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The Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) – RACE: Time Lord. AGE: 900, or over 1000, or somewhere about 750, or 906… but he can pass for 35 in a good light. MORALITY: Variable. DRESS SENSE: Variable.
Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) – RACE: Human/salt-water elemental half-breed. DEFAULT EMOTION: Vaguely weepy. SECONDARY EMOTION: Incredibly weepy. THIRD EMOTION: Aggressively weepy.
Jackie Tyler (Camille Coduri) – RACE: Human, of course! Why would you even ask such a thing? ANNOYANCE FACTOR: What are you trying to imply by that?! AGE: Don't you dare ask! WEIGHT: Oh, someone's cruising for a smack!
Mickey Smith (Noel Clarke) – RACE: Human/puppy dog half-breed. DEFAULT EMOTION: Sullen. OCCUPATION: He is t3h l33t hax0r with mad skillz! EVENTUALLY MARRIES: … Martha Jones?! Jeez, they can both do better!
Margaret Blaine (Annette Badland) – RACE: Raxicoricofalapatorian. EMOTIONAL STATE: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! POLITICAL/RELIGIOUS STANCE: Antidisestablishmentarianst. FAVORTE WELSH CITY: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. FAVORITE COMPOSER: Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowitz-ticolensic-grander-knotty-spelltinkle-grandlich-grumblemeyer-spelterwasser-kurstlich-himbleeisen-bahnwagen-gutenabend-bitte-ein-nürnburger-bratwustle-gerspurten-mitz-weimache-luber-hundsfut-gumberaber-shönedanker-kalbsfleisch-mittler-aucher von Hautkopft of Ulm.
Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North (Penelope Wilton) – RACE: Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North. OCCUPATION: Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North. FAVORITE MOVIE: Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North. FAVORITE ROCK BAND: Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North. FAVORITE FOOD: Crackers. With cheese.
So my previous recap, one on the horrible first part of this story, "Aliens of London", I optimistically put this at the end:
So that's it for part one. Lots of set up and no resolution, as is to be expected. Really, aside from the farting aliens, this episode isn't as bad as it might've been. Oh, it's still not great, but it's not truly horrible. No, the horribleness doesn't begin until next week.
Stay tuned for "World War Three," next time, on the the Worst of Doctor Who!
Ok, yes, I know, it's been a long three months since I said I would have this written up and posted a week after the previous one. Sorry about that. It's amazing the things I can find to do when I have a choice between doing them or watching this particular episode of Doctor Who again. Things like update Wikipedia, work on my novel, file my taxes, file my neighbors' taxes, bake twelve dozen cookies and eat them in one sitting, practice exploratory surgery on myself, join a cult, find reasons to vote Republican, etc. It's incredible how motivated I can be do anything else when faced with the prospect of this story.
Oh, well. Enough excuses! On with the show!
When last we saw the Doctor and pals, the alien Slitheen had staged a fake landing of a spacecraft in the Thames. Why was anyone's guess. They were hanging around disguised as various members of the UK government, farting up a storm and generally being jerks.
Currently they are electrocuting the Doctor, menacing Jackie in her flat and menacing Rose and Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North, at 10 Downing Street. Is this the end for our heroes?
Well, sadly, no.
As it is, before the opening credits even run we see the Doctor take the energy that's going through his body, gather it into a ball (?), and push it onto a collar one of the big, green, evil Slitheen is wearing. It starts twitching like a meth addict and we go to the credits. Me, I would've killed some time and built some suspense by running the credits and then showing the resolution to the cliffhanger, but what do I know?
Anyhow, now that the Doctor has reversed the polarity of the neutron flow in the one Slitheen's collar, this somehow causes a feedback that makes all the other Slitheen twitch and writhe. That gives Jackie, Rose and Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North, the chance to make their collective escapes. In Jackie's case this helped by the timely arrival of Mickey who clobbers the Slitheen with a chair, and giving Mickey the chance to take a pic of the Slitheen with is cell phone.
The Doctor meanwhile goes to some soldiers gathered outside the room where everyone was being brutally killed a few moments before and gets them to come running in to help. Why they didn't do this during the rather loud set of deaths is beyond me, but there you are.
Meanwhile, Rose and Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North are making a run for it when Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North says to stop, because they have to go back and grab the emergency protocols. My guess is that like with all other emergency procedures in the world, there is only one copy of these and they are not stored on line anywhere. It's the only thing that makes sense, really, since I can't think of any other reason why she's willing to risk her life to go back and fetch them. Seems kind of stupid to me to have only one copy of these in the entire world, though. I mean, if that were the case someone in authority could tell people anything they want to about what's in them and the people would have to believe them, since it's not like they could check, though I am sure no one would ever, ever abuse them in that way. Ever.
Of course the Sltiheen in the room gives chase, leaving Rose and Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North to make a run for it, minus the protocols. While they do this, the Doctor turns up in the conference room with soldiers in tow. Needless to say by the time they get into the room the Slitheen are back in their human costumes. The Doctor tries briefly to explain what's going on, that the PM is actually an alien in disguise. One of the very few moments of funny happens when he sees the look on everyone's faces and says to the soldier next to him, "That's never going to work, is it?" The soldier shakes his head, the Doctor says, "Fair enough", and runs for it.
After a very short chase, the Doctor gets cornered in a corridor and the Slitheen dressed as a general orders the soldiers to execute the Doctor under the jurisdiction of the emergency protocols. The soldiers, of course, ask to see some documentation of this. The general doesn't have it, since there's only one copy of the protocols in the known universe. The soldiers get suspicious and within minutes the Doctor has turned them around and made them understand what's really going on. The PM and the general are both arrested and the day is saved! Actually, none of that happens. Instead they just accept what they are told.
Now look, I know soldiers are trained to follow orders, but in this case I'm guessing all but the most hardcore, brainless idiots are going to pause and say, "Really?" I mean, it just seems unlikely that even in a situation like this a general would be allowed to have someone summarily executed. Admittedly I'm not up on military law but I'm pretty sure that even under martial law conditions people are usually granted at least a basic trial before they are killed, right? Anyone from the JAG's office wanna clear that up?
So the Doctor is, it turns out, backed up against some elevator doors. They open in time for him to get in and escape. He ends up, briefly, on the floor where Rose and Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North are fleeing the Margaret Slitheen. He briefly says hello to the Slitheen and then closes the elevator door, buying a bit of time for the other two who make it into a room where they are, essentially, trapped.
Meantime the general and the PM are getting into the elevator to give chase. As they do, they give orders to the soldiers, telling them to stay on the lower floors and to shoot the Doctor on sight. One of them says they should get the PM to safety and he basically says that, hey, since they haven't read the emergency protocols and he has they should just shut up and do as they're told. Oh, yes, good thing there's not multiple copies of those protocols available for people to check on, eh?
Memo to governments: make sure your emergency protocols are where people can look them up, and make sure that the elite soldiers that guard your government offices are very familiar with these protocols so that someone can't just barge in and takeover while claiming they are allowed to under these rules.
So on the elevator the general and the PM have a little chat, we add another fart to the Fart-o-Meter, bringing our total up to fourteen, and the two characters shed their human skin.
Upstairs we see Margaret coming into the room where Rose and Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North are hiding. She makes all sorts of "Mummy loves you!" kind of mocking noises as we see the other two arrive. We then hear them talk about the things they smell from Rose and Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North because, as we all know, bad guys always have a very acute sense of smell.
The Doctor bursts into the room with a fire extinguisher. He uses it on the Slitheen to make a distraction and allow everyone to escape, with Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North nattering on about the emergency protocols. We see them running away from the Slitheen and the Slitheen giving chase, and I have to ask: how on Earth do they actually manage to outrun the Slitheen? These creatures are about eight feet tall and seem to have a pretty good turn of speed. If they're a hunter species, which is strongly implied throughout the story, they should have no problem cornering and outrunning our heroes. Instead the heroes never seem to have any problem keeping ahead of them. I suppose it's what the story requires but it's like seeing Scrappy Doo outrun a cheetah.
The Doctor and crew get into the cabinet room where the Doctor does a kind of nifty bluff about how he plans to "triplicate the flammability" of a decanter of alcohol. Me, I'd take my chances if I were one of the Slitheen, but instead they all stand around and talk for a few moments.
This is where we learn that Slitheen is not the name of their species; it is in fact a family name. Of course neither here nor at any other point in the series do we see any members of their species other than the Slitheen, so I'm going just keep calling them that. There's another good reason for this, which has to do with the name of their home planet, Raxicoricofalapatorius. That means that I'd have to call them Raxicoricofalapatorians, and while Luke Smith may be down with that, I'm not.
We also learn that they are here on Earth to make a profit. Before the Doctor can find out how, they call his bluff, and he seals himself, and Rose and Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North, away inside the cabinet room by activating some metal shielding that was apparently installed at some point. The Slitheen seem content with this and wander off, plotting the next step in their evil scheme!
We are then treated to a brief shot of Mickey and Rose wandering around and then shots of various dignitaries arriving at Number 10. The reporter knows who they all are, including one who is merely chairperson of a local boating club. Well, alright then. Either this guy has a Rolodex from hell or he's a big fan of boating.
Back inside Number 10 we see the various Slitheen arriving and Margaret acting as a coat check girl. She leads everyone off to little chambers where they can shed their skins and be themselves and we also add another far to the total, bringing us to fifteen.
As Margaret does this, the general tells a soldier to alert the media that the PM wants to make an official address to the nation. Fun fact: Did you know that when the president wants to do that, he actually has to ask the networks for airtime? It's true, and just one of the many things you can learn while browsing Wikipedia, trying to avoid this story.
We now move on to Mickey and Jackie talking about the Doctor and how dangerous she is and how much Rose's life is at risk. Outside we see the police officer who had menaced them earlier talking about how he's still got plans for Jackie. I hope they aren't plans like Elton's because, yikes!
In the cabinet room, Rose, the Doctor and Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North are all talking. The Doctor explains that the reason for the farting is because of a gas-exchange system that allows the Slitheen to compress themselves into normal human skin. Hmmm. And I thought it was just the legendary British love of toilet humor.
During the conversation, the Doctor keeps thinking he's heard of Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North before. We also find out what's in the emergency protocols that's worth risking life and limb for. It is, apparently, a list of people to contact in the case of an emergency like this. Yes, that's apparently the sum total of what it is, or at least that's all that's mentioned. So basically Rose and Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North nearly got killed for something that's essentially just a phone tree. Nice! It's also during this scene that Rose mentions her great plan to save the day: launch a nuclear strike against the Slitheen.
Now presumably she means the ones who are apparently hiding out in the North Sea, even though from what we can tell there's no reason to think there's any actually there. They might have just left an unmanned station or something. The only Slitheen we've seen so far are in London. This means Rose thinks a nuclear strike against London is a dandy idea. I was going to make a joke about a rather obscure (at least in the USA), British TV miniseries here called Threads but there doesn't seem to be much point. Instead let's all bask in the glory that is Rose… and that's all the time there is for that. Moving on.
At any rate, Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North explains that they couldn't launch a nuclear strike even if they wanted to as all the launch codes are controlled by the UN. Wait, what?
Apparently this is something of a call back to the Fourth Doctor's first episode, the technically watchable "Robot" (technically in the sense that you can sit down and look at it while it is playing, though you might hate yourself after). In that serial it was revealed that the UN had the codes, so I guess it makes sense that they'd follow-up on that here.
But what doesn't make sense is the idea that all countries would give up these launch codes and hand them to the UN. Now clearly the organization is more powerful in the Whoniverse than they are in reality (UNIT, for example), but still I'm not buying it. There's no way every country would cooperate on this one and if every country isn't involved, then the ones who are involved are left at the mercy of those who are not.
Furthering the strangeness is the fact that Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North allegedly voted against this. Now I know there's some controversy about exactly when the UNIT stories during the Third Doctor's time took place, but even if we were generous and assumed it was the mid-1980's that would mean that Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North has been an MP for Flydale North for some 20+ years. The actress who plays her, Penelope Wilton, is 63 now, so in 2005 she would've been 58. 20 years prior to that she would've been 38, so I guess it's not that implausible that she's been an MP since then, but it does seem unlikely, especially if she's just an unregarded back-bencher with no power.
The Doctor and his pals try to figure out why the Slitheen are there. Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North suggests things like oil, gold and water, and the Doctor is impressed by this, despite the fact that oil, gold and water would be too heavy to transport any distance through space. Plus water seems quite plentiful in the galaxy. Plus oil is probably also found on any planet that's had life for some time. Plus why would gold have any special value? Ok, it's used in modern electronics, but would something as advanced as the Slitheen really be using electronics that are like ours?
So why are the Slitheen here, you might ask? Oh, just wait. You'll love it.
Back at Mickey's flat, he and Jackie have contacted Rose on her magic cell phone. The Doctor talks with him/insults him and gives him a password to hack into UNIT's website. Surprisingly the password is not "swordfish", but is rather "buffalo". This gives me an excuse to read the Wiki article on Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo, which also gives me an excuse to pause the video for a few merciful seconds.
Also surprising is that he's asked only for a password and not a user name. Also the password apparently works for every single place on the site he wants to go to. This is the website for UNIT, mind you. The United Nations Intelligence Taskforce. Their job is to stop alien incursions on Earth. And they have a "secure" website a six-year-old could hack.
Now we move onto one of those scenes that Russell T Davies is actually quite good at: domestic fun-ness. Jackie takes advantage of the phone call to lecture the Doctor about the things he does and the situations he's getting Rose into. It's nicely played and quite realistic and I just wish that it was in a better story. Davies can write well as he showed with "Midnight" from the fourth series, the Torchwood mini-series "Children of Earth" as well as this scene, but so often he takes something brilliant like this and the demolishes it at the end.
In this case the scene is cut off by the arrival of the cop Slitheen to Mickey's flat. Now when the Slitheen were chasing Rose and Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North, we saw that they were very strong and capable of knocking doors aside like they were mere CGI constructs. Therefore the fact that Jackie just slams a door in the face of this Slitheen is no impediment to his progress. He simply removes his human disguise, knocks down the door and eats Mickey and Jackie.
Well, not quite, because that wouldn't give the Doctor time to figure out what planet the Slitheen are from. So he works on figuring that out as we see the Slitheen very slowly cut slices in the door and then knock it down as the Doctor works out that their home planet is, as I mentioned before, Raxicoricofalapatorius. God, that's an awful name. Rule of Funny, I suppose, but it certainly does nothing to make these guys a more credible threat.
From this and the fact that their farts smell like bad breath, the Doctor works that the Slitheen are a calcium-based lifeform. Therefore acetic acid (vinegar), is what's needed to kill them ("Like Hannibal," points out Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North, though I'm sure the good Doctor Lecter wouldn't use vinegar in this way).
So the Slitheen of course has Jackie and Mickey cornered in the kitchen. Jackie roots through his cupboards and finds everything with vinegar in it. She mixes it up into a container and throws it at the Slitheen and, just like with a person when you throw something acidic on them, this causes the Slitheen to… er… explode. Messily. Oh, and in the aftermath Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North explains that she was referring to Carthage's general Hannibal who crossed the Alps and took over the Italian peninsula back in the day and not Hannibal Lecter.
In fact the historical Hannibal's victory over Rome was, in many ways, one of the worst things that could've happened to Carthage. It gave Rome a motivation to get revenge and eventually they assembled a massive fleet to invade Carthage. They took the place over and made it clear that Carthage wouldn't be allowed to wage even defensive war without Rome's permission.
Carthage was sadly backed into a corner not long thereafter and had to fight against an invading army. Rome got pissed, invaded Carthage and, according to legend, left no stone upon another. They also sowed the ground with salt so that nothing would ever grow again and called their priests to perform a special ceremony that would enslave the Carthagian gods (Baal, Astarte, etc), and transfer their essence to Rome. Now that's revenge!
For more on Carthage consult your local library or browse Wikipedia while trying to avoid watching more of this episode, though for the record, that information was all from memory and I didn't have to look it up. A no-life person who watches entirely too much of the History Channel instead of doing his recaps, you say? Oh, yes.
Back at 10 Downing Street the general and the PM talk about how they "felt" the death of their friend (because all aliens are psychic), and make nasty comments about how bad things are about to happen to Earth. The PM then goes out to the street to address the media.
The PM announces that the experts summoned to Number 10 were killed by aliens. He then cleverly explains that they have an arsenal right above Earth capable of launching an attack within 45 seconds. In case you, like me, wonder why they haven't yet, he further adds that so far the military has been able to "baffle the probes", which sounds like a sexual euphemism in search of an act to describe ("Hey, honey, you wanna 'baffle the probes' tonight?" "No, my toes are still sore from last time, dear!"). He then calls on an emergency resolution from the UN to launch a nuclear attack against the aliens.
Several things are wrong here. First off, no doubt the rest of the world, including the United States is going, "Alien ships? What alien ships?" Second, these ships are likely in orbit if they exist at all. I'm not some sort of highly-educated, well-trained professional who specializes in ballistic physics, but I'm pretty sure that the average nuclear missile cannot reach orbit.
And it's now that we get to the really stupid part of this story. Yes, farting aliens (the Fart-o-Meter topped out at sixteen, by the way), as a concept actually seem intelligent compared to what's coming next and that's the big explanation for why the Slitheen are here on Earth.
See their cunning master plan is this: trick the nations of the world into going to war. After the nuclear war is over, they're left with a planet that's been cleansed of life and is full of radioactive chunks ready to harvest and turn into starship fuel. That sound you just heard? That's my eyes popping out my head in disbelief. One moment, please, while I put them back in.
*squish, squelch, splut-splut*
Right. So the plan is to make the planet into radioactive slag to sell on the galactic fuels market. Ok. Let's destroy this.
1. Radiation and radioactive materials are abundant in the universe. Astronauts are bombarded with radioactive particles up in orbit and one of the stumbling blocks on a trip to Mars is the fact that they'd spend about 9 – 24 months each way being hit by large amounts of radiation. The source of this? The Sun.
2. Even if radiation were fairly rare, all you'd have to do is get a few nukes and drop them on an uninhabited planet. No fuss, no muss, no investigators from the Raxicoricofalapatorius Securities and Exchange Commission coming along later wondering about the source of your income. None of the Raxicoricofalapatorius News Network doing a big expose on how your company killed nearly seven billion people to get starship fuel. Sure, it'd probably be a bit more expensive, but the money you'd save fending off investigations from regulatory bodies would be more than worth it.
3. Radioactive slag is starship fuel? Really? I imagine that would be pretty heavy and inefficient. Even now we have space probes propelled by ion drives and we had them before this show was even in production. Years before. Most likely any large-scale starship drive would use hydrogen as a fuel source in some way, and that's the most abundant element in the universe! Well, aside from stupidity, though this story seems to be boiling through the world supply of that right quick.
So the Doctor gives the Slitheen his usual, "You get one chance," ultimatum that no one ever actually takes him up on. After that we see footage reporting on the UN making a resolution about using the nukes, and one bit of credit I will give the producers is that they seem to have remembered that early morning in London is still night-time in New York, since they show the UN building at night. We are told by resident American newscaster, Trinity Welles, that the UK has shown evidence of the alien fleet. You know, the fictional fleet that no one else can see. Right.
The Slitheen head up to the PM's office, cackling all the way (and adding another fart. Damn. Seventeen). In the cabinet room the Doctor mentions that he has a plan to save the day, but it will likely result in the death of Rose. This is another one of those great, rather touching scenes and it ends when Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North, points out that she's the only elected representative in the room and orders the Doctor to put his plans into motion. I actually like that touch, too. But that's the end of things I like about this story.
The plan begins with the Doctor helping Mickey to hack into the command console of a Royal Navy submarine. Apparently he's been watching Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, wherein we learned that all ships, space and otherwise, can be taken over by remote control. He has Mickey fire off a Harpoon missile, which is, for the curious out there, an anti-ship missile made by Boeing. It has a 221 kg warhead and is capable of doing massive damage. Ah… Wikipedia!
We see the Doctor and pals getting ready to seek shelter in a closet as the missile streaks over the English countryside towards London. The soldiers inside Number 10 evacuate as the Slitheen wonder what's going on. We see them briefly trying to get their skins back on as the missile hits, blowing Number 10 to pieces!
I'm not kidding. Number 10, the UK's equivalent of the White House, is blown up. Completely reduced to rubble. We see it not long after in perfect condition and it's explained that it was rebuilt. Because as we all know there can't be any permanent consequences.
Oh, and lest you're left wondering, apparently a sturdy closet is all you need to survive a hit from a Harpoon missile. Yes, it's just like hiding in a refrigerator to avoid a nuclear explosion, never mind that the forces involved would kill you stone dead, or at least break several bones.
Our heroes emerge from the rubble and Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North goes to address the press. As she does the Doctor finally remembers where he's heard of her: she ends up being Prime Minister for three terms and ushers the UK into a golden age. Very nice! Too bad he destroyed her political career only a few months later, removing her from office and setting the stage for someone named Harold Saxon to take charge, something which is never addressed on screen, except in a deleted scene.
As the story winds down we get some rather nice moments with Rose and Jackie and then we see the Doctor having the kid who'd spray painted "BAD WOLF" on the side of the TARDIS clean it off. Mickey is sitting nearby reading a newspaper with the words "ALIEN HOAX?" on the front page. Yes, once again we're handwaving away the story. Humanity will be convinced that aliens aren't real, that it was a mass hallucination, that everyone's wi-fi went zany or whatever it takes so that there are no lasting consequences from this story, because God forbid that should happen.
Now to be fair to the series they eventually stopped doing this. But it was a hallmark for ages that every time humans would be surprised at the existence of aliens the Doctor would basically shake his head and go, "Oh, humanity! So delusional!" They largely stopped that in the next couple series, though it's interesting note that in the current series Amy never heard of Daleks and the Doctor, rather than just rolling his eyes, pauses and says, "Hey, wait, that's not right. You should know about them. And come to think of it, why does no one remember a 100' tall Cyberking in Victorian London?" My theory on that, though, is that it's the current producer's way of undoing a lot of the stupid by done by Davies during his time.
Anyhow, the Doctor gives Mickey a disk to plant a virus on the net that will erase all mention of him (something Mickey doesn't do, apparently, given what we see later on this series and Torchwood). The Doctor then invites Mickey to come along, but Mickey refuses. We are then treated to some last scenes of Jackie and Rose saying their goodbyes with Rose saying that, hey, since it's a time machine they could be gone for a year but only ten seconds will pass. The final shot is of Jackie and Mickey standing alone as Jackie whispers, "Ten seconds," then wanders off leaving Mickey to his newspaper. The end.
Like I said before, there's things in this story that are worthwhile. I love some of the more emotional scenes and the chemistry between the Camille Coduri and Billie Piper is really strong. But it's dragged down by the Slitheen and their incredibly stupid plan. I get left with a feeling of whiplash after seeing some nice drama and then some ham-fisted comedy relief.
It doesn't help that the Slitheen are quite possibly the worst villain ever to appear on the series, old series or new. They look stupid, they aren't even vaguely threatening and they can be killed with vinegar. Every time I see them I keep remembering Andy Millman's appearance on Doctor Who playing a slug-monster who was killed with salt. Depressing.
The Slitheen were touted in the pre-episode publicity as the first major alien race designed for the new series. It was rather like the Ferengi when they first showed up on Star Trek: The Next Generation, and, just like the Ferengi, the powers that be quickly realized what a mistake they'd made in creating them.
The Slitheen appeared only once more on the series in a major role in an episode called "Boom Town". It featured the return of Margaret and was a somewhat better story than this one, but still pretty bad. After that the Slitheen were relegated to a cameo shot in part two of "The End of Time". They also appeared in an episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures where a young girl kills one and experiences no remorse for it. Budding young sociopath. They do work better on a kid's show, I'll say that much for them, though I found it somewhat disturbing that in that episode one of the Slitheen is disguised as a boy of about twelve. This means that they hunted down a twelve-year-old boy, killed him and skinned him. Charming.
Next time on "The Worst of Doctor Who"? Not sure yet. But I have some ideas for a story involving giant flies, a London bus, a bionic woman and the deserts of Dubai…


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Saturday, November 24, 2007
shugo tokumaru
as if a steam ship versus samurai weren't emblematic of japanese/american culture relations. shugo makes american folk look like edo. sorry bobby d, sorry america.
i smoked today. a lot. but i am going to keep trying. i don't want to. so. i'm changing the concept of the film. i will be exploring the possibility of the forced extinction of cigarette smoking in public. recent university proposals suggest that we ban smoking cigarettes on campus and an epic, nicotine addled debate is most likely to ensue.
six people- three smokers, three non, all students
each person will be interviewed first alone and then as a group (to see how opinions flux between private and public speech).
a list of questions to come.
i will leave myself out of the film.
morris style reenactment b-roll with be used.
more to come.
Thursday, November 22, 2007
reclused in company
i miss paris.
i will remember what i have today, tomorrow with love.
sometimes i like the pictures i take.
the background is the future, the present is the fence
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
solitude has returned to remind me that ideas will die without expression. here's to the parade and not the funeral procession.
we create when they stop paying (but not attention)
do we not already write without reward? we speak to be heard, not paid. why do we make music? i wonder where the world of intellectual content will go once it is transposed into data... how will we purchase intangible products (music, art, literature...)? How will the artists sustain to forge ahead? who knows... but this one's free.
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Prof. Lewis was Associate Dean of the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) in New York (1985-2007) and was also was the first Executive Director of the Global Public Policy Network (GPPN), an innovative partnership between SIPA and top universities in London, Paris, Singapore, Tokyo, Sao Paulo, and Berlin.
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NATALIA DEMIDOVA, Head of RANEPA Department for International Affairs (2014 – present).
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Matt Dennis (p, vcl), Bill Pitman (g), Gene Englund, Ray Leatherwood (b), Mark Barnett, Alvin Stoller (d), Virginia Maxey (vcl)
Reference: FSRCD 385
This present collection portrays the simplicity and beauty of the Matt Dennis songbook. Besides showing him as an outstanding songwriter, this CD depicts his attractive, intimate style of singing and playing with a great beat, tremendous feeling and always with very special consideration of the lyrics.
The first twelve tracks were recorded at the Tally-Ho in Hollywood. Matt Dennis Plays and Sings Matt Dennis is a program of what visitors to his supper-club sets could expect from one of the best lounge singers in an era before the term became a dirty word. Accompanying himself on the piano with bass and drums for backing, Dennis sings 12 of his own tunes, including an avalanche of standards "Will You Still Be Mine," "The Night We Called It a Day," "Angel Eyes," "Violets for Your Furs," "Everything Happens to Me," and "Let's Get Away From It All."
The second part of the CD was recorded in The Encore (originally issued as "Dennis Anyone?")in Hollywood in 1955 and also includes a dozen Dennis compositions.
01. Will You Still Be Mine? (Adair-Dennis) 2:43
02. Junior and Julie (Carson-Dennis) 2:41
03. The Night We Called It a Day (Adair-Dennis) 2:27
04. We Belong Together (Lodice-Dennis) 2:35
05. Angel Eyes (Brent-Dennis) 3:10
06. Violets for Your Furs (Adair-Dennis) 2:36
07. Everything Happens to Me (Adair-Dennis) 3:10
08. Compared to You (Herrick-Dennis) 3:03
09. That Tired Routine Called Love (Steele-Dennis)2:19
10. It Wasn't the Stars That Thrilled Me (Gillam-Dennis) 2:51
11. When You Love a Fella (Gillam-Dennis) 2:29
12. Let's Get Away from It All (Adair-Dennis) 2:25
13. Where Do We Go from Here? (Brent-Dennis) 3:42
14. The Land of Danger (Sherman-Dennis) 3:03
15. Old Uncle Fud (Fisher-Dennis) 3:24
16. Relax (Dennis) 2:53
17. I'm the Boy Who takes her Home (Lehman-Dennis) 3:33
18. Devil talk (Brent-Dennis) 3:25
19. That's How Close I Want to Be to You (Adair-Dennis) 3:21
20. Too Late for Love (Crosby-Adair-Dennis) 3:32
21. Enchanted Memory (Carroll-Dennis) 3:10
22. A Thousand Years Ago (Brent-Dennis) 3:17
23. Bless You, Little Sleepyhead (Dennis) 3:21
24. Show Me the Way to Get out of this World (Clark-Dennis) 4:56
Personnel and recording dates:
Tracks #1-12:
Matt Dennis (p, vcl); Gene Englund (b); Mark Barnett (d); Virginia Maxey (vcl on #4 and 11).
Live at The Tally-Ho, 1954
Tracks #13-24:
Matt Dennis (p, vcl); Bill Pitman (g); Ray Leatherwood (b); Alvin Stoller (d).
Live at The Encore, 1955
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I have been so very busy the last few weeks...Christmas is only 7 Days away.. Can you believe it? Tim and I are going to finish our shopping on Saturday. Kierstynne is spending the night with Grandma and Tim and I are going out with 4 other couples from our church to dinner and a night of husbands against the wives bowling. This ought to be pretty interesting. I have started a new "job". I am going to be teaching art class at Kierstynne's school for the next 3 months. I am pretty phsyched. I love art and what a great way to learn new things as well as see the look on the children's faces when they learn something new too. Today and tomorrow ACA is having their Christmas Shoppe. I worked it today and will again tomorrow. The kids get bags to decorate and then they buy little gifts for their parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles and who every else. All the gifts are $2. They are mostly from AVON. Thank you Stephanie Bradshaw. I will continue to post about the Daniel lifestyle later in the week next week. Maybe over Christmas break I can get the rest of it done. Thanks for reading.... Emily
Thursday, December 17, 2009
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Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Clearing out the clutter....a healthier kitchen
If your kitchen is anything like mine, it is full of process foods, junk food, canned and frozen food....in general...unhealthy stuff. I am going to clear out my kitchen between now and January 1st. Below I am going to give you guidelines for what to throw out and what to keep. I am going full force into this new chapter in my life. If you are wary of throwing out everything on the list, take it a step at a time. Start small. Don't try to make all the changes right away.
- NO white flour. White flour is the worst type of flour. First, they take the beautiful brown whole grain designed my God to nourish and flourish our bodies and the remove the wheat germ and bran. Then they bleach it white with chemicals similar to Clorox bleach. Think about that the next time you go to bite into a nice sandwich made with white flour. Think about the bleach going into your system. White flour is a diabetics worst nightmare. One slice of white Wonder bread is equal to a cup of pure table sugar to a diabetic. To top it off, the manufacturers turn around and try to sell us the wheat germ and bran as health foods with a high dollar price. Kinda of stupid isn't it.
- NO white sugar. Think about what happens to a car when you put sugar in the gas tank. It kills the engine. It is doing the same thing to our bodies. Our bodies will actually go into a state of detoxification when we give up the sugar. God created natural forms of sugar found in raw fruits, vegetables, honey and molasses. These natural sweetners provide fuel for the cells of our body. To get white sugar, the sugar canes and beets are put through 14 processes. White sugar causes the immune system's capability to decrease by as much as 50%. When it enters the bloodstream, it takes on the forms of carbonic acid, acetic acid and alcohol. Acetic acid literally burns up our cells. Sugar has been known to contribute to depression, fatigue, irritability, hypoglycemia, diabetes, hyperactivity, and violent outrages. The average American consumes 120 pounds a year of white sugar.
- NO artifical sweetners..These fake sweetners actually do more damage than good. They are artifical...there is not one grain of anything God made, natural in these. They can lead to severe headaches, stomach aches, joint pain, and other health issues.
- NO fake foods...Somehow the marketing magic we see today has convinced us that we are safe eating foods that are "fat free, sugar free, and artifically flavored." You would do better to eat the packaging than the food actually in them.
- NO white potatoes, rice or corn....these are three foods that are carbohydrates but turn in to sugar very fast in our bodies and tend to make us tired, overweight and unhealthy. Red potatoes, brown rice, and whole grain pastas are best.
- NO sodas...diet or otherwise. These drinks are empty calories with no nutritional value whatsoever. They diet varieties are infused with "fake" sweetener. The carbonated water in these drinks cause our stomachs to swell, which in turn leads to eating more to fill the hollow spot.
It only takes 5 to 30 days to reverse the curse, depending on how severe the internal damage is. Within 30 days, you can start to turn your body around. You can speed up your metabolism, get your cells healthy, renew your tastebuds, and even change your outlook.
So, now to clean out the kitchen:
- Remove all white flour..switch to unbleached flour, whole wheat flour, brown rice flour or spelt flour. These are all good alternatives. Whole wheat bread flour is also a good substitute. It helps make your baked goods fluffier and isn't bleached. Wheat bran, oat bran, are also great ways to get your fiber in. Just add a tablespoon or so to your food, and whalla you have fiber. It is tasteless and you won't even know. If you aren't sure how to substitute these flours in a recipe, I will post some exchanges later on.
- Remove all white sugar...replace it with honey, molasses, Stevia, Blue Agave, pure maple syrup, and birch sugar, also know as xylitol are all fine. You can also use pure fruit juices, applesauce, or other pureed fruits to sweeten baked goods.
- Remove anything with MSGs, saturated fats, fake fats, hydrogenated oils. Switch to using olive oil or canola oil. Your body needs fats in order to function properly. You need to eat foods containing monounsaturated fats that are found in plant based oils. These fats raise the heart healthy HDL cholesterol while lowering the bad LDL. You can also use polyunsaturated fats too, but limit them.
- Remove any sodas, sweetened drinks, sugary drinks....Water is your best friend. If you don't have a filter on your faucet, get one. Even those of us with well water need a filter. You need to drink at least two quarts of filtered water daily. Water helps flush out toxins, cleans our colon, removes fat, and hydrates out body.
- Remove all junk food. This includes cookies, candy, cakes, pies, chips, dips, and anything that is not "natural". These are harmful to your body. When you load up on these things, there isn't any room for good food. These foods also have no nutritional value.
- Switch from high fat, whole milks, cheeses and yogurts to natural products. I use 2 % milk, I try to buy 2 % cheese and fat free yogurt. I am going to be using alot of vegetarian and vegan products also. This can get a little expensive, but the price is worth my health.
Now let's move on to what you should have in your pantry and refridgerator/freezer
- Canned/shelf stable goods
Beans--cannellini, kidney, great northern, chickpeas, black beans, pintos, and lentils. These are good to have on hand, but the dried ones you cook yourself are better. They haven't been proccessed.
Chunk light tuna and salmon
Diced tomatoes--if you have a farm or produce market in the summer around you, buy in bulk and can or freeze fresh tomatoes for the rest of the year. Again, no processing.
Tomatoe paste
Low sodium chicken broth, beef broth, and /or vegetable broth. Sam's club carries a great soup base that comes concentrated and lasts forever. I use it for soups, stews, and recipes calling for broth.
Silken tofu---I know...you are saying..yuck...tofu...actually it is very tasty and full of protein. I will be posting some recipes using tofu. Don't knock them until you try them.
Spices of any kind are healthy and flavor foods without adding alot of stuff you don't need. They also help to eliminate alot of salt from the foods you will be cooking.
Oils: extra virgin olive oil, canola, and sesame oils are the best.
Vinegars: balsamic, red wine, cider, rice.
Tamari--which is an alternative to the high sodium soy sauce
Chile garlic sauce
Hot sauce
Reduced Fat mayonnaise. I use a vegan type of mayo which has no eggs or anything. It's very good.
Dijon mustard and dry mustard
Salsa: check the lables though for MSG, sugar, and sugar alternatives
Ketchup...use sparingly. I have tried the reduced sugar, reduced sodium kinds and they are not good.
Worchestershire sauce..this is great on meat.
Dried herbs. These will do but the fresh variety has so much more taste. For soups and stews, buy the fresh herbs, trim them and snip them to fit in to an ice cube tray. Fill them with water, freeze and bag. When you need an herb for a stew or soup, just pop in an ice cube.
Fresh ginger. This spice is amazing. It can be used for oriental cooking, as well as other recipes you may have that needs a little pop.
Garlic...My everyday herb. We love garlic and it is good for you. You can buy it fresh, already chopped or minced in olive oil, powder form or garlic salt.
Sea salt...There are many varieties out there but I prefer Real Salt. I get it in one pound bags and I love it. It actually has a sweet taste to it and is much better than regular table salt.
Black pepper...try using the peppercorns that you must grind. The flavor is much richer.
Whole wheat pastas..you can find these in any grocery store now. But make sure to read the labels. It must be 100% whole wheat or whole grain. They will try to trick you.
Brown Rice, basmati rice, jasmine rice...these are all excellent forms of rice to use. No more processed white rice. Uncle Ben's makes a great boil in the bag brown rice.
Barley..a great substitute for rice
Old fashioned rolled oats..these make great baked goods, meatloaf, stuffed peppers, and just a great breakfast cereal.
Whole wheat couscous....I had never tried this before last year. It is a very small grain and it delicious. It cooks fast too
Bulgur wheat...a great substitute for a binder in foods
Cornmeal..you can use this to make polenta. Polenta makes great lasagna, a foundation for casseroles and even "pie" crusts.
Plain dry whole wheat bread crumbs...or make your own. Save the heels of your bread in the freezer until you have about 10-12. Place them in the foodprocessor and grind until the consistancy of crumbs.
NUTS AND SEEDS these are great protein alternatives
Walnuts, pecans, almonds, pine nuts, dry roasted unsalted peanuts, sesame seeds, flax seeds, sunflower seeds.
Natural peanut butter...you most likely will have to get this at a natural grocery. It is plain ground peanuts or almonds or cashews. You can also make it at home by placing your nuts in a processor, adding a little sea salt and sweetner like honey or molasses and grinding until you get the peanut butter.
Corn starch...used as a thickener in place of flour
Turbinado sugar, raw sugar, sucnant...these are all natural sugars
Maple syrup
Blue Aguave
Baking powder and soda--aluminum free
Vanilla extract, or other flavors
Unsweetened cocoa powder
Dried fruits
Cooking spray
Low fat milks or soy milk
Low fat or fat free plain or vanilla yogurt...watch the ingredients for the fake sugars
Non dairy sour cream
Cheeses...parmesan, romano, sharp cheddar, colby, but watch the fat levels
Eggs or egg substitues
Lemons, limes, fresh fruits and vegetables
Salad dressings...watch the labels for sugars and fake ingredients
Frozen vegetables
Frozen berries
Frozen all natural fruit concentrates
On this journey, I will not be eating alot of meat. But if you are a meat eater, that's fine. My meat will consist of chunk light tuna, salmon, tilapia, orange roughy, chicken breasts, and very very lean pork loin. If I eat any red meat, it will be 96% lean ground sirloin, or very thinly marbled steak. No bacon, sausage, ham, smoked pork chops....nothing with alot of fat.
In my next post, I will post some exchanges, tips and a couple of recipes. I will also list the first 5 days of the plan and what you will be eating.
Thanks for joining me on my journey.
The Daniel Lifestyle to a Healthier Me
I am going to begin with the basis for this lifestyle. It is found in the book of Daniel. Just a little history here.. Daniel and 3 of his friends had been kidnapped and forced to live in King Nebuchadnezzar's palace. They worshipped God and wouldn't be defiled by the king's food. Here are the verses that are the foundation for my journey: 1:8 But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the royal delicacies or the royal wine. He therefore asked the overseer of the court officials for permission not to defile himself. 1:9 Then God made the overseer of the court officials sympathetic to Daniel. 1:10 But he responded to Daniel, "I fear my master the king. He is the one who has decided your food and drink. What would happen if he saw that you looked malnourished in comparison to the other young men your age? If that happened, you would endanger my life with the king!" 1:11 Daniel then spoke to the warden whom the overseer of the court officials had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: 1:12 "Please test your servants for ten days by providing us with some vegetables to eat and water to drink. 1:13 Then compare our appearance with that of the young men who are eating the royal delicacies; deal with us in light of what you see." 1:14 So the warden agreed to their proposal and tested them for ten days. 1:15 At the end of the ten days their appearance was better and their bodies were healthier than all the young men who had been eating the royal delicacies. 1:16 So the warden removed the delicacies and the wine from their diet and gave them a diet of vegetables instead. 1:17 Now as for these four young men, God endowed them with knowledge and skill in all sorts of literature and wisdom – and Daniel had insight into all kinds of visions and dreams. Daniel refrained from eating delicacies that he knew would hurt his body. He trusted in God to keep his body healthy and pure. Daniel wanted to keep the temple holy and clean and refused to give in. God rewarded him in his labor by giving him insight to all kinds of visions and dreams. Now I am not suggesting that if you follow the Daniel Lifestyle Plan that you will have visions and dream dreams. Not at all. Your reward may be something entirely different. I am praying my reward will be another child. It taked 30 days to create a new habit, and 15 days to break an old one. Habits are hard to break and some can only be broken by prayer and fasting. Some of us cannot fully fast. I cannot because of the diabetes, but I can give up some things...ok alot of things. The first few days of this new plan will include fasting and praying. Fasting, in it's definition, is to abstain from food or to eat sparingly. I know some people who do a 40 day fast at the beginning of each year. I, unfortunately, cannot do this. I can fast alot of other things besides food. I can fast tv, scrapbooking, reading things other than my Bible, etc. Jesus told his disciples in Mark 9:29 that these things can only come out by prayer and fasting. Although Jesus was referring to demons that the disciples tried to cast out, it can be applied to many other things. Stronghold, bondages, habits..these all can be broken through prayer and fasting. So, beginning in January, I will be fasting and praying alot. I have habits and strongholds that I need broken. I am a compulsive overeater and an emotional eater. I have learned these behaviors since childhood. But the awesome thing is...I do not have to use my past as an excuse for the poor choices I have been making. I can do nothing about the past, but I can choose to make right choices to change my future... (Sheri Rose Shepherd..Fit for my King) She is so very right. I have allowed my past to hold me in bondage and using my past as a crutch for the bad decisions that I make. I am no longer going to do that. God has set me free from my past and I don't have to live there. I can now move forward, onto a healthier me.. In my next post, I will set the guidelines for cleaning out your cabinets, what to throw away, what you can use, and what you will be eating on this lifestyle change. Won't you join me... Emily
My New Journey
Beginning on January 1, 2010 I am embarking on a new journey. I am beginning the Daniel Lifestyle to a Healthier Me. This is NOT a diet. Diets don't work. I have tried them all. They are just gimmicks to trick you into thinking you are going to lose weight. Don't buy into it. The Daniel Lifestyle is a new way of eating and living. Your body is the temple of God and it should be treated that way. I have failed in treating my body like a temple. I have abused it, drugged it, filled it with junk and just plain hurt it. I suffer from diabetes and thyroid disease. I have polycycstic ovaries and am overweight. My husband and I want to have another child, but I know that I have some work to do to ensure that I can carry a healthy baby to term. Although this lifesyle is Biblically based, you do not have to be a believer to join me on my journey. I would love to have everyone join me. Each day I will be posting tips, hints, recipes, changes in the types of food you eat, and lots more. I will begin with cleaning out our cabinets. There are some things you must eliminate from your eating that are not good for your body. I will be using a couple different reference books to help me along. I will post things that I find important or enlightening. I hope you begin following my blog and keep me posted on your progress. I need all the support I can get and prayers too... Emily
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Happy Thanksgiving
I am so very forgetful. I forgot to post a wish for all my friends....Happy Thanksgiving...I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving. We did. I didn't have to cook so that made it even better... Well, today is my 37th birthday. I don't feel any older. I am not exactly sure how 37 is supposed to feel. I am thankful that I made it another year. That God allowed me to live on His precious earth for another year. I pray that He allows me to stay another one too. I also pray that this next year will be the year that I am able to give Kierstynne her biggest wish.....a little brother or sister. She wants to be a big sister so bad. Who knows....we will see...so I am off with a happy birthday to me.... Emily
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Happy Thanksgiving
I am so very forgetful. I posted my challenge last night and forgot to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving. Well....Happy Thanksgiving....lol
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Thursday, November 26, 2009
Digi-Kitty Weekly Challenge
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Monday, November 23, 2009
Happy Birthday to me...Early
Well, Friday is my birthday. I have not been able to decide what I want because the only thing I really want is scrapbook supplies which my husband thinks I have enough of. Little does he know...LOL...Well, today I gave myself an early birthday present. I went to the movies. All by myself. Just me, myself and I. And what did I see you ask........only the sexiest movie around.......the only movie where you can drool and cry in the same scene......the only movie that has women 12 to 99 crushing on the main character.....what movie is that you ask???? Why Twilight Saga..New Moon of course. OMG.....it was fantastic. I cried and cried and cried, but that made it even better. The theater was full and I went at 11:15 in the morning. Imagine that. But now I have a dilema. I have been crushing on Edward Cullen since I read the first book. Well, now after seeing New Moon, I am wondering if it is possible to be crushing on two people in the movie. Jacob Black is nothing less than HOT in this movie. Yes this is coming from a married woman with children. But I must not tell a lie. He definitely changed from the sweet little Jacob in Twilight to just a straight up hottie in New Moon. I don't know if that has to anything to with the fact that he put on 30 pounds of muscle between the two filmings or the fact that he runs around shirtless with those abs showing for most of the movie. Well, Happy Birthday to me...Happy Birthday to me....It was a great birthday. The only thing that would make it better would be to be Bella Swann...LOL....Ok...now back to reality....Have a great day.
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Sunday, November 22, 2009
Blessed Scraps Challenges
These are two of the monthly challenges I completed for Blessed Scraps over on yahoo groups. The first is a make your own background challenge. I used a Hampton Arts Twas the Night Before Christmas stamp to make the background. The Santa stamp is from Hampton Arts and the sentiment is also from Hampton Arts. These stamps make great impressions no matter what color ink you use. I used Distressed Ink in Vintage Photo to stamp. Both images are matted on evergreen cardstock from DCWV.
Hybrid Stamping
This cute card is for a challenge over on Digi Kitty. The challenge was to use a digistamp and a traditional stamp. The bear is a digistamp and the greeting and butterfly are traditional. The background paper is from My Minds Eye. I used chalk, Marvy markers and ink to color in the images.
Cold Joe
Here is a challenge I did for Digi Kitty. This is Joe the Snowman and his wife Joenelle. There is definitely love in the air here with them. The stamp is a digi stamp from Digi Kitty printed on white cardstock. The printed snowflake paper is from DCWV and the brown card base is from DCWV also. I used Marvy markers to color in the images.
Friday, November 20, 2009
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Part mad manifesto, part revolutionary love letter, part freight train adventure story--Maps to the Other Side is a self-reflective shattered mirror, a twist on the classic punk rock travel narrative that searches for authenticity and connection in the lives of strangers and the solidarity and limitations of underground community. Beginning at the edge of the internet age, a time when radical zine culture prefigured social networking sites, these timely writings paint an illuminated trail through a complex labyrinth of undocumented migrants, anarchist community organizers, brilliant visionary artists, revolutionary seed savers, punk rock historians, social justice farmers, radical mental health activists, and iconoclastic bridge builders. This book is a document of one personas odyssey to transform his experiences navigating the psychiatric system by building community in the face of adversity; a set of maps for how rebels and dreamers can survive and thrive in a crazy world.We are always wearing each othera#39;s clothes these days. There were half a dozen folks at the bottom of the hill by the barn, blowing steam out of their mouths and noses, getting ready to push the 1994 Ford F-350 orange diesel out of the mud.
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This past weekend Mr. Man, Benjamin and I took off to visit Morgan (Modern Single Momma) in Kentucky.
A fantastic video of Morgan and her man is on the way, along with another single mom advice video from yours truly. In the meantime, here are some of the photos Morgan took this weekend. I think these pictures are, hands down, the best of Benjamin and I together to date.
To see more of Morgan's photography go to MorganSilerPhotography.com, to read her blog go here.
More pictures after the "read more"… didn't want to bog down your internet connections.
And my personal favorite, Morgan's man tossing Benjamin high in the air… he was magnificent by the way – definitely Ms. Single Mama approved and as many of you know, I am so protective of my single mamas. But this guy, he's definitely a keeper.
Follow-up reading:
- A Single Mom Madly in Love, by Morgan Siler
- Who Takes Pictures of You? In which I vent about having no one to take pictures of Ben and I.


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Five things for pharma marketers to know: Thursday, November 16, 2017November 16, 2017
Docs biased against research from poor countries, study finds; Astellas probed over patient-assistance charity support; Acorda reports deaths in Parkinson's trial
Physicians still rely on medical journals but turn to the web when they have only 10 minutesNovember 17, 2016
Drugmakers can do a better job of organizing dosing information, safety information, and clinical data on their brand websites, a new survey found.
Five things for pharma marketers to know: Tuesday, September 13, 2016September 13, 2016
Drugmakers routinely pay ghostwriters to write industry-funded research articles; Horizon to buy Raptor for $800 million; WellDoc partners with J&J
When it comes to professional ads, print makes its comebackApril 11, 2016
Following print's best year since 2011, it's time to rewrite those journal-advertising obituaries. Medical-surgical print journal spending in 2015 was up 8.4% to $372 million.
Which brands spent the most on professional ads in 2015?April 11, 2016
Here are the brands and companies that advertised the most on professional ads in 2015.
Five things for pharma marketers to know: Thursday, September 17, 2015September 17, 2015
New analysis says Paxil is not safe or effective for teens; some FDA reviewers voted against Addyi approval over side effects; HHS partners with AstraZeneca on antibiotic development
Elsevier sends wave of takedown requestsDecember 26, 2013
Elsevier is taking a hard-line posture against several different universities, asking them to take down scholarly research.
Japan investigates cancer "articles"December 12, 2013
The Heath, Labor and Welfare ministry says a publisher passed off advertorials as articles.
Study reveals doc detail preferences: Hang up the phoneSeptember 23, 2013
Doctors shared their information preferences with CMI/Compas, revealing ways marketers can better pace their communications to max out channels.
Print: Still not deadNovember 21, 2012
Studies show that printed pieces still hold sway in the industry.
BMJ will require authors to disclose clinical trial dataOctober 31, 2012
Starting next year, the BMJ will not publish academic papers on drugs or devices unless the relevant anonymized patient-level data are made available for third-party study.
JAMA taps NEJM's Easley as publisherOctober 18, 2012
The American Medical Association has wooed New England Journal of Medicine publisher Tom Easley to Chicago, where he will preside over the society's publications, soon to be rolled up into the JAMA brand.
Study finds false data top reason for journal retractionsOctober 02, 2012
A study found fraud rampant in retracted journal articles -- and publishers less than transparent about why articles were pulled
Quadrant buys IMNG, becoming biggest medical publisher by ad revenueSeptember 10, 2012
Privately owned Quadrant HealthCom acquired International Medical News Group (IMNG) from Elsevier, creating a new medical-publishing juggernaut.
New ad model fosters pharma's leap to digital, publisher findsJuly 26, 2012
Statistics show medical professionals are migrating toward iPads. Now, one medical journal publisher says, advertisers have followed.
Roundtable outlines path for publisher, pharma credibilityMay 23, 2012
In an effort to shore up their reputations, pharma and professional publishers have come together to craft an accountability plan.
JAMA feature aims to spark debate and hits a nerveMay 02, 2012
Journals are a curious media form in that they provide fodder for debate on medical topics, but not a forum in which to hold one. Enter JAMA's new Viewpoint feature.
Harvard urges faculty to ditch journalsApril 24, 2012
An email from Harvard University's Faculty Advisory Council over the cost of professional journals has touched off the latest round in the Universities vs Publishers sparring match.
Journal "pharmascolds" skew policy, says studyApril 12, 2012
Medical journal coverage of the question of physician-industry relationships is "unbalanced" and may be skewing public policy towards ever-more restrictive safeguards against industry influence.
Company news: Publicis and the American Heart AssociationFebruary 22, 2012
Publicis Groupe is expanding its footprint in China, having acquired the healthcare communications agency U-Link Solutions Co. Ltd.
MAHF inducts MedEc's Daly, Sudler's Smith and LLNS' NickelNovember 11, 2011
The Medical Advertising Hall of Fame announced its 2012 inductees: Medical Economics' Charles Daly, Sudler & Hennessey creative great Ernest Smith and LLNS co-founder Al Nickel.
Despite decline, ghostwriting in papers still common: studyOctober 25, 2011
Researchers analyzing the prevalence of ghostwriting in leading medical journals over more than a decade saw a decline but found inappropriate authorship remained all too common.
Majority of pharma journal ads not FDA-compliant: studyAugust 17, 2011
Four out of five ads analyzed in a study of physician-directed pharmaceutical advertising would definitely not pass FDA muster, or might have trouble doing so, said researchers. Their findings may have implications for the FDA, DDMAC and the "Bad Ad" program.
New cancer journal tackles advances in researchNovember 02, 2010
The American Association for Cancer Research will launch a new journal -- Cancer Discovery -- in April 2011. The peer-reviewed journal will focus on research spanning cancer science and medicine, including news, commentaries, and "Research Watch" summaries of important journal articles.
Two-for-one: Quadrant pairs journal titles for advertisersAugust 24, 2010
Quadrant HealthCom united two titles - The Female Patient and OBG Management - under an alliance providing advertisers with a "ping-pong" opportunity for campaigns.
SequenceDoc portal to deliver custom journals for docsAugust 17, 2010
Custom media provider Sequence Personal, and CMI, have partnered to create SequenceDoc, a portal for physicians offering tailored medical content served up as an on-demand print journal, or as a digital download.
Thieme to distribute Manson titles in the USAugust 04, 2010
Thieme Publishers will distribute UK-based Manson Publishing titles in the Americas and India, a portfolio that includes close to 100 medical and veterinary titles.
NEJM revamps website, adds complete archiveJuly 30, 2010
The New England Journal of Medicine launched a new website on July 24, including an archive of past issues dating back to 1812. Over 150,000 articles are now available for digital searching and perusal.
Sage upgrades online journal platformJuly 06, 2010
Sage, an international publisher of medical journals, books and electronic media, is shifting all of its 560-plus titles onto a new platform hosted by Stanford University Libraries' HighWire Press.
Specialty societies' code targets conflicts of interestApril 22, 2010
Medical society journals must ban ghostwritten articles and cannot place ads for drugs next to editorial content discussing those products or their makers under a sweeping ethics code signed by several major medical societies.


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Red Clay is too beautiful of a venue to be dark on non-show nights!
Community Stages: One way that we integrate the community's input with our programming is through the new Community Stages Program. The unique program opens the historic theatre to local Duluth performance companies, organizations, and other individuals who wish to present live music that is in line with EOP's mission and image — to entertain, inspire, educate and connect the community through live music and music education. Event requests are vetted through the programming staff and Duluth City Council to ensure continuity with current offerings.
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The Dilemma of Difference: Race As a Sentencing Factor
Palcido G. Gomez
Defining the Parameters of Permissible State and Local Affirmative Action Programs
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Promises of Confidentiality to News Sources After Cohen v. Cowles Media Company: A Survey of Newspaper Editors
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Everyday Health to manage PDR's consumer web property
Everyday Health and Physicians' Desk Reference (PDR) announced a long-term partnership that hands advertising duties for PDRHealth.com – PDR's consumer offering – to Everyday Health. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
PDR, known primarily for its physician-facing drug reference database, has leveraged its brand into the consumer space more recently, which makes the PDRHealth.com site a good fit for the Everyday Health network, says Ben Wolin, co-founder and CEO of Everyday Health.
"Ninety percent of PDR's business is focused on the professional side, so [the partnership] is a great marriage of our capabilities," said Wolin. Under the partnership, Everyday Health, which controls a network of over 25 health sites, will act as the official sales representative for PDRHealth.com, and make use of the site's content across other areas of the Everyday Health network.
Wolin said PDRHealth.com will get "a major face lift," and be re-launched during the fourth quarter of 2010. Current traffic levels at PDRHealth.com are under one million, per Wolin, but those numbers are expected to grow substantially with the backing of Everyday Health's network, he said. "We think it can become a major player," said Wolin.
Content for PDRHealth.com is "authored by the same staff that supports the drug information contained in the Physician's Desk Reference," according to a statement, and the site currently offers interactive tools around specific conditions and disease states, as well as information about ongoing clinical trials, in addition to prescription drug and OTC information.
"Everyday Health has a great track record of successfully working with high-quality health brands to build consumer businesses…this partnership enhances the PDR brand, long trusted by practicing medical professionals," said David Tanzer, president of PDR Network, in the statement.


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The Mexican Academy of Sciences and US National Academy of Sciences are jointly sponsoring a symposium, "New Horizons in Science", to be held in Mexico City in June 21 – 24, 2014. They have contacted The Royal Society of Canada (RSC), asking the RSC to select a number of Canadian scientists who might participate in this activity. The participants are intended to be young to mid-career scientists and the goal is to build collaborative relationships among the next generation of science leaders in our countries. The "New Horizons" symposium is patterned after the very successful "Frontiers of Science" series of the US National Academy of Sciences. It will include diverse session topics including Astrophysics, Biotechnology, Green chemistry, Oceanography and Marine Biology.
The confirmed participants:
- Francesca Kerton (Associate Professor) Department of Chemistry, Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Jean-Philip Lumb (Assistant Professor) Department of Chemistry, McGill University
- Kristy Tiampo (Professor & Associate Chair) Department of Earth Sciences, Western University
- Yannick Huot, Titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada en observation de la Terre et écophysiologie du phytoplancton, Université de Sherbrooke


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I continue to be very pleased with my Dahon Curve D3. I've pretty much got the bike dialed in now. The pictures show how the bike folds and what I'm using for luggage. I also added bar-ends, lights and a bell to the bike and for better wet-weather braking, I upgraded the brakes with Koolstop Salmon brake pads.
The bike rides really well. Having the bag up front doesn't seem to bother the handling but like most folders, the D3 is not a bike I can ride no-handed. Single-handed riding is fine, however. The Schwalbe Big Apple tires are great, I've ridden them on rough roads and gravel paths and they are plenty comfy.
Speaking of comfy, the stock saddle is cushier than what I usually ride but it seems right for this bike. I'm quite upright on the bike but I've already logged some fifty mile days on the bike and I still like the saddle. The Dahon is such a kick to ride, I'll probably ride a century on it before too long.
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text: Charlie draws constantly, and has been doing so his whole life.After earning a B.F.A. in Illustration at the Fashion Institute of Technology and studying fine art in Florence Italy, Charlie began his career in house at Y&R. In house Charlie fine tuned a skill to collaborate with creative directors and present concepts with crystal clarity. He spent the next 13 years drawing storyboards, concepts and animatics for Y&R, Grey, Deutsch Inc, Translation, Wunderman, Publicis, Digitas, McGarry Bowen, Grok, Edit One, Ferrara & Company, Conye PR, and Dreamwires Motion Design.When Charlie is not drawing or painting he talks incessantly and sings. Upon hearing this singing, Charlie's wife and children ask him to not sing and please go back to drawing.


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A Town Gate in Leerdam, Jan Weissenbruch, c. 1868 - c. 1870
Weissenbruch was partial to small Dutch towns where the 17th century was still palpable. The degree of detail in this townscape suggests that he painted it from life. However, because the exterior of the gate was more interesting, he simply turned it around. Moreover, the moment he portrayed was not chosen randomly. The sun shines brightly again after a rain shower, bathing everything in a crisp light.


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Two teenagers have been arrested in Sweden following an investigation into sexual offences against children in North Staffordshire.
The boys, aged 16 and 17, were arrested in Stockholm on Wednesday on suspicion of engaging in sexual activity with a child, Staffordshire Police said.
Both boys are due to be brought back to the UK for questioning.
Ch Supt Martin Evans said inquiries would continue into "a very sensitive and challenging crime".
The teenagers are understood to both be from the North Staffordshire area.