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July 29, 2010 at 8:10 pm #421
Just started using this theme (and WordPress for that matter), and I really like it. The problem I'm having is that I would like my slideshow images to appear in a certain order–but not alphabetically by their titles (which also double as the captions, which I do need to have displayed). How can this be done?July 30, 2010 at 1:00 am #31314
They display by Date I believe. Just change the datesAugust 1, 2010 at 1:19 pm #31315August 3, 2010 at 8:55 pm #31316
Mine don't display by date, nor alphabetically. Clean install of WP and Avisio, add two slider entries, the last one added gets displayed first. If I can control the order in wich they get displayed I can't use it at all.August 3, 2010 at 9:29 pm #31317
Lasseoe, there definitely should be a 'date' field on the top right hand side of your 'Slider Entires' page. You will not find it when you intitially upload the image. You have to publish it first.
After publishing it – go back to edit the page and navigate to the 'Publish' area at top right of page.
Find the 'edit' link in the 'Published on' field — from here you can trick the page into displaying in the order you want by changing the date.August 3, 2010 at 9:49 pm #31318
batesy, yes I tried that already but no luck, it's not that I don't believe you but it's not working. I've set the date back a full day and I see no difference whatsoever.
Add New -> Title: Slide-1 -> associate pic from media library
Add New -> Title: Slide-2 -> associate pic from media library
Now when I list my slider entries, Slide-2 is first, then Slide-1
Changing the dates on either of them has no effect.
*scratches head*
I've cleared the browser cache which also didn't help.August 3, 2010 at 10:08 pm #31319
Can you post a screen shot of your slider entries admin screen?
With default code, the slides sort by published date.August 3, 2010 at 10:16 pm #31320
Sure, here you go: http://i37.tinypic.com/2n67nuh.gif
And here's a screenshot of slide 1, http://i35.tinypic.com/2mn0huf.gifAugust 3, 2010 at 10:43 pm #31321
Your Admin screen lists them in reverse order also. Thats OddAugust 4, 2010 at 2:03 am #31322
If the post time won't edit I'd suggest just deleting them and reposting in the correct order. Think of them like a blog post … most recent addition will always show first.
Thus, your Slider-2 is showing first because you posted it last.
Gotta think backwards … !! :)August 4, 2010 at 8:34 am #31323
Yes I thought about doing that, but it's likely we'll want to add a new slide somewhere inbetween the other ones at some point, although there won't be more than 3 or 4 slides it's a pain in the neck having to delete and re-add them.
I'd be happy to troubleshoot this further, but unsure of how to proceed, do you want me to send you something from a mysql table, screengrab of something form firebug or anything else ?August 4, 2010 at 5:16 pm #31324
You can modify the order by adjusting the date / time of publication.
If you Edit a Slider Entry, you can modify the date / time in the top right Publish box.
The issue with the order is similar to the issue of page order before the Custom Navigation was introduced to WP in 3.0 and would require a core modification to allow the ability to have a Custom Post Type Custom Order. This may be something the WordPress team add in the future but I'm unaware of any plans for it at the moment.August 4, 2010 at 8:57 pm #31325
Actually, modifying the date or time doesn't do squat, as I wrote above. Don't know if this is a bug with WP or the theme.August 4, 2010 at 10:11 pm #31326
Okay, lasseoe, I think I've got your culprit…
You have to 'OK' the time/date edit before you 'UPDATE'.
Failing that, I would suggest you change it to a 'Draft' then try the above method.
I jut tried updating the time and it didn't recognise the load … it did when I olayed it … then updated.
Hope that works for you.
cheersAugust 5, 2010 at 9:47 am #31327
Excellent, works like documented now :-D
Thanks a million for the help. imho, I'll put it down to a WP bug, that's not very intuitive, the update should be greyd out if you HAVE to hit Ok first.August 5, 2010 at 10:28 am #31328
Good stuff.
I agree the WP interface kinda just draws you to the UPDATE button because the natural urge is to complete a task by moving to the right of page.August 5, 2010 at 2:29 pm #31329
Hmm.. I agree that the area of the page for updates to a page can be confusing.
The only way to get something done about it though would be to head over to the http://wordpress.org forums and suggest it's something they look at for a future version.August 15, 2010 at 5:00 pm #31330
Thanks for the info guys. I was going nuts trying to figure this out.
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The medical malady and the test machine
It seems that everything is much clearer to me now, which I attribute to a quite upsetting little amnesia period that happened a month ago. For sure, nothing was clear to me during that couple of hours. Total (almost) blank.
According to Google -- without a doubt, the reigning medical authority of us Web-browsing 21-st century computer-savvy information junkies -- such brief "transient" amnestic episodes occur in the general population frequently enough that some general "triggers" of those brief memory losses are identifiable. Stress. Dehydration. Cold water shock. Intercourse. Some or all of them together.
As the next few years go by, it seems that one of the long list of clarifications to which I am coming will be the general medical situations which my age leads me into. In other words, this column stands a large risk of becoming one big whine. "My back hurts." "My bowels are stuck." "My knee is swoll up." "Can't start peeing." "Can't stop peeing." Etc.
With some luck, we'll keep the whining to a minimum, and only tell the interesting stuff.
One interesting bit is my lovely woman doctor, whom I recommend to other men as preferable to other doctors for several reasons, the most interesting of which is, I tell them, that "she has small hands." (Important to a male; don't know if there's a feminine gender parallel. Don't want to know, either.)
She's also unique, in her attention to detail, willingness to take time with you, and general feeling of thoroughness when she's done with you. This, after several more encounters with various members of the medical community, spawned by the amnesia thing above, is clearer to me, it seems. Several specialists, to whom I was referred, gave me the feeling that I had interfered somehow with their schedules.
My last issue of AARP magazine (here's some more stuff you wouldn't have gotten from me when I was younger) had an article titled: "When to say no to a doctor."
Whew. Those words played across my mind as a neurologist, which is where you go after your mind plays the amnesia trick on you, requested some blood tests after he could find nothing wrong with my brain by squeezing my fingers and making me do the drunk-walk test.
I watched the blood-sucking nurse begin to count out those small blood sample containers on her desk beside me. I let her get to 13, 14, 15, before I jumped in and asked: "What's the record? Have I got a chance of beating it?"
Sixteen went on the table before she replied. "I've done 21." I didn't care for the vampiric glint in her eye, so I remained silent. She quit at 16. I didn't challenge.
Every time the mail comes now, there's another sheet of paper full of the results of those tests. That makes five sheets. They cannot find much. Such a lack of evidence of evidence doesn't stop them, though. It only makes them look -- and test -- harder. They followed the blood work with every test known to doctors that begins with "E." Electrodes screwed into the neck. Electrodes screwed into the scalp. Electrodes pasted to my chest. (Ladies out there: One word -- ouch!)
The EEG, which measures brain activity, did have me worried at first, especially when I saw the screen and it looked like a sixties television set after the station blew up. "Close your eyes, it'll clear up," she told me. The windows to the soul apparently drive the brain and its activity levels out the roof.
This test did worry me. What if all those electrodes, spun into painful contact with my skull, showed, for example, no activity. That has been a concern at times, as I've backed away from situations involving imminent explosion or fire or bent metal. Yup, I've said to myself more than twice, as I viewed some disaster, that showed no brains whatsoever. A couple times, I had just enough brain left to call the fire department.
There was activity, it seems. The letter said everything, once again, was normal.
So, about all the stuff that is becoming clearer to me: Most of it involves the field of medicine, about which one must conclude a couple of things. One: No doctor worth his diploma is going to pass up the chance for a referral. (Do they get a percentage? That might explain some of the motivation.) Two: There's always another specialist, and the hope that he or she will find something wrong. Three: It appears that, when customers used to call me to look at their furnace, or air conditioning, or refrigerator, or whatever, that there was more that could have been done. I could have been the repair guy who first hooked electrodes to a Kelvinator and ran an EKG (ElectroKelvinatorGraph) on it. Think of how much more business that would have generated. What was I thinking? It's all so clear to me now -- now that it's too late.
Well, it's not too late for another doctor, a specialist in exotic blood diseases and maladies, coming up in a couple of weeks. I wish I could sneak in some chicken blood, or something, have them run that through their testing.
Wouldn't that just make their day?

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Mila Kunis may be more well known for her film roles and highly-touted relationship with Ashton Kutcher than for what she drinks, but all that will change soon, as she's just been made spokesperson for bourbon brand Jim Beam.
Beam was recently bought by the Japanese company Suntory--which some of you will recognize from the Bill Murray film "Lost In Translation"--for $13.62 billion, and while many were afraid the buyout would cut jobs in Kentucky, where the bourbon is made, the company says it's actually just the opposite.
They've [Suntory] indicated there will be no threat to local jobs. As a matter of fact, Beam is growing quite a bit, especially the bourbon segment," Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer said.
Kunis will be representing an ad campaign called "Make History", which will see her in three different commercials in the coming year. She recently toured the distillery in Clermont, Kentucky and said she's excited to be a part of the company's rich history.
"As a fan of bourbon and a huge proponent of making history, I am thrilled to be the newest member of the Jim Beam family," she said.
"We're excited to announce today the launch of Make History, the first truly global advertising campaign for Jim Beam," said Matt Shattock, president and CEO of Beam Inc. "This multi-year campaign reflects sharp global consumer insights, continued substantial investment in the growth momentum of our flagship brand, and our sustained commitment to the attractive and fast-growing Bourbon category around the world. Make History™ is a big brand idea that resonates with consumers across global markets."
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Four Haaretz Journalists Nominated for Awards by Pro-peace NGO
Next Century Foundation short-lists Akiva Eldar, Amira Hass, Benny Ziffer and Bradley Burston for prizes.
Four Haaretz journalists have been nominated for awards by the Next Century Foundation, a non-profit working for a solution to the Middle East conflict.
Akiva Eldar and Amira Hass are candidates for the Peace through Media Award, Bradley Burston has been nominated in the Cutting Edge Award category, and Benny Ziffer has been nominated in the blogging category for outstanding contribution to new media.
Several other Israeli, Western and Gazan journalists have been nominated.
The awards will be given out in London on May 8.
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TIPs for the Analysis of Poverty in Mexico, 1992-2005
This paper proposes some changes to the official methodology that is currently in use to measure the state of poverty in Mexico. Among other suggestions, it is recommended the use of bootstrapping to estimate confidence intervals for the poverty statistics, as well as the use of dominance analysis when making inter-temporal comparisons. In particular, since poverty lines change over time, the paper proposes the use of TIP curves for that end. Using the eight surveys that were made during the period 1992-2005, the paper presents a large number of absolute poverty statistics and TIP curves, as well as comparisons among them
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WOW I can't believe it's been one year already! A year ago, I made an RMD account, and two days from that, I made my first draw. I decided to try a "line-art less draw" and I love how the hair turned out~ (also first draw since start of summer!) :D
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Wow- - Sorry I am sooo late in commenting on this one -- Awesome drawing and shadows - and CONGRATULATIONS on a year on RMD!!! 5/5!!!
happy one year! :D ouo I love how you shaded the hair and fluffy red hair +5
Long time no see D; and congratulations on your first year :D The hair looks really amazing, and the girl looks awesomely cute c:
You have been gone so long- I missed you! *hugs* Congratulations on your One Year drawing!! xD It looks great without lineart, the colors look so bold. :D I also like how it has a realistic feel to it. I adore the girl's green hair and hat 5/5 hearts
Congrat on your first year, This is beautiful drawing....5/5


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The Delaware Division of Fish and Wildlife recently dedicated three state-owned and -managed wildlife area tracts in honor of the families who previously owned the land and in recognition of the conservation, recreational and educational opportunities these acquisitions provide.
"A crucial part of the Division of Fish and Wildlife's mission is to conserve lands and waters that provide habitat for the fish, wildlife and plant species that make Delaware unique," said David Saveikis, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control's Division of Fish & Wildlife director.
"By partnering with landowners who are committed to preserving their properties for the future like the Carey, Matarese and Campanelli families, we can continue to add to Delaware's public lands, which not only support our wildlife but also enrich our lives and those of our children and grandchildren by providing public hunting, fishing, nature study and educational access."
Carey Point Tract, Assawoman Wildlife Area, Sussex County
The Carey family donated a 22-acre tract to the Division of Fish and Wildlife at the end of last year to serve as a wildlife sanctuary, incorporated into the Assawoman Wildlife Area in Sussex County's Inland Bays region. It adjoins the Swann Keys community, which is on land once owned and used by the Carey family for grazing cattle.
The property is about two miles west of Fenwick Island within the Little Assawoman Watershed, fronting Dirickson Creek. Composed of tidal emergent wetlands, the tract provides salt-marsh habitat for a variety of species including waterfowl, herons, shorebirds, shellfish and fish while purifying water and protecting Swann Keys from tidal flooding.
"With the busy bay and ocean beach resorts just minutes away, the newly christened Carey Point Tract is like a little island of natural beauty, with marsh stretching out into Dirickson Creek," said Nancy Carey, one of the three Carey siblings who owned and donated the land.
"Just looking around during the dedication, I thought how beautiful this place is - you can't help but feel refreshed just seeing it. Also, I noticed an abundance of wildlife - willet, blue heron, egrets and a variety of smaller birds. I can only imagine what is underneath what you can see, including periwinkles and other aquatic life," Carey said, noting that she and her brothers, Andrew Carey and Asher Carey III, felt that with the land permanently preserved, people would be able to enjoy this beauty in perpetuity - benefiting people, property and the planet.
"In addition, we understand how wetlands protect the environment and surrounding communities by absorbing tidal waters and flooding," Carey added. "So we're entrusting this property to the state of Delaware, because it has the resources to protect this productive, protective and beautiful resource for generations to come."
The original tracts at the heart of Assawoman Wildlife Area were acquired by the state of Delaware from the federal government in 1957 as one of Delaware's first managed wildlife areas. Today, Assawoman Wildlife Area encompasses more than 3,100 acres of tidal marsh, impounded wetlands, forest lands and grasslands. Visitors to Assawoman Wildlife Area's main unit can enjoy auto tours, fishing, crabbing, wildlife and birdwatching, hiking or biking dirt roads, canoeing, kayaking, and deer, waterfowl, turkey, dove and small game hunting in season. Amenities include a fishing/crabbing pier, picnic pavilions, an observation tower and two boat ramps for smaller power boats.
Other dedications included the Matarese Tract in the Woodland Beach Wildlife Area in Kent County and the Julia Anne Campanelli Tract, Blackbird Reserve Wildlife Area in New Castle County.
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Turns out my Tablet works!! i tried it today to find myself satisfied that it works again! sooo i hope you like it, this was sooooo much easier to do on a tablet! rate and comment please :D
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I bet that it was so much easier with a tablet haha, wish I had one. (but I always blow my money on games and stuff hehe) I love how you drew Tohru and Kyo here! I really like how you drew their profiles and expressions. Nice coloring and eyes. 5/5h
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ViaMichelin, the portable GPS navigation and technology firm and a subsidiary of the Michelin Group (yup the tire guys), has announced its ViaMichelin X-930 entry-level portable GPS navigation system for North America. Combining ease of use and portability, the X-930 is the lightest weight product in its class, and features the latest GPS receiver technology (SiRFstarIII). Loaded with comprehensive NAVTEQ digital map data for the United States and Canada, the X-930 can seamlessly navigate users to destinations throughout North America.
The X-930 features a slim, lightweight design (4.7 ounces) and size (4.8 x 2.8 x 0.7), while providing a full-size touch screen (3.5). The unit also features voice and text turn-by-turn guidance with street-level maps for all 50 United States and Canada. It showcases a directory of more than 1.5 million Points of Interest that allow users to easily find restaurants, lodging, gas stations, banks/ATMs and other businesses and services.
The X-930 has been one of the top-selling entry-level GPS portable products in Europe for the past year, and we expect it to do very well here.
The X-930 is now available in select outlets and will be available at other major retail stores and websites throughout December 2006. The suggested retail price is $299 in the U.S.
Main features of the ViaMichelin X-930:
- Integrated SiRFstarIII GPS receiver
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KYCLAY-L ArchivesArchiver > KYCLAY > 2002-07 > 1026863767
From: "Linda Antal" <>
Subject: [KYCLAY] King David BENGE + others
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 20:00:45 -0400
It's been awahile since I posted this....thought maybe I'd give it another try.
Does anyone have a picture of David Benge......dubbed King David Benge because of his participation in the Revolutionary War at Kings's Mountain? He was born 1760 and died in 1854....and is buried in Martin Cemetery.
Here is a quick run-through of our family. My grandmother was Flossie Benge who married Thomas Stewart in Clay County. Flossie was the daughter of Susan Benge of Clay County..(never married) Susan was the daughter of Smiling David Benge & Nancy Lincks.....whose parents was John 'Jackie" Benge & Philedelphia Harrison Benge.....and, his parents was "King David Benge." & Lucreita Perry. Have you logged onto Don Chesnut's website? He is a distant cousin and has done a lot of research. Go to http://www.donchesnut.com Click on Our Ancestors....then the Database link....then key in whoever you want to see in the Benge family and many other surnames within the extended family. Make sure you key it like this or it won't go through Benge, David (with the comma) SEE KING DAVID BENGE's INFORMATION BELOW:
a.. Name: David "King David" BENGE
a.. Sex: M
a.. Birth: AUG 1760 in Albemarle Co., VA
a.. Christening: Came To KY Before 1800 [census]
a.. Death: 3 MAR 1854 in Clay Co., KY
a.. Burial: Martin Cemetery, Clay Co., KY
a.. Change Date: 31 AUG 2001
Father: Thomas BENGE b: abt 1734/1738 in Albemarle, VA
Mother: Susannah LEWIS b: 1742 in Hanover Co., VA
Marriage 1 Lucreita PERRY
a.. Married: 1783 in North Carolina
1.. Joel BENGE b: ABT 1786 in NC
2.. Sarah BENGE b: abt 1787/1791 in Madison Co., KY
3.. Elizabeth "Bettie" BENGE b: 1790 in NC
4.. Anna BENGE b: ABT 1789 in Wilkes Co., NC
5.. John "Jackie" BENGE b: 1797 in NC In 1850 Census
6.. William "Bugger Bill" BENGE b: 1799 in Madison [Clay Co.?], KY?
7.. Thomas BENGE b: 1 JAN 1801 in Madison Co., KY [part Now Clay Co.]
8.. Micajah BENGE b: ABT 1802 in Madison Co., KY
9.. Lewis Franklin BENGE b: 8 JUL 1805 in Madison Co. KY
10.. Nancy BENGE b: ABT 1807 in Madison Co. [Clay Co.?], KY
11.. Lucinda BENGE b: ABT 1809 in Clay Co.?, KY
I would also appreciate getting any photos at all on the following ancestors.....or even current cousins!
(1) I am researching the BENGE family......descendants of King David Benge of Clay & Laurel Counties.
(2) I am researching the LINCKS family......descendants of Frederick Lincks of Clay & Laurel Counties.
(3) I am researching the STEWART family......descendants of William Stewart of Clay & Laurel Counties.
(4) I am researching the HAYS / HAYES family......descendants of Tavner or Tabner Hays of Clay & Laurel Counties.
(5) I am researching the JUDD family......descendants of Rowland Judd of Owsley County.
(6) I am researching the FARRIS family......descendants of Ian Esom Farris Of Edinburgh, Scotland...to North Carolina....to Virgina.....to various counties in Kentucky & Indiana.
I sure will be looking forward to hearing from you!
Thank You!
Linda Farris Antal -
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Moving too fast?
Hi Meredith,
I've been dating a wonderful guy for only a few months now. We have so much -- almost too much -- in common, and are compatible on so many levels. I'm truly head over heels. I know he feels the same way because he treats me the way every single woman on this planet deserves to be treated. He does the little things, like put smiley faces in my cappuccino, but then the big things, like surprising me at my apartment after a bad day. Everything should be perfect, right?
Not so much. My sister was just married this past summer, and my brother will be getting married this coming spring. My brother is my best friend -- I talk to him almost daily, and we have a truly wonderful relationship. But he met my boyfriend not soon after we started dating -- as did my sister and parents. And when my boyfriend and I decided to take a short weekend trip recently, all hell broke loose.
In a nutshell, my mother gave me "the talk" (I'm 25 years old. A little late for that one, Ma ...) over e-mail, and since she can be so ridiculous sometimes, I told my brother. Rather than getting a good chuckle, he came back and very seriously stated that everyone thinks I'm rushing into this just because my siblings are getting married. I was obviously mad and didn't want to talk to him for days. Things have since been normal, but it's always in the back of my mind. I went on the trip because, frankly, I'm young enough to do spontaneous things like this, but old enough to calculate any negative repercussions. What it came down to was this: If we broke up, would I regret visiting this cool place where I've never been before? The answer, quite simply, was "no." So off we went.
I know myself enough to know that I'm not rushing into this just to get married. I've been on dates with guys -- some great, some not so great -- so I wouldn't be dating my current boyfriend if I didn't want to. At the end of the day (I hate to say this in fear of sounding naive), I think I love him -- and we just told each other that.
I've communicated my thoughts briefly in conversations, but is it worth bringing it up in full force with my brother and family? My game plan was just to continue dating him and have them realize that he's a significant part of my life now. But do I need to do what I fear and grab the bull by the horns? Or is it true -- am I rushing into things?
– Wishing for Approval, MA
You're rushing a bit, WFA, but who cares? As long as you don't make any big decisions right now, I'm fine with all of the love. You're smitten. Things are going well. You're allowed to be happy.
My advice is to tell your family (if they ask) that you're not going to make big decisions without knowing more. You can say, "I do care for this person very much, but I'm not going to marry him tomorrow. I acknowledge that I'm still getting to know him, but I'm very happy right now." That's probably all they need to hear.
You had the right idea about the trip, by the way. It was just a weekend. You considered how you might feel if the relationship ended after you returned home. You kept yourself safe.
There's no need to "grab the bull by the horns" (whatever that means) or scream to your family about this guy's role in your life. Just keep dating him, and tell your family that you're happy. Enjoy this time and reevaluate how everyone feels (including yourself) in another six to eight months. Or maybe nine. Let's make it nine.
Readers? Should her family be concerned? Is this about the weddings? Should she sit them down and talk this out? Is she rushing? Is it possible that they just don't like this guy? What should she do? Advise.
– Meredith


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This is nothing else but a practice piece..trying out different tones of green and yellow..will prob. be deleted. Still at first stage ..but being practice, it will prob. stay that way :-)
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Wow! I love monochromatic drawings! This one is very nice! 5h+fav.
I really like the tones and I still like the abstract look of your practice draws.
Nice work!!
so beautiful, lovely colors and effect! 5/5 and collection!
Beautiful colours and lighting, wonderful draw. 5♥s
Love the atmosphere of this. Very pretty!
Do not delete. It is very beautiful with wonderful colors.
mystic and beautiful 5
Looks great!! 5 H
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Saloni and Bhabho urge Kalika to eat high calorie but nutritious foods, so Kalika refuses. Kalika is forced to eat. Tara comes just then with Aditya, and Saloni offers to carry him, but Tara says that he must get used to being with his own mother too! Kshitij informs Veer that the supplier recommended by Brijesh does not seem suitable. Veer asks Kshitij to confirm the truth first. Meanwhile, Gaj and Padma come to visit Kalika and congratulate her. The same lady in the hospital also turns up to meet Kalika. Kalika introduces the lady as her maternal aunt Laali Maasi. Laali tells Kalika that she will stay with Kalika until her delivery because in-laws will never take as good care as someone from a mother's family will! The family is taken back with Laali's constant caustic remarks but Laali soon makes light of the matter. Later, the family is shocked when Laali reminds Saloni about her dead baby and that she can never conceive again. Laali blames Saloni for having to pay for her misdeeds by being barren! Saloni weeps. Kalika is pleased but pretends to be annoyed with Laali and berates her. Laali says she'll leave, but Saloni pacifies her and seeks her blessings instead. Later, Kalika thanks Laali for exchanging the pregnancy report in the hospital. She says that she wants to show Narpat how his betrayal had rendered her mother like the living dead! Laali promises to start creating differences between Tara and Saloni right away. Laali goes to the kitchen and Aditya who is with Tara starts howling! A worried Saloni rushes to the kitchen but Laali asks her not to enter. Laali reminds Saloni that she must not enter the kitchen for 40 days because she has lost her baby barely 3 weeks back. Bhabho replies that they do not believe in such superstitions, so Laali retorts that such a great tragedy struck in their house because of their disregard for customs! She further says that something untoward could happen to Aditya also because of their indifference to age-old customs!
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You will never meet Catherine, Anna, Maria, or Monica. But the future success of Sweden's Electrolux depends on what these four women think. Catherine, for instance, a type A career woman who is a perfectionist at home, loves the idea of simply sliding her laundry basket into a washing machine, instead of having to lift the clothes from the basket and into the washer. That product idea has been moved on to the fast track for consideration. So just who are Catherine and the other women? Well, they don't actually exist. They are composites based on in-depth interviews with some 160,000 consumers from around the globe. To divine (learn, understand, figure out) the needs of these mythical customers, 53 Electrolux employees, including designers, engineers, and marketers hailing from various divisions, gathered in Stockholm at the end of November for a weeklong brainstorming session. The Catherine team began by ripping photographs out of a pile of magazines and sticking them onto poster boards. Next to a picture of a woman wearing a sharply tailored suit, they scribbled some of Catherine's attributes: driven, busy, and a bit overwhelmed. With the help of these characters, Electrolux designers and engineers are searching for the insights they'll need to dream up the next batch of hot products. It's a new way of doing things for Electrolux, but then again, a lot is new at the company. When Chief Executive Hans Straberg took the helm in 2002, the world's No. 2 maker of home appliances after Whirlpool Corp. faced spiraling costs while its middle-market products were gradually losing out to cheaper goods from Asia and Eastern Europe. Competition in the U.S., where Electrolux gets 40% of its sales, was ferocious. The company's stock was treading water. Straberg had no choice but to do something radical. He began shuttering plants in Western Europe and the U.S. and shifting work to lower-cost locales in Asia and Eastern Europe. He also is spinning off the outdoor products division. But this is no ordinary corporate makeover. Straberg is also breaking down barriers between departments and forcing his designers, engineers, and marketers to work together to come up with new products. To speed the transition, he has recruited executives from companies with strong track records in innovation, including Procter & Gamble and PepsiCo. At the Stockholm brainstorming session, for example, the group leader, Kim Scott, is a recent P&G defector. She urges everyone "to think of yourselves as Catherine." The room buzzes with discussion. Ideas are refined, sketches drawn up. The group settles on three concepts: Breeze, a clothes steamer that also removes stains; an Ironing Center, similar to a pants press but for shirts; and Ease, the washing machine that holds a laundry basket inside its drum. Half the group races off to the machine shop to turn out a prototype for Breeze, while the rest stay upstairs to bang out a marketing plan. Over the next hour, designer Lennart Johansson
carves and sandpapers a block of peach-colored polyurethane until a contraption that resembles a cross between an electric screwdriver and a handheld vacuum begins to emerge. The designers in the group want the Breeze to be smaller, but engineer Giuseppe Frucco points out that would leave too little space for a charging station for the 1,500 watt unit. For company veterans like Frucco, who works at Electrolux' fabric care research and development center in Porcia, Italy, this dynamic groupthink is a refreshing change: "We never used to create new products together," he says. "The designers would come up with something and then tell us to build it." The new way saves time and money by avoiding the technical glitches that crop up as a new design moves from the drafting table to the factory floor. To support the innovation drive, Straberg has bumped up spending on R&D from 0.8% of sales to 1.2% and is aiming for 2% eventually. What he's gunning for are products that consumers will gladly pay a premium for: Gadgets with drop-dead good looks and clever features that ordinary people can understand without having to pore through a thick users' manual. "Consumers are prepared to pay for good design and good performance," he says. Electrolux isn't the only appliance maker on an innovation kick. In 1999, Whirlpool Corp. launched a program that allows all of its 68,000 employees to contribute design ideas, yielding a flood of new products. EYE-CATCHING DESIGN But few have pulled off the range of hot new offerings that Electrolux has. One clear hit is a cordless stick and hand vacuum, called Pronto in the U.S. Available in an array of metallic hues with a rounded, ergonomic design, this is the Cinderella of vacuums. Too attractive to be locked up in the broom closet, it calls out to be displayed in your kitchen. In Europe, it now commands 50% of the market for stick vacs, a coup for a product with fewer than two years on the market. The Pronto is cleaning up in the U.S., too. Stacy Silk, a buyer at retail chain Best Buy Co., says it is one of her hottest sellers, even though it retails for around $100, double the price of comparable models. "The biggest thing is the aesthetics," Silk says. "That gets people to walk over and look." Straberg, who spent decades running Electrolux operations in the U.S., is crafting these new products even while moving away from many traditional tools of customer research. The company relies less heavily on focus groups, and now prefers to interview people in their homes where they can be videotaped pushing a vacuum or shoving laundry into the washer. "Consumers think they know what they want, but they often have trouble articulating it," says Henrik Otto, senior vice-president for global design, whom Straberg lured away from carmaker Volvo. "But when we watch them, we can ask, 'why do you do that?' We can change the product and solve their problems." The new approach is starting to yield results. After dropping for two straight years, annual sales rose 8%, to $16.5 billion, in 2005. Operating income jumped 42% in the fourth quarter, compared with the year before, though it rose by less than 2%, to $881 million, for the year as a whole. Johan Hjertonsson, director of the consumer innovation program, says product launches have almost doubled in quantity. And the number of launches that result in outsized unit sales is now running at 50% of all introductions, from around 25% previously. The stock? Up a third in the last year. Catherine would be pleased.
By Ariane Sains and Stanley Reed, with Michael Arndt in Chicago
Questions to be discussed in class next week:
1. What type of research does Electrolux prefer? Why? Why does it not use other types of marketing research? What does it learn from this type of research? 2. Pick one of the new products they envision for "Catherine" (Breeze, Ironing Center, or Ease) Describe the 3 layers of your product. 3. List the activities that Electrolux followed in the New Product Development process. 4. Which category of adopters should they aim the product to? Describe demographically and psychographically what this chosen category would "look" like. 5. Describe the activities you would recommend to Electrolux to move the new product through the six stages of adoption. 6. What type of new product is this product?
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1. fast track 2. insights 3. took the helm 4. treading water 5. radical 6. shuttering 7. spinning off 8. corporate makeover 9. track records 10. defector 11. prototype 12. bang out 13. contraption 14. groupthink 15. glitches 16. gunning for 17. pay a premium 18. coup 19. product launches


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In 2009, after more than five years in development, the members of an integrated drug delivery device team from West, The Tech Group and Insight Product Development gathered in Raleigh, NC for a final round of usability testing. This stage included mock self injection by perspective in-home users of a proprietary device with the potential to challenge the auto-injection market with a new, easy-to-use design featuring visual, audible and tactile features to help end users comply with drug delivery instructions.
After several days of usability testing were conducted, the results spoke for themselves. More than 97% of the respondents operated the West [1] ConfiDose auto-injector system successfully. But perhaps the most significant detail was that each respondent correctly administered the dose without instructions or training.
"It was certainly welcome news," said Rick Gillespie, Program Director, West Delivery Systems. "This round of usability testing verified that design improvements to the ConfiDose auto-injector system had, in fact, optimized the intuitiveness of the device."
Later testing, which included more formal training through written 'Instructions for Use' or verbal instruction, helped ensure that the auto-injector system was nearly foolproof.
Such usability trials represented the culmination of research and testing efforts from a team of designers and engineers from West, its subsidiary, The Tech Group, and outside consultants Insight Product Development. The latter, an industrial design firm, helped optimize the product's external look and user-interface while West's engineers perfected the proprietary internal workings and overall functionality.
The collaboration, which began in 2007, helped ensure proper human-factors considerations had been given to the auto-injector system's design, per CDRH/FDA guidelines. The research sessions with users also helped bring ConfiDose to market faster and more effectively than West otherwise could have done.
Explained Gillespie, "At the very start of the development process, we knew a fair amount of time and resources would be dedicated to human-factors and usability, and we also knew we did not possess that expertise internally. We needed a partner whose knowledge and commitment would match West's ambitions for a unique, user-friendly system like ConfiDose."
Gillespie managed the development of the ConfiDose auto-injector system from its inception in 2006, when West acquired his small device development company, Pharmapen, early that year. During the initial two-year design program, his team in Athens, Tex. worked closely with designers, product managers and team leaders in West's Delivery Systems group, and relied heavily on the vast technical/engineering resources of West's contract manufacturing subsidiary, The Tech Group, to guide the design for manufacture and production planning. Regulatory, financial and global marketing support was also provided by West's corporate offices.
However, to help with the final piece of the medical device development puzzle, Gillespie and his team needed specialists in human-factors and usability research. They called on Insight Product Development.
Glenn Thorpe, a Vice President in West's Delivery Systems Group, headed the selection process: "West wanted to be sure that we chose a firm that represented a potential long-term partner. We foresee many device development programs like this within West Delivery Systems, and searched for a firm with an incredible depth of knowledge and expertise in user research."
Factors involved in the search included the need for not only overall design know-how, but also expertise on the development process itself and associated regulatory concerns. Design control knowledge, ISO compliance, quality systems as well as ideology all needed to align with West to create the perfect partnership.
"In the end we chose Insight because we felt they were a great match for this and other similar programs," noted Thorpe. "Their user-based research approach, experience with medical device development and complimentary mindset and personalities made Insight the partner we needed."
With ConfiDose's basic technology platform developed and preliminarily engineered by Gillespie's group in Athens, the collective team went to work optimizing the design for efficient manufacturing. This ultimately led to the creation of a tooling and assembly strategy to quickly produce molded prototypes for both lab and field testing.
At the same time, Insight assembled the appropriate human-factors and usability development plan, which would utilize multiple ethnographic and observational research sessions, user interviews and in-house ergonomic evaluations. Such testing would provide much more detailed data than a typical focus group.
Insight's aim was to provide West with a deeper view into the emotional needs and desires of the intended user, as well as to gather the user's perspective on features and visual cues providing intuitiveness. Such details were important to West, which has extensive experience developing medical products for use by clinicians in hospitals, etc., but less knowledge regarding any associated differences between where a device is used (clinic, doctor's office, patient's home) and who is using it (doctor, patient, care giver). Since ConfiDose was intended for in-home use to self-administer injected medication, research protocol was designed to address the user's lack of clinical background and skill.
The development team designed a device interface that is effectively useable with little or no technical knowledge or training. To that end, the final design presented obvious and failsafe interaction points, simplifying the steps required for safe and effective use.
Throughout the process, various methodologies were used in a 'closed-loop' structure, offering several opportunities to 'revise and retest,' thus identifying and quickly implementing the best functional attributes. The integrated team helped to keep the project moving and development timing on track. Having continuous and consistent manufacturing support, working with The Tech Group from the earliest possible point in the design process, along with the strategic insertion of Insight's research and design group, West was able to truncate what could have been a hopelessly linear development lifecycle.
Working together, this team experienced first-hand how integrated involvement speeds the design process, minimizes risk and helps ensure project success. West is currently scaling up production and will have the first fully-validated sample lots of the ConfiDose auto-injector system available for customer trials in 2010.
Chris Evans is the Managing Director of West Innovation Concepts.
Editor's note: Since their collective work on this project, West and Insight have entered into a collaborative agreement to jointly work on the development of proprietary IP on behalf of both West and mutual customers. Additionally, West's medical device contract manufacturing subsidiary, the Tech Group, is now part of the newly formed Delivery Systems business unit.


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Movie Title: Captain Underpants Grade: B+ Rating: PG, 84 minutes In a Nutshell: As a mother of four sons, I'm quite familiar with the Captain Underpants universe. If you are too, then you pretty much know what you're walking into here: an endless string of potty humor. Even the character Harold admits, "I didn't know if it was good weird or bad weird." It's actually a good weird, as well as surprisingly smart and clever, giving kids all the colorful fun and shenanigans they want, while making parents laugh too. Uplifting theme: • Friendship • Imagination • Pranks of kindness are the best kinds of pranks. Things I liked: • Three different kinds of animation are featured during various parts and they all work really well together. • Some of the visual gags are really cute and funny. • Some of the dialogue is actually clever and entertaining for parents who have to sit through this. • I love details and this fun flick has plenty of them. • There are plenty of Easter Eggs for kids and parents who are fans of the books. • Fast-moving, perfect for little kids. • Oh, to have as much enthusiasm as Captain Underpants…la la LA! • Keep watching after the rolling credits for another funny clip. • There's a zippy Weird Al song that the kids will love. • Kevin Hart often annoys me, but he was cute and funny in this. • Voice talents include Ed Helms, Nick Kroll, Jordan Peele, Brian Posehn, and Kristen Schaal. • The movie is pretty true to the source material. Any time a movie makes a kid want to read a book, it's a great triumph. • With names like Professor Poopy Pants, Dr. Diaper, and Bionic Booger Boy, it's clear the author loves alliteration. Me too. Things I didn't like: • One of the female instructors looked and talked exactly like Roz on Monsters Inc., a total rip-off. • Super clichéd, one-dimensional characters and stereotypes. Of course, that's how kids see adults. • There is a short, terrible musical number about Saturday. • Lots of farts, burps, and other immature humor. Harold admits, "That is like the lowest form of comedy." Funny lines: • "Separate classes? I'll never see you again in my life!" – Harold Tips for parents: • Your kids might actually get ideas for pranks they could pull at school. • Parents will roll their eyes and giggle at the same time. • Your kids will probably think potty humor is even funnier now. MOVIE REVIEW MOM @trinaboiceClick for more ratings and availability
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MANHASSET, N.Y. Communications semiconductor supplier Conexant Systems Inc. reported a net loss of $73.2 million, or 16 cents per share on sales of $169.7 million in its second 2005 fiscal quarter ended March, compared to $120.7 million, or 26 cents per share on sales of $140.6 million in the previous fiscal quarter.
Conexant (Newport Beach, Calif.) exceeded its previous guidance calling for revenue of $160 million. The company said it completed an inventory reduction initiative in the quarter, though was forced to lower prices on some parts, thus lowering gross margin.
The inventory problems, which surfaced last year, caused shareholders to file a class-action suit in December, alleging Conexant failed to fully inform them about the extent of its inventory issues.
"From a broader perspective, by quickly returning inventory to normalized levels, we successfully executed on the first phase of our three-stage recovery plan," said Dwight Decker, Conexant's chairman and chief executive, in a statement. "We are now focused on the second phase of this plan, which is to grow revenue, complete in-process cost reductions, and achieve profitability before the end of the calendar year."
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Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele fired Parks Director Sue Black yesterday. He told BizTimes, "I can get better service."
My first reaction, this is like the time Jerry Jones fired Jimmy Johnson after winning a Super Bowl.
My second reaction, online speculation she was fired because she attended Tommy Thompson's victory party? Naaaah. Maybe? Naaaah.
My third reaction, Abele is buying the parks from Milwaukee County and putting his gardener in charge. But then he announced a nationwide search for her replacement.
My fourth? Black probably refused to chase away the noisy kids playing in the park outside Abele's window. "Susan, release the hounds."
My fifth reaction, it's almost budget time. Something might be afoot. She's had budget issues before. Abele's last budget had no tax increases. He might not want tax increases again, and Black may have been a problem in pursuing that goal.
And finally, this may be another Al Haig situation. Over at Urban Milwaukee, Bruce Murphy wrote about Black's employment history in Wisconsin. He included this bit, "She quickly took charge, winning converts but also surprising people with her outspoken style. 'If this weren't home,' she said in 2006, 'I'd have gotten out of here a long time ago.'" Later in the article he mentions she threatened to quit more than once under Walker. She may have threatened to quit once too often, especially over her budget (see item 4). Her resignation may have been accepted, even if it was not the exact moment she offered it.
This is a rare bipartisan moment. WTMJ's Charlie Sykes nominated Abele for a "Deep Tunnel Award" for saying he doesn't owe the public an explanation, calling it gossip. Supervisor Gerry Broderick called the firing an act of war. This is not a popular move by Abele, made more risky given that the budget period is always contentious and he'll be looking for public support.


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Richmond County school leaders are in a budget battle. During last night's meeting, administrators discussed ways to make up for a $23million deficit.
The plan includes cutting 135 jobs from the teaching staff, para-professionals, and custodians. There was also talk of adding 2 human resources positions and a $78,000 computer program to help with hiring.
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Letter: America's voters have spoken
Seeing as I fought so hard to get Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin elected, I thought I'd let you know how I am now. (You may not be the least bit interested, but it will make me feel better having written these things).
First, there are some real pluses to this election. We have passed beyond the racism of the 1960s and prior. A black man, a minority race in this country, has won the presidency. That speaks well for our country to the whole world. I saw some black people shedding real tears of joy over the outcome.
Second, I believe President-elect Obama has worked harder to become president than anyone I have ever heard of in the past. Actually I believe he started towards this goal ever since he was in school. His hard work has paid off, just as hard work should and does.
Third, the vote count was so decisive, we don't have to waste time or money to go through recounts or court proceedings to determine the outcome. And therefore no one should feel that Obama or the Democratic Party stole this election and then go rioting and burning in the streets.
Fourth, thank God that we don't have a history of someone taking over the military and having a military coup like some countries have and still do.
Now for those of us who disagreed with many of President-elect Obama's stated positions on many issues, pray for him and all in authority, like we are instructed in the Bible, that we may lead lives of quietness and peace. Finally, I listened to McCain's concession speech, and I thought it was very positive and uplifting. I believe that's a good act to imitate.


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|January 17, 2012, 01:18 PM
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223 Kills -Post Your Pics
So i will be using this for my next hunting trip with 1.5x6 along with some 55 or 60 grain loads, maybe give the 75gr a try as well.
DPMS 1:9 16inch 5.56 barrel. Rifle lenth Free Float Rail, Hogue Grip.
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Why's it gotta be an AR?
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Why ar? well its ok if you post your kill anyway iam just curious what ars can/have done to boars since il be using it to get one next month-think of it as a confidence thread, iam building my confidence on it(theres alot of talk of big bullets are needed) but i know what a well placed round can do and ive never felt undergunned with my ar.. just curious for pics and tips.
Planning on right behind the ear, but what if i hit him dead between the eyes? i know my m855's would penetrate but cant use those what if hes at an angle and a shoulder shot is there? will it go thru and hit those vitals or just shatter?
DPMS 1:9 5.56 barrel, so far it shoots everything i feed it extremely well. Shot some of the 62gr m855's (what i use for home defense) and they group very nicely at 100. Loves Hornady and even shoots cheap tulammo and federal with 0 complaints or ftf. So far flawless, i cant say enough about this ar, for the money it rivals many ive shot against at the range and as far as accuracy well to me it comes down to the shooter and so far ive outshot many s&w ar's and a few others think one was a colt. i dont know but i cant see myself buying any other ar brand when this one has more than proven itself to me, and yes ive also dragged it in the woods, cold and hot, night and day and again zero fails! Did a few mods like a extended free floated rail,upgraded grip, but honestly its been a shooter since day one just always looking to optimize stuff-my nature. i met someone and saw pics of 400lb boar killed with a 22 to the head, hes been doing this since he was 11, has to use a 22 for noise reasons-hunts in golf courses to clear them out and there are houses sorrounding the area, hes an older gentlemen and very well known in the area as one of the best hunters, havent seen him in a while but he even uses his bow most of the time so i dont c how a 223 is a undergun..
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Sun, 1 June 2014
It's seems like so vile a sin that we've done 40 episodes without ever reading a book by Kate Orman, so this month we do just that: it's the Virgin New Adventure The Room with No Doors featuring the Seventh Doctor and Chris. From the back cover:
'Dear Doctor,' wrote Chris, 'I give up.'
Swordplay, samurai, magic, aliens, adventure, excitement…Who needs them?
The Doctor and Chris travel to sixteenth-century Japan, a country gripped by civil war as feudal lords vie for control. Anything could tip the balance of power. So when a god falls out of the sky, everyone wants it.
As villagers are healed and crops grow far too fast, the Doctor and Chris try to find the secret of the miracles – before two rival armies can start a war over who owns the god.
Chris soon finds himself alone – except for an alien slaver, a time-traveling Victorian inventor, a gang of demons, an old friend with suspicious motives, a village full of innocent bystanders, and several thousand samurai.
Without the Doctor, someone has to take up the challenge of adventure and stop the god falling into the wrong hands. Someone has to be a hero – but Chris isn't sure he wants to be a hero any more.
Orman has written just over a dozen novels for the different ranges, including one for Telos Publishing and another in Virgin's series of Benny Summerfield novels. It's notable that she became the first female writer in the series with the debut of The Left-Handed Hummingbird.
Sit back, relax, pour yourself a thimbleful of sake, and listen in as we discuss The Room with No Doors.
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Wed, 30 April 2014
In this special "Irwin Allen" edition of The Doctor Who Book Club Podcast, we read and discuss Steve Lyons' 1995 Virgin Missing Adventure Time of Your Life featuring the Sixth Doctor. From the back cover:
'Organic bugs must be purged from the system,' the screen told him. Then, more succinctly, 'You die.'
The Network broadcasts entertainment to the planets of the Meson system: Death-hunt 3000, Prisoner: The Next Generation, Bloodsoak Bunny… Sixteen channels, and not one of them worth watching. But for the citizens of poverty-stricken Torrok, television offers the only escape from a reality too horrible to face.
Angela, a young inhabitant of Torrok, leaps at the chance to travel to the Network with a hermit who calls himself the Doctor. However, all is not well on the giant, chaotic space station. A soap star has murdered his wife's lover; the robotic regulars of Timeriders are performing random kidnappings; and a lethal new game show is about to go on air.
Can the Doctor uncover the cause of the apparently random disturbances – or will his appearance as a competitor on Death-hunt 3000 be the last of his life?
We're firm believers of "In Lyons We Trust" on this podcast, thus our sterling reviews of his books Conundrum and The Crooked World. Will Time of Your Life be any different? Grab a tasty glass of boiling water, sit back, and relax as we discuss it!
Direct download: Episode_40_Time_of_Your_Life.mp3
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Tue, 1 April 2014
This month we turn our sights on BBC's Past Doctors Adventures with Loving the Alien, a novel featuring the Seventh Doctor and Ace by Mike Tucker and Robert Perry.
Mike Tucker might best be known for his model work on the current televised series, but he has written a plethora of books, including Ace! with Sophie Aldred, a number of novels with the Seventh Doctor and Ace in the BBC range, and two novels featuring the Tenth Doctor in the New Series Adventures. Tucker also co-write Illegal Alien with Robert Perry, who has written for such television shows as EastEnders and Family Affairs.
From the back cover of Loving the Alien:
Ace is dead. Or at least she will be – soon… In a secret room deep inside the TARDIS the Doctor has been examining the body of Ace's future self. He knows how she was killed, where she was killed and when she was killed. What he doesn't know is why…
To find the truth the Doctor makes a dangerous decision and takes the unsuspecting Ace to the very time and place of her death, hoping to cheat Time and find her killer before he can strike – but Time has other ideas. With Ace missing and the clock ticking the Doctor turns to old friends for help and finds that there is unfinished business for him to deal with.
What is the secret experiment being conducted by the British Rocket Group? Why are giant ants appearing in the suburbs of 1950s London? Who is the mysterious figure that is watching the Doctor's every move?
As events spiral out of control the Doctor realises that someone is manipulating time with careless disregard for the consequences to Ace – or the rest of the universe…
With that, please help yourself to a strawberry soda from the drug store fountain, put your feet up, and relax as we review Loving the Alien.
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Sun, 9 March 2014
This February we seized the chance at Gallifrey One to sit down with Graeme Burk and Robert Smith?, authors of Who's 50, a celebration of the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who featuring "the 50 Doctor Who stories to watch before you die".
Sit back, pour yourself a glass of cabernet, and relax as we discuss Who's 50 with Graeme and Robert.
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Fri, 28 February 2014
Episode 38 marks our third annual "live" recording at Gallifrey One, and this time we're pleased to be joined by Deb Stanish of the Verity! podcast and Chicks Unravel Time. Sensing that perhaps we would join a challenge (whoops, spoilers!), Deb chose Lawrence Miles' The Adventuress of Henrietta Street, an BBC Eighth Doctor novel featuring (sort of) Fitz and Anji and a whole gaggle of ladies of the evening. From the back cover:
On February 9, 1783, a funeral was held in the tunnels at the dead heart of London. It was the funeral of a warrior and a conjurer, a paladin and an oracle, the last of an ancient breed who'd once stood between the Earth and the bloodiest of its nightmares.
Her name was Scarlette. Part courtesan, part sorceress, this is her history: the part she played in the Siege of Henrietta Street, and the sacrifice she made in the defence of her world.
In the year leading up to that funeral, something raw and primal ate its way through human society, from the streets of pre-Revolutionary Paris to the slave-states of America. Something that only the eighteenth century could have summoned, and against which the only line of defence was a bordello in Covent Garden.
And then there was Scarlette's accomplice, the 'elemental champion' who stood alongside her in the final battle. The one they called the Doctor.
Lawrence Miles is, perhaps, best known as the author of Alien Bodies (be sure to listen to our sterling review of it) as well as a handful of other Eighth Doctor novels. Grab a glass of milk, relax, sit back, and enjoy our discussion of The Adventuress of Henrietta Street.
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Sat, 1 February 2014
This month we're happy to bring you our discussion of The Also People, a Virgin New Adventure by Ben Aaronovitch featuring the Seventh Doctor, Benny, Roz, and Chris. From the back cover:
'Just how technologically advanced are they?' The Doctor frowned. 'Let me put it this way: they have a non-aggression pact with the Time Lords.'
The Doctor has taken his companions to paradise, or at least the closest thing he can find. A sun enclosed by an artificial sphere where there is no want, poverty or violence.
While Chris learns to surf, meets a girl and falls in love with a biplane, Roz suspects an alien plot and Bernice considers that a Dyson Sphere needs an archaeologist like a fish needs a five-speed gear box.
Then the peace is shattered by a murder. As the suspects proliferate, Bernice realises that even an artificial world has its buried secrets and Roz discovers what she's always suspected – that every paradise has its snake.
You probably know Ben Aaronovitch as the author of the televised stories "Remembrance of the Daleks" and "Battlefield", as well as the Virgin New Adventures Transit and So Vile a Sin. Grab a bottle of antisocial, sit back, and relax as we review The Also People.
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Thu, 9 January 2014
Our apologies for the late release, but with both of us traveling for the holidays, time just got away from us! This month we bring you our discussion of the BBC Eighth Doctor novel The Fall of Yquatine by Nick Walters, featuring the Eighth Doctor (duh!), Fitz, and Compassion. From the back cover:
Yquatine – cultural, political and economic centre of the Minerva System. A planet with a month to live.
Fitz knows. He was there when Yquatine fell. Now, trapped a month in the past, he doesn't know if the Doctor survived. He doesn't know where Compassion has gone. He doesn't know who the invaders will be.
But he does know the date and time when he will die with the millions of others.
The Doctor teams up with Lou Lombardo – part-time dodgy temporal gadget salesman and full-time pie seller. Compassion is lost in time and space. And Fitz is living out his final days working in a seedy cocktail bar, where he meets Arielle, the President's runaway girlfriend. But is she really the best person to shack up with?
As the Doctor tries to talk sense into the politicians and soldiers, and Compassion tries to avert the war, Fitz is about to discover that things can truly get worse.
This is our first selection by Nick Walters, who has written two Eighth Doctor novels, Dominion and Reckless Engineering, the Virgin New Adventure Dry Pilgrimage, and the BBC Past Doctor novel Superior Beings.
Please pour yourself a glass of Admiral's Old Antisocial and listen in as we talk about Nick Walters' The Fall of Yquatine.
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Sat, 7 December 2013
First of all, we profusely apologize for the delay in this month's release, but what with family visiting at the holidays, influenza, and whatnot we really couldn't hammer this one out by the end of November. This is ironic, because it may be our shortest episode ever.
This time around we discuss Paul Cornell's Happy Endings, the celebratory 50th Virgin New Adventure perhaps also known as "The One in Which Benny Gets Married and Every Major Character from Every New Adventure is Invited to the Wedding".
From the back cover:
'Doctor, this is my fiancé. Please don't kill him.'
You are cordially invited to the wedding of Mr Jason Kane and Professor Bernice S. Summerfield, to be held in the village of Cheldon Bonniface in the year 2010.
If everything works out, that is. Between rows, fights and pre-emptive divorce proceedings, there may not be a wedding at all. Especially if there really is someone who wants to prevent it happening.
Everybody's coming: from Ice Warriors to UNIT veterans, a flirtatious Ace to a suspicious Hamlet Macbeth – and a very confused trio of Isley Brothers. The Doctor has to organize a buffet, Roz has a mystery to solve, and Chris has a girlfriend who used to be the Timewyrm.
Paul Cornell, of course, is known for introducing Benny Summerfield in Love and War and has also written Human Nature, for which he penned the teleplay for the television series.
Sit back, pour yourself a glass of champagne, and listen in as we review Happy Endings.
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Thu, 31 October 2013
This month we take a detour from our usual schedule and, instead of reviewing a Virgin New Adventure (which would naturally come after a Virgin Missing Adventure), we elected to talk about Paul Cornell's Scream of the Shalka, which was recently released on DVD and seemed like a timely novel to discuss. From the back cover:
When the Doctor lands his TARDIS in the Lancaster town of Lannet, in the present day, he finds that something is terribly wrong. The people are scared. They don't like going out onto the streets at night, they don't like making too much noise, and they certainly don't like strangers asking too many questions.
What alien force has invaded the town? Why is it watching barmaid Alison Cheney? And what plans does it have for the future of the planet Earth?
The Doctor is helped (and hindered) by his new military liaison Major Kennet and his Royal Green Jacket troops. His old enemy the Master also plays a small part. During the course of this adventure he encounters a brand new race of ferocious alien monsters, and strikes up a friendship with his latest companion, Alison.
While starting with a small community under threat, this old-fashioned, very traditional but very up-to-date Doctor Who adventure takes in the entire world, from New Zealand to India, Siberia to the USA, and cosmic expanses beyond.
Scream of the Shalka originally appeared as an animated six-part web series in 2003 featuring Richard E. Grant as the Ninth Doctor, and more stories may have been produced had the release of the new series not been announced soon thereafter. In 2004, Paul Cornell published this novelization of the series, which included 50 pages of production notes on the web series. Cornell also penned Timewyrm: Revelation, Love and War, No Future, Human Nature, and Happy Endings, all Virgin New Adventures.
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Tue, 1 October 2013
It's Virgin Missing Adventure time at The Doctor Who Book Club, but this month's adventure wasn't really missing in the first place and, well, it doesn't really prominently feature a Doctor, either. This month we bring you Downtime, based on the independently written screenplay by Marc Platt which was filmed in the early 1990's and released a year or so before the novelization was published. From the back cover:
Across the room, in a high-backed leather chair Victoria saw the old man from the reading room. His face was curiously young for someone so long dead.
In 1966 the Doctor defeated the Great Intelligence, but he knew it wasn't a final victory. And his companion Victoria, whose mind had once hosted the evil entity, might still fall prey to its power.
Now it seems that his fears are justified. In a Tibetan monastery, the monks display unearthly powers – UNIT are investigating. A new university has opened in London with a secret agenda that may threaten the whole country. Victoria, abandoned in an age very different from her own, and haunted by visions of a father she refuses to believe is dead, is slipping into despair and madness. But are the visions which plague her really hallucinations? Or has the Great Intelligence once again made Earth its target for invasion?
If you enjoy irony, it's worth noting that Platt intended Downtime to be the last installment in a trilogy (after "The Abominable Snowmen" and "The Web of Fear") and to resolve the conflict of the Great Intelligence. One wonders if he did a bit of air-punching this last Christmas day.
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Health Care Caucus, a House Republican health policy group, shared an image of the ubiquitous glossy card given to lawmakers just before President Barack Obama's address to a joint session of Congress Wednesday night.
The group, which is headed by House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee ranking member Michael Burgess (R-Tex.), took to Twitter to show the card.
The text of the placard stressed that healthcare reform would provide "stability and security" for those who have health insurance and insurance coverage for those who do not have it. The phrase "stability and security" appeared multiple times on the card, demonstrating the White House's effort to ensure people who have coverage will not be adversely affecred by reform.
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A man claiming to be a Toronto fashion photographer who police say offered free photo shoots to female university students has been charged with sexual assault in connection with a July 2012 investigation.
Bo Zou, 34, is alleged to have assaulted an 18-year-old woman near Dundas Street East and Dalhousie Street, just south of the Ryerson University campus, on July 30, 2012. Police believe Mr. Zou operates under the business avatar of Jay Dreamcollector.
Mr. Zou was arrested and scheduled to make his first court appearance at College Park on Monday.
The Jay Dreamcollector name is splattered across several social media and networking websites including YouTube and Pinterest. At 500px.com, a profile advertises Jay Dreamcollector's photography services in downtown Toronto and boasts free photo shoots in exchange for modeling services.
Police believe there may be other victims tied to Mr. Zou's case, and have released his photo to the public.