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"That's A Witness!"
Whenever someone would confirm a thought that my late mom had, or agreed with her, before she even found out that they did, she would say "that's a witness!" I loved that.
In this case, Son of Baldwin is a WITNESS.
I just wrote about dealing with a person of colour, a Twitter troll, who asserted that by supporting LGBTQ people (which again, includes Black people) I am the one that is a White supremacist, not him. Well, Son of Baldwin just reminded me of an essay that he wrote confronting the same thing, an essay I recommended in my 32nd Read This Week feature, no less. He writes:
It's simply a case of the student trying to impress/outdo the teacher (Peep, for example, how American evangelicals are financing the anti-queer movement in Uganda; what's old is new again). But don't try to argue this point with so-called conscious black folk. Like their misogyny, their anti-queerness is legendary. They want the mythical, all-heterosexual Africa of their fantasies, not the one that actually exists/existed. And they will fight you to the death to preserve it. They will say it is YOU, not THEM, who is turned out by white supremacy. Ignore them. Pity them. But do not believe them. They are wrong.
In this case, the person who asserted that bigotry is our birthright was an Arab man, not a Black one, but if you read the rest of Son of Baldwin's essay, you'll see how this same stance is shared by many people of colour, sadly, because of White supremacy, and how they are convinced that bigotry, not resistance, is the way to freedom.


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Sure, the Ravens were lucky to get Elvis Dumervil.
But, you know what, I do believe in the saying "luck is when preparation meets opportunity." They were prepared for this because they didn't throw away money on other free agents, or their own players, early in free agency.
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They still have holes to fill, and they probably won't get a star like Dumervil, but they will probably get some competent free agents at reasonable prices, which they need considering their cap situation.
By the way, this is the second time after winning the Super Bowl they have signed an Elvis; hopefully, this lasts longer than the Grbac run.


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Using SRM for backup
Storage managers aren't just looking for storage resource management (SRM) tools to help with primary storage allocation anymore -- but also for secondary storage purposes.
The myth of the nines
The nines of reliability is a theory that refers to the percentage of time a system is running. But the theory's flaw is that it doesn't consider the timing of a system outage.
DR planning: Third-party help
Find out how VARs, system integrators and consultants can be a valuable resource for you when putting together your DR plan.
Early adopters applaud iSCSI arrays
If you are on the fence about iSCSI, you may want to take a look at what some of the early adopters are saying about their implementations.
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A flood, fire, or simply a broken pipe can cause serious water damage to your tapes -- and possibly your data. Find out what to do with water-damaged tapes.
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Author and DR expert Jon William Toigo shares specific tips for avoiding data disruptions during power outages, such as checking alternative power sources ahead of time.
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A wireless NAS is a pretty specialized product but there are a couple of situations where a wireless NAS can be useful.
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In the wake of Thursday's blackouts -- data center maven and SearchStorage.com contributor John Weinhoeft tells us how data centers can effectively protect against power outages.
FC HBAs and FC switch pricing
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The Bloch Student Affairs Administrators Training Program is a 20-day immersion program for directors and staffs from the Student Affairs Department in Chinese Universities to learn the U.S. model of Student Affairs Management. Participants will gain an in-depth perspective and insight to best practices followed by student affairs in the United States and walk away with innovative ideas.
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Detroit Proud Playlist: Week of 7/21
Week after week, our Detroit Proud Playlist is dedicated to bringing you the best names in Detroit music – from local, up-and-coming bands to established artists. This week, we're proud to bring you a list of some of our favorite hardworking, local Detroit acts, past and present.
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Whether you celebrate the changing of the seasons by going up north for camping and tubing, or just barbequing in your backyard – we've created the perfect Detroit Proud Playlist for you to kick off your Summer!
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Did you know that Detroit boasts a long list of bands, artists, and performers who have been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Learn more about 10 of them in this week's Detroit Proud Playlist!
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Hello, hello, Detroit Proud music fans! We've searched high and low, through the ins and outs of the coveted Detroit music scene and hand-selected a few of the best songs some our favorite musicians and bands have to offer.
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We decided to change things up this week and create a playlist that features all of Detroit's best EDM artists (that's "Electronic Dance Music," for all you EDM-newbies). Check 'em out!
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Welcome back, Detroit Proud music fans, to this week's edition of the Detroit Proud Playlist. We've done something special this week, featuring only a set of songs from one album. Why only one album, you ask? Well, this isn't your typical album – it's 40 Detroit artists collaborating in 10 groups to make 10 original songs…all about Detroit. Needless to say, it has more than sparked our interest…
Detroit Proud Playlist: Week of 3/24
We've decided now that the snow is *mostly* gone, it's time to celebrate Spring – so get up and move! We've packed this week's playlist full of all varieties of electronic musicians that will get you in the dancing (or running, if that's your thing) spirit…and a few more mellow tracks for when you need a rest – after all, it's been a long winter.
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It's common knowledge to Detroiters that our town is home to some of the world's best musicians. We're at the top of every major music trend – from Motown to techno to garage rock. Detroit musicians have influenced and entertained millions, and that list will only continue to grow – we thought we'd pay tribute to some of those who set the bar high.


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As third-quarter earnings season gets underway over the next few days, we'll start to get a clearer picture of how much political advertising revenue radio is able to pull in and how that will impact a disappointing first half of 2014. Most of that revenue will be reported in the next quarter, but we'll certainly get a sense of whether or not radio CEOs are optimistic about it. In the meantime, CNBC reports Pandora has doubled the number of political campaigns using the service. Pandora Vice President of Sales Sean Duggan tells CNBC Pandora is serving ads for about 400 campaigns (individuals and issues) in this election. "We have scale and can be really discrete with targeting, with very little waste." CNBC points out that traditional radio will reach "a bunch of consumers that won't be voting in that particular election and Pandora can provide a great deal of assurance that the people advertisers are paying to reach are relevant to the message."
Pandora has launched a new service called "Artist Marketing Platform," or AMP. It's a free online service that gives artists a detailed view of their audience on Pnadora. Pandora says the data is compiled from "tens of billions of hours of personalized listening," and has the potential to help artists with decisions such as tour routing, single selection, set lists and audience targeting." Pandora founder Tim Westergren commented, When I was in a band, we had a rented van, a box of fliers, and a couple staple guns. The challenge faced by artists trying to find and build an audience was part of the original inspiration for Pandora. With AMP, the goal is simple: we want to harness the power of our scale and data to make artists lives easier.
Alpha Media in San Antonio held its 7th Annual Raul Jimenez Thanksgiving Dinner Radiothon on Friday, October 17, 2014. Six stations in the Alpha cluster raised over $128,000 to benefit the largest Thanksgiving Dinner celebration in the country. The Raul Jimenez Thanksgiving Dinner, named after the late Raul Jimenez, a local restaurateur, was started 35 years ago. It serves meals to over 25,000 people in need and the elderly. The tradition called A Feast of The Heart has lived on, taken over Jimenezs daughter Patricia Jimenez.
As Nielsen waits for the radio in-fighting to end over whether or not to measure Pandora as part of an online ratings service, Television is getting exactly what radio needs. It was announced Tuesday that Adobe and Nielsen are partnering to build a cross-platform system for measuring online TV, video and other digital content across the Web and apps. As the radio industry watches services like Pandora (see story #1) chip away at its revenue and listeners migrate to other devices, there is still no final decision on who will be measured by a new audio cross-platform ratings service from Nielsen, which is just about ready to be rolled out.
This plea for free airtime comes from Republican incumbent Clayton Fiscus who says because his opponent John Pulasky reads the weather on KATL-AM in Miles City, he deserves an equal amount of time from the station to campaign. KATL station manager Donald Richard told the Billings Gazette it's not going to happen. Here's why...
Police have identified the man who jumped off a tower owned by Press Communications, in Neptune, New Jersey. Thirty-eight-year-old Christopher Zweidinger of Manchester was pronounced dead at the scene after jumping from 200 feet up. NJ.com reports Zweidingers vehicle was found at the scene, and his identification and a suicide note were found inside. It's the second suicide from the tower this year.
When you attend Radio Ink's annual ForecastForecast conference, you know you're going to hear frank assessments of the state of the industry from the leaders of radio's largest groups. But just as important to hear from is our annual panel of independent operators whose ability to react quickly to changes in the market and technology often puts them on the leading edge of radio. At Forecast 2015 , November 19 at the Harvard Club in New York, Walter Sabo will lead a conversation with the Independents.
Sensing he sees the Senate slipping from the grasp of the Democrats, President Obama turned to radio Tuesday to try to turn out more voters. He appeared on The Rickey Smiley Morning Show and Al Sharpton's program Tuesday. He's called in to seven syndicated radio shows so far this week, mostly appealing to the African American community to get out the vote.
Greg Guy and Jason James of Patrick Communications fill us in on the details in Missouri. 100,000-watt KWFC-FM (airing a Southern Gospel format) is sold to Radio Training Network, which is run by James Campbell. Radio Training also owns KWND-FM in Springfield, as well as 24 other stations in 14 markets. The seller was Baptist Bible College.
As Radio Ink reported back on May 14, Reba is the first artist to be signed to the new joint venture label between Big Machine and Cumulus. Tuesday morning the announcement was made on Americas Morning Show with Blair Garner.
Receiving praise from the number-one billing station in America is a pretty good thing. Hubbard Senior VP and GM of WTOP in Washington, DC, Joel Oxley says, "TopicPulse has been a difference-maker and smart addition to our newsroom toolkit. The more information we have to track what our audience is interested in, the greater the opportunity is to better serve their needs, and TopicPulse helps us get there. WTOP-FM in DC partnered with LDR Interactive to bring TopicPulse to its glass-enclosed nerve-center newsroom to track the social media engagement within the beltway. So, what is TopicPulse?
The two companies have announced a new multi-year deal to continue the ad rep contract vCreative has with Westwood One to handle its barter inventory. vCreatives cloud-based terrestrial and digital software allows continuity, traffic, and production departments to work easily together. vCreative President Jinny Laderer said, "We look forward to working with (Westwood One's COO) Charles Steinhauer and a new and improved Westwood One. Steinhauer added, "vCreative is a great partner for Cumulus and the radio industry at large as they continue to innovate and improve station work flow. Westwood One is proud to extend our partnership with Jinny and her team as we continue to represent the best and brightest companies in the marketplace.
Spreaker is an international digital company that provides broadcasters, musicians, and producers a platform where they can listen to original content or upload their own content and distribute it on www.Spreaker.com. Ron Hartenbum's WYD Media will now represent Spreaker nationally for advertising sales. WYD will also assist Spreaker with overall brand management. Hartenbaum said, The platform is an organic community of people who really want to be there and are actively participating. Im excited about tapping into that marketplace by creating and aggregating cohesive content with Francesco and our clients.
For the past five weeks, Mark Wainwright and George Kilpatrick have been filling in for Joe Galuski who is the morning man on iHeartMedia's WSYR in Syracuse. This morning, Galuski went on the air to explain why. "Five weeks ago I was diagnosed with cancer," Galuski said when calling in to his own show. He's battling non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and it's his second bout with lymphoma, having dealt with a "smaller form" back in 1992. Galuski said the cancer he has now is stronger, but he's confident he will be able to "knock it out." Galuski has been on the air at WSYR since 1988. You can listen to the entire interview HERE.
Spanish Broadcasting System has appointed Eric Garcia as radio division revenue chief. He'll be responsible for revenue at all of the SBS radio properties and report to SBS COO Albert Rodriguez. Garcia will continue in his role as GM of the SBS New York radio stations. He has been with SBS since 2004. Before that he was VP of sales for WSKQ-Mega 97.9 FM and WPAT-Amor 93.1 FM in New York.
We are now accepting nominations for our third annual Best Local Sports Talkers in America list. For the past two years, WFAN's Mike Francesa has occupied the top spot. Can he do it again? Can Boomer and Carton overtake Francesa? Is there a dark horse in another market that could steal that top spot away. The Sports format remains one of radio's hottest and there is tons of talent all across the country. Make your nomination for the 2014 Best Local Sports Talker HERE. See our 2013 list HERE.
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(Radio Ink Publisher Eric Rhoads) Something unexpected can result in a sea change. That was the case when Radio Ink unintentionally focused on something that had been below the radar concerning the connected car. We had been monitoring the connected car, we knew it was coming, and we knew it would impact how people use audio in the car.
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On the opening day of DASH in Detroit, Vice President of Measurement Innovation at Nielsen Audio Dr. Ed Cohen gave attendees the first look at new research that examined how college students have woven digital into their lives. It may also give radio managers a glimpse of the type of listener they will soon be dealing with: one with a much shorter attention span that wants more and more control. The study placed a special emphasis on the role of cars, the "connected car," and what personal transportation means in their lives today and their plans for the future. Cohen took part in a three-year study at the University of Florida called The Class of 2015. What the study uncovered was that these college students did consume radio and television, but they connected more strongly with forms of two-way communication, namely social media.
That was the theme from a panel called "It's All About the Experience" on Day 1 of DASH in Detroit, Wednesday. Slacker Radios Mike Kasparian said user experience is top priority, especially in the auto world. With laptops and mobile, the experience is clearly defined. In the automobile theres still work to be done on the dash. Keynoter Gary Shapiro spoke about driver distraction still being a major issue and looked more in the future toward the driverless vehicle. The opinion of this panel was that a lot more needs to be done to please the consumer who wants the experience to be much easier.
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On a panel that combined auto dealers with radio managers the theme was, "with great technology comes great responsibility." While connected cars have great tech capabilities, they also require a lot of knowledge to operate. An advantage for radio if it keeps its content strong is that, as the auto dealers on the panel explained, consumers simply do not want to wait around to learn how to properly use the technology, most car buyers absolutely want their phones paired.
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STEPHENS CITY -- Shenandoah Valley Christian Academy junior Hannah McGann wasn't so sure about this whole "midfield" thing before the start of the girls soccer season.
Hard to blame her, really -- McGann had been playing forward exclusively since the seventh grade, and playing it well. Why change a good thing, right?
Patriots coach Dustin Wheelock knew it needed to be done in order to better incorporate McGann's dangerous field vision and uncanny passing ability in SVCA's attack.
"That's a really hard thing to do as a player," Wheelock said. "Some girls will play a lot of different positions. Hannah has always been a forward. She wouldn't say it to me, but I knew she was a bit apprehensive about moving to mid. But the impact she's had has just been phenomenal."
If McGann had any lingering doubts as this season went on, here's the moment that likely erased them for good -- with eight minutes to go in a scoreless tie against rival Fresta Valley Christian and a Virginia Association of Christian Athletics (VACA) state championship on the line, McGann was in the right place at the perfect time. From her center-mid position, McGann spotted teammate Megan Norton dashing through the penalty box and pushed her a pinpoint through ball. Norton had only the sweeper to beat, which she did for the game's only goal in SVCA's 1-0 victory.
"I was thinking if I could just poke it through, I knew she could run onto it," Norton said.
It was the final play of many this season for Norton, who is The Northern Virginia Daily's Female Athlete of the Week for May 11-17. She finished the season with a team-high 15 assists and was second only to Norton in goals with 18. Teamed with Norton and Abi Beaty in the midfield, McGann came to admit that the center is the place to be after all in the Patriots' 4-5-1 attack.
"I see myself as a midfielder now," McGann said. "I definitely think it suits the way I play."
The weather put a damper on the start of McGann's week. Hosting Roanoke Valley Christian in the VACA state quarterfinals last Tuesday, the Patriots got the game's first goal when McGann sprung loose and finished for the score. That one will just have to be a memory, though -- a lightning delay late in the first half eventually became a cancellation, which wiped out that score.
A day later, the Patriots restarted their matchup against Roanoke Valley in Staunton. McGann chipped in with two assists, both on corner kicks that she sent directly into the box to spark goals in the SVCA's 3-1 victory.
"She played two very nice balls in there that our girls were able to get a head on," Wheelock said.
McGann said she hadn't taken corner kicks until this year, either.
The Patriots had an easier time in the semifinals against New Covenant, rolling to a 4-0 victory. McGann got another assist in that game, and added a goal off a penalty kick. That was her first of those this season.
The championship followed a day later, as SVCA pulled off a first for the program by winning both the VACA and the National Association of Christian Athletics (NACA) titles in the same year.
McGann was among five SVCA players to earn VACA All-Tournament honors, adding to a list of honors that include first-team VACA All-North Region, first team VACA All-State and NACA All-American honors.
The Patriots lose just two seniors off this team, and Wheelock is expecting even bigger things from McGann next season.
"She's going to be a huge contributor for our team next year," Wheelock said.
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The Catskills, a once-bustling vacation community approximately 100 miles north of New York City, have been in steady decline since the 1980's.
Real-estate mogul Donald Trump, who has emblazoned his name across properties in various U.S. cities, sued in August to have his name taken off the Trump Plaza, which closed last month, and the nearby Trump Taj Mahal, which is on the verge of closing.
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The McBean brothers, who are partners in Lakeside Greens in Chestermere, have pumped more than $5- million into improvements at Las Sendas Golf Club in Mesa, Ariz.
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Strasbourg, 30 January 2014 - Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann told members of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly today that European governments cannot allow themselves to "become accustomed" to high youth unemployment.
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Doctor Who writer Mark Gatiss has given his thoughts on the Doctor potentially finding Gallifrey.
Speaking at the recent Brazil Q&A panel Gatiss said: "Every time you go back to Gallifrey, it starts to make the Time Lords a bit too domesticated. I know that's why Russell T Davies came up with the whole idea of the Doctor being the last one because eventually if you see them so often they become a bit like a bunch of MPs, whereas if you talk about them as this amazing, powerful force, they're much more exciting.
Elaborating on whether he'd ever like to pen a story featuring the Doctor's home world: "I don't know if I would want to do one. I think the way the Time Lords were represented in The End of Time and The Day of the Doctor was very exciting because we're seeing them in a crisis and they're trying to come up with different ways of saving themselves. But I suppose if the Doctor ever does find Gallifrey again, then we might find out more. Who knows…"
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I feel the Time Lords are a sort of rabid, uncontrollable force right now, like even the Doctor couldn't predict what they'd do if they managed to come back. I want the Doctor trying to bring them back on conditions or something and things just getting out of control because Time Lords IN GENERAL became worse than Daleks. That's worth seeing.
Well said Mark, I hope he is the next show runner :)
And yet again a writer who completely dismisses the fact that the Time Lords were considered every bit as bad as the Daleks. THE DALEKS, for heaven's sake! Between these two arrogant species almost the entire universe suffered horrendous wars, throughout time, and yet people say they want Gallifrey back? No! The Doctor KILLED his own species for a reason and that wasn't because he disliked them a bit. He hated what they'd become and felt it was the only way for him to be sure the universe would be safe. Which is why to me the whole 'I saved my world' just feels wrong. Why would he feel inclined to save his own people, but order the whole human race to kill every Silent (Silence?) on sight? Even /children/? When later it turns out there's also good Silents. Are they killed by humans as well? I really don't get this decision at all, no matter how hard I try.
budget is the reason we won't see the time lords
The question is, if the Doctor does find Gallifrey, should he return it to the universe? After all the co-founder of Time Lord society, Rassilon wanted to rip the Time Vortex apart, and had full support from the whole of the High Council.
The War Council was baring the symbol of Rassilon everywhere, so It seems like they are still loyal to him.
There must still be Daleks on the surface of Gallifrey, so horrors like the Nightmare Child might still exist.
And as Tasha Lam said, "If the Time Lords return, the Time War will begin anew".
If he does find it, I'd like to see a story where the Shadow Proclamation and several other space UNs try and stop the Doctor for bringing it back, for the sake of the universe.
When Gallifrey does return, I'd like to Timothy Dalton as Rassilon, and Ken Bones as General arguing like hell.
I imagine that the Time Lords won't suddenly become good guys after DOTD but still harbour some desire to gain control over time and reality, because even if they do realize that they are now just as ancient and corrupt as the godlike beings they themselves replaced, they probably won't give up willingly. That's why I feel that it would still be incredibly dangerous to bring back Gallifrey. I think it might be more interesting for the hypothetical arc about searching for he planet if the Doctor takes it into account, while it could be even more fascinating to consider the growth Time Lords' potential successors as guardians of time itself. Perhaps the Doctor might help nurture the Ood into peacefully taking over the responsibilities of his people, in the hopes that they may never become as corrupt as Gallifreyans.
While Gallifrey shouldn't return any time soon I hope it doesn't take a excessive amount of years because I don't have the patience of a Time Lord for that
My dream : a Doctor-Compagnion-TARDIS-everything-Lite episode that shows us the events between The Day of the Doctor and The Time of the Doctor... on Gallifrey, fom the Time Lords' point of view. What has been decided ? What plans have been made to return ? How did they realize where they are ? How did people react ? What ever happened to The Master ? What did the High Consil decide ? The Rani ? Rassilon ? The-mysterious-woman-from-TEOT, is she dead ? The eleventh episode of the series of course, like Turn Left, who would reveal a lot and lead to an epic (two-parter) Series Final, where Gallifrey is returning.
Who...knows. (taps nose.)
Gallifrey's a bunch of MPs, alright.
Thankfully, now they've got a Spin Doctor.
When Gallifrey returns would we see that woman that is implied to be the Doctor's mother return?
Perhaps there could be an adventure in the Death Zone? Or somewhere in the Gallifreyan countryside, where the outsiders live. The Doctor could help to put down a rebellion against the citadel. There is so much of Gallifrey to explore...
Also, I for one would find a Gallifreyan political drama very interesting. Politics is life; it is intriguing, especially with Time Lords. The Doctor could take David Cameron to Gallifrey. That would be rather amusing.
I think Moffat's final series as showrunner will end with the Doctor finding Galiffrey again. I say this in no way bashing Moffat in any way I personally love his stories, but he is a writer who loves journeys more than destinations. I think he likes the idea of the Doctor's quest to rediscover Galiffrey more than the idea of Galiffrey returning itself (He has in the past expressed mixed feeling about the timelords as a regular feature on the show).
I don't really know what he's complaining about, if I'm honest. Mainly because it all depends on how it's written, as to whether they're "domesticated" or left mysterious - new Gallifreyan stories could also bring new mythology to the Time Lords or reveal more about them while maintaining the intrigue and mystery that makes them interesting. I definitely don't think there's any chance (after Gallifrey is found) that they would have it and the Time Lords turning up every week or so - they are better writers than that. Like I say I don't know what he's complaining about because how Gallifrey and the Time Lords are translated story-wise to screen is up to the writer, and I don't think any of the writers working on Doctor Who (Moffat and Gatiss particularly) are stupid enough to domesticate them or simplify them.
I think we'll see Gallifrey's return before Moffat leaves. Perhaps a story featuring the return of Gallifrey into out universe being his grand finale.
Time Lords like MPs?
Overly bureaucratic and narrow minded, only concerned with themselves and doing anything they can to survive?
Sounds unfair to the Time Lords if you ask me...
I'm happy for the Doctor to find Gallifrey and save it, but I agree that it would not be good for the Time Lords for them to then become a regular appearance - and it would also be a bit of a change of character for the Doctor if he suddenly became very attached to the place and started visiting it all the time anyway.
Who nose?
There is a reason why the Doctor ran away from Gallifrey all those years ago...
I would really love for 12 to find Gallifrey in the series 8 finale then have a Christmas special set on Gallifrey. Just putting ideas out there..
I kind of agree. The Time Lords were brilliant in The War Games and the The Deadly Assassin because they were so mysterious, but they were a bit dull in The Invasion of Time and Arc of Infinity. When they do come back, I only want them to appear every few series.
We haven't had a whole episode set on Gallifrey since the show came back. I think at least a double episode to bring things up to date would be be welcome and then maybe leave it a while...
The Time Lords are like MPs? Does this mean we can expect an episode about an expenses scandal :-)
It would actually be very anti-climatic if the Doctor found Gallifrey in the near future. The first 50 years was about running away from the place, so logically the next 50 should be spent trying to find it. That's how Day of the Doctor was set up right. Every episode isn't going to focus on finding Gallifrey, but there will be one every couple of years trying to locate it. Sorta like the reverse of what's been going on these last half century.
Gallifrey's return should be saved for a special event, like the 75th or even 100th anniversary special.
@Diana van der Pluijm I hope nobody exterminates your country, including your children, just for the very reason that your nation is a danger for the rest of the world. Ask to the poor people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki what they think of what they think about indiscriminate genocide, than get back again.
@rajhoul Time Lords were present back in the 1970s when the budget and special effects were much lower. The BBC spends lots of money to produce complicated costumes, props and CGI every year to put non-humanoid characters on screen. Time Lords are identical to humans and they've already got plenty of ready-to-use Gallifreyan outfits for heaven's sake! What kind of high budget do they need if they return every now and then (for example, just for a two-parter per season?).
@YgorVale i thnk he will have to wait so long before bringing them back that they will have evolved into the Ood or something... and that might be a kind of sadness... but the Ood area gentle, beautiful people, so maybe not completely bad! ;) I wold like to see them LEARN to be better though. Like Vastra. Like Strax. Like Turlough. they can learn. So let them.
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I am shocked that this is the first time i have heard anybody online refer to Capaldi as the Spin Doctor, Great play on words, I bet that name sticks.
@Planet of the Deaf What we've seen of the leadership in the past they come across like the Roman senate: Corrupt to the core and full of intrigue and backstabbing. Time Lord society does overall seem to evoke ancient cultures that go through a dynamic period as in Rassilon's time, when they were also horribly decadent and cruel, while later on they have become stagnated and slothful.
@Planet of the Deaf The Arcadia referendum episode could air in time with the Scottish independence vote! And it's just dawned on me with Moffat & Capaldi both being Scottish that it could actually happen :P
@Planet of the Deaf No wonder Rassilon wanted to rip the time vortex apart...
@Gustaff Its a bit of a stretch to assume the show will even be running in 50 years. Besides I couldn't wait that long, 5 years is my ideal length of time.
@Gustaff Well, from a non-linear, non-subjective point of view, the Doctor has been waiting for 900 years since The Day of the Doctor. It may seem a short time (a couple of years) to you, but the poor old chap must be tired of waiting...
@Gustaff If the story is written right, it could be a surprise. Just like the rumour that Trenzalore was supposed to be Gallifrey. I wouldn't say the revelation would not be that great if Gallifrey is found within the next five years, but it has to be written great. I mean, we finally got closure on certain Eleventh Doctor mysteries in Time of the Doctor after three/four years. Like said, they don't want to make the story long. I know for the fans they don't want to see Gallifrey come back ASAP but it shouldn't come back after like ten years either because it will just make the not so over-ecstatic Doctor Who fan forget what happened because they'll lose focus. That being said, anyone who watches Doctor Who should be over-ecstatic
@Gustaff I don't think that it is going to take that long - it will just get repetitive after a while and viewers will want to finally see the damn arc end. If they stretch it out too long it will just alienate viewers.
I'm pretty sure we'll see the return of Gallifrey within the 12th Doctor's tenure.
@Notsosmartguy I personally think it should come back on March 26th 2015 as a Tenth anniversary for the new series. Either that or April 2nd - ten years since we found out Gallifrey was destroyed
@Notsosmartguy Or how about Nu-who 10th anniversary next year
@Notsosmartguy No. Viewers should not wait 25 years for The Doctor to find Gallifrey because not only will this task of finding Gallifrey be a tedious storyline and one of the most tedious storylines in Doctor Who history but the fans may end up forgetting Gallifrey is The Doctor's main focus
Ah, so the Doctor ordering every human to kill every Silent they ever meet is okay. But exterminating his own species to save AN ENTIRE UNIVERSE from them and the Daleks is wrong? Good to know.
@AlessandroArsuffi @Diana van der Pluijm they learned as a people thatthey need to control their murderous impulses and that they can't just kill people for the sake of it and expect teh world to turn a blind eye, didn't they?I know your kind of person has trouble justifying that, but... it's like gun control. Criminals don't obey laws. IF they did, we wouldn't need the criinal justice system. or weapons.there are just as many reasons as there are people. If not more. Stop whining. Judgment is easy and demands no sacrifice. Discriminating compassion is not, and demands all sacrifice. But the sacrifice of life by those who would NEVer care for it is something that must be halted whenever possible. Hence The Bomb. There are always people who use power for unwholesome ends. but then again, IDIC. One man's TRASH is another man's TARDIS. seeing eye to eye is, much like all of life, a temporary affair.The balance. entropy and order. SOMEONE surely gets my point. And if one person gets my point, then well. they got my point. someone may well eel the need to show other people how to behave. But yeah, you're absolutely right. not everyone wants to play show and tell.The mirror is the truth.
@Planet of the Deaf of course, Rassilon is Alex Salmond
@Master Michael Moon @Planet of the Deaf Well yeah, can you imagine the budget? Trying to allocate resources and funding to keep access to the Time Vortex every year. Must cost them a bunch.
@Antee991166 @Gustaff That's what people believed 50 years ago when DW was first broadcast. All of the producers and cast dismissed the hypothesis of a long duration for the series. All of them but William Hartnell, who knew the show had potential to last forever. Who da man? Well, I think the score is: William Hartnel 50 - Rest of the World 0. And the match still ain't over.
@AlessandroArsuffi @GustaffThat is a very good point, one that completely slipped my mind.
@Sharaz_Jek @Gustaff Who knows, but searching for Gallifrey prost-50th is no more an arc than running from Gallifrey was pre-50th.
@Sharaz_Jek @Gustaff I agree wholeheartedly. The way things are looking, it might even be Series 8. I think Series 10 or 11 is more appropriate, but Moffat knows what he's doing.
@Sharaz_Jek @Gustaff I half-agree with you. It will get repetitive if, series after series, we get a "Oops, that's not Gallifrey" moment. But finding Gallifrey, like running away from Gallifrey, isn't a story arc like Bad Wolf or the crack in time, but a theme in which story arcs can be placed.
The show had 26 seasons of running away from Gallifrey and seven seasons of Gallifrey not existing. It is easier to avoid repetition with those themes because there is no defined end goal. With finding Gallifrey being an end goal it is going to be more difficult to not be repetitive because the story options boil down to either finding or not finding the planet. To me that implies that the search for Gallifrey is going to be very incidental to the seasonal story arcs.
@The_War_Braden @NotsosmartguyThey could choose the Saturday before Holy Week, making an Easter special celebrating the 10th anniversary of New Who. That means that this year's series might even end on a cliffhanger pushing toward's Gallifrey's return to N-Space.
60th anniversary then?
Yay, a 'people like you' comment. As if you can discern my entire personality, likes and dislikes, beliefs and morals from one comment. I applaud you, good sir (madam?). As for gun control: It's a good thing to live in fear of being murdered by someone else your whole life. The only thing to do is not to take away that fear by trying to take away weapons, no, the best course of action is - of course! - to give EVERYONE weapons, 'cause then EVERYONE gets to live in equal fear. Yep. Sounds like a great plan. To be afraid to be shot when you give someone a strange look or say something another person doesn't agree with. Or because you wear nice shoes. Yep. Sounds like a world I'd want to live in, for sure. As to the rest of your comment: I'm not quite sure what you're saying? About a mirror and show and tell (it's "show, don't tell"). I'd like to either agree or disagree with you, but I'm not sure about what.
@AlessandroArsuffi @GustaffNot the oldest though lol
@Gustaff @AlessandroArsuffiHidden in plain sight?
@shyx111 "I measure time in Doctors now. Doctors are cool".
@Who is the Doctor Sure, that's certainly one way to approach the problem. But the Daleks seem to be the sort that won't forget the Time War. Two other resolutions would be that a) the Doctor once and for all eliminates all the Daleks or b) the Doctor convinces the Daleks that restarting the Time War is not in their interest. An extreme case of the latter would be Daleks turning from enemy to ally of the Time Lords. That would be a story!
But a lot of that problem is eliminated by when you return Galifrey to this Universe. The Doctor can return Galifrey at a point in time when the Universe has mostly forgotten the Timelords and Galifrey. That would decrease the chance of the Time War restarting.
@Regenerated Catterson @Notsosmartguy The Doctor currently does not have the ability to find Gallifrey, and if he did, he can't bring it back without restarting the Time War. That tells me that finding Gallifrey will not be a direct journey where the Doctor somehow logically determines where the planet is and how to bring it back. Before he can find it the show is going to have to build up a canon that will allow him to do so.
It seems much more likely that, over the regular course of many series, the Doctor will visit all sorts of places, take a part in many events, and see many technologies used just like he always has. Those places, events and things won't mean much on their own but they will eventually give a future showrunner the backstory needed to write a story in which the Doctor finds Gallifrey.
The same is true for bringing Gallifrey back. If the Doctor were to find Gallifrey in the first episode of S8 he couldn't return it to its rightful place because the Time War would start again, putting us right back to DotD or TotD. The show needs time to create a backstory to make the return of Gallifrey possible.
"In a couple of Doctors".
@AlessandroArsuffi @Notsosmartguy I don't even see why Gallifrey has to actually return, just because the conversation with the Curator made it suggest that's what the Doctor has to do next. If you remember, although Time came immediately after Day and was still relating to the Time Lords and Gallifrey, the Doctor didn't exactly 'rush' to find his home world, did he? It goes back to my theory that 12 could forget his previous incarnations as he is on a completely new regeneration cycle and has to 'discover' himself again, which could take a long time...
@Notsosmartguy 10th anniversary of the New Series in 2015. We certainly now that Twelve was present at the moment (no pun intended) of Gallifrey's freezing, so I suppose Gallifrey's restoration must fall under his tenure.
@Regenerated Catterson @Notsosmartguy I think it be interesting to see it return in 2015 along with Smith, Tennant, Eccleston, Hurt and McGann - aka celebrating 10 years since it was revived and bringing in the Doctors that were 'involved' in The Time War, 12 calls for help from his previous selves to try and find it and they do, while it is rather soon, I think that'd be a good time
@Notsosmartguy I was thinking at best, in around a five year gap. Maybe ten years, like I said, we don't want the story to be a long one that will make fans forget the plot and wish Gallifrey was really destroyed. I mean, the first couple of series could end on heavy signs that The Doctor is coming close to finding Gallifrey. It shouldn't be found in the first series, maybe within the next few years


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After a day full of expectations, the two best freestylers in the world have held firm in Fuerteventura. Jose 'Gollito' Estredo (Fanatic/North Sails/MFC) and Sara-Quita Offringa (Starboard/NeilPryde) punched the sky as they were officially announced as the event's winners at the packed beach. The wind, once again, refused to blow enough to run a contest.
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The Pro Center Chris Schill at the beautiful island of Karpathos in Greece prepares for five days of spectacular action.
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The Tiree Wave Classic (TWC), UK's premier windsurfing competition, will return to Tiree from 10 – 16 October. The TWC was set up in 1986 and, due to its long-standing success, was upgraded to World Cup level in 2007. The event has dedicated worldwide TV coverage and attracts hundreds of visitors to the island each year, making the TWC the island's biggest annual economic driver.
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Only two American industries have ever had the clout in Washington to force Congress to ban Wall Street from trading futures on their products. The first is onions—futures trading in no one's favorite root vegetable was banned in the 1950s after farmers protested that Chicago speculators were manipulating prices. The other ban is more recent: In 2010, at the urging of the Motion Picture Association of America, one of Capitol Hill's most powerful lobbies, Congress banned movie futures as part of the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory reform bill.
The big studios took on Wall Street—which isn't known for losing lobbying fights—and won. So this month, when all the big entertainment companies joined forces with Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform and the US Chamber of Commerce, the nation's foremost big business lobby, to fight for sweeping anti-piracy legislation, it was almost a foregone conclusion that they would get what they wanted.
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With the help of her two teenage sons, she removed the debris, but a few weeks later she came home from work to find the pair sitting dejectedly on the front steps. When she asked them what was wrong, they guided her inside her $199,000 townhouse. There she found the first floor awash ankle-deep in water that had seeped through the ceiling from their tenant's upstairs apartment.
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Johnson's tale echoes complaints from many of the 109 South Bronx families that live in West Farms Haven townhouses. Like 5,000 other affordable homes in the Bronx, the project was shepherded by the New York City Housing Partnership, a celebrated Manhattan nonprofit that has turned some of the city's most forsaken neighborhoods into neo-Levittowns, brimming with suburban brick-and-siding row houses.
In interviews with 134 Partnership homeowners, most of them in the Bronx, City Limits heard similar complaints time and again: leaky roofs; crooked staircases; balky heating systems; improperly soldered pipes that were installed rusty and tied to their beams with telephone wires; and backyards that looked more like junkyards.
In 16 years, the Partnership has earned a national reputation as neighborhood savior, providing relatively inexpensive homeownership opportunities for families with an average income of about $38,000. Over the last four years, the group has been a special favorite of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani: Since he took office, the Partnership has built or started work on $660 million in construction--about a third of which came from city subsidies.
But that Golden Age may be waning. Amid revelations of shoddy construction and ineffectual oversight, critics are questioning the Partnership's practices--and the wisdom of constructing cheap, cookie-cutter low-rises in housing-starved neighborhoods like the South Bronx.
The problem is a system that has left construction quality and repairs up to hand-picked private contractors, even though each house has been subsidized by as much as $60,000 in city, state and federal money.
"There are government subsidies involved, and the question really is: 'Should we have oversight?' Well, we really haven't in the past." says the president of the Housing Partnership, Veronica White.
Under pressure from homeowners, who have begun organizing to demand repairs, the Partnership is working out formal design and construction guidelines for the first time. Officials are forcing developers to be more responsive to resident complaints and are planning to hire a full-time staff member to monitor construction on the 1,000 Partnership homes built each year.
But those changes might be just the beginning of a more profound shift. "Sacred cows make the best hamburger meat," Giuliani remarked last month, while discussing his administration's decision to pull support for a 500-unit Nehemiah Houses townhouse project in East New York. While he was clearly referring to the Nehemiah project, that philosophy might also apply to the Partnership.
"After 10 or 15 years, maybe you're talking about the need for new blood," says a Giuliani administration source.
Any analysis of the Partnership's successes and failures must begin with Kathy Wylde, the uber-operator who created an empire out of banker David Rockefeller's early '80s, back-of-the-napkin idea of a public-private project to help working-class minorities become homeowners. Pushing the white-shoe directorate of the New York City Partnership and Chamber of Commerce on the issue of affordable housing, Rockefeller hired Wylde on her reputation as a competent nonprofit administrator. She turned out to be Roberta Moses.
Wylde created an independent system that captured hundreds of millions of dollars in government subsidies and city land while insulating its operations from intrusions by city bureaucrats. "A key element to [Kathy's] style was to exploit every possible political advantage," wrote urban planner Charles Orlebeke in his laudatory 1997 history of the Partnership. "[She knows] who is connected to whom in ways that could be orchestrated to gain public agency approval of a particular program or course of action."
Using Rockefeller's influence and her own considerable political wiles, Wylde was able to convince politicians, including Mayor Ed Koch, to exempt the Partnership from the city's onerous bidding, oversight and procurement procedures. It was a set-up that helped spark a massive moderate-income housing boom in communities that had been abandoned by all but the poorest tenants. But critics would later charge that it also shielded her from accountability to her public benefactors.
"The city was always told to butt out," recalls a former city housing official. "Anytime we had any questions, Kathy would say 'This is our program. Just pay up.' We never had any say in terms of the construction or the selection of contracts."
The structure of the deals reflected Wylde's desire to keep the city from mucking up the works. The Partnership would select a contractor from its own approved list. At the beginning, the builders were outer-borough homebuilders and general contractors--later, Wylde created a minority builder program. The contractors were given a general budget and free-market latitude in how to build, resulting in a wide range of styles and quality on Partnership jobs.
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