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Concord Pacific has unveiled plans for a new neighbourhood of 1,300 condominiums in eight buildings by the northern end of Cambie Bridge near BC Place.
Part of the downtown's new sports and entertainment district, the neighbourhood is being called False Creek Central.
The area includes a new $535-million casino, hotel and entertainment complex being built next to BC Place by Paragon Gaming Corp. Last week, Paragon announced it has revamped its proposal for the project, which included no plans to expand gambling. Paragon proposed to relocate Edgewater Casino at its existing size.
The development proposal is significant both in size — as one of the largest in the city's history — and in meaning, according to architect and planner Michael Geller.
"Over 30 years ago (the area) was talked about being landscaped with buildings and now it's happening," Geller said, recalling that plans to complement BC Place with living spaces had been floated since the stadium's unveiling in the early 1980s.
Geller said that although the project is only half the size of the proposed 2,800 unit redevelopment of Oakridge Centre at Cambie and 41st, it is nonetheless "one of the largest development phases anywhere in Vancouver."
He added that the proposal should be viewed as just one part of the broader north shore of False Creek development, a massive project that he said has produced "a very successful community" despite early concerns that the area would be too dense.
"It's a location that's not for everybody by virtue of the general level of noise and activity," Geller said, "but I would agree with Concord Pacific that there will definitely be a significant market (demand)."
But, Geller added, the project could compound an already high demand for seats in nearby schools and may inconvenience stadium event goers who park in the area.
Concord Pacific's first building at False Creek Central is One Pacific, a condo development with more than 400 units. Marketing for the project is expected to start later this month.
The project includes building better cycling and walking connections from downtown to the seawall and the Cambie Bridge. As well, Smithe Street will be lengthened and connected to Pacific Boulevard.
Concord announced the new development Wednesday at its renovated presentation centre on the seawall side of Pacific Boulevard.
Peter Webb, Concord's senior vice-president of development, said his company has a 25-year history of building neighbourhoods in the area.
"We are community builders," he told the media "It's about master planning and neighbourhood design."
In a separate interview, Webb said not all eight buildings in False Creek Central have been fully approved by the city. All the necessary city development steps would take two to five years, he estimated, with final build out occurring by 2023.
The city has a policy of setting aside one-fifth of all housing in the area for low-income residents. In 2011, only six of 15 sites in the area had been developed with social housing for a total percentage of 13 per cent, according to a previous story in The Vancouver Sun.
Webb said Concord is working with the city on providing social housing.
"Right now, there are a couple of sites that have non-market housing, as it's referred to, designated on them," he said.
"Our feeling is that the city will probably be proactive in working with finding a blended solution …."
One solution, he said, could include giving the city a site for social housing on the Downtown Eastside so Concord wouldn't have to build its equivalent in False Creek Central. The site under consideration is 58 West Hastings, the vacant lot with an urban garden across from Army & Navy.
Fern Jeffries, co-chair of the False Creek Residents Association, said she was "shocked" when she saw Concord Pacific's plans for False Creek Central in the media.
She said despite being part of the Joint Working Group with Concord, the developer never mentioned anything about False Creek Central at any monthly meeting.
Jeffries said residents are still waiting for Concord Pacific to deliver on creating a 3.6 hectare (nine acre) park on False Creek from Carrall Street to Science World, where its presentation centre is located.
"The local neighbourhood association wasn't invited to Concord's media event," she said. "Even though we've been on the same working group for six years, they hadn't bothered to inform us or seek any advice or feedback.
"Concord may be a great builder of community. Clearly, they're not very good at communicating with the existing residents. It took us by surprise for sure."
She questioned Concord's plan to build 1,300 units but said she didn't have enough details to comment further on the area's proposed density.
Webb said he expected prices to be about $600 to $700 a square foot in False Creek Central. A 1,000-foot condo, he said, would be priced at about $700,000.
"It is not front row — it is second row," he said. "It is not the actual waterfront, which attracts a much higher dollar. In the realm of Concord Pacific product over the years, this would be in the affordable category within our spectrum."


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The ratio of distressed sales among all residential real estate transactions continues to shrink across Southwest Florida -- especially the bank foreclosures that have long plagued the market.
As total home sales soared to post-bubble highs in 2012, the number of foreclosures and short sales waned, a trend that should accelerate price appreciation regionwide.
"There's still a lot of distress in Sarasota that needs to be dealt with," said Daren Blomquist, vice president of RealtyTrac. "But the bank-owned foreclosures are going down, and those tend to be the most disruptive to the market."
Lenders also have turned increasingly to short sales -- rather than foreclosures -- as the preferred method for handling defaults, another vast shift from the peak of the housing crisis, when home repossessions were frequent, according to a new report by California-based housing data provider RealtyTrac Inc.
"There's always been this talk of another wave of foreclosures, and you see the anecdotal evidence, but it just never materializes," said Scott Norris, a broker associate with Coldwell Banker on Longboat Key. "The numbers in general are going down. We're getting to the end of the line."
There were 6,260 distressed sales in Sarasota, Manatee and Charlotte counties last year, a 5 percent dip from 2011 and a 23 percent decline from 2010, RealtyTrac data shows.
Even more striking, the ratio of foreclosures and short sales compared with other real estate transitions fell in the three counties -- reaching 20 percent in Sarasota and Charlotte last year, and 22 percent in Manatee. By comparison, during the worst of the housing crash, in 2008 and 2009, those tallies flirted with 50 percent, records show.
Market watchers say the progress has had little to do with recession-battered borrowers catching up on their mortgages. The number of homeowners delinquent or underwater on loans is still dangerously high.
Instead, they attribute the decline in overall depressed sales to the federal mortgage program that gave lenders more financial incentives to modify nonperforming loans. New guidelines from Fannie Mae last year also relaxed qualifications on lenders interested in working with underwater borrowers whose payments are still current.
In the fourth quarter alone, short sales on non-delinquent property rose 12 percent from the third quarter and 8 percent from a year ago, Wednesday's data shows.
The 3,051 bank foreclosure sales across Southwest Florida in 2012 fell 13 percent from 2011, and 25 percent from the year before.
In Sarasota, where many of the sales were to investors who planned to rent them out, the average price was $122,909 -- a 35 percent discount to market rates, the report shows.
Meanwhile, the total number of short sales actually grew 3 percent from a year ago to 3,209 -- just short of the record set in 2010.
A short sale occurs when banks agree to a property's sale for less than the value of the mortgage on it. Short sales are preferred by borrowers because they tend to do less damage to credit scores than foreclosures. They help lenders save time and hefty legal fees.
The uptick in short sales in 2012 was bolstered by a tax break on loan deficiencies that was scheduled to end Dec. 31. Although that program ultimately was extended one year, its pending sunset expedited short sale approvals, said Jo Ann Koontz, a Sarasota real estate attorney.
The average short sale in Sarasota last year went for $130,355 -- or more than $7,400 more than the average bank-owned sale.
"We're seeing them move a little more quickly, as real people review these files," Koontz said of banks' recent activity.
The shift away from distressed sales was seen across the state and nation.
In Florida, the 121,361 distressed sales in 2012 eased 3 percent from the year before and 22 percent from 2010. Foreclosure-related sales accounted for 21 percent of all U.S. residential sales during the year, down from 23 percent in 2011 and 28 percent in 2010, according to RealtyTrac.
Many local industry watchers believe another wave of defaults will hit the market in coming months, however, as courts whittle down a four-year backlog of cases.
"The foreclosure backlog still exists, and it's slowly making its way onto the market," said Peter Crowley, broker and co-owner of Re/Max Alliance Group in Sarasota and Manatee.
"That has kept a little bit of a lid on the availability of distressed properties," Crowley said.
"It will definitely have an effect on values and prices because demand has not let up."
The ratio of distressed sales among all residential real estate transactions continues to shrink across Southwest Florida -- especially the bank foreclosures that have long plagued the market.

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Overseers warn: Losses could pose threat to small banks
Congressional Oversight Panel says small banks may need to raise $21 billion
By Ronald D. Orol, MarketWatch
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The largest U.S. financial institutions are better able to handle a worst-case scenario for potential losses in their whole-loan portfolios than smaller public banks, which could face serious trouble, according to a report released by a bank-bailout oversight panel Tuesday.
According to a report from the Congressional Oversight Panel, which is charged with overseeing the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, the 18 largest financial institutions with over $600 million in assets would "be able to deal with" whole-loan portfolio losses projected in an analysis the group completed.
However, the report's analysis of troubled whole loans -- based on a model developed by SNL Financial -- suggests they pose a threat to smaller public banks, those with $600 million to $100 billion in assets. The report also takes issue with the Treasury department's decision to delay indefinitely a program to buy toxic whole loans from banks.
Whole loans refer to individual residential or commercial mortgages, as opposed to packaged mortgage securities, which have received much of the attention during the financial crisis.
"We are trying to highlight the issue of smaller banks because we believe it has been ignored and until toxic whole loans are taken off their books, we won't see them lending again in the way we need them to," said COP chairwoman Elizabeth Warren. "The reason it is so important to think about smaller financial institutions is because they do disproportionately more of the lending to small businesses."
According to the report, smaller banks in the $600 million to $100 billion group will need to raise significantly more capital based on pessimistic assumptions the COP considered, as the estimated losses will outstrip the projected revenue and reserves.
"The capital shortfall for those relatively smaller banks is primarily due to the lack of reserves, which on average account for only 25% of the expected loan losses."
The report said that, based on a less pessimistic scenario, smaller public banks would need to raise between $12 billion to $14 billion in capital to offset their losses. However, it added that based on a more stressful scenario, these institutions would need to raise $21 billion in capital to offset their losses.
The model employed assumptions that were 20% more negative than stress-test assumptions employed by the Federal Reserve Board in an analysis it made earlier this year to examine how large financial institutions would handle a potential downturn in the economy.
Rep. Jeb Hensarling, the lone Republican member sitting on the COP, said he dissented on the August report, arguing that it employed assumptions that are excessively pessimistic. This was particularly so, he said, when it came to a model it employed examining the capitalization of smaller banks.
"As with any econometric model, input assumptions drive the output results and it is far from clear that future economic conditions will be 20% more negative than the 'more adverse' standard adopted by the Fed for the stress-tests," said Hensarling, R-Texas.
The panel took issue with a Public Private Investment Partnership program being rolled by the Treasury Department. The PPIP program is preparing to buy toxic mortgage securities from financial institutions, but the Treasury has delayed indefinitely a program to buy whole loans from financial institutions. COP's Warren said she knows of "no plans" at Treasury to employ the program to buy toxic whole loans.
Dissenting view
Hensarling added that he is worried that the report's effort to value toxic assets will "jumpstart" the price discovery process for the securities "without understanding the costly consequences."
Hensarling argued that the policy recommendations in the report are outside the scope of the panel's authority, contending that members should focus their endeavors in other areas
Heck, he might as well just say that you can't and don't want to deal with any REAL problem. Instead we will have "stress-tests" and pressure and extort the FASB into allowing mark to fantasy accounting.
What a joke this episode has become. Congress has no power and can't even see what the Treasury and Fed are doing any better than I can follow the money (or lack thereof) behind the unemployment trust fund.
Here's reality. Politics and central bankers in the current version of America are nothing but a sad and sick joke.
South Florida a hot spot for 'underwater' borrowers
Almost half of single-family mortgage holders owe more than houses are worth
Nearly half of the single-family mortgage holders in South Florida owe more than their houses are worth, a worrisome reminder of the region's 3 1/2-year housing slump.
In Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties, 47 percent of the 837,177 single-family home mortgages are "underwater," according to a second-quarter report released today by Zillow.com, a real estate company that compiles data from public property records.
That's up from 44 percent in the first quarter of 2009. Zillow did not release a percentage for the second quarter of last year.
Nationwide, 23 percent of single-family homeowners with a mortgage had so-called negative equity during April, May and June. Many borrowers who owe more than the houses are worth put little or no money down and paid near-record prices in 2004, 2005 and 2006.
"As a homeowner, how do you deal with that?" said Guy Cecala, publisher of Inside Mortgage Finance, an industry newsletter. "It can burn you up. For a lot of people, there's no way out any time soon."
How do you deal with it? I guess you just close your eyes and "hope." Don't worry, the central bankers will be right there to help.
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Americans are becoming more critical of welfare programs, and researchers have found that racial resentment plays a significant role in the recent shift in attitudes.
In a paper published in the academic journal Social Forces and reviewed by The Washington Post, Rachell Wetts, a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of California at Berkeley, and Robb Willer, a professor of sociology and psychology at Stanford University, found that opposition to welfare programs began rising in 2008, in the midst of the worst recession since the 1930s and on the heels of the election of the first African-American president, with whites reporting the largest increase in opposition. The researchers theorized that race played a role, since whites were also reporting higher levels of racial resentment at the time.
In order to test their theory, the researchers interviewed people to determine their attitudes toward welfare programs and found that opposition to those programs increased significantly among whites after they were presented with information about demographic changes in the U.S. that will lead to whites eventually becoming a racial minority. Similarly, opposition to welfare programs increased among whites when they told that such programs benefit non-whites the most; if they were told that the programs primarily benefit whites, there was no increase in opposition.
The results suggest that race plays a big part when it comes to attitudes toward welfare programs in the U.S. – something that many liberals have long believed but that can be hard to prove one way or another. Attitudes are notoriously hard to measure and political behavior is dauntingly complex, and there is always a chance that other factors are at play, the researchers said.
But the Post points out that "there's a growing body of evidence to suggest that white Americans who fear a loss of racial status are driving major shifts in policy and politics," with racial resentment playing a significant role in everything from opinions on climate change to support for public health programs – and even opinions about presidential dogs.
Co-author Wetts told the Post that racial attitudes will likely plan an important role in key political debates over the next few months as the Trump administration pursues its agenda of reducing welfare spending by imposing new work requirements on Medicaid recipients, raising rents in public housing and slashing funding for food stamps.


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Hartford lawmaker wants to up the speed limit and the fines
HARTFORD -- There may be some relief for those who can't keep to the speed limit of 65 mph.
A state lawmaker from Hartford is pushing to increase Connecticut's maximum speed limit on state highways to 75 mph.
Rep. Minnie Gonzalez, a Democrat, has proposed a bill that increases the limit and also increases fines for speeding violations by 15 percent.
The General Assembly's Transportation Committee is scheduled to hear testimony on the proposal during a public hearing on Monday morning at the Legislative Office Building.
In 1998, Connecticut became the last state in the continental U.S. to increase the maximum speed limit on state highways from 55 mph to 65 mph.
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Blue Jays rally past powerful Red Sox
Toronto, ON – Edwin Encarnacion's second two-run homer of the evening, coming in the bottom of the seventh, was the deciding hit as Toronto got past Boston, 9-7, in the opener of a three-game set from Rogers Centre.
Colby Rasmus and J.P. Arencibia added two hits and an RBI each, while Jose Bautista scored twice and drove in a run for the Blue Jays, who put the brakes on a season-worst four-game losing skid.
"He's been on some kind of roll lately," Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said of Encarnacion. "The guys showed a lot of guts today, a lot of heart. They hung tough."
Steve Delabar (2-1) gave up an unearned run in the seventh inning but was credited with the win.
David Ortiz hit safely twice and drove in four runs for the Red Sox, who fell one victory short of setting a record for the most wins in April. Mike Carp homered and Dustin Pedroia contributed two hits and an RBI in defeat.
Junichi Tazawa (2-1) served up the game-winning blast.
After trailing the entire contest, the Red Sox finally pulled ahead in the seventh. Jacoby Ellsbury got the rally started with a one-out single off Aaron Loup and runners were on the corners after Jays shortstop Munenori Kawasaki's bad throw on a Daniel Nava grounder allowed the latter to reach. Pedroia worked a walk off Delabar to load the bases before Ortiz cleared them with a double for a 7-6 lead.
Momentum changed hands again in the home half, when Bautista walked with two outs and Encarnacion launched his second two-run homer of the contest for an 8-7 Toronto edge.
Rasmus knocked in Arencibia for an insurance run in the following frame, then Casey Janssen retired the side in order in the ninth for his seventh save.
"I thought we did a great job of fighting back into this," Boston manager John Farrell said. "We staked them to a 4-0 lead, we fight back, take the lead with a three-run seventh and gave it right back. They've got a quick strike offense and they swung the bat very well tonight."
Toronto took the lead in the home first, as Rajai Davis walked with one out, stole second and scored on a Bautista double.
The hosts tacked on three more in the home third after Sox catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia's throwing error on a Bautista dribbler with the bases loaded plated two and Arencibia brought in Bautista with a two-out double.
Boston countered in the fourth as Ortiz led off with a blast to center and Carp followed two batters later with a solo shot of his own, then climbed within 4-3 on Pedroia's fifth-inning RBI hit.
Encarnacion's two-run homer pushed the Jays to a 6-3 edge in the bottom of the inning, but Jonny Gomes' pinch-hit homer off Loup pulled the Sox within two in the sixth.
Game Notes
Encarnacion has two multi-homer efforts this season, with his first coming this past Friday in the Bronx ... Davis scored three runs for the Blue Jays ... Toronto starter Brandon Morrow allowed six hits and three runs, fanning seven and walking three over five innings ... Counterpart Jon Lester lasted six full frames, charged with six hits and six runs -- five earned ... The Red Sox also finished April with 18 victories in both 1998 and 2003 ... Prior to the game, the Red Sox activated pitcher Joel Hanrahan from the 15-day DL, completing the Sunday transaction of sending pitcher Daniel Bard to Double-A Portland.


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A ventricular septal defect (VSD) is a heart defect. It's congenital. This means that your baby is born with it. A VSD is an opening or hole in the dividing wall (septum) between the two lower chambers of the heart (right and left ventricles). VSDs are the most common type of congenital heart defect.
A VSD allows oxygen-rich (red) blood to pass from the left ventricle through the opening in the septum. Then it mixes with oxygen-poor (blue) blood in the right ventricle.
There are different types of VSD. The type your child has depends on which part of the wall between the ventricles is involved. The size of the opening or hole also varies.
VSD may occur more often in some families. This is because of gene defects. Most of the time, the cause of VSD isn't known.
The size of the opening or hole affects how severe your child's symptoms are. So does the age at which your child first has symptoms. The larger the opening, the more blood passes through it. The right ventricle and lungs have to work harder.
Your child may have symptoms from birth. Or your child may not have symptoms until he or she is a little older. Symptoms can occur a bit differently in each child. They can include:
The symptoms of VSD may be similar to symptoms of other conditions. Make sure your child sees his or her healthcare provider for a diagnosis.
Your child's healthcare provider may suspect this issue when he or she hears an abnormal sound (heart murmur) when listening to your child's heart with a stethoscope. If this happens, the healthcare provider may refer your child to a heart doctor for children (pediatric cardiologist).
The heart doctor will check your baby. He or she will listen to your child's heart and lungs. The details about the murmur will also help the heart doctor make the diagnosis.
Your child's doctor may do tests to confirm the diagnosis. The tests your child has depends on his or her age and condition, and the doctor's preferences.
A chest X-ray shows the heart and lungs. With a VSD, a chest X-ray may show an enlarged heart. This is because the left ventricle gets more blood than normal. There may also be changes in the lungs because of extra blood flow.
This test records the electrical activity of the heart. It also shows abnormal rhythms (arrhythmias or dysrhythmias) and spots heart muscle stress.
An echo uses sound waves to make a moving picture of the heart and heart valves. This test can show the pattern and amount of blood flow through the septal opening. An echo is often used to diagnose VSD.
A cardiac catheterization gives detailed information about the structures inside the heart. In this test, a small, thin, flexible tube (catheter) is put into a blood vessel in your child's groin. Then the healthcare provider guides it to your child's heart. Your child's healthcare provider will inject your child with contrast dye to see his or her heart more clearly. This test measures your child's blood pressure and oxygen in the 4 chambers of the heart and the pulmonary artery and aorta. Your child will get medicine to help relax and prevent pain (sedation). This test often isn't needed if your child is diagnosed with an echo.
Treatment will depend on your child's symptoms, age, and general health. It will also depend on how severe the condition is.
Small VSDs may close on their own as your child grows. Some small defects don't close on their own, but they still don't need treatment. A larger VSD often needs to be fixed with surgery or through cardiac catheterization. Once children are diagnosed with a VSD, their heart doctor will check them regularly to see if it's closing on its own.
Some children may need to take medicine to help the heart work better. Children without symptoms may not need medicine.
Infants with a larger VSD may get tired when feeding. They may not be able to eat enough to gain weight. They may need:
The goal of surgery is to repair the septal opening before the lungs are damaged. Surgery will also help infants who have trouble feeding gain a normal amount of weight. Your child's heart doctor will decide when your child should have surgery. This may be based on echocardiogram and cardiac catheterization results.
In surgery, your child's doctor will close the VSD with stitches or a special patch. Ask your child's heart doctor for more information.
VSD may be repaired by a cardiac catheterization. In this test, an instrument called a septal occluder is used with a catheter. The healthcare provider guides the catheter through the blood vessels to the heart. Once the catheter is in the heart, the doctor uses the septal occluder to close the defect.
Complications of an untreated VSD include:
Infants with small VSDs may have no symptoms. These children may not need medicine. They'll still be checked often by their heart doctors. If a defect is going to close, it usually happens by 2 years of age. But some defects don't close until 4 years of age. These children usually grow and develop normally. They also have no activity restrictions, and live normal, healthy lives.
If the VSD is moderate to severe, your child's heart doctor will closely monitor him or her. The doctor will decide when and how your child's VSD will be fixed. Before surgery, your child may need medicine and special feedings. Your child's healthcare team will give you information and support so you can care for your child at home. Children who need surgery will be admitted to the hospital for surgery.
Babies who have trouble eating before surgery often have more energy right after surgery. They start to eat better and gain weight faster.
After surgery, older children can often be active without getting too tired. Within a few weeks, your child should be fully recovered. He or she should be able to do normal activities. Your child's healthcare team may give you instructions on how to care for your child.
Most children who have surgery for VSD will live normal, healthy lives. Their activity levels, appetite, and growth often return to normal. Your child's heart doctor may give him or her antibiotics to prevent infections after leaving the hospital.
Ask your child's healthcare provider about your child's outlook. When this condition is diagnosed early, the outcome is often excellent. When a VSD is diagnosed later in life, if complications occur after surgery, or if the VSD isn't repaired, the outlook may be poor. There is a risk for complications from a VSD. Children at risk for these problems should have follow-up care at a center that specializes in congenital heart disease.
If your child has trouble breathing or eating, or develops any new symptoms, call his or her healthcare provider.
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Japan's biggest day out -- our insider guide to Tokyo Skytree
With very little information currently available in English on all Tokyo Skytree has to offer, we've come up with the ultimate guide to exactly where, when and how visitors can get the most value for their time and money spent at Tokyo's newest Big Thing.
At 634 meters, Skytree holds the record for tallest broadcasting tower ever. It's also currently Japan's No. 1 tourist attraction and not just for its jaw-dropping size.
Skytree Town's sprawling entertainment complex covers several city blocks. Shops, restaurants, an aquarium, a planetarium (with a one-of-a-kind aromatherapy show) and, of course, the tower itself pulled in 16.66 million visitors in the 100 days after opening last May.
Even though summer vacation is long over, Skytree Town is still averaging around 170,000 visitors per day. Avoid weekends or holidays if your itinerary allows.
Crowded or not, you can still have a great time -- eat, drink, shop for unique souvenirs, see the city from the viewing platform 350 meters in the air and get those perfect shots of Skytree – if you know where to go.
First things first. Skytree Town is divided into three zones: East Yard (anchored by the East Tower skyscraper), Tower Yard and West Yard.
The shopping area that rambles between them all is called Solamachi. Oshiage Station is at the East Yard, Tokyo Skytree Station at the West Yard.
Most of the shuttles from Ueno and Tokyo stations let you out right in the middle (literally), inside Tower Yard. The Panda Bus from Asakusa drops you off across the street at West Yard.
Here's our essential insider guide to each of the three main areas and Skytree itself.
East Yard
Insiders know that all-important first close-up look at Skytree stretching up to the clouds (or hidden in them) is best seen from the East Yard and Oshiage Station, where the tower soars above you. The West Yard does not pack this dramatic punch.
Arriving at Oshiage Station, take Exit B3 with escalator and elevator access to street level, right across from the East courtyard.
Most people don't know this, but there's a viewing platform specially built for excellent photo ops of Skytree without the crowds getting in the way just across the street.
As you leave the station, bear to the right past the taxi and bus waiting area. At the crosswalk just a few meters away, cross at the light in front of you (not to the right).
A sloped platform on the left leads to a series of broad viewing terraces that are hard to miss. (The structure actually hides a massive bicycle parking garage above the station.)
If there's a trainspotter in your group, the platforms border the busy Tobu line tracks. A perfect place to snap a shot of the sleek new Spacia Express.
Cross back over to Skytree Town and the entrance to Solamachi. Don't go inside yet. Take the outdoor escalator up for more neck-cracking views of the tower.
On the way, stop at Studio Ghibli's Donguri Garden with hard-to-find goods and displays from their popular movie series including "My Neighbor Totoro" ("Tonari no Totoro").
This route has another hidden photo op for posing people with the Skytree right behind -- a difficult shot to manage so close to the tower.
On the third-floor landing is a Tully's Coffee. Stand on the steps a little below and look up to the narrow walkway bridge one floor above. Send your subject up there, lean back and you've got a perfectly composed shot of your party and the tower.
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The escalator ends at the fourth-floor promenade connecting all three areas of Skytree Town and leads to the tower ticket lobby. If you want to visit the tower now, get your ticket for the first viewing platform and join the queue. It moves faster than you think.
1-4/F Shopping Plaza
Go directly to the fourth floor for the best in non-Skytree themed souvenirs and shopping.
Mamegui, Wango, Nara's Nippon Ichi and Gatchara Ya are stuffed to bursting with unique textiles, accessories, collectibles, folk art and many more appealing Japaneseque designs at very reasonable prices.
Over at Sengoku Busho (its first store outside Kyoto), you can join the reikshi-jou (women who love history) queuing for Samurai-themed goods from the Warring States, Sengoku period (mid 15th-17th centuries).
Choose your hero and pick up T-shirts, towels, key chains, armor-link charms and folders decorated with clan symbols and outrageously robust interpretations of famous Japanese warriors. (Spoiler alert: The Tokugawa Clan won.)
This floor also hosts the flagship store for wildly popular Medicom collectible figures.
Four new bear-like characters with a Japanese theme were introduced to celebrate the store's opening and are available only here at Solamachi. The small versions are just ¥1,000 (US$13) each.
High-end fashion your thing? The first, second and third floors are filled with Japanese and international fashion houses and boutiques.
Super-girly handbag designer Samantha Thavasa has an achingly cute dessert store in pink, pink and more pink, attached to the boutique on the first floor. The (pink) berry yogurt (¥340) and exclusive Rilakkuma character cream éclairs are also available for takeaway.
Samantha Thavasa is just one of 18 venues (and counting) in the East and West complexes offering soft ice cream or yoghurt confections. The first floor has almost as many cafés as boutiques.
5/F Japan Experience Zone
Back upstairs, most of the attractions here are not worth your time or money. However, if you have a few extra minutes, the Sumida zone highlights craftsmen and their work from the area around Skytree.
There's also a quiet outside terrace with tables and chairs.
6-7/F Restaurants
Your choice here depends more on budget and patience than on avoiding a poor dining decision. There are a lot of tasty eating places. Unfortunately, there are also a lot of hungry visitors.
Currently, the three restaurants with the longest waiting times -- we're talking hours -- are: Toriton Kaiten Sushi; Rokurinsha (tsukemen dipping noodles); and Salon de Sweets (dessert buffet plus pasta and salad).
Unless you have your heart set on those, you should be able to find somewhere with more manageable lines.
Popular, but speedy, joint Udon Honjin Yamadaya (6/F) sells around 1,000 bowls a day of its thick white noodles in salty hot or cold broth. Many restaurants do not have English menus, so be aware.
With a capacity of 300, the World Beer Museum, Sekai Biru Hakubutsukan, (7/F) almost always has seating.
The wide-open terrace is a wonderful place to unwind on fine days and nights. Beer-hall food from the United States, Germany, Czech Republic and more. Hours 11 a.m.-11 p.m. (last order 10 p.m.).
For those who need their Starbucks fix, there's one here on the sixth floor. (The other is in the West Yard, outside on the first floor, facing the little canal.)
7/F Minolta Planetarium
If you can budget the time, come for the 8 p.m. or 9 p.m. show to experience one of the only aromatherapy planetariums in the world. The evening show is a smellariffic journey through a night forest. Evening price: ¥1,300, all tickets.
8/F Dome Garden
Exit through the unobtrusive glass door to the terrace. Here you are actually right above the planetarium. This is the place insiders come to take a break and stretch out on the grass or wide benches.
This is also where you can snap both the Skytree and its reflection in the polished glass of the tower's companion high-rise. Lie down on the grass and you can just fit both in one shot ... sort of.
30-31/F Skytree View restaurants
Watch the sun go down and the lights come up perched on the 31st floor of the East Tower at the Top of Tree lounge. Here, all tables face the tower, and for the cost of a drink, you can enjoy a one-of-a-kind view of the Skytree. Hours: 11 a.m.-11 p.m. (last order 10 p.m.).
Other restaurants on the 30th and 31st floors, like La Sora Seed Food Relations, also have some great views. Prices, though, can be as high as the altitude.
The only elevators that climb to the top of the East Tower are on the first floor, directly on your left as you enter from the plaza in front of Oshiage Station and the taxi/bus area.
All other elevators in the complex stop at the eighth floor.
The multi-level outdoor decks in the East Yard are a great spot to just hang out and wait for Skytree's signature LED lighting to come on.
Depending on the day, it will be white with blue to reflect the once-blue waters of the Sumida River, or Miyabe purple, a popular kimono color in the Samurai era of old Edo.
More on CNN: Climbing the Tokyo Skytree
Skytree Tower
Daytime views from the 350-meter high Tembo Deck are often hazy and if the weather is bad, all you will see is clouds.
In our opinion, the best time to go up is sunset and evening, when Tokyo sparkles across the Kanto Plain and the lights on the bridges shine over the bay.
Despite the ultra-modern technology, Skytree's designers have tried to include Japanese artistic traditions and historical references to old Tokyo throughout the tower and Tower Yard area.
Look at the artwork over your head during the elevator ride up. Each of the four elevators is decorated in one of the seasons.
The Tembo Deck consists of three levels, including a café, sit-down restaurants and souvenir shops and can hold around 2,000 people at a time.
You waited this long to get up here, so you might as well relax at the Skytree Café (more ice cream) and enjoy it.
Restaurant 634 and several other upscale dining choices serve up pricey Continental-style menu items. Worth noting is that 634 is usually booked solid a month in advance.
Tower Yard
One of the best secrets of the Tower Yard is the multimedia mural of Tokyo stretching along the inside wall of the first-floor passageway.
Whimsical and inventive, it's part painting, part animated computer graphics and full of comical scenes, characters and hidden treasures.
Look for the giant sushi in Tsukiji, Yodobashi Camera's buzzing batteries in Akihabara, Asakusa's legendary thousand-armed Golden Kannon, a dragon, tiger, pandas, the gods of wind and thunder swooping over Asakusa's Sensoji and much more.
The easiest way to find the mural is to enter from the outside, through the 1/F Skytree Shop souvenir store (the biggest in the complex).
Walk straight through and bear to the left into the corridor. It's impossible to enter the mural area directly from the West Tower, as the shuttle bus unloading zone cuts through.
Just beyond the end of the mural is a viewing area for the massive steel struts supporting the tower.
1/F Dining and bike rental
The water-play area and statue in Solamachi Hiroba serve as the central plaza for the Tower Yard, which is a good designated meeting place.
A KFC, Kamaaina Burger and several small cafés provide low-key/high calorie snacking options.
Want to see more of the Sumida riverside and Asakusa? Rent a bicycle at Booster Café, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.: ¥1,500 for two hours, ¥2,000 for four hours, with a ¥2,000 security deposit.
Though traffic is pretty frantic on the streets, it's a nice ride over the many bridges crisscrossing the river and through the landscaped park along its banks. The good thing is, even if you get lost, Skytree provides an unmissable beacon back.
2/F More desserts
Twenty-nine shops selling packaged sweets, cakes, ice cream and endless variations thereof. See how many towers you can find like Morozoff's chocolate Skytree or Eponge's towering cream puff confection.
Brothers Patisserie is currently favorite with visitors for its square cream puffs decorated with intricate chocolate paintings of Japanese scenes (Sumo, Asakusa Sensoji, even Skytree). Just ¥370 each, they really do taste as good as they look.
This area is connected to the fresh food market in the West block, though it may take a little wandering to find it.
3/F Fashion boutiques
Basically, an extension of the East Yard shopping extravaganza. If you've started from that side, you probably won't even notice the change in venue.
Uniqlo is on this floor, as is hip Rodeo Crowns. What's odd is that third-floor fashion bleeds into the West Yard Food Court -- where you certainly can't eat if you plan to fit into any the more high-end clothes.
West Yard
The West Yard is connected to Tobu's Tokyo Skytree Station. A few meters outside the station exit is the One Two Tree shop run by the wildly popular RanKing RanQueen chain that keeps track of Tokyo's top-selling goods.
Here, it's all about the Tree. Find out which souvenirs locals are buying by reading the regularly updated charts posted in-store.
1/F Shops and cafés
This area is called St. Street. Really.
The street level is mostly a service area for bike and motorcycle parking, dividing the West Yard into station side and canal side opposite.
Moomin House Café stands on the station side. It's easy to spot as there is usually a line of Japanese fans of the Finnish books and cartoon series waiting to indulge their mania for marshmallow-shaped folk creatures.
Moomin curry, cakes, drinks, dishes and stuffed Moomin figures at your table. Hours: 8 a.m-10 p.m.
On the canal side sit Starbucks and Mister Donuts, both just around the corner from the One, Two Tree ranking shop.
Drugstore chain Matsumoto Kiyoshi is inside, next to Mister Donuts, if anyone in your party feels ill after eating all those desserts.
Follow this sidewalk to the Tower Yard and East Yard beyond.
2/F Food Market
A gastronomic tour of all -- and we mean all -- Japan has to offer in fresh and prepared food to take-away.
Take a bright, colorful, aromatic stroll that will leave your mouth watering -- with good reason; this is quality stuff.
If the weather is good, pick up tasty treats or a boxed lunch, go up to the fourth-floor promenade and dine al fresco.
3/F Food Court
Skytree has a huge variety of eating options, but if you're pressed for time, the Food Court is a cheap and cheerful choice. It is not, however, restful. The search for seats can get positively frenzied on weekends.
There is a small, kid-friendly area for families at the entrance opposite the restaurants (all the way on the other side). This floor also has several character shops -- Jump Comic Store, Ultraman M78, Tomica and Relakkuma -- squeezed in around the edges.
4/F Outdoor terrace
A rambling walkway connects the West Yard to the Skytree Ticket Lobby and the East Yard shopping and dining area.
Inside, Tree Village, by the escalator, is crammed with character goods from leading Tokyo TV stations including Skytree-only items.
5/F Sumida Aquarium
What is it with mega-structures and aquariums in Japan? Tokyo Tower has an aquarium, so does the Sunshine City high-rise in Ikebukuro. Still, Skytree's Sumida Aquarium far surpasses either of those puny efforts.
If your passion is Magellanic Penguins, you're in the right place. If not, walk on. Adult tickets cost ¥2,000, high school ¥1,500, middle and elementary school ¥1,000, younger children ¥600.
Getting there
The Tokyo Skytree can be accessed from Tokyo Skytree Station on the Tobu Isesaki Line or Oshiage Station on the Hanzomon and Asakusa subway lines.
The best times to visit in the next few months will be clear winter days, when Tokyo's usual haze is minimal, or at night when the skyline, as well as the tower itself, lights up.
Prices to the first deck: Adults: ¥2,000, students ¥1,500, children ¥900, preschoolers ¥600. Tickets to the second deck attract an additional fee and are sold only on the day. Go to www.tokyo-skytree.jp for more information.
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Kerry: Syria chemical arms use 'moral obscenity'
Associated Press
WASHINGTON, D.C. >> Secretary of State John Kerry declared Monday that there was "undeniable" evidence of a large-scale chemical weapons attack in Syria, toughening the Obama administration's criticism of Bashar Assad's regime and outlining a justification for possible U.S. military action.
Kerry, speaking to reporters at the State Department, said last week's attack was a "moral obscenity" that "should shock the conscience" of the world.
"The indiscriminate slaughter of civilians, the killing of women and children and innocent bystanders by chemical weapons is a moral obscenity. By any standard, it is inexcusable and — despite the excuses and equivocations that some have manufactured — it is undeniable," said Kerry, the highest-ranking U.S. official to confirm the attack in the Damascus suburbs that activists say killed hundreds of people.
"This international norm cannot be violated without consequences," he said.
Officials said President Barack Obama has not decided how to respond to the use of deadly gases, a move the White House said last year would cross a "red line." But the U.S., along with allies in Europe, appeared to be laying the groundwork for the most aggressive response since Syria's civil war began more than two years ago.
The U.S. and its allies appear to be considering a response that would punish Assad for deploying deadly gases, not sweeping actions aimed at ousting Assad or strengthening rebel forces. The focus of the internal debate underscores the scant international appetite for a large-scale deployment of forces in Syria and the limited number of other options that could significantly change the trajectory of the conflict.
The international community was moving ahead even as a United Nations team already on the ground in Syria collected evidence from last week's attack. The U.S. said Syria's delay in giving the inspectors access rendered their investigation meaningless and officials said the administration had its own intelligence confirming chemical weapons use.
"What is before us today is real and it is compelling," Kerry said. "Our understanding of what has already happened in Syria is grounded in facts."
The U.S. assessment is based in part on the number of reported victims, the symptoms of those injured or killed and witness accounts. Kerry said the administration also had additional intelligence and would make its findings public soon.
Syrian President Bashar Assad has denied launching a chemical attack.
Associated Press writer Deb Riechmann contributed to this report.


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Riker falls in love with Soren, a member of an androgynous race known as the J'naii, who dares to be female.
- 1 Summary
- 2 Memorable quotes
- 3 Background information
- 4 Links and references
- "Captain's log, stardate 45614.6. We have been contacted by an androgynous race called the J'naii to investigate the mysterious disappearance of one of their shuttlecraft."
When the J'naii mysteriously lose track of one of their shuttlecraft within their own star system, they request the USS Enterprise-D crew to assist in the investigation to locate it. Three of them are on the bridge observing the effort. Data detects neutrino emissions, but no source. They launch a probe, but after a few seconds it stops transmitting for no reason.
Act One
- "Captain's log, supplemental. The sudden disappearance of our probe suggests that we may have found the first instance of what is called null space, an anomaly which until now had been only theoretical. Commander Riker has been working around the clock with a team of J'naii specialists to formalize this hypothesis."
A pocket of null space is discovered in the system, which until now had been considered theoretical. Believing the missing shuttle to be trapped inside the pocket, Commander Riker and Soren of the J'naii devise a rescue plan. Soren insists on being involved in the rescue mission, as Soren is a good pilot. Riker suggests they team up and they go to the shuttlebay to review the Magellan's systems.
Working closely with the Enterprise crew, and Commander Riker in particular, Soren reveals herself to be curious about the differences between males and females. In Ten Forward, they have a long conversation about it. At the end, Krite arrives and Soren decides to leave, suddenly more formal as she bids Riker goodnight.
Act Two
- "Captain's log, supplemental. Commander Riker and the J'naii pilot have set out to chart the null space pocket. If they are successful, we can then proceed with a rescue attempt."
Riker and Soren begin the charting mission of the null pocket. During this, Soren bluntly asks about Human sexual organs and acts. Riker, somewhat uncomfortable, explains the process and Soren describes the process for them, describing it as less risky while Riker comments that it is "less enjoyable." Soren disagrees, as the mating process is a long process. Soren then recounts the J'naii history of evolving from the male/female divide. Suddenly, the shuttle's engine is damaged and they retreat to the Enterprise.
Soren is taken to sickbay to recover. Soren strikes up a conversation with Beverly Crusher about the sexes. She tells Soren that men and women are considered equal. Riker arrives and asks if Soren can continue, and Crusher agrees. Meanwhile, during a poker game, Worf reveals he is bothered by the genderless J'naii, because he still has stereotypical views on men and women and does not know how to relate to the J'naii.
On the shuttle, Soren reveals to Riker that the J'naii consider it a criminal perversion for a J'naii to identify as either male or female, but Soren admits to having secretly identified as a female since childhood and having had relationships in secret with those who identify as males. Soren finds Riker attractive and is interested in starting a relationship with him.
Act Three
Geordi La Forge approves the shuttle's launch and they head out, noting they have a short timeframe. Fortunately, they find the Taris Murn and life signs, but the crew is unconscious. After a brief fight with power drains, they successfully beam the two to the shuttle, then to sickbay. Crusher says they should be all right and orders dexalin. Krite immediately thanks Riker and invites them all to the planet that evening to celebrate.
At the celebration, Riker takes a moment outside to breathe, and Soren meets him. Under some slight observation, they decide to see the plant life. Soren notes some of the plants, but the romantic mood strikes Riker to kiss her.
Act Four
Riker goes to discuss the forming relationship with Deanna Troi and how it would affect their relationship if he pursues it with Soren. Troi puts aside Riker's fears of losing their friendship, telling him that that will never change. He's pleased and leaves to see her. Instead, he finds Krite, who informs him she's been arrested, and Riker immediately goes to the planet.
Riker intrudes on the proceedings, already in progress, and pleads to Noor for Soren's release, saying he forced himself on Soren. Soren, however, is tired of living a lie and owns up to the act. She makes a plea for acceptance of all those with gender identities, saying no one has been hurt or affected. Noor allows her to speak, but with a blank expression, not giving away an opinion.
Act Five
The tribunal, incapable of open-mindedness, sentences Soren to receive treatment on the following day. Riker asks the tribunal for permission to give Soren asylum aboard the Enterprise in lieu of the treatment, but the request is denied, as the J'naii see Soren's condition as a simple sickness they have an obligation to cure.
Picard offers to negotiate with Noor, the leader of the J'naii, for Soren's release. He urges Riker not to take matters into his own hands as he would be violating the Prime Directive if he does, thus putting himself at risk of losing his career in Starfleet. Riker, however, is convinced the J'naii's minds are set and any negotiations would be futile. Worf overcomes his prejudices after hearing of the events that had transpired on the planet. The same evening, Riker and Worf lead a rescue mission together to save Soren. They are able to get Soren away from the security guards, however, they are too late. Soren has already undergone the psychotectic treatment and has no more interest in Riker.
After warning buoys have been deployed around the null space pocket, the Enterprise is prepared to leave the system. Picard asks Riker if all their business with the J'naii is finished, and he answers without emotion, "finished, sir". Picard orders Ensign Gates to take the Enterprise to warp six, while Riker stares ahead, distraught.
Log entries
Memorable quotes
"We prefer to stay warm by sleeping with a friend."
"… I see."
"Not to mate."
- - Soren and Riker
"It's hard to grasp the idea of no gender."
- - Riker, on the androgynous J'naii
"Tell me… about males. What is it that makes you different from females?"
"Snips and snails and puppy dogs' tails…"
"You have a dog's tail?"
- - Soren and Riker, discussing the sexes
"Commander, tell me about your sexual organs."
- - Soren and Riker, while in the shuttle
"For Humans, the sexual act brings a closeness and intimacy. It can be a very pleasurable experience."
- - Riker discusses sex between a man and a woman to Soren
"The J'naii… they bother me."
"Why, Worf?"
"They just do!"
- - Worf and Deanna Troi
"On my planet, we have been taught that gender is primitive."
"Less evolved."
"Maybe so, but sometimes, there is a lot to be said for an experience that's… primitive."
- - Soren and Riker
"Then it is up to women to attract the men?"
"Oh no, men want to be attractive, too. Believe me. They just go about it differently. They like to pretend they're not doing anything to attract a woman, even when it's the most important thing on their minds."
- - Soren and Dr. Crusher
"That is a woman's game… a man's game has no wild cards."
- - Worf, on Troi's use of wildcards in poker
"I am female. I was born that way. I have had those feelings, those longings, all of my life. It is not unnatural. I am not sick because I feel this way. I do not need to be helped. I do not need to be cured. What I need, and what all of those who are like me need, is your understanding. And your compassion. We have not injured you in any way. And yet we are scorned and attacked. And all because we are different. What we do is no different from what you do. We talk and laugh. We complain about work. And we wonder about growing old. We talk about our families and we worry about the future. And we cry with each other when things seem hopeless. All of the loving things that you do with each other – that is what we do. And for that we are called misfits, and deviants and criminals. What right do you have to punish us? What right do you have to change us? What makes you think you can dictate how people love each other?"
- - Soren, to Noor
"You see commander, on this world, everyone wants to be normal."
"She is!"
- - Noor and Riker
Background information
Production history
- Preproduction meeting: 16 December 1991
- Production meeting, and final draft script: 2 January 1992 [1]
- Filmed: 6 January 1992 – 14 January 1992
- Second unit filming: 21 February 1992
- Premiere airdate: 16 March 1992
- First UK airdate: 12 April 1995
Story and script
- "The Outcast" was written with the intention of brushing on the subject of homosexuality in an allegorical manner. Rick Berman tried not to let perceptions of what the public would find acceptable "influence us too much" in the choice of Riker's opposite, adding "but having Riker engaged in passionate kisses with a male actor might have been a little unpalatable to viewers." (San Jose Mercury News, Grapevine, March 14, 1992) Nevertheless, Jonathan Frakes felt otherwise and later criticized the decision to cast women in the roles of the J'naii, as a love affair apparently shared between two men would have made the statement of the episode stronger. [2]
- Two lines of dialogue were cut from the final release: Noor explaining to Riker that the J'naii are by all measurements an enlightened race and Riker asking, "Then how is it that Soren has no choice about her sexual orientation?" [3]
- Sexual inequalities were also explored, though secondarily, in "The Outcast", in which Dr. Crusher apparently struggles to recall a time when women were considered to be "weak and inferior." She asserts that those sentiments haven't been an issue in "a long time," though Worf's statements about a weak hand contributing to a "Woman's Game" of poker indicates this may still be an issue within Klingon society.
- The allegorical narrative raised the topic of sexuality and gender in ways that the largely heterosexual ambience of the show had failed to explore to date, while other narratives and the casting in general touched on various contemporary 20th century civil rights issues frequently, especially race.
- The pre-production meeting for this episode was on 16 December 1991 at 2:00 pm at the Cooper Building, whereas the production meeting was on 2 January 1992 at 2:00 pm.
- "The Outcast" was filmed between Monday 6 January 1992 and Tuesday 14 January 1992 on Paramount Stage 8, 9, and 16. An additional day of second unit filming was Friday 21 February 1992 on Paramount Stage 9. This was the first episode filmed in 1992.
- The call sheet for Tuesday 7 January 1992 featured a note with congratulations to L.Z. and Gaylene for the birth of their daughter Kristin.
- Megan Cole later played Senator Kimara Cretak in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes "Image in the Sand" and "Shadows and Symbols".
- "The Outcast" was one of a few Star Trek episodes which dealt with the subject of homosexuality in an allegorical manner. The issue was also tackled in "The Host", DS9: "Rejoined", and ENT: "Stigma".
- The aforementioned poker game revealed, for the first time, the specific year of the founding of the United Federation of Planets, with the "Federation Day" game including wild twos, sixes, and aces for the year 2161.
- This is the first episode in which Geordi La Forge wears a beard. He appeared unshaven again in "A Fistful of Datas", "The Quality of Life", Star Trek: Insurrection, and Star Trek Nemesis. According to the Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion, while La Forge actor LeVar Burton preferred facial hair, the producers did not, though they apparently changed their minds for the aforementioned two films.
- The Magellan was the first armed shuttlecraft to appear in The Next Generation.
- Although statements Worf herein makes suggest that sexual equality may still be an issue within Klingon society, the dialogue in question is complicated by statements from Worf, "Angel One", that "Klingons appreciate strong women."
- During the poker scene, a famous Dutch Baroque painting by Johannes Vermeer (Woman Holding a Balance) can be seen behind Lieutenant Worf.
Reception and aftermath
- Director Robert Scheerer approved of this episode. He commented, "[It] was very good […] It's a unique show in that it's almost two-person; everybody's in it in small pieces, but basically, it's scene after scene of just two actors, and it's really quite touching." (The Official Star Trek: The Next Generation Magazine issue 20, p. 35)
- Of the episode, producer Rick Berman said in the Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion, "We thought we had made a very positive statement about sexual prejudice in a distinctively Star Trek way, but we still got letters from those who thought it was just our way of 'washing our hands' of the homosexual situation." The "situation" arose continuously through the run of Star Trek: Enterprise and still does today, with some alleged homophobia on the part of former Star Trek producers. [4](X)
- A mission report for this episode, by John Sayers, was published in The Official Star Trek: The Next Generation Magazine issue 20, pp. 54-56.
- Many of the costumes from this episode were sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay, including the costumes of Tara Christie, [5] Janet Lee Orcutt, [6] Laura Granick, [7] Megan Cole, [8] Michelle Cordero, [9] Callan White, [10] [11] Amanda Getty, [12] Jonathan Frakes, [13] and five J'naii background performers. [14] [15] [16] [17] [18]
Video and DVD releases
- Original UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 59, 15 February 1993
- UK re-release (three-episode tapes, Paramount Home Entertainment): Volume 5.6, 18 November 2002
- As part of the TNG Season 5 DVD collection
Links and references
Also starring
- LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
- Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
- Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
- Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
- Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data
Guest stars
- Melinda Culea as Soren
- Callan White as Krite
- Megan Cole as Noor
Uncredited co-stars
- K.C. Amos as operations division officer
- Rachen Assapiomonwait as Nelson
- Lena Banks as operations division ensign
- Jane Bauer as J'naii civilian
- Thomas J. Booth as operations division officer
- Bowman as science division officer
- Michael Braveheart as Martinez
- Carl David Burks as Russell
- Tara Christie as J'naii pilot
- Michelle Cordero as J'naii civilian
- Gerard David, Jr. as operations division ensign
- Holiday Freeman as J'naii civilian
- Gina Gallante as civilian
- Keith Gearhart as civilian
- Gerrardo as J'naii pilot
- Amanda Getty as J'naii judge
- Laura Granick as J'naii leader
- Hall as J'naii leader
- Christie Haydon as command division ensign
- Mark Lentry as civilian
- Debbie Marsh as command division ensign
- Mercedes as J'naii pilot
- Michael Moorehead as science division ensign
- Janet Lee Orcutt as J'naii guard
- Mary Peters as J'naii guard
- Joyce Robinson as Gates
- Stanners as J'naii leader
- John Tampoya as command division ensign
- Christina Wegler Miles as command division ensign
- Unknown performers as
Stunt double
Stand-ins and photo double
- David Keith Anderson – stand-in for LeVar Burton
- Patty Davis – stand-in for Melinda Culea
- Tim McCormack – stand-in for Brent Spiner and Callan White
- Melba – stand-in for Marina Sirtis
- Lorine Mendell – stand-in for Gates McFadden and Melinda Culea
- Richard Sarstedt – stand-in and photo double for Jonathan Frakes
- Dennis Tracy – stand-in for Patrick Stewart
- James Washington – stand-in for Michael Dorn
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External links
- "The Outcast" at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- "The Outcast" at Wikipedia
- "The Outcast" at StarTrek.com, the official Star Trek website
- "The Outcast" at MissionLogPodcast.com, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast
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Not GRADUATION because they are just "continuing" on- but a ceremony because they have to change schools.
Chloe has finished elementary school with straight "A"s and I am so proud! I have really seen her grow by leaps and bounds in every way this year. I know she is nervous about going to middle school, but I think she will positively thrive in the environment. Being the youngest, she has never cared for being treated like a baby and has always tried to prove her capability in whatever way she can. That is why I think middle school will be right up her alley! lol
Here are a few photos we took last night- check out the neon green leggings! Chloe also likes to make a statement whenever possible... lol
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Chloe's Continuation
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Friday, May 8, 2009
Today a Day Without Hate is being observed by all local schools. The idea originated last year at Standley Lake High School, when a group of students there, after hearing about the tragedy at Virginia Tech, decided they had to do SOMETHING to help bring awareness to school violence. They hoped that the awareness would bring about new ideas on how to stop it.
This year, two members of Columbine High School Senate organized the event for their school, and called in the support of all the elementary and middle schools in the area. White t-shirts with a message have been sold with the proceeds going to the Never Forgotten fund, scholarships that have been set up in the memory of the thirteen victims of Columbine. The front of the shirts shows a hand print with A Day Without Hate on the palm, and on the back it reads: Hope "learn from yesterday, unite for today, live for tomorrow." Anyone without a purchased t-shirt is asked to wear a white shirt.
White shirts are to symbolize not only peace, but solidarity. All of the schools have events set up to add impact to what they are doing- but other than the posters I have seen, I will have to wait until the girls get home to report on what they did today.
Many local businesses and community members will also be wearing the shirts- this whole community is dedicated to safe schools and neighborhoods. It makes me proud to be a part of such a great community.
I am blogging this for one reason- this Day Without Hate should be EVERYWHERE, EVERY DAY. Unfortunately, that is still impossible but we have to start somewhere; maybe today, you could join us in sharing a bit more of yourself today through smiling at others, performing little random acts of kindness, remembering that we are all here with the same mission- to have a good and peaceful life. If you haven't left the house yet, why not put on a white shirt and tell others why. THANK YOU!!!
If you want to see a few more photos, I have them posted on my facebook page. If you want to read a couple of articles on this, here are a couple of links:
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Thursday, May 7, 2009
My hardworking girls
This morning I had the pleasure of attending the awards ceremony at the high school. All awards were handed out with the exception of Instrumental Music, which will be done at the banquet on the 18th.
Heidi was recognized for her excellence in both Math and French. Many of her friends were recognized as well- those band kids are really high achievers! You can see how pleased she is to shake Mr. D's hand in congratulations. I am so proud of Heidi, she has worked very hard this year and has maintained a 4.0 GPA throughout the year.
Before the ceremony started, Mr. D'Angelis, the principal, had a few words for us all. He thanked the teachers and parents for their support of the students and then thanked the kids for their hard work, dedication, and commitment to excellence.
One thing he said struck home with me, and as I LOVE good quotes (ask anyone who knows me! lol), I wrote this one down.
He said we all basically have three choices in life: Give Up, Give In, or Give it Your ALL. Don't you just LOVE that??? I believe it with all of my heart. He pointed out that the students being recognized are those who definitely give it their all. No kidding!
While I am bragging about my kids, I have to mention Holly too. She just finished her second year at Carleton in the Psychology program and got four "A" and one "B". She too has worked her behind off this past year, both going to school full-time and holding down a part-time job during the school year. WAY TO GO, HOLLY!!!
I am so very proud to be the mom of these hardworking girls who deserve every bit of back-patting they get!
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Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Riding at Waterton Canyon
One of my very favourite places to go bike riding is Waterton Canyon. There are just so many reasons to love riding there!
First of all, it is a private road. It is wide and the only traffic on it is walkers, runners, fisherman, and bicycles- except for the odd truck driven by someone who works there (maintaining water stuff). So there is plenty of room for Rich and I to ride beside each other and chat a bit if we want.
Second, the road is pretty good. A little rocky or soft in a couple of places, but relatively decent riding the whole way.
Third, it is just over six miles to reach the dam. At that point you have to turn around and go back unless you have mountain bikes (which we don't, our bikes are hybrids) to continue up the Colorado Trail. The road up to the dam is at a slight incline which means a good workout. And the way back is at a slight decline which means a bit of an easier ride when you are tired. And all in all, we get in a guaranteed 12+ miles which is a fine workout for the two of us.
Lastly, and best of all, it is a BEAUTIFUL place to ride. The road follows a portion of the South Platte River and there is often wildlife along the trail. We have seen bighorn sheep, deer, and last week we saw a Great Blue Heron come in for a landing on a rock quite close to us. Didn't have the camera though, darn it!
I guess when we are in better shape, we could ride our bikes TO the canyon, do the trail and then bike home- but we are far from there yet...that would add an additional 16 miles to the trip! For now, I am happy to strap the bikes to Rich's car and go from there!
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