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::: Ok Doctor, here's an alternative. I've replaced "Russell Byers" with <nowiki>"Russell Byers{{!!}}Russell Byers (1)"</nowiki>, and all seems to work perfectly, without any need for the numerical redirects. I've only done him. You can do the other 15 if you like, and then delete the 16 redirects. I'll do them later if you prefer.--[[User:Drawoh|Drawoh]] 09:29, 14 July 2010 (BST)
:::: Fixed. :) --[[User:Drawoh|Drawoh]] 12:35, 14 July 2010 (BST)
== The next two weeks ==
From 12 July 2010 to 23 July 2010 will be diverted entirely to wikiwork.
I am here:
Every weekday:
[[User:The Doctor|The Doctor]] 11:51, 14 July 2010 (BST)
== Countdown Wii Game ==
If you're going to do episodes, at least have the decency to do them correctly, please. I found no fewer than 5 mistakes on your copy of this episode. [[User:JRTerrier24|JRTerrier24]] 18:53, 20 July 2010 (BST)
:Well, I tried. Still, could be worse. [[User:The Doctor|The Doctor]] 09:19, 21 July 2010 (BST)
==PUSSIEROT==
Putting nonsense into the more serious parts of the Wiki is not taken lightly. One more occurrance and you could well get suspended.--[[User:Drawoh|Drawoh]] 17:52, 21 July 2010 (BST)
== Password Problem ==
Yes, I think that's sorted --[[User:The Countdown Man|The Countdown Man]] 13:52, 22 July 2010 (BST)
1 FUBARED
2 Series 62
3 COC13
4 My Dream Series
5 Episode 5058
6 Clive Freedman
7 Signing your messages
9 Featured Articles
10 JOLT
11 12 round format
12 Numerical redirects
13 Countdown Wii Game
14 Supreme Championship II
16 Episodes category
17 Episode 5085
18 Password Problem
FUBARED
F**ked up beyond all repair/recognition- basically the knock-out table bore no relation to the actual finals as they took place (indeed, it had Allan Saldanha beating Harvey Freeman in the semi-final) and had seedings, where series 33 didn't. Best to rip it out and start again. Nebagram 22:11, 17 May 2010 (BST)
Your comment about Nikki being told she's in the finals makes more sense today than yesterday. However, some other contestants were also told when they'd finished their run that they were on the leaderboard at a place one position higher than they should be. One was Peter; another, I believe, was Claudia. So for consistency, either include them all, or none of them. I understand that the reason for these errors was that the leaderboard being maintained by the production team had inadvertently omitted one name. In any case, it's only relevant until the final lineup is known.--Drawoh 22:50, 18 May 2010 (BST)
COC13
My reason for reverting your recent edit, twice, is that one of the contestants, Jon Corby, was from Series 54.--Drawoh 21:23, 1 June 2010 (BST)
My Dream Series
Lewis Hamilton v Jenson Button :-D Matt Smith 5 jun 2010, 1217 bst
The conundrum you used in Round 14 of Episode F6 was a plural. Just sayin. JohnnyCanuck 14:50, 12 June 2010 (BST)
I watch F1 occasionally, eh, but I'm more a fan of American game shows, eh. Sadly, we don't get Countdown over in the Great White North, eh? JohnnyCanuck 22:18, 12 June 2010 (BST)
You spelled VUVUZELA wrong.
Felipe versus Heikki or Jenson? The Doctor
Will there be another? Supply and demand. The Doctor 16:55, 12 July 2010 (BST)
I'd love to see another F1 series (I'm kind of nostalgic for Richard and the 9 round format these days), but bring back Carol and Rachel. I want more good storylines with them. Huff FTW! JohnnyCanuck 15:10, 13 July 2010 (BST)
FTW = For The Win JohnnyCanuck 15:48, 13 July 2010 (BST) (Also, maybe you should make a new page for each series, like this: User:The Doctor/Formula Series 2. If you keep going with these episodes, the old one will get way too long.)
If you're going to do recaps of certain episodes, there are two things you need to know.
1. I sort out ALL recaps (with the exception of Mondays), so you're not required to do them! 2. If you're going to make a botched-up version of it, at least have the decency to do it all correctly in future! JRTerrier24 18:44, 11 June 2010 (BST)
Clive Freedman
I've undone your attempt at changing the Clive Freedman's page name for a couple of reasons.
The convention for contestants with duplicate names is to qualify them by the series in which they started their run, even though it may spill over to a second series. There is no advantage in having 6 & 7 in the page title, as it's never seen, other than in the category lists.
Putting such characters as & in a page title have very unfortunate consequences, one of which results in the page in question not being able to be accessed at times.
BTW, if you do a move again, as you did with Ben Cooke earlier in the week, there's a lot more to be done than just moving the page and creating a disambiguation page. All the pages which refer to the page which as been moved have themselves to be edited. In the case of the Ben Cooke page which you moved, there were 19 references elsewhere in the wiki which needed amending.--Drawoh 19:37, 7 July 2010 (BST)
No worries. Series 30 references to Ben Cooke have been fixed now. :) --Drawoh 19:25, 8 July 2010 (BST)
Signing your messages
I notice you have been manually signing your messages. Well, you don't need to do that, it is a lot of work. There is a button at the top of the window (where the bold, italic etc. buttons are) which does it automatically for you. You will find this 2nd from the right in the row of buttons. --Vande 17:01, 9 July 2010 (BST)
You mean like this?--The Doctor 17:20, 9 July 2010 (BST)
Hooray. It DID IT!!!!!--The Doctor 17:20, 9 July 2010 (BST)
Glad to be of help ;-) --Vande 17:23, 9 July 2010 (BST)
Doctor, in round 8, C1 explained that he had a method which used all the numbers. Basically what he did was:
and then he multiplied it by the (5 x 100) + 8, because that still made the right answer.
Hope that clears things up. :) JRTerrier24 16:33, 11 July 2010 (BST)
Hello Crispy,
Could you give us some notification if there will be another featured article for august. As you will see on Countdown:Featured articles, I have made a few more proposals, going on the basis that they have the same amount of detail as Harvey Freeman, who went on to become an FA. I'm not going to start nagging about Scott Mearns, but I really do think he should be in there for August. Anyway, back to the point, and could you please tell us whether the will be another Featured Article for August 2010. Please. Please.
The Doctor 12:09, 12 July 2010 (BST)
Try and avoid making such a mess around here, Doctor! ;-) I'd suggest the article for Scott Mearns has all of the content prerequisite for a featured article, but is let down by the general tone in places - i.e., it doesn't quite feel encyclopaedic. That said, there will definitely be a new FA for August, for which I will make preparations nearer the end of the month. I normally give articles a little proofread and a tidy during this process, but if you want to you are welcome to have a go at 'beefing it up' yourself.
As an example, I can see immediately that the introductory paragraph needs extending. It needs to be longer than the Twitter-esque summary that it is at the moment, but not so long that it contains every fact from the body of the article. For a good example of the ideal length in my opinion, see the article for Stewart Holden.
I hope this helps! Best wishes, Chris 'Crispy' Philpot 11:52, 13 July 2010 (BST)
Where in the page? The Doctor 16:40, 13 July 2010 (BST)
Oh, thanks truly. I am doing a "rewrite" "write" now (to use a Richard Whiteley style joke.) The Doctor 12:02, 13 July 2010 (BST)
OH, DAMN IT! I was giving him a rewrite then I accidentally pressed Delete. [cries] The Doctor 12:12, 13 July 2010 (BST)
OK, Chris, I've given him a rewrite. By the way, I added a totally Scott Mearns-unrealted comment on the featured articles page. Ryan Taylor, anyone? The Doctor 10:00, 15 July 2010 (BST)
That's looking a lot better. I'll give it a once over myself as a second pair of eyes shortly before it goes up. Thanks for your hard work! Chris 'Crispy' Philpot 15:31, 17 July 2010 (BST)
Just in case you miss my request in the original edit summary, please see and respond to my message to you on Talk:JOLT.
Chris 'Crispy' Philpot 12:53, 13 July 2010 (BST)
12 round format
I only put this in because all the other formats have their own page. I thought it would be best to make up the set. The Doctor 13:44, 13 July 2010 (BST)
That's fair enough, but I feel that just because there is a gap it doesn't mean it needs filling. As they say, a composition is not about the notes you use but rather the notes you leave out. I'll leave the page for a few days as I am happy to listen if anyone has a particularly strong reason for it to remain. Please don't take my actions on the wiki this afternoon as negative, by the way - your enthusiasm is greatly appreciated. I just have to keep an eye on things like consistency with other pages which are easily forgotten when you're passionately writing away. :-)
Numerical redirects
OK, this one's beyond me... what's with the seed order numerical redirects for Series 2 finalists e.g., Ash Haji (7)? -- Chris 'Crispy' Philpot 18:50, 13 July 2010 (BST)
I believe he's done this because in series 2 there were 16 seeds rather than the usual 8. So the Coc-progress template has been used, as the finals progress template only allows up to 8 seeds. The finals template adds seed number, whereas the Coc does not. A better way, IMO, would have been (to ask someone) to produce a finals-progress template which allows for 16 seeds.--Drawoh 19:45, 13 July 2010 (BST)
Unless I am misunderstanding, there is one under the Progress heading. I am just not sure why the seed numbers need to be appended to each seed's name and this link redirected to their article. Heck, even if that form was preferred it would be much simpler just to have [[Ash Haji|Ash Haji (7)]] which avoids having sixteen redundant redirects. (I am ignoring the fact that the seed numbers are never wikilinked anyway!) Am I just missing something? -- Chris 'Crispy' Philpot 22:58, 13 July 2010 (BST)
Ok Doctor, here's an alternative. I've replaced "Russell Byers" with "Russell Byers{{!!}}Russell Byers (1)", and all seems to work perfectly, without any need for the numerical redirects. I've only done him. You can do the other 15 if you like, and then delete the 16 redirects. I'll do them later if you prefer.--Drawoh 09:29, 14 July 2010 (BST)
Fixed. :) --Drawoh 12:35, 14 July 2010 (BST)
Countdown Wii Game
http://www.apterous.org is the only sensible answer to your query there. Nebagram 15:15, 14 July 2010 (BST)
Supreme Championship II
Not bad, although if Series 64 and 65 are included you may have to wait another year to make the championship. Maybe the Series 63, 64 and 65 champions should be replaced with Natascha Kearsey, Paul Gallen and Steve Briers seeing as they won CoCs but not regular series. JohnnyCanuck 12:46, 15 July 2010 (BST)
Also, I made up a 16-round format that you might want to use: LNCLLLNCLLLNCLNC.
I've done my best to correct the aspect ratio of the photo of Julie Russell. It's probably not a perfect job as it is a crop of the original freeze-frame and hence not exactly 16:9/4:3. However, it's a lot better than it was. -- Chris 'Crispy' Philpot 15:39, 17 July 2010 (BST)
Episodes category
Hi Doctor. I know that you've seen what I've done to create an alternative letters template to prevent non-broadcastable episodes from being included in the Episodes with round details category. And what you tried out is exactly the right thing to do. So can you now change each of the Template:R-letters... templates to Template:Rx-letters... in all of your fantasy games. You'll know when you've picked all the lines, as the Episodes with round details category will no longer be generated for the page. Many thanks. If you prefer, I can do it for you. :) --Drawoh 17:32, 20 July 2010 (BST)
Yep. Could you do it for me, btw i have them on my watchlists so you will not get away with anything... and could you please do one for nums and cons. The Doctor 17:38, 20 July 2010 (BST)
Nums and Cons don't need an alternative template, as it's only the R-letters template which generates the category in question.--Drawoh 18:18, 20 July 2010 (BST)
Your talk pages done.--Drawoh 18:49, 20 July 2010 (BST)
If you're going to do episodes, at least have the decency to do them correctly, please. I found no fewer than 5 mistakes on your copy of this episode. JRTerrier24 18:53, 20 July 2010 (BST)
Well, I tried. Still, could be worse. The Doctor 09:19, 21 July 2010 (BST)
Password Problem
Yes, I think that's sorted --The Countdown Man 13:52, 22 July 2010 (BST)
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Eastman Kodak Files for Chapter 11
January 19, 2012 3:38 am EDT
After a series of mishaps that included running low on money, rumors of bankruptcy, the resignation of three board members, an inability to sell its patents, and the start of several lawsuits based on its patent claims, Eastman Kodak (NYSE: EK) filed for Chapter 11. Management had insisted it had no such plans, just as it had said earlier in the year that it had the money to make it until its patents were sold or licensed.
Kodak has desperately begun several patent suits, the most recent of which was against Samsung. The firm announced that:
[I]t and its U.S. subsidiaries filed voluntary petitions for chapter 11 business reorganization in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.
The business reorganization is intended to bolster liquidity in the U.S. and abroad, monetize non-strategic intellectual property, fairly resolve legacy liabilities, and enable the Company to focus on its most valuable business lines. The Company has made pioneering investments in digital and materials deposition technologies in recent years, generating approximately 75% of its revenue from digital businesses in 2011.
Kodak has obtained a fully-committed, $950 million debtor-in-possession credit facility with an 18-month maturity from Citigroup to enhance liquidity and working capital. The credit facility is subject to Court approval and other conditions precedent. The Company believes that it has sufficient liquidity to operate its business during chapter 11, and to continue the flow of goods and services to its customers in the ordinary course.
Kodak expects to pay employee wages and benefits and continue customer programs. Subsidiaries outside of the U.S. are not subject to proceedings and will honor all obligations to suppliers, whenever incurred. Kodak and its U.S. subsidiaries will honor all post-petition obligations to suppliers in the ordinary course.
Kodak has traded below $1 for some time, with occasional runs up as investors believed it had made decisions that would allow the company to continue as a going concern. Those equity investors have now been wiped out.
Douglas A. McIntyre
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Ramat Yishay
During August 2005 a salvage excavation was conducted in Ramat Yishay (West), at the intersection of Ha-Oren and Ha-Narkissim Streets (Permit No. A-4574*; map ref. NIG 21560/73422; OIG 16560/23422), in the wake of damage caused to the ceiling of a burial cave. The excavation, carried out on behalf of the Antiquities Authority and sponsored by the Israel Electric Corporation, was directed by L. Porat, with the assistance of A. Shapiro (surveying) and H. Smithline (photography).
The current excavation is at the top of the hill upon which the settlement was built. Previous excavations at the site yielded remains from the Roman, Byzantine, Early Islamic and Crusader periods (ESI 18:30–31; 20:25*–26*; HA-ESI 117; HA-ESI 119).
Part of a cave and a small quarry to its southwest were exposed (Fig. 1). An elliptical shaft (L102; 0.9 × 1.3 m) led to a burial chamber that was partially excavated (L101; 2.6 × 2.9 m; height 0.9 m). Part of its ceiling was preserved. The cave contained dark soil and fragments of pottery vessels that dated to the Intermediate Bronze Age.
Southwest of the cave was a quarry (L100; 0.5 × 1.7 m) in which the negatives of ashlar stones and their severance channels were discerned. Potsherds from the Roman period were found above the quarry.
The burial cave provided the first evidence from the Intermediate Bronze Age at the site, which previously yielded only later period remains.


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"Destroy him, my robots." -- Digital voiceover, 'Impossible Mission'
Books My first computer was an Acorn Electron. It was the cheaper home version of the BBC Micro with a similar cream finish but smaller and I loved it. I think my parents bought it from Dixons for about eighty pounds one Christmas in the mid-eighties and I spent every waking hour using the thing for years. It's were I learnt to type and although I know now the games weren't all that good I used to spend hours playing the likes of Kissin Cousins and Hacker, Repton being far beyond my price bracket until they appeared in the Hits compilations years later. My Dad too would sit up until the wee small hours playing Pacman knock-off Snapper and later Chuckie Egg, a time he also looks back on with nostalgia.
My next computer was a Commodore 64 and I loved that too, the music, the games. I was there during its glory years when Zzap! 64 magazine was the place to read about the best new games and I 'enjoyed' the arguments about whether it was better than the ZX Spectrum, especially since it clearly was. I'd borrowed a Sinclair whilst one of the Electrons (since we went through a couple) was repaired and it just didn't seem as good. My cousins had an Amstrad CPC and I did envy that since it had its own monitor and built in disk drive. Anyway, I was still trying to beat Wizball on the C64c right up until and after the boat had sailed and everyone was hammering away on Sony Playstations. After that was a low-spec PC and it was PCs all the way until the relatively high spec machine I'm writing this and somewhere along the line I stopped playing games.
But I was still ripe Jack Railton's excellent The A-Z of Cool Computer Games, a nostalgia trip through a period that he himself claims can nebulously described as the golden age from the early seventies through to time of the Playstation, when the simple act of moving a white line of pixels up and down a screen to deflect another pixel was considered revolutionary and having a small black kit built computer without a proper keyboard was the cutting edge of home computer entertainment. At this point I should reveal that Jack Railton is revealed inside to be the pen name for Jack Kibble-White one of the contributors to the Off The Telly website (which I've also been known to write for), a fact I was entirely oblivious of until I bought it and was looking inside the back cover sitting on Chester Station, closely accompanied by a exclamation of 'That's what you look like!' after seeing the photo.
As Jack explains on a page marked 'the point of this book' this is a subjective collection – it's no encyclopaedia and certainly not exhaustive. In each entry, rather than providing a detailed production history of the game or computer system, we find instead an evocation of the experience, what the packaging and loading screens looked like, how difficult a game was to play and the technological pitfalls of the system it plays on, like the fact that Jet Set Willy couldn't be completed because it had been rushed to the shops or the famous colour glitches on the Speccy. It's also pleasingly British in its perspective; too often similar books have hailed from America were Arcade machines and consoles were the story and no one would know what a Dragon 32 was. It's Sega Megadrive not Genesis here and Jack even takes the time to give the Acorn Archimedes some of the credit it deserves – Risc OS was robbed – those machines seemed as fast then as modern PCs are now.
Some of the best entries aren't about the games at all, but the social mores paraphernalia which surrounded them, the magazines, the shops and the television programmes. There's a very detailed entry on Gamesmaster, the Channel 4 show hosted by Dominic Diamond which clearly stopped being indispensable when Dexter Fletcher took over. Jack's the only other person I know who seems to remember First Class with Debbie Greenwood, late of QVC, at the helm. Long held aspirations are punctured – it turns out the Mindlink peripheral didn't in fact control games through thought but the twitching of an eyebrow and the Virtual Boy which sits in the window of most GameStations is going to go unbought upon discovery that it's not really proper virtual reality and all done with mirrors. It's also good to hear that I'm not the only one who finds the process of seeing how far a digital environment has been designed more enjoyable than playing the game and that the goal was called a 'painted-on wall'. My least favourite was an upturned car in Resident Evil which could clearly be jumped over but could only be traversed by hiking back through half of the Raccoon City.
Ultimately, the book cleverly recreates a time when computer games weren't really mainstream and neither were the computers they were played on. You either spent most of your time outside playing football or inside playing Football Manager – rare was the kid who did both. It was also a solitary activity; no matter how many games had a two player mode, a lot of the kids at the keyboard were using both players. Throughout, a seasoned retro-gamer like me will find latent memories coming to the fore – the smell of the computer games shops, the interminable wait for a game to load via cassette, copy typing a programme from Electron User only to find it didn't work or the computer would crash before finishing. He addresses piracy as it was then – a school friend stacking up a mass of games on a C90 cassette some of which might even work. And even if neither the Acorn Electron or Wizball receive their own separate entries, this is still a valuable social history which is sure to get us old timers firing up their emulators to relive the glory days.
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Review 2007 Don't forget I'm still looking for contributions to this year's Review 2007 and it would be great to have you along. The full details are here. So far I've been lucky enough to get seven definites, a possibly definitely and a couple of possibly maybes. If you feel you have something to say, do let me know and I'll add you to the list.
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"Questions are never indiscreet: answers sometimes are" -- Oscar Wilde
Politics So Kate Moss apparently mistook David Cameron for a plumber. Here is the problem I have with the story as Cameron tells it and feel free to warn me to lighten up if you like.
On the one hand he's labeling Moss as stupid for not being able to recognise the Leader of the Opposition and of the Conservative Party which is hardly very discreet considering he's the Leader of the Opposition and of the Conservative Party and therefore taking the piss out of a potential voter then constituent or useful supporter.
On the other, he's essentially reminding people that even though he is the Leader of the Opposition and of the Conservative Party, he's not a recognizable enough figure yet that even celebrities know who he is. Either way it's enough to make us wonder if he's enough of statesman to be Prime Minister.
one hundred and one more things I would put into room 101...
It's nearly five years since the last list so it's about time for an update. Although frankly this time I could have gone to five hundred and one:
1. Tourists who get their picture taken next to a thing without bothering to look at the thing
2. Ring openers on food tins
3. Using the words geek and nerd in a derogatory way
4. Mobile phones in auditoriums
5. Misogyny
6. Boring dvd commentaries
7. Oily ham
8. Potichomania
9. Musak
10. People who congregate at the front of a bus near the door when the rest is empty
11. Websites that assume that everyone is using broadband
12. Alistair Campbell appearing and smirking anywhere on the BBC
13. Incomplete art due to mortality being completed by someone else
14. Bad ideas that seemed like good ideas at the time
15. Romantic comedies longer than an hour and half
16. What Women Want
17. Having a lack of invention
18. ITV1
19. Jeremy Kyle
20. Exploitation on television
21. So-called reality television
22. The death of Alan Coren
23. Staying in on a Friday night (again)
24. Right wingers (with one or two exceptions)
25. Left wingers (with one or two exceptions)
26. The lack of a clear choice in politics these days
27. Harry Enfield playing Dirk Gentley
28. David Jason playing Rincewind
29. Me not being very good at video games
30. Still biting my nails
31. Time flying when you're having fun
32. £60 to get to London from Liverpool
33. Being less well read than I appear
34. Experimentation being used as a smokescreen
35. George Lucas' delusion that the prequels improved the Star Wars saga
36. Itchiness
37. Glitchy Freeview
38. Not giving credit when it's due
39. Ballads ruining perfectly good pop albums
40. The Sugababes without Siobhan or Mutya
41. Musical prejudices
42. Country music
43. Baseball caps
44. Soccer in general
45. People who call it soccer when they don't have to
46. Stinging nettles
47. The death of narrative cinema
48. The Underworld films
49. Unacknowledged emails
50. Farting at just the wrong moment
51. Sharon Osbourne
52. Pointless arguments
53. Tabloids
54. Sorkinless The West Wing
55. Mertonless Room 101
56. Racism
57. Jokes about Liverpool. Now.
58. People who clap between movements in classical music
59. People who couch theatrically between movements in classical music
60. Discovering classical music at the age of 32
61. Stagecoach
62. Weblogs going mainstream
63. Peter Andre and Jordan appearing on other chat shows to publicise their own chat show
64. Poorly planned art galleries
65. Whispering when you should be shouting
66. People not 'getting' me
67. Dvd caddies
68. Simon Cowell
69. My handwriting
70. The first series of Torchwood
71. Idiocy
72. Gaps
73. Woody Allen's films not getting a proper release in the UK
74. Widespread flooding
75. People who piss on the seats in public toilets
76. Experts who clearly aren't
77. Conversations that entail someone describing an episode of The Simpsons to you
78. Self service tills in supermarkets
79. Bad writers who've been told they're good writers
80. People treat the cinema like their own living room
81. Piles
82. Misanthropy without satire
83. Jimmy Carr
84. Demolishing modernist architecture
85. Not having enough hours in the day
86. People who hate the French
87. Shouty television presenters
88. Self-righteousness
89. Caffeine making me sleepy
90. Global warming doubters
91. The HD-DVD / Blue-Ray war
92. Cello taping free gifts to the covers of magazines
93. Homophobes
94. Comic Sans
95. Tesco's Healthy Eating range
96. Remembering the things I do
97. A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare
98. Pointless pink
99. Glenn Gould singing along as he played
100. Rudeness
101. Not being able to think of something post on the blog and having to take drastic action
Posted on Friday, November 09, 2007 3 comments Labels: the story of my life
"Attraction is not a choice." -- David DeAngelo
Dating Marvo at The Impulisive Buy considers Match.com: "Sure I could do it the old fashioned way and walk up to a complete stranger, introduce myself, tell her she's beautiful, ask her if she would be interested in a date, she replies "With you?," I say "yes," wait during an awkward pause while she thinks of a good excuse, and then says, "I'm sorry, I already have a boyfriend" or "I'm sorry, I'm not into guys," but getting a date via an internet dating site is so much easier because, if you do your search correctly, women on these sites are most likely single and not a lesbian."
Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? (Part One)
TV Deep in the mists, probably the late nineties, I was at one of those parties having one of those conversations with someone who'd clearly been drinking more than I had. I could tell I was having one of those conversations because somehow we'd managed to discover that I was (what was then) a late blooming Doctor Who fan and they were talking about how great Jane Asher had been in the series – I think they must have spotted one of her cookbooks on a shelf in the random strange house where these kinds of parties tend to happen.
Despite my protestations they were adamant that Jane had been in the programme, all posh like, and had been absolutely brilliant. Briefly, like Maria in this week's episode, I began to question my own memory and wondered if the milfian cake maker had actually been in the series somewhere in its long history and I'd somehow blanked it out. Then, when they said between burps 'You know with the bloke with the scarf' and 'Paris' it became apparent that he'd gotten her mixed up with Lalla Ward, which is interesting because only lately have they begun to look at all alike.
Of course, as with pretty much every actor in the uk who isn't Christopher Lee, Asher has been in something connected with the good series, replacing a character usually played by the clearly alive and therefore available Carole Ann Ford in the radio drama-documentary Whatever Happened to Susan Foreman?, the title of which could have been of some inspiration to Gareth Roberts when naming …
The Sarah Jane Adventures: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?: Episode One
… otherwise it was a massive coincidence and he'll have a surprising moment when someone points it out to him.
Since the great New Earth scandal I've tended to be quite suspicious when anything is previewed/reviewed as well as this episode has been. I've seen this one stamped with classic status and one of the best bits of new Who everywhere from The Stage blog through to the popular press and certain other discussion boards to the extent that you have to question whether a half hour series can really sustain the plaudits. I mean I gushed over last week's episode, but that's the kind of thing I tend to do when I'm tired and desperate (see FearHerGate). But for once, everyone was right, this was amazing.
Was it the series getting around to the alternate reality timey-wimey story just seven episodes or four stories in? Yes. Wasn't it similar to Doctor Who's Human Nature in that we were seeing a world with the title character at a time of great peril? Yes. Did the performance of not as little as you think she is apparently Yasmin Paige threaten to tip into the kind of shouty melodrama not seen since Gates McFadden tried to justify the existence of Welsey Crusher in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Remember Me? Yes. Was the sight of her screen Dad spinning up and down on a skateboard the singular most bizarre image on television this year? Oh yes.
Yet, this was exciting and surprising and funny and truly scary in all the ways it should be. It was these things because instead of cynical adult going through a world that was almost but not exactly like there own cracking jokes about Tony Blair and airships, this was an early teen discovering that everything she knew had changed, a girl not yet a woman, the least likely to be believed and whom adults always seem to assume are telling tales, even though in this day and age shockingly they actually probably are more clued into what's going on in the world than we are, even when they're sitting at the back of the listening to bloody Leona Lewis through the speaker on their mobile phone.
I was probably rather harsh on Yasmin because she had a rather a job to do carrying the episode and mostly did it with aplomb. At no point did Maria crumple under the pressure, not really, dragging her dad to a library, shouting Andrea down in a way that Sarah Jane would have been proud of (shades of the Doctor's rant from the end of Bad Wolf too), generally being the force of nature she needs to be. For this girl, the event was a problem to be solved and all she needed to do was think her way through it (all the while us older viewers shouting 'It's in the box'). That said, I've had mornings, including probably the one after the aforementioned party, when I've woken up and felt like I've been living in a different reality, but a bacon butty rather than this box of delights usually sorted it out for me.
Actually Jane Asher was probably perfect casting, a figure very much in the mould of what Sarah Jane might have been like had she not become a journalist, fallen in with the Doctor and been spat out at the other end of the continuum. Her teary reaction to remembering what she'd done as child was a wonderfully played contrast to similar scenes in which her old best friend glared down an alien. Not sure about the accent, though it must have been chosen to make the difference with our hero as stark as possible. Purposefully, Andrea seems to be weaker and more interested in frippery than Sarah probably as a way of explaining how she could come under the spell of The Trickster.
He's a grim bastard isn't he? The Trickster was a classic example of how lighting, costume, a gravely voice and a well shot prosthetic can certainly be a match for CG. Isn't it heart warming to see after all these years that the old trick of filming a mouth upside down is still a valid way of creating an alien? Actually he reminded me of Bruce Dern's gatekeeper from The Lord of the Rings films with the evil dial turned up to eleven. Could he be the Black Guardian for the new age? I mean were does something like this come from other than the realm which hovers above the Whoniverse?
Sadly, true to his name The Trickster rather created the main plot hole in the episode. Why hasn't the universe imploded given the amount of things that Sarah got get dungarees mixed into during her time with the Doctor and since and how come he hasn't noticed her absence? Did someone else fill in the gap or did he travel alone, leaving countless unbound stories in his wake? Is The Trickster so powerful that he can make this kind of change and not create ripples? Clearly Maria hasn't simply slipped into another reality – it is her reality in new clothes, otherwise how did her Dad also experience a similar problem at the mind bending and truly unsettling close.
Still there's no denying this was an excellent episode. Even the brief appearance of Sarah at the opening was a joy as the bond between her and Maria grows ever larger and we discover that to Alan she stopped being the crazy lady who lives across the street, she's become a bit mumsy and that Maria's become her best mate (perhaps indicating that she understands what her relationship meant to the Doctor all those years ago). It also resisted the urge to shoehorn in Luke and Clyde into the main action in these early stages preferring instead to keep with Maria front and centre, even as she was epically dragged through the not very good at his job Graske's strange realm (I mean wow -- look at that!) and dropped into a costumed past.
Next week: How we used to live.
Posted on Thursday, November 08, 2007 0 comments Labels: behind the sofa archive, doctor who, the sarah jane adventures
"We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do." -- Benjamin Jowett
Music My ears! My eyes! Too much pink!
"A children's animated classical music experience, Barbie™ at the Symphony is a special Film with Orchestra presentation of the best-selling Barbie™ "Princess" movies. This series of 6 CGI animated films features Barbie™ singing and dancing to some of the world's best loved musical scores, with ballet sequences choreographed by Peter Martins of the New York City Ballet. Released in over 30 languages, these popular films have introduced millions of children to Ballets such as The Nutcracker and Swan Lake and the timeless music they are set to. Now, for the first time ever, families can enjoy the classical music from the films, played live by a full symphony orchestra, while watching favorite scenes on the big screen."
I can't help but wonder if the motivation here is to get kids interested in classical music or not to have to pay a composer for doing something new. As Samara notes at The F-word, there are some perfectly good unaugmented works from the canon which have been tried and tested for years. I'd also like to throw the original Fantasia into the mix which at least seemed to respect the music.
When I was a pre-teen in the early 80s (in other words before the age of twelve when I automatically became awkward around the opposite sex) I remember girls loving ballet anyway because of the ballet and the dances and the shoes and the mystique and a bit of Degas . Have we really reached a stage where a CG version of a Mattel creation is the only way of creating this kind of interest?
It'll be Optimus Prime rocking out to Wagner next. Although, actually I'd like to see that.
"Thou Shalt Signal Thy Intentions To Manoeuvre" -- Meg Pickard
Lists Meg Pickard offers Ten Commandments of Modern Social Decency: "Honour Thy Fellow Citizens (Or At Least, Thou Shalt Not Be A Prick To Strangers): Like, when someone asks you for directions, telling them to fuck off. Or loudly passing comment about someone's dress-sense/hair/age/etc. When did it become even slightly acceptable to be rude to or about complete strangers in public? One of the only things which keeps society functioning is a modicum of politeness and sense of socially-acceptable behaviour, and when that goes - when it's OK to punch a pensioner because he's slow to move out of the way when you're trying to get off the tram - we're clearly doomed."
"For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake." -- Alfred Hitchcock
Film Lisa Drysdale reveals a quirky New York cinema:
"At DRV-IN, good weather is assured (it's actually indoors) except for the upcoming Halloween shows, when a decent shroud of (fake) fog is forecast. And if you want to make out under the potted oak tree, you can do so in complete privacy. Your $75 buys the entire automobile for the duration of the movie and, although it seats six, it's entirely up to you who you invite along. Such is the demand for this particular set of wheels that a 4pm weekday matinee performance has already been added to the two evening shows screened daily."
Then in the comments someone says: "Hyde Park Picture House in Leeds used to be £1.50 on a Monday night with student discount - those were the days..." They certainly were.
"Which internet is Keen an expert on?" -- Kristine Lowe
Journalism Kristine Lowe offers a welcome argument against Andrew Keen's Cult of the Amateur, which says that amateur journalists and bloggers are ruining it for the professionals: "Well I say, good riddance, if those were artificially imposed tastes that didn't reflect reality, we are much better served without them. Except, I don't buy into the argument that internet is destroying our economy and our culture, that it will replace professional journalists with an army of stampeding citizen journalists bent on destroying everything in their way, leaving all mainstream media outlets and publishing houses bankrupt."
"When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain" -- Shakespeare
Plug! Some long overdue mentions. Firstly, Katie Lips, she of The Bold Street Project amongst a whole vast range of over things has helped launch a new online service, Treasure My Text which let's users store those very SMS messages which they might not have room for on their actual phone for memory reasons. It's an excellent idea, especially in this latest version of the world were everything seems to be done in less that a hundred and sixty characters; there must be messages which change your life and now there's somewhere to put them. Updates continue on her the official blog.
Also, long term friend of the blog Eva Katzler's debut single Angel was released yesterday. Here's the groovy flyer ...
... and some places it can be downloaded ...
iTunes | Napster| HMV | 7 Digital | TuneTribe | OD2
... and when I discovered her voice.
Posted on Tuesday, November 06, 2007 0 comments Labels: FACT Liverpool
"Social norms may force you to go to rehab for your stupidity, but the law can't touch you at all." -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
The Law Prozac Nation's Elizabeth Wurtzel seemed to drop off the planet a couple of years ago (some say for reasons which are explained in her Wikipedia entry). Turns out that like Rory Gilmore before her, she's at Yale and wrote this characteristic op-ed piece earlier in the year:
"It's hard out there for a law student. All the stuff to stumble through on the way to that J.D.: torts, property, contracts, evidence, civil procedure, AutoAdmit. [...] That last item is a new development: a Web site of postings for law schools prestigious and otherwise, where students blab about whatever. An awful lot of it is about other students, most of it mean-spirited. This is all extremely weird for those of us born before the Carter administration, who tend to assume that scrutiny about breast implants--there was a whole thread of discussion devoted to whether one Ms. J.D.-to-be was silicone-enhanced--is reserved for celebrities. The flat, affectless sexual bravado of the trash-talk on AutoAdmit is also a bit of a shock, coming from allegedly intelligent legal minds."
Previously on feeling listless, a book review.
Posted on Monday, November 05, 2007 0 comments Labels: Elizabeth Wurtzel
"Hello, my name is Dave Gorman." -- Dave Gorman, 'The Dave Gorman Collection'
Film Dave Gorman reveals what he was up to last year: "You might or might not know that last year I went off on an American road trip. I wanted to see if it was possible to get from coast to coast without giving any money to "The Man"... by which I mean I wasn't going to eat at a chain restaurant, stay in a chain hotel or - and this is the really hard bit - get fuel from a chain gas station. [...] To begin with the idea was that I'd do the trip, come home and then write a book about it. But when I talked about it with a few friends they suggested it would be a good subject for a film."
"At last, we can retire and give up this life of crime." -- Zoe, 'Serenity'
TV It might not have escaped you're attention that Joss Whedon's finally been handed a commission for a new tv show with Eliza Dushku in the lead role. He's commented at the church's website and seems very happy about the whole thing as well he might after working on the whole Wonder Woman thing for months before the studio predictably decided to go in another direction.
The details are here and although it has hints of other things in its DNA, Joss and the gang will no doubt put their own spin to it and I don't think there is anything that the writer's done which hasn't had something fabulous about it. But I'm a disciple so I'm bound to say that.
My only real concern comes from a film and tv studies place in terms of the treatment of the protagonist and how the audience is going to empathise with what sounds like a character with a range of different personalities. Will we treat them as separate individuals and sympathise with the whole 'ensemble' or is that too much of a leap?
" You may be a redneck if... your lifetime goal is to own a fireworks stand." -- Jeff Foxworthy
Life Bonfire night, and the city's main display sprang from a box on the parade field at Sefton Park exactly opposite to our flat so we had an amazing view and could feel every bang as the building vibrated. It is the closest we've been to the event and could here the 'symphonic' music (well the theme from ET, The Phantom Menace, Flight of the Bumblebee and Pomp & Circumstance) and the whoop of the massive crowd which we could only really see in the street lights as they arrived and the cars which they parked all the way around the park, on central reservations and in front of the gates of our highrise which either blocked us from getting out or stopped the hoards from getting in.
Posted on Monday, November 05, 2007 0 comments Labels: liverpool life, sefton park, the story of my life
"During that summer the channel broadcast one of the most beautiful documentaries it has ever funded." -- Me, below.
TV I've been meaning to mention this for at least five days. Off The Telly have updated their Channel 4 at 20 article to include the next five years. It's amazing how much the channel has changed even in the past couple of years. Goodness I miss RI:SE. At least it was unpredictable and you had something to shout at for its ineptitude in the morning. I was asked to contribute and my memorial for a very odd but lovely documentary has been posted in 2003. It had to be edited for space and so just as a special treat for you loyal reader, here is the writer's cut:
Alt.TV: The Is A True Story, 2003
Channel 4 for me has always worked best at the margins. At the edges of the property shows, dating games, imports, landmark dramas, chat shows and sitcoms, those quiet moments of magic which throw light on some unheralded part of life or the world. Their Alt TV strand, broadcast in 2003, like the later Three Minute Wonder does exactly that and some time during that summer the channel broadcast one of the most beautiful documentaries it has ever funded.
This Is A True Story was seeded on an excellent premise. The filmmakers led by Paul Berczeller wanted to investigate an urban myth surrounding the death of a young Japanese woman in North Dakota. So the story went, after watching the Coen Brother's Oscar winning film Fargo, Takako Konishi had travelled to the state capital, Bismarck, searching for the unclaimed money which had been buried by Steve Buscemi's character in the film (which had been shot in and around the town, called Brainerd on screen).
The town police (who had been called after Takoko had been seen wondering in the snowy wilderness just outside town) said she'd even had a map pointing out the spot where the money could be found and regardless of the protestations of the town's people that the film was a fiction, and despite what the Coens had mischievously written in the opening caption card of the film (giving this documentary its title). Sadly, she was later found dead in some woods across the state line in Minnesota.
The resulting documentary does contain all of the elements that can be found in more lurid examples; there were head and shoulder interviews and reconstructions of Takako's movements and a voice over filling in the narrative blanks. Except that in reconstructing the final days of this mysterious girl, Berczeller was inspired by La Jetée, Chris Marker's 1964 film about time travel (later remade by Terry Gilliam as Twelve Monkeys) which told its story entirely in still frames. He took a music promoter, Mimi, who had more than passing resemblance to the student and had her stand in the same wintry landscape as the dead girl and in photographs with the very townspeople who had originally interacted with Takoko.
This meant that the documentary was filled with a range of atmospheric and importantly memorable images, this confused girl standing in hotel lobbies and streets and eventually woods unable to communicate well with the people surrounding her and them with her. In choosing photography over film, Berczeller created an eerie sense of really being there, following the original girl on her path of uncertain doom; the music too eskewed melodrama in favour of mellow tones so that when the inevitable moment when the Takoko's death scene was recreated it was heartbreaking but not in a cloying way.
Arguably the piece blurred the line between television documentary and video art but as this thorough article from the filmmaker written for The Guardian at the time underlines he was not interested in simply producing a representation of the original urban myth. This was an investigation into what psychologically led this girl to travel to the US chasing this money, both by Berczeller and Mimi, who empathised with Takoko's plight. As well as providing haunting images this was as solid a piece of 'journalism' as anything you might find in primetime or with three times the duration on the big screen.
As the film revealed, in fact, sadly her interest in Fargo was just part of the miscommunication. She'd used a word similar to the indie film whilst talking to the police who'd put two and two together and made five – that version of her story had been perpetuated by the press. The truth was that she'd originally visited Minnesota with a boyfriend, an American businessman who'd later broken up with her, and unable to cope she'd revisited one of the places of their happiest times together. The final phone call she made from her hotel in Bismarck was to him, and she'd posted a suicide note to her family in those same few days. Some might say though that the truth, flying halfway across the world to die in one of the only places she was truly happy with her ex-boyfriend is the kind of grand romantic gesture you only find in myths.
But, in revealing the truth behind this urban myth, the film gave Takoko back her dignity, something which the best documentarians should be capable of. It's a cheap shot, but recently we've become rather obsessed with watercooler moments, people on television becoming punch lines passed across bar room tables, on blogs or by email, and this was the antithesis of that, taking one of those kinds of stories and revealing that beneath it all there was a once happy girl who was handed one of life's knocks, and couldn't cope. I can't imagine there are many of us who haven't felt the same way.
Posted on Monday, November 05, 2007 0 comments Labels: lost in translation, television reviews
We've got to be ready. Y'know and stuff.
TV Freema Agyeman dot com has the premiere cover of the new Torchwood Magazine. Exclusive comic strip threatened. Anyone know who is writing this?
Posted on Monday, November 05, 2007 0 comments Labels: behind the sofa archive, doctor who
"The spirit of the theme park - queues, noise, spooky music - is upon me and, however hard I concentrate, I just can't shake it off." -- Rachel Cooke
History The Observer's Rachel Cooke visited the Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs at its Philadelphia stop off ahead of the appearance at the 02 Arena in London and experienced much the same problem I've had lately in pretty much all of the exhibitions I've been through:
"I go inside, hoping to escape the chaos; it's no better. A guard tells me that, this morning alone, they are expecting 500 schoolchildren. Is he exaggerating? No. A moment later the doors swing open and the first batch advances on us like a miniature army. These kids don't make my journey around the exhibition easy - especially since (pray that this trend never crosses the Atlantic) many of them have iPods with big microphones attached, into which they read aloud the notes that accompany the exhibits. It's maddening. So, too, is the sound from the headsets worn by those taking the audio tour, which is narrated by Omar Sharif - and the fact that each room has piped music: pan pipes when you're learning about Tutankhamun's wacky relatives; choral stuff once you're 'inside' his tomb."
Often there are so many people that it's impossible to see or enjoy the objects for the noise and the hustle and bustle. I know that visiting exhibitions is part of the educational journey, but just sometimes I wish that kids, tweenies and teenagers would pay attention to the art and not be automatically bored as soon as they walk in and start chatting about everything but where they and generally getting in the way. I remember really enjoying these things when I was at school and in some cases it changed my world view. What happened?
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Port of Virginia deepening project receives U.S. Army Corps of Engineers approval
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has approved its final authorization to dredge and widen the channels leading to the Port of Virginia.
The Army Corps' Chief of Engineers' Report is the final federal review of the project and clears the way for the deepening and widening of the commercial shipping channels serving the Norfolk Harbor.
The report allows the project to be included in the federal Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) bill, which is a larger list of projects eligible for federal matching funds. The projects in WRDA that receive funding are determined during the federal budget process.
The largest ships in the Atlantic trade already are calling Virginia, but the added depth will allow for even bigger vessels to visit and for ships to come in and out more fully loaded.
The dredging project will deepen the channels to 55 feet and widen them in certain areas to allow for two-way traffic of ultra-large container vessels. That will allow the port to reclaim its status as the deepest port on the East Coast.
"It has been a three-year collaborative effort, and the result will drive growth at the port and economic development and job creation throughout Virginia for decades to come," John F. Reinhart, CEO and executive director of the Virginia Port Authority, said in a statement. "[The project] also holds benefits for taxpayers in those Heartland markets served by The Port of Virginia – Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Illinois – as they'll be able to move goods, both exports and imports, more efficiently and economically than ever."
The project will be executed in two phases. The first phase, preliminary engineering and design ($20 million), is expected to take 18 to 24 months. The dredging phase ($330 million) has a 2024 target completion date.


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Self-Driving Cars Could Make Moral Decisions Like Humans With a Simple Algorithm
Self-driving cars are almost here, but one big question remains - how do they make hard choices in a life and death situation? Now researchers have demonstrated that smart vehicles are capable of making ethical decisions on the road, just like we do everyday.
By studying human behaviour in a series of virtual reality-based trials, the team were able to describe moral decision making in the form of an algorithm. This is huge because previously, researchers have assumed that modelling complex ethical choices is out of reach.
"But we found quite the opposite," says Leon Sütfeld, one of the researchers from the University of Osnabruck, Germany. "Human behaviour in dilemma situations can be modelled by a rather simple value-of-life-based model that is attributed by the participant to every human, animal, or inanimate object."
If you take a quick glance at the statistics, humans can be pretty terrible drivers that are often prone to distraction, road rage and drink driving. It's no surprise then that there are almost 1.3 million deaths on the road worldwide each year, with 93 percent of accidents in the US caused by human error.
But is kicking back in the seat of a self-driving car really a safer option? The outlook is promising. One report estimates that driverless vehicles could reduce the number of road deaths by 90 percent, which works out to be around 300,000 saved lives a decade in the US alone.
Despite the glowing figures, developing a self-driving car that can respond to unpredictable situations on the road hasn't been a smooth ride. One stumbling block is figuring out how these smart cars will deal with road dilemmas that require ethical decision-making and moral judgement.
While previous research has shown that self-driving cars can avoid accidents by driving slow at all times or switching to a different driving style, following a set of programmed 'rules' isn't enough to survive the demands of inner city traffic.
And then there's the 'trolley dilemma', a thought experiment that tests how we make moral decisions. In this no-win scenario, a trolley is headed towards five unsuspecting bystanders. The only way to save these five people is by pulling a lever that diverts the trolley onto another track where it kills one person instead. How can a driverless car make the best choice?
The tricky thing with these kinds of decisions is that we tend to make a choice based on the context of the situation, which is difficult to mirror in the form of an algorithm programmed into a machine.
With this in mind, Sütfeld and the team took a closer look at whether modelling human behaviour when driving is as impossible as everyone thinks it is.
Using virtual reality to simulate a foggy road in a suburban setting, the team placed a group of participants in the driver's seat in a car on a two-lane road. A variety of paired obstacles, such as humans, animals and objects, appeared on the virtual road. In each scenario, the participants were forced to decide which obstacle to save and which to run over.
Next, the researchers used these results to test three different models predicting decision making. The first predicted that moral decisions could be explained by a simple value-of-life model, a statistical term measuring the benefits of preventing a death.
The second model assumed that the characteristics of each obstacle, such as the age of a person, played a role in the decision making process. Lastly, the third model predicted that the participants were less likely to make an ethical choice when they had to respond quickly.
After comparing the results of the analysis, the team found the first model most accurately described the ethical choices of the participants. This means that self-driving cars and other automated machines can make human-like moral choices using a relatively simple algorithm.
But before you throw away your driver's license, it's important to remember that these findings open up a whole new realm of ethical and moral debate that need to be considered before self-driving cars are out on the road.
"Now that we know how to implement human ethical decisions into machines we, as a society, are still left with a double dilemma," says Peter Konig, one of the researchers on the study "Firstly, we have to decide whether moral values should be included in guidelines for machine behaviour, and if they are, should machines act just like humans?"
While we still have a way to go before we take our hands off the steering wheel for good, these findings are a big leap forward in the world of intelligent machines.
The research was published in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience.


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Superior Care Villa residents are always up for something new. They spent an afternoon trying their luck at table bowling. Pictured is Jim Bickle giving it a go with Harold Pratt rooting him on.
Superior Care Villa resident Laura Bruha was up for the challenge and gave it all she had, her ball even got some air!
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    public ResponseAuthCache() {
        super();
    }

    public void process(final HttpResponse response, final HttpContext context)
            throws HttpException, IOException {
        if (response == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("HTTP request may not be null");
        }
        if (context == null) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("HTTP context may not be null");
        }
        AuthCache authCache = (AuthCache) context.getAttribute(ClientContext.AUTH_CACHE);

        HttpHost target = (HttpHost) context.getAttribute(ExecutionContext.HTTP_TARGET_HOST);
        AuthState targetState = (AuthState) context.getAttribute(ClientContext.TARGET_AUTH_STATE);
        if (target != null && targetState != null) {
            if (this.log.isDebugEnabled()) {
                this.log.debug("Target auth state: " + targetState.getState());
            }
            if (isCachable(targetState)) {
                SchemeRegistry schemeRegistry = (SchemeRegistry) context.getAttribute(
                        ClientContext.SCHEME_REGISTRY);
                if (target.getPort() < 0) {
                    Scheme scheme = schemeRegistry.getScheme(target);
                    target = new HttpHost(target.getHostName(),
                            scheme.resolvePort(target.getPort()), target.getSchemeName());
                }
                if (authCache == null) {
                    authCache = new BasicAuthCache(schemeRegistry);
                    context.setAttribute(ClientContext.AUTH_CACHE, authCache);
                }
                switch (targetState.getState()) {
                case CHALLENGED:
                    cache(authCache, target, targetState.getAuthScheme());
                    break;
                case FAILURE:
                    uncache(authCache, target, targetState.getAuthScheme());
                }
            }
        }

        HttpHost proxy = (HttpHost) context.getAttribute(ExecutionContext.HTTP_PROXY_HOST);
        AuthState proxyState = (AuthState) context.getAttribute(ClientContext.PROXY_AUTH_STATE);
        if (proxy != null && proxyState != null) {
            if (this.log.isDebugEnabled()) {
                this.log.debug("Proxy auth state: " + proxyState.getState());
            }
            if (isCachable(proxyState)) {
                if (authCache == null) {
                    authCache = new BasicAuthCache();
                    context.setAttribute(ClientContext.AUTH_CACHE, authCache);
                }
                switch (proxyState.getState()) {
                case CHALLENGED:
                    cache(authCache, proxy, proxyState.getAuthScheme());
                    break;
                case FAILURE:
                    uncache(authCache, proxy, proxyState.getAuthScheme());
                }
            }
        }
    }

    private boolean isCachable(final AuthState authState) {
        AuthScheme authScheme = authState.getAuthScheme();
        if (authScheme == null || !authScheme.isComplete()) {
            return false;
        }
        String schemeName = authScheme.getSchemeName();
        return schemeName.equalsIgnoreCase(AuthPolicy.BASIC) ||
                schemeName.equalsIgnoreCase(AuthPolicy.DIGEST);
    }

    private void cache(final AuthCache authCache, final HttpHost host, final AuthScheme authScheme) {
        if (this.log.isDebugEnabled()) {
            this.log.debug("Caching '" + authScheme.getSchemeName() +
                    "' auth scheme for " + host);
        }
        authCache.put(host, authScheme);
    }

    private void uncache(final AuthCache authCache, final HttpHost host, final AuthScheme authScheme) {
        if (this.log.isDebugEnabled()) {
            this.log.debug("Removing from cache '" + authScheme.getSchemeName() +
                    "' auth scheme for " + host);
        }
        authCache.remove(host);
    }
}


HIPAA rules are set forth by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and are documented in the Privacy Rule with specific rules regarding sharing of information between health care providers. Dental laboraotories and Dentists are both considered "Health Care Providers" and as such are permitted to share patient information and treatment activities.
Furthermore, according to the ADA the Privacy Rule states that there is no requirement for a Business Associate Agreement between the dental laboratory and the dental practice. "Protected Health Information", such as SS #'s, telephone numbers, birth dates, medical records, or information that relates the patient to their name on the work authorization or their relatives. is not shared from the dental office to the laboratory. The information shared is only used to identify the materials sent to the laboratory.
The dental office does have the option of using codes rather than names is so desired.
ROE Dental Laboratory maintains a high level of data security on site and in transit of cases and data between our laboratory and our value customers.


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Coalition for Green Trade Hosts Environmental Goods Agreement Launch Event on Capitol Hill
Ambassador Michael Froman speaks about the Environmental Goods Agreement as Senator Wyden and Congressman Blumenauer look on.
On September 17, 2014, the Coalition for Green Trade, co-chaired by the United States Council for International Business (USCIB), the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) and the National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC), hosted an event on Capitol Hill to celebrate the launch of Environmental Goods Agreement (EGA) negotiations under the purview of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva.
The event featured comments by United States Trade Representative Ambassador Michael Froman, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Representative Dave Camp, and Representative Earl Blumenauer.
Chairman Wyden opened the event by saying, "[a]n ambitious environmental goods deal that brings down tariffs could make a real difference for American companies, American workers, and for the planet." He expressed support for the EGA initiative, noting that "with hard work by Ambassador Froman and his team," the global economy and the environment can each benefit from the agreement soon.
Ambassador Froman said that by facilitating trade in environmental goods, "we can promote technologies that allow better access to safe water, sanitation, and clean energy. We can encourage countries to adopt strategies for sustainable development and help drive innovation that could lead to even cleaner technologies." He also explained that the EGA represents an effort to simultaneously grow the global economy and protect our environment. "When it comes to defending our environment, protectionism is no protection."
The Coalition co-chairs introduced the various speakers and provided their own comments in support of these important negotiations. Rob Mulligan, USCIB's senior vice president for policy and government affairs emphasized the hope for a swift outcome and an agreement that will serve as a platform to spur technological innovation. "The support of the business community in these negotiations is crucial to ensure an ambitious agreement that captures the full range of environmental technologies and products," he said, noting that some of those products were on display at the back of the room.
General Electric, for example, displayed information on their E- and F-class gas turbines which convert natural gas into power in plants all over the world.
He also introduced two industry representatives: Timothy J. Regan, senior vice president of worldwide government affairs at Corning, and Joe McSwiney, president of Cascade Designs, who presented their respective technologies that stand to benefit from a successful agreement.
For further information on the EGA, please read USTR's Fact Sheet. For further information regarding USCIB's efforts on the EGA, please contact Eva Hampl, Director, Investment, Trade and Financial Services.
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Woman arrested following the murder of a young girl in Manchester
A woman has been arrested following the murder of a little girl in Bolton Greater Manchester.
Earlier today (Sunday 22 March 2020) at 2:34pm, police were called to Queen's Park in Bolton following reports that a child had been stabbed.
Ambulance and police attended and found that a seven-year-old girl had been attacked by a woman with a knife.
The child sustained extremely serious injuries and, despite the best efforts of her family and medical responders, she sadly died a short while later.
A 30-year-old woman was detained by a member of the public immediately after the attack and was arrested by police at the scene, initially on suspicion of attempted murder and subsequently for murder.
The woman is not known to the family of the little girl.
Assistant Chief Constable, Russ Jackson of GMP, said:
"Words cannot describe how awful this attack is. The family were out in the park, enjoying the spring sun when in a totally unprovoked and random attack this little girl sustained horrendous injuries and sadly died a short while later.
"A 30-year-old woman who was not known to the family was detained by a member of the public and then arrested by the police. She is currently in custody for murder and it is expected she will be interviewed by detectives later.
"We are working to understand the motive for this completely random and brutal attack. We understand that the woman has some history of mental illness and we are working to understand if this played any part in her motive.
"We have sent specialist family liaison officers to support the family. This is a family's worst nightmare. The incident is horrendous and I cannot begin to imagine what the family of this little girl are going through.
"We are determined to quickly understand how this came to happen, leaving a young family so distraught and so devastated in an instant."
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Although adoptions have historically fallen within the sphere of state authority, Congress has used its spending power to garner some influence over state adoption programs. Under this program, Congress grants money to the states to carry out their programs if they abide by certain Congressional mandates.
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Public agencies employ a stringent test to determine the suitability of parents looking to adopt. With adoptions through public agencies, adoptive parents do not have the child placed with them until the natural parents have relinquished their rights. Both public and private agencies abide by these practices.
With independent adoptions, the natural parents take on the responsibility for finding suitable adoptive parents. Often, the natural parents will place the child in the prospective adoptive parents' house for a trial period without the natural parents having relinquished their rights.
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The U.S. Constitution does not provide a fundamental right to adopt. States have the power to prohibit adoptions and to prohibit adoption by certain groups.
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Statutes determine the requirements regarding who may adopt in a given state. The Uniform Adoption Act ("The Act") is a model act that was proposed by the U.S. Uniform Laws Commission. Some states have modeled their adoption statutes upon The Act. The Act provides that any individual may adopt another individual in an effort to create the legal relationship of child and parent, subject to the adopting individual having reached adulthood.
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Q: jeditable datepicker causing blur when changing month I'm using a jquery-ui datepicker inside of jeditable.  Changing the month causes a blur. In order to be able to keep functioning after the blur, I had to set settings.onblur="cancel"
But I need it to "cancel" in the case of an actual blur.
Has anyone run into this issue?
edit:
i just hacked jeditable with:
  monthChangeButtonClicked = function(blurEvent) {
    return blurEvent.originalEvent.explicitOriginalTarget.innerHTML == "Prev" ||
    blurEvent.originalEvent.explicitOriginalTarget.innerHTML == "Next"; }
  if (monthChangeButtonClicked(e)) return;

Such a nasty hack :(

A: I also ran into this same issue when changing the month.
I tweeked the code that sets up the custom input type, to handle the onblur event there.  This seems to work:
jQuery.editable.addInputType('datepicker', {
  element: function(settings, original) {

      var input = jQuery('<input size=8 />');

      // Catch the blur event on month change
      settings.onblur = function(e) {
            t = setTimeout(function() {
            reset.apply(form, [settings, self]);
            }, 500);
         };

      input.datepicker({
        dateFormat: 'yy-mm-dd',
        onSelect: function(dateText, inst) {
          jQuery(this).parents("form").submit();
        },
        onClose: function(dateText, inst) {
           jQuery(this).parents("form").submit();
        },

      });

      input.datepicker('option', 'showAnim', 'slide');

      jQuery(this).append(input);
      return (input);
  }
});

A: The jeditable-datepicker plugin seems to do exactly what you need.
It enables jQuery UI Datepicker in Jeditable. Here's the demo.

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This 14th UNCSD is putting a timely focus on energy. Energy is crucial for reaching the Millennium Development Goals. And energy security concern is today at the top of the political agenda world-wide. Energy is important for economic and social development in individual countries. Energy affects commercial and political relations between countries. Energy fuels the world economy and impacts the environment. Energy influences international politics and international politics influence energy developments.
The Secretariat of the International Energy Forum is happy for the opportunity together with the UNDESA and our other partner organizations to host this side-event to present the Joint Oil Data Initiative. This unique initiative is increasingly being recognized as a vehicle to more transparency, and hence less volatility in the oil market, providing better predictability for investment decisions crucial to overall energy security.
But first a word about the International Energy Forum. The World Commission on Environment and Development emphasized in its report "Our Common Future" almost twenty years ago the importance of energy for sustainable economic and social development and not least the importance of oil prices for international energy policy. It recommended that new mechanisms for encouraging dialogue between consumers and producers be explored.
On that note, the Chairperson of the Commission and Prime Minister of Norway, Dr. Brundtland called in the late 1980's for an informal "Workshop" of Ministers of energy producing and consuming countries to discuss the resource and market perspectives as well as the links between energy and environment. Many were ready to try, but important countries regarded the very idea of a dialogue on these matters at political level as a non-starter, even as outright dangerous. Some seemed to regard the differences and conflicts between producers and consumers as permanent facts of life, a divide that no political level dialogue could bridge, or should even attempt to bridge.
The first Ministerial meeting, in what developed as an informal energy dialogue process at political level, took place in Paris in 1991. The 10th Meeting of Ministers in the International Energy Forum took place in Doha, Qatar less than three weeks ago gathering Ministers and senior officials of 59 countries at a time of heightened global energy consciousness. Ministers of energy producing and consuming countries, the major industrialized as well as developing countries, meeting under one global political umbrella. Across traditional political, economic and energy policy groupings and dividing lines in our ever-more interdependent world. They focused on a cluster of issues related to energy security and the links between energy, environment and economic development. At the Doha Meeting, Ministers interacted also with CEOs of leading national and international oil companies.
Their consensus was clear: The world will need more and cleaner energy used in a more efficient way, accessible and affordable to a larger share of the world's population. The challenge lies in operationalizing this imperative in a fair and sustainable way. It has to be purposefully addressed in national policies as well as in bilateral, regional, inter-regional and wider global co-operation. In dialogue and co-operation not only between governments. Also industry itself and other stakeholders have their integrated role to play.
IEF Energy Ministers underscore their continued commitment to developing the Joint Oil Data Initiative. JODI for short. Ministers have also elsewhere, notably in the G8 and in regional contexts, expressed their support to JODI.
The Joint Oil Data Initiative is a concrete outcome and achievement of the producer consumer dialogue. Co-ordination of this unique inter-organizational initiative is a flagship Secretariat activity. Our co-ordinating role is fully and actively supported by the six international organizations that have pioneered the Initiative: APEC, Eurostat, OLADE, OPEC, IEA and the UN.
The IEF Secretariat is managing the World Database of the Joint Oil Data Initiative on behalf of partner organizations. This World Database was released to the public by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia in the presence of Ministers of key energy producing and consuming countries on occasion of the inauguration of our Secretariat headquarters in Riyadh in November last year.
To help enhance the quality of data, the Secretariat will also facilitate JODI training sessions in Africa and Latin America in co-operation with IEF countries and regional organizations directly concerned. The Secretariat will host the 6th JODI Conference in Riyadh in November this year.
On the back page of the special brochure on JODI, that we have distributed, you will see a chart with smiling, neutral and grumpy faces for each country participating in JODI. These faces indicate the JODI partners' degree of satisfaction with each individual country with regard to the submission, timeliness and completeness of their data. JODI is international ambition translated into action with the objective of improving the quality and transparency of international oil statistics. It is promising work in progress with great potential.
The success of the initiative will be determined by the collective ability of participants to sustain and improve their efforts. The submission of timely and accurate data by participating countries is crucial for its success. Some Ministers are already calling for JODI to be expanded, in due course, to include also other sources of energy important in the world energy mix.


I just returned from Nashville, TN and the Scaling New Heights conference. We were pleased to be a sponsor this year. Scaling New Heights is a gathering of QuickBooks ProAdvisors and other QuickBooks professionals. It was a large and friendly group of individuals! We enjoyed meeting new people, and reconnecting with old friends.
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Today's Cook the Book recipe, excerpted from Wine Bar Food, calls for—gasp!—jarred asparagus. While that may seem strange given the current abundance of fresh spring produce, hear me out: these aren't any old canned vegetables. Jarred white asparagus is a Spanish delicacy, valued for its sweet-tart taste and smooth texture. In this traditional salad from Barcelona, the spears are dressed in a chunky sherry vinaigrette brightened with fresh peppers, briny capers, and chopped hard-boiled egg.
The best jarred asparagus comes from the northern region of Navarra, which is also known for its rosé wines. This dish would pair perfectly with a glass of pink.
Combine the vinegar and a pinch each of salt and pepper in a small bowl. In a slow stream, whisk the oil into the vinegar. Add the bell peppers, shallot, egg, and capers and combine. Allow the vegetables and dressing to marinate for 15 minutes.
Lay the asparagus on a serving dish. Spoon the marinated vegetables and vinaigrette over the asparagus and serve.


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Belarusian Opposition Journalist Sentenced In Sweden For Attempted Murder
A prominent Belarusian opposition journalist living in Sweden has been sentenced to eight years in prison for the attempted murder of her former husband.
Belarusian Physician Starts Hunger Strike
A Belarusian physician critical of local officials has reportedly gone on hunger strike after being forced into a psychiatric hospital in the eastern city of Vitsebsk.
U.S. Sub Expert Guilty In Spy Case
A retired U.S. Navy submarine specialist has been found guilty of attempted espionage for Russia.
Belarusian Supreme Court Upholds Decision Not To Register Opposition Group
The Supreme Court of Belarus has upheld the Justice Ministry's decision not to officially register an opposition group.
In Colorful Case, U.S. Submarine Expert Accused Of Attempting To Spy For Russia
Submarine technology, online dating, and an alleged meeting with the president of Belarus -- they're all part of a colorful spy case being heard in a U.S. court this week.
Belarus Activist Jailed For Parole Breach
An opposition activist in Belarus has been sentenced to three months in jail for a parole violation.
Russia 'Not Blocking Ukrainian Imports
The Russian government says it was not involved in the decision that has essentially halted the import of Ukrainian goods.
Belarus Probes Syria Abduction Video
The Belarusian Embassy in Syria is investigating a video that has surfaced showing a woman claiming to be a Belarusian citizen captured by Syrian rebels.
In Poland, Chechen Asylum Seekers Languish In Limbo
The number of Chechens seeking asylum in Germany and Poland has already more than doubled compared to all of last year. Neither country appears prepared to handle the influx and asylum seekers seem surprised by a less-than-welcoming reception.
Belarusians Detained For Giving Out Cards
Two activists from the Belarusian rights group Vyasna (Spring) have been detained in Minsk while distributing cards with the photo of the group's jailed leader, Ales Byalyatski.
U.S. Urges Minsk To Free Rights Activist
The United States is calling for Belarus to immediately release human rights activist Ales Byalyatski, along with all other political prisoners in the country.
UN Expert Urges Byalyatski's Release
The UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Belarus has urged the Belarusian government to "immediately and unconditionally" release imprisoned rights activist Ales Byalyatski.