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In the last post, we looked at the elbow method for determining the "right" number of clusters in data. Today, we'll look at generalizations of the elbow method, all still based on the idea of examining the quality-compression tradeoff curve.
For the purpose of discussion, let's imagine that we have a plot in which the quality of the clustering (measured anyway you please, as long as 0 means all items in one cluster, and 1 means all items in separate clusters) is measured along the y-axis, and the representation complexity (i.e the space needed) is measured on the x axis, where again 0 corresponds to all items in a single cluster (least representation cost), and 1 corresponds to all items in separate clusters.
The ideal cluster is located at (0,1): cheapest representation and perfect quality. In general, as we use more and more clusters to organize the data, we can trace out a curve that starts at (0,0) and ends at (1,1). For most sane functions, this cuve is concave, and lives above the diagonal x=y.
This curve contains lots of useful information about the behavior of the data as the clustering evolves. It's often called the ROC curve, in reference to the curve used to capture the tradeoff between false positive and false negatives in classification. But what can we glean from it ?
We can ask what the curve would look like for "unclusterable" data, or data that has no definite sense of the "right number" of clusters. Such data would look self-similar: you could keep zooming in and not find any clear groupings that stood out. It's not too hard to see that data that looked like this would have a ROC curve that hugs the diagonal x=y, because there's a relatively smooth tradeoff between the quality and compressibility (so no elbow).
Conversely, data that does appear to have a definite set of clusters would try to get closer to the (0,1) point before veering off towards (1,1). This suggests a number of criteria, each trying to quantify this deviation from unclusterability.
- you could measure the area between the curve and the diagonal. This is (essentially) the AUC (area-under-curve) measure.
- You could measure the closest distance between (0,1) and the curve. This also gives you a specific point on the curve, which you could then associate with the "best" clustering.
- You could also find the point of diminishing returns - the point of slope 1, where the clustering starts costing more to write down, but yields less quality. I've used this as the start point of a more involved procedure for finding a good clustering - more on that later.
The ROC curve gives a slightly more general perspective on the elbow method. It's still fairly heuristicy, but at least you're trying to quantify the transition from bad clustering to good in somewhat more general terms.
Ultimately, what both the ROC curve and the elbow method itself are trying to find is some kind of crucial transition (a phase transition almost) where the data "collapses" into its right state. If this sounds like simulated annealing and bifurcation theory to you, you're on the right track. In the next part, I'll talk about annealing and phase-transition-based ideas for finding the right clustering - all fairly ingenious in their own right.
(ed. note: comments on the last post have convinced me to attempt a post on the nonparametric approaches to clustering, which all appear to involve eating ethnic food. Stay tuned...)
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CreativeDirector305 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 1309 diseños de 224 diseñadores freelance.
Launched in 1997, we are one of the oldest and largest online dating sites. We are a global brand with members around the world. Each month we attract millions of visitors. Your logo will be featured on a major web destination.
Our target market are singles from 25-40 years old. We have an equal split of men and women.
1. Throwing some random font on paper and replacing the dot in .com with a heart is not original or creative. It's not what I'm looking for.
Unless it's really special, I am probably NOT going to chose a logo which contains a heart in the logo.
I am also not keen about including an icon... unless it is really unique and adds true character to the logo.
2. We are looking for a logo that is modern. Logo should not be overly corporate, stuffy or boring, but it should not be cartoon-like, either
3. Please do not use beveling, embossing, gradients or drop shadowing to style the font.
4. The logo should be readable both on top of a website, and also on a banner. Avoid fonts and visual elements that are hard to read when the logo is small. Winning logo will look professional even when shrunk to a small size.
5. Please refrain from dropping corny clip art and mindless icons into your submissions. Your font will set the tone for the brand and is the most important element in your design.
6. Winning logo should look good even when printed in black and white - in a newspaper or on stationary.
7. If you think that your logo may be cliche, it probably is. Avoid this.
8. Do not use the male and female symbols in your logo (the cross & arrow which represent Mars & Venus). These will not win.
9. This logo should appeal to BOTH men and women. It should not be too masculine or too feminine.
10. Do not copy other dating sites logos. Please present work that is original and creative.
11. We are looking to refresh our current logo; it is attached or you can view it at http://www.date.com
This is a public contest and I am aware that some designers may be concerned about others copying their work. Therefore, to be fair I will not give any ratings, I will also not post public comments. All comments will be sent privately to designers with entries who match the description I've posted above.
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Creating Opportunity: My Fight for Social Justice and Advice for Young Women Today
I never expected to be a leader.
It's hard to imagine now, but I grew up during a time when there were few opportunities for women in the workplace, other than being a man's secretary.
Unlike most of my peers, I was extremely fortunate to grow up in an environment where women were considered capable, smart, and equal. My grandmother was an early feminist—she ran an intellectual and artistic salon, and even made her own pants! She instilled that sense of independence in my mother, who worked her entire life, including as a stenographer at the Nuremberg trials. But also very important was my father's attitude toward women. He deeply respected my mother and supported her choice to have a career.
I also grew up surrounded by a strong sense of social justice. Several members of my family were killed in concentration camps during the Holocaust; those horrors were never far from my mind. Looking back, I can see that was the catalyst for my lifelong commitment to righting social wrongs.
I started my career as an actress and a screenwriter in Los Angeles. To me, writing is one of the most powerful ways to create a more just and equal society, and I worked on several projects about civil rights issues and figures, including Martin Luther King, Jr.
In 1987 I decided to turn my attention to homelessness in New York City. Things had reached a crisis point there: human beings were mistaken for trash on the sidewalks; the crack epidemic was devastating entire communities; people were denied fundamental rights and dignity; and no viable plans were being offered to break the cycle of poverty, homelessness, and incarceration in which so many had found themselves.
My hope was to illuminate the crisis by telling the story of a young woman named April Savino. April, who had been homeless since the age of fifteen, was one of the hundreds of homeless women and men who lived below Grand Central Terminal's train tracks.
I spent a week with April at Grand Central, getting to know her and many of the others who called the terminal home. April was extremely bright and had enormous energy.
She and I decided to return to California together, where April could take her life in a different direction. But on the day we were due to fly to California, she hid from me and I had to return to Los Angeles without her.
Not long after, I received a phone call: April had killed herself with a gun she had tried to sell in order to buy drugs. I was devastated. I had so desperately wanted to help April realize the enormous potential I saw in her. Instead, I was on my way to New York to attend her funeral.
Afterward, I introduced myself to the man who delivered April's eulogy, George McDonald. I learned that George had spent the last several years handing out food and clothing to the homeless, including April, at Grand Central. It may sound incredible, but within a week George and I decided to get married and dedicate ourselves to helping the homeless rebuild their lives. Together, we founded The Doe Fund's Ready, Willing & Able program in 1990.
Getting Ready, Willing & Able off the ground was not easy. Most people were extremely skeptical of our plan to provide paid work for people with histories of homelessness, addiction, and incarceration. But we firmly believed in the power of opportunity, the resiliency of the human spirit, and the boundless potential in all of us.
It turned out we were right.
I've had the privilege to watch more than 23,000 men change their lives and the lives of their children through this program—through the power of opportunity. Men who were homeless are now thriving. Men who knew only deprivation in their childhood are now great dads. They have achieved things they never thought possible. It is profound to bear witness to these transformations.
After nearly three decades of this work, I can tell you: there is no better life than one centered around helping others. You may find that fulfillment in education. Or maybe your heart lies with women's rights or immigration. The important thing is to focus on what inspires a deep passion in you. It may not always be lucrative work, but the rewards are tremendous.
What I want everyone—and young women in particular—to know is that you truly can achieve anything if you have confidence in yourself. Many of the world's most respected leaders faced years of criticism, doubt, and dismissal from others before they were considered a success. It's important to be open to advice, but listen to your intuition. Ultimately, only you can know if you are on the right path.
Even when others believe in your vision, leading is not easy. Tough choices fall on your shoulders and your decisions have the power to affect the well-being of others. Yet there are few things more exciting than diving headfirst into a problem and finding fresh solutions to it. It reminds you that you truly can change things for the better.
Co-leading Ready, Willing & Able has taught me so many things about leadership. I'd like to share a few of them with you:
- Some people may be born to lead, but it is possible for anyone to learn to be a leader.
- There is strength in diversity. Recognize others' skills and use them to build a great team.
- Women make excellent leaders. They tend to be more empathetic, less ego-driven, and adept at working with others.
- No one has all the answers. Listen to others' ideas and implement them.
- Recognize and encourage talent. Provide good people with the opportunity to learn and grow.
- Let go of control so that your idea can truly flourish. This can be difficult, but it's essential.
The leadership landscape has changed significantly since George and I started Ready, Willing & Able more than twenty-five years ago. There are exponentially more women leaders across all areas of business, politics, and academics. We owe these opportunities to the generations of women who fought for them.
But the fight's not over yet. We have more work to do and more glass ceilings to break. Go on and break them!
Harriet Karr-McDonald is co-founder of The Doe Fund's Ready, Willing & Able transitional work program for men with histories of homelessness and incarceration.
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First, it is important to understand that ascorbate is asborbed in the small intestine modulated by glucose (1):
Na+ dependent glucose transport via SGLT1 receptors in enterocytes modulates the asborption of ascorbate, while transport of dehydroascorbic acid (DHA) is by facilitated difussion. As glucose content in the lumen and in the enterocyte increases, ascorbate transport is reduced. In layman's terms: ascorbate absorption is reduced by high glucose, so if you eat more glucose you will need to eat more ascorbate. This means, glucose increases your minimal requirement for vitamin C in your diet.
But once ascorbate and DHA enter the bloodstream, they must be transported inside cells.
"DHAA can be recycled back into vitamin C, but only inside cells. In order to enter cells, DHAA needs to be transported by glucose transporters. GLUT1, GLUT3, and GLUT4 are the three human DHAA transporters; GLUT1 does most of the work."Structurally, DHAA and ascorbic acid are similar to glucose:
|Ascorbic acid, reduced form (left) and DHA, oxidized form (right)
Jaminet states:
"Glucose transporters are activated by insulin. Thus, DHAA import into cells is increased by insulin, leading to more effective recycling of vitamin C [8]"The reference takes us to a study done on osteoblastic cells (3). When these cells were incubated with insulin, the uptake of DHA and the intracellular concentration of ascorbate from DHA increased. But if you read look into the results, you will find:
What? But isnt insulin, which is stimulated by glucose, supposed to increase DHA transport? Yes, but here is where interpretation problems arise. When we study cells in vitro we isolate the variable we want to study. This helps us understand the exact mechanism of action of certain molecule or pathway (because there is no other molecule/pathway influencing it) but this also creates a problem: our cells are not isolated. In fact, they are under many different convergent signals which might have sinergistic or antagonistic effects on one cellular process. If we focus only on the proximal cause (insulin increases DHA uptake) we miss the big picture for understanding metabolic processes (why insulin increases DHA uptake?). From my point of view, this is an evolutionary acquired mechanism. Vitamin C transport/recycling modulated by insulin/glucose can be illustrated using a different scenario: muscle protein balance. Insulin's role in different tissues is mainly inhibitory. In skeletal muscle, insulin inhibits muscle protein breakdown. But has a passive role on muscle protein synthesis, which is stimulated by plasma amino acid availability. On the other hand, the most powerful stimulus for insulin secretion, hyperglycemia, increases proteolysis (4). Hence, insulin counteracts the effect of hyperglycemia (until a threshold is reached) on muscle protein balance. This effect is also illustrated by glucose induced inflammation. Hyperglycemia is inflammatory (5, 6, 7) and contrary to popular beliefs, insulin is anti-inflammatory (8, 9). My guess is that glucose is the main stimulus for insulin secretion because it is inflammatory. Just like in skeletal muscle, insulin is released to prevent damage from glucose."Transport of [14C]DHAA was inhibited by D-glucose and 2-deoxyglucose, both of which are substrates of GLUT"
Getting back to the topic, these examples help to understand why insulin might increase DHA transport and recycling. When there is a higher level of glucose competing with DHA, insulin's role is to increase the number of GLUT receptors for achieveing a normal intracelular DHA level for proper conversion to ascrobic acid (AA).
There are other vitamin C transport systems used by cells, namely SVCT1 and SVCT2, two sodium dependent transporters for AA, which are regulated among others, by AA plasma concentrations. This transport is not regulated by insulin. So we have two ways by which vitamin C is transported into cells (10):
|AA is transported inside cells by Na+ dependent transporters coupled to a Na+/K+ATPase, while DHA is transported through GLUT proteins. DHA is rapidly reduced to AA, which can excit the cell by different uncharacterized mechanisms (beyond the scope of this post).
"Confirming the role of insulin in promoting vitamin C recycling, Type I diabetics (who lack insulin) have lower blood levels of vitamin C, higher blood levels of DHAA, increased urinary loss of vitamin C metabolites, and greater need for dietary vitamin C. [9, 10]"The first mistake is comparing no insulin (such as in type I diabetics) with low insulin. But why do type I diabetics have lower levels of AA and higher levels of DHA? Is it because a defective recycling via lower DHA cell uptake? Maybe. But I dont think it is the only cause. Hyperglycemia, as mentioned earlier, produces oxidative stress, increasing the formation of reactive oxygen species which react with AA, oxidizing it to form ultimately DHA. Because there is a defective transport of DHA into cells (because of competitive inhibition by glucose and abscence of insulin), the balance is shifted towards DHA. The main source of mitochondrial ROS seems to be complex III during the oxidation of complex I substrates (NADH dehydrogenase) (11). Without going into details (maybe on a different post), complete (aerobic) glucose oxidation produces a ratio of NADH to FADH of 5:1. This means that mitochondrial energy metabolism relies more on complex I than complex II, increasing the production of ROS. This scenario is also observed in type II diabetics (12, 13), who in fact have the opposite (chronic hyperinsulinemia), but glucoregulatory alterations. Despite having high insulin levels, they have low plasma vitamin C. Increased ROS production both by systemic inflammation, hyperglycemia, carbohydrate-based mitochondrial energy production and defective cellular transport are the likely causes of vitamin C alterations observed in these patients. In uncontrolled TIDM, abscence of insulin makes things worse. This is by no means applicable to ketogenic diets.
Then, Jaminet states:"Dehydroascorbate, the fully oxidized form of vitamin C, is reduced spontaneously by glutathione, as well as enzymatically in reactions using glutathione or NADPH. [11]"
"Glutathione is recycled by the enzyme glutathione peroxidase, a selenium-containing enzyme whose abundance is sensitive to selenium status. One difficulty with zero-carb diets is that they seem to deplete selenium levels."For this assupmtion, he references a study on a sudden cardiac death on a ketogenic diet for seizure control (14). From the cited study:
"Selenium is an essential nutrient in the human diet. Sources of selenium include cereals, meats, and fish [8]. However, depending on the intake of those foods and the source of cereals (e.g., soil rich or poor in selenium), selenium levels in humans are variable. Patients on the ketogenic diet have little cereal intake, and only moderate fish and meat intake, and thus are predisposed to low selenium levels."Even I said I wasn't going to refer to seizure-control ketogenic diets, its worth mentioning that according to the last recommendations of the International Ketogenic Diet Study Group (15), the "normal" diet used in this cases is 90% fat and 10% of carbohydrates and protein combined. They state that "Calories are typically restricted to 80%–90% of the daily recommendations for age". Not very similar to popular paleo-keto diets. To achieve this incredibly low level of protein, they have to restrict important sources of Se, specially those eaten in abundance by low carbers like meat and fish, being the former one of the foods with best Se bioavailability (16). The recommended Se intake seems to be around 40ug/day (17) and muscle meats, on average, have 0.3-0.4mg Se/kg (organ meats such as liver and kidney concentrate more Se, from 4 to 16 fold the amount on muscle). Remember that 1000ug = 1mg, so 0.4mg = 400ug. If you eat 100g of meat a day (excluding other animal sources) you are eating 40ug of Se, the recommended intake (for reference, 100g equals to 3.5oz/0.22lb).
Jaminet concludes:
"So here we have a second mechanism contributing to the development of scurvy on a zero-carb diet. The diet produces a selenium deficiency, which produces a glutathione deficiency, which prevents DHAA from being recycled into vitamin C, which leads to DHAA degradation and permanent loss of vitamin C."As we have seen, using a clinical case based on a ketogenic diet for seizure control leads to a flawed conclusion.
Finally, as said by one of the PHD readers in the comment section, ketogenic diets have shown to increase GSH levels (18).
The hypothesis proposed by Jaminet is not supported by facts, only by assumptions based on misinterpretation of the existing data. Proper ketogenic diets dont produce vitamin C, glutathione or selenium deficiency. Loss of glucoregulation does.


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The Ravens acquired third-year running back Delone Carter from the Indianapolis Colts on Wednesday, in the process eliminating David Reed from the logjam at wide receiver behind the starters on their depth chart.
Reed, obviously, was on the outside looking in at the competition for the final two or three receiver spots, so the Ravens flipped him for the former Syracuse back. So what should the Ravens expect from Carter this season?
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Having failed in its initial effort to buy Time Warner Cable, Charter Communications now wants to take over the company's board of directors.
On Tuesday Charter announced a slate of directors it will nominate to Time Warner Cable's board at its annual meeting later this year. The 13 nominees include James Chiddix, a former chief technology officer for Time Warner Cable and Lisa Gersh, former president of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia and Oxygen Media.
The hostile move comes about a month after Time Warner Cable rejected Charter's unsolicited offer of $132.50 a share and sets up a proxy fight for the company.


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Just in time for Valentine's Day, Colorado Springs was named the most romantic city in the country, according to Facebook and The Wall Street Journal, which used online data to list the top five cities. Surprised?
Texas is almost as romantic, with three cities listed in the top five in El Paso, Fort Worth and San Antonio. Louisville, Ky., rounded out the list.
Facebook data nerds chose a month at random and counted how many people went from "single" to being "in a relationship," according to the Journal.
The Springs popped up on top.
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It's no secret that the Dover Tornadoes and New Philadelphia Quakers high school football teams have the third-longest rivalry in Ohio. And while the athletes are considered the stars of the day, it's the antics and enthusiasm of their fans that might get the attention of people outside the area.
It's no secret that the Dover Tornadoes and New Philadelphia Quakers high school football teams have the third-longest rivalry in Ohio.
And while the athletes are considered the stars of the day, it's the antics and enthusiasm of their fans that might get the attention of people outside the area.
Fans of both teams gathered for the 110th meeting at Dover's Crater Stadium hours before the actual event was set to begin.
Arriving nearly three hours ahead of time, Orlando Cantu and his family and church friends were tailgating for the big night Friday. He was surrounded by fans from both sides of the fierce competition.
The 34-year-old said he went to Tuscarawas Valley High School, but has been a Quaker fan for years, especially after moving to New Philadelphia 14 years ago. Plus, his daughters go to New Philadelphia High School.
"I like all the smack talk," he laughed.
And part of it was aimed at Aaron Kuntzman, who lives in New Philadelphia but is a loyal Tornadoes fan.
"He's confused," Cantu said of his friend.
Kuntzman said he may live in New Philadelphia, but he is a 1999 Dover graduate, and knows where his allegiance lies.
In fact, Kuntzman used to be very involved in the pranks high school students played on each other, and that have helped garner some notoriety for Dover and New Philadelphia fans.
"We went egging our junior and senior year," he recalled. "We got busted by the cops."
And, as he noted, that was after students were banned from buying eggs during Spirit Week at the grocery stores — thanks to their predecessors.
Now he settles for cornhole, burgers and brats.
"I don't miss a game," he said.
Of course, the intensity of the rivalry was an odd concept for some.
Janet Puza has lived in New Philadelphia since 1992. While she enjoyed football in her home state of Pennsylvania, she wasn't prepared for the intense competition.
"I thought it was a little crazy, because we didn't have anything like that back home," she said.
But Puza got the bug, and finds herself rooting for the Quakers, especially after her kids went there for school.
Bayard Gennert and his wife, Melissa, had just flown in from Minnesota to attend Gennert's 15th high school reunion and cheer for Dover with the rest of the alumni.
"This is the first game in many years," he said, although he always calls home for the score.
Gennert said he lives in a suburb outside Minneapolis, and they don't have major rivalries like the one in Dover-New Philadelphia.
"It's nice to go to a small-town game," Gennert said.
Of course, he isn't just a football fan. Gennert also used to be the drum major for the Dover Marching Tornadoes.
"We'll be sticking around for halftime," he said.
While many onlookers can remember how it felt to participate in Spirit Week, the games hold special meaning for former athletes.
Corey Colaner was an All-Ohio wide receiver for the Dover Tornadoes less than a decade ago. The 26-year-old electrician still loves watching his team.
"I like seeing people carry on the Dover tradition," he said.
He can still recall how it felt to get ready for the Dover-Phila game.
"It's nerve-wracking," he said, adding that it also was and still is "exciting."
At 48, Joe Lowery also gets nostalgic about his football career. Lowery played several positions for the Quakers' including quarterback. He'll never forget his last Dover-New Philadelphia game in 1982.
"We lost our senior year — 13-10," Lowery recalled. "But I did have an interception and a touchdown — and that's what I hang my hat on."
Lowery said the athletes always remember the games a little differently than others who screamed in the bleachers.
"For a player, you don't get caught up in it too much," he said. "You're too focused."
Of course, he does have respect for Dover players. "My dad played for Dover, and he was still one of the best players for that school," he said.
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More bad news for fruit salad lovers: following the recent recall of cantaloupes due to Listeria concerns, Burch Equipment LLC is expanding the recall to include all of this growing season's honeydew melons. The FDA said that it has found Listeria bacteria on a honeydew melon grown and packed by Burch Farms.
The melons in this expanded recall were sold to distributors in Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia, Vermont and West Virginia. It is possible that those sellers may have further distributed the melons to other states.
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The honeydew melons involved in this recall do not have any identifying stickers, but they were packed in shipping cases labeled "melons." Anyone who has purchased melons should ask the store whether the fruit was obtained from Burch Farms.
Listeria can cause serious food poisoning. The disease primarily affects older adults, pregnant women, newborns, and adults with weakened immune systems. The FDA said that no one has been confirmed sick from this particular recall.


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Obesity is a disease. It can strike you if you do not keep your weight on track. That is why Americans have come up with different ways to lose weight, including joining the ultimate weight loss challenge to keep them motivated.
About obesity
Obesity is a result of being overweight or going way beyond the ideal body mass index (BMI). Your BMI is computed based on the proportion of your height to your weight.
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I recommend this book to kids in K-2 grade because I think they will like this book just like me. Kids who like milk and cookies will like this book!


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Experience the wonders of the tropical forest, walk along suspended cable bridges and enjoy a motorboat ride on the Tarcoles River to enjoy one of the more diverse views of the protected areas of Costa Rica.
The Sky Walk trails and suspended cable bridges are likely to show visitors the wonders of the tropical forest. Located around national parks and protected lands, more than 120 species of birds have been identified as well as mammals such as the Kinkajou, Agoutis, Coatis, and others. Your downhill walk will enable you to enjoy breathtaking views of the ocean and coastline, as well as its vegetation and waterways.
Drive to your next destination to where the adventure awaits. Take a motorboat ride along the Tarcoles River, famous for its pristine mangrove forest and is a nesting site for the rare Scarlet Macaw. It also shelters a large variety of resident and migrant aquatic wildlife, iguanas and Jesus Christ lizards, home of the largest crocodile population in the country. Your river exploration is done using high above the water covered motorized boats. Make sure you keep your eyes open and your camera ready. Listen to marimba music while you enjoy a tropical fruit buffet with fresh fruit juice, water and flavorful Costa Rican coffee before returning to your ship.


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Doctor Who: The Krotons (UK - DVD R2)
The Wilson Bros review the final complete Troughton story on DVD...
If there was a Doctor Who equivalent to the old adage that the good die young, then The Krotons would figure in it somewhere, as some of Patrick Troughton's naffest adventures managed to avoid vanishing into the televisual ether (we would also put The Dominators in with this), whist some that are regarded as being amongst the very best ( Fury From the Deep, Evil of the Daleks being two prime examples) suffered badly.
The Doctor, Jamie (Frazer Hines) and Zoe (Wendy Padbury) find themselves on the planet of the Gonds, a race that is suppressed by the Krotons, a group of crystalline creatures who were stranded on the planet after their ship, the Dynatrope, crash-landed after being damaged during an intergalactic battle. The TARDIS crew soon discover that the Krotons are educating the Gonds and the best and brightest of them are selected to enter the Dynatrope, seemingly never to return, only the trio find out that those selected are soon eliminated after having their mental power drained. When The Krotons discover that The Doctor and Zoe are of superior intelligence, they will stop at nothing to get their pincer-like appendages on the "high brains" to complete their mission...
This was the first story to be penned by a writer whose name would eventually become synonymous with some of Doctor Who's most revered stories, Robert Holmes. Holmes was a man who possessed a face that resembled a statue on Easter Island, but he also had a way with words, a deliciously sly sense of humour and an ear for obscure and unusal character names rivalled only by Dickens. Though there are some interesting themes running through the story, there is precious little of Holmes' wit in The Krotons - Holmes originally submitted this story idea back in the Hartnell era, but it was turned down because it was felt that the Kroton characters were too similar to a race of robotic creatures that were going to be featured in a forthcoming story, and were going to be seen as the next big merchandise cash-cow for the BBC - the Mechanoids! How'd that work out for the Beeb, by the way...?
This is one of those Doctor Who stories where The Doctor materialises in a society where everything is running relatively smoothly and orderly, only for our hero to begin to question things and ultimately ferment revolution. The Gonds were perfectly happy to be under the control of the Krotons (with only a small amount of resistance from certain quarters) and were unaware of what happens to their people who had been specially selected by the Krotons. The basic premise could be looked upon as the destruction of religion; The Doctor dislikes an established order that has been working for a very long time and even encompasses sacrificial rituals - The Doctor then begins to try and convince the believers that all is not as it seems and that they should start to question their gods (the Krotons) and their entire belief system. Ultimately, the gods are overthrown and the population is free to be self-governing and make up their own minds as to how to proceed - at one point, The Doctor even makes mention of evolution by saying that they came from the primordial soup - a statement that would instantly raise the hackles of any religious group that fundamentally believes that they were created by a god in his own image.
On another level, this story can be seen as a sly dig at the racial issue prevalent in South Africa at the time; the Krotons (who seemingly speak with South African accents) are the white rulers, who control the black majority with an iron fist and keep them subjugated with fear, whilst regarding them as mentally and biologically inferior. You could also drag analogies to Nazism by noting that the Krotons exterminate those who do not measure up to their levels of mental development, but that might be taking things a little TOO far...
On yet ANOTHER level, the student protests that were taking place in several countries around the time this story was written are reflected, as the younger Gonds are seen rebelling against the establishment by destroying the Learning Hall (being a pretty explicit reference to the destruction wreaked by students in France and in other parts of the world.
We could continue the student line and say that Holmes' script could be a sly dig at the state of education in the UK at the time - the best and brightest were selected and put though through the system and come out the other side mindless. The so-called "brain-drain" that was happening in various parts of the world - where people with knowledge, abilities or technical skills would emigrate and thereby deprive their home counties of their talents - could also have had an impact on Holmes when he was writing story, as he manages to confront it literally within a metaphorical context.
There are some interesting technical terminology and concepts in The Krotons, with scanners and facial recognition systems, where the machinery at the Krotons' disposal is able to recognise The Doctor, sending out a dubious-looking probe (a forerunner of the unintentionally hilarious protuberance in Tom Baker's Creature From the Pit).
It's a pity that The Krotons falls victim to a seriously annoying plot contrivance in the second episode, where the highly-intelligent, capable and all-round know-it-all Zoe conveniently decides to try out one of the computers in the learning hall; someone as logical as her would surely have known not to go anywhere near it, but she does so anyway purely as a lazy way of advancing the story. Despite this, Padbury projects a pleasing "girly-swot" type of enthusiasm, which helps to paper over this major annoyance - slightly...
Whatever issues there are with the story in general, The Krotons highlights just how great the three leads worked together, as the chemistry between Troughton, Hines and Padbury is undeniable; the trio play off each other wonderfully, with all of them able to add unscripted moments that they had thought up, which served to make them even more appealing. Even when sticking to Holmes' script, they are able to bring it off the page in a way that even the author could have imagined - the best example comes when The Doctor refers to Zoe as "something of a genius... very irritating at times" - the mild irritation of Troughton's face and the glee on Padbury's is just wonderful. The chemistry between them almost harks back to the days of Musical Hall (or Vaudeville - the American equivalent) and Troughton, Hines and Padbury were fabulously proficient at this. It should be noted that most (if not all) of the humour in The Krotons came about through unscripted improvisation from the three leads.
During The Krotons, it had been revealed to the general public that Patrick Troughton had decided to leave the series. The almost relentless schedule was taking its toll upon him, not to mention the fact that he always regarded himself as a jobbing actor, rather than a leading man meant that he didn't want to get typecast. Troughton's decision to leave the series was a wise one on his part, as he went on to play numerous parts on film and television and was (it could be argued) the only actor to play The Doctor who managed to avoid being typecast. Regardless of his decision to leave Doctor Who, Patrick Troughton was throughly professional right til the end of his time on the show and turns in yet another wonderful performance in this story.
Much of the dramatic weight is put onto the shoulders of Frazer Hines during episode three, as Troughton and Padbury only seem to appear in filmed inserts during the first half, almost making you think that they were on holiday that week, but they pop up in the studio for the latter half of the episode. Hines does well during his fifteen minutes of leading man status and shows that he was capable as being more than a slightly slow-witted foil for Troughton.
There is no getting around it, Wendy Padbury is SERIOUSLY cute in this story. Padbury's clever-clogs demeanour has always been appealing, but when this is coupled with the very fetching PVC minidress Zoe wears in The Krotons, she's simply irresistable, showing off her fine pair of pins. Asthetic values aside, Padbury looks like she's having the time of her life in this story, especially when Zoe is finding ways of thwarting the oppressive regieme of the Krotons. The unscripted playing for time between her and Troughton near the end of episode four is wonderful stuff and endears her to an audience more than anything else.
Philip Madoc is very good in this story; Eelek seems to be about the only member of the Gonds to have anything that resembles a backbone, even if he has something of a callous streak running through him. Madoc gives a typically compelling performance, but the character is sadly underutilised. Madoc's magentic personality really draws you to him and his commanding voice is unmistakably that of an actor who knows just how to grab an audience by the throat. Sadly, Madoc passed away recently and it's fairly depressing that out of so many wonderfully rich and varied performances during his long career, he will be known to many for his "your name vill also go on ze list" U-boat captain in Dad's Army.
The Krotons themselves are pretty crappy-looking, with large, cumbersome bodies that look like they could tip over any minute and heads that look remarkably like lemon-juicers. There are times when a blank visage, coupled with a suitably menacing voice, can be very effective in presenting a faceless force of evil, but the Krotons fail because they are the sum of their parts, a shuffling, box-like body with a spinning lemon-juicer for a head; the Afrikaans-like accents (provided by Patrick Tull and Doctor Who semi-regular Roy Skelton) just add to the unintentional hilarity.
Even if the design of the Krotons is particularly naff, you have to admire the firepower they wield - they seem to possess a form of smart-weapon technology, as one poor sod cops it in episode four and he is standing at the back of the room, with several other Gonds standing in front of him (including Philip Madoc - but you would imagine him being impervious to such things anyway); the Gond snuffs it and nobody in front of him appears harmed. Smart weapons, indeed.
It is eventually discovered that the Krotons can be thwarted by the use of sulphuric acid, which our protagonists try to manufacture themselves. It would be too easy to make jokes about The Doctor, Zoe and the Gonds experimenting with acid, but this was the late sixties and everyone was at it...
The "as-live" method of recording had it's pros and cons - the pros were that there was more interaction between the actors and performances could flow and the cast could bounce off each other, making a more cohesive performance, but the main con was that short of a major technical gaff or one of the cast fluffing in a spectacular manner that involves four-letter expletives, the recording carried on (this would prove to be William Hartnell's nemesis, as most - if not all - of his fluffs were transmitted). There are a couple of technical clunkers in The Krotons, with a serious camera bump as it rolled over a peice of set dressing in episode two, and there is a moment when Troughton and Padbury can be seen on a monitor motionless for a second as they wait for a cue to walk through a shot.
The first and most overriding thing to say about the image quality on the DVD copy of The Krotons is that it is simply jaw-dropping.
We might be sticking our necks out here, but it's quite likely that this is the best-looking sixties-era Doctor Who title to be released on DVD and it almost certainly going to be the transfer that most resembles what was transmitted on television screens during the black and white era of the show. The 35mm negatives of the telerecordings all exist and served as the basis for this wonderful transfer.
Black levels are fabulous, the image detail is surprising high for sixties Doctor Who (the show had switched over to higher resolution by this point) and the image is a steady as a rock, with none of that wavering that is symptomatic of a duff telerecording.
On the sonic front, the mono 2.0 soundtrack is also pretty good, with clear dialogue and Brian Hodgson's atmospheric sounds are pleasant on the ear, with no discernable distortion.
Second Time Around: Now we come to the feature on the disc which Troughton fans have been waiting for in stewing silence for years - a documentary covering the entire reign of the Cosmic Hobo, and this is as comprehensive as the ones which have been afforded some of the other Doctors. Containing contributions from all surviving companions during the three-year tenure, you'll be truly ecstatic to hear thrilling stories from the shooting of the lost tales, as though some shift in the space/time continuum prevented them from ever being wiped. Are you excited yet? You should be!
Anneke Wills has a lot of praise for the replacement Doctor, and fondly remembers that he used to call her and Michael Craze "…his reality check" during the early days of his run, and also how she was instrumental in the iconic hairstyle that came to define the character. Turns out that after fart-arsing around with outlandish looks and wigs, Wills borrowed a comb, gave him a Beatles-like "do" and the legend was born! It always looked more like Moe Howard to us, but hey-ho…
Even though Wills swears blind that she, Troughton and Craze felt no animosity towards the newcomer into the fold, Frazer Hines tells of his feelings of being an "interloper" into the Doctor Who cast, something not helped when he was appropriated a number of Craze's lines in order to shoehorn Jamie into scripts written before it was decided to keep him on after The Highlanders - which turned out to be the last of the original historical stories on which the show was born.
What better way to usher in a new era of Sci-Fi writing for the show than starting with a strongly-written tale to show the direction it was now heading in. Yeah. Instead we got something which smelled distinctly fishy, and certainly wasn't going to have legs of any kind. At this point, you really have to admire Robert Shearman's ability to be a cheerleader for Doctor Who, even in the face of some particularly crappy stories. He enthuses about The Underwater Menace more than anyone with pubic hair or taste really should: "I think it's great fun," he enthuses "it's very different to almost anything else that went out at the time… they know it's a comedy and they're playing it for laughs, and sometimes the laughs are there, sometimes they're not." Rumour has it that Shearman was next on O.J. Simpson's list if Johnny Cochran wasn't available…
Gary Russell crystallises just why many of Troughton's stories were so very sluggish, almost akin to wading through treacle. With the success of The Tenth Planet, producer Innes Lloyd and writers Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis found that they had hit upon a formula which worked, and this was the classic "base under siege" format, as typified by the John Wayne movie, The Alamo, which they rolled out with gusto in The Moonbase. "It's a secluded place" he summarises, "You can't get away from it. You are trapped in there. You have a limited amount of air, water, resources, gunfire, whatever, and approaching you from every single angle, in this case, were a bunch of Cybermen." Shearman - once again - accentuates the positive when noting that: "It's a show actually which becomes a bit more predictable, but is also rather more fun. You can sell it upon the monsters."
As with a few of the others playing The Doctor, fellow thespians seem to have gotten on with Troughton better than those on the production side, but Power of the Daleks director Christopher Barry breaks the format and pays one of the highest compliments to the man behind the Cosmic Hobo with words which may not seem that much outside the "biz", but there are thespians able to attain them, "You never saw acting showing on him… it was all so internalised that it came out as a very real characterisation." The expected side comes when Derrick Sherwin spills the beans on the moment when the proverbial straw broke the camel's back, and Troughton made up his mind to leave, this occasion being when he was reading through a particularly mediocre script, indicative of the latter part of his run. It's damn interesting to note that his decision to quit was met with the same unexpected indifference from the producers that greeted Tom Baker when his moody ways left them glad he was going. Never before have the words: "we can replace you" carried so much weight during the run of a TV show!
Deborah Watling confirms that any doubts she had about coming into the fold were misplaced, but she we rather unsure about the actions of a certain actor wearing a kilt. "I knew Pat was on my side," she notes, "I wasn't quite sure about Frazer, 'cause he had a roving eye and I knew that. At the [vis-à-vis] party, he was looking all the ladies up and down…" In spite of chasing anything in a skirt shorter than the he wore on screen, Hines turned out to be just as welcoming as everyone else. She seems to have mellowed in recent years, with warm memories about the filming of Doctor Who, not least of which the times spent with the regulars and her father on the filming of The Abominable Snowmen.
Terrance Dicks' casual dismissal of The Mind Robber is pretty annoying, casting it aside because of his hatred of all things "fantasy". There are plenty of others ready to rightly leap to its' defence, with Shearman going on record as saying that the first part in particular is superlative, calling it "…maybe the most brilliant episode… transmitted in the 1960s." On the flipside is his bizarre defence of The Krotons as a whole, in spite of having: "…possibly the worst monster in the history of Doctor Who." Wendy Padbury agrees that the design of the titular baddies ended up rather flawed: "Probably on paper, they sounded great", the perky actress recalls, "…the reality was they really didn't do it for me…they were not my favourite."
Covering a couple of years worth of episodes is not any easy thing to cram into under an hours, but is done so with aplomb, and it couldn't be aptly labelled exhaustive without the contribution of Victor Pemberton, and his participation makes this another fascinating look at a bygone era through the voices of the living and the dead, the latter represented by quotes, memos and reportage from the time. The whole thing feels as though it's an honest exaltation of a neglected period of Doctor Who, but is so very smart not to see it though rose-tinted glasses, with more flaws and unrest pointed out than blind adoration would ever allow. Doctor Who fans will love it, Troughton fans will be ecstatic and causal viewers will be engrossed. It is the last word on the reign of the Second Doctor, and a pleasure to watch. By the way, does anyone else think that Dr Zaroff looks a lot like Sydney Newman?
Doctor Who Stories - Frazer Hines Part 1: Everybody's favourite companion in a skirt is the subject of another entertaining look at the bedrock of Doctor Who's popularity. With nothing to prove and in distinct repose, Hines talks candidly and with fondness about his time on the show, from how he was cast, going beyond a single story, what hit and what didn't even stay in the board.
We get his thoughts on why monochrome is "scarier" than colour, with sound reasoning from Hines, including one aspect which has been a bugbear with us for ages: seldom does something in colour get the hue of blood correct, but it is never an issue with black-and-white, possibly making the imagery all the worse for keeping it so very dark. Topically, he describes The Krotons as "…one of the worst ones we ever had" and is quick to explain just why is was so weak to begin with. As we all know, it was a replacement for a rather sexist tale about a feminist prison in space, but ol' Frazer admits that he gets "all nostalgic" about the aborted story just remembering it.
He puts the famous story of the "big one" running gag which he and Troughton were always trying to put in wherever they could in to scripts. Complete with excellent impression of the Cosmic Hobo, and the method they uses to get it past the dreaded "producer's run". It's a joy to get this fan-favourite anecdote on DVD for posterity. There's still bags of time to detail just how he and Troughton used to mercilessly tease Deborah Watling, including when they stole her miniskirt whilst on hallowed ground, leaving the actress wearing only a panties and a pair of Mary Quant boots. Naturally, the local vicar walked in on the high-spirited behaviour…
The most surprising aspect of this footage is that Hines mentions a time when he was going around London with Troughton one evening and dropping off wads of cash to some of the houses where his marital - and extramarital - acquaintences dwelled in a very casual manner. We thought that his playboy-like dalliances were only revealed in the recent book by his son, Michael, so it was interesting to hear that Hines was happy to talk about it in front of the camera a decade ago (even if it didn't make it into The Story of Doctor Who for obvious reasons).
Another excellent redux from the Story of Doctor Who interviews and packed full of charm, this might well be the last time Hines reaches out to such a wide audience, so it's a treat to have something so enjoyable for younger fans to eventually watch to find out all about one of the most endearing companions the show will ever see. Oh, and be sure to stay 'til after the credits for how Hines deals with tricky questions at conventions!
The Doctor's Strange Love - The Krotons: Simon Guerrier is back to delve into the junk pile of Doctor Who, looking at the one surviving Patrick Troughton story which seems to have been watched by the most amount of people. Unusually, this is a one-on-one situation, where Joseph Lidster returns to try and explain his emphatic love for The Krotons, and we have to say that a few very valid points are made. Whilst it helps that Gurrier shares a lot of the same affection, the general opinion of the show is so low that this will be a one-sided battle, but our man here is aptly named for such a fight.
Troughton's ability to sell even the most shaky of cliff-hangers, and Bob Holmes' trust in the audience to understand the actions and dynamics of the main characters so as not to spoon-feed them what is going on. It is the taciturn nature of the script which underpins their love of the story, also used for the central premise of The Krotons, where The Doctor wandering in from the forbidden outside causes the population to question the rules they blindly obey, and all this without spelling it out to viewers.
Certain aspects of the production design garner the least praise, with the Krotons themselves being charitably described by Lidster as "…looking good from the waist up" with Guerrier chipping that he loves their spinning heads. Lidster encapsulates just why even the worst of the Troughton stories are eminently entertaining, in spite of all the average scripts which would dog the era, and that is the camaraderie of the three leads: "I could watch those three…pratt about in a quarry for an hour, 'cause they're just great." Can you put it any better than that?
The bottom line is that even the most unspeakably awful work of fiction will have it's share of rabid fans - there are people deeply in love with Andrea Bianci's zombie incest-fest Nights of Terror, something so dreadful that it inspires laughs, yet fans still defend it. The points put forward here are good ones, and made with passion and humour by our likeable hosts. We won't give it all away, so just sit back and allow these guys gnaw away at your brain as surely as a Kroton trying to get a some sustenance. When trying to sell older Doctor Who to the "meh" generation, more weapons of The Doctor's Strange Love's calibre might well turn the tide. Excellent stuff, once more.
Audio Commentary: Tobe Hakoke is captain of the ship once more, and leads an ever-changing line-up through the four parts of The Krotons, with plenty of laughs and warm memories to offset the more ridiculous elements of the story. There are actors and various members of the crew, including the recently-deceased Phillip Madoc and a couple of the women working behind the scenes during the monochromatic era of Doctor Who, with this being recommendation alone for listening in. You know it's going to be another shot of good fun when Hadoke chips in at the start of the first episode: "As a door gets stuck on the opening shot…"
The man that was Axus, Richard Ireson, is really good for a laugh, almost as though he and Hadoke are engaged in one-upmanship when it comes to getting the biggest chuckles. While the late sixties yielded some rather unforgivable fashion crimes on Earth, it was clearly nothing compared to other parts of the galaxy "The strangest things are the costumes," he exclaims, "I can only imagine that we thought they were very cool, but they seems to have got stripes like football socks round their legs. What a weird and interesting costume. Did we think it was trendy at the time?" Madoc gets in on the gag, and opines that he thought they "…were quite attractive."
Gilbert Wynne might well be the coolest of the guests, going from Softy, Softly to the UK's favourite family show with none of the usual thespian grousing about such work being beneath him, although the brutal schedule of Doctor Who took him by surprise "We had very little time to do it, of course, but we didn't have a lot of time on Softly, we used to turn it over in ten days, and three of that was filming down in Bristol, but I loved every minute of it. Someone [in the booth] said it was the show to be in… at home in Wales, my cred went up like this - it didn't matter about two and a half years in Softly, but it was Doctor Who that did it!"
Special Sound supremo Brian Hodgson remembers that this was one of the first one where it was strictly his show, with no incidental music to get in the way. Not always through artistic design, he recalls the time when his abilities were really put to the test when the BBC's purse was a little light, "I remember getting one frantic phone-call, saying that [they] hadn't got any money for a set for this story, so we are going to do it in the TARDIS surrounded by black velvet with sequins on to look like stars," leaving him to create an atmosphere throughout the entire thing to paper over the budgetary cracks.
Assistant Floor Manager David Tilley brings along one of the camera scripts, and both he and a fascinated Hadoke note that everything in it conforms exactly to what ended up in the finished show. When asked if he kept all everything related to the show (either for profit of posterity) a somewhat coy Tilley plays it rather innocent: "Well… I tend to sort of take them home after I have worked… and they ended up in the attic, so it is quite useful to bring them down." God knows how much a copy of one of those things - complete with Tilley's handwritten notes - would fetch when thrust in front of a crazed Troughton fan. We'll have to ask one for reference…
Costume Designer Bobi Bartlett echoes one of the problems which was brought up in another commentary recently, that being when the responsibility for an elaborate alien form is dumped into the lap of wardrobe personnel rather than the effects department: "The Krotons, there, were classed as a costume, where when you think of the Daleks... were a special effect", she reasons. Bartlett admirably defends one of the most derided aspects of the titular creatures' design, that being a skirt to rival Jamie's one, "In theory, they were meant to glide up mountains…[using the design] like the skirt of a hovercraft." Into the recoding booth, Bartlett brought her portfolio, where she shows everyone pictures of Padbury's costume with the added benefit of colour. Realising it doesn't translate too well to an audio-based medium, Hadoke gets to describe the different hues for the rest of us.
Keeping the female end up, Make-Up Artist Sylvia James brings to light an important problem which occurred during the tricky time when monochrome was being phased out: "We always maintained that we worked in colour anyway, which we did, really. So when we had to do our Colour Realisation course, [chuckles] we came across problems. People couldn't drink, as their faces would flush and become magenta-looking", Hadoke seizes the opportunity to suggest that certain actors could only play embarrassed characters after lunchtime.
Recurring Doctor Who actor Phillip Madoc's recalls his chance to William Hartnell in the BBC bar a few years later, but it wasn't exactly what he was expecting. Staring blankly off into space, Hartnell slowly faced Madoc, scrutinised his face, and eventually proclaimed: "You're a very good actor…" and turned back round and continued to gaze into nothingness - "His face didn't change at all", remembers Madoc, somewhat disillusioned by the experience. Still, it's nice to know that he came away from re-watching The War Games with a newfound appreciation of it, and that his time on the show wasn't either wasted or forgotten.
This is a fun track, somewhat tainted by the recent loss of Phillip Madoc, but the shows he and the others were involved with are getting on for fifty years old, and time is a total bastard with no respect for anyone. It's a treat that the thoughts of Madoc and all those before and to come after are now preserved to remember them for more than they were in front of the camera, and with a lot of good cheer and excellent moderation by Hadoke, this is a lot of fun, and has the power to warm the heart like a good slug of brandy.
Information Subtitles: They say that if you give an infinite number of monkeys and infinite number of typewriters, they would eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. There are few silly enough to dispute such a thoughtful look at infinite possibilities, but shortly before they finish up on ol' Bills entire oeuvre, somewhere between "The play is the thong" and "Now is the wanker of our discontent" would be a perfect facsimile of a Doctor Who information track. That the colossal collection of minutia can be gathered up by so few is astounding, and we're pretty sure that those involved only throw faeces when REALLY angry!
The ocean of changes in dialogue from script to screen are all faithfully recorded, with some nixed material being of particular interest. Discussion about the nature of the Venus Fly-Trap between Troughton and Padbury gives us the information that not only is Venus without the famous insect-eating plants, but there is no actual life on the planet. This pokes a huge hole in a certain aspect to Jon Pertwee's incarnation of the character, and tosses credibility aside as though using a rather camp martial art from somewhere in our solar-system.
Explicit not only in altered dialogue, but also the technical requirements of the script, such as exactly what they wanted with the "identikit" photo of The Doctor. The keen eye examining The Krotons isn't only reserved to point out the positive side, as it is only too keen to let us know when things go wrong, such as just which camera can be seen reflected in the head of a Kroton in a close-up. Speaking of which, even which camera is shooting what and the angle used is here for your technical enjoyment!
Where else can you get an exact number of people brought in to play Gonds, both those with dialogue and the others there to stand around and look pretty? Being true to untouchable form, every single one of these guys and girls in listed by the Information track when the titles role, including the extras who were unable to appear! Also listed are all the uncredited members of the production team - one of whom is pointed out when they accidentally appear for a split second behind the door as Vana stumbles out into the sunlight.
The influences over the Bob Holmes' script be them political or from other literary works are all faithfully listed, bringing The Krotons greater scope and depth to those who see it as just a story where a couple of crappy-looking robots curiously rule over a race possessed of greater physical dexterity.
Laced through the whole shebang is the always-welcome streak of humour, turning a seminar something which would be revolutionary if implemented in schools. Far too many areas of science-fiction are lacking self-deprecation, but even the most ardent of fans will get more than a few chuckles to leaven their edification. At one point, everything stops when the Information track asks: "Q: What colour is the sky on the planet of the Gonds?" A valid question, given that the monochrome nature of the material allows for individual interpretation, but we get in reply: "A: Light blue (try not to be too disappointed)."
Our favourite moment among the many gems to be found has to be on the subject of how Frazer Hines has to exit through a hatchway on one set and get into position ready to emerge onto another, all during a live taping session. It reads thusly: "Now remember the studio layout, with this exit door split between two sets? Jamie now has exactly 16 seconds to get across the studio and into position behind the other side of the door. There's no recording break, not even a pause to cover the repositioning, so it's a race against time for Frazer Hines…", cut to shot of Jamie coming out of the hatch: "He made it!" Quietly witty, informative and the perfect balance.
This is the last of the complete Troughton releases, and is the final Information Text to accompany the adventures of the Cosmic Hobo, and the standard is not only upheld, but they might even have bettered their own incredible achievements. This is the business, and when it comes to fact-tracks, there is no business like it, no business we know, being factual entertainment of a gold-standard so pure that you could grate it and kill a Cyberman with it. Watch, learn and enjoy!
Photo Gallery: Well, there are more photos from The Krotons around than we thought, with a number of them ones we recognise from the pages of Doctor Who Monthly, and each one is damned cool in its' own way. We get lots of shots with an umbrella-carrying Troughton, along with lots of picture of the Three Stooges, and a rather nice combination of stills, production photos, a sketch of the Kroton suit and set-design photographs. It's proof positive that the Krotons themselves look better when they are not moving, and from the waist up, as the overlords look rather splendid when such criteria is fulfilled. Accompanied by Brian Hodgson's terrific "Theatre of sound", this is another reliable look at Doctor Who in still-life. It's just a pity that any of them aren't in colour, as a look at Padbury's dress would have been most welcome…
PDF Materials: As sure as the sun rising in the morning, and as nostalgic as thinking of Cabana bars or Skydivers crisps, the Radio Times Listings are faithfully reproduced for your edification. It really is a kick to see these things, and let's hope that the supply keeps going until the end of the run!
Coming Soon: Role up, role up, for The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, and we all know what that means, kids! Not only did it show just where Sylv was headed with his Dark Doctor persona, but you get one of the best stories the original show ever produced. This is a damned cool trailer, and we can't wait to see it again after all these years, especially looking better than ever, sporting one of the last Dolby Digital 5.1 remixes for a Doctor Who release. Bet you can't, either!
This is the final complete Patrick Troughton story to be released on DVD - after this, all there is left is the recently-discovered episode of The Underwater Menace, and the incomplete six-parter, The Ice Warriors (of which rumours persist that the missing two epsiodes might be animated). The Krotons may be the weakest surviving story of Troughton's time on Doctor Who, but it's still a pleasure to see such a great actor firing on all cylinders here, as he seems to be having a ball. Frazer Hines and Wendy Padbury complete a trio that could arguably be seen as the definitive Doctor/companion combination.
The documentary giving an overview of Patrick Troughton's tenure as The Doctor is welcome and almost seems to close the door on his stories being released on DVD. Troughton has long been our favourite actor to play the character and it's a little sad to see that his last remaining story is coming out on DVD. As The Doctor himself says at the end of this story...
"Let's get away - I don't like goodbyes."
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Pleased to hear you say that - some of the more "hard-core" Doctor Who fans get a little miffed about those, saying that they are vulgar and tasteless. Some of them are, but each to their own! Cheers!
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Cracker job gents, as always! looking 4ward 2 the next review!
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Cheers Krishna! The next one will be Slyv's The Greatest Show in the Galaxy - a story we haven't seen since it was originally broadcast...
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Love ( as always) reading these reviews,really well thought out comments guys,keep 'em coming please.
General viewing, but some scenes may be unsuitable for young children
Disc Details
Release Date: 2nd July 2012
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: PAL
Aspect: 1.33:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: No
Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0 English
Subtitles: English
Extras: Audio Commentary, Second Time Around, Doctor Who Stories - Jamie Part 1, The Doctor's Strange Love, Info-Text, Photo Gallery, Coming Soon Trailer, PDF Materials
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: David Maloney
Cast: Patrick Troughton, Fraser Hines, Wendy Padbury, Philip Madoc
Genre: Sci-Fi
Length: 98 minutes
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For patients with symptomatic aortic stenosis and an intermediate operative risk, transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is more costly than surgical valve replacement, a single-center study showed.
Total costs (converted from Euros to U.S. dollars) through 1 year of follow-up -- including both in-hospital and follow-up costs -- were $61,247 for TAVI and $47,059 for surgery, according to A. Pieter Kappetein, MD, PhD, of Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, and colleagues.
Although costs related to use of blood products and to hospital stay were lower for TAVI, they were not enough to compensate for the higher costs related to materials ($29,227 versus $6,841, P<0.001), which included the cost of the transcatheter valve, the researchers reported in the December issue of the Annals of Thoracic Surgery.
"Therefore, surgical aortic valve replacement remains a clinically and economically attractive treatment option," they wrote, noting that more detailed analyses are needed to confirm whether TAVI is cost-effective despite the higher total costs.
TAVI has emerged as a treatment alternative to surgical valve replacement for patients with severe aortic stenosis following positive results from the PARTNER Cohort A and Cohort B trials, which evaluated patients who had a high operative risk and those who were ineligible for surgery, respectively.
TAVI is now being evaluated for use in lower-risk patients. And particularly in those with an intermediate operative risk, a choice will have to be made between using TAVI or surgery. Cost is one factor that might influence that decision.
Kappetein and colleagues looked at the comparative costs of TAVI and surgical aortic valve replacement in patients with intermediate operative risk who were treated at Erasmus Medical Center. The researchers prospectively collected clinical data on 141 patients who underwent TAVI and 405 who underwent surgery. Costs were then calculated retrospectively.
Propensity score matching resulted in 42 matched pairs of patients -- one who underwent TAVI and one who underwent surgery -- with an intermediate operative risk. The mean age of the patients was 79 and roughly 50% were male.
The average logistic EuroSCORE was 12.9 in the TAVI group and 12.5 in the surgery group.
The length of stay after the procedure was significantly longer for the patients who underwent surgery (18.8 versus 11.3 days, P<0.001), which was consistent for both time spent in the intensive care unit and on the ward.
Concomitant percutaneous coronary intervention or coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) was more common in the surgery group (47.6% versus 7.1%, P<0.001). The researchers said that was "because guidelines recommend concomitant CABG for patients with moderate-to-severe coronary artery disease; no such recommendations exist for [TAVI]."
There were no between-group differences in complications, mortality, follow-up duration, readmissions, or outpatient clinic visits.
Total in-hospital costs were higher with TAVI ($54,071 versus $44,201, P=0.01), which was performed using the self-expanding, third-generation CoreValve prosthesis.
Costs were lower for TAVI for blood products and the total stay -- driven by lower costs in the ICU -- but higher for the procedure itself ($38,146 versus $17,355, P<0.001), driven almost entirely by the cost of the transcatheter valve.
The researchers noted that the valve used in the study currently costs $23,310, and it would have to be priced at $9,123 to level the costs between TAVI and surgery.
"With more valves being developed, market forces are likely to decrease the price of transcatheter valves, similar to the trend previously seen in coronary stents," they wrote.
Follow-up costs through 1 year were numerically higher in the TAVI group, although the difference did not reach statistical significance ($7,175 versus $2,858, P=0.17).
The researchers noted some limitations of the study, including the retrospective collection of costs from a relatively small, single-center study; the possibility of unmeasured confounding; and the potential for the logistic EuroSCORE to underestimate the operative risk of TAVI patients because it does not account for porcelain aorta, frailty, chest deformities, and malnutrition.
From the American Heart Association:
Kappetein and one of his co-authors reported having financial relationships with Medtronic, which makes TAVI devices.
- Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and Dorothy Caputo, MA, BSN, RN, Nurse Planner


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Head coach Mike Ayers says Jacks brings "wow" factor to the Terriers offense
Evan Jacks needed seasoning. Then the season needed Jacks.
Saturday morning after the team breakfast, a few hours before Wofford would take on Presbyterian at Gibbs Stadium, players broke into their position meetings.
That's when the quarterbacks got the news. It was time for the kid. Jacks, a redshirt freshman from Johns Creek, Ga., would get his first career start.
"I had a slight feeling it was coming," Jacks said.
Coming on the heels of Wofford's first offensive shutout against an FCS team since 2005, Jacks sparked the Terriers to a 55-14 victory. He ran for 70 yards and a touchdown. He completed 5 of 8 passes for 63 yards without an interception. He guided the triple-option up and down the field.
"It was exciting," Jacks said. "I think we're back on track now. It was good to be able to go out there and do our thing and execute. Everyone was on point. I got in my element, pretty much, and ran around."
Wofford (3-2, 2-0 Southern Conference) plays host 1:30 p.m. Saturday to Elon for homecoming. Jacks, who has been behind junior James Lawson and sophomore Michael Weimer, figures to get the nod again.
"There was a lot of 'Wow' with Evan on the field," Wofford head coach Mike Ayers said. "I think people in the stands saw a guy who can be a difference-maker."
Jacks played in the opener at Baylor but not in the following wins against The Citadel and Georgia Southern. He saw action in the 3-0 loss to Gardner-Webb in the final minutes when the Terriers were desperate for something big to happen. Ayers, upon returning from Baylor, said Jacks was too jacked-up, so to speak, and needed to settle down.
"He certainly doesn't need a rah-rah before a game," Ayers said. "He's more than ready to go. I like that. The thing he has to learn is to let the game come to him. It's going to be all right. … I think it was just a matter of reps and maturing. It was about time to see what he can be like. We felt we needed to see how it would all pan out. Evan showed that he is a player. He can make plays with his feet and his arm. When things aren't quite perfect, he can still make plays.
"We had a taste of it at Waco (Texas) and there was some seasoning left to do, you might say. What we're working towards is for him to get it all together. He's made a ton of progress. He's a young player. This is his first year. You have to understand that what we do takes time to master."
Jacks called his problem "happy feet." It was a good thing at Northview High School, where, if plays broke down or things got a little fuzzy, he would just take off. He ran for nearly 1,000 yards as a senior — in addition to 2,300 yards passing — and much of that was from scrambling around. It hasn't been easy to tone down his style.
"It's pretty difficult, actually," Jacks said. "In high school, I could do that and always make something happen. Now it's a different speed. People can catch up. The coaches have talked about that with me. Sometimes I have to throw the ball away. Sometimes I have to settle for a short gain or no gain. … I feel like I've been able to control my feet a little better. I still get some happy feet in the pocket, but I'm working hard on controlling that."
"If all we did was run the ball every play, Evan would have been in there a long, long time ago," Ayers said. "But we've tried to be more balanced and create a throwing game that we feel comfortable with and the quarterbacks can execute. There's a lot more to it than meets the eye."
Jacks has passed the eye test since spring practice. He has a different speed. He can make people miss. He's shown a strong, accurate arm. It was just a matter of convincing him, to put it in baseball terms, that he doesn't need to hit home runs every at-bat.
"I've always known what Evan can do. He's going to be a great player," Wofford running back Donovan Johnson said. "He can do a lot of good things, (he) just needed to get in there. That showed last weekend. We're going to build on that."