There simply is nothing better than a good off-leash run at the dog park. For my guys, any dog park will do, just as long as they can be leash-free for a good run.
Each of my 3 has their own social agenda. Tanner is the social butterfly, who knows how to work a party. He makes his 3 or 4 victory laps when we go in, and then settles into a routine of getting around to greeting each and every dog in the park. This group of senior citizens in the photo above were eager to meet the youngster who wouldn't stop running circles around them.
Xena, my 12-year-old retriever mix, could have had a retirement conversation with this bunch, but she was actually quite playful this weekend, and chose to invite Tanner to a wrestling game. They had a good roll in the grass and she was done, except for meeting a few new friends. After that, it was simply a matter of following me around, as I picked up piles around the park. I enjoyed seeing my usual dog park friends, who seem to often visit at the same time as we do--weekend morning dog park romps make for great weekend afternoon naps--for me and the dogs! It was good, also, to bounce an idea about Adopt a Dog Park off on Midas's mom, Sally.
My pack's youngest member, Oliver, a 1 year old Papillon, who heads up this blog, did his usual beagle imitation--nose to the ground. He searched and sniffed nearly every square inch of the park, looking for goodies and anyone who would rub his belly. He found many takers.
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This topic contains 249 replies, has 40 voices, and was last updated by TGSOE 2 months, 1 week ago.
Darth Valaryn @troygorsline
@craig
I am a big fan of South Park and its humor. I had every intention of being nice. This episode was about judging people (trans included) on their behavior – not only because they are trans (the PC thing to do, it seems, these days).
As much as I consider myself "woke," Bruce, now Kaitlyn, Jenner has always been kind of a jerk. Olympic hero or no. Trans or no.
5 November 2018 at 13:34 #65416
I talked earlier in this topic about qualms I had with the episode, and got some good responses that helped square me away. And yet, I still felt dissatisfied, and I think I finally can say why.
Before I go on, though, I'm only explaining why I'm dissatisfied, not why you should be. Maybe it'll help anyone else feeling the episode somehow didn't measure up. But the last thing I want to do is take away from anyone's enjoyment.
I remember getting introduced years ago to racism in the US. I read about it, or maybe saw something on TV; it certainly wasn't something that came up at home. My mom, unusually for someone of her age at the time, had a good friend who was African-American, who came to the house any number of times. Living in the worlds of my imagination as I did, I never thought of her as different, just as one of mom's buds.
So when I found out about Jim Crow and lynchings and all the rest, I was horrified. How could people behave like that? This was the USA! I wanted to understand how this could happen. So I read about heroes like Rosa Parks, and victims like Emmett Till, and others besides.
I also read about George Washington, Father of Our (My) Country, how he wanted to free his slaves, knowing slavery was not compatible with the ideals of the country he'd helped bring into being. But his slaves were a significant part of (sorry for putting it this way) his assets, and, reading between the lines, I'm sure he feared impoverishing himself and his family. He was conscious of the adulation people had for him, and I'm sure he didn't want to tarnish that with risking bankruptcy.
And that fear I suspect is there is what I was looking for in my reading, and didn't see in Rosa. All the non-TARDIS white speaking roles in Rosa are interchangeable. Krasko, the cop, the waitress, the bus driver are racists, and nothing more. We aren't invited to understand why human beings could make such inhuman choices. We aren't invited to regard them as human, really.
Which leads me to my final point. Because I think AG Who has tackled racism before, and brilliantly. Remember Midnight? The Tenth Doctor for once isn't able to get the others on his side, isn't able to talk them around, and the Midnight creature soon takes his ability to talk away. The others are terrified, and in their fear they turn on the helpless one who they see as different. He barely survives, and it's scary in the extreme.
We're invited to identify with the Doctor, as always, just like we are with Rosa Parks. But Midnight also invites us to understand why people can make such a horrible mistake, how they can be frightened into doing something horrific and inhuman. Not the case with Rosa.
So, for me, that's why Midnight is a great episode, and a great introduction to the "othering" that underlies racism. That's why I consider it great…and Rosa pretty good.
@kevinwho
Yes, I get why you should feel that way – you're interested in why individuals could be racists.
However, as far as I can see, what Michelle Blackman was interested in – when she was writing Rosa – was the institutional racism that existed in Montgomery, Alabama.
Krasko, the cop, the waitress, the bus driver are racists, and nothing more. We aren't invited to understand why human beings could make such inhuman choices.
Nope, we're being asked to understand how there could be such a thing as an entire legal, political and social system that not only allows human beings to make such choices, but approves them. Provides police power to support those choices. Pushes those who do not approve (you mentioned George Washington) into making racist decisions themselves.
We're not invited to understand why the cop, the waitress, the bus driver are racists because the reason they are racists is almost certainly that they were born and brought up in Montgomery, Alabama and have been socialised all their lives to be racists. That's the system they were born into, and they are decent, law-abiding, productive members of an institutionally racist society. When the cop comes into the motel room, when the waitress tells Ryan and Yaz to leave, when the bus driver tells Rosa to move – they're all upholding the norms of their society.
That's the truly scary thing; more terrifying than any monster. They're all just doing their job.
Throughout the script we discover that being a well-meaning non-racist white person is insufficient. The Doctor and Graham are told to get out of town, and have the police checking their motel room to see if they smuggled in the 'mongrels'. The Doctor sits next to Rosa on the bus – and is told that she can't, because Rosa will still have to move.
And Graham, who has a black step-grandson and who tries to protect Ryan throughout, is forced into the situation of being the white man that Rosa Parks was supposed to give up her seat to. The fact that he didn't want the seat, would have been perfectly willing to stand, is irrelevant within this system. It forces compliance.
And that is institutional racism. And it's really important that we recognise it when we see it.
The grounds for your reservations about the episode are valid, but I'm not sure that the nuances of the psychological and sociological roots of racism in Montgomery in the 1950s could ever have been adequately addressed in one 50 minute episode of a show intended for family viewing and aimed primarily, in this case, at an audience of younger viewers of many nationalities for whom the events portrayed would be as distant as the Boer Wars or equivalent were for me in 1955.
The writer chose instead to explore the basic issues by showing one of the pivotal events in the history of the struggle for civil rights in the USA from the 21st century point of view of three British people of various ethnic origin, one middle aged and two young, confronted in shocking fashion with the, to them, unfamiliar reality of a racism which was not only deep rooted and pervasive, but encoded in segregationist law and with a legacy of extreme violence behind it. The mentality and the motivation of the white racists who featured in the episode were not explored and so they might seem stereotyped, but I can remember the shocking filmed reports not long after Rosa Parks' protest, of black students running the gauntlet of angry mobs when schools were first desegregated, and the stereotypes are recognisable.
As @bluesqueakpip says, the more intricate questions of why racists are racist, the complex of fears and insecurity which fuel racism, and how racism becomes embedded as a social norm with the force of law behind it are not the subject of this episode, but they are implicit for those who may be prompted to look further and ask questions. If even a few viewers do follow up in this way, then I think the writers will have done their job.
@mudlark – My basic feeling is, if they couldn't do it justice in 50 minutes, then either go two-parter or don't do it at all. Imagine the Boer War in one episode, trying to accurately convey the conflict. Difficult!
But I do see your point, and as I said, I don't want to detract from anyone else's enjoyment. It didn't work for me, not as much as I'd like, but I realize it did for some.
This whole series seems the least ambitious in story terms of all the AG Who, at least to me. Even this episode, when they tried for a knockout, I just feel they did so in a very limited way. Then again, I was very familiar with Rosa Parks–name-checked her, if you will, in a young-adult thing I did a few years ago–so I had less to gain than most.
@bluesqueakpip – Sure. If I hadn't read up so much on Jim Crow, racism, lynchings, etc. I probably would have appreciated the episode more.
As mentioned in the Tsuranga thread, I'm not the one the show is aimed at, but rather young people. I get that. I mostly posted because someone else might be bothered that everyone else is saying it's a great episode, but they don't feel that it is.
I just hope we get episodes that try to come up with something wildly imaginative, something unexpected. With luck that will keep everyone happy.
Don't worry about me, though. I don't expect others to share my tastes, preferences, etc. Why should they?
It is probably asking too much of Chibnall to hope he will come up with something wildly imaginative; that isn't his strongest suit 😉 Moffat had an almost limitless imagination and a willingness to take risks which made even his less successful episodes interesting. It is significant that Rosa is the only episode in this season that I have felt I wanted to view twice, whereas I watched all of the episodes during Moffat's time in charge at least two or three times, and sometimes felt it necessary to do so before I could even venture to comment.
My expectations of Chibnall were lower from the beginning, especially in the light of what he said about the direction in which he wanted to take the show, so when it comes to commenting on the episodes so far this season I am assessing by different criteria, primarily according to what I think were his aims and the aims of the writer if different, and how well or otherwise they succeeded
As I indicated in comments earlier, I am British and was in my early teens in 1955. Although events depicted in this episode impinged only lightly on my consciousness at the time, by the mid 1960s I was politically very much aware of both current events and the background and I can understand your frustration over the fact that the complex subject was treated in relatively simplistic terms. It was, however, aimed at people who, if they were aware of the facts at all, viewed them only from a simplified historical perspective. It succeeded insofar as it jolted awareness by conveying the visceral and emotional reality, through the experience of Ryan in particular, and that was the basis of my judgement. My judgement as a historian didn't really come into it.
@ mudlark
It was, however, aimed at people who, if they were aware of the facts at all, viewed them only from a simplified historical perspective. It succeeded insofar as it jolted awareness by conveying the visceral and emotional reality, through the experience of Ryan in particular, and that was the basis of my judgement.
Very well said!
My expectations aren't what they could be as well, and I'm trying to judge each episode strictly by whether I was entertained; intrigued or engrossed is too much to expect…
nerys @nerys
@mudlark I was saying something similar to my husband, that re-watching these episodes isn't mandatory. And, in a way, it's a relief. As much as I loved Moffat's writing, I sometimes got a bit tired of having to first watch an episode, just to get a sense of it, and then re-watch it multiple times in order to understand it. Needing to meet that challenge occasionally is fine, but every week?
Of course, that may be more a commentary on my literal thinking than on Moffat's writing.
@nerys
It is the difference between reading a novel which you may enjoy but, at the end, feel there is nothing more to be learned from a second reading because everything is there on the surface, and reading one which you immediately want to read again because you know that, however much you have understood and gained from that first reading there are additional depths and nuances to be found. There are some novels you can read again and again and still find something new on each occasion. Television drama tends to be more immediately accessible but, just as with novels, the best always repays further viewing
@mudlark Fair enough. I certainly understand that point of view. But for me, it isn't a prerequisite for Doctor Who.
15 November 2018 at 20:27 #65664
DogBoyTheCat @dogboythecat
I feel a bit overwhelmed that so many have quoted me…. although not always in context.
Looking around the internet in the past few weeks seems to show a lot of people supporting my viewpoint.
Many sources are reporting Doctor Who's ratings as seriously dropping, and for the exact same reason I mentioned before…. the show is becoming PC and preachy, and it's turning viewers off.
And now, Chibnall's not going to do a Christmas episode?
Will we be getting one for Ramadan instead? (Ooops! Did I offend someone with that question?)
@dogboythecat
Did I offend someone with that question?
I can only refer you to the following dialogue from Time of Angels
THE DOCTOR: Er, no offence, Bishop.
OCTAVIAN: Quite a lot taken, if that's all right, Doctor.
Ratings were discussed in the On The Sofa thread. Short version – each episode to date has higher ratings than any series since 2012, or even earlier.
@dogboythecat – If you look around here, you'll find I'm not enamored of the newest series, primarily for reasons of taste. (I'm not completely thrilled with the stories and writing.) However, if this series is losing viewers, it's seemingly still having much higher numbers than almost all after-gap (AG) Who, and any drop off from episode 1 to episode 5 is typical.
If I really cared about this (I don't much), I'd dig more for numbers, but I just pulled these from Wikipedia for comparison purposes. Column 1 is series number, 2 is millions of UK viewers for episode 1, 3 is viewers for episode 5, and column 4 (bold) is the percentage of viewers of episode 5 compared to episode 1:
1 10.81 7.98 74%
2 8.62 9.22 107%
3 8.71 6.97 80%
10 6.68 5.27 79%
11 10.96 7.76 71%
You can see that a) the viewing numbers for 11/5 are higher than most AG series, and b) the drop off from episode 1 is not atypical.
By all means come on the forum and discuss things with the rest of us! Opinions for or against something are fine. Just be prepared to support them; unsupported opinions are a dime a drizzle, and no one cares about mine either. 🙂
5 January 2019 at 23:01 #67088
imnotastoxicasmyoldusernamewouldsuggest @rosasucksandsodoess11
My issues with this episode:
1)No white anti-racism (if that's even a term I don't know please don't attack me for being 'uneducated') representation makes this episode kinda like an anti-white episode which irritates me a lot.
2)The villain of the episode (a space racist) is about as interesting as a wet dish cloth. I understand that racism is a terrible topic but can you make a villain who is a space racist a tad bit compelling please Chibnall.
3) That scene where Yaz talks to Ryan about how she is victim to racism makes me want to eat gravel. Like we get it racism is bad. It infuriates me that Chibnall basically shows that he thinks that everyone doesn't know that people who follow Islam get called terrible things which belittles a lot of people.
4) The episode generally feels very slow and boring.
1)The music is decent
2)Bradley Walsh's performance is as up to standard as ever with some deep moments
Graham was a white non-racist.
And the Doctor was shown having to find a way to get the 'right' driver into place as the scheduled driver would have been less likely to be confrontational with Rosa.
I think that's probably about all you can do in a programme of this length.
@rosasucksandsodoess11 – With a handle like that I was sure you were here to rant, but you actually put down some thought-out points. Good on you for that.
I've already thought more about this episode than I really want to recall, but you'll find I sympathize with you at least somewhat. If you want to read through the comments and look at mine, well, they're there.
@margaret-blaine @kevinwho
Feed.
The.
Troll.
@pedant – I'm giving the benefit of the doubt, since most of the poster's other entries are adequately thoughtful.
Agree with kevinwho above.
The points made were not all negative.
@margaret-blaine
It's the usual misogyny and racism dressed up in a posh suit.
The clue is in the user name.
@pedant @margaret-blaine
I don't care for the user name either, it's, if I can coin a term, inciteful. But the comment content seems entirely acceptable.
it's, if I can coin a term, inciteful
And describing a scene where a British Asian woman and a British black man discuss there experience of racism as "makes me want to eat gravel" isn't?
Riiiight.
As @bluesqueakpip alluded a couple of weeks back, the only question is in which Reddit sub they are discussing tactics.
@pedant I was just giving my opinion that the deliverence of the scene was bad
The contents had good intentions but the scene itself and the blatancy of the message just annoyed me
My quote about eating gravel was a bit extreme I admit but I had no intention of being a troll or anything of the sort
If my opinions do not align with yours that's fine that's why this forum exist: to discuss
If I was being a troll I apologize and will just deactivate my account or something
@pedant Not everyone is a troll. People sometimes don't always quite get the tone right.
To be fair you don't always get it right yourself. And neither do I so I hope in this case I'm not coming across as too aggressive.
@rosasucksandsodoess11
just deactivate my account or something
Or you could just change your handle to something less idiotic. It makes you come across as a whiney 13 year old with anger management issues. Or a US libertarian, which is much the same thing.
But this one started with a troll name and posted all of the tropes from the "I'm just a poor white boy nobody loves me" school of Youtube fuckwittery, across multiple threads. *makes hand-weighing motion*
The name is a daft choice it's true (sorry RSASDS11 but apart from anything else it's a hell of a lot to type out!) but I don't think the contents of the post were trolling. 2 and 4 were reasonably valid points and 1 and 3 could be debated. The poster also put in some positives.
Points made on other threads were valid even if one disagreed with them.
The poster has also apologized in 2 different places. I think he/she was worthy of a polite response.
I apologize if that's how I came across I didn't mean to be and Im just trying to give my opinion in a way that voices how I feel but not too over the top
Oh and no one loves me at *school* just to confirm not trying to be toxic 🙂
I will change my name if that makes me seem less toxic
Just trying to be nice
Miapatrick @miapatrick
@rosasucksandsodoess11, OK, so assuming you're not a troll (I second advice to change the name, it does resemble the kind of name people create when they come to forums like this deliberately just to troll).
1: As @margaret-blaine points out. Graham was a white anti-racist, and the team needed that particular bus driver because it needed to be one who would absolutely insist and then call the police if Rosa refused to move.
2: I agree the baddie can seem rather under drawn, but I think the decision that he not be 'compelling' might be deliberate. A theme throughout this season is that the root of what's going wrong hasn't been some powerful supervillen, Tim Shaw is a loser of his species. The Game master had to capitulate and take two winners when they stood up to him. Prim was killed by his angry and confused little brother. And so on through the series. It's an unusual choice for a Who series, but I think it all pulled together at the end, with the return of Tim Shaw as a genuine, serious threat. Ordinary people can become heroes, (the Tardis team, even Ryan's dad) or ordinary people can become catastrophic. The most destructive people in our history weren't super villains from space, they were people affected by their experiences to managed to achieve positions of power who often got there through a combination of some enthusiasm for their ideas, and a lot of indifference towards the less pleasant aspects of them. He was no more or less impressive than Hitler in Lets Kill Hitler, which I think is part of the point.
3: I didn't see that scene as Yaz talking of herself as a victim, but as someone who has experienced racism on a daily basis. Moffat (much as I love him) and RTD tended to skirt around this. Generally, we'd see a future without racism, or at least, racism against blue people but not along the old/current lines. Or an experience of racism during time travel, you could be forgiven for thinking it's more or less done with today, and will be entirely a thing of the past in a few centuries. It would have been quite easy for Yaz and Ryan to share a quick 'thank god we live in the 21st century, eh?' but it's not that simple. What this episode did show was the shock of experiencing legally acceptable, in fact, legally mandated, racism. The episode was about the progress our society has made over the last few generations, but without forgetting that it's certainly not all over yet.
I also don't see how Yaz mentioning the abuse she faces amounts to CC assuming people don't know this happens. A television show wouldn't work if the characters only ever said things the watching public don't know. Unless it's a quiz, and it's called QI.
4: personally I found it compelling, I often think the slowest episodes are the best, but that is a matter of personal taste.
I agree about Bradley Walsh, fantastic as always. And that kind of underlines the point – some very well portrayed white anti-racism with deep moments that you enjoyed.
Some numbers (all courtesy Wikipedia), and thoughts, on Rosa and on my three favorites from Series 11:
Overnights:
Rosa 6.39m
Kerblam! 5.93
It Takes You Away 5.07
Resolution 5.15
Appreciation Index:
Kerblam! 81
It Takes You Away 80
Resolution 80
Rosa was the top pick in a Radio Times poll of favorite Series 11 episodes. Its Appreciation Index was as high as any episode that series. (Kerblam! was second, It Takes You Away fourth; Resolution hadn't aired.)
If you liked Rosa, that's great, because it sure seems to me that Chibnall and company would be fools not to try to replicate its success. I'm certain we'll see more like it.
U agree with what you say @miapatrick about it being a refreshing change not to have a 'super villain'. Another thing I've liked about this series is not having a whole planet of aliens who are 'bad'. As I've said elsewhere this seems to me to be the very definition of racism.
And as I was thinking about this I understood a little better where @kevinwho and @rosa_sucks_and_so_does_series_11 are coming from. Of course not all white people are racist and (I'm guessing both the above named are from the USA) it must be irritating to see a whole subset of your fellow citizens categorized in this way.
However, this wasn't casual racism. This was institutionalized, legalized racism endorsed by the state and the people. And I think this is what Chibnall and Blackman were trying to show the terrible reality of. There's certainly a case for showing the role of white people in helping to change attitudes and behaviour but I don't think this was the vehicle for it .This was Rosa's story and she stands for all the black people who worked and fought for an equality which should have been theirs by right, just as Graham, to a lesser, but still important degree stands for the decent white person. If this amount of representation didn't seem enough for you then I sort of understand but it was enough for me.
As far as Yaz and Ryan discussing their experience of racism – well, I think I'd have been outraged if they hadn't done so, given the situation!
Don't give up Rosa sucks etc. You've opened up the debate a bit more which is what forums are all about. (I really would consider changing the name though.)
That first U should have been I. Must learn to proof read.
@margaret-blaine It's fine, still works I agree with what I said too ;).
The good thing about Graham's part in this is how instinctive it was. His immediate protectiveness of his (step) Grandson. He probably knew, somewhere in his mind, how that would have gone down, made no difference.
It surprises me that so many people see this show as generally bashing straight white men when there has, throughout, been Graham, with his kindness, his sandwiches, and his just general goodness. There were concerns that boys/people/children need to see a strong male role-model, this series has provided it. He's not the smartest and most powerful person in the room – he's not the Doctor, but he's smart and powerful in his own, important way, and he is, most of all, kind. Kind is important in Who. Donna's kindness to the PA in Silence in the Library, 12's instruction to his successor at the point of regeneration. Nor is he remotely emasculated by the Doctor – his decision not to kill Tim Shaw came because Ryan got through to him. And if the show was as hysterically pc-sjw-snowflake-whatever the next phrase will be as some critics have suggested, they wouldn't have placed him as such a contrasting example to Ryan's dad.
When people mention racism critically, what they're criticising is racism. But I would suggest that if anyone starts to feel personally as though their entire ethic group is being attacked, they might want to take advantage of the opportunity to feel some empathy here, and maybe exercise a sense of proportion and consider exactly how much it affects their day to day lives to feel a little preached at by a television programme. And remember other people are watching this who have experienced the kind of abuse Yaz talks about in this episode, they're not being 'informed' of anything anyone is assuming they don't know. They're being given a voice.
(I'm guessing both the above named are from the USA) it must be irritating to see a whole subset of your fellow citizens categorized in this way.
I am, but that's not what bothers me – although I admit having it come from someone non-USA is as aggravating as when our chump of a president dumps on the British PM.
There's certainly a case for showing the role of white people in helping to change attitudes and behaviour but I don't think this was the vehicle for it .
I won't argue with that.
If this amount of representation didn't seem enough for you then I sort of understand but it was enough for me.
@miapatrick
…if anyone starts to feel personally as though their entire ethic group is being attacked…
Not me. Jim Crow in all its aspects still makes me want to throw up.
Let me try to put it this way:
I despise how racism treats an entire group of people as if they weren't individuals, and as if they should be looked down on.
When criticizing racism, best not to treat any group of people as if they weren't individuals, and as if they should be looked down on.
Doing so only gives ammunition to anyone who wants to object to the episode for any reason.
@bluesqueakpip and @jimthefish got into a good discussion with me about midway through the 40+ comments on Backing Away from the Premise, and made good points, but without convincing me. I know not all depictions of loathsome groups like Nazis individualize them either, but I just can't accept that. I'll never be comfortable with it.
Other than that (and that idiot Krasko), Rosa is exceptional and outstanding, and I do not think anyone should think the less of the episode because of either the depiction of southern whites or of Krasko. What gets under any individual's skin is an individual matter.
@kevinwho Just to affirm that at no point have I taken from your posts the impression that you were racist. Quite the opposite.
Nor have I got that impression from the other poster to be fair. Just that he/she has criticisms of the series.
@margaret-blaine – No problem. And I'm glad I'm giving an accurate impression on that score.
@kevinwho yes but to clarify my comment – when racist white people are being criticised, the only people being criticised are racist white people. And Rosa, for example, makes it clear that this isn't, at the risk of involving a hashtag, all white people. Graham isn't racist. One particular bus driver had to be driving the bus for her protest – according to this episode – to ensure that the full extent of the law was called on. So it's a major plot point that a different driver might well not call the police and have her arrested for refusing to move.
Elsewhere in the episode a waitress tells them to leave. All we can be certain of the other customers is complicity. Are they silent out of shock for who has walked into the place? Or out of tension for what they know is about to happen? The episode essentially shows three attitudes: overt racism, complacency/indifference to racism, and anti racism. That is, in fact, the range that exists.
@miapatrick – I grant that the episode shows that one white British person isn't racist. But I disagree with your second paragraph. All the southern whites have the same facial expression during the confrontations, and those with speaking parts all use the same tone of voice.
Look, go on ahead and discuss, I certainly don't mind. But consider me a lost cause please, and don't try to convince me. You're not going to at this point, and remembering this episode just upsets me.
@kevinwho @miapatrick
The reason the story works so well is that it never once loses sight of what the story was about just so that it could pause coddle the hurt feelings of whiney white boys.
But consider me a lost cause please, and don't try to convince me.
Or, for that matter, those whose understanding of format-constrained storytelling is so weak that their minds slam shut when said feelings are hurt.
Further to @Miapatricks point about the three types, overt racism, complacency/ indifference and anti racism, I imagine it must have been very difficult for members of the last named group to live in Alabama at the time, although obviously there must have been some.
I don't think it takes a suspension of disbelief to accept that the Tardis team may not have encountered any.
Sadly racism hasn't been eradicated but at least in the UK and the USA it is illegal. That's a good start when one looks back to a time within living memory when blacks and whites couldn't share a lunch counter and, in this country landlords could put up signs saying ' No Coloureds, No Irish.'
Just as an aside, I nearly counted the Doctor in with Graham as a white non-racist but I realized it could be argued that the fact that in her 13th incarnation she is still white could be construed as slightly racist. Still ,one step at a time,eh?
@margaret-blaine I only didn't count her as she's not human, it just happens that humans look like time lords. She is an example of an unbigoted Time Lord (though not perhaps always, if I remember the first ever episode correctly) unlike Missy/Master, who refers to the human companions as pets. However her enthusiasm for the human species can look a little like an overcompensation (I love humans! My best friends are humans!). I would assume since we've seen a Time Lord switch race as well as sex, pigmentation doesn't have the meaning on Gallifray it does on earth, any prejudice there seems to be class/time vortex caused mutation-based.
And yes. It is, to put it one way, easier to be anti-racism when racism is, to an extent, illegal. Not in a thought police sense, but when racial discrimination and hate speech is covered by law. And it's easier to simply not be racist when the law considers all races equal. Even complacency/indifference is less glaring. Much harder and more obvious when the racism is actually upheld by law. We'd all like to think that if we were born in that kind of world, we'd be among the exceptions, and exceptions have always existed. But even though I'm probably as SJW as you can get, I can't be certain I'd be one of them. No one can.
@pedant – Please, no name-calling. I am sorry my views on this episode have upset you to the point you felt you had to resort to it.
@craig – Would you please PM me and @pedant as to whether anyone has crossed the line, and what people should put up with? Thank you.
:shrugs: You literally said your mind was closed because white anti-racists weren't represented in a story by a black writer about an issue of overwhelming importance to black people.
@pedant – No, not "literally." If anyone had asked, I would have said that I've agonized over this so much that the agonizing has colored my feelings, and done it too far. My mind says it's a great episode with one flaw that others may consider insignificant. My feelings say Rosa has caused me a lot of pain. So my mind needs no convincing, and my emotions are no longer listening.
Please, please, please, when someone is trying to be reasonable and you think they aren't, ask before jumping down their throat. I know my knowledge of the internet doesn't compare to yours, and maybe I just shouldn't be on it, but I like to think I can contribute here.
Sorry, but this story set in the 1950s speaks so much to a world in which the US President is openly racist, black people in the US are disproportionately the victims of police violence and where, only yesterday over here, fascist thugs completely mis-identified the black person they were hurling abuse at (as well as calling a democratically elected moderate Conservative a Nazi).
It isn't about you or me, with our white privilege, but about the people on the receiving end. About looking out of the window and seeing the world through other eyes.
It isn't about being on the internet or not on the internet (you really tried that guilt trip?). It's about imagining ourselves in the shoes of the people the story was about.
It's about giving the empathy you appear to be demanding.
And that is absolutely my last word on this.
@pedant – Thanks, and I'll drop it too. I honestly wasn't trying for guilt, but to acknowledge that I'm not used to how, um, harsh the internet can be, and thus maybe should be expecting to get castigated.
I agree with all you say about the episode in my mind, but my heart says it has a flaw I can't entirely get past. I hope most people can get past it, and can appreciate the episode more than I can.
And I've said enough.
13 January 2019 at 10:30 #67191
syzygy @thane16
consider me a lost cause please, and don't try to convince me
That's a concern, isn't it? That you think you're a "lost cause?" 🙂 I think @miapatrick said some extremely interesting points, though. The people within the state who upheld Jim Crow were, in a very short time, in a very short screen-play, complicit with racist beliefs.
Upon re-watching 'Rosa,' it merited interest because of the nature of history required in pursuit of legitimate aims. People complicit with Jim Crow, whether the young waitress, the bus-drivers, the sheriff of the County and the couple whose husband slapped Ryan threw us, deeply, into the mess of the 1950s. I, for one, recall how Medgar Evers and MLK said to groups of listeners, "if you think racism in the deep south was changed only because of the work in the early 1960s you have one helluva history lesson to learn."
This was that History. Mum mentions being in Alabama in 1979 and every single person she met -with grandpa -who was obviously European -was racist, nasty and sarcastic. They stayed a week and met not one single kind, compassionate person -they were all too scared of offending the racists. To be there, is to know that. Now, perhaps other people with European fathers and mothers and with sons and not daughters didn't feel that way -but it certainly was a lesson she never forgot. And neither did grandpa. He'd worked against fascists and against Communists in the 1940s/50s and so this experience shook him. He was a voracious learner, an engineer, a successful salesman but in Alabama he was "wog or dirty Jew" whilst mum, at 13, was a "whore." In 1979!
I think we needed the story -not because it was representational, only, but because it showed a time which was intentionally subjective. Also, it needed to use time travel to prove how effecting change right there and then would've blown the boycott's plan wide open. And held things back, too long.
T16 (thankyou for reading)
@thane16 – I'm not commenting any further on the episode; I'm better off not thinking about it. Sorry…
5 May 2019 at 15:37 #67641
TGSOE @tgsoe
I was very surprised with DW going this far with a historical episode. I was not really a fan of historical episodes, but, Rosa won me over. I have great hopes for historicals in this new era. Not as perfect as Demons, but, I love how brave it was, and how good they treated the issue.


When I first worked for Dr. Urban we listened to the regular radio – classical mostly. Then we got a CD player in the 90's, but it wasn't easy finding an entire CD that was dental office appropriate. I remember this one CD by James Taylor that was just mellow and great except for an eff bomb that was on one song. I'd have to go diving for the skip song button every time it came on.
Now we have Pandora, and I love it. We have 100 stations set, and as you can see I do tend to like oldies, but we have some new stuff too like Lake Street Dive, who I heard on NPR this morning. To go from The Vitamin String Quartet's calm, peaceful, classical version of the AC/DC heavy-metal, hard rock song "You Shook Me All Night Long", then to a little Poi Dog Pondering, then a bit of Elvis Presley, followed by Elvis Costello makes me smile. At this moment the opera classic "Carmen" is playing. I just adore this kind of variety. I pasted all of our current stations here.


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Beaufort, NC Fishing Guide
Driving on the Beach - Crystal Coast area 4x4 Beaches
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Beaufort History
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With a history that spans more than three centuries, and a unique ecosystem where barely coastal Nature Reserves run parallel to undeveloped barrier island shorelines, Beaufort is truly an enlightening destination for visitors of all interests. Stocked with historical homes and residences, unique ecosystems, and a myriad of ways to explore further, there's lots to discover in this educational coastal town. Stop by one of the region's museums, take a walk around the historic blocks, or embark on an on-the-water adventure that you'll never forget. In Beaufort, where history and culture is found around every corner, education is naturally a part of every vacation.
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The coastal town of Beaufort has quickly become one of the most popular vacation destinations for Inner Banks travelers and boating enthusiasts of all varieties, and for good reason. The small 2.7 mile town, (surrounded by nearly a mile of water), is a vacationer and maritime lover's dream, with a hearty downtown scene lined with shops, galleries, and acclaimed restaurants, in addition to dozens of maritime supply stores.
Small parks and benches border the seemingly endless docks, and cafes and coffee shops have sprung up all along the harbor front so folks passing through, or anyone enjoying an early morning stroll, can relax with a hot cup of Joe or a big breakfast while enjoying the scene. Home to some of the Inner Banks' best loved dining establishments and galleries, and a 20 minute water taxi or maritime shuttle away from the enticing Shackleford Banks, Beaufort has gained a recognizable name on the North Carolina tourism scene as one of the best spots to unwind and let your inner mariner shine through.
Hundreds of years ago, well before European settlers appeared, the town of Beaufort was called "Cwarioc," or "Fish Town" by the local Coree Indians who called the region home. Early settlers began purchasing property in the region around 1709, and by 1713, a local Craven County merchant hired a surveyor to lay out to the not-yet fully constructed town. The surveyor designated streets and names, including Anne, Queen and Moore Streets, (named after Colonel Moore who ended the Tuscarora War), and the names have stuck ever since. It should be noted that Beaufort's busiest stretch of town, located right along the downtown's waterfront, wasn't constructed until the early 1800s, and as commerce grew along this road, the street was eventually called "Front Street," in honor of its waterfront locale.
After these early town layouts and surveys, Beaufort was officially appointed a port for unloading vessels by the Lords Proprietors, the New World's form of government, and the town blossomed with dozens of lots and sites purchased within the city's limits by merchants, traders, boat builders, and countless other members of the maritime industry. The port town of Beaufort grew, and commerce blossomed.
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After the era of pirates had subsided, (with Blackbeard meeting his end off the coast of Ocracoke just 40 or so miles away), the town grew at an unhurried pace, still serving as a port town, and delving into a little bit of the commercial fishing industry that is a prime characteristic of the Outer and Inner Banks.
Today, not much has changed since the town was first patched together in the 1700s. Historic homes stand a block or two away from Front Street, carefully preserved by the Beaufort Historical Association, although more modern buildings have taken up residence along the busier waterfront downtown sections as well, catering to passing mariners, day-trippers, and long weekend or weeklong tourists who want to admire the coastal scene. The area has also become a favorite retirement or second-home spot for water lovers, and new communities can be found outside of the downtown with private boat docks or community boat launches for easy access to both the Shackleford Banks and the Core Sound.
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The downtown also has a renowned collection of shops and galleries that vary from the practical to the downright fun. In Beaufort, travelers will find a bevy of maritime supply stores to replace or add onto existing boating equipment, innumerable galleries, and souvenir shops to take a few treasures back home.
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A midcentury home by award-winning architects John Black Lee and Harrison DeSilver has come up for sale in Modernist enclave, New Canaan.
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Home Local Palm Springs Is anyone in Palm Springs not running for city council?
The Palm Springs city council election is still seven months away but that hasn't stopped nine people from already filing papers declaring their intention to run, according to the Desert Sun. More candidates are likely on the way and maybe it would be easier to just list Palm Springs residents who are not running in 2019.
Counterpoint: Or, Geoff, perhaps people are tired of what the current city council has been doing these past few years and are looking for change?
Guess we will find out in November.
The newspaper has a breakdown of who is running here. Check it out now or check it out or just a wait a few weeks for more people to declare when the article will appear more like a phone book.


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Fantastic Landscapes
Marija Puović
The artist is inspired by the mysterious nature of Jules Verne who spent his life exploring unknown and mystical worlds. Reality and mysticism merge and intertwine in different drawing and painting techniques. By choosing themes and motifs, the artist shows how she feels admiration for nature and human progress in coexistence with nature. She finds inspiration in nature, creating almost poetic structures devoid of all human dimensions. She alternately builds figurative and abstract compositions in the refined color of blue-green tones. Monochrome black lines in the shower technique partly build figures and motifs, and partly build a harmonious image of lines that has nothing to do with the real world. The color is bright in some places, emphasizing depth and matter, and dark in others, creating a feeling of darkness and storm. Perspective is not strictly defined, but there are certain shifts in perspective with the help of which different shapes and compositions are built. By depicting the idealization of life in nature, the artist builds on the themes and motifs of naive art. The works of art invite the observer to participate in the world that the artist has built. The curvy lines she uses suggest the power of movement in space and help build perspective. Using such a synthesis, she wants to point out the beauty of the world, nature, and the fact that man cannot make progress without respect for them.
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Marija Puović was born in 1994 in Split, Split-Dalmatia County, Croatia. After her first studies at the School of Fine Arts in Split and then at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Philosophy, Greek and Latin Language and Literature, Classic Romance Philology, she moved to the Academy of Fine Arts, Conservation and Restoration of Cultural-Artistic Heritage. She works as an external associate of the Croatian Restoration Institute. In her free time she paints, and last year's lockdown inspired her to return to nature, painting and watercolor illustrations. She combines watercolor, collage and acrylic, and different approaches give her countless expressive possibilities and actually represent a game for her. Her art is a dedication to nature, its colors, its beauties. Nature that creates, grows, flourishes, renews and relaxes. He is currently preparing new illustration projects and is immensely looking forward to new creative paths.


Overview. Designed for low-volume applications, the SFX150 Sonifier® delivers up to 150 watts of power at 40 kHz for quiet operation. It's the only cell disruptor and homogenizer of its type that includes a handheld converter designed for ergonomic comfort and easy control to simplify and speed your experiment. The recessed pushbutton helps prevent unintended activation, while the LED indicator light lets you know when it's energized. A conventional converter and stand can also be used, and the SFX150 includes all the same control and monitoring functions as the SFX250 and SFX550.
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True temperature control allows the user to specify a temperature range for the sample; the Sonifier automatically adjusts the ultrasonic pulse length to prevent the sample from overheating (requires optional temperature probe).
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Let's discuss how to best collect those stellar EVPs on your next ghost hunt. There are many ways to collect audio, but most in the paranormal field opt for DVR (digital voice recorders.) You can spend any amount of money on one of these, but for the most part a middle range DVR will serve you perfectly well. For the sake of convenience, get one with a USB port. This will make exporting your files to a computer much much easier. This matters if you want to easily share your findings with Aunt Esther in Minnetonka when she disputes your paranormal obsession.
Throughout the course of your investigation at whatever locale, your DVR should be up and recording for the most part. You can also attempt to engage any spirit activity at a location by pointedly asking questions of them or inviting them to manifest in any way they choose. Keep in mind, even if you hear nothing at the time, that doesn't mean there is nothing going on.
This is where the tedious chore of audio review comes in. Once you have collected all your video and audio recordings, pack up, and head home; there is still the task of reviewing all the footage for anything that wasn't readily visible or audible at the time of recording. This can be monotonous but it comes with the job. We all knew there had to be a downside to the constant glamor and glitz that is paranormal investigation.
There are three classes of EVP. Type A would be completely clear and legible. This is obviously the rarest type of EVP one will encounter. There second class is Type B and probably the most common type. It is less clear and often there is background noise or masking sounds present, but one can still hear the response with little difficulty. Class C EVPs are ones in which the response can be heard only with great difficulty and are obviously the least legible.
So just be ready to sit and listen to hours of yourself asking repeated questions in lots of locations. It is then and only then that you can have the opportunity to garner those EVP's that will astound you and raise the hairs on the back of your neck.
Why do all haunted houses look like this?
Then your house is probably haunted. Good luck and if you decide to move, you'll need a very understanding realtor. Ok, maybe kidding a little. Honestly, this image does help to reflect a certain stereotype when it comes to haunted locations. The word "haunted" evokes dark, gloomy, and imposing structures with gothic architecture and creepy darkly lit rooms. It doesn't sound nearly so imposing if I were to talk about 'The Haunted Gas Station" or "The Haunted Strip Mall". Yet, a haunting is simply any location where paranormal activity of unexplained origin occurs. I could have a haunted walk-in closet…SPOILER ALERT: my closet is sadly not a paranormal hot spot.
Having said all that, the simple way to determine if you feel your house may be experiencing unexplainable paranormal activity unfolds in two stages. Stage one is when you observe any abnormal and seemingly unexplained activity that seems paranormal. Doors opening on their own, seeing things that shouldn't be there on the periphery of your vision, or anything else that just seems out of the ordinary. If you feel such activity is occurring in your house, don't panic. Try to record any of the unusual activity. Another thing you can do, is to try to establish baselines for the occurrences. Do these things happen mainly at certain times, only to certain people, or specific locations? Write your findings down. This will help you during the second step of the process.
Now we come to Stage Two. This is where you actively try to debunk any of the paranormal phenomena. If doors or cabinet drawers are opening on their own, you can try to determine if the area is free of drafts, humidity, and any other structural issues that might cause them to open on their own. Hearing strange noises at night? Make sure your house isn't settling or that your heating or cooling system is not the culprit. Continue trying to actively explain any paranormal activity by logical means. Once you have done this, if you still have occurrences that cannot be rationally explained away, you can operate under the premise that your house may be haunted.
This is where a paranormal investigation team comes in. They can come into your house and set up various types of equipment such as video surveillance, K2 meters, voice recorders, spirit boxes and so forth. An experienced team will try to engage any entities through established procedures and record their efforts. Then comes the video and audio review to see if any evidence was gathered.
So even if you don't live in a Victorian estate beside an abandoned graveyard, it's still very possible that your house could be haunted. If you want more information or have questions, Riverbend Paranormal is always available to help anyone who feels they may be experiencing a brush with the paranormal. Also, I can send you guys some sweet pictures of my non-haunted walk-in closet.
You know, a given about being a paranormal investigator is that you are always going to encounter the die hard skeptics. Or in my case, you encounter them, marry them, and suffer a lifetime of dubious looks and long sighs when discussing the paranormal. I've met my fair share of believers and skeptics alike. I think its a big world and we're all entitled to our opinions. This however brings me to one central concept when investigating haunted locations: Evidence, and how that evidence is collected is vital to paranormal investigation. Let's take this opportunity to walk you through the basic equipment that you need for paranormal pursuits.
Everyone may differ on what they feel is essential gear for going ghost hunting. Some people bring everything but the kitchen sink because they like to be prepared. That's okay. I'm a big fan of being prepared. I'm more or less addressing beginning ghost hunters or those who would like to explore the field of paranormal investigation a bit before they invest in a bunch of equipment. The most important thing you need to bring with you on an investigation, you already possess. You should bring a mind that is open to whatever you are about to experience. Notice, I didn't say you had to believe in the paranormal or that you had to believe in ghosts specifically. If you are going so far as to venture on any sort of paranormal investigation, then it's almost a given that you aren't entirely a skeptic.
Let's move on to the more practical side of things. The main objective at any haunted locale is EVIDENCE. That's the Holy Grail of every paranormal crusade. To begin with, a decent camera and a digital voice recorder (DVR) will suffice. The camera is of course for taking pictures, and the DVR will be used to record you addressing the presumed spirits or entities with questions and requests for activity or communication. Often, people will find that even if there is no visible sound during the recording, inevitably at playback there will be some disembodied voices responding in an intelligent way. This is called an EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena).
So, you've got your camera and DVR…it's go time, right? Not so fast, Spookster. It's my practical nature, but make sure you carry a flashlight and batteries. Lots and lots of batteries. Not just because your equipment may eat up battery power, but also because its a known phenomena that batteries can mysteriously be drained at a haunted location. There are many explanations as to why this can happen, and we might discuss those later. For the time being, just remember to stock up on batteries and you can thank me later.
This is where I act much as your sweet Grandma would. I will now tell you to dress comfortably and appropriately for the weather. Wear sturdy shoes, preferably ones that have the word "ortho" in them. Ok, maybe not that far, but you should remember that many locations are unheated, sometimes abandoned or not currently functional, and that you will most likely be tromping around in the dark aided only by your flashlight. Luckily, it has lots of batteries though. (See above paragraph).
Ok, got all the practical bases covered. Let's move on. Now, I feel like if you've seen any horror movies in your lifetime, it goes without saying that investigating all by yourself is not the best idea. Possibly the only worse thing you could do would be to make fun of Jason Voorhees. The primary concern is for your safety, and you'll most likely be navigating a place you aren't that familiar with. The secondary concern would be that if you do observe anything possibly paranormal, you can see if you weren't alone in seeing/hearing it. So grab a friend, or your neighborhood paranormal guy whose name is often cruelly mispelled as BRAIN, and head out to investigate something haunted.
If you have an interest in paranormal phenomena and you think it's something you'd like to pursue, here are some tips to help you on your way. Honestly, the only thing you really need when getting started is a genuine desire to explore the field of paranormal investigation. Now, do you HAVE to be part of a team? No, not at all. You will find however that when you join the company of people who share your curiosity and passion for exploring haunted locations, the experience is greatly magnified. It will also serve to help you learn the ropes by surrounding yourself with people who have some experience in the field. You will also see that by having others with you in the course of your "ghost hunting", you can often bounce ideas and questions off one another to debunk or validate any phenomena that may occur while you are on location. I will discuss a few things to consider when choosing a paranormal group to align yourself with.
A big red flag for anyone would be a paranormal group that charges people for investigations or charges for anything beyond the fees certain locations charge investigators for access to those locations. Paranormal investigation really isn't for anyone hoping to make a profit from investigating. Those of us who maintain paranormal groups do so simply because this is what we love. Avoid those who do this, and you will be sure to find a group that shares the same motivations you do.
Something else to consider beyond these factors, but possibly the most important is whether you feel that your prospective group is a good fit with your personality. If you are in it for the long haul, your team members will be the people that you will spend a huge chunk of your time with both on location and off. Ask yourself: Are these people I would enjoy spending fourteen hours with in a dark abandoned building? If the answer to all these questions is yes, CONGRATULATIONS!!! You've found your paranormal team.
I'm so very lucky in that my paranormal team is more than just a group of people who share a love of paranormal investigation. We are parafamily. We share our lives beyond the scope of ghost hunting. We celebrate birthdays, promotions, holidays…we pretty much use anything for an excuse to get together. If you can find such amazing people to surround yourself, you won't regret it and you may find that you've made lifelong friends in the process.
Greetings from Riverbend Paranormal! This is our new blog to share and interact with all of those within the paranormal community and beyond. My name is Brian, and I am the cofounder of Riverbend Paranormal. I hope to let you all delve further into the whole process of paranormal investigations.
When you tell people that you are a paranormal investigator, you're always guaranteed a quick response of some sort. It may be "the look". It's the polite look that also conveys the message that I might be a little off. It may be the enthusiastic reaction where I now have someone who wants to share all their experiences with ghosts or unexplained happenings from their past. I eagerly welcome either of those responses and any other responses I may get. I love exploring this and sharing my experiences with others. The reaction that I don't get nearly enough is the one where I get to talk about how much my paranormal pursuits involve the rich history of all the locations we visit and explore.
It's pretty standard that when Riverbend Paranormal decides to investigate a location, we try to gather as much background information on the history of the place we are investigating. This is especially true of the larger and older more historic places we visit. Various places our crew has investigated range from a small private residence to places like Waverly Hills Sanitarium, Villesca Axe Murder House, Zombie Road, and Ashmore Estates.
In the course of doing this, we also revisit the history of our towns and cities. We revisit the age of tuberculosis, of times when poor farms existed, and we learn the stories of people long departed. This is something that we take seriously. It almost seems like we are giving places and people from the past a chance to have their stories told and their lives memorialized in a way. I can't explain the feeling of sitting in a building with over a hundred years of history at midnight in complete darkness and silence. This is a feeling I think everyone should experience at least one time in their life.
This brings me directly to our latest investigation. We revisited Ashmore Estates in Ashmore Illinois. Here is the history behind this building per Wikipedia: "This former almshouse, once part of the Coles County Poor Farm, was built in 1916 and operated until 1959, when it was purchased by Ashmore Estates, Inc. for use as a private psychiatric care facility. Ashmore Estates closed in 1987 and stood abandoned until 2006, when it was opened as a commercial haunted house. After becoming abandoned in 1987, Ashmore Estates gained notoriety as a local curiosity and was subjected to trespass and vandalism. Rumors spread that the building was haunted.
Riverbend Paranormal investigated this location in 2010 when it was under ownership by Kelley. In the interim, Ashmore was purchased this year by our friend, Robbin Terry. Ashmore had long been left to deteriorate and a lack of windows meant large parts of the building's interior was exposed to the elements. Robbin began a lengthy restoration project. It was great to see everyone within surrounding paranormal community show up to help in this effort. We got to play a small role in this process and got a firsthand view of how bad certain areas had gotten. Here are some pictures from six months ago to present status of the ongoing renovation.
We had our return visit to this historic place on November 8, 2014. It was interesting to investigate in areas that had previously been blocked off or too dangerous to explore. We had a great night and are in evidence review at the moment. I hope to come back and add some of the voice recordings and video images that team members are already telling me sound quite promising. Robbin plans to continue to host investigations at Ashmore. In the meantime, it's just nice to know that interest from the paranormal community was a big reason Robbin was able to step in and save a historic building from crumbling away into ruins.


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The Netherlands will tackle Slovakia in the World Cup Round of 16 and Bert van Marwijk has confessed that not even sending Italy out of the tournament has surprised him about the quality of the Repre.
"At the start of the tournament I spoke about Slovakia's qualities and I foresaw difficulties for Italy. So, they are a team who cannot be neglected," he said at a press conference.