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There are people, who are called "human orchestras". Precisely because they are almost identical to an orchestra or at least to a part of it. Surely, such description in most cases is applicable to musicians, more precisely – to those, who play a not small amount of instruments at once. Here it's also an orchestra, just the instruments are different. And the combination of them in one person could compete even with variety of colours spectrum.
The direction after the mentioned orchestra – Norway, Oslo. Following this direction and knowing already mentioned "orchestral" goal we will find Kim Hiorthøy, who, with his contribution, occupies music, graphic design, cinematography, even literature. And this is just what is published officially and known for the wishful ones. The success in the mentioned fields provoked such characterizations as "Norwegian wunderkind" or "one of the most creative people in Norway". Possibly not without a reason? This time, for discussion, we have two from the four: electronics and graphics by Kim Hiorthøy.
While studying music in Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, Kim's interest was focused on graphic design. Work with fanzine publishing and typography of local groups' entries began. One of the better known projects in his biography – collaboration with a publishing company "Rune Grammofon" and a rock band Motorpsycho. His other works include interior decorations and even a cinema theater poster. By the way, Kim is also interested in illustration and not just any kind but for children books. At the moment, if he wanted, he could brag about more than fifteen publications, in which his graphical contribution is imprinted. It's a shame but I didn't have a chance to see the last illustrations. Knowing that Norway is a country of non – conservative children, we can expect oddity. With no linking to Kim Hiorthøy – just think,what worth is a book about defecation with vivid illustrations.
However, this Norwegian is strictly Norwegian. This phrasing came to me after seeing his geometrical, refined and quite minimalistic pieces for the first time. Well and stably calm, even when the colors are bright. I am not applying this to the majority of the portfolio but, probably, the northern make – up leaves its imprint whether it's colorful figures or collages of grainy photos. And now he is under an Oslo's gallery's STANDARD protective wing, which represents contemporary Norwegian visual art artists. He organized four personal exhibitions, even more collective ones.
When evaluating Kim Hiorthøy as a musician a gap opens up, letting only subjectively foresee and expect the indistinctive. This music does not simply fit in the word electronics. When in artist's MySpace website it's introduced with a mystical "melodramatic popular song" term, elsewhere it's not dispensable without impressive and allegedly universality meaning descriptions, for example, "lo – fi/leftfield electronics, field recordings, electro – acoustic sounds" etc. Possibly, if shortened – an entirety of synthetic, quite strange and maybe even minimalistic sounds and, surely, not far behind from Kim's graphics' particular Norwegian flavor. In 2001 this music attracted the attention of "Smalltown Supersound" company. This way the first album "Hei" emerged and a couple of others, not mentioning EP or vinyl records and with that – a certain international recognition followed.
I regard them as very different things, even though the place in my head that decides if something works or not is the same for both (and I guess for anything, in a way). – Kim about the creating processes of graphic design and music.
Nevertheless, the processes often tend to exchange with one another. This way they complement each other with useful and fresh ideas. So, when facing a theoretical dilemma "the knowledge of one field or the priorities versatility?", a large list of versions come up. Limitedly but almost perfectly or widely taking a serious bite of each? Which sounds better, an orchestra or solo? Let's leave this question with widely opened windows for everyone to think. With Kim Hiorthøy and in a part maybe not abundantly known Norwegian art.


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DRV8825 Stepper Motor Driver Carrier, High Current (md20a)This original version of our DRV8825 stepper motor driver carrier has been replaced by a newer version that can more easily be used as a drop-in replacement for our A4988 stepper motor driver carriers. The only difference is that the newer version connects the sleep and fault lines through a resistor, making it more straightforward to use in very specific situations described in more detail on the product page. Generally speaking, most users should not notice any difference between the two driver versions.
Discontinuation Notice: This original (md20a) version of our DRV8825 stepper motor driver carrier has been replaced by a newer (md20b) version that can more easily be used as a drop-in replacement for our A4988 stepper motor driver carriers. The only change is that the newer version connects the sleep and fault lines through a resistor, which acts as a pull-up for the sleep line when this board is plugged into some existing third-party A4988 carrier board sockets. In those specific systems, this original (md20a) version of the board requires an external connection to pull-up the sleep pin that is not required on the new md20b version. Generally speaking, most users should not notice any difference between the two driver versions. The easiest way to distinguish between the two versions is via the bottom silkscreen, where the original version is labeled md20a and the new version is labeled md20b. OverviewThis product is a carrier board or breakout board for TI's DRV8825 stepper motor driver; we therefore recommend careful reading of the DRV8825 datasheet (1MB pdf) before using this product. This stepper motor driver lets you control one bipolar stepper motor at up to 2.2 A output current per coil (see the Power Dissipation Considerations section below for more information). Here are some of the driver's key features:
This product ships with all surface-mount components—including the DRV8825 driver IC—installed as shown in the product picture. Some unipolar stepper motors (e.g. those with six or eight leads) can be controlled by this driver as bipolar stepper motors. For more information, please see the frequently asked questions. Unipolar motors with five leads cannot be used with this driver. Included hardwareThe DRV8825 stepper motor driver carrier ships with one 1×16-pin breakaway 0.1" male header. The headers can be soldered in for use with solderless breadboards or 0.1" female connectors. You can also solder your motor leads and other connections directly to the board. Caution: Installing the header pins so that the silkscreen side is up and the components are down can limit the range of motion of the trimpot used to set the current limit. If you plan on installing the header pins in this orientation, please set the current limit before soldering in the pins. Using the driver
Power connectionsThe driver requires a motor supply voltage of 8.2 – 45 V to be connected across VMOT and GND. This supply should have appropriate decoupling capacitors close to the board, and it should be capable of delivering the expected stepper motor current. Warning: This carrier board uses low-ESR ceramic capacitors, which makes it susceptible to destructive LC voltage spikes, especially when using power leads longer than a few inches. Under the right conditions, these spikes can exceed the 45 V maximum voltage rating for the DRV8825 and permanently damage the board, even when the motor supply voltage is as low as 12 V. One way to protect the driver from such spikes is to put a large (at least 47 µF) electrolytic capacitor across motor power (VMOT) and ground somewhere close to the board. Motor connectionsFour, six, and eight-wire stepper motors can be driven by the DRV8825 if they are properly connected; a FAQ answer explains the proper wirings in detail. Warning: Connecting or disconnecting a stepper motor while the driver is powered can destroy the driver. (More generally, rewiring anything while it is powered is asking for trouble.) Step (and microstep) sizeStepper motors typically have a step size specification (e.g. 1.8° or 200 steps per revolution), which applies to full steps. A microstepping driver such as the DRV8825 allows higher resolutions by allowing intermediate step locations, which are achieved by energizing the coils with intermediate current levels. For instance, driving a motor in quarter-step mode will give the 200-step-per-revolution motor 800 microsteps per revolution by using four different current levels. The resolution (step size) selector inputs (MODE0, MODE1, and MODE2) enable selection from the six step resolutions according to the table below. All three selector inputs have internal 100kΩ pull-down resistors, so leaving these three microstep selection pins disconnected results in full-step mode. For the microstep modes to function correctly, the current limit must be set low enough (see below) so that current limiting gets engaged. Otherwise, the intermediate current levels will not be correctly maintained, and the motor will skip microsteps.
Control inputsEach pulse to the STEP input corresponds to one microstep of the stepper motor in the direction selected by the DIR pin. These inputs are both pulled low by default through internal 100kΩ pull-down resistors. If you just want rotation in a single direction, you can leave DIR disconnected. The chip has three different inputs for controlling its power states: RESET, SLEEP, and ENBL. For details about these power states, see the datasheet. Please note that the SLEEP pin is pulled low by default through a 1MΩ pull-down resistor, and the RESET and ENBL pins are both pulled low by default through internal 100kΩ pull-down resistors. This means that RESET and SLEEP will be preventing the driver from operating if left disconnected. Both of these pins must be pulled high to enable the driver (they can be connected directly to a logic "high" voltage between 2.2 and 5.25 V, or they can be dynamically controlled via connections to digital outputs of an MCU). The default state of the ENBL pin is to enable the driver, so this pin can be left disconnected. The DRV8825 also features a FAULT output that drives low whenever the H-bridge FETs are disabled as the result of over-current protection or thermal shutdown. Otherwise, the pin is floating, so you will need to use a pull-up resistor to give it a default high state if you want to use this pin. Note that there is a 1.5k protection resistor in series with the pin that you should take into account when selecting your pull-up resistor (i.e. it should probably be at least 10k). This 1.5k series resistor means it is safe to connect this pin to a logic high voltage, as might happen if you use this board in a system designed for the pin-compatible A4988 carrier. Current limitingTo achieve high step rates, the motor supply is typically much higher than would be permissible without active current limiting. For instance, a typical stepper motor might have a maximum current rating of 1 A with a 5Ω coil resistance, which would indicate a maximum motor supply of 5 V. Using such a motor with 12 V would allow higher step rates, but the current must actively be limited to under 1 A to prevent damage to the motor. The DRV8825 supports such active current limiting, and the trimmer potentiometer on the board can be used to set the current limit. One way to set the current limit is to put the driver into full-step mode and to measure the current running through a single motor coil without clocking the STEP input. The measured current will be 0.7 times the current limit (since both coils are always on and limited to approximately 70% of the current limit setting in full-step mode). Another way to set the current limit is to measure the voltage on the "ref" pin and to calculate the resulting current limit (the current sense resistors are 0.100Ω). The ref pin voltage is accessible on a via that is circled on the bottom silkscreen of the circuit board. The current limit relates to the reference voltage as follows: Current Limit = VREF × 2 So, for example, if the reference voltage is 0.5 V, the current limit is 1 A. As mentioned above, in full step mode, the current through the coils is limited to 70% of the current limit, so to get a full-step coil current of 1.5 A, the current limit should be 1.5 A/0.7=2.1 A, which corresponds to a VREF of 2.1 A/2=1.05 V. See the DRV8825 datasheet for more information. Note: The coil current can be very different from the power supply current, so you should not use the current measured at the power supply to set the current limit. The appropriate place to put your current meter is in series with one of your stepper motor coils. Power dissipation considerationsThe DRV8825 driver IC has a maximum current rating of 2.5 A per coil, but the current sense resistors further limit the maximum current to 2.2 A, and the actual current you can deliver depends on how well you can keep the IC cool. The carrier's printed circuit board is designed to draw heat out of the IC, but to supply more than approximately 1.5 A per coil, a heat sink or other cooling method is required. This product can get hot enough to burn you long before the chip overheats. Take care when handling this product and other components connected to it. Please note that measuring the current draw at the power supply will generally not provide an accurate measure of the coil current. Since the input voltage to the driver can be significantly higher than the coil voltage, the measured current on the power supply can be quite a bit lower than the coil current (the driver and coil basically act like a switching step-down power supply). Also, if the supply voltage is very high compared to what the motor needs to achieve the set current, the duty cycle will be very low, which also leads to significant differences between average and RMS currents. Additionally, please note that the coil current is a function of the set current limit, but it does not necessarily equal the current limit setting. For example, in full-step mode, the coil current is internally limited to 70% of the set maximum, so you would set the current limit to around 2.1 A to get a coil current of 1.5 A. Schematic diagram
The SENSE resistors R2 and R3 are 0.100 Ω on this version of the DRV8825 carrier. Key differences between the DRV8825 and A4988The DRV8825 carrier was designed to be as similar to our A4988 stepper motor driver carriers as possible, and it can be used as a drop in replacement for the A4988 carrier in many applications because it shares the same size, pinout, and general control interface. There are a few differences between the two modules that should be noted, however:
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As well as grinding your own coffee beans, roasting them yourself is another key step in making a perfect cup of coffee at home. It gives you fresh coffee to suit your taste and in the long run can be cheaper than buying coffee in a supermarket. As the beans are roasted, their colour and smell changes to produce different flavours. You can roast coffee beans in an oven, frying pan or even popcorn maker, however home coffee roasters are the new trend for enthusiasts. CHOICE put three models to the test and found they vary greatly in performance and ease of use.
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This model has a maximum capacity of 300g per roast but, at 5.5kg is large and bulky to store. Its roasting guide is easy to follow, it has good visibility through the chamber and performs very well across the range of roast profiles. Overall, it's very easy to use, particularly when adjusting time and temperature. However, care must be taken when inserting the roasting chamber, to ensure it's properly aligned.
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Hottop is an excellent coffee roaster overall, with features that mimic commercial roasters. It accommodates 250g per roast, and of the three models is the most expensive and the heaviest, at 10kg. It has time and temperature settings, as well as heated power and fan speed settings, which give you better control over the roast. It has one pre-programmed setting, three programmable settings and comes with a useful roasting guide. For each cycle, the roaster preheats to 75°C and then ejects the beans onto an external cooling tray when they're cooked, which speeds up the cooling process. Its only disadvantage is cleaning, which is slightly more complex than the other two models. Its filter also needs to be replaced periodically.
NOT RECOMMENDED Price $380 Contact www.dibartoli.com.au The iRoast only has a maximum capacity of 150g, and while lightweight and compact for easy storage, it's very noisy during operation – louder, in fact, than the noisiest vacuum cleaners we recently tested. It has two pre-programmed and 10 programmable settings, but the temperature can't be controlled adequately and rises dramatically beyond the setting, reaching 180°C in one minute, causing the coffee to burn quickly on the outside, without being fully roasted on the inside. For this reason, our tester was unable to achieve good coffee with this roaster.
Following testing the manufacturer has since told us that the problems CHOICE found can be modified to produce better results. The machine was repaired and retested and we found that the modifications made a difference to the performance of the roaster. Even though the temperature still rises quicker than ideal it becomes possible to roast good quality coffee. With modifications made CHOICE would give this machine a higher rating however it's still very noisy.
During the roasting cycle of all three models, two cracking noises indicate points in the different stages of roasting. The supplier suggests continually monitoring the beans during roasting and once you've reached the desired stage you either turn it to the cooling phase or, if you've pre-programmed the cycle, it starts automatically. It's important not to interrupt the cool-down phase, otherwise the beans will remain hot and continue to roast. The Hottop is very quiet, so it's easy to distinguish between the two cracks. You can also hear the cracks in the Gene Café, however the iRoast is so loud it's difficult to hear them. Buying Vittoria Oro pre-roasted coffee beans at $32/kg and making 30 cups of coffee per week will cost you about $320 per year, whereas buying green beans at $14/kg and roasting them yourself would cost only about $175/year. Keep in mind that these figures don't take into consideration the purchase price of the roasters so cost savings won't initially be evident.
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How do you "see" inside an atom?
We cannot really 'see' inside atoms, but we can watch how atoms affect other things to figure out what the atoms are like. Imagine "Harry Porter" with an invisibility cloak -- you cannot see him, but if you see a vase knocked over, you might deduce that he is there. Or perhaps a better example would be to launch tennis balls at him and see where they bounce to figure out his size, shape, etc. The same is true for atoms -- you hit atoms with electrons, light, other atoms, and more, and can learn about the atom based on what happens.
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I notice that you have put "see" in quotation marks in your question, so you must know that we cannot actually see atoms. They are so much smaller than light waves that they cannot be seen - so a good question - how do we see them?
In recent times scientist have been able to make use of an instrument called an electron microscope, which, as its name suggests, uses electrons to 'see' something rather than light. It uses magnets to focus instead of lenses, and it puts its image on a screen like a TV. With that we can 'see' incredibly tiny things - single molecules even - but while it can show us that there is an atom there, it cannot show us what is inside the atom. The atom is still way too small!
We have to enter a realm of guesses and speculation. A scientist will take a 'guess' at what he thinks the inside of an atom might look like, and then tests to see if his 'model' of the atom can be used to predict how the atom will behave.
One of the first 'models' of the atom was called the Plum Pudding Model. Scientist knew there were positive and negative bits inside the atom, and that the negative bits could make electricity, and they were called electrons. Someone suggested that the various bits were all just stuck in an atom ball, like sultanas and currants in a pudding. This model explained how positive and negative bits could both be there, but it did not explain other things.
In 1909 (100 years ago next year!) some scientists found that tiny radioactive particles called alpha particles, could get through a thin sheet of gold. This meant that if atoms were like plum puddings, then they were very soft and fluffy puddings, because they were soft enough that they could not stop the alpha particles. Think about firing an air gun pellet at a real pudding - it might get through - but fire it at a sponge cake??? So they set out to test how thick a sheet of gold was needed to stop the alpha particles. They PREDICTED that the particles would go straight through, or get knocked off course a little bit, but they found another very surprising result.
By counting the number of particles that passed through the gold they were able to work out that some particles were 'missing'. A bit more searching and they found that every now and again one particle in several thousand was knocked way off track, or even bounced back! This cannot be explained by 'plum pudding atoms'
One of the scientists, Ernest Rutherford, suggested that instead of being scattered through the atom, there must be a 'lump' of charged bits in the middle, and a bunch of other charged bits around the outside - +ve protons inside and -ve electrons outside. He had no idea HOW that could be, but he knew that the plum pudding had to be wrong. He suggested a core of positive particles, and the electrons spinning around the outside like the surface of a globe. He suggested that the core was very tiny - less than 1/3000th of the wide of the atom. A grapefruit sized core in the middle of a football field, with the electrons spinning around the fence. It is Rutherford's model of the atom that we usually see drawn in text books and where companies want to look 'scientific'. They draw a big dot in the middle, and a bunch of little dots making circles (that usually look oval shaped) around the edge.
Other scientists have done further tests and found that not all the electrons can be in one layer, because some can be taken away from the atom easily and some are almost impossible to get off, so then it was thought there might be several layers of electrons like the layers inside a gobstopper (all day sucker) (To help explain the model, the layers have been called shells, and if we just look at a small part of the circle, we can think of the layers like the shelves in a book case. If we put electrons (think marbles) on the top shelf, they can fall off easily, and land on the floor with lots of energy (make lots of noise). Electrons on the bottom shelf do not fall off nearly as easily, and land so gently we can hardly hear them - hence they have been called energy shelves or energy levels.)
And then someone else found that the electrons do not always go neatly on one layer or another all the time, sometimes they can be a little bit above or below the 'energy shelf'. The model has been changed again to suggest not layers of electrons, but clouds of electrons which not only spin around the centre, but move up and down a bit too - like the horses on a merry-go-round, except that there are several 'layers' of merry-go-rounds.
Can you 'see' that each time we try to describe an atom, we have to suggest something it might be like. These 'models' of the atom are not made of plastic and wood and string, but are ideas that scientists use to help them understand why things are behaving in certain ways. If the behaviour does not fit what the model suggests is should be, then the model has to be changed.
No one can 'see' inside an atom, we can only speculate and offer models to say that it might be like .... something.
This is all part of the 'scientific' way of looking at things we cannot see. Just as we can't 'see' an atom, we also cannot see what happens in a fire, or the inside of the sun, or why dogs bark at pushbikes. We can make models, and test to see if the model can predict. If my model is correct, then when I ..... , I should see .............. We try out an experiment, and compare what we predicted with what actually happened.
Let me see if I can give another example - My dog barks at the neighbour's son, Jake, when he rides past on his bicycle. I want to know why. I cannot see inside the dog's head to read his thoughts, but it might be that the dog does not like Jake because he threw a rock at him or something. If that is why the dog barks, then the dog should NOT BARK if someone else rides past. I test this idea by having Jake's sister ride past. The dog still barks. I try again with the Jake's little brother. The dog still barks. My 'model' of the dog's thinking must be wrong.
Perhaps the dog is barking because he doesn't like that particular bicycle. If that is correct, then the dog should NOT BARK at a different bicycle. I test this idea, by having the Jake ride past on a different bike. the dog still barks. I try another bike. The dog still barks. Again my model must be wrong. Perhaps the dog just does not like bicycles. If that is true, then the dog SHOULD BARK even if the bike is stationary. We place the bike on its stand in the road, and walk away. The dog does not bark! Again my model is wrong.
Perhaps the dog does not like things that move fast..........
Can you see that I might eventually be able to 'see' what is going on inside the dogs head, not by looking inside, but by observing behaviours and outcomes, and comparing them to predictions based on my model. It is a complicated and slow way to get an answer, but it usually gets you closer to the right answer than any other method we know.
This process - guessing answers and proposing and testing outcomes - is known as The Scientific method, and has been used for a few hundred years.
For more information, the entries in Wikipedia under ATOM and SCIENTIFIC METHOD are very useful
Nigel Skelton
The most common practice is to send things in and then see how they come back out. Do various things to an atom and figure out what CANNOT be true about the inside of the atom. Try different things, eliminating other possibilities. Some of the many things used are magnetic effects, electric effects, interaction with light, interaction with heat, interaction with other atoms, and interaction with electrons.
Eventually, you narrow it down to a small set of very similar possibilities. It is in many ways like sculpture. You continually eliminate what cannot be true until all you have left is what is probably true.
Dr. Ken Mellendorf
Physics Instructor
Illinois Central College
You do not really "see" inside an atom in the usual way "see" is used. What is meant by "see" is how the inside of an atom "works" when it collides with very fast particles. Think of it this way. Suppose you have a peanut buried inside a cotton ball. How could you get some information about the shape of the peanut, even if you cannot see it? You could shoot at the cotton ball with a stream of particles and watch how the particles are deflected by the peanut. If the peanut is pointed toward the stream of particles, it would appear to be smaller than if it were lined up sideways. If you then looked at how the pattern of the particles changed as you changed the orientation of the peanut, you could get some idea about the shape of the peanut. If the stream of particles was too fast you might smash the peanut. Or if the stream of particles was too slow they might not even "see" the peanut, and just get buried in the cotton ball. Putting many hundreds or thousands of such measurements together you could get some idea of the size and shape of the peanut inside the cotton ball. This is approximately what is meant when scientists say that they "see" inside the atom.
Vince Calder
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Couple of weeks ago my glow plug light came on and i started to worry a little.
Since then i found out that if i put my foot down hard and accelerate the glow plug will come and i start to lose power.
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Amtrac Premieres "I'm All Yours" Music Video
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He put out a video for the album's title track. The song was recently featured on Jersey Shore.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 6, 2005 Release M-109 MAYOR ANNOUNCES AG THEFT REGIONAL OUTREACH SESSION Mayor Mufi Hannemann, City Council Chairman Donovan Dela Cruz, and the Honolulu Police Department will host a regional outreach session on agricultural theft at the Key representatives from state and local government will be in attendance, as well as the major area landholders, and Oahu Farm Bureau president Dean Okimoto. This meeting is aimed at giving farmers the necessary tools to fight this crime, and is the first follow-on to the initial agricultural theft summit at City Hall in September. "Ag theft is an extremely serious issue that impacts everyone on our island. The best weapon to combat this crime is education," Mayor Hannemann said. "We want to take the message to farmers in rural The session will include brief remarks from the mayor, City Council chairman, as well as HPD and Farm Bureau officials. Following the introductions, farmers will break off into groups based on language with HPD officers from the district facilitating discussion and education. Translators will be available at no cost. Further follow-on meetings will be held at various districts throughout -30- Contact: Alex Berenberg, 523-4249 |
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Royal Challengers Bangalore batsman Mohammad Kaif struck a crucial knock of 50 in Central Zone's successful chase of South Zone's total of 224/9 in their Deodhar Trophy quarterfinal clash at the PCA Stadium in Mohali on Friday.
The South Zone batsmen failed to build on their starts as Bhuvaneshwar Kumar, Jalaj Saxena and Piyush Chawla applied pressure on them. Only captain batsman-wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik could stick around long enough, posting 52 as South Zone crawled to 224/9 in their 50 overs.
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A Point of View: The case for not leaving education to the teachers
We should not expect education to be simply left to teachers, or the state, argues the philosopher Roger Scruton.
Since the Middle Ages, education has been regarded in this country as a public duty. Originally the duty did not fall on the state. It was a general charitable duty, to which wealthy people responded by establishing schools and colleges, setting up the trusts that would fund them, and providing scholarships for poor pupils. A statute of Elizabeth I defined education as a charitable purpose, entitled to certain legal and fiscal privileges. Over the following centuries new schools proliferated, often established by the Anglican and non-conformist churches. In 1833 the government introduced an annual grant to two charities that provided both church schools and non-denominational schools for poor children. As a result of those and similar moves education rapidly expanded during the first half of the 19th Century, to the point where it was unusual for a child not to acquire sufficient numeracy and literacy to survive in the competitive environment of the industrial cities.
Eventually Parliament passed laws compelling all children aged five to 13 to attend a school, beginning with the Education Act of 1870, which obliged the state to step in and pay the fees for families who could not afford them. Since that time the state has increasingly taken the initiative, establishing primary and secondary schools, raising the school-leaving age and, in due course, creating new universities and colleges designed to make a full education available to everyone. But while the state extended our educational system, it did not create it. As the system expanded in the 18th and 19th Centuries, it was private individuals, charitable trusts and religious foundations that took the most important steps. The state inherited well-funded, long established and dedicated institutions and a tried and tested curriculum that large numbers of people knew how to teach. Of course, there were barriers of wealth and class that could not be easily crossed, as the Victorian novelists remind us. But there was also a culture of respect for education, and an eagerness to teach and to learn.
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I was a child from a poor background who was lucky enough to attend the local grammar school. Our school had been established by royal charter in 1562, and had inherited the standards and traditions associated with the public schools. Like most of the grammar schools it was funded by the state, and I received the best possible education for free, leading to a scholarship to Cambridge. But to enter grammar school I had to pass an examination, which I took at the age of 11, and those of my classmates in primary school who failed that examination had to go to the local secondary modern, where inevitably standards were not so high and the long-term prospects less favourable. Not surprisingly it seemed to many people unjust and politically unacceptable that the prospects of poor children should be decided at the age of 11. Hence there was a long-standing and eventually successful campaign to abolish that examination and to amalgamate the grammar schools and the secondary moderns into comprehensives.
The intentions behind that reform were the best. And when Anthony Crosland, education minister under a Labour government, called on local authorities to submit plans to go comprehensive, the response was largely positive. The policy was pursued under both Labour and Conservative governments and as a result most of the grammar schools were either absorbed into comprehensives or deprived of state funding. Thereafter only people with money could obtain the kind of education that I once obtained for free. This was hardly an advance from the point of view of social mobility, and certainly not a way of rectifying the inequalities that had inspired the reforms in the first place.
The response of many egalitarians to the widening gap between state and private education is to call for the removal of all privileges from the private schools - then all children really would be equal, and nobody could obtain a better education than average merely by being wealthier than the rest of us. But, besides being a vast trespass on the freedom of citizens, such a reform would have the same effect as the abolition of grammar schools. Rich people would bypass the schools, establishing home schooling networks as they do in America. Or they would ensure that their children are provided in the evenings with the resources of which they are deprived during the day.
The history of education in this country since 1870 shows us that the state is better at placing obstacles in the way of teaching than encouraging people to take it up. Teaching qualifications, once regarded as a badge of merit, became obligatory during the post-war period, to be imposed by law as the sole route into the state system. Knowledge was no longer a sufficient qualification. And soon it wasn't a necessary qualification either. After a hundred years of domination by the state our education system, which was once one of the best in the world, fails to make the top 20 on the scale issued by the Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa). The answer, it seems to me, is not to go further down the path of state control - closing down this school and meddling in that one - but to encourage people to do what they did in the early 19th Century, which was to take charge of schooling for themselves. Education, we must remind ourselves, is not about social engineering, however laudable that goal might be. It is about passing knowledge from those who have it to those who need it.
Our country is full of people who know things, and of children who want to learn things. A successful education system is one that brings the two together, so that knowledge can pass between them. In every village there are people with knowledge that would be useful to the young - retired accountants and lawyers, musicians and singers, those who speak a foreign language, writers, plumbers, farmers, engineers and amateur historians. And many of those would welcome the opportunity to teach what they know. Somehow we have failed to harness this capital, letting it go to waste while our children drift in search of it. Gradually our governments have begun to wake up to this fact. We are seeing a revival in government circles of the old idea of education as a charitable gift from one generation to the next, rather than a form of state-controlled social engineering.
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One encouraging development has been the establishment under a Labour government of the Teach First programme, which allows people with knowledge to learn the art of teaching as one learns to ride a bicycle - namely by doing it. This removes the obstacle created by the old state qualifications and helps to resurrect the idea of teaching as a vocation. The establishment of academies, which enables some specialist schools once again to set standards for entrance, has created for poor children some of the opportunities enjoyed by the rich. And the present government is allowing citizens to start schools within the state system. A free school can settle its own curriculum and contracts of employment. It can therefore open the way for those with unused knowledge to impart it in the classroom, and for volunteers to help with extra-curricular activity. Anyone can apply to set up such a school, provided they have sufficient educational and financial expertise within their core team, and the willingness to make a substantial time commitment. Parents, local businesses, and volunteers can all join in the enterprise, whose goal is to rescue children from disadvantage and once again to open the channels through which the social and intellectual capital of one generation can flow into the brains and bodies of the next.
In the past the British people have solved their problems in precisely that way - not by handing them over to the government and then forgetting about them, but by sorting things out for themselves. The philanthropic middle classes, who created our education system and made it one of the best in the world, have been for too long excluded from it. But they possess the knowledge that we need, as well as the time and the energy to hand it on to our children. Bring them back into the system, allow them to do whatever is needed to impart their assets to the young, encourage them to raise funds, to recruit volunteers, to expand the curriculum, and all children will benefit. In the conflicts over education all sides have claimed to be extending opportunities to the poor. But the politicians are at last beginning to recognise that opportunities are not increased by closing things down, but by opening things up.
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It is clear from this that the author does not considered valuable for a teacher to be trained in the science and art of teaching and imparting knowledge into students. Pedagogy and teaching is a unique and nuanced skill that takes years to master. Implying that anyone can do it if they have subject knowledge is naive, as is the statement that teachers do not have knowledge anymore as a degree has for a long time been a minimum requirement. I am a teacher with a PhD and very good subject knowledge, but without training in teaching I would have just lectured university style to a class of 11 year olds and wondered why it was not working.
Like Roger Scurton I came from a poor background and went to a grammar school with a long historical past. On leaving school, I had to contribute to the family income and managed to find a student apprentice post with a weekly wage. Over a five year period on a 50:50 basis I work in a company and studied at a College of Advanced Technology to qualify as a chartered engineer. After working in industry as a project engineer, I moved into the teaching profession. I am now retired having worked as a university lecturer, researcher and consultant for 36 years. During that time, successive Secretaries of State for Education have compromised our state education system by making their own mark based on political bias.
I agree with the writer. I am the founder of a homework club, we provide extra support to school aged children in the three core subjects. The tutors are adults from all walks of life, and we have secondary school aged children as tutors for primary level children as well. This set up seems to be be working as we have being established for 14 years and have a long waiting list, even though we do not advertise. The theme of the club is that Older brothers /sisters help younger brothers/sisters. We have had objection from teachers. But we have ignored them. The plan is to use this method in isolated parts of Africa where good teachers are not easily available and children have to walk miles to school.
I am fed up with hearing how bad our education is and how we are failing according to PISA and international league tables. The full story is never told. The conditions of assessments are not standardized and we are not comparing like with like.
Roger Scruton does what philosophers do best - he asks interesting questions and gives the wrong answer! He seems to have a very idealistic view of the English village, ignoring the social engineering-cum-indoctrination practised by many school-founders then and now.
I absolutely agree, Confusion exists as to what education really is. It is not just a process of book learning or information delivered by rote or otherwise. It is the passing on of expertise and mentoring. The result of this confusion is an insidious false premise that imprisons people. It imprisons them to believe they are educated when in fact they are not. If it were not so tragic, it would be funny, I respectfully submit.
I home schooled my son after discovering, on return from working abroad, just how poor the local schooling was. I got him through good GCSEs a whole year earlier than his contemporaries. Far from being supported or credited with saving the taxpayer the cost of his education, I had to pay his exam fees and a hefty 'administrative charge' for him to sit them at a local school (where he was entitled to go). The education industry does have a political agenda and is much more concerned with protecting the jobs and privileges of its members than with the success of their students. I suppose I was lucky that I was allowed to home school (unlike in Germany) but the chances of a more flexible and effective school system emerging is depressingly small.
I do not believe that the government strictly stands in the way of wider community participation. Rather, it is the administrators of state schools themselves that largely see parents as interfering, as they claim it is the teachers who are the professionals and know what children need. State schools are walled gardens, which the adults inside guard jealously lest their shortcomings be discovered. This is not state edict, but teachers wishing to conceal themselves from the gaze of the wider community.
As an admissions tutor for a Russell group University, I have 150 or so undergraduate places on offer each academic year. Of those 150, 80 are reserved for state schools under current government targets, 10 are reserved for independent schools, while 60 places are available for overseas students. To make my targets for state schools, I have to reduce the offer for those candidates. Insofar as overseas candidates are concerned, I reject about 100 candidates who on paper far exceed the qualifications of the state school candidates. So I am obliged to admit students on the basis of government targets rather than ability. The above might be fine, save the fact that overseas students pay £18,500 per annum and work hard. My experience of many UK students is that they complain about the fees that they pay and don't work as hard nor do they have the same level of knowledge. The above problem has much to do with attitudes as the obstacle rather than government, businessmen and/or teachers. One attitude to change, which the above article fails to acknowledge - is that we in the UK are no longer world leaders. Perhaps we should now look over our shoulder at those successful nations and observe how their governments, teachers and parents deliver education.


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Doctor Who Review: "Nightmare in Silver"
By Kyle Anderson on May 11, 2013
Writer Neil Gaiman is a massive Doctor Who fan. Join the club, right? In Series 6, he wrote what is pretty much everybody's favorite episode that year, "The Doctor's Wife." (For me, it was second to Tom MacRae's "The Girl Who Waited," but I recognize I'm in the minority.) That episode had the Doctor actually getting to speak to the TARDIS! What nerd hasn't wanted to see that? This time around, Gaiman brings back the Cybermen and has the Doctor talking to an evil version of himself inside his own brain. "Nightmare in Silver" also has a Cybermen attack on a silly amusement park castle and Warwick Davis being a badass. You go, Neil.
The sophomore slump is a phenomenon which states that someone's follow-up is never as good as their initial outing (in any field) because you have your whole life to plan the first one. Happens a lot in music. Steven Moffat had that after the near perfect Series 5 with the much more uneven Series 6. He is, however, redeeming himself in spades with Series 7. There was a concern on my part that Neil Gaiman wouldn't be able to compete with the greatness of "The Doctor's Wife" because he had all of his life to dream about what the Doctor and TARDIS would say to each other. Might his return to the show be a bit of a letdown? Overall, I'd say no. They're two completely different types of episodes, and this one isn't trying to jerk any tears or tug on any heartstrings, but I really enjoyed how it was presented and a lot about what was on display.
The Doctor brings Clara and her two young charges, Angie and Artie, to the universe's largest amusement park. Too bad it's been out of commission for years following a war with the Cybermen. They'd been all but wiped out, save for a few deactivated ones, but the galaxy was gutted in the process. Residing on the planet is a team of disgraced soldiers, who are basically assigned to wait there until something happens. The Doctor also meets up with Webley (Jason Watkins), who has a wax museum (notice the creepy dummy from "The God Complex"), and a Cyberman who does nothing but play chess. Turns out, however, that it's not even the Cyberman, but Porridge (Warwick Davis) controlling its arms.
Unfortunately, there are also Cyber-Mites, which bring the Cybermen back to life and begin upgrading Webley, Angie, Artie, and eventually the Doctor. The army captain, meanwhile, is fully aware that she has a device that could completely destroy the planet, and by extension the Cybermen, and themselves, but the Doctor, Clara, and Porridge expressly forbid her from doing so. They're severely outgunned, though, and if the Cybermen get through their defenses, it's curtains for everybody anyway.
There's a lot I liked about this episode. A whole lot. I liked the redesign of the Cybermen and the fact that they can do more than just lumber along. With all the rampant upgrading, they're kind of like the Borg. Wait! I just realized, this is sort of like Doctor Who's version of "The Best of Both Worlds," only at no point did anyone think the Doctor might be turned forever into a Cyberman. I really loved the whole internal (and sometimes external) battle between the Doctor and "Mr. Clever," the Cyber Programmer inside his head. That is the closest the new series has gotten to having a lead Cyberman be as devious and maniacal as they were in the classic series. I also liked the references to their past weakness, specifically gold. It's stupid that they were weakened by gold, but it's used very nicely here, because it is inherently dumb.
Matt Smith gives another absolutely brilliant performance, here playing both good and evil. I hope the Master never comes back, because I don't think anybody could possibly be a better evil counterpart to the Eleventh Doctor than the Eleventh Doctor himself. The references to the past Doctors is always welcome, especially in the 50th Anniversary year. I loved the visual representation of the two sides of the Doctor's mind, himself represented by golden Gallifreyan swirlies, and the Cyberman represented by cold, blue energy. Really nicely done, as was Stephen Woolfenden's direction as a whole.
I also — broken record again — loved Jenna-Louise Coleman. Full stop. The way she so naturally falls into the authority the Doctor gives her, even though he really has no authority himself, is fantabulous. I liked her back-and-forth with the Cyber-Doctor, especially with her easily figuring out his attempt to trick her. Hands down, Clara is my favorite companion of the new series, maybe even of all. I think I like her the most because she's not a caricature in any way. She doesn't have traits that get molded into a character. She's sort of a blank slate, which makes her seem more realistic. I hope she sticks around for a good long while.
Now, for some of the stuff I didn't like very much, namely, the kids: I do not understand why they were in this story. It seemed a strange shoehorning last week when they suddenly reappear after only being seen briefly in "The Bells of Saint John," and seemed really strange that they could find pictures of Clara from throughout history and not really care all that much. I had imagined that it was Gaiman himself that requested the children be in it, and maybe he did, but they were really non-entities in the story.
So, what was the point of having them at all? They show up, enjoy a bit of jumping on the moon, then get Cyber-ized and are essentially comatose through most of the episode. At least when somebody like Rory or Mickey (granted, they were much more integral pieces to the overall plot) came aboard the TARDIS, they directly impacted the plot, but these kids didn't do anything. Angie was a brat for no reason, then figured out Porridge's true identity. Great…. In the storyline, they make mention of children being key to the Cybermen's plot, and without kids, they were pretty well screwed. However, they didn't do anything with the kids at all. Honestly, what did it matter that they were there?
There also was very little threat to the army people. We didn't care enough about them to really sad if any of them died, but we also never really felt their fear or even much of a sense of panic or tension about them possibly not holding everything back. There's a scene where the one lady soldier tries to do the zappy thing on the Cyber head but is caught by the body. Almost immediately, she and another person are being converted, the big guy makes the Cyberman come towards him, he ducks out of the way, and Clara shoots it. That happened SO fast I didn't even have time to really know what was going on. It seemed like two completely separate scenes joined together haphazardly.
The other thing I didn't much care for was the relative ease of the escape. It seemed like in a flash, we go from realizing Porridge isn't who he says he is to him setting off the bomb, to them safely aboard his ship with time enough to save the TARDIS. What? How anti-climactic. There also didn't really seem to be much motivation behind Porridge's marriage proposal to Clara at the end, aside from just giving her the choice to turn it down. Even in the '70s, when Jo Grant was proposed to by King Peladon, they'd spent a decent amount of romantic time together.
These things aside, I quite enjoyed myself due primarily to the work of our leads and to the clever and witty script of Gaiman. He's a darn good writer. He can come back any time. I'd love it if he novelized this story, because I feel like it could be really terrific.
One episode left! I can't believe it's nearly here. "The Name of the Doctor," written by Steven Moffat and directed by our friend Saul Metzstein, looks pretty darn creepy, and I have really no idea what to expect. However, I bet it'll be great, because this series has been great. Wanna know how I know it's the 50th Anniversary? Because in Series 7's 13 episodes up to this point, we've had Daleks, UNIT, Weeping Angels, The Great Intelligence, Ice Warriors, Silurians, Sontarans, and Cybermen. Can't imagine what we'll get next week.
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And if that doesn't make you go "WHA!?!?!?!?!" then here's the little beforehander for the episode. (I refuse to call it a "prequel." You can't have a prequel before the goddamned episode comes out.)
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Maybe I missed this explanation in the episode, but am I the only one who thinks that Ha-Ha was supposed to be Stormageddon Dark Lord of All all grown up? He sounded just like Craig and referenced knowing about Cybermen since he was in the cradle. Again, maybe I just wasn't paying attention close enough during the episode.
Flibis15…I thought the exact thing. I had to rewind it to make sure it wasn't James Corden, and then thought maybe it was Alfie
You wondered why the children were there at all. One scene explained it all: it was the presence of the children on the planet that set things in motion. The Cybermen were looking for creative minds to develop (upgrade, as it were). To them, that meant the minds of children. But "the children stopped coming" to the planet long ago until the Doctor brought two with him that day. The Cybermen lost interest in the children once they discovered a more fertile mind: the Doctor's.
I loved the tribute to the previous Doctor's as played in the Doctor's mind. I loved the tribute to the gold weakness of the Cybermen and the nods to things like Earthshock and such.
I rather miss the intelligent Cybermen of old. Here, the only intelligent one was in the Doctor's mind. The other Cybermen are just mindless automatons with one thing in mind — upgrades. The Cybermen were always more sinister to me when they had a leader and carried on actual conversations.
The children are important (though I don't like them much either) because they are the reason why the Doctor chooses to sacrifice his Queen in the chess game with the Cyberplanner. Emotions. It shows that the Doctor is different from the Cyberplanner because he has emotions and sentiments. It shows that having emotions and sentiments is not a weakness.
Am I the only one wondering why the Doctor and Clara make the kids sleep on couches in the middle of a creepy wax museum when the TARDIS has bedrooms (with bunk beds!) that would be way safer? Pretty shoddy nannying on Clara's part.
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I got the feeling that Porridge was proposing to Clara in order to be able to foist his Imperial duties onto her. That line from the Doctor about it seeming like a normal marriage proposal sets up a cause for suspicion.
What the rumpy-pumpy-timey-wimey has happened to Who? I love Doctor Who, been watching it all my life. I love Matt Smith as the Doctor, I think Moffat is a genius writer (as is Neil Gaimen), Jenna-Louise Coleman seems the perfect choice as a companion, but apart from Hide and the odd moment here and there, the last seven episodes have been pretty bad.
This episode for example, 'A NightMare in Silver'. It's been heavily advertised as the episode that makes the Cybermen scary again. I wanted to hide behind the couch alright, but only because the story was so badly written! Terrible pacing, bad character development, kids and other supporting characters that were so terrible I was cheering for the Cybermen! The only exception was the Empereor but even his sub-plot was rushed and badly handled.
Whatever you do, don't blow up the planet, oh go on then. Cybermen that can overcome any obstacle just by saying the word 'Upgrade'. Cybermen that can go superspeed once, at the beginning coz it looks cool, then forget they can do that and walk around clunkily for the rest of the episode.
Where did all these milllions of Cybermen come from anyway after a thousand years of them being extinct? Did I miss the bit where they explained that?In the end I didn't care and just wanted it over with.The only saving grace of the episode was the Doctor's inner battle and the chess game and even that was streatched a bit too far.
I really hope Moffat and co are saving up everything for the final
episode and the 50th Anniversary special but I'm beginning to think Moffat is a genius storyteller but really has no clue about developing characters and I wish he and RTD would have teamed up for the 50th special as, in my opinion, the best episodes of Who ever since the reboot have been when these two have worked togather. Phew, rant over! -
The inner battle in the Doctor's mind was fine, but the twitching Gollum external part was dumb. Enemies that are able to just adapt to everything just because are not very interesting. Where the Hell did millions of Cybermen suddenly come from, when Porridge was supposed to have gotten rid of them all? They all just happen to be on the same planet he's hiding out on? And saying that the Cybermen need the kids to add their potential isn't really a reason to drag kids along on one trip. Why is the Doctor dropping Clara off after every adventure now? Why not just stay together until they split up, like they used to? If all we see of them is their adventures together, why do we care if the Doctor is off doing other things sometimes? Let him do those things between companions, like he used to.
Not my favorite episode of this season, but I have yet to sort out whether that is the fault of my expectations or the show's execution.
The biggest missed opportunity in my mind, is the confrontation that took place in the Doctor's mind. Rather that just showing still images of hte previous Doctor's, they could actually have shown small clips, perhaps reminding the Cybermen of how often the Doctor has handed them their arses.
Especially from Tom Baker's era, "("The trouble with Cybermen is that they have hydraulic muscles, and of course hydraulic brains to go with them."
Ah well.
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My dumb theory about the kids: were they setting up a loose end for future payoff? We get the conspicuous shot of the CyberMites swarming on the girl's cell phone, and then I don't remember anything actually happening there; then at the end, the Doctor gives her a "new" phone from the TARDIS. Feels too specific to be an accident – even if it's something as simple as the kids being able to make a distress call to the Doctor next week, it would still be a long walk but would at least serve a purpose.
Well, this episode, like every other one in 7.2, has people who love it or hate it. I've seen people say it's the best of the spring series and those who say it's the worst. But I've seen those comments about every.single.episode.of.7.2 I'm a relatively new fan but I don't remember such a long string of episodes where people had such radically different opinions on.
Beside bratty Angie, my main problems were:
a) The Cybermen were supposed to be devoid of emotion, in fact, emotion is removed. Craig's fatherly emotion in Closing Time caused all of the Cybermen to explode, for God's sake. So why is Mr. Clever so gleefully evil. I love Matt Smith but he was almost twirling a mustache here. This would be great for an evil superhero but not for a Cyber leader. He should have been coldly and cruelly detached, like the TARDIS interface. Of course, this would have been much less interesting for Matt Smith to play because it would require restraint which doesn't seem to be his go-to acting choice.b) I'm usually not a nit-picker but how this planet got from a few deactivated Cybermen to so many (I saw one review that said 3 million Cybermen). It's kind of hard to hide 3 million Cyberment, at least those within a day's walk of the amusement park. Granted this army unit was incompetent. But I assume that a Galatic Emperor would have some way to be warned that an enormous army had been created (in a matter of hours? days? years?) and was coming towards him.
That said, I enjoyed the episode and wish that people who whine about the show become "awful" or "abysmal" would just save themselves some grief and stop watching. It also becomes apparent that many of these are diehard Classic fans or Tennant fans and are just resistant to the way Moffat guides the show. I guess they are forgetting that not all older episodes are exactly gems.
Oh, and a P.S. If Moffat can pull off next week's episode without wailing from the peanut gallery I'll be highly impressed. So far, I've heard that it contains the following plot elements:
a) Whisper men
b) Clara's identity
c) The Doctor's secret
d) the fields of Trenzalore (so, the Silence again?)
e) the Great Intelligence
f) anything else?I can see how this would be possible any of these plot points had been working towards a resolution. But each episode has basically been independent, giving little or no information about Clara (except for the Rings of Akhaten) and so, the series finale shoulders the burden of tying this all together in a single 45 minute episode. I realize that The Big Bang and The Wedding of River Song packed a lot into a series finale but I'm still not convinced he's going to pull this off. There must be an awful lot we do not know right now.
This is a superb review,without doubt. Think you have summed up what I thought,some of it was just damned clever and some of it was a bit odd. But very entertaining! All in all,Gaiman can write a great yarn with his hands tied behind his back,and we hope for lots,lots more tardis treats from him. He is in many ways the ideal writer for Dr Who,in that he loves the blank canvas it gives him. He clearly too wants others to enjoy it,but on the way,to get them to think a bit about the character and the adventures he has.
Great review!
I really have no idea what you people are watching – teletubbies is better than anything produced in this season of Doctor Who
Last night I witnessed the death and burial of anything good about Doctor Who during Nightmare In Silver ……. Mr Clever for God's sake
I don't even watch it to see what the next episode looks like – I literally turned it off when I found out Wickett was the emperor and I was outsmarted by a teenager……..
May god have mercy on this program's soul – wherever it has gone
With the new "upgrade" function, is it now fair to say that Cybermen = Borg?
Cybermen and Borg have had a lot of similarities.
Thanks for the spoilers.
I actually thought that this was the worst Dr. Who episodes for many years. Poorly acted, pathetic and stupid soldiers. Do not like the "upgrade" to the cyber men. Or at least the story didn't make them scary, just made it cheap, it just didn't feel right anyway. Some cool effects, some good scenes, but overal I was disappointed. Oh well, looking forward to the next episode anyway
Why isn't there a scene where the doctor meets the kids? It just jumps into them walking out of the Tardis. There's no continuation from the end of the last episode, when the kids confront Clara about time traveling.
As usual, every episode ends with the Doctor making a bunch of "Oh you wonderful mysterious Clara, who are you?", except that nothing Clara has done couldn't have been done by anyone else. The Clara Mystery is a giant con. This season revolved around it, right? Except no it didn't. It didn't exist AT ALL, beyond the Doctor mentioning it at the end of every episode.
Another oversold pile of nothing: The Cybermen are scary again! Why? Because they now have a new power for one scene that then doesn't exist, for no reason, in the rest of the episode WHERE IT WOULD HAVE MEANT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN VICTORY AND DEFEAT.
Oh, and kids. They need kids to build their army! Well, except for the fact that they already had an army on the planet.What the hell is going on with this show? It's like nobody is reading the scripts before they go into production.
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You state:
"That said, I enjoyed the episode and wish that people who whine about the show become "awful" or "abysmal" would just save themselves some grief and stop watching. It also becomes apparent that many of these are diehard Classic fans or Tennant fans and are just resistant to the way Moffat guides the show. I guess they are forgetting that not all older episodes are exactly gems."
PLEASE PLEASE enlighten me – which older episodes are worse than these Teletubbies additions – even Warriors Of The Deep and Paradise Towers had better plots and storylines than this garbage – and they were excrement to say the least – Delta and the Banner Men – GOLD compared to anything this season – and if you can NAME one David Tennant episode which is worse than this season of Mr Clever and the Night Garden, please go back and watch them
Also I have to sadly add onto my previous comment, please Liz show some respect to us "Die Hard Fans", as if it wasn't for us die hard fans, (current producers and writers included), Eccleston, Tennant, Smith and even we could say McGann would have never had the prestigious opportunity to be a Doctor, and all the past episodes which were restored and released on DVD so as current young people and adults can enjoy them, would still be sitting in the somewhat charred remains of the BBC Archives and Doctor Who would have been forgotten – so please – thank us Die Hard Fans instead of ridiculing us
I thought that ha ha was Alfie too, but there is always a back story that has to put him in that particular place, because cybermen haven't been around for thousands of years. blah blah blah
f0 anything else – River will be back. During River's goodbye at the Library she said "You watch us run." & Clara's catch-phrase is RYSBAR. Are the two connected? IMHO, probably.
What's Clara's relationship to the Doctor? Given his overt sexual interest I hope:
a) she's not his daughter w/River (creepy)
b) she's not his clone (the Doctor's Daughter, maybe even creepier)
An un-creepy version is that she is Amy & Rory's daughter from New York of the Angels (River's sister), but Amy can't have kids & how do we explain why the Tardis & Clara don't get along?
River knew the Doctor's name in the Library, but the Doctor didn't tell her his name during their "wedding" (look into my eye). He tells her at some other time that we haven't yet seen. In "He said, She said…" Clara knows his name. So far we've been told that the Doctor only tells his name to his wife. If Clara doesn't become his wife, how does she learn his name? What am I missing?
Angie wants to grow up to be Queen of the Universe. What are the odds that she's related to Liz 10 who's the bloody Queen, mate?
I've no idea what her brother's story is. Something in the future?
How did all the Cybermen show up? It was mentioned that all the people who disappeared (not just the children) were for spare parts.
Mr Clever was emotional because he was in a host body, not a cyber shell. What he would have upgraded to is open to conjecture.
I started watching Dr Who when it was still B/W. It was so campy I thought it was a comedy. 50 years later I'm still watching it. My favorite companion was Donna (we can always use a little of her kindness), my favorite episode was "The Doctor's Wife" (I just wanted to say – hello), & Strax in "The Snowmen" was hilarious.
Not all of us old geezers are haters. Some of us are still growing in mind, if not in body. -
I for one am not an old-school fan who just doesn't like new things. Smith is "my Doctor". I spent the months leading up to the current series proselytizing that Moffat had greatly improved the series, and that everyone should watch it, starting with "Blink" as the perfect episode for first timers (yes, not a Smith episode, but that's not the point).
There are several objective truths about the current series:
1) The build-up and excitement about it was based around the mystery of Clara
2) The actual episodes themselves have had nothing to do with the mystery of Clara, beyond mentioning that there is a mystery about Clara.
3) Most, if not all, the episodes in the current series have had near-magical resolutions where everything is perfectly resolved all at once by means which are not the result of "earned" developments throughout the episode, but rather seem placed their by writers who have run out of time. The current episode is certainly no exception.
4) Fan enthusiasm continues to be dominated by interest in the answer to the Clara story, as opposed to the episodes themselves.Am I wrong?
Here's an idea
Clara = THE RANI
God I pray it is
Clara as the Rani could be fun, but if we were to go a Gallifreyan route, I would much prefer she was Romana
I thought the redesigned Cyberman were great. Faster, leaner, and with an unnerving new face. Gaiman wrote some great characters in this episode, including Clara, Porridge, and Mr. Clever. Watching Matt Smith battle it out with himself (and reference past Doctors) was incredible
More on my thoughts here: http://iamthemissinglinc.blogspot.com/2013/05/doctor-who-review-nightmare-in-silver.html
I have to agree with your review. I adored this episode so much, without a doubt one of the best of this series. However I agree about the children. I hated Angie, being uneccessarily rude and obnoxious is not the way forward, but I do think it is nice to have a child who isn't so nice and polite all the time. I didn't see the point of either Angie or Artie being there. They felt like they had to be put in.
Overall though the episode was superb and Neil Gaiman is simply one of the best writers for Doctor Who. The Doctor's Wife (like The Girl Who Waited.. Oh I cried so much of that. Brilliant) was one of the standout episodes of series 6. Nightmare In Silver is one of the standout episodes of this series.
I cannot wait for the finale. I am terrified and excited at the same time. They say it's meant to be a fan pleaser, well I say bring it on. Geronimo. -
The way Clara interacts with the kids is a little too "Sarah Jane Adventures" for my taste. I miss the more adult repartee with the Ponds. "I'm going to have to tell Dad you're a time traveler." Golly gee!
Also, can we please be done with the Cybermen for a few years. And the Daleks as well? In the original series they weren't on every other week. Not even every other year.
And what's up with all the sonic screwdriver action? The Doctor used to use it to open doors. Now it's the ultimate swiss army knife. And when he points it at something, and looks at the screwdriver (like he's taking a reading,) just what is he looking at? There's no little screen on the side or anything. Kinda lame. Wish he'd lose the damn thing and use a squareness gun instead.


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- 2 pork tenderloins, about 3/4 pound each
- 1 tablespoon(s) plus 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
- 1/4 cup(s) plus 1 1/2 teaspoons olive oil
- 3/4 teaspoon(s) salt
- 1/2 teaspoon(s) fresh-ground black pepper
- 1 small red onion, cut into very thin slices
- 1 tablespoon(s) lime juice
- 1/8 teaspoon(s) dried red-pepper flakes (optional)
- 1/2 cup(s) chopped cilantro or fresh parsley
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