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The LigoDLB OS is a highly functional and easy to use operating system embedded in all LigoDLB hardware devices for effortless setup and trouble free operation. High performance (500 Mbps) allows offering more bandwidth together with additional services such as VoIP and IPTV. This is possible when using LigoWave's smart QoS mechanism and multicast traffic enhancements for triple play services. Such services are essential for all next generation service providers to complement their existing portfolios. iPoll, LigoWave's proprietary transmission protocol, ensures smooth performance with a high number of clients even in noisy environments. THe 500+ Mbps throughput is a result of powerful hardware platform with 802.11ac technology based radio and a proprietary data transmission protocol (iPoll). Incorporating a QCA 9563 CPU (750 MHz), a QCA 9882 radio and 64 MBytes of RAM and 16 MBytes of flash memory the, LigoDLB 5-15 ac series devices are an ideal solution for capacity demanding applications. State of the art RF design with great output power and sensitivity parameters improve range and capacity over the highest modulation – 256 QAM. The 24V Gigabit Ethernet port (passive PoE) allows utilizing the full capacity of the radio when used in a point-to-point or point-to-multipoint network design. LigoDLB ac series devices are backwards compatible with LigoDLB devices using iPoll mode, which helps to expand or upgrade existing networks using the latest technologies over time
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Physical Dimensions 216 mm (8.5 ''), 184 mm (7.2 ''), 80 mm (3.1 '') Weight 413 g (0.91 lb) Mounting Pole mounting bracket included Power Power supply 24 VDC passive PoE (AC to 24 VDC adapter is included in the package) Power source 100 – 240 VAC Power consumption (max) 10 W
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I am always delighted to welcome constituents from North East Hampshire to Parliament, whenever the business of the House of Commons allows!
That's why I am pleased to announce that I will be sponsoring a number of tours in the next few months around the two Houses for my constituents. They will conducted by great tour guides who have so much knowledge to share, will last around 75 minutes - and will be free of charge to North East Hampshire constituents who register their interest with my office.
These tours are wonderful opportunities to see the inner workings of Parliament and learn some of the history behind the landmark that is our country's legislature.
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Video Marketing Services by Video Marketing Agency
Ejobs4Pros is a professional video marketing agency that stands apart from other video companies that offer corporate video services; we promote products, services and brands through videos, video advertisements and promotional videos for websites and social networks that improve online recognition and branding.
Reach your customer through video advertising that relates your business message and demonstrates the need of your products. We are the local video marketers that take pride in designing and implementing video marketing campaigns of promotional videos, instructional videos, and product demonstration videos for small businesses in New Jersey and New York.
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For assistance in online marketing that catches the viewer's attention, we recommend to use videos in video networks and social media networks to express the business message and brand. We take pride in designing marketing strategies based on custom videos. We'll produce analytical reports to ensure the results you are looking. After all, there's nothing more frustrating about video advertising that doesn't reach your target customer and doesn't increase the customer base.
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The Australian Children's Music Foundation
What we do
The ACMF is a not-for-profit organisation which provides music instruments and programs for disadvantaged and Indigenous children and youth in schools, remote communities and juvenile justice centres across Australia.
Research has proven that participation in music has a significant impact on a child's mental health and development. A ten year study by UCLA in the United States showed that experiencing a music education improved exam scores in standardised English, Maths and Science exams, as well as in reading proficiency. Other studies proved that the IQ's of young students who had 9 months of weekly music lessons rose nearly 3 points more than their untrained peers.
Music lessons provide a wide scope of opportunity for all students. For the reluctant learner, it provides a non-threatening and fun way to participate in learning. For the overly energetic student, it provides an outlet for that boundless energy and for the student requiring discipline, it provides a powerful carrot to reward them for managing their impulsivity. All of these benefits positively impact on student learning outcomes.
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BH Contracting — Binghamton's Contracting Expert
BH Contracting is a Veteran owned and operated contracting company. At BH Contracting we strive for excellence in everything we do. From our approach, to our ideas, our solutions, to our workmanship, and our service, for us, excellence isn't a catch phrase – it's our goal! We handle everything from home remodel projects- bathrooms, kitchens, roofs, patios, walkways, driveways and commercial contracting work at any phase. We personally answer our calls and always offer reliable, dependable, and honest service in each and every job we are a part of.
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I'm Magic, the Wonder Dog. At least that is what the author of this blog calls me. She says it is because I am wonderful. I think it is because I live with all these furry cats and only threaten on occasion to eat them. Okay, I only try to eat the girl kitty but she asks for it. always slinking around. although Neko has a thing for the white tip on my tail and my ears. I just wanted to introduce myself and say hi.
Hey, Magic here again. Here I am taking advantage of the warm Texas sun and working on my tan. How does it look?


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London River Top Milcah Halili
I rarely write about femdom scene, or lezdom in this case, and that's simply because it's not my cup of tea. I like to write about what I personally like, and what turns me on. So my femdom reviews are typically reserved for people like Mz Berlin, and London River.
TopGrl is a GREAT femdom site. In this scene we see London River top Milcah Halili through subterfuge, and manipulation. IT'S SO CLEVER and I love it. It's been so long since I've seen electricity used (aside from TENS pads) as just bare wire torment. It's refreshing! 🙂
Ok. Here's the situation. London River is taking out Milcah Halili on a date, and takes her back to her place. Lights out. When Milcah awakens she is bound and totally in the power of London. Let the games begin.
As I said before the biggest thing I liked was the clever use of bare electrical wire, and simple things like rubber bands, pinching, and biting. You don't need a fully stocked dungeon to play, when you have imagination. That's the lesson from this scene, well, aside from don't go home with London River unless you're the top. 😉
How Do I Watch The Whole Thing?
Hopefully by now you've click one of pics and watch the preview video, and seen the pics. If so then you likely want to see the full 48 minute scene. I don't blame you. There's something special, and dangerous, about London River. I dig it. If you like femdom with brains, and imagination, without the mass production gloss of the Kink.com sites, then join TopGrl. It's the right thing to do.


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Well here is something a little bit spooky for Friday 13th.
Before our upcoming teaching practical, we have been advised to google ourselves- just to make sure nothing comes up that may jeapordise our professional image.
I have seriously never, ever bothered to google myself before.. My name is very common. My achievements are very modest. And all the reckless things I did in my youth happened before the internet was really a thing.
But.. you never know! so I did a quick check.
No raunchy photos, or drunken singalongs or entries on reportyourex.com. Phew!
But what did come up is.. lots of tombstones with my name on them! And lots of eerie antique photos of other women with the same name as me!
Meet a sample of my namesakes..
I guess it's to be expected when you have a very common, somewhat old fashioned name!
Won't be googling myself again anytime soon.
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[Ebook] The Valentine Child (Wedlocked!) (Wedlocked!) (Harlequin Presents, #1795) By Jacqueline Baird – Snackgo.co.uk
Read The Valentine Child Wedlocked Wedlocked Harlequin Presents, 1795 Author Jacqueline Baird Bandcamptomp3.co.uk WedlockedWould Valentine Play CupidWhen Zo S Baby Arrived On February 14, It Seemed Only Natural To Call Him Valentine But As Far As Zo Was Concerned, Valentine Had Been The Only Romance In Her Brief Marriage To Justin Gifford And Since Justin Had Harshly Declared That He Never Wanted To See Her Again, She Hadn T Had The Chance To Tell Him That He Had A Son But Then The Unthinkable Happened Valentine Became Desperately Ill And Zo Knew That She Would Do Anything To Save Him Even If That Meant Seducing Her Own HusbandJacqueline Baird Burns Up The PagesRomantic Times


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- 1 x packet of hokkien noodles
- 300 g pork mince
- 300 g beef mince
- 2-3 x garlic clove, crushed
- 2-3 tspn grated ginger or from jar
- 2 x large carrots - thinhly sliced
- 400 g fresh broccoli - cut to small florets
- 1/2 cup honey & soy stir - fry sauce
1) Place noodles in a large bowl and pour over boiling water.Stand for 1 -2 minutes.Separate with a fork.Drain well.
2)Heat in frying pan over a high heat little bit of oil add minces and cook until brown and cook,then add garlic,ginger,carrots and broccoli.Add noodles, stir – fry sauce,mix all well and heat through.Taste,if anything need to be added.
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How to add a certain number of spaces for each line in the System.out.println
I create a Audit file within my Java program, which gets all the System.out.println lines from the code.
For example, the System.out.println lines in my code are as follows:-
Records initially inserted into edited: 70144
Bad license number records removed: 5
Total records in edited: 70139
Records initially inserted into tabedited:7463
I want all my values aligned after the statement, when they are printed to the Audit File.
Instead of just giving spaces by counting the number of charaters in the line, is there any other way to align them.
Please, let me know.
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Re: How to add a certain number of spaces for each line in the System.out.println
Check out the Format class and its subtypes. Also, consider String.format() and System.out.printf() as possibilities.
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Re: How to add a certain number of spaces for each line in the System.out.println
Thank You Jim.
But all the format class and its subtypes need the format type followed by the argument.
My code looks like this
System.out.println("Records initially inserted into " + tableName + ":" + recordCount);
System.out.println("Bad license number records removed: " + totalDeleteCount);
within the Audit file.
And these System out lines are in different Java Classes.
All will be printed to Audit File.
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Unclear future on credit for student gains
Kimberly Reeves | Austin KXAN News
Updated: Tuesday, 26 Apr 2011
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Education Commissioner Robert Scott ended the use of the controversial Texas Projection Measure on Friday, and the impact of his decision on Austin-area school district ratings is still hard to determine.
The Austin Independent School District, like many across the state, benefited from the Texas Projection Measure last year. More than half the school districts in Texas saw their ratings boosted because of it, along with thousands of school campuses.
The accountability system's newly incorporated measure , requested by lawmakers and created by the Texas Education Agency, bumped up ratings based upon a statistical model's prediction of how well students would do on the next year's state-mandated test. That raised a lot of doubts in the public about the soundness of the measure, which the elimination of TPM now addresses.
"The commissioner made the right call," said Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce senior vice president Drew Scheberle. "Elimination of TPM will restore the credibility of the Texas accountability system. Business people throughout the region had a hard time believing that students who fail the TAKS test but might pass some time in the next three years should be counted as passing."
How significant was the impact of eliminating TPM? Well, if you go to the Texas Education Agency's accountability website and type in the name of your school district, it appears more than two-dozen campuses in Austin benefited from TPM, along with more than a dozen campuses in the Round Rock school district and four campuses in San Marcos CISD.
Here are a number of area campuses that have higher ratings, in all or part, due to a boost from TPM: Austin and Bowie high schools in Austin ISD, along with Kealing Middle School; Westwood, McNeil and Stony Point high schools in Round Rock ISD; Lake Travis High School and Hudson Bend Middle School in Lake Travis ISD: and Bowie Elementary and Miller Middle School in San Marcos CISD.
The commissioner, along with a focus group and an advisory committee, makes key decisions about changes in the state's accountability system each year, such as the percentage passing required to qualify for each rating category. In his annual announcement on Friday, Scott chose to toss out TPM after some scathing reviews from key lawmaker Rep. Scott Hochberg, D-Houston, and a unanimous vote in the House to end the use of TPM as part of House Bill 500.
Scott wrote, in his decision document released on Friday, that such criticism of the TPM detracted from actual gains in student test scores, which showed growth in every subject and every student group.
"Unfortunately, this hard work is overshadowed by criticism of the use of the TPM, including an assertion made on the floor of the Texas House of Representatives during debate on House Bill 500 that school ratings in 2010 went up without demonstrations of increases in performance," Scott wrote. "The commissioner does not want the TPM to continue to detract from the achievements of students and educators."
Scott called the TPM sound and statistically valid after a year of use, comparing it to the methodology behind SAT and ACT tests, but lawmakers such as Hochberg had doubts. Scott's own children attend Bowie High School, and he told reporters he thought no less of the school's quality and achievement because TPM had bumped the campus from "academically acceptable" to "recognized."
To many lawmakers and parents, however, the decision to base better ratings on a statistical model that predicted what students might do one or two years down the road was questionable, and the model's reliability grew fuzzier and less accurate the closer the scores drew to the passing score.
Criticism of the TPM was no more than political rhetoric seized by Democrat Bill White's campaign for governor last year, Scott has told numerous audiences. The vote to end TPM, however, was bipartisan and unanimous in the House.
Hochberg, for his part, released a single sentence on Scott's decision yesterday: "The Commissioner's decision will provide better confidence that improved ratings really reflect the hard work of students, teachers and parents, instead of the results of statistical manipulation."
The agency has no firm predictions about what the future, minus TPM, might hold. New school and district ratings, based on this spring's test scores, will be released at the end of July.
Agency spokeswoman Debbie Ratcliffe did predict that the exclusion of the projection measure would probably have the greatest impact on those campuses that had moved from "recognized" to "exemplary" with the use of TPM, even more than those that moved from "academically acceptable" to "recognized."
Just because TPM is gone doesn't mean growth measures are out. A new growth will have to be incorporated when the state starts its new STAAR testing system . In fact, the state will not be issuing accountablity ratings in 2012, waiting until 2013 to break in the new ratings system.
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Definition : Nasogastric tubes designed to access the stomach for temporary enteral feeding. These devices typically consist of a small diameter (e.g., 8 to 12 French diameter) very soft (e.g., polyurethane, silicone) single-lumen plastic tube (commonly known as Dobhoff tubes) of appropriate length to reach the stomach; the tubes may be attached or not to suction devices. Feeding nasogastric tubes are used mainly in patients who need only enteral feeding and not gastric aspiration, avoiding the possible consequences (e.g., rhinitis, pharyngitis, esophageal strictures) related to the use of larger-diameter tubes.
Entry Terms : "Gastric Sump Tubes" , "Dobhoff Tubes" , "Tubes, Gastrointestinal, Ryles" , "Feeding Tubes" , "Tubes, Feeding" , "Salem Sump Tubes"
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-- Most objects are cloneable, but not all. For example you can't dup +nil+:
nil.dup # => TypeError: can't dup NilClass
Classes may signal their instances are not duplicable removing +dup+/+clone+ or raising exceptions from them. So, to dup an arbitrary object you normally use an optimistic approach and are ready to catch an exception, say:
arbitrary_object.dup rescue object
Rails dups objects in a few critical spots where they are not that arbitrary. That rescue is very expensive (like 40 times slower than a predicate), and it is often triggered.
That's why we hardcode the following cases and check duplicable? instead of using that rescue idiom. ++
Instance Method Summary collapse
#deep_dup ⇒ Object
Returns a deep copy of object if it's duplicable.
#duplicable? ⇒ Boolean
Can you safely dup this object?.
Instance Method Details
#deep_dup ⇒ Object
Returns a deep copy of object if it's duplicable. If it's not duplicable, returns +self+.
object = Object.new dup = object.deep_dup dup.instance_variable_set(:@a, 1)
object.instance_variable_defined?(:@a) #=> false dup.instance_variable_defined?(:@a) #=> true
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# File 'lib/backports/active_support/deep_dup.rb', line 16 def deep_dup duplicable? ? dup : self end
#duplicable? ⇒ Boolean
Can you safely dup this object?
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A number of years ago, after several maulings of Plainfielders by vicious dogs, Assemblyman Jerry Green proposed -- and got passed -- legislation toughening the laws regarding vicious dogs and penalties their owners face.
Now comes a story from Princeton -- picked up today by the NY Times -- of an incident in which a landscaper, an undocumented laborer from Honduras, was severely bitten by a German shepherd named 'Congo' and four other dogs belonging to the owner of a property where he was working.
The gardener underwent three hours of surgery and endured 65 painful rabies shots as a result.
A judge has ordered the German shepherd put down.
Animal lovers are rallying around the owner, and the victim's legal status has become a major part of the public discussion.
Even Union County Assemblyman Neil Cohen has gotten into the act, proposing legislation -- nicknamed 'Congo's Law' -- to give judges more latitude in declaring a dog vicious.
Thus putting the bite on the law previously championed by his Union County colleague Jerry Green.
The AP story was previously run by both the Courier and Newsday. Curiously, the Courier cut the mention of Cohen's legislative maneuver when it ran the story.
NY Times: "Landscaper mauled, and sympathy goes to dog"
Newsday: "Immigration debate ignited after gardener mauled by dog in N.J."
Courier: "Princeton dog attack sparks immigration debate"
-- Dan Damon
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In Xcode 4 when an exception is raised (wether it is ,unrecognized selector sent to instance' exception or an 'out of bounds' exception or another exception) the exception goes up the call stack looking for someone who can handle it. And what normally happens is that no on handles it and the exception percolate up the call stack all the way up to main. The program just crashes and you lost the call stack information.
To avoid this, Xcode provides a very important breakpoint which gonna break every time an exception is raised and Xcode shows in the main code window the line of code on which that exception would raise.
You can add an Exception Breakpoint by opening the Breakpoint Navigator.
|Breakpoint Navigator
Than you have to click the Plus Button in bottom left corner:
Add Exception Breakpoint
After clicking Add Exception Breakpoint menu item, you will see this breakpoint configuration view open up:
|Click Done
After clicking the Done button and you will the new Exception Breakpoint in your list of breakpoints.
I recommend setting that exception on all the time on in Xcode because you pretty much always want to have this exception happen right a the line of code.


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If the high-profile breaches at Target, Nieman Marcus, and legions of other retailers have taught us anything, it's that we haven't seen the last of them.
Regardless of what security tools and protocols are put in place by retailers -- or really any institution that houses sensitive consumer information – there inevitably will always be a weak link, potentially exposing millions of credit cards into a burgeoning online black market where criminal syndicates are doing a brisk business selling stolen cards in bulk.
Of course, when credit cards are sold and eventually cloned, it's the financial institution that's left holding the bag. Following a wide scale breach, banks are often left with two options. They can either replace all of the cards that have been compromised or they can selectively replace cards that they know have been cloned and are about to be used in a fraudulent transaction. However, replacing hundreds of thousands of credit cards that may or may not have been breached is simply not an economically feasible strategy for many banks – it's cost-prohibitive, inconvenient for their customers who increasingly have their card accounts linked to a variety of services, and creates an opportunity for bad publicity.


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China Airlines and EVA report robust May-2010 revenues; Cathay yields improve
Shares of China Airlines and EVA Airways closed sharply higher on Thursday, gaining 5.4% (with 39.95 million shares changing hands) and 4.2%, respectively, after both carriers reported robust May-2010 sales figures.
During the month, China Airlines reported a 7.7% increase in revenues on a month-on-month basis, with revenues soaring 74.5% on a year-on-year basis, while EVA Air's sales rose 5.2% on a month-on-month basis and 73.2% year-on-year. Both carriers are benefiting from strong demand on cross-Strait services and recent fare increases on cargo routes to Europe.
Cathay Pacific's yield and passenger volumes improve in May-2010; remain below pre-crisis levels
Also in North Asia, Cathay Pacific (shares up 0.1%) stated yield and passenger volumes improved in May-2010, compared to the same month in 2009, when the carrier's business was negatively affected by the economic downturn and the swine flu outbreak. GM Revenue Management, Tim Owen, commented that, "although still below pre-crisis levels, the pick-up in demand in our premium cabins continued last month and the overall outlook for the summer peak still remains solid".
During the month, which is traditionally one of the carrier's "softer month", the carrier's passenger business "held up well", with a 12% year-on-year increase in passenger numbers to 2.2 million, and a 5.5 ppt load factor improvement to 81.3%. Cargo volumes increased 30%. During the month, the carrier's China network in particular performed well (RPKs increased 34% year-on-year) boosted by the Shanghai Expo.
JAL's international passenger levels slump in Apr-2010
Also reporting traffic results yesterday, although for the month of April, was JAL Group. The carrier reported a slight increase in domestic passenger numbers (increasing 0.5% to 2.8 million passengers) but domestic passenger numbers were down by double-digits, slipping 13.4% to 772,000. Load factors were up both on the domestic and international networks, by 3.4 ppts to 56.2% and by 5.2 ppts to 70.2%, respectively.
AirAsia X to be listed in Hong Kong or New York?
Meanwhile, AirAsia X is reportedly considering listing on the Hong Kong or New York stock exchange, following proposals from foreign investment banks pitching to secure the mandate for the carrier's IPO. The IPO is likely to value the carrier at USD500-600 million.
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The creation of Doctor Who scribes Stephen Moffat and Mark Gatiss, this update on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's detective series revamp benefits from both extremely clever writing and the undeniable chemistry between Benedict Cumberbatch's laser-focused Holmes and Martin Freeman's dogged Dr. Watson. Also? Awesome coat. —Clark Collis
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Benedict Cumberbatch tells Damian Whitworth why he's happy that Sherlock Holmes is returning to Victoriana
There have been suggestions that Benedict Cumberbatch has of late lost all his mirth. First, after one of his nightly post-Hamlet appeals to help Syrian refugees, he called on the audience to "f*** the politicians". Then he enhanced the impression that he was taking himself a touch too seriously by calling for a meeting with the home secretary about the refugee crisis.
And now, as we discuss the Sherlock Christmas special, The Abominable Bride, he objects to the use of "bromance" to describe the relationship between his Holmes and Martin Freeman's Dr John Watson.
We are sitting in a shabby room, heated by a small electric fire, in the Bottle Yard Studios, a former factory in Bristol where the set has been built for The Abominable Bride. For the one-off special the creators have abandoned the modern-day setting in which Cumberbatch made his name as Sherlock and taken the world's most famous detective back to the Victorian era in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle introduced him.
Cumberbatch is on a break from filming and arrives in Victorian waistcoat and starched collar, his hair slicked back. "What a handsome man," mutters another (male) journalist as he enters the room. While Freeman — who had been in a few minutes earlier, huddled in an enormous parka — was so low-key that you'd walk past him in the street, Cumberbatch glows like a full moon on a cloudless night.
Of course, we all want to know if Sherlock and John are still the same back in the 19th century. "Is there still the bromance?" I ask.
"You just really want to write the word bromance," says Cumberbatch to a little peal of sycophantic laughter from some of the journalists gathered around him. The word bromance may be overused in connection with Sherlock, but the nuances of the relationship are a subject of endless fascination to Sherlockologists. I try to keep it light: "There can't be an article without it in there," I joke. "There can," says Cumberbatch. "You can be the first. Strive for change in the press."
This is starting to feel like it could be hard work, but fortunately Cumberbatch warms up. The essence of the modern-day Sherlock has been maintained in this new departure, he says, so we can expect a rollicking pace, crackling wit and the sparky Holmes-Watson relationship. "It's a companionship that has evolved in our version, so we are not regressing to 'Wow!' or 'Golly, Holmes!' or some sort of Nigel Bruce-esque kind of adoration. [It is] more complex than that, which is great."
This Victorian version will not be a pastiche. "We don't want to make it into a sketch. We don't want to make it into something ridiculous or comic," Cumberbatch says. "We want to be true to the original; at the same time we want to be true to our version. So it's a very delicate balancing act."
How did he react when the show's creators, Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, told him that Holmes was going home to 1895? "I was thrilled. I went, 'At last I can have a f***in' haircut. [Instead of] that ridiculous bouncy lot of curls on my head.' And then I went, 'You are mad. What?' I genuinely didn't understand how they were going to get away with it. And then the more detailed pitch came and I went, 'OK, this is going to be great fun.' And it really is. It is so nice to play him in his era. Some of the weight is taken off you and [you are]not trying to establish this man in the 21st century. When he is in full Victorian swing it's a really lovely feeling."
Playing Holmes in the modern era can sometimes feel like heavy lifting, says Cumberbatch. He is "a man clearly slightly out of his time. To put him back in the era that he's written in is a joy. It feels easier to a degree. Things that I try to impose a little bit on the modern version, like his physicality, stature, a lot of that is done by the body of the clothing and collars, the deerstalker and cape and all those sort of things. That's an absolute delight and yet it doesn't feel like cliché because you are functioning in them rather than quoting them."
Victorian Sherlock smokes two types of pipe and instead of the Belstaff coat worn by the modern incarnation, he has an inverness cape that echoes the coat, and is worn with matching deerstalker. No doubt they'll be producing cheap knock-offs in China within hours of transmission.
Gatiss gave Cumberbatch the Belstaff coat after recording the first series and he wore it for a bit before the show was aired. He was not famous then and there was no reason to be concerned about having his picture taken in it. But he worried. "What if someone did accidentally [take a picture] and then says, 'Seen walking around Hampstead Heath in his f***ing costume.' Seal my reputation as being a dick."
Gatiss describes this Victorian Sherlock as "The Adventure of Having Your Cake and Eating It. It is still our show. It is essentially Sherlock as if we have always done it, period. So it hasn't suddenly become very dusty and slow."
The 90-minute special is about having fun, chips in Moffat. "Fun for us and fun for the audience. Benedict and Martin are the Holmes and Watson of their age. They own those roles. Wouldn't it be awful if you never saw them do it properly? Wouldn't you like to see them in the deerstalker and bowler hat?"
Freeman says he doesn't feel as though he is playing a completely different character, although "it does tighten you up slightly physically and vocally, I think, so there is slightly less overly casual modern speak". Once Watson is back in the Victorian era he is a little more in awe of Holmes than in the modern version. "The original Watson was much more outwardly generous in his thinking that his friend is a genius. Modern Watson definitely thinks his friend is a genius but also an enormous pain in the arse."
The Victorian Watson comes with a magnificent Victorian mustache. Freeman also had a 'tache in series 3 of the modern Sherlock. "I've got to try and rein that in, not let Steven and Mark think this is an ongoing thing now and end up as Robinson Crusoe."
The Abominable Bride is based on a passing reference to a case made in Conan Doyle's story The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual. The producers tell us that the story begins with a man seeing his wife in her wedding dress shortly after she killed herself and the trailers suggest a gothic adventure with clattering hansom cabs and spooky locations. No preview tapes have been made available.
On set, the actors and production team give little away, although we are allowed to venture into Holmes's bachelor flat, which is set up exactly like his slightly squalid pad from the first three Sherlock series but filled with Victorian furniture and paraphernalia. A table is jumbled with scientific experiments, a skull, microscope and typewriter. The bison skull on the wall is still there, but instead of headphones it has an ear trumpet.
Una Stubbs will be there as Holmes's landlady, Mrs Hudson. The Victorian Mrs H is a little rattier than the modern one, says Stubbs, who adds that Sherlock is the biggest success that she has been involved in during her long career. "I have been lucky to be in some series that have been a success — nothing like this. I am stopped in the street by groups of Russians, Chinese. It is quite extraordinary." She recalls walking along the street the day after the first Sherlock aired. "I could hear, 'How do you say it? Benedict Cumber . . ?' I thought, 'Oh my God, it's a success.' "
In the subsequent five years, Stubbs has watched Cumberbatch being catapulted to global stardom. "Can you believe how it's changed? Really incredible. From being this young actor and suddenly this superstar. But it sits well on his shoulders."
After three Hobbit films Freeman is a similarly big name worldwide. "I was dreading in a way that they would change but they haven't," says Stubbs. "You just don't know if they'd be big-headed because it is a phenomenon, how they have both been drawn up and given all these wonderful opportunities. Well, they've earned them," she adds quickly.
For Freeman, Sherlock is an opportunity to work with his partner, Amanda Abbington, who plays Mrs Watson. These days he is away from Abbington and their two children a lot. "There is no way round it. Well there is — I could stop acting. It would mean not taking interesting opportunities. And even though it's second in importance to my family, it's a close second because I was doing it before I met Amanda and before I became a dad. I am very, very passionate about my job but I have to really want to do something to go away." Work and family life mean that he and Cumberbatch tend to see each other only on Sherlock shoots. "We don't hang out an awful lot."
Most of the time he is grateful for the constant flow of work. "I am thinking mainly 'Thank God' but with moments of 'I wish it would ease up.' You want to have your cake and eat it in life. We are reasonably selfish creatures, I guess. I try not to look at the diary, that way I end up in trouble. Amanda says, 'Please look at your schedule.' I say, 'Yes,' but it's boring. I just go where I'm pointed. I can't think of things too far into the future, my brain does tend to shut down."
Freeman's future, he says, will continue to include Sherlock. A new series of three dramas will be filmed next year and is expected to be broadcast in 2017. "I have always believed in doing things as long as one wants to do them and as soon as you don't want to do something you should stop." He will work on Sherlock "as long as we are free and enjoying it. I know it's a good show. The truth is, though, it has got more and more difficult to factor in."
Gatiss says: "We have accidentally cast the two biggest stars in the country." Moffatt says: "Everybody else pays them more than we do'
Cumberbatch says he is "pretty determined" to keep playing Sherlock in the modern day and maybe even as a Victorian sleuth in more specials. "I'm still enjoying it and we'll see how the next series goes. I would love to keep ageing with him. Martin and I started this relatively young compared to a lot of Holmes and Watsons, so why not?"
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Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman are turning back the clock to Sherlock's origins, finds Tim Martin
In the sitting-room of 221B Baker Street, where Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman have jostled and bickered as Holmes and Watson since their modern-day adventures began in 2010, something is different. Watson's chrome MacBook has been replaced by a clunking manual typewriter. The bison skull on the wall no longer wears its ironic headphones and the view from the window shows a dour set of 19th-century tenements instead of the bustling north London of today.
For the one-off episode of Sherlock, the show's creators, Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, have set their sparkling contemporary adaptation spinning back in time to the era of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in a special installment filled with Gothic stylings, gas-lit intrigue, luxuriant mustaches and one very famous deerstalker.
"I thought, at last I can have a f—— haircut. We could get rid of that ridiculous bouncy lot of curls on my head," says Benedict Cumberbatch, beaming with amusement in a dressing room under the Bottle Yard Studios in Bristol. That wish, at least, came true: today Cumberbatch's hair is slicked back, Victorian-gent-style, and he wears a stiff collar and dapper tweeds. "Then I went – you're mad," he continues. "I genuinely didn't understand how they were going to get away with it."
Like his colleagues, he is allowed only to expand on the most uncontroversial Sherlockian topics. A fourth season is coming ("I've said we'll go into production on it in a year, not any specific year," Gatiss has said) and Cumberbatch deploys his most diplomatic smile when quizzed on how this slice of Victoriana ties into the show's present-day setting – or how it resolves the desperate cliffhanger at the end of the last season. "Nice try, nice try," he mutters wryly, conceding only that while the trip into the 19th century "is a great deal of fun, it does advance things. It's not just on its own."
He's far more comfortable when describing how it feels to explore the character as Conan Doyle originally wrote him. "In the sense that he's a man slightly out of his time," he says, "to put him back in the era that he's written in is a joy. Things I tried to impose a little on the modern version – his physicality, his stature – are done by the costumes: the collars, the deerstalkers and cape. It's a delight."
The transition to a more polite age, however, hasn't affected Sherlock's ruthless bluntness. "He's a meritocracy," says Cumberbatch. "He cuts through mediocrity. It doesn't matter if you're a lord or a lady, if you're driving a hansom cab or if you're one of the Baker Street Boys: it's purely about what your worth is and your quality, not your social standing. So, yes, he's still rude. He's rude to idiots and people who are pompous or sexist. He's quite a crusader in that regard."
Freeman, who, as Watson, sports a great caterpillar-like false mustache for this episode, says, "We're trying not to be too winky about it, and too self-knowing. Sometimes when things are set in, say, the Seventies, it's our way of laughing at people from the old days. I don't find that very interesting."
Instead, he says, the period setting "makes you amend what you're doing very slightly. The plan wasn't to suddenly present a whole different character, or a pastiche, but it does tighten you up physically and vocally."
The surprising tenderness of the Holmes-Watson relationship – the bromance that launched a thousand overheated fan fictions – survives the transition to a starchier age. "I guess the difference is that Victorian Watson's got more patience," says Freeman. "He's much more generous with his outward thinking that his friend's a genius than modern Watson. Modern Watson definitely thinks his friend is a genius, but he's also an enormous pain in the a—."
Upstairs, and back on set, Moffat and Gatiss are pacing around preparing for the next scene. Theirs is a scarcely less fascinating double act than Holmes and Watson's: Gatiss is willowy, blond and cheerful, Moffat short, dark and brooding, but they finish each other's sentences with the ease of long friendship and collaboration.
A Victorian episode, Gatiss carefully explains, doesn't represent a long-held dream, because "that would imply we'd been begrudgingly making it modern to get to this. We've joked about the idea for a long time, but it's just so massively appealing to do both. The only other people who've ever done it" – played Sherlock, he means, in both a period and a modern setting – "are Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce." Moffat nods. "The show had to be as big as it is now," he interjects, "for us to do something this mad."
In fact, says Moffat, the elaborate Victorian trappings of the set represent the "lazy version" of the screenwriter's task. "The one we put all the thought into," he says, "was finding the equivalents for the modern day." Transposing Cumberbatch and Freeman's relationship to the past was actually "exactly the same trick as we did a few years ago with [the first Sherlock episode] A Study in Pink. We said, look, it's still Sherlock Holmes, isn't it? Even though we've changed everything."
Around the corner in the editing suite, a quick glimpse of a rough cut proves that beneath its period trappings this is, recognisably, the same Sherlock. Strand Magazine in hand, a harried-looking Watson is trying to defend himself against slights on the veracity of his casebook from his landlady Mrs Hudson, played by Una Stubbs. "According to you I just show people up the stairs and serve you breakfast," she complains. "I'm your landlady, not a plot device!"
"You're not the only one, Mrs Hudson," remarks Cumberbatch's Sherlock. "I was hardly in the one about the dog."
Nearby is Amanda Abbington, Freeman's wife both on and off-screen who, at the end of the last season, was shown to be an assassin with a deadly past. "We've kept Mary's sparkiness and her glint," she says firmly. "She's got a bit of scrappiness about her and we don't want to lose that."
She laughs when asked if she and Freeman enforce a no-Sherlock rule in their household. "Definitely not!" she says. "We sit together as a family and watch it. My son knows a few of the scenes and does them with my daughter. Grace is usually the assassin shooting Joe. But, no, there's no embargo on Sherlock. We love it!"
As Cumberbatch and Freeman prepare to return to set, they mutter about the show's excursion into period drama. Freeman laments the fact that he can't get dressed by himself, while Cumberbatch has period arcana to deal with, including a fancy meerschaum that is, he notes darkly, "a pyrotechnic pipe. That doesn't mean it blows up in my face. I'm just not smoking."
It is widely believed that the fourth season of Sherlock may be its last, and although Gatiss cheerily acknowledges that "making people wait is all we do: whole civilizations have risen and fallen between seasons of Sherlock", the snowballing fame of its actors has made synchronizing diaries more and more difficult. Neither of the two leads seem worried, however. "I've always believed in doing things for as long as one wants to do them," says Freeman.
And if that sounds ever-so-slightly cryptic, Cumberbatch is more definite. "I don't know any other actor that's been so spoilt with this role," he says. "I've said many times I'd love to keep aging with him. And Martin and I started this fairly young compared to a lot of Holmes and Watson pairings. So why not?"
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Sherlock Holmes: Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman were originally unsure about detective's Victorian adventure
Having so successfully updated the detective stories for the BBC series, its creators wrote a special episode in which Holmes and Watson are seen in their original era. But its stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman explain that they had to be convinced
Benedict Cumberbatch fears he might have a reputation for being "a dick". This endearing glimpse of a major star self-aware enough to see beyond the legions of so-called "Cumberbitches" and other worshipping admirers comes during a discussion of the coat that he wears in BBC1's Sherlock. For a while, it seems, Cumberbatch used to wear Sherlock's coat off-set as well, after Sherlock co-creator Mark Gatiss told him that the garment suited him.
"But then I started to get a bit self-conscious about being photographed," he says. "I might be seen wandering out and about wearing his costume and seal my reputation as being a dick." The coat – now tatty – is safely back in storage because Cumberbatch's Sherlock is currently looking a lot suaver and smarter than the rather scruffy, overgrown undergraduate to whom we have become accustomed.
The upcoming Sherlock special, The Abominable Bride, takes place in Victorian times and his character's normally unruly mop is slicked neatly back, and Cumberbatch is wearing Victorian evening wear. He looks more suited to a Pall Mall gentlemen's club than to an unheated rehearsal room at the production's home in a former bottling plant in Bristol.
"I was thrilled," he says of playing Sherlock in his original 1890s form. "At last, I could get a haircut." The snip, it transpires, is also something of a metaphor for the relief of setting Steven Moffat and Gatiss's updated detective back in his original era. "You feel some of the weight is taken off you," Cumberbatch says. "You're no longer trying to establish this man in the 21st century. The other gorgeous thing about going back in time is that you can actually look to the books for source material, which I always do for our version anyway, but it's even more qualifiable to lean on them for inspiration."
Not that The Abominable Bride, unlike earlier episodes of BBC1's triumphant series, is based on an actual Sir Arthur Conan Doyle tale. Its inspiration is a case mentioned in passing by Dr Watson in the 1893 short story, The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual – a mystery that Holmes had solved before his acquaintance with Watson.
Cumberbatch claims that he wasn't initially convinced by Moffat and Gatiss's idea of a standalone episode transporting his painstakingly modernised detective back to 1895. "In fact, I went, 'You're mad'," he says. "I genuinely didn't understand how they were going to get away with it.
"And then I got the more detailed pitch and I thought, 'OK, this is going to be great fun', And it really is. It's so nice to play him in his era. The things that are asked of me in the modern version, the sense that this is a man clearly slightly out of his time… to put him back in the era he was written in originally is just a joy. It feels easier.
"And then there are things I tried to impose on the modern version, like his stature and physicality – a lot of that's done [in the Victorian version] by the clothing, the collars, the deerstalker and cape and pipe and things."
Ah yes, the deerstalker, cape and pipe. Didn't he feel a bit of a walking cliché when armed with the detective's iconic accessories? "And yet it doesn't feel like a cliché because you're functioning in them rather than quoting them," Cumberbatch says. "They were de rigueur items of fashion that have just become iconic for him, but they're very useful. And there might be a magnifying glass that might be slightly bigger than the one I usually use…"
It has been nearly two years since the last full series of Sherlock, the final episode ending with a cliffhanger, that of a video close-up of Jim Moriarty's face being broadcast all over London, asking: "Did you miss me?" Andrew Scott's arch villain doesn't feature in the Victorian special, which will be simultaneously screened in cinemas across the UK and across the world (including China, where Sherlock has a huge following). A full new series starts filming in the spring.
"We are very good at making people wait – it's what we do," quips Gatiss. "Whole civilizations have risen and fallen between seasons of Sherlock." As they have established Sherlock Holmes and John Watson so brilliantly in the 21st century, I wondered why Gatiss and Steven Moffat wanted to now place them in a Victorian setting?
"It's called the Adventure of Having Your Cake and Eating It," says Gatiss. "No, to be honest, it was just too irresistible to see Benedict and Martin [Freeman] and everyone else in Conan Doyle-land. Given that it's fair to say that Benedict and Martin are the Holmes and Watson of their age, wouldn't it be awful if you never saw them do it properly? We sort of joked about the idea for a long time; the only other people who have done both period and modern Holmes and Watson are Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, who started Victorian but eventually fought the Nazis in the 1940s."
Moffat adds: "It started with us seeing if we could justify doing a 10-minute version where they put the togs on so we could see them do it. And we thought of all the jokes we could do, and then we thought, 'Actually let's not do that, let's do it properly, not tongue-in-cheek'."
"But it's still our show, it's still essentially Sherlock," says Gatiss. "It hasn't suddenly become very dusty and slow. We knew that we didn't just want to do a Comic Relief sketch. This is a full-blooded Victorian Gothic."
For Freeman, one of his biggest objections to the Victorian setting is the bushy moustache he has to wear on his top lip. "I'm going to try to rein in that in series four," he says, "and not let Steven and Mark think this is an ongoing thing now, or I'll end up as Robinson Crusoe."
Like Cumberbatch, Freeman was also initially resistant to the idea of a Victorian episode. "But then I was originally resistant to Sherlock because it was modern," he reveals. "Before I read the scripts [for series one] I thought 'Hmmm, modern Sherlock Holmes could be rubbish. I've overheard Mark and Steven say a couple of times while we've been on set that, 'Finally we're doing it properly, we're doing the correct version at last'. It's nice to ring some changes, I guess."
Indeed, for those who might have been hoping for a business-as-usual, modern-dress Sherlock, Freeman has this to say: "I believe in not just giving people what they want because why should you? I mean, there was resistance about series three among diehard fans [some thought it had become too introspective and lost its storytelling mojo], but give them a couple of months and they watch it again. It sinks in."
After three years spent in New Zealand playing Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy, as well as six months in Canada filming the first season of Fargo, Freeman is enjoying a relatively relaxed 2015. Filming Sherlock means an opportunity to work with his wife, Amanda Abbington, who has played John Watson's wife, Mary Watson, since the start of series three. He is, however, resigned to the cost to his family life of his profession.
"There's no way round it," Freeman says. "Well, there is; I could stop acting, and even though it's second in importance to my family, it's a close second because I was doing it before I met Amanda, and I was doing it before I became a dad."
The 44-year-old Freeman's upcoming workload includes Funny Cow, starring Maxine Peake as a stand-up comedian trying to make it in the macho world of northern working men's clubs in the 1970s and 80s, and being reunited with his Fargo co-star Billy Bob Thornton (as well as playing Tina Fey's Scottish boyfriend) in the war comedy Fun House. Will there always be room for Sherlock?
"We all know it's a good show, but the truth is that it has got more and more difficult to factor in," Freeman says. "I think I will, though, as long as we're all free and enjoying it. I've always believed in doing things as long as one wants to do them, and as soon as you don't want to do something I think you should stop. Unless it's marriage – and then you should work on it…"
Cumberbatch, who will turn 40 next July, is understandably one of the busiest actors around, currently filming the Andy Serkis-directed Jungle Book: Origins (he plays Shere Khan) opposite Christian Bale and Cate Blanchett.
He also takes the title role in Doctor Strange, the latest Marvel Comics blockbuster and – following his Oscar-nominated role as Alan Turing in The Imitation Game, he is preparing to portray Thomas Edison in The Current War, which tells of Edison's struggle with George Westinghouse (played by Jake Gyllenhaal) for control of the nascent electricity market in the 1880s. With so much going on, how determined is he to keep making time for Sherlock?
"Pretty determined," says Cumberbatch. "I'm still enjoying it. We'll see how the next series goes, but I'd love to keep ageing with him. It would be an interesting experiment to do. Martin and I started this relatively young compared to other Holmes and Watsons, so why not?"
'Sherlock: The Abominable Bride' will be screened on BBC1 on New Year's Day, and in selected cinemas worldwide
Sherlock: Benedict Cumberbatch on Christmas Special 'The Abominable Bride'
Benedict Cumberbatch chats about taking his Sherlock Holmes back to the Victorian era in the Sherlock Special, The Abominable Bride…
Back in February of this year, details on the Sherlock Christmas Special were thinner on the ground than incriminating footprints after heavy rain. We had no title, trailer or synopsis for the Victorian-set episode, just a single image of Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman decked out in nineteenth-century clobber.
Armed with only that, it was the task of a group of journalists visiting the set to turn detective and find out what could be deduced about the Special. Facing cast and creators well-used to the ducks and dives of interviews able to reveal almost nothing, below are the results of a rapid-fire interrogation of Benedict Cumberbatch…
How did you respond when they said they wanted to do a Victorian Holmes?
I was thrilled! I went, at last, I can have a fucking haircut [laughter] I can slick it back and not have that ridiculous mop of curls on my head. And then I went you're mad, what?
The first pitch was quite light. It was at the end of the third episode of the last season and I genuinely didn't understand how they were going to get away with it. And then the more detailed pitch came when they were talking about series four as well and I went, okay, this is going to be great fun. And it really is.
It's so nice to play him in his era. The things that are slightly more heavy-lifting in the modern era in that there's a man clearly slightly out of his time, it's put him back in the era that he's written in originally, it's a joy. It feels easier to a degree. It's just things that I tried to impose a little bit on our modern version, things like physicality, stature, a lot of that's done by the body of the clothing and collars and the deerstalker and cape, so that's an absolute delight.
Yet it doesn't feel like cliche because you're functioning in them rather than quoting them. You're not just bringing them out, they were functional in that era, they were de rigeur items of fashion which have just become iconic for him, but also very useful.
Has the change in period affected your performance?
I'm sure it has.
Sherlock is more at peace with his surroundings and environment?
A little bit, a little bit. When he's in full Victorian swing, it's a really lovely feeling.
Is he still rude?
Yes, he is still rude because he cuts through mediocrity. He's a meritician, it's a meritocracy, so it doesn't matter if you're Lord and Lady such-what or if you're driving a hansom cab, or if you're one of the Baker Street boys, it's just purely about what your worth is and your qualities, it's not about social standing. So yeah, he is still rude. He's rude to idiots or people who are pompous or sexist…he's quite a crusader in that regard. That's always enjoyable to be.
What's the relationship between him and Watson? Is Watson more in awe of Holmes?
I think there's always a bit of respect rather than awe.
Is there still the 'bromance'?
You just really want to write the word 'bromance' [laughter]
There can't be an article without it in there!
There can. You can be the first! Strive for change in the press. [Laughter]
It's definitely a companionship that's evolved in our version, so we're not regressing it back to 'wow! Golly Holmes' or some kind of Nigel Bruce-esque adoration, it's more complex than that. It is an examination of what they were in the original stories but with our flavour.
We don't want to make it into a sketch, we don't want to make it into something ridiculous or comic but at the same time, because we want to be true to the original but at the same time we've got to be true to our version of it. It's that very delicate balancing act.
Is there an element of mischief in deciding to do this now?
Not too much. No, not too much.
Because it's confounding what fans are going to expect following a cliff-hanger?
But there's some fun in that?
Yeah. I suppose there's some sort of gleeful hand-rubbing, if it's needed, from Mark and Steven, but when you're playing it, you just get on and do the thing. You're committed to what you're playing.
Because of the traditional setting, do you feel the weight of other portraits of Holmes?
Not really, no. We've established ours and so have others. We're still very different from the Guy Ritchie version. This isn't steam-punk action drama, it's still our version. It still has the nuances of the original book with our twists. So, no. There will always be comparisons, always, you can't help that.
As I keep guessing, I think I'm the seventy-sixth and Robert Downey-Jr is the seventy-fifth. When you're one of that many, and some truly immeasurably iconic previous versions in the original era, it's not healthy to compare.
The other gorgeous thing about going back in time to this is that you can actually look to the books as your source material, which is what I always do for our version anyway but it's even more quantifiable to lean on them for some inspiration, insight and characterization, so that's been good, more than going back to other versions, is just going back to the source material.
Do you think you would have wanted to do period Holmes if that was the series?
Yeah! Very much, very much. I've really, really loved it. I said to Sue this morning, 'it's going to be hard to…', you know, talking about maybe doing it again. It's really enjoyable.
Do you almost prefer it?
I don't know. They're too different to compare in some ways. Yeah, I'm really crap at answering 'favourite' questions [laughter].
There must be something satisfying for you about having slicked-back hair and…
Because that's the more familiar. Like I say at the beginning, you feel like some of the weight is taken off you, you're not trying to establish this man in the 21st century.
I don't know any other actor that's been that spoiled with this role. Well, Rathbone leaped forward to the forties and fought Nazis, so that was their version of it. There's quite a lot of modern clobber. I think I'm pretty much the only one that's done that quite so severely as we have.
The original Holmes was a champion boxer. Are we going to be seeing you fighting?
Yeah, I'm always up for more fights. I keep saying that to them. I do like throwing myself around a set.
Is your Victorian Holmes quite progressive? You said earlier that he's calling people out for being sexist and so on?
I think he always was, he was very charming with women. He gave a lot of people respect that otherwise you wouldn't necessarily have thought in that era he would. He's a man who goes for quality rather than the social hierarchy, but I don't think he's any more that than he is in the books is what I was trying to say.
There's no danger that modern fans might be alienated by a Victorian Holmes?
I don't know. I don't think so though, he's got a lot of fight in him, he hasn't become patronisingly nice and charming. He defines things as they are, he's very straight with people.
And you're smoking a pipe this time?
It's a pyrotechnic pipe. I'm not smoking it, it's an effect. Even that is fun, just to have that as another part of him. There might be a magnifying glass that might be slightly bigger than the one I usually use, it might be slightly more familiar…
Any syringes full of cocaine?
Again, the props department are having a fantastic time on this job. All sorts of things are being brought into play.
Steven Moffat once said that you have to wear the Belstaff coat in every Sherlock. But you don't in this?
It's not contractual [laughter]. It's getting a bit tatty now. Mark gave me one at the end of the first series, I was like 'what are you doing?' he said 'you should enjoy this, just enjoy it, because you're only going to have two months of wearing it, you look great in it' and I was like 'oh great' so I did for a little bit, but even then I started to think 'well, it's not like somebody's going to take a photograph of me now, but what if somebody accidentally did and it then says 'Wandering around Hampstead Heath in his fucking coat!' [laughter] to seal my reputation as being a dick. So I felt self-conscious about it.
But also, I had to give it back because we've run out of them. Belstaff doesn't make them anymore and the replicas don't cut it so it's back in the cycle of the ones we've got. I'm sure he'll wear his coat again. It's like the hair, the coat, the key ingredients… but what really brings me back for more cross-generationally is just the evolution of him and the characters within the stories that you know and the stories that we create out of the stories you know. That's the real level of engagement with him I enjoy, the stuck-on bits of the doll will hopefully change at some point because what goes on underneath has to change a lot as well. As an actor, that's what intrigues us all to come back and play these characters is that there is scope for them to expand and change and evolve.
Do you think doing a Christmas Victorian episode could become a bit of a tradition?
Keep coming back for more? Maybe, maybe. I don't know. We'll see how this one goes. I think if it becomes impossible to schedule a season every year, year and a half then yeah, absolutely, why not.
It's a great deal of fun, this, but it does advance things, it's not just on its own.
How determined are you to keep making time for Sherlock?
Pretty determined. I'm still enjoying it. We'll see how the next series goes, but as it is in this room, as I've said many times before, I'd love to keep ageing with him. Martin and I started this relatively young compared to a lot of Holmes and Watsons, so why not?
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Who doesn't know the word 'Facebook' nowadays?
It's the big thing right now, and you'd have to be living under a rock to not know it. The big question is, what's so good about it? What's so addictive? What's with the urge to facebook instead of doing your homework/work, anything but facebook?
Is it the applications (apps.)?
"Okay, hang on, just let me send one more growing gift."
"I just need to feed my puppy! You wouldn't want him to die would you?"
"One more poke! Just one, I swear!"
My own favourite app. is Pieces of Flair. Virtual badges that brighten up your day (or depress it; either way).
Is it the convenient way to connect with people all over the world? (Only if the other person has a facebook account, too, though.)
"Just let me finish writing on her wall."
"I'm commenting on his photo, can't it wait?"
Or is it the thrill of beating your friends at games?
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"I Bubble-Worded your butt, sucker."
"Ooh, 290 points to 98, buurn."
So what the heck is it? It's certainly not the layout, the new facebook layout has gotten a few complaints, and greatly confused people like my mum (no offense meant).
Though, admittedly, both of the layouts (old and new) are already better than some other similar sites, such as Yuwie, which offers money for every click on your page. Facebooks' advertisments (ads) are not in your face, but still visible.
And so, I have a few theories on why Facebook is such a success.
Theory #1: It was the first of its kind.
Simple, but true. Facebook is pretty ahead of its time. All the other websites that are somewhat modelled after it do not have the drive of people already on Facebook, like Friendster for example. Part of what's missing there are the applications. I mean, half of the purpose of logging on to Facebook is to see what your flower has grown into, right?
Theory #2: The wide selection of games.
As I mentioned before, there are some great apps on Facebook and that means games too. The games are Addictive with a capital A. My brother now has to monitor my mum to make sure that she is not playing word games when she is meant to be doing her work. And the games are fun, with Mario Kart now available.
Theory #3: Easily sharing whatever news you find on the internet.
With the 'post a link' feature, you can share the latest news, Youtube videos and many other sites at a click of a button.
Facebook has been recognized as the next big thing. TIME magazine did an article on the top 3 biggest things in the Information Technology (IT) world in no particular order, and Facebook was among the 3, along with Google and Apple.
And so, the question still stands, what makes Facebook so addictive? It's possibly something that I mentioned above, maybe something else.
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La Palma Cross-country
Situated at the north of the Canaries archipelago, La Palma or isla bonita, surface area of 708m2, came into existence by volcanic eruption two million years ago.La Palma, one of the highest islands in the world with an altitude of 2400m, has unrivalled natural resources and a unique climate. On one day you'll discover its volcanic gravel routes, the next day you'll be riding in dense tropical forests. If you're looking for an unspoilt destination away from the tourist crowds, diverse and spectacular scenery and the clearest skies in the northern hemisphere, then this week mountain biking on tracks and enjoyable footpaths is made for you!
Day 1: Participants arrive at La Palma airport, 15 minute transfer by car to our wonderfulhotel in the Breña area. Unpack and set up the bikes and bienvenidos aperitif!
Day 2: 20 minute car transfer direction El Refugio del Pilar (1455m). From there, we set offfor a circuit of the surrounding volcanic area of La Palma, alternating superb trails and also some fantastic volcanic gravel singletracks before a swooping finish down to the sea along the slope of the youngest volcano of the Canaries, the Ténéguia. Meal on the seafront at the Fuencaliente's famous kiosk. Transfer to our hotel in the south-east of the island near Breña. Evening meal at Santa Cruz (optional) 30 kms +600m-1500m
Day 3: One hour transfer via Santa Cruz and climb to 1500m direction la Fuente de Oelsen. In a magnificent pine forest we start the ride on piste followed by singletracks. We come close to the Puntallana refuge hut before taking the track which allows us to pick up the end of the road leading to the heights of La Caldera at more than 2300m altitude. Here a small picnic is ready for us after which we'll follow the piste back down to the Los Gallegos refuge hut, then singletracks and trails to finish the ride at our new hotel in Barlovento. Two swimming pools as well as a Jacuzzi will help you relax in this typically Canarian hotel. 30kms +700m-1300m
Day 4: We start out from the hotel on our bikes direction Briestas and the superb "Pinos Canarios" forests on the north coast, then descent to Roque Faro and it's typical restaurant for lunch.
Afterwards we enter the magnificent wild tropical forest along tracks and trails before reaching the picturesque village of El Tablado. Transfer along the north coast. Tonight we sleep at in Barlovento. 28kms +600m-900m
Day 5: Free day with possibility of visiting the astrophysics observatory at 2400m altitude, natural swimming pool near Barlovento , hiking in the surrounding area or visiting the picturesque village of Santa Cruz etc..
Day 6: Start on our bikes from the hotel direction la Laguna de Barlovento, then a climb to higher ground passing through the Laurisilva forest before reaching the summit at 1400m and admiring the view of the coastline. Return to the hotel along singletracks and trails through the magnificent humid tropical forest. 28kms +800m-800m Meal at the end of the ride. Tonight we sleep at Barlovento.
Day 7: 45 minute transfer in direction of the north-west part of the island. Tracks following the coastline through magnificent "Pinos Canarios" forests, crop fields and vineyards as well as some easygoing singletracks before reaching Tijarafe village. Then downhill to the port and beach at Tazacorte. Swimming and meal on the seafront. Transfer direction our hotel in Breña. 32kms +500m-1500m. Pack up the bikes and typical meal at santa Cruz(optional)
Day 8: Short transfer to the airport and end of trip. Hasta Luego!
 1320 Chf (minimum 5 people).or 1290 euros
Groups of 6 people or more : 1250 Chf per person.or 1190 euros
- 7 nights half-board accommodation ( 5 meals in the hotel) in 2 different hotels
- 5 days cross country mountain biking around the island of La Palma, Canary Islands
- Swiss mountain bike guide and assistant (depending on the number of riders)
- All transfers by vehicle with driver and bike trailer
- Professional mechanic
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As Spring approaches we are seeing more and more hikers in the forests that surround Snowbird Mountain Lodge and the Joyce Kilmer/Slickrock/Citico Wilderness in the Nantahala National Forest. It's these times that we spend time helping to find
"lost" hikers and I thought this might be a good space to give you some tips about being in this remote area of North Carolina.
Know that here, all of the usual hiking tips apply.
1. make sure that you have appropriate hiking shoes/boots on your feet as all of our trails in the area are root and rock strewn, a twisted or broken ankle here will cause major problems.
2. Cell Phones are great tools, but realize that in this remote section of North Carolina and Tennessee, they WILL NOT work in most locations. So, the ability to send a text or make a call for help is all but impossible!
3. Make sure that you have a day pack at the very least. Inside the pack please carry some extra food, water, water purifying supplies, rain gear, first aid kit and warm clothing.
All of these common sense items are especially important in the woods that surround Robbinsville. This is remote country and yet so close. This area isn't like the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, but sparsely populated and traveled. These are the qualities that make this area so beautiful and attractive and Fun to be in!
Without a doubt you can have an amazing time in our woods and we want you to. If I can help you in any way, don't hesitate to call me at Snowbird Mountain Lodge – 800-941-9290 and I'll help you plan a great adventure in nature!
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Larry Fitzgerald, Carson Palmer, and You
I've already written about the celebrities who will be auctioning off exclusive experiences at my big party next Monday night to raise money for a hospital in Nigeria, and I've extended my personal invitation for you to get in on the fun. Now I want to share a few extra details about two of the auction packages I'm most excited about.
At the auction, you'll have two chances to bid on experiences that will take place at the LPGA Founders Cup Pro-am in Scottsdale on March 19, 2014.
One winning bidder, along with two friends, will join Larry Fitzgerald and Nicole Castrale as a team competing in the Pro-am. Another winning bidder, again with two friends, will join Carson Palmer and two LPGA golfers to be named later (who will each play nine holes with your team).
As if those opportunities weren't enough already, check out all of this fun stuff that will be included with both experiences:
- Four (4) commemorative tee gift package
- Four (4) Invitations for two (2) to the Tuesday of Tournament Week Pairings Party and Wednesday of Tournament Week Kick-Off Reception following completion of Pro-Am play
- Forty (40) Good Any Day Tickets, allowing access to the Tournament grounds and public access areas (valid any one day Tuesday – Sunday of Tournament Week)
- Four (4) Founders Club tickets for admission to an open-air hospitality area located near the 18th green on Tournament Site (valid Thursday – Sunday of Tournament Week), which includes complimentary food and beverage
- Four (4) sponsor parking pass, valet service included, valid during Tournament Week, Tuesday – Sunday.
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Yes, it is true, Gracie does have international friends! Oreo contacted Gracie to tell her all about his favorite dog parks in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Oreo frequently visits Heritage Park and enjoys every minute of it. Every night around 6:00 p.m. Oreo reminds Bill McLean that it is time to head out to the park.
According to Bill, Heritage Park is a GREAT place for all kinds of dog breeds to mingle. Everyone, including the dog owners, has a great time socializing with each other. On a good night there could be between 25 and 30 dogs all over the park.
There is a small trail that winds though an adjoining bush area where on most nights the local folks (with pets not too far behind or in front) will go for a walk. This circular trail generally takes about 15 minutes to complete. "Sometimes we'll walk 2 or 3 loops around" says Bill.
A couple of years back a group picnic was organized (potluck) and all the dogs were included! The park is a community green space that is zoned as an off-leash area for dogs.
There are two other major off-leash dog parks in Ottawa: Bruce Pit (west side of Ottawa) and Conroy Pit (the one Oreo goes to on occasion, east side of Ottawa).
Both parks are great for LONG walks and you can easily spend up to 2 or more hours just wondering around all the trails.
Oreo is extremely lucky to have these and a few other locations available for his furry friends to go to and play. All of the park listed above are open and available year round. For more information on dog parks in Canada please visit the City of Ottawa and the Ottawa Dog Blog. For information on the regulations for taking your dog to Canada, please visit Pet Relocation.com
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Ham's restaurants offers fun and casual dining - "A Good Time" combined with great food. Started in Greensboro North Carolina in 1935, Ham's has grown into a chain of 18 community restaurants. Each of these provides a family friendly, laid-back atmosphere where you can enjoy a wide variety of the very best meals.
Since our early years Ham's has been proud to offer an outstanding selection of beers that includes many styles that are famous around the world. We also have some of the newest and most innovative drink ideas to compliment your dining experience.
In addition, we present an ever-changing lineup of fun events, including sports coverage, live entertainment, karaoke nights, and contests for our patons.
Today, as in years gone by, we strive to provide only top-notch service. Our friendly staff members pride themselves in making sure every Ham's patron gets a fun, relaxing experience - every visit. We don't just sell food to customers; we are in the business of creating "A Good Time" in our communities!