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Over the past 35 years Patrick Ricard, who has died following a suspected heart attack, was responsible for one of the most surprising successes in world business. He inherited a single product – "Ricard the Pastis of Marseilles" – sold almost entirely in France. Today Pernod-Ricard is the second biggest drinks business in the world, generally accepted as the best managed, with only a 10th of its sales in France. Moreover its range of brands is the widest in the industry since it includes table wines like Jacob's Creek, champagnes (Mumm and Perrier-Jouet), Chivas Regal and other Scotches, Martell Cognac, Beefeater Gin and Absolut Vodka, all capable of generating serious levels of profitability.
Ricard was not a dominating character, resembling, rather, a typical solid conservative French provincial businessman, and was genuinely much loved by his employees. He remained relatively little-known in France, for he had none of the "bling" or the political influence required for fame at home although his success abroad was unmatched by almost all his contemporaries. In 2006 his qualities were recognised by magazine Fortune when it named him "European businessman of the year".
Over the decades he showed himself willing to "bet the farm" on more than one occasion, piling up a debt burden which may have seemed crippling to others but never seemed to have worried him. Moreover he chose his subordinates well and gave them his total confidence, providing them with the capital to build up – or in many cases rescue – their brands, for he remained faithful to his formula of "global reach, local control".
Ricard's father, Paul, was a larger-than-life monster, famously bad-tempered but equally generous, invariably at odds with French tradition: a great entrepreneur and a great salesman who detested the power of the French state and its over-powerful bureaucracy. He more or less invented the Pastis category, its success helped by sports sponsorship, and his name became ubiquitous in France. Unlike most successful French businessmen Patrick, his second son, did not go to a super-selective Grande Ecole, but in 1967 went to work in his father's firm at the age of 22. As he put it with typical simplicity: "People would have regarded it as curious if I had not joined Ricard. My father was a strong character and anyway, in those days, you did what you were told."
In a fit of temper with state controls, Paul Ricard resigned from day-to-day involvement in his company in 1968, though seven years later he arranged a merger with Pernod, his most significant competitor. In 1978 his son was appointed chairman and managing director at the age of 33. Within a couple of years he had bought Austin Nichols, a prestigious American wine importer and owner of the Wild Turkey brand of bourbon. But his breakthrough, and the first demonstration of his policy of giving subordinates their head, came in 1988 when the Irish government was selling Irish Distillers, owners of the then-marginal brands of Irish whiskies. The Irish were unwilling to sell to the British group of Grand Metropolitan so it fell into Ricard's hands, a major stroke of luck. He appointed a talented Irish salesman, Richard Burrows; today Jameson sells four million cases a year.
But the transformation of Pernod Ricard into a world-size business came only in the last 11 years, essentially through the transformation of famous brands which had been neglected or badly managed. In 2001 Seagram, once the king of liquor groups, was broken up and Ricard managed to acquire a number of world-famous brands which had fallen very low, most obviously Martell, which for two and a half centuries had been either the biggest or second biggest firm in Cognac but which Seagram had managed to reduce to an ill-managed fourth. It is now back in its proper place.
The same applies to Mumm champagne, previously the third largest in champagne, where the quality had suffered badly through lack of investment. But the biggest star in the Seagram firmament was Chivas Regal Scotch, where Ricard extended the range. Four years later the badly-managed British group Allied Domecq was taken over, bringing with it such gems as Beefeater Gin, where the master distiller, about to take early retirement because of poor management, was greeted by the men from Ricard with the words "what can we do for you?". He stayed and introduced new gins to an appreciative world.
In 2008 Ricard handed over day-to-day management to Pierre Pringuet, a typical member of the French management elite. But when, that same year, Ricard bought Absolut Vodka from the Swedish government, observers concluded that he'd gone too far, accumulating too much debt buying a brand which had reached its peak. They were wrong: debt declined and sales increased.
Patrick Ricard, entrepreneur: born 12 May 1945; married (three children); died Toulon 17 August 2012.
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By Felipe Erazo
The GBP/JPY is making a correction in favor of the bullish trend in the H1 chart, as this pair has made a retracement from the 172.52 level. Now the GBP/JPY is facing to the support offered by the Fibo 38.2 (171.37) level, but it is very likely that this pair make a breakout at that level to continue the fall, at least to the level of 171.02 (50.0 Fibo Level) or 170.67 (61.8 Fibo Level).
This drop could be because the GBP/JPY hasn't shown patterns that indicate a trend change, as the CCI indicator does not show a clear divergence. However, it is still likely that this pair make a bullish rebound at current levels and remote the bullish bias, because the 500 SMA could serve as dynamic support in the GBP/JPY.
Trading Recommendation: Wait for a retracement until the 50.0 or 61.8 Fibo level, before place buy orders, because the GBP/JPY is not showing a clear trend-change pattern in the H1 chart. Our invalidation point is a breakout of the 170.67 (61.8 Fibo Level), that could lead to the GBP/JPY to perform a strong bearish consolidation.

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The Descending Hallway
Trouble boy finds something in a old house that he did not expect
It was a hot day and Seth was late, as always late for class although he left home usually on time …..usually but sleep was hard to come by at home especially now that mom and dad fought all the time so it was hard to climb out of bed in the mornings. Times were bad at home since dad had lost his job at the mill and mom was calling grandpa and grandma begging for money to keep up with the bills. Mom usually got off the phone in tears, and dad would just go to the fridge and grab ANOTHER beer and stare madly at the television as if he wanted to shoot it. The bell at school had already rang and Seth was running for his life up the stairs and into class, luckily most of the kids hadn't quite sat down yet and there was still much chatter and hustle with bustle around the class so it was easy to sneak in and take a seat before Mrs. Cruder could notice that Seth was late.
Mrs. Cruder a beast of a woman who looked like an old crane with breath of a dragon stood in front of the class waiting for the kids to settle down." Alright class simmer down and get ready for the assignment! "Old crane" Seth thought, how he hated her and her stupid class! "hey Seth" sneered Lance Biggum a fat ugly stupid boy who had been torturing Seth since kindergardgen "whats your dad been up to since he got fired for coming to work drunk"? two other boys who were friends of lances and just as fat,ugly and stupid as he were began to chuckle, Seth gave Lance and the others a hard stare and turned around quickly just to be met face to face with Cruder "Mr. Morris she squeaked through her human beak " please be advised that class has started and there should be no chatter! "But I" started Seth "QUIET!" the old hag screamed. Boiling hatred simmered in Seth's brain and stayed there for the duration of the class. Seth was so happy that summer was coming and that the nightmare of third grade would soon be over.
Finally the bell, Seth ran out of the class as fast as he could hoping to get a big advanced head start on Lance and his idiotic friends……………but to late Lance and the other boys had caught up to him and were slinging insults quicker than Seth could imagine, " hey Seth were you going, got a date?" barked Lance " yeah a date with his mom or maybe his boyfriend bellowed one of lance's henchman "leave me alone screamed Seth LEAVE ME ALONE! " Were gonna get you morris your so dead!" Seth knew he had to find a place to hide and fast because Lance and his buddy's were gonna give him a real bruising and Seth didn't feel like explaining another beating to his dad who would beat him for getting beaten up even though it was always 3 to 1. Seth noticed that it was getting dark and that rain was coming quickly so he knew he needed to find a place to hide fast, as his legs started to turn to spaghetti noodles Seth saw an old rusted fence corroded with vines and grass up ahead of him and underneath a hole maybe big enough to crawl under, Seth darted with the last ounce of energy he had and scuttled underneath the the old nasty fence. Lance and his buddies stopped dead in their tracks when they realized what was behind that fence…………..the old Nearson house.
Mrs Nearson had gone missing about 10 years ago and no one had a clue what had happened to her and quite frankly no one cared. She was a mean nasty old witch and no one liked her. Seth knew about the house and how it was haunted and how stories were all over town about Mrs. Nearson and how she was a witch and that she would have weird and scary meetings with other witches at her house, with wild laughter and flickering violent light striking from behind the curtains. Seth had found himself in the back yard of the house, lance and his cronies long gone and a faint drizzle of rain began to fall. The yard was brown almost black in color no life at all everything was dead the grass, the trees and plants even the weeds were all brown with death. An oozing goo was coming out of a long dead oak tree with a scent that almost made Seth give up his lunch. Walking slowly up the back steps of the house the rain began to fall harder and lightning cracked high and bright in the sky. Seth ran up the steps and on to the back porch of the house and in front of double doors that had not been opened since Seth was born. Pushing on the doors with what strength he had left he thought to himself "what am I doing what will my mom and dad say after I tell them I was at the Nearson place?" finally getting the doors to open seth was met with the worst smell he had ever encountered, it was a mixture of garbage, spit and god knew what else knowing that he would regret it but he went inside anyway. It was dark and damp inside the back of the kitchen of the house Seth walked slowly through the kitchen which was strewn with overturned bowls and dishes as if someone was stirred abruptly or left the dishes unattended and in a hurry. After walking through the nasty old kitchen Seth walked down a hallway which led him into a parlor with large couches and a big wooden table in the middle laced with cobwebs and that awful smell that hung in the house like a large bird. The parlor was terrifying because all he could imagine was old lady Nearson and her weird creepy friends conjuring up the dead and doing other unnatural things there, he faintly thought he heard their chants and waling of evil spells and gibberish of language as he quickly walked through the parlor and into another hallway.
The next hallway Seth found was darker than the entire house and the further he walked down it the stronger and more potent the smell got. It was harder to see and Seth became more frightened than he had ever been in his entire life. The hallway suddenly dropped down and begun to take the form of stairs that sank deeper and deeper. Seth noticed on the walls of the descending hallway thick cobwebs. Deeper and deeper Seth went until finally the descending hall way of ancient looking dirt stairs emptied into a vast room a room the size or maybe larger of the school gymnasium, Seth looked at the walls of the room which was affixed with metal devices primitive and creepy. Seth thought that they were there to hold torches for light in the now visible circular room that he was in, he stopped after taking a few steps out of the hallway he could feel air rising from the ground cold nasty damp and smelly air he looked and noticed a large hole in the ground of the room directly in front of him. Seth didn't know why but he felt that he was being drawn closer to the hole being pulled to it by some ancient wicked power a power older than he his mom dad and the town they had all grown up in. Getting closer to the edge of the hole Seth began to smell a stench that he had not first encountered in the house, it was a smell that reminded him of what his dog missy smelled like after coming in from the rain mixed with what she smelled like after a long day of play and sweat. Seth wondered if the rain had stopped since he could not hear anything from the outside, the underground room was noiseless and dark with no connection to anything from the outside. Just as Seth began to back away he noticed a long hairy leg creep out and plant itself on the ground near the edge of the hole, than another hairy leg followed by another than another. Finally he noticed eight nasty hairy legs planted around the edge of the circle and with a dusty huff of sound the legs catapulted a bulbous hairy body leaking with filth and slime attached to a large head with over a thousand eyes and a gaping dark abysmal hole of a mouth racked with saliva and gruel dripping fangs. Seth froze in terror for he had never seen anything so horrific and nasty in all his life nor did he think such thing existed. A huge gray haired spider that looked as old as the world had been alive, the hellish beast stood above the hole and stared at Seth, the terrified boy slowly began to move back and as he did the spider moved forward Seth could see his reflection in all the eyes of the beast hear it breathing as slime gruel and spit flowed out of its mouth when it exhaled its rank breath. No child thinks of death and the ones who may certainly do not see themselves dying in the way Seth thought he was about to, screaming at the top of his lungs and sobbing at the same time which seemed to confuse the beast. Seth ran up the dirt steps of the now ascending hallway, he thought only of running running for his life and not looking back. Finally he made it up into the house and out the front door through the gate into the street and down the road in the pouring rain.
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ROY HODGSON has told John Terry: You're my warrior.
England face France in their opening Euro
2012 match today and new boss Hodgson said: "We all know John's
"We all know what a centre-half he is and what a warrior he is."
The Chelsea skipper, 31, was controversially picked for the tournament despite
facing a court case for the alleged racial abuse of Rio Ferdinand's brother
And the decision to leave Rio behind and not even call him up when Gary Cahill
dropped out with a broken jaw caused a huge storm.
But Hodgson, who leads the country in his first competitive game in
Donetsk,believes Terry — who was sacked as England captain — will prove he
is the man for the job.
Hodsgon added: "We also know he is a player capable of taking others with him,
not least his team-mate Ashley Cole.
"I just hope John will show in this tournament all the qualities I have seen
him show over many years with England.
"I'm convinced that he is very determined to show these qualities. He feels
this is a great opportunity to show the very best of what he can do.
"Once again he is coming off the back of a very good season with Chelsea.
"That was especially true towards the end when he played a major part in them
getting to the Champions League final — even though he couldn't play in the
Hodgson made it clear he was pinning a lot of his hopes on Terry and new
skipper Steven Gerrard.
He added: "They have been involved in many tournaments and also in big games
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With only Torchwood news to bandy about, the second part of Steven Moffat's epic two-parter from Season 1 took center stage for this episode for a shorthanded RFS staff as they discussed the intricacies of one of the first series' masterpieces while simultaneously avoiding any actual discussion of the episode at hand, as per usual.
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Convention Topic?
OK, the missing forum is no longer missing. The Conventions forum is now located in the subgroup Fandom.
HURT/HEAL: The COMPANIONS
- Ian 13 - Zoe 13 - Romana I 11 - Barbara 12
- Liz 8 - Donna 14 - Vicki 7 - The Brigadier 18
- Nyssa 8 - Stephen 6 (-2) - Jo Grant 17 (+1) - Tegan 6
- Polly 8 - Sarah Jane 16 - Peri 6 - Ben 11
- Harry 14 - Jamie 17 - Leela 14
- Rose 10 - Victoria 8 - K9 5 - Captain Jack 10
24. Ace 25. Martha
26. Turlough 27. Romana II 28. Mickey 29: Adric
30. Susan 31: Grace 32: Dodo 33: Mel
Convention Topic?
Yikes! Would you believe that there was supposed to a forum on this very topic here in the regenerated website. In fact, it was going to added to the previous website (2.0), but since this one was in the works at the time, it just made sense to start it here than start it there and then having to move all the convention threads to the new there.
Out of shear oversight, it was omitted when the new forums were created (because so much of it was following the same structure we had originally).
Yes, we will add the convention forum here. Though, I think it will not be specific to only Doctor Who, since there are general science fiction conventions that could also be covered within it.
Thanks for the reminder.
HURT/HEAL: The COMPANIONS
- Ian 13 - Zoe 13 - Romana I 11 - Barbara 12
- Liz 8 - Donna 13 - Vicki 7 - The Brigadier 18
- Nyssa 8 - Stephen 8 - Jo Grant 16 - Tegan 6
- Polly 8 - Sarah Jane 16 (+1) - Peri 6 - Ben 11
- Harry 14 - Jamie 17 - Leela 14
- Rose 12 - Victoria 8 - K9 5 - Captain Jack 10
24. Ace 0 (-2) 25. Martha
26. Turlough 27. Romana II 28. Mickey 29: Adric
30. Susan 31: Grace 32: Dodo 33: Mel
KINDA the review
Strange. There's filler with Adric and Tegan bitching at each other and in the past, I felt this added to the tension of the story but all it adds is tension between the two charcaters and this is exacxtly what is not needed. They needed to be nice to each other for us to care about both of them. Adric could have disarmed the bomb but it makes fsor nice foreshadowing for EARTHSHOCK as we now know what will happen but back then we didn't.
Davison, too, while good, is not Tom Baker. I know I keep saying that but afater having watched all of Tom, the comparision is there. Take for example his speech about discovering it is Tegan that the Mara used to come through. Tom would have made us feel the discovery in a whispered hush and reveal that he missed that and didn't know that with just his voice and his tone and his look. Davison just says the lines. He's pretty poor in that pivotal scene...
He also doesn't have the relationship with Tegan that he should, nor with Adric. Both, despite being poorly written, are viable adventure characters and his Doctor should be able to relate to them both but he just doesn't. It could be because he's relating wonderfully to Todd but she's gone after this ep and it is as if they have to start all over from scratch with THE VISITATION. Did anyone on the show at this time have any idea how to have the regulars relate and stay relating in a positive manner? Does the bickering add anything to the show? It really doesn't until maybe VISITATION's opening and from VISITATION onward the team acts like a team but it's not long before they're broken up, and broken up and broken up.
Ahh, yes, that snake. It's not too bad when it first comes out of Aris and wrestles with him but...the larger version. If one can ignore it, the story is fine and imagination is always key on DW and you have use it here to find the Mara a creepy idea. There's a lot of the great book THE POWER OF NOW and the follow up THE NEW EARTH to think about here. Time is the enemy, the present is all that matters, the enemy is from the inside, it cannot look at itself so if you observe yourself you can find and rid yoruself of the dark thing that is inside. Lots of good spiritual stuff. But like Tegan, I found myself a bit not understanding. I also wonder about Kuruna and Panna sharing a body! WTF?
Anyway, a good story and with some good events, Adric making a mess of things but trying, as he says in the next ep, so hard to do the right thing. It is his observation though that makes the Doctor realize the Mara can be casted out with mirrors. Of course, he's a banana and it is still hiding in Tegan...
Colin and James
Is this James grooming his rumoured replacement?
Or is Colin plotting James' ouster?
Just having fun with an old Podshock meme!
KINDA the review
Well that was weird. But good and Tegan is just seen once or so, on the ground, sleeping. Good. Todd is proving a more interesting companion that Tegan and Nyssa, yet again. Adric has a lot to do, mostly trying to escape the so called dome ,but it doesn't look like a dome. I must admit the first time I saw this I thought Panna's mumbo jumbo was just another of DW's time jumbles but I've since realized or found out it was a Buddist thing. Really? I wish it was explained better here but that's manmade spirtuality for you. Anyway Kuruna, Panna, and Aris as well as almost all the Kinda but the jester or trickster are interesting and different. I'm glad the Kinda cannot talk, one of the only aliens on DW to not do so. It makes a nice change and makes them very alien-----ish. The name Mara is only presented here and the cliffhanger is nice. Alot more tension arising and Hindle and Saunders both going off the deep end. And both are sort of...uhm...fond of Adric it would seem. Hindle's put off Adric's punishment from ep 2 (funny scene in ep2 is Hindle saying punishment to make Adric wash behind the ears). Again, Matthew Waterhouse makes for a great range of fear, bemusement, and craftiness. The Doctor is called an idiot by Panna several times and he says nothing for the most part only that he's been called that before. In all, these episodes are not as gripping as a Tom Baker story (with maybe four or five exceptions) but they do manage to be different, do manage to create a world, nay a universe of possibilities and do manage to keep one thinking, and guessing and moving forward. Each story also seems to be different from each other. I also hoped the Doctor and Adric would travel on for many more adventures. Not to be. Their coupling is soon to be ended. I also like how this Doctor leaves Adric, "He's very resourceful."
Indeed. Famous near last words? Anyway a good story and it must have a cracking end iwth the Mara realizing its full power in a terrific show of special effects? Right?
HURT/HEAL: The COMPANIONS
My top favorite is gone, three others on the way, need to start taking preventitive action on the rest.
- Ian 13 - Zoe 13 - Romana I 11 - Barbara 12
- Liz 8 - Donna 14 (+1) - Vicki 7 - The Brigadier 18
- Nyssa 8 - Stephen 8 - Jo Grant 16 - Tegan 6
- Polly 8 - Sarah Jane 16 - Peri 6 - Ben 11
- Harry 14 - Jamie 17 - Leela 14
- Rose 10 (-2) - Victoria 8 - K9 5 - Captain Jack 10
24. Ace 25. Martha
26. Turlough 27. Romana II 28. Mickey 29: Adric
30. Susan 31: Grace 32: Dodo 33: Mel
Poll anomaly
Me and others have had problem using the polls on the right-hand side. We click on a selection and then are sent to a page that has nothing to do with the poll with an error message (the one you have above).
Until this problem is fixed I reccommend that you vote on the poll in the middle column with the main articles. It seems to work fine there. So far the poll question has been placed with news articles.
Hope this helps.
HURT/HEAL: The COMPANIONS
- Ian 13 - Zoe 13 - Romana I 11 - Barbara 12
- Liz 8 - Donna 13 - Vicki 7 - The Brigadier 18
- Nyssa 8 - Stephen 8 - Jo Grant 16 - Tegan 6
- Polly 8 - Sarah Jane 15 - Peri 6 (-2) - Ben 11
- Harry 14 (+1) - Ace 2 - Jamie 17 - Leela 14
- Rose 12 - Victoria 8 - K9 5 - Captain Jack 10
25. Martha
26. Turlough 27. Romana II 28. Mickey 29: Adric
30. Susan 31: Grace 32: Dodo 33: Mel
KINDA the review
What's odd to notice is that during this time in the show, the producers and script editor (Saward sucks) and maybe the writers were trying to, maybe, emulate the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith with the Fifth and Tegan. Trouble is the situations, the writers and especially the actors, were not up to it. The actors don't really seem to like each other much less want to interact in THAT way, thus Davison and Fielding, even when they are saddled only wiht Turlough, don't really pull it off....AT ALL. The Fifth to me always seemed to want Tegan to go until the last moment when she actually does but more on that later.
I love it when Adric's a part of the action and here he's center and he tries to save the Doctor yet again but fails again. He steals a key and makes the Doctor play a game to try to get it, much like his earlier self. The other thing is that the Third Doctor used to do what Adric basically did, hide a coin or another object and seemingly make it vanish. Somewhere I read that it happened in COLONY IN SPACE but I also know he did it in AMBASSADORS OF DEATH. In any event, the story moves along well disguising the fact that the Doctor's been imprisoned in the dome for a very long time, giving Adric much to do (and despite the ignoring from her and her acting like a biatch, Adric worries about her when the Doc doesn't seem to but perhaps that's not fair, he does ask about her too), and keeping Tegan in the nightmare realm...uhm, until she gives in to the Mara and gets out bodily...is a good idea. I wouldn't have minded if she died in this story. The Kinda are suffiently puzzling and ...uhm, very very good looking for the most part. The two female Kinda Panna and the girl appear and give Saunders a strnage box that enlightens or changes him. He brings it back to the unhinged Hindle who makes the Doctor open the box into a great cliffhanger. Yet we know it didn't really kill Saunders when he opened it. So...we know it probably won't do anything to them.
Again, another good episode, tension filled in a way. Nyssa doesn't appear at all. Thank Goodness. :) Davison still seems a bit flat and his Doctor seems in over his head ALL the time. No other Doctor was like that except maybe Hartnell in his early stories and maybe later on too. It's not a bad thing, just very noticeable. OHHHH and wouldn't Todd make a much better companion than Tegan and Nyssa. She certainly works well with this Doctor AND with Adric! And she knows something...beliveably.
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I must also say the worst includes BOY TIME FORGOT and the ideas of : Peri's mom exploding thanks to the Doctor's stupidity; Tegan getting a deadly disease; Evelyn getting a deadly disease; and probably most of what happens to Crizz when he "dies". I also hate the whole vampire project thing and the 7th and psuedo clone 6th Doctor story. Oh and I HATE SPARE PARTS totally. Mostly because it seems to finalize that Adric can't be saved but then...oh dear. Some good scenes are in it though but again, it makes the Doc responsbile for the evolution of the Cybermen. I hate that too.
Best: Anything with Benny and the 7th Doctor together; Benny's son Peter; the evoluation of Ace and especially with Hex; the whole Death vs the 7th Doctor; Hex's link to the Doc's past; the whole 5th Doctor thing where he is in limbo while regenerating into the 6th and in fact, that whole storyline wiht he and Nyssa in four or three short stories; the 6th Doctor on the phone iwth a woman, brilliant; the singalong Pirate story was amazing esxcept for a melancoly ending and that's just all off the top of my head!
HURT/HEAL: The COMPANIONS
- Ian 13 - Zoe 13 - Romana I 11 - Barbara 12
- Liz 8 - Donna 13 - Vicki 7 - The Brigadier 18
- Nyssa 8 - Stephen 8 - Jo Grant 16 - Tegan 6 (-2)
- Polly 8 - Sarah Jane 15 - Peri 8 - Ben 11
- Harry 13 - Ace 2 - Jamie 17 - Leela 14
- Rose 12 - Victoria 8 - K9 5 - Captain Jack 10 (+1)
25. Martha
26. Turlough 27. Romana II 28. Mickey 29: Adric
30. Susan 31: Grace 32: Dodo 33: Mel
Poll anomaly
Hmm... Odd indeed. I wonder if this is related to the previous issue with the sidebar poll and our spam filtering? I had hoped the latest update to the filtering software had addressed it. I tested it out afterwards and all seem to be working as it should. I think (or suspect) it may only happen when the poll appears twice on the same page (i.e. side bar and main column). If that is the case, perhaps I can turn off the side bar poll until the poll scrolls off the front page... and then switch them (take it off the front page and activate the sidebar).
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You gave it a 9
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US Residents: Do you currently receive BBC America via your satellite/cable service?
There is one option that you left off the poll.
I do watch BBC America but I had to get a larger package to get it. I have dish network and it is not part of the basic programming (Dish 150 (channels)) set but you can get it as part of a large package (Dish 200 (channels)).
The missing choice should be - Yes, I watch it as an extra package.
CIA Info & Updates
Please check the 'Blog' page tag on this to read my Blog post about development's on the podcast
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Underground Toys San Diego Comic Con 2009 Exclusives
Alien Entertainment and Doctor Who Store.com will be bringing in Colin Baker, the 6th Doctor, to sign the Exclusive "Blue" 6th Doctor action figure being offered by Underground Toys as well as an Exclusive SDCC Colin Baker photo and the Big Finish audio CDs.
Colin will be on hand for Preview night as well as all day Thursday, Friday and Saturday plus Sunday morning to meet his fans and sign autographs. Pre-orders will also be taken for the upcoming "Lost Season" (stories from the canceled season that were written for TV and have now been adapted for audio) by Big Finish.
Alien Entertainment and Doctor Who Store.com are in booth number 3848
BBC America in HD! Oh Yeah Baby!
BBC America has begun to air ads for the HD channel. The new ads show upcoming scenes from 'Torchwood: Children of Earth', 'Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead' and a new series 'Being Human' (which was originally shown on BBC 3).
Watch for ads that feature the new shows!
Air Date for Torchwood S3
Just to confirm what was suspected - The new series of 'Torchwood' will air on BBC America and BBC America HD on July 20th at 9:00 PM (EDT).
They will air an episode per night to complete the story by the end of the week. BBC America is calling it "a week-long event" in the new commercials for the channel and their ads for the HD Channel.
For the BBC channel (BBC 1) in the UK check the links in the above posts.
Oh and one more error concerning Adric: you would think he would know what photosyethesis is since he came from a swamp planet or rather a planet that had a swamp on it. The writers realy blew it concerning Adric (and to a larger extent Tegan) in FOUR TO DD. He also helped prepare slides in FULL CIRCLE so he should know more scientifically and as the writer had more to go on for Adric than any other character here, Adric is the one that he should have gotten terribly RIGHT but he's the one the writer gets terribly WRONG! Even through all of that, Adric still, IMO, comes off as the best more interesting companion. but this is his weakest story.
The Big Screen
Okay I hope Tennant DOES NOT make animated boredoms or even return once unless it's for something like the 11 Doctors. I also hope this movie plan falls through like the dozen that have in the 1990s. Truthfully I won't miss Tennant at all. He's overstayed his welcome just like RTD and have outlived all the good they've done and outdone undone all the good stuff.
Also frankly, if they were going to make a movie ARMY OF GHOSTS/DOOMSDAY would have been the one to go with. I'm afraid now we'll just get a bunch of crap.
I also quite like RTD's New Adventure novel (can't remember the name so that speaks volumes) but it's very good and could be a movie easily...
The Big Screen
For Davis and Tennant to create a big screen movie at this point is akin to Jay Leno turning over the reigns of the Tonight Show and then starting up a brand new show an hour earlier. It just a little crass.
I hope Tennant continues to make animated adventures and guest appearances but the work of previous doctors should never overshadow the current doctor. That's just bad form. Tennant is running the risk of becoming that lovable relative who stands with his hand on the door knob and talks for another hour after saying his goodbyes.
A fitting end. Tegan doesn't get reprimanded as she should but Adric does. Adric of course turns on Monarch and helps the Doctor and once again takes command as the main companion. A few questions remain: Nyssa at one point tells Adric her air is running low but nothing's done to help her and it's forgotten about. The poison: the Doctor throws it at Monarch and ...he shrinks? He doesn't seem to be dead either and the script says he turns back into a toad? WTF? Anyway the action is better in this ep and the Doc's plan makes sense but Monarch is too sedate a villain. I think there are deleted scenes of him trying to get into the Tardis...which is strange as the Doc and Tegan upon reTARDISing in, leave the door open in time honored blooper tradition. Persuasion ends up in a ridiculous position. The space walk scenes are not bad at all, better than memory allows and even if they don't make scienfic sense, they are fun and nice to see. All in all a better ep and a story that is not that bad. It also has the first cliffhanger at the very end into the next story, something that hasn't been done for a long, long time, possibly since Pertwee's DALEK MASTER...I mean FRONTIER IN SPACE into PLANET OF THE DALEKS and then before that back into Troughton's last season. It's a nice thing to have but again, Nyssa will be sidelined. If you have four companions, chances are good this will happen if your writers can think of what to do with four of them. Proving that Nyssa or the poorly turned out Tegan should have been written out. Nice to see Davison turn out his pockets as Tom often did and also to put himself into that trance state and to resist the cold temps of outer space.


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New Models Boosting U.S Share Of Vehicle Market
Over the next three years, the pace of new model introductions in the U.S auto market is expected to pick up. Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Co. are taking the lead, according to a Bank of America-Merrill Lynch report.
The categories likely to have the highest proportion of new models are small cars, crossovers and luxury cars according to a Merrill Lynch report.
Between 2012 and 2015, GM and Ford will have the highest model replacements. Both companies are replacing current models at a rate of 29 percent.
Bank of America-Merrill Lynch is predicting GM's product launch rate will lead to a stabilization, and possible small increases, of its 19.1 percent share of the U.S. market.
"Ford's recent gains should continue, but at a more measured pace, supported by a solid, consistent product cadence," the report said. Japanese (automakers') product cycles are generally converging to the industry average, indicating large share gains are over."
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Are Americans as special as Obama says?
- By Alicia P.Q. WittmeyerAlicia P.Q. Wittmeyer is the Europe editor at Foreign Policy. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and Forbes, among other places. She holds a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and master's degrees from Peking University and the London School of Economics. The P.Q. stands for Ping-Quon.
Americans, U.S. President Barack Obama said yesterday during his inaugural address, "are made for this moment."
Why? Because "we possess all the qualities that this world without boundaries demands: youth and drive, diversity and openness, endless capacity for risk and a gift for reinvention."
It's a reassuring thought, but do we Americans really possess these qualities more than any other countries?
Without a doubt, the U.S. is not particularly youthful when compared to other countries around the world. The median age in the U.S. is 37.1; the world's median age is 28.4, placing us well on the older end of the spectrum. We're younger than most of the OECD countries, but are still beaten out by Brazil (29.6), Chile (32.8), Ireland (35.1), Israel (29.5) and Mexico (27.4).
Is the U.S. very diverse? Not really, according to Stanford political scientist James Fearon. Fearon tried to measure diversity in 160 countries around the world in a 2003 study, and (with all the appropriate caveats that ethnicity is a difficult thing to define) found that the the U.S. comes in as the 85th most diverse country in the world. The most diverse western country is actually Canada, with an "ethnic fractionalization index" of .596 (the U.S.'s is .491), and we're outranked by almost every country in sub-saharan Africa, as well as Brazil (.549), Mexico (.542) and Israel (.526), among others.
How about our appetite for risk? A little trickier to measure, but a group of researchers at the Social Science Research Center in Berlin tried last November, through a study in which they conducted experiments to measure the risk tolerance of 80-100 students in 30 countries, to see how their results compared with development and growth levels. The U.S., despite our "have gun, will travel" reputation, is actually somewhat risk averse, according to this research: they give us a risk tolerance score of about .-07 – still above those stodgy Germans, but slightly below France. Meanwhile, the Brazilians (again!) seem to be a little more inclined to put some skin in the game:
Finally: do we have more capacity for reinvention than other countries? This might be the hardest characteristic to find a proxy for, but one might be how likely a country's workers are to find new jobs within a certain time period. This study, from 2004, looked at 25 countries, and found that while U.S. workers are fairly likely to keep on moving, they are still less likely to change jobs in a twelve month period than Canadians (again!) or Russians.
Whether these particular characteristics are really the ones that will count in the years to come is the subject of a separate blog post. But if Americans are "made for this moment," as Obama says, it seems that Canadians and Brazilians might be too — or maybe even more so.


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text: Learning Language "That's one small step for a man; one giant leap for mankind". learning language a universal process Learning a Language Involves... Learning the language's sounds and sound patterns, its specific words, and the ways in which the language allows words to be combined Using the finite set of words in our vocabulary, we can put together an infinite number of sentences and express an infinite number of ideas— generativity To learn language, children must also be exposed to other people using language—spoken or signed 2 Required Competencies for Learning Language • Phonological development: The acquisition of knowledge about phonemes, the elementary units of sound that distinguish meaning • Semantic development: Learning the system for expressing meaning in a language, beginning with morphemes, the smallest unit of meaning in a language • Syntactic development: Learning the syntax or rules for combining words • Pragmatic development: Acquiring knowledge of how language is used, which includes understanding a variety of conversational conventions 3 Children develop and mature simultaneously in four inter-related areas 1. Physically 2. Cognitively 3. Linguistically 4. Socially Tabula Rasa How does a child develop physically, cognitively, linguistically and socially during the first two years of life The growing child Gains an awareness of its environment becomes aware of distinctions between self and others Begins to interact with the things and people in his or her environment. Grasps the idea that the behaviours and noises that people make have meaning Deciphers the code used by his or her parents Realizes that language is meaningful and can be used to get what he or she wants, i.e. has purpose Learns to become a social person Children basically begin with a blank slate, and in a non-conscious way, have to decipher the rules of how the sounds of an unknown language are put together to create meaning. How do they do it? Short answer: "children develop knowledge of their language through unfolding and maturing cognitive and linguistic abilities internal to themselves while helped by their parents" And how do their parents help? Cognitive Abilities The acquisition of linguistic ability is linked to the maturation of cognitive processes What does the ability to use language imply about cognitive abilities? growth of capacity for symbolic representation - grasping that sounds are arbitrary and represent things and activities (have names or labels) (i.e. are symbolic) Increasing ability to remember things and experiences and to associate them with past and future events an understanding of causality – that people can affect other people and objects That relationships exist between objects, people and activities that language can be used to express personal attitudes, emotions, and goals Behaviourism STIMULUS > RESPONSE > REINFORCEMENT B. F Skinner 1957 argued that children learn to speak by copying the utterances heard around them and by having their responses strengthened by the repetitions, corrections and other reactions that adults provide. through positive reinforcement Teacher: What time is it? Student: Half past ten. Teacher: Very good Noam Chomsky – Universal Grammar Fundamental question is how to account for a speaker's ability to produce and instantly understand new sentences that are not similar to those previously heard Chomsky suggests that language is an innate faculty - i.e. we are born with a set of rules about language in our heads - a 'Universal Grammar' Universal Grammar Requires no direct intervention from parents or teachers. The universal grammar is the basis upon which all human languages build. All languages are simply local variants of one universal language How can this be? What evidence is there to suggest this is the case? children acquire their mother tongue with ease, even though parents' language contains "performance errors" (grammatical mistakes, false starts, slips of the tongue, etc.) children manage to learn their language all the same. Also hear different dialects, different grammars Children do not simply copy the language that they hear around them, but deduce rules from it, which they can then use to produce sentences that they have never heard before. In other words they do not memorize a repertoire of phrases and sayings but learn a grammar that generates an infinity of new sentences. What other abilities are innate? Walking, running, eating According to Chomsky then, children are born with the Universal Grammar wired into their brains. A child knows intuitively that there are some words that behave like verbs, and others like nouns, and that there is a limited set of possibilities as to their ordering within the phrase. For example, the word order of a typical sentence. 75% of the world's languages use either a SVO structure (English, French, Vietnamese) or SOV (Japanese, Tibetan, Korean) – 10 - 15% prefer VSO (-Welsh) or VOS (Malagasy) Some languages, such as Latin, appear to have free word order, but even here, SOV is very common. OSV is very rare – one example Yoda Speaks when they begin to listen to their parents, they will unconsciously recognise which kind of a language it is and will set their grammar to the correct one - this is known as 'setting the parameters'. he or she then matches with what is happening around him – an innate ability This set of language learning tools, provided at birth, is referred to by Chomsky as the Language Acquisition Device. But if language is innate 1. Why do we take so long to learn it? 2. What are the universal rules that allow us to learn so many different languages Jean Piaget Piaget's focus was on cognitive development, rather than language acquisition per se. Language development is related to cognitive development, that is, the development of the child's thinking determines when the child can learn to speak and what the child can say. For example, before a child can say, "This car is bigger than that one", s/he must have developed the ability to judge differences in size. In Piaget's view, children learn to talk 'naturally' when they are 'ready' without any deliberate teaching by adults. Jean Piaget 1896 -1980 Swiss Developmental Psychologist Jean Piaget: Theory of Cognitive Development theory concerns the emergence and construction of schema — schemes of how one perceives the world — in "developmental stages", times when children are acquiring new ways of mentally representing information. it asserts that we construct our cognitive abilities through selfmotivated action in the world. In Piaget's view language has a fundamentally goal-directed, instrumental function The child is egocentric and uses language to get what s/he wants by speaking with their caregivers As children mature cognitively they begin to use more complex grammatical forms that encode politeness and forms that recognize the rights of others. i.e. They become moral and use morally encoded language Piaget divided schemes that children use to understand the world through four main periods, roughly correlated with and becoming increasingly sophisticated with age: 1. sensorimotor stage 2. preoperational stage 3. concrete operations 4. formal operations sensorimotor stage birth to about age 2 marks the development of essential spatial abilities and understanding of the world children's contact with the world around them depends entirely on the movements that they make and the sensations that they experience. Whenever they encounter a new object, they shake it, throw it, or put it in their mouth, so that they gradually come to understand its characteristics through trial and error. Around the middle of this stage (about age 1), children first understand the concept of object permanence—that an object continues to exist even when it moves beyond their field of vision. preoperational stage age 2 to around age 6 or 7. marked by the acquisition of language children become able to think in symbolic terms, to form ideas from words and symbols. Children also begin to understand spatial and numerical concepts and the distinction between past and future. But they remain highly focused on the present and on concrete physical situations and have difficulty in dealing with abstract concepts. Children's thinking is also very egocentric at this stage; a child this age often assumes that other people see situations from his or her viewpoint. concrete operations age 6 or 7 to age 11 or 12. With more experience of the world, children now become able to imagine events that occur outside their own lives. also begin to conceptualize and to create sequences of logical reasoning, Children also acquire a certain capacity for abstraction. Hence they can begin to study disciplines such as mathematics, in which they can solve problems with numbers and reverse previously performed operations, but only ones that involve observable phenomena. formal operations begins at age 11 or 12. abilities to reason hypothetically and deductively and to establish abstract relationships can use formal, abstract logic. They can also begin to think about moral issues such as justice Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory investigated how child development was guided by the role of culture and interpersonal communication. Russian developmental psychologist 1896-1934 Through interaction with parents and others a child comes to learn the habits of mind of her/his culture, including speech patterns, written language, and other symbolic knowledge. Vygotsky suggests that social interaction leads to continuous step-bystep changes in children's thought and behaviour that can vary greatly from culture to culture development depends on interaction with people and the tools that the culture provides to help form their own view of the world. There are three ways a cultural tool can be passed from one individual to another. 1. imitative learning, where one person tries to imitate or copy another. 2. 3. instructed learning which involves remembering the instructions of the teacher and then using these instructions to self-regulate. collaborative learning, which involves a group of peers who strive to understand each other and work together to learn a specific skill The driving force motivating language acquisition are social needs of children as they expand their interactions with others. initially, linguistic and cognitive development is oriented toward obtaining objects and attaining other goals. An infant learns the meaning of signs through interaction with its main care-givers, e.g., pointing, cries, and gurgles can express what is wanted. How verbal sounds can be used to conduct social interaction is learned through this activity, and the child begins to utilize/build/develop this faculty: using names for objects, etc. Language starts as a tool external to the child used for social interaction. The child guides personal behaviour by using this tool in a kind of self-talk or "thinking out loud." As a child's thoughts about their experiences become expressible primarily through these signs, the signs themselves affect the way in which a child thinks about him or herself and the world. That is, as signs (symbols) are internalized in the process of language acquisition, they come to mediate thought itself. "thinking out loud" becomes "inner speech" and is used more as a tool for self-directed and self-regulating behavior. Speaking has thus developed along two lines, the line of social communication and the line of inner speech External speech is the process of turning thought into words and is used as a means of interaction with others Inner speech is the conversion of speech into inward thought and is a way of representing the world to oneself language and thought are therefore inextricably interdependent Learning Speech Sounds learning language a universal process Step one: learn how to differentiate and produce sounds in one`s language learn that the stream of sounds is made up of discrete units that they are combined in a significant linear order learn to control muscular movements of their throat and mouth to produced sounds with consistency Babbling (0-4 months) consonant and vowel like sounds Not language specific After 1 year months focus on sounds in the language of their parents Cross-linguistic studies suggest that some sequences in acquiring sound systems are universal Mother Romanian: mama Hindi: mātā Tulu (India) : amma Mandarin: ma Kootenai (BC) ma Thai me3e proto-Old Japanese papa The cause for these common forms is believed to be the ease of pronunciation of the sounds involved. children learning to speak master the open vowel sound [a] and the voiceless labial consonants ([p], [m] and [b] ). Almost no languages lack labial consonants, and no language lacks an open vowel like [a]. These words are the first word-like sounds made by babbling babies and parents tend to associate the first sound babies make with themselves. there is no common ancestry. explains why first words often like mama and papa may account for common worldwide occurrence of consonant m and p in words for mother and father especially so in forms of address since parents are the earliest significant people in a baby`s life Therefore linguistically and cognitively appropriate to name them with sounds that a baby can most easily produce During first 4 months show a rapid increase in number of sounds that they produce After 4 months a drop in rate of new sounds added After one year, focus on sounds significant in the language of their parents controlling their production, make appropriate phonemic contrasts and follow allophonic patterning 5 months Learn tones specific to their language, e.g raising tone for questions Also begin to learn patterns of pitch and rhythm typical of their language Pre-Linguistic Behaviour Fetuses may not be able to hear individual words, but can hear intonation, durations, rhythm, stress Many experiments confirmed that at 4 days infants can discriminate their native language from a foreign language! Children can understand language before they can speak Passive language – can respond to commands – even in complex structures Similar to learning a second language By end of first year children can produce first words First words Important people Objects that move Objects that can be acted upon Familiar actions Nouns before verbs One-Word Utterances Each word expresses broad semantic and contextual meanings (holophrastic) Holophrase - A single word that seems to represent an entire sentence "drink" Can only be understood in context of child`s experience Goals expressed through children`s speech emanate from the interaction with objects and persons in his environment Children have desires for others to attend to their needs and wants (imperative function) "apple" = "give me the apple" relate emotional states (expressive function) ) "apple" = "I'm hungry" name objects or people with whom they interact (referential function) "apple" = "there's an apple" One word can thus have several simultaneous functions The child has learned that speaking is a human strategy for achieving personal and social goals s/he can express desires that caregivers can fulfill e.g. Two Word Grammars Two word constructions appear about 18 months (see dogie) Marks the beginning of true grammatical constructions (syntax) Depends on cognitive growth. Emergence of two-word grammars and their continual expansion and refinement indicate a change in the character of a child`s thinking Learning to differentiate words within classes recognizing that sequential ordering of words has meaning children at this age are learning to think syntactically Children grasp the critical meaning of word order and also understand meanings contained in words themselves They use this awareness in forming new words and constructions and in comprehending the speech of others. classes of two word combinations Pivot class a few words used with high frequency in combination with items from the open class ritualized greetings or comments (bye-bye, all-gone) demonstratives (this that) "this doggie", "that doggie" locatives (here there), "here doggie" "there cat" possessives (my) and adjectives "my car", "red car" Open class nouns and verbs with which a child communicates his or her referential, imperative, or expressive intentions Two-word constructions consist of combining either two items from the open class or a pivot plus and open word Two pivot words do not occur together as a complete utterance This fact gives evidence of a child's developing grammar, involving notions of syntactic restrictions Functions of Two-word utterances • Locate name: there book, see dogie • Demand desire: more milk, give candy • Negate: no wet, not hungry • Describe event/action: bambi go, mail come, hit ball • Indicate possession: my shoe, mama dress • Modify qualify: pretty dress, big boat • Question: where ball Although perhaps containing only one or two words children can express complex propositions and intentions giving and receiving involves several underlying meaning components and their interrelations: •an action •an agent performing the act •an object being transformed •a recipient Action: give (giving something to her mother) Object: water (asking her mother for some water) Recipient: To me (asking for something) Recipient plus object: to me candies (asking for candies) Action plus object: give ball (asking for a ball) Action plus actor: Give mommy (asking for something from mother) Recipient plus action: Mommy give (giving something to mother) Complex Grammars As children develop cognitively they expand their linguistic abilities Child begins to express additional grammatical relations through expansion in the number of words in a sentence and through employment of morphological processes affecting the structure of individual words two word sentences grow to three word sentences and beyond because child observes the relative positions of words By learning that if a word is first in a phrase and that a phrase is first in a sentence, a child learns that the sentence is hierarchically organized – sentence has a structure Word order is important There are rules according to which words may be placed in what order Morphological development Morphological processes are employed to express grammatical concepts such as person, gender number, case , tense, etc. Usually expressed using affixes In 1 and 2 word constructions affixes denoting these concepts are absent Using these affixes allows the child to speak about things in the past or future, or things out of sight In other words they allow the child to expression relations free of the immediate context This also allows the child to discuss his or her experiences thus expanding social possibilities Reflects both a maturing cognitive and social development An important process in children's acquisition of morphological features is their extension of rules learned in one context to others through analogy and generalization They add affixes to newly encountered words by recognizing sounds and applying appropriate morphological rules Present progressive - ing Plural of nouns –s Past of verbs – ed Possessive of nouns – s Third person on verbs –s The Wug Test Classic experiment by Jean Berko Gleason in 1958 as a way to investigate the acquisition of the plural and other inflectional morphemes in English-speaking children. Very young children are unable to answer correctly, sometimes responding with "Two wug." Preschoolers aged 4 to 5 answer "wugs" since they've never seen a wug before, and never had anyone model or reinforce the plural of wug they must be using a rule It was the first experimental proof that young children have extracted generalizable rules from the language around them. Past tense. This is man who knows how to spow. He is _______. He did the same thing yesterday. What did he do yesterday? He _____ children were able to correctly apply known affixes to new linguistic material although this ability varied with age another reflection of children's drive to generalize rules is their tendency to over generalize affixes to nouns and verbs with irregular allomorphs • "Daddy comed home." • "I holded the baby rabbit" Growth in Vocabulary Results from growing cognitive abilities for comprehension, memory and discrimination widening social environment that presents children with new objects and activities broadening or narrowing the sense of individual words • e.g. At first the word apple may apply to all fruit but with experience to a particular kind of fruit Generating new words from pre-existing words to fill in gaps in their lexicon • e.g. denominal verbs – verbs derived from nouns • cracker - crackering my soup creating new words based on the rules of their language Comprehended words 12 months age 2 years age 6 years first words 200 words 15,000 words 3000 2500 2000 1500 produced words 1000 500 0 8m 1y 2y 3y 4y 5y 6y Syntactic Development Grammatical development involves the ability to understand and express concepts about people an objects and relations to states and activities Children's grammars expand by introducing new propositions (statements about the world) Sentence length increases with additional words specifying aspects of an event – e.g. adding modifiers or predicates and expressing more complex relations such as negation When negation is acquired in English first done by simply adding words such as no or not usually at beginning of a sentence •No wipe finger •Not a teddy bear Later negation within the internal structure of the sentence •I no want envelope •There no squirrels Later still more complex incorporation negation •I not see you anymore •You didn't caught me wh-questions what, who, where, why and when distinctions between declarative statements and questions indicated by rising intonation and who that, where mama boot requires cognitive maturation other advances e.g. deletion of redundancies •Here is a brown brush and here is a comb •Here's a brown brush and a comb A Creative process Children do not mimic adults in acquiring language but develop their own grammars Discard some rules and altering applications of others until they finally arrive at appropriate constructions Language learning is a creative process of observation and production, consistent with maturing cognitive capacities In addition to acquiring the sounds words and grammatical rules of their language children also need to learn appropriate discourse patterns building relations among participants, goals of speakers, and cultural models or schema of communicative interactions Comparative Evidence Although children learn through growth of universal cognitive processes, each language presents its own specific structure to be deciphered and reproduced e.g. Differences between agglutinating and polysynthetic languages Studies of different languages confirm hypotheses about universal tendencies but also reveal significant differences in rates of acquisition of various surface phenomena Universal sequences •Negation •Wh-questions •Locative concepts (location) - in/on/under/beside/between/back/ front Instructional Strategies Adults use various means to help children learn language Frame the situations that are culturally appropriate for learning language Direct child`s attention to learning language as a focus of interaction Teach the children the appropriate forms of communicative behaviour (e.g. Taking turns) Can be implicit or explicit (say thank you) Baby Talk, Motherese, Infant-Directed Speech or Child-directed speech Simplified words Simplified grammatical structure Repetition of words Speak slowly Speak loudly Higher pitch Exaggerated intonation Instructional Strategies Expansion – repeat children`s utterances with an expansion of the sentence Child – baby high chair Mother – baby is in the high chair Modelling – commenting on the semantic content of the child`s words Child – his name is Tony, Mother – That`s right Expansion and modelling are based on Western assumption that children are not competent speakers and need to be carefully instructed and socialized and that this is the job of the caregiver also includes a cultural model of gender since it is usually the mother who is the primary caregiver Other societies have different assumptions and strategies


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The Husky Triathlon has become one of Australia's most loved iconic of the Long Course events. With some of the nation's finest athletes sizzling the shores of the Shoalhaven, the 2018 Event will be the second Ultimate Triathlon Championship.
Set on the shores of Jervis Bay Marine Park, Huskisson comes alive when over 5000 fabulous athletes hit town for a weekend of multisport festival fun.
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The course is a one lap open water triangular shaped swim in the crystal clear waters of Jervis Bay with a beach start on Huskisson Beach.
1 hour cutoff.
After exiting the water, athletes will run up the southern stairs from the beach turning right onto the footpath and continue to the bike compound.
Athletes will commence the Bike Course at the northern end of White Sands Park, at the official start line marked on Hawke Street. They must walk their bike within the compound and only mount at this line.
The cycle course down Owen Street through the main shopping area and turns right at Tomerong Street and proceeds along to Woollamia Road turning right and along Woollamia Road to the "T" intersection with Jervis Bay Road.
At this intersection cyclists turn left and proceed along Jervis Bay Road, continuing past Huskisson and Pine Forest Roads and along to the roundabout at The Wool Road where they turn left onto The Wool Road.
Proceed to Beach Street where they turn left and along Beach Street to the "T" intersection with Elizabeth Drive. Turning left onto Elizabeth Drive and proceeding along over the Moona Moona Creek bridge and onto Burrill Street, left onto Keppel Street and then a right turn back into Hawke Street and down to the transition area for the completion of the first lap.
Cyclists then complete this same course another 2 times and on the 3rd lap finishing at the southern end of White Sands Park at the bike finish line.
NB the one cycle aid station is located half way along Hawke Street.
4 hours 45 minutes cut off.
After leaving the bike leg and commencing the run, athletes will have wished this to be a marathon.
The run leg will be a 2 lap out and back course. Runners will exit from White Sands Beach Park and run along the footpath/cycleway that snakes along the foreshore of Jervis Bay.
The gentle ocean breeze that wisps across the bay will be a delight to the many athletes as they set out to chase their dreams, beat their mates, or just finish yet another race.
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Famefit is a daughter site of http://fameball.com. We present aggregated news and information from around the web -- all to do with celebrity fitness, health and diet tips. We also present individual, hand-edited celebrity fitness profiles.
Our audience is largely female. Ages range from about 18 to 45. Generally, folks with enough income (or free time) to peruse celebrity information and gossip on the web.
Would like (if possible) the logo NOT to be all pink and "porny" as so many celebrity logos seem to be. Edgy and quirky is good. Suggestion of motion, some modern flair. Try to highlight both words if possible ("fame" and "fit").
The URL would ideally be included in the logo. The actual text of the logo could be "famefit.com"


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This detached chalet bungalow is positioned in an excellent location in a popular residential street away from the main road and with easy access to the town centre with its university, golf courses, beaches, shops, bars etc. There are regular public transport links into the town and the house is also within easy walking distance of other local amenities including supermarkets etc.
The property is well presented and although would benefit from some modernisation presents a fantastic opportunity to upgrade and develop what is already a lovely house into a modern and stylish home. It benefits from gas fired central heating backed up with sealed unit double glazing throughout.
The front door opens to the hall which gives access to all ground floor accommodation and to the stairs which lead to the first floor. The lounge is to the front of the property and is a spacious room with a large window overlooking the front garden and enjoying a wall mounted gas fireplace. There is a door which leads to the kitchen. The kitchen is fitted with wall and floor units with further storage provided by two large pantries. A door opens to the porch which leads to the back garden. A further door from the kitchen opens into the dining room and this layout does offer potential for conversion to an open plan dining kitchen if so desired. Also at ground floor level are two double bedrooms and the bathroom. The bathroom is fitted with a bath, a separate shower cubicle with electric shower, a w.c and sink.
At first floor level are two further double bedrooms one of which has a large storage area which could offer potential for conversion to a walk in cupboard or even possibly an en-suite.
The property stands in good sized gardens. To the front the garden is separated from the street by a low wall and an iron gate. The driveway offers parking for two vehicles though the rest of the front garden could be adapted if so desired. A pathway leads around the other side of the house to the rear garden. This is predominantly laid out in patio and stone chips for ease of maintenance and is enclosed by hedges and fences, with an apple tree at the bottom. It offers a surprising degree of privacy and is well sheltered.
Lounge - 5.40m x 3.66m (17'9 x 12'0 )
Kitchen - 2.30m x 4.16m (7'7 x 13'8 )
Dining Room - 3.01m x 4.04m (9'11 x 13'3 )
Bedroom 1 - 4.17m x 3.33m (13'8 x 10'11 )
Bedroom 2 - 3.33m x 3.66m (10'11 x 12'0 )
Bathroom - 1.99m x 2.47m (6'6 x 8'1 )
Bedroom 3 - 3.21m x 2.36m (10'6 x 7'9 )
Bedroom 4 - 3.10m x 4.77m (10'2 x 15'8 )
Prospective purchasers/tenants should note that unless their interest in the property is intimated to the subscribers following inspection, the subscribers cannot guarantee that notice of a closing date will be advised and consequently the property may be sold/let without notice. The subscribers are not bound to accept the highest/any offer.
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1960s. The decade where cinema freed itself from the restraints of censorship, the era where liberty was law and art was a precious gem. At the same pace that the world changed the ways they viewed love, our favorite couple changed with it. They took time off from the screen, the spotlight, the fan magazines, and spent five years living a tiny life, enjoying the golden summers, the warm winters and each other.
In 1960, Spencer Tracy completed what I consider to be his finest performance: Inherit the Wind. A movie about the timeless fight between religion and science, in which he plays a lawyer, defending a young teacher's right to think. There are pictures everywhere, that evidence Kate's constant presence on the set. By then, what audiences and press failed to realize is that they had become what is commonly known as a family: It was just too darn bad that the society of the '60s had a pre-established idea of what a family looked like, and it often involved children and housewives. Spencer's health was unstable, although not a threat to his overall livelihood. Coincidentally, it was only two years later when Katharine Hepburn handed in her finest performance: Long Day's Journey Into Night. She played a morphine addict who watched her family fall apart - and her own body fall apart with it. And that was the end of Kate's career - until 1967 at least.
In 1963, when Spence and Kate were at the beach, he collapsed. He suffered from serious breathlessness and had to be hospitalized for 13 days. From then on, they made the decision that it would be best for the couple to move in together, so that she could care for his diet, exercises and medicines, as to minimize his difficulties. She left work in order to dedicate herself full-time to the job.
For years she was on top of his every move, making sure he took the best possible care of his ailing health. But at the same time, it was also an opportunity to lead a normal life, a tiny life, as Kate calls it, without the glamour and publicity of movie stardom. They received visits from other friends, screened movies in their basement home theatre, went to see several plays, and even went together to Betty Bacall's opening night on Goodbye Charlie, sitting in the front row and, some even say, holding hands. By then the press had learned to keep their distance, and they had relatively more freedom to lead their shared life. Kate's favorite time of the day, she later recalled, was dinnertime, when they each took their plates, in trays, to the front of the TV set, and snuggled up for a couple of hours.
Kate kept her exercising and cold showers in the morning, and Spencer took to painting and reading, sometimes up to three or four books a week. They were deceptively normal in those years. Without a doubt, if this break had never happened, Spencer Tracy's life would be cut short by a few years. Five years after the break began, they felt it was time to head back to the workforce, even though Spencer's condition was nowhere near trustworthy in finishing a film. Luckily, their director Stanley Kramer was a good friend, and their co-star Katharine Houghton was Kate's niece, obviously understanding of the situation. The cast was completed with Sidney Poitier, who proved to be very kind to the ailing actor. Spence was in such bad shape that no insurance company wanted to insure the movie. The two older stars had to waive their salaries and work for free. It was the first time Kate got third billing, because, since Poitier was the most appealing star to younger audiences, his name came right behind Tracy's. Because the couple's names had to be separated, it is very difficult to find Guess Who's Coming to Dinner posters with less than three names above the title.
During filming, Kate was as much a nurse as she was an actress. Many times he didn't know whether or not he'd be able to finish the picture, afraid of dying before the director yelled cut. I can't imagine what a situation it must've been. Luckily, on May 24th, the picture was completed. When the last shot was finished, Spencer, in front of the entire crew, picked up Kate's hand and said: "If you ever have anything close to what we have, then you'll know love." A week later, Kate attended the wrap party, something she rarely did, to thank all the crew members personally for being so patient and sweet to her sick darling.
Seventeen days later, before the movie was even released, on June 10th 1967, Kate woke up startled with a noise coming from the kitchen. She walked toward it, knowing Spencer was up, and hoping to kiss him good morning and make him breakfast. But when she opened the kitchen door and uttered his name, she only had time for one last glimpse of his beautiful eyes. He fell, crushing the teacup he was holding in many pieces. She ran to his body, now absolutely lifeless, and knelt before it. There was nothing she could do. Spencer Tracy was dead.
She received countless letters from hoards of people, regardless of whether or not they knew them. It was a consensus that the entire world had lost something that day. She became reclusive for a few months and not even her Academy Award for Best Leading Actress was a consolation to her. Nothing would be. Spencer won several awards abroad and either Stanley Kramer or Katharine Houghton went to pick them up. Kate would not show herself in public. In the David Di Donatello Award ceremony, Houghton went in Spencer's behalf and was unable to give a speech because she was too emotional from watching the film for the first time, which was screened before the Award was given. Anna Magnani, the presenter, said "In Italy, we don't need words. We understand tears." Houghton took the prize home, but the aura was hardly celebratory. The picture says it all.
After Louise Tracy (remember her?) died in 1983, Kate finally came clean about the nature of her relationship to Tracy. In an interview, Barbara Walters asked, rather bluntly, whether or not their 26-year liaison included a sexual component. She got a positive answer, for the first time, from the lips of the 76-year-old actress. From then on, the world confirmed what they had already known for years. In 1986, Kate narrated and helped produce a documentary about Spencer's life, The Spencer Tracy Legacy. I recommend it to any Tracy fans out there. For the 36 years that remained in her life, Kate strived to keep Spencer's name in the moviegoers' hearts. She, despite having a successful career after 1967, was never the same after he was gone. And in June 29th, 2003, I doubt there was anyone else in her mind when her eyelids fell shut for the very last time. Just as swiftly as her great love had slipped away three and a half decades earlier, Kate was gone. And while the living still cherish their treasured memory, Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn have found their way to each other again. In a better place.
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