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The Secret Service erased surveillance video that would have shown clear angles of the drunken crash at the White House involving a top member of President Obama's protection detail, it was revealed Tuesday.
The destruction of the videos came to light as lawmakers questioned the agency's leadership in the wake of an incident on March 4 when agents veered their car into the scene of a suspicious package after a night of partying, according to Fox News.
Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy told the House Oversight Committee in a secret hearing that there are no good angles of the crash because security tapes are routinely destroyed 72 hours after they are made.
Lawmakers asked the Secret Service why they bothered to record the videos if they plan to destroy them after 72 hours.
Two tapes from a bad angle mysteriously survived, however, and Congress is looking into them.
The agents reportedly were not given sobriety tests and were allowed to go home.
They have been transferred to "nonsupervisory" positions until the probe is complete.


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Turning around lives of the homeless
A project helping homeless people in a Sydney suburb is claiming impressive results, by challenging the notion that people living on the streets need to find the help themselves.
Are we helpless when it comes to the homeless?
It seems that many countries and societies don't know how to solve this enduring problem.
But now, in Australia, which has 100,000 homeless people, an attempt to confront the issue with direct, quantifiable action appears to be yielding impressive results, for both the individuals and the state.
It all began in 2007, when a philanthropist approached Mission Australia with an idea.
Mission Australia is a 150-year-old Christian community organisation that assists those on the lower rungs of life, such as the poor and homeless and has the staff and expertise to take on big projects.
The philanthropist, who prefers anonymity to publicity, explained that her own parents had been homeless and that, with the considerable personal resources at her disposal, she wanted to give something back.
After discussions, the scheme came to be called the Michael Project, named in memory of her dead husband.
At her request, the aim was to design a brand new service and to change the lives of thousands of homeless men, permanently.
She would put up the money for what would become an expensive experiment in social readjustment.
These were, after all, people who had often given up on themselves and were largely being ignored by society.
Of the thousands of men who passed through the Michael Project, 253 entered the research study and 106 made it to 12 months.
One of those was Gordon. He is 68 and has the kind of friendly, white-bearded, Santa Claus-type face that charms everyone who meets him.
But behind the jocular, engaging demeanour, Gordon's story reads like it's been lifted from the pages of the homeless person's stock-in-trade manual.
Gordon was an accountant with two practices and a beautiful home.
But 12 years ago, he lost everything, including his girlfriend, when mental health problems began to dog him.
It left him devastated and homeless.
For the first two years "home" became a shipping container.
The adjacent river was his bathroom. He shared a field with a goat and a cow.
Gordon sank further into depression and was admitted to a series of psychiatric hospitals for a succession of well-meaning, but ultimately futile, therapies.
Then, four years ago, Gordon was introduced to Mission Australia and the Michael Project. It changed everything.
He now has a clean, one-bedroom apartment in Parramatta, west of Sydney, that he calls home.
There's a television, an audio system, a bookshelf that includes Shakespeare and pictures that he painted, including one of a 19th Century Mexican cowboy.
"That picture got me into art college when I was a young man," explains Gordon, with a nostalgic glint in his eye.
The apartment and all that's in it have been paid for by Gordon himself out of the disability allowance that's been organised for him.
"The project changed my life," he says. "It gave me back my confidence."
The Michael Project is about more than putting a roof over someone's head.
It is a wrap-around support service tailored to an individual's needs.
At its heart lies the one-to-one relationship between the homeless person and their mentor, or care worker.
In Gordon's case that's Claudia, a care worker with the kind of patient, understanding disposition usually associated with the most dedicated of hospice nurses.
Each case manager like Claudia has up to 20 clients but together, they systematically worked through each of Gordon's problems.
If he needed a dentist, Claudia would get him an appointment the same afternoon.
If he required a doctor's visit, one would be arranged for the following morning.
Job interviews, CVs, contact numbers, access to phones, advice on pensions, everything needed to help Gordon re-enter normal society was provided and, crucially, it would be provided immediately.
There would be no drift, no inertia, no "I'll do it tomorrow" attitude, which would only rack up the costs of fixing it later.
This would be a full-on, bespoke, intensive approach to break the cycle of aimlessness and hopelessness associated with long term homelessness.
The results of the whole scheme, since verified by outside auditors, have been remarkable.
Before Michael, there was practically nobody in long-term housing. After Michael, 50% were in permanent homes.
Before, homeless people were four times more likely to need hospital care than the general public. After, that dropped to 1.7 times. Before, 6% were employed. Afterwards, that tripled to 18%.
Overall, the cost to taxpayers went down from $24,399 (£15,567) per homeless person, a year (in costs to the health, justice and other systems) to $20,798 (£13,270). That's a saving to the state of $3,601 (£2,298) for every homeless person.
"It's more expensive to have a person homeless than not to have a person homeless," says James Toomey from Mission Australia.
"It doesn't make sense for the state to ignore homeless people, as that's more expensive to taxpayers."
Mission Australia accepts that the Michael Project was relatively small in size and that more than half of those who entered the scheme dropped out.
But it says that's only to be expected with people who are, by definition, rootless and unsettled.
But Mission Australia still believes the programme could be scaled up nationally and serve as a template for similar operations in other countries.
"Every where has homeless people", says Toomey. "But we've shown that you can do something about it and save money.
"These are forgotten people at the margins of society and it's not right they are ignored, when our project is proof that they can re-engage and become full citizens again, not just burdens."
Gordon no longer feels like a burden. Every Monday you can now catch him at his local theatre rehearsing a play.
"We do a new piece every six weeks," he says. "I really enjoy getting stuck into the text and love performing."
"Would you ever be homeless again?" I ask.
"No, I will never be homeless again. Never. I might even take up painting, once more. Another cowboy, perhaps?"


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Given the decline in official development assistance, observers have focussed
on the importance of foreign direct investment in technology transfer. Along
with commercial lending, FDI is the primary investment vehicle for longer term,
private-sector technology transfer. While FDI flows involve financial inputs,
they also involve the capitalisation of technology, knowledge, skills, and other
resources that represent a stock of assets for production (ICC, 1998; see also
Section 5.3 and 5.4, which provide a qualitative analysis
of private sector finance and private firm investment decisions).
Most analysts agree that FDI, like other private flows, promotes technology
change. The question is whether FDI is linked to the transfer of environmentally
sound technologies and if so how to strengthen the link. UNCTAD (1998) notes
that there is a "... close relationship between FDI and intangible technology
flows, as well as ... [a] strong proprietary asset base of FDI." Goldenman
(1999) notes that FDI flowing into Central and Eastern Europe manufacturing
facilities has gone for upgrading technologies and remedying past environmental
damage. Investors have brought new equipment and skills, "introduced more
efficient methods of production, and demonstrated the link between good environmental
practices and profitability". FDI also generates technological spill-over
to national businesses through imitation, employment turnover, and the higher
quality standards demanded of supplier companies by Multinational Corporations
Although most payments for technology take place between parent companies and
foreign affiliates, FDI from many countries (the U.S. for example) is concentrated
in investments that have climate impacts, such as energy, industry, and manufacturing.
Data collected by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis show a sharp rise in
the 1990s in the amount of U.S. FDI invested in foreign electric utilities,
caused in part by deregulation of the electricity industry in many developing
countries (U.S. Department of Commerce, 1998).
An increase in FDI does not always generate an immediate increase in technology
flows to the recipient country as the relationship between FDI and technology
transfer is complex. In China, technology payments did not increase in line
with FDI inflows during the mid-1990s, in part because of the gap between the
actual investment and the payments for the technology. It is also possible that
foreign affiliates do not always pay fully for the technology they receive or
that perhaps they are not always permitted to do so (UNCTAD, 1998). In developing
countries, royalty payments for manufacturing technology generally reach their
peak only three to four years after the initial investment has taken place.
In the case of royalties for patents that can be absorbed rapidly in new products
and processes, as is often the case for patent-related transactions among developed-country
companies, the time gap between the initial investments and payments received
for technology is smaller (UNCTAD, 1998).
FDI data do not reflect the actual size of investments by foreign affiliates
as they include only funds directly tying a parent company and its foreign affiliates.
Given the many external sources of finance available, the quantity of funds
used in direct investment projects raised outside multinational relationships
is quite significant. UNIDO (1997) has estimated that in 1995 foreign capital
accounted for only six per cent of total investment in developing countries.
As a source of funding for technology transfer, FDI is highly selective. The
World Business Council for Sustainable Development has identified a number of
"more intractable" impediments to FDI (WBCSD, 1998). In its view,
FDI is less likely to go to countries that have small potential markets, have
few skilled or well trained workers, are subject to endemic corruption or are
vulnerable to social and civil disruption, or have very limited stocks of natural
resources of commercial interest. That many of these conditions apply to the
poorest developing countries makes it difficult for them to attract private
investment, further emphasising the continued importance of ODA for establishing
favourable conditions for technology transfer to least developed countries (LDCs).
Just as some donor governments have emphasised the transfer of environmentally
sound technologies in their ODA programmes, some developing country recipients
of FDI have attempted to channel private sector investment into ESTs. In 1998
China issued foreign investment guidelines that favour investment in some 200
industries, mostly through preferential ownership rules and tax regimes (Goldenman,
1999). Their purpose is mostly to encourage the entry of better technologies.
Gentry (1999) has noted that more "environmental policy leverage"
exists over FDI than over other forms of private investment, but that FDI often
goes into resource extraction, infrastructure, or manufacturing operations,
all with environmental (and climate change) implications. Reviewing studies
on FDI and the environment, Zarsky (1999) determined that the picture was mixed.
Some studies have found foreign ownership associated with increased energy efficiency
and reduced emissions per unit of output resulting from the introduction of
advanced technologies and better management. Other studies have found no such
links. Zarsky's conclusion is that it is unwise to make overarching conclusions
about FDI-environment linkages "on average".
FDI Trends
The global FDI stock, a measure of the investment underlying international production,
increased fourfold between 1982 and 1994; by 1996 it was valued at $3.2 trillion.
The rate of growth of FDI during the period 1986 to 1995 was more than twice
that of gross fixed capital formation, indicating an increasing internationalisation
of national production systems. The worldwide assets of foreign affiliates,
valued at $8.4 trillion in 1994, have in recent years also increased more rapidly
than world gross fixed capital formation, indicating that international production
is becoming a more significant element in the world economy (UNCTAD, 1998).
Despite its rapid growth, however, FDI still represents a relatively small share
of total investment in developing countries. UNCTAD (1996) reports that FDI
exceeded 10 per cent of gross fixed capital formation in only eight countries,
and in most it is much less than seven per cent of the total, the balance primarily
coming from domestic sources.
During 1995 to 1996, the share of developing countries in global inflows of
FDI was 34 per cent. Although this is not much higher than the developing-country
share during the investment boom at the beginning of the 1980s, qualitatively
it reflects a wide variety of location-specific advantages enjoyed by developing
countries over and above natural resources. The composition of the top developing-country
recipients has also changed dramatically between these two investment booms,
with oil producing countries now featuring far less prominently among the top
recipients (UNCTAD, 1998). Also significant in the Asian context are the rapid
increase in inward FDI to China and the ASEAN countries coming from newly industrialising
economies in Asia. This South-South private investment, one quarter of the total
in 1992 (UNCTAD, 1996), highlights the error of focusing only on technology
transfer from OECD members to developing countries.
During the 1990s, every developing region saw an increase in FDI inflows; even
the 48 least developed countries experienced an increase in inflows of 56 per
cent in 1996, to $l.6 billion, with Cambodia the largest recipient in this group
of countries. FDI to aid-recipient countries, however, dropped in 1998 to US$100
billion (from US$242 billion in 1997) in the wake of the Asian financial (OECD,
1999c). Despite the small size of inflows (both in absolute values and as a
share of all developing-country inflows), FDI is still important for many of
these economies. Table 2.3 shows the increase in net
private capital flows (of which FDI is a component) to low and middle income
countries by country group and region during the period 1990 to 1996. Notable
is the low share of FDI in countries in Africa, the poorer Asian countries,
and the Pacific Islands.
Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa
East Asia and the Pacific
East Asia and the Pacific
South Asia
South Asia
Europe and Central Asia
Europe and Central Asia
Latin America and Caribbean
Latin America and Caribbean
Middle East and North Africa
Middle East and North Africa
Low income countries
Excluding China and India
Low income countries
Excluding China and India
China and India
China and India
Middle income countries
Middle income countries
A survey of foreign investors conducted by UNCTAD suggests that the ongoing
globalisation of production will continue into the next century. Mergers and
acquisitions, joint ventures and other equity and non-equity types of inter-company
agreements are expected to go hand in hand with growth in FDI. Corporate restructuring
in developed countries, aimed at improving efficiency and modernisation, is
expected to continue, giving rise to efficiency-seeking investment.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Music has always been a prominent fixture in the city of Rio where the lively sounds of samba and bossa nova can be heard in many of the local bars and clubs. This infectious and diverse environment has prompted expatriate musician Alan Pratt to add his own unique blend of sounds to the mix playing with his two very different bands Bootleg, and Beeliv.
Arriving in Rio in 1982, Pratt fell in love with the city and has called it home ever since. Although he doesn't perform traditional samba, he feels inspired by the sounds of Brazil, explaining "The influences are irresistible and they all wind up affecting my song writing and production in some way."
Pratt's first band, Bootleg, includes his five sons Eric, Mike, Dave, Brandt and Abner who range between 27 to 32 years of age, and his long term musical collaborator Keith Yocum. Their music has a distinct sound which Pratt describes as "Classic R&B, blues and rock with a bit of country." The band are currently producing their second album and preparing for an upcoming tour around the U.S., Europe and Argentina.
Describing his second band, which consists of his two daughters, 27 year old Liv and 24 year old Bee, Pratt says "Beeliv is a whole different concept. My two girls provide the vocals and I play a six string acoustic to accompany them."
Explaining the musical style of the group Pratt confesses "Our repertoire includes songs I would not normally do, not because I don't like it, it's simply music of another generation and culture."
However he enjoys the diversity it brings to his music style as well as a new and varied fan base. "Our fans are surf people, people who like the beach therefore our songs are a mix of that plus some other popular songs thrown in."
The band's popularity among the beach and surf scene even prompted Brazilian clothes brand Bintang to invite the trio to help launch their new store on August 13th at Rio Design in Barra.
Beeliv, who are currently producing their first album, will be performing at Melt in Leblon on Friday 19th August. Pratt says "Melt is a great place to play and the crowd is fantastic. They are always a lot of fun to play for and get really in to it."
The show itself promises to be different from previous performances because the band will be joined by two of Pratt's sons, Brandt and Eric who will add to the sound by playing the guitar and drums. He explains "Since we've been playing at some bigger venues we needed to beef up the sound a little, it's hard to fill up a large outdoor area with an acoustic trio".
Pratt went on to confirm that the material on Beeliv's upcoming album will be performed by the same family quintet, "Our CD will have the same personnel as at the gig but the vibe and feel will remain the same as the acoustic trio, just punchier."
2011 has certainly been a busy year for Alan Pratt who is also getting ready for a solo gig at Rock Street which will be featured during the Rock in Rio music festival this September. Speaking of his anticipation of the event, Alan says "I can get back to my roots with this gig because it'll be me singing with my guitar and harp on a rack. There will be some blues and folk and well as some of my own songs. I'll probably sing up every song I ever knew."


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TAMPA, Fla. — The Buccaneers traded safety J.J. Wilcox to the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday in exchange for a sixth-round draft pick in 2018. The move created a roster spot for safety T.J. Ward, who agreed to a contract with Tampa Bay earlier in the day.
The Buccaneers also sent a 2019 seventh-round pick to the Steelers in the deal.
In Wilcox, the Steelers get a reliable third safety with starter's experience. Sources say Mike Mitchell and Sean Davis both expect to play Week 1 against the Cleveland Browns, but they've missed some time in the preseason, with Mitchell missing more than a month.
Backups Jordan Dangerfield and Robert Golden are core special-teamers, but the secondary as a whole was not crisp early in the preseason, and the Steelers look ready to upgrade in case their starters go down again.
Wilcox signed a two-year deal with the Bucs this spring for $6.25 million to help fill the void left by Bradley McDougald, who signed with the Seattle Seahawks.
He was brought in to challenge for a starting role but wound up behind Chris Conte and Keith Tandy on the depth chart. Wilcox was seeing action as the third safety in the Bucs' "big nickel" packages, however.
Before coming to Tampa Bay, Wilcox spent four seasons with the Dallas Cowboys, with whom he saw action in 58 career games, starting 38.
Wilcox's strength is his physicality — he's a thumper. Ward, whom the Bucs signed to a one-year deal worth up to $5 million after he was released by the Denver Broncos on Saturday, also has that strength, along with coverage skills and experience as a three-time Pro Bowler.
The Steelers keeping five safeties on the 53-man roster is hardly a guarantee. Dangerfield had some good moments in camp but suffered a mild ankle sprain in the preseason finale, which accentuates the need for Wilcox. Golden is a former team captain who enters the second year of a three-year, $4.95 million contract. The Steelers entered the day with around $10 million in cap space, and Wilcox is set to count $3.375 million against the cap.
Wilcox is known as a run-stopper but set out to show his pass-coverage skills in Bucs training camp. He had a few strong moments in this area, particularly against tight end O.J. Howard, the team's first-round pick in the 2017 draft.
Wilcox's cap hit is manageable, but the team is cutting it tight if it wants to sign defensive end Stephon Tuitt to an extension before the season.


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From Lombard, Illinois, USA:
We are currently switching from NPH to Lantus. Since Lantus is clear, is there a reason we couldn't use a squirt of food color to inject into the Lantus so that it stands apart from his Humalog? I would imagine the most obvious answer is that the food color would not be sterile. However, is this that much of a concern? We have been dealing with this disease for over 16 years now, so I am not overly concerned that my son will not be able to keep the two apart. If anything, we could always mark the bottle with a black marker. I just sure wouldn't want him to accidently inject 30 units of Humalog at bedtime in place of his Lantus. Why hasn't the manufacturer done something to make it more obvious, or is it that difficult to do?
Don't put any food coloring or anything else into the insulin bottle. Not only would it not be sterile any longer but whatever chemicals you place in the insulin may interfere with the insulin itself. The bottle of Lantus is tall and skinny compared to other fast acting insulin vials so it would be fairly easy to avoid mix ups. The labels are also different compared to either NovoLog or Humalog analog bottles. Taking an extra few seconds before placing insulin into syringes would also be wise. Some of our patients place a sticker or use a magic marker to make the bottles look even more different from each other as well.
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The UK AMSTEMM Coordinator/Advisor, Sue Scheff, serves as the academic advisor for the students in the Program. She meets with and advises each UK AMSTEMM student regularly in individual and group sessions to offer assistance with the transition to college and with taking advantage of the special UK AMSTEMM services and programs. If you would like to make an advising appointment with Ms. Scheff, AMSTEMM Advisor, send her an email.
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AMSTEMM students have the opportunity to work with faculty members who share their interests in one of the science or engineering disciplines. By working on well defined projects, students gain an understanding of scientific and laboratory methodologies while establishing professional ties with faculty members and others in a research setting. In many cases, students will have the opportunity to attend conferences to showcase their research by oral or poster presentation. Oftentimes, a student's work could be published in a refereed publication.
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Submissions to the IEEE Transacations on Robotics (T-RO) go to the T-RO PaperCept site ras.papercept.net/journals/tro. This page contains detailed steps for new submissions, for resubmissions, and for final submissions of accepted papers. In case of any doubt on the following procedures, please contact the Editor-in-Chief.
Preliminary Actions for New Submissions
First read the Information for Authors for topics such as submission types, copyright and ethical issues, style of manuscripts and IEEE tools for authors, PDF file testing, paper length, and page charges. All authors of a paper should possess a PIN number from the Robotics & Automation Society journal or conference management systems.
If you have submitted a paper to the most recent ICRA conferences or to any other RAS conference using PaperPlaza, you already have one. In order to find your own PIN or those of your coauthors, update your personal information (strongly recommended before submitting), or register a new PIN if you never obtained one before, just follow the link in the Log In page of the T-RO PaperCept site and test your PDF manuscript file before submission in order to avoid potential problems due to font embedding. Just follow the link available in your T-RO PaperCept Access Page after having logged in.
Steps for New Submissions
The following procedure applies to new submissions, to submissions of revised papers that were originally handled through the old T-RO review system (up to 2007), or to submissions of fully revised papers that were rejected in T-RO PaperCept (from 2008). All these submissions will receive a new paper ID in the system.
- Log in with your RAS PIN number and password at the T-RO PaperCept submission site.
- Follow the link "Submit a new paper to IEEE-TRO".
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- Reply to the Reviewers' Comments and List of Changes made (in a single PDF file, max 1MB) [mandatory for revised papers originally handled through the old T-RO review system; optional, but encouraged, for fully revised papers previously rejected in T-RO PaperCept].
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|The Scarlet Empress
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|doctor::Eighth Doctor
|Main enemy:
|The Empress
|Main setting:
Hyspero, Abbasid Era, Third Decade
Town of Fortalice, Hyspero, c9968AD
|Key crew
|publisher::BBC Books
|Paul Magrs
|Cover by:
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|Release details
|Release number:
|Release date:
|7 September 1998
|Paperback Book; 33 Chapters, 288 Pages
|BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures
|Vanderdeken's Children
|The Janus Conjunction
The Scarlet Empress is the fifteenth BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures novel. It was written by Paul Magrs. It features the Eighth Doctor and Samantha Jones. It is also the first full length novel to feature Iris Wildthyme, a Time Lady who first appeared in PROSE: Old Flames.
Publisher's summary Edit
Arriving on the almost impossibly ancient planet of Hyspero, a world where magic and danger walk hand in hand, the Doctor and Sam are caught up in a bizarre struggle for survival.
Hyspero has been ruled for thousands of years by the Scarlet Empresses, creatures of dangerous powers — powers that a member of the Doctor's own race is keen to possess herself: the eccentric time traveller and philanderer known only as Iris Wildthyme.
As the real reasons for Iris's obsession become clear, the Doctor and Sam must embark on a perilous journey across deserts, mountains, forests and oceans. Both friends and foes are found among spirits, djinns, alligator men and golden bears — but in a land where the magical is possible, is anything really as it seems?
Chapter Titles Edit
- Does Travel Make You Happy, Ms. Jones?
- I Was A Charmer
- She Was Never Without Her Enchantments
- After All I've Survived!
- Down, Boys
- Another Day, Another Lovely Adventure
- Nobody Thinks Nothing
- Any Vigilante's Life
- All About Equilibrium
- Standing Around Virtually Naked
- I'm Entirely Credulous
- Queen of Misrule
- Pulling Out Her Hearts
- Hating Monsters
- Hands of the Duchess
- I've Been Possessed by the Best of Them
- Telling Tales
- Will You Come Back For Me?
- They're All Weird Places
- Out of Body
- Something Like a Genie
- I've Had My Moments
- Going Down
- The Walrus and the Turtle
- On The Kristeva
- In the Belly of the Beast
- The Bearded Lady's Tale
- Welcome Back
- With the Empress
- Something for Iris
- Stealing Honey
- A Month Later
- Inside The Machine
Plot Edit
to be added
Characters Edit
Main Charaters
- The Cyborg Duchess
- The Giant spider
- The Spider Duchess
- Major Angela
- The Mock Turtle
Hysperian royalty
- The first Scarlet Empress
- The current Scarlet Empress
- Julia
Inhabitants of Fortalice
Other characters
References Edit
Books Edit
- Aja'ib is a book of fantastic stories, tales and adventures.
Culture Edit
- Romana once dragged the Doctor to an opera in Milan. After that they went to see the soprano hermaphrodites of Alpha Centauri.
- Sam sings ABBA songs with Iris on their road trip.
The Doctor Edit
- The Doctor describes himself as an ethnomethodologist and his job as being keeping everyone out of the trap of genre-death.
- The Doctor is "an inveterate underliner (of books), a scribbler in margins, a very unpassive reader".
- The Doctor recalls "jumping off an Ice Warrior ship over Central London. Scuba diving with Zygons. Causing havoc once again on Skaro."
- Iris was not fond of the Seventh Doctor. She describes him to his immediate successor as "a portentous little feller, swaggering around, thinking he's got all the world's darkest secrets under his hat." Furthermore, she thinks that he was "a pretentious old thing" who "got on [her] nerves" as he regarded himself as the Guardian of Forever and Time's Champion.
Foods and beverages Edit
- Iris consumes a variety of alcohol, mostly gin.
- Sam drinks too much of the crystallised wine.
- Gila buys some fish. They all come with names.
- The Doctor offers the Mock Turtle a jelly baby prior to travelling through the vortex in Iris' bus.
Gallifrey Edit
- Iris was mentions that she's met some of her other selves via time scoop: "Seven of me were taken to the Death Zone on Gallifrey. Someone had reactivated the Games they used to play there. Each of my selves, present, past and future, was given a relevant companion and playmate, and we were forced to battle our separate, and then collective ways, past Ice Warriors, Ogrons, Sea Devils, Zarbi, Mechanoids and Quarks, to get to the Dark Tower...It was that devil Morbius behind it all. The rogue was after Rassilon's gift of immortality."
- The Doctor and Iris both know that the Death Zone is no larger than North Wales.
- On Gallifrey, regeneration is treated the same way that sex is treated on Earth.
Individuals Edit
- Iris mentions the Doctor has collaborated with Davros, Napoleon Bonaparte, Al Capone, the Rani and Adolf Hitler.
- The Doctor and Iris met Oscar Wilde in Paris just after Wilde's imprisonment.
- The Doctor and Jo Grant met with Iris and they met Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso just after the Doctor and Jo had left Spiridon.
- Gila is known as "the Alligator Man". He turns back into an alligator when time does a circle.
- Only the heart of the Cyborg Duchess is flesh. She joins with the giant spider to become a symbiotic creature.
- Angela is known as "the Bearded Lady". She was/is a major. She has a luxurious long beard and rules over the hairless bears.
- The Mock Turtle was locked in stasis in ice on a plynth over looking the ocean. He's mildly telepathic. His hind legs are hooves.
- The Giant Spider guards the door to the lift between the levels of Hypsero.
- Sam doesn't like Pink Floyd.
Iris Wildthyme & The Doctor Edit
- Iris claims to have survived "Giant Spiders on Metebelis Three, the Cyberman tombs of Telos, the Drashigs in feeding frenzy on their foetid swamp world."
- Iris has also recently escaped Xeriphas.
- The Doctor thinks back over his past adventures: Skaro, London, San Francisco, and House of Lungbarrow.
- Sam has a dream, which is probably not a telepathic trance where she and the Doctor had just left Victorian London with several slumbering Skarasen. She notices the Doctor's Volkswagen Beetle. The Doctor in the dream shows her his "Citizens Advice Bureau" which are seven heads on spikes.
- "Really, Doctor, this is hardly -" (Third Doctor)
- "You see, my dear, it's very simple..." (First Doctor)
- "I'm not exactly breaking the Laws of Time, but -" (Second Doctor)
- "There were once three sisters and they lived at the bottom of a treacle well..." (Fourth Doctor)
- "Only in the direst of emergencies can you -" (Fifth Doctor)
- "Nice? Nice?" (Sixth Doctor)
- "I saw this coming." (Seventh Doctor)
- Iris claims the Doctor's previous self was a pretentious old thing calling himself "Guardian of Forever" and "Time's Champion".
- Iris refers to the Master as a "phallocentric dope" (most likely a reference to his Tissue Compression Eliminator).
- The Doctor challenges Iris' claims, stating, "You didn't foil the Dalek invasion of Earth in the twenty-second century. I did! It was me, Susan, and Ian and Barbara! And the Cyber tombs on Telos...You weren't there Iris. You weren't to be seen!"
- Whilst in a river with patriarchal psychic river jellyfish-like creatures, Sam is telepathically contacted by said patriarchal creatures, who tell her that the Doctor was woven on a loom and only thinks he has a human mother.
- The Doctor recalls having Christmas dinner with Iris, Tegan and Turlough.
- Iris is in her "old lady" body. She has a house in every world, time zone and planet visited (the Doctor comments, to himself, that she collects homes as he does companions).
- Iris once proposed to the Doctor in Venice.
- Iris once travelled with an "obtuse shape-shifter who loved nothing better than to spend much of his time as a lippy garrulous penguin."
- Iris's mother left her when she was quite young, with an older man, an offworlder.
- Kroton the Cyberman is a friend of Iris. At this point in his life the Doctor is not familiar with him.
- Iris astral projects herself around Hyspero while everyone sleeps in Major Angela's house with the bears.
Locations Edit
- Bears that shave their golden fur live in the Forest of Kestheven.
Species Edit
- Sam sees Draconian princes, Spiridons in purple furs and Martians in armour on the streets of Hyspero.
- The Doctor mentions vampires to Sam while discussing the borders between magic and science.
- According to the Doctor the Chelonian version of Cinderella had to be seen to be believed.
- Iris is sick because she took high tea with a Draconian prince and ate a live Kaled mutant from the shell.
TARDIS Edit
- Iris Wildthyme's TARDIS responds to Iris' voice commands.
- Its dimensional stabilisers are fixed with a pair of laddered tights. It follows the Doctor, Iris and the Mock Turtle under the sea to where they're regurgitated by the giant fish on a desert island.
- She has some cassettes in her TARDIS of Motown, ABBA, and Shirley Bassey.
- In Iris's bus the time winds come in through the windows when it's in flight.
- The console of Iris' TARDIS is made of teak, brass and Formica.
- The Doctor can pilot Iris's TARDIS.
- Sam suggests to the Doctor the TARDIS should have a white and luminous control room and look a bit more futuristic, than the gothicness that it currently looks like.
Technology Edit
- Sam and Gila trade a dismantled and useless etheric beam locator for some bread.
- The Scarlet Guards have T-Mat-like devices on their belts.
- The Doctor pulls a crystal from his pocket that he claims is "no ordinary jewel. It is from Metebelis Three, in the Acteon galaxy," but is actually something he picked up in Portabello Road.
Time travel Edit
- The Doctor describes travelling through the Vortex as "vworp vworp".
- The Doctor, Iris and the Mock Turtle catch a ride inside a giant fish that (probably) keeps them outside time.
Notes Edit
- This novel is often narrated in first person by Iris Wildthyme, Gila, Sam Jones and the Doctor.
- There are numerous references to past stories.
- There are bronze and verdigris towers in Hypero. Sam also bathes in a verdigris tub (there are a few other references). PROSE: Verdigris is a novel Paul Magrs wrote after this novel which also features Iris Wildthyme.
Continuity Edit
- This is Iris Wildthyme's first full novel appearance. She first appeared in PROSE: Old Flames.
- Iris regenerates into the blonde version next seen in PROSE: The Blue Angel.
- The Doctor thinks back over his most recent adventures: Skaro, (PROSE: War of the Daleks) London, (PROSE: The Bodysnatchers) San Francisco, (TV: Doctor Who and/or PROSE: Vampire Science) and the House of Lungbarrow. (PROSE: Lungbarrow)
- The Doctor mentions having been put on trial, (TV: The Trial of a Time Lord) exiled, (TV: Spearhead from Space) summoned to carry out ridiculous tasks, (TV: Genesis of the Daleks, The Brain of Morbius) and "dragged back to your ancestral home to atone for sins that weren't even yours." (PROSE: Lungbarrow)
- Sam has a dream sequence which occurs just after PROSE: The Bodysnatchers.
- While entertaining the birds of paradise the Doctor mentions many of his past adventures.
- When "he was sent to avert the genesis of the dreams and desires of one particular historical despot". (TV: Genesis of the Daleks)
- When he met "the vicious slime-like beast in the pit that only [he] could befriend and talk to". (TV: The Creature from the Pit)
- When he "was forced to battle a multi-legged fiend that secreted acid from every pore in an arena watched by some million or more". (COMIC: Doctor Who and the Iron Legion)
- When he visited "the world at the edge of the cosmos where [he] fell into a puddle and met the last known and very strangest creature in the world". (TV: Planet of Evil)
- When he "went to the centre of the world and met people for whom time had stood still". (TV: Doctor Who and the Silurians)
- When he encountered "the demon who lived under a church and unleashed himself one sacred night". (TV: The Dæmons)
- The Doctor recalls the events of PROSE: The Dying Days (jumping off an Ice Warrior over central London), scuba diving with Zygons (PROSE: The Bodysnatchers) and causing havoc (again) on Skaro. (PROSE: War of the Daleks)
- The Doctor and Iris perform a mind-sharing ritual much like the Second Doctor and Third Doctor once did. (TV: The Three Doctors)
External links Edit
- The Scarlet Empress at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
- The Discontinuity Guide to: The Scarlet Empress at The Whoniverse
- The Cloister Library: The Scarlet Empress


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Can you share with us the arc of your nursing career?
I began my career as an ADN and worked in a progressive care unit for about three years; it was very similar to a cardiac step-down.
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If a nurse is interested in informatics as a career path, what should they do?
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How do you see current developments in EHR technology impacting nursing care?
I think that EHR technology has improved nursing care enormously. While some people feel that it has decreased the nurse-patient connection, it has made our work as nurses more efficient and more accurate. And when we're more efficient, we can learn to use that time to improve patient care, safety and the nurse-patient relationship.
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I'm currently pursuing my master's of healthcare administration with a concentration in informatics at the University of Phoenix. An online master's program is very convenient for a working parent. I love my work and how it helps both patients and nurses. I eventually want to assume more responsibility as a supervisor, nurse administrator or nurse executive here at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. I'm looking towards the future.
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Oracle hedging its vulnerability reports?
Oracle may be subtly misleading customers about the severity of some of the vulnerabilities found in its database software, according to researchers from database security software provider Application Security (AppSec).
"Oracle likes to downplay the risk of its vulnerabilities," said Alex Rothacker, director of security research for AppSec. As a result, organizations using Oracle's vulnerability ratings to prioritize system updates may unduly delay applying some critical patches, he said.
Every three months, Oracle bundles and releases patches to fix recently discovered vulnerabilities in its software products. The company rates the severity of these vulnerabilities using the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) industry standard.
AppSec's concern centers around a unique rating that Oracle has added onto its CVSS scores, called Partial+. A CVSS rating is single score, ranging form 1 to 10, that summarizes the severity of a vulnerability. The score itself is an average of a set of scores that evaluate the different aspects of a vulnerability's severity.
One subset of the CVSS scores evaluates how much damage could be caused by malicious software based on the vulnerability. If such malicious software, called an exploit, could only damage the software it attacks, it would typically be given a Partial rating. But if the exploit could wreak havoc on the underlying system, then it would be given a rating of Complete, which carries with it a higher number.
"In its scoring, Oracle will hardly ever use the Complete," Rothacker said. In many cases, Oracle will use the its own Partial+ rating, which in Oracle's calculations, equals a Partial rating, he sad. In some cases, Oracle will use the Partial+ rating for a database vulnerability, which Rothacker describes a system-level vulnerability, he added.
"The truth is if you run an Oracle database on a server, you will not run SharePoint on the same server. You will have a dedicated database server," Rothacker said.
Oracle does acknowledge that some users may want to recalculate the CVSS ratings if a Partial+ is applied to software in their environments.
In a recent blog post Oracle software security assurance director Eric Maurice said that Oracle recognizes that some companies may choose to "discretely inflate the Base Score when a value of Partial + is reported by Oracle."
Oracle officials declined to comment on the issue for this story.
Many organizations rely on the CVSS scores in order to determine which patches they should apply first. In enterprise environments, applying a patch to some software involves extensive testing to ensure the updated software works correctly with its surrounding environments.
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When you are in your twenties, even if you're confused and uncertain about your aims and purposes, you have a strong sense of what life itself is, and of what you in life are, and might become. Later.. later there is more uncertainty, more overlapping, more backtracking, more false memories. Back then, you can remember your short life in its entirety. Later, the memory becomes a thing of shreds and patches.
We live with such easy assumptions, don't we? For instance, that memory equals events plus time. But it's all much odder than this. Who was it said that memory is what we thought we'd forgotten? And it ought to be obvious to us that time doesn't act as a fixative, rather as a solvent. But it's not convenient--- it's not useful--- to believe this; it doesn't help us get on with our lives; so we ignore it.
What is history? Any thoughts, Webster?' 'History is the lies of the victors,' I replied, a little too quickly. 'Yes, I was rather afraid you'd say that. Well, as long as you remember that it is also the self-delusions of the defeated. ... 'Finn?' '"History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation." (quoting Patrick Lagrange)
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I had decided to write about cauliflower this week. I imagined a nice midsummer column on a vegetable that's boring, white and gassy. What a delightful distraction from watching the self-destructive Senate Republicans, who are also boring, white and, well, whatever.
The news sets my heart racing. Politically, socially and culturally, America is twisting in the foul wind blowing from D.C. As we go to press, there is a particularly grotesque array of disturbing news dancing before me. So I'll have the cauliflower, please, but first we have to cover the bases.
Last week, Donald Trump tweeted an order summarily banning transgender people from the military. How could we not talk about his unprincipled blathering about the "cost" of keeping trans people in the service? Not to mention his mean-spirited prejudice and scary impulsivity. His own military leaders were publicly reassuring trans service people that they would be treated with respect, despite the executive rant. Attention must be paid.
Then, John McCain, broken but unbowed, cast the deciding vote against the GOP "skinny bill" aimed at repealing Obamacare. Just a few weeks ago, I wrote an open letter to McCain, hailing his heroism and grit and suggesting that he wasn't done yet. Last week he basically got out of a hospital bed, after learning he has a deadly brain tumor, traveled to Washington and broke with Republican colleagues to vote with his conscience and against their bill. The man has nothing to lose, and he is speaking truth to power. The scene on the Senate floor was right out of a movie.
In the meantime, the new White House communications chief, Anthony Scaramucci, let loose a vile, truly disgusting tirade against some of his White House colleagues in an interview with The New Yorker. His tone and choice of language denigrate the office he holds. It raises the question: How low can this administration go?
Then, Peggy Noonan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative Wall Street Journal columnist, took on the president in a powerful column posted July 27. Noonan, who wrote speeches for Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, wrote that Trump's primary problem isn't that he is "inexperienced, crude, and an outsider" but that he is "weak and sniveling" and "undermines himself almost daily by ignoring" traditional norms of American masculinity.
"He throws himself, sobbing, on the body politic," Noonan wrote. "He's a drama queen . . . His wife, Melania, is tougher than he is with her stoicism and grace, her self-discipline and desire to show the world respect by presenting herself with dignity."
Noonan went on to say that the president's tweets show "utter weakness." She characterized his attacks on the media as "whimpering accusation and finger-pointing." She said that his "public brutalizing of Attorney General Jeff Sessions isn't strong, cool and deadly" but "limp, lame and blubbery."
Noonan didn't hold back. And what she wrote is especially significant because of her conservative politics and long service to Republican presidents.
Trump dropped into our backyard last Friday to talk about the gang MS-13 and to exploit recent incidents of violence to defend his anti-immigration policies. And in case there weren't enough news "bings" on my iPhone, North Korea launched yet another intercontinental ballistic missile, the second in a month. According to CNN, the U.S. is considering military options. Well, wouldn't that be a useful distraction from the sinking ship of state at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.?
Keeping calm and carrying on would be the way to go here, in the thick of it, but many of us are too anxious. Thus, the cauliflower distraction. For a few minutes we can let go of all the stress and contemplate a vegetable. Brassica oleracea, the cauliflower, has actually risen to prominence recently because of its low-fat, low-calorie appeal. And we can steam it or bake it or puree it like potato, or rice it for pizza crusts or stir-fry it with its relatives.
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There! I didn't think about Kim Jung-un for three minutes.
It's healthier to hold forth about fractal dimensions than the possibility that our fearful leader will launch an attack against North Korea just to change the subject from his mistakes, malfeasance and misanthropy.
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