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NEW YORK ( MainStreet) -- Last week Wal-Mart (WMT) unveiled a service that allows people to haul in their old DVDs or Blu-ray discs and get an additional digital copy they can stream via select TVs and players -- but the service won't come cheap. If you have a DVD you want to watch in standard definition or a Blu-ray you want to watch in high definition, it will cost you $2 a disc. If you bring in a regular DVD but want your digital copy to play in high definition, that upgrade will cost you $5.
So is the service worth the price? It depends on your situation. Here are a few criteria you should meet before you take your discs to Wal-Mart.
|Wal-Mart wants you to pay up to $5 for digital copies of your DVDs, meaning you can stream them from its Vudu service. For some, this is worth the price.
You don't have Netflix.
This service will mainly be of interest to people with old DVDs that they want to bring into the digital age. DVD sales have declined in recent years, so it stands to reason most DVD collections consist primarily of older discs that people bought before switching over to digital distribution. Plus, many newer discs come with a code that allows you to download the digital copy of the movie anyway.
Why does this matter? Well, many of those older movies are probably on Netflix (NFLX) anyway, so if you have an account, you shouldn't bother paying $2 and making a trip to Wal-Mart to convert a disc that you can already watch online.You have a Vudu-compatible device.
The converted movies will be viewable via Wal-Mart's movie-rental service, Vudu, which has no monthly fees but charges for rentals . (In fact, Wal-Mart isn't actually converting your disc, but simply authenticating that you own it and giving you the ability to stream it digitally through Vudu's library.) But that means you'll want to make sure that whatever devices you use to watch streaming movies are actually compatible with that service. The good news is that the list is long and growing -- plenty of Internet-connected TVs and Blu-ray players support the service, as do video game systems such as the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Of course, those are all home-based devices, and if you're at home you can just as easily watch your DVDs anyway (unless, of course, you're using the service to convert your DVDs to high definition). Portable options are more limited -- in addition to being able to use your laptop, you can also watch the movies on your iPad, but that's about it. And keep in mind that you'll need to have Internet access to watch the movies from the cloud, as the program does not allow you to download a copy of the movie to your computer or iPad. Finally, even if you do have a strong Internet connection on your iPad, you'll only be able to stream standard-definition content to it -- a Wal-Mart representative explains that the studios do not allow Vudu to stream HD content to portable devices.
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Written by Steve Patterson. In this Photoshop text effects tutorial, we're going to learn how to use Photoshop's Layer Styles to easily make text look as if it's made out of plastic. To create the effect, we're going to be using some "contours" that we'll be loading in, since they're not readily available to us by default, but don't worry, loading them is easy, and so is everything else we'll be doing.
Here's the effect we're going for:
Let's get started!
Step 1: Open A New Photoshop Document
The first thing we need to do is open a new document, so let's do that quickly using the keyboard shortcut, Ctrl+N (Win) / Command+N (Mac). This brings up Photoshop's New Document dialog box. Choose whichever size you like. I'm going to use the preset size of 640×480, as circled below:
Step 2: Fill The Document With Black
Press the letter D on your keyboard to reset your Foreground and Background colors, so black becomes your Foreground color and white becomes your Background color. Then use the keyboard shortcut Alt+Backspace (Win) / Option+Delete (Mac) to fill your new document with the Foreground color, which in this case is black:
Step 3: Add Your Text To The Document
Grab your Type tool from the Tools palette, or press T to quickly access it with the keyboard shortcut:
Then, with the Type tool selected, go up to the Options Bar at the top of the screen and select your font. I'm going to use Helvetica Rounded Black for mine. You can choose whichever font you like from the ones you have installed on your system. A larger, thicker font tends to work best for this effect:
Press the letter X on your keyboard to swap your Foreground and Background colors, so white becomes your Foreground color. We're going to choose a better color for our text using Layer Styles, but for now, white will do just fine. Then, with your font chosen and white as your Foreground color, click inside your document and add your text. I'm going to type the word "plastic":
Resize your text as needed using Photoshop's Free Transform command by pressing Ctrl+T (Win) / Comand+T (Mac), which brings up the Free Transform box and handles around your text. Hold down Shift to constrain your text's proportions and drag any of the corner handles to resize the text. Hold down Alt (Win) / Option (Mac) as well as you drag to force the text to resize from its center point. Press Enter (Win) / Return (Mac) when you're happy with the size of your text to accept the change.
Step 4: Choose A Color For Your Text Using The "Color Overlay" Layer Style
Now that we have our text added to the document, we're going to start creating our "plastic" effect, and the first thing we're going to do is choose a better color for it. With the text layer selected, click on the Layer Styles icon at the bottom of the Layers palette:
Choose Color Overlay from the list of Layer Styles that appears:
This brings up the Layer Style dialog box set to the "Color Overlay" options in the middle column. Click on the color swatch to the right of the "Blend Mode" options to choose a new color for your text:
This brings up Photoshop's Color Picker. I'm going to choose a light blue for my text color. Feel free to choose whichever color you prefer, but try to pick a lighter shade of the color:
Click OK when you've chosen your color to exit out of the Color Picker. Your text will now appear in your chosen color in the document:
I should note that we haven't really changed the color of the text here, even though it's now appearing in a different color. Technically, the text is still white. We've simply overlayed a new color onto it using the Color Overlay layer style. If we were to turn off the layer styles, which we won't but if we did, the text would appear white once again.
Step 5: Add An Inner Shadow To The Text Using The "Inner Glow" Layer Style
Next, we're going to give our text more of a three-dimensional look by adding an inner shadow. Now, there is an actual "Inner Shadow" layer style, but we're not going to use it because it's limited to giving us a directional shadow. We want the text to appear to be surrounded by the shadow, so instead of using the ready-made inner shadow that Photoshop gives us, we're going to create our own Inner Shadow layer style by converting the Inner Glow style into a shadow.
To do that, click on the words Inner Glow in the list of Layer Styles on the left of the Layer Style dialog box. Make sure you click directly on the words. Don't simply click inside the checkbox because all that will do is turn on the effect. We want access to the effect's options, and for that, you need to click on the name itself:
The middle column of the Layer Style dialog box will change to show the "Inner Glow" options:
In order to change the "inner glow" to an "inner shadow", all we need to do is change the Blend Mode at the top. Click on the down-pointing arrow to the right of the word "Screen" and change the blend mode to Multiply. Our glow is now a shadow, or at least it will be a shadow once we select a darker color for it. The default yellow won't work very well as a shadow, so click on the color swatch directly below the word "Noise", which will bring Photoshop's Color Picker back up, and choose a much darker version of the color you chose for the text. I chose light blue for my text, so I'll choose a dark blue for the shadow. Lower the Opacity of the shadow to around 50% so it's not as intense. Make sure Edge is selected for the Source, and finally, increase the Size of the shadow to about 13 pixels.
Your text will now look something like this:
Step 6: Apply The "Bevel and Emboss" Layer Style
Next, we're going to add a "Bevel and Emboss" effect to our text, so click directly on the words Bevel and Emboss in the list of Layer Styles on the left of the Layer Style dialog box. Again, make sure you click directly on the words and don't just click inside the checkbox:
The middle column of the Layer Style dialog box will change to the Bevel and Emboss options. The first thing we want to do here is load a new "Gloss Contour", so go down to where it says "Gloss Contour" in the "Shading" options and click on the down-pointing arrow to the right of the contour preview thumbnail:
Then click on the right-pointing arrow in the top right corner of the contour selection box that pops up:
Then select Contours at the bottom of the list that appears to load a new set of contours which are not available to us by default:
Photoshop will ask you if you want to replace the original contours with these new ones or simply add the new ones to the bottom of the list. Click on Append:
You'll see the new contours added to the bottom of the originals. To make things simpler for us, rather than me trying to describe the shape of the contour to click on, click once again on that right-pointing arrow in the top right corner and select Large List from the options so we can see both a thumbnail preview of the contour and the name of the contour beside each thumbnail:
Now that we can see the actual names of each contour, scroll down the list until you come to the one named Ring-Triple and double-click on it to select it:
With the "Ring-Triple" contour selected, let's change the rest of the Bevel and Emboss options:
These are the settings I used for my text. You may need to change them slightly depending on the font you're using and the size of your text. Starting from the top and working our way down, increase the Depth to around 131% and the Size to around 18 pixels. In the "Shading" options, set the Angle to 120° if it isn't already, and set the Altitude to 60°. Make sure Anti-aliased is checked beside the contour preview thumbnail. Increase the Highlight Mode Opacity all the way to 100%, and finally, lower the Shadow Mode Opacity down to 0%.
Your text should now look something like this:
Step 7: Apply The "Contour" Layer Style
Click on the word Contour on the left of the Layer Style dialog box. It's directly below the words "Bevel and Emboss":
The middle column of the Layer Style dialog box will change to the Contour options. We're going to use another contour from the ones we loaded in a moment ago. Click on the down-pointing arrow to the right of the contour preview thumbnail:
This time, scroll down the list until you come to the one named Shallow Slope-Valley. Double-click on it to select it:
You can fine-tune the "shiny" effect to your liking by dragging the Range slider left or right until you're happy with the results. I'm to drag mine to the right and increase the Range to about 85%:
Here's my text after adding the Contour layer style:
Click OK to exit out of the Layer Style dialog box for now.
Step 8: Duplicate The Text Layer
Press Ctrl+J (Win) / Command+J (Mac) to duplicate the text layer, so you'll now have two text layers in the Layers palette:
Then click on the original text layer in the Layers palette to select it, so we're working once again on the original, not the duplicate text layer above it:
Step 9: Add A Stroke To The Text
With the original text layer re-selected, click once again on the Layer Style icon at the bottom of the Layers palette and this time, select Stroke at the bottom of the list:
The Layer Style dialog box pops back up, with the Stroke options in the middle column. First, increase the stroke Size to about 6 pixels:
Then click on the stroke's color swatch to choose a new color for the stroke:
Photoshop's Color Picker pops back up. Rather than choosing a color directly in the Color Picker, move your mouse over the text. You'll see your mouse cursor change into the Eyedropper icon. Click near the edge of one of the letters to sample a shade of the color that's about midway between the lightest and darkest colors in the text:
Click OK to exit out of the Color Picker when you're done.
Step 10: Apply The "Bevel and Emboss" Style To The Stroke
Switch back to the "Bevel and Emboss" options by clicking on the words Bevel and Emboss on the left of the Layer Style dialog box:
The Layer Style dialog box will change to show the Bevel and Emboss options once again in the middle column. We want to apply the Bevel and Emboss style to the stroke itself, so to do that, click on the down-pointing arrow to the right of the words "Inner Bevel" and change the Style to Stroke Emboss:
We're almost done. Go back down to the "Gloss Contour" option and once again click on the down-pointing arrow to the right of the contour preview thumbnail. This time, scroll down the list until you come to the one named Shallow Slope-Valley. Double-click on it to select it:
While you're down at the bottom of the Bevel and Emboss options, increase the Shadow Mode Opacity to about 40%:
Finally, go back up to the top and lower the Depth value to about 41%, then increase the Size by dragging the slider bar to the right until you can see the letter strokes merging together. I've increased mine to 24 pixels.
Click OK when you're happy with the results to exit out of the Layer Style dialog box, and, you're done!
Here is the final "plastic text" effect:
And there we have it!


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With Jay-Z prepping the release of his ridiculously hyped new album, The Blueprint 3, it's surprising that he would have time to go to any concerts — much less Grizzly Bear's free appearance on the Williamsburg Waterfront (previously graced by Girl Talk and Dirty Projectors this summer) this past Sunday, Aug. 30. However, the rapper did the 12,000 hipsters at the waterfront one better, by giving the indie rock scene one of the most notable stamps of approval it's ever received:
"The thing I want to say to everyone — I hope this happens because it will push rap, it will push hip-hop to go even further — what the indie rock movement is doing right now is very inspiring. It felt like us in the beginning. These concerts, they're not on the radio, no one hears about them, and there's 12,000 people in attendance. And the music that they're making and the connection they're making to people is really inspiring. So, I hope that they have a run where they push hip-hop back a little bit, so it will force hip-hop to fight to make better music, because it can happen, because that's what rap did to rock." (MTV)
Posturing aside, Jay-Z — described by multiple publications as the greatest (most popular) rapper alive — only vocalized what many of us have known already. Indie rock and the indie/hipster scene have ballooned stratospherically over the past few years. People have been repeating the phrase "Indie is the new mainstream" ever since Juno became an international phenomenon. Jay-Z himself recently followed bands like Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Vampire Weekend, The National, Fleet Foxes, Seasick Steve and Ra Ra Riot at All Points West this summer.
Whether Jay-Z's praise of the indie crowd and musicians heralds a new age for independent music, we have yet to see. However, considering that this public recognition came from the man who declared the "death of Auto-Tune," the masses are likely to follow. Whether that's a good or bad thing is for hipsters everywhere to decide for themselves.
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I half expect them to smell like Christmas cookies and pine trees.
KB....which books are you going to do? Can't wait to see them! How about the beardy pirate dude? :^) (By the way, I had a woman who does custom printing help me with the designs!)
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The decision would be which one of my characters do I make trading cards for. Hmm...
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my first collection of short stories. It's my love-baby, and even though I think it might just be worth the nine-ninety-five (two-ninety-nine on kindle) that I'm asking people to pay for it, I nonetheless worry for its future.
It's me, see, and I've just tossed it out onto the internet winds.
Maybe I shouldn't have taken a naked photograph of myself and used it as a model for the picture on the cover. Maybe I shouldn't have just admitted that I'm naked on the cover of my own book. Maybe that's why I feel naked.
I did it on purpose, though. I did it because the artful life is a monkey-dance best lived openly, with your, um, everything exposed to the wind. Art is about communication and connection, about telling artful lies that expose the truths we all know and experience but sometimes have trouble connecting with and expressing. Because we're scared. Scared that if we show people what we're really like, they'll reject us.
I don't want to be rejected.
I don't want to be laughed at.
I don't want to be dismissed, ignored, or forgotten.
This, then, is the perfect opportunity for me to grow a little faith. To rest in the unknown, and believe that I will be okay and loved, regardless.
Some readers are not going to be able to look past the swearing I had to use to tell some of my stories honestly. Some readers are going to be offended by the way some of my stories explore problems in the North American Protestant Christian Church.
Most readers aren't going to be my readers at all -- it is, after all, just a self-published collection of short stories.
I yam what I yam, though, and what I am is good. Whole. Cleansed. Beautiful. So I will straighten my shoulders, suck in my gut, and walk confidently and faithfully forward into the naked unknown.
Monday, March 25, 2013
I feel naked.
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Could you add a link to the Kindle store to make it easy for us?
Well done...looking forward to seeing an honest story for a change.
The world needs encouragement, inspiration...
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Thanks, Rod. If you click on the "two-ninety-nine on kindle" that's actually a link to the store, but here it is again. Cheers:ReplyDelete
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|The Octonauts
Kwazii, Barnacles and Peso
Adventure film
|Created by
|Meomi: Vicki Wong
& Michael C. Murphy
|Written by
|Stephanie Simpson (head writer)
Billy Aronson
Glen Berger
Ian Carney
Cydne Clark
Cusi Cram
Sarah Durkee
Steve Granat
Carin Greenberg
Jonathan Greenberg
Peter Hirsch
Adam Idelson
Dave Ingham
Susan Kim
Catherine Lieuwen
Myles Mcleod
Allan Neuwirth
Sascha Paladino
Gabe Pulliam
|Directed by
|Darragh O'Connell
Henry Lenardin-Madden (uncredited)
|Creative director(s)
|Stephen Robinson
|Voices of
|Simon Greenall
Rob Rackstraw
Paul Panting
Keith Wickham
Jo Wyatt
Teresa Gallagher
Michael C. Murphy
|Theme music composer
|Darren Hendley
|Country of origin
|United Kingdom
|Original language(s)
|No. of series
|No. of episodes
|96 (currently) (List of episodes)
|Executive producer(s)
|Kurt Mueller
Stephanie Simpson
Cathal Gaffney
Darragh O'Connell
Jackie Edwards (CBeebies)
|Adam Idelson
Karen Ialacci
Gillian Higgins
|Running time
|65 x 11 minutes
3 x 23 minutes
|Production company(s)
|Brown Bag Films
|Original channel
|Original run
|4 October 2010– present
|External links
|Meomi official website
|The Octonauts
Kwazii, Barnacles and Peso
Adventure film
|Created by
|Meomi: Vicki Wong
& Michael C. Murphy
|Written by
|Stephanie Simpson (head writer)
Billy Aronson
Glen Berger
Ian Carney
Cydne Clark
Cusi Cram
Sarah Durkee
Steve Granat
Carin Greenberg
Jonathan Greenberg
Peter Hirsch
Adam Idelson
Dave Ingham
Susan Kim
Catherine Lieuwen
Myles Mcleod
Allan Neuwirth
Sascha Paladino
Gabe Pulliam
|Directed by
|Darragh O'Connell
Henry Lenardin-Madden (uncredited)
|Creative director(s)
|Stephen Robinson
|Voices of
|Simon Greenall
Rob Rackstraw
Paul Panting
Keith Wickham
Jo Wyatt
Teresa Gallagher
Michael C. Murphy
|Theme music composer
|Darren Hendley
|Country of origin
|United Kingdom
|Original language(s)
|No. of series
|No. of episodes
|96 (currently) (List of episodes)
|Executive producer(s)
|Kurt Mueller
Stephanie Simpson
Cathal Gaffney
Darragh O'Connell
Jackie Edwards (CBeebies)
|Adam Idelson
Karen Ialacci
Gillian Higgins
|Running time
|65 x 11 minutes
3 x 23 minutes
|Production company(s)
|Brown Bag Films
|Original channel
|Original run
|4 October 2010– present
|External links
|Meomi official website
The Octonauts is a British children's television series, produced by Silvergate Media for the BBC channel Cbeebies. The series is animated in Ireland by Brown Bag Films but uses British voice actors. The TV series is based on American-Canadian children's books written by Vicki Wong and Michael C. Murphy of Meomi Design Inc.
The Octonauts follows an underwater exploring crew made up of stylized anthropomorphic animals, a team of eight adventurers who live in an undersea base, the Octopod, from where they go on undersea adventures with the help of a fleet of aquatic vehicles.
The subject matter is reminiscent of Star Trek and Thunderbirds[1] blended with Jacques Cousteau. Although it is science fiction as regards its technology, the exotic creatures and locations that the crew encounter are real marine animals in their natural habitats.
The original books were first published in the USA by Immedium in 2006, and were republished in the UK by Harper Collins in 2009. Six titles by Meomi have been published:
In 2010 The Octonauts was adapted into a 52 episode CGI animated television series co-produced by Chorion and Brown Bag Films. It first aired in the UK on 4 October 2010 on CBeebies, a BBC television channel for the under 7's. The first series ended in February 2011, but continued to be aired as repeats. A second series of 22 episodes commenced in November 2012.
The Octonauts had its US premiere on the Disney Channel in January 2012, however many of the characters' voices were redubbed to give them American accents (Hispanic in the case of Peso and Pinto), although Captain Barnacles, Kwazii and Prof. Inkling retained their original British voices.[2] It has also been shown in Ireland (RTÉ Two) and Australia (ABC Television). The show has been translated and shown in French (TF1), Spanish and Portuguese (Discovery Kids Latin America), Finnish (YLE TV2), and Welsh (S4C).[3]
The series was made with the help of marine biologists Dr. Lara A. Ferry-Graham and Dr. Michael H. Graham, who had previously worked on the making of Finding Nemo.[1]
The TV show is episodic, with each 11 minute episode seeing them encountering an unusual but real sea creature as they explore strange underwater worlds. Often they must discover a vital biological or behavioural fact about that creature to rescue it or themselves from danger. The stories usually feature three main characters: Captain Barnacles, Kwazii and Peso, with the other five Octonauts acting in supporting roles.
In the TV series they use five sea-creature inspired underwater vehicles called GUP-A to GUP-E,a pedal driven GUP-F, driven by Captain Barnacles and Kwazii, which appears in Episode 10 of Series 1 (The Speedy Sailfish), and a powerful and sturdy tracked GUP-X, first appearing in Episode 52 of Series 1 (The Great Christmas Rescue).
The opening theme tune finishes with the chant "Explore! - Rescue! - Protect!", which informs the narrative of all the episodes.
A series of shorter books based on individual episodes from the TV series is being published by Simon and Schuster. These titles can be distinguished by the "As seen on TV" label on the covers and are not written or illustrated by Meomi.[4] The books have the same titles as the episodes they are based on.
The TV series was well received when shown on CBeebies in the UK and by ABC in Australia. According to the authors' website, it was the No. 1 pre-school age show in the UK, and the first pre-school show to be ranked in the top ten by older audiences (aged 4–15).[5] In Australia it was the top-ranked ABC programme for 5-12 year olds in January 2011, with ABC calling its first month an "unprecedented success online and on-air".[6] It has been rated 7.4 out of 10 on IMDb.[7] In 2013, Octonauts was nominated for (but did not win) two awards: an International Emmy Award in the "Kids—Preschool" category[8] and an Irish Film and Television Award in the "Best Children's/Youth Programme" category.[9] The Octonauts DVD boxed set was 4th best-selling Children's TV DVD at Amazon UK as of 7 April 2013.[10]
|Voice cast
|Polar Bear
|Simon Greenall (speaking voice)
Ross Breen (singing voice)
|Barnacles is the brave polar bear captain of the Octonauts. He can drive any ship or gup, and is strong enough to lift a giant clam. Catchphrases: "Octonauts, let's do this", "Sound the Octo-Alert!" and "Octonauts, to the launch bay!".
|Lieutenant and Cryptozoologist
|Rob Rackstraw
|Kwazii is a daredevil cat with a mysterious pirate past. He believes in many sea monsters such as the Nackerwhack, Tri-Toothed-Terror, Giant Shrimp Monster, Monster of Creepy Cove and other monsters and likes to drive fast in the Gup-B. In the episode "The Octonauts and the Giant Spider Crab", it is revealed that he has a fear of spiders. Catchphrase: "Shiver me whiskers".
|Paul Panting
|He is a penguin with a Spanish name and the medic of the Octonauts. He's not too fond of scary situations, but if someone is hurt or in trouble he can be the bravest Octonaut of all. He has a younger brother called Pinto. Catchphrase: "Flappity flippers!".
|Oceanographer and Founder
|Professor Inkling, Inkling, or Professor
|Grimpoteuthis (Dumbo Octopus)
|Keith Wickham
|Inkling brought the Octonauts together, to study the oceans and have adventures. Catchphrase: "Fascinating!"
|Scientist (Marine biologist)
|Shellington (Dr)
|Sea otter
|Keith Wickham
|A sea otter who speaks with a Scottish accent. Shellington is a scientist who knows a lot about ocean creatures. He is not a very good driver and once crashed the GUP-D. Catchphrase: "Jumping jellyfish!" and "Fascinating".
|Jo Wyatt
|A rabbit who speaks with a Southern-American accent. Tweak lives and works in the launch bay. She often invents things like the GUP-X, GUP-S, the Octo-Mach suit, and the Friend Finder she made for her friend, Sandy the Leatherback Sea Turtle. She often refers to Captain Barnacles as "Cap". Catchphrases: "Right away, Cap!" and "...faster than you can say 'buncha munchy crunchy carrots'!".
|Information technology Officer and Photographer
|Dashi (Sauci In The Books)
|Dog (Dachshund)
|Teresa Gallagher
|A dog who speaks with an Australian accent. Dashi is the photographer for the Octonauts, and takes care of all the computers aboard the Octopod. Catchphrase: "Already on it captain!".
|Ship's Cook and Gardener
|Michael C. Murphy
|Tunip is half-animal, half-vegetable (technically a turnip), like all the vegimals. He loves to make kelp cakes and work in the garden-pod. He and the other vegimals speak another gibberish-like language that only Shellington understands (sometimes) since he discovered them many years earlier. He often faints at shocking news.
Note: Recent UK editions of the books changed Sauci's name to Dashi to match the television series.
|Original air date[11]
|"Octonauts and the Whale Shark"
|4 October 2010
|When Dashi is swallowed by a whale shark she thought was a cave, the Octonauts venture inside it to rescue her.
|"Octonauts and the Undersea Storm"
|5 October 2010
|An undersea storm is approaching so Kwazii helps some creatures on a coral reef reach safety, but then he crashes the Gup-B while trying to race back to the Octopod. When the GUP-C's tow-rope snaps while rescuing him, some reef lobsters Kwazii helped earlier lend a hand by holding the broken rope ends together with their strong claws.
|"Octonauts, the Crab, and the Urchin"
|6 October 2010
|A carrier crab and the urchin it keeps on top of its shell as a defence against predators[12] have a falling out.
|"Octonauts and the Walrus Chief"
|7 October 2010
|A walrus mistakes Peso's medical bag for a clam and takes it home. Walruses don't like other animals near their colonies, so Captain Barnacles, Kwazii and Peso disguise themselves as a fellow walrus to sneak into the dangerous colony and retrieve the medical bag.
|"Octonauts and the Flying Fish"
|8 October 2010
|A school of flying fish accidentally make off with Professor Inkling's rare book.
|"Octonauts and the Giant Squid"
|11 October 2010
|The Octonauts set out to find and photograph Inkling's long lost cousin, the giant squid.
|"Octonauts and the Orcas"
|12 October 2010
|An enormous Orca whale is stranded on a beach, and with some help from some crabs, the Octonauts manage to rescue it.
|"Octonauts and the Great Algae Escape"
|13 October 2010
|The crew must catch a runaway Octopod after it is hijacked by a group of crustaceans who are trying to flee an area of seabed being polluted by a broken pipeline.
|"Octonauts and the Remipedes"
|14 October 2010
|Shellington goes to search for a group of Remipedes in a cave but he hasn't driven the GUP-D before and ends up crashing it and breaking it. The other Octonauts try to save him but they get lost too. Luckily, a group of blind Remipedes help them find their way out of the cave.
|"Octonauts and the Speedy Sailfish"
|15 October 2010
|Tweak's remote control system for the Gups malfunctions, so Barnacles and Kwazii are forced to chase after them with the pedal-driven Gup-F. Luckily some speedy Sailfish, the fastest fish in the sea, are persuaded to show their off prowess by rounding up the speeding Gups.
|"Octonauts and the Blobfish Brothers"
|18 October 2010
|The Octonauts must evacuate some slow moving, gelatinous Blobfish before an undersea volcano erupts.
|"Octonauts and the Monster Map"
|19 October 2010
|Kwazii has a pirate map showing the location of a sunken treasure ship which allegedly harbours a Kraken-like sea monster (but which turns out to be an octopus which can change colour to camouflage itself).
|"Octonauts and the Lost Sea Star"
|20 October 2010
|A sea star (starfish) has got lost, but the Octonauts have to search the sea from top to bottom to find its home, as there are nearly 2000 species of sea star living at all levels of the ocean. On a reef in the Sunlight Zone they encounter a Sunflower seastar and a predatory Porcupine Pufferfish. In the Twilight Zone they encounter Brittle stars and get chased into a cave by a Wolf eel, where they notice the sea star glows in the dark, which means it is from the Midnight Zone. They end up crashing the Gup at the bottom of an ocean trench, but luminous sea stars light the way out for them.
|"Octonauts and the Albino Humpback Whale"
|21 October 2010
|The Octonauts think they've seen a ghost but it turns out to be an albino Humpback Whale which is moaning from the pain of some nasty sunburn.
|"Octonauts and the Giant Kelp Forest"
|22 October 2010
|Kwazii's favorite sub, the Gup B, goes missing in a huge kelp forest due to Kwazii pressing the eject button while the engine was active (Something Tweak advised him not to do) and the Octonauts must retrieve it.
|"Octonauts and the Enemy Anemones"
|25 October 2010
|The Octonauts land on an island for a picnic but must first help some crabs trapped between two warring groups of aggregate anemones. Meanwhile back on the Octopod, a hoard of out of control puddings are attacking.
|"Octonauts and the Narwhal"
|26 October 2010
|Cruising underwater to Captain Barnacles' homeland, the North Pole, the Octopod gets trapped in the Arctic sea ice. But one of Barnacles' old friends, Boris the Narwhal, helps them to break through the ice with his long tusk.
|"Octonauts and the Midnight Zone"
|27 October 2010
|The Octonauts explore the deepest part of the ocean where no daylight ever reaches and find some hydrothermal vents where vent fish, limpets and tube worms live, and also discover a new species of worm to put in Shellington's book.
|"Octonauts and the Snapping Shrimp"
|28 October 2010
|A little shrimp with a big claw makes such a loud noise that it stuns the Octonauts. A video of it made by Dashi reveals that the sound and accompanying shock wave are caused by the shrimp making a cavitation bubble with her claw.
|"Octonauts and the Snot Sea Cucumber"
|29 October 2010
|An injured snot sea cucumber named Slippy gets loose on the Octopod, so to let her breathe, they flood the ship.
|"Octonauts and the Giant Whirlpool"
|1 November 2010
|The Octonauts race against time to rescue Tweak's pal, a Leatherback sea turtle named Sandy, when she is swept away from the Australian coast where she was about to lay her eggs.
|"Octonauts and the Hermit Crabs"
|2 November 2010
|With half the crew stranded in a rock pool due to a low tide, Peso and Tweak help to remove a stuck Hermit Crab from the shell it has outgrown.
|"Octonauts and the Mixed Up Whales"
|3 November 2010
|The Octonauts clean and repair the Octopod, but the loud noises they are creating confuse the sonar of two Blue Whales who are looking for each other so much that they almost crash into the ship.
|"Octonauts and the Kelp Forest Rescue"
|4 November 2010
|Peso's little brother Pinto visits the Octonauts and gets an eyepatch from Kwazii. He becomes more interested in being a pirate than a medic (stating that he wanted to be a 'real' Octonaut like Kwazii). But when he helps Barnacles, Kwazii and Peso in a mission to help Dashi and Shellington escape, he begins to like being a medic.
|"Octonauts and the Decorator Crab"
|5 November 2010
|The Octonauts stake out a thief, who turns out to be a decorator crab.
|"Octonauts and the Beluga Whales"
|6 December 2010
|The Octonauts lead a pod of Beluga Whales stuck under the pack ice to safety by getting them to follow Peso while he's playing the same tune as the Beluga's song on his xylophone.
|"Octonauts and the Hungry Pilot Fish"
|7 December 2010
|The Octonauts are chased by a whitetip shark only to discover all it really needed was a pilot fish to clean its teeth, and it just so happens that they have just met a lonely pilot fish that is hungry for action.
|"Octonauts and the Vampire Squid"
|8 December 2010
|On a solo training dive to the Midnight Zone, Peso encounters a hurt vampire squid. Scared by the sudden arrival of Kwazii and Captain Barnacles it sprays them with sticky bioluminescent mucus and flees, but in the end Peso is able to help it.
|"Octonauts and the Seahorse Tale"
|9 December 2010
|After a storm, the Octonauts help a female seahorse search for her missing mate. She tells them to Kwazii's surprise that the missing male seahorse is about to give birth.
|"Octonauts and the Giant Jelly"
|10 December 2010
|The Octonauts must rescue Peso when he gets trapped inside a giant Comb Jelly.
|"Octonauts and the Cookiecutter Sharks"
|13 December 2010
|Some mysterious holes that keep appearing in the Octonauts' equipment turn out to be the work of Cookiecutter Sharks whose bioluminescence initially made them invisible against the light coming down from the sea surface.
|"Octonauts and the Oarfish"
|14 December 2010
|Dashi catches a glimpse of an elusive creature that appears to be a giant sea serpent and manages to photograph its tail.
|"Octonauts and the Combtooth Blenny"
|15 December 2010
|Kwazii crashes the GUP-E, leaving him and Peso marooned on a desert island inhabited by a fish that can walk on land. Their SOS message to the Octonauts is relayed in increasingly garbled form via the Blenney, a squid, and an Angler fish.
|"Octonauts and the Jellyfish Bloom"
|16 December 2010
|Shellington gets trapped by sea nettle jellyfish whilst observing garden eels in the GUP-E. Barnacles, Kwazii and Peso attempt to save him but Barnacles gets stung by a jellyfish. Luckily, Peso heals it using vinegar and then goes to save Shellington along with Kwazii.
|"Octonauts and the Baby Dolphin"
|29 December 2010
|A young dolphin follows Kwazii home and the Octonauts must search for its mother.
|"Octonauts and the Scary Spookfish"
|24 January 2011
|Peso gets jammed in an ocean trench when the GUP-E's battery dies and is surprised by a strange deep sea fish with a transparent head: a Spookfish called Boo, whose ability to see vertically comes in handy as GUP-C winches GUP-E back up the narrow trench.
|"Octonauts and the Arctic Orcas"
|25 January 2011
|Captain Barnacles and Peso get lost in the icy Arctic sea when the GUP-E gets stuck in an iceberg and the gup finder is damaged.
|"Octonauts and the Slime Eels"
|26 January 2011
|In the North Atlantic, Kwazii searches the sunken shipwreck of his pirate grandfather, Calico Jack, for his gold spyglass. It's guarded by blind hagfish (slime eels), but their slime unexpectedly helps him when he gets stuck. Kwazii ends up leaving the spyglass because it's now the home of sea creatures.
|"Octonauts and the Enormous Elephant Seal"
|27 January 2011
|An enormous Elephant seal is brought into the Octopod to moult as moulting underwater is dangerous.
|"Octonauts and the Sardine School"
|29 January 2011
|The Octonauts must work together as a team to help a lost sardine find her school.
|"Octonauts and the Dolphin Reef Rescue"
|31 January 2011
|Peso and the gang try to cure bleached dead areas on a coral reef by transplanting healthy coral, but a pod of playful dolphins make mischief for them until they realise that helping can be fun too.
|"Octonauts and the Eel Ordeal"
|1 February 2011
|In a rare journey into fresh waters (a river), the Octonauts follow some migrating eels and help an injured eel on his difficult journey when he gets stranded from the others.
|"Octonauts and the Marine Iguanas"
|2 February 2011
|The team are preparing for a feast of red seaweed on the Galapagos Islands but a trio of salt-sneezing Marine Iguanas raid the Octopod and eat it all.
|"Octonauts and the Dwarf Lanternshark"
|3 February 2011
|The Octonauts must help a tiny, injured Dwarf Lanternshark, but they have to find him first.
|"Octonauts and the Pirate Parrotfish"
|4 February 2011
|Kwazii discovers Calico Jack's Parrot Island treasure map behind an old photo. Whilst looking for the island they meet a Parrotfish, who helps them clear away dense algae and hide from vicious moray eels.
|"Octonauts and the Electric Torpedo Rays"
|7 February 2011
|Some electric torpedo rays give the Octopod a jump-start when its batteries go flat during a trip to see Tweak's pal, Sandy the leatherback sea turtle.
|"Octonauts and the Crafty Cuttlefish"
|8 February 2011
|Captain Barnacles allows Tunip to use his Octo-compass. But when Tunip loses it, a Cuttlefish takes it.
|"Octonauts and the Lost Lemon Shark"
|9 February 2011
|The Octonauts look after a Lemon Shark who has hurt his nose and can't find his way home.
|"Octonauts and the Humuhumunukunukuapua'a"
|10 February 2011
|The Octopod's waterworks become flooded with frightened Humuhumu fish.
|"Octonauts and the Giant Spider Crab"
|11 February 2011
|The Octonauts help a 100-year-old spider crab which has got its leg trapped in a giant clam whilst en route to its own 100th birthday party. It turns out that Kwazii's afraid of spiders, but he still helps, even though he thought it was a real spider at first.
A second series of 22 episodes started on 19 November 2012 on the UK's CBeebies channel[13] but was halted with no explanation after 10 episodes leading to criticism from viewers.[14] Broadcasts resumed in March 2013 but stopped a week later (with the last 6 episodes still unaired) - then resumed again in September 2013.
|Original air date
|"Octonauts and the Colossal Squid"
|19 November 2012
|The Octopod is grabbed by a Colossal Squid which drags it down into the depths. The Octonauts are unable to break free due to the hooks on the ends of the Squid's tentacles. Fortunately the arrival of some sperm whales turns the squid from hunter to hunted.
|"Octonauts and the Adelie Penguin"
|20 November 2012
|Kwazii and Peso have to babysit some penguin chicks whilst their parents go hunting for fish. Captain Barnacles uses the GUP-C's icebreaking powers to get them home when an iceberg blocks the way.
|"Octonauts and the Coconut Crabs"
|21 November 2012
|Kwazii is driving the GUP-B when a school of flying fish comes around and he is gliding with the fish Kwazii notices he is hit by a coconut and it has the symbol of his grandfather Calico Jack so then Kwazii, Captain Barnacles, Peso, and Tweak get a family of coconut crabs to help him open it.
|"Octonauts and the Great White Shark"
|22 November 2012
|Peso narrowly escapes when a hungry great white shark tries to eat him. Despite this he wants to help it after it injures its fin against the Octopod. The Octonauts use the Gup-X to turn the shark upside down and induce tonic immobility whilst Peso bandages it, but it comes round and in the end they escape by feeding it Tunip's fish biscuits to satisfy its hunger.
|"Octonauts and the Sea Snakes"
|23 November 2012
|Dashi discovers that the octopod is being threatened by a whirlpool and then Tunip later sees that there are some strange objects in the Garden Pod so he goes and gets Shellington and he later sees that they are sea krait eggs. The Octonauts try to find all the snakes so they won't get sucked into the whirlpool. Then the Octonauts later discover that one of the snakes is missing the Octonauts venture throughout the octopod to find it. The snake ends up in HQ and reversing the ship and the octopod gets sucked into the whirlpool.
|"Octonauts and the Bowhead Whales"
|26 November 2012
|Captain Barnacles' narwhal friends (see Series 1, episode 17) are trapped under the Arctic ice. After failing to rescue them with the GUP-C's icebreaker and the GUP-D's drill, they enlist the help of some bowhead whales whose massive heads can break through thick ice.
|"Octonauts and the Jawfish"
|27 November 2012
|A jawfish father has lost the eggs he was brooding.
|"Octonauts and the Porcupine Pufferfish"
|28 November 2012
|The Octonauts venture inside a whale shark again (see Series 1, episode 1), this time to rescue a porcupine puffer fish.
|"Octonauts and the Damselfish"
|29 November 2012
|Some algae-eating fish need help dealing with damselfish that chase them off the algae they are farming.
|"Octonauts and the Sperm Whale"
|30 November 2012
|Peso tries to help a young sperm whale overcome his fear of deep diving, an ability it must later use to rescue Peso when he gets caught by a giant clam on the seabed.
|"Octonauts and the Long-armed Squid"
|11 March 2013
|Peso and Kwazii search a creepy shipwreck in the midnight zone, looking for an injured creature that their friend the vampire squid (see Series 1, episode 28) has heard moaning in the dark. Peso soon finds an injured angler fish but the real source of the moaning turns out to be a long-armed squid, a strange ghostly white creature with elbows in its extraordinarily long tentacles, one of which has become trapped in the timbers of the wreck.
|"Octonauts and the Fiddler Crabs"
|12 March 2013
|The Octopod's periscope breaks off during a storm and lands up on a beach, lost amongst other marine debris. The Octonauts clean up the beach whilst searching for the periscope but a resident colony of fiddler crabs mistake the GUP-D and its claw gestures for a hostile giant crab and attack. The GUP-D goes haywire with a fiddler crab at the controls and burrows under the beach causing a sink hole to appear which almost swallows them all up. In the end the crabs fill the hole in with the sand balls they regurgitate whilst feeding.
|"Octonauts and the Manta Rays"
|13 March 2013
|A young manta ray needs help finding the secret manta ray feeding grounds.
|"Octonauts and the Swashbuckling Swordfish"
"Octonauts and the Flying Swords" (US title)[citation needed]
|14 March 2013
|When Kwazii sees what seem to be three flying swords under the Pirate's Moon, he embarks on a quest to find the Sword of the Pirate King, which legend says is on a wreck guarded by magical flying swords. The "flying swords" turn out to have been swordfish, which love jumping out of the water, but the pirate sword proves to be real. Meanwhile the others are led on a wild goosechase into a kelp forest following the pirate wreck's drifting figurehead, a carving of a pirate cat, which they mistake for Kwazii.
|"Octonauts and the Triggerfish"
|15 March 2013
|The Octonauts' floating temperature sensors alert them to a risk of waterspouts due to a rise in sea surface temperature so they decide to retrieve the devices for safe-keeping. But Kwazii gets into an argument with a possessive triggerfish which has adopted one of the devices as its home, and they both get carried away by a waterspout. Kwazii ends up having to defend the fish from a seabird and a swordfish that want to eat it. Luckily the characteristic grunting sounds that triggerfish make when distressed enables the other Octonauts to locate them.
|"Octonauts and the Mimic Octopus"
|13 May 2013
|Peso is gathering red algae to cure the sick vegimals but needs the shapeshifting skills of a Mimic Octopus to scare off a Moray eel by using its striped tentacles to pretend to be a group of poisonous sea snakes.
|"Octonauts and the Lionfish"
|14 May 2013
|Invasive Lionfish are damaging coral reefs in the Atlantic Ocean and need taking back to their native Pacific Ocean.
|"Octonauts and the Leafy Sea Dragons"
|15 May 2013
|Some leafy sea dragons accidentally get into the Octopod.
|"Octonauts and the Manatees"
|16 May 2013
|After his Gup is struck by lightning, Captain Barnacles gets trapped by a giant clam but doesn't call for help as he wants the others to go help some manatees at risk from a thunderstorm.
|"Octonauts and the Saltwater Crocodile"
|17 May 2013
|An enormous Australian saltwater crocodile is lost in the Antarctic Ocean and needs taking home.
|"Octonauts and the Humphead Parrotfish"
|2 September 2013
|The Octonauts use magnets and a humphead parrotfish to try to stop a large meteor that's heading towards the Octopod.
|"Octonauts and the Gulper Eels"
|3 September 2013
|Hungry gulper eels as well as undersea tremors threaten Inkling and Kwazii and get trapped by boulders. So Dashi uses Tweak's newly built "Octo Mach-Suit" to rescue Inkling and Kwazii.
A third series of 22 episodes started being broadcast by CBeebies on 4 September 2013.[15]
|Original air date
|"Octonauts and the Siphonophore"
|4 September 2013
|Kwazii and Dashi become entangled in a strange deep-sea creature - a siphonophore - and when a geyser blasts it toward the surface, the Octonauts must stop its ascent before it bursts.
|"Octonauts and the Water Bears"
|5 September 2013
|The Octonauts venture into a dangerous red-hot lava tube to rescue a teeny tiny water bear.
|"Octonauts and the Cone Snails"
|6 September 2013
|Only Peso can save the day when a cone snail invades the Octopod and tranquilizes the crew one by one with its dangerous venom-filled harpoons.
|"Octonauts and the Artificial reef"
|9 September 2013
|When an underwater hurricane destroys a small reef, which a frogfish and other creatures depend on, Tweak and her crew must convert the recently destroyed Gup-F into an artificial reef before the second stage of the hurricane strikes!
|"Octonauts and the Humpback Whales"
|10 September 2013
|When a sardine swallows the key to a treasure chest, a humpback whale helps Kwazii track it down.
|"Octonauts and the Pelicans"
|11 September 2013
|When a floating garbage patch endangers a flock of pelicans and other sea creatures, the Octonauts and the birds work together to clean it up.
|"Octonauts and the Sea Pigs"
|12 September 2013
|The Octonauts must stop a huge herd of sea pigs before they march blindly into the Mariana Trench - the deepest point on earth!
|"Octonauts and the Yeti Crab"
|13 September 2013
|As Tweak tests the Gup-X deep down in the Midnight Zone, a yeti crab cuts a vital electrical wire in the ship and cuts off all power, endangering itself and the Octonauts.
|"Octonauts and the Barracudas"
|10 March 2014
|Shellington and the Vegimals are on a mission to replant a mangrove forest.
|"Octonauts and the Duck-Billed Platypus"
|11 March 2014
|While rescuing river creatures after a storm, the Octonauts find a strange egg.
|"Octonauts and the Sea Skaters"
|12 March 2014
|When Kwazii gets lost at sea aboard the tiny octo-ski, he meets a flotilla of sea skaters.
|"Octonauts and the Mudskippers"
|13 March 2014
|The Octonauts attempt to keep the peace amongst a trio of mudskippers whose home has been flooded.
|"Octonauts and the Harbour Seal"
|14 March 2014
|When Peso's patient, a remora fish, mysteriously disappears, the Octonauts enlist a unique undersea detective - a harbour seal.
|"Octonauts and the Lion's Mane Jellyfish"
|17 March 2014
|An enormous Lion's Mane jellyfish gets its amazingly long tentacles tangled in the Octopod's engine whilst Tweak is working on it.
|"Octonauts and the Red Rock Crabs"
|18 March 2014
|Shellington and the others round up some lost crabs and marine iguanas that have got marooned on an island far too cold for them and take them home to the Galapagos Islands.
|"Octonauts and the Sea Sponge"
|19 March 2014
|Examining a sick sea sponge, Peso is surprised to discover that all sorts of creatures live inside it, treating it like a hotel, a behaviour known as commensalism.
|"Octonauts and the Immortal jellyfish"
|20 March 2014
|While caring for sea creatures, Peso discovers an adult Immortal Jellyfish that changes into a baby when it was scared by predators. Captain Barnacles, Kwazii and Peso guard the jellyfish at a distant reef, so Shellington rushes to photograph it, damaging the GUP-E and booster packs in the process.
|"Octonauts and the Urchin Invasion"
|21 March 2014
|Kelp-eating red sea urchins attack a kelp forest. The Octonauts are helped by Shellingtons's sister, Pearl, another sea otter and scientist.
The specials are double-length episodes which are first broadcast during the Christmas, New Year, or Memorial Day periods before being repeated alongside regular episodes.
|Original air date
|"Octonauts and the Great Penguin Race"
|13 December 2010
|Peso is going home to Antarctica to watch an annual penguin triathlon, the Iron Clam Competition, but learns to his dismay that his little brother Pinto has entered him in it. Peso will have to slide, dive and swim his way to victory, against the annual athletic winner, Hugo.
|"Octonauts and the Great Christmas Rescue"
|24 December 2011
|The Octonauts travel for Christmas to Professor Inkling's childhood home, a seamount, but soon get involved in a rescue mission when a rockslide endangers a rare 500 year-old golden coral and traps Professor Inkling's nephew Squirt. They also learn about Christmas tree worms which live in holes in rocks. Crucial to completing the mission is the new heavy-duty vehicle GUP-X which Tweak has built as an early present for Captain Barnacles.
|"Octonauts and the Amazon Adventure"
|1 January 2013
|Kwazii enters a shipwreck to get Calico Jack's map to an underwater city of gold. This leads the octonauts up the Amazon River, past parrots, freshwater stingrays, caiman and manatees. But a falling tree traps the GUP-A, and a tidal bore comes up the river, scattering the octonauts. Captain Barnacles looks for the others with the aid of a river dolphin and its echolocation abilities. The octonauts help an electric eel, a stranded arapaima, and get chased by piranhas. But a wood-eating panaque frees the trapped GUP-A. Meanwhile Kwazii has been saved by Calico Jack who turns out to be alive, but lost his ship after an attack by fire ants and an anaconda. His incomplete map had led him in circles, but Kwazii's piece completes it so they can finish the quest. After being blocked by hostile capybaras, they are reunited with the others in time to fight off more anacondas. Finally the "city of gold" turns out to be a colony of golden freshwater sponges in the bottom of a pool!
|"The Mariana Trench Adventure"
|27 May 2013
|The Octonauts assemble Tweak's new Deep Sea Octolab and lower it to the deepest part of the ocean, the Mariana Trench, where Shellington and Dashi intend to study the sealife. Whilst the Octonauts are setting up the base it is invaded by some giant isopods and other creatures which are looking for a new hydrothermal vent to live around. They also observe some sea cucumbers and luminous sea stars, and whilst chasing an out of control Octobot robot, Kwazii has to avoid undersea mud volcanoes which have created a lake of hot mud on the seafloor and lava.
|"Octonauts and a Very Vegimal Christmas"
|10 December 2013
|When all of the Octonauts are trapped in a dangerous blob of Marine Mucilage, the Vegimals must step up and build a new GUP called the GUP-V to rescue the crew in time for the Christmas meal!
|"The Over, Under Adventure"
|14 March 2014
|The Octonauts' mission to explore Antarctica during which they marvel at sea tulips and hourglass dolphins becomes a desperate rescue as a group of sea stars and urchins are threatened by a brinicle - a rare underwater icicle that can freeze creatures on the sea bed. So the crew use the recently built GUP-S to save the day, with the help of a Weddell seal.
The Creature Reports are one-minute, musical, poem-like sequences which recap the facts learned about the sea creature that the Octonauts encountered in the associated episode. In the UK these were shown as separately scheduled items but in the American version they were used at the conclusion of each regular episode.
The BBC have released three Octonauts DVDs, comprising episodes from the first series along with their associated "Creature Reports". The DVDs are Region 2 format, playable in European DVD players only:
A boxed set of all three DVDs was released under the title Octonauts – The Collection in September 2012.[16]


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Now we're reaching out to the Anchorage community once again to help improve our Nordic Ski Jumping program for Alaskans of all ages. The program is held at the Karl Eid Ski Jumps, named after a legend in the Anchorage ski jumping world — and a relentless advocate for the sport. To bring our ski jump facility up to national competitive standards, we've organized a special fundraising effort to rebuild the 40-meter jump literally one step at a time.
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Your donation will not only help groom more U.S. Olympians in Alaska, it will go a long way toward helping Alaska Nordic Ski Jumping gain national attention.
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Seattle's Lynch is mostly mumagain as Seahawks meet mediaBy DENNIS WASZAK Jr.
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A huge crowd gives a rousing sendoff to Seattle Seahawk players as their bus passes by on the way to the SeatAc Airport last Sunday at Seatac, Wash.JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Beast Mode was Least Mode again.
Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch abruptly ended his media availability — again — walking away from a throng of reporters while escorted by a member of the New Jersey State Police on Wednesday after about 7 uncomfortable minutes in which he answered just a few questions.
The elusive Lynch, who created a stir at media day Tuesday by talking for only 6½ minutes, writhed in his seat and leaned his head back at times. A few dozen reporters, lined up as much as five deep, tried to ask questions during the players' 45-minute availability at the team hotel.
"I really don't have too much to say, boss," Lynch said in a tone barely above a whisper. "I really don't. I appreciate it, but I don't get it. I'm just here so I won't get fined, boss. That's the only reason I'm here."
Earlier this month, Lynch was fined $50,000 for not cooperating with the Seattle media. The NFL put that fine on hold, saying it would be rescinded if he complied with media obligations. During media day, Lynch spoke for 6½ minutes before leaving, then returning to speak to Deion Sanders for NFL Network, to the Seahawks website, and to Armed Forces Network — and acknowledged he was trying to avoid being fined by the league for not meeting his media requirements.
It didn't appear Lynch would be fined, for either Tuesday or Wednesday.
"Players are required to participate and he participated," NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said in an email to The Associated Press. "His comments of the past two days have been widely circulated."
In a statement before Tuesday's media session, the Pro Football Writers of America said it was "extremely disappointed in the lack of meaningful access" to Lynch at media day. The PFWA added that several "long-standing and high-profile members were appalled by Mr. Lynch's conduct and refusal to answer any questions."
The organization also called the statement by the league that Lynch participated Tuesday "an affront to our membership," but added that it was "encouraged" that the NFL would continue to monitor the situation.
Players have clauses in their contract requiring them to cooperate with the media.
Fullback Michael Robinson, one of Lynch's buddies who was seated to his left, even poked fun at the situation by asking Lynch a question of his own.
"What do you think of your fullback?" Robinson said, laughing. "Is he a pretty cool brother?"
"No," Lynch responded.
"What?" Robinson asked incredulously.
"No," Lynch repeated.
"That's messed up," a smiling Robinson said. "We went to dinner last night and everything, man."
After Lynch was short with his answers to a few questions, Robinson moved the microphone in front of himself and began answering questions for Lynch.
"I'm going to slide up in this thing," Robinson said with a smile, "and break up the monotony a little bit. Uhh, Marshawn ain't going to try to say nothing to you guys, so you can direct your questions toward me."
Robinson used the running back's "boss" figure of speech to end each sentence.
One reporter asked how Lynch was feeling.
"He just wants to play ball, boss," Robinson said.
Robinson was then asked how he would define "Beast Mode."
"It's a lifestyle, boss," Robinson responded as Lynch, wearing headphones on top of his head, sat back in his chair smiling.
Lynch was asked if he was concerned he could be fined for not showing up at the availability, and he handled that one himself.
"I'm here, man," Lynch said. "So, I don't have to pay the fine, boss."
Lynch said it was a "false" assumption that he doesn't like talking to the media because he was once misquoted. He also said that it's not hard balancing being a private person and a football star because the fans don't mind how he goes about his business.
"The media has a problem with it," Lynch said. "It's a problem if they choose to take something away from me for not doing it."
A reporter reminded Lynch that it's the NFL that issues the fines.
"Well, reporters have to call it in," Lynch said. "So, it starts somewhere, right?"
At one point, Lynch looked up at a team staffer and asked, "What's up with that time?" A few moments later, a reporter tried to ask a question, shouting, "Hey, Marshawn!" Lynch got up, climbed over a few chairs and made his way through the crowd of reporters and disappeared through an area restricted to team personnel.
"He gets it done on game day," Robinson said after Lynch left. "If you're looking for somebody who's going lead by example, all you have to do is watch him run the ball and you know what time it is."
AP Pro Football Writer Barry Wilner contributed.
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Sir Humphrey debunks a recent story in the Telegraph which makes a big deal about the British military hiring more lawyers at the same time as they are disbanding front-line units:
The Forces have always needed effective legal support, and arguably the tiny number of military lawyers provides an utterly vital capability. Its not just about the provision of support to people who understand the arcane intricacies of a military law system which is very complex, and very different to our normal law — though this is extremely important. It's about the provision of people who bring a vital advisory role to Commanders on the ground, and the wider MOD.
Similarly, once the direct fighting is over, UK troops often find themselves operating in a very strange environment — one only has to look at Iraq in the aftermath of the initial war fighting phase to realise that its not a clear cut place to operate. The advice offered by in theatre legal personnel can often make a huge difference in helping commanders understand their freedom to operate, and what genuine constraints may affect them. For instance, on a single tour in Iraq, units may have found themselves conducting everything from searches, checking for IEDS, detaining known individuals through deliberate operations, and then engaging in combat — quite possibly in the same day. The requirement for modern troops to adapt very quickly to all manner of situations places a huge burden on them — it is important that they get the best possible guidance to know they are acting correctly. Certainly in this authors experience on both TELIC and HERRICK, the LEGAD advice was often one of the most critical parts of any potential operation.
The same lawyers provide vital services back home — in the Royal Navy for instance, there are a range of in house experts on the Law of the Sea, international maritime disputes and territorial waters and the like. This may sound questionable, but when the RN is daily conducting counter piracy and counter narcotics operations across the globe, or sailing in possible maritime flashpoints where different nations have very different interpretations of maritime boundaries, having a good legal understanding on hand of the art of the possible is absolutely vital.


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For the last almost three weeks I have had sore throat, head
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do not show up within a day. It takes at least 7-14 days after ovulation for implantation to occur and only after implantation can symptoms start. You don't always bleed with sexual intercourse. I didn't. Many women don't. The hymen is often broken by other things. Sports, running, tampons, or sexual activity. If your penis was anywhere inside of her no matter how long it was, it's seen as sex and does carry a risk of pregnancy.
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Severe cramping on one side can be a
. If cramps last for more than an hour, are accompanied by fever or chills, or you experience bleeding or vaginal discharge you should inform you doctor. I always recommend speaking with your doctor if you are concerned. Congratulations on your pregnancy. I hope you are feeling better.
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Does anyone know if this is a
ovulation? Or is this a side effect
the clomid? This is my first cycle on the clomid.. i took it on CD3 - CD7. Today is CD24 and im supposed to call the nurse if i dont get a period next tues which i doubt i'll get it cause im very irregular and have to be on provera to induce a period. I was wondering if anyone can shed some light on what is causing this popping sensation/dull ache on one breast.
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It is only one possible symptom
a loss, but it is also a symptom
a normal
. No bleeding right? So that's good. I know this is so scary, but you are not out yet. There is no reason to believe at this point that anything is wrong at all. I know how you feel though..after experiencing losses it's hard not to worry...impossible actually. So just try to take it day by day. Thinking of you.
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Discharge can be a
but i would personally not take this as a sign that you are as not a day goes by for me without some kind of discharge so it is hard to use discharge as a pregancy sign in my opinion but then if you dont normally get discharge and you have started to expereince alot then it very well could be a sign for you!! good luck. When are you testing?
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But i have this white discharge for about a week or 2, and i can't remember if it could be a
. I already have an 11 month old and already forgot alot
the symptoms. But if anyone could help, i'd appreciate it. By the way, im also having alot of cramps in my stomach, if anyone knows what thats about to, id like to know. Thanks guys!
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C, i used to suffer from irregular periods but for the last 7 months or so my periods have been regualr and i have a 28 - 30 day cycle, anyway i am 9 days late today i was due to have my period on the 6th November and on that day i got the cramping that i normally get when i am going to start my period but not as painful so i thought that my period was here but im now 9 days late and still no period im sill getting a mild cramping pain but no
my period just yet i also look and feel reall
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My whole
is just one big cramp. I'm just not sure if this is a positive
or if it's AF wanting to show (even though I never get like this even before AF). What do you think? Has anyone felt like this & ended up with a BFP??? Thanks!
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I was just doing some light housecleaning and noticed that my lower back is quite sore. I'm not expected for AF until Monday and I never have this symptom with AF. Is this a
pregnancy? I keep getting new things everyday. The cramps are still here (off and on), I was lightheaded yesterday. I know the lower back pain is associated with miscarriages as well. My pain isn't BAD by any means just sore. Any pointers? Thanks!
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I want to know what the first
was for you! Other than a missed period or positive HPT, what was the first clue you had that made you think "could I be pregnant?".
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So going by those dates I am only about 6/7 dpo. I have been getting light
cramps, low back
and sorry if this is way too much information but lots of discharge, which today has been very white and sticky....at one point I thought it looked abit yellow too but not too sure about that! I would like to know if anyone thinks it would be possible to have these kinda feelings about a week before AF is due???
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however I have done some research and have come to find that soreness in the lower tummy can also be a very bad
a tubal
. Where the fertilized egg accidentaly ataches to the falopian tube and begins to grow there! So needless to say I will be setting up a doc. Appt like ASAP!
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I would still consult your gnea doc it can be a
low progestorone! Like earthangle said it is pretty normal aslong as its not bright red,clotting, back ache,stomach ache but i would defo consult your doc or GP just to be on the safe side,cant hurt can it and if your anything like me youll only worry if your mind isnt put at rest atleast they can monitor you!.
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anyone familiar or heard, know, experienced taking subutex while pregnant? i am now on 1mg per day and there is limited studies. please help.
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I've also have a really windy rumbly
. Are any
these symptons a
? I normally get ovulation pain on and off for a couple of days but nothing like what I've got now. I've also been having back ache, sore breasts on and off and have been off my food in the middle of the day for over a week. I really don't want to take a HPT unless I'm really sure I'm having definite pregnancy symptons because I'm sick of being disappointed and hurt.
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I have a missed period for 15 days now and have had the
flutters on my right side
my abdomen but no other signs
... Home pregnancy test came back negative.. I have a doc appointment tomorrow, will keep every one posted. There is no way I am pregnant..
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I haven't taken them in around 3 weeks and still haven't had even the slightest
a period. I only had the very irregular (only lasted a couple
days, was very light, and was brownish blood/discharge) period 3 weeks ago and I was still taking the pills at that time.
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Ladies, remember that 99% of pregnancy have "cysts" that develop. These are corpus litum (sp) cysts which help maintain the pregnancy and disappear by the time you are approximately 12-13 weeks. Just because you have a cyst does not mean it is a bad thing, and if they are small, .01-5.99cm you should be perfectly fine. Rarely do cysts that small twist upon themselves.
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things appear to be going well since getting my BFP, but
course have a ton
thoughts racing through my head! one
them is the scare
what if i had an ectopic pregnancy.. i'm on heparin and asprin.. and usually my RE's office schedules their fetal ultrasounds at 6wk2 days. but they (the nurses) said that since we weren't 100% sure of the date of conception, they were going to schedule it later - at almost 8 weeks!.. which i thought, ok i'll just have to be patient..
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My cousin had a negative preg test and is showing more symptoms
than I am..lol. *Fingers crossed*...no morning sickness or sore breasts as
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However, during my last period my husband and i had sex and now i am having very swollen breast though my cycle is not due, so i don't think it's PMS. Can this be a
??? I am also suffering with a lot
gasy nauseous feelings, especially after I eat. Also, is it possible for conception to happen even tho sex was performed during my period???
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Cramping can be a
implantation, which occurs very early in
. Also, your uterus gets crampy as things start growing! If your period is late, it's time to test. In most cases there is a perfectly normal reason for the cramping. It isn't always an ominous sign, nor does it mean you have missed your chance to get pregnant if you have been trying for a baby. Low back pain, uterine pain, even some shooting pains in the vagina or vulva is a completely normal sign of pregnancy!
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The problem is I have never wanted children and suffer from a serious fear
so even if I wanted them, I am not sure I could go through with a pregnancy. My fear is so bad that even being around a pregnant women I begin to suffer "sympathy pains" (back ache, stomach cramps, dizziness/sickness etc) or anxiety attacks.
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I am no longer assuming that any symptoms are a
. This allows my mind to go to many places. I will only belive it when I see a positive pregnancy test.
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Hi I'm already a whole week late, with subtle signs
. I just turned 47 and was planning on tying my tubes here in the the next month or so -- and now this? I can't even find out what the odds of a natural pregnancy at my age are. Some very definite changes from my "routine" cycle. I've got some nausea, tender breasts and one negative pregnancy test. But with my youngest son, my home pregnancy test also turned out negative, even though I was pregnant.
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(0:00 - 1:33) Introduction
(1:34 - 9:29) I have a fun time chatting with Jeff Welch from The Reverb Syndicate. They are Ottawa's top surf-rock band. We hear about how they developed their own mythology as inspiration for their instrumental tunage, and also hear one of their fans playing one of their tracks on a charango! (Thanks to Eric Pare for providing the charango track!). Check out the Reverb folks at http://www.thereverbsyndicate.ca/.
(9:30 - 12:05) The Reverb Syndicate - The Lonely Henchmen (from Sputnik-a-Go-Go, available at CDBaby)
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WASHINGTON – An armed-robbery suspect is hospitalized Wednesday after a police chase and shooting in Northeast D.C.
Police say it started with an armed robbery of a liquor store along Walters Lane in the Forestville, Md. area in Prince George's County around 5:45 p.m.
The suspects held the store employee by gunpoint and demanded money.
Julie Parker with Prince George's County Police tells WTOP the suspects fled in a minivan into Northeast D.C. where the van crashed into a utility pole in the area of 57th Place and Clay Street.
There, at least two suspects got out of the van and ran.
A Prince George's County officer fired his weapon and one suspect was shot, but it's not clear if the officer's bullet hit the suspect or the suspect shot himself.
One suspect is in the hospital with a gunshot wound to the groin. A second suspect, who isn't hurt, is in custody.
No officers were injured.
As part of standard procedure, the officer who opened fire will be placed on routine administrative leave while the shooting is investigated.
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The pullover is on sale right now for $59.99 (down from the original price of $74.99), and there's free shipping on all orders at NFL.com for the next three days.
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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- For a minute on Apple's (AAPL) Q42012 earnings call, Tim Cook, ever so slightly, sounded a bit like former Research in Motion (RIMM) CEO Jim Balsillie circa 2011.
Apple's entire call was fantastic. It's absurd the stock tanked on such a solid quarter and best-in-breed guidance, but you were warned. What happened should not come as a shock.
However, tucked into the specifics was a Balsillie-like vagueness from Cook we never would have received from Steve Jobs.
I remember listening to RIM calls where Balsillie imprecisely quantified Blackberry Playbook demand. With 5th grade comprehension skills you could have sniffed out the trouble at RIM. It was apparent. Nobody cared about the Playbook, Balsillie knew it and he was floating overly-optimistic and wholly random numbers.While Apple, as usual, delivered plenty of specifics, Cook's contention that the product pipeline is "chock full" of "incredible stuff" concerns me. I wasn't expecting a product announcement, but I wanted something that inspires confidence. It was great to hear that Apple will not slap its logo on some random product just to generate revenue, but why bring up the "product pipeline" at all if this is all you have to say about it? By doing this, Cook flashes a sign of weakness. He's clearly attempting to allay fears. That's not good. If it's not a problem, why even acknowledge it; simply let the obvious assumption that Apple has innovation up its sleeve stand better left unsaid. The way Cook pulled off that line made me less confident that he actually has anything of meaning -- something other than refreshes, cosmetic changes and evolutionary tweaks to current products -- locked and loaded. But this comes as no surprise. Harken back to an article I wrote in May 2012 -- Sell Apple, Buy Amazon -- where I questioned a Tim Cook-navigated Apple:
When Jobs was alive, investors were afraid he was going to die. Now that he's gone, he's no longer here. And that's even worse. What else could explain the rapid surges and equally as swift pullbacks Apple has experienced over the last year or so? Sure, you can blame market manipulation conspiracies, hedge funds, mutual funds profit taking, the broader market, the economy, the rumor mill or sheer stupidity, but these excuses do not cut it. It's all about investor confidence.Investor confidence in Apple's future. It was there with Jobs. It's there at Amazon.com (AMZN) with Jeff Bezos, but it's clearly not there with Tim Cook as Apple CEO. Cook just does not display that Apple swagger I spoke of while hanging at the Apple Store in Santa Monica over the weekend.
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