing last year. So many things went wrong," said Hahn, 60. "I really did not do my best.
That's what I realized afterward. This time, if I decide, I'd do everything I can and really try to win the election."
Hahn and Scandalios were among several candidates to lose their Assembly bids last year to Assemblymember-elect Ron Kim. Chou has had three unsuccessful runs for higher office, including his recent congressional loss to now-Congressmember Grace Meng.
But the three say they have honed their campaign techniques.
"I started thinking seriously that I could do this," said Scandalios, 50, a former comic book store owner. "Frankly, I felt I get a lot of nothing from elected officials. We really need elected officials that work for the people."
Scandalios did not even make it to the primary in the most recent 40th Assembly District race. He had an insufficient number of signatures and was bumped off the September 13 ballot.
Chou ran as a Green Party nominee in 2009 to replace then-Councilmember John Liu and also against ex-Assemblymember Jimmy Meng in 2002.
The 53-year-old ultrasound technician said he wanted to see more affordable housing and jobs in Flushing.
"These are basic rock-bottom issues that the people in Flushing need, and we're not getting it from the major parties," he said. "To me, it's been like an 'economic Sandy.' We're not helping the people that are in need."
James McClelland, Koo's political advisor, said candidates were welcomed to join the race.
"More people in the race give people more of a choice," he said. "But the councilman is confident that his record and community support will allow him to be victorious in the primary and in the general election."


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This week's question is from Yvonne Osborne. She asks:
One of my characters falls through the ice far from civilization and is rescued but not before hypothermia sets in. Would she be confused about where she is and who she is? Memory loss? I've heard (and have written it so) that the best way to warm a victim after such trauma is to get them out of the wet clothes immediately and into a sleeping bag or under blankets, ideally with a healthy, warm individual who could best share their body warmth by disrobing and lying with the victim. Is this an accurate assumption? It makes for a steamy situtaion but I don't want to be too far off the logical track.
Steamy, indeed! But before the romantic body warming begins, let's talk about hypothermia.
Being immersed in near-freezing water, a human's chance of survival decreases the longer they're in it. So your character, assuming she needs to survive this catastrophe, would have to be in less than 20 minutes for the best chances possible.
Diving into cold water causes the "Mammalian Diving Reflex" which causes the blood in the body to be shunted to vital organs, namely the heart and brain. The heart rate will decreases and the blood vessels to the limbs constrict, keeping the warm blood circulating in the center part of the body.
The symptoms of hypothermia depend on how severe it is.
In mild hypothermia (core temperature of 90-95 degrees F), she might have difficulty walking straight, uncontrolled shivering, fast breathing, difficulty speaking, and impaired judgement.
With moderate hypothermia (core temperature of 82-90 degrees F) she might have a slow breathing rate, sleepiness and grogginess, the inability to shiver, and something called "paradoxical undressing."
As for the treatment?
With mild hypothermia, passive external rewarming is the treatment. It includes taking off any wet clothes and just bundling up the person in warm, dry clothes and letting their own bodies rewarm themselves.
With moderate hypothermia, you can do active external rewarming, namely stripping the victim down to the skivvies, and having a warm person do the same (steamy moment coming soon...) and have them make a human burrito in a sleeping bag.
Fan yourselves, readers!
The key is to rewarm the person's core, before you work on their extremities. If you rewarm the arms and legs first, that cold blood has a lot of acid in it from the poor circulation, and flushing the heart with that cold, acidic blood quickly can cause fatal arrhythmias.
For severe hypothermia, there is also passive internal rewarming, using warmed IV fluids and flushing the stomach and colon with warmed fluids. I know, I know. I'll say if for you. Eww. They can even flush the cavity surrounding your intestines and lungs too.
So Yvonne, you're all set for the scene. Except for the memory loss, which isn't a usual symptom, everything else looks good to go. It makes the best sense to make the romance happen that way. Why, he's saving her life after all!
Please keep in mind this post is for writing purposes only and is not to be construed as medical advice!
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GV: Operating system level screenshot integration will allow people to take screenshots whenever they want.
Not to be off topic, but I like the way Nintendo of Japan has listed the display resolutions on the back of the box, 480i, 480p, 1080i, 720p, 1080p. It actually goes in ascending order of actual pixel lines ! This also means that it will be "upscaled" to 1080p to some extent, ala, 99% of games this past generation.


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The proof: the contents of the box were listed as "cardboard."
Latest updates and background on the whale meat
We displayed a cardboard box filled with the best cuts of whale
meat, smuggled ashore by the crew of the Japanese whaling factory
ship, Nisshin Maru, for illegal trade and personal gain, at the
Japanese taxpayer's expense. The box, along with videotaped
testimony and other evidence, suggest widespread embezzlement of
whale meat has been occuring for decades under the noses of the
public officials who run the whaling programme, and are allowing it
to happen.
Update, May 20th: You did it! More than 40,000 of
you wrote to the Japanese government to demand an investigation,
and today the Tokyo district Public Prosecutor has confirmed that
there will one. We will be cooperating in every way possible to
ensure that it is a full investigation, to the highest levels and
not simply the scapegoating of a few individual crew members. While
the investigation is underway, we're demanding that the government
immediately suspend any whaling permits, as well as stop
thetax-payers' subsidy to the programme.
Protest at Japanese embassy in Berlin.
Our activists delivered the evidence, including the whale meat,
to the Public Prosecutor's office in Tokyo, calling on it to make a
full public enquiry into how deep the corruption runs with the
whaling programme. We're also calling for an end to the USD$4.7
million taxpayer subsidies for the programme, and for the license
of the company operating the whale hunt, Kyodo Senpaku, to be
The four-month Greenpeace investigation employed undercover
tactics to reveal dramatic evidence of an embezzlement ring
involving crewmembers on board the Nisshin Maru. Informers who
spoke to the activists claim that senior crew and officials from
Kyodo Senpaku turned a blind eye to the whale meat theft, allowing
it to continue for decades. One informer associated with Kyodo
Senpaku told Greenpeace that officials from the Institute of
Cetacean Research (ICR) - the agency that carries out the so-called
"scientific research" work on board the Nisshin Maru - are most
likely aware of the thefts as well.
"The information we have gathered indicates that the scale of
the scandal is so great, it would be impossible for the ship's
operating company, Kyodo Senpaku, not to know," said Junichi Sato,
Greenpeace Japan whales campaign coordinator. "Kyodo Senpaku is
turning their back on large scale corruption and theft of
taxpayers' money. What we need to know now, through a full public
enquiry, is who else is profiting from the whaling programme? Who
else has allowed this fraud to continue?" Sato added.
Working from information given by former and current Kyodo
Senpaku employees, the Greenpeace investigators secretly documented
the offloading of smuggled whale meat into a special truck, while
Kyodo Senpaku officials and crew members stood by, following the
Nisshin Maru's return earlier this year, on April 15th. Greenpeace
then tracked the consignment from the ship to a depot in Tokyo.
Consignment sheet detailing, in Japanese,
the contents of a crewmembers' personal box offloaded from the
whaling factory ship Nisshin Maru, containing 23.5 kilograms of
stolen whale meat. The sheet lists the contents of the box as
One of four boxes destined for the same private address was then
intercepted, to verify the contents and establish the fraud. The
consignment notes claimed the box contained "cardboard" - but in
reality held 23.5kg of salted 'prime' whale meat, worth up to
US$3,000, hidden beneath overalls. One informer told Greeneace that
dozens of crew take as many as 20 of these boxes each, and said he
overheard one crewmember claim to have built a house from the
proceeds in stolen whale bacon alone.
To track down the final destination of this meat, activists
visited pubs and restaurants in a number of different locations
around Japan where they requested "special" meat and filmed the
responses using hidden cameras. Traders and restaurant owners
confirmed that they were expecting the imminent delivery of whale
meat from this year's hunt, despite the fact that the Japanese
Fisheries Agency and the Institute of Cetacean Research do not
release the whale meat for sale before the end of June, 2008.
The ongoing Japanese government-backed scientific whaling
programme, which takes place in the internationally-recognised
Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, has been continually mired in
controversy, lies and scandal, bringing Japan into international
disrepute. This latest scandal begs the question of just who
profits from a whaling programme which generates no useful science,
and is commercially unsustainable.
While the scandal of stolen whalemeat is the most shocking, it's
not the only revelation to come from this investigation. Further
allegations from our informants that require investigation
Download the full
With Japanese society already bristling from a litany of public
scandals involving
recycling, food
bid-rigging for public works and
bribes for defence contracts, the whaling industry now joins
the ranks of the dishonoured, as well as earning the scepticism of
an increasingly dubious business community, with business magazine
Shukan Toyo Keizai suggesting that "
the stance of whaling hardliners could also be a vent for
narrow-minded nationalism".
Earlier this year, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported
that the whalers
were struggling to pay back $1 billion Yen in borrowed public
funds. With a massive 4,000 tonne stockpile of unconsumed whalemeat
and Asahi Shimbun reports of
consumer disinterest in "bloody drippings", the whalers seem to
be onto a sure loser. To make matters worse, the annual increase in
targeted Southern Ocean whales means that supply is already
outstripping demand, a situation "unthinkable for an ordinary
business entity" according to the accountant of a major audit
corporation quoted by the
Asahi Shimbun.
"The whaling programme in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary is
funded by the Japanese taxpayers and they have a right to know who
is profiting from their money," commented Sato. "The Japanese
whaling programme has already been shamed internationally for its
lack of scientific credibility, embarrassed by the generation of
vast stockpile of whale meat few want to eat and is now embroiled
in a scandal at home for being corrupt. It is time for the whaling
programme to be stopped and public money spent on something more
honourable." Sato concluded.
Help us create an outcry for a full investigation and demand the permits of the whalers be revoked. Write a letter to the Japanese Prime minister. It will only take a minute.
How can Greenpeace continue to bite the hands of governments and corporations? We don't let them feed us, that's how. But that means we rely on small donations from people like you to keep our investigators undercover, our ships at sea, and our campaigns effective. Please give whatever you can.


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I'd take you with me if I could, waking up to a sea of white and my arms are wrapped up with a better view like it's the last thing I'll ever do. I'm afraid I'm in love with a ghost, a stranger I used to know, a round trip to lose yourself. Temptation pushes the knife a little deeper. Our best days are behind us, not like it was even that great, I spend all my time on the road while she's back home spinning out of control. Our best days are behind us, not like it was even that great, our best days are behind us (is she gone). They try to talk like they've been here before. This situation finds me a back door, tired of the same routine, a lonely bed can be a dangerous place. Found you hanging on by a thread, you'll be forgotten when you are dead, and you hold that crown so fucking high. Temptation pushes the knife a little deeper. [chorus] The only thing bigger than my head is my focus on a new direction and it's the distance between you and me that's making me sick, that's making me sick. [chorus]


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President Bush is content with letting his presidency be remembered for stretching the truth to get us into an economically and strategically harmful conflict in the Middle East. But he'll be damned if he'll be remembered for letting congress raise the corporate average fuel economy mandates to 35 mpg! The industry is raising standards on their own, anyways. Haven't the Dems seen the Hybrid Escalade?
Already, most of the major carmakers have said they felt the new standards would be a "stretch" and "difficult." The White House is also upset over a plan to roll back $16 billion in tax breaks for oil companies, who have clearly been suffering over the past few years. Where this might hit consumers is the possibility of reincentivizing the purchase of advanced technology through tax breaks. Of course, it's all still in the negotiation phase, so no one can be sure what's posturing and what's real.[Detroit News]


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Asian nations greeting 2013 eagerly
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Fiscal cliff? Recession? Not in Asia, where the first countries to see 2013 are enthusiastically welcoming the new year.
Increasingly democratic Myanmar is having a public countdown for the first time. Jakarta plans a huge street party befitting Indonesia's powering economy.
In Sydney, eager revelers camped Sunday night on the shores of the harbor to get the best vantage points as 1.5 million were expected to gather to watch the fireworks show centered on the Sydney Harbor Bridge.
The shores were packed when an eight-minute preliminary show for young children exploded over the harbor three hours before the main event in Sydney and as the clock struck midnight in Samoa and other South Pacific islands to the east, ushering in the new year there.
In Hong Kong, this year's 12.5 million Hong Kong dollar ($1.6 million) fireworks display is billed by organizers as the biggest ever in the southern Chinese city. Police expected as many as 100,000 people to watch, local news reports said.
The buoyant economies of the Asia-Pacific are prepared to party with renewed optimism despite the so-called fiscal cliff threatening to reverberate globally from the United States and the tattered economies of Europe.
Celebrations were planned around the world, with hundreds of thousands expected to fill Times Square in New York City to watch the drop of a Waterford crystal-studded ball.
One day after dancing in the snow to celebrate the first anniversary of leader Kim Jong Un's ascension to supreme commander, North Koreans were preparing to mark the arrival of the new year, marked as "Juche 102" on North Korean calendars. Juche means self-reliance, the North Korean ideology of independence promoted by national founder Kim Il Sung, who was born 102 years ago. His grandson now rules North Korea.
In New Delhi, the festive mood was marred by the death Saturday of a young rape victim.
Hotels, clubs and residents' associations in the Indian capital decided to cancel planned festivities and asked people to light candles to express their solidarity with the victim whose plight sparked public rallies for women's safety.
"Let there be no New Year celebrations across the country. It will be a major tribute to the departed soul," said Praveen Khandelwal, secretary-general of the Confederation of All India Traders, an umbrella group of operators of shops and businesses across the country.
In a field in Myanmar's largest city, Yangon, workers were testing a giant digital countdown screen with the backdrop of the revered Shwedagon pagoda.
Arranged by local Forever Media group and Index Creative Village, a Thai event organizer, the celebration is the first public New Year countdown in Myanmar, a country ruled for almost five decades by military regimes that discouraged or banned big public gatherings.
"We are planning this public New Year event because we want residents of Yangon to enjoy the public countdown like in other countries," said Win Thura Hlaing, managing director of Forever Blossom company, a subsidiary of Forever Media.
With live music performances by celebrities, light shows, food stalls, fireworks and other activities, the countdown is expected to draw 50,000 people, Win Thura Hlaing said.
Jakarta's street party centers on a 7-kilometer (4-mile) main thoroughfare closed to all traffic from nightfall until after midnight. Workers erected 16 large stages along the normally car-clogged, eight-lane highway through the heart of the city. Indonesia's booming economy is a rare bright spot amid global gloom and is bringing prosperity — or the hope of it — to Indonesians.
Spirits in the capital have been further raised by the election of a new, populist governor who is pledging to tackle the city's massive infrastructure problems.
In Sydney, Lord Mayor Clover Moore said about 1.5 million spectators were expected to line the harbor to watch the 6.6 million Australian dollar ($6.9 million) fireworks display, while another 2 million Australians among a population of 22 million would watch on television.
"This is really putting Australia on the map in terms of welcoming people to the new year," Moore told reporters before the event.
Thousands lined the harbor shore in festive crowds under a blue summer sky by late afternoon, their number undiminished by Australian government warnings that the Washington deadlock on the U.S. debt crisis was partly to blame for a slowing Australian economy.
Australian pop singer Kylie Minogue was hosting the event.
Florida tourist Melissa Sjostedt was among the thousands gathered near a southern pylon of the bridge. She said seeing the fireworks would fulfill an ambition that began a decade ago when she read about them in National Geographic magazine.
"Ever since that, I've always wanted to see this for real, live, in person," she said.
New Yorker Mathieu Herman said he had flown to Australia specifically for the New Year celebrations on the harbor.
"I saw it last year on TV and it looked fabulous. I said to myself it's something I've just got to do," Herman said.
Despite a somber mood in the Philippines due to devastation from a recent typhoon, a key problem for authorities remained how to prevent revelers from setting off huge illegal firecrackers — including some nicknamed "Goodbye Philippines" and "Bin Laden" — that maim and injure hundreds of Filipinos each year, including many children.
A government scare tactic involving doctors displaying brutal-looking scalpels used for amputations for firecracker victims has not fully worked in the past so health officials came up with a novel idea: Go Gangnam style.
A government health official, Eric Tayag, donned the splashy outfit of South Korean star PSY and danced to his Youtube hit "Gangnam Style" video while preaching against the use of illegal firecrackers on TV, in schools and in public arenas.
"The campaign has become viral," Tayag said. "We've asked kids and adults to stay away from big firecrackers and just dance the Gangnam and they're doing it."
Hong Kong feng shui master Raymond Lo predicted 2013 would be less turbulent than 2012 because the Chinese New Year in February will usher in the year of the snake, bringing an end to the year of the dragon, which was associated with water. Water is one of the five elements in feng shui theory, the Chinese practice of arranging objects and choosing dates to improve luck.
"Water is fear. So that's why we have had so much turbulence especially in the winter months," such as doomsday prophecies, school shootings and concerns about the fiscal cliff, said Lo.
"But the good news is that the coming year of the snake is the first time that fire has come back since 2007. Fire actually is the opposite to water, fire is happiness. So therefore the year of the snake is a much more optimistic year. So you can see signs of economic recovery now," he added.
"The positive thing is that people are very optimistic, therefore it will have a very strong drive on the economic recovery. We expect the stock market will do well, the property market will do well," Lo said.
Associated Press writers Aye Aye Win in Yangon, Myanmar; Jean Lee in Pyongyang, North Korea; Chris Brummitt in Jakarta, Indonesia; Kelvin Chan in Hong Kong; Ashok Sharma in New Delhi; and Jim Gomez in Manila, Philippines, contributed to this report.
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Laurie Forster, the Stand-up Sommelier, splits difference between comedy and wine, losing both | REVIEW
Laurie Forster, the self-described "Stand-up Sommelier," kicked off her "Something to Wine About" stand-up comedy and wine show last week with a request that everyone don name tags.
Writing your "wine name" on the adhesive tag (your favorite alcoholic beverage + mother's maiden name, similar to your "porn name") was meant to break the ice — as all jokes, crowd work and introductions at public events are. But it immediately set a corny, pseudo-slick tone from which the night never recovered.
Forster, the host of the WBAL radio show "The Sipping Point," certainly knows her wine. A spin through her website or the videos from her numerous TV appearances show her to be a passionate, engaged lover of grapes whose mission is to demystify wine for the masses.
But that was only occasionally clear on Thursday night at the wood-paneled Highland bar Local 46, where dozens of places were set for the $40-per-ticket attendees. The prices of admission for her touring show included four wine samples, a precious supply of snacks and the promise of hilarity.
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Formed in Ohio by Peter Aaron (vocals, guitar) and William Weber in 1988, the band more or less plodded indistinguishably until relocating to New York City in the early '90s. In 1992, the Cranks were joined by former Honeymoon Killers' bassist Jerry Teel. Drummer Dan Willis signed on at the same time. At that juncture, the band was given a sense of purpose and a definite aesthetic. Where early recordings certainly reflect an interest in garage rock and noisy indie bands like the Jesus and Mary Chain, it wasn't until Teel joined that the Chrome Cranks' sound solidified itself. From that point, the band picked up where the Honeymoon Killers left off, churning out a stripped down, deconstructive bastardization of garage rock tradition, retooling everything from the Stooges to Kim Salmon. The new lineup inaugurated their recording career with the debut EP Eight-Track Mind on PCP in 1992, thus establishing their Cramps meets Pussy Galore aesthetic -- sleaze-rock, essentially. A heap of other singles followed in the successive years.
In 1994, PCP released the quartet's self-titled debut album, quite possibly their best. Dead Cool followed in 1995, with Bob Bert, previously of Sonic Youth, Pussy Galore, and many other bands of note, on drums. The album lacked the visceral rawness of its predecessor. The Chrome Cranks' final studio album, Love in Exile, appeared in 1996. Although the band folded that year, sporadic singles followed, as well as the album of outtakes and demos, Oily Cranks, and the potent live document, Live in Exile, both in 1997. ~ Patrick Kennedy
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In Wake of GitHub Incident, Coders Launch 'Culture Offset'
Charges by a former employee that GitHub leaders harassed her and fostered an uncomfortable workplace have put some users of the code-sharing platform in a bind.
These developers want to stop using, and paying for, GitHub to protest the treatment of Julie Ann Horvath. But they consider it essential for their work, and don't see a better substitute.
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- In a large bowl, mix together the oats, potato flour, and water. Let sit for about 10 minutes.
- Meanwhile, heat ½ teaspoon canola oil in a small nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add onion and sauté until golden, 3-4 minutes.
- Add the ground beef and salt to the oat mixture and stir to combine. Then add in the egg, pepper, and sautéed onions and use a wooden spoon or your hands to mix until well-combined.
- Wet hands and form meat mixture into small balls, making sure that they are all about the same size. (Recipe should make anywhere from 30-40 meatballs, depending on size). Place meatballs on a wet cutting board.
- Heat remaining 2 teaspoons of canola oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add about 1/3 to ½ of the meatballs. Shake the pan so that they cook evenly while retaining round shape. Once browned on all sides, reduce heat to medium-low and continue cooking for another 3-5 minutes, until cooked through. Repeat with remaining meatballs.


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Yellow Porny vs the ex
My Porny Simpson attended the White House Correspondents' Dinner this weekend. I supposed it's not the worst thing she's ever put on. But still...with the light bouncing off all that yellow sateen, it's like a f-cking boob eclipse. And she doesn't exactly look young and fresh. Remember, Porny isn't yet 30. And they insist on making her well past.
We're just 2 months away from the 1 year anniversary of the breakup. He broke up with her on her birthday, remember? So it was a big night for Porny on Saturday. Because Tony Romo was there too. And with his new piece, Candice Crawford, sister of Chace Crawford. Candace decided on black and demure. Porny on the other hand became the Blazing Breasts of Texas. Jesus that sh-t is loud. Subtlety is not a Simpson strength.
Neither is speaking without sounding like her legs are open.
Us Weekly asked about her relationship status at the event. Porny's reply?
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Really honey? Is that the best way to have communicated this? Always. Every time she talks there's always a cock in her mouth. And then she fronts about self esteem:
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Apple Inc. is in the midst of another sell-off, leaving market observers and analysts to ponder the reasons why a company that is still expected to gin up strong double-digit sales growth next year has seen its market value clipped by 7% this week alone – and more than 20% over the last 10 weeks.
This would be the third notable sell-off for the shares this year, following a 15% correction in April-May and a 25% plunge in the two-month period following the Sept. 21 launch of the iPhone 5, when the stock peaked above the $700 mark.
Notably, Apple shares remain up more than 35% for the year – making it one of the top performers among large-cap tech stocks -- bested only by Amazon.com and eBay at this point. And estimates remain strong; the current Street consensus has Apple growing top-line revenue by 24% for its current fiscal year.
Still, the most recent sell-off lacks any obvious driver. Analysts are still wildly bullish on the shares, Apple is expected to be a popular brand in the holiday shopping season with its iPhone 5, iPad mini and new line of iPods, and the company has loosened up its tight-fisted cash policy to start paying a dividend this year.
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2) Tablet share loss: IDC projected on Wednesday that Google's Android platform will account for nearly 43% of global tablet shipments for this year, with Apple's share slipping from 56.3% to 53.8%. This still leaves the iPad as the market leader, but more completion may lead Apple to be even more aggressive on its prices – possibly hurting the company's high margins.
3) Technical factors: This is the third time in nearly six months that Apple shares have slipped below the $550 mark. In addition, Tomi Kilgore at Dow Jones noted the risk of a so-called "death cross," when a stock's 50-day moving average falls below its 200-day moving average. Kilgore predicted that Apple's shares could hit that point by the end of the week, based on current trends. There's also been a rumor circulating on Wednesday among traders that some clearing firms are raising the "margin requirement" for those trading Apple, which could limit buys.
4) The Samsung battle: The Korean electronics giant has become Apple's main adversary in both smartphones and tablets, and the two companies will face off again tomorrow at a court hearing in San Jose, Calif. The hearing was originally intended for the judge to hear arguments about the damages Samsung should pay for losing the jury verdict in August, though Samsung is also expected to push for a new trial, citing alleged misconduct by the jury foreman as one reason.
5) No new products on the horizon: More than most companies, Apple trades heavily on anticipation for new products. Hype for the iPhone 5 and iPad mini were major factors that juiced the shares more than 70% in the first nine months of this year. But having re-designed all of its line, Apple is unlikely to have major new updates in 2013 – unless it gets that much-rumored TV set into the market.
Apple shares were down 4.4% to $550.60 at last check.
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