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An old enemy of Odo's is murdered behind locked doors, and all the evidence points to Odo as the killer.
Summary Edit
Doctor Bashir finds Dax playing with an Altonian brain teaser, a puzzle responding to neural theta waves in a holosuite. Eager to get closer to her, he says he loves puzzles and volunteers to play. Before she transfers control to him, she casually mentions that she's been trying to solve it for 140 years. As soon as she transfers control to him, the puzzle bursts in a matter of seconds. Dax tries to warn him about Trill relationships, but is saved by the appearance of Benjamin Sisko, picking her up for dinner. Unwilling to give up, Bashir gloomily tells the computer to re-start the puzzle after Sisko and Dax leave.
Act One Edit
In Quark's, Odo is sitting at the bar, keeping an eye on Quark's business. Both of them notice Chief O'Brien arguing with his wife Keiko at a table on the upper level. Keiko is miserable aboard Deep Space 9; with no need for a botanist, she has nothing to do, and also has doubts about the station as a fit place to raise their daughter. Odo denies being able to understand why humanoids place so much emphasis on mating with other members of their species; he himself has never "coupled," as he had decided that the aggravation of a relationship, worst of all the need to compromise, which idea he already hates, far outweighed its benefits.
Having dinner in the bar, Sisko and Dax are still adjusting to their new relationship. Sisko has trouble seeing the young woman in front of him as his old mentor and father-figure, Curzon, which was how he had always seen Dax. Dax reminds Sisko that sometimes, relationships between Trills and other species do not survive the change of a host. Sisko assures her it will not be that way with the two of them – it is just a little uncomfortable now.
Glancing around the bar, Odo tenses up when he notices a Bajoran man playing at the dabo table. Odo goes over to the table and informs the man that he is unwelcome on the station. A fight breaks out between the two and, after Commander Sisko forcibly separates them, Odo tells the man he has 26 hours to leave DS9.
Elsewhere on the Promenade, a bored Jake Sisko approaches Quark's nephew, the only boy on the station of any species close to Jake's age, and tries to make friends. The Ferengi is standoffish at first, but grudgingly shares his name, Nog. Jake smiles, seeing the beginnings of a friendship.
In Sisko's office, Odo explains his actions: the man, whose name is Ibudan, had lived aboard the station during the Occupation, smuggling medical supplies and other black market goods to the planet. Some Bajorans considered him a hero, but Odo saw him as nothing but a ruthless profiteer – he had once allowed a young Bajoran girl die, when her parents were unable to afford his asking price for the drug that would have saved her life. A few years before, Odo had arrested Ibudan for killing a Cardassian officer who wanted a bribe to look the other way, and he went to prison for murder. Now, the Provisional Government has granted him amnesty, since "killing a Cardassian isn't considered much of a crime nowadays." Sisko agrees Ibudan is undesirable, but does not see what they can do when he has not recently broken any laws. Odo vows to get him off the station, one way or another, and goes on the record saying, "Commander, laws change depending on who's making them. Cardassians one day, Federation the next. But justice is justice, and as long as I'm in charge of security..." Thereupon Sisko interrupts, "If you can't work within the rules, I'll find someone who can." Sisko dismisses Odo with a curt nod of his head.
That evening, Ibudan is enjoying a massage in a holosuite, when a gloved hand pushes the holographic masseuse away, then plunges a knife into Ibudan's back.
Act Two Edit
Jake and Nog play a practical joke on the Promenade, releasing some Garanian bolites that infect a dining couple that harmlessly turn alternately blue, green, and yellow for a short time. A security officer catches the boys before they can run and marches them to the security office, while Keiko looks on disapprovingly. She doesn't believe that children should have the same freedom as they did on Starfleet ships like the USS Enterprise-D. She later mentioned to Miles that the station should have a school.
Sisko, Bashir, Odo, and Kira are in the deactivated holosuite, looking at Ibudan's dead body on the floor. Odo reports that, according to the security logs, the holosuite's door was locked, and only opened twice – the first to admit Ibudan, and the second time, presumably, to let his killer exit. There is also no evidence of a transporter being used within the suite. Sisko orders Bashir to sweep the suite for DNA evidence to identify all persons who have been inside the suite. Sisko orders Kira to inform all docked ships that their departures will be delayed as the crime is investigated.
In Ops, Sisko and Kira receive Zayra, a Bajoran businessman from the Promenade, who confides that Ibudan talked to him shortly before his death, and confided fears that Odo was going to murder him. Kira quickly discounts the accusation, but Zayra remains suspicious.
Odo investigates Ibudan's berth on the Bajoran freighter he arrived on. According to the ship's manifest, he was alone, but booked a room with two bunk beds. The ship's officer had assumed he simply wanted the extra room. Examining Ibudan's computer terminal, Odo finds an appointment book, stating that Ibudan had a meeting with Odo scheduled for the time he was murdered.
Keiko talks to Sisko in his quarters, with Jake present. She lobbies to open a school aboard the station, as there are no fewer than twelve children of school-age there. Sisko is more than happy to provide her with an empty room and some computer equipment; the only question is how many other parents aboard the station will accept her as a teacher. After Keiko departs, Sisko starts to read Jake the riot act, warning him to stay away from Nog, but Jake ducks into his room.
Bashir reports that only five persons's DNA traces can be found in the holosuite: Ibudan's, and those of the four officers who were in there after he was murdered. Kira is baffled: Ibudan entered the room alone, and the door stayed locked until his killer exited – which is impossible. Odo grimly says that the only explanation is that the killer was a shapeshifter like himself, who could enter the room through the cracks in the door.
Act Three Edit
Odo says in Ops that if he is being framed, it is a very "neat package"; only a shapeshifter could have entered the holosuite in order to murder Ibudan, Ibudan's calendar said he was going to meet with Odo at the time he was murdered, and Odo has no DNA of his own to leave behind at the scene of the crime. Kira asks him if he has an alibi, and Odo confesses that he has to regenerate every 18 hours, and was shapeless in a pail in the back of his office when the murder occurred, so the answer is no. He asks Kira to instruct Bashir to do a sweep of Ibudan's quarters aboard the freighter.
Quark's brother, Rom, is initially hostile towards the idea of enrolling Nog in a Federation-run school, saying that a traditional Ferengi education is designed to teach young Ferengi the cutthroat skills needed to thrive in commerce. Keiko does a clever sell job, convincing Rom that she can teach his son those virtues, and more: learning commerce from the perspective of other cultures, his son's future customers, will be a huge advantage. Rom appears thoughtful, and Keiko leaves him to mull it over.
In another corner of the bar, Zayra and several other Bajorans are questioning Odo's innocence; after all, he is the purest form of alien, and all they really know of him is that he worked on the station when the Cardassians occupied Bajor. Quark, overhearing, cuts in and defends Odo: no one knows (and loathes) Odo better than Quark does, and whatever else he is, Odo was not a collaborator and is no murderer.
Nevertheless, Zayra returns to Ops with a group of Bajorans for support, to confront Sisko with their suspicions. To avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, Sisko reluctantly relieves Odo of his duties on a temporary basis.
In the infirmary, Bashir reports to Odo that he has found the destroyed remains of a biological sample container in Ibudan's quarters. It appears that Ibudan was conducting some kind of medical experiment, but Odo says that Ibudan was neither a scientist nor a doctor. Bashir finds a small biological sample in the remains of the container. When he puts it into a solution to culture it, its cells begin dividing rapidly.
Odo is summoned to Ops, where Sisko reluctantly informs him that he is relieving him of duty. He assures Odo that he does not believe the Bajorans' suspicions of him, but Odo sardonically replies that, with all the evidence mounted against Odo, Sisko would be inhuman if a small part of him did not believe Odo might be guilty.
Act Four Edit
Odo returns to his office and finds it vandalized: his datapads are littered all over the floor, his monitors have been smashed, and the word "SHIFTER" spray-painted across the wall. As he starts to clear up, Quark happens by and offers to find out who did it. Chafing at the idea of asking the Ferengi for help, Odo declines. Then he asks Quark if he would be interested in Odo working for him, since it looks like Odo will be out of a job soon. Quark is briefly enthralled by the idea of having a shapeshifter to use in his various dealings, before he realizes Odo is joking with him. As he leaves the office, Quark mentions that he has been making some inquiries about Ibudan; but he seems not to have made any enemies in prison (who might be suspects in his murder) as he had spent most of his time hanging around the Bajoran dissidents jailed by the Cardassians for various non-criminal acts.
In the Infirmary, Bashir and Dax show Sisko the sample from Ibudan's container, which has been growing exponentially and is now a large, flesh-colored blob. Both Bashir and Dax are sure it is a vital clue, but cannot yet say what it is. Sisko invites Dax to lunch, and Bashir, mistakenly thinking he is being invited as well, accepts. To diffuse the awkward moment, Dax begs off, leaving Sisko and Bashir to go by themselves.
Over lunch, Bashir admits that he is attracted to Dax, but does not want to step on Sisko's toes, since Sisko has known "her" far longer. Sisko explains to the doctor that in all the previous years he knew Dax, the Trill was his male mentor and friend, Curzon. Therefore, Sisko assures Bashir, he is not interested in Dax romantically and the young doctor is free to choose to pursue Dax in that manner. Sisko and Bashir then witness Odo rejected by the customers at Quark's who refuse to drink with, or even be near, the former chief of security.
Miles is helping Keiko to set up her new schoolhouse, and has replicated an old-fashioned schoolhouse bell. Molly, from her father's arms, says that she wishes she could attend her mother's school, and Keiko wryly responds that she does too, at least that way she would know someone would show up. They are interrupted by the sound of an angry mob on their way to Odo's office screaming that he is a murderer and a freak. O'Brien signals Ops to have them send security to assist Odo and requests Commander Sisko's presence to handle the mob.
From afar, Bashir observes the mob outside Odo's office, trapping him inside and yelling for his head. Turning back to the infirmary, Ibudan's "blob" amazingly has grown much larger.
Act Five Edit
Sisko and security arrive to see the mob growing larger and more violent. While Kira secures the turbolifts, more armed security arrives. Sisko plants himself in front of the door and defends the Constable, telling the Bajorans not to condemn a man just because he happens to be different from them. Zayra and others begin yelling about the evidence against Odo. Meanwhile, Bashir and Dax are frantically analyzing the blob, which has grown larger still like a man-sized humanoid. Bashir makes a realization and they appear to the mob, announcing that they have a breakthrough in the case: the murder victim was not Ibudan. Bashir's pronouncement stuns everyone there, including Odo, and they lead Sisko and Odo to the infirmary, while Kira and O'Brien tell the crowd to disperse.
The man who was murdered was Ibudan's clone, whom Ibudan created himself, specifically to kill, then to frame Odo for the crime. (As Odo later finds out, one of the dissidents with whom Ibudan had associated in prison was a Bajoran geneticist who had been jailed for conducting cloning experiments.) Bashir and Dax have already checked the victim's DNA and found the signature gene sequence degradation that identifies him as a clone. The second clone will gain consciousness in a few hours and be a more-or-less exact copy of Ibudan, though hopefully not psychologically.
Now Odo concentrates on finding Ibudan, who turns out to be masquerading as an elderly Bajoran man who arrived a short time ago on a ship. Odo captures him as he boards the ship for departure from the station, pulling off his mask and informing him that killing his own clone still makes him guilty of murder.
- "Commander's log, stardate 46421.5. Ibudan has been turned over to the Bajoran authorities just hours after his clone gained consciousness and began a new life. The perpetrators of the mob violence have retreated into their own business. To my knowledge, Odo has received no apologies. Meanwhile, life on the station has begun to return to normal."
In her empty schoolroom, Keiko glumly checks the time. Sisko enters with Jake, and, to her surprise, Rom enters a few minutes later with Nog. Nog starts to take the desk next to Jake's, but Rom tells him to sit on the other side of the room, not wanting him to have anything to do with "that Human boy"; apparently he and Sisko are of one mind on this subject. A short time later, two other Bajoran children are escorted in by their parents, and Keiko happily introduces herself, and begins her lesson plan, with a basic introduction to Bajoran history.
Memorable quotes Edit
"I can't believe you're defending him, Quark. You're his worst enemy."
"I guess that's the closest thing he has in this world to a friend."
- - Zayra and Quark, about Odo
"Business is good, Quark. You're almost making an honest living."
- - Odo
"She doesn't like it here."
"Mmm. Who does?"
- - Quark and Odo on why Miles and Keiko O'Brien are arguing
"Killing a Cardassian isn't considered much of a crime nowadays."
- - Odo
"How do you get a rope around the neck of a shapeshifter?"
- - Zayra
"Little lady, little lady. What would you know about Ferengi education?"
- - Rom, to Keiko O'Brien
"I know for a fact, that when she was a he... you know? Before she had this new body, they were old friends."
"Things change."
- - Quark and Odo, on Benjamin Sisko's and Jadzia Dax's relationship
"The man we have in charge of a murder investigation is the prime suspect, Major. Those people have a right to complain."
- - Sisko, on the Bajoran hostility towards Odo
"Do not condemn this man because he is different from you!"
- - Benjamin Sisko, about Odo, to the Bajoran mob
"Steamed azna would put years on your life."
"Dax, I don't want years on my life if I can only eat steamed azna. Sautéed... rolloped, fricasseed, fine! But not steamed!"
- - Jadzia Dax and Benjamin Sisko
"I don't want you on this station."
"Well, that's too bad because I have every right to be here!"
"I decide who has the rights and who doesn't on this station!"
- - Odo and Ibudan
"You've... never coupled?"
"Choose not to. Too many compromises. You want to watch the karo-net tournament, she wants to listen to music – so you compromise: you listen to music. You like Earth Jazz, she prefers Klingon opera – so you compromise: you listen to Klingon opera. So here you were, ready to have a nice night watching the karo-net match and you wind up spending an agonizing evening listening to Klingon opera."
- - Quark and Odo
"Killing your own clone is still murder."
- - Odo, to Ibudan
"Commander, laws change depending on who's making them. Cardassian one day, Federation the next. But justice is justice."
- - Odo
"Freak! Shapeshifting freak!"
- - Zayra, along with a Bajoran mob at Odo
Background information Edit
Story and scriptEdit
- Gerald Sanford commented, "I thought it might be an interesting show to have someone accuse Odo of being a Nazi of the Cardassians who had murdered people. He's accused of this, although we find out later it's not true." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 42)
- "A Man Alone" provides some expository information, being the first episode filmed after "Emissary". Information on the Trill, Sisko's relationship with Curzon Dax, and the fact that Rom is Nog's father are all revealed. Jake and Nog meet for the first time and Keiko and Molly O'Brien make their first appearances in the series, with Keiko establishing the school on the station. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion, p. 19)
- The scene with the Garanian bolites was originally to have been part of "Emissary," but was removed during Michael Piller's rewrites. (The Making of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
- The character of Zayra was named after Zayra Cabot, Jeri Taylor's assistant. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion)
- This was the first regular episode of the series to be made, but "Past Prologue" was chosen to be broadcast first. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion)
- Paul Lynch greatly enjoyed directing "A Man Alone", his first for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Lynch commented, "I thought it was a damn good story, a murder mystery in space. It was a kicker, because only in space could you have a man murdering his own clone. It made for a very interesting and very different kind of murder mystery. I thought Piller's script was exceptional and really worked on that level." Lynch also enjoyed working with the actors for the first time. "That, of course, was the first time I had worked with all of the actors, though Colm [Meaney] came from The Next Generation. I found that they were all wonderful performers. I also found I had a great comedy duo in Odo and Quark. There's a real magic between Rene and Armin. As a commander, Avery Brooks is very strong and a terrific actor, on the same level as Patrick [Stewart]. Siddig, Nana, Terry and Colm were all real pros, too. The only problem, if any, was having these actors say so much technical stuff early on. There was so much they had to learn. It would drive anyone to distraction. To her credit, Terry pulled off these incredible passages of technical jargon that were very hard to memorize." (The Official Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Magazine issue 3)
- Ira Steven Behr commented, "I always thought the ending of 'A Man Alone' was weak, with the Mission: Impossible-like taking off of the mask. There are things I find weak about some of these shows that have nothing to do with the writing. Many of the shows at the beginning of the season lacked pacing. I liked what we tried to do with the character of Zayra, which is show a character that would be a problem for us to face on a semirecurring basis. That never really worked out. Plus we never brought him back either." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 42)
- Michael Piller commented, "'A Man Alone' is a very soft episode and a soft character show with some serious conflicts in it, and it's a wonderful show that defines our characters in ways that weren't in the pilot." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 43)
- Paul Lynch commented, "It was the first chance to see Armin and Rene work together as a wonderful team and it was quite a compelling story." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 43)
- Keiko and Molly O'Brien make their first appearances on DS9 in this episode.
- Keiko opens the Deep Space 9 school in this episode. It remains open until third season episode "The House of Quark", when it closes due to a lack of students.
- Nog's friendship with Jake Sisko is also established in this episode. However, during this show and in several subsequent shows, Sisko openly opposes their friendship, and actively tries to end it. It is not until third season episode "Life Support" that Sisko comes to truly accept the bond Jake and Nog have.
- While investigating Ibudan's death, Odo views his schedule, which contains several in-jokes: it shows that he traveled to Deep Space 9 from Alderaan Spaceport. Alderaan is the planet destroyed by the Death Star in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. He also had several dealings with individuals named Ahern, Della Santina, Gocke, and Moudakis, all named after DS9 production staffers.
- In the same scene, it is established that the murder occured on stardate 46384, a stardate which is earlier than the last log entry of the pilot "Emissary", which was Stardate 46393.1.
- A future Deep Space Nine sub-plot, involving conflicts over jurisdiction in regards to security personnel on the station, is first hinted at in this episode. This conflict is seen most clearly in later first season episode "The Passenger", where Odo clashes with Lieutenant Primmin, and in third season episode "The Search, Part I", where he clashes with Lieutenant Commander Eddington. On both occasions, Odo offers his resignation to Sisko, and on both occasions, Sisko refuses to accept it.
- Though Rom first appears in the pilot episode "Emissary", this is the first episode in which he is given a name and established as Nog's father. (In "Emissary", he is credited as "Ferengi Pit Boss", and Quark refers to Nog as "my brother's boy.") In this episode, Max Grodénchik has not yet adopted Rom's trademark voice or mannerisms.
- Max Grodénchik, as Rom, says "Human" rather than the typical Ferengi pronunciation "hew-mon" twice in this episode. Grodénchik did the same thing as Sovak in TNG: "Captain's Holiday".
- In this, his second appearance on the series, Aron Eisenberg (Nog) is credited as Aron Eisenerg.
- This is the first episode to suggest, though not explicitly state, that the station operates on a 26 hour day. As Deep Space 9 is a Bajoran station, it can be inferred from this that Bajor itself has a 26 hour day.
Video and DVD releases Edit
- UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 2, 2 August 1993
- As part of the DS9 Season 1 DVD collection
Links and references Edit
Starring Edit
Also starring Edit
- Rene Auberjonois as Constable Odo
- Siddig El Fadil as Doctor Julian Bashir
- Terry Farrell as Lieutenant Jadzia Dax
- Cirroc Lofton as Jake Sisko
- Colm Meaney as Chief Miles O'Brien
- Armin Shimerman as Quark
- Nana Visitor as Major Kira Nerys
Guest stars Edit
- Rosalind Chao as Keiko O'Brien
- Edward Laurence Albert as Zayra
- Max Grodénchik as Rom
- Peter Vogt as Bajoran man
- Aron Eisenerg [sic] as Nog
- Stephen James Carver as
- Tom Klunis as Lamonay S.
Co-stars Edit
- Scott Trost as a Bajoran Officer
- Patrick Cupo as a Bajoran Man
- Kathryn Graf as a Bajoran Woman
- Hana Hatae as Molly O'Brien
- Diana Cignoni as a Dabo Girl
- Judi Durand as Computer voice
Uncredited co-stars Edit
- Scott Barry as a Bajoran officer
- Ivor Bartels as a Human security officer
- Robert Coffee as a Bajoran officer
- Jeannie Dreams as a Human operations division ensign
- Robert Ford as operations officer
- Grace Harrell as holographic alien masseuse
- David B. Levinson as Broik
- Vincent Mazzella, Jr. as a Bajoran
- Kim Meredith (unconfirmed)
- Tom Morga as a Bajoran
- Robin Morselli as Bajoran officer
- Tyana Parr as a Human DS9 resident
- Mic Rodgers as a Bajoran security deputy
- Mark Allen Shepherd as
- Michael Zurich as a Bajoran security deputy
- Unknown performers as
References Edit
2229; alibi; Altonian brain teaser; anatomy; apprenticeship; arboretum; azna; Bajor; Bajoran (aka Bajora); Bajoran Provisional Government; Bajoran sector; Antares-class (Bajoran transport); Bajoran wormhole; bed; biological sample container; bioregenerative field; black market; botanist; business; Cardassian; cell; champagne; chopstick; chromatin; chromosome analysis; clone; collaborator; commander; "Comparative Xenobiology"; computer; confidence man; conflict of interest; court; crime; crook; culture; curriculum; dabo; daughter; Dax, Curzon; dinner; dissident; DNA; DNA sequence analysis; docking pylon; doctor; donor; drug; Earth; economics; education; electrophoretic analysis; Enterprise-D, USS; evidence; Federation; Federation survey ship; female; Ferengi; flower; forensics; freak; fricassee; friendship; Gamma Quadrant; Garanian bolite; gene-sequence degradation; genetic drift; grapevine; hair follicle; hand; hanging; heart; hero; holodeck; holosuite; host; Human; humanoid; Ibudan (second clone); jar; jazz; jumja; Juro Counterpunch; justice; Karo-Net; killer; Klingon opera; knife; Korris I; Kran-Tobol prison; law; Lauriento massage holoprogram 101A; law; massage facility; masseuse; matter reclamation unit; medical supplies; mentor; metabolic field energy; microscope; module; murder; music; neck; neural theta wave; nuisance; Occupation of Bajor; officer; ops; pail; passenger; payoff; perfume; personal calendar file; petri dish; philosophy; plant; power transfer grid; prison; Promenade; promotion; protein; puzzle; Quark's; quarters; recipe; regenerative cycle; relationship; replimat; report; rhythm; rollope; romance; rope; Ruji; Ruji twin sisters; Rujian Steeplechase; runabout; sauté; scene of the crime; school; school bell; schoolroom; scientist; scum; security chief; security office; semi-circle; seofurane; shapeshifter; shifter; ship's manifest; Sisko, Joseph; skin; space station; spectrograph; sphere; Starfleet; starship; steam; step; supper; sweep; teacher; test taster; thoracic vertebrae; tournament; transfer; Transit Aid Center; transporter; tree; tri-phasic cloning; Trill; turbolift; unnamed medical tool; ventricle; Vulcan science vessel; wager; water; Yadozi desert
Other references Edit
- Personal calendar files: Ahern; Alderaan Spaceport; Gocke; lifeboat drill; lunch; Moudakis; Santina, Della; subspace teleconference; tennis; Zarro
- Comparative Xenobiology: Deneb IV; Denebian slime devil; flying parasite; Excalbian; Horta; Iota Geminorium IV; Large Magellanic Cloud; Ornithoid life form; Regulan bloodworm; tribble
External links Edit
- "A Man Alone" at StarTrek.com, the official Star Trek website
- "A Man Alone" at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- "A Man Alone" at Wikipedia
- "A Man Alone" at IMDb
- "A Man Alone" at MissionLogPodcast.com, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast
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Don't apologize for the length. It took a long time for you to become immersed in religion and your story is so very typical. My son is an ex-tian as well and his story would read much the same I'm sure with only the details differing. I was a skeptic from earliest memory and put up with a log of religious BS until I shouted "ENOUGH"! I went from a hyper active agnostic to an atheist and it was all brought about by my missus, our son and daughter coercing me to attend a "Christian Fellowship" as it had to be a "family thing". Why that was they never explained. She remains as committed as ever, unfortunately.
I put up with it for a year in the mid 1980s and after I had seen the core of what Pentecosts believe I tossed the entire agnostic bit aside and outed myself as a full-on Atheist. In 1993 I moved to Fort Lauderdale, taking the missus with me and eventually our daughter. Our son had already married by then and he and his Menonite wife lived in Williamsport, PA. They eventually moved to Chicago.
While in Fort Lauderdale I was a volunteer at the James Randi Education Foundation and my missus hated it, blaming it and James Randi for my uncompromising Atheism. In 2003 we moved to Wise County, TX right into the heart of born-again Tea Party And and I detest it.
However, in 2004 our son and his family moved to Frisco, TX about 46-miles to our east and then his sister and her family moved from Mons, Belgium to within 3-miles from him a couple of years later so our two and their spouses and just as important our total 7 grandchildren are within an hour away.
the good news is that, just as I had predicted our son, who went to a bible college, where he met the girl that became his wife. I had always taught him to be honest in all dealings and more importantly intellectually honest with himself, and that is the way he lives and works and it has rewarded him in his personal and professional life. The good news is he eventually realized that what he was being told by the evangelical community of which he was a very active part did not square with what he saw each and every day and the obvious contradictions and outright lies drove him out. I had the extreme pleasure of having him tell me that he had "wasted 15-years of his life in that shit".
Now for an atheist father to finally hear that and know his son os free of all that crap and doG in particular is truly priceless.
Kristi, Loved the story. It gives me hope for those I know. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for sharing your story Kristy. I could relate to it a lot. Welcome to Think Atheist.
Thank you for that, Kristi. It was a very interesting read. Welcome to TA!
Woo hoo another ex-YWAMer! I did my DTS in Vancouver in Sept 2004, and my outreach in Morocco and Amsterdam in Jan 2005, then I was one of 4 people to start up the YWAM base in Portland in Sept. 2006. Pretty sure the base isn't there anymore. It didn't last long.
It's weird, I think, coming from a missionary background and into an atheist or agnostic perspective. How do you feel about the time you spent in missions? Personally, I really treasure my time as a missionary. I traveled the world, met tons of amazing people, and was able to actually help people in practical ways. I think back on it and the foolishness of all those prayer walks and group prayers and worship services and leading church services and everything...but all in all, I am glad I had those experiences. So I'm curious to know what your perspective is on it.


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Apartment Therapy is a home and decor site, designed to inspire anyone to live a more beautiful and happy life at home.
Launched in 2001 by interior designer Maxwell Ryan (nicknamed "the apartment therapist") as a weekly newsletter for clients, Apartment Therapy officially became a media company in 2004 and has since grown to become a leading source of design inspiration and tips for real people looking for real-life decor solutions through a fascinating look into how people from around the country live at home.
Through a combination of expert advice, shopping guides, and DIY how-to's, it's our mission to show how people are making their own homes more beautiful with unstaged and true-to-life tips and photos for range of budgets. Every day we feature a new House Tour – submitted directly by our readers showing real imagery (i.e. without professional styling and photography) of homes of all sizes and styles built on budgets big and small, to show the way we live today. Capturing the inspiring ideas and solutions in these one-of-a-kind spaces, along with the people and life that takes place within them, we show how our readers can create their favorite looks in their own homes.
We reach an engaged community of over 20 million across our website, newsletter and social media platforms. We've garnered millions of video views, produce over 125 pieces of original content every week, and have over 4 million followers on social platforms. We also launched Kitchn in 2005, to give you even more inspiration in one of our favorite rooms of the home.
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Twelve years ago, Maxwell Ryan was known as the "apartment therapist," traveling by scooter to his clients' homes to help them make their spaces beautiful, organized and healthy. Part interior designer, part life coach, his touchpoints were simplicity, comfort, and lack of clutter. Unlike typical designers, Maxwell didn't want to dictate where things should go or how people should live; he wanted to arm them with the tools and the confidence to decide for themselves.
Shortly after launching in 2001, he started a weekly email where he would send tips and recommendations to an increasing distribution list, combining education with decoration.
In April 2004, Maxwell, with his brother Oliver Ryan, launched Apartment Therapy, turning the weekly email into a daily blog post, reviewing stores, offering tips, posting photos of Maxwell's design projects, and answering readers' questions.
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When Congress passed the Dodd-Frank law in 2010, it included a little-noticed provision requiring financial companies and banks to provide greater disclosure to customers sending money overseas. Last week, the new rules took effect, guaranteeing consumers much-needed protections and greater transparency.
Until now, banks and money-transfer companies have been required to comply with federal laws aimed at curbing money laundering and fighting terrorism. But there have been no federal regulations in place mandating what they were required to disclose to consumers. It was pretty much left up to the individual companies to decide what information to provide.
Some voluntarily provided much of the information that is now federally mandated. Others, however, offered far less, and were able to build in hidden fees or to delay delivering the funds or to change currency at disadvantageous rates — all of which consumers only learned about after the fact.
Under the new provision, however, all companies are required to provide the same information up front to customers about the various fees and taxes they will be charged, as well as the exchange rate used at the time they wire the money. Additionally, the remittance providers must say how much money the recipient will get and guarantee that the funds will be available by a specific date. The new rules will be enforced by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, created as part of Dodd-Frank.
The changes may seem small, but remittances are a multibillion-dollar business. Last year, total remittances sent worldwide totaled more than $500 billion, according to Manuel Orozco, an expert at the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington research group. About 25% of that money was sent from the United States, much of it by immigrants to relatives in Mexico, China, India and elsewhere.
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Now, speaking for Romney (or Obama)
What's behind the rise of the 'surrogate'
As the Obama and Romney campaign engines kick into high gear for these final days before the election, everywhere you look are politicians, pundits, and celebrities speaking not just in praise of the candidates, but on behalf of them. They're in the "spin rooms" at the debates, on the Sunday morning talk shows, and out on the campaign trail. Notably, these ubiquitous folks are no longer referred to as plain old backers of the candidate. In 2012, these people are "surrogates."
The job of surrogates is to make special-interest pleas, to do the partisan sniping that the candidates themselves might want to avoid, and to allow the candidates to spread their messages widely. And some indubitably have approval from the top to do just that. The omnipresent Bill Clinton has come to be known as Obama's "surrogate-in-chief." Likewise, when New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is tagged as a surrogate on talk-show appearances, surely the Romney campaign has given him the green light.
But what about people less likely to be working in concert with the candidates, but whose remarks the opposing campaign might simply like to pin on them? When Hilary Rosen, a lobbyist and Democratic pundit, said on CNN in April that Ann Romney "has never worked a day in her life," the Romney campaign worked overtime to brand Rosen an Obama surrogate. Nothing would make Democrats happier, meanwhile, than to cast rocker Ted Nugent, who has used ultraviolent language in denouncing Obama, as a trusted Romney surrogate — as Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz has described him. Los Angeles Times opinion writer Jon Healey took issue with that characterization. "Just because someone given to spewing cartoonish hatred endorses a candidate," Healey wrote, "that doesn't make him a 'surrogate' or a representative of any kind."
Why are we calling people "surrogates" who in past years would have been known as "supporters"? It's not just a change in label, after all: The words have fundamentally different roots and associations. And the shift from the straightforward "supporter" to the more loaded "surrogate" says a lot about how the political game has evolved.
The word "surrogate" has its roots in classical Latin: The verb surrogare or subrogare originally meant "to put in the place of someone else," as when new elected officials were substituted for old ones. In the very first monolingual dictionary of English, Robert Cawdrey's 1604 "A Table Alphabeticall," "surrogate" is defined as "a deputy in another's place." But until recently, speaking out in favor of a candidate didn't make you a surrogate: It made you an "advocate," a "supporter," a "partisan," or a "booster."
How did "surrogate" become, well, a surrogate for these other terms? We owe the word's modern campaign usage to Richard Nixon, and, of all people, a talented wordsmith who worked for him: William Safire. "In the Nixon campaign of 1968," Safire later wrote in his "On Language" column for The New York Times Magazine, "we were looking around for an important-sounding word for the person who was asked to stand in for the candidate on occasions not important enough for the presence of the candidate himself." The staffers shot down various alternatives: "substitute was pejorative; pinch-hitter, too informal; stand-in, too theatrical. But surrogate sounded vaguely legal and dignified, and we went with it."
An Aug. 17, 1968, article in The New York Times explained that "the 'surrogate' device is intended to take some of the crushing burden of campaigning off Mr. Nixon himself and permit him to concentrate on key states." In a sense, having surrogates instead of plain old supporters meant a replicant-like power to be everywhere at once. And some of these body doubles would go on to their own starring roles. Among Nixon's original surrogates were California Governor Ronald Reagan, Texas Congressman George H.W. Bush, and Illinois Congressman Donald Rumsfeld.
In one case, two Nixon surrogates even produced a child who would one day need his own stand-ins. In Nixon's reelection campaign against George McGovern in 1972, two highly effective surrogates were none other than Mitt Romney's parents. George Romney, then secretary of housing and urban development, was a top Nixon surrogate that year; Mitt's mother, Lenore Romney, was also seen as a valuable surrogate, both as the former first lady of Michigan and because of her own political experience running for the US Senate in 1970. (After a falling out with Nixon that summer, the Romneys' surrogacy was curtailed.)
Even then, the "surrogate" label was not entirely cut and dry. The Washington Post noted that there were 35 official surrogates for Nixon, but countless others who spoke for him less formally. The Post referred to these unofficial Nixon speakers as "non-surrogates."
Four decades later, no one bothers to separate official surrogates from non- or quasi-surrogates. In this media-heavy age, it's clear why the candidates would want campaign proxies that let them essentially have more than one conversation at a time. But the shift toward thinking of nearly any partisan as a "surrogate" rather than the old-fashioned "supporter" is emblematic of a deeper confusion in the political sphere. As Super PACs create a blizzard of new spending that helps Obama or Romney without technically coordinating with their campaigns, who can tell what speech is authorized by a candidate and what is not?
The victim, of course, is the voter, who is left with a welter of claims and counterclaims about the candidates' positions, with no easy way to determine who speaks for whom. It might not be surprising that we're suddenly watching a free-for-all in which anyone can be said to be channeling the candidate. But it certainly makes for a bewildering race.
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Montafon Banked Slalom
Click on the Links below to find some Pics and the Video Recap of this years Banked Slalom!!
Pics by Felix Pirker
Pics by Rudi Whylidal
Video Recap by Sebi Madlener
Registration starts today (March 6th) 8pm via Mail ( Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist gegen Spambots geschützt! JavaScript muss aktiviert werden, damit sie angezeigt werden kann. ) --> send us a mail with your NAME, AGE, SEX & CATEGORY (Open, Pro, >40 Masters, <15 Youngsters)
First 160 get a spot on our starting list. You will receive an answer tomorrow evening (March 7th)!!
Next one coming up! Registration - March 6th 2019 @ 20:00 on this site! Better be quick to grab one of the 160 spots!
As usual First come First served. If you are too late you end up on the waiting list and we do our best to keep you updated about any change in the starters list.
!! Registration is closed !! If you still want to register for the waiting list you can do so --> Send a mail with your name and age to Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist gegen Spambots geschützt! JavaScript muss aktiviert werden, damit sie angezeigt werden kann.
Thanks everybody for registering! You guys are awesome!!
Registration is on!! As usual, ignore the stuff it says just fill out the registration form and you will receive an email from us asap!
Psyched for the next edition! Registration starts on 10th of march at 8pm (20.00) right HERE on the website!
160 spots for 160 bank hungry riders! Better be quick...
We are proud to present our new poster. And YES you can win 2 spots for the Legendary Mt. Baker Banked Slalom!!
Click the poster below for all important information!
Next Montafon Banked Slalom --> 24.03.2018
Registration WAS Online!!
160 spots gone in no time... A big, big thank you to every single one of you! See you soon!!
Everybody who signed in is soon gonna receive an Email with information if you made it or not!
Again: If you did not make it on the list you are on the waiting list and can still eventually grab a spot later on!
Also you can still sign in for the waiting list via a mail to info@montafonbanked containing your name & date of birth
Fill out the Registration form. We will receive an email from you and are gonna answer as soon as possible!
The first 160 racers make it on the start list, everyone else will be on the waiting list and still has the chance to eventually grab a spot later on!!
NOTE: Ignore the information from the registration form, it is not up to date! Just fill in the imporant information: name, date of birth,...
Good Luck & hopefully see you on in the Banks!
Less than one month to go! We hope you are as excited as we are and can't wait to register!
Registration will be online here on this website from March 11th, 20:00 on! As usual: First come First served!
Overall Winners can win 2 Spots for the Legendary Mt. Baker Banked Slalom in 2018!
For more Information Click the Flyer below or look under INFO
Next Montafon Banked Slalom on 25th of march 2017!!
Click HERE to see what went down last year!
The Montafon Banked Slalom 2016 is a wrap! And man, what a gathering it was. Almost 200 participants and their friends got together last saturday. The weather could not have been any better and so everybody got banked and baked!
We want to thank every single one of the people who were there! It was an awesome day and we've seen many, many happy faces...
Results are already online, more pics and video are following soon!
Another quick registration went down yesterday evening. Thanks everybody! Every spot got it's name and we can't wait to see you all soon!!
The registration will remain open for people to sign in for the waiting list to eventually grab a spot!
Next Montafon Banked Slalom 19.03.2016
To participate you have to register online. Registration for the 6th Montafon Banked Slalom will be online on this website on sunday 06.03.16 at 20:00
Check out the poster below for more information about this years race!
Registration is closed! If you did not get a spot for the 5th Montafon Banked Slalom you can still write us a Mail and sign in for the waiting list.
If someone drops out you may drop in!
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You can register via the registration form. We will receive a Mail with you're data. There is no automatic answer so it will take a bit until you get one back ;)
!!! Registration for the 5th Montafon Banked Slalom will be online on this website on sunday 08.03.15 at 20:00 !!!
!!! Registration for the 5th Montafon Banked Slalom will be online on this website on sunday 08.03.15 at 20:00 !!!
Revolving around banked turns, a few beers, and good friends, the Montafon Banked Slalom celebrates snowboarding's roots and our love for sliding sideways! Join Deeluxe for the fifth year of this classic event on March 21st, 2015.
More Information as soon as possible.
Stay Banked!
Another edition of the Montafon Banked Slalom went down and thanks to all the amazing people, the gnarly course and nevertheless the (again) perfect weather it was a blast. We want to thank all the people who were part of this experience. Special thanks go to everyone that was working or helping on the event including our sponsors and media partners!
To see and enjoy some pictures and the video of this years edition follow the links:
This year we are going to present you two local rock bands!
First the DIRTY WIDOWS are gonna rock straight after the race around 16.30 in the 'Näscht' Bar. Later at the party you can enjoy some more good music with the band MINDS GARDEN at the 'Schmuggler-Bar'.
As the registrations are done i think some of you will have to find a place to stay!
Depending on what exactly you are looking for we can recommend you following hotels/pensions that are offering special conditions for Banked Riders:
If you are looking for something else please contact the Gargellen tourist office:
Tourismusbüro Gargellen
A-6787 Gargellen
Tel: +43 5558 8201 300
Fax: +43 5557 6690
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Registration already closed!!! We are checking all registrations and you will receive an email with further information!! Thanks guys you are awesome!
For everyone who could not register --> Maybe some spots will be available again so keep checking our website and facebook!
Today at 8pm (20.00) registration is on!
Please only register if you really intend to race! After we received your registration we will send you a confirmation mail. This doesn't work automatically so please understand if it will take some time!
If you are confirmed and find out that you can not come during the next two weeks, please let us know as soon as possible to give other people the chance to race.
We are excited to receive your registrations and to see you soon!
Check out this years flyer!
Online registration starts on 16th of march 8pm (20.00)!
Save the date for the 4th Montafon Banked Slalom: 29.03.2014
More infos coming soon!
Thanks everyone for having a great time together! The 3rd Montafon Banked Slalom was super fun!
Results are online. Pics will be following...
Just found out that we have got to change some names on the list: fredi asper = fredrik austbo; jason von rhythm = jason horton; rhythm diem = stian solberg.
In order to the enormous rush on the registrations we have got some news for all competitors!
We have now 110 registered competitors. We are stoked! That leads to a very tight time schedule. Please make sure you are early engough to get your number.
Inscription for all registered riders starts 8am at the lift station. Race starts 10.30!! If you want to check out the course before that come early.
We will try to offer anyone to have two runs. But because of the numerous racers we are not able to promise this is possible. The decision how many riders can do a second run will be taken at the race.
Wooooohoooooo..... half an hour, registration closed!
Thanks Folks! And sorry for everyone who could not sign in!
march 2013
Hi Everybody, long time no see! Next Montafon Banked Slalom --> 6th April 2013!!!
Registration will start on 1st of april at 8pm so you will have to wait a little bit longer!
Meanwhile check out the new teaser --> Click HERE!
Then this year we will be able to offer you a tourist package (race fee + Lift ticket + accomodation). Exact Details will be posted during the next days!!
Also new is our Bank Slash Contest supported by Rhythm where you can show your snow-surfing skills!
Registration is closed!!
Due to numberous registrations we had to close the online-registration now.
If you are stll interested in participating at the race you have the opportunity to register on site as far as some places get released.
Aufgrund der zahlreichen Anmedlungen wurde die Online-Anmeldung geschlossen.
Sollte trotzdem großes Interesse bestehen, am Rennen teilzunehmen, kannst du dein Glück vor Ort probieren: Werden Plätze frei, können diese am Tag der Veranstaltung vergeben werden.
First comes first serves!!!
Whoever is still looking for some accomodation contact the tourist office:
Tourismusbüro Gargellen
A-6787 Gargellen
Tel +43 5558 8201 300
Fax +43 5557 6690
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Registration is closed!
Thank you to those who have registered to join us!
Registration is on!!!
Don't forget about the registration. Starts on the 17th at 6pm!
Hey everybody! Hope you are all doing well and you are getting excited for the 2nd Montafon Banked Slalom!
Facts are updated and the registration will be available from the 17th on. Again 80 Riders! First come first serves!!
Montafon Banked Slalom 31.03.2012 from DEELUXE Visual Films on Vimeo.
Find us on Facebook --> here
2nd Montafon Banked Slalom is gonna be on 31st of march!!
Detailed Information and online registration coming soon...
hello everybody!
first montafon banked slalom is over! it was a amazing weekend with
friends! the weather god was gracious to us. temperatures around 15
degrees made people from all over the world feel comfortable. you
could see on everybodies faces how much fun they had with the racing
track! the crowd was amazed by the action and enjoyed the nice
atmosphere. they had the chance to see all kind of riders from their
best friends to the worlds best snowboarders! an ice cold beer at the
apres banked session made everyone happy and ready for the awards
ceremony at night. Nice and funky music, drinks and goodies showed the
spirit of the montafon banked slalom and made it a great event.
a spezial thx to all of our helpers, racers as well as our main
sponsor deeluxe and all of the other sponsors: ride, 686, hook,
skullcandy, dvs, pirates, fohrenburg, carpemedia, ski & snowboardschool
gargellen & skiresort gargellen!
winners are:
1. Markus Schairer (AUT)
2. Samuel Rudigier (AUT)
3. Lukas Mathies (AUT)
1. Nicola Thost (GER)
2. Martine Veldhoen (NL)
3. Britt Berghuis (NL)
stay banked for the next year!
What a f***ing great day it was!! Thanks to everyone for this memorable event!
Everything worked very well. No Injuries, nice athmosphere very nice people around!
More pictures are coming soon and the rank list as well!!
If someone has pictures you are more than welcome to send it to me.
Enjoy the rest of the season and hope to see all of you next year!!
No more than a few days!
Weather forecast is good and we are working on the course!
Looking forward to the weekend
Maximum number of 80 racers reached.
The online-registration is closed now!!!
Only 4 more registrations and we are full!!
I will post the next news when the list is full :)
so stoked!
Number of competitors is already up to 69!
So nice to see that people are keen for this race!
Thanks to all who signed in and to the last 11 left!
so far we've got 59 men, 10 women and 0 kids competing
And not to forget - Kids are welcome!
It's all about fun!
On 2nd of april we're going to race through a natural basin, man-made course, "Old School Style"! The course is set up in Gargellen at Schafberg and the race starts at 10:00 am. Riders of all ages, rookies and experts, can show their skills.
Early this season I realized that there are so many talents out there. It would be cool to bring some of them together in a true snowboard event which is not about freestyle or freeriding but snowboarding. In some conversation Marco "Fichtl" Feichtner came up with the idea of a banked slalom and I immediately knew what to do. So here we go now. Hope to see you there.
As we have a maximum number of 80 competitors please make sure to register in advance on our website (Registration)
ride on
What is a Banked Slalom?
Big up to Mt. Baker!!


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Moving Around on the Martian Surface
Our first rover to visit Mars, Sojourner, traveled about 100 meters (109 yards) over an entire month. The next two rovers to visit Mars, the Mars Exploration Rovers, will land on different parts of the planet. Both twins are also expected to have the ability to rove approximately 1 kilometer (about six-tenths of a mile) over the duration of their mission. Future rovers may travel over several miles on the surface, allowing us to move from a safe landing site to investigate surface features that are currently too difficult to access.
One approach to long-range mobility is inflatable rovers, which would use very large, inflatable wheels to climb over rocks, instead of traveling around them. This would allow inflatable rovers to travel much farther and faster than current rovers. These rovers are only inflated after arrival on the Mars surface. Prior to inflation, they are lighter and, when deflated, can be packed in a much smaller volume than a conventional rover of the same physical size. When deployed, the inflatable rover is approximately 50 times its packed volume, whereas a conventional rover is only two or three times bigger than when packed.
Rovers will also increasingly rely on smart technologies to know where they are, where they want to go, and which soil and rock samples are worth studying and collecting.
Future rovers may also have adjustable shoulders that allow them to drop low to the ground or elevate themselves to navigate through a gully or crater. They will no doubt conduct more sophisticated experiments, such as using ground-penetrating radar studies, to search for evidence of water.
Future rovers will also travel locations where they can rendezvous with other surface vehicles. Eventually, teams of robotic rovers might even work together to build an infrastructure of robotic colonies, laying the groundwork for human visits and human bases. Thus, if human exploration is indeed possible on the Red Planet one day, it will be robotic rovers that pave the way.


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Cutting Board - Mimi's Kitchen Unconditional Love - Engraved
¾" Alder Wood 16" x 11" Cutting Board with Trencher on reverse side.
The cutting board is double sided; one side is engraved and can be displayed in your kitchen, the other side is the functional side used for food preparation. The board is treated with food grade mineral oil / cutting board oil prior to you receiving it.
Each piece of wood has individual characteristics of its' own. Colors and grain patterns vary from board to board so while what you see on our site is an actual board that has been processed, what you receive may vary from this sample.
A cutting board should never be submerged in water, it should be lightly washed with warm soapy water and dried immediately. Instructions for maintaining your board are included with your purchase.
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Birch Point Park
Thunderbay, Ontario 1 course · 18 holes
Course reviews
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+1 votes Vern Lepine › June 21, 2011
Birch Point Park is a beautiful park with 18 hole disc golf course with huge pines that make it challenging try to avoid them they will swallow your discs, there are flight lines for both both righty and lefties and there are some short holes and many
long holes to bomb it out there or even roll it.Thunderbay course is fun to play, with good balanced holes for eveyone. Nice baskets, tee numbers in the ground sucked.
long holes to bomb it out there or even roll it.Thunderbay course is fun to play, with good balanced holes for eveyone. Nice baskets, tee numbers in the ground sucked.
+1 votes Chris Roy › February 24, 2013
It's my home course, so I'm a little biased, but it really is perfect. The new tee pads and signs are a nice upgrade and will help first timers with the holes that aren't visible from the tees. Can't get enough of this beautiful course, and it's especially nice around sunset.
+1 votes Doug Reid › October 6, 2014
Love this course!
+0 votes Richard Levine › August 28, 2013
I live in Florida, so I was from out-of-town on vacation. This is an absolutely beautiful course with a magnificent lake, mature trees, and nice layout. I had a blast playing, and my wife spotted for me. My only very small negative was finding the park. I thought I could drive around the south end of the lake and come up the east side, but it didn't work for me. I had to go around the west side and come back down the east side. Longer, but it worked. If you are on vacation and see Kakabeka Falls (also amazing), take the time to play this disc golf course. It was worth it.
+0 votes Tom Pickett › May 29, 2013
Great course with plenty of trees to make it challenging. A few holes are alongside Boulevard Lake for even more challenges. Plenty of wet discs on these holes if you are not careful / accurate. Usually no waiting but course is becoming more popular every year. Nice concrete tee-offs with hole # and yardage diagram posted beside each. Beautiful setting.
+0 votes Gary Duke › May 12, 2016
Amazing scenery! fun course


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Scotty McCreery Resolves to Kick His Fast Food Habit in 2013
Scotty McCreery is a southern boy who loves down-home cookin', but with the new year in full swing, the 'Water Tower Town' singer reveals that cutting out quick junk food is at the top of his New Year's resolution list in 2013.
"I really should lay off the fast food," McCreery says of his diet changes. "I want to stay healthy!"
The North Carolina State University freshman looks as though he dodged the infamous 'Freshman 15,' but the singer admits that balancing act between career and school is much harder than he had anticipated.
"I've been studying nonstop. But it was a lot tougher than I was anticipating going into it," says the superstar. "When I was doing this in high school, balancing it all was nothing. But college was definitely a huge step. I've had to learn how to study again."
2013 is shaping up to be another exceptionally busy year for the college coed, who is currently in the studio working on the follow-up to his 2011 platinum-selling debut disc, 'Clear as Day.' McCreery will resume his touring responsibilities in February, with dates scheduled through October.


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The good news for the Dolphins was that rookie quarterback Ryan Tannehill got through his starting debut without a turnover, and actually got them into the end zone.
The bad news is that he was nearly the extent of the good news.
The Dolphins had some serious issues last night at Carolina, primarily on the side of the ball they thought they'd be able to lean on.
Playing without Cameron Wake, Karlos Dansby and Kevin Burnett, the Dolphins defense allowed 295 yards in the first half to the Panthers starters.
"Our first defense hasn't got off the field in preseason yet," Dolphins coach Joe Philbin said at halftime, via Dave Hyde of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
As concerning is the fact the Dolphins didn't give Tannehill nearly enough help.
There may not be a starting receiver on the roster, although they'll have to roll out a pair of them. Legedu Naanee has been said to have had a good camp, but he showed no evidence of appearing in the stadium in which he played for the Panthers last year. Likewise, Roberto Wallace failed to assert himself, and there were several drops.
As they begin to actually game plan, both should stabilize. The defense isn't going to get strafed like last night when Wake returns, and occasionally running the ball when not trying to evaluate a rookie quarterback will open some things up.
But at the moment, playing said rookie quarterback appears to be the least of their problems.


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Sorry for not being active recently in truth it's been over a month since I painted anything, my mind is elsewhere and Oronegro has been put on hold. I will return! that much I can say, perhaps at the university I can join a club and maybe do some painting. but not for a while will I do anything substantial that much is for sure.
apparently I am not following anyone according to blogger which is annoying as I wanted to see some of what I have missed. also I cancelled my storage plan with Google so I have no idea if or when photo's uploaded onto the extra space will be deleted. again a real shame and not one I am happy about. I hope to get to view some of your blogs again. I hope also to one day revive Oronegro perhaps in a different way, perhaps focusing more on the realistic elements than the fictional ones. But most of all I want to keep in this hobby! I have loads of models, figures and kits that need to be made and one day I will come and put them together and paint them up.
so this is not goodbye although perhaps for the short term. certainly it feels like I have said goodbye after walking out the door with all these weeks of inactivity. So to leave you I shall just put together a small collection of images that cover my time here.
|Me, Miles and Trent respectively on our trip up to the Pinnacles.
|me last year when I got the principals award
|the Leopard 2 A6 my favorite tank, one of my favorite models also
|sunrise of table mountain in the Coromandel
|a recent get together of all Oronegrean forces
|the fearsome blue T-90A a cool tank
|some 18th century Oronegro stuff, fun and a nice break from Modern Oronegro
|the ships Anne, Paul and Peter, names shared both by some of my family members and followers of my blog
|the mighty pirate ship the Abigail
|named after my sister
|who is also in this photo, she is enjoying her first few weeks of high school right now
|My dog Oscar enjoying one of his walks. I'll miss taking him out everyday, when I am at university
|one of the many print outs I did for my projects
|my attempts at sculpting
|The Germans
|an outdoor game that I played what seems like an eternity ago
|my first sculpt
|one of my first war-games and one that made it onto the blog... solo play sadly as I only played 1 game with another person and I was on their side as they had no clue what to do.
|Argentina! this trip is what lead to Oronegro certainly. it would not have been a South/Central American imagi-nation otherwise
|some of the people who went on the trip. many of them are off to University this year also.
|the Teatro Colon, very beautiful place
|sunset on las Pampas
|Me, in a tree, as you can see
|another sunset shot in Argentina
|and one more Argentina photo for good measure.
|ah the tournament grounds I made so long ago!
|one of the knights
|some Russian knights as well
|My very first 1/72 scale model! (which I painted)
|some Romans
|A better shot of my first photo on the blog
|my first blog photo!
So long
have fun
live well
I'm off
I will return
in my own time
goodbye everyone, blogger let me enter a kind and helpful community and although I do not know when I shall rejoin it, let me say that each member of the community I met so far has been great to know and I regret not getting to know you all better and seeing more of your work.
but it's not like me to end on a sour not so here's some Monty Python to brighten up the mood
incidentally this is my 160th post as well


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The Rules
1. All runners will compete in 5 or more qualifying races.
2. Overall scoring will be based on age-graded performance factors as determined by USA Track and Field.
3. Averages will be calculated by Score This!!! and will be official Mueller Challenge results.
4. All Score This!!! and any other qualifying road races* count in a runner's score.
5. Your average score is an average of the actual percentage of age factor performance.
6. The schedule of events and the dates of these events as outlined on the Score This!!! site are tentative. You should check the Score This!!! website to make sure of dates, times and Mueller Challenge status and standings.
7. Prize money can be paid in the form of gift cards to students (i.e., with current college eligibility).
8. A runner must have completed in at least 5 races through the 2015 Mueller Mile to be eligible for calculations.


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Bero - Be the Robot
Robot Roll Call: Bero!
- Bluetooth-controlled, open-source robot
- Infrared optical navigation system for autonomous navigation
- Open source - get updates from anyone
Sure you get the fortress and the nice cape, but hands-down the best thing about being an evil overlord is the minions. You get to tell other humans what to do. Well, we do that already, but they're required to listen if you're an evil overlord. For those of you still working on your maniacal laughter, pick up a Bero, and it's like you have one tiny minion to try out this whole evil overlord thing.
He's open-source, which means you can do anything you want with him, but like a good minion, he comes pre-programmed to drive around, move his arms and head, play back sound files, dance to music, and react to smart device notifications. He's compatible with any Bluetooth 2.0-enabled smart device, so iPhones, iPads, Android devices, and a Bero app for easier programming exists for both iOS and Android. But if you're the taking-over-the-world kind, you're probably ready to strike out on your own and see what all you can make him do. Go for it. He's your minion. He's here to serve you.
Product Specifications
- Bluetooth-controlled, open-source robot
- White or black - it's a surprise!
- Tank-style caterpillar tracks
- Compatible with iPhones, iPads, Android - any Bluetooth 2.0-enabled smart device
- Comes pre-programmed to drive around, move arms and head, play back sound files, dance to music, and react to smart device notifications
- Micro gearbox motors including:
- Left track motion drive for moving around
- Right track motion drive for moving around
- Left arm with analog position sensor
- Right arm with analog position sensor
- Head turning left and right with analog position sensor
- 6 LEDs in the eyes
- 2 LEDs for the headphones (can light up to music)
- Infrared optical navigation system for autonomous navigation (2 IR transmitters, 1 IR receiver - detection range 3" - 5")
- Battery: 500mAh LiPo rechargeable (3-5 hours of normal use, charges via mini USB port)
- Onboard advanced system on a chip (SOC) with updateable firmware, and updates, stored in onboard FLASH memory for taking care of low level program routines
- SD Card slot for program low level program routine updates and for storing motion tables and program instructions
- Onboard speaker
- Included: one white or black Bero, SD card
- Dimensions: 4" tall


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call the ACL2 theorem prover's simplifier
Major Section: PROOF-CHECKER-COMMANDS
Examples: reduce -- attempt to prove the current goal without using induction (reduce ("Subgoal 2" :by foo) ("Subgoal 1" :use bar)) -- attempt to prove the current goal without using induction, with the indicated hintsAttempt to prove the current goal without using induction, using the indicated hints (if any). A subgoal will be created for each goal that would have been pushed for proof by induction in an ordinary proof.
General Form: (reduce &rest hints)
Notice that unlike
prove, the arguments to
reduce are spread out,
and are all hints.
Reduce is similar to
bash in that neither of these allows induction.
bash only allows simplification, while
reduce allows processes
generalize, and
Note: Induction will be used to the extent that it is ordered
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A major grant to Hope College from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will provide scholarship aid to community-college students who are interested in continuing their education in the sciences at Hope.
The $528,994 award is providing scholarships for a multi-year program for students who transfer to the college to complete four-year degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. The program's focus is on assisting students while also helping to address the national need for people prepared for STEM careers.
"Hope College STEM graduates have historically gone on to become national leaders in STEM research and education," said Dr. Catherine Mader, professor of physics, who is one of three faculty co-principal investigators of the grant. "This program provides opportunities for students with limited financial means to develop the skills needed to be successful STEM leaders without relying heavily on loans."
It is the second time that Hope has received a major grant from the NSF to provide scholarship support for community-college students seeking to continue their STEM education beyond their two-year programs. Hope received a similar grant in 2007.
The new Hope program will provide scholarships of up to $10,000 per year to seven or eight transferring students each year, with the scholarships renewable for a second year for each student who meets eligibility requirements. The first set of students has already arrived on campus and is participating in summer collaborative research in advance of starting coursework in the fall, with additional groups to be supported through the program beginning in 2013 and 2014.
The scholarship awards will be based on financial need as based on the results of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) and the Hope College Supplemental Application for Financial Aid (SAF). The scholarship recipients will also have to demonstrate successful progress towards a STEM degree.
In addition to receiving scholarship support, each student will have the opportunity to participate in summer collaborative research full-time with a member of the Hope faculty, ideally during the summer before beginning coursework at the college. Approximately 180 students engage in summer research in the sciences at Hope each year.
The students will also be aided in their transition to Hope through the FACES peer-mentoring program. Established in 2010, FACES (Fostering A Community of Excellence in Science at Hope College) began as a resource for freshmen who are members of groups traditionally underrepresented in the sciences. FACES pairs students with upperclassmen who share the benefit of their experience with Hope and also offers seminars, career counseling and other activities. The program will expand to help meet the needs of transfer students.
"That's a nice addition, that we've been able to take advantage of this new program to provide support for these students as they make the transition to Hope College," said Mader, whose co-principal investigators are Anna Bonnema, who is the FACES at Hope mentoring program director, and Dr. Herbert Dershem, who is professor of computer science and director of institutional research, and was also principal investigator of the initial initiative for community-college transfer students. "I think the connection to FACES is going to strengthen our program quite a lot."
In addition to the new and prior scholarship programs, Hope also previously served as a resource for community-college students as a partner institution in a 2007-11 program of the City Colleges of Chicago, also funded by the NSF, which provided research experiences at select colleges, including Hope, for students attending several two-year Chicago-area institutions.
The new scholarships are available to any students transferring to Hope after completing work at a two-year college. Hope is building in particular on relationships established with two-year institutions through the previous programs and other collaborative efforts, including Grand Rapids Community College, Henry Ford Community College, Kalamazoo Valley Community College, Kellogg Community College, Lansing Community College, Muskegon Community College, Northwestern Michigan College and the City Colleges of Chicago.


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Unkle Ho is not really an uncle, not yet anyway. And no he ain't a ho either. Although he is a bit of a ho to his music making machines, and not enough of a ho to his girlfriend. He is slightly obsessed with music and is has often said that he will make beats till he drops dead.
He has been writing electronic music since '96, in the heady days of the tracker revolution. In 2005, after threatening to do so for many years, Unkle Ho finally released his first initial debut solo album 'Roads to Roma'. Yes, it took him bloody long enough.
Unkle Ho wasn't sitting on his hands the whole time though. He was invited to submit a song for a compilation called 'Cursive Writing' back in '98. Those who are familiar with Elefant lore will know that this was the first Elefant Traks release. Unkle Ho was called Killswitch back then, however due to threats from metal band Killswitch Engage that they would send CDs to him, he changed his name to Switch, 4switchit and then finally to the very original non-liable name Unkle Ho.
Unkle had just finished uni by then and was awarded a short scholarship with centrelink. Traksewt roped him into doing odd jobs for the newly created Elefant Traks label, as well has flyer, poster, CD, website and Flash stuff that Unkle is still trying to get his head around.
In 2001, Elefant Traks the label decided that they were sick of releasing compilations. So the idea was hatched to release a collaboration album imaginatively called 'The Herd'. Three albums in, The Herd is the most successful artist on the label. Which is a bit of a relief because The Herd run the label and have big egos.
Unkle is neck deep in many aspects of life as a Herder. He samples, produces, records and tech-solves, he also complains a lot about his workload especially the day before mastering. He also performs on a laptop and MPC pads with this crazy 9-piece hip hop frankenstein of a band.
Unkle lived in the Czech Republic in 2000 for a few months with fellow Herder Bezerkatron. This is the place where Unkle got Gypsy fever and he is determined to get Gypsy/Romani music the attention it deserves. Although he is not sure that being a Taiwanese/Chinese immigrant has anything to do with it, Unkle is also lover of music all over the globe, especially if they are in minor scales. His strategy for world peace is to write a song that has every culture in the world represented, so people will drop their guns and dance till they can't dance no more.
Unkle uses samples in most of his music. Anyone who says that sampling isn't music should not raise this issue with him. Anyway, he dabbles around with various instruments, but lack of musicianship has never stopped him from writing songs, nor should it stop anyone else. He does actually perform with a real musician called Senator Jim who plays trumpet, accordian, theramin, melodica and runs it all through fancy-like effects.
Unkle has released his second album 'Circus Maximus' in 2007. He is busy working on the next Herd album, but is doing the odd show around the traps.read more