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After a summer road trip in 2012, guest bloggers Benjamin Bator and Matt Ferrel were inspired to organize a 1,000+ mile road trip across Michigan to explore the lesser-known beauty of their home state. Here, they describe their unforgettable Pure Michigan road trip and how it came to be.
Things always seem to fall into place on northbound M-22. It was day one of the second annual Mille Mitten road rally, the convoy was full off a lunch in Ludington and hell-bent on getting to the first of countless scenic lookouts. The weather played along for what seemed like the first time that summer and the traffic was surprisingly light for a Friday afternoon – This is what the summer road trip should feel like.
To backtrack, the Mille Mitten is a 1,000+ mile road rally around Michigan. My friend and co-pilot Matt Ferrel took a road trip in May of 2012 that inspired us to spend the summer getting to know our home state. Despite the prevalence of Pure Michigan ads, we neglected to investigate the serious amount of scenery until our mid-twenties, and we knew that we weren't alone. Hearing whispers about this "up north" place, curious out-of-town friends began asking if they could head in this vague direction. Enough was enough, so we decided to tackle the problem with a road trip of equal parts ambition and necessity, aimed at connecting people with the state of Michigan by way of the automobile. The Mille Mitten was born.
For the 2013 Mille, we hosted 30 friends, old and new, on a route with enough variables to ensure both sights and surprises throughout the state. Chevrolet supplied eleven beautiful vehicles for us to drive, Opportunity Detroit and Roadtrippers kept us fed and happy for the duration of our trip, and some extremely generous individuals opened their homes, yards, and businesses to us along the way.
On August 23, we set off from Detroit toward the weekend's first checkpoint, Saugatuck's Ship N Shore Boatel. A summer vacation town and artist colony, Saugatuck is also home to nearly 1,000 year-round residents. The Ship 'N' Shore Boatel is uniquely accessible via water and car, not to mention extremely close to Uncommon Roasters, who make some serious cold-brew coffee.
Friday's 250-mile trip called for a trek up the west coast through Glen Arbor, Pyramid Point, Leland, and Northport before settling down in Traverse City for the evening. Pushing up that glorious stretch of road called M-22, we noticed people unpacking their cars after their Friday drive upstate, faces full of relief to finally be out of the car. We had another hundred miles and change to drive that day and couldn't be happier. To stretch our legs, we planned a few stops on the way, but opted to maximize the view from the road ahead.
First up: Arcadia Bluffs Scenic Turnoff. The view from the top of the stairs is worth it every time and it's near impossible to take a bad picture. You not only get a great view of the shoreline to the south, but a unique vantage point of M-22 as well. Oh, and it's right off the road, not a separate day trip to get there.
We skipped the Sleeping Bear Dunes since we didn't have it in us to hike up said dunes just to face another mile or two of hiking before we saw the water, so we opted for Pyramid Point. With a 0.6 mile hike from car to view, this is the way to live. If you want to go swimming, that's another story as the beach is hundreds of feet below and a 45-degree grade of soft sand is your only way back up. We held out for kinder beaches.
Back on the beaten path, Old Ache (re-opening in May 2014), a summer pop-up shop in Leland, welcomed us with gifts and is seriously one of the hidden gems of the area. Leland is an old fishing settlement that holds some serious charm and culinary street cred. Sandwiched between Lake Leelanau and Lake Michigan, it's in a surreal microclimate that tricks you into thinking the French countryside had a lovechild with Lake Como and settled down on the peninsula.
A short drive later, we arrived at dinner in Northport, greeted by a one-of-one Buick "Special" wagon that was the predecessor to the Roadmaster and a spread of food acquired on the road and prepared by Chef Andy Hollyday. With a bluff overlooking Lake Michigan as our backdrop, it's safe to say that while the pictures turned out great, the memories are even better.
Day one culminated at The Little Fleet in Traverse City and in a makeshift bar set up beachside in a parking lot, lovingly named "Stranger Magnet" because of its obvious powers.
For day two, we embarked on a 258-mile trip that would briefly take us into the Upper Peninsula. After a scattered morning trip to Harbor Springs (never miss a Gurney's Harbor Bottle Shop sandwich opportunity), a 1994 Viper led us through the Tunnel of Trees as it passed its 10,000th mile. Hazard lights on, we snaked our way to Sturgeon Bay Beach and then spent a few hours on the beach that had our out-of-state participants wondering why anyone bothers going to Malibu. A pass of the Mackinac Bridge from both sides of the divide allowed us to take in the first interstate highway of the day as we were already late to the crawfish boil that waited for us at the evening's final stop in Lewiston.
Time has the ability to distill memories to their very best version. With that said, the rest of the weekend goes something like this: night swimming in Lake Michigan, the serendipitous Tawas City taco stand at an unplanned beach detour, the seemingly untouched and jaw-dropping stretch of F-32 through Huron National Forest, experiencing "Golden Hour" and light I-75 traffic twice, the dance party back in Detroit (and out of every sunroof), waking up to the pristine fairway forest of Garland on Sunday, the pre-Mackinac pasty pit stop, the endless search for one lost key (check jacket pockets), and one jerry can of gas to make it to the finish line. It's all made for run-on sentences.
It's been a few months since that last checkpoint but the entire Mille Mitten is never far from our minds. We took in every sunset, gawked at every side-of-the-road barn, and never stopped moving. As we get into the heart of Fall, you might not spend as much time at the beaches, but the roads are as good as ever. With trees begging for a photo op around every corner, there's a brand new crop of checkpoints (Cider Mills! Pumpkins! Corn mazes!) just waiting there for you. We're here to tell you that it's never too late to take some back roads and get lost in Michigan. Just remember- windows down, heat up.
See you on the road.
Disclaimer: Chevrolet, Opportunity Detroit, and Roadtrippers liked the Mille so much that they gave us real money to do it. If you're interested in joining amazing this list for 2014, get in touch at: millemitten.com/contact.
Have you taken an unforgettable Pure Michigan road trip? Tell us about it below!
Benjamin Bator and Matt Ferrel are the co-drivers of the Mille Mitten. Ben turned down law school to read text messages for a living and create experiences like the Mille Mitten. Matt works for Google and co-created the channel ThatNewRave.com.


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Re: Danica Patrick: Indy 500 not ruled out
Schmoopy1000 wrote:Well talking trash about Andretti does sound like sour grapes. No I dont think anyone is saying they are as good as Penske or Ganassi, but they seem to be above all the other teams, & better than they were a year ago.
I just found it interesting that HMS & Penske have a connection in Indy cars. Which I had no clue about. Wouldnt it be funny if she got a penske ride & was the highest finishing penske car. LOL. I dont know. just something about Will Power I just dont like. Dont have a real reason but it is just something.
I liked the 77 car in the last race I watched. have no idea what team that is.
I think it would be cool if Danica raced for Fisher also, but would Danica have the proper respect for Fisher to make it work? (thinking if they had any issues during the month of may)
I dont know anyone that wouldnt have respect for Penske & what he had to say......well I might know of one hehe.
Hey is AJ's team any good? You know the ties between AJ & tony are tight. Could be an option.
I could very well see her being the highest finish Penske car if she got to be in one for the Indy 500. She has beaten all three cars a few times.
A few other options are Rahal Letterman (yes David Letterman owns half that team), maybe Newman Haas, Sarah Fisher's team is a good team. I don't really know what you mean by if Danica would have the proper respect for her. Sarah has been around longer than Danica. For a while she had the highest finish for a female in Indycar too (2nd place at Homestead).
No AJ's team is bad. They are like the RPM of Indycar. Expect Petty has stepped it up. But that being said they were decent at Indy this year until Mike Conway wrecked himself and took out Will Power.
Trucks: 9, 88, 3, 7, 17, 31
RIP Dan Wheldon
"Fight for Four"- Annalee
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GSA encourages abstract submissions by student authors. To recognize exceptional work, the Cordilleran Section will offer awards for outstanding oral and poster presentation to both graduate and undergraduate students.
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Lunchtime, Thurs., 29 March 2012.
This program is designed to extend the mentoring reach of individual professionals from applied geology to undergraduates and graduate students attending GSA Section Meetings. Over free lunches, mentors and students discuss professional opportunities and challenges that await students after graduation. Every registered student will receive a ticket to the Shlemon Luncheon along with his/her badge; however, attendance is limited to the space available.
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Figure 1. The OpenGL API was built on SGI's earlier work with IrisGL.
If you've been wondering how to build OpenGL applications on the Linux platform, then take a close look at this article and its companion piece, "OpenGL Rendering and Drawing." I'll walk you through the basic steps and put you on the path to creating your own OpenGL games and applications.
In order to make 3D application developers' lives easier, SGI developed the OpenGL API, which was built on their earlier work with IrisGL. OpenGL presents a uniform user/client interface to the wide range of commercial hardware that the 3D application might encounter and will provide emulation via software for those requested features not supported in the hardware.
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Creating Real Time 3D Graphics With OpenGL
Most modern desktops -- Unix, Windows, and Mac, for example -- have an OpenGL API available, or at least a reasonable clone (such as MesaGL for Linux). These APIs usually only include dynamic link libraries for use by the client applications and most likely don't include the static link libraries and/or header files needed for compiling OpenGL clients from source.
If you want to develop OpenGL applications in the Linux environment, install Mesa GL 3.2, Mesa-devel, Mesa-glut, and Mesa-glut-devel. Having these will ensure that you have all of the tools necessary for compiling OpenGL clients. The Mesa-demos package can help you make sure that everything's installed properly.
OpenGL Hardware for Linux
OpenGL hardware for Linux is a large topic which could fill several articles by itself. The short version is: It's fairly easy to get full-screen acceleration now, while accelerated 3D-in-a-window generally requires using XFree86 version 4.0. For more details, including installation instructions, visit the www.xfree86.org site and the Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI) site on SourceForge at dri.sourceforge.net).
Compiling OpenGL programs with Mesa can require a bit of tweaking, depending on how the "include" and "library" files are named. Some installations name the MesaGL libraries "libMesaGL.x" instead of "libGL.x" and may similarly name the ".h" files. This isn't a problem as such, and in fact allows the MesaGL libraries and headers to co-exist with the SGI SI. But you should be aware of this if you encounter header-include errors during the compile pass or link errors during the link pass while trying to build a downloaded OpenGL application from source code with only MesaGL installed.
Simply changing the requested header files and/or the Makefile to reflect how your installation is configured is the easiest way to fix any compile time errors. But sometimes similar errors will occur for dynamically linked applications built on another system. In these cases, or to be able to build a package from source without any modifications, copying or symbolically linking the header and library files can often solve the problem as well. In this case Mesa is being used as a literal "drop-in" replacement, and this demonstrates how good a clone MesaGL really is.
Figure 2. cube.c is a demonstration program that we will use as an example for this article.
As explained earlier, both files might require a small amount of tweaking to build in your environment. To try compiling this yourself, create a temporary directory and download these two files into it. Open a shell, CD to this directory, and run "make." If you get any errors, try some of the suggestions above. If everything compiles OK, run the newly built "./cube" program.
What should appear is a small, 300 pixel square window, with an "exploded" cube spinning slowly on one axis. Most of the cube faces are solid in color, although one demonstrates OpenGL's ability to smoothly blend colors across a polygon.
With the window activated, several keys are active to control the display and the cube's motion. The arrow keys will change the spin rate on two axis. Pressing R will reverse the cube's rotation, and hitting S or the space bar will stop the cube's movement. The Page-Up and Page-Down buttons will move the cube away from or towards the screen, respectively.
Also on the screen are several rendering option status indicators, which can be toggled (or rotated through, in the case of the Mode setting) by pressing the first letter of the indicator label. For example, pressing T will activate the rendering of textures. The current frames-per-second (FPS) rate being delivered is calculated every 50 frames and displayed in the upper left of the screen, along with the current frame count for the next FPS calculation sample set.
Some options only make sense in combinations with others. For example, turning on Filtering does nothing if texturing isn't also on. Nor will turning on Alpha-additive mode make any visible change unless Blending is also active. Lighting can be turned on or off at any time, and it demonstrates why surface normals need to be defined correctly. Lastly, the Mode for the texture can be rotated through the four available modes: GL_DECAL, GL_MODULATE, GL_BLEND and GL_REPLACE.
It is worth spending some time trying the different combinations of rendering options and texture modes and seeing how they all interact. In particular, try all the texture modes with only texturing turned on and then again with texturing and blending. Note also that one face is multicolored, the yellow face varies in its transparency, and the green face has nonuniform texture coordinates. The top and bottom faces have also scaled the texture in different directions to appear quite different.
The texture itself is a simple white square, with smaller, dark blue squares appearing in a regular pattern. The texture also has an alpha channel that is painted with a large opaque circle in the center, with a fine edge set at 50% opaque. Outside the circle the alpha channel is set to be 0% opaque, or 100% transparent. Depending on which texture mode is in use, the alpha channel in the texture can have a dramatic effect on the final image.
Figure 3. Anyone familiar with C should be able to understand and modify this program.
To aid in readability, functions that are callbacks (called by OpenGL to give control back to us) are prefixed with cb. Functions that are called only by our own functions are prefixed with our. OpenGL, GLU and GLUT functions are prefixed with gl, glu, or glut, respectively.
At the very top of the file, after a notice releasing the code as public domain, are five requests for header files. The first two, "stdio.h" and "time.h," are common system files. The next three, "GL/gl.h," "GL/glu.h," and "GL/glut.h," are the header files needed to use OpenGL, its utility library, and the GLUT library. Next are several global variables used to set and maintain state during execution.
Like most one-file C programs, the most important function, main(), is at the very bottom of the file. In a C program, main() is the first function called, and in our implementation it immediately makes several calls to the GLUT library, first to initialize it, and then to request it to open a window for us.
What we do next is register several "callback" functions with the GLUT library. These are functions we define ourselves, and they are called by the GLUT library when appropriate. cbRenderScene() is registered as being what should be called when Drawing is needed, as well as when things are Idle. This function is where the actual calls to OpenGL requesting drawing services are usually made.
cbResizeScene() is set to be called whenever the window is resized. It is used to calculate the correct aspect ratio of the display and to record the new size for the rendering code. It's a good idea to always include such a function, even if you don't think anyone's ever going to resize the window. Without question, someone, somewhere will figure out a way. Besides, the work done by the function is needed at least once during the init phase anyway, so you'd might as well register the function.
Lastly, the functions cbKeyPressed() and cbSpecialKeyPressed() are set to be called when normal and special keys are pressed. These callbacks are needed because we actually end up passing control to the GLUT function glutMainLoop() in order to start the drawing process, and the registered functions are the only way we can control what is going on during the running of the application.
After the callbacks are registered, main() next calls ourInit(), which immediately calls ourBuildTextures() to create the texture we need. Then ourInit() sets the default background color, some depth buffer settings, and the shading desired (smooth). Next, it sets the correct window view by calling cbResizeScene() (see), and then it sets up and enables our light source. Lastly, we use and activate a shortcut provided by OpenGL: By calling glColorMaterial(), we can have multiple attributes change based on the polygon's color. Without this, both ambient and diffuse settings must be set explicitly for each polygon or even vertex.
ourBuildTextures() is worth reviewing as an example of how textures can be generated at run-time. The routine generates an unpacked, red-green-blue-alpha, or RGBA, texture. Keep in mind of course that the routine could just as easily load bitmapped images from disk instead, and this is in fact how textures are usually created. Also, several forms of compression are available for textures, which can both reduce memory use and can actually increase rendering speeds (less data on the bus).
After everything's finished in the way of initialization, our main() function next prints a bit of helpful language to the console, and then calls glutMainLoop(). This is the entry point to the GLUT dispatch loop, which will call our callback functions as needed. If this function returns, we should simply exit.
At this point, the functions that will usually be called are the two keyboard callbacks and the cbRenderScene() function. The keyboard handlers are quite simple; they simply toggle or rotate global settings variables as appropriate. The rendering function is why we've done all this work so far, and it is covered in more detail in the next article, "OpenGL Rendering and Drawing."
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Oracle Solaris Studio 12.3 Beta - Now Available!
By Terri Wischmann-Oracle on Jul 27, 2011
The Oracle Solaris Studio 12.3 Beta release is now available for download!
We are excited to launch the Oracle Solaris Studio 12.3 Beta Program. Key focus areas for this release include performance, reliability and developer productivity.
Feature Highlights:
Accelerates Application Performance:
- Compiler and library optimizations for the newest Oracle Sun Enterprise Servers
- SPARC-based systems (incl. SPARC T4): accelerates application performance up to 3x over gcc, with up to a 40% boost over Sun Studio 12
- x-86 based systems: delivers application performance up to 1.5x over gcc and up to 20% faster than Sun Studio 12
Improves Application Observability:
- Code Analyzer (New): improves application reliability by identifying common coding and memory access errors
- Performance Analyzer: application concurrency graphs and multi-process application profiling
Enhances Developer Productivity:
- Development of Oracle Solaris application via remote access from a Windows desktop
- Oracle Pro*C & OCI/OCCI Database development in Solaris Studio IDE
- Updated support for key open source runtime libraries, including BOOST and Apache C++
- Build applications up to 20% faster than Studio 12.2 and up to 20% reduction in debug information size
Available for Solaris and Linux operating systems, including Solaris 11 Express and Oracle Linux
Learn more:
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- Code Analyzer Tutorial: new tutorial, with sample source code, on using the Code Analyzer to produce high-quality software


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June 18, 2014 —
SULLIVAN COUNTY, NY — What a glorious spring it was, even with the exigencies of the weather. Before taking my much-anticipated and well-deserved summer hiatus, I wanted to celebrate in photos some of this past season's iconic warriors. Their accomplishments have been assiduously anecdoted in issues of The River Reporter, so I will not take up space with repetition thereof. There were many, many more deserving of such photo recognition, and before the summer, I will post an album on www.sportsinsights.smugmug.com [1] with a panoply of county superstars.


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March 16, 2010—New American Colleges & Universities members who are helping North Central College assess its student affairs programs may receive some return help in the form of ideas about best practices.
A team of administrators from four New American Colleges & Universities member institutions visited North Central March 10-11. North Central's Office of Enrollment Management and Student Affairs is undertaking a rigorous three-year self-evaluation of its programs. Tapping the expertise of NAC&U members for input and peer review is a concept that Laurie Hamen, North Central's vice president for enrollment management, athletics and student affairs, proposed some time ago.
With many NAC&U members in Chicago for a Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education (NASPA) conference in mid-March, the opportunity presented itself for a site visit to North Central's campus.
Hamen hoped the exercise would provide her student affairs staff members with constructive feedback, and that the evaluators would identify some best practices at North Central to share with other NAC&U members.
"All of these individuals bring with them a national perspective that will help us move into the future," Hamen said.
The visiting delegation included Tijuana Julian, vice president of student affairs and dean of students at Drury University; Levester Johnson, vice president for student affairs at Butler University; Janet E. Walbert, vice president for student affairs at Arcadia University; and Alan Sickbert, dean of students at Hamline University.
Walbert is chair of NAC&U's Affinity Group for Senior Student Affairs Officers (SSAOs). Sickbert is the group's vice chair, and Julian is immediate past president.
"I hope this visit provides a model and becomes a resource for all of us to share expertise," Walbert said. "At the same time we can offer advice to enrich the strategies North Central can use to go to the next step. We all need to continuously improve."
The team met with a focus group of North Central students and with heads of the College's departments of campus safety, student involvement and orientation, Career Development, ministry and service, multicultural affairs, Dyson Wellness Center, and retention, judicial affairs and leadership.
Butler University's Johnson said he was particularly interested in learning about student interaction.
"We're hoping to help North Central identify ways to build upon its success and the great things going on here," Johnson said. "By sharing information we assist the institution and take information back home to assist our institutions as well."
The process will be helpful to NAC&U members who share the mission of integrating liberal education, professional studies and civic engagement, Hamline University's Sickbert said.
"It's exciting to be able to visit another NAC&U member to see how similar we are," Sickbert said. "We're here to perhaps help North Central find blind spots to help them do a better job, and you can't help but look and see what they're doing well."
North Central is the first NAC&U school to have programs evaluated for best practices and assessed for suggested improvements by other NAC&U members. However, other institutions may undertake similar reviews.
"This is the first time we've done this. Hopefully other institutions will see this as something beneficial and this becomes a springboard," said Drury University's Julian.
In addition to evaluating its student affairs programs this year, North Central intends to undergo internal and external reviews of its admissions and financial aid areas during the next two years.
"A self-assessment with outside evaluators always brings positive reinforcement in areas of strength and constructive criticism in areas of challenge. Plus, I think we have a lot to share," Hamen said.
About New American Colleges & Universities
Until 2009, NAC&U was known as Associated New American Colleges (ANAC). Founded in 1995, NAC&U is a consortium of 20 selective, small to mid-size (2,000 to 7,500 students) independent colleges and universities dedicated to the purposeful integration of liberal education, professional studies, and civic engagement. To improve the quality and effectiveness of teaching and learning among its members, The New American Colleges and Universities sponsors projects and conferences, administrator and faculty affinity groups, surveys and data benchmarking, and international study programs. The New American Colleges and Universities collectively and individually are often cited as models of the intentional integration of teaching and learning, scholarship, and service. Visit www.newamericancolleges.org to learn more.


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The car hums in the night air as we cross the bridge into town and I nodded. It was sad that most of the Indians had decided to sell their portion of their tribal lands. And it was true; everyone, not only The Crazy Horse, was trying to get a share of the Indian money that was flowing throughout Klamath County like milk and honey. Shaking my head and those somber thoughts away, my attention turned to the dancing. "The Crazy Horse does have good band with a solid beat, and that old-fashioned western feel. A fun place to go on a Saturday night." For us, the music and the dance floor drew us back every Saturday night.
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|VOY, Episode 1x01
Production number: 101 (721)
First aired: 16 January 1995
|1st of 168 produced in VOY
|1st of 168 released in VOY
|343rd of 728 released in all
|A feature-length episode
Teleplay By
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The newly commissioned starship Voyager and a Maquis raider are flung into the remote Delta Quadrant by a powerful entity known as the Caretaker. (Series Premiere)
Summary Edit
- Unhappy with a new treaty, Federation Colonists along the Cardassian border have banded together.
- Calling themselves "The Maquis," they continue to fight the Cardassians.
- Some consider them heroes, but to the governments of the Federation and Cardassia, they are outlaws.
Weapons fire streaks through space as a Cardassian warship attacks a much smaller vessel with phasers. Piloting the small vessel, Maquis leader Chakotay is desperately trying to hold his ship together and get the impulse engines power steady. Chakotay asks his half-Klingon half-Human engineer, B'Elanna Torres, to be creative; Torres replies that it is hard to be creative with 39-year-old rebuilt engines. The Cardassian commander, Gul Evek, hails the ship, telling them to stand down. Chakotay ignores him and tells Torres that if she can keep his engines going for thirty more seconds at full impulse, he will get them into the Badlands. Torres says that she can get enough power to the engines if they shut down the weapons systems. Tuvok, a Vulcan officer, advises against that, but Torres retorts that their weapons are having no effect on the warship's shields. Chakotay concurs with his engineer. Tuvok shuts down the phasers and Chakotay orders the last photon torpedoes fired so that they can use the power from that system. The Maquis vessel soars into the plasma storms with the Cardassian warship in close pursuit. Chakotay's piloting skills are sufficient to avoid the funnels of energy in the Badlands; however, the Cardassian ship is less lucky and is severely damaged. Tuvok informs Chakotay that the Cardassian ship is sending out a distress call on all Cardassian frequencies. Chakotay relaxes and sets a course for a planet where they can make repairs when a bright flash erupts through the ship. Tuvok reports that they passed through a coherent tetryon beam from an unknown source and that a massive displacement wave is rapidly approaching. Chakotay tries to maneuver his ship away from the wave, asking Torres if there is anything left in the impulse engines. The Maquis ship begins to move away, but the displacement wave impacts the ship.
Act One Edit
In the Federation Penal Settlement in New Zealand on Earth, several inmates wearing ankle monitors are performing labor. One man's work is interrupted when an authoritative-looking woman approaches him and asks, "Tom Paris?" The man glances up at her and she introduces herself as Kathryn Janeway. She states that she served with his father on the Al-Batani and that she would like to speak with him about a job she wants him to do. He sarcastically replies that he is already doing a job for the Federation, but Janeway says that the Rehab Commission is very pleased with his work and has given her permission to discuss the matter with him. He replies, "Well, then I guess I'm yours."
As they walk together, Janeway informs Paris that she was his father's science officer on the Arias Expedition. Paris comments that she must be good, as his father only accepts the best and brightest. Janeway tells him that her mission is to track down a Maquis vessel that vanished in the Badlands a week previous. Paris advises against it, having never seen a Federation starship that could maneuver through the plasma storms; Janeway retorts by saying that he has never seen USS Voyager.
Paris infers that Janeway's motive is to have him lead the Federation to his former Maquis colleagues. Paris reminds Janeway that because he was only with them a few weeks, he didn't know many of their hiding places. Janeway replies that he knows the territory better than anyone in the Federation. Janeway informs Paris that her chief of security had infiltrated a Maquis ship and had not reported in some time. Paris muses that perhaps it was only the chief of security that disappeared. Janeway reveals that the ship was under the command of Chakotay, a former Starfleet officer.
Paris acknowledges that he knew Chakotay and that the two never got along. Paris says that the point of disagreement was that Chakotay left Starfleet "on principle," to defend his home colony, but he considered Paris a mercenary who joined "whoever would pay [his] bar bills," an accusation to which Paris admits. Paris concludes that he will help track down the Maquis, but asks what he has to gain from the venture. Janeway says that the Federation will help him at his next parole review. Janeway informs him that officially, he'd be a Starfleet observer, to which Paris replies that he's the best pilot Janeway could have. Janeway is firm about Paris' role, causing Paris to agree with the rejoinder, "Story of my life."
A Betazoid female pilots a shuttle towards Deep Space 9 as Tom Paris, now clad in a fresh Starfleet uniform, walks up to her. Lieutenant Stadi focuses on flying the craft, but she livens up to Paris a little as he turns on the charm. He says that Stadi is changing his mind about Betazoids, because he always thought that they were warm and sensual. Stadi says that she can be warm and sensual, but Paris replies that she can, but just not to him. The conversation shifts as a sleek vessel comes into view at one of DS9's docking pylons. Stadi identifies it as their ship, the USS Voyager. She states that the ship is of the Intrepid-class, has a new variable warp nacelle configuration, giving it a sustainable cruising speed of warp 9.975; it has fifteen decks and a crew complement of 141. It is equipped with bio-neural circuitry. Paris inquires as to the circuitry, and as she flies around Voyager towards the shuttlebay, she informs Paris that the bio-neural circuitry speeds up response time in the computer.
On board Deep Space 9, Quark is trying to sell bright, rare crystals to a young Starfleet ensign. He tries to politely tell Quark he is not interested and says cadets were warned about Ferengi at the Academy. Upon hearing this, Quark starts to get upset that the Federation is spreading lies about the Ferengi and that he will make a formal protest to the Federation Council. Quark asks for the young ensign's name for the report, to which he replies, "Kim, Harry Kim." Ensign Kim offers to buy the whole tray of crystals in an effort to smooth things over. As Quark, who was faking his protest to make a sale, brings over the crystals and begins to negotiate, Paris interrupts and tells Ensign Kim that the crystals Quark is trying to sell him can be found on virtually any planet in the system and can be bought for little or nothing. Now knowing that Quark was trying to rip him off, Ensign Kim leaves with Tom Paris who says, "Didn't they warn you about Ferengi at the Academy?"
Paris and Kim enter sickbay aboard Voyager and report to the chief medical officer. When Paris identifies himself, the doctor comments, "Ah, yes. The observer." When Paris comments that he seems to be observing some kind of problem now, the doctor says that he was a surgeon on Caldik Prime when Paris was stationed there, though they never met. He says his medical records have arrived and that the captain had asked if he were on board, saying that he should check in with her. Kim, sensing a tense situation, says that he hasn't yet paid his respects to the captain, either. The doctor says that perhaps it would be a good thing for a new operations officer to do. After they leave sickbay, Kim asks Paris what the story is between him and the CMO. Paris responds that he's gotten tired of telling it and that he's sure someone will be happy to tell him.
Meanwhile, Captain Janeway is in her ready room talking to her fiancé, Mark Johnson, on her LCARS terminal about her dog, who turns out to be pregnant. Janeway insists that the dog stays with him, leading him to reply, "Is this another 'love me, love my dog' demand?", to which Janeway quickly replies, "Yes." Janeway says they will be leaving as soon as she approves the system status reports. Johnson says he won't bother her anymore, leading Janeway to get on her knees in front of the terminal and says, "You never bother me, except the way I love to be bothered. Understand?" Saying that she'll see him in a few weeks, Janeway quickly asks Johnson to pick up her dog's doggie bed, which Johnson then says he already did – an hour ago.
After the connection closes, the door chimes. Paris and Kim enter. Janeway welcomes them aboard Voyager, to which Kim replies with a stiff, "Thank you, sir," standing at full attention, causing Paris to look at him curiously. Telling the nervous ensign to stand "at ease, before you sprain something," she lets him know that protocol aside, she doesn't like being addressed as "sir," to which Kim responds, "I'm sorry... ma'am." Janeway smiles and says that ma'am is acceptable in a crunch, but that she prefers "captain." She tells them they are getting ready to leave and she shows them to the bridge. Walking out onto the bridge, she introduces them to her first officer, Lieutenant Commander Cavit, who exchanges a hearty handshake with Kim and one with Paris reluctantly and only after Paris extends his hand first. Janeway shows Kim to the operations station and asks if he would like to take over. Kim responds, "Yes, ma'am," to which she replies, "It's not crunch time yet, Mr. Kim. I'll let you know when."
At a nod from Janeway, the first officer instructs Lt. Stadi to lay in their course and clear departure with Operations. After Stadi confirms this, they complete the pre-launch sequence and prepare for launch, which Janeway orders with "Engage." The dorsal light of the ship comes on, illuminating the ship's registration, and the ship departs.
Act Two Edit
With the ship under way, Paris heads down to the mess hall for some hot tomato soup. As he is ordering the soup from the replicator, he notices that Voyager's chief medical officer and Commander Cavit are looking at him with judgmental eyes, while talking to Kim. As Paris makes his way over to Kim's table, Cavit and the CMO make a hasty departure. When Paris finally sits down, he says to Kim, "There. You see, I told you it wouldn't take long." Paris then begins to tell Kim that it was true that he caused an accident which led to the deaths of three Starfleet officers and that he falsified reports. What led him to turn himself in and tell the truth despite the fact that he would have got away with it otherwise, Paris sarcastically remarks that it took "the three dead officers to come in the middle of the night and (teach) me the true meaning of Christmas.". Paris therefore confessed everything, and was promptly discharged from service... upon which he joined the Maquis, looking for a fight and yet he was arrested during his first assignment for them. Paris gets up to leave and says that he knows that Cavit and the CMO told him to stay away from him and that he should listen to them. As Paris walks away, Kim replies "I don't need anyone to choose my friends for me." Just then, Captain Janeway summons Paris and Kim to the bridge to inform them that the ship has reached the Badlands.
Voyager enters the volatile region. Janeway, Cavit, and Ensign Rollins are crowded around the tactical station trying to ascertain where the Maquis ship would be. With some assistance from Paris, the ship begins to head in. Shortly after, Ensign Kim's sensors read that a coherent tetryon beam is scanning the ship. Janeway asks Kim if he can identify the source of the beam, but he cannot. The sensors then find out that a displacement wave is quickly moving towards the ship. Cavit suggests that they may be able to disperse the wave with a graviton particle field. Janeway orders that it be done. It is later found that the field had no effect on the wave. Janeway orders Stadi to move the ship away from the wave at full impulse. However, the ship is unable to outrun it and the wave collides with Voyager.
After the ship has been released from the wave, it has suffered heavy damage. Janeway comes to and checks Cavit's pulse, only to find that he is dead. Stadi also did not survive. Janeway asks where they are. Harry Kim replies that if his sensors are working perfectly, they are 70,000 light years from the Badlands... Voyager has been transported to the Delta Quadrant, the other side of the galaxy.
Act Three Edit
As the crew begins to make repairs, Janeway orders Kim to try and hail both the Maquis ship and the enormous array in front of Voyager. Just then, engineering contacts the bridge and informs Janeway that the chief engineer was also killed and that the ship is facing a possible warp core breach. Janeway heads down to engineering to help and orders Kim to see what the situation is in sickbay. She also orders Rollins to assume command of the bridge. Paris heads down with Kim as well. Adding to the list of casualties, Paris sees that the CMO and the entire medical staff were killed. Janeway makes it to engineering and finds out that there is a microfracture in the warp core and that a breach is imminent. In order to save the ship, Janeway orders the lock down of the magnetic constrictor and Lieutenant Joseph Carey warns Janeway that they may not be able to initialize the dilithium reaction and that it would make warp drive impossible. Janeway sees that there are not many other alternatives and orders that it be done. At the same time, Harry Kim orders the computer to "activate Emergency Medical Holographic Program" a holographic doctor designed to a supplement to the medical staff. The EMH appears, giving his default statement: "Please state the nature of the medical emergency." Kim replies that the ship's doctor is dead and that the hologram is the only medical officer on board the ship since the entire medical staff was killed too. The Doctor informs Kim and Paris that, as he is only intended to be used on a short-term basis, a replacement will be needed as soon as possible. Paris then informs the EMH that he will be stuck with them for a while.
Meanwhile, down in engineering, the warp core breach appears to have been averted. Janeway then orders that the magnetic constrictor be engaged. The pressure begins to stabilize. Just then, the ship is being scanned and people begin to disappear. Eventually, everyone disappears with the exception of The Doctor. Strangely enough, the crew finds themselves in a farm, with wheat and cattle. Soon after, a middle aged woman emerges from the farmhouse named "Aunt Adah" and asks the crew to come up to the house for some lemonade and sugar cookies. Janeway says that the crew shouldn't be fooled, since they have only been transported a hundred kilometers from Voyager and that they are actually inside the array. The crew is greeted by holographic projections of lively southerners.
Act Four Edit
Janeway orders that Kim and Paris find the holographic projector. As Kim scans with his tricorder, he finds strange readings coming from a barn.
A holographic projection of an attractive southern girl tries to pull Kim and Paris away from the barn, but is unsuccessful. Kim finds Vulcan and Human bio-signs in an unknown location. The southerners get a lot less friendly and start to attack Kim and Paris due to their curiosity. Janeway gets Kim's signal from his combadge and takes the crew she has with her to the barn. They arrive, to find Paris and Kim being threatened with a pitchfork by Aunt Adah. She says that she hoped the crew would do things the easy way but she sees that that will not work. Soon after, the crew is subjected to painful genetic testing, alongside the missing Maquis crew.
Three days later the Voyager crew is returned to their ship, as well as with the Maquis on the Val Jean. When Tom Paris emerges in sickbay after being returned, he notices that Harry Kim did not return with them. Janeway calls up the computer to search for Kim, but it confirms he is not on board and is the only crewmember missing. Janeway asks Rollins to hail the Val Jean to see if Kim was accidentally transported there, but Chakotay says that he was not and that they also are missing a crewman of their own, chief engineer B'Elanna Torres. Janeway asks that Chakotay beam aboard the Voyager so they can discuss what to do. Chakotay turns to Tuvok and agrees. Moments later, Chakotay, Tuvok, and Maquis security guard Ayala beam on board. Janeway then reveals that Tuvok is a Federation undercover operative. Chakotay is at once angry about this, but then he sees that Tom Paris is on the bridge. After remarking that, while Tuvok was doing his duty as a Starfleet officer, Paris only does things that benefit himself, he is ready to attack him, but Janeway asks him to treat Paris as he would with any other member of her crew. Though reluctant to do so, Chakotay agrees with her.
Janeway, along with Chakotay and Paris return to the so called farm and demand answers about their missing crewmen who are no longer on the array. The only person there is the old man playing the banjo. The man says that Janeway and the rest of the crew don't have what he needs, but Janeway isn't the least concerned about this but wants the missing officers returned and for both crews to be returned to the Alpha Quadrant. The man refuses to tell her what he's done with the crew, and although he understands why they're angry and sympathizes, he tells them that Kim and Torres might have what he needs, as he must "honor a debt that can never be repaid" but his search has not been going well. Janeway then offers to help, but the old man tells her she can't, and that there's not enough time left before he suddenly returns everyone to Voyager.
Kim and Torres awaken in what appears to be a hospital room and notice growths on their arms and neck. Torres tries to escape, but two doctors come in and sedate them both.
Tuvok later reports to Janeway in her ready room that the pulses emitted from the ray have been steadily getting faster. Meanwhile, Janeway has been studying the planet where the Array's pulses are being sent: while it meets all the other requirements of an M Class planet there are no nucleogenic particles in the atmosphere, meaning it is incapable of producing rain and has left the planet as a desert. Tuvok tells Janeway that she needs rest, conveys his gratitude at being rescued, and Janeway promises she'll get Kim and Torres back and get everyone home.
Act Five Edit
While on the way to the fifth planet in the system where the energy pulses are being sent, Voyager encounters a small cargo ship inside a debris field called the Baxial, commanded by a Talaxian named Neelix. At first, Neelix thinks that Voyager might be wanting to take a piece of the debris field, but Captain Janeway assures him that they will do nothing of the sort. Janeway then asks if he knows where the missing officers of Voyager and the Val Jean might have gone. Neelix suspects that they may have been taken to the Ocampan homeworld, to a city located deep beneath the planet's surface. Neelix offers to guide Voyager to the planet and Janeway agrees. Neelix is beamed aboard; Tuvok greets him and is embraced by the irrepressible Talaxian.
Torres and Kim awaken once more and are greeted by an Ocampan doctor who tells them that they were sent here to protect their own people from their "illness". He takes them to the food dispensers, which are provided by the Caretaker, who built their entire underground construct when the surface of their planet turned into a desert. He also reveals that, unfortunately, other aliens with this "disease" that were brought to the Ocampa did not survive.
Act Six Edit
Voyager finally makes its way to the planet. Janeway, Paris, Chakotay, Neelix, and Tuvok beam down and are immediately captured by a group of Kazon-Ogla, a rogue faction in the Delta Quadrant.
For some assistance and since the Kazon desperately need water, Janeway arranges for huge canisters of water to be beamed down in exchange for some answers. She asks where those Ocampa might be, and the Kazon leader, Jabin points to a battered Ocampan woman and says, "she is an Ocampa." As Jabin continues, he explains that the array is used by the Caretaker who provides the Ocampa with everything they need. He has been torturing Kes to find a way into the Ocampan underground complex, but she does not give an answer. Around this time Neelix tries to barter with Jabin for the release of Kes in exchange for the water as well. Jabin refuses and Neelix grabs him and warns the surrounding Kazon to drop their weapons or he will kill him. The rest of the crew gets their weapons back and shoot at the enormous water containers. With the Kazon distracted with the water spilling out onto the ground quickly, Janeway contacts Voyager to beam them up. Soon after, the crew realizes that Neelix and Kes are lovers.
Meanwhile, Torres and Kim are being held against their will by the Ocampa. They try to devise a way out when a young Ocampa nurse comes up to them and tells them about secret passageways to the surface. But, she says that there are meters of solid rock to get through and even with the proper tools, it may take days or even weeks to get through. Ever determined, Kim and Torres ask for her help.
While Kes is being tended to by The Doctor, Janeway asks if there is any way to get to their crew members. Kes replies that she escaped through a tunnel underground, but now, the passageway she came out of is sealed by solid rock and they won't be able to get through. Janeway assures they will be able to with their transporter technology. Kes then says that there are breaches in the tunnels which will help them get through. They beam to the surface where Kes reunites with her people, who are telepathic, but she defies them by helping the crew rescue their friends.
Act Seven Edit
Kim and Torres manage to escape, meanwhile the pulses from the array stop and the array re-positions itself and begins firing weapons at the surface in order to seal the conduits leading down to the facility. This action allows Tuvok to come to a conclusion for what is going on... the Caretaker is dying. Asked to explain his reasoning, Tuvok explains that the Caretaker has given the Ocampa enough energy to last for five years before sealing the conduits meaning he will no longer be continuing as Caretaker. Chakotay suggests that he may not be dying, but just leaving but Tuvok counters this by explaining that it's doubtful the Caretaker would just leave after providing for the Ocampa for a thousand years... the "debt that can never be repaid" is a debt to them. Also his references to "not enough time" meant that he knew he was going to die. Janeway realizes that if the Caretaker dies, the crew may be stranded in the Delta Quadrant. The crew decide they need to find Torres and Kim and splits up.
Soon after, Tom Paris, Neelix and Kes find Kim and Torres. They are immediately beamed back up to Voyager, with Paris and Neelix looking for Janeway, Tuvok, and Chakotay before the tunnel completely collapses. They find them, but Chakotay nearly dies when the metal staircase he is on breaks apart. Paris goes back for him and saves his life, thus proving Paris' loyalty. Later, the crew is all beamed aboard and Janeway sets a course back to the array.
Act Eight Edit
As the Kazon arrive at the array intending to take control, Janeway (who allows Paris to take the helm) and Tuvok beam over and come to realize the old man playing the banjo is, in fact, the Caretaker. The Caretaker explains that he can't send the crew home as he barely has the strength to complete his work... sealing the conduits before he dies. He knows that he has to in order to stop the Kazon from stealing the Ocampa's water and killing them. However, the Caretaker regretfully states that in a few years it won't matter as when the energy runs out the Ocampa will be forced to surface where they'll die anyway. Janeway realizes that something the Caretaker did turned the planet into a desert... that is the debt that can never be repaid. The Caretaker explains that his species were explorers from another galaxy, however their technology destroyed the Ocampa's atmosphere. In order to right this wrong, the Caretaker remained behind with a female counterpart, who abandoned her post in order to explore the galaxy. Before his death, he wanted to find someone who could take over from him, hence why he that he has been abducting ships from across the galaxy in order to find someone he could procreate with so the Ocampa would be taken care. Janeway reassures him that, as explorers too, they've met species who have managed to overcome all kinds of adversity without a Caretaker... the Ocampa will manage to somehow survive without him. The Caretaker reveals that, in order to stop the Kazon from taking the array, he has activated the self-destruct despite the fact this will leave the crew stranded in the Delta Quadrant.
Meanwhile, the battle between the Kazon and the two Alpha Quadrant ship intensifies. Eventually, in order to take some of the pressure off Voyager, Chakotay rams the Val Jean into the main Kazon ship, destroying the fighter and sending the Kazon crashing into the array damaging it.
Inside the array, the holographic simulation fails revealing the array's true layout. The Caretaker, now in his natural form, tells Janeway that the self-destruct system was damaged so now the array won't be destroyed. The Caretaker then finally dies, and in his final words states that if Kazon take the array, they will annihilate the Ocampa.
Janeway is now left with a difficult decision. Should she use the array to return to the Alpha Quadrant and let it fall into Kazon hands or destroy the array, as the Caretaker wanted at the cost of a way home? Tuvok reminds his captain that any action taken to protect the Ocampa will affect the balance of power in this region of space; they would have to comply with the Prime Directive though Janeway questions the validity of the Prime Directive in this situation because, regardless of whether they chose to become involved in the affairs of the Ocampa or the Kazon, they are involved nonetheless. She and Tuvok beam back to Voyager when they discover that a Kazon fleet has arrived at the array. Janeway finally makes her decision and asks Tuvok to prepare tricobalt devices to destroy the array. B'Elanna Torres loudly argues that they will never be able to get home, but Chakotay bluntly overrules her. Janeway then orders Tuvok to fire and the tricobalt devices destroy the array, leaving no debris.
After this, Jabin contacts Voyager and tells them that they have made an enemy this day. The Kazon ships withdraw. After this, Neelix and Kes ask Janeway if they could join the crew. After saying that Voyager is not a transport vessel, Neelix convinces Janeway that he will be able to be a guide for the crew through the Delta Quadrant and will be a professional chef in the kitchen at the mess hall. Janeway agrees. The Maquis crew from the Val Jean then join the Voyager crew and don Starfleet uniforms. After bringing the crew together on the bridge, Janeway maintains that, even though the return trip would take 75 years at maximum speeds, Voyager will get home eventually. They hopefully will find anomalies, wormholes, or spatial rifts that will shorten their journey back home to the Alpha Quadrant. With that in place, Captain Janeway orders newly-reinstated helmsman Lieutenant Tom Paris to "set a course... for home." Thus, Voyager's 75-year journey back home to the Alpha Quadrant begins.
Log entries Edit
- "Captain's log, stardate 48315.6. We've traced the energy pulses from the array to the fifth planet of the neighboring system and believe they may have been used in some fashion to transport Kim and Torres to the planet's surface."
- "Captain's log, supplemental. The Maquis ship and Voyager have encountered a debris field where sensors have detected a small vessel. One humanoid lifeform is on board."
Memorable Quotes Edit
"Damage report!"
- - Chakotay, with the first spoken words of the series
"Set a course, for home."
- - Captain Kathryn Janeway
"See you in a few weeks..."
- - Kathryn Janeway, to Mark Johnson
"You have made an enemy today."
- - Jabin
"Please state the nature of the medical emergency."
- - The Doctor's first line
"A replacement must be requested as soon as possible. I am programmed only as a short term emergency supplement to the medical team."
"Well, we may be stuck with you for a while, Doc."
- - The Doctor and Tom Paris, after Voyager arrives in the Delta Quadrant
"Oh, why have you come back? You don't have what I need!"
- - Caretaker, to the Voyager away team
"Didn't they warn you about Ferengi at the Academy?"
- - Tom Paris, after rescuing Kim from Quark's scheme
"At least the Vulcan was doing his duty as a Starfleet officer, but 'you', you betrayed us for what? Freedom from prison? Latinum? What was your price THIS time?!"
- - Chakotay, to Paris
"Who does she think she is to make a decision like that for all of us?"
"She's the captain."
- - Torres and Chakotay
"The Federation is made up of many cultures. I am Vulcan."
"Neelix. Good to meet you!"
- - Tuvok and Neelix, as the former received a bear hug
"Mr. Kim... at ease, before you sprain something."
- - Captain Janeway to Harry Kim
"If I save your butt, your life belongs to me. Isn't that some kind of Indian custom?"
"Wrong tribe."
"I don't believe you."
- - Paris and Chakotay
"You'd rather die than let me be the one to rescue you?"
"Fine, be a fool. If I have to die, at least I'll get the pleasure of watching you go with me."
"Isn't there some Indian trick where you can turn yourself into a bird and fly us out of here?"
"You're too heavy."
- - Paris and Chakotay
"Is the crew always this difficult?"
"I don't know, Doc. It's my first mission."
- - The Doctor and Kim
"Did you ever consider allowing the Ocampa to care for themselves?"
"Oh, they're children!"
"Children have to grow up."
- - Janeway and The Caretaker
"Captain, any action we take would affect the balance of power in this system. The Prime Directive would seem to apply."
"Would it? We never asked to be involved, Tuvok. But we are. We are."
- - Tuvok and Janeway
"Oh, well, now. Aren't you contentious for a minor bipedal species?"
"This minor bipedal species doesn't take kindly to being abducted."
- - Caretaker and Janeway
"That would not be an accurate perception, captain. Vulcans do not worry."
"They... miss you."
"As I do them."
- - Tuvok and Janeway
"Since you're not interested in my debris, well I'm delighted to know you!"
- - Neelix
"A very impressive title! I have no idea what it means, but it sounds very impressive."
- - Neelix, in reference to Captain Janeway's credentials
"Is this another 'love me, love my dog' demand?"
- - Mark Johnson and Kathryn Janeway
"Captain, there's something out there!"
"I need a better description than that, Mr. Kim!"
- - Harry Kim and Kathryn Janeway
"Doesn't anyone know how to turn off the program when they leave?"
- - The Doctor
"We'll have to find another way home."
- - Janeway, to Torres, deciding to destroy the Caretaker's array, Voyager's only way home
Background Information Edit
Distinguishing Voyager Edit
- Despite the general prosperity of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Paramount pressured Rick Berman for yet another Star Trek television series. Although it was decided very early on that the new series would be set aboard a starship once again, it was important for the writers to vary the series from Star Trek: The Next Generation in other ways. Berman stated, "When Voyager came around and we knew we were going to place the next series back on a starship we wanted to do it in a way that was not going to be that redundant when it came to The Next Generation. So we had a certain amount of conflict on the ship because of the Maquis. We had a different dynamic because we were not speaking everyday to Starfleet and because we had a female captain. Those were the major differences that set this show apart from the others... It had the core belief of what Star Trek was all about, both in terms of the excitement and the action and in terms of the provocative elements of ideas that Star Trek has always been known to present to the audience." (Star Trek: Voyager Companion)
- The series' premise of being lost in deep space was itself a variation on a theme explored in The Next Generation. Michael Piller explained, "We remembered the episodes, many episodes, where Q would show up and throw one of our ships or one of our people off to a strange part of the universe. And we'd have to figure out why we were there, how we were going to get back, and ultimately - by the end of an episode - we'd get back home. But [...] we started to talk about what would happen if we didn't get home. That appealed to us a great deal [....] You have to understand that Rick, Jeri and I had no interest in simply putting a bunch of people on another ship and sending them out to explore the universe. We wanted to bring something new to the Gene Roddenberry universe. The fans would have been the first people to criticize us if we had not brought something new to it. But everything new, everything was... a challenge, in the early stages of development of Voyager." ("Braving the Unknown: Season 1", VOY Season 1 DVD)
- Similarly, Jeri Taylor stated, "We felt a need to create an avenue for new and fresh storytelling. We are forced into creating a new universe. We have to come up with new aliens, we have to come up with new situations." Taylor also recalled, "We knew we were taking some risks. We decided, in a very calculated way, to cut our ties with everything that was familiar. This is a dangerous thing to do. There is no more Starfleet, there are no more admirals to tell us what we can and cannot do, there are no Romulans, there are no Klingons, there are no Ferengi, no Cardassians. All those wonderful array of villains that the audience has come to love and hate at the same time will no longer be there. This is a tricky thing to do." ("Braving the Unknown: Season 1", VOY Season 1 DVD)
- Of the development of Captain Janeway, Rick Berman stated, "When it came time for Voyager [...] we knew we had to do something differently. The decision was to develop a show that had a female captain." ("Braving the Unknown: Season 1", VOY Season 1 DVD) Berman also recounted, "The feeling was that... the best direction for us to go - in terms of trying new things, being socially responsible, which Star Trek has always been - was to go for a female captain." ("The First Captain: Bujold", VOY Season 1 DVD) Looking for the right actress to play Janeway was an arduous process, however, due to the untried nature of the female character. Jeri Taylor commented, "The search for the captain was a long and difficult one. This is the person that gets the white-hot glare of publicity as the first female ever to head one of the Star Trek series and she had to be just right." Shortly after casting the role, Taylor remarked, "We are going to see that she interacts much more easily on a social level with the crew in a way that Picard never did." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages) Similarly, Rick Berman later recalled, "We didn't want to just create a captain and cast it with a female. We wanted to create a female captain who was a captain that was somewhat more nurturing and a little bit less swashbuckling than someone like Captain Kirk, a little bit less sullen than someone like Captain Sisko, and a little bit more approachable than Captain Picard. And Kate, I think, remarkably deliver[ed] a feminine nurturing side and at the same time, a sense of strength and confidence. And that's just what we were looking for and I think that we've gotten it in spades." (Star Trek: Voyager Companion)
- Differentiating the new series from what had gone before hardened the challenge of inventing the rest of the series' main characters. Jeri Taylor recounted, "It took a long, long time, it took us weeks and weeks and weeks, even to come up with a cast of characters, because we found that so many wonderful characters had already been done and we didn't want to exactly repeat ourselves. We'd come up with an idea then say, 'No, that's too much like Data,' or, 'That's too much like Odo,' or, 'That's too much like Worf.' So to try to find the right balance of characters, in terms of gender and alien species and that kind of thing, really took a long time." ("Braving the Unknown: Season 1", VOY Season 1 DVD)
- The efforts to vary the new series from past Star Trek productions also had a direct influence on this episode in particular. Michael Piller stated, "When we started the pilot, I felt that with all the psychological stuff we had done on Deep Space Nine we could let loose and have a wild ride and adventure. My push in the pilot was to let it all hang out in a real old-fashioned adventure story." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages)
Production Information Edit
- Director Winrich Kolbe was selected by Rick Berman to direct this episode. (A Vision of the Future - Star Trek: Voyager, p. 10) Earlier, James L. Conway was asked by Berman to direct but he was unavailable. [1]
- Filming for the episode (and the series) began on 6 September 1994; the first scene to be shot was the "tomato soup" scene with Paris and Kim. Genevieve Bujold began filming on 8 September 1994, but departed two days later. Kate Mulgrew would not start filming until 19 September 1994. The first few days of filming saw Mulgrew with her natural hairstyle; however, when watching back the first edits, producers noticed that the stage lighting was making Mulgrew's fine hair-type appear thin and see-through. The more severe bun was then used, requiring reshoots on a number of scenes, including those at the Ocampa city (which required rebooking the venue). (Star Trek: Voyager - A Vision of the Future; Star Trek Magazine issue 152)
- After it was decided to change Janeway's hairstyle, numerous styles were tested. Throughout the course of the episode, Janeway's hairstyle and hair color changes several times which caused minor continuity issues. At several points her hair is ginger in color styled in a curly loose bun. At other points her hair is brown and styled in the tighter bun she would wear for the rest of the first season.
- After principal production was finished, a quick scene was filmed of Janeway running down a corridor to engineering while fixing her hair. This was done to fix a continuity error when, after Voyager is thrown into the Delta Quadrant, Janeway leaves the bridge with her hair down and out of place, but when she arrives in engineering her hair is up again.
- The surface shots of the Ocampa homeworld were filmed at the El Mirage Dry Lake Bed over two days, including 27 September 1994. (Star Trek Magazine issue 152) This same lake bed was also used for the surface of the moon Lambda Paz where Jean-Luc Picard, Dirgo, and Wesley Crusher crashed in TNG: "Final Mission".
- The underground Ocampa city was filmed at the Los Angeles Convention Center. [2]
- The reshoots - a massive undertaking that involved the complete rebuilding of huge sets that had been filmed and deconstructed two months earlier - were at an inconvenient time for the production crew, as they were ongoing when Rick Berman announced (on December 5, 1994) that the structure of Voyager's regular episodes (including the first four after this pilot, which had already been shot in their entirety) would be changed from a teaser and five acts to a teaser and four acts. The difficulty of production at the time led to various jokes on the set, a favorite of which seemed to be, "I wonder if we'll get this pilot shot before the series is finished." On the same day as the act announcement, set property master Charlie Russo and second company grip Randy Burgess exchanged comments about the reshoots, having heard the related jokes, but both men were unconcerned, due to the normality of television pilots running behind schedule. (A Vision of the Future - Star Trek: Voyager)
- Also by early December 1994, much of the motion-control filming for this episode was being done at Image G, with such models as that of the Deep Space 9 station along with Voyager, and the Maquis raider. Footage of the Voyager model, captured at this time, would also later be used as stock footage in subsequent episodes. (A Vision of the Future - Star Trek: Voyager)
- Due to the cost of building Voyager's bridge, converting the old TNG sets, reshooting the scenes shot with Geneviève Bujold and the ones after Janeway's hairstyle was altered, some very ambitious special effects scenes and a substantial amount of location filming, this episode had a final budget of US$23 million, making it the most expensive television episode in the history of the Star Trek franchise. When adjusted for inflation, it proved even more expensive than Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and more than twice as expensive as ENT: "Broken Bow", the episode with the next-highest budget.
- The episode starts with scrolling text to set up the first scene; this technique was originally used in the first episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
- The special feature "On Location with the Kazons" on the Season 1 DVD features interviews from the location shooting with David Livingston and Winrich Kolbe, who said that forty extras were dressed as Kazons.
- During production of the title sequence, Dan Curry suggested omitting the credits for Chakotay, Torres, the Doctor, Neelix and Kes, and including credits for Cavit, Stadi, and the nameless chief medical officer, so as to surprise viewers when the latter three were killed off. While Rick Berman liked the idea, he reasoned that it would be pointless since all the regular characters would be featured heavily in the promotional material, meaning that most viewers would know ahead of time that the three would not be regulars. (Star Trek Monthly, November 1997)
Episode cuts Edit
- This series premiere was initially aired as a single, two-hour long, feature-length episode, the first of four examples of its kind in the series, the second being "Dark Frontier", the third being "Flesh and Blood" and the fourth being "Endgame". In syndication, however, the episode was edited into two one-hour parts. The following scenes were cut for time:
- Paris flirting with Lt. Stadi aboard the shuttle.
- Snippits of the scene of Harry Kim and Quark at the bar.
- Kim being pierced by the needle aboard the Caretaker's array and screaming in pain.
- Kes guiding them through an opening in a dangerous force field
- Jabin's hail to Janeway at the end of the battle.
- The order of certain scenes was changed in order to end Part I at the end of Act Four.
Continuity Edit
- The events of "Caretaker" were revisited in several episodes, including VOY: "Projections", "Cold Fire", "Before and After", "Night", "The Voyager Conspiracy" and "Shattered".
- At least twelve USS Voyager crewmembers died during the first week in the Delta Quadrant, including Lieutenant Commander Cavit, Lt. Stadi, the unnamed chief engineer, the unnamed chief medical officer, and the unnamed Vulcanoid nurse; regarding senior staff, the ship lost its First Officer, Helmsman, Chief Engineer, and Chief Medical Officer, nearly half the bridge officers. (VOY: "Nightingale")
- Jeff McCarthy, who appeared as the USS Voyager's chief medical officer that dies during this episode, also guest starred five years earlier as the soldier Roga Danar in TNG: "The Hunted".
- As of this episode, Armin Shimerman (Quark), Richard Poe (Gul Evek) and Mark Allen Shepherd (Morn) played the same character on three different live-action Star Trek series. The only other actors to do so are Jonathan Frakes (Commander William T. Riker), Marina Sirtis (Counselor Deanna Troi), John de Lancie (Q), and Michael Ansara (Kang).
- Both Morn and Broik are seen (as usual) in Quark's. This is Morn's second and final appearance outside of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the first being in TNG: "Birthright, Part I".
- Mary Meinel-Newport is seen playing two apparently different Bolian females. One is her "regular" DS9 persona (possibly Lysia Arlin), seen in Quark's, the other is a Bolian crewmember seen in Voyager's mess hall early in the episode.
- Tarik Ergin (Ayala) is the only actor, besides the regulars, to appear in both this episode and the finale "Endgame".
- One of the first questions Neelix asks Tuvok is if a replicator will make him a gold operations uniform, to which Tuvok replies "It most certainly will not." In later episodes and seasons Neelix dons the gold uniform in times of crisis.
- For the only time in the series, Tuvok addresses Neelix as "Sir" when asking for directions once Voyager has arrived at the Ocampa homeworld.
- During Janeway's speech, right after she has stated that Voyager's directive will be "to seek out new worlds and explore space", a part of the Original Series main title theme's introductory fanfare can be heard for a few seconds.
- Lieutenant Tuvok wears the insignia of a lieutenant commander throughout most of season one in an apparent costuming error. It will not be until the season four episode VOY: "Revulsion" that he is actually promoted to lieutenant commander.
- The shuttle that takes Tom Paris to Deep Space 9 changes its registry number; it initially reads "71325", then changes to "1701-D", and finally to "74656".
- Janeway repeats her last sentence in this episode ("Set a course, for home" - with "home" now on the viewscreen instead of across the galaxy) at the end of the series finale "Endgame".
- Among the costumes and props from this episode which were sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay was an unfinished costume for background actress Cindy Bohling. [3]
- Janeway is seen drinking coffee with creamer, going against her usual order of "Coffee, black."
- In "Before and After", as a result of her consciousness moving back through time after being placed in a bio-temporal chamber in an alternate timeline in 2379, Kes relives the scene in Captain Janeway's ready room in which she and Neelix persuade the captain to allow them to remain onboard as members of the crew. Kes attempts to explain what is happening to her but before she can do so, she is sent several months further back in time to Ocampa where she meets her father Benaren.
- After TNG: "Birthright, Part I", this is the second and final appearance of Deep Space 9 outside of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Awards Edit
- This episode was nominated for four Emmy Awards, a distinction it shares with only three other episodes. It won for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Special Visual Effects. (It beat DS9: "The Jem'Hadar" which was nominated in the same category.) It was also nominated for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Costume Design for a Series (Robert Blackman), Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore) (Jay Chattaway), and Outstanding Individual Achievement in Hairstyling for a Series.
Video and DVD releases Edit
- The catalogue number for this volume is out of sync with the rest of season 1, likely because of its special nature as the pilot episode.
- As part of the UK VHS collection Star Trek - 30th Anniversary Trial Pack: 2 January 1996
- UK special edition VHS: 9 December 1996
- As part of the VOY Season 1 DVD collection
Links and references Edit
Starring Edit
Also starring Edit
- Robert Beltran as Chakotay
- Roxann Biggs-Dawson as B'Elanna Torres
- Jennifer Lien as Kes
- Robert Duncan McNeill as Tom Paris
- Ethan Phillips as Neelix
- Robert Picardo as The Doctor
- Tim Russ as Tuvok
- Garrett Wang as Harry Kim
Guest stars Edit
- Basil Langton as the Caretaker
- Gavan O'Herlihy as Jabin
- Angela Paton as Adah
- And
Co-stars Edit
- Alicia Coppola as Lieutenant Stadi
- Bruce French as the Ocampa Doctor
- Jennifer Parsons as the Ocampa Nurse
- David Selburg as Toscat
- Jeff McCarthy as the Human Doctor
- Stan Ivar as Mark
- Scott MacDonald as Rollins
- Josh Clark as Carey
- Richard Poe as Gul Evek
- Keely Sims as the Farmer's Daughter
- Eric David Johnson as Daggin
- Majel Barrett as the Computer Voice
Uncredited co-stars Edit
- Margaret Blanchard as an Ocampa
- Cindy Bohling as an Ocampa
- Randall Bosley as an Ocampa
- Cullen Chambers as an Ocampa
- Tracee Cocco as Kobheerian
- Mitchell Danton as Ocampa guard
- Kathleen Demor as a New Zealand prisoner
- Scott DeRoy as an Ocampa
- Tarik Ergin as Ayala
- Pablo Espinosa as an Ocampa
- Heather Ferguson as an Ocampa
- Sue Henley as Brooks
- Kerry Hoyt as Fitzpatrick
- Scott Jaeck as Cavit
- Julie Jiang as an operations division lieutenant j.g.
- David B. Levinson as Broik
- Dennis Madalone as an operations division officer
- Coleman McClary as a Starfleet engineer
- Mary Meinel-Newport as
- T. Peterson as Vulcanoid Voyager nurse
- Jerry Quinn as
- J. Suzanne Rampe as
- Mark Allen Shepherd as Morn
- Lou Slaughter as an Ocampa
- Simon Stotler as an operations division ensign
- John Tampoya as Kashimuro Nozawa
- Eric Whitmore as an Ocampa
- Unknown performers as
Stunt doubles Edit
- Christopher Doyle as stunt double for Bruce French
- Unknown stunt performers as
- Stunt double for Robert Duncan McNeill
- Stunt double for Robert Beltran
References Edit
47; A Christmas Carol;Al-Batani, USS; Alpha Quadrant; angla'bosque; Arias Expedition; Badlands; Bajoran system; Baxial; Betazoid; bio-neural circuitry; Bolian tomato soup; Caldik Prime; Cardassians; Caretaker; Caretaker's array; Christmas; clarinet; Class M; cobalt; combadge; compression phaser rifle; cormaline; corn; Deep Space 9; Delta Quadrant; deviled egg; dilithium; displacement wave; Earth; Emergency Medical Hologram (EMH); Federation Council; Ferengi; food service; Fourth Order; G-type star; Galor-class; graviton; horse; Intrepid-class; Juilliard Youth Symphony; Kazon; Kazon carrier vessel; Kazon Collective; Kazon-Ogla; Kim, John; Kim, Mary; Klingon; Koladan diamond; lek; lemonade; Lobi crystal; logic; magnetic constrictor; Maquis; Maquis raider; medical tricorder; microfracture; Mollie; Moriya system; NCC-71325; NCC-71325 shuttlecraft; Nacene; New Zealand; New Zealand Penal Settlement; nucleogenic particle; Observer; Ocampa; Ocampa (planet); onion; operations officer; Paris, Owen; phaser type-1; pitchfork; plasma column; plasma storm; potato; Prime Directive; Quark's; science officer; security anklet; sickbay; sporocystian lifeform; Starfleet Academy; sugar cookie; survival strategies; Talaxian; Terikof belt; tetryon; The Warming; tomato soup; trianoline; tri-cobalt device; tricorder; type 6 shuttlecraft; Val Jean; Vetar; Volnar colony; Voyager, USS; warp core; water; Zakarian
External links Edit
- Caretaker, Part I at StarTrek.com, the official Star Trek website
- Caretaker, Part II at StarTrek.com, the official Star Trek website
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A torn meniscus is one of the most common knee injuries. Any activity that causes you to forcefully twist or rotate your knee, especially when putting the pressure of your full weight on it, can lead to a torn meniscus.
Each of your knees has two menisci -- C-shaped pieces of cartilage that act like a cushion between your shinbone and your thighbone. A torn meniscus causes pain, swelling and stiffness. You also might have trouble extending your knee fully.
Conservative treatment -- such as rest, ice and medication -- is sometimes enough to relieve the pain of a torn meniscus and give the injury time to heal on its own. In other cases, however, a torn meniscus requires surgical repair.
If you've torn your meniscus, you may experience the following signs and symptoms in your knee:
- A popping sensation
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- Difficulty straightening your knee fully
- Experiencing what feels like a block to moving your knee, as if your knee were locked in place
Initial treatment
Treatment for a torn meniscus often begins conservatively. Your doctor may recommend:
- Rest. Avoid activities that aggravate your knee pain, especially any activity that might cause you to twist your knee. You might want to use crutches to take pressure off your knee and promote healing.
- Ice. Ice can reduce knee pain and swelling. Use a cold pack, a bag of frozen vegetables or a towel filled with ice cubes for about 15 minutes at a time. Do this every four to six hours the first day or two, and then as often as needed.
- Medication. Over-the-counter pain relievers also can help ease knee pain.
Physical therapy can help you strengthen the muscles around your knee and in your legs to help stabilize and support the knee joint. Arch supports or other shoe inserts can help to distribute force more evenly around your knee or decrease stress on certain areas of your knee.
If your knee remains painful, stiff or locked, your doctor may recommend surgery. It's sometimes possible to repair a torn meniscus, especially in children and young adults. If the tear can't be repaired, the meniscus may be surgically trimmed. Surgery may be done through tiny incisions using an arthroscope. After surgery, you will need to do exercises to optimize knee strength and stability.


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Delegate to have wages garnished
MARTINSBURG – Delegate Larry Faircloth, R-Berkeley, will see his legislative wages garnished after failing to pay off nearly $50,000 in debt incurred as a result of a civil judgment.
According to documents filed in Berkeley County Circuit Court, Faircloth, who represents the 60th District in the House of Delegates, still hasn't paid the $48,100 debt he incurred after the judgment was issued against him in 2007.
Faircloth still owes the original $29,130 judgment awarded to Mark Mulligan and David Haarberg plus $18,970 in interest, according to court documents filed Oct. 1.
The West Virginia State Auditor's Office can now begin to withhold some of Faircloth's pay to settle the outstanding debt.
Mulligan and Haarberg sued Faircloth, who was working as an exterminator at the time, after they accused him of failing to disclose termite damage following a home inspection at a home they were trying to resell.
On March 24, 2005, Mulligan and Haarberg purchased a home located on Jefferson Street in Martinsburg for $120,000. The two men were told they would be given a written certification from a licensed exterminator regarding any evidence of damage from termites or wood-boring insects.
A realtor hired Faircloth to conduct the termite inspection, which occurred in April 2005.
According to a copy of the suit, Faircloth's notes indicated he visually observed termite shelter tubes and "powder post beetle exit holes" in exposed wood in the basement area, but reported that he found no visible damage from wood-destroying insects.
Another home inspector hired by Mulligan and Haarberg also didn't note any damage from termites or wood-boring insects. After purchasing the home in May 2005, Mulligan and Haarberg spent "considerable sums" renovating the home for resale, the suit filed against Faircloth reads.
The home was sold in February 2006 and, as part of the contract, the two men hired another termite inspector, who found visible termite damage in accessible places. The purchasers of the home then hired a home inspector, who found "severe wood damage" visible in the basement on several floor joints and along the entire length of the main floor girder, records show. The damage was believed to have been caused prior to 2005.
Faircloth returned to the house to conduct another inspection and to treat the house after Mulligan's and Haarberg's real estate agent contacted him about the discovery of the termite damage.
Faircloth allegedly conducted the inspection Feb. 2, 2006, but stated on the new inspection report that there was still no visible termite damage. When confronted about the report, Faircloth allegedly told Mulligan's and Haarberg's real estate agent that if he said there was visible damage, then the sellers would have to hire a structural engineer, records show.
Faircloth then allegedly produced a second inspection report dated Feb. 2, 2006, that indicated there was, in fact, visible damage from wood destroying insects in the basement. The individuals who agreed to buy the home from Mulligan and Haarberg refused to go through the purchase until the structural damage was repaired.
A structural engineer and general contractor were hired to repair the damage. The cost to repair the damage was $6,800, records show.
As a result, Mulligan and Haarberg say the sale of the home was delayed, requiring the payment of interest that wouldn't have otherwise have been paid and "causing annoyances," records show.
On Jan. 18, 2007, Mulligan and Haarberg appeared in court with their attorney, Andrew C. Skinner, for a bench trial in the civil case to determine whether punitive damages and attorney fees were warranted. Faircloth, who was the owner of Pest-Plus Exterminating Services, failed to appear, but the court heard testimony from several witnesses and inspected various documents related to the case.
A circuit court judge awarded Mulligan and Haarberg punitive damages in the amount of $18,180 and attorney fees in the amount of $10,950, records show.
When Faircloth failed to pay the two men the judgment awarded to them, they attempted further legal action, such as attempting to put liens on Faircloth's property and attempting to have the money taken from his bank accounts.
In 2010, one of Faircloth's banks was served with a court order suggesting that the funds in his bank account be used to pay back part of the judgment. The bank reported to the court that Faircloth's account at the time contained $2.78, which was ordered to be turned over to Skinner, records show.
A copy of the final judgment order filed in Berkeley County in 2007 was filed again in Kanawha County earlier this year when Faircloth became a delegate. Berkeley County Circuit Court received a copy of the order to garnish Faircloth's legislative wages last week.
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At a special meeting of the town board this past Wednesday, the Town of Delaware passed controversial zoning amendments that have attracted of a lot of news coverage and letters in this and other local newspapers. Despite the controversy and public concern, no public comment was allowed at the meeting. The residents in attendance, who have devoted so much time to the issues raised by these amendments, did not deserve this high-handedness.
The history of these amendments has been one of doublespeak. Perhaps that's to be expected when the town planner is a paid spokesman for the gas industry. Amendments that drastically weakened noise regulation were sold to us as amendments that strengthened noise regulation. Amendments that essentially do away with zoning for large areas of the River Corridor were sold to us as changes that would make the law clearer. The Sullivan County Division of Planning and Environmental Management got it exactly right in its letter to the board: The amendments "create more confusion than currently exists in the code." Why yes, because we needed more clarity in our law.
As required by state law, the board on Wednesday adopted a resolution stating its reasons for not accepting the modifications the county recommended. The county said that the new law "creates a complicated process for a landowner, developer, or planning board member and therefore more potential for multiple interpretations and more business for the Zoning Board of Appeals." This is exactly what architect and Delaware resident Buck Moorhead has been saying for many months. The carefully reasoned response of the town? They think that "there is sufficient clarity and consistency in the amendments so as to ensure compliance with the Upper Delaware River Management Plan." This doesn't respond to the county's concern at all. It is completely beside the point. Maybe the board's statement of reasons is not doublespeak. Let's just call it evasive.
Note that the board did not, in its resolution, deny that its amendments make the zoning less clear in the River Corridor. It did not deny that the new law "creates a complicated process for a landowner, developer, or planning board member." The main issue here is that the board has never given us a good explanation for making changes that have such obviously bad effects. The board used to say, "The county asked us to do this." But no, the county did no such thing, and in its letter, the Division of Planning and Environmental Management requested a revision to minutes from a town public hearing to correct that false statement. If so much weren't at stake, it would be funny. All that work redoing the map, and no one can tell us why.
It is clear is that the main inspiration for amending the zoning law was to make the Town of Delaware more hospitable to the gas industry. Not necessarily for drilling as such, which may never be viable in this county, but for infrastructure such as compressor stations. This is especially relevant near the river, where the Millennium pipeline runs and the land is not far from the gas fields of Pennsylvania.
Good government requires transparency. If everyone knew that the purpose was to encourage industrial development that would create no jobs and would benefit only large landowners, then the amendments would have been subject to much greater public scrutiny and debate. Wouldn't that have been a good idea? Isn't that what representative government is supposed to be all about?
[Liam Murphy is a resident of Kenoza Lake, NY]
Note: A news article about the Town of Delaware zoning change can be found here [1].


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Home List of Titles A novel cost-effective dynamic data replication strategy for reliability in cloud data Centres
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/216407
- Title
- A novel cost-effective dynamic data replication strategy for reliability in cloud data Centres
- Author(s)
- Li, Wenhao; Yang, Yun; Yuan, Dong
- Abstract
- Nowadays, large-scale Cloud-based applications have put forward higher demand for storage ability of data centres. Data in the Cloud need to be stored with high efficiency and cost effectiveness while meeting the requirement of reliability. While in current Cloud systems, typical 3-replicas data replication strategies are applied for data reliability, in this paper we propose a novel cost-effective dynamic data replication strategy which facilitates an incremental replication method to reduce the storage cost and meet the data reliability requirement at the same time. This replication strategy works very well especially for data which are only used temporarily and/or have a relatively low reliability requirement. The simulation shows that our replication strategy for reliability can reduce the data storage cost in data centres substantially.
- Publication type
- Conference paper
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies
- Source
- Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC 2011), including the 9th International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing (PICom 2011), the 9th International Symposium on Embedded Computing (EmbeddedCom 2011), the 1st International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing (CGC 2011) and the 1st International Conference on Social Computing and its Applications (SCA 2011), Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 12-14 December 2011 / Jinjun Chen, Wanchun Dou, Jianxun Liu, Laurence T. Yang and Jianhua Ma (eds.), pp. 496-502
- Publication year
- 2011
- Keyword(s)
- Cloud computing; Data centre; Data reliability; Data replication
- Publisher
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