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Ntop is a network traffic monitor that shows the network usage. It display a list of hosts that are currently using the network and reports information concerning the (IP and non-IP) traffic generated and received by each host. It is similar to what the popular top Unix command does.
Ntop may operate as a front-end collector (sFlow and / or netFlow plugins) or as a stand alone collector/display program. A web browser is needed to access the information captured by the ntop program. The ntop users can navigate through ntop (that acts as a web server) traffic information and get a dump of the network status. It looks like an agent with an embedded web interface.
Ntop needs a limited configuration and administration via the web interface, reduced CPU and memory usage. It's easy to use and suitable for monitoring various kind of networks.
What ntop can do for me?
Sort network traffic according to many protocols
Show network traffic sorted according to various criteria
Display traffic statistics
Store on disk persistent traffic statistics in RRD format
Identify the identity (e.g. email address) of computer users
Passively (I.e. without sending probe packets) identify the host OS
Show IP traffic distribution among the various protocols
Analyse IP traffic and sort it according to the source /destination
Display IP Traffic Subnet matrix (who's talking to who?)
Report IP protocol usage sorted by protocol type
Act as a NetFlow / sFlow collector for flows generated by routers
Produce RMON – like network traffic statistics
It has been developed by Luca Deri, and Italian research scientist and network manager at University of Pisa.
taufanlubis@toshiba:~$ sudo apt-get install ntop
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libgd2-noxpm libpcap0.7
Suggested packages:
libgd-tools graphviz
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libgd2-noxpm libpcap0.7 ntop
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 3161kB of archives.
After unpacking 12.4MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/main libgd2-noxpm 2.0.34-1ubuntu1 [317kB]Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/universe libpcap0.7 0.7.2-7build1 [71.3kB]
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/universe ntop 3:3.2-10.1 [2773kB]
Fetched 3161kB in 1m4s (49.0kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages …
Selecting previously deselected package libgd2-noxpm.
(Reading database … 126317 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libgd2-noxpm (from …/libgd2-noxpm_2.0.34-1ubuntu1_i386.deb) …
Selecting previously deselected package libpcap0.7.
Unpacking libpcap0.7 (from …/libpcap0.7_0.7.2-7build1_i386.deb) …
Selecting previously deselected package ntop.
Unpacking ntop (from …/ntop_3%3a3.2-10.1_i386.deb) …
Setting up libgd2-noxpm (2.0.34-1ubuntu1) …
Setting up libpcap0.7 (0.7.2-7build1) …
Setting up ntop (3:3.2-10.1) …
Adding system user: ntop.
Warning: The home dir you specified already exists.
Adding system user `ntop' (UID 110) …
Adding new group `ntop' (GID 122) …
Adding new user `ntop' (UID 110) with group `ntop' …
The home directory `/var/lib/ntop' already exists. Not copying from `/etc/skel'.
adduser: Warning: that home directory does not belong to the user you are currently creating.
Starting network top daemon: Sat Dec 8 08:01:32 2007 NOTE: Interface merge enabled by default
Sat Dec 8 08:01:32 2007 Initializing gdbm databases
Processing triggers for libc6 …
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
To run ntop at your web browser, type 'localhost:3000' at your url.


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On January 1, the Curiosity rover celebrated its 500th sol (Martian day) on Mars. A few days earlier, it snapped an incredible new photo of 18,000-foot Mt. Sharp. Here is the entire panorama, a mosaic created from several individual images taken by the Mastcam on Dec. 26, 2013 (Sol 494).
To celebrate Curiosity posted this Tweet: "500 Sols of Mars: While Earth celebrates #NewYear2014, midnight on Mars mark my 500th day of operations."
To date, Curiosity has driven nearly 3 miles across the floor of Gale Crater in the 16 months it has been on Mars.
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Every day Poets & Writers Magazine scans the headlines—from publishing reports to academic announcements to literary dispatches—for all the news that creative writers need to know. Here are today's stories:
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) reports sales rose over 13 percent for the first half of 2012. (Publishers Weekly)
It looks as if Apple will unveil an iPad mini on October 23. (AllThingsD)
On New Hampshire Public Radio, Paris Review editor Lorin Stein speaks with Word of Mouth host Virginia Prescott about the hallmarks of a great short story.
Robert Atwan lists the ten best essays written since 1950. (Publishers Weekly)
Hector Tobar reports on attending San Francisco's famous Lit Crawl, a roving event aligned with the Litquake literary festival. (Los Angeles Times)
The Guardian challenged twenty-one authors—including A. M. Homes, Hari Kunzru, and Helen Fielding—to write twitter-sized novels.
Not one to shy away from anything anachronistic, Baz Luhrmann may use a score including Lady Gaga and Prince for his 3D adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. (Huffington Post)
Halloween is only a few weeks away, so be sure to download your free Edgar Allan Poe e-books. (GalleyCat)
If you missed Food Poem Friday, it was Kevin Young's "Ode to Pepper Vinegar." (Food52)
Flavorwire rounded up a collection of great photos of writers hanging out together (Neil Gaiman gets around).
Literary podcast Other People with Brad Listi has created an app.


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Four out of five British Columbians support a ban on trophy hunting grizzly bears, according to a public-opinion poll conducted for the Coastal First Nations.
The poll results come on the heels of photos published by The Vancouver Sun of NHL defenceman Clayton Stoner holding up the severed head of a grizzly bear that he shot with a licence in May. Stoner shot the bear in an area of the B.C. coast that aboriginals have declared off-limits to trophy hunting.
The McAllister poll of 805 adult British Columbians showed that 75 per cent are somewhat or strongly in favour of a ban on trophy hunting of black bears, rising to 87 per cent support for an end to bear trophy hunting in the Great Bear Rainforest.
The poll also found that 92 per cent agree that hunters should respect First Nations laws and customs when on their traditional territory, while 90 per cent believe people should hunt only if they eat their kill.
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Almost 80 per cent of respondents in the July survey were from southwest B.C., including the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island. The margin of error in the random phone survey is plus or minus 3.5 per cent 19 times out of 20.
The poll results were released Wednesday to coincide with the Coastal First Nations screening — before a crowd of almost 100 people at Science World — of the 20-minute anti-trophy hunting film, Bear Witness. The film can also be seen at www.bearsforever.ca. Natives believe it is disrespectful and unethical to kill bears for trophies and not for food.
But neither the poll nor the film had any immediate impact on provincial policy that supports the right to hunt for trophies.
Steve Thomson, Minister of Forests, Lands, and Natural Resource Operations, said he respects natives' opinion but he also wants them to respect the province's authority over hunting regulations, adding that the best available science supports continued grizzly hunting.
"We don't agree with the approach they've taken to ban the activity within their traditional area," he said from his Kelowna constituency office. "That is a provincial responsibility."
Thomson argued that more than one-third of B.C. is already closed to grizzly hunting, rising closer to 60 per cent in the territory of Coastal First Nations. "Our policy approach provides the appropriate balance and respects the traditional opportunities and economic contribution that both resident hunting and guide-outfitting provide for B.C."
In an interview at the film screening, a Heiltsuk native from Bella Bella said he cried when he discovered that Stoner had shot an adult male grizzly he'd come to affectionately know as Cheeky.
Robert Johnson, a field technician with the Coastal Guardian Watchmen Network, said the five-year-old bear would often approach within 50 metres on the Kwatna River estuary on the central B.C. coast.
He said Cheeky would walk through the grasses near a camp established to collect grizzly DNA for research and identification.
The bear got his nickname because he would "pop his head up, look at us, and stick his tongue out at us," Johnson said.
"We started talking to him, telling him what we were doing there. We got to know him quite well, to the point we could go in on our boat ... and get off and walk around in the area without having to worry about him."
Stoner, a 28-year-old defenceman with the Minnesota Wild who hails from Port McNeill, shot the bear during a trophy hunt.
Stoner refused to be interviewed on the controversy but said in a brief statement: "I grew up hunting and fishing in British Columbia and continue to enjoy spending time with my family outdoors. I applied for and received a grizzly bear hunting licence through a British Columbia limited-entry lottery last winter and shot a grizzly bear with my licence while hunting with my father, uncle and a friend in May.
"I love to hunt and fish and will continue to do so with my family and friends in British Columbia."
Johnson said he'd told Stoner and his hunting group that Coastal First Nations had erected a sign at Kwatna saying natives had imposed a ban on trophy hunting in the area but that the hunters respectfully said they had the legal right to hunt there and were staying.
The next day he heard three shots but didn't know it was Cheeky until he recognized the severed head, which Stoner held up for a photo on a chartered boat. "When I saw the hide being unloaded off their Zodiac, I knew right away, the colour, the size of him."
He said he cried when he returned to camp, and later obtained DNA samples from the carcass.
The Conservation Officer Service is investigating to ensure that the boat involved in the hunt was not guiding.
The province estimates there are 120,000 to 160,000 black bears and 15,000 grizzlies in B.C. While grizzlies are a species of special concern, there are no conservation concerns for black bears.
In 2012, non-residents killed 1,141 back bears and 69 grizzlies in B.C., while residents killed 2,767 black bears and 181 grizzlies. Non-resident hunters must be guided under B.C. law.
Coastal First Nations is an alliance of Wuikinuxv, Heiltsuk, Kitasoo/Xai'xais, Nuxalk, Gitga'at, Metlakatla, Old Massett, Skidegate, and the Council of the Haida Nation.
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-- Joint Venture Shanghai MengKe Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Established--
HAYWARD, Calif. and SHANGHAI, Oct. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- MicuRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a privately-held biopharmaceutical company developing next-generation antibiotics, and Shanghai Zhangjiang Biomedical Industry Venture Capital today announced the establishment of Shanghai MengKe Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a joint venture formed to fund the development and commercialization of MRX-I for the Chinese market.
MRX-I is a novel, oral oxazolidinone antibiotic targeting infections due to multi-drug resistant Gram-positive bacteria, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE). MRX-I is differentiated from marketed antibiotics in its class by its enhanced potency against MRSA and a markedly improved safety profile. The joint venture expects to complete clinical trials and apply for marketing MRX-I in China by 2017.
"The formation of this strategic alliance between MicuRx and ZhangJiang effectively merges the exceptional science of MicuRx with substantial resources of ZhangJiang to ensure that MRX-I progresses rapidly through clinical development to commercialization in China. China is recognized as a leading growth market for pharmaceuticals," said Zhengyu Yuan, Ph.D., president and chief executive officer of MicuRx Pharmaceuticals and chairman of the board of directors for Shanghai MengKe Pharmaceuticals.
Dr. Yuan continued, "We believe that the successful clinical development and commercialization of MRX-I will be facilitated effectively by the depth and breadth of Zhangjiang's resources – financial, clinical and scientific -- and we look forward to a very productive and dynamic partnership. This strategic alliance will also benefit the development of MRX-I in the United States and other worldwide markets, where MicuRx maintains all rights for this new promising antibiotic."
Under the terms of the agreement, MicuRx will license all rights for development and commercialization in China to MRX-I to the joint venture. Zhangjiang Biomedical Industry Venture Capital will contribute 60 million RMB ($9.6 million), the sum required for the completion of the anticipated clinical development program through filing a New Drug Application (NDA) with the China State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA). MicuRx will retain the controlling interest of the joint venture and is responsible for managing its daily operations. Currently, MicuRx also plans to initiate a Phase II clinical study in the United States for MRX-I in 2013.
"We are extremely pleased to partner with MicuRx to develop new antibacterial drugs capable of competing in the world market to address the growing problem of multi-drug resistant bacteria," commented Mr. Haibo Wang, head of Shanghai Source Investment Co., which is managing the investment for Zhangjiang fund. "At SSIC, we are committed to the development of promising new drugs with the potential for meeting global health needs."
MRX-I: A Potent and Safe Oxazolidinone Antibiotic
MRX-I is a next-generation oral oxazolidinone antibiotic for treating Gram-positive bacterial infections, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE). In April 2012, MicuRx announced positive Phase I clinical results demonstrating that MRX-I is safe and well tolerated in human subjects, with no signs of myelosuppression, a major toxicity concern for most oxazolidinone agents, including linezolid. In preclinical studies, MRX-I cures in vivo infections due to Gram-positive bacteria including MRSA and VRE effectively. In addition, MRX-I exhibits 2-fold improved activity against MRSA strains as compared to linezolid.
About Shanghai Zhangjiang Biomedical Industry Venture Capital
Shanghai Zhangjiang Biomedical Industry Venture Capital was founded in September 2010 with a total investment capital of 500 million RMB. By contracting out the fund management to a professional team at Shanghai Source Investment Co., Ltd. (SSIC), it focuses on investing in pharmaceutical-related companies in Zhangjiang High Technology Park of Shanghai, China.
About Shanghai Source Investment Co., Ltd. (SSIC)
SSIC was founded in December 2010 as an investment and management consulting service provider specializing in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry. Currently, SSIC is managing the investment for Shanghai Zhangjiang Biomedical Industry Venture Capital. Through capital investment and professional consulting, SSIC helps its portfolio companies to make breakthroughs at critical points in order to quickly reach the scientifically evaluable stage for acquisition and/or commercialization. SSIC will synergize the investment capital with the advanced technology of its portfolio companies and enable these companies to have the potential to be the acquisition targets or to reach the complete independence through IPO.
The principle management team of SSIC has had extensive experience in the biotechnology industry. It has brought multiple new drugs to market in the US and China. In addition, it has played a significant role in growing three start-up companies into major publicly traded companies in Canada, Hong Kong, and China. The SSIC team has more than 10 years experience at various regulatory agencies and life-science venture capital operations. With their management experience at multinational and Chinese biotechnology companies, and excellent relationships with major pharmaceutical companies, SSIC has the desire and ability to become the best partner to innovating life-science related companies in the Shanghai area.
About MicuRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
MicuRx is discovering and developing novel antibiotics to combat infections due to resistant bacteria. Positioned to capture the benefits of United States research and development expertise together with the high quality, cost-efficient discovery, preclinical and development infrastructure in China, the company has built a pipeline of discovery and development programs targeting Gram-positive and Gram-negative pathogens. The company has research and development facilities outside San Francisco, CA in the United States and in Shanghai, China. MicuRx has raised $12 million in Series A venture funds from Morningside Group (http://www.morningside.com/) and Devon Park Bioventures (http://www.dpbioventures.com/).
SOURCE MicuRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.


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Park Yong-ha plays the determined inmate-turned-M&A expert in the drama ``The Slingshot'' which airs Mondays and Tuesdays at 9:55 p.m.
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Hallyu stars Park Yong-ha and Kwon Sang-woo are moving into the television spotlight where, until recently, pretty boys, shiny sports cars (``Boys Over Flowers'') and even a historic hero (``Iljimae Returns'') dominated.
The leading men of new dramas ``The Slingshot'' (KBS) and ``Cinderella Man'' (MBC), respectively, are expected to heat up the already star-studded drama casts, which include So Ji-sub, Kim Nam-ju and Jung Ryeo-won.
Written by Song Ji-na as the final piece of her trilogy ― the first two being ``Eye of Dawn'' (1991) and ``Hourglass'' (1997) ― ``The Slingshot'' is expected to capture the reality of today's money-driven world.
``We focused on the world of men and women who are willing to sacrifice their lives for money, a world where money dictates. But I still tried to make a lighter, enjoyable and somewhat touching series,'' Yoon Sung-sik, the producer, said at a press conference last week in northern Seoul.
Park, 31, plays Kim Shin, who chooses jail after realizing he has no way to pay back his debt. Inside, he is resigned to his fate, until he finds out about the stocks scandal that caused the suicide of his brother, which made him borrow the money in the first place. Furious, Kim prepares for revenge and founds a ``dream team,'' including actress Park Shi-yeon who plays his lover. The dark, cold-blooded Chae Do-woo, played by Kim Kang-woo, is his enemy in the drama. The actor was the winner of the Best Actor Award at the Torino Film Festival in 2007.
In a short preview clip, the three characters showed that they were serious in depicting their characters, which departed from their usual images. Park, who only recently revealed his manly side with the hit drama ``On-Air,'' played a tough inmate with eyes blazing with revenge, while Park Shi-yeon showed her softer side, far from the usual sexy and sultry characters she's been known for. Kim successfully transforms himself into the shadowy and cold-blooded villain Chae, perfectly matching his dark suits, sharp expressions and harsh words.
When asked if the choice of the tough guy role was deliberate, Park smiled and admitted it was about time.
``Yes, I felt I needed a change in the characters that I play. I also came to realize that these roles fit me better at my age, compared to the fragile and pretty characters I have been portraying,'' he said.
Kwon Sang-woo stars in the new MBC drama ``Cinderella Man,'' which airs Wednesdays and Thursdays at 9:55 p.m.
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Kwon plays the poor, yet determined Oh Dae-san, an aspiring designer whose priorities in life are money and fame. His life takes a drastic turn when he meets Lee Jun-hee; the son of an apparel company who looks exactly like him. When the latter disappears, Oh is given the task of living the life of the rich fellow during the day. Lee does not return, and when Oh realizes that he is actually good in filling the shoes of his unrelated ``twin,'' his deepest desires and dreams start to unravel.
``Cinderella Man'' also made headlines for the appearance of Yoo-na, a member of the popular girl group Girls' Generation, as Oh's love interest despite the 14 year age gap.
``It's not a big budget program, nor does it have an overwhelming storyline. It's real, about us, and personally, something I can relate with and also show myself,'' Kwon said during a press conference last week in central Seoul.
The overall drama may have not called for a big budget, but it did require special effects and equipment to get the two characters played by Kwon in the same scene.
The drama crew used the Motion Control Camera (MCC), which costs about 1 billion won and 5 million won for a day's rental. With the help of advanced technology, viewers will get to watch two Kwons walk past each other.
``I'm not pressured by (ratings). As my previous work, `Bad Love,' was considered a big failure, I think this one will do much better. I'm not happy to compete with my good friend So Ji-sub from the drama `Cain and Abel,' but the good news is that `Cain' is coming to an end, while we are just starting,'' Kwon said, smiling to reporters.
``The Slingshot'' airs every Monday and Tuesday at 9:55 on KBS, while ``Cinderella Man'' airs every Wednesday and Thursday at 9:55 on MBC.


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Ingredients: Fractionated coconut oil, jojoba oil, and fragrance.
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Hong Kong, 3 August 2017 - Dream Cruises today unveiled a new luxury experience for guests of its prestigious Dream Palace Suite and Garden Penthouses on board Genting Dream and its soon-to-arrive twin sister ship World Dream. Designed for guests who prefer the finer things in life, this unique concept sets a new benchmark in Asia's luxury cruise industry with an unparalleled range of first-class privileges and personalized services both on-board and in-room, as well as on land.
Dream Palace is a class of its own, an elegantly regal "ship-within-a-ship" enclave with 142 suites and private VIP facilities including its own swimming pool, spa, gym and dining venues. The luxurious essence of Dream Palace is embodied by the meticulous personalized services of its renowned team of Dream Butlers, chosen for their genuine personalities, language skills and renowned for their gracious service and unparalleled expertise.
"Since the launch of Genting Dream, guest feedback on our Dream Palace experience has been overwhelming. This has inspired us to create an all-inclusive luxury offering, which upgrades our guest experience to a new level and makes our Dream Palace proposition across our fleet even more exceptional in the market," said Mr. Thatcher Brown, President of Dream Cruises.
Guests can enjoy the new Dream Palace experience on Genting Dream from 1 September and on World Dream when it arrives in Asia in November. This begins with complimentary select fine wines, premium spirits, and unlimited soft drinks from the premium beverage package, which can be enjoyed at all bars and lounges throughout the ship. Guests can then savour complimentary dining in the exclusive Dream Palace restaurants as well as up to five specialty restaurants with each night featuring choice of a unique specialty restaurant experience. Breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, dinner and supper are also all part of Dream Palace restaurants' inclusive offering. Other complimentary services include soft drinks and bottled water in-room, standard Wi-Fi package and VIP city transfer shuttle services exclusively for Dream Palace guests.
Beyond these complimentary benefits, Dream Palace guests will also enjoy an exclusive al fresco seafood barbeque dinner hosted on the Dream Palace private pool deck area during the last sea day of all five-night cruises. In addition, Dream Palace guests will have first priority at booking at the recently- launched Vintage Room private food and wine chef's table that showcases Dream Cruises' preferred relationship with Penfolds wine makers and their extended vineyards globally.
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The Garden State's commuter railway parked critical equipment – including much of its newest and most expensive stock – at its low-lying main rail yard in Kearny just before the hurricane. It did so even though forecasters had released maps showing the wetland-surrounded area likely would be under water when Sandy's expected record storm surge hit. Other equipment was parked at its Hoboken terminal and rail yard, where flooding also was predicted and which has flooded before.
Among the damaged equipment: nine dual-powered locomotive engines and 84 multi-level rail cars purchased over the past six years at a cost of about $385 million.
"If there's a predicted 13-foot or 10-foot storm surge, you don't leave your equipment in a low-lying area," said David Schanoes, a railroad consultant and former deputy chief of field operations for Metro North Railroad, a sister railway serving New York State. "It's just basic railroading. You don't leave your equipment where it can be damaged."
After Reuters made numerous inquiries to state and local officials this week about the decision to store equipment in the yards, an unidentified senior transportation official told the New York Post that NJ Transit had launched an internal probe, the Post reported on Saturday.


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It may take longer to unwind last season's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit cliff-hanger than we thought.
Law & Order: SVU's Bloody Wake-Up Call — What's Next?
SVU has cast Chuck and Firefly alum Adam Baldwin to play Capt. Steven Harris, the squad's new interim captain, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively. He will take over the duties usually handled by Capt. Donald Cragen (Dann Florek), who is suspected of murder after he was last seen waking up next to a dead prostitute in SVU's Season 13 finale.
Baldwin's character is slated to appear in the new season's first three episodes while Cragen's fate is being determined. Needless to say, Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and the rest of the team are none-too-pleased to be taking orders from the new guy.
Criminal Minds' Paget Brewster lands guest spot on SVUBaldwin's character will join previously announced guest star Paget Brewster, who will play the head of the Public Integrity Unit, which is handling Cragen's case for the District Attorney's office. Laura Benanti, Pippa Black, Peter Jacobson, Ron Rifkin, Brooke Smith, and Dean Winters are all expected to reprise their roles from the finale as well.Besides his work on Chuck and Firefly, Baldwin has also recurred on such series as The X-Files and Angel. His most recent guest work includes gigs on Castle and Leverage.SVU returns with a two-hour premiere on Wednesday, Sept. 26 at 9/8c on NBC.


text: Not to take anything away from Dayton, as he's a favorite, but the very existence of ITW as a post-finale VAN story still irks me. I know this sounds a bit naive, but the story has been told to completion - why must TPTB (Marketing) exploit it and the VAN readership? Wasn't this supposed to be TOS originally?


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(a) Each mutual consent voluntary adoption registry must be operated under the direction of an administrator.
(b) A person eligible to register may request the administrator to disclose identifying information by filing an affidavit which sets forth the following:
(1) The current name and address of the affiant;
(2) Any previous name by which the affiant was known;
(3) The original and adopted names, if known, of the adopted child;
(4) The place and date of birth of the adopted child; or
(5) The name and address of the adoption agency or other entity, organization or person placing the adopted child, if known.
(c) The affiant shall notify the registry of any change in name or location which occurs subsequent to his or her filing the affidavit. The registry has no duty to search for an affiant who fails to register his or her most recent address.
(d) The administrator of the mutual consent voluntary adoption registry shall process each affidavit in an attempt to match the adult adoptee and the birth parents. Such processing shall include research from agency records, when available, and when agency records are not available, research from court records to determine conclusively whether the affiants match.
(e) The administrator shall determine that there is a match when the adult adoptee and the birth mother or the adult adoptee and the birth father have each filed affidavits with the mutual consent voluntary adoption registry and have each received the counseling required in section 23-502.
(f) When a match has taken place, the department shall directly notify all parties through a direct and confidential contact. The contact shall be made by an employee or agent of the agency receiving the assignment and shall be made face to face, rather than by mail, telephone or other indirect means. The employee or agent shall be a trained social worker who has expertise in post-legal adoption services.


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Recall that each
PersistenceManager maintains a
cache of persistent objects. Though this cache may improve performance,
it is primarily in place to maintain data integrity and to satisfy JDO's
uniqueness requirement.
Thus, many vendors also implement a level 2 datastore cache for added
performance. JDO's
DataStoreCache interface gives you a standard
way to access your vendor's level 2 cache.
public DataStoreCache getDataStoreCache ();
Datastore caches act across
PersistenceManagers, at
PersistenceManagerFactory level. Some vendors
may also go beyond the factory level to per-JVM and clustered caches.
getDataStoreCache method retrieves the datastore
cache. Vendors who do not support a level 2 data cache will implement all
DataStoreCache operations as no-ops.
Kodo extends the standard
As Section 10.1, "Data Cache" in the Reference Guide explains,
Kodo allows you to define multiple named caches. The
public void evict (Object oid); public void evictAll (); public void evictAll (Object[] oids); public void evictAll (Collection oids);
evict methods tell the cache to release
data. Each method takes one or more JDO identity objects, and releases the
cached data for the corresponding persistent instances. The
evictAll method with no arguments clears the cache.
Eviction is useful when the datastore is changed by a separate process
outside your JDO implementation's control. In this scenario, you typically
have to manually evict the data from the datastore cache; otherwise the
JDO runtime, oblivious to the changes, will maintain its stale copy.
In addition to manual eviction, Kodo offers per-class data timeouts and cron-style eviction schedules for caches. See Section 10.1, "Data Cache" in the Reference Guide for details.
public void pin (Object oid); public void pinAll (Object[] oids); public void pinAll (Collection oids); public void unpin (Object oid); public void unpinAll (Object[] oids); public void unpinAll (Collection oids);
Most caches are of limited size. Pinning a JDO identity object to the cache
ensures that the cache will not expire the data for the corresponding
instance, unless you manually evict it. Note that even
after manual eviction, the data will get pinned again the next time it is
fetched from the store. You can only remove a pin and make the data once
again available for normal cache overflow eviction through the
unpin methods. Use pinning when you want a
guarantee that a certain object will always be available from cache, rather
than requiring a datastore trip.
Example 13.1. Using the DataStoreCache
/** * This callback is invoked after an outside process runs to update the given * Subscription records. It evicts the records from the cache so that the * JDO application does not receive stale data. */ public void postBatchProcess (PersistenceManagerFactory pmf, long[] subIds) { DataStoreCache cache = pmf.getDataStoreCache (); for (int i = 0; i < subIds.length; i++) cache.evict (new LongIdentity (Subscription.class, subIds[i])); }


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Maine State Police say a 59-year-old man told law officers before fatally shooting himself during a standoff that he killed a registered sex offender by forcing him to drink two bottles of nitroglycerin and a bottle of "pysch meds" because he'd been molesting children.
Police last week declared 68-year-old Lawrence Lewis' death a homicide after finding his body hidden inside his house in Molunkus Township.
His death was linked to a four-hour standoff the same day that ended with 59-year-old Bruce Heal, also known as Bruce King, killing himself inside a U-Haul truck on Interstate 95 near Lincoln.
An affidavit in Lincoln District Court said Heal told police during the standoff that he had reported Lewis for molesting children and killed him because nobody was doing anything about it.


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Artwork by Yogi Bhajan. ©The Teachings of Yogi Bhajan
By Gurucharan Singh Khalsa, KRI Director of Training
Happiness is your birthright! Accept it. Live it. Enjoy it. Each person, regardless of wealth, status, age, or religion has the hidden desire to be happy. The urge for happiness is behind every other desire. The problem is that each person also forms a hidden or subconscious pattern that creates unhappiness. We learn those patterns. We learn to be unhappy. Some people even identify and depend on the unhappiness. 80% of us learn to communicate and manipulate through some form of dishonesty to the self, self-pity, negative mood, or gossip. In this way we stand in our own shadow and wonder why it's not sunny.
Actually, the sun is shining all the time. We need only clear the clouds or rise above them. We need tools to rid the subconscious of the patterns of performance and the hidden self-concepts that block us from perceiving and choosing our birthright of happiness.
Happiness is a choice. It comes from the realization that we are complete in design, structure, and potential. Happiness is never found in circumstance, possessions, or relationships. It is an attitude we bring to all those areas of life.
Even success, by itself, does not bring happiness. It must be a success that is ours, that fulfills our identity, and that we accept without fear of scarcity or loss of personal control and clarity. We have an instinct for survival—to protect ourselves by fear, selfishness, and narrowness. We succeed and gain money, resources, knowledge, skills, or relationships. Then we become afraid to share or express those things because there won't be enough or because they will not be in our control as we want them to be.
This is a basic conflict: a fundamental birthright and nature to be happy and live as an unlimited soul, which is opposed by instincts to narrow, contract, and live as a limited mind struggling for control.
Yogi Bhajan, Master of Kundalini Yoga and teacher of the psychology of Happiness, put it this way:
Happiness is your birthright. It cannot be taken away from you. But you act as if it is not your birthright. You begin to wish for happiness rather than accept it and express it. When you wish for happiness, you also wish indirectly for unhappiness, just as night and day follow each other. When you wish, every happiness is followed by sadness and every sadness by a happiness. You are not happy because you make comparisons and compete with something over which you have no control. You have no control over infinity—the vast, creative essence of life and consciousness. If you have no control over infinity, don't try and control it. Flow with it and you can reach anywhere! Fight with it and you'll be unhappy. There's nothing to it. The only problem is you have not consciously developed your mental caliber, meditative mind, and the attitude of gratitude and contentment.
The mind should dance with the body, the whole Universe is your stage, the soul your choreographer. Try to feel that whatever you are doing is the most beautiful thing, the prettiest dance, because you dance with the whole Universe. Don't resent anything. Forgive everything. Express your essence. Let your heart guide you, free of all limitation, regimentation, and fear.
Happiness is your birthright!


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Posturing shows Coalition nerves are beginning to fray
Inside Politics: How Fine Gael and Labour handle jitters over abortion legislation and the economy will indicate a lot about the Government's prospects
Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton giving a speech last weekend in which she said we have "reached the limits of austerity now". Photograph: Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland
The outbreak of political posturing by elements in both Coalition parties over the past week is a worrying signal that after two years in office nerves are beginning to fray under the pressure.
On the big issues of the economy and abortion there are obvious tensions between the Coalition parties but there are also serious divisions within each of them that could pose an even bigger threat to the Government's long term viability.
On the core issue of the economy there is a predictable difference of emphasis between the parties, with some unnamed Fine Gael Minister unwisely talking up the prospect of tax concessions for middle- income earners next year and Labour figures calling instead for tax increases on higher earners. While it is understandable that those in Government would like to focus the attention of taxpayers on the light at the end of the tunnel, talking up the prospect of tax concessions at this stage is extremely foolish.
It will inevitably lead to disappointment on the part of voters when next year's budget is unveiled in October but, more dangerously, it threatens to sap the national will to sort out the mess in the public finances by 2015.
People need to be reminded again and again that revenue and expenditure are still away out of line with State borrowing running at more than €1 billion a month to maintain public service pay and welfare at their current levels.
Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton didn't help with a speech last weekend in which she said: "I believe that we have reached the limits of austerity now." That conveyed the impression that her Cabinet colleagues were wedded to "austerity" for its own sake and that budget discipline could be abandoned without any consequences.
Even the use of the term "austerity" to describe current policies was a capitulation to the arguments of Sinn Féin and the hard left and right-wing elements in the Dáil who claim there is some easy alternative waiting to be plucked from the air.
Minister for Public Expenditure Brendan Howlin confronted the issue head on when he outlined the Government's response to the rejection of the latest Croke Park deal. "Austerity is a nice phrase to hang your hat on. Let's deal with that one. I for one am not a 'believer' in austerity. I believe a more coherent anti-austerity strategy across Europe would be good for Ireland and for Europe . . . But I am not a dreamer either. I have been in politics long enough to know the damage done to a small country like ours by not being able to pay your way."
Howlin made the pertinent point that by any definition this country is pursuing anti-austerity policies. "We continue to run sizeable budget deficits each year despite our large debt burden. The size of the budget deficit is being reduced in a steady and rational fashion. The Government has already added a further year to that timetable. But the idea that we can push that debt burden higher on a permanent basis simply defies reason."
Howlin has stuck by the target of reducing the public service pay by €1 billion by 2015, despite the rejection of the Croke Park II, but delivering on that commitment will test the resolve of the Government and the public in the face of industrial action by public servants.
There are also likely to be serious difficulties on the political front as some Labour TDs will inevitably find it difficult to vote in favour of imposing pay cuts when the issue comes before the Dáil.
On the Fine Gael side of the Coalition abortion is the issue that threatens to split the party and, regardless of the political consequences, Enda Kenny will have to demonstrate the kind of resolve that Howlin is showing on public pay. Kenny's task was made more difficult by a series of leaks from Labour sources suggesting that legislation being drafted by Minister for Health James Reilly would establish teams of doctors to interrogate pregnant women who threaten to take their own lives.
There is clearly some dispute over the kind of procedures that will be put in place but ever since the publication of the expert group report on abortion it was always going to be the case that any initial decision on a suicide threat would be made by a three-person medical panel with the right of appeal after that.
Kenny has to contend with a vocal rump in his parliamentary party which is opposed to the issue of suicide being included in the legislation at all. The problem is that it cannot be avoided given the Supreme Court decision in the X case.
The Fine Gael leadership is clearly trying to keep legislation on the suicide option as tight as possible in an effort to persuade reluctant backbenchers to go along but, one way or another, it will be very restrictive by international standards.
Fine Gael could well lose a few backbenchers on the abortion issue given the scale of the opposition expressed at the parliamentary party meeting on Wednesday. The big talking point in the party is whether Minister of State for European Affairs Lucinda Creighton, who has expressed strong opposition to the inclusion of the suicide option, will join the rebels when it comes to a Dáil vote.
Both parties in government can afford to lose a few TDs but Labour appears to have the bigger problem. Party TDs who defy the whip on the pay issue might be tempted to join some of their former colleagues on the dissenting benches and stay there. By contrast, Fine Gael TDs who go overboard on abortion are likely to return to the safety of the party by the time of the next election.
How both parties handle the jitters over the next two months will tell a lot about the capacity of the Coalition to see out its term.


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Project: "Identification and Characterization of a Novel PKD Substrates"
Members of Protein kinase D family (PKC µ /PKD, PKD2 and PKC υ /PKD3), a subfamily of Calcium/ Calmodulin dependent kinase (CAMK) super family are serine/ threonine kinases, occupying an important position in the signal transduction pathways downstream of diacylglycerol (DAG) and Protein kinase C (PKC). The three PKD isoforms share striking similarities and have been implicated in regulation of multiple biological processes including cell survival, proliferation, apoptosis, angiogenesis and motility. Important role of PKD's in each of these physiological and pathological processes further underscores the significance of identifying and characterizing novel PKD substrates, thus providing a better insight into PKD's role in signaling and regulation of cellular processes.
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Two boys injured in West Allis duplex fire released from hospital
The two boys injured in a weekend fire that killed two other boys have been released from the hospital.
Family members confirm that Joel Gonzales, 13, and his 4-year-old brother Kendall, were released from Children's Hospital of Wisconsin after both suffered smoke inhalation from the fire early Sunday on West Allis' east side.
Their brother Michael Gonzales, 14, was killed along with his friend, 14-year-old Isaiha Kobow.
"We tried to get out of there; Joelle tried to push [Michael], tried to grab his shirt, and he didn't get up," Kendall said.
Joelle and Michael's dad, Johnny Gonzales, said he was notified of the fire in the middle of the night.
"I just rushed over here," he said. "Just seeing the house on fire and just knowing that my kid was in there and I couldn't do anything..."
Joelle and Michael's dad, Johnny Gonzales, said he was notified of the fire in the middle of the night.
"I just rushed over here," he said. "Just seeing the house on fire and just knowing that my kid was in there and I couldn't do anything..."
"I just hope we can pick up all the pieces to the puzzle and get them back together and get our family back together," he said.
Lori Cheaver's son, Isaiah Koblow, was the fire's second victim. She said she was working that night and Isaiah was not supposed to leave home. She said she was still searching for closure.
"I'm still waiting for him to come home and tell me everything's going to be alright," she said.
"You get a book that says what to expect when you're expecting, but there's no chapter 15 that says how to bury your child before the age of 18," she said.
Cheaver said her son was a good kid and a basketball player. She said he had to overcome so much since he was diagnosed at an early age with autism.
"This is a boy who was never supposed to walk, talk, go potty by himself, and he fought those odds, and he's done it all," she said.
Memorials at the scene near 57th and Lincoln have been growing by the day as friends from the boys' middle schools came by after school to remember their classmates.
"Hug your kids a little tighter. Always know where they're at. That's my message," Gonzales said.
Investigators from the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms are assisting officials from West Allis in trying to determine what caused the fire.
Officials told WISN 12 News that the boys who died were in the attic when the fire likely broke out on the floor below.


text: If anyone does weird LCD TVs, it's Hannspree. And, while I can understand the importance of fire truck- and french fries-shaped TVs, I am not entirely convinced about Time Square, a 12-inch LCD TV with built-in clock, thermometer and hygrometer, whose dials swing open to reveal speakers.There's a four-in-one A/V connection (Composite, S-Video, Audio Input and Headphone Jack) and remote control. Perhaps it's good for anyone thinking of turning the underground nuclear shelter at the bottom of the garden dug by Grandpaw 40 years ago into a den. The Time Square costs $130. [Amazon via Uncrate]


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The Wisconsin Department of Justice is investigating people accused of using the address of a Brookfield bank branch and the name -- Associated Commercial Finance Inc.
WISN 12 News obtained a search warrant that says Wisconsin's consumer protection office started getting complaints from across the country saying they'd been ripped off by a company using the Associated name and a similar logo to sell timeshares in Florida and Tennessee. Associated Bank does not sell timeshares.
VIDEO: DOJ investigates timeshare con involving use of name of one of state's largest banks
Dean and Carolyn Pierce are named in the court records.
"That's the proper word -- victims. I told her we're gullible," Dean Pierce said.
WISN 12 News talked to them by phone from their home in California. They' are now working with consumer protection and want to warn others not to fall for strong-arm sales tactics.
"My husband's 80 years old. We should have better sense, but anyhow, we've been bamboozled. We're just gullible idiots," Carolyn Pierce said.
Wisconsin's Department of Justice is investigating what it calls "entity theft" -- for tarnishing the Associated Bank name.
Wisconsin's consumer protection office is investigating complaints from consumers from several states.
Anyone who has had similar solicitations can report them by going to http://datcp.wi.gov/ or calling 800-422-7128.


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Full Indy articleLeaving the European Union could cost Britain £224bn while other EU nations would suffer only minor economic losses if it withdrew, according to a major new study.
Bertelsmann Stiftung, a German think tank, found that the UK economy would grow more slowly after losing the benefits of trading with its EU partners. The first study of the impact of Brexit (British exit) for the EU as a whole predicted long-term negative consequences for the UK but a significantly smaller economic effect for the rest of the 28-nation bloc.
In Britain, the sectors worst hit by losing the link with the EUs single market would include chemicals, financial services, automative and mechanical engineering.
The study looked at three scenarios for 2030 after Brexit in 2018. In the most favourable case, the UK would win a status similar to Switzerland and a trade agreement with its former EU partners. In the worst scenario, Britain would lose its free trade agreements. The loss in gross domestic product (GDP) per head would range from 0.6 to 3 per cent, with the worst case scenario costing the UK economy £224bn.
And from a perspective close to my own concerns...
Full Guardian articleA British exit from the EU would be catastrophic for universities and scientific research, leading academics and scientists say, warning it would cost tens of millions of pounds in funding and leave prestigious UK institutions struggling to compete on the world stage.
Scientists from fields as diverse as neuroscience, astronomy, robotics, immunology, particle physics, sustainable agriculture, molecular biology, nanotechnology, cancer and photon therapy say a Brexit would lead to funding cuts, make recruiting and retaining top academic talent harder, and crucially cripple the cross-border collaboration on which research thrives.
Smith, an international relations theorist, said all the evidence in the world shows that the best research is done by people working internationally. He added: The most successful knowledge economy is where people publish together with people in other countries. EU membership makes that immeasurably easier.
By this yardstick the UK does unbelievably well, Smith said. In 1981, 84% of UK research was published bearing just a UK address; by last year, the figure was 48%. In the US, it remains 67%.
That fact alone that a higher proportion of UK than US research is authored by scientists of more than one nationality explained why Britain, which represents just 0.9% of the global population, 3.2% of research and development expenditure and 4.1% of researchers, now accounted for 15.9% of the worlds most highly-cited scientific research articles, Smith said a score that put it in first position globally, ahead of the US.
So should the UK jump ship (show your working)?
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqH21LEmfbQ


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- average density (3) (remove)
We show that the intersection local times \(\mu_p\) on the intersection of \(p\) independent planar Brownian paths have an average density of order three with respect to the gauge function \(r^2\pi\cdot (log(1/r)/\pi)^p\), more precisely, almost surely, \[ \lim\limits_{\varepsilon\downarrow 0} \frac{1}{log |log\ \varepsilon|} \int_\varepsilon^{1/e} \frac{\mu_p(B(x,r))}{r^2\pi\cdot (log(1/r)/\pi)^p} \frac{dr}{r\ log (1/r)} = 2^p \mbox{ at $\mu_p$-almost every $x$.} \] We also show that the lacunarity distributions of \(\mu_p\), at \(\mu_p\)-almost every point, is given as the distribution of the product of \(p\) independent gamma(2)-distributed random variables. The main tools of the proof are a Palm distribution associated with the intersection local time and an approximation theorem of Le Gall.
We show that the occupation measure on the path of a planar Brownian motion run for an arbitrary finite time intervalhas an average density of order three with respect to thegauge function t^2 log(1/t). This is a surprising resultas it seems to be the first instance where gauge functions other than t^s and average densities of order higher than two appear naturally. We also show that the average densityof order two fails to exist and prove that the density distributions, or lacunarity distributions, of order threeof the occupation measure of a planar Brownian motion are gamma distributions with parameter 2.


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Texas teen describes shooting family to 911 operator
ALEDO, Texas (AP) — A chilling recording of a 911 call captured a 17-year-old Texas boy telling the operator in a calm, monotone voice that he had just shot his mother and sister multiple times.
Jake Evans, 17, has been charged with capital murder in the deaths of his mother and 15-year-old sister and remained jailed Friday without bond.
The double slaying in the family's upscale home in Aledo, about 20 miles west of Fort Worth, happened while Evans' father was out of town on business and his two older sisters were not home. The motive remains "a big mystery," Parker County Sheriff Larry Fowler said Friday.
During a 25-minute call to a 911 operator that started about 12:30 a.m. Thursday, Evans calmly says he just shot his mother and sister with a .22 revolver. He answers "yes" when asked if he's sure they are dead.
"It's weird," he says as the operator continues asking questions. "I wasn't even really angry with them. It just kind of happened. I've been kind of planning on killing for a while now."
He adds that he could have shot "pretty much anybody." When asked why, he says first that he doesn't know but then says he doesn't like people's attitudes.
Evans tells the Parker County 911 operator that his mother and sister were rude, but he also says his sister, Mallory, had a really sweet side.
"This is probably selfish of me to say, but to me, I felt like they were suffocating me in a way," he says. "Obviously, you know, I'm pretty — I guess — evil."
Evans describes shooting his mother several times and then, as his sister screams, shooting her in the head three times. He recalls apologizing to her and telling her to "hold still ... that, you know, I was just going to just make it go away."
Toward the end of the call but before deputies arrive at his house, Evans tells the operator that he's "going to be messed up." He says he's worried about having nightmares and asks if there's medication to treat that.
"I don't mean to sound like a wimp or anything, but this is — wow. I've never done anything violent in my life, you know?" he says. Later, he's heard taking deep breaths, as the operator has instructed. "I just thought it would be quick, you know? I didn't want them to feel any pain. That's why I used a gun, but it's like everything just went wrong."
Fowler said Evans was the only suspect in the deaths.
Evans and his sister Mallory were being home-schooled. Evans had played on the golf team before withdrawing from Aledo High School in January. He played football in middle school.
Mallory Evans "was a sweet child that will be missed by her friends and school family," Aledo schools superintendent Doug Manning said in a statement.
Jami Evans, 48, was an elementary teacher and assistant principal for the Aledo school system for 15 years, and "her dedication to her students and her love of learning was an inspiration to all who knew her," Manning said.


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As professors in the University of Houston's Creative Writing Program, Nick Flynn and Tony Hoagland impart their creative insights with aspiring authors and poets. Soon, they will step away from the classroom to showcase their works as two of today's top authors during UH's Poetry and Prose Reading Series.
This free event begins at 5:30 p.m. in UH's Honors College Commons (second floor of the university's M.D. Anderson Library). It is open to the community.
Flynn's 2004 book "Another Bull... Night in ... City" won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir. A film is being developed around this book and tentatively scheduled for release in 2012. Flynn also authored poetry books "Some Ether" (recipient of the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award) and "Blind Huber." His next book of poetry "The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands" will be released this year. His latest work is a memoir titled "The Ticking is the Bomb: A Memoir of Bewilderment." Flynn has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Library of Congress, the Amy Lowell Trust, and the Fine Arts Work Center.
Tony Hoagland is the author of four award-winning poetry collections: "What Narcissism Means to Me" (finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award), "Donkey Gospel" (recipient of the James Laughlin Award) and "Sweet Ruin" (recipient of the Zacharis Award). His latest collection of poems is titled "Unincorporated persons in the Late Honda Dynasty." He is the recipient of the 2008 Jackson Poetry Prize, the 2005 O.B. Hardison Jr. Poetry Prize and the 2005 Mark Twain Award.
Both Flynn and Hoagland will have books available to purchase following their readings.
|Poetry and Prose Reading Series
|5:30 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 23
|Honors College Commons
M.D. Anderson Library
Entrance 1 off Calhoun Road
|University of Houston


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Though holiday parties are dressed up in festivity and good spirits and cold weather, they're still freaking parties. And parties, filled with people of the human race, all end up the same way. This animated short about "-holics" shows how all holiday parties play out. For the Facebookaholic, the Twitteraholic, the Alcoholic, the Sexaholic, whoever -holic, party up. It's the holidays.
The video, called Season's Gweetings!, was directed by Aloke Shetty of Rawshark Films and animated by Rajiv Eipe. [YouTube via Laughing Squid]


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Josephine "Jo" Jones (née Grant, 1951 - 2028) was a companion of the Third Doctor.
Jo was a civilian employee of UNIT, whom the Brigadier assigned to the Doctor after the departure of Liz Shaw. Initially a laboratory assistant to him, she became a travelling companion to the Doctor during one-off missions for the Time Lords, and after his exile on Earth was entirely lifted.
Although she mostly knew the Doctor in his third incarnation she also had significant adventures with the Second and Eleventh Doctors, and briefly saw the First Doctor on the TARDIS scanner. (TV: The Three Doctors, Death of the Doctor)
She left UNIT, and therefore the Doctor, to marry Professor Clifford Jones, who at the time had received United Nations funding for a variety of progressive scientific studies. (TV: The Green Death) The path of their later lives was unclear. Some accounts stated that they got divorced. (PROSE: Genocide) Others held that they travelled the world together for years, leaving behind a legacy of environmental progressivism and protests — as well as an abundant number of children and grandchildren. (TV: Death of the Doctor)
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Early life[edit | edit source]
Jo Grant was born in 1951. (PROSE: Carpenter/Butterfly/Baronet) During her childhood, Jo used to go on holiday at the seaside with her mother, father, uncle and grandfather. Her grandfather, who smoked a pipe, always used to spoil her. He often bought her ice cream behind her parents' backs, observing, "What's the harm? Life's too short." He died in 1958 when his granddaughter was seven years old. (AUDIO: The Mists of Time) She also had a cousin, Stephanie Andrews. (AUDIO: The Hidden Realm)
As a child, Jo had "an army of gonks and trolls" but even then she found dolls creepy. (AUDIO: The Doll of Death)
Jo went to a grammar school, (AUDIO: The Havoc of Empires) and learnt about the Roman Empire. (PROSE: The Spear of Destiny) She took an A-Level in general science, though she apparently did not pass. (TV: Terror of the Autons)
One day when Jo set out to meet her uncle, Jack Canning, for lunch, she found her bus was being followed by a car. This led to a pursuit. She initially lost the car, only for it to find her again in the cab she took. When the cab driver decided to abandon her in the countryside, she was pursued by insect-like men. A grey-haired man dressed in a velvet suit and cloak fought off the insect men and gave her a chance to escape. After leaving the forest, Jo was attacked by a woman whom she attempted to help fix her broken car and was ultimately captured by the cabby who had abandoned her earlier. Jo was taken to the hotel where she was meant to meet her uncle. She overpowered the cabby upon arriving and took his gun. When she ordered to be taken to the man in charge, she found that it was none other than her uncle, who worked for the United Nations. All these experiences had apparently been a test to determine her fitness for UNIT, which she had passed. When Jo inquired about the identity of the man in the velvet suit, she was told that it was Sergeant Benton in a wig, who was standing in for their scientific adviser. (AUDIO: Taken For Granted)
Life with the Doctor[edit | edit source]
Jo joined UNIT in 1972 (AUDIO: The Sacrifice of Jo Grant) after calling in a favour from her uncle. (TV: The Green Death)
Jo first met the Doctor when the Master was using the Nestene Consciousness to conquer Earth. Though the Doctor initially rejected Jo as scientifically incompetent, the Brigadier was correct in his assertion that what the Doctor needed was "someone to pass you your test tubes and tell you how brilliant you are". Even though Jo was hypnotised by the Master into bringing a bomb into UNIT HQ in an attempt to blow up the Doctor, she proved her worth to him and they quickly became almost inseparable. (TV: Terror of the Autons)
At some point, a woman, looking for advice on COVID-19, called the 1970s UNIT from the year 2020. She spoke with the Doctor, the Brigadier, and Jo, with Jo advising her to find ways to be positive. In addition to their own advice, the Doctor and Brigadier agreed. The three then had to hang up to deal with an urgent situation. (WC: U.N.I.T. On Call)
The Doctor and Jo watched a demonstration of the Keller Machine at Stangmoor Prison. Later, when the Doctor was called by UNIT to the World Peace Conference, Jo and Dr Summers were held hostage by Mailer and Vosper, two prisoners that helped take over the prison. The Doctor later joined her as a hostage. UNIT troops liberated the prison. The Doctor and Jo, aided by the rehabilitated prisoner Barnham, carried the Keller Machine to the site of the Thunderbolt missile to incapacitate the Master, preventing him from launching the Thunderbolt missile at the Conference. The Keller Machine was destroyed by the aborted missile, but the Master escaped, killing Barnham and reclaiming his TARDIS' dematerialisation circuit. (TV: The Mind of Evil) The journalist James Stevens saw Jo at Stangmoor Prison and described her as a "small, mousy looking woman with a pleasant face." (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy)
When the Master lured Axos to Earth, Jo was one of the first people to see their true form. It held her prisoner with Bill Filer and the Doctor. They escaped whilst the Master tried to turn Axonite against them. (TV: The Claws of Axos)
When Jo first entered the TARDIS, the Time Lords piloted it to the planet Uxarieus to stop the Master from using the Doomsday Weapon. While there, she was captured by the IMC, but escaped with the help of fellow captive David Winton. She was recaptured by the IMC, and was later taken prisoner by the primitive Uxarieans and taken to their city, but was rescued by the Doctor. (TV: Colony in Space)
After watching a TV programme about an archaeological dig in Devil's End, the Doctor and Jo visited the village. They found the Master there, trying to use the power of the Dæmon Azal who was buried in the Devil's Hump. UNIT finally captured the Master after Jo's act of self-sacrifice confused Azal into destroying himself. (TV: The Dæmons)
The Doctor and Jo investigated "ghosts" at Auderly House. They were attacked by guerrillas from an alternate future ravaged by World War III and a Dalek occupation. While trying to break one of their time travel devices, Jo was taken to an alternate 22nd century. In her talks with the Controller, she unwittingly drew the guerrillas and the Doctor back to her era. The guerrillas helped the Doctor and Jo return to the 20th century and prevent World War III, which was originally started by the guerrilla Shura's misguided assassination of Sir Reginald Styles. At the Second World Peace Conference at Auderly House, Jo helped evacuate the delegates, undoing the damage when the house was destroyed by Shura with the pursuing Daleks inside. (TV: Day of the Daleks)
One particular evening, Jo was dressed up, ready for a night on the town with Mike Yates. Her outfit proved to be lucky when she and the Doctor landed on the planet Peladon (thanks to the Time Lords' taking control of the TARDIS to have the Doctor arrange events to their liking). Jo was introduced as an Earth princess — Josephine, Princess of Tardis — and she was dressed appropriately. Only those of royal blood were allowed in the conference chamber. King Peladon was smitten and proposed marriage. In the time that she and the Doctor were on Peladon, Jo grew to like the king, but decided to return to her own planet. (TV: The Curse of Peladon)
The Doctor and Jo decided to visit the Master in prison. Whilst there they discovered the Master had contacted the Sea Devils, a race of underwater reptiles, who were a similar species to the Silurians the Doctor met in the caves. The Master intended to start a war between Sea Devils and humanity. Jo stayed behind at the HMS Seaspite naval base while the Doctor tried and failed to negotiate a peaceful solution with the Sea Devils in their underwater base, as the Royal Navy attacked them with depth charges. After the Doctor escaped the base, the Sea Devils captured HMS Seaspite. The Master forced the Doctor to help build a sonar device that would awaken more Sea Devil bases. As the Doctor incapacitated the Sea Devils with the noise made by plugging the device improperly, Jo subsequently brought Captain Hart with her to get naval reinforcements to fight against the Sea Devils and recapture HMS Seaspite. Following the Master to the Sea Devil base, the Doctor blew up the Sea Devil base, preventing more bases from being activated, and stopping the war, although the Master escaped. (TV: The Sea Devils)
Jo helped the Solonians in their battle against persecution. She also alerted the crew of the Hyperion to the Marshal of Solos' misdoings. (TV: The Mutants)
Jo learnt well with the Doctor. When he was unwilling to execute the time ram, she completed the action. She realised why the Doctor was reluctant, but also saw the risk of not completing it. However, the Chronovore Kronos saw fit to spare her and the Doctor from their demise when she carried out the time ram, but not the Master. Kronos decided the Master would be punished with endless suffering for his actions geared toward controlling it. Jo thought the Master deserved his fate, until the Doctor made her question if she would condemn anyone to eternal torment, even the Master. She agreed with the Doctor to spare the Master and returned to Earth unharmed. The Doctor apologised for taking her to Atlantis, but she was actually glad to have gone on the journey with him after hearing a tale about his past on Gallifrey. (TV: The Time Monster)
The Brigadier once asked her to record a report of a recent mission in order to keep up with her paperwork. She recorded an investigation into her friend who was acting strangely after buying a fusiliers jacket which contained the soul of Tommy Watkins. (AUDIO: Tales from the Vault)
After the Doctor went missing after investigating The Scorchies Show, she ended up being on their show when she was caught entering the studio. She had to explain why she was there in a story and make something, which she called an anti-scorchie gone. She told the viewers of the show to switch over to another side to try and stop them from killing them at home. She helped the Doctor to create a reverse polarity generator to undo the signal that controlled the scorchies. (AUDIO: The Scorchies)
When UNIT HQ was besieged by a force that even the Time Lords thought shouldn't exist, Jo travelled to a black hole to meet a Time Lord legend with her Doctor and the Second Doctor and was advised by the First Doctor. At the conclusion of this adventure, the Time Lords rescinded the Doctor's exile on Earth and restored his knowledge of operating the TARDIS and time travel. When she saw how happy he was, Jo was upset because she believed he would just leave and never come back. The Doctor reassured her that he had to build a new force field first. (TV: The Three Doctors)
As Jo was on a date with Mike Yates, she was called to Fairford where a robotic race was invading. After UNIT had blown them apart, they began reconstituting, the Doctor seizing a piece for study. Returning to the lab, Jo and the Doctor found the Second Doctor waiting for them once again only for the piece to suddenly return to life, its nanites beginning to colonise Jo's body. The Doctor then entered Jo's mind to confront the machines, convincing them to stand down. When the two returned to the physical world, they were met by the Master who revealed that the "Second Doctor" was in fact Ramón Salamander. Backed up by UNIT, the three tracked down Salamander just as he time travelled back to 1868, intending to sell his machines to the British Empire. Through the benevolent machines inside him and Jo, the Doctor was able to halt this scheme. As they made for home, he revealed to Jo that he felt it past time he return to the stars, inviting her along. (COMIC: The Heralds of Destruction)
The Doctor took her on a test flight and landed on Zayin Eight where she got scared at the noises she heard. She saw a ghost of her dead grandfather which lured her off a cliff. She later discovered that Tomis was behind the disappearances. (AUDIO: The Mists of Time) She was part of Rowe's experiments on the Doctor in which he sacrificed his life for her, but instead she sacrificed her life for his. This happened many times as they were wanting to study why someone would sacrifice their life for someone else. (AUDIO: The Many Deaths of Jo Grant)
The Doctor tried to take her to Metebelis III but overshot and ended up materialising inside the compression field of a miniscope on Inter Minor. Inside the miniscope, she developed a strong fear for the Drashigs. (TV: Carnival of Monsters) By the time of her next meeting with the Master, Jo had learnt to resist his hypnotism after being used as a weapon by him in the past during their first meeting. She was continually accused of being a spy for Earth or Draconia. (TV: Frontier in Space) After this meeting with the Master, the Doctor fell unconscious. He still managed to send a telepathic message to the Time Lords, who piloted the TARDIS to follow the Dalek ship to Spiridon. After being infected by an indigenous plant, Jo helped the Thals defeat the Dalek army being assembled on Spiridon. (TV: Planet of the Daleks)
Jo was captured during an incident involving giant tortoises and the Master. The Doctor was forced to lower himself down a pit three miles deep and communicate using only his eyes to negotiate for her release. (AUDIO: The Last Fairy Tale) The Doctor and Jo encountered the Necrobiologicals, a race of vampires, on Sekhmet. The Necrobiologicals escaped aboard a ship called the Exemplar and entered a wormhole. The Doctor spent many years searching for the Exemplar without success. However, he did not discover the ship's fate until his fifth incarnation when the Necrobiologicals attempted to feed on the people of Zaltys. (AUDIO: Zaltys)
Jo went through the TARDIS wardrobe when it landed in the Lezarata Research Centre and couldn't find the Doctor in the TARDIS and went to explore. She found the Doctor in a coma and decided to document her discoveries in the lab. She started to hear voices and became freaked out. On discovering the recordings of Benjamin Chikoto, she found out what had happened in the facility. The Second voice trapped Jo on a tape and planned to use her to escape the facility. The Doctor was on that tape and swapped his mind with Jo, in order to trick the voice into leaving Jo's body onto a tape, which she then erased. (AUDIO: Ghost in the Machine)
During her travels with the Doctor, she met Harry Houdini at some point prior to the 1920s. She told him about the Bay City Rollers. (AUDIO: Smoke and Mirrors) The Doctor, Jo and the Brigadier encountered the Mentor, whom the Doctor considered an impostor. (COMIC: Death to the Doctor!)
Departure[edit | edit source]
When Third Doctor went to visit Metebelis III without her, Jo went to the Welsh village of Llanfairfach to meet with the activist and mycologist Professor Clifford Jones, whom she much admired from afar for his activism which she shared because she had gone to Llanfairfach to protest against the manufacture of petrol which would cause more pollution. Cliff lived at Wholeweal, an alternative community where he pursued his studies of mushrooms. Jo's show of independence made the Doctor behave in a rather childish and hurt manner.
In the short time that UNIT were in Llanfairfach, Jo and Cliff fell in love. He reminded her of a younger version of the Doctor. Jo agreed to marry him and resigned from UNIT. The Doctor was devastated by Jo's departure, drinking his champagne in one gulp. He left the engagement party on his own after giving Jo a blue crystal from Metebelis III as a wedding present. Before Jo and Cliff left for the Amazon, she asked her uncle to get UN status for Wholeweal; she told the Doctor it had only been the second time she'd asked her uncle for anything (the first was getting her into UNIT). (TV: The Green Death)
Later life[edit | edit source]
A few months later, the couple, who were already on their trip up the Amazon River, returned the crystal by mail because the expedition felt it brought them bad luck; in her letter with the crystal, Jo wrote that their native guides had said: "Either it goes or they go!". (TV: Planet of the Spiders)
Jo later tried to call the Doctor at UNIT to keep in touch, but was told that he had left. Jo waited to see the Doctor again, but he never came. She lived with the Nambikwara tribe in Mato Grosso, Brazil for six months in 1983. The Doctor was aware of incidents where she lived in huts, climbed trees, tore down barricades, and flew kites on Mount Kilimanjaro among other adventures. While his tenth incarnation was dying he watched her sail down the Yangtze River in a tea chest. (TV: Death of the Doctor)
There were conflicting accounts of the Joneses' life after their last contact with the Doctor. One depicted Jo as having a daughter named Lisa. (PROSE: Once Upon a Time Machine) One stated they had a son named Matthew and became estranged by the 1990s. (PROSE: Genocide)
Another presented them as still happily married as of the late 2000s. (AUDIO: The Doll of Death) A later account showed Jo and Cliff still married, with seven children and twelve grandchildren, and expecting a thirteenth (who, according to the Eleventh Doctor, would be dyslexic but a great swimmer). The Joneses led a life of environmental and political activism, including an incident in which Jo handcuffed herself to Robert Mugabe. (TV: Death of the Doctor)
Reunited with the Doctor[edit | edit source]
When Jo was told of the Doctor's death, she brought her grandson Santiago with her to the funeral at UNIT Base 5. There, she met and bonded with Sarah Jane Smith, who had been her immediate successor as companion of the Doctor. She seemed sad on learning the Doctor had returned to Sarah Jane, but never her after she had left — being unaware of the Tenth Doctor's secret visit shortly before his regeneration into his eleventh incarnation. Both doubted that the Doctor was truly dead.
They found that the Doctor had not died, but had been stranded on a deserted planet by the Shansheeth. Although knowing from her past experiences that the Doctor could change his appearance, she was initially taken aback to see how young he now appeared. She learned the Doctor had indeed kept track of her life, even though her constant "on the move" lifestyle had made it difficult for the TARDIS to pinpoint her. He revealed that he visited her and most of his former companions near the end of his tenth incarnation's life. Reunited with the Doctor at last, Jo and Sarah Jane stopped the Shansheeth from stealing his TARDIS. Santiago and she set off to Norway by hovercraft.
She was baffled that the Doctor had a married couple travelling with him, telling him she only left because she got married. (TV: Death of the Doctor)
Adventures with Iris Wildthyme[edit | edit source]
At Christmas 2010, Jo encountered an alien narrator called Huxley from Verbatim Six, who believed that her past adventures had been as the companion of Iris Wildthyme, another renegade Time Lord. To work out the truth, Jo and Iris travelled back to the 1970s. After finding the truth from the Third Doctor, Jo and Iris set off to have adventures of their own. (AUDIO: Find and Replace)
Iris and Jo travelled to Los Angeles in the 1930s. Jo didn't like Iris drinking whilst driving. She was delighted to go to a Hollywood party. At this party she met someone she met in her past. She encountered the Eighth Doctor whilst he stopped a monster from attacking the party goers. (AUDIO: The Elixir of Doom)
Working with Jack and UNIT[edit | edit source]
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Jo returned to Llanfairfach with Jack Harkness to deal with the resurfacing of giant maggots. She originally went there to discover why her friend Nancy was killed. Jo found out that BOSS was running the show and her and Jack learnt the truth of Proper Grub. (AUDIO: The Green Life)
Kate Stewart came to one of her protests to recruit her for a UNIT mission. Jo was protesting the use of animal testing in pharmaceutical trial. She didn't realise that Kate was the Brigadier's daughter. Kate wanted her to inspect a tidal energy factory, 'Project Charybdis'. Anthony Burmaster locked them in their quarters whilst he went to locate a Sea Devil Colony. She used her lock picking skills to allow herself and Osgood to escape before the Project exploded. Osgood later helped her to get to the Sea Devil base as she wanted to complete the Doctor's work to broker a peace between them. When Krellix told her of his work and that Jastrok wanted the weapons he had created, some Sea Creatures, she persuaded Krelix to get back into hibernation before the base was destroyed. Krelix saved her from drowning. (AUDIO: Tidal Wave)
Kate passed local control of UNIT in the UK to Mike, Benton and Jo due to their experience with Silurians and Sea Devils before, whilst she couldn't get back to base. She thought that the dinosaurs were beautiful and was annoyed that the Silurians had altered their nature. She wanted to make sure that there was a peaceful negotiations not just war, and stormed off to help Osgood. She learnt how to make scientific equipment from the Doctor and learnt of the new technology from Santiago Jones. She decided to take situations into her hands, and went to the Houses of Parliament to negotiate with Jastrok as she thought the Doctor would want her to do. Jastrok took her hostage and gave her to Kalana to ensure UNIT's cooperation. She was later released by Benton. Following the defeat she travelled back with Sam Bishop and Osgood to the Sea Devil base to put the Sea Creatures back in hibernation. (AUDIO: United)
While on holiday with Osgood, Jo was called in to investigate temporal rifts after Kate Stewart found an eyewitness account of a similar incident in the 1970s that stated this was resolved when Jo sacrificed herself. As UNIT attempted to stabilise the holes in time, Jo and Kate fell through a rift and travelled back to the 1970s, where Jo was reunited with the Third Doctor, and told him some details of her future. The Doctor was able to devise a machine that could stabilise the anomalies, but an entity posing as Osgood tricked Kate into reprogramming the equipment, forcing the Doctor to find an alternative system that would swiftly seal off the rifts at the cost of trapping the operator in the Time Vortex. Jo knocked out the Doctor and took on that responsibility, but after Kate returned to the future, she discovered instructions left by the Doctor that gave Osgood the equations needed to retrieve Jo from the Vortex. (AUDIO: The Sacrifice of Jo Grant)
Later life[edit | edit source]
Jo attended Sarah Jane Smith's memorial on a "bright, cold Spring day", where they discussed Sarah Jane with other guests, and helped fight the Jackals of the Backwards Clock to foil the Trickster's revenge plot. Towards the end of the service, she recalled her memories of Sarah Jane to Luke, Clyde and Rani, and also explained to them that the Doctor would not have attended because he would have found the service too saddening. (WC: Farewell, Sarah Jane)
Death[edit | edit source]
According to records in 2040, Jo died in a house fire in 2028 at the age of 77. (PROSE: /Carpenter/Butterfly/Baronet) When Newton Calder recalled her "ghost" on Zayin Eight in the distant future, Jo recalled that the last thing she remembered was being at home. (AUDIO: The Mists of Time)
Undated events[edit | edit source]
At some point, Jo was taken to the Black Archive by UNIT to have her record as a companion of the Doctor taken. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)
Personality[edit | edit source]
Jo's first meeting with the Doctor didn't bode well. She mistook an important experiment for an accidental fire and ruined it by dousing it with a fire extinguisher. However, her failures fuelled her enthusiasm. She was determined to prove people wrong about her. When she recovered from the Master's hypnosis, she disobeyed orders and followed the Doctor to Luigi Rossini's circus. There she proved her competence by rescuing the Doctor. (TV: Terror of the Autons)
Having been hypnotised by the Master once, Jo was able to resist his future attempts at hypnosis by reciting nursery rhymes, deciding that once was more than enough. (TV: Frontier in Space)
Jo claimed to be a qualified agent, but she may have exaggerated this in the way she exaggerated her A-Levels. She said she took an A-Level in science, but later admitted, "I didn't say I passed." (TV: Terror of the Autons)
Jo did not initially believe the Doctor when he said he was a time traveller. For much of her time with him, she thought his tinkering with bits of TARDIS was pointless. She was tentative during her first trip away from Earth. She repeatedly begged to be taken home before she realised that the Doctor could not do so. After the Doctor coaxed her, she did step out of the TARDIS and into her first adventure on another world. (TV: Colony in Space)
Captain Mike Yates once referred to Jo as "Jemima Bond, Licence to Spill." (AUDIO: The Doll of Death)
Whilst Jo was certainly a member of the team, her individualism made her stand out in UNIT and her desire to follow her own instincts and speak her mind made the Doctor and her close. Near the end of her time with UNIT, Jo told the Brigadier that she was going to Llanfairfach even if it meant resigning. (TV: The Green Death)
Although she had been aware of the Doctor's ability to regenerate, she was sceptical when she met his eleventh incarnation at the fake funeral the Shansheeth held for him. She accepted his new form after confirming he knew everything that "her" Doctor had told her and knew about her. (TV: Death of the Doctor)
Jo accepted a gun when it was offered to her, even after the Doctor declined it. (PROSE: The Eight Doctors)
Upon joining Iris Wildthyme on her adventures, Jo was happy to be a time traveller once again. She often chided Iris for drinking too much. (AUDIO: The Elixir of Doom)
Appearance[edit | edit source]
In her youth, Jo was a very small, very pretty girl (PROSE: The Mind of Evil) with blonde hair that was always perfectly groomed. (PROSE: The Twin Dilemma)
Behind the scenes[edit | edit source]
- Jo was the last companion not to have travelled with the Fourth Doctor until the introduction of Turlough in 1983.
- Jo and the First Doctor are the only characters to have travelled in the TARDIS with their own grandchildren (Santiago Jones and Susan Foreman respectively), although Graham O'Brien also travelled in the TARDIS with his step-grandson Ryan Sinclair. They are also two of only four characters (along with Wilfred Mott and Brian Williams) who, like their grandchildren, travelled in the TARDIS. Jo is one of only seven characters (along with the First Doctor, Markus Creevy, Jackie Tyler, Brian Williams, Rory Williams, and Amy Pond) to have flown in the TARDIS with their own descendants. (TV: An Unearthly Child etc., Death of the Doctor, The Runaway Bride etc., The End of Time, Flesh and Stone etc., Dinosaurs on a Spaceship, Journey's End, The Impossible Astronaut etc., AUDIO: Thin Ice)
- In COMIC: Unnatural Selection, Adam Mitchell had in his possession a nude photo of a blonde girl with a Dalek. Katy Manning, who portrayed Jo, posed nude with a Dalek in real life.
External links[edit | edit source]


text:
Philippe Parreno, No More Reality
Aleksandra Mir,'First Woman on the Moon' (1999)
The day when heavy machinery and manpower transformed a Dutch beach into a lunar landscape of hills and craters. At sunset the labor stopped, and a live drum beat announced the ceremony of a woman, gracing this imaginary moon with an American flag. The same evening, while the party still went on, the landscape was flattened out again, leaving no physical trace of the event behind - save the memories and a story to tell future generations.
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text:
The normal dimensions vanished long ago,
and except for secrets covered in a skin
of words, we were left with only three.
Under every door in Marimbondo,
a letter of demand appeared, stamped
and indisputable.
By hydraulic decree, the Itaipu
catchment will expand.
Marimbondo will be submerged
and you must leave.
You'll be rehoused in tents at Alta Vista.
And so it went. With resignation and mementos
in our barrows, all that's treasured and worthless,
we said our wet farewells
to the amphibious ghosts
of Marimbondo.
Within a year, another notice, countersigned,
was nailed to a suitable trumpet tree.
Alta Vista's landscape will be gouged
by great machines,
cut and opened up in a festering
of iron ore and bauxite.
We've built another home
especially for you:
a sloping shanty town
named Omégaville.
PS: Do not take the tents we loaned to you.
When its one and only summer was on the rise,
the Omégaville cats were climbing every tree.
Oxen, wild boar, and dogs were on the roofs
of every house,
some for shorter times than others,
according to the universe's gravitation constant
applied to sheets of tin and cardboard.
Nature always seeks a balance
between us and her destruction.
She has no scales,
but like her sister-in-law, Justiça,
she wears a blindfold.
And so that summer,
no birds flew, they walked
or took the bus
and paid half price.
Inquisitive strangers visited,
airbnb'ed,* stole photons,
and conjectured with the internet's authority:
The wildlife has sensed
the upper anomalies,
problems with a circular horizon,
the obvious facts that no-one states.
By season's end, the general public had joined in too,
climbing fences, power poles and towers,
howling at the moon with hopeful expectation.
Only a single option remains,
announced the Delegado in a special broadcast
from the battlements of his imitation castle,
The government wants the best for you.
But he didn't say what that option was.
to continue a little
*Airbnb™ has a different meaning in Omégaville.
Although "Omégaville" uses some real Brazilian locations and events, it's fantasy, and not particular to that country.
selling dreams
My short story the dream seller will appear in the second issue of Weird City, from Weird City Press, and will be available at Amazon before the end of February 2018. Continues →
blind nature (detail above)