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US educators, student leaders, and governments combine forces to improve campus safety
It is well established that safety is a key concern for both international students and parents and an issue that weighs heavily in the choice of institution and location for study abroad. A report from Hong Kong, for example, says that incidents such as the Boston Marathon bombings and the 2007 shootings at Virginia Tech have made more families reconsider where their students should be going for their education abroad.
These high-profile incidents raise important questions for prospective students and their families with respect to safety issues in the US, the world's leading international study destination. It is important to note, however, that the US (and its campuses) are still relatively safe. In a ranking of overall crime in 133 countries around the world, the US ranks just 45th – well behind the numbers for many countries sending high numbers of students into the country, including Venezuela (2nd), Nigeria (8th), Brazil (13th), and Mexico (41st), and also well below countries that commonly receive US students going abroad such as South Africa (6th) and Costa Rica (22nd).
In today's post, we place the issue in context and explore some of the recent legislation, policies, and practices designed to promote and improve campus safety in the US.
New international students may be taken aback when their US university orientation sessions offer them information on how to correctly ask or give permission for sexual relations. However, the issue has loomed large in the US in recent years.
"Affirmative consent," whereby the definition of sexual assault and application of violations veers from following prior "no means no" standards to "yes means yes," is now prescribed by law in California and quickly spreading across hundreds of campuses nationwide.
According to an article in Inside Higher Ed, the new paradigm requires sexual partners to seek and receive clear consent from each other, and further stipulates that consent must be given without alcohol or drugs being factors in decision-making.
A poster from the Consent is Sexy campaign
While the shift may unnerve many – including campus administrators and police trying to investigate accusations – this increased focus on preventing sexual assault is just one prong in an increasingly aggressive multi-layered approach from lawmakers and universities to increase campus safety at institutions of higher education.
From reporting to action
Under provisions of US legislation – the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, first signed into law in 1990 – universities are obligated to:
Keep a log available to the public of all criminal acts occurring on their campus;
Disclose crime statistics not only on the campus but in public areas near the campus for seven crimes ranging from homicide to arson;
Report various offenses such as liquor and drug violations – both for actual arrests and for incidents handled within the campus disciplinary system;
Publish an annual security report, required every 1 October, that details crime statistics as well as security processes and policies in place;
Issue timely warnings for any type of criminal behaviour that may be a threat to students and employees.
The Clery Act is meant to counteract what was seen as a general unwillingness in the past to fully disclose crime on campuses for fear of losing potential students. Failure to comply satisfactorily with the Act's provisions may lead to schools being fined or losing the ability to offer federal financial aid programmes, which would be a death knell for many institutions.
The largest fine levied thus far, US$357,000, was assessed to Eastern Michigan University for the mismanagement of documents and processes related to a murder committed in a campus dorm. The US Department of Justice strongly increased the number and amounts of fines in 2013, assessing eight universities nearly US$1.5 million – an amount roughly equal to that collected in the 22 previous years of the act's existence. The increased vigilance from the government to see that crime information is collected and shared is coupled with a growing awareness of the public, both domestically and internationally, regarding safety issues and the availability of more reliable data for investigating a specific school's record.
All Clery Act information is available on a government website so that prospective students or parents can easily compare various institutions. Of course, where there are statistics and universities, there are rankings – and as is often the case, the various ranking systems out now have their critics.
Validation of that criticism is apparent from the simple fact that the top-rated (most unsafe) schools in two different rankings are not even listed in the other ranking. (The differences in rankings arise from underlying variations in the methodologies used by the two ranking systems.) Other problems with the methods for gathering statistics abound, including issues of both underreporting and double counting of incidents of crime arising from differences in reporting practice from institution to institution.
Schools are paying attention and increasing efforts not just to comply with the law but to also ensure that their campuses and environs are indeed safer. After the University of Southern California saw two separate incidents claim the lives of three Chinese graduate students, university administrators ramped up efforts to secure the campus, which hosts more international students than any other school in the country. In addition to obvious steps such as beefing up interaction with the Los Angeles Police Department and increasing both patrols and camera surveillance, the school also offered a free ride service to reduce pedestrian traffic and implemented more safety training awareness programmes for new students.
Indeed, universities across the country are making efforts to comply with the Clery Act and go beyond that to train their students and raise awareness of safety issues. Virtually every school's website and orientation materials include campus safety tips such as those offered by Vanderbilt University in Nashville.
Common tips include:
Walk in groups and don't wear headphones when walking;
Learn the campus layout and all services provided such as ride services;
Always lock doors of living quarters and cars;
Register electronics, bicycles, and other items likely to be targeted for theft.
The response from business and government
Businesses are also jumping into the security effort. Even as "blue light emergency phone boxes" have recently become ubiquitous across US campuses, there is a rapid shift towards mobile-phone applications designed to enable campus residents to more quickly contact police from any location, report their whereabouts to peers, send out alerts or warnings when feeling themselves or others in danger, and easily contact counseling and other support services. These include applications such as EmergenSee, Campus Safe, and Live Safe.
US President Barack Obama has also taken an active role in the effort to improve campus safety, launching a campaign this past September called "It's on Us," in which students and other campus resident are urged to become the eyes and ears of public security at their schools and to intervene when seeing potentially harmful situations or attitudes. Hollywood stars, video game makers and well-known collegiate athletes are being recruited for public service announcements for the campaign.
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Hara Kumar Tagore (also Hara Coomar Tagore) (1798–1858) was a leading land owner, philanthropist, Sanskrit scholar, writer and musician from Calcutta. He belonged to the Pathuriaghata branch of the Tagore family.

Life

He was the eldest son of Gopi Mohan Tagore and headed the Pathuriaghata family after demise of his father.

Hara Kumar Tagore, was learned in the Hindu scriptures, Sanskrit and English. He had compiled critically admired books and assisted Radhakanta Deb (1783–1867) in compiling Sabdakalpadrum.  Further, the noted texts - Haratattva-didhiti (1881), Purashcharana-bodhini (1895) and Shila-chakrarthabodhini were composed by him. The last text deals with various types of stones, which are worshiped as symbol of Narayana. Also he authored a  manual on procedural matters relating to various Tantric rites, particularly Kali worship.

He was a refined musician with a scholarship in Sanskrit and was composer of noted music.

He was the elder brother of  Prasanna Kumar. Hara Kumar died in 1858 ; and was succeeded, as head of the Pathuriaghata branch of family, by his eldest son, Maharaja Sir Jatinodro Mohun Tagore. His other two sons were Shourindramohan and Shoutindramohan.

He had built a temple at Mulijore with his brother Prosona Coomar in memory of his father. Further, he donated monies liberally for benefit of arts and music.

He had built a beautiful mansion - the famed "Emerald Bower,". It was taken over by Government of West Bengal and is now a part of Rabindra Bharati University.

A square in Kolkata is named after him as Hara Kumar Tagore Square.

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Owowowowowow! Waking suddenly in the night with the distinct feeling that somebody is stabbing you in the calf with a fruit knife? You may never have had a cramp like this before, but when you're pregnant you can suddenly feel as though your lower leg has been clamped in a vice.
Some say reaching for milk (calcium) or a banana (potassium) can help, but it isn't clear if a shortage of these minerals is to blame.
When cramp strikes, stretch the muscle by firmly bending up your ankle (flexing it) and try standing on a cold hard floor - tiles are ideal. Yep, there's nothing like a cramp and its cures to ensure a really restful night's sleep.
If you continue to get cramps a lot, see your doctor.
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The cherry blossom festival comes to Redding
Organizers hope to raise enough money to plant cherry trees throughout the Redding area.
The cherry blossom festival comes to Redding Organizers hope to raise enough money to plant cherry trees throughout the Redding area. Check out this story on redding.com: https://reddingne.ws/2H0g1EG
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Jeff Worthington of Redding takes a photo of the Henneinke family, from left, Ryder, Natasha, VennaFay and Juliana, during a cherry blossom festival Sunday at the First United Methodist Church in Redding.(Photo: Damon Arthur/Record Searchlight)Buy Photo
If Vicki Ono and her friends at the First United Methodist Church get their way, in a few years cherry trees will be blossoming each spring all over Redding.
Ono, members of the church and the Japan Society of Shasta County got a start on making the dream come true Sunday with their first cherry blossom festival at the Methodist Church in downtown Redding.
Through the event they hope to raise enough money to plant cherry trees throughout the Redding area. Ono said they want to bring the delicate beauty of cherry blossoms each spring to parks and streets throughout the area.
"We don't want to plant one tree. We want to plant a grove of trees," Ono said.
"So that you appreciate the glory of this day, knowing that it will fade," her friend, Jean Keyes, added.
Sunday's cherry blossom, or sakura, festival drew more than 600 people, who enjoyed martial arts demonstrations, Japanese food, calligraphy, photo sessions, Taiko drumming and children's entertainment.
Fusako Kurohashi writes a Japanese message for a visitor to the cherry blossom festival at the First United Methodist Church in Redding on Sunday. (Photo: Damon Arthur/Record Searchlight)
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In this series, primary care providers who care for pediatric patients in Colorado presenting with symptoms of common mental health conditions (ADHD, Depression, Suicide, Anxiety Disorders, Autism, Trauma, ACES, and PTSD) will be able to accurately determine the diagnosis and appropriate treatment plan, ultimately leading to more appropriate treatment and management of these complex pediatric conditions.
CME: This ECHO Colorado series, with the first of 6 sessions beginning on January 30th 2019, will be reviewed and acceptable for up to 5.0 credits by the American Academy of Family Physicians. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity (1.0 credit per session).
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Moulins-Engilbert is een voormalig kanton van het Franse departement Nièvre. Het kanton maakte deel uit van het arrondissement Château-Chinon (Ville). Het werd opgeheven bij decreet van 18 februari 2014 met uitwerking op 22 maart 2015. De gemeenten werden toegevoegd aan het kanton Luzy, met uitzondering van Onlay die werd toegevoegd aan het kanton Château-Chinon.

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Q: Node.js request SSL error: SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:tlsv1 I am making a request to a remote server using https and request, and getting a new error after updating node and request:
nes.get err: [Error: 140735207432576:error:14077438:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:tlsv1 alert internal error:../deps/openssl/openssl/ssl/s23_clnt.c:741:

I already have the protocol set to SSLv3, so I'm wondering why it appears to be using tlsv1.
https.globalAgent.options.secureProtocol = 'SSLv3_method';

I've also tried adding this to request's options:
secureProtocol: 'SSLv3_method'

This error did not occur with earlier versions of Node.js and request, but now with node v0.10.15 and request 2.26.0, it has surfaced. Any ideas? Thanks!
Update -- narrowed this down to something that changes between request 2.14.0 and 2.16.0. 2.14.0 works and 2.16.0 does not work.

A: Make sure you are making a secure request to the correct port.
I've received this error when attempting to make a secure request to port 80 instead of port 443.

A: I would fire up Wireshark to verify that the bits on the wire are what you think they should be.

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Automatic data reception from Terra, Aqua, Suomi-NPP, JPSS-1 and FengYun-3A/B/C (FY-3) X-Band Earth observation satellites.
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Sphinx shut the door of the Contruum's Child Sanctuary for the last time. Finally he was out of this mess. He had a home to a rather pathetic character of a man. The cat-like teen wondered how he was Vice Supreme Chancellor. He couldn't believe Calias wouldn't adopt his best friend...Draco.
Sphinx entered the limo and was greeted by several high security droids and a pair of bodyguards. Sphinx placed his only belongings onto his lap and protectively fought off a security droid who tried to take it.
"Sir, You are to attend the Grand Presido's meeting" the security droid started, "I will take your belongings and bring them to Mr. Ketra's residence"
Sphinx's tail waved playfully in front of droid mocking it. The droid seemed to either fail to compute what was going on or ignored it overall.
"Mr. Ketra?" the droid asked again. The droid was referring to the teen's new last name.
"No. Call me Sphinx." the teen ordered. His tail was now hitting the droid across the face.
"Sphinx, will you be attending-"
"No. I will not.Screw the meeting. I am going to go hang out with some friends."
The droid sat there for a moment then finally said, "I have orders to come with you."
"Or they will" the droid pointed to a group of droidekas.
Sphinx shrugged, "Sure why not. We're going to a bar...Twi'lek Dancers."
Ditching that old hag back at the 'Child Sanctuary' was easy. His friend worked as a bouncer as the club, he was able to get in whenever he wanted. Sphinx grinned as the droid didn't know how to respond.
"Have you ever had a Twi'lek give you a, "
He was cut off as the limo took a hault and Sphinx was thrown forward.
"WHAT THE FRAK!" he shouted, "You will be fired!" Sphinx said angerly rubbing his forhead.
A large group of people stepped forward with blaster rifles in hand and shot the security droid, stunned the driver and the rest of the security forces. Sphinx was cuffed and thrown in the back of a new hover vechicle.
The man drew his blaster and wrote a note then stapled it into the flesh of Sphinx. The hover car strolled upwards to its highest point opened the right door and said, "Let's see if this cat lands on his feet!"
Sphinx, now terrifed, was pushed.
Enemy of the heir of Sataia, Beware.
Sphinx's blood ran and now spilled every where.
Calias arrived at the scene when the Contruum to find his newly adopted son lying on the ground dead. Calias's eyes formed with tears, although none leaked from his eyes. He wanted to know who had done this and now!
"I'll find them Sphinx, I promise" he heard a voice say.
Calias turned around to see Draco standing there in tears. The sadness had left him and it was now replaced with hatred.


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Doctor Who: The Magician's Apprentice (Review)
Posted on September 19, 2015 by Darren
"The TARDIS will not be entered. The TARDIS will be destroyed.
"Good luck with that. She's indestructible."
"Did the Doctor tell you that? Because you should never believe a man about a vehicle."
– The Daleks, Clara and Missy share some truths
The ninth season is certainly ambitious.
The idea of building an entire season around a series of interconnected two-parters is a departure from the show's traditional format. It certainly makes it a lot harder to review the show on a week-by-week basis, if only because it means that reviewers are talking about each episode having only seen around half the story. That is not the way that people typically consume Doctor Who. Even modern DVD releases of the classic series package whole series together so it is not so much a four- (or six-) part episode as a single story.
Battlefield.
Since it returned to television in 2005, Doctor Who has adopted an approach to narrative driven by the single episode as the default narrative unit. Sure, there were multi-part stories; but they were the exception rather than the rule. Sure, there were season long arcs; but they were largely driven by arc words and core themes as much as plot. This was, after all, the big controversy over Moffat's "Impossible Girl" arc, which was presented as a plot mystery only to be revealed as a clever thematic point.
During the Davies era, the two-parters were typically allocated for big "event" episodes. There were roughly three in a season, and they allowed the show to adopt a bigger sense of scale and spectacle. The first two-parter was typically lighter and little bit toyetic (the "toy monster" two-parter) and the second was a lot darker and ominous (the "highlight of the season" two-parter). Davies would then use a two-parter to provide a suitably bombastic conclusion to the season, offering "blockbuster" family entertainment at the height of summer.
An axe to grind…
In contrast, Steven Moffat has largely shied away from two-parters. His first season as showrunner stuck quite closely to the model established by Davies, although he shrewdly swapped the "toy monster" and the "highlight of the season" two-parters. However, since then, the Moffat era has largely eschewed the two-parter. The sixth season opened with a two-parter and closed with a single episode. The seventh season did not feature a single two-parter. The eighth season built to a massive two-parter, where the first part played as a parody of Doctor Who cliffhangers.
Dark Water offered a pretty effective criticism of the two-part model, making a compelling argument in favour of Moffat's decision to break away from the format. As Dark Water so skilfully pointed out, the biggest moment in a two-parter will generally be the cliffhanger; it is the moment that has to serve as the climax of the first episode and hold the audience's attention over an entire week. So the entire forty-five minutes of the first episode can frequently feel like padding, an attempt to stall the episode to the point where the story can actually begin.
Bad Wolf builds to the revelation of the Daleks; Army of Ghosts builds to the revelation of the Daleks and Cybermen; Utopia builds to the reveal of the Master; The Sound of Drums builds to the Master conquering the universe; The Stolen Earth builds to the reunion of the Tenth Doctor and Rose, spoiled by an angry Dalek. The beauty of Dark Water is that the entire episode was built around an obvious subversion of that format. "You know it's Cybermen and the Master, but we can't actually tell you it's Cybermen and the Master until the cliffhanger."
This structure worked reasonably well when Doctor Who was produced in half-hour chunks and where waiting until the first cliffhanger to reveal the basic premise of the next episode meant only losing a quarter (or even a sixth) of the story. It becomes a lot harder to manage when putting the big reveal at the first cliffhanger means that the audience has waited for forty-five minutes and the script is half over before you get to the meat of the plot. This is what makes the ninth season such a fascinating departure from what came before.
"You Missy-take me, ma'am."
The decision to build the ninth season around a series of interlocking two-parters does not (as some might argue) mark a return to a structure more closely resembling the form of the original television show. After all, there are fundamental (and irreconcilable) differences between a forty-five minute chunk of blockbuster television in 2015 and a half-hour slice of quirky fringe entertainment in 1989. Despite the abundance of continuity references, The Magician's Apprentice is not a slice of classic Doctor Who nostalgia; it is something new and unique.
The Magician's Apprentice is caught between trying to be a season premiere and trying to set up The Witch's Familiar. Moffat's season premieres work better when they have a clear momentum or objective. The Eleventh Hour works because it has to introduce a new lead, a new companion, and reboot the show; all in fifty minutes. The Impossible Astronaut is powered by the mystery of the Doctor's death. Asylum of the Daleks falters a bit, but at least has its own story and the introduction of Jenna Louise Coleman. Deep Breath gives the audience Peter Capaldi.
Better the Davros you know…
The Magician's Apprentice has little new to offer. The players are familiar; none have been absent long enough for the audience to miss them. The episode takes its time getting to the headline draws. The threat is abstract; the audience is told that the Doctor thinks he is going to die, but the script detours into scenes of Colony Sarff threatening the cosmos and an extended medieval reintroduction scene. Missy gets lots of scenery to chew, but feels like a passenger. The Daleks only appear in the final act. Even Davros seems more sedate than usual. (He is dying, to be fair.)
There are good ideas here, but The Magician's Apprentice is more about establishing them than bringing them into focus. The Magician's Apprentice is fifteen minutes of set-up, extended out to fifty minutes of television. The problem isn't that this padding is bad or boring; it just feels like a conscious effort to prevent The Magician's Apprentice from getting to the actual point of the story. Moffat's scripts frequently run on stream of consciousness whimsy, the problem is that a high-stakes cliffhanger serves to make all that charm feel like an attempt to stall.
Not her (handker)chief concern…
This is an episode which brings the Doctor into conflict with Davros, and which is built as an exploration of that iconic speech from Genesis of the Daleks. Indeed, as Davros' perfectly-selected clip of the Fourth Doctor demonstrates, The Magician's Apprentice takes a very literal interpretation of that classic speech as its starting point. "Listen, if someone who knew the future pointed out a child to you and told you that that child would grow up totally evil, to be a ruthless dictator who would destroy millions of lives, could you then kill that child?"
There is just one slight problem with all of this. The Magician's Apprentice is a bluff, but it is a rather transparent bluff. Steven Moffat has no interest in the old "time travel and Hitler" moral dilemmas that science-fiction fans (and presidential candidates) take oh-so-seriously. The entire point of Let's Kill Hitler was that Doctor Who was not a show particularly engaged with using a time machine to deal with abstract moral quandaries that have no applicable basis in fact. Despite the cliffhanger, it is quite clear that Moffat would never have the Doctor murder child!Davros.
Even beyond his already established lack of interest in the whole "let's kill Hitler!" debate, Steven Moffat is the writer who effectively erased the Doctor's destruction of Gallifrey because he could not imagine the character killing children. It goes almost without saying that the Twelfth Doctor will not actually murder child!Davros. After all, any number of alternate possibilities present themselves. Why not simply take Davros away in the TARDIS and deposit him elsewhere? Send him to Coal Hill, perhaps?
Still, the idea of literalising that distinctive Tom Baker monologue is quite interesting of itself. It provides a clear reflection of Clara's encounter with baby!Doctor in Listen. In that episode, Clara encountered a younger version of the Doctor and helped to instill in him a sense of compassion. The Witch's Familiar plays with this idea, suggesting an encounter with the Doctor instilled in a Davros a sense of mercy. The suggestion in The Magician's Apprentice that it is responsible for Davros' bitterness and resentment is a nice bit of wrong-footing.
A "good" Dalek…
(There is, of course, an element of contrivance to the set-up. It feels more than a little convenient to tie the Doctor into the origin of his "arch enemy" in a manner that is even more direct than Genesis of the Daleks. Travelling with Missy and Clara, the Doctor muses, "Davros made the Daleks, but who made Davros?" It recalls that old eighties and nineties comic book movie trope where the origins of heroes and villains had to be consciously tied into one another for the sake of narrative convenience. Tim Burton's Batman is one such example.)
However interesting the set-up might be, the problem is that The Magician's Apprentice has to actually get there. The episode has to build towards that cliffhanger, to the revelation that Davros and the Doctor are tied together and that the Daleks have recolonised Skaro. As a result, it feels like a lot of the first half of the episode is spent running around in very clever circles to prevent the script from having to actually pick up on the events of the teaser. It is very much a "ball and cup" game, where the show prolongs the mystery by simply keeping the cups moving.
A rocky road to redemption…
At the same time, The Magician's Apprentice is populated with lots of little touches that could not necessarily sustain an entire episode, but which are useful for stalling the build to that climax. As with a lot of Moffat's work, it seems like The Magician's Apprentice takes great pleasure in literalising witty wordplay. The teaser introduces the terrifying concept of "handmines", while Missy stages a terrorist attack when everybody notices that "the planes are stopped." The entire two parter builds to a play on the phrase "your sewers are revolting."
It is fun to imagine that this is simply how Moffat scripts for the show, starting with a witty one-liner or pun and working backwards in order to generate a story. After all, the central conflict of Peter Harness' The Zygon Invasion and The Zygon Inversion is rooted in the question of whether any of the characters are willing to "let Zygons be Zygons." It might seem like a joke, and it is easy to overstate, but Moffat's fundamental love of words – of playing with them and twisting them – is at the very heart of his Doctor Who work.
Best of frenemies…
Indeed, the script to The Magician's Apprentice consciously draws attention to the writer's fondness for goofy puns. When the Doctor arrives in medieval England riding a tank and playing an electric guitar – one suspects that Moffat really liked Mad Max: Fury Road – it is a set up from all manner of banter and wordplay. "You said you wanted an axe fight," the Doctor remarks to his opponent. ("It's a slow burner," he promises.) He also jokes that he ordered the tank on the internet. "It's for my fish."
Similarly, The Magician's Apprentice does a lot of heavy thematic lifting for the season ahead, setting up recurring motifs that ripple and echo across the remainder of the season. When the Daleks vaporise Clara at the end of The Magician's Apprentice, it represents the first of the season's false deaths. These are all dress rehearsals leading up to Clara's inevitable departure, to her death in Face the Raven. Clara "dies" in The Magician's Apprentice, the Doctor's "ghost" appears in Under the Lake, Ashildr is the eponymous character in The Girl Who Died.
A screwdriver loose…
(Even Missy's supposed resurrection and Davros' near death in The Magician's Apprentice tease the theme of false deaths running across the rest of the year. Moffat is staking out a very clear piece of thematic ground. Clara correctly points out that the Doctor actually expected Missy to survive. When Clara confronts her on the topic, Missy responds by stating, "Death is for other people, dear." The central characters of Doctor Who, the core figures in its mythology, exist beyond death. A big theme of the season is the idea that Clara is ascending to such a status.)
The Magician's Apprentice hints at the season's broader arc in other ways. The season is bookended by the return of both Skaro and Gallifrey, the two twin powers of the Last Great Time War. Resurrecting Skaro is a way of setting up the restoration of Gallifrey in Heaven Sent, marking a clear return to the show's classic status quo. Indeed, the Doctor himself is shocked to see should old continuity reasserting itself. "Why would anybody hide a whole planet?" Clara wonders. "That would rather depend on the planet, dear," Missy responds.
Missy responds to the return of Skaro with awe and horror. "They've built it again," she reflects. "They've brought it back. No, no. No!" There is a sense that Moffat is mirroring the return of Gallifrey at the end of the year. Skaro is hidden inside a gigantic cloaking field, a planet rendered invisible. Gallifrey is hiding at the end of time. Both are sleeping giants. The Doctor even hits upon the fear that thematically connects the two. "How scared must you be to seal every one of your own kind inside a tank?" he wonders. How scared must you be to hide at the end of history?
Appropriately enough, Moffat makes suggests that memory is the connective tissue here, rather than anything rooted in technobabble. Skaro and Gallifrey endure because they are remembered; because they cannot be exorcised from the canon as long as fandom remembers them. This is a familiar Moffat theme; the sense that continuity is a malleable construct that is linked to memory. The bulk of The Magician's Apprentice is built around the idea that Davros suddenly wants to talk with the Doctor about their encounter during his childhood.
Sitting on the bold step…
Although this encounter only recently happened for the Doctor, how come Davros never brought it up before? The answer, of course, is that it hadn't happened yet. It did not happen until Davros remembered that it happened. "Davros knows," Colony Sarff repeats throughout the episode. "Davros remembers." Continuity does not exist in Doctor Who until somebody (whether the characters or the audience) remembers it. This was the end of The Big Bang; Amy willing her "Raggedy Man" back into existence simply by remembering him.
Appropriately, The Magician's Apprentice is practically saturated with continuity spanning the entire history of the show. The design of Skaro recalls that employed during The Daleks, most obviously in the sliding doors. Colony Sarff wades through the show's history for the Doctor; he visits the Moldovium from the Moffat era, the Shadow Proclamation from the Davies era, and even Karn from the Hinchcliffe era. Technicians record sightings of the Doctor in "three possible versions of Atlantis."
The Skaros of battle…
Indeed, The Magician's Apprentice finds the Daleks weaponising continuity against the Doctor. Davros is able to lord it over the Doctor by playing clips from the classic series in order to prove his point. Davros attempts to win a moral argument by whipping out his DVD collection and pointing to the relevant clip. One of the show's recurring motifs has been the idea that the Daleks exist as the darker impulses within Doctor Who, that they are the show's destructive side. The Magician's Apprentice ties them to strict continuity.
(After all, the cliffhanger has the Daleks effectively "breaking" the show at the end of the first episode of the ninth season. They get to blow up the TARDIS, murder the Master and vapourise the companion. The Daleks are not simply trying to destroy the Doctor, they are trying to destroy Doctor Who. After all, as Missy points out in her conversation with Clara, the Doctor can just regenerate. Instead, the Daleks destroy the show around the Doctor as Davros tries to smother him with continuity.)
Balancing the scales…
The Magician's Apprentice marks another conscious attempt to retool the Daleks. In many ways, the Davies era was about the careful and meticulous reintroduction of classic concepts to a new audience. In its first four seasons, the show consciously built up to the return of concepts like the Daleks, the Cybermen, the Master and the Sontarans. With the exception of the Cybermen, there was a relatively conservative approach to these core elements, with the team trying to make them iconic and definitive. (Even the Cybermen were adapted from a beloved audio play.)
The Moffat era has been more willing to rework and reinvent core concepts, acknowledging that creations like the Daleks and the Cybermen actually evolved into their iconic forms through a long and organic process. The Moffat era has never been afraid of trying new approaches to these classic monsters. In fact, it could be argued that Dark Water and Death in Heaven rank among the very best Cyberman stories ever produced. Unfortunately, the Moffat era has not been quite as lucky when it comes to the reinvention of the Daleks.
The Moffat era has tried a number of approaches the Daleks, but has yet to produce a definitive or defining Dalek story. The "new paradigm" Daleks of Victory of the Daleks represented the revival's first big attempt to reinvent the Dalek, only for those models to end up pushed into the background of group shots. Even years later, nobody has any idea what an "Eternal Dalek" is supposed to be. Asylum of the Daleks and Into the Dalek were stronger episodes, but not quite contenders for "best Dalek story ever."
In fact, it seems like Moffat's most successful innovation when it comes to the Daleks was the idea the "nanocloud" from Ayslum of the Dalek. Not in any literal sense, but in the idea that Daleks are able to hollow out seemingly normal people and nest inside them. It is no wonder that those Dalek puppets have actually managed to reappear a couple of times, with one such Dalek puppet hijacking the TARDIS in The Magician's Apprentice. Still, it feels like the Moffat era is waiting for its definitive Dalek tale. (Perhaps The Time of the Doctor comes closest.)
The band plays on…
The Magician's Apprentice reintroduces Julian Bleach as Davros, and gives the character a decidedly mystical aesthetic. As the title implies, there is a sense of fantasy and magic to the story. Moffat rather consciously draws on the iconography of Voldemort in characterising Davros. He is given a new servant who is revealed to be a gigantic colony of snakes. Davros seems to have bestowed upon himself the title of "Dark Lord of Skaro." It is an approach that is perhaps more interesting than successful.
It does cement the ties between Davros and the Devil, which feels entirely appropriate given the cartoonish excesses associated with the character's earlier appearances. If Davros is truly to be the Doctor's "arch enemy", then there are worse parallels to draw. (There are, of course, less obvious ones.) The association also lends Davros a distinctive visual identity removed from that of the Dalek. The decision to make the coils and tubing around Davros resemble snakes is quite clever.
Give the boy a hand…
The portrayal of Skaro is much more effective, although it is also much more faithful to The Daleks and Genesis of the Daleks. One of the interesting aspects of the eighth season was the recurring anti-war motif running through it. The decision to broadcast Death in Heaven on Remembrance Weekend during the centenary of the First World War was a provocative choice, even if the subtext was hidden behind science-fiction concepts like zombies and Cybermen. Death in Heaven was, after all, a story about the exploitation of the dead as an army recruitment tool.
The eighth season was decidedly critical of military foreign policy at a point when the rest of the BBC was celebrating the First World War. The decision to open the ninth season with a teaser that consciously harks back to the nightmarish reality of the First World War feels like a nice way to continue that debate. After all, the centenary will be running for a few more years. With gas masks and mud, Skaro looks not too dissimilar to Flanders' Field. The "handmines" perhaps represent the hungry earth eagerly awaiting the blood of young soldiers.
Once again, the show's pacifism comes out. Skaro is a planet trapped in a state of war so perpetual that the war does not have a distinctive or unique identity. It is "just the war." The Doctor is horrified by this, but his resolution is not to wage his own war or to engage in regime change or anything like that. Advising baby!Davros that he has a one-in-a-thousand chance of survival, the Doctor urges, "You forget the thousand, and concentrate on the one." That is a succinct summary of the show's moral philosophy. And a rebuttal to any moral dilemma concerning Davros.
Still, the episode is burdened by the dual requirements of having to set up the season and lead to a cliffhanger. As a result, the episode falls back on the increasingly familiar refrain of having the Doctor celebrate his impending death. When the Doctor cheats his seemingly inevitable death at the end of The Witch's Familiar, it is only be the third time that the Doctor has done so in the past four seasons. (Although the Twelfth Doctor still has less experience than his direct predecessor.)
Davros has great taste in episodes.
There is a lot of fat here. It is clever fat which moves quickly, but it is still fat. It feels like stalling, like the episode is running around in circles to avoid pushing ahead. One of the defining (and polarising) features of the Moffat era has been a sense of incredible forward momentum; occasionally at the cost of character development or set-up or world-building. The Magician's Apprentice naturally covers less ground, but without substituting back in any of the finer details that the Davies era used to take for granted.
It is too harsh to say that it goes nowhere fast; but it doesn't go far.
You might enjoy our other reviews from Peter Capaldi's second season of Doctor Who:
The Magician's Apprentice/The Witch's Familiar
Under the Lake/Before the Flood
The Girl Who Died/The Woman Who Lived
The Zygon Invasion/The Zygon Inversion
Face the Raven/Heaven Sent/Hell Bent
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drwhonovels, on September 20, 2015 at 3:17 pm said:
Nailed it as usual, dude.
Darren, on September 21, 2015 at 3:16 pm said:
Ed Azad, on September 20, 2015 at 7:43 pm said:
Another creative writing class from Moffat…. sometimes I wish he would just shut up and entertain us.
Truth be told, I was entertained, mostly.
I actually just wish there were more meat on it. (After all, the Doctor threatening to kill a child feels like a pretty lame cliffhanger; no way that the show will follow through on it in any permanent sense. And the show has already done "Daleks exterminate the companion" and "baddies blow up the TARDIS!" fakeouts before. I just fear we're past the point where "the Daleks are serious business!" and "the Doctor is forced to do something which appears unconscionable!" are credible cliffhangers.)
Ross Nolan, on September 21, 2015 at 1:17 am said:
Very interesting review.
I think I do have to disagree with the anti-war message of the previous series being 'provocative' – if anything it, and Danny Pink in particular, felt very safe, a case of playing to the gallery. The 'lions led donkeys' meme is deeply ingrained in British popular memory after all, even if the historical truth is a lot more complex.
Anyway, on to this series. I enjoyed this episode and I think this was the first time Missy has been on screen that she has felt more like a character than a charicature.
I don't know, I just remember Death in Heaven seguing into the Queen attending a Remembrance Day concert and finding it a very pointed scheduling choice. (Although I'm not sure if they knew exactly what would be following it, Remembrance weekend is fixed; so the production team knew where the finalé would land and the transition gives the episode a lot of context.) I think you're entirely correct that that "lions led donkeys" narrative is ingrained in popular consciousness at this point, and that the reality is more complex; but I think that there's a difference between making that argument and then building to a story where the bodies of the dead are resurrected as raw materials for the fashioning of a new army. After all, for all that the First World War might be pointless, there is a romance to the way that the soldiers in the trenches are portrayed that affords a certain inherent nobility to the armed forces. (Don't those recruitment adds offer purpose and meaning?)
Which is one of the more interesting debates about how we memorialise conflicts by building heroic myths around them. We might accept the First World War was largely pointless, but we still focus on the incredible heroism and valour of those who died in the trenches, and the extent to which we accept the entire conflict as needless and futile is weighed against the celebration of the dead. For example, I'm very uneasy about the centenary of 1916, because I fear that the romanticism of "a terrible beauty" will drown out the perfectly credible argument that the rebellion ultimately heaped more suffering on everybody involved than was necessary to achieve the ends that we have today. Because to voice that opinion is taken as an implicit criticism of those who died for my freedom.
I think what amounts to an army of zombie soldiers on Remembrance Weekend is a pretty heavy statement, but I accept I may be in the minority on that.
Of course, reading all that back, I fear that it – as with my fondness for reading capitalist critiques into things – makes me sound like something of a radical leftie; I'm not at all. I think I average out to something approaching the centre of the political spectrum. Ultimately, I'm just prone to bouts of cynicism.
Ross Nolan, on September 21, 2015 at 5:15 pm said:
Heh, I was afraid to comment for fear of coming across as a warmongering rightist when I'm actually just prone cynicism in the opposite direction. 😉
I think my issue is that First World War is romanticised by the British left for its own purpose just as much as the right and that a character Danny Pink buys entirely into that romanticisation, where Tommys are salt of the earth working class heroes led astray in life and death by a nebulous establishment who of course gain everything and never have to sacrifice anything (I think it's only fair to say at this point that Asquith, who led Britain into war in 1914, lost a son on the Somme – and as you brought up Ireland, John Redmond lost a brother and his mortal enemy Bonar Law lost two sons.)
I suppose my criticism is that the show (IMO) played things so safe; yes it does so from a left wing pacifist narrative but that narrative is very mainstream and while it chooses its myths those myths were played straight. That isn't necessarily a bad thing but it does prevent me from seeing it as very brave or even particularly radical.
Ben, on September 27, 2015 at 10:03 am said:
Great review. You summed up the positives and negatives well. I personally really liked the opener and thought it was a decent beginning to a season but it was too closely tied to one central idea, offering a lot of flash and very little actual substance. I'm sure this would work better if you could watch the conclusion of the story immediately rather than having to wait and dwell on how little really happened.
Darren, on October 1, 2015 at 11:52 am said:
I'm quite eager from my Christmas rewatch, when I can actually watch the season as a series of blockbuster movies.
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He was born in Chicago, Us and is of Irish background and was raised as Roman Catholic. At an early age he shifted to Waukegan, Illinois and during his childhood career, he studied at Waukegan east high school. He won the 'Illinois Individual Event State Championship' with his partner Mike Shklair. After the completion of schooling, he studied at Bradley University located in Peoria, Illinois.
The actor cum comedian Neil Flynn net worth is believed to have above $5 million while his yearly salary is roughly around $300 thousand.
He acted in a well-known theatre like Goodman and Steppenwolf located in Chicago. Later he was nominated for 'Joseph Jefferson' award for his fantastic acting in the role of principal for the 'Ballad of the Sad Cafe' in the year 1986. Other than this he performed at Improving Olympic and Second City comedy troupe. Other than Scrubs he had also been seen in other small roles like Babys Day Out, CSI, My Boys, Smallville.
As mentioned earlier he has been seen as a police officer in most of the roles and the Fugitive is one such where he plays as Chicago police. He also worked alongside Lindsay Lohan in Mean Girls though it was a minor role. He is become popular due to television show Scrubs where he initially auditioned for Dr. Cox but ended up getting the role of Janitor. Initially, he was a cast during the first episode named My First Day but later he became a regular actor in the series. Other than this he also did voice acting for the famous animated series 'Buzz Lightyear of Star Command'.
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Your home is where you feel safe and secure; Gregory's goal is to help make it healthier and more comfortable.
Gregory completed extensive training to design solutions for your waterproofing, foundation, and crawl space repair needs. This includes earning the Certified Waterproofing Professional designation through the Basement Systems International Network of Waterproofing Contractors.
Bringing a comprehensive, personalized approach to every job, Gregory will give you a custom solution based on your goals and exactly what's going on in your home. Gregory's customers recommend him and the Ayers Team to their family and friends.
Gregory has an Associate's Degree in Operations Management and Supervision from Purdue University. He has an extensive background in the construction industry. Gregory was a licensed builder and home inspector with experience in remodeling and home improvements.
"The best part of my job is helping families through the process of understanding their basement or crawl space issues and providing them a solution that fits their unique needs," said Gregory.
Originally from New Haven, Indiana, Gregory now resides in Bellevue. Michigan with his wife, Deanna. They have six sons and one daughter who are involved in 4H. Their family has a mini-farm that includes 23 chickens, three pigs, and three cows. Gregory enjoys spending time with his family, and outdoor activities including softball and scuba diving.
Chris K. from Leslie, MI had two inches of water in his basement during the rain before calling us. He needed a solution, and we had one.
We installed our patented WaterGuard French drain system. WaterGuard rests below the basement floor and above the foundation footing, collecting water that seeps into the basement from the walls. Once this water is in the drain, it is then redirected to the sump pump to be pumped up and out of the home.
This home in Mason, MI was built with a Michigan basement. It has dirt floors and block walls. It also wasn't completely dug out, only about 1/4 of the way. There was water coming in through the walls and the home was for sale so it needed to get fixed so it wouldn't hurt the resale value of the home.
Our team of experts decided the best solution to this water problem would be to install our CleanSpace system. CleanSpace works to encapsulate the entire area. It seals everything off so no outside elements can get inside such as water, bugs, dirt, moisture etc. It also makes your crawl space or basement look more appealing and not as dark and dirty.
A customer that lives in Coldwater, Michigan had a basement counter that was taking a besating from the outside enviornment. Water was making its way through the basement with ease. Fortunately, we had just the fix. We installed our Cleanspace technology to do the job. CleanSpace is a 20 mil thick plastic liner that fits to the crawl space to completely seal the home from the earth. Polyester cord reinforcement allows for a lot of durability, to make it last longer than the home will. This liner also contains an antimicrobial additive to prevent mold. This liner should also be combined with CleanSpace vent covers to insulate and seal the air out. So, now water doesn't stand a chance to destroy this basement.
This customer contacted us because the rooms above his crawl space were cold and so he wanted to insulate the crawl space to help this problem. By insulating the crawl space it will also help to reduce energy costs in the future. With the SilverGlo insulation, we also installed our CleanSpace system to encapsulate the crawl space so no water or other outside elements can get in.
Rick G. of Lansing, MI was having water seepage in the basement before reaching out to us. The customer believed it was coming from the foundation and side wall of the basement. The home was built in the 1960s with a black basement, which could be the reason for the water leakage. Thankfully, we had a solution.
We installed two of us patented waterproofing products: the WaterGuard French drain system and the TripleSafe sump pump system. The WaterGuard French drain system rests below the basement floor and above the foundation footing, collecting water that seeps into the basement from the walls. Once that water is collected it is redirected to the sump pump to be pumped up and out of the home.
The homeowners were experiencing water coming into the basement because their old system was not doing the job that needed to be done. Water was getting back up in the old sump pump and damaging the basement floor.
Our professional team knew that something needed to be done. A TripleSafe sump pump was installed to replace the old broken sump pump. The TripSafe pump is three sump pumps in one and is the best option because it adjusts automatically when needed and keeps your basement dry with triple protection. The first pump will remove water from your basement effectively. The second pump is more powerful and has a separate drainage system that is there for you in the rare cases that the first pump fails. The third pump is equipped with batteries so it is there for you if the power goes out!
The before picture shows the original, backed up sump pump and the after picture is our TripleSafe sump pump.
The homeowners were noticing water pooling in corners of there basement. They had a sump pump, but it was not removing water from the home effectively.
Our professional team installed WaterGuard to combat the problem. WaterGuard is a long lasting interior perimeter basement waterproofing system. The product sits on the top of the footing to drain the water. The reason the system sits on top of the footing is so it's not sitting in mud preventing it from getting clogged and so it does not cause structural damage to the foundation. WaterGuard has a small opening where the product and the wall meet in order to catch the water that drains down from the wall and to collect floor seepage. The water then moves from WaterGuard to the sump pump where it is effectively removed from the home!
The home is now waterproofed and the homeowners are now worried free!
The sump pump we installed is our TripleSafe pump that that is literally the king or queen of all pumps. There are 3 pumps built in the 1 liner. The first pump does all the work but the 2nd pump is there in the case the first one can't keep up. Then the third pump is battery powered in the emergency case of a power outage. The TripleSafe also comes with an alarm to alert you if it can't keep up.
The best thing about all of our pumps not just the TripleSafe, is that they come with air tight lids. This ensures that water that enters the pump doesn't evaporate back into the air and create more moisture in your crawl space or basement.
Paul complained that his basement was a little drafty. He noticed that draft was coming from the basement window. We helped by installing our EverLast windows. EverLast windows are energy-efficient and all vinyl windows. They are double-pane glass, will not let any wind in, and are rot and mildew-resistant.
The homeowners were noticing water getting into their basement during the winter months when the snow melted and when it rained. The water was leaking down the walls and seeping through the floor causing water damage in the area. The homeowners were tired of all the moisture being captured in their basement and causing damage.
Our professional team installed WaterGuard drainage system to combat the pesky water. The WaterGuard drainage system goes along the interior perimeter of the home sitting on top of the footing. The system sits on top of the footing, away from any mud, so it doesn't get clogged. WaterGuard captures the wall and floor seepage and drains it to the sump pump, which effectively removes the water from the home. The system is then covered with concrete to give your basement a clean and dry look! The after picture is showing the product after it is completely installed and ready to go!
A customer in Saint Johns called in about a failing wall in the basement. At Ayers Basement Systems, we specialize in repairing or preventing walls from bowing in. Once our System Design Specialist took a look at the wall, it was save to assume it needed wall anchors.
Our wall anchors are designed to repair walls like these. The galvanized steel makes for a long-lasting solution that will prevent any further inward movement of the walls.
Note: The ground outside was filled in with dirt after the anchors were secured.
Jim B. has a lake house in Battle Creek, MI that was experiencing constant dampness in its crawl space. This can create the perfect environment for mold to grow, mildewy smells to live, and more. This said, Jim needed a solution.
We installed our patented CleanSpace crawl space encapsulation system. CleanSpace is a 20mm thick plastic lining that keeps crawl spaces dry and free of elements surrounding your crawl space. CleanSpace also seals air leaks to guard your home against cold air coming in through your floor. And as a cherry on top, the CleanSpace system is made with anti-microbial properties that prevent mold growth.
The homeowners in Battle Creek, MI had a crawl space that was damp year round, especially during the summer months. Because of this damp crawl space they were noticing that their home started to develop a musty and mildew smell.
This meant that mold was forming in the crawl space because of the dampness and the moldy air was started to come into the home. This could cause allergies or any number of health problems for the family living in the home.
One morning our call center received a call from Pamela, a local homeowner in Battle Creek, MI. She told us that she had a feeling the cold moist air in her crawlspace might be affecting the temperature throughout her home. Pamela also admitted that she was worried about the sagging support beam below her home. She had seen multiple Ayers Basement Systems commercials on TV and knew as the local experts we could likely provide her with effective solutions.
After assessing Pamela's crawlspace needs, we prescribed our patented CleanSpace crawl space encapsulation system to address the current moisture issues being faced below her home. The CleanSpace encapsulation product is a 20mm thick plastic lining that completely seals off the crawl space from the grim elements it faces below. We determined the cement block supports under Pamela's home were no longer stabilizing her home. To supplement the CleanSpace and support her home we installed two Smart Jacks. The Smart Jack is a supplemental support system for crawl space applications. The Smart Jack effectively supports sagging beams and floor joists caused by, a length of span greater than spanning capability, floor load increased after construction, exceeding design values, and weakening over time due to high moisture and rot. With this dynamic system in place, it became evident that Pamela's cranky crawlspace was no match for our level of expertise.
PowerBraces are designed to permanently stabilize your homes foundation. It fixes the issue once and for all and gives you peace of mind. It doesn't straighten the wall all at once, but works over time as the braces can be tightened up as the wall moves back its original position. No heavy equipment is needed for install, the braces are zinc coated so they won't rust and most times take less than a day to install.
As the fall season starts to transition into the cold Michigan winter, insulation starts to matter more and more for both energy costs as well as comfort. Crawlspace insulation is often overlooked by many homeowners. However, insulating and protecting your crawlspace is very important. Not only does upgrading your crawlspace reduce energy costs, keep creepy crawlies out, keep floors warms, it also helps add thousands of dollars in home value. Using a vapor barrier called CleanSpace that covers the ground, combined with SilverGlo insulating wall panels; this crawlspace is now transformed into a cost efficient place that any homeowner would feel comfortable living above.
The homeowners in Portage, MI had water seeping into their basment through their floor. The water was starting to puddle and damage their basement floors. The homeowners had no exisiting sump pump so they were not sure what to do about the puddling water.
Our professional team installed the TripleSafe sump pump. The TripleSafe sump pump has three pumps in one giving you triple protection. The first pump will remove the water from you home. The second pump has a seperate discharge line and is more powerful. The second pump is there for you in the rare occasions that the first pump fails. The third pump is equipped with batteries, so it is there for you if the power goes out.
Thanks to the TripleSafe sump pump the homeowners do not have to worry about water puddling and damaging their floors!
One afternoon we received a call from Don, a home inspector and homeowner in Kalamazoo, MI. He began observing water seepage where the wall meets the floor. As a home inspector, Don knows what can happen when you don't address issues of this nature. He smartly made the decision to address this water concern before it began developing into larger problems. We went to his home and diagnosed the issues he was facing in his basement; we then recommended installing WaterGuard to remedy the problem. WaterGuard was installed along the home's footing, beneath the concrete, the installment collects water along the base of the perimeter walls and safely directs it to the sump pump for discharge from his home. In addition, to supplement the WaterGuard, we installed the DoubleSafe sump pump system. DoubleSafe is a safeguard feature that includes the use of two pumps to ensure this basement will stay dry, even in severe weather events. In the case of heavy water or primary pump failure, the second and more powerful pump will kick in. With this complete system in place, Don should rest assured that his wet basement days are over.
You have to have a downspot from your gutters to keep water from dumping next to your foundation. There are a few ways to do this but the most common way seems to be with those bulky metal discharge lines that lay in your yard. These become a tripping hazard, are a pain to mow around and are not all that appealing. Thankfully, we have come up with a way to fix this!
The LawnScape outlet allows for water to escape with virtually no pitch. It also works great for discharge lines on sump pumps. The LawnScape outlet allows us to completly bury the discharge lines and have the outlet at the end to allow the water to exit.
Larry's daughter and granddaughter were moving in with him. He wanted to make sure they had a safe place to stay and decided to finished his basement. As a result, he wanted an Egress window installed. The basement bedroom codes require that there are two exits out of the basement, being the door and the window, and unfortunately people can't fit through those small submarine windows. Egress windows are energy efficient and mildew-resistant.
Larry wanted to transform his basement into a bedroom and decided to have an egress window installed. He wanted to make sure his family was safe and in the case of an emergency, according to building codes, there needs to be two exits available for use. Our Everlast egress windows are energy-efficient, don't let wind in, and are rot and mildew resistant.


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Which team has the best chance at the No. 1 pick in the 2018 NFL Draft?
The Bears, Jets, and 49ers are the usual candidates, but there are some dark horses to consider.
By Adam Stites Jul 26, 2017, 8:00am EDT
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The 2018 NFL Draft is exactly nine months away and the early favorite to be the No. 1 pick is USC quarterback Sam Darnold, with two more quarterbacks — Wyoming's Josh Allen and UCLA's Josh Rosen — also in the mix. A season of college football could certainly throw other prospects toward the top, but for now, it looks like April will be a good time for a team in need of a quarterback.
There's a strong chance that the team that earns the first selection in the NFL draft will need a new passer under center. But which team will that be?
The teams that finished with the worst records in 2016 are a good place to start looking for candidates, but fortunes change quickly in the NFL. There's always a chance that the wheels will fall for other teams.
Still, the likeliest teams to tank in 2017 are exactly who you'd expect:
After trading up to take Mitchell Trubisky with the No. 2 pick in the 2017 NFL Draft, it would be shocking if the Bears went back to the well again in 2018. But it wouldn't be surprising if they have the option.
A roster in the middle of a rebuild means few believe Chicago will do much better than the 3-13 record the team posted in 2016.
What would the Bears do with the No. 1 pick? The best option is likely a trade down and recoup some of the value that was lost when they gave up a 2018 third-round pick as part of the package to get Trubisky.
The 49ers will have their fourth head coach in four years and are starting fresh with a new general manager, too. While the team added a lot of players in the offseason and double-dipped in the first round of the draft with Solomon Thomas and Reuben Foster, it's still a roster that's far from being a winner.
Unlike the two seasons prior, the 49ers aren't looking for a quick fix in 2017 — they're going to patiently rebuild. And that means wins may be few and far between.
Even Colin Kaepernick's 90.7 passer rating in 2016 was only enough for one win in his 11 starts, and Brian Hoyer isn't going to have much to work with when he steps into Kaepernick's shoes. Kirk Cousins may be a possibility in 2018, but the chance to take Darnold could provide an alternate (and much cheaper) route.
The Jets went from 10-6 in 2015 to half as many wins in 2016. There doesn't seem to be much optimism about the career prospects of Christian Hackenberg and Bryce Petty, and 38-year-old veteran Josh McCown is probably going to start ahead of both young quarterbacks anyway.
Unless the additions of Jamal Adams and Marcus Maye suddenly revives a Jets defense that went from No. 9 in points allowed in 2015 to No. 28 a year later, it's hard to believe much in New York's chances.
The Rams are unlikely to be interested in a quarterback for the same reason it would be a surprise if the Bears took another. But if Jared Goff leads Los Angeles to the NFL's worst record in 2017, it's not out of the realm of possibility. The No. 1 pick in 2016 struggled in his limited time as a starter and the team was winless in his seven starts.
No team scored fewer points or gained fewer yards than the Rams last season. Unless wide receiver Cooper Kupp and/or tight end Gerald Everett burst on to the scene as rookies, Goff doesn't have a wealth of tools to work with, either. Maybe the teachings of Sean McVay will do wonders, but it looks like it could be another rough year for the Rams.
The dark horses
USA Today is projecting a 10-6 season for the Cardinals after a 7-8-1 record last year, but the question is ... uh ... why?
The team lost Calais Campbell and Tony Jefferson, among others, on defense during the offseason and is relying on the play of veteran quarterback Carson Palmer and receiver Larry Fitzgerald, who are both likely to retire after the season.
Big playmakers like David Johnson, Tyrann Mathieu, Chandler Jones and Patrick Peterson make Arizona an unlikely choice, but not an impossible one.
The Vikings were so convinced they had the tools to be a Super Bowl contender in 2016 that the team traded away a first-round pick to get Sam Bradford when Teddy Bridgewater went down with a knee injury. The team's offense struggled anyway, but that was mostly the fault of an offensive line that couldn't create space or protect Bradford.
The offensive line still looks like a big question mark for the Vikings, and it will again have to be on the team's defense to lead the way in 2017. That's a similar narrative to the one the Jets had before their collapse in 2016 and the Broncos had before going from Super Bowl champion to 9-7. Riding a good defense doesn't work as often as you'd think.
Forever the punchline of the NFL, the Browns may seem like a logical choice after a 1-15 season in 2016. Replacing Robert Griffin III on the roster with Brock Osweiler isn't particularly inspiring either, but the Browns are a young team that's acquiring promising pieces in a hurry.
They didn't lose much in the offseason, but added Myles Garrett, Jabrill Peppers, David Njoku, Kevin Zeitler and J.C. Tretter, among others. They're not a Super Bowl contender yet, by any means, but the Browns should be better and that'll likely be enough to get them out of the cellar.
Like the Browns, the Jaguars have been a joke in the NFL for a long time. But similar to Cleveland, they've continued to add young players and complemented it with free agent signings like Calais Campbell and A.J. Bouye.
The team's defense was exciting in 2016 and leaning heavily on Leonard Fournette means Jacksonville shouldn't take a step back after a 3-13 season last year, no matter how much Blake Bortles does Blake Bortles things.


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Charlie Reed, nuovo impiegato della compagnia Silicon Towers, viene contattato tramite una email anonima durante il primo giorno di lavoro dopo la sua promozione. All'interno del messaggio c'è un codice criptato che Charlie riesce subito a decifrare. Questo codice contiene alcuni segreti che non dovevano essere visti e infatti, poco dopo, Charlie si accorge che gli uomini della security dell'edificio lo stanno pedinando, fino a tentare di eliminarlo, e così il ragazzo tenta di fuggire, mentre i suoi capi gli stanno alle costole.

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