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Omkareshwar JyothirlingaLocation in Madhya Pradesh
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Omkareshwar (Hindi: ओंकारेश्वर) is a Hindu temple dedicated to God Shiva. It is one of the 12 revered Jyotirlinga shrines of Shiva. It is on an island called Mandhata or Shivapuri in the Narmada river; the shape of the island is said to be like the Hindu ॐ symbol. There are two temples here, one to Omkareshwar (whose name means "Lord of Omkaara or the Lord of the Om Sound") and one to Amareshwar (whose name means "Immortal lord" or "lord of the Immortals or Devas"). But as per the sloka on dwadash jyotirligam, Mamleshwar is the jyotirling, which is on other side of Narmada river.
As per Shiv Mahapuran, once Brahma (the Hindu God of creation) and Vishnu (the Hindu God of Protection and Care) had an argument in terms of supremacy of creation.[1] To test them, Shiva pierced the three worlds as a huge endless pillar of light, the jyotirlinga. Vishnu and Brahma split their ways to downwards and upwards respectively to find the end of the light in either directions. Brahma lied that he found out the end, while Vishnu conceded his defeat. Shiva appeared as a second pillar of light and cursed Brahma that he would have no place in ceremonies while Vishnu would be worshipped till the end of eternity. The jyotirlinga is the supreme partless reality, out of which Shiva partly appears. The jyothirlinga shrines, thus are places where Shiva appeared as a fiery column of light.[2][3] Originally there were believed to be 64 jyothirlingas while 12 of them are considered to be very auspicious and holy.[1] Each of the twelve jyothirlinga sites take the name of the presiding deity - each considered different manifestation of Shiva.[4] At all these sites, the primary image is lingam representing the beginningless and endless Stambha pillar, symbolizing the infinite nature of Shiva.[4][5][6] The twelve jyothirlinga are Somnath in Gujarat, Mallikarjuna at Srisailam in Andra Pradesh, Mahakaleswar at Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh, Omkareshwar in Madhya Pradesh, Kedarnath in Himalayas, Bhimashankar in Maharastra, Viswanath at Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, Triambakeshwar near Nashik in Maharastra, Vaidyanath at Deogarh in Jharkhand, Nageswar at Dwarka in Gujarat, Rameshwar at Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu and Grishneshwar near Aurangabad in Maharastra.[1][7]
Omkareshwar Jyotirlinga also has its own history and stories.Three of them are prominent. The first story is about Vindhya Parvat (Mount). Once upon a time Narada (son of Lord Brahma), known for his non-stop cosmic travel, visited Vindhya parvat. In his spicy way Narad told Vindhya Parvat about the greatness of Mount Meru. This made Vindhya jealous of Meru and he decided to be bigger than Meru. Vindhya started worship of Lord Shiva to become greater than Meru. Vindhya Parvat practiced severe penance and worshipped parthivlinga (A linga made from physical material) along with Lord Omkareshwar for nearly six months. As a result Lord Shiva was pleased and blessed him with his desired boon. On a request of all the gods and the sages Lord Shiva made two parts of the lingas. One half is called Omkareshwara and the other Mamaleshwar or Amareshwar. Lord Shiva gave the boon of growing, but took a promise that Vindhya will never be a problem to Shiva's devotees. Vindhya began to grow, but did not keep his promise. It even obstructed the sun and the moon. All deities approached sage Agastya for help. Agastya along with his wife came to Vindhya, and convinced him that he would not grow until the sage and his wife returned. They never returned and Vindhya is there as it was when they left. The sage and his wife stayed in Srisailam which is regarded as Dakshina Kashi and one of the Dwadash Jyotirlinga.
The second story relates to Mandhata and his son's penance. King Mandhata of Ishvaku clan (an ancestor of Lord Ram) worshipped Lord Shiva here till the Lord manifested himself as a Jyotirlinga. Some scholars also narrate the story about Mandhata's sons-Ambarish and Mucchkund, who had practiced severe penance and austerities here and pleased Lord Shiva. Because of this the mountain is named Mandhata.
The third story from Hindu scriptures says that once upon a time there was a great war between Devas and Danavas(demon), in which Danavas won. This was a major setback for Devas and hence Devas prayed to Lord Shiva. Pleased with their prayer, Lord Shiva emerged in the form of Omkareshwar Jyotirlinga and defeated Danavas.
Shri M. T. Mahajan, a retired deputy collector worked as Executive Manager in Omkareshwer Temple Trust for more than 30 years and made few structural changes in order to make it easy entry and exit for devotees in the main temple. Now his grandson Shri Ashok Mahajan is the Executive Manager.
Gajanan Maharaj Temple at Omkareshwar
It is situated in the Khandwa district of Madhya Pradesh state in India. It is about 12 miles (20 km) from Mortakka in Madhya Pradesh.
Omkareshwar is formed by the sacred river Narmada. This is one of the most sacred of rivers in India and is now home to one of the world's biggest dam projects.
There are steamboats across the Narmada river and also two connecting bridges to reach the temple.
Air : The Airport close to Omkareshwar is at Indore (77 km).
Rail : Nearest Railway Station is at Omkareshwar Road (12 km) on the Ratlam-Khandwa section of the Western Railway which is not a mainline. The other nearest railway station connected to Delhi and Mumbai is at Indore (77 km).
Road : Omkareshwar is connected to major towns and cities of Madhya Pradesh. There are regular bus services from Ujjain (133 km), Indore (77 km), Khandwa (61 km.) and Omkareshwar Road (12 km). By bus, it takes 2.5 hrs from Khandwa railway station to Omkareshwar.
While traveling from Khandwa to Omkareshwar, on the left side of road in the outskirts of Khandwa you can see the memorial to the celebrated singer, Kishore Kumar.
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Sculpture at Mamleshwar Temple
Sculpture at Omkareshwar Temple
Mamleshwar Jyotirlinga
One of the temple shrines
Omkareshwar Palace
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View of Narmada
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When Marilyn Monroe died in 1962, Joan Holloway was so devastated that she had to go and lie down in a darkened room for an entire afternoon. "This world destroyed her," she wept to her uncomprehending boss. Joan is fictional – the sad but sassy secretary whose sexuality dominates the offices of Sterling Cooper in the TV drama Mad Men – but her reaction to the star's demise is entirely realistic.
Almost half a century after she died, Monroe remains an icon even to generations of filmgoers far too young to have seen her films when they were released. Little wonder then that a new film project about the ill-fated star has already got the movie media buzzing with speculation as to which of the current crop of young stars will play her.
My Week With Marilyn has been adapted from the book of the same name by Colin Clark, brother of the late Tory MP Alan Clark. In 1956, the 23-year-old Clark got a job as a runner on the London set of The Prince and the Showgirl, starring Monroe and Laurence Olivier. When Marilyn's new husband, playwright Arthur Miller, left for Paris, Olivier appointed Clark to look after her. For a week, Clark escorted her around London and introduced her to some of the city's sights – including the Queen's private apartments at Windsor.
The forthcoming film, to be directed by Simon Curtis (who made several episodes of Cranford as well as the acclaimed mini-series Five Days), has a number of names loosely attached to it, the most prominent being that of Scarlett Johansson, whose blonde curls and luscious lips have seen her cast as a Marilyn-alike for more than one photo session, and she appears sporting Monroe-inspired platinum curls in her current incarnation as the face of Dolce & Gabbana cosmetics. Michelle Williams, Amy Adams and Kate Hudson are also cited as possible Norma Jeans.
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@tom colman @SirTrey @joe4 Oh I certainly agree on a personal level that a writer doesn't necessarily have to come from the list of prior Who writers, I'm just going from the one prior example we have with Moffat, though he was more prolific under RTD than anyone has been under him. Didn't see that about Mathieson not wanting the job, fair enough...and I WANT TO BELIEVE when it comes to Gaiman, though I acknowledge it's highly, highly unlikely.
And admittedly, you're right that we don't know what goes on in the writer's room, though YMMV on Moffat's quality pre/post-RTD, obviously.
I'm also limited in that, being an American viewer, I can't say I regularly watch too many British shows, so my familiarity of high quality television in the UK is limited. Cross ran Luther, if I'm not mistaken, hence his name, and Whithouse Being Human.
I doubt the show abandons the model; in America, it's frankly becoming MORE popular, not less, and provides a consistency of vision.
@joe4 @SirTrey Well there's always dissent somewhere haha I mentioned in the Moffat birthday article that you could make a serious argument that Moff has written the best episode in all 8 seasons. The only one where I think it's a serious stretch is series 6, due to "The Doctor's Wife" being - at least for me - the obvious leader that year. Hell I even enjoyed "Nightmare in Silver" a lot more than others.
With that said, Mathieson's two episodes were phenomenal and showed a great understanding of the Doctor and his companion. He's probably a LOT cheaper and, aside from a new French drama - and, let's be honest, if Doctor Who asked I think he'd make things work - also a LOT less occupied. I like the idea of handing the keys to Mathieson so, so much more than to Gatiss and at least as much as, say, Toby Whithouse or Neil Cross. I'd love it if he ended up becoming a consistent writer under Moffat like Moffat was under Davies, would allow for a smoother transition.
Love Capaldi and hope he stays for years to come...and, as much as I also love the Moff, it might be interesting to see how a Doctor is handled under different showrunners. It happened plenty in the classic series but so far in the revival each Doctor has been covered by one main writer. Next year will be the fifth with Moff in charge and the tenth where he's been writing for the show...if he were to step down it would be after an excellent run.
Then the BBC just needs to start throwing money at Neil Gaiman and only stop when he says yes :P
@Planet of the Deaf @supermoff @NotsoSmartguy Personally I'd say one of the reasons S8, S5 are my favorite seasons (and favorite finales) is that they have such a singular focus. S1 is similar, though I'd have it behind S4 in terms of the overall season but miles ahead in terms of the finale. Not that the other seasons didn't have an arc or clear focus but I felt that the execution and connecting factors were their most taut in those years.
It can't be a coincidence that those are all first seasons for Doctors...Davies and Moffat both knew exactly what they wanted for Nine, Eleven and Twelve respectively and everything moved towards that end. Similarly I think Ten's best season is the one where Davies was the most removed from Rose's shadow and created a new dynamic/focus with Donna and with moving towards the end.
SO, revolving back around to Clara and Danny, especially considering we'd already seen a long-running TARDIS romance under Moffat with the Ponds I was ok with a bit more rushed romance if the actors can carry it...and I'd certainly say Jenna Coleman and Samuel Anderson do so with aplomb,
@Switcharoo I...erm...um...*scrolls down*
@Kongosoha, investigating the Other And give Ten one more shot to be an ass to Jackie Tyler, don't forget that :P
@the Doctor's euphonium @SirTrey True enough but that seems to be the exception with Doctor Who finales for whatever reason, not the rule, so I'll take a perfectly logical and straightforward ending if everything prior worked to build to that moment over something that builds up and then does nothing with most of that, or alternately a finale that basically comes out of nowhere (Space Jesus). And even a very well established resolution (the Teselecta) collapses under the weight of all the other twists and turns.
@the Doctor's euphonium That "plot-point men" line was hilarious though haha
And yeah with S4 I'm impressed at how many balls RTD was juggling at once but that doesn't mean I care about those characters. Among many, many other issues.
@the Doctor's euphonium I just find it interesting that after loads of (entirely valid) complaints over Moffat being too timey-wimey and convoluted, people are complaining because Series 8's finale was apparently...too logical :P
Strategically I wanted to vote for Series 8 because it's a very solid #2 for me and easily the most logical resolution of any of the finales IMO, even my favorite one takes some stretching.
But The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang isn't just my favorite New Who finale, it's probably my favorite episode period. Couldn't vote for anything else.
@TheOncomingHurricane Also, piggybacking on what troughton who? said, just because a literal deus ex machina is used twice doesn't make it ok the second time. It makes it a deus ex machina used twice ;)
I've also always wondered why that entire process back on Earth was necessary. Rose had traveled with the Doctor for quite a while, clearly meant something to him, and the world was clearly in danger. Are we supposed to believe that the TARDIS could get pried open by a truck? Was Rose just not trying hard enough yet? What happened there?
And yeah, cleansing Blon is still a ways away from granting near-immortality, wiping out an entire fleet and causing instant regeneration...I feel like it's notable that not even Davies bothered mentioning the Heart of the TARDIS again (to my knowledge) and the next time the TARDIS' sentience became a topic was a completely different portrayal in "The Doctor's Wife".
All that said, it's still a brilliant finale...but that resolution is its one glaring flaw for me.
@Clara Bosswald wants a Kate Stewart Spin-off @TheNightmareChild I also love how he basically seeds the whole "name of the Doctor" arc here, in his second episode, with Eleven saying he'd have to find a new name for himself. It's certainly a flawed episode but far from "bad".
Top Twelve Moffat Episodes:
1. The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang
2. The Day of the Doctor
3. The Girl in the Fireplace
4. Listen
5. The Eleventh Hour
6. Dark Water/Death in Heaven
7. Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead
8. The Time of the Doctor
9. The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances
10. Deep Breath
11. Blink
12. Asylum of the Daleks.
JUST missed: The Angels Take Manhattan, The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone, The Snowmen, The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon, A Good Man Goes to War/Let's Kill Hitler.
The man's written some of the show's best-ever episodes and I'll be very sad to see him go. There's a very good argument that he's written the best episode for each and every season!
@TheNightmareChild "The Time of Angels"/"Flesh and Stone" was great, excellent ending to Part One and holds up nicely, I just honestly can't remember much of it, unlike many other recent episodes, which tends to mean it didn't stick as much with me. I'd submit either of his last two season premieres, I greatly enjoyed both "Asylum of the Daleks" and "Deep Breath" and think they should both be better received. For me, with the exception of the first two the show's mostly had great premieres.
@MrRazza likes counting down with Tony Blackburn @SirTrey Ahhh interesting! My tastes are waaaaay too fluid for me to be able to settle on anything that direct, so well done on your end! And yeah sometimes with next-door episodes the gap is infinitesimally small, so I certainly understand that.
@Mark McCullough On that note, has Davies wholly ruled out returning for a one-off? While I had tons of issues with his arc writing, when he had one offs like Midnight, Turn Left or The Waters of Mars he was fantastic and I'd love to see a one-off idea of his.
@TheNightmareChild @NotsoSmartguy @supermoff, chief of the statistics police @NSSG&SMAF I began watching Doctor Who in summer of 2013 after my roommate introduced me to the series and he'd already seen all of the episodes...he was getting disgruntled with Moffat by then. I adored S5, which even he did, and distinctly remember messaging him after Let's Kill Hitler wondering when things supposedly started getting "worse"...legitimately enjoyed Let's Kill Hitler quite a bit and never really understood the reception. Now, Wedding, yeah, that's when things got messy haha But for me the midseason two-parter worked great, it was certainly crazy complicated but that's not necessarily bad.
@MrRazza likes counting down with Tony Blackburn I'm curious, how did you develop your rating system? I've done a lot of my own rankings for various things and briefly flirted with quarter points before finding it too difficult to apply consistently so I stuck to half points...can't imagine implementing .05 point differences.
@Huknar *Before his final episodes, Ten certainly sacrifices in The End of Time, though he handles it so, so much worse than either of the other two. Nine is composed, Harriet resolved...meanwhile Ten goes on an whiny rant.
@Kongosoha, investigating the Other I cheat a bit there too in my usual rankings so I can pack in one more episode...often I'll combine "Midnight" and "Turn Left" since one is companion-lite and the other Doctor-lite. I know there's no real argument there but it's my list haha
But yeah, "Turn Left" directly leads into the S4 finale as much as "Utopia" leads into the S3 finale...
@Ian Chatterton She really does work so much better with Nine than Ten, I enjoyed Rose for the most part in Series 1 - until she became a TARDIS god but that's not on her - but really came to dislike her in Series 2 and beyond.
@91 Queen of Evil Out of all of these I'm most curious about S7 (and amused that seemingly everyone else has S3 at the bottom)...I think having it at the bottom is certainly too low but I'm curious why/how it's your favorite finale, especially ahead of the next two you have ranked.
@TheNightmareChild @NotsoSmartguy @Planet of the Deaf I probably would've had less of a problem with Rose ending up happy (still wouldn't have loved it as I never liked her much, but it wouldn't have been as much of a sticking point) if Donna hadn't gotten completely screwed - against her will - ten minutes beforehand.
@supermoff, chief of the statistics police @SirTrey There's contradictory information on this front...he's been quoted in Doctor Who Magazine as saying he considers Utopia to be a separate story but at the same time it's officially listed just about everywhere as part 1 of a 3 part finale and there's that 200th episode point as well. It's not like I'd argue with someone on that point, I just personally prefer them separated for the exact same reason. Though even if I included Utopia it might not even raise the episode up much, MAYBE above Wedding.
@NotsoSmartguy @StephenAHayes Agreed, I'll at least give them that. I mean, I still think Series 3's rating is, well...bananas, and Series 1 could probably be about a point lower. But everything else seems pretty well within the episode's range if you don't really look at the numbers and just look at the overall rating from 1-8.
@Huknar @supermoff, chief of the statistics police @NotsoSmartguy Oh that's FAR from my only issue with the S3 finale :P But yeah it's a pretty big portion of those issues, though my bigger problem is less in the execution and more in what it results in...glowy Jesus Doctor who basically hugs the Master into submission but conveniently loses his magic powers just before Lucy shoots him.
@Huknar I would contend that my issue with Series 1 is how few of the consequences it actually addresses. Yes, obviously, Nine regenerates. But Rose is basically a-ok. Jack gets resurrected while everyone else is left to die because of what I found to be an annoying habit of Davies'...he had no problem killing off minor character's we'd just met but had a complete inability to let basically any remotely important characters go. I think the Ninth Doctor and Harriet Jones were the only characters with more than one episode's appearance to actually have a meaningful sacrifice that wasn't eventually made better. And the whole "continents are being melted" line is never even remotely addressed so it seems that pretty much the Earth is left to fire and ruin.
Despite everything I just said :P, I still really love the closing, almost entirely because of Eccleston. But boy did it try me to get there haha
@supermoff, chief of the statistics police @Huknar His first finale is his best for me by a pretty decent margin, and even though that one ends in a quite literal deus ex machina, I'm willing to largely overlook that due to the emotional resonance and how amazing Eccleston is during his closing moments. It just feels like a better episode.
It's also easily Davies at his most restrained, before he started throwing the kitchen sink at us...then the kitchen...then the entire house...then the block.
@Huknar @TheOncomingHurricane While I don't necessarily disagree with the idea that TSE/JE wraps things up "neatly" (how well it does that and how fulfilling it is, I disagree with, but not the base premise), I'd say that's largely because RTD really seemed to set up that episode (and The End of Time) as essentially end-of-show episodes and not just end-of-series episodes, tonally.
Of course it feels like the end of everything...not to say that, because of that you disregard it but it's notable that such a feeling isn't really apparent in his other finales. We haven't seen the end of Moffat's run yet and I suspect he'll include some major closure in his as well.
For some reason LiveFyre didn't like the first few things I wrote, so the intro (where I explain the three "tiers" and apologize for the length haha) was "malformed"...so here it is.
In my rankings, the various finales are divided into three distinct tiers, and for these purposes I'm including the regeneration episodes and the one episode where a companion leaves outside of a standard finale, since it checks so many of the boxes. The first tier includes the two finales I most believe work coherently both with emotion/character AND plot and a 3rd finale that, while I have one major issue with it, the rest works phenomenally well:
1. The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang - Probably my single favorite episodes in New Who. Simply brilliant, top to bottom...fantastic end to a fantastic season.
2. Dark Water/Death in Heaven - EASILY the most logically sound of the finales, from either Moffat OR Davies. And Gomez is excellent.
3. Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways - Eccleston puts this episode on his back. The presence of the Bad Wolf entity annoys me but everyone else is brilliant.
The second tier includes episodes where I have some pretty serious issues with some parts but I find other parts so compelling that I'm willing to mostly overlook the other problems.
4. The Time of the Doctor - There are certainly issues with the rogues gallery/300 year war segment but as far as I'm concerned from when Tasha brings Clara back to the ending the episode is basically perfect. This one is MUCH closer to the first tier than to the rest of the episodes below.
5. The Angels Take Manhattan - Very similar to the below Journey's End...the plot makes little to no sense but dammit seeing the Ponds leave is absolutely heartbreaking, and the episode seems to carry itself significantly better than, well, the "actual" finale seen later in the season.
6. The Stolen Earth/Journey's End - The middle seems appropriate here...seeing the Doctor Who version of the RTD Avengers tugs at the heartstrings, the cliffhanger is unbelievable and it just feels right as you're watching it. But when you step back...the episode collapses. Also, what Ten does to Donna is abhorrent, and, alongside the ridiculous Metacrisis (and that resolution with Rose), is what pushes this just below Angels.
7. The Name of the Doctor - I can't really put my finger on what's..."wrong" with this finale. I actually like the Impossible Girl resolution, it's nice seeing everyone together (the Paternoster Gang, River, Clara, Eleven) and it seems to wrap things up. Plus there's that stunning cliffhanger. But it just doesn't feel nearly as interesting as even some of the more flawed other finales...someone pointed out in another comment that The Angels Take Manhattan is, in many ways, the real S7 finale, while the second half in many ways simply serves as buildup for the 50th and Christmas special, and I agree. The Name of the Doctor isn't bad, but it's clearly part of a larger setup, so it arguably feels the least like a "finale", and probably also contributes to the ambivalence over Clara's arc.
8. Army of Ghosts/Doomsday - Plot issues, Ten-as-asshole issues, nonsensical appearances and resolutions, Rose saying she's going to die three times and not dying...but despite all of that Gold's score, the Cybermen-Dalek battle and the emotional resonance still manage to keep this one working. Barely.
And the final tier are the three finales that, to various extents, I'd say go pretty disastrously. None of them are without their positives, but there are just so many issues that I at least am not able to overlook.
9. The End of Time - I'll say this much: Murray Gold's score is arguably better here than in any other episode in New Who save MAYBE The Eleventh Hour. But so, so much more in this episode fails where it's trying to succeed. The Master is barely better here than he is in Series 3...his plan (and the main MacGuffin plan of part one) is just...off. Bringing back Donna only to have her be a temporary grenade for no good reason not only devalues Journey's End but seems wholly unnecessary, which yes more so means "I don't like it" but I still can't see a good reason to bring her back in if all that's going to happen is she'll remember and NOT die. Ten should've regenerated from his fall alone, the entire Rassilon scheme with the white point star barely holds together (what of the Time Lock) and he acts like a petulant, arrogant child leading up to an over-the-top-even-for-an-opera regeneration.
10. The Wedding of River Song - So basically, our main takeaway from this confusing mess of an episode is that time is an idiot that can be tricked by a look-alike robot. This was Moffat at his most convoluted and least effective.
11. The Sound of Drums/The Last of the Time Lords - No, I'm not including Utopia here...Davies doesn't and I'm not either. The Master's portrayal just feels...wrong from nearly every turn. The plot makes zero sense. Gollum/Dobby Doctor turning into Tinkerbell Jesus Doctor may be the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen on this show. Martha finally gets a moment after a series of neglect only to spend her strength chasing after a giant MacGuffin and spreading a message the Doctor apparently told her in about ten seconds. A giant reset button not only renders the events basically meaningless but allows for the beginning of The End of Time to make even less sense. Pretty much the only thing I did like about this episode was "This is Gallifrey", which is admittedly one of Gold's best-ever Who tracks.
@rowan5215 has two broken hearts @TheOncomingHurricane "It's for your own good, I swear" is rarely a good excuse, especially when the person is a grown and intelligent adult capable of making their own decisions. Just because he's the Doctor doesn't give him the right to stomp all over that.
@Aztecs, Daleks and Cavemen In my headcanon I often consider Midnight and Turn Left to be a two parter since they were Companion-Lite and Doctor-Lite back to back, and that run of Silence In the Library/Forest Of the Dead and Midnight/Turn Left is better than probably any other run of four episodes in the show, possibly save Series 3's run right before the finale of Human Nature/The Family of Blood, Blink, and Utopia.
Turn Left is brilliant - Gold's music when Donna is traveling back is beautiful and when it cuts out your heart just breaks for her. Midnight works amazingly well too since it's creepy as hell and for once Ten being arrogant to everyone comes back to bite him.
@Planet of the Deaf I agree about the whole "end of the show" vibe being annoying, though I felt it more in The End of Time when Ten was busy freaking out over his actual death and went around to go stare sadly at all of his former companions before a regeneration so dramatic that it made opera seem subtle. Compared to that the closing of Journey's End felt downright restrained :P
Ultimately this one was pretty easy for me...Jacobi, while brilliant, gets about five minutes as the Master, so it barely counts. And Simm...I mostly blame it on Davies' writing in his trilogy (especially Last of the Time Lords) and in The End of Time, but I really didn't like that portrayal of the Master. Hell, you even see it in that picture above...the Master should never wear a hoodie lol Gomez is just as brilliant as Jacobi, if not more so, and gets time to really shine. I can't wait for her return!
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@Clara Bosswald wants a Kate Stewart Spin-off @SirTrey I think that's fair with Utopia though I use the Davies excuse and basically count that as a separate episode. Can't complain about Jack...Martha does have great moments (finally) but I'm almost more frustrated we didn't get that until the finale than happy to see it haha. And Simm just annoys the hell out of me, much more in Last of the Time Lords.
But yeah that's fair, I was just baffled yesterday by some of the unbridled enthusiasm and 9+ rankings for the episode. I'm gonna be in that same unreasonable excitement boat for The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang tomorrow though, that tops my list by a mile though S8 is within range and S1 isn't far behind.
@Clara Bosswald wants a Kate Stewart Spin-off @SirTrey See that moment is redeemed for me because after like three seconds of it the Doctor gets shot by a Dalek. It's like even Davies, master of sappy romance - especially with Ten and Rose - was like, "Nah, that's too much, even for me." XD
@Anthony Retondo @SirTrey Oh that's entirely fair, I'm just a sap haha Though that sappiness never really extended to the Ten/Rose pairing for some reason...
@TazminDaytime It couldn't until DoctorDonna pressed a lot of buttons :P
@Clara Bosswald wants a Kate Stewart Spin-off I made a similar comment below...while I'm personally more forgiving of Stolen Earth/Journey's End because of all the character moments - it's basically RTD-era Doctor Who's version of The Avengers - even those have issues (Donna's fate) and the story is so bonkers that I perfectly understand why people really don't like it. Angels Take Manhattan was similar for me...great character moments, nonsensical plot. And yes, RTD had a major problem with escalation.
With that said, I don't really know how the S4 finale can be seen as crap and the S3 finale as not-crap at the same time, considering that plot, for me, was equally ridiculous (they even both shared a "use 6 billion people to contact the Doctor" story move, though one was through words and one was through cell phones)...
@Anthony Retondo You see, I actually really liked that scene. Davies was great at character moments, especially group character moments - though he's still unnecessarily an ass to Jackie Tyler - and that one felt touching. Now, how he GOT to that point? Yeah, that was ridiculous haha. But once we were there, it felt earned.
@Malohkeh @NotsoSmartguy Though "Hey, at least it's not as stupid as some of their older plans" isn't exactly a great defense...
@Malohkeh @supermoff And somehow none of those comebacks broke the Time Lock...
@LGwalchmai95 @NotsoSmartguy "Played jump rope with that line"...I like that :P
@NotsoSmartguy @LGwalchmai95 Which is why I have less of a problem with it being said and more with it being emphasized like three or four times lol
@LGwalchmai95 Yep. Big complaint about both of those episodes...it's said like three or four times in each episode. I'll even accept Donna's thing being a death of sorts, mentally - though you still didn't need to tell us three times, Russell - but Rose's was just melodramatic for the sake of it. I don't care that she's legally declared dead, that's not what he wanted us to think and we all know it.
@NotsoSmartguy @SirTrey @supermoff Good catch :P
@Antee991166 @SirTrey @supermoff @LGwalchmai95 Like I said, I didn't know anything about this before today so I don't know anything of the Falklands War besides that it happened between the UK and Argentina over...some islands, right? I really feel like I should know more about this just for general history knowledge. But yeah, can't comment on her justification there. My instant, no-background impression is that the threat would've had to be pretty huge to justify that...and, to circle back to Doctor Who, giant aliens with lasers have to be a pretty huge threat to Earth. Remember, in this continuity this is pretty much before all of the other public-knowledge, Doctor-intervened invasions. They were just recovering from the Slitheen (twice, counting Boom Town) and probably more than a bit jumpy.
@NotsoSmartguy @SirTrey @supermoff It's not even that she's a character I like getting screwed - though she probably is my favorite New Who companion, here or Amy - but how it happened (generously, memory protection, less generously, mind rape) and how it completely reverses all of her character's development to send her back to that monotonous existence Davies had made sure we knew sucked beforehand.
And then in The End of Time it's conveniently overridden, not to bring her memory back but just sorta...because?


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The women's soccer team was unable to net a goal over the weekend and lost both games. Karen Larkin /The Spectrum
It wasn't a good weekend for the women's soccer team.
The Bulls (1-12-1, 0-5-1 Mid-American Conference) had two chances at home over the weekend to notch their first conference win of the season against Central Michigan (8-3-1, 5-0 MAC) and Eastern Michigan (6-5-3, 3-0-2 MAC). Both attempts came up short as the Bulls failed to score a goal in either game.
On Friday night, the Bulls fell 3-0 to the Chippewas and followed that up with a 1-0 heartbreaking defeat against the Eagles.
Despite the shutout loss against Central Michigan, Bulls head coach Michael Thomas had nothing but praise for the Chippewas after the game.
"Central Michigan is a very good soccer team," Thomas said. "They were our NCAA tournament representative last year and nothing I say can take away from that."
Though freshman goalkeeper Ainsley Wheldon gave up three goals, she had a career-high 12 saves. It marked the fourth time this season that she posted double digit saves in a single game.
Thomas was not happy with the loss but had no intention of pointing fingers anywhere near his goalkeeper.
"Obviously, [Wheldon] would like to have that third goal back, but she had several great saves that really kept us in the game for a very long time," Thomas said.
The Bulls played tough for a good portion of the first half. However, at the 30-minute mark, they took a costly penalty in the box that gave the Chippewas a penalty kick. Junior defender Liesel Toth knocked it home and put the Chippewas up by one goal.
Wheldon misplayed a deflection in the second half, resulting in the third and final goal for Central Michigan.
In the second game against Eastern Michigan, Wheldon was again solid between the pipes, recording four saves.
The only shot that got past Wheldon came in the 14th minute when a rebound landed right on an Eagle's foot for an easy score.
Thomas knows better than most that bad bounces are part of the game but thought his team responded well against Eastern Michigan.
"We just got a bad bounce on the rebound and it ended up on the other team's foot," Thomas said. "Today we did everything we needed to win. Obviously, I'm not happy with the outcome, but it's hard to be upset when you're creating that many chances."
The Bulls attempted 21 shots against the Eagles, but Eastern Michigan goalkeeper Monique Budani stopped them all and recorded her fifth shutout of the season. The improvement in the Bulls' number of shots came from a change Thomas made before the game.
"We were using a third forward to run a 4-3-3 in order to generate more chances on offense, and we've been consistently playing well that way," Thomas said. "We've been great on set pieces this season [and] we just need to finish our chances, but it's hard to be mad when you're only missing by three inches."
Thomas continues to be impressed with the play of some of the younger players on his team.
"Were a very young team, but our underclassmen have been outstanding this year and have benefited from great senior leadership to provide a spark for this team." Thomas said.
The Bulls will play their third of five straight home games on Friday as they take on Ball State at 7 p.m.
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Internet is not free in rooms, but it is free in common areas of the hotel
The spa center was perfect - big and warm. The rooms are spacious and nice. It is clean and tidy. The staff is polite. We will come back for sure.
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Cars could be banned from two of the busiest roads in the Square Mile under plans to create a pedestrianised zone in the City.
The £10 million proposals will see many of the district's medieval lanes and alleyways opened up with improved lighting, more greenery and clearer signage to help the area retain its status as one of the most important financial centres in the world.
Members of the City of London Corporation are understood to be finalising discussions which could lead to closing two of the roads that run through the junction outside the Bank of England – most likely Poultry and Threadneedle street or Cornhill.
The move is in response from workers in the area and to improve road safety.
If agreed, planning for the ambitious scheme will start in November, with the transformation complete by 2018.
More than 300,000 people arrive in the City for work every morning, A number of new skyscrapers in the area, including the Cheesegrater and Walkie Talkie, are expected to push the working population up further.
Property developers have given their support to the plans, which will be largely funded by a levy on new developments.
Victor Callister from the corporation's department of the built environment, said the changes were vital.
"London's unique selling point is its environment and its history but at the moment you can't see any of that without being almost run over," he said.
Tim Allibone, asset management director at Land Securities, which owns the City's new shopping centre, One New Change, said: "The Bank junction is incredibly hostile. We find that workers on the west side often just don't think it's worth crossing over to get to the shops and bars on the east side."
The proposals are yet to be voted on formally, with a corporation spokesman saying the plans were still in a "very early stage".
He added: "We are considering all options to improve Bank junction given the growing demands on this part of the Square Mile. The increasing number of workers in the area means that pedestrian routes, cycle safety and improving traffic flows will be a major focus of any changes adopted."
The corporation is investing heavily to improve the Square Mile. The plans follow New York, Paris and Singapore which have created city centre pedestrian zones and traffic restrictions in recent years.
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U.S. taxes help NHL pay parity: study
Changes make Canadian teams more competitive, adviser says
Changes to U.S. tax laws have improved the competitive financial position for Canadian NHL teams in the past year, according to research from a tax adviser to more than 125 NHL players.
Sean Packard, tax director at Virginia-based Octagon Financial Services, had seen a number of studies comparing the tax regimes of all 30 NHL cities but wanted to determine the situation on his own.
So he and a couple of colleagues put together a formula that accounted for different taxes in Canada and the U.S., including a provision for deductions.
In the end, what they found doesn't look too bad for the Winnipeg Jets. Using an example of a player earning $2.5 million annually, the team ranked 16th for 2013 with take-home pay of $1.36 million. That's up from 27th a year ago when that same player's after-tax income in the Manitoba capital was virtually identical.
The top two teams in Packard's analysis are the Edmonton Oilers and Calgary Flames, where a player would take home $1.54 million of his $2.5-million salary. The Montreal Canadiens are at the other end of the spectrum at $1.27 million, just below the three teams in the highest-taxed state in the U.S., California. The Toronto Maple Leafs and Ottawa Senators are tied for 25th at $1.29 million while the Vancouver Canucks were seventh at $1.43 million.
A year ago, the top spot was shared by the Florida Panthers, Tampa Bay Lightning, Nashville Predators and Dallas Stars at $1.59 million. Today, they're tied for third at $1.43 million.
A year ago, Canadian teams occupied five of the bottom eight spots. Calgary and Edmonton were tied for 9th.
This report isn't nearly as pessimistic about the financial situation for Canadian teams as a study released two weeks ago by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, which said high taxes north of the border were potentially keeping the non-Alberta Canadian teams from stockpiling the necessary players to win the Stanley Cup.
Taxes in Manitoba, of course, haven't been slashed to the bone but U.S. taxes have gone up while deductions have gone down.
In 2012, the highest federal tax rate in the U.S. was 35 per cent. This year, it jumped to 39.6 per cent. For residents earning in excess of $200,000 -- which is every player in every U.S. market -- another 0.9 per cent was added on top, bumping the highest rate to 40.5 per cent.
There were no limits on itemized deductions in the U.S. over the last three or four years, Packard said, which was a "huge benefit" to players in the U.S.
There were also deductions on state taxes for agent fees, training costs and other hockey-related expenses.
This year, many of those deductions have been "significantly" reduced, Packard said. "That almost kills the benefit."
American players also have to pay a day's taxes when they play in other U.S. cities. If they arrive a day earlier for extra practice, they're taxed for that day, too.
Canadian players, meanwhile aren't taxed for Canadian road games and they get a foreign tax credit on their tax return for the days they play in the U.S.
The Winnipeg Jets declined to comment on the after-tax income study.
How much a player cares about after-tax income is often dependent on there they are in their career, Packard said.
"A guy who has never won a (Stanley) Cup, probably wants to sign with a good team. Some guys don't care, they want to pocket as much money as they can. Some guys love the area where they're playing and want to live there long-term so they'll stay no matter what the team is or how high the taxes are. Some guys want to know what their net is going to be where they sign," he said.
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When a recently released mental patient and his recovering alcoholic father are forced to reside at a remote ranch, the nightmares that haunt the trouble boy's sleep soon begin bleeding into his waking hours in a terrifying journey into the unknown starring Lance Henriksen, Brian Wimmer, and Sean Young. Sam (Adam Taylor Gordon) just can't seem to keep his demons in check, but with a little help from his father he hopes to find the power to start a new life in a new place. Though the scenic ranch of the mysterious Ben Zachary (Henriksen) seems like the perfect place to turn over a new leaf, Ben soon discovers that there's something far more sinister than he ever imagined unfolding on the outwardly peaceful landscape. When the dead begin to walk and temptation seduces Sam into committing the ultimate atrocity against nature, the suffering of the innocent will unleash an apocalyptic force of evil the likes of which humankind has never seen. … More
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- Directed By:
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- Written By:
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The Garden was one of those films that I was surprised I enjoyed, and that's a nice feeling to have whether your in a movie theater or on your couch watching a DVD.
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The film tells the story of a psychologically troubled pre-teen boy named Sam (brilliantly played by Adam Taylor Gordon) who is having trouble dealing with his parents' divorce, and as a result he has violent and vivid dreams that makes him self mutilate himself. After his father David (Brian Wimmer) checks him out from a mental hospital the two get into a nasty car accident on their way home and wakes up on an isolated farm owned by a mysterious old man, Ben Zackery (LANCE HENRIKSEN). He offers David a job until they wrap up some business back home.
The problem is that Ben Zachary isn't who he says he is. Instead of being a benevolent farmer, he is really the Devil incarnate. On his property is the Tree of Life from the Garden of Eden, the place where our whole existence began according to the Holy Bible. In order to overturn God's world, Zachary is trying to find a willing human to eat from the tree and has sinister plans for the both of them involving witchcraft and evil. There is a fair share of gore and violence including the creepy bathroom scenes and Zackery sewing his victims mouth shut while Sean Young pops up as the bible schoolteacher Miss Chapman whom Sam befriends.
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