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A very easy top
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by liliv-1
Athens, Greece
I made this lycra top using a rtw as a guide, it has only one seam at the back and it is very easy to make. I have made it approximately ten times so far and I sure will make it again. I promise to post a tutorial as soon as I find enough internet time!
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jersey lycra
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Sep 18, 2013, 04.17 PMby Oksana Starzhynska
Nice really: you made it ten times… well, I wish I did it at least tonce! You work with jersey so quickly and skillfuly! It is definitely your thing and it fits very lovely:)
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Sep 19, 2013, 08.18 AMby liliv-1
Thank you very much! It's true that I use jersey very often so somehow I know how to handle it although I don't have a serger and the result is never as nice as the rtw:( I need a serger now!
Sep 18, 2013, 01.52 PMby Red Point Tailor
Interesting solution!
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Sep 19, 2013, 08.18 AMby liliv-1
You mean the back seam? The idea was from a rtw!
Sep 18, 2013, 08.05 AMby vinia789
I love your top esp the cowl neck….if it wasn't freezing here I would make one.
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Sep 18, 2013, 09.59 AMby liliv-1
Thank you vinia! Here it is still summer!
Sep 18, 2013, 07.50 AMby Winnie Nkosi
10 times?lol i also make my favourites a couple of times in different colours and prints….but i understand why its very nice and you could wear it with anything:)
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Sep 18, 2013, 09.58 AMby liliv-1
Maybe more than 10 times, some version have already wore off! It is only one seam, one hem and one finishing at the back. The neckline has no finishing because of the drape! If you have a serger you can sew it in 30 minutes!
Sep 18, 2013, 05.23 AMby bethmaryharley
What a cool top! Can't wait to see the tutorial! :-)
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Sep 18, 2013, 09.55 AMby liliv-1
I hope to be able to post it soon, thank you!
Sep 18, 2013, 12.14 AMby puffinlove
Nice top! It has a certain effortless elegance – suits you!
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Sep 18, 2013, 09.55 AMby liliv-1
It needs effortless sewing as well;) Thank you!
Sep 17, 2013, 10.27 PMby schnui
Great top Liliv. You look good in everything you sew and I am sure you are turning heads in Athens. Come to Australia, we have many Greek people here and you will turn heads here too.
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Sep 18, 2013, 09.54 AMby liliv-1
I know some Greek people who have lived in Australia and everybody says that your country is a paradise! I would love to live in a pretty country without problems (here we have tons of problems)!!!! I don't live in Athens anymore, I just moved to a pretty island called Zakynthos, it has the more gorgeous beaches I have seen in Greece!
Sep 17, 2013, 09.42 PMby kisses
Cute top Liliv…these type of top are your styles and it suits you. The chocolate brown is perfect for you skin tone
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Sep 18, 2013, 09.50 AMby liliv-1
Thank you kisses! Brown is the best color on me, many times when I wear something brown near to my face somebody asks me if I changed my make up or my hair color:)
Sep 17, 2013, 08.43 PMby Ellen Hatteland
It's a great top Liliv! I do love this style – you are wonderful in this outfit :)
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Sep 18, 2013, 09.48 AMby liliv-1
Thank you Hellen! I love this top and this rtw skirt but the mismatched plaids bother me very much!
Sep 18, 2013, 10.03 AMby Ellen Hatteland
It's only you who are thinking about this… Don't worry – Be happy :)
Sep 17, 2013, 07.49 PMby Mary Athey
I'd love to know how to make this as wel liliv. The top's fab on you and i do love the colour x
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Sep 18, 2013, 09.47 AMby liliv-1
I love the color too Mary, I found this fabric 5 years ago in an extremely low price and bought 10 meters of it. I made almost all the brown clothes I have posted here from it and some more. Now it is only 1 meter left and I regret I didn't buy more back then as I am a brown fanatic!
Sep 18, 2013, 09.55 AMby Mary Athey
I"m the same liliv, a shop in belfast was selling the most gorgeous red jersey at £2 a metre. I bought 5 then i went back and bought another 5. The shop closed after that and i could kick myself now for not buying at least 10 metres more. I can picture a halterneck jumpsuit which would/ve looked fabulous in the red but oh well lol x
Sep 18, 2013, 10.02 AMby liliv-1
I have promised to my self that whenever I find again black, brown, red and green fabric for a very low price I will buy unlimited quantity:)
Sep 18, 2013, 10.20 AMby Mary Athey
That makes two of us liliv, no red i have bought since has been as lovely x
Sep 17, 2013, 07.43 PMby zsyzu
Very cute! Let us know when you post the tutorial. I would like to make one for myself!
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Sep 18, 2013, 09.44 AMby liliv-1
Thanks! I hope I will manage to make something helpful!
Sep 17, 2013, 06.04 PMby Kocotte
I like this kind of top and am very interested by the tutorial
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Sep 18, 2013, 09.43 AMby liliv-1
thank you Kocotte!
Sep 17, 2013, 04.27 PMby BeeZee
Nice top! Looking forward to the tutorial!
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Sep 17, 2013, 04.30 PMby liliv-1
Thank you very much BeeZee!!
Sep 17, 2013, 04.26 PMby Zsuzso
Cute top.
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PHILADELPHIA—Two handguns have been seized from the bedroom of a teen who threatened a shooting at his suburban Philadelphia high school a week after a mass killing at a Connecticut elementary school, police said Friday.
The Council Rock South High School ninth-grader was taken into custody Thursday after fellow students reported he made threatening statements, Northampton Township police said.
Two 9 mm handguns were in plain sight in the boy's bedroom when police went to his home, according to Detective Sgt. Bill Klein. He said a more thorough search would be performed after police obtained a search warrant.
Klein said at least two students and their parents reported the threats to police Thursday night.
The unidentified student remains in custody at a juvenile facility. His mother was charged with drug and weapons counts after police arrived at the home, and a man in the home was charged with obstruction of justice and resisting arrest, Klein said.
Council Rock School District is headquartered in Newtown, a community with the same name as the Connecticut town where a gunman killed 20 elementary school students a week ago. The affected high school is in nearby Holland.
The student made no mention of last Friday's shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., but did threaten violence against students and teachers, Klein said.
"We determined early on that it was credible," Klein said. "We weren't sure he had the means to carry it out, but in effecting the arrest, we found the two handguns and that certainly ramped things up."
The high school canceled classes Friday, but Klein said it appears no other students were involved in the threats. The district said it was canceling classes as a precaution so police could search the school.
"The statements were made in school by the juvenile to peers. It spread kind of rapidly," Klein said.
Emmaus High School in nearby Lehigh County was closed Friday after a bomb threat. The building was later declared safe after a sweep. Police in suburban Pittsburgh also reported two students were taken into custody after a pair of shooting threats at Hopewell High School on Friday.


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He signed for $2.85 million. This winter, he's going to hit the jackpot.
The Angels just signed Joe Smith to a 3-year, $15-plus million deal. You're probably saying, "Who?" You're not wrong for doing so. Smith is a solid right-handed reliever who isn't an elite reliever by any means. In this day, apparently non-elite relievers get 3-year deals at questionable average annual values. Remember when the Dodgers signed Brandon League to a 3-year, $22 million deal? Oof.
Howell was a big part of the Dodger bullpen in 2013, and it'd be great to have him back. He posted a 2.18 ERA, 2.89 FIP, 7.8 K/9 and a 0.3 HR/9 in 62 innings. He's effective against right-handers, too.
vs. LHB
vs. RHB
His .452 OPS against lefties was fifth-best in the majors this season. He did this without anywhere near elite stuff. His fastball averaged 85.2 MPH before the 2013 season.
What's interesting to note is his velocity ticked up a bit this season on all his pitches. His fastball checked in at 87.4 MPH, his curveball at 80 MPH and his changeup at 81.2 MPH. His fastball and changeup were career-bests, while his curveball velocity was the third-best of his career.
As a result of the increased velocity, his fastball and curveball rated the best of his career at age 30. FanGraphs rated his fastball at 9.9 (previous high 4.2) and his curveball at 6.5 (previous high 3.8).
There's no sign of his stuff regressing, as his stuff doesn't put a lot of stress on his arm. While giving 3-year deals to non-elite relievers is a risky proposition, I'd be for giving it to Howell if it means he sticks around.
I did an informal Twitter poll yesterday asking the question. Here are some of the results.
Twitter poll: If it means keeping him, do you sign J.P. Howell to a 3-year deal? #Dodgers
— Dustin Nosler (@FeelinKindaBlue) November 22, 2013
@FeelinKindaBlue #Maybe
— Dodgers Nation (@DodgersNation) November 22, 2013
@FeelinKindaBlue I didn't like the Javier Lopez contract but I think I'd match that
— purple drank (@purpledrank0) November 22, 2013
@FeelinKindaBlue no. Made that mistake once already. Not again.
— Jon Aviles (@JonAviles) November 22, 2013
@FeelinKindaBlue id save a 3 year deal for wilson. Yes, lefties are valuable but JP is not a power lefty. Give some of the kids a chance.
— josh cameron (@coachcameron21) November 22, 2013
@FeelinKindaBlue yes! #dodgers
— Bluuuu (@thinkazuuuul) November 22, 2013
@FeelinKindaBlue Nope
— silverwidow (@silverwidow99) November 22, 2013
@FeelinKindaBlue Tough call: multiyear deal 4 non-elite reliever is tough, but team has lack of viable LHP. I say yes: can trade him later.
— Tomás Chavez (@trchavez41684) November 22, 2013
@FeelinKindaBlue Dont like 3 yr deals for RPs but that's what it's going to take to get him. He's better than any other 3 yr guy to date.
— ThinkBlueLA (@Think_BlueLA) November 22, 2013
Pretty split. At this rate, it seems Howell will easily get a 3-year deal on the open market. If Scott Elbert were healthy or the Dodgers had another lefty they could trust outside Paco Rodriguez, I'd say let Howell walk. But a 3-year, $12-15 million deal shouldn't be out of the question.
One way or another, Howell is going to get lots of money this winter, and should have job security for quite awhile.


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Texas' drought losses have reached an estimated $4.1 billion, eclipsing the $2.1 billion mark set in 1998, according to Texas Cooperative Extension economists.
Crop losses are put at $2.5 billion and livestock $1.6 billion, Extension leaders said. The current drought equals the multi-year dry period of the 1950s and could go down as the worst ever without substantial rainfall by the end of the year.
"The financial impact will be a major setback because of rising input costs, especially energy prices (to agricultural producers)," says Carl Anderson, professor emeritus and Extension economist. "Irrigation costs have soared and will cut cash flow from irrigated crop production substantially."
"Most of north Texas, east Texas and the Coastal Bend were in various stages of drought since May of last year, and hay supplies were depleted maintaining livestock over the summer and winter," said Travis Miller, Extension agronomist. "Much of the corn and soybean crop has been harvested for silage or hay; pastures are bare and hay barns are empty.
"Much of the hay being fed is from out-of-state or along the upper coast, which has received favorable rains. Livestock water supplies are disappearing and ranchers are unable to sustain herds with purchased hay and dry tanks."
Rural areas are being hardest hit, Anderson said, with projected economic losses at $8 billion when the agribusiness impact is included. This includes businesses that provide equipment and services to farmers and ranchers, including machinery sales, supplies and other production needs, Anderson said.
The driest regions of the state are the Panhandle, Southern High and Rolling Plains, northeast Texas and the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
"If it rained now, it would be too late for the main crops," Anderson said.
Statewide, cotton, corn sorghum and soybeans have been rated 48 percent to 58 percent in poor to very poor condition for several months.
"That's very indicative of production levels around half a crop," Anderson said. "Much of the corn in central Texas has been made into silage or hay and most of northeast Texas soybean crop has been cut for hay to supply dairy operations in desperate need of forages. The irrigated peanut and rice crops are the only crops rated mostly in good to fair condition."
More than $1 billion of the current losses come from cotton, Texas' No. 1 cash crop, Anderson said.
"Because of dry soil, much of the cottonseed planted failed to germinate," he said. "The 2006 winter wheat crop fell to 35 million bushels, the lowest level since 1971 and two-thirds below 2005 production."
Only 1.4 million acres of wheat were harvested, the smallest acreage since 1925, Miller said.
Cattle producers are facing some of the toughest times ever, Anderson said, due to lack of hay and available forage on pastures.
"Three-fourths of the land in range and pasture is too dry to produce much grazing or hay that is harvestable," he said. "Without rain soon, livestock herds will face further liquidation."
At biggest risk are the state's cow herds, Anderson said. Rising hay and supplemental feed costs are forcing many ranchers to liquidate herds and lack of water has forced some to sell out completely.
"Cattle sales are up sharply from a year ago," Anderson said. "The reduction in herd size will curtail beef supplies for several years. Also, the lack of adequate nutrition for cows means a smaller calf crop next year."
However, land values continue to increase mainly due to purchases for recreational and hunting purposes, Anderson said. But the drought will "stress wildlife sources and reduce the amount and quality of wild animals and birds," he said.
"Wildlife management programs are critical to maintaining the recreational value of land used for outdoor recreation during drought years," Anderson said.
Agricultural lenders are reporting fewer loan repayments and greater demand for loan renewals and extensions from a year ago, according to the Second Quarter 2006 Survey of Agricultural Credit Conditions by the Federal Reserve Bank.
Producers are collecting insurance based on individual coverage on dryland crops and many cow-calf operators have taken out larger loans because of higher feed costs.
"Others have sold their herds due to limited water and forage," Anderson said. "High energy prices have substantially increased production costs to further stress an already depressed production environment. Some crop and cow-calf operators can't financially withstand more losses and will be forced to seek other jobs or business alternatives."


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Buying medicine over the Internet can make life a lot easier. Medicines on the Internet are sometimes cheaper. Your pills are delivered to your door.
Unfortunately, there are many dishonest online drugstores—and it can be hard to tell the honest ones from the dishonest ones. So you need to be very careful when you're buying medicines online.
You can safely buy medicine online if you use online pharmacies recommended by the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy. This organization verifies Internet drugstores throughout the United States and most Canadian provinces.
The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy has created a website at www.awarerx.org. You can visit this site to find out which online drugstores are recommended and which aren't.
It's also safe to buy medicine through your health insurance company's website.
Don't trust an online drugstore if:1
You could end up buying pills that hurt rather than help.
A research project by the European Alliance for Access to Safe Medicines found that more than half the drugs bought online as part of the project were either fake or were too strong or too weak.2
Criminals who sell drugs online have one goal: to make money. So they often focus on medicines that are in demand. Examples include:2
Many fake drugs are expertly packaged. They look like the real thing, but they may have been made under very dirty conditions. And they may contain ingredients like chalk, sugar, and flour instead of the medicine you need. In the worst cases, a fake pill will contain drugs or chemicals that could harm you.
CitationsU.S. Food and Drug Administration (2010). Buying Prescription Medicine Online: A Consumer Safety Guide. Available online: http://www.fda.gov/drugs/resourcesforyou/ucm080588.htm.European Alliance for Access to Safe Medicines (2008). The Counterfeiting Superhighway. Hampton Court, Surrey, England: Medicom Group. Also available online: http://www.eaasm.eu/Media_Centre/News/The_Counterfeiting_Superhighway.Other Works ConsultedNational Association of Boards of Pharmacy (2011). Internet Drug Outlet Identification Program: Progress Report for State and Federal Regulators. Available online: http://www.nabp.net/programs/assets/IDOI_Report_10-11.pdf. World Health Organization (2010). Medicines: Spurious/falsely-labelled/falsified/counterfeit (SFFC) medicines (Fact Sheet No. 275). Available online: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs275/en.
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Toulouse extend unbeaten run
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Toulouse extended their unbeaten run at the summit of the Top 14 to 11 matches with a 21-10 victory over Agen at the Stade Ernest Wallon on Saturday.
The hosts' impressive record looked in jeopardy in the opening stages as Agen established a 10-3 lead after just 12 minutes with a try from Junior Pelesasa and penalty and conversion from Maxime Machenaud. Two penalties from Lionel Beauxis kept Toulouse in touch before a try from winger Yves Donguy, converted by the fly-half, put the hosts ahead just before half-time.
Beauxis nudged Toulouse further ahead with a penalty after the break and Donguy grabbed his second try in the 56th minute as the hosts went on to maintain their lead at the top of the standings.
Also on Saturday, Bayonne claimed a dramatic 22-22 draw against second-placed Clermont Auverge at the Stade Jean Dauger. The hosts trailed 22-15 with two minutes remaining but a late try from replacement Sam Gerber, converted by fellow substitute Benjamin Boyet, snatched a draw for the strugglers.
The former France international, David Skrela, scored 14 points for Clermont as he ran in a try as well as kicking three penalties, while Morgan Parra, Anthony Floch and Brock James all landed kicks at goal. However three penalties from Cedric Garcia, one from Cedric Heymans and a drop goal from Jacques-Louis Potgieter meant Bayonne were always within striking distance before the thrilling finale.
At the Stade de France, Toulon produced a late show to snatch a 19-19 draw with Stade Francais.
Matt Giteau - forced to fly-half following an injury to Jonny Wilkinson - slotted the conversion to Steffon Armitage's 80th-minute try to secure a share of the spoils for the visitors, who had trailed to a well-taken try by France lock Pascal Pape and four penalties from Julien Dupuy. Wilkinson kicked two penalties before his departure, with Giteau and Benjamin Lapeyre also slotting three-pointers to round out the scoring.
Castres came from behind to beat Brive 15-13 at the Stade Amedee-Domenech despite three yellow cards. An upset appeared to be on the cards when Brive went into the break 8-3 up thanks to a try from Poutasi Luafutu and a penalty from Julien Caminati. Castres could only muster a penalty from Romain Teulet as they were forced to play 20 minutes of the opening 40 with 14 men following yellows to Ibrahim Diarra and former Sharks scrum-half Rory Kockott.
Castres responded in the early stages of the second-half with two drop-goals from Pierre Bernard and penalty from Teulet. Bernard then took on the penalty duties and duly struck a 65th minute effort to safeguard the win despite a late try from Olivier Caisso.
Racing Metro ended a run of four matches without a win with a convincing 33-22 victory over Lyon at the Matmut Stadium. The visitors surged into a 21-3 lead by half time after tries from No.8 Jacques Cronje and winger Sireli Bobo and three penalties and a conversion from Juan Martin Hernandez.
Lyon threatened to force their way back into the match when former South Africa scrum-half Ricky Januarie scooted over in the 48th minute. Hernandez responded with a try for Racing six minutes later to open up a 26-8 lead. The hosts again rallied and scored two tries in two minutes with centre Vinaya Wakanivuga and winger Franck Romanet both touching down. Regis Lespinas converted both scores but Bobo grabbed his second try of the match in the last minute to seal the victory for Racing.
Montpellier continued their pursuit of the top four with a 30-26 victory over Bordeaux Begles. Bordeaux led 26-23 with ten minutes remaining thanks to two tries from winger Blair Connor and four penalties and two conversions from fly-half Camille Lopez. But Montpellier - who kept pace with Bordeaux through tries from Lucas Gonzalez Amorosino and Timoci Nagusa along with the boot of scrum-half Benoit Paillaugue - stole the win a try from No.8 Alex Tulou five minutes before the finale whistle.
Scrum-half Kevin Boulogne scored 20 points as Perpignan overcame fellow Top 14 strugglers Biarritz 25-6 at the Aime Giral on Friday night.
Boulogne scored two tries as well as landing four penalties for the hosts as they recorded only their fifth win of the season. The No.9 gave Perpignan a 9-0 lead in the opening 30 minutes with three penalties before two penalties from Jean Pascal Barraque pegged them back at the break.
Soon after the break Boulogne extended Perpignan's lead while fly-half Gavin Hume added a drop goal. The scrum-half then crossed for the opening try of the game in the 58th minute before scooting over again in the 64th minute to seal the victory.
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Woody Shaw's premature and tragic death in 1989 robbed the jazz world of one of its most important trumpeters. Despite worsening health and terrible eyesight, he was still in very good playing form in 1986 when he performed the music (recorded at Baker's Keyboard Lounge in Detroit) that resulted in this previously unissued double-CD from 1997. Pianist Geri Allen was already a young giant at the time, sounding quite original with touches of Herbie Nichols in her voicings, and bassist Robert Hurst was just starting to become known, while veteran drummer Roy Brooks (who recorded the date) was a familiar name. The adventurous post-bop music includes three of Thelonious Monk's more joyful tunes, the standard "Star Eyes," two Shaw pieces ("Ginseng People" and "In a Capricornian Way"), and an original by Wayne Shorter. Allen's "Eric" and Brooks' "Theloniously Speaking" serve as features for the rhythm section. Although one would not associate Shaw with Allen, they prove a mutually inspiring team. There is no feeling of decline or even world-weariness in the trumpeter's playing, and his solos are full of constant invention and enthusiastic ideas. This highly recommended set was one of Woody Shaw's last great recordings. ~ Scott Yanow


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Indexing Integrated Manual Sets at Northern Telecom
by Frank Exner, Little Bear
Technical documentation often is poorly indexed. One major documentation problem creating customer dissatisfaction is the difficulty encountered searching for specific information within large documentation sets. Informal customer feedback at Nortel's (Northern Telecom's) switch division indicated that over 43% of complaints about documentation related to difficulties accessing information. While significant improvements have been made in the accuracy, completeness and usability of technical information within the manual sets, customers often have trouble locating specific information in a timely manner. We expected that easier access to information would significantly improve customer satisfaction with our documentation.
Several years ago, we began a project designed to address new approaches to subject indexing for our documentation sets. At the time our project began, several indexing models existed, but none were adequate for accessing information in large technical manual sets.
Applying Indexing Models to Technical Documentation
Each of the existing indexing models -- systems that provide single document access versus those that provide document collection access; permuted indexes; encyclopedia indexes; and single versus multiple back-of-the-book indexes -- has one or more characteristics that make it unsuitable for indexing multiple-book manual sets. For example, indexing systems can be separated into those that provide single document access and those that provide document collection access. The two kinds of systems have different purposes and, therefore, different models. Back-of-the-book (single document) indexes often use a language dictated by the document and offer access to an ordered, detailed analysis of a unified object.
By contrast, collection indexes cannot be developed using languages derived from each constituent document. After all there will always be another document added to the collection, and it may well use a different set of synonyms. Consequently, at least in terms of traditional information systems, access must be guided by a controlled language or string searching. A collection index offers access to whole documents rather than concepts within any one document. Therefore, it uses relatively broad inclusive terms rather than the detailed, discrete terms in a back-of-the-book index.
Traditionally, technical manuals have had back-of-the-book indexes. These may be good or bad, manual or automated, full-subject or permuted. They may be created by writers, assistants or indexers. Among telephone equipment manufacturers, permuted indexes are the norm. It is relatively easy to produce them for large documents, and this is an industry replete with very large documents (for example, one Nortel switch is supported by 120,000 pages of material). The size alone would make a single back-of-the-book index covering all of the pages unusable.
As a policy matter Nortel decided against permuted indexes. Such indexes do not allow synonym control, so users must find information using the words that the author used. There are many competing manufacturers of telephone equipment, often using different terms for the same thing or the same term for different things. And industry standard terminology may be different yet. The ideal subject index would include a given manufacturer's terminology, competitor's terminology and industry standard terminology. Permuted indexes cannot produce this.
Often software documentation is written on a one-book, one-use basis. A programming language requires a description manual; a PC requires an installation manual. But a telephone switch requires many manuals for several audiences which may be produced at different times and released in multi-book sets. Most multi-book sets use the encyclopedia model. But all of the volumes in an encyclopedia are published at the same time. The volumes in a technical support set may be published at many different times. Therefore, some elements of the model work for technical manual sets and some elements don't. For example, the locator form (volume followed by page) works; the tight integration of the index and the rest of the set doesn't work (because of the different publication schedule).
There are single indexes and multiple indexes. Both cover the complete document or document set. Multiple indexes divide different kinds of information into separate lists, operating on the principle that users know what kind of information they need (for example, first-line, author, title, etc.). Single indexes use typographic or other methods to combine the lists without losing usability. Both single and multiple indexes analyze the full contents of a document or collection, acting on the assumption that any user may need access to all of the material indexed.
The users of Nortel's manuals have different needs. They do different jobs at different
times under different circumstances. Even in very small telephone companies where one person
does many jobs, an employee knows what job she or he is doing at any one time. This author's
department writes documentation for four basic audiences:
As a result of these varying user needs, we developed the Ballard-form index and Ballard-form set (named for Dr. Robert M. Ballard, professor of library and information sciences at North Carolina Central University), which divides the informational content by audience.
The desired model was provided by domain-analysis, which allows Nortel's four basic audiences to be seen as separate discourse communities or working groups and given separate indexes. As long as people know what jobs they are doing, and as long as each document is created to meet the needs of one audience, audience-based indexes should work. This was the basis for Nortel's audience study.
Audience Study
In the audience study, we wanted to compare user reactions to a combination of the proposed Ballard-form indexes and traditional back-of-the-book indexes so that all their needs could be met. The working hypothesis was that back-of-the-book indexes should be placed at the end of each volume binder and that Ballard-form (audience-based) indexes, combining volume and page numbers, should be placed at the beginning of the volumes for each audience. Then, if a user knows what volume contains the information of interest, she or he can use a shorter index. If the user only knows what kind of information he wants, the Ballard-form index will lead to volume as well as page.
The pilot survey was based on a test set made up of the documents supporting two products authored at separate sites (Nortel has authoring centers in several cities). The products were chosen to fit the following rules:
Each product's document set addressed all standard audiences (basic maintenance, advanced
maintenance, translation and a miscellaneous category for non-standard documents).
Back-of-the-book indexes were created for each of the documents. These were then used to create audience-based indexes for the four standard audiences. Back-of-the-book indexes tell users where to find information in a book if the reader knows what book contains the desired information. Audience-based indexes pull together the information located in several documents and intended for a single audience into a separate document that tells users the volume number and page of the desired information. Then, if desired, all of the audience-based indexes can be concatenated in one volume. Each audience-based index (called a Ballard-form index) is designed to meet the needs of one user group; the concatenated volume (called the Ballard-form set) provides complete coverage of the manual set's information.
A 12-question survey was developed to measure customer needs and attitudes toward the test indexes. The depth and structure of indexing were special foci. Questions one through seven required scaled or "yes-no" objective answers. Questions eight through twelve were open ended and offered respondents the opportunity to suggest new ideas to us.
Test packages consisting of documents with back-of-the-book indexes, audience-based indexes, the survey and a cover memo were assembled and sent to 59 customers who volunteered to examine them. The sample, clearly far from random, was selected from Regional Bell Operating Companies, independent telephone companies and Bellcore. By the deadline for questionnaire return, we had a 28.8% response rate. The results, however, met the expectations established by customer complaints and other anecdotal evidence. Therefore, the reliability was considered high enough to support a pilot study. See sidebar for an analysis of the data for each question, except the last one, for which general suggestions were invited.
Survey Summary and Proposed Indexing Plan
The indexing-specific effects of different writing centers were minimal, but the need for a common set of naming conventions and a common set of writing tools became very clear. Software identifies each document in a Ballard-form index by printing the name of the volume and the pages within. Therefore, naming conventions and their application become a critical issue. Memory problems caused difficulties in the indexing pilot study. If the study's procedures were the model for the final indexing procedure, system memory would be a major concern. To accommodate the pilot indexing study, documents were stored three or four times in memory.
This very inefficient use of resources was balanced by the need for speed and independence for the index designer. However, efficient use of memory must be a primary design element in the Nortel indexing plan.
Our authoring platform produces indexes from tags inserted in a document's text. (Cross-references get their own tags.) When a tag is created, a menu is opened for the headings and locator information to be entered in the index. Up to six levels of headings are allowed. Creating and populating these tags can most efficiently and effectively be done by a document's author by applying a predefined style sheet. (An automation tool implementing the style sheet is planned for the future.) After the document has been tagged, one command creates an index, which, with some massage, is ready for editing. Since tagging 120,000 pages is a massive effort, the plan proposed that each technical writer place index tags in documents as they are written.
Index editing requires special training. An indexing specialist should examine each document for the following characteristics, among others: adequacy of cross references, depth of indexing, breadth of coverage, proper entry phrasing, audience needs, effective information placement, training of new writers, common look and feel, overall quality
A major question was what kind of document should first be indexed. Our customers indicate that each product should be indexed as it is documented. Indexing then becomes a positive marketing feature of our new product lines.
On the average, a writer can index 10 pages an hour. The cost of entering index tags in modules can be determined by dividing the number of planned pages by 10 and multiplying the result by the average hourly cost.
Index Tagging and Automation
Information in Nortel's documents follows five basic patterns: alphanumerically organized reference manuals (the commands directory, for example); manuals consisting of maintenance procedures (for maintenance technicians); manuals consisting of maintenance procedures and explanatory information (for maintenance experts); manuals detailing the database mechanisms that direct the switch to set up a circuit from the calling telephone number to called number; and miscellaneous documents (manuals created to meet product specific needs). Each of these document patterns presented a different indexing audience and problem.
We decided that the first release of indexed documentation would not index the reference documents because they were already alphanumerically organized. This proved a basic information access tool. Since resources for the indexing project were limited, focus was put on manuals that were referred to in emergencies and those with no access tool.
Pure procedural maintenance documentation presented a particular problem. The audience for these manuals is basic maintenance technicians with widely varying years of experience. They have to work with switches made by several different companies and several models from each manufacturers, all in the same shift. In fact, a technician is likely to work with several software releases of each model. Finally, these technicians have to fix switches that are not working; the technicians are, therefore, under great stress.
To serve this audience's needs, the manuals were designed as a series of specific procedures responding to specified problems. A linguistic analogy would be, "IF problem Q exists, THEN DO procedure Q." A traditional index is a random-access mechanism, allowing the user to restructure the contents according to individual needs. But, in a stimulus-response environment, the number of entry points into text must be limited; entering a procedure from the middle could cause a major problem. As a result, each problem-procedure pair was given entries that allowed easy access to the unit.
Manuals for maintenance experts have all of the procedures available to technicians plus descriptive information about the switch's internal workings and possible problem causes. For this audience, a random-access mechanism is highly desirable. They work on unusual problems and may need to order a manual's contents in unique ways. As a result, detailed indexing is desirable.
Translations manuals, which detail the database mechanisms that direct the switch to set up a circuit from the calling telephone number to called number, have a very complex structure. They are organized by feature (three-way calling, for example) and, within feature, by table. There are descriptions of feature interactions, feature operation and the order in which to fill data tables. Members of the translations audience may need a high-level overview now and a single detail an hour from now. Therefore, like maintenance experts, a very detailed index allowing the user to construct an individual information flow is necessary.
Miscellaneous documents, manuals created to meet product specific needs, vary in indexing requirements, depending on audience needs. Document analysis proceeds by considering the users served and planning the manual index to meet their specific needs.
Converting the above analysis into a set of algorithms was made possible by some unique characteristics of technical manuals. These documents focus on disassembling their information contents into separate pieces, titling each substantial piece and gathering related substantial pieces together under higher level titles. There is a minimum of subject interlocking within an information chunk. Thus, titles can be seen as indicating reasonable subject chunks and used as a basis for indexing. At Nortel, manuals are created by entering the desired information into detailed, audience-based templates. These templates specify title formats, so the level of detail required to specify algorithms is easily available.
Indexing rarely gets the resources that the process requires. Nortel's indexing project was no exception. In an exceptionally tight economic time, this researcher was assigned to find a way to index the full manual set (except reference books) -- a total of 85,000 pages -- with a minimum of additional resources. After the hysterical laughing and crying died down, we sought a solution.
Writer Training
The Nortel indexing project decided to use technical writers to create the indexes as they wrote the manuals. This created several problems: consistency, accuracy, usability, completeness and (most of all) training. Our writers are not trained indexers.
To ease the situation, the previously discussed indexing algorithms were converted into detailed instructions so that the writers could place index tokens into their material quickly. (The publication software creates the final indexes by gathering all of the tokens on demand and ordering their contents.) Applying these instruction sets not only reduced the time demanded of writers, but improved the problems mentioned above.
While writers were busy indexing their documents, management realized that automating the indexing algorithms would further improve and speed the project. Working with Todd Jones, a documentation software and LISP expert at Nortel, the algorithm set was converted into an easy-to-use, menu-driven tool that could be quickly applied by any writer. Since writers in Ontario, Canada, North Carolina and Texas were expected to apply the automation tool and check the resulting indexes, a detailed support and training package, including the following sections, was created:
Indexing theory - This material gave writers an idea of the background behind the algorithms and
how Nortel approaches indexing.
With the indexing system in place, Nortel began its routine index program.
Frank Exner, Little Bear, is senior documentation engineer at NORTEL (Northern Telecom) in
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
Northern Telecom Audience Study
Analysis of the Data
For each of the objective questions, this chart includes the possible answers and the number of respondents giving each answer. For the open-ended questions, sample answers are provided.
Responding customers want document indexes very much. This may be because the respondents were those most interested in indexes or it might be because our customer community had been demanding indexes for several years.
Our customers would use back-of-the-book indexes.
Our customers would use audience-based indexes.
Many of our customers would probably support additional information access methods.
Five respondents said both were equally useful. Our customers want both audience-based and individual book indexes.
All of the respondents who want more detail are from the translations audience. Our customers strongly believe that the level of detail represented by the test packs was correct. The translations audience, however, may want additional detail.
The seven respondents who answered that the audience-based indexes should be more detailed are from the translations and maintenance audiences. One respondent from the translations audience answered that the audience-based indexes should be less detailed. Our customers believe that the level of detail represented by the test packs was correct. The translations audience, however, may want additional detail.
Six of the respondents said all documents should be indexed. Two of the respondents said all of
the documents except Data Schema [already ordered alphabetically] should be indexed.


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Probiotics may help prevent diarrhea, report finds
Taking probiotics on top of a course of antibiotics may help ward off the diarrhea that often comes along with antibiotic treatment, a new review of past studies suggests.
When researchers combined trials of all types of the gut-healthy microbes, they found that patients with a range of conditions -- from ear infections to sepsis -- were 42 percent less likely to get diarrhea from their antibiotic drugs if they were also taking a probiotic.
One-quarter to one-third of people treated with an antibiotic typically get diarrhea as a result, researchers said. It's often not more than an unpleasant side effect, but can be serious enough to send some patients to the hospital.
"Antibiotics in doing their work actually kill off a lot of the normal flora that are supposed to exist in our gut, so things kind of go haywire," said Sydne Newberry from the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California, who worked on the study.
Probiotics are strains of "good" bacteria that research suggests can help replace some of the flora that antibiotics -- especially so-called broad-spectrum antibiotics -- wipe out.
"More than likely, what they do is they start to actually restore the normal bacteria in the gut, in the intestines," Newberry said.
Her team reviewed 63 trials in which researchers had randomly assigned a total of almost 12,000 patients needing antibiotic treatment to probiotics or a placebo pill or nothing.
Newberry and her colleagues calculated that 13 people being treated with antibiotics would need to take a probiotic for one case of diarrhea to be prevented, according to findings published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
In a subset of 44 studies in which neither study participants nor the doctors treating them knew who was getting probiotics or placebo -- the trials considered least prone to bias -- patients on the probiotics were still 39 percent less likely to get diarrhea.
The researchers couldn't tell from their analysis whether one type of probiotic in particular was any better than others, especially since most of the studies used a combination of multiple bacterial strains. The most common probiotics used were from the genus Lactobacillus.
Not being able to differentiate the benefits of different strains is a limitation, according to some researchers -- because as with antibiotics, each strain of probiotic can have very different effects.
"You still can't take this information, go to a store, and grab a probiotic off the shelf and say, 'I know this is going to work,'" said Dr. Shira Doron, who has studied probiotics and diarrhea at Tufts Medical Center in Boston but wasn't involved in the new review.
"We don't really know which strains are the best to recommend," agreed Mary Hickson, from Imperial College London.
What's more, "what we're not very clear on is exactly how big a dose we need to give, and for how long we should give it," Hickson, who has also studied the effects of probiotics, told Reuters Health.
Probiotics can be bought over-the-counter as capsules for 50 cents to $1 per day, and are also present in some yogurt products.
Most of the studies included in the analysis were small and didn't report on side effects from the probiotics. But those that did concluded the supplements seemed safe.
For that reason, while it's not clear doctors should be giving out specific probiotics to all of their patients on antibiotic treatment, it probably won't hurt to try one out, researchers said.
"It's a relatively safe intervention (and) it's a relatively harmless intervention, so if you know you're prone to antibiotic-associated diarrhea, and if it's an antibiotic that's prone to cause antibiotic-associated diarrhea, that's when I think of using it," Doron said.
For small babies or very sick patients, however, researchers warned probiotics could be harmful.
Doron told Reuters Health there's some evidence that probiotics may have a beneficial effect as an add-on therapy in patients with recurrent Clostridium difficile, a diarrhea-causing infection that can occur after antibiotic treatment wipes out normal gut flora.
But as with other types of antibiotic-related diarrhea, there's a need for more research to come to definitive conclusions on which strains may help and which won't, she said.


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ASM Minority Travel Award
Program Description
The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) will offer travel awards to increase the participation of underrepresented minority (URM)* groups in the ASM Microbe Meeting. The ASM will select post-doctoral scholars from URM groups in the microbiological sciences or faculty from Minority Serving Institutions. Each grantee will be offered up to $1000 to defray expenses associated with travel to the ASM Microbe Meeting. Allowable expenses are meeting registration, roundtrip economy airfare and lodging.
- ASM Member
- U.S. citizen
Applicants must be from one of the targeted groups:
- Faculty from a Minority Serving Institution (MSI), Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), Hispanic Serving institutions (HSI), Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCU)
- Faculty from Community Colleges
- URM Faculty regardless of institutional type
- URM Post-doctoral Scholars
- URM Advanced Graduate Students (all but dissertation phase)
Criteria for Selection
- Access to financial resources for travel to the ASM General Meeting
- Access to students from URM groups pursuing areas related to the microbiological sciences
- Experience in training and mentoring minority students (URM postdoctoral fellows are selected because of their potential to serve as role models and mentors for URMs at all stages of educational training, in particular at the institutions where the fellows are training)
- Commitment to research in microbiology and related sciences
- Commitment to diversity
- Commitment to volunteer services
- Abstracts are a requirement for application
Application Procedure
To apply for an ASM General Meeting Travel Grant complete the application via the abstract submission site (http://gm.asm.org/) which opens mid-November 2016. Details will be announced when the abstract submission site opens.
For more information, please e-mail: email@example.com
Pending Funding
- 2006 Awardees
- 2007 Awardees
- 2008 Awardees
- 2009 Awardees
- 2010 Awardees
- 2011 Awardees
- 2012 Awardees
- 2013 Awardees
- 2014 Awardees
- 2015 Awardees
*Underrepresented Minority (URM) Groups
Racial and ethnic minority groups that are underrepresented in biomedical research, such as blacks or African Americans , Hispanics or Latinos , American Indians or Alaskan Natives , and Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders.


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Around 500 free backpacks and other goodies given out at 'Back to School Fair'
A "Back-to-School Fair" was held at Steven J. Underwood Park in Des Moines on Thursday, Aug. 7, where some 500 free backpacks were given out to local, low-income students.
The backpacks were filled with free school supplies.
In addition, free shoes, haircuts, food, and plenty of other necessities to get the school year off to a good start were handed out by volunteers with the Highline Schools Foundation and many others.
Kids were also invited to play fun games led by Des Moines Parks and Rec, or sign up for the free and reduced lunch program offered by Highline Public Schools, explore the school district's website in a bus, have fun in a photo booth, get free pancakes and drinks and much more.
Of course, this event would not be possible without the support of these Sponsors:
- Comcast
- The Grainger Foundation
- Sonic Warehouse and Transportation
- Des Moines Parks and Rec
- The City of Des Moines
- Highline Schools Foundation
- Des Moines Rotary
- Recology/Cleanscapes
- Highline Medical Center
- Puget Sound Energy
- South King Fire and Rescue
- HealthPoint Community Health Center
Scott Schaefer was on hand and he took these photos (click images to see larger versions/slideshow):


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Roy Hibbert scores 28, Lance Stephenson adds 21 as Central-leading Pacers beat Rockets 100-91
HOUSTON – Roy Hibbert scored a season-high 28 points against the Houston Rockets.
After the game, the 7-foot-2 center was much more interested in talking about Indiana's defense than his big offensive night.
Lance Stephenson added a season-high 21 points and Hibbert had 13 rebounds to lead the Pacers to a 100-91 victory over the Rockets on Wednesday night.
"From Day 1 I've said I wanted to be a defensive team," said Hibbert, who also had three blocks. "It's my job to go out there and clog the paint, get deflections and make sure they shoot a low percentage in the paint."
Pacers coach Frank Vogel raved about the defense of his team, which entered the game allowing the fewest points per game in the NBA.
"Our defense was sensational led by Paul George's matchup on James Harden, and Roy Hibbert's rim protection was off the charts," Vogel said. "He was only listed for three blocks, but he changed about 20 other plays that came to the rim. They weren't even shooting it once they got there and were just thinking pass."
Houston coach Kevin McHale said the Pacers did a good job of slowing down his offense.
"We didn't have any rhythm to our offense whatsoever," McHale said. "And the big thing was, when we did get in the paint, they challenged our shots and we bobbled some passes. They were just corralling everything."
The Pacers never trailed and led by as many as 19 points. Houston made several runs, once cutting the lead to four points, but Indiana answered each time to hold on for the victory.
The Central Division-leading Pacers weren't back to full strength but they certainly got a boost from the returns of Stephenson, who missed Indiana's last game with a strained right hip flexor, and George Hill, out last game with a strained left groin.
The Pacers were still missing Danny Granger, who has sat out the majority of the season with patellar tendinitis in his left knee, and David West, who sat out his sixth straight game with a lower back sprain.
"This was Roy Hibbert's best overall game," Vogel said. "And with David West out, we needed him to score more and be more of a post presence and he was terrific on the offensive end as well."
The loss snapped a three-game winning streak for Houston, which is seventh in the Western conference. The Rockets were led by Harden's 22 points and eight assists.
"It was a combination of things," Harden said of falling behind early. "We know they are a pretty good defensive team, but we didn't make shots and that hurt us from the beginning of the game."
The Pacers led by 11 entering the fourth but managed just two points in the first four minutes of the quarter to allow Houston to get within 84-79. Indiana scored the next six points, with four of them coming on free throws to make it 90-79.
Harden connected on a 3-pointer before sinking two free throws to get Houston within eight with about three minutes left. This time it was Paul George responded, knocking down a 3-pointer seconds later to extend the lead.
George and Tyler Hansbrough added 16 points apiece for Indiana. Hill had two points, five assists and four rebounds.
Greg Smith had 18 points and a career-high 19 rebounds for Houston.
Indiana was up by 10 early in third before Houston used an 8-2 run to cut the lead to 68-64 at the seven-minute mark. Harden had a steal and a dunk before Lin hit an off-balance layup and the ensuing free throw after a foul by Hill.
The Pacers ended the rally with a 7-1 spurt which pushed to lead back to 10 with about 5 1/2 minutes left in the quarter. Chandler Parsons had an alley-oop dunk on a pass from Harden after that, but George scored five quick points for Indiana to make it 80-67.
Indiana looked good from the start on Wednesday night as the team jumped out to a 10-2 lead and used another 10-2 run, that featured three dunks in less than a minute later in the quarter, to push the lead to 25-9.
They were up 35-19 entering the second quarter after a first period where they shot 60.9 percent. Houston missed 15 shots in the first quarter and had four turnovers.
Consecutive 3-pointers by Orlando Johnson extended Indiana's advantage to 48-29 eight minutes before halftime. The Pacers hot-shooting cooled down after that and the Rockets finally discovered some offense. Houston used a 13-2 run to get within 50-42 with five minutes left in the first half. Patrick Beverley started that spurt with a jump shot and scored seven of the Rockets points as they closed the gap.
A layup by Smith got Houston within six points with 2 1/2 minutes left in the second quarter, but a three-point play by Stephenson to end the quarter left Indiana up 58-49 at halftime.
Wednesday's game was much like Houston's trip to Indianapolis in January, when the Pacers raced out to a 31-18 lead after one quarter in a 105-95 win.
NOTES: It was Hibbert's fourth straight game with a double-double. ... Harden made just six of 24 shots. ... George had three steals.


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posted by Thom Holwerda on Tue 31st Oct 2006 23:43 UTC
"Following the talks given at this month's South East RISC OS show in Guildford, Surrey, Leo White has kindly uploaded the video recordings he made of the theatre presentations. If you have a web browser with a recent version of Flash installed, you can go watch them now on Google Video. The three pieces, which cover RISCOS Ltd, Castle, RISC OS Open and RISC OS Now, are fairly good quality, and it's pretty clear what the speakers are saying."


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Doctor Who: Myths and Legends (I) (UK - DVD R2)
Does time stand still for the Wilson Bros as they watch The Time Monster...?
This is part of the Doctor Who: Myths and Legends box-set
Coming with an execrable reputation, one of the least-liked of Pertwee stories starts with the rare sight of the Doctor experiencing a nightmare. He's haunted by the image of the Master and a mysterious crystal, lording his triumph over everyone's favourite Time Lord. Yep, the Master is cooking up a scheme more ambitious than ever before, and is using a new time-travel device to bring warring hoards to achieve victory.
Reluctantly called to a demonstration of TOMTIT at the Newton Institute, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart has little patience for scientists dabbling in the concept of interstitial time, but when the head of research is revealed to be one Professor Tassels (Greek for 'Master'), the Doctor and Jo Grant accompany the Brig to leafy Wooton in an attempt to find out what's going on. Together with Dr Ruth Ingram and hippie researcher Stuart Hyde, the Master's plan is revealed: to unleash Kronos the Chronovore from the lost civilisation of Atlantis and wreak catastrophic damage to the very fabric of time. UNIT are armed and ready, but are bullets and brawn enough when time can be warped at will and The Master can conjure armies from thin air?
We'll come straight out of the trap (one) here and state that we're not huge fan of the Jon Pertwee era of Doctor Who. About five or six years ago, we had the chance to catch up with all of the stories from the Pertwee and Tom Baker series on satellite television, as they were screening them in an omnibus form, one story a week. There were a few Baker stories that we hadn't seen but there were many Pertwee ones which were a new experience. The result was us having to force-feed ourselves a stodgy diet of over-padded six-part Third Doctor stories that were hard enough to choke down to begin with, let alone in large portions all at once. It might have been a case of familiarity breeding contempt, but we ended up with a deep dislike of the Pertwee era and if we had to cite two examples of the worst of his stories, we would choose The Mutants and The Time Monster.
In spite of the numerous problems with the clichéd story elements, the saving graces come in the form of interplay between characters. The early scene where Jo Grant surprises the Doctor by accurately accessing the function of his 'time sensor' is a great example, with the start of the progression of an originally dumb assistant into a useful companion.
The inclusion of a brother and sister-like paring of the scientific team brings some welcome substance to the peripheral characters, something which is often lacking in other Doctor Who stories. They work well together, and even out the strident personality traits which both are saddled with. Dr Ruth Ingram is an ardent feminist, which echoes the post-60s mood of the time, and thickly ladles her politics over anyone possessed of opposing chromosomes. Stuart Hyde is the exact opposite, laid back to the point of falling over, and armed with endless supply of glibness. He really takes the edge off of her bra-burning mumbo-jumbo, and is a pity he is incapacitated so early on, providing proof that women age men prematurely. The Doctor only had to look at the height of Dr Hyde's waistband for proof that time his personal time had been accelerated. Who would have thought that someone called 'Hyde' would be the subject of a dramatic transformation?
The playful nature of the structure is another example of the tongue-in-cheek approach to the story. There are numerous times when a line or theme from one scene is used as linking material into another, often with humorous results. Our favourite comes at the end of the flashback in Atlantis, when loyal acolyte Krasis declares that he is waiting for the call from Kronos. Cut to: a shot of a telephone ringing on a desk.
We have always liked the character of Sgt Benton, and he's given a nice few bits to do this time. He refuses to be fooled by The Master impersonating Lethbridge-Stewart to lure him into a trap, pulling a gun on the renegade Time Lord. As is symptomatic of the story as a whole, for every rather cool thing it manages, something really dumb comes along to wipe out the kudos it built up. Benton draws a gun and is in a position where he can save the day, but falls for (as even pointed out in the script) the oldest trick in the book. Believe it or not, this happens to him twice! Further humiliation awaits our man in the uniform when he's reduced to an ickle bubby, with Levene even dressed in a big nappy for his final shot—though tastefully kept out of shot.
The bringing of armies through time to fight a present-day battle is a concept with has been used before and would so used again. Terry Gilliam memorably employed it at the climax of Time Bandits, with our plucky 'little people' pillaging history for troops to wage war in the battle between good and evil. Here, The Master brings jousting knights and period rockets into the lush, green countryside to defeat The Doctor and UNIT, and the results are rather a mixed bag.
To any young, hip kids reading this, it should be pointed out that Tom-Tit is slang for something, and doesn't take much in the way of imagination to work out what. There are many who would say that it's appropriate, as although The Time Monster is a fun romp, it makes not a lick of sense, even on its own terms. Mystical science, a fanciful premise and too much comic relief all add up to something tom-tit, indeed.
The pace of the six-part story is more consistent than most others, with the first four parts zipping along quite nicely, which is probably the result of the lighter tone and aforementioned linking material between scenes. The tradition of the format is that the fifth episode is the one bogged-down with expository dialogue which sets up the finale, and while it is somewhat the case with The Time Monster, this particular part is where it takes a distinct left-turn. Where the previous episodes were all set on modern-day Earth, part five whips us off to Atlantis where it all goes flying up into the air, but still remains entertaining. Some six-parters are like pulling teeth, but in spite of its' lack of appreciation or adulation, The Time Monster passes the time nicely.
Once we get to Atlantis, the sequence in the lair of the Minator is an example of pulling off something aesthetically pleasing with a low budget, but we have to side with Pertwee, who wasn't happy with it degenerating into a comedic bullfight. He wanted it to be a triumph of brain over brawn, and the results are a bit forced. Tom Baker could have really sold it, and gotten the laughs it needs, in spite the almost forgotten element of the Minator being killed for the sake of a chuckle. Dave Prowse had previously appeared as Patrick McGee's companion in A Clockwork Orange and as a jailer in Carry on Henry, but here he gets to do something much more physical, chasing Pertwee around the maze, and all without the opportunity to say the words 'Fook it, oi've driod'.
Much has been said of the way in which Kronos was realised, and in spite of the elaborate plans to bring it to life, they opted to stick a guy in a suit flapping his arms wildly. It should have been a recipe for disaster, but the florescent, reflective costume and camera tricks employed turn it into a credible experience from a hallucinogenic point of view. It's just so surreal that it transcends the limitations dealt the effects department, and the kind of thing which would end up on a loop on You Tube to some pulsing dance track.
But while The Time Monster is hardly a classic, there are elements to it that make it at the very least watchable. Roger Delgado gives what it probably is most amusing performance as the Master. A prime example comes in a scene when he finally thinks that he has vanquished is mortal enemy, the Doctor. Does he come out with a victorious monologue, sneering at the death of his nemesis? No. With all the satisfaction of having a very good cigar, he exclaims: 'I really enjoyed that', before continuing with his nefarious plans. Priceless! Delgado always had a wry sense of humour, but played it absolutely straight and never resorted to the kind of pantomime villainy in the manner that his eventual successor, Anthony Ainley, frequently did.
While Susan Penhaligon is an undoubtedly a real corker, and does a lovely job as Lakis, handmaiden to Galleia, it's a real shame that the originally-cast Ann Michelle was discarded through her own silly fault. It's well known throughout the industry that they will forgive many shortcomings, but the one thing they will not tolerate is a lax attitude to punctuality—and showing up late a number of times was enough to get her fired. We've always liked Michelle, as Psychomania is a sentimental favourite of ours, and if you have ever seen The Virgin Witch, you'll understand just why we like her so much. Oh, and John Levene was in it, too—as a police officer who gets killed by her motorbike gang.
Hammer actress Ingrid Pitt makes a welcome appearance as Galleia, bringing a touch of genuine glamour which is unexpected for Doctor Who. Her seduction scene with Delgado is priceless, as she manages to bring out a dimension to ol' Rog neither seen before nor witnessed again. Pitt doesn't have too much luck when it comes to picking her Who projects, as not content to appear in one of the most disliked of Pertwee's efforts, she went on star in the less-than-stellar Warriors of the Deep a decade later. We've run into Pitt a couple of times, and the experiences were memorable, but let's leave it at that…
One thing which particularly irritated us about the Pertwee years was the use of all things Venusian as examples of 'good local colour', trotted out to establish the Doctor's cosmopolitan nature and extra-terrestrial credentials. There are a couple of examples in The Time Monster, and they induce the same groans as the rest, but not quite as much as every example of Pertwee's Venusian Aikido, with the Glittering Light-Bulb's squawking histrionics coming off as really rather embarrassing.
The 'redecoration' of the TARDIS console room was an interesting one, but to our collective eyes, it was a little too distracting to last all that long on the show. Your gaze is drawn to it too much, causing you to miss the kind of technical dialogue which usually accompanies such a scene. It has gone through worse looks, but it's a shame that it didn't stick around for a little longer. It gets more screen time than the lovely design for Paul McGann's console room in the TV movie, and it just shows that there was no justice for Doctor Who in the 90s.
One element which bothers us is that of 'time-ram'. Whilst it is just a fancy name for two TARDIS' occupying the same time and space, there is a little too much emphasis put on it, and is only instigated as the solution to problem. This comes across as being of the same ilk as the latest gadget installed onboard KITT in an episode of Knight Rider, where it's untested—possibly dangerous—but you know from the earlier setup that it'll be used at a crucial point in the story. It put us in mind of the movie Starcrash, which was also another dramatic name for something pretty basic in concept. The Italian Star Wars rip-off even went so far as to employ the name of the manoeuvre in its title.
In spite of the aggrandising name, we have to give credit for the deeply cool concept of the two TARDIS' parked inside each other, the result of the Doctor's attempts to stop the Master from getting away. It's fitting that the last time something as mind-scrambling was done with a time machine was back in The Time Meddler, when the dimensions of the Meddling Monk was reduced in size. As we all know, the persistent rumour is that the baddie in the robes was an early incarnation of The Master, so it's fitting for one character to be involved in something so cool twice.
At the time of this piece of blunt science, the Master exacts revenge on the Doctor by zapping him into the time vortex, sending him in 'no-where', leaving Pertwee absent for a couple of minutes before being brought back. Wanna bet that if this was in Hartnell's day, he would have used the opportunity to be written out of the entire episode and have the week off!
Coming in complete contrast to the above is the most blatant examples of Deus Ex Machina. OK, the day has been saved by a wild-card element before (K9, anyone?) but in this case, the meaning is plain as you can get. A god appears and takes care of the monumental peril about to hit the universe, making Rose Tyler's eradication of Daleks pale in comparison. It is a plot device tempered at the end of the scene, but doesn't do the story's reputation any favours, as many regard it as a parody of Doctor Who.
OK, it's dumb but kind of fun—rather like a blonde MILF after a number of tequila slammers, The Time Monster arrives to DVD for the delectation of a waiting audience. But how does this look, given the shocking NTSC mistreatment most of the Pertwee era endured?
Let's say this right up front: there has been a lot of major restoration work carried out by the team, including their miraculous 'unpicking' process. All of the original tapes were erased, with the story existing through awful Canadian NTSC run-offs made by the BBC at the time. A low-grade copy of the final episode was found some time later as a training aid for technicians, sporting very weak colour and almost as flawed as the untouched NTSC tapes. The first five parts are tribute to the dedication of the Restoration Team, looking really damn nice and making Pertwee-era Who more accessible to casual viewers. For the sixth episode, they separated the colour elements from the unpicked NTSC copy and combined it with the training-tape, leaving a finale which looks lovely. Their efforts are just terrific, and no more needs to be said.
Being all from video copies, there wasn't going to be much in the way of a problem on the sound front, and it's not a surprise to report that the sound is as it should be.
Audio Commentary: This features cast members John Levene and Susan Penhaligon, along with late producer Barry Letts and production assistant Marion McDougall. TV writers Phil Ford, Joe Lidster, James Moran and Graham Duff also contribute and the group episodes are moderated by stand-up comedian Toby Hadoke. Letts and McDougall appear on episodes one and five, Levene gets solo tracks (as usual) for episodes two and four, Ford, Lidster, Moran and Duff pop up (with Hadoke moderating) for episode three. Penhaligon joins Letts and McDougall for episode five. Got all that? OK. There is a nice feeling throughout the track, which you tend to get more with the older stories, as with age comes sentimentality and less need to snipe. The age old criticism of 'wobbly sets' is brought up during the running time, particularly irritating Barry Letts, who points out: '…that was Crossroads!' Penhaligon relates the details of her losing out to Elizabeth Sladen in the companion stakes. Levene is very easy to listen to, and is always full in amusing tales from the production—especially nice is him revealing the method Pertwee used give his character fluid movement.
Between Now…and Now!: This is one of the lesser efforts from 2Entertain, but this is probably a reflection of the general opinion of the story itself, so they didn't feel the urge to inject that much energy. It's all framed around the musings of Professor Jim Al Khalli (Physics, University of Surrey) of the science featured in The Time Monster and its basis in reality. Robert Sloman's fanciful writings come off a poor second, but our man with the title goes out of his way to explain away some of the more plausible examples of pseudo-science. In between all of this are welcome contributions from Richard Franklin, Barry Letts and a rather surprised-looking Katie Manning. Letts imparts that the theory of interstitial time comes from Buddhist philosophy, and makes the notion in the story seem much more level-headed than it comes across without the back story. Letts is quite charming, with his softy-spoken intelligence making him easy to listen to, without the glib manner others favour. Manning is equally engaging, with a nice attitude towards the show and life in general, and not the ditzy figure she has been seen as in the past. There is little real information about the filming of the show, but it's all nicely presented, all the same.
Photo Gallery: Set to atmospheric music from the show, there are some beautiful stills and behind-the-scenes picture to be found here, coming in both colour and black and white.
Info Text: Another sterling information track is to be found, and is nice contrast of trivia and humour. One of our favourite details has to be the mysterious disappearance of Ingrid Pitt's cat, quickly being shoved out the door through scratching Pitt and hissing at Delgado and generally disrupting a key scene. With not being credited for our stint on Shaun of the Dead, we are very appreciative of the trivia track going out of its' way to mention all of those who didn't make the roster of names at the end.
Restoration Comparison: These are always welcome, and this is no exception. Two sequences—representing the differing state of materials used—are played over and over to display their gradual improvement through the Restoration Team's processes. It really helps you appreciate just what these guys do.
PDF Materials: If you stick this into your PC or laptop, you will be able to access all six Radio Times listings the episodes—a nice little feature is that with each episode listing, there is a small drawn image to accompany it. Cute.
Coming Soon: Yeah, it's Creature from the Pit. You can make a decent trailer out of anything, these days.
The Time Monster is one of the ultimate 'stick your brain in neutral' Doctor Who stories, a tale so flamboyant and light-hearted that it teeters on the edge of parody like a depressed teenager at Beachy Head. We didn't even mention how the Doctor's 'Tardis-sniffer-outer' looks like a penis and two testicles—surely inviting derision that the concept is a load of old cock. Still, the restoration work is excellent, Delgado is wonderful, it's a lot of fun and is a perfect addition to the Myths and Legends box set.
Review by Wilson Bros
General viewing, but some scenes may be unsuitable for young children
Disc Details
Release Date: 29th March 2010
Discs: 3
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: PAL
Aspect: 1.33:1 Full Frame
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital Mono English
Subtitles: English
Extras: Audio Commentary, Between Now... And Now! Featurette, Photo Gallifrey, Restoration Comparison, Info Text, PDF Materials, Coming Soon
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Paul Bernard
Cast: Jon Pertwee, Roger Delgado, Katy Manning, Ingrid Shitt
Genre: Sci-Fi
Length: 150 minutes
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Scott first moved to South Carolina, then North Carolina, where he found himself down on his luck.
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Lawmakers, Governor Seeking To Get Project Labor Agreement Ban Back In Place
Judge overruled law that leveled the playing field for union/non-union workers
Dual efforts are underway in Michigan to reinstate a law prohibiting government mandated Project Labor Agreements on public construction projects.
On one front is an effort in the courts; the other is in the Legislature.
PLA's are pre-hire specifications for construction projects that virtually eliminate non-union contractors from the bidding process. They do this by mandating requirements that only fit union guidelines and practices, which typically come at a higher cost to the taxpayers who pay the bill.
Michigan's Fair and Open Competition in Governmental Construction Act (2011 Public Act 98) was passed by the legislature last year. Gov. Rick Snyder signed it into law in July. It was one of the many changes Snyder and Republicans made to undo some of systemic advantages unions had gotten put into law over previous decades.
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Unions oppose making such changes and filed a lawsuit over the new PLA law.
In early March, U.S. District Judge Victoria Roberts came down on the side of the unions, ruling that the state's PLA ban violated federal law, which "explicitly allows for PLAs in the construction industry." Due to her ruling, Michigan's law against mandated PLA's is no longer in force.
Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette has appealed the ruling.
In February 2001, then-President George W. Bush issued an executive order banning government mandated PLAs on federal construction projects. A lower federal court initially ruled against Bush's ban, but at the Federal Court of Appeals level the ruling was reversed and Bush's PLA policy was upheld.
After Barack Obama was sworn in as president in 2009, he switched White House policy back to one that encourages the use of PLAs. However, this is not expected to affect court interpretations of the PLA issue.
The Associated Builders and Contractors of Michigan has denounced Judge Roberts' ruling and expressed optimism that the law would be upheld upon appeal.
"This ruling was wrongly decided," said ABC President Chris Fisher. "It is in direct conflict with the Washington, D.C. Circuit's favorable decision, which upheld President George W. Bush's 2001 Executive Order prohibiting government-mandated PLAs and discrimination on the basis of union affiliation. In light of this, we have much optimism that this flawed ruling will be struck down on appeal."
Meanwhile, legislation (Senate Bill 1085) on the PLA issue was introduced in the Michigan legislature last week and has already been reported out of committee and sent to full Senate. This new legislation was drafted to make the legislature's intentions regarding the PLA ban clear to the courts.
More specifically, language in Senate Bill 1085 clarifies that taxpayer money is spent in the most efficient manner and not subject to pre-set constraints.
Senate Bill 1085 directs the issue toward best use of taxpayer dollars and access to open bidding.
In addition, Senate Bill 1085 has language that more closely mirrors the 2001 executive order by President Bush to prohibit the use of government-mandated PLAs on federal contracts. It's believed adoption of Senate Bill 1085 could put Michigan's new law on a faster track to being upheld in the courts.
"Senate Bill 1085 is necessary legislation to protect the Fair and Open Competition Act, which has opened up governmental contracts to all contractors, regardless of labor affiliation," Fisher said. "Not only does it level the playing field for all workers and businesses, but it also guarantees fiscal accountability on construction projects paid for by public tax dollars."
State Sen. John Moolenaar, R-Midland, is the primary sponsor of Senate Bill 1085, which has 25 co-sponsors.
"This bill is a clarification," Sen. Moolenar said. "We are confident that the original law will ultimately be reinstated and that it is constitutional. With Senate Bill 1085 we are making every effort to clarify our intentions so they can't be misrepresented in the future."
Patrick Devlin, Secretary Treasurer of the Michigan Building and Construction Trades Council, did not return phone calls seeking comment.
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