Amplify’d from www.bbc.co.ukWe asked what you'd have in your dream TARDIS and whoa! We were inundated with brilliant ideas! The third Adventure Game, TARDIS, revealed the Doctor's drawing room for the first time, which got us thinking... what would we put in a TARDIS if we could create one? Matt Smith and Karen Gillan shared their ideas, and you came up with some fantastic suggestions.Lauren's idea combined fun with saving the universe. She declared, 'I would have a room with a huge trampoline for a floor, because everyone feels happier after they've bounced around for a bit,' adding, 'If any aliens were being evil they could come in the TARDIS and bounce, then cheer up and stop being evil and go home.'Holly wanted a room with a tree in. Not just any old tree though, but, 'a tree...
(Orin Kerr) Paul Horwitz summarizes some recent proposals for changing legal education. Like Paul, I’m not convinced changes are needed.
As I see it, the basic structure of legal education in the United States works quite well. Every student gets the basic tools of legal reasoning and the common law building block courses in the first year. After that first year, students mostly can specialize however they want. Most law schools offer a dizzying array of electives for 2Ls and 3Ls that offer a wide range of approaches. Students can focus on clinical courses and trial practice classes if they want to get ready for practice. They can take traditional doctrine courses to learn particular areas of law. And they can take course in theory, legal history, and jurisprudence if they want...
Jan Jones has published poetry, short stories, contemporary romantic comedy and Regency romance. She won the RNA Joan Hessayon Award for a debut novel with Stage by Stage in 2005 and was shortlisted for the Love Story of the Year in 2010 with Fair Deception. Jan describes her Regencies as 'in the spirit of Georgette Heyer with a dash of Mary Stewart' and here explains why Mary Stewart - especially the 'Greek' novels - made such an impact on her.
Jan Jones on Mary Stewart
It was the egret, flying out of the lemon-grove that started it.This single sentence, the opening line from The Moonspinners, sums up what Mary Stewart means to me. The to-die-for sense of place expressed in just a few skilful words. The delicious hint of adventure and romance. The promise of a glorious few hours,...
The story: Shanghai Lily (Marlene Dietrich) is a courtesan who lives on her wits, and must make a choice when the train she is travelling on is stopped by Chinese rebels. Will the other passengers see past the veneer of loose morals to the woman beyond? And will they like what they see?One of several fabulous looking, drifty and essentially quite similar collaborations between Dietich and the director Josef von Sternberg, this pre-code picture starts out with some wicked observations. When the train is delayed by cattle, one of the passengers remarks to the other: 'you're in China, sir, where time and life have no value'. It's a world slightly outside our own, unexpected and ancient, one which has more than its photography in common with the style in which Russia is presented in The...
Katherine Langrish grew up in Yorkshire but has lived in an awful lot of places since, including France and the US. She studied English at London University, worked for Lloyd's Register of Ships (where she encountered a man who said he could see Armada shipwrecks at the bottom of the sea with his magic eye) and is the author of several fantasies for children and young adults including Troll Fell and Dark Angels (published in the US as The Shadow Hunt). Kath describes her books as 'history with the beliefs put back in'. They have been translated into nine languages, are based in the 10th and 12th centuries, and include fantastical creatures such as trolls, ghosts, house spirits and water spirits taken from the folklore and legends of the era. She blogs at Seven Miles of Steel Thistles,...
On this very day, 12th August, in 1981, IBM unveiled its first PC, at New York City's Waldorf Astoria hotel. It (the PC, not the hotel) weighed a mere 25 pounds. It had a 4.77-MHz Intel 8088 CPU that contained 29,000 transistors.The basic model had 16 Kb of RAM; the standard version 64 Kb, expandable to 256 Kb. It also featured a 40 Kb ROM, a choice of none, one or two 5.25-inch floppy drives, a monochromatic display and an optional cassette drive. Oh, and according to this picture, a wireless keyboard: The 16-Kb base model, with no data-storage drives included, cost $1,565 (that's equivalent to $3,770 now [about £2,400]). If you loaded all the standard features and souped up with colour graphics and 256 Kb, it'd cost you about £9,200 in today's money. Available software...
After playing around on the official BBC site for about fifteen minutes, I can't stress enough how surprised I was at Amy Pond's History Hunt. Of course, the 'story' is a bit thin (see below), and it doesn't have much to offer after more than one play, but this glorified trivia game can be more than a little challenging. Such questions as "When did Vincent van Gogh paint The Starry Night?" will stump everyone who doesn't have a degree in art history. Unless you know about a certain Mysterious Affair, you won't know when Agatha published her first book. And, as Churchill once said, an empty taxi arrived at 10 Downing Street, and when the door was opened, a certain nobody got out.As the Doctor has disappeared and taken his sonic screwdriver with him, you'll need to enter a sequence of...
Amplify’d from www.bbc.co.ukHow to Play Amy's History HuntAs the Doctor has disappeared and taken his sonic screwdriver with him, you'll need to enter a sequence of digits in order to crack the code that opens the safe. All you have to do is answer questions about friends of the Doctor. If you get all three questions right about a single person you release a digit and move a step further to opening the safe. But Amy explains all this in the video!Watch her message and then click on 'Start the History Hunt' to begin the adventure! Initially you'll get a choice of three people you can investigate first. After selecting one of them you should click on the 'Find out more about...' icon. You'll be whisked away to another page where you can either plunge straight into the questions by...
Classic interactive children's titles given digital makeover in attempt to captivate new readers, as well as original fansChildhood days of cheating on the Choose Your Own Adventure books by jumping back 10 pages after being eaten by a monster or falling down a chasm may be over, after the series was launched as an iTunes app last week.The classic title Return to the Cave of Time – in which the reader can journey through the ages using "all of your numerous talents and much of your enormous intelligence to avoid disaster, even death" – was launched this week as an interactive reading experience for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.Developers believe the series is perfect for converting to an app, as the medium will enhance books that were already interactive by allowing the reader to...
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'She took the glass and drank steadily, without a tremor. She looked at me and said, "Oh, yuck" and from nowhere I replied, "Well, they won't do as last words" 'On a cold bright Monday in March, my friend Vicki and I took a train journey together for the very last time. During our 20-year friendship, we had travelled together a lot but, this time, when we took the train from St Pancras to Zurich, I knew I would return alone. We were on our way to the Dignitas clinic, where Vicki would die less than a week later.Vicki was fiercely independent and saw her life as an adventure. In her younger days, she cycled across Nepal, was shipwrecked off New Zealand and extradited from America. She was also a self-taught sailor, potter and toy maker. But 10 years ago she was diagnosed with...
Doctor Who Adventures has details on Issue 176This week, you can enter a video competition to act out your own adventures as the Doctor, discover Matt Smith's secrets from filming the explosive season finale and squirt your mates with the free bow tie! SPLASH!You can also test how much you know about the spuddy Sontarans, read some fast facts on dangers dribblers the Flood and win loads of cool toys. So what are you waiting for?BBC Doctor Who has Your Guide to the Doctor Who Proms, this weekend there will be two amazing Doctor Who Proms, both featuring Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill. The first is set for Saturday, 24 July at 19.30 and the second takes place the following day at 11.00.The Doctor Who News Page has...Series 32 Production Team, writing in Doctor Who Magazine,...
Doctor Who Live: Monsters RevealedThis topically football-themed "Monsters First 11" consist of monsters from various recent Doctor Who stories: Judoon, Winders, Clockwork Droids, Silurians, Weeping Angels, Ood, Cybermen, Saturnynes, Daleks, Scarecrows and Smilers.The Doctor Who Live show will be appearing at the following locations:London Wembley Arena: 8-10 October 2010Sheffield Arena: 12-13 October 2010Glasgow SECC: 14-17 October 2010Birmingham NIA: 18-20 October 2010Manchester Evening News Arena: 22-24 October 2010Nottingham Trent FM Arena: 25-26 October 2010Cardiff International Arena: 28-31 October 2010Liverpool Echo Arena: 2-3 November 2010Belfast Odyssey Arena: 6-7 November 2010For more details read on the show visit the official Doctor Who Live site or use the widget in our side...
Ellen Renner grew up in the Ozark hills of southern Missouri. She studied both painting and creative writing at university before moving to England in her twenties. She now lives in Devon with her husband and teenage son. Ellen's debut novel, Castle of Shadows, is an adventure for readers aged nine-plus, set in an alternative Victorian world. It won the 2007 Cornerstones/Writers News WOW Factor Competition for unpublished writers and was published in January 2010 by Orchard Books. Castle of Shadows was longlisted for the Waterstone's Prize and the Dorset New Horizons Book Award, and is currently shortlisted for the West Sussex Children's Book Prize. The sequel, City of Thieves, will be published by Orchard in August. Here Ellen writes about Diana Wynne Jones.
Ellen Renner on Diana Wynne...
Sander put this a a reply to a post on here, I think its worth sharing as a lot of thought has gone into it, and he certainly has a point!501 The Eleventh Hour: Amelia Pond, name like a fairytale. Apples. Young woman goes on an adventure with her imaginary friend in her nightie, telling her not to grow up (Peter Pan).502 The Beast Below: The Queen walks among the common folk. The beast that eats children is actually a big friendly giant.503 Victory of the Daleks: A fake man turns human thanks to having emotions (Pinocchio).504/5 Time of the Angels/Flesh & Stone: Amy Pond, dressed in a red hoody is chased by something evil through a forest. The Pandorica is a fairytale. River: Aren't we all?506 Vampires of Venice: Innocent girls going into danger in a great big castle. To me it has a...
Sara Sheridan works in wide range of media and genres. She started writing full-time in 1997 and has had a book published every year since. Truth or Dare, her first novel, won a Scottish Library Award. In 2002 The Blessed and the Damned was shortlisted for a Saltire Award. More recently Sara has concentrated on historical fiction. In February 2011 Secret of the Sands will be released - set in the 1830s on the Arabian Peninsula, against the backdrop of the abolition of slavery. The following month her first picture book for children, I'm Me!, will also hit the shelves. Sara's website contains bonus material such as YouTube readings and author podcasts. You can follow her on Twitter as sarasheridan. Below she discusses T.C. Boyle's Water Music.
Sara Sheridan on Water Music by T.C. Boyle...
There are moments in The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch (Penguin, 1998) when Tim Radford felt perilously out of his depth. But the adventure was exhilaratingFrom Friday 16 July, the club will be discussing Naturalist by EO Wilson (Island Press, 2006)All good books test the imagination. When you open them you must imagine for yourself Raymond Chandler's rainy Los Angeles in the 1930s, or Terry Pratchett's turtle-backed Discworld. You cannot in reality go to either place, but in another sense you can. This book is different. It requires you to imagine a truly unimaginable world, which turns out to be the one that you already inhabit.On page 44 of the Penguin edition, David Deutsch describes the interference pattern from a single photon passing through a single slit and infers from this...
BBC Doctor Who has...Doctor Who: The Adventure Games, this is your chance to be the Doctor. Are you ready to take on the challenge? download City of the Daleks, for free, now!Doctor Who at the British Film Institute, we were at the exciting preview of Vincent and the Doctor at The British Film Institute, and we have some exclusive video for you on the site...BBC Press Office has Doctor Who: The Pandorica Opens Ep 12/13, Saturday 19 June, the Doctor's friends unite to send him a terrible warning; the Pandorica – which is said to contain the most feared being in all the cosmos – is opening, as the time travelling drama continues. But what's inside, and can the Doctor stop it?, written by Steven Moffat and stars Matt Smith as the Doctor and Karen Gillan as Amy Pond. TARDIS Scanner - Who...
DoctorWhoLive.com has Tickets for the anticipated live show go on sale today, with an out-of-this-world set, Doctor Who Live will feature special FX, optical illusions and spectacular pyrotechnics building to an epic finale. Specially edited video clips, drawn from the TV Programme will be shown on a massive screen and accompanied by the music of longtime Doctor Who composer Murray Gold, these iconic scores will be brought to life by a 16 piece orchestra live on stage, you can book tickets online here or call Ticketmaster on 0844 847 1963, please note that actors from the TV series will not be appearing live on stage. (tickets are subject to booking fees)BBC - Doctor Who Adventures has Issue 167, ...packed with all the best bits from last week's brilliant episode, Amy's Choice: gruesome...
British Board of Film Censors has...DOCTOR WHO - THE VAMPIRES OF VENICE [Season 5, Episode 6] passed PGDOCTOR WHO CONFIDENTIAL - DEATH IN VENICE [Additional material, Season 5, Episode 6] passed UBBC News has Nia's adventure with a Time Lord, Brecon-born actress Nia Roberts appears in the latest episode of the current series of Dr Who.The Doctor Who News Page has....The Pandorica Opens - Preview, the title of the penultimate episode of the current series has been revealed as The Pandorica Opens and the episode will be exclusively previewed at a special screening at the Princess Anne Theatre, BAFTA on Wednesday 16 June, there will be a special Question and Answer session with Matt Smith talking about his first season as the Doctor and Steven Moffat talking about his first season as Lead...
BBC1 - 15th May 2010 - 6.25pm Something's been nagging at me for a few weeks now with this new series. And no, I'm not referring to Amy Pond. Well, not just yet. Although, she has been the source of much of my consternation too and will be again by the time I've finished with this review. This series is not really engaging me as much as I thought it would and with Amy's Choice some of these concerns are thrown into sharp relief. On paper, this is terrific. A very witty and imaginative script from Simon Nye. Nye is a seasoned television writer and an extremely well thought of translator of Moliere and Dario Fo so I wasn't in the least bit worried that he was writing for Doctor Who, unlike others who immediately fixated on his Men Behaving Badly credentials and though the sky was falling in...
TARDIS Scanner - Who Tube has New Trailer for The Hungry Earth.BBC iPlayer (UK only) has...The Sarah Jane Adventures - Series 1 - Eye of the Gorgon - Part 1, Sarah Jane and team encounter the Gorgon, a terrible creature that turns victims to stone. The Sarah Jane Adventures - Series 1: Eye of the Gorgon - Part 2, Sarah Jane and team encounter the Gorgon, a terrible creature that turns victims to stone. The Whoniverse has updated their Discontinuity Guide with The Glass Prison.BBC Doctor Who has...Welcome Aboard the TARDIS!, our latest panoramic allows you to step inside the Doctor's time machine and have a good look around!The Adventure Games Update, Charles Cecil, one of the Executive Producers on Doctor Who: The Adventure Games updates us on their progress. And we've a clip from Doctor...
BBC Doctor Who has...Amy's Choice Extras, we've updated our section on Amy's Choice, filling it with more videos with the cast, exclusive galleries, the latest Fact File and new features.Photo Gallery for Amy's Choice.Next time: The Hungry Earth, the Doctor, Amy and Rory arrive in a mining village and are soon facing a deadly danger from a bygone age.Introducing Amy's Choice, featuring Arthur DarvillArthur Darvill on the Doctor, Rory and AmyThe Big Questions 06, featuring Matt Smith and Arthur DarvillStep Back in Time: Terror in the TARDIS!, this week's Step Back in Time features a scary scene from the 1968 adventure, The Mind Robber.Amy's Choice: Behind the ScenesBBC iPlayer (UK only) has...Doctor Who - Series 5: 7. Amy's Choice, when the Doctor reappears in Amy's life after five years,...
TARDIS Scanner - Who Tube has Doctor Who Step Back in Time Terror in the TARDIS! BBC iPlayer (UK only) has... Torchwood - Series 1:4. Cyberwoman, beneath the Torchwood Building, Ianto Jones hides a terrible secret. The Sarah Jane Adventures - Series 3: The Eternity Trap - Part 1, a haunted house, with mysterious whispers and secrets in the shadows, requires Sarah Jane. The Sarah Jane Adventures - Series 3: The Eternity Trap - Part 2, Sarah Jane and the gang discover the secret of Erasmus Darkening - but are they too late? Big Finish have the trailers for Legend of the Cybermen and The Whispering Forest.BBC Doctor Who has...The Series at a Glance, we've put together this handy episode guide to the current series, with links to all the video content, image galleries and other material...
TARDIS Scanner - Who Tube has... Introducing Amy Choice Amy's Choice Clips (3 clips in a row)Matt Smith on his Dalek co-starsExclusive: John Barrowman chat BBC Press Office has Doctor Who – Cold Blood Ep 9/13, Saturday 29 May, 6.25-7.10pm BBC ONE and BBC HD, it is the most important day in the history of Earth: the dawn of a new age of harmony or the start of its final war, in the latest episode of the time-travelling drama, written by Chris Chibnall, The Doctor must face his most difficult challenge yet. It is a battle in which he cannot take sides and a day when nobody must die...BBC iPlayer (UK only) has...The Chris Moyles Show: Wednesday - With Matt Smith In The Studio, Matt Smith stops by the studio for a chat with Chris and the gang. The Sarah Jane Adventures - Series 1: Whatever...
TARDIS Scanner - Who Tube has...Doctor Who The Monster Files - Vampires Doctor Who Amy's Choice Trailer Doctor Who - Big Questions 05 Doctor Who - Arthur Darvill on Rory and Amy 'Doctor Who' Stars Ponder The Doctor's Marital Status BBC iPlayer (UK only) has...Doctor Who - Series 5:6. The Vampires of Venice, corpses and terror fill the canals as the Doctor, Amy and Rory visit 16th Century Venice. The Sarah Jane Adventures - Series 3: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith - Part 1, the Doctor returns on the happiest day of Sarah Jane's life, but a deadly trap awaits. The Sarah Jane Adventures - Series 3: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith - Part 2, the Doctor joins the battle, but is he too late to save both Sarah Jane and the Earth? BBC Doctor Who has...The Vampires of Venice ExtrasVenice: Find...
BBC Press Office has Doctor Who – Amy's Choice Ep 7/13, Saturday 15 May 6.30-7.15pm BBC ONE, it's been five years since Amy Pond last travelled with the Doctor, and when he lands in her garden again, on the eve of the birth of her first child, she finds herself facing a heartbreaking choice – one that will change her life for ever.TARDIS Scanner - Who Tube has BBC - Doctor Who Remembering William Hartnell - News & Features.BBC iPlayer (UK only) has ...Doctor Who - Doctor Who and the Creature from the Pit Episode 3, the Time Lord finds an ally and learns why the evil Adrasta wields such power on Chloris. Doctor Who Confidential - Series 5: 3. War Games, writer Mark Gatiss meets the curator of the Cabinet War Rooms and Churchill museum. The Sarah Jane Adventures - Series 1: Eye of...
TARDIS Scanner - Who Tube has Radio discussion about the animated Graham Norton interrupting Doctor Who (26.4.10).British Board of Film Censors has...DOCTOR WHO CONFIDENTIAL - CALL ME THE DOCTOR [Season 5, Episode 1, CALL ME THE DOCTOR] passed UDOCTOR WHO CONFIDENTIAL - ALL ABOUT THE GIRL [Season 5, Episode 2, ALL ABOUT THE GIRL] passed UDOCTOR WHO CONFIDENTIAL - WAR GAMES [Season 5, Episode 3, WAR GAMES] passed PGBBC iPlayer has Doctor Who and the Creature from the Pit Episode 1, a distress signal sends the TARDIS to a planet where owning metal gives political power. Last Broadcast has Phil Ford (Doctor Who: The Adventure Games) interview, players will help the Doctor and Amy in an epic original story which forms part of the current series, featuring Matt Smith and Karen Gillan...
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My life has gotten better since I made the decision to stop consuming meat, eggs and dairy products. I had my eureka moment about nine years ago when I woke up to the fact that my choice to eat meat meant I was actually paying someone to end the life of another living being – a being who, in all likelihood, had spent his or her whole life scared or in pain. I think I must have known on some level the impact that acknowledging that connection would have on my life, which is probably why it took me so long to acknowledge it. Between you and me, I was a cheese addict. I wish I had known that going vegan doesn’t actually make you feel like you’re giving something up (which was what I was scared of) but actually makes you feel more like you’re...
I was a very sickly child. Lots of days spent wearing a red felt vest with prest studs to ward off the spectre of possible TB. It wasn't TB but I remember the daily exercises I was given to do in order to drain my lungs and in the midst of the school days missed there was a magical friend whose genius seemed to reshape every daily detail into something special and fated. I felt I had a secret correspondence with Treasure Island's creator and Robert Louis Stevenson with his bursting creativity and weak chest! He stood side by side me during my childhood and then went away until seven years ago he came back and named my tuition site Tusitala- 'teller of tales' in Samoan!
So this morning I started to reread Kidnapped once again and found the resourcefulness and drive...
Once again I've been asked to throw a few ideas around about classic Doctor Who for that august publication Celestial Toyroom, the publication of choice for all Doctor Who Appreciation Society members. To coincide with the launch of the new series they've had the decorators in and spruced up their own website www.dwasonline.co.uk so why not pop over or, better still, join. Once again, thanks to editor Tony Jordan for letting my self-indulgence get into print!For issue 384, the cover of which is an homage to the Virgin Missing Adventures, I've been let loose on Season 13 of the original series. Yep, the 'Gothic' one. So, without further ado here's:Season 13: Gothic WhoPart 1 / The Gothic continuum (c) 2010 Frank Collins. If you wish to quote from this article please ask the author's...
