Dr Who The Waters of Mars
Pt 6 of 6!!! see vodpod for 1-5
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Dr Who – The Waters of Mars tomorrow in UK – new trailer plus David Tennant & Russell T Davies at the premiere and an interview with Georgia Moffet
Update 11/15:
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Lucky lucky UK gets to see it manyana (at 700pm)! It airs in the states on Dec 19th see our previous posts here
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Continues after the break:
David Tennant on filming his final scenes as Dr Who; Waters of Mars to air Sat, Dec 19th on BBCAmerica
Courtesy of ITN:
Actor David Tennant says filming his final scenes as Doctor Who was emotional. Follow us on twitter at http://twitter.com/itn_on
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Actor David Tennant appeared on the show to talk about the new episode. Clips from the show could not be included because broadcasters get arsey about such things.
More info about the forthcoming DVD here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/A…
And the Complete 4 Series boxset here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/A…
Update: SciFiWire has the schedule for the airing of the final Dr Who special here in the States:
…There are three specials left to air before Matt Smith takes over as the 11th Doctor. Following is BBC’s full press release. Power up the TARDIS!
October 30, 2009 -The BBC today announced the imminent arrival of the final Doctor Who episodes starring David Tennant as the Doctor. Television’s longest running science fiction series, shot in HD, has just three episodes to go before a new Doctor arrives on screen next year.
The next special, Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars airs on BBC AMERICA, Saturday December 19, 9:00pm ET/PT. It stars Tennant and British stage and screen actress Lindsay Duncan (Rome, Langford) as Adelaide, his cleverest and most strong-minded companion….(MANY more details at the piece, go read it!)
Haunted Short Stories – 8 – ‘Afterward’ by Edith Wharton (1909)
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'Afterward' by Edith Wharton (1909) published in The Century Magazine - Jan. 1910
Chapter 1
“Oh, there is one, of course, but you’ll never know it.”
The assertion, laughingly flung out six months earlier in a bright June garden, came back to Mary Boyne with a sharp perception of its latent significance as she stood, in the December dusk, waiting for the lamps to be brought into the library.
The words had been spoken by their friend Alida Stair, as they sat at tea on her lawn at Pangbourne, in reference to the very house of which the library in question was the central, the pivotal “feature.” Mary Boyne and her husband, in quest of a country place in one of the southern or southwestern counties, had, on their arrival in England, carried their problem straight to Alida Stair, who had successfully solved it in her own case; but it was not until they had rejected, almost capriciously, several practical and judicious suggestions that she threw it out: “Well, there’s Lyng, in Dorsetshire. It belongs to Hugo’s cousins, and you can get it for a song.”
The reasons she gave for its being obtainable on these terms — its remoteness from a station, its lack of electric light, hot-water pipes, and other vulgar necessities — were exactly those pleading in its favor with two romantic Americans perversely in search of the economic drawbacks which were associated, in their tradition, with unusual architectural felicities.
“I should never believe I was living in an old house unless I was thoroughly uncomfortable,” Ned Boyne, the more extravagant of the two, had jocosely insisted; “the least hint of ‘convenience’ would make me think it had been bought out of an exhibition, with the pieces numbered, and set up again.” And they had proceeded to enumerate, with humorous precision, their various suspicions and exactions, refusing to believe that the house their cousin recommended was really Tudor till they learned it had no heating system, or that the village church was literally in the grounds till she assured them of the deplorable uncertainty of the water-supply.
“It’s too uncomfortable to be true!” Edward Boyne had continued to exult as the avowal of each disadvantage was successively wrung from her; but he had cut short his rhapsody to ask, with a sudden relapse to distrust: “And the ghost? You’ve been concealing from us the fact that there is no ghost!”
Mary, at the moment, had laughed with him, yet almost with her laugh, being possessed of several sets of independent perceptions, had noted a sudden flatness of tone in Alida’s answering hilarity.
“Oh, Dorsetshire’s full of ghosts, you know.”
“Yes, yes; but that won’t do. I don’t want to have to drive ten miles to see somebody else’s ghost. I want one of my own on the premises. Is there a ghost at Lyng?”
His rejoinder had made Alida laugh again, and it was then that she had flung back tantalizingly: “Oh, there is one, of course, but you’ll never know it.”
“Never know it?” Boyne pulled her up. “But what in the world constitutes a ghost except the fact of its being known for one?”
“I can’t say. But that’s the story.”
“That there’s a ghost, but that nobody knows it’s a ghost?”
“Well — not till afterward, at any rate.”
“Till afterward?”
“Not till long, long afterward.”
“But if it’s once been identified as an unearthly visitant, why hasn’t its signalement been handed down in the family? How has it managed to preserve its incognito?”
Alida could only shake her head. “Don’t ask me. But it has.”
“And then suddenly — ” Mary spoke up as if from some cavernous depth of divination — “suddenly, long afterward, one says to one’s self, ‘That was it?'” She was oddly startled at the sepulchral sound with which her question fell on the banter of the other two, and she saw the shadow of the same surprise flit across Alida’s clear pupils. “I suppose so. One just has to wait.”
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Update: Market Roundup: House vote on Financial Regulatory Reform Bill today, GE gets an exemption, Geithner wants to exempt TARP 2 from restrictions and Geithner pushing BofA and CITI to payback TARP over objections of FDIC…
Update 2: It’s up on the newslinkys now:
Conyers/Turner/Lofgren/Marshall/Waters/Cohen/Miller (NC)/ Delahunt/Nadler/Fudge Amendment #201 (Defeated 241-188)Revised: Would allow bankruptcy courts to extend repayment periods, reduce excessive interest rates and fees, and adjust the principal balance of the mortgage to a home’s fair market value as necessary to prevent foreclosure and revised to allow the VA, FHA, and RHS to take steps to facilitate mortgage modifications. The amendment is substantively identical to title I, subtitle A and sections 121-123 of subtitle B of H.R. 1106 Helping Families Save Their Homes Act of 2009), which passed the House on March 5, 2009. (See related story)
Update: 1:25 pm EST: The DEMOCRATICALLY CONTROLLED HOUSE has just rejected the Amendment to the Financial Regulatory Reform Bill that would have allowed bankruptcy judges to ‘cramdown’ mortgages. This after we learned yesterday that of a pool of 3 MILLION delinquent homeowners (which is now up to 4.8 million BTW), Treasury/HUD have managed to get the banks to permanently modify 31,000, yes that’s thousand. After that EPIC FAIL I became a SUPPORTER of this Amendment. It is not the BANKS holding these loans anymore peeps!! It is FAN FRED FHA!!!!
That being the case as taxpayers we will take a hit when those loans go to short sale and some investor makes a profit, WE will be bailing out FAN FRED (again) and FHA. Why wouldn’t we just buy the damned bad loans oh yeah that was what Paulson SAID he was gonna do with TARP.
Now WE the taxpayer guaranteeing FAN FRED FHA OWN these loans ALREADY. Why the hell arent we writing them down and taking the hit ONCE. Instead the homeowners get kicked out, it gets sold for less then the mortgage and we STILL give FAN FRED FHA the bailout for the loss. And now some investor with FREE money from the FED has the house and will dump it on the market in another bubble like the one they made that started this mess.
And Tim wants TARP II. But no cramdown. And they think they are ‘progressive’, they say they are Democrats. Obama’s Treasury didn;t want it, therefore it didnt happen, This is Unbelievable.
This despite that IDENTICAL legislation had already PASSED the House once before and died in the Senate. Could not be more clear they are leaving the homeowners out to dry.
And everyone who lives near or is family with or sells goods to those homeowners. We are ALL gonna pay when people keep walking on these loans and getting foreclosed on, we will have ENDLESS bailouts of FAN FRED FHA as those homes are sold and resold in new bubbles and everyone makes a bundle but the taxpers and families who lose their homes. Utterly disgusting.
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Should BofA and CITI be allowed to leave TARP? Will they be back like a bad penny?
Look for the cramdown/judicial mod amendment action also. Since Treasury and the banks managed only 31,000 mods out of 3 MILLION loans I now support it, frak ’em.
FINAL RULE ON THE REFORM BILL, including a summary of all 36 amendments made in order by the Rules Committee. Some got votes Thursday night, others will come today. Final passage is expected sometime around noon.
BILL HAS LOOPHOLES, report WSJ’s Damian Paletta and David Enrich, “Buried in a 239-page amendment to the U.S. House of Representatives’ financial regulatory overhaul is a provision that appears to do just one thing: exempts financial-services company USAA from some of the bill’s tougher provisions. The carve-out is one of a number of exceptions that allow companies to avoid fresh scrutiny envisioned by the White House, which is aiming to overhaul the nation’s financial-regulatory apparatus. The beneficiaries run from corporations such as General Electric Co. and Pitney Bowes Inc. to USAA, which caters to members of the military and their families, to so-called fraternal benefit societies.”
Geithner has learned NOTHING from the disasterous capital infusions into the big banks in TARP ROUND ONE. Now in Son of TARP he wants to EXEMPT everyone from the Feinberg pay czar that they installed to curb populist anger that THEY stoked in the first place!!! Which I agree was a stupid stupid limitation but CONGRESS did it, they will do it AGAIN. He cannot protect them. Who believes Congress will not arbitrarily add requirements later?
AND still no word on what the hexx they plan to do about HOUSING which was the FIRST thing named in TARP legislation…purpose was to address foreclosures and stabilize markets.:
WAPO REPORTS POSSIBLE SMALL BIZ TARP — by David Cho, A1, 2 column lead: “The Obama administration plans to channel money from the government’s massive financial bailout program to small businesses as part of an effort to limit the political and economic damage of high unemployment. One plan under consideration involves spinning off a new entity from [TARP] that would give banks access to federal funds without restrictions, including limits on executive pay, as long as the money was used to support loans to small businesses. … As an alternative, officials are prepared to ask Congress to modify TARP itself, easing the pay limits and other restrictions that would be imposed on small-business lenders taking the money, the sources said … Since the summer, the administration has been facing an uncomfortable dynamic in the economy. The ranks of the jobless have been growing, while big financial firms that got taxpayer bailout money have been thriving. In response, officials have been trying to recast TARP as aid for Main Street rather than Wall Street.”
GEITHNER SAYS SMALL BANKS WORRY OF TARP TAINT, reports FT’s Tom Braithwaite: “Tim Geithner, US Treasury secretary, on Thursday advocated exempting small businesses from restrictions attached to the bank bail-out program that Goldman Sachs , Citigroup and other large banks have been anxious to escape. In testimony to the Congressional Oversight Panel, Mr. Geithner said small banks were worried about being ‘stigmatized’ for asking for money from [TARP] and that this was exacerbating a credit crunch for their small business customers. They don’t want to come to do business with the government. ‘They think it’s a sign of weakness, not strength.’”
Geithner also pushed BofA and is pushing CITI paybacks of TARP, IMO to justify TARP 2: The Revenge of TARP!!!, over the objections of the FDIC. As originally reported by Andrew Ross Sorkin in the NYT. In the TARP C.O.P. questioning yesterday Geithner did not deny this. This morning a guest on CNBC noted this is a serious problem. We will post the video. FD: We are BofA/Merrill shareholders and have discussed this ad nauseum here on the site.
In Memoriam
God Bless the people lost on 9/11, their families and friends and all the incredible heroes who worked to save them who were and are still being lost today, and the troops and their families who sacrifice so much for all of us.
Video courtesy of mcjar49
If so inclined, you can light a virtual candle here
- STRONG Son of God, immortal Love,
- Whom we, that have not seen thy face,
- By faith, and faith alone, embrace,
- Believing where we cannot prove;
- Thine are these orbs of light and shade;
- Thou madest Life in man and brute;
- Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot
- Is on the skull which thou hast made.
- Thou wilt not leave us in the dust:
- Thou madest man, he knows not why,
- He thinks he was not made to die;
- And thou hast made him: thou art just.
- Thou seemest human and divine,
- The highest, holiest manhood, thou:
- Our wills are ours, we know not how;
- Our wills are ours, to make them thine.
- Our little systems have their day;
- They have their day and cease to be:
- They are but broken lights of thee,
- And thou, O Lord, art more than they.
- We have but faith: we cannot know;
- For knowledge is of things we see;
- And yet we trust it comes from thee,
- A beam in darkness: let it grow.
- Let knowledge grow from more to more,
- But more of reverence in us dwell;
- That mind and soul, according well,
- May make one music as before,
- But vaster. We are fools and slight;
- We mock thee when we do not fear:
- But help thy foolish ones to bear;
- Help thy vain worlds to bear thy light.
- Forgive what seem’d my sin in me;
- What seem’d my worth since I began;
- For merit lives from man to man,
- And not from man, O Lord, to thee.
- Forgive my grief for one removed,
- Thy creature, whom I found so fair.
- I trust he lives in thee, and there
- I find him worthier to be loved.
- Forgive these wild and wandering cries,
- Confusions of a wasted youth;
- Forgive them where they fail in truth,
- And in thy wisdom make me wise.
- 1849.
Moderate in the Middle 