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BEDFORD, Mass., April 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Hologic, Inc. , a leading provider of state-of-the-art diagnostic and digital imaging systems directed towards women's health, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Suros Surgical Systems, Inc., a leading innovator in the field of devices used for minimally invasive biopsy and tissue excision. The transaction will be structured as a merger of a Hologic acquisition subsidiary into Suros Surgical, whereby Suros Surgical will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Hologic.
The purchase price for the transaction will be $240 million (subject to adjustment), plus a two-year earn out. The closing consideration will consist of $132 million in cash and an additional $108 million payable, at the election of Hologic, in cash, shares of Hologic Common Stock or a combination thereof. The earn-out will be payable in two annual cash installments equal to the incremental revenue growth in Suros Surgical's business in the two years following the closing. This transaction is expected to close by the end of the second calendar quarter and will be subject to customary closing conditions, including Suros Surgical stockholder approval and the expiration or termination of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act.
Suros Surgical Systems, Inc. is a privately held, Indiana-based manufacturer of minimally invasive surgical technologies focused on breast biopsy and tissue removal. Suros Surgical's ATEC(R) (Automated Tissue Excision and Collection) line of products, include percutaneous, automatic vacuum assisted breast biopsy systems, ancillary breast biopsy devices and biopsy site markers. In addition to more conventional image guidance compatibility, the ATEC system has become the market leader in MRI guided breast biopsy technology as well.
"The agreement to acquire Suros Surgical supports our strategy of maintaining our leadership position in women's healthcare initiatives," said Jack Cumming, Hologic's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "Biopsy is the most widely accepted method for determining the presence or absence of cancer following detection of a breast abnormality. An estimated 1.8 million biopsies were performed last year in the United States of which approximately 80% revealed benign lesions. The availability of minimally invasive needle biopsy has lowered the number of open surgical procedures performed over the last decade, giving women an improved and more preferred choice in diagnosing breast cancer. This acquisition should further strengthen our capabilities within women's healthcare by enabling our sales force to offer customers a comprehensive portfolio of product offerings in breast cancer detection."
Suros Surgical's revenue in calendar 2005 was approximately $27.2 million, representing 71% growth over the previous year. Hologic expects sales related to this acquisition in the 2006 calendar year to be in excess of $40 million and for the transaction to be accretive to earnings in fiscal 2007, absent the amortization of intangibles related to this transaction.
"We are proud of the innovations we have introduced with our breast biopsy systems and very pleased with our accomplishments to date," said Jim Pearson, President and CEO of Suros Surgical. "This merger is a natural fit. Our expertise in breast biopsy combined with Hologic's resources should further accelerate the adoption of our technology and ultimately benefit physicians and improve patient care."
Hologic's management will host a conference call on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 at 9:00 a.m. (Eastern). Interested participants may listen to the call by dialing 877-704-5385 or 913-312-1303 for international callers and referencing code 2001426 approximately 15 minutes prior to the call. For those unable to participate in the live broadcast, a replay will be available one hour after the call ends through April 21, 2006 at 888-203-1112 or 719- 457-0820 for international callers, access code 2001426. Hologic will also provide a live webcast of the call on the investor relations page of Hologic's website at http://www.hologic.com/investor. A replay of the call will also be available on the investor relations page of Hologic's website http://www.hologic.com/investor shortly after the completion of the live broadcast.
About Hologic
Hologic Inc. is a leading developer, manufacturer and supplier of premium diagnostic and medical imaging systems dedicated to serving the healthcare needs of women, and a leading developer of innovative imaging technology for digital radiography and breast imaging. Hologic's core business units are focused on osteoporosis assessment, mammography and breast biopsy, and mini C-arm and extremity MRI imaging for orthopedic applications. For more information visit http://www.hologic.com.
About Suros Surgical
Suros Surgical Systems, Inc. is an award winning Indiana-based medical device manufacturer of minimally invasive methods of tissue excision and biopsy within multiple surgical specialties. Its patented surgical platform technology allows the removal of tissue or biopsy samples in a compassionate, effective and efficient manner possible. Suros Surgical is [the] industry leader in commercially available MRI-guided vacuum assisted breast biopsy with its ATEC(R) system, providing women in a high-risk population the opportunity for early diagnosis of breast disease or cancer without going to surgery. For more information visit http://www.surossurgical.com.
Forward Looking Disclaimer
This News Release contains forward-looking information that involves risks and uncertainties, including statements regarding Hologic's plans, objectives, expectations and intentions. Such statements include, without limitation, statements regarding the timing of completion of the acquisition, the anticipated benefits of the acquisition and the expected effect of the acquisition on Hologic's earnings. These forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated. Risks and uncertainties that may affect Hologic's ability to consummate the acquisition or that may cause actual results to vary materially, include, among others: the stockholders of Suros Surgical may not approve the acquisition; the parties may be unable to obtain regulatory clearances required for the acquisition, or required regulatory clearances may delay the acquisition or result in the imposition of conditions that could have a material adverse effect on the combined company or cause the parties to abandon the acquisition; the parties may be unable to complete the acquisition or completing the acquisition may be more costly than expected because, among other reasons, conditions to the closing of the acquisition may not be satisfied; problems may arise with the ability to successfully integrate the businesses of Hologic and Suros Surgical, which may result in the combined company not operating as effectively and efficiently as expected; Hologic may not be able to achieve the expected synergies from the acquisition or it may take longer than expected to achieve those synergies; the acquisition may involve unexpected costs or unexpected liabilities, or the effects of purchase accounting may be different from Hologic's expectations; Hologic expects to incur additional debt or issue additional securities to finance a part of the cash portion of the purchase price and Hologic cannot assure that it will be able to obtain such financing on a timely basis or on favorable terms, if at all; such financing may negatively affect Hologic's results of operations or be more dilutive to its stockholders than anticipated and Hologic's failure to obtain such financing on a timely basis could result in a breach of its obligations under the acquisition agreement; the combined company may be adversely affected by future legislative, regulatory, or tax changes as well as other economic, business and/or competitive factors. The risks included above are not exhaustive. The annual reports on Form 10-K, the quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K and other documents Hologic has filed with the SEC contain additional factors that could impact Hologic's businesses and financial performance. Hologic expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any such statements to reflect any change in Hologic's expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based.
Additional Information About the Acquisition
The parties anticipate that the issuance of the Hologic shares of Common Stock in the acquisition will be exempt from registration under Regulation D promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. However, if it is determined that such exemption would not be available, Hologic has agreed to file a registration statement on Form S-4 with the SEC to register those securities. If such registration statement on Form S-4 is filed it will contain a prospectus and other relevant documents concerning the acquisition. If filed, Investors are urged to read the prospectus and any other relevant documents, when they become available, because they would contain important information about Hologic, Suros and the acquisition. If filed, investors would be able to obtain the documents free of charge at the SEC's web site, http://www.sec.gov. In addition, documents filed with the SEC by Hologic can be obtained at http://www.sec.gov or by contacting Hologic at the following address and telephone number: 35 Crosby Drive, Bedford, MA 01730, (781) 999- 7300. Investors are urged to read the information statement/prospectus and any other relevant documents when they become available.
Contact: Glenn P. Muir Frances Crecco Executive Vice President & CFO Director, Investor Relations Hologic, Inc. Hologic, Inc. (781) 999-7300 (781) 999-7377
CONTACT: Glenn P. Muir, Executive Vice President & CFO, +1-781-999-7300,or Frances Crecco, Director, Investor Relations, +1-781-999-7377, both ofHologic, Inc.
Web site: http://www.hologic.com/http://www.surossurgical.com/


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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- U.S. stocks trimmed earlier losses by more than half Monday afternoon, amid hopes that Greece may avoid a default. But the uncertainty over the debt-laden nation's future still ended the market's 5-day winning streak.
The Greek finance ministry said talks on Monday with officials from the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank were "productive and substantive."
A source familiar with the discussions told CNN a deal to continue to provide Greece with bailout funds may be close.
The Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) ended 108 points lower, or 0.9%. The S&P 500 (SPX) fell 12 points, or 1%, and the Nasdaq composite (COMP) lost 9 points, or 0.4%.
Earlier all three indexes had tumbled more than 2%.
Despite what seems like progress, investors will remain skittish until an official deal is announced.
"We are drawing closer to the date at which the Greek government is going to run out of money," said Mark Luschini, the chief investment strategist at Janney Montgomery Scott.
Even though the Greek economy is relatively small, "the great unknown is problematic for investors" said Luschini.
European Union finance ministers reached an agreement Friday on a package of reforms aimed at strengthening economic governance across the monetary and currency union.
The group of leaders concluded their meeting in Poland by deciding to wait until October before giving Greece the next round of funding aimed at helping Athens bail out from its debt load.
U.S. stocks had posted solid gains Friday, clinching a five-day winning streak for the first time in more than two months.
Economy: President Obama unveiled a plan Monday to cut the national debt by $3 trillion over the next decade.
Because the president's plan includes tax increases, investors are skeptical that Washington will ever be able to pass anything.
"Republicans won't raise taxes and Democrats are unlikely to make dramatic cuts on spending, so it's hard to envision any progress on the deficit," said Michael Sheldon, chief market strategist at RDM Financial Group. "The two sides seem pretty far apart right now."
Also this week, investors are waiting to hear from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. The Federal Open Market Committee has expanded the length of its meeting to two days from one, a move that investors have taken as a sign that the Fed will announce new actions to spur the economy at the conclusion of its meeting on Wednesday.
Experts largely agree that the Fed will announce a program dubbed Operation Twist, in which the central bank would try to boost lending by swapping out short-term bonds in its portfolio with long-term Treasury bonds. The intended outcome: lower long-term interest rates without increasing the size of the Fed's balance sheet.
"If the Fed goes ahead with Operation Twist, I think it will provide a minor psychological lift and put a bit of a floor in the market in the near-term, but I don't think it will fundamentally boost the economy," said Sheldon, nothing that long-term interest rates are already at historic lows.
"What the economy needs right now is confidence and constructive programs coming out of Washington," Sheldon added.
Separately, the housing market index by the National Association of Home Builders and Wells Fargo fell to 14, from a reading of 15 the previous month. Economists polled by Briefing.com were expecting the index to stay flat at 15.
The index has held in a tight range -- between 13 and 16 -- for six straight months, a sign that housing market conditions remain stagnant.
World markets: European stocks finished deep in the red Monday. Britain's FTSE 100 (UKX) dropped 1.8%, while the DAX (DAX) in Germany and France's CAC 40 (CAC40) tumbled 2.6%.
Asian markets ended lower. The Shanghai Composite (SHCOMP) shed 1.8% and the Hang Seng (HSI) in Hong Kong fell 2.8%. The Tokyo stock market was closed for a holiday.
Companies: Shares of Netflix (NFLX) shed 7% after co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings published a blog post overnight apologizing for the way the recent changes in charges were communicated and renaming the its DVD-by-mail service Qwikster.
Tyco International's (TYC) stock rose 2% after the company said it will separate into three independent, publicly traded companies.
Shares of Goodrich (GR, Fortune 500) popped 16% amid speculation that the company would be taken over by United Technologies (UTX, Fortune 500).
Shares of Lennar (LEN) spiked 5% after the homebuilder said that new orders increased during the quarter for the first time in more than five years, a good sign for future demand.
UBS (UBS) shares dropped 3%. The Swiss bank kicked off an internal investigation into the failure of its risk systems, after raising the amount it lost on "rogue" trades to $2.3 billion.
Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500) shares edged up 3% and hit an all-time high of $413.23 per share.
Currencies and commodities: The dollar surged 1% against the euro and gained ground versus the British pound. The greenback was slightly lower against the Japanese yen.
Oil for October delivery, nearing expiration, slipped $2.58, or 2.6%, to settle at $85.70 settle a barrel.
Gold futures for December delivery fell $35.80, or 2%, to settle at $1,778.90 an ounce.
Bonds: The price on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury rose, pushing the yield down to 1.94% from 2.08% late Friday.
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Woman on Megan's Law list, who never committed sex crime, breaks down
McKEES ROCKS, Pa. - A woman on the Megan's Law list, even though she never committed a sex crime, broke down while talking to Channel 11 Friday.
"I am not a sex offender. I would never hurt a child," said Victoria Balogh.
Balogh was in tears as she was about to face a judge in McKees Rocks for failing to register as a sex offender. Police said she moved without notifying state police.
Four years ago, Balogh was convicted of interference with custody of children. That crime falls under the newest version of Megan's Law, and Balogh must register as a real sex offender.
"Seventeen years of probation for not doing anything but trying to help a little boy that was in diaper and just a pair of socks?" Balogh questioned the ramifications.
"If she changes any information we have to record, she needs to notify us right away," said trooper Robin Mungo.
Although Balogh feels singled out, there are hundreds in our area who never committed a sex crime yet they, too, are now registered as sex offenders.


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During the Emergency of the 1950s, hundreds of Kenyans suspected of being Mau Mau supporters suffered unspeakable acts of brutality, including castrations and severe sexual assaults, at the hands of British colonial officials.
On 21 July 2011 the High Court rejected the British Government's attempt to strike out the claims of Kenyan victims of British Colonial torture. The Judge labelled the British Government's efforts to avoid responsibility as "dishonourable".
The Kenya Human Rights Commission and the Kenyan Government are supporting the claims, and leading academic experts on the Kenya Emergency have submitted lengthy statements in support. The case has lead to the discovery of the "Hanslope" archive of thousands of secret documents which were spirited out of 37 colonies prior to independence and which have been locked away ever since.
The case is changing public understanding of the Kenya Emergency and the discovery of the Hanslope archive is likely to change the history of the end of empire. In this event, the lawyer for the four claimants and leading academic experts on Kenya and the Mau Mau insurgency will discuss the evidence in the case and its implications.
David Anderson is Professor of African Politics and a Fellow of St Cross College at the University of Oxford. He is a leading expert on the history and politics of eastern Africa, and particularly Kenya. His Histories of the Hanged: Britain's Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire, is the first full history of the Mau Mau rebellion and its brutal suppression in 1950s Kenya.
Daniel Leader is a barrister at Leigh, Day and Co., and represents four Kenyans who were victims of torture at the hands of British Officials during the Kenya Emergency. Prior to joining Leigh, Day and Co., Dan was a barrister specialising in personal injury, employment law and human rights. Before joining the Bar, Dan worked on human rights and public interest law in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Kenya.
The Judgment - Mutua and Others v the FCO, 21 July 2011 (PDF, 59 pages) Summary of the Judgment (PDF, 3 pages)
Kenyan victims of colonial torture to give evidence at the High Court in London - Press release from March 2011 (Leigh Day and Co) containing further information and links


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Those who voted "no" in the referendum based on the premise that you could get something better than MMP, forget it. Thank you for your support, but reform is now officially dead. Any attempt to revive the issue will be crushed by the Family and its loyal messengers in the press. Now go back to your little lives and let your betters run the province. Once again thank you for your support. Suckers.Recommend this Post
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Only one real question remains. Will Green politics die with it?
There has never been serious public examination of the fundamentals of its analysis. In our navety, those of us who worked on the European election campaign believed that a significant result would achieve that end. At its core lies the self-evident truth that the earth is all we have, and that it therefore makes good sense to take care of it.
Accept that the earth is our common home and it follows that humanity is one family. Family members take care of each other, and try to ensure a decent future for their children. Simplistic? Utopian? The recent UN/EC sponsored conference on the former Yugoslavia began by formulating 'Principles of Civilised Behaviour'. These were ours.
Many of us stayed in the Green Party because, despite its manifest faults - and, believe me, how it looks from the outside is as nothing compared to what it is like inside - it was the only political vehicle rooted in these ethics. Who else had the courage and the vision to start from a bedrock of principle? Who else dared to dream?
If I had not already quietly allowed my membership to lapse, I would be leaving the Green Party now. It is no longer the party I joined and worked for. Perhaps it never was, but it will now retrench, officially, to an anarcho-socialist splinter group. I remain a Green who wants to work for Green politics. Where do I, and thousands like me who wouldn't be seen dead in a bobble hat and whose minds are far from woolly, go now?
Yours sincerely,
Isleworth, Middlesworth
The writer co-ordinated the Green 2000 initiative which brought about the organisational changes agreed by the party conference last year.
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Users of Internet health information: differences by health status
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Adult; Age Factors; Continental Population Groups; *Delivery of Health Care; Female; *Health Status; Humans; Information Services; Internet; Male; Patient Education as Topic; Sex Factors
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BACKGROUND: Millions of consumers have accessed health information online. However, little is known about their health status.
OBJECTIVE: To explore use of Internet health information among those who were sicker (fair/poor general health status) compared with those reported being healthier.
METHODS: A national, random-digit telephone survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project identified 521 Internet users who go online for health care information. Our primary independent variable was general health status rated as excellent, good, fair, or poor. Patterns of Internet use, and types of information searched were assessed.
RESULTS: Among the 521 users, 64% were female, most (87%) were white, and median age was 42 years. Most individuals indicated that they learned something new online (81%) and indicated that they believe most information on the Internet (52%). Compared with those with excellent/good health, those with fair/poor health (N = 59) were relative newcomers to the Internet but tended to use the Internet more frequently, were more likely to use online chats, were less likely to search for someone other than themselves, and were more likely to talk about the new information with their physician (odds ratio 3.3 [95% confidence interval 1.8-6.3]), after adjustment for age, education and income.
CONCLUSIONS: Health care professionals should be aware that their sicker patients are more likely to ask them about information they found online. Physicians, public health professionals, and eHealth developers should work together to educate patients about searching for health information online and to provide tools for them to navigate to the highest quality information.
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Citation: J Med Internet Res. 2002 Apr-Nov;4(2):E7. Link to article on publisher's site
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Houston, Thomas K. and Allison, Jeroan J., "Users of Internet health information: differences by health status" (2003). Quantitative Health Sciences Publications and Presentations. 784.


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Odd, I had that same thought. Back around the turn of the millennium.
Odd, I had that same thought. Back around the turn of the millennium.
That's partly what killed our office. Unfortunately, the PHB that did the deed was the owner of the company, and we eventually found him to be a lying ass hat. Tip: don't lie to database analysts, they are used to digging for data and finding inconsistencies.
I'm with you. At only 48 I'm in better shape than when I was a kid in the Infantry. And I don't have to sit at the children's table during Thanksgiving anymore!
As the years progressed I slowly started improving my diet and lifestyle to help counter some heart disease and diabetes on my dad's side. I went to the 75th wedding anniversary of my mom's grandparents (triple digits!), and her mom lived to 97. Mom is still kickin' it in her mid 70's!
I sat with my grandmother once while she told me about living through WWI, The Great Depression, moving to Kansas in a covered wagon, rural electrification, WWII, telephones, cars(!) and planes(!), Korean War, Vietnam War, JFK, landing on the moon, computers, medical marvels, and the Internet. My mom told me about hearing stories from her uncles about when they fought in the Civil War. The big thing that I got from their retrospective is this: The most important thing in life is how we treat each other, and how we respond to events. In some ways we've gotten better, but in others worse.
The public perception of our leaders used to be that we were choosing among the best of us, now we feel like we just get the most corrupt with the deepest pockets. Grandma was very disappointed with the administrations of the last 50 years. But she was so proud of her children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and the couple great-great-grandchildren.
I figure, with luck and progressing tech, I'll have a long life in which to play with toys and more grandkids.
It's open source, anonymous, keeps no records, and acts as an off-line file-sharing system. you can pack it in your lunchbox, or even smaller. You can have it sitting in the bottom of your backpack, and have everyone in the food court up/downloading *ANYTHING* without worrying about getting nailed by "The Man". I don't think that it would be that hard to have it securely wipe it's storage clean at shutdown or startup, so there is no evidence of anything being stored on it, in case of seizure. It's been out for over a year and runs on multiple platforms.
I ran into a "hypercard"-like app for the C-64 back in 1986, that involved you building a flowchart of your app, answer some basic questions, and it would generate the Basic code for it. It was pretty spectacular for the day. There are quite a few code generator programs available today, just get one that runs on Python and give it a snazzy GUI. There you go. A nice easy to understand app generator that's cross platform, multiple output languages, open-source, self-extending, etc. etc...
You would spend more time on the design of the GUI, writing the help files, and creating tutorials, than anything else. The user wouldn't even have to know ANY particular language, just the logic they needed.
But that's just my opinion. I just build stuff.
"simulation" is also a technical description of "driving game". Let them also put the simulator on-line, to provide environment and background as hundreds of thousands of crazed and insane real humans try to crash into the auto-piloted cars. Each time someone succeeds, buff up their capabilities and give them credit and recognition, and develop response scenarios. That's how you "sim" car combat with real humans - you use real humans. It would be just like the dogfighting flight sims they use to train pilots. AI drivers will probably seldom, if ever, exceed the creativity of their programmer, while real humans can be fscking insane and unpredictable. If an auto-pilot car can avoid getting nailed by a coordinated assault team of five people actively trying to ram it, then I would rate it much better than all of the drivers on the road, save some of the elite counter-ambush drivers.
Wow, I could say that about most people, also...
"normal people don't care about the OS". So? Why are you even bringing up "norms"? They don't come here, they don't know how to spell "OS", and don't know that a good OS can keep everything working like a fine watch
Too late, I've already got Asperger Syndrome (autism-lite), so that makes me immune to the full-blown version. Right?
30 minutes? After driving for a couple of hours, I'm ready to take a 30 minute break and stretch my legs...
Hydrogen? Seriously? 45 years ago, when I was little, they were saying Hydrogen was only 30 years away, and would roll out demo cars to prove it. I think they just said the same thing last week.
I used to think the same thing, until I actually looked at the engineering realities regarding hydrogen. It's the lightest and smallest element on the Periodic Table, so it will migrate through steel, making it brittle as it goes. The only way to make hydrogen in the industrial quantities needed is with steam reforming of petroleum based hydrocarbons (check Wikipedia if you don't believe me). Then there is the energy density and storage nightmare of hydrogen which isn't even nearly as good as current gen car batteries.
And that is just to replace the current fuel in an internal combustion engine (not so efficient) with a lower density fuel (even worse efficiency). Now a fuel cell, where the fuel is converted directly into electricity is promising, except that to produce the amount of power needed to drive a vehicle would require an oxidation rate right up there with a controlled explosion trying to go uncontrolled.
And you still haven't gotten away from using petroleum, or the wars,corruption and crime involved in dealing with it. So, hydrogen isn't really looking too good now, is it?
I would think that just changing the power generation method for a hybrid from an IC engine to a micro-turbine generator, with it's higher efficiency, flex fuel capability, fewer and more reliable parts, would provide the fast recharge capability that you say you want. In fact, some companies are starting to do this already. Neil Young's LincVolt was such a conversion, by H Line Conversions in Wichita, KS.
But I think that, except for niche applications, the end of life for the internal combustion engine is in sight. It has to be over-sized and over-built for performance use, and can't compare (favorably) to microturbines for power generation. They are expensive, complicated, dirty, and require an expensive and violently fought over fuel.
I think with the appropriate paint job, and a larger gondola for cargo, there could be airship pirates in our future! Anyone feel like signing up for a (short) life of adventure and riches?
I just need a quick bit of clarification: you are speaking about ChromeOS and not all flavors of Windows, yes?
Microsoft will never Opensource XP. Mostly because it would be a major liability with no benefit to them. Yes, liability. If you have your programmers going through the code and find a module that obviously didn't work like it was supposed to, and exposed the machines to a 0-day hack, your lawyers would race to file law suites against Microsoft to compensate for the companies losses. Or lets say you figure out what ALL the settings in the registry do, including the ones for exclusive use of the FBI/NSA/Microsoft. Now you know that they were fully able to bypass the Microsoft supplied firewalls, and grab whatever info they wanted. And you would spill that knowledge all over the net.
Where is Microsoft's benefit in all this? It's just not there.
The only project to Opensource XP that I've heard of is ReactOS, and it is STILL in Alpha stage, even after all these years. I suppose if the demand for it is there, some companies could be encouraged to donate time/money and accelerate the project, for their own benefit.
This is exactly one of the attack vectors used by China when they went after Google. They slipped some backdoors into the firmware code at the manufacturers facility in Korea. Even if the Google office was running SELinux, all it took was a port knocking to have full access to the machine, totally bypassing the high level security.
Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together ... -- Carl Zwanzig


text: This Samsung Galaxy S II Started Burning In a Man's Pocket And Almost Blew His Nuts OffCasey Chan12/02/11 2:20pm97EditPromoteGo to permalinkIt's not just iPhones that are blowing up these days, this Samsung Galaxy S II almost exploded in a man's pants. Seriously. Could you imagine if your phone caught fire and started burning everything in your nether regions? Ouchouchouch.


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"You should go back to spelling school", I tease her, "there's no c in Rishi".
"There is honey, there is a deep sea in Rishi", She says and smiles; and looks at me with eyes so heavy you'd think she's drunk. She tries to find something on my face, like she often does. The scars, the unkempt hair, the wheat complexion - she looks at none of these; she's looking for something else; familiarity maybe?
"Why don't I feel I possess you?", she asks. "You don't look like you're my own". I don't know how to fix that; how do I make myself look like I belong to her; she possesses me?
"Just play with me", she says and hugs me, her breasts cold like in the early mornings touching my chest, "don't get attached, don't fall in love with me". I have no idea how one does that either. Just play, and not get attached...
"Write your name with your finger on my skin", she asks me. Sometimes I feel all she likes about me is my name.
Too much beer does this to me, bring her in person before me and she just keeps talking randomly in past. Some days I wish I could undo everything that has happened since morning and wake up again.
After a week since my wisdom teeth extraction I was still numb in my lips and had a bursting pain in my lower jaw. I woke up in pain and saw that I'm out of prescribed pain killers.
I took aspirin and started late for office to face one of those days when you have a meeting first thing in the morning. Soon after meeting I called my dentist, almost in tears with pain in my jaw to ask for pain killers. "Come over for checkup instead", he said.
"If you're still numb, it is what I feared, your nerve has been damaged, maybe its temporary, maybe permanent ....", he spoke into infinity; I could hardly concentrate. The pain didn't bother too much all of a sudden. I was numb all over for a moment.
I returned to office to see a missed call on my phone. It was Maya, Mabel and my common friend. I called her back. "I was just wondering what are you ....", she continues for sometime, "Did you hear from Mabel recently?"
"No; it's been a while."
"She's too busy it seems, I haven't talked to her in a long time too. She has a boyfriend now ..."
'She has a boyfriend now ...' I thought I don't care anymore. I thought I'm over it already and that I'm very understanding in the entire situation. It happened. Its over. But I still can't help but wish her death every so often. I hate myself when I do that, but I do.
I regret calling Maya back and somehow end the conversation. I decided I've had enough for the day; before I could call my manager to tell him I'm taking rest of the day off, he called me to remind me that I have to fix this one bug before the end of business today. "It has to go in today Rishi; it's a customer issue ..."
It took me till 9 in the night to finally get it done and over with. I drove back to my apartment driving within speed limits without any music unlike my typical self.
Once at home I kept standing leaning on the door for a long time. I needed beer. I had not had any since she had me promise I'll never booze again. All the more reason I needed it...
But this is what too much beer does to me; bring her up before my eyes.
"If a picture is worth a thousand words, what would your eyes be worth?" she asks me. I look up to see a blurred image of her. I try to say something but I don't know how one does that, answer all her questions...
"You don't have to answer everything I ask", she says and giggles.
I wish there was a Ctrl+Z on my day somewhere...
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The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)
The Celestial Toymaker | ||
Novelised as: | The Celestial Toymaker | |
Doctor: | First Doctor | |
Companion(s): | Steven, Dodo | |
Main enemy: | Celestial Toymaker | |
Main setting: | Celestial Toyroom | |
Key crew | ||
Writer: | Brian Hayles | |
Director: | Bill Sellars | |
Producer: | Innes Lloyd | |
Release details | ||
Story number: | 24 | |
Number of episodes: | 4 | |
Season/series: | Season 3 | |
Premiere broadcast: | 2 - 23 April 1966 | |
Premiere network: | BBC1 | |
Format: | 4x25-minute episodes | |
Production code: | Y | |
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The Celestial Toymaker was the seventh story of the third season of Doctor Who. It was famously the story that almost wrote William Hartnell out of the series. Producer John Wiles' original idea for dispensing with Hartnell's services was to have the Doctor disappear as Hartnell during the Trilogic game, then reappear as another actor.
The larger truth, however, was that it was a serial that had, unlike most others, been shaped by two different production teams. Along the way it had generated unusual criticism from rights-holders of other properties — including Wiles' own boss — who were concerned that their characters were being unhelpfully, if not illegally, used within the production.
In fact, "The Final Test" was the only Doctor Who episode forced to have a continuity announcement to protect the BBC from legal action on behalf of a copyright holder.
Toymaker saw Innes Lloyd officially take over as producer, which led to far less formal clothing for his female cast. For the first time, the female companion wears a miniskirt. The serial also suffered due to a hangover from The Ark that posted over budget, resulting in minimalist set design.
Synopsis Edit
The travellers arrive in a strange domain presided over by the Celestial Toymaker — an enigmatic, immortal entity who forces them to play a series of games, failure at which will render them his playthings for all eternity.
Plot Edit
The Celestial Toyroom (1) Edit
The Doctor, who has been rendered invisible and intangible, claims it is a powerful attack that has penetrated the TARDIS. He tells Dodo and Steven to turn on the scanner, but nothing appears. However, the scanner is not broken; it's just not picking anything up. He has them open the doors and, against their advice, the Doctor heads outside.
Elsewhere a man dressed in the manner of a Chinese mandarin is lounging amongst toys and detritus. He is aware of the Doctor's arrival as well as the details on his companions. He approaches a large dollhouse and removes two small figurines of clowns. He places them on the floor and they grow to life size. He tells them to "deal with" Dodo and Steven. They lumber off.
Steven and Dodo find the Doctor now visible, but they also discover a life-sized toy robot with a video screen built in its stomach. Steven sees images on the screen of himself on Kembel and in 16th century Paris. The Doctor warns Steven that this a hypnotic screen and realises that they are in the world of the Celestial Toymaker, and the screen is a trap designed to let him get into their minds. The Doctor explains that the Toymaker is an evil force that traps people and turns them into his playthings. Dodo notices that the TARDIS is now no longer in the room. The Toymaker appears and tries to get Dodo to watch the screen, which shows her on the day her mother died. Dodo suggests they escape in the TARDIS, which prompts the Toymaker to show them hundreds of TARDISes on his screen, saying, "Take your pick", before vanishing with the Doctor. The two clowns appear and first begin to entertain Steven and Dodo, but the Toymaker returns again and explains that the two clowns are to act as their opponents. In order to win the TARDIS back, they must beat the clowns in a series of games. Every time they win they will get a TARDIS from the number of copies he has made in hope that it may be the genuine article. If they lose, they are forced to stay forever. Faced with no choice, Steven and Dodo agree.
In the depths of the toyroom, the Toymaker alludes to a time when the Doctor has been here but left before the Toymaker could engage him in competition. The Toymaker explains that he specifically brought the Doctor to his world because he's been bored, and if he can trap the Doctor, he'll have a brilliant mind to play against for all time — unlike Steven and Dodo who will be kept here as toys if they lose. The game he assigns to the Doctor is called the Trilogic game. This is a series of 9 blocks piled in ascending order using two other points on the board. The Doctor has to rearrange them in that exact order on point C. He can only move one block at a time and cannot put a larger block on top of a smaller block. The Toymaker tells the Doctor he has exactly 1023 moves to complete the game; one wrong move, and he will lose and be kept there forever. He points out a counter to keep track of how many moves the Doctor has taken. He tells the Doctor that he specifically chose this game as he feels travelling has made his mind old, lazy and weak. When the Doctor argues with this, the Toymaker says it was easy enough to trick him into leaving the TARDIS this time compared to his last visit.
Steven and Dodo, meanwhile, are pitted against the two clowns, called Joey and Clara, in "Blind man's buff". One teammate will move around an obstacle course blindfolded, being guided only by coded buzzes from her partner. If the blindfolded person falls over, they lose. The obstacle course consists of a swing, stepping stones, a plank, a tube and a ladder. The Doctor tries to call out to warn Steven and Dodo about the game, but the Toymaker cuts him off, and, as punishment, makes him intangible once more (except for one hand, so he can still play his game). Joey goes first and effortlessly succeeds. Steven goes next, but has a hard time, especially because Joey has moved some obstacles around. Steven seems to fail, but they inspect Joey's blindfold, and it's see-through, meaning the clowns had been cheating all along. They demand a re-match, and this time Joey falls, and the two clowns collapse lifelessly. A TARDIS appears, but it's a fake, containing only a door behind it. Steven and Dodo find a piece of paper with a riddle on it: "Four legs, no feet; Of arms no lack; It carries no burden on its back; Six deadly sisters, seven for choice; Call the servants without voice." They move on through the door, leaving Joey and Clara — who have now reverted back to dolls — behind.
The Hall of Dolls (2) Edit
Steven and Dodo move on through the false TARDIS into the next room, which contains different sizes and shapes of chairs in two adjoining rooms — three in one room, four in the other. The decide that the first lines of the riddle must correspond to the chairs they see in this room.
The Doctor watches this unfold and, apparently familiar with the Toymaker's games, cries out, "It's chair number —" but he is cut off by the Toymaker before he can give them the answer to the game. The Toymaker takes away the Doctor's ability to speak and commands him to continue his game. He picks up a deck of cards and declares that he will send the Hearts Family to play against Steven and Dodo next.
Dodo and Steven are visited by the Toymaker, who informs them how he deals with cheaters by letting them know what state the Doctor is in. Dodo tries to point out the Toymaker's hypocrisy, but he disappears. The pair are joined in the chair room by people dressed as the King, Queen, and Knave of Hearts, as well as the Joker. They realise that the line from the riddle they found earlier, "Six deadly sisters, seven for choice", means one chair is the correct choice and the other six are deadly. The King and the Queen keep interrupting and distracting Dodo and Steven, so they go to the next room, with Steven convinced they are imaginary products conjured up by the Toymaker.
In the next room they find three TARDIS shaped cabinets and one TARDIS they assume to be theirs. Inside the fakes they find seven dolls, correctly assuming them to be the "servants without voice". Steven tries to command the dolls with his voice but to no avail, so they decide to place them on the chairs. As they attempt to do this the King and Queen return. Again Steven calls them imaginary, but they prove that they are real as well — equally as trapped by the Toymaker as Dodo and Steven are. They will gain their freedom if they win at the game. The King and Queen see the dolls and demand they be shared, so Steven and Dodo hide three of them, and the four players take one doll each. They split up between the rooms, and each tries a chair. The King puts his doll in a chair, and the chair shakes violently until the doll's head falls off.
In the other room, Dodo throws her doll into a chair, and it is electrocuted. Steven tries another, and a blade cuts the doll in half.
Back in the main room the King puts the last doll into a chair, and both chair and doll simply vanish, leaving just two chairs in their room. The King and Queen hatch a plan to use the Joker to sit on one of the chairs to ascertain if it's the right one.
Steven and Dodo have one chair left in their room but left the extra three dolls in the room the King and Queen are in. Dodo hears the King and Queen coming and plans to sneak out to get them; however, when the King and Queen wake the Joker, Steven sees through their plan and tries to stop them. Steven heads for the other room, and Dodo sits down in the remaining chair.
In the main area of the Toyroom, the Toymaker taunts the Doctor, now on move 690, telling him Dodo has chosen the wrong chair — the "freezing" chair.
Steven notices and rushes to Dodo. She says she suddenly feels cold and cannot move. Steven forces Dodo to concentrate on him and eventually pulls her free from the chair.
Meanwhile, the King and Queen try to convince the Joker to test a chair for them, but he catches on to their plan when the Knave laughs at his stupidity and runs away. Unable to agree on who should try a chair next, the two sit in one of the two remaining chairs together. For a moment, nothing happens, and it appears they have won, until the chair suddenly collapses on them. Dodo and Steven enter and realise there's only one chair left and sit in it, winning the game. The TARDIS lights up, but it's another fake. Recalling that they haven't solved the entire riddle, they try to "call the servants without voice" and call the remaining three dolls to them. Just then, the police box telephone rings. Steven answers, and it is the Toymaker, delivering the next clue: "Hunt the key, to fit the door; That leads out on the dancing floor. Then escape the rhythmic beat; Or you'll forever tap your feet." There is a click, and then a dial tone. They notice the King and Queen have become playing cards once more. As the two continue on, the three remaining dolls come to life and start to pursue them.
The Dancing Floor (3) Edit
The Toymaker congratulates the Doctor on his choice of companions and decides they have earned some amusement. He selects Sergeant Rugg and Mrs Wiggs.
Steven and Dodo are at the next door, but can find no way in. Dodo is frightened at the appearance of the "servants without voice". However, the door suddenly opens on its own, and they go inside to discover a large old-fashioned kitchen populated by the familiar-looking Rugg and Mrs Wiggs. Mrs Wiggs directs them to the Dancing Floor, but the large oak door that separates them from it is locked. Though Steven is getting thoroughly annoyed at the characters sent at them, whose only job appears to be to "get his goat", Dodo appeals sweetly to Rugg. He helps them realise the game is "Hunt the Thimble"; the key to the door is hidden somewhere in the kitchen.
The Toymaker complains that the Doctor is not playing quickly enough and orders the advance of his game twice, to move 813.
Steven and Dodo discover a third character asleep in the kitchen, who looks uncannily like the Knave of Hearts. This character is stuffed into a kitchen boy's uniform. Dodo again appeals to Rugg, and he chivalrously helps her and Steven search for the key. Mrs Wiggs is getting more and more irritated at the three of them tearing apart her kitchen. She eventually loses her temper, even at Rugg, at the shattering of some of her plates and cups. Rugg and Mrs Wiggs quarrel violently, while the kitchen boy wakes and takes refuge under a table, but Steven tries to keep Dodo on task. Soon food is thrown around, whereupon Dodo tries to reconcile the two, unsuccessfully. Steven catches the kitchen boy trying to escape and tries to force him to tell him where the key is, but the kitchen boy escapes and locks himself in the pantry. As the food fight continues, Rugg threatens a pie that Mrs Wiggs has made. She becomes very concerned and demands he put it down. Dodo realises that's one place they haven't looked, and when the pie is smashed on the ground, she finds the key in it. They open the door and go inside. The Toymaker appears and angrily confronts the characters, exclaiming how they have wasted their "chance at life". He commands them to prevent Steven and Dodo finding the next TARDIS, or he will break them like the plates. To demonstrate this threat, he shatters the last remaining plate.
Steven and Dodo arrive on the Dancing Floor to witness three ballerinas performing a dance. They see the TARDIS at the opposite end of the floor but realise it can't be so easy to get there. When they place their hands curiously over the floor, music plays and the dolls begin to dance. As Rugg and Mrs Wiggs enter, having "made up", Steven makes a dash for it, but once the music starts, he is forced to dance, and the dolls surround him. Soon Dodo is pulled into the dancing, while Rugg and Mrs Wiggs scheme to get to the "big cupboard" first. As Mrs Wiggs begins to dance, the dolls change partners. Rugg finds he cannot resist and is soon dancing as well. Steven eventually becomes Dodo's partner, and they successfully jump off the floor and into the TARDIS as Rugg and Mrs Wiggs dance on, left — as the rhyme says — to "forever tap their feet". The TARDIS is another fake. Dodo is firmly convinced that these characters are alive, but Steven is doubtful.
Meanwhile, the Doctor is pleased with his companions, laughing despite the Toymaker being the only one who can see him. The Toymaker is livid with his "too human" characters. He takes out a Cyril doll, an "innocent, fat, jolly schoolboy" who he thinks will lull Steven and Dodo into a false sense of security.
Steven and Dodo find the way out of the cupboard and another message: "Lady luck will show the way; win the game or here you'll stay." As they emerge from a passageway, Dodo screams when Cyril appears in front of them. Steven thinks he's seen Cyril before, and Cyril confirms this: he was previously the Knave of Hearts and the kitchen boy. As Cyril shakes Steven's hand, Steven is shocked by an electrode and pulls away; Cyril giggles mischievously. As they realise the Doctor has reached move 902, Cyril directs them to the next game, which will be played against him.
The Final Test (4) Edit
The last game is "TARDIS hopscotch". Each player rolls a die at his turn and moves the number of triangles indicated. First to reach the TARDIS is the winner. Steven is very suspicious at the apparent simplicity but is pleased at the 2-to-1 odds. Cyril warns that the area between the triangles is electrified.
The Toymaker taunts that Cyril hates to lose, so he makes sure he never does. He pushes the Doctor's game to move 930. He further taunts that Steven and Dodo's places in the dolls' house are prepared; sure enough, there are chairs inside labelled "STEVEN" and "DODO".
Dodo is allowed to go first, then Steven. When Cyril plays, he sweetly informs them that if anybody lands on an occupied triangle, the first player must return to the start. After one turn, Steven is ahead at triangle 7, having been given a free move by the die indicator. But Dodo's next turn lands her on Steven's triangle and sends him back. To add insult, the die indicator tells Steven he loses a turn.
The Doctor is removed from his ban of silence by the Toymaker and confidently states that his concentration will not be broken now.
Cyril appears behind Dodo wearing a gorilla mask, frightening her. In so doing he has landed on her triangle. Steven threateningly moves towards Cyril, but Cyril calls him a cheater for moving when it wasn't his turn. Steven and Dodo both must now go back to the start. Steven has had enough and tries to go on, but he runs into an invisible barrier and the Toymaker appears, saying that the barrier yields only to those who play the game by the rules. With no choice, they both jump back to the start and as they do, Cyril nails Steven with a slingshot. Steven rolls a six, but in his haste his momentum almost carries him onto the electrified floor. He asks if he gets a second turn for a six, but Cyril indignantly dismisses that idea: "Eh? Certainly not!"
The Doctor is pushed forward to move 1000.
Steven loses another turn. Dodo rolls a much-needed six as well. Cyril needs a three to get home; he rolls a two. Then, the die indicator tells him he must move to triangle 9, putting him behind Dodo. Dodo's turn is interrupted when Cyril starts to cry, and Dodo spots blood on his foot. She goes over to help him, despite angry warnings from Steven. It turns out to be a ruse; the "blood" is really red ink. Cyril exclaims that Dodo is forced to go back to the start for moving off her triangle.
Cyril is exultant at his next roll, a five; he wins! However, as Cyril reaches one of the last triangles, he slips off and straight onto the electrified floor. There is a scream, a flash and a puff of smoke as Cyril is instantly electrocuted. When the smoke clears, all that is left of Cyril is a charred doll. Steven discovers slippery powder on the triangle; Cyril must have placed it there himself to ensure his victory but fell into his own trap during his haste to reach home. They must yet play the game to the end, so Dodo (ignoring Cyril's ruling) rolls a four from her triangle and makes it home, though almost slipping on the powder herself.
The Doctor has been rematerialised fully, and at move 1022 sees that he will win the Trilogic game. He activates the Toymaker's scanner to see that Steven and Dodo have won their game also. He happily goes to see if the real TARDIS is undamaged. Steven and Dodo hear the humming of the real TARDIS and the Doctor joins them. The Toymaker continues to tease the Doctor, and the Doctor is forced to admit that the three of them could be dragged down in defeat with him. When the Toymaker appears in the flesh, Steven moves to attack him, but his strength is turned against him, and the Doctor cools his temper and orders both his friends into the TARDIS.
The Toymaker offers the Doctor a chance to serve him and share in his power; the Doctor refuses and claims victory as he enters the TARDIS. The Doctor tries to take off, but the TARDIS controls fail to respond, and he re-emerges angrily to accuse the Toymaker of tampering with his ship. The Toymaker reminds him that the Trilogic game is not over; he must make move 1023 in order to leave. The Doctor moves to do so, but realises he can't, for when he does the Toymaker's world will vanish, including everyone in it.
The Doctor explains to his companions that the Toymaker is immortal, and though his world may be destroyed he can merely build a new one. They must find a way to finish the game and leave safely. The Toymaker begs to be given the TARDIS, as "it would make such an interesting toy". The Doctor asks for the Trilogic game to be moved inside the TARDIS, but the Toymaker refuses and tells them they must either stay there forever or make the last move and be destroyed. Steven offers to make the move himself, sacrificing his life to let the Doctor and Dodo escape, but the Doctor refuses to allow it, causing Steven to comment that they're not going to get anywhere by trying to talk their way out of the situation.
The Doctor is suddenly inspired, and after presetting the controls, attempts to orally command the Trilogic game to move forward, as the Toymaker had done. His first attempt fails, but then the Doctor imitates the Toymaker's voice and the move is made. He instantly commands Steven to throw the master switch, and the TARDIS safely dematerialises as the Toymaker's world ceases to exist.
They celebrate with a bag of sweets, given to Dodo by Cyril. The Doctor puts one in his mouth but suddenly yelps in pain and grabs his jaw...
Cast Edit
- Dr. Who - William Hartnell
- Steven Taylor - Peter Purves
- Dodo Chaplet - Jackie Lane
- Toymaker - Michael Gough
- Joey the Clown / King of Hearts / Sergeant Rugg - Campbell Singer
- Clara the Clown / Queen of Hearts / Mrs. Wiggs - Carmen Silvera
- Cyril / Kitchen Boy / Knave of Hearts - Peter Stephens
- Joker - Reg Lever
- Dancers - Beryl Braham, Ann Harrison, Delia Lindon
Crew Edit
- Assistant Floor Manager - Elisabeth Dunbar
- Choreographer - Tutte Lemkow
- Costumes - Daphne Dare
- Designer - John Wood
- Incidental Music - Dudley Simpson
- Make-Up - Sonia Markham
- Producer - Innes Lloyd
- Production Assistant - Snowy White
- Script Editor - Gerry Davis
- Special Sounds - Brian Hodgson
- Studio Lighting - Frank Cresswell
- Studio Sound - Alan Fogg
- Theme Arrangement - Delia Derbyshire
- Title Music - Ron Grainer
References Edit
- Dodo initially speculates that the Doctor's intangibility is due to the Refusians.
Story notes Edit
- This story had working titles The Trilogic Game and The Toymaker. (REF: The First Doctor Handbook)
- Only the final episode of this four-part story, "The Final Test", exists in the BBC Archives as a 16mm black & white film telerecording.
- It was at one point considered writing out William Hartnell as the Doctor in this story (by making the Doctor become invisible at one point, then regain visibility later with the appearance of a different person), but the idea was vetoed.
- The Celestial Toymaker was to return in The Nightmare Fair, and Michael Gough was approached to reprise his role, but this was never made due to BBC1 Controller Michael Grade having unexpectedly decided to postpone the series for eighteen months. This was part of the unmade Season 23 in 1986, which was later made into a Target Missing Episodes novelisation and a Lost Stories audio story, the latter starring David Bailie as the Toymaker.
- Radio Times credits "Michael Gough as the Toymaker" for all four episodes and "Dancers: Beryl Braham, Ann Harrison, Delia Lindon" for "The Dancing Floor", with the other supporting cast members credited without specific roles under the heading "with" in the programme listings for all four episodes.
- In "The Hall of Dolls", whilst deciding which of the seven chairs — six of which are deadly, while one remains safe — to choose, the King of Hearts recites a version of the children's counting rhyme "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe" (used to select a person to be "it" for games and similar purposes), which includes the racial slur "nigger" in the second line. The use of this word was still considered acceptable by the BBC at the time of the story's original 1966 broadcast. Although the rhyme is still present on BBC Audio's CD release of the story, it has been obscured by placing part of Peter Purves's narration over the top, in order to correspond to modern views on the use of this word.
- William Hartnell was on holiday for the recording of "The Hall of Dolls" and "The Dancing Floor", and so the Doctor's appearance during the Trilogic game scenes is limited to pre-recorded dialogue for the latter and a disembodied right hand (that of extra Albert Ward, sporting the Doctor's signet ring) for both episodes.
- Though Gerry Davis and Innes Lloyd received their first credits for a full serial with The Celestial Toymaker, both men had in fact worked on Doctor Who before. Evidence of Lloyd's presence in the production office extends at least back to 26 January 1966, when he sent scripts of the first two episodes of The Gunfighters to director Rex Tucker. This the same week that "War of God" first went in front of cameras. John Wiles, however, may still have been around for at least some of the recording of The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve. By 14 February, a few days before "The Steel Sky" recorded, Lloyd was fully in charge of the series. Thus he was known to have at least produced The Ark, and perhaps some of The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve, before receiving his first on-screen credit for The Celestial Toymaker. Davis, meanwhile, had actually received a credit on "Bell of Doom".
- This was the first story to make use of flashbacks to past Doctor Who adventures.
- Following the completion of the serial, the Trilogic Game prop came into the possession of Peter Purves, who was very pleased with Steven's increased importance in the serial. Unfortunately, after leaving Doctor Who, Purves endured a year and a half without work and came to see the Trilogic Game as the source of his bad luck. He finally discarded the prop and ironically was rewarded with a role in Z-Cars the following day.
- Cyril was originally supposed to dress up like the Artful Dodger from Oliver Twist.[source needed]
Competition in the Toyroom Edit
Producing The Celestial Toymaker wasn't easy, even by Doctor Who standards. Most of the difficulties stemmed from the fact that it arose at a time of transition in the production office. Though commissioned by the team of producer John Wiles and script editor Donald Tosh, it was ultimately completed by the new team of Innes Lloyd and Gerry Davis. The two sides simply had very different ideas about how the story should proceed.
All four episodes were in fact written three different times. Brian Hayles had delivered all four original scripts, likely in late 1965. Tosh and Wiles had immediately seen that the scripts could not be practically realised, and thus Tosh rewrote them entirely. By the time he was finished, though, he was no longer script editor. Davis, his replacement, now had to deal with the fact that Tosh had inserted the use of the title characters from a play called George and Margaret by Gerald Savory without obtaining permission. Since Savory was now Head of Serials, and had the power to veto scripts, he quickly rejected Tosh's approach to The Celestial Toymaker.
Davis therefore had to tackle the scripts again. These rewrites got Savory's approval, but the old production team were left wondering what had happened to their scripts. Tosh opined that Davis' approach was "much lighter, more pantomime" than his own. The results were no more pleasing to John Wiles, who wrote a memo to Savory on 25 February 1966, after he had technically left the Doctor Who production office. In it, he claimed that the central battle of wills between the Doctor and the Toymaker had been downplayed to the benefit of new elements involving a more childish confrontation between the companions and the Toymaker's creations. Ultimately, Wiles would have liked to have seen the entire production halted, since its commissioning producer and script editor had gone — and with them, the original, more adult intent of the story. (REF: The First Doctor Handbook)
However, the story's problems weren't over even after Davis's script had been recorded. After the transmission of "The Dancing Floor", the BBC had to field charges from the estate of Charles Hamilton that the character of Cyril was in fact meant to be his popular children's character, Billy Bunter. The problem was exacerbated by the fact that actor Peter Stephens had ad-libbed the line "My friends call me Billy" during recording. Thus the BBC were forced to take a step never repeated before or since: they had to have a special continuity announcement at the end of "The Final Test" which declared that the character of Cyril was not meant to be Billy Bunter, but merely a character like him.[1]
Ratings Edit
- "The Celestial Toyroom" - 8.0 million viewers
- "The Hall of Dolls" - 8.0 million viewers
- "The Dancing Floor" - 9.4 million viewers
- "The Final Test" - 7.8 million viewers
Filming locations Edit
Production errors Edit
- In a scene where the Doctor is playing the Trilogic game, a shadow can be seen behind the game and there is only the Toymaker in the room.
- During the Trilogic game scenes, the table top is often clearly visible through the Doctor's disembodied right hand.
Continuity Edit
- The Celestial Toymaker reappears in PROSE: Divided Loyalties, COMIC: Endgame, AUDIO: The Magic Mousetrap and PROSE: The Nightmare Fair/AUDIO: The Nightmare Fair.
- The Doctor cries out in pain in the cliffhanger that concludes the story, later revealed to be caused by a toothache triggered by biting into a hard candy, an event for which he will need a dentist. (TV: The Gunfighters)
- After being conditioned by the artificial intelligence WOTAN on 20 July 1966, Dodo suffered a nervous breakdown. She left the TARDIS soon after. Her claims to have played games with living dolls and other similarly outlandish stories resulted in her being sent to a psychiatric institution. (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy)
- Steven sees himself on the planet Kembel and in 16th century Paris in flashbacks to TV: The Daleks' Master Plan and The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve respectively, and also refers to the Monoids from The Ark.
Home video and audio releases Edit
- The surviving episode, "The Final Test", was released on VHS as part of The Hartnell Years (with the "Next Episode" caption rather clumsily cut from the cliffhanger scene, as it was at the time missing from the existing 16mm black & white film telerecording).
- "The Final Test" was also released in digitally re-mastered form on the Lost in Time DVD box set (with the "Next Episode" caption reconstructed and restored).
- Editing of the surviving episodes DVD release was completed by the Doctor Who Restoration Team.
- The soundtrack for the story was released on CD, with linking narration by Peter Purves, on 2 April 2001. This edition was re-released in 2011 as part of the box set Doctor Who: The Lost TV Episodes - Collection Two.
- A fan-produced photo video reconstruction has been made of this story by Loose Cannon Productions. This includes a celebrity introduction by Peter Purves.
External links Edit
- The Celestial Toymaker (includes a video clip) at the BBC's official site
- The Celestial Toymaker at BroaDWcast
- The Celestial Toymaker at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
- The Celestial Toymaker at Shannon Sullivan's A Brief History of Time (Travel)
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The Third Circuit recently elaborated on the test for joint-employer status under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) in the context of a parent company providing shared services to its subsidiaries in In re: Enterprise Rent-a-Car Wage & Hour Employment Practices Litigation, 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 13229 (3d Cir. June 28, 2012).
Enterprise Holdings, Inc. is the parent company and sole stockholder of 38 domestic subsidiaries operating rental car agencies. Plaintiff Nickolas Hickton, a former assistant manager at one of the subsidiaries, filed a nationwide collective action in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, alleging that he and other similarly situated managers were misclassified as exempt, and were due back wages for overtime, liquidated damages and attorneys' fees under the FLSA. Hickton sued both the subsidiary and Enterprise Holdings, alleging that Enterprise Holdings was liable as a joint employer. After the district court granted summary judgment to Enterprise Holdings on the ground that it was not a joint employer (and thus not liable under the FLSA), Hickton appealed to the Third Circuit, arguing that summary judgment was improper because, on the evidence before the district court, a reasonable jury could conclude that Enterprise Holdings was a joint employer under the FLSA.
The Third Circuit disagreed. The Court of Appeals began its analysis by citing the statute, which defines "employer" broadly as "any person acting directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer in relation to an employee." 29 U.S.C. § 203(d). The court then noted that the FLSA's implementing regulations provide that an entity may be found to be a joint employer "[w]here the employers are not completely disassociated with respect to the employment of a particular employee and may be deemed to share control of the employee, directly or indirectly, by reason of the fact that one employer controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with the other employer." 29 C.F.R. § 791.2(b). The court also cited Third Circuit precedent holding that the degree of control over essential terms and conditions of employment is the touchstone for joint employer status under the FLSA:
"[W]here two or more employers exert significant control over the same employees – [if] from the evidence it can be shown that they share or co-determine those matters governing essential terms and conditions of employment – they constitute 'joint employers' under the FLSA."
Because no Third Circuit opinion squarely set forth an analytical framework for determining when sufficient control exists to create joint-employer status under the FLSA, the Third Circuit surveyed the opinions of other federal appellate courts and the district courts within the Third Circuit. Although the Third Circuit regarded these authorities as instructive, it concluded that, without amplification, they could not serve as a test for determining joint employment under the FLSA. Accordingly, the Third Circuit set forth its own analytical framework.
The court noted that the test for joint employment under the FLSA must be broader than the test used under other statutes such as the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) and Title VII because the FLSA provides for joint-employment status where there is "indirect" as well as "direct" control over the relevant employees. It then held that courts must begin the joint-employer analysis by considering whether the alleged employer has or exercises:
The court stressed, however, that the analysis may not end with evaluation of those factors. The four criteria are not exhaustive, and district courts must therefore take into account any other, unspecified, "real world" indications of "significant control." Further, whatever factors the district court takes into account must be balanced; no one factor will necessarily be determinative.
Because Enterprise requires district courts to consider "real world" indications of "significant control" that the Third Circuit did not attempt to delimit, the decision leaves some ambiguity concerning how much control is too much. An examination of the Third Circuit's application of the Enterprise test to the facts of the case, however, dispels some of that uncertainty and gives employers reason to take heart.
Hickton marshaled what, at first blush, might appear to be significant evidence of control: the same three individuals who were Enterprise Holdings' directors were also the only board members of each of the subsidiaries; Enterprise Holdings provided shared services (including employee benefit plans, rental reservation tools, a central customer contact service, insurance, technology, legal services, business guidelines, and human resources services) to its subsidiaries that were optional in the discretion of the subsidiary, which were paid for via dividends and management fees. The Human Resources services provided included providing job descriptions, best practices, training materials, performance review forms, and compensation guidelines; during 2005, representatives of Enterprise Holdings recommended that the subsidiaries not pay overtime wages to assistant managers who were employed by certain subsidiaries.
Notwithstanding that array of evidence, the Third Circuit concluded that Enterprise Holdings was not a joint employer of Hickton, even though the "fact of the interlocking directorates and the nature of the business being conducted by the parent and subsidiaries" weighed in favor of the plaintiff. The court also rejected the argument that the provision of guidelines and manuals rose to the level of "significant control," reasoning that they were merely suggested policies and practices, the subsidiaries had the discretion as to whether to adopt them, and Enterprise Holdings' recommendations were akin to those of a third-party consultant. In sum, the court concluded that, even though some of the evidence favored Hickton, the balance of the evidence under the four factors so favored Enterprise Holdings that no reasonable juror could conclude that Enterprise Holdings was a joint employer. The Third Circuit therefore affirmed summary judgment in Enterprise Holdings' favor.
Employers may draw several lessons from Enterprise Holdings:
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Quartz, zeolites, gemstones, perovskite type oxides, ferrite, carbon allotropes, complex coordinated compounds and many more?all products now being produced using hydrothermal technology. Handbook of Hydrothermal Technology brings together the latest techniques in this rapidly advancing field in one exceptionally useful, long-needed volume.
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NASHVILLE (AP) — Legislative leaders and several groups are launching a new initiative to encourage healthy eating in Tennessee.
A news conference is scheduled at the state Capitol on Tuesday to announce the plan.
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The normal backup (also referred to as a full backup) is the fundamental unit of operation for most Exchange deployments. Regardless of the strategy you select for backup, the normal backup type will be part of your operational procedures. With a normal backup, both the database files and the log files are copied to tape. In addition, the log files are truncated or deleted once they have been copied to the backup media.
The truncation point for the transaction log files is the current database checkpoint location. The normal backup operation is also important to database integrity since only during a normal backup are the 4-KB database pages checked for corruption (they are also checked during copy backups and on-line database maintenance as well). This is accomplished by verifying each page read to make sure that the page number requested is the page the database engine received. Next, each page's CRC information (contained in the page header) is verified to ensure that the data contained in the page is valid. The normal backup is also important to the ESE Page Zeroing feature, which I will discuss later in this chapter. To restore from a normal backup, you only need to restore the complete set and allow the ESE database engine to replay any log files required for the database to be in a consistent state.
Similar to the normal backup is the copy backup. A copy backup differs in that it does not truncate or purge log files once they have been copied to tape. In addition, the copy backup does not update database backup context information contained in the database file header. Copy backups are very useful for archival purposes or other scenarios in which you want to back up your Exchange databases, but do not want to disrupt the normal backup schedule. A copy backup performs the same functions of integrity checking and page-zeroing (if enabled) as the normal backup.
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Currently ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) accounts for 20-30% of newly diagnosed breast cancers in screened populations. Because of the inability to stratify the DCIS populations at high risk for recurrence and disease progression, many women are currently over-treated and approximately 10-15% patients have disease recurrence despite surgical and adjuvant interventions. Preliminary and published data indicate that a large fraction of DCIS lesions exhibits alterations in the ErbB2 and RB-pathways. However there are no studies investigating effects of both pathways abnormalities in the same DCIS lesion. In this application we using functional studies, will: 1. Define role of RB pathway in progression of ErbB2 overexpressing DCIS and 2. Determine how RB and ErbB2 status impacts response to radiation therapy.
By improving our understating of mechanism driving progression of DCIS to invasive breast cancer the proposed studies will allow for better prognostic stratification of DCIS patients. Additionally we will investigate approaches to treat DCIS rationally based on knowledge of RB and ErbB2 pathways.
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A bill that would give underage drinkers protection from minor consumption citations if they call 911 because of a medical emergency passed the Minnesota House.
It was approved on a 124-8 vote on Thursday.
The so-called "medical amnesty" is being pushed by student organizations across the country. Hundreds of colleges already have such policies in place on campus and Oklahoma earlier this month became the 13th state to put it into law.
Supporters say allowing limited immunity for minors will make them less hesitant to call for help if they or an acquaintance needs emergency assistance for alcohol poisoning, accidents or assaults while drinking.
Opponents said it could send young people the wrong message about underage drinking and make it more difficult to enforce drinking laws.