"The Voice" Winner Cassadee Pope's "Frame by Frame" First Week Sales Numbers

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqGP0s0oveFkw3W-F-hZdEnLzwJ5eoeikTqxbxpcqd0hSpz53VSYVe6D8WTPnHOoQF___U2OYQJFY5Y1nGl8eyPyU08f0agVXSG4YpylGOkFridu-B9cHO2IizCZIm88kyTFfOGABV3WI1/s1600/hdd-rumor-20131009.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqGP0s0oveFkw3W-F-hZdEnLzwJ5eoeikTqxbxpcqd0hSpz53VSYVe6D8WTPnHOoQF___U2OYQJFY5Y1nGl8eyPyU08f0agVXSG4YpylGOkFridu-B9cHO2IizCZIm88kyTFfOGABV3WI1/s400/hdd-rumor-20131009.png" width="400" /></a></div>Yes, I know this is supposedly an American Idol statistics blog, but everyone was curious how well "The Voice"'s first marketable winner's album would do in sales. That winner is, of course, Season3 winner, Cassadee Pope's "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Frame-By-Cassadee-Pope/dp/B00ENMJCHS/" target="_blank">Frame by Frame</a>" album which was released on Tuesday (when Idol winner, Candice Glover was supposed to release as well.) <a href="http://www.hitsdailydouble.com/news/rumormill.cgi" target="_blank">HitsDailyDouble</a> has the first week sales estimate for "Frame by Frame" to come in at <a href="http://www.mjsbigblog.com/hdd-projects-miley-cyrus-sell-250-270k-cassadee-pope-40-45k.htm" target="_blank">40K to 45K</a> which would be respectable debut numbers for a typical country artist, but is nothing like the huge 150K+ debuts of recent Idol winners like Phillip Phillips or Scotty McCreery (or even another female country singer, Season 10's Lauren Alaina who sold 69K her first week.) I am sure a lot of people will make these same comparisons, and since Candice's album was delayed until next year, Idol will not have to worry about her numbers in comparison. Seven days from now we will also have the first week sales estimates for Scotty McCreery's sophomore album, "See You Tonight", and more than likely they will be substantially higher than Cassadee's numbers, despite the fact that her single, "Wasting All These Tears", has been receiving a lot more radio play than Scotty's single.<br /><br />If Cassadee's first week sales numbers were sorted with all the other American Idol, X Factor and The Voice winners, it would look something like this:<br /><br />1) 400K, AI Season 2 (Ruben Studdard "Soulful" 2003)<br />2) 315K, AI Season 4 (Carrie Underwood "Some Hearts", 2005)<br />3) 298K, AI Season 5 (Taylor Hicks, "Taylor Hicks" 2006)<br />4) 297K, AI Season 1 (Kelly Clarkson "Thankful" 2003)<br />5) 280K, AI Season 7 (David Cook "David Cook" 2008)<br />6) 240K, AI Season 3 (Fantasia Barrino "Free Yourself" 2004)<br />7) 197K, AI Season 10 (Scotty McCreery "Clear as Day" 2011)<br />8) 169K, AI Season 11 (Phillip Phillips "World From The Side of the Moon" 2012)<br />9) 119K, AI Season 6 (Jordin Sparks "Jordin Sparks" 2007)<br />10) 80K, AI Season 8 (Kris Allen "Kris Allen" 2009)<br /><b>11) 40-45K, The Voice Season 3 (Cassadee Pope "Frame by Frame" 2013)</b><br />12) 39K, AI Season 9 (Lee DeWyze "Live It Up" 2010)<br />13) 17K, X Factor Season 2 (Tate Stevens "Tate Stevens" 2013)<br />14) 10K, The Voice Season 1 (Javier Colon, "Come Through For You" 2011)<br /><br />MIA: The Voice Season 2 (Jermaine Paul), X Factor Season 1 (Melanie Amaro)<br />TBD: The Voice Season 4 (Danielle Bradbery - Nov 2013), AI Season 12 (Candice Glover- Feb 2014)<br /><br />So Cassadee does have the most successful release from "The Voice" (or from the "X Factor") but Danielle Bradbery is releasing next month, and they all pale in comparison to the American Idol winners, even including the more recent ones (Scotty, Phillip). It will be interesting to see where Danielle and Candice fit into the list as well.

"The Voice" Winner Cassadee Pope's "Frame by Frame" First Week Sales Numbers

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Star Wars The Clone Wars: Own David Tennant's Emmy Award Winning Performance On DVD & Blu-Ray

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJkEDckG0Mmp5F69fEfzNiJscKmuFtNF-IWg7lHPjrEFWrJBMsmFiPpIadcwQs-4rG06nILjtMri5EXv-w3sc4yB7ptwCeINtw_G0l9FZD3PsozmWc4EMj1t23Bwt4MYrQvw3sI_kTFuA/s1600/huy1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJkEDckG0Mmp5F69fEfzNiJscKmuFtNF-IWg7lHPjrEFWrJBMsmFiPpIadcwQs-4rG06nILjtMri5EXv-w3sc4yB7ptwCeINtw_G0l9FZD3PsozmWc4EMj1t23Bwt4MYrQvw3sI_kTFuA/s640/huy1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br /><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fans in the UK and USA can now own David Tennant's Emmy Award winning performance as Professor Huyang in Star Wars The Clone Wars on DVD and Blu-ray as Series 5 is released next week.</span><br /><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The DVD features 20 episodes including David's, 'A Test Of Strength' and 'A Necessary Bond' and a host of Extras.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00APGRM78?ie=UTF8&camp=3194&creative=21330&creativeASIN=B00APGRM78&linkCode=shr&tag=dtennant-21&qid=1381344486&sr=8-1&keywords=%22star+wars+clone+wars+season+5%22" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>UK Fans pre order the DVD  here</b></span></a></div><div><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00APGRMFK?ie=UTF8&camp=3194&creative=21330&creativeASIN=B00APGRMFK&linkCode=shr&tag=dtennant-21&qid=1381344953&sr=8-2&keywords=%22star+wars+clone+wars+season+5%22" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>UK Fans pre order the Blu-ray here</b></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">UK release date Monday 14th October</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00E8G5HDW?ie=UTF8&camp=213733&creative=393185&creativeASIN=B00E8G5HDW&linkCode=shr&tag=datethsi-20&qid=1381345026&sr=8-1&keywords=%22+Star+Wars%3A+The+Clone+Wars+-+The+Complete+Season+Five%22" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>USA Fans pre order the DVD here </b></span></a></div><div><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00E8G5H6Y?ie=UTF8&camp=213733&creative=393185&creativeASIN=B00E8G5H6Y&linkCode=shr&tag=datethsi-20&qid=1381345026&sr=8-2&keywords=%22+Star+Wars%3A+The+Clone+Wars+-+The+Complete+Season+Five%22" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>USA Fans pre order the Blu-ray here </b></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">USA release date Tuesday 15th October</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Amazon says:</span></div><div><div class="productDescriptionWrapper" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The fate of the galaxy rests in the hands of three daring young Jedi as a new chapter begins--<em>Star Wars: The Clone Wars</em>. On the front lines of the intergalactic struggle between good and evil, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker join forces in the mission that unites them as Jedi mentor and student as they battle to save the Republic from being splintered by the war between the separatist robot army and the white-armored clones, which are destined to become the army of Imperial storm troopers. 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Colbert Report on high court case on campaign finance (it only hurts when we laugh)

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Singapore Sightseeing: Singapore Life Church

<i>I'm back home from attending the World Architecture Festival in Singapore last week (read my recap for World-Architects <a href="http://www.world-architects.com/en/pages/insight/world-architecture-festival-2013">here</a>), so I'm playing catchup this week. While doing that I'll be posting photos from the various buildings I was able to visit while in Singapore. The below photos and more can be found in <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/sets/72157636305275654/">my Singapore set</a> on Flickr.</i><br /><br />Here are some photos of the Singapore Life Church designed by <a href="http://www.laudarchitects.com/">LAUD Architects</a>: <br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/10173671244/" title="Singapore Life Church by archidose, on Flickr"><img alt="Singapore Life Church" height="800" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7366/10173671244_9d8c9d16bc_c.jpg" width="600" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/10173661754/" title="Singapore Life Church by archidose, on Flickr"><img alt="Singapore Life Church" height="480" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3697/10173661754_8919969116_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br />As seen from the <a href="http://archidose.blogspot.com/2013/10/singapore-sightseeing-lasalle-college.html">LaSalle College of the Arts</a>:<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/10171382715/" title="LaSalle College of the Arts by archidose, on Flickr"><img alt="LaSalle College of the Arts" height="800" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7423/10171382715_b57e82c2a7_c.jpg" width="600" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/10173840826/" title="Singapore Life Church by archidose, on Flickr"><img alt="Singapore Life Church" height="800" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7322/10173840826_64111940cc_c.jpg" width="600" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/10173882453/" title="Singapore Life Church by archidose, on Flickr"><img alt="Singapore Life Church" height="640" src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2878/10173882453_6645892304_z.jpg" width="640" /></a>

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Old London Foods Review!

<div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oVGlb3v_lls/UlWYcWw2o7I/AAAAAAAAKHs/dTuG1EwdY94/s1600/13+-+1" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oVGlb3v_lls/UlWYcWw2o7I/AAAAAAAAKHs/dTuG1EwdY94/s320/13+-+1" width="320" /></span></i></a></div><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This time of year it's getting cooler which means foods to warm us up such as soup and stews!</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I don't know about you but I love a good topping on my soups whether it's some cheese grated up on top, a dollop of sour cream or crunchy and delicious crackers!</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">These snacks from <a href="http://www.oldlondonfoods.com/">Old London</a> make the perfect topping for soups and even dipping!</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Works great with:</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Cheese</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Soups</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Chili</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Dips</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">They also carry these varieties as well.</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Melba toasts:</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Rye</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Wheat</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Whole grain</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Salt free</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Classic</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Sour dough</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Sesame</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Rosemary and olive oil</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Melba snacks:</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Whole grain</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">White cheddar</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Roasted garlic</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Sesame</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Sea salt</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Whole grain and healthy</span></i><br /><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>Spicy 3 pepper</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>Bagel chips:</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>French onion</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>Sea salt</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>Spicy cheddar</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>Garlic and herb</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>JJ Flats: (new product) also received coupons for them, but couldn't find them at the store.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>Seven grain flat bread</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>Everything flat bread</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>Sesame flat bread</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>Roasted garlic flat bread</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>Facts:</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>All natural</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>Great for snacking</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>Tons of flavor</i></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-p_KlE0K6OQY/Ulsr3LQm8zI/AAAAAAAAKNg/fvc5E0Y8u8I/s1600/13+-+1" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-p_KlE0K6OQY/Ulsr3LQm8zI/AAAAAAAAKNg/fvc5E0Y8u8I/s320/13+-+1" width="180" /></a></div><br /><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">French onion bagel crisps:</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Love the French onion flavor it's not too overpowering and works great with spreadable cheeses! </span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Melba snacks sesame:</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I love sesame flavored foods especially these snacks they were good although they didn't have a sesame flavor to them, to me they tasted plain.</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Links:</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Website:</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.oldlondonfoods.com/"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">http://www.oldlondonfoods.com</span></i></a><br /><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Facebook:</span></i><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/OldLondonFoods"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">https://www.facebook.com/OldLondonFoods</span></i></a><br /><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Twitter:</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><a href="https://twitter.com/OldLondonSnacks">https://twitter.com/OldLondonSnacks</a></span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Instagram:</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><a href="http://instagram.com/oldlondonsnacks">http://instagram.com/oldlondonsnacks</a></span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span></i><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, 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Old London Foods Review!

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Senior Software Engineer ( C++/ C# / OOD / OOP / Multi-threading / GUI ) (#109355)

<font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"> <div><b>Position</b>: Senior Software Engineer<br> <b>Location</b>: Milpitas, CA <br> <b>Duration</b>: Full time<br> <br> <b>Job Description</b>:<br> The Film and Scatterometry Technology (FaST) Division provides industry leading metrology solutions for worldwide semiconductor IC manufacturers. The FaST Division portfolio of metrology products includes hardware and software solutions for optical film thickness, optical critical dimension (CD), composition, and resistivity measurement systems. These products are essential for the IC manufacturers as they provide critical metrology capabilities for the development and implementation of their advanced IC processes. The FaST division is committed to support our customers to achieve performance entitlement of our solution and we effectively partner with our customers from their early research and development phase to the high volume in-line manufacturing implementation specific for their process needs. The division consists of a global team located in US, Israel, China, and India.</div> <div> </div> <div><b>Responsibilities:</b></div> <div>We are looking for a senior software engineer to support the development of the next generation film and CD measurement technology and hardware. Following the KLA-Tencor Product Lifecycle methods, the candidate will be required to lead all phases of the software design/architecture, design reviews and requirements definition for systems and subsystems, and development/maintain of software features. Software requirements documents, analyzing software performance and development of critical software features are key responsibilities for this position. Other responsibilities for this position include interfacing with multi-disciplinary teams in the US and overseas, analyzing escalated issues, and bug fixes. The candidate may be required to travel to customer sites occasionally to support Beta tools or to address specific issues.</div> <div> </div> <div><b>Preferred Qualifications:</b></div> <div>Ph.D  or Master degree in physics/applied sciences/ computer science/electrical engineering or related fields with at least 3 years of commercial product development experience. Candidates should have excellent written and oral communication skills. Candidates should be familiar with fast prototyping, and have excellent problem-solving skills.  Prior experience in semiconductor equipment control and/or process control SW development would be considered a definite plus.</div> <div> </div> <div>1) Excellent mathematical and analytical background.</div> <div>2) Excellent architecture and design experience using modular / OOP / OOD methodology.</div> <div>3) Hands-on experience on C#/C++ programming including multi-threading on Windows platform.</div> <div>4) Proven track record on software design, implementation and unit testing using Microsoft VS C# /C++</div> <div>5) Ability to lead a small software project with team.</div> <div>6) GUI design and implementation using .Net framework.</div> <div>7) Documentation of software design artifacts  and algorithm specifications.</div> <div>8) Collaboration with SQC team on test case development and test execution.</div> <div>9) Experience on the metrology system, optics, semiconductor process is very desirable.</div> <div>10) Solid experience on at least 2 scripting languages in java script, python, and Perl is a plus.</div> <div> </div> <div><b>Minimum Qualifications:</b></div> <div>Bachelor's Level Degree with at least 8 years of experience.</div> <div>OR</div> <div>Master's Level Degree with at least 5 years of experience.</div> <div>OR</div> <div>Doctorate (Academic) with at least 3 years of experience.<br> <br> Kindly send your resumes to <a href="mailto:Sivaram.bose@kla-tencor.com"><font color="blue"><u>Sivaram.bose@kla-tencor.com</u></font></a></div> <div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></font></div> </span></font>

Senior Software Engineer ( C++/ C# / OOD / OOP / Multi-threading / GUI ) (#109355)

Position : Senior Software Engineer Location : Milpitas, CA Duration : Full time Job Description : The Film and Scatte...

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Singapore Sightseeing: LaSalle College of the Arts

<i>I'm back home from attending the World Architecture Festival in Singapore last week (read my recap for World-Architects <a href="http://www.world-architects.com/en/pages/insight/world-architecture-festival-2013">here</a>), so I'm playing catchup this week. While doing that I'll be posting photos from the various buildings I was able to visit while in Singapore. The below photos and more can be found in <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/sets/72157636305275654/">my Singapore set</a> on Flickr.</i><br /><br />Here are some photos of the LaSalle College of the Arts designed by <a href="http://www.rsp.com.sg/">RSP Architects</a>: <br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/10171574283/" title="LaSalle College of the Arts by archidose, on Flickr"><img alt="LaSalle College of the Arts" height="480" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8556/10171574283_85cb3e6d06_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/10171360125/" title="LaSalle College of the Arts by archidose, on Flickr"><img alt="LaSalle College of the Arts" height="800" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7434/10171360125_19840fe911_c.jpg" width="600" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/10171507876/" title="LaSalle College of the Arts by archidose, on Flickr"><img alt="LaSalle College of the Arts" height="800" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3685/10171507876_dbcf748d59_c.jpg" width="600" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/10171472696/" title="LaSalle College of the Arts by archidose, on Flickr"><img alt="LaSalle College of the Arts" height="800" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7314/10171472696_a573ed4b95_c.jpg" width="600" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/10171382715/" title="LaSalle College of the Arts by archidose, on Flickr"><img alt="LaSalle College of the Arts" height="800" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7423/10171382715_b57e82c2a7_c.jpg" width="600" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/10171495356/" title="LaSalle College of the Arts by archidose, on Flickr"><img alt="LaSalle College of the Arts" height="480" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3805/10171495356_a0b3ce90ba_z.jpg" width="640" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/archidose/10171433485/" title="LaSalle College of the Arts by archidose, on Flickr"><img alt="LaSalle College of the Arts" height="640" src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2888/10171433485_5e4b5244ed_z.jpg" width="640" /></a>

Singapore Sightseeing: LaSalle College of the Arts

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Tenth Doctor Month: Meet The Companions - Wilfred Mott

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS4DjsLaW9oZ_p4VuliwIA_6QNK2VjddGo5A0Qx_tPT3QPLMd5Gr9u0J6wCO9RcUaS3ya1zK4_Wm4IL8snJnxjdhjlYg3CqRp3I5TVYOudI-jsd2hcWsHhtmtrgepkPgwIXZDJ3bVgjFA/s1600/wilf1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS4DjsLaW9oZ_p4VuliwIA_6QNK2VjddGo5A0Qx_tPT3QPLMd5Gr9u0J6wCO9RcUaS3ya1zK4_Wm4IL8snJnxjdhjlYg3CqRp3I5TVYOudI-jsd2hcWsHhtmtrgepkPgwIXZDJ3bVgjFA/s640/wilf1.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Donna Noble's grandfather Wilfred Mott, or Wilf as he was also known, was an old soldier who had served in the war.</span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He first met the Doctor on Christmas Day when the Doctor teleported to Earth with a group of space tourists from the Sto based Starship The Titanic. It was a fleeting meeting and there was no hint of the significance that Wilf would play in the Doctor's life. (Voyage Of The Damned).</span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wilf was a keen amateur astronomer and would sit for hours at his allotment watching the stars in the night sky, it was whilst doing this that he saw the Doctor and the TARDIS taking his much loved granddaughter Donna away from Earth, waving excitedly to her as she went. He was overjoyed that Donna was with the Doctor, exploring the universe and discovering aliens, he was very proud of her and what she achieved. (Partners In Crime).</span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wilf was trapped in an ATMOS gas filled car but was saved by his daughter Sylvia (The Sontarant Stratagem / The Poison Sky). In the altenative world where Donna had never met the Doctor , he was having a Christmas break with Donna and Sylvia out of London when the south of England was devastated by a nuclear explosion. Forced to move to Leeds and billeted in a house with the Colastanto family, he formed a good friendship with Rocco Colastanto - only to despair when the Italian was taken away to a labour camp. Wilfred was prepared to sell his beloved telescope to make ends meet (Turn Left).</span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjpl2pQIMLefmau537Jpsp1w-P_tbui03eAg3i22Oe2kszcLB_-1zRb5g6qtTqBh5QmWSEbOj2UimRrjt-Cnx5ahpWLabz-EcPJi8yyz16YAFhhyqiWli0KF3NWj1HaIcokr9saw7TY3A/s1600/wilf2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjpl2pQIMLefmau537Jpsp1w-P_tbui03eAg3i22Oe2kszcLB_-1zRb5g6qtTqBh5QmWSEbOj2UimRrjt-Cnx5ahpWLabz-EcPJi8yyz16YAFhhyqiWli0KF3NWj1HaIcokr9saw7TY3A/s640/wilf2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When the Daleks invaded Earth, Wilfred was all for fighting back, but when Rose Tyler arrived looking for Donna, he could only say that he had no idea where she and the Doctor were. He didn't vote for Harriet Jones, but admired her. He wasn't able to help Rose use Harriet's Subwave network as Sylvia thought webcams were naughty and wouldn't let him have one. When the Doctor brought Donna home, her mind empty of all her experiences with him, Wilfred was heartbroken but promised the Doctor he would keep an eye on the stars, remembering him on Donna's behalf (The Stolen Earth / Journey's End).</span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He set up the Silver Cloak, a network of old age pensioners, to keep an eye for the Doctor in case he ever needed their help. When a mysterious woman approached him in church and told him that the the Doctor was returning, Wilfred put the Silver Cloak in to motion and they tracked the Doctor down. He tried to get the Doctor to meet up with Donna, hoping he could safely bring her memories back, but the Doctor refused, knowing it would kill her. He went aboard the TARDIS when the Doctor went after the Master, ending up a prisoner at the Naismith Mansion and then finally getting to go to outer space on the Vinvocci ship, the Hesperus. </span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">His old soldier skills came to the fore as he fired the Hesperus' laser cannons to stave of a wave of missiles and tried to help the Doctor stop the Time Lords unleashing their Ultimate Sanction.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Trying to save one of Naismith's Gate Room technicians, Wilfred went in to the Nuclear Bold control room and was locked in. The Doctor realised that Wilfred was trapped when he heard him knocking on the glass, and remembered what Carmen had said to him on the 200 bus.</span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Releasing Wilfred, the Doctor absorbed 500,000 rads himself, which destroyed his body, triggering the regeneration cycle. </span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The last time Wilfred saw the Doctor was at Donna's wedding, where he gave him and Sylvia a lottery ticket for Donna paid for by Donna's late father Geoffrey.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>

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Donna Noble's grandfather Wilfred Mott, or Wilf as he was also known, was an old soldier who had served in the war. He first met the Doc...

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Corporate takeover of social services rips off states, starves families

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.seiu668.org/files/2013/02/STOP-Privatization.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.seiu668.org/files/2013/02/STOP-Privatization.gif" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">We need to have a serious conversation about government spending. No, not the kind that John Boehner and right-wing extremists want to talk about. Rather, the money government is spending to outsource essential social services, paying inflated costs for inefficient corporate management. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Our friends at the <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/" rel="nofollow">Center for Media and Democracy</a> have a <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/10/12264/profiting-poor-outsourcing-social-services-puts-most-vulnerable-risk">new report</a> on the corporate frenzy to defraud state and local governments and deny services to vulnerable communities -- all to collect huge profits:</span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">As private corporations like ACS and Maximus rake in hundreds of millions of dollars in massive contracts, and their executives rake in colossal compensation packages, shareholder profits and warped incentives detract from the standards of care provided by these corporations. </blockquote>The CMD report looks at a <a href="http://blog.gulflive.com/mississippi-press-news/2013/04/mississippi_lawmakers_give_fin.html" rel="nofollow">recent bill passed in Mississippi</a> allowing the state's Department of Health Services to privatize government functions such as child protective services and food programs for senior citizens.<br /><br />Mississippi tried this before: it previously hired outside firm <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Maximus" rel="nofollow">Maximus, Inc.</a> to collect overdue child support payments. Maximus charged higher costs while collecting less than the state did in child support payments, according to CMD.<br /><br />So maybe it's just a problem in Mississippi? Definitely not:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">The <em><a href="http://extras.denverpost.com/news/foster0521a.htm" target="_blank">Denver Post</a></em> found a shocking pattern of abuse when it conducted an in-depth investigation of the privatization of Colorado’s foster care system a decade ago. The Post reported that numerous children were molested, abused, and even died in foster homes after the state started contracting with businesses that failed to ensure they were placed in safe homes. The state also paid three times as much to place a child in private foster care as it did in homes that were supervised by the counties.  </blockquote><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/ACS" rel="nofollow">Affiliated Computer Services (ACS)</a>, another private firm, won a $1.16 billion contract from the state of Indiana in 2006. By 2008 there was a huge jump in the number of families and senior citizens incorrectly denied food stamps and Medicaid. <br /><br />But these errors, as devastating as they are, weren't simply the result of computer glitches. Instead, they are built into the for-profit framework of corporate-run social services:<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Many question whether these services -- aimed at helping the elderly, single parents, and foster children -- should ever be delivered with a profit motive. As Bob Jacobson of the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families put it, "If you’re a corporation whose very mission is to increase shareholder value, that is automatically in conflict with a social service agency whose sole purpose is to meet the needs of people in the program."</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Jacobson noted that in the early days of privatizing social services in Wisconsin, contracts with Maximus and others were set up in such a way that "the profit motive was built in to deny benefits." That is, whatever money Maximus saved the government by not enrolling eligible individuals, it got to keep. "There was all sorts of money being siphoned off to build big houses for CEOs and it was perfectly legal."  </blockquote>Despite its reputation of billing the state of Wisconsin for questionable expenses related to its privatized welfare-to-work program, <a href="http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110519005027/en/MAXIMUS-Awarded-21-Million-Child-Welfare-Contract" rel="nofollow">Maximus won another $21 million bid</a> in 2011 to management the state's foster care services for the next five years.<br /><br />Earlier this year, the state of California's $69 million contract with ACS failed <a href="http://www.ocregister.com/taxdollars/strong-479003-href-http.html" rel="nofollow">37,000 people whose food stamp benefits disappeared</a>. <br /><br />And it isn't just state governments being swindled by private companies to prey on vulnerable families. CMD reports that Maximus just won a contract with the Department of Education to process federal student loan payments -- and it could run taxpayers as much as $848.4 million!<br /><br />It's no surprise then that Maximus's CEO took home $4 million last year and his company made over a billion in revenue. ACS's parent company, Xerox, made $22.3 billion last year and has awarded top executives over $120 million since 2008. <br /><br />Maybe that wouldn't be so bad if either company actually provided reliable services in exchange for the contracts they get from taxpayers. But that's the point: public services and private profits just don't mix.<br /><br />So the next time tea party radicals tell you we have a spending problem, tell them to blame privatization and corporate greed. <br /><br />It's not just robbing taxpayers -- it's killing the poor.

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Tenth Doctor Month Poll - Who Is Your Favourite Foe?

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia3_kExZVka5wk23us3-OITuOMXUbXDMgv0BrP_P7L9PS9laNccp5fksA743XcRNMWR98tipHNPkTomuVfeJS9Dw2k-ciQ4VPHI9FckQ9RZr_L5itgO7hGzS-eJEKplErG3y_K6NvXkg0/s1600/dw1+(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="582" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia3_kExZVka5wk23us3-OITuOMXUbXDMgv0BrP_P7L9PS9laNccp5fksA743XcRNMWR98tipHNPkTomuVfeJS9Dw2k-ciQ4VPHI9FckQ9RZr_L5itgO7hGzS-eJEKplErG3y_K6NvXkg0/s640/dw1+(1).jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: #fafafa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">As we celebrate Tenth Doctor month as part of the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary year celebrations we would like to know who your favourite foe to battle with David Tennant's Doctor is?</span><br /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">You can vote below and also leave your comments on out <a href="http://www.facebook.com/davidtennantcom" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s; color: #660000; display: inline; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s;" target="_blank">Facebook page here.</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"></span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">We will reveal the winner on Wednesday 16th October so get voting!</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span><style>#qp_main35624 .qp_btna:hover input {background:rgb(150,150,150)!important}</style><br /><div id="qp_main35624" style="background: rgb(255,255,255); border-radius: 6px; border: 1px solid rgb(150,150,150); margin: 10px; padding-bottom: 12px; padding: 10px;"><div style="background-color: #2c2c2c; border-radius: 6px; color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 10px;"><div style="padding: 10px;">Who is your favourite foe to have battled the Tenth Doctor?</div></div><form action="http://www.poll-maker.com/results35624x88015d14-2" id="qp_form35624" method="post" style="display: inline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank"><div style="border-radius: 6px;"><div style="clear: both; color: black; cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 5px;"><span onclick="var c=this.childNodes[0];c.checked=(c.type=='radio'?true:!c.checked);" style="display: block; padding-left: 30px;"><input name="qp_v35624" style="float: left; height: 18px; margin-left: -25px; margin-top: -1px; padding: 0px; width: 25px;" type="radio" value="1" />The Sycorax</span></div><div style="clear: both; color: black; cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 5px;"><span onclick="var c=this.childNodes[0];c.checked=(c.type=='radio'?true:!c.checked);" style="display: block; padding-left: 30px;"><input name="qp_v35624" style="float: left; height: 18px; margin-left: -25px; margin-top: -1px; padding: 0px; width: 25px;" type="radio" value="2" />The Daleks</span></div><div style="clear: both; color: black; cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 5px;"><span onclick="var c=this.childNodes[0];c.checked=(c.type=='radio'?true:!c.checked);" style="display: block; padding-left: 30px;"><input name="qp_v35624" style="float: left; height: 18px; margin-left: -25px; margin-top: -1px; padding: 0px; width: 25px;" type="radio" value="3" />The Cybermen</span></div><div style="clear: both; color: black; cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 5px;"><span onclick="var c=this.childNodes[0];c.checked=(c.type=='radio'?true:!c.checked);" style="display: block; padding-left: 30px;"><input name="qp_v35624" style="float: left; height: 18px; margin-left: -25px; margin-top: -1px; padding: 0px; width: 25px;" type="radio" value="4" />The Sontarans</span></div><div style="clear: both; color: black; cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 5px;"><span onclick="var c=this.childNodes[0];c.checked=(c.type=='radio'?true:!c.checked);" style="display: block; padding-left: 30px;"><input name="qp_v35624" style="float: left; height: 18px; margin-left: -25px; margin-top: -1px; padding: 0px; width: 25px;" type="radio" value="5" />The Master</span></div><div style="clear: both; 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width: 25px;" type="radio" value="14" />The Macra</span></div><div style="clear: both; color: black; cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 5px;"><span onclick="var c=this.childNodes[0];c.checked=(c.type=='radio'?true:!c.checked);" style="display: block; padding-left: 30px;"><input name="qp_v35624" style="float: left; height: 18px; margin-left: -25px; margin-top: -1px; padding: 0px; width: 25px;" type="radio" value="15" />The Abzorbaloff</span></div><div style="clear: both; color: black; cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 5px;"><span onclick="var c=this.childNodes[0];c.checked=(c.type=='radio'?true:!c.checked);" style="display: block; padding-left: 30px;"><input name="qp_v35624" style="float: left; height: 18px; margin-left: -25px; margin-top: -1px; padding: 0px; width: 25px;" type="radio" value="16" />Lazarus</span></div><div style="clear: both; color: black; cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 5px;"><span onclick="var c=this.childNodes[0];c.checked=(c.type=='radio'?true:!c.checked);" style="display: block; padding-left: 30px;"><input name="qp_v35624" style="float: left; height: 18px; margin-left: -25px; margin-top: -1px; padding: 0px; width: 25px;" type="radio" value="17" />The Weeping Angels</span></div><div style="clear: both; color: black; cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 5px;"><span onclick="var c=this.childNodes[0];c.checked=(c.type=='radio'?true:!c.checked);" style="display: block; padding-left: 30px;"><input name="qp_v35624" style="float: left; height: 18px; margin-left: -25px; margin-top: -1px; padding: 0px; width: 25px;" type="radio" value="18" />The Family Of Blood</span></div><div style="clear: both; color: black; cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; 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As we celebrate Tenth Doctor month as part of the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary year celebrations we would like to know who your favourite foe...

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Tenth Doctor Month - Rose Tyler Wins Favourite Companion Poll

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYkyA8OXhuz-UHwYkR7qpQ-SQ6CJtooDJvMWPK7CWMClVPrVUll5_RJSZJ4_6-JOGiSaQd6X7ddckt22uz0xji86MGkBzYNxbcRU1CNQb5BuzXg8UtY4ndv0torQwrsqdHWP-dG321y5I/s1600/tenrose.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYkyA8OXhuz-UHwYkR7qpQ-SQ6CJtooDJvMWPK7CWMClVPrVUll5_RJSZJ4_6-JOGiSaQd6X7ddckt22uz0xji86MGkBzYNxbcRU1CNQb5BuzXg8UtY4ndv0torQwrsqdHWP-dG321y5I/s1600/tenrose.JPG" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">As we celebrate Tenth Doctor month as part of the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary year celebrations we asked you who your favourite companion to travel with David Tennant's Doctor is?</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We received over 15,000 votes from fans and can reveal that your favourite Tenth Doctor companion of all time is ... Rose Tyler played by Billie Piper who scored a whopping 32% of all the votes. Hot on her heels was Donna Noble, played by Catherine Tate, who came in with 30% of all votes and third fan favourite was Captain Jack Harkness played John Barrowman who scored 27%.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiASTBDev83dWTZpzR0OKcOI19mwwkHL-pz0rhPjjDUXgJ_KbBk89Y4iJUTpA6gNkpW4f4RFGppIPwlYCVGFIsd4JutZzF37o_J0-umZsFWhSop4v_JnqcdWytbg7vLJ5vzdzju13NH4jA/s1600/companionpoll.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiASTBDev83dWTZpzR0OKcOI19mwwkHL-pz0rhPjjDUXgJ_KbBk89Y4iJUTpA6gNkpW4f4RFGppIPwlYCVGFIsd4JutZzF37o_J0-umZsFWhSop4v_JnqcdWytbg7vLJ5vzdzju13NH4jA/s640/companionpoll.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>All about Rose:</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The only daughter to Pete and Jackie Tyler, Rose grew up with her Mum on the Powell Estate in South East London, her Dad, Pete was killed after being hit by a car when she was just six months old.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rose left school to live with Jimmy Stone, who left her £800 in debt and broke her heart, she left him and moved back home to live with her Mum. She then rekindled her romance with mechanic Mickey Smith and found herself a job as a shop assistant at Henrik's department store. It was whilst working here that she first met the Doctor in 2005.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After she helped the Doctor defeat the Nestene Conciousness ('Rose') she was invited to join the Doctor on board the TARDIS. </span></span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During her travels in the TARDIS Rose met Charles Dickens and was made a Dame by Queen Victoria. She saw the war-torn London of 1941 and the post-war London of 1953. She and the Doctor took a trip to the 2012 London Olympics and she visited a spaceship 3,000 years after her own time. She chatted to a French aristocrat 250 years before she herself was born and had a narrow escape from Japan's 14th century capital Kyoto. </span></span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She also saw what would become of television in the 200.001st century and a future for the human race badly at odds with the Doctor's description of a 'great and bountiful Empire.'</span></span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #fafafa; clear: both; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSItAvqABYWnVViFF5jqTitXhK2bi40uWW3Y__YlQdX5PQA3jOvYeAym0Q_gHJHUcJ5cyEVtpWT-xIyXXYUsldteCT1tLwsPq3dZnxHksWqSrVNOLvoEU_Idw9rBQAcon75eiiWppE6JQ/s1600/rose3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s; display: inline; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSItAvqABYWnVViFF5jqTitXhK2bi40uWW3Y__YlQdX5PQA3jOvYeAym0Q_gHJHUcJ5cyEVtpWT-xIyXXYUsldteCT1tLwsPq3dZnxHksWqSrVNOLvoEU_Idw9rBQAcon75eiiWppE6JQ/s640/rose3.jpg" style="-webkit-border-image: url(data:image/png; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 9; border-image-source: url(data:image/png; border-image-width: 9px; border: 9px none; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="416" /></span></a></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the very start of their travels together the Doctor had hoped to impress her with the prospect of watching the world end from the safety of an orbiting space station some five billion years in the future ('The End Of The World'). They later made a return trip to that era, and visited the New Earth that the human race had gone on to establish. On each of these trips Rose encountered a selection of alien races of all shapes, sizes and colour, her early wariness quickly evolving into appreciation for the different wonders that the Doctor could show her. On one visit to an unnamed alien world the Doctor asked her long she would stay with him, her answer was "Forever".</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However many aliens that Rose encountered with the Doctor were less friendly, among them the Gelth, Raxacoricofallapatorians, the Jargafess, Roboform Santas, Sycorax, a Werewolf, Krillitanes, Clockwork Droids, the Wire, the Beast and the Abzorbaloff.  She also endured bodily possession by the self proclaimed 'Last Human' Lady Cassandra O'Brien ('New Earth').</span></span></div></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: #fafafa; clear: both; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFNVQ0wXW92sVFGUErYZ3kljBQztrAZunpSNydsupfBkfjzbrYtkGt02K4outCb6k2ajU7qgrzmi529NiKebjKA6HccIaTLkssS9er3Lokh_RQ72Md4j8vZFVVMNihQZKUk9_OeFM1DeI/s1600/rose4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s; display: inline; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFNVQ0wXW92sVFGUErYZ3kljBQztrAZunpSNydsupfBkfjzbrYtkGt02K4outCb6k2ajU7qgrzmi529NiKebjKA6HccIaTLkssS9er3Lokh_RQ72Md4j8vZFVVMNihQZKUk9_OeFM1DeI/s640/rose4.jpg" style="-webkit-border-image: url(data:image/png; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 9; border-image-source: url(data:image/png; border-image-width: 9px; border: 9px none; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="640" /></span></a></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Early in their adventures, the Doctor and Rose returned to the Powell Estate to find that they had been missing for a for a whole year and a distraught Jackie Tyler thought that her beloved daughter had been murdered. Jackie pleaded with Rose not to return to the Doctor and go on further adventures with him, but this had no effect on Rose's decision to keep travelling with the Doctor. Rose did however stay in touch with her Mum, the Doctor upgraded her mobile so that she could call her from any time or place and she returned home on frequent visits.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Rose pleaded with the Doctor to take her back to 1987 (Father's Day) as she wanted to be with her father when he died. He did as Rose asked but she couldn't resist saving Pete's life and created a wound in time which let in the Reapers, which rampaged across the planet until Pete sacrificed himself for the sake of saving the world.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Later when Rose travelled to a parallell  universe (Rise Of The Cybermen / The Age Of Steel) she discovered an Earth where Pete was still alive and had become a successful business man - she however had never been born and, much to the Doctor's amusement,  her mother Jackie doted upon a small dog named Rose instead. It was only after Jackie had been converted into a Cyberform that Rose revealed her true identity to Peter but he was confused by her claims and shunned her.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Rose was to meet with this version of Pete again when the 'Pete's world' Cybermen  attacked Rose's Earth. The breach that they used also let through the Daleks...</span></span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2VkKfb3G6ZaVdCNIyH9XW44BLuM-UIagDkwfs_Tii_GXM4UQUx_hII1qW6a0v1u4-w1viCI5vziK9f8H-nn3uCL8RzYfSdTNvoo84LMffDiztb9t99-CNJT1lck1k1d55jBxscwDIUqU/s1600/rosedalek.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s; display: inline; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2VkKfb3G6ZaVdCNIyH9XW44BLuM-UIagDkwfs_Tii_GXM4UQUx_hII1qW6a0v1u4-w1viCI5vziK9f8H-nn3uCL8RzYfSdTNvoo84LMffDiztb9t99-CNJT1lck1k1d55jBxscwDIUqU/s640/rosedalek.jpg" style="-webkit-border-image: url(data:image/png; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 9; border-image-source: url(data:image/png; border-image-width: 9px; border: 9px none; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="640" /></span></a></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Rose had first encountered a Dalek in 2012 in an underground museum in Utah ('Dalek'). Unaware of it's true nature, Rose has initially felt sympathy for the imprisoned creature and had inadvertently allowed it to absorb her DNA, enabling it to regenerate. As the Dalek killed the inhabitants of the base, Rose used her connection to the Dalek to end the slaughter, ordering it to commit suicide in the process.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Some time later, the TARDIS crew, were transported onto the Game Station in the year 200,100, shortly before it came under attack from a huge Dalek fleet. The Doctor sent Rose home in the TARDIS, condemning himself to death alone. Desperate to return to his side, Rose forced open the ship's console hoping to communicate with the heart of the TARDIS. Instead she absorbed the Time Vortex itself, granting her mastery over the whole of time and space and allowing her to return to the Game Station. Here she confronted the Dalek Emperor and divided it's fleet into atoms. The power though was killing Rose and the Doctor absorbed it from her, with a kiss, sacrificing his own life to save her from a certain death.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">This was the first time that Rose 'lost' the Doctor - the Vortex energy triggered his regeneration and Rose found herself with an apparent stranger. The second time also involved the Daleks..</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8s_NdnMzuqivZ_AnO0oHqyh5tYR5sOelWLMkCUmjbavzpK1O94_PNLRH-jWm5hzoMV0uL9HYJIIG_fLoV3lgNuUAbreMLSA1H585w6wT0cL85ZDab9b3BjInnHzRzz8eqzPBlkZfBsgY/s1600/doom1+(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s; display: inline; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8s_NdnMzuqivZ_AnO0oHqyh5tYR5sOelWLMkCUmjbavzpK1O94_PNLRH-jWm5hzoMV0uL9HYJIIG_fLoV3lgNuUAbreMLSA1H585w6wT0cL85ZDab9b3BjInnHzRzz8eqzPBlkZfBsgY/s640/doom1+(1).jpg" style="-webkit-border-image: url(data:image/png; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 9; border-image-source: url(data:image/png; border-image-width: 9px; border: 9px none; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="640" /></span></a></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">As the Cult Of Skaro and the Cybermen from the parallel Earth battled at Canary Wharf, the Doctor devised a plan that would seal both species into the Void. Rose made the decision not to accompany her family in to 'Pete's World' and chose the Doctor over them.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">As Rose helped the Doctor to activate the Levers that opened the breach and sucked the Daleks and the Cybermen into the Void, she slipped and fell towards the opening, but she was saved by Pete Tyler. She was transported to 'Pete's World', where she joined Jackie and Mickey. Rose now had her whole family around her, with Pete and Jackie reunited and expecting a new baby. But the the breach was closed and she could never see the Doctor again. Rose was inconsolable and sobbed uncontrollably. It became clear that Rose was madly in love with the Doctor and she was beyond heartbroken at being parted from him.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Sometime later Rose began to hear the Doctor's voice calling her. She told her family and they all followed the voice to Bad Wolf Bay in Norway where a projection of the Doctor appeared, <span style="line-height: 19.1875px;">he was harnessing the power of a supernova to transmit through one of the final breaches.</span></span><br /><span style="line-height: 19.1875px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Because the breach was to close permanently in two minutes, the pair share one last but very brief conversation. Rose broke down as she confessed to the Doctor that she loved him, but just as the Doctor starts to reply, the breach closed and he was gone from her life forever. The last we see of Rose Tyler is her devastated figure sobbing against the bleak landscape...</span></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 19.1875px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcfMpoBmEaxsen6YWRcwfasYrDkP_YvgSJHTvFzqUTqe8HxR65Dxmti6NcWMOVXsu6c7bg4VVAL5JrmGBCUXjlCNBhEg0NjVNLR35ZFypIlp7C_VW7a5DPk6yrxJEv25UUYa1iDyI95d0/s1600/JEND1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s; display: inline; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcfMpoBmEaxsen6YWRcwfasYrDkP_YvgSJHTvFzqUTqe8HxR65Dxmti6NcWMOVXsu6c7bg4VVAL5JrmGBCUXjlCNBhEg0NjVNLR35ZFypIlp7C_VW7a5DPk6yrxJEv25UUYa1iDyI95d0/s640/JEND1.jpg" style="-webkit-border-image: url(data:image/png; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 9; border-image-source: url(data:image/png; border-image-width: 9px; border: 9px none; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="450" /></span></a></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 19.1875px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 19.1875px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 19.1875px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But it wasn't to be Rose's final meeting with the Doctor by a long shot. Using a Dimension Cannon, she made her return to Earth for the first time, arriving in Brook Street just as Donna was preparing to leave with the Doctor (Partners In Crime). She attempted to make contact with the Doctor first via the scanners in the TARDIS (The Poison Sky) and then on Midnight, via Crusader 50's video screen, but he didn't notice her and the signal wasn't strong enough to allow audible contact. Ironically, Rose was one of the things the Doctor mentioned to Sky Silvestry on Midnight which she repeated back at him (Midnight). </span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 19.1875px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rose finally made contact with the Donna of an alternative timeline and gave her a message to pass on to the Doctor when that Donna died and time was put back on course: 'Bad Wolf' (Turn Left).</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 19.1875px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After her Dimension Cannon took her to the Noble's home in Chiswick, Rose watched as Harriet Jones contacted all of the Doctor's other friends, but was unable to join in with their online conversations. After Harriet was killed Rose made one final jump - and was finally reunited with the Doctor when a Dalek shot him!</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 19.1875px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv3QVIdlEudCZmJ-UhgxswS3Sg31iCsyRj8fjgrnQxZIp3aJcFdwnbEySfyuzEKVDP_x6stKwYBXVZ0ytZR7nh3h5VIMpPs_1op56BFz01xDVKRBotBMzaxSiUeMfL5FCtmr3AhlwWqYI/s1600/321.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s; display: inline; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv3QVIdlEudCZmJ-UhgxswS3Sg31iCsyRj8fjgrnQxZIp3aJcFdwnbEySfyuzEKVDP_x6stKwYBXVZ0ytZR7nh3h5VIMpPs_1op56BFz01xDVKRBotBMzaxSiUeMfL5FCtmr3AhlwWqYI/s640/321.jpg" style="-webkit-border-image: url(data:image/png; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 9; border-image-source: url(data:image/png; border-image-width: 9px; border: 9px none; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="640" /></span></a></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 19.1875px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 19.1875px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After he used his regeneration energy to heal himself, the Doctor took Rose, Jack and Donna to the Dalek Crucible in the Medusa Cascade, where they discovered the Daleks creator Davros was building a Reality Bomb. After helping defeat the Daleks, the Doctor returned Rose and her mum Jackie to Pete and her new brother Tony on 'Pete's World' - but he left behind a part human Doctor, created by his regeneration energy mixed with Donna's human DNA. This Doctor could confess that he loved Rose, and the two began a new life together - the Doctor and Rose were together at last. (The Stolen Earth, Journey's End)</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 19.1875px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFZATQbG1MiMjDQC9XMWdel2OZ7BRMHOtieRG6352xFwRqsWSPWSIDnhs0mBUh3APQK_o3ya8llB0Qjj18qY08cTflXQrI1yDTxofR8lfnQItzvw5WpUlXvHqeR9cmknTG9Pb-HPxeQco/s1600/50+(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s; display: inline; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFZATQbG1MiMjDQC9XMWdel2OZ7BRMHOtieRG6352xFwRqsWSPWSIDnhs0mBUh3APQK_o3ya8llB0Qjj18qY08cTflXQrI1yDTxofR8lfnQItzvw5WpUlXvHqeR9cmknTG9Pb-HPxeQco/s640/50+(1).jpg" style="-webkit-border-image: url(data:image/png; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 9; border-image-source: url(data:image/png; border-image-width: 9px; border: 9px none; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; margin: 10px auto; max-width: 100%; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="640" /></span></a></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 19.1875px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 19.1875px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="line-height: 19.1875px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On New Year's Day 2005, just after midnight, the Tenth Doctor spoke to Rose Tyler before she even met the Ninth Doctor - as his way of saying a last goodbye before he regenerated...</span></span></div></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>

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Organizing is in the blood of this Teamster family

As a <a href="http://www.teamster.org/content/organizing-victories" rel="nofollow">Teamster organizer</a> and a <a href="http://driveupstandards.org/durham-school-bus-workers-forum" rel="nofollow">Durham School Services school bus driver</a>, Shelley Goodman witnessed a lot of hardship in 21 years. She worked to alleviate it -- and to pass that torch to a new generation.<br /><br />Goodman saw what happened to school bus drivers without a union. One school bus monitor sold her blood to make ends meet in Jacksonville, Fla. Goodman met her on an organizing drive.<br /><br />A worker who had terminal cancer came to cast his vote in the Teamster election in Minnesota, so committed was he to a better future for his coworkers.<br /><br />“I’ve witnessed all these battles,” Goodman told the audience of 1,000 Teamsters at the recent<a href="http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2013/09/teamster-womens-conference.html" rel="nofollow"> 2013 Teamsters Women’s Conference</a>. “But there are two women who I would like to recognize today. They encouraged me to be an activist. They are my two daughters.”<br /><br />The two sisters have the same fire as their mother to empower workers to better their working conditions and their lives.<br /><br />Goodman said she is extremely proud of her daughters as she called on the audience of Teamsters to continue their fight and pass it on to the next generation.<br /><br />Courtney Goodman Bell is a business agent with Local 777 in Chicago. Kacie Goodman Romero is a special education teacher in Louisiana and a chief shop steward working to organize and mobilize her coworkers.<br /><br />Romero is learning from her mother and sister about empowering workers to stand up for their rights.<br /><br />“I’m glad to be at the Teamsters Women’s Conference," Romero said. "Having moved from Illinois to Louisiana, a <a href="http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2013/04/how-to-talk-about-right-to-work.html" rel="nofollow">right-to-work</a> state, I have a lot to learn about organizing and unions. I want to empower myself to help others.<br /><br />Romero is one of five union members among a work force of 80. The teachers and staff have a growing interest in organizing, but also a fear of retribution from their employer.<br /><br />Romero remembers workers coming to their house to talk to their mom, the fighter, she told the<a href="http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2013/09/teamster-womens-conference.html" rel="nofollow"> Teamster</a> women at the conference. “Mom would go to her shop steward meetings and bring us along when we were little,” Romero said.<br /><br />Bell said being in a union is ingrained in their family.<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">Our father was a union ironworker. When I was eight years old, Mom organized at her bus terminal. For us, it was common conversation at the dinner table.</blockquote>Bell is the youngest daughter, but advises her sister on how to organize in her workplace.<br /><br />“I’m a business agent and I represent school bus drivers, and I can explain to them, I rode a bus, too, with my Mom. I know the gratification and challenges of being a bus driver,” Bell said.

Durham school bus organizing Organizing is in the blood of this Teamster family

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Tenth Doctor Month: Quote Of The Day #9

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYDrBILXHnjJrKAIFpDPwuHJU9LVr4qfZbxig9cTpeO-8CFafYFvAdlQ_kLIJp6xLVjAwh_dtO7c5JEWpREHjdEq8qgub85UWKpq0HEY8b0aJdsfi05IdgGP1L7xGs20eLi6rRG3hbe2k/s1600/imp2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYDrBILXHnjJrKAIFpDPwuHJU9LVr4qfZbxig9cTpeO-8CFafYFvAdlQ_kLIJp6xLVjAwh_dtO7c5JEWpREHjdEq8qgub85UWKpq0HEY8b0aJdsfi05IdgGP1L7xGs20eLi6rRG3hbe2k/s640/imp2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Rose</b><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><b>: </b>No signal. That's the first time I've gone out of range. Mind you, even if I could... what would I tell her? Can you build another TARDIS?</span><br style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;" /><b>The Doctor</b><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><b>:</b> They were grown, not built. And with my home planet gone we're kind of stuck.</span><br style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;" /><b>Rose</b><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><b>:</b> Well, could be worse. This lot said they'd give us a lift.</span><br style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;" /><b>The Doctor</b><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><b>:</b> And then what?</span><br style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;" /><b>Rose</b><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><b>: </b>I don't know. Find a planet. Get a job. You live a life same as the rest of the Universe.</span><br style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;" /><b>The Doctor</b><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><b>: </b>I'd have to settle down. Get a house or something, a proper house. With... doors and carpets. Me, living in a house. That, that, is terrifying.</span><br style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;" /><b>Rose</b><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><b>:</b> You'd have to get a mortgage. </span></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Impossible Planet (2006)</span></span></span>

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Rose : No signal. That's the first time I've gone out of range. Mind you, even if I could... what would I tell her? Can you build an...

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