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An Earthy and Otherworldly Space for Baby
Name: "Tiny Kephart Human"
Location: Small Rural Town, Iowa
Bringing a human into this world feels just as magical and alien-like as it does primal and real. The theme wasn't something I had thought about, but as I was piecing the elements that I had purchased or made together I realized I was in a way capturing the essence of these two ideas.
The space is bright and airy, carrying elements of both earthy tones from plants and nature as well as cool and metallic tones of the moon, planetary shapes and modern orbiting mobiles. I love how the clash of these two things came together to create a modern nursery for our tiny human.
Our biggest challenge to overcome was that we had just moved into this small two bedroom apartment and had under a month before the arrival of our little one was to greet the world to get it all pieced together! Luckily the only hiccup was the ordering of a rug on back order - that we're still waiting on, but otherwise it all came together, thankfully almost seamlessly!
Source List:
- Moon poster, moon onesie and dandelion onesie: A Little Lark
- Faux Fur Sheepskin Throw: Amazon
- SNIGLAR Crib: IKEA
- Eames style Rocker: Amazon
- Animal prints: The Animal Print Shop
- Mobile: The Moon & The Honey
- Changing Table & Shelving Paint: PPG Pittsburgh Paints
- Shelves: DIY
- "A": vintage
- Feather Garland: DIY
- Mountain Pillow: DIY
Thanks, Marissa! Readers you can see more of Marissa by visiting her blog, The Moon & the Honey or her namesake shop.


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Five years ago, to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of The Elder Scrolls, we released The Elder Scrolls: Arena as a free download. If you do the math, that means the series is now celebrating its 15th Anniversary. So despite saying we'd never do it, we've decided to release The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall as a FREE download too!
One thing to keep in mind — the game is over 10-years-old and we're releasing it "as is." In other words, we're not providing customer support or technical support on the game at this point. That being said, I successfully started up the game running DOSBox and following QA superstar Mike Mazzuca's detailed walkthrough for installing the game. Follow the directions and you should be in good shape.
Having heard many stories of how you guys wanted to get your hands on the game, we're excited that many of you will get to experience Daggerfall for the first time. Head here to download the game. Enjoy!

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It may have felt like high summer for much of the past week or so, but we really have only just got spring into full swing, with trees bursting into leaf and blossom, birds singing their little hearts out and British asparagus and Jersey Royal potatoes hitting the supermarket shelves. These items, along with the slightly earlier and previously mentioned purple sprouting broccoli are true harbingers of spring, marking the arrival of that season in the kitchen much more effectively than any single swallow makes a summer – if for no other reason than that the swallows are just getting here too early. I saw my first single swallow of the year the weekend before last (on a trip up to the Wirral for a family do, and they can't possibly be arriving on Merseyside first…), just a day or two after my first sighting of Evesham asparagus. I blame global warming.
In fact I can't help but think that global warming is having its effect on Asparagus too. I could have sworn that the British season started in late April, even the beginning of May and ran through to mid June, and that would appear to be confirmed by the home page of the British Asparagus association website, but it seems to get under way much earlier than that these days. As I say, it was a couple of weeks ago now that I saw my first bunches of the year on display - although I didn't get a chance to bring any home and cook with it till last week (sorry for being slack…). Mark Hix (who always makes a feature of asparagus season – and Jersey Royals on his restaurant menus) ran his annual asparagus celebration in his weekly Independent column on April 2nd this year, compared to the 12th in 2008, which did appear to support my earlier-every-year-global-warming thesis, until Google revealed that in 2010 it appeared as early as the 27th of March. March! Although that one did say the first spears would be cropped any day now, rather than reporting that they'd already arrived… Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall in the Guardian left it as late as May 9th in 2009, but he doesn't seem to make an annual event of it, so it's impossible to deduce a pattern from that.
Whatever, I'm quite sure that the British asparagus season starts substantially earlier, and lasts much longer than it ever used to, which quite likely does have something to do with global warming, but probably has as much to do with growers cashing in on the recent rise to fashionability of both British food and local, seasonal eating. Both of which asparagus could be cast as poster vegetable for. Because British asparagus, particularly that grown in the Vale of Evesham is celebrated as being the world's best, it does, still, have a limited season, and it is one of those food stuffs for which freshness is most crucial (all of which can also be said, incidentally, of Jersey Royal potatoes). So, without wishing to appear to be a slave to fashion, or jumping on to the first passing faddy bandwagon, I would encourage anyone to make the most of the British asparagus while it's here. And that extends to not making a habit of buying the imported stuff the rest of the year (or even making a habit of not doing so. Not that there is anything inherently evil about, say, Chilean asparagus, although more militant anti-food-milers would no doubt have something to say about that.
As for what to do with your asparagus, it's not so much a question of suggesting recipes, as things to have it with. As far as cooking goes*, it really is a question of keeping it simple, either steaming it or boiling it, for just three or four minutes depending on how hefty the spears are. Or chargrilling it on a griddle pan or, perhaps best of all, the barbecue. Serve it simply dressed with salt, pepper and melting butter if you don't have a dairy allergic girlfriend, or a vinaigrette if you do – or simply if you prefer, and why shouldn't you? Similarly a poached egg, mayonaise or hollandaise are classic accompaniments that only work in this house if I'm doing myself a solo lunch (and then I am never, ever going to go to the bother of hollandaise, believe me, although it's no secret to readers of this blog that a poached egg might easily make an appearance. Or even, I have no shame in admitting, a jar of Hellmann's out of the fridge). My first asparagus of this year was just such a lunch, steamed alongside a poached egg on a piece of brown bread, with its crusts removed and lightly fried in olive oil. Don't tell Becca, but I would be amazed if this first asparagus experience of the year get's bettered - asparagus and a poached egg being a combo of preternatural perfection.
A risotto is good, made, plain, in the usual way and with cooked asparagus spears stirred in right at the end, or, better, in my opinion, because it will taste more asparagussy (If I can say that), with the bottom half (the thicker, tougher, half, even after trimming) of each asparagus spear sliced into 1cm lengths, and these pieces thrown in with the onion or shallots at the beginning of the risotto making process, then the tips thrown in to cook with the rice towards the end, for the last ten minutes or so (less if the spears are slender).
Another great combo, if not quite in the poached egg category, if only for lack of dunking potential, is asparagus and prawns. And this is where the barbeque comes into its own. First marinade the prawns, shell on, in salt, pepper, finely sliced garlic and fresh red chilli (or dried chilli flakes would be good too), grated lemon zest, the juice of the lemon and plenty of olive oil. Throw in a handful of chopped fresh herbs too if you have them, I used parsley and dill here. Leave them to marinate in the fridge for ideally a couple of hours, or at the very least while your barbeque is heating up. Toss the asparagus in a similar, but simpler marinade - definitely leave out the garlic and chilli, but the lemon and parsley would work, or just the salt, pepper and olive oil would be fine. Then simply grill the prawns whole on the barbecue, then once they're done and cooling down enough to handle, grill the asparagus spears. They'll need little more than a minute on each side on an averagely hot barbecue, if that. For those who aren't allergic, a dipping sauce of garlic, chilli and lemon mayonnaise would work nicely with this – just finely chop the garlic and chilli, and grate a little lemon zest into a small bowl or ramekin of mayo, with a squeeze of lemon juice stirred in.
I had intended to get the asparagus and Jersey Royals together in a salad, but found we'd used up all the asparagus before getting round to it. No matter, a few chopped stems and a couple of the purple flowers from the pot of chives on the balcony substituted most effectively, not to say prettily, for the asparagus, tossed together with the still warm boiled potatoes, along with some shredded smoked streaky bacon fried up with a handful of pine nuts, sliced red pepper, fennel, celery, spring onion and cucumber, all dressed in salt, pepper, the juice and grated zest of half a lemon and some good tasty extra virgin olive oil.
* As far as preparation it's simply a matter of removing the woody ends of the stems. Obviously this can be done by trimming them with a knife, but that involves a lot of guesswork and most probably the wastage of a fair proportion of perfectly good tender spear (or the picking out from your teeth some unpleasantly fibrous stub ends). I find the best, and easiest, way is to snap them by hand: simply grip each spear lightly with a hand at each end, thumbs resting under the middle (or a bit more towards the thick end) of the spear, and bend downwards. The spear will naturally shear at the point where delicious tenderness becomes woody inedibility.


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Contemporary Tea Houses
How many structures do we humans have that exist purely for a ritualistic use surrounding food and drink? Not too many, so it's no wonder that tea houses are such special little gems. Their construction and use goes way back, but that doesn't stop new ones from being designed even today:
These are just five contemporary tea houses that we find inspiring. They're special, restful spaces that honor the Japanese tea ceremony within contemporary life:
- Right Angle Tea House by Terunobu Fujimori
- Paper Teahouse by Shigeru Ban
- Steel Sheet Teahouse by Ks Architects
- A tall tea house, again by Terunobu Fujimori
- A custom tea house designed by SuttonBeresCuller for a mid-century modern home
Related: Harvest Time: Picking Tea in Kenya, Japan, and India
(Images: via Ego Design, SBA, Ks Architects, via Apartment Therapy, SuttonBeresCuller)


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UConn baseball looks to make waves in AAC tourney
STORRS -- Maybe the postseason switch is that easy to flip.
The UConn baseball team did it last season after it snuck into the Big East Tournament as the eighth and final seed, then ran the table for its first conference title since 1994.
The Huskies (26-29, 9-14 American Athletic Conference) moved up a spot for The American's inaugural tournament, which begins Wednesday in Clearwater, Fla., but they still view themselves as a dangerous underdog at No. 7.
"Once you get in the conference anything can happen," said junior outfielder Jon Testani, who played high school ball at Masuk.
UConn, which dropped 11 of 12 to close the 2013 regular season, might have found some positive vibrations the final week of this season, winning three of its last five -- including a doubleheader sweep against its tournament opening opponent, No. 2 University of Central Florida (34-22, 17-7). The game is slated for 11 a.m. Wednesday at Bright House Field.
"I think this style of play has been in us all season, it's just been a matter of getting it out of us," Testani added. "We showed at times we could play like that. When we played the University of Florida (in early March), it was one of the best series of baseball. We lost by one run every single game, but we took them into extras and we just kept fighting.
"That's who we are as the UConn program, we just keep fighting back."
The postseason battle will have a new twist with the AAC not opting to go with the double-elimination format that the Big East used and instead adopting that Conference-USA's style. The eight postseason teams are broken into two four-team pools and will play a round-robin set of three games. The winners of each pool advance to Sunday's final (noon, ESPNU), but if two teams finish with the same record, it could get tricky.
UConn, No. 2 UCF, No. 3 Houston (41-14, 14-9) and No. 6 Temple (14-30, 9-14) make up Pool B, while No. 1 Louisville (43-13, 19-5), No. 4 Rutgers (29-23, 14-9), No. 5 USF (26-29, 10-14) and No. 8 Memphis (28-28, 8-16) are in Pool A.
The Huskies, who flew to Florida on Monday, were 3-6 against the Pool B teams, with a 2-1 record vs. UCF. UConn will play Houston at 11 a.m. Thursday and Temple at 11 a.m. Saturday.
"If you play round-robin, you play all three teams and if you are 3-0 after you are guaranteed a spot in the championship," UConn coach Jim Penders said. "If you are 2-1 and another team is 2-1, then they look at the head-to-head of the two 2-1 teams (to decide who advances)."
Penders consulted with UCF coach Terry Rooney, who has played under the round-robin format before, to figure out the best way to utilize his starting pitching for the tournament.
"(Rooney) said `I go one, two, three, and one might be ready again by Sunday,'" Penders said.
The Huskies' ace, redshirt junior Carson Cross (shoulder), never pitched an inning after off-season surgery, so the staff has been shuffled during the season. Senior Anthony Marzi (5-6, 2.81 ERA) figures to be part of that postseason mix even though he was sick at the end of the season. Marzi came back on two days' rest last season to pitch the championship game against Notre Dame, where he tossed a four-hit, complete game in an 8-1 win.
"He's come back on short rest before," Penders said of the left-hander from Berlin -- one of 16 players from Connecticut on the roster. "Who we play might have something to do with it."
With a strong finish to the regular season, Foran High lefty Brian Ward (4-2, 2,87 ERA) also could be in the rotation. The senior has juggled starting and reliever duties during the season, but tossed back-to-back complete games at the end.
"This season has been up and down, but that's all in the past now," Ward said. "We are just working toward (the postseason). We got ourselves in the tournament and we know from last year when we get in the tournament we are a dangerous team. No one wants to play us, I can guarantee that.
"We are excited to go down there and leave it all out there."
The AAC tournament gets underway Tuesday with awards presentations and the Home Run Derby, which includes UConn junior Blake Davey (.319, 10 HR, 31 RBI).
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Question: I have a question regarding a fish pond at the house we recently purchased in Tahoe. We aren't up there all the time so I was thinking about tossing in a time-release fish feeder but do not want to attract bears. It would basically be the flake stuff in a compressed block form. The four goldfish occupying the pond seem to do fine for long periods without food and even survived for several months before we bought the house. They must have been eating bugs, algae or whatever. I'd hate for them to have struggled to survive all that time, and then I come along and think I'm doing a good thing by feeding them, and end up attracting bears.
The house is definitely in bear territory and only a block away from forest area. The fish are located in a pond in the front yard. My question is whether or not a bear is able to smell a time-release Tetramin fish feeder. Is this something to worry about? Any information you can provide would be much appreciated! Thanks. (Liz C., Lake Tahoe)
Answer: Regarding bears' ability to smell and potentially be attracted to your automatic feeder, according to California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) Black Bear Program Coordinator Marc Kenyon, the answer is yes. Bears can smell fish food and are attracted to it. What's worse is if they are attracted to the pond by the smell of the feed, then they may decide to snack on your fish in addition to the fish food.
Kenyon recommends feeding your fish with time-release pellets (feeding blocks). He has done this with his aquarium fish while away on vacation or out in the field, and he claims it worked well for him. These pellets are little disks that you toss into the pond, and over time water dissolves the material that holds it together. This process works slowly, and depending on the size of the pellet, it could last for about a month or two. The benefit to this approach is that because they are submerged, they do not put off any odor into the air, and thus bears won't be attracted to your pond.
Boat limits with multiple trips
Question: An interesting question came up at the fish cleaning station concerning an actual trip. This was sport fishing, not commercial or commercial passenger. There is one boat that holds three people, including the captain. The scenario is the captain goes out ocean fishing with fisherpersons A and B, and returns with full limits of salmon (6). The captain drops off both people and picks up fisherperson C. Can the boat still fish with two rods under the boat limits rule, or are they limited to one rod as the captain has already caught his fish earlier in the day? The consensus at the table was he would be at risk of a violation. (David G.)
Answer: No. They can both fish until the last fisherman's bag limit is filled (CCR Title 14, section 27.60(c)). While the skipper can still only take one bag limit per day, under a boat limit, the skipper is not done until the fishing trip is completed when he returns for the day. Boat limits apply to all species except sturgeon.
How to follow the number of tags currently sold?
Question: Is there a way to follow how many bear and deer tags have currently been sold? Can you tell me how many have been sold so far this year? Is there a public record or data somewhere? (Norm G.)
Answer: Yes, the deer tag seasons and tag quotas adopted by the Fish and Game Commission are posted online at: www.dfg.ca.gov/wildlife/hunting/deer/tags/index.html. In addition, a daily list of the current available deer tags is posted at: www.dfg.ca.gov/licensing/. There is no bear tag quota, but the season is monitored by the number of bears reported taken. Bear season runs through Dec. 29, or until 1,700 bears are reported taken. If 1,700 bears are harvested before Dec. 29, CDFW will immediately close the season early. For daily updates on the number of reported bear harvested, please visit our website at: www.dfg.ca.gov/wildlife/hunting/bear/harvest.html.
Garden destroyers
Question: I have cottontail rabbits, gophers and rats that are destroying my garden and property. Do I need a license to shoot them on my private property? (Rodger D.)
Answer: Landowners and their tenants are not prohibited from taking cottontail rabbits, gophers or rats that are damaging their crops, gardens or ornamental plants (Fish and Game Code, section 4186 and CCR Title 14, section 472(a)). However, you should check with your local police department or sheriff to determine whether you may discharge a firearm where you live.
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Governor Mary Fallin, the Oklahoma Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), Domestic Violence Intervention Services (DVIS) and Verizon Wireless Oklahoma are encouraging Oklahomans to wear purple Thursday to show support for victims of domestic violence and to raise awareness of this rapidly-growing crime.
"Domestic violence affects many people in the state of Oklahoma," Fallin said. "I strongly believe that taking a stand against domestic violence as well as reaching out to help victims is important for our community. I am encouraged by the efforts of OCADVSA, YWCA and DVIS and Verizon Wireless Oklahoma to raising awareness within our state. I encourage all Oklahomans to wear purple on Oct. 3 to show their support for the victims of domestic violence."
Wear Purple Day in Oklahoma will take place on Thursday and is one of the public awareness events planned in October for Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Purple is the symbol of the domestic violence awareness movement. Across the country, families and friends of victims have worn purple clothing or ribbons to remember and honor loved ones who have lost their lives as a result of domestic violence.


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Presidents and wannabe presidents are supposed to read. A novel or a work of history under their arms makes them look, in a word, presidential.
But just like the ties they wear, the book titles the candidates share with us are more than likely approved by image-conscious consultants. There's something suspicious, for example, about the list of favorite books on Barack Obama's Facebook page, which includes Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self-Reliance," "Moby Dick," Toni Morrison's "Song of Solomon," and Shakespeare's tragedies.
It's a wonderful list. But they're the kinds of books you'd expect to find displayed on a shelf inside the Oval Office. They're a safe announcement of Obama's gravitas. They say: My middle name may be Hussein, but I'm still firmly inside the intellectual mainstream of America.
If the president had listed, say, the great Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o, he risks fueling the fires of those who see him as an African-born socialist. Instead, with the exception of the Bard of Stratford, Obama's list gives us a democratic sampling of U.S. culture.
There's a lot of New England on Obama's list along with a healthy serving of the African American experience, including Taylor Branch's history of the civil rights movement, "Parting the Waters." And there's a sampling of the Midwest too: Marilynne Robinson's novel "Gilead," set in Iowa.
My journey into the mind of Mitt Romney, on the other hand, took me 3,000 years into the future, to an Earth dominated by a species of rapacious alien invaders called the Psychlos.
What an adventure! And what an ordeal! The Psychlos made us humans their slaves. They mined our planet for precious minerals. And they all talked in this really weird, stilted sci-fi language.
"You're as crazy as a nebula of crap..."
That bad, hyperbolic simile was written by L. Ron Hubbard, and it's in "Battlefield Earth," Hubbard's massive 1982 sci-fi novel, listed on Romney's Facebook page as one of his favorite books.
Much about Romney the public figure — and about his opponent and presidential candidates in general — seems depressingly scripted. But "Battlefield Earth" is a work that's so odd, and such an unlikely choice for any political candidate to name as a favorite, I have little doubt that Romney actually read it. Why else would the first Mormon presidential nominee of a major political party name the founder of the Church of Scientology as one of his favorite authors?
These days all presidential campaigns begin in Iowa, and Romney's reading list also includes a book set in that state — Bill Bryson's memoir, "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid."
"Thunderbolt Kid" is a fun book you can read in a day, whereas the Iowa book on Obama's list — Robinson's "Gilead" — is a brooding work of serious literature that won the Pulitzer Prize. That pretty much sums up the difference in the men and their taste in books: In Obama's favorites the characters suffer, they philosophize, they struggle with and reflect on injustice, and they sermonize — the Bible is another book on Obama's list of putative favorites.
In Romney's favorites young people go out into the sunshine and glide down rivers ("Adventures of Huckleberry Finn") and battle alien species ("Battlefield Earth" and "Ender's Game"). Apparently, Romney is like a lot of people: He reads for pure escapism. Good and evil are pretty clearly defined in most of the books he likes. Life is simpler.
"We really were radiantly unsophisticated," Bryson writes in "Thunderbolt Kid," describing his family's life in 1950s Des Moines. Meals were bland. All sorts of foods were unknown to the Bryson family: "pasta, rice, cream cheese, sour cream, garlic … corned beef, pastrami, salami, or foreign food of any type, except French toast."
"Thunderbolt Kid" is a lively, breezy book about being a boy during the biggest economic boom in U.S. history. Fun was going to a department store in downtown Des Moines and taking the only escalator in Iowa.
To Bryson's credit, however, there are important lessons about America in "Thunderbolt Kid." As he gets older, Bryson's simple world gets more complicated and diverse, and he's totally cool with it. In high school he meets black people for the first time — and they're all as ordinary and nonthreatening as French toast. He has a friend who's homosexual. Years later, this gay Iowan becomes his agent.
If he read it and made it all the way to the end, Romney probably learned a thing or two from "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid."
Obama was almost certainly illuminated by his reading of "Song of Solomon." Morrison's epic 1977 novel is the one book on the president's list of favorites I'm most confident truly belongs there. Reading "Song of Solomon" was a rite of passage for people of color of Obama's generation. Morrison took the pain of African American history and with inspiration from García Márquez and Faulkner created a work of magical art about an Ohio community much like the one where she was raised — the kind of work you'd want a future U.S. president to read.
"Song of Solomon" is about the legacy of slavery. But its characters aren't passive, and it isn't a sad book: In the end, the coded message hidden in a nursery rhyme pulls the whole story together.
Back in 2008, candidate Obama was carrying around a lot of books. He read Doris Kearns Goodwin's "Team of Rivals" about President Abraham Lincoln. Then, as president-elect, Obama did something very Lincolnesque — he named rival Hillary Rodham Clinton to his Cabinet.
So we know Obama likes weighty books. This past summer, a reporter noticed Jesmyn Ward's novel "Salvage the Bones" on his White House desk. Set in Mississippi amid the arrival of a hurricane much like Katrina, it's a lush book but not an easy one, and I'd be willing to bet that Obama's been too busy trying to beat Romney to read it.
Good books take time and effort to read. But then again, there's no law that says everything we read has to illuminate or inspire.
There is a law in presidential politics, however, that says everything a candidate does should stay true to a predetermined, focused message. Catch them carrying a hardcover, and what you're seeing isn't just a guy trying to relax during his downtime — it's also another element to the Obama or Romney brand.


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A stuffy or congested nose occurs when the tissues lining the nose become swollen. The swelling is due to inflamed blood vessels.
The problem may also include nasal discharge or "runny nose." If excess mucus runs down the back of your throat (postnasal drip), it may cause a cough or sore throat.
Alternative Names
Nose - congested; Congested nose; Runny nose; Postnasal drip; Rhinorrhea
Most of the time, nasal congestion in older children and adolescents is not serious by itself but can cause other problems.
When nasal stuffiness is just on one side, the child may have inserted something into the nose.
Nasal congestion can interfere with the ears, hearing, and speech development. Congestion that is very bad may interfere with sleep.
The mucous drainage may plug up the eustachian tube between the nose and the ear, causing an
A stuffy or runny nose may be caused by:
- Common cold
- Flu
- Sinus infection
The congestion typically goes away by itself within a week.
Congestion also can be caused by:
- Hay fever or other allergies
- Use of some nasal sprays or drops bought without a prescription for more than 3 days (may make nasal stuffiness worse)
- Nasal polyps, sac-like growths of inflamed tissue lining the nose or sinuses
- Pregnancy
- Vasomotor rhinitis
- Small objects in the nostril
Home Care
Other tips to help infants and younger children include:
- Raise the head of your childs bed. Put a pillow underneath the head of the mattress. Or, place books or boards under the legs at the head of the bed.
- Older children may drink extra fluids, but those fluids should be sugar-free.
- You can try a cool-mist vaporizer, but avoid putting too much moisture in the room. Clean the vaporizer every day with bleach or Lysol.
- You can also steam up the bathroom shower and bring your child in there before bed.
A nasal wash can help remove mucus from your childs nose.
- You can buy a saline spray at a drugstore or make one at home. To make one, use 1 cup of warm water, 1/2 a teaspoon of salt, and a pinch of baking soda.
- Use gentle saline nasal sprays 3 to 4 times per day.
If your child has allergies:
- Your health care provider may also prescribe nasal sprays that treat allergy symptoms
- Learn how to avoid triggers that make
allergies worse
Nasal sprays are not recommended for children under age 2. Dont use over-the-counter nasal sprays more often than 3 days on and 3 days off, unless told to by your doctor.
You can buy cough and cold medicines without a prescription. They do not seem to be effective in children.
When to Contact a Medical Professional
Call the health care provider if your child has any of the following:
- A stuffy nose with swelling of the forehead, eyes, side of the nose, or cheek, or that occurs with blurred vision
- More throat pain, or white or yellow spots on the tonsils or other parts of the throat
- Discharge from the nose that has a bad smell, comes from only one side, or is a color other than white or yellow
- Cough that last longer than 10 days, or produces yellow-green or gray mucus
- Symptoms that last more than 3 weeks
- Nasal discharge with fever
What to Expect at Your Office Visit
Your childs health care provider may perform a physical exam that focuses on the ears, nose, throat, and airways.
Tests that may be done include:
- Allergy tests skin and blood tests
- Blood tests (such as CBC or blood differential)
- Sputum culture and throat culture
- X-rays of the sinuses and chest x-ray
- CT scan of the head
- X-rays of the sinuses and chest x-ray
Long SS. Respiratory tract symptom complexes. In: Long SS, ed. Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Diseases. 4th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2012:chap 21.
Manning SC. Medical management of nasosinus infectious and inflammatory disease. In: Flint PW, Haughey BH, Lund LJ, et al, eds. Cummings Otolaryngology: Head & Neck Surgery. 5th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Elsevier; 2010:chap 50.
Milgrom H, Leung DYM. Allergic rhinitis. In: Kliegman RM, Stanton BF, St. GemeIII JW, Schor NF, Behrman RE, eds. Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. 19th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders;2011:chap 137.
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Linda J. Vorvick, MD, Medical Director and Director of Didactic Curriculum, MEDEX Northwest Division of Physician Assistant Studies, Department of Family Medicine, UW Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Washington. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Bethanne Black, and the A.D.A.M. Editorial team.


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By Jason Dunning
The full version of DUST 514 goes live on the PlayStation Network today, meaning you'll be able to download the "world's first free-to-play, multiplayer first-person shooter on a console" soon.
In true F2P fashion, there's going to be some DLC available for download today in the PlayStation Store, which you can read all about below:
Wow, $100 DLC ? I understand it's free to play, or pay to win, but that is a lot of money. Why not just release a physical game and Season Pass?
i wish they would make another everquest online adventures for ps3
I'm going to watch the ratings and to get an idea of how many people get that $100 DLC.


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PLYMOUTH, N.H. - Two Plymouth State College soccer players have been honored by the Little East Conference for their performances in leading the highly-ranked PSC soccer teams to perfect weeks.
Senior goalkeeper Magnus Karlsson (Vasteras, Sweden) was selected LEC Men's Soccer Player of the Week after leading the Panther men to a pair of conference victories, and sophomore sweeper Jackie Blanchard (Plymouth , MA) was named to the LEC Women's Weekly Honor Roll after helping the Panther women to three consecutive shutout wins.
Karlsson, a team captain and two-time all-conference pick, led PSC last week to wins over Southern Maine and UMass Boston with 150 minutes of shutout play. He held USM scoreless for 60 minutes before being relieved, then blanked UMB with eight saves for his 23rd career shutout. Karlsson leads the conference with a 0.68 goals against average and eight shutouts.
The Panther men, 11-2-1 overall, have won five straight and gone 8-0-1 in the last nine games, moving up to the #2 spot in the Division III New England rankings and #15 in the Division III National rankings. PSC, 6-0 in the Little East, has clinched at least a share of its second straight conference title, and can win it outright with a win this Saturday (Nov. 1) at Panther Field against Eastern Connecticut (11:00 a.m.).
Blanchard helped patrol the Panther women's defensive unit, limiting Southern Maine, Curry and UMass Boston to a combined nine shots on goal as PSC won all three games by shutout. Blanchard, who added an assist in the 3-0 win over Curry, has been instrumental in leading a defense that has allowed only 10 goals in 15 games.
The PSC women, 13-2-0 overall, remain No. 9 in the Women's Division III National rankings and No. 1 in the Division III New England poll. The Panthers wrap up the regular season with two games this week -- Wednesday at home against Green Mountain (3:00 p.m.) and Saturday at Eastern Connecticut (1:00 p.m.).
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Google Outage Shows Business Risks in China
BEIJING—Disruptions to Google Inc.'s Web-search and email services in China over the weekend underscore the uncertainty surrounding Beijing's effort to control the flow of information into the country, as well as the risks that effort poses to the government's efforts to draw global businesses.
Chinese users of many of Google's services reported a lack of access late Friday, halting use of everything from Google's search engine to its Gmail email service to its Google Play mobile-applications store. The Mountain View, Calif., company said that its own statistics showed a sharp decline in traffic from China, and it said that the problem didn't appear to be within its equipment.
Services returned on Saturday, though users in some parts of the country said use was unpredictable and unreliable over the weekend.
The source of the disruptions couldn't be determined. China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, an agency that oversees China's Internet industry, didn't respond to list of questions sent on Sunday.
Internet experts pointed to China's Internet censorship efforts, which have been ratcheted up ahead of the 18th Party Congress, a meeting of top Communist Party leaders in Beijing that began on Thursday. The meeting is expected to end this coming Thursday with the unveiling of a new slate of top party leaders, making it a sensitive time in the eyes of Beijing.
"There appears to be a throttling under way of Web access," said David Wolf, founder of consulting firm Wolf Group Asia. Citing recent articles in foreign media about corruption and wealth in China spurred by the party congress and the fall of former party star Bo Xilai, he said, "that's their primary concern, people getting news either through Google or through its services."
Chinese authorities often tighten Internet control around sensitive subjects and events. But a number of users in recent weeks say Internet disruptions have worsened to an unexpected degree ahead of the congress. In a recent interview, Matthew Prince, chief executive of CloudFlare Inc., a company that provides Web-performance and security services for websites, said the company's engineers and consumers have reported increased difficulties with traffic out of China since the end of August.
The websites of the New York Times and Bloomberg News became unavailable in China this year just as each ran articles describing the wealth accumulated by China's leaders. Attorneys for the family of Wen Jiabao, China's premier, denied the Times's report that his family had amassed a $2.7 billion fortune over two decades, and a Foreign Ministry spokesman has said the report "blackens China and has ulterior motives." The family of Xi Jinping, China's vice president and the widely expected successor to Hu Jintao as China's president and head of the Communist Party, hasn't commented publicly on the Bloomberg article, which detailed wealth accumulated by Mr. Xi's family. Neither article accused the leaders of wrongdoing.
Sophisticated Chinese users can use virtual private networks, or VPNs, to circumvent the system of Internet blockages that is sometimes called the Great Firewall. But some VPN operators, such as the Witopia service, in recent weeks also have said they have been blocked.
Google's services are still widely available in China despite its declaration in 2010 that it wouldn't censor its search results in China anymore and would shift searches to Hong Kong, a Chinese city that isn't subject to Beijing's censorship restrictions. But the services can be unreliable and sometimes don't function right away, troubles that experts attribute to Beijing's censorship efforts. Google is now only a minor player in terms of market share in China's search business, which is dominated by Baidu Inc. BIDU -1.31%
Beijing risks a backlash if it were to block Google outright on a long-term basis, said Mr. Wolf, of Wolf Group Asia. Many corporate users rely on Gmail and other Google services, and a blockage could make China a less-attractive place to do business. In addition, disruptions are increasingly unappealing to businesses that rely on cloud services, which are offered by Google and others and in which data are stored remotely.
"If China insists in the medium and long term of creating another Great Firewall between the China cloud and the rest of the world, China will be an increasingly untenable place to do business," Mr. Wolf said.
Such a move also could put Beijing in violation of its free-trade commitment under the World Trade Organization, which China joined in 2001. China has said it complies with WTO requirements.
—Amir Efrati in San Francisco contributed to this article.
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A soldier from Greer was killed in Afghanistan on Friday when his unit was attacked by enemy forces, according to the Department of Defense.
A soldier from Greer was killed in Afghanistan on Friday when his unit was attacked by enemy forces, according to the Department of Defense.
U.S. Army Sgt. Channing B. Hicks, 24, of Greer and U.S. Army Spc. Joseph A. Richardson of Booneville, Ark., 23, died Friday in Paktika province.
The soldiers were assigned to the 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, at Fort Riley, Kansas.
Officials say the men died from injuries they suffered when enemy forces attacked their unit with an improvised explosive device and small arms fire.
Hicks, known as "Bo" to family and friends, grew up in Greer and graduated from Greer High School in 2006, where he played football.
Greer High School athletic director Travis Perry knew Bo Hicks and grew up with Hicks' father, Chan Hicks Sr.
"He was really a fine young man," Perry said Sunday. "He was always, 'Yes, sir. No, sir.' He was a quiet kid and didn't play a whole lot, but he played for our scout team and found a way to contribute. He was part of the foundation of our team, helping the other players prepare for the games each week."
Perry said he spoke to Hicks' father early Saturday. The family left early Sunday morning for Dover, Delaware, to meet the plane carrying Hicks' body back to the United States.
"They're having a really hard time with it, as can be expected," Perry said. "He made the ultimate sacrifice for our country. It's a loss for our whole country."
Hicks' younger brother, John, is a star senior linebacker with the Greer High School football team. Perry said John Hicks looked up to his older brother.
During the weekend, friends and family posted on Bo Hicks' Facebook page, sharing their memories, including four-wheeling and fishing with him, and hailing the 24-year-old as a hero.
John Hicks also shared his feelings about his brother on Facebook.
"First I would like to thank everyone for their thoughts and prayers," John Hicks wrote. "I also wanted to say that my brother was a good man, he served our country well and did it with pride. He was not just my brother but my best friend and my hero. I could talk to him about girls, fights, and Friday night football games. There will never be a moment forgotten with Bo. R.I.P Bo Hicks. I love you."
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More About Trees and Plants... My Various Hobbies
This morning I tried to find out what country clematis is a native of. I expected to learn that it had been imported from South America or possibly Africa or South Asia. To my surprise, I read that most clematis are natives of the Northern Hemisphere. There are over 250 varieties of clematis, and from these, many cultivars have been developed for growing in the garden.
Six varieties of clematis grow in Australia. The following is quoted from The Australian National Botanic Gardens site. "C. aristata" means "Clematis aristata", one of their native varieties.
For best results C. aristata should be grown in a position with some overhead shade and in deep cool soil. Liberal mulching with leaf litter would be beneficial. It may be easily trained to cover an artificial support such as a fence, trellis or pergola but in nature uses a tree or bush for support. It may also be used as a ground cover in the absence of vertical elements.I was interested that the Australian experts echoed the grand theme of clematis care: the vine likes to have its roots cool, so provide a heavy mulch. The mulch can be organic such as bark or leaves, or it can even be a pile of large rocks around the vine's stem. Other flowers can be planted around the vine to add shade as well.
Quoted from an Australian National Botanic Gardens Native Plants page
I have two clematis vines. One has dark blue flowers, but it hasn't done well for a couple of years now. I probably need to baby it with a little more water in the summer and maybe some fertilizer -- and check its rock mulch. The clematis in the photo is doing fine. It blooms heavily for about a month, and then it might have a few sporadic blossoms through the rest of the summer.
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Doctor Who: Frontios (UK - DVD R2)
The Wilson Bros check out another story from the Wet Vet era of Doctor Who...
Season 21 was a time of change for Doctor Who - the previous season had seen the end of the ill-advised return to having three companions in the TARDIS (it worked in the early Hartnell days, but that was about the only time) and this season would see the departure of the two existing companions (Tegan and Turlough), the introduction of one of the most popular companions (Peri) and - most significantly - the departure of Peter Davison as The Doctor. Before all of this begins to happen, there is one more romp for The Fifth Doctor, Tegan (Janet Fielding) and Turlough (Mark Strickson) to get stuck into...
The TARDIS is hovering above the planet of Frontios, which contains the tattered remnants of the human race; a shower of what appear to be meteors forces the TARDIS to land on the surface of the planet, where The Doctor (Peter Davison), Tegan (Janet Fielding) and Turlough (Mark Strickson) are seen by the ruling elite as spies for the unknown enemy that has been bombarding the colony for years, along with members of the colony suddenly disappearing into the earth, including the leader of the colony, Captain Revere. The medical and scientific team are less suspicious of the TARDIS crew and set about helping them in their attempts to help the colony, but an even bigger problem emerges for The Doctor and his companions - the apparent destruction of the TARDIS.
We're pretty sure that we haven't seen Frontios since it was originally broadcast, but there are certain aspects to the story that we remember, most notably the Tractators themselves, along with Turlough screaming "Tractators!" - that's pretty much about it, really, so we went into this one with next to no recollection of the story.
The adversaries are one of the more unusual creations that were unleashed upon The Doctor in the early 80s, with possibly only the Vervoids nipping at their heels. The Tractators resemble some kind of gigantic beetle (they facially resemble the Vogons in the disastrous Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy film), but totter around on feet, which was more than likely due to the fact that the poor sods who played the creatures didn't have much choice in how they could move, as in practical terms, their costumes had the same degree of articulation as something that used to be seen on It's a Knockout, and they totter around just as precariously as bowling pins during an earthquake. As far as the name is concerned, it was almost as though a focus group was convened down in the West Country as to what residents would like to see in Doctor Who - the results could have been something like this...
"Well, Oi loikes tractors... an' Oi loikes 'tayters"
You get the idea.
Frontios was written by Christopher H Bidmead and it certainly shows; Bidmead was the man who was brought onboard Doctor Who to pull the show back from the brink of parody after Tom Baker and Douglas Adams' comedic excesses of season 17. Bidmead left after one season but was brought back by Eric Saward. Frontios features one of Bidmead's typically science-heavy concepts at the heart of the story, in this case having the adversaries hatching a plot to precision-drill through a planet in order for it to be powered by gravity-generating devices that will steer it through the galaxy. Yeah, that would be the one time when MacGuyer wouldn't say "works for me". It's not giving too much away to say that the Tractators don't succeed in their harebrained scheme, but if they had, the results of which would have seen the planet Frontios tootling about the cosmos in a manner vaguely reminiscent of the sailing office block in Terry Gilliam's Crimson Permanent Assurance short that preceded Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.
Mark Strickson is pretty good in this story, or at least he does terrified beyond belief very well, spending much of this story in a state of shock; we watched Strickson's time on Doctor Who when it was originally broadcast and we weren't that fond of him back then, seeming like a fairly bland companion, but seeing of several his stories from a more mature perspective, Turlough is a much more interesting character than we remembered him as, being at first tortured and manipulated, then displaying an other-worldly sense of humour and alien values more akin to The Doctor than other companions. Though the Tractators aren't particularly terrifying, the character of Turlough (as much as we hate to use this yoof expression) "bigs them up" as much has he can by being terrified of those particular adversaries - it's a pretty safe bet that he soiled his regulation school undercrackers when realising that his old foes were present on Frontios.
Janet Fielding is as good as ever in this story, with Tegan's natural cynicism (which is filtered through the actress' own outspoken nature) providing a nice anchor for the viewers; with Tegan being the only Earth-born companion on the show at this point, she is the character that an audience is most likely to identify with and as such Fielding probably felt greater pressure in terms of her performance. Like the following story, Resurrection of the Daleks, Fielding is wearing that same short black leather skirt, which is certainly as plus-point, seeing as Ms Fielding has a very fetching pair of pins.
We mentioned earlier that this era of Doctor Who had only two companions with The Doctor, but there are some who would argue that there were still three, but Frontios is yet another story from the period where Kamelion does not appear and is not mentioned at all - he was probably locked away in the TARDIS boot cupboard. Kamelion was so much a companion, more a pain in the arse to all concerned.
Frontios benefits from having a very strong guest actor in the shape of Peter Gilmore, who brings a certain degree of gravitas to the story with his brooding menace and buttoned-up, emotionally-repressed second-in-command role. Gilmore is best remembered as the star of The Onedin Line and the actor brings the same sort of dramatic intensity to the part of Brazen; Gilmore was also a veteran of nearly a dozen Carry On films, usually giving quite a bit of gravitas in authority figures and was very adept at doing comedy, but here he is more serious than a cluster bomb in an orphanage. The fate of Brazen is left ridiculously open-ended, with him falling into the hands of the Tractators and things looking pretty grim for him.
Sterling support also comes from Jeff Rawle, as Plantagenet, the spineless not-ready-for-the-heavy-burden-of-leadership son of the missing Captain Revere; Rawle would later go on to star in satirical sitcom, Drop the Dead Donkey, as the hapless George Dent and he shows a few mannerisms and personality traits in Frontios that would come to be associated with DtDD.
Actor William Lucas is very good as Range, the scientist who is the first person on Frontios to be sympathetic to The Doctor and to realise that he is going to try and help the colony. Lucas is every inch the put-upon scientist feeling the squeeze from the thuggish and Philistine-like military, and his performance helps the viewer to identify with the pressures that the scientists are under on Frontios.
Leslie Dunlop - who plays Range's daughter, Norna - is an actress for whom we have had a soft-spot for quite a while, first seeing her in the dreary BBC comedy, May To December, but we love her most for her early turn as Luna in The Monster Club, which was produced four years before Frontios. The seriously cute Ms Dunlop would return to Doctor Who several years later in the Sylvester McCoy story, The Happiness Patrol - OK, it might not have been the best story with which to feature a triumphant return, but it beats starring in an asinine BBC sitcom...
The concept of having images of the leader of a colony featuring prominently, only to have the leader suddenly appear in a horrifying, dilapidated condition had been employed before in Doctor Who in the Patrick Troughton story, The Macra Terror. The shock appearance of the former leader of the colony at the end of episode three is one of the more effective cliff-hangers in this story, as it plays upon the fear that was prevalent at the time this story was made of the fear that humans and machines will become one and the warm, fleshy side will be the loser and be enslaved by the victor.
If there is one problem we have with the climax of Frontios it's that there is a somewhat simplistic solution to the menace posed by the Tractators; the leader of the Tractators, The Gravis, is effectively controlling the others, who are little than minions - just incapacitating The Gravis essentially ends the threat posed by the others. This kind of "kill the leader and the troops will be powerless" mentality has been seen in science-fiction before ( Return of the Jedi, anyone...?), but it always seems to rear its ugly head now and again and this is no exception - The Gravis might have been defeated at the climax of the story, but there are still multiple Tractators on the loose, not to mention a working excavator burrowing through the planet with a dogged human at the helm. There are more loose threads in this story than a macramé lampshade that has been put in the washing machine.
Another nice aspect to Frontios is that at the end of the story, after (almost) everything is wrapped up and the TARDIS crew are on their way, it has a lead directly into the next story, Resurrection of the Daleks, which was something that used to be done on Doctor Who during the Hartnell and Troughton eras.
Frontios looks pretty good on DVD - the story was filmed after the switchover to one-inch videotape, with the drop-off in quality reflected on-screen. However, based upon the original source materials, it's still a pleasing watch, with some of the florescent greens prominently seen throughout the story looking particularly nice.
Nothing to complain about - as usual; everything sounds fine, with Paddy Kingsland's incidental music, which is a mixture of synthetic percussion contrasting starkly with panpipe-like tones, comes across rather nicely.
Driven to Distractation: Starting with the departure of Christopher H Bidmead as script editor, who was just as confused about his job description when he left as he was when he joined, the year long stint had been too much, and the pay too little. A Year later, his successor - Eric Saward - got him back on board, and the two made a formidable combination, with the script-editor caring little for science fiction and the re-recruited scribe loving the genre. From this odd situation came Frontios, and with this documentary we look at the grudges, giant prawns and even murder which made the show what it is today.
Stating his case from the outset is Bidmead, who cheerfully acknowledges that the premise behind the Tractators was one which could not be realised on the shows' budget, but points out that Saward is equally responsible for not catching it in time. Bidmead is particularly proud of the executing a really good "flip" in the story, this being from where the bombardment is coming, and we have to agree with him on that one - there are very few Doctor Who stories which attempt something as audacious, let alone get it right.
Frontios proved to be a lucky break for David Buckingham, getting the job through the misfortune of others, specifically the breakdown of assigned production designer Barrie Dobbins, a personal tragedy which eventually led to his suicide. Buckingham's talents stand out on the show, with his personal twist on the classic Doctor Who corridors particularly welcome. Although Mark Strickson bemoans the perils of climbing over alien rocks in the TV studio, having to make sure that shoes don't cause any telltale squeaking to give away their polystyrene nature, he's quick to praise Buckingham's work for Frontios. This is also true of Peter Davison, who says that he was "amazed" at some of the sets build on the small budgets.
The BBC's fateful deployment of smoke, mirrors and subterfuge are revealed on the subject of Frontios' controversial, titillating story element where the TARDIS gets destroyed. Bidmead and Saward concur that there was never any intention to have it completely eradicated from the show, being just a facet to that particular story. This is something which Davison confirms that was deliberately fed to the tabloid press, whom naturally blew it up out of all proportions, providing Saward with the bountiful publicity he desired.
A second bout of tragedy lay in wait after the costume fitting of Peter Arne, originally cast in the role of Mr Range. Saward recalls being told of the actors' brutal murder shortly after his trip to the wardrobe department. We are treated to a report from South East at 6 News from the BBC archives, and it superbly illustrates the stark, shocking nature of the killing. The assailant turned up floating in the Thames a couple of days later, with most assuming that his guilty conscience turned him to suicide. A tabloid article linked Arne's death to a serial-killer, with homosexuality as the thread, but surely the red-tops wouldn't blow such things out of all proportion?
Marking an early appearance in Frontios was future Drop the Dead Donkey stalwart Jeff Rawle, who is on hand to discuss both his character and an inexplicable chance meeting with co-star Lesley Dunlop over twenty years later. Davison was pleased to be working with Ms Dunlop, having had a crush on her for a while before. Such compliments from Davison are not as free-flowing for Peter Gilmore, whom he points out that he's one of the actors on the show whom didn't "click… into the right mode". Strickson goes one better, labelling him as "wooden", but praises his work as the star of The Onedin Line. Anyone who has seen him play numerous roles in the Carry On series will attest that he had a pretty good range on him.
Mark Strickson and co discuss all things Turlough, where we learn that the writing was on the wall for the character just as he was being introduced. Writers Saward and Bidmead were among those who liked the character, wanting to develop him as far as they could, and this resulted in Frontios being a particularly good showcase for Turlough. To this end, Bidmead employed the Terrance Dicks/Derrick Sherwin manoeuvre of nicking from Nigel Kneale's Quatermass, in this case the theft in question was Quatermass and the Pit's "race-memory" idea. Regardless of such larceny, Strickson expresses his gratitude to them for beefing up a character largely unloved by viewers, and mentions getting his teeth into his big "Tractators" speech, to the point of accidentally spraying the lens with saliva in the first take. Oh, and his John Nathan-Turner impression is hilariously uncanny.
Director Ron Jones comes under the spotlight, and the opinion of him is a pretty uniform one from all concerned: really nice guy, but didn't really know how to get things done. The picture built up is that of a director who didn't bother with a lot of the technical elements, as well as preferring to generate a friendly atmosphere on the set rather than giving the direction which most actors desperately crave to get the best out of them. His "it'll do" attitude to the business rubbed many up the wrong way, with Davison conflicted between wanting to praise him as a nice guy and criticising his actual abilities.
Going hand-in-glove with the directors' Sgt Wilson-like approach to things, the less-than-special effects are brought into focus - rather ironic, really, as they would have been better off left very much hazy in front of the cameras' eye. The controversial Excavating Machine comes in for a pasting, with Davison aiming the blame towards Jones. Looking like it was made by Ted V Mikels, it looked as though it would have had trouble mining cotton wool much less anything else, but Bidmead is adamant that if they would have directly translated his idea from the page, it would have been far too frightening for the kiddies. Oh, and that they didn't have the money to do it right.
They couldn't be left out of the proceedings, so now we get to the Tractators. It was more that a little optimistic that highly skilled dancers were brought in, as all hope of employing careful body gestures were scuppered by the immobile plastic costumes they were enclosed in. John Gillet, who had the pleasure of playing (The) Gravis, recalls that a last-minute addition to the already unpleasant costume, where the additions were stuck on using fish-paste, the fumes of which were concentrated within the suit and left him whacked-out and badly in need of the air pumped into them. Strickson is right on the money when he ponders just how the designers could have gotten the outfits so completely wrong.
Things round off rather nicely, with Rawle comparing his experiences on Doctor Who with his recent stint on the Sarah Jane Adventures ( Mona Lisa's Revenge, a seriously bad story), who says that the new show felt like making a James Bond movie next to the BBC production demands of the 80s. The rest of the cast agree with the almost impossible schedule Frontios was made under, whilst Bidmead closes the proceedings via his rather polarized feelings towards it when viewing a quarter of a century later. Another quality documentary from the folks at 2 Entertain.
Deleted and Extended Scenes: About 15 minutes of time-coded footage is to be found here, including some excavating, involving Peter Gilmore pretending to make some debris look heavy in so poor a fashion that Marcel Marceau would have been tearing his hair out if he'd have seen it! Mr Gilmore is redeemed somewhat when he appears in a nice snippet which sees him putting a guard in his place for a lack of respect to the Plantagenet.
There's some nice character stuff with Cockerill - as a matter of fact, this seems to be the individual who fell afoul of the final edit above all others, so it's nice to see the stuff which got dropped. There's the trimming of a lot of redundant business, including corridor shots, the "bookish" quality brought in through the inclusion of a pair of glasses for young Mr Davison was whittled down in the editing suite, and anyone who wondered why Tegan sometimes acts rather robotically will enjoy a further deletion. Peter Gilmore's "death" scene gets more coverage, and further chance to overact his metaphorical socks off. Keeper of the archives of Gallifrey Ian Levine comes through once again in this fine selection.
Audio Commentary: Peter Davison complains that the style of the piece is too static, in spite of having the ability to track the action. He also uses this opportunity as a platform for the way the original series of Doctor Who was shot, which won't be news to anyone who has listened to one of his commentaries before. John Gillet comes in for episode three, and proceeds to up the laugh content with a series of rather amusing anecdotes and observations as if to counter Davison's crowing.
In spite of being a last-minute replacement for the late Peter Arne, all concerned note just how good William Lucas was as Mr Range. As well as plaudits, the gang are lying in wait armed with brickbats for the directorial choices of Ron Jones, which ties into Davison's obsession with the staging of stories in the studio. Saward notes that it all has a rather "soapy" feel in execution, cutting between characters statically talking on one set to another with other cast members doing the same thing.
Jeff Rawle cracks wise about his performance, saying that the grandiose title of this character was about as deep as he went with it. He notes that he watched Doctor Who first started, and how William Russell was the head of a division when Rawle attended drama school. He also points out the shot of himself wired into the Excavating Machine with Davison hovering over him, for the purposes of illustrating the still he gets sent from fans around the world in hopes of being signed.
Dick Mills "With one of my only Special Sound, as it says in the credits…" Mills is dryly amusing, and notes that JNT wanted every button pushed on the console to make a noise, which is referred to as "a concerto" whenever the TARDIS winds up in trouble and many controls are used to try and steady things. Davison quips: "…I used to go around, you know, and try and push as many buttons as possible just to give you a hard time…".
Mills provides possibly the highlight of the track, where he picks up on Saward's comments that Christopher Bidmead's scripts were a constant battle to edit, the author being bloody-minded about changing them. Mills comments: "It'd be great if they could run it through a plot-checker…" basing his thought on the software used to mark GCSE exams to spot acts of plagiarism. Davison is both surprised and terrified at the existence of such technology, as he used to do just that kind of things all the time…
Finally, just about everyone joins in when it comes to swiping at Strickson's bugged-out turn in Frontios, but as Davison says: "I only do the mocking of Mark's performance as he would do it if he were here…"
Info Track: Once again, we get an accompanying stream of facts so through you would expect the name Okuda to be attached to it, but this goes even further. There we so many changes to Frontios from page to final edit that you'd have though they would have been impossible to catalogue, but nope! All is permitted right from the outset, where the track reveal that the initial scene set in the TARDIS saw Turlough and Tegan playing chess together. Jesus intergalactic and temporal travel in one thing, but a complete dill like Ms Jovanka playing the chess? Come on!
Relevant moments in Earth's history are detailed, which help to clarify certain points and motivations within the script, but skilfully done so as to avoid that "stuck in the classroom" feel. At the very least, it makes the story more accessible and appreciable to knows not entirely in the know about the elements Bidmead brought together for this well-like adventure.
Ever wondered where all those fabulous dancers came from? Well, wonder no more, as we find out that they are all from the celebrated Pineapple Agency, on which the eponymous show about the dance studio is based. Given the bizarre behaviour of Louis Spence, you'd be forgiven for thinking that he spent days on end sucking up the fumes of fish glue.
The many continuity errors and flaws through lack of budget are all pointed out, in a manner which winningly mixes the matter-of-fact and wryly humorous. Oh, and every nod towards mike-boom shadows in shot and things like Janet Fielding tripping up are there for the discovering.
That there seem to be more variations between differing drafts of the script and the finished product than most others stories seems so very daunting, but never fear, as everything is dutifully detailed here, to the point where it firmly transcends trivia track into the realms of film school. As a guide to Frontios, you almost expect this trivia track to have its name written in large, friendly letters on the cover.
Isolated Music: This is very much welcome, as Frontios has a score which is very distinctive, and stands alone from most of the others of the time. This is not to take away from its compositional peers, but there are some utterly lovely motifs interwoven into the music, creating a sense of foreboding rarely conjured on Doctor Who. The motif used for mysterious instances involving the Tractators brings to mind Ennio Morricone's work in the Dollars Trilogy, with ominously twanged strings. This is fine stuff by Paddy Kingsland, and perfect for experiencing in a darkened room.
Photo Gallery: There are plenty of shots to go around with this one, so it looks likely that they wanted all publicity bases covered. Naturally, they wanted to get a load of snaps of Lesley Dunlop, and they made sure that everyone knew that there was a rather good looking woman involved, and we love the one with Ms D and Janet Fielding, the latter seeming to be in mid-titter when it was taken.
There are some monsters which just look better in pictures, unburdened by trying to appear convincing in motion, but the Tractators are an example where this just isn't the case. When all lined up together, they just look like the seafood platter in a swanky restaurant, with the biggest threat to their civilisation being a good dose of tartar sauce.
Also thrown into the mix are set photos, where we get a shot of Davison and the Excavating Machine with both a camera and operator taking centre stage. As a matter of fact, you get a much better look at the infamous device here than you do in the show, so we thoroughly recommend sitting back and watching this very nice collection of images, all set to that very cool music by Mr Kingsland. It's a pity that the aforementioned picture that Jeff Rawle constantly signs isn't there, though.
PDF Material: As sure as the setting sun, you get the chance to bring back fond memories of delving into the Radio Times and reading the upcoming listings for the show. There is something very comforting about the words which tell you that the next part is coming up tomorrow, getting a four-part story watched in just over a week rather than strung out over a month. Oh, and keep a look out for a plug involving "Doctor Who - The Music" squeezed in there.
Coming Soon: Peter Davison faces his final DVD curtain with the forthcoming release of the Earth Story box set, comprising The Awakening and The Gunfighters. This release brings to mind the pairing of The Rescue and The Romans, thrown together for the overriding reason that one is a mere two-parter and would generate little interest on its own. A youthful-looking Lynda Baron sings her way through the Wild West accompanied by two of the Thunderbirds cast whilst The Doctor completes his Liver Birds collection when joined by Polly James during the Civil War. They divide the fans, but some adore them both.
Frontios was quite a pleasant surprise for us - we've mentioned several times that we're not great fans of the Peter Davison era, despite being pretty much the target age for the show when we watched back in the day - but Frontios has some nice production design, an impressive guest cast and moody lighting that generates a considerable amount of suspense. It also has an intriguing (if somewhat barking) Bidmead plot that will keep you scratching your head at times, but will also keep you entertained. It's worth revisiting if you haven't seen it for a while.
Review by Wilson Bros
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Thanks, David! We're glad you enjoyed it!
Kevin & Nick W
Kevin & Nick W
yet another entertaining review
Thanks, guys!
Tenderheart Bear - we're currently beavering away on our review of the final Peter Davison story. What with Colin Baker's stories already finished and Davison's almost done, you'd have thought that 2Entertain would have staggered them a bit more.
Why, Mr Roberts, did you read our review of the Paul McGann movie...? ]
Kevin & Nick W
Tenderheart Bear - we're currently beavering away on our review of the final Peter Davison story. What with Colin Baker's stories already finished and Davison's almost done, you'd have thought that 2Entertain would have staggered them a bit more.
Why, Mr Roberts, did you read our review of the Paul McGann movie...? ]
Kevin & Nick W
Thanks Wilson Bros. Although I stop by to read... I don't think I've said this, so I'm doing it now. Really appreciate the reviews you guys do, particularly for Doctor Who.
Frontios was one of those stories I discovered in the '90s on video, like most of Peter Davison's era - since I came to the show during Colin Baker. Not a story I've ever gone back to see again, but I'm looking forward to giving it another try on DVD. Part One I recall being a good set-up - interesting alien world, colonists dragged into the Earth & the TARDIS being destroyed - but I don't remember much beyond that. Just seemed to loose momentum.
I'm looking forward to The Awakening a lot more though, the other story in that old double tape set... now bizarrely partnered with The Gunfighters. What's that about? Short and sweet, maybe one of a handful of Davisons that I feel can happily rewatch again almost immediately afterwards.
All the best,
Chris Roberts
Frontios was one of those stories I discovered in the '90s on video, like most of Peter Davison's era - since I came to the show during Colin Baker. Not a story I've ever gone back to see again, but I'm looking forward to giving it another try on DVD. Part One I recall being a good set-up - interesting alien world, colonists dragged into the Earth & the TARDIS being destroyed - but I don't remember much beyond that. Just seemed to loose momentum.
I'm looking forward to The Awakening a lot more though, the other story in that old double tape set... now bizarrely partnered with The Gunfighters. What's that about? Short and sweet, maybe one of a handful of Davisons that I feel can happily rewatch again almost immediately afterwards.
All the best,
Chris Roberts
Another top-notch review, and yes, I do read them ala the comment on the second picture.
Sad to think this is the penultimate Davison release.
Sad to think this is the penultimate Davison release.
General viewing, but some scenes may be unsuitable for young children
Disc Details
Release Date: 30th May 2011
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: PAL
Aspect: 1.33:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0 English
Subtitles: English
Extras: Audio Commentary, Driven To Disctractation, Deleted and Extended Scenes, Photo Gallery, Isolated Music, Info-Text, Coming Soon, PDF Materials
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Ron Jones
Cast: Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, Mark Strickson, Leslie Dunlop
Genre: Sci-Fi
Length: 98 minutes
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Oz hurt spurred Rafa to French win
Tennis gave back to Rafael Nadal as he troubled the record books once again at the French Open.
The world number one's 3-6 7-5 6-2 6-4 victory over Novak Djokovic gave him an unprecedented ninth title at Roland Garros, made him the first man to win it five times in a row and the first man ever to win a grand slam title in 10 successive seasons.
Nadal also tied Pete Sampras in second place on the all-time list on 14 slams, closing the gap on Roger Federer to three.
Djokovic had hoped to become only the eighth man to win all four grand slam titles but leaves Paris licking his wounds once again having lost to Nadal for the third straight year.
The Spaniard, who has won 66 of his 67 matches on the Paris clay, was very emotional at his moment of victory and his mind went back to the Australian Open final in January when a back injury compromised him against Stan Wawrinka.
Nadal struggled mentally early in the clay season and suffered three defeats in the build-up to Roland Garros for the first time in a decade.
Speaking on court, Nadal said: "Today tennis gave me back what happened in Australia.''
At his press conference a couple of hours later, the Spaniard added: "I think it was an emotional victory after what happened in Australia.
"I think I arrived with a lot of motivation to Australia this year. I prepared myself well to be there healthy and to be there with the right level.
"All the tournament I played great, and in the final it's true that I played against a player that was playing amazing. I don't know if I would be able to beat him in that match.
"But I didn't compete in that match, so that was a little bit hard to accept for me. I had few months after that when mentally I went down a little bit. I was keeping fighting, but I didn't feel myself strong enough.
"Since one month I felt my mentality was there again. And my motivation, my positive feelings on court, was there again.
"Then it's a process that you need to work, need to win matches to play better and better. That happened. That's why I won against the toughest opponent possible today."
The 42nd meeting between Nadal and Djokovic will not go down as one of their best.
Nadal had crushed Andy Murray in the semi-finals and went into the match as the favourite but his radar was a little off in the opening set and Djokovic took advantage.
The second set was crucial and, despite seeing a break slip away, it was Nadal who won it, the Spaniard managing to be more aggressive.
Nadal was much the stronger in the third but had to fight off a late fightback from Djokovic in the fourth, clinching victory when the Serbian double-faulted, exactly as he had on match point in the final two years ago.
Nadal said: " I think in the second set the dynamic of the match changed.
"Today was very tough, very humid. The combination of two weeks of cold with the drastic change of yesterday and today, t his big change I think affected our physical performance.
"It was very important for me to win that second set. Without that second set, I don't know if I have this trophy with me now."
This will be a very tough loss to get over for Djokovic, who has now suffered two semi-final and two final defeats at Roland Garros over the last four years.
It was also a fifth loss in his last six grand slam finals for the Serbian, who hired Boris Becker as his head coach to try to give him an extra edge in the biggest matches.
Djokovic, who had won his previous four matches against Nadal, said: "It was a great start. I came back in the second, could have gone to the tie-break and it was quite even. I lost that service game at 6?5 and then the momentum went to his side.
"I started playing quite bad and didn't move as well. I struggled a little bit physically throughout that third set.
"Then in the fourth I started to feel a little bit better, but just the crucial points he played better. I wasn't playing at the level that I wanted, especially in the second part of the match.
"Congratulations to him. He was a better player in the crucial moments. Of course it's disappointing for me, but life goes on. It's not the first time or last time that I lost a match."


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