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MC 7019 Blog #1

This week’s readings explored mass media through the usage of technology and how it has evolved throughout time. Each article highlights different sections of transformative journalism and media content. In “Collaborating With ChatGPT: Considering the Implications of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Journalism and Media Education” by John V. Pavlik, generative artificial intelligence (AI) and ChatGPT has recently been introduced to the technology world. This AI code is capable of reading and writing text which corresponds with natural language processing (NLP). This advanced technology of journalism poses a threat to scholars, reports, and the communication industry as a whole. Journalism to its core requires a creative framework while computers are not considered to be creative in the same way humans are. This serves as an advantage for educators and students while scouting AI’s range could expand individuals' depths and knowledge of innovative tools. 

In “Sharing and social media: The decline of a keyword?” by Nicholas John analyzes social media platforms and its usage in today’s society. John argues through research that social media platforms no longer feel a need or desire to be associated with previous cultural beliefs. Social networking sites (SNS) have evolved over a period of time while shaping the way we use social media on a daily basis. There is a massive decline in “sharing” content while communicators, organizations and user generated stakeholders no longer feel the need to use this method to gain traction on their desires of digital media. John emphasized the shift in definition of social media while explaining many users no longer believe in making their world a better place. Digital platforms have done quite the opposite while causing more harm to individuals' mental, emotional and physical state. “Twenty-Five Years of Social Media: A Review of Social Media Applications and Definitions from 1994 and 2019” by Thomas Aichner, Matthias Grünfelder, Oswin Maurer and Deni Jegeni, all argue that social media has become so relevant that companies allow two-way communication with an audience through its digital platform. It affects stakeholder dating life, companies, academics, family and friend interaction, and customer interaction. Thomas et al., assert the landscape of social media has been changing quickly while only a handful of scholars have made an effort to develop extensive research on a definitive social media definition.

After reviewing “Visions of the Internet in 2035” by Janna Anderson and Lee Rainie, the Pew Research Center is explained to be an unbiased fact tank which informs the public about trends, attitudes, and issues while shaping the world as we know it to be today. A database was created by experts to view prospects of a wide range of fields. Through this study, many professionals and policy people based in government bodies, technology businesses and nonprofit foundations were invited to interact with this study. 

I use social media daily while resonating with “Twenty-Five Years of Social Media: A Review of Social Media Applications and Definitions from 1994 and 2019” by Thomas Aichner, Matthias Grünfelder, Oswin Maurer and Deni Jegeni. Each article was relatively up-to-date making it easier to digest the context being read. Social media has changed the world of technology while innovating at a rapid rate while it is difficult for users, scholars and practitioners to maintain the same speed. How do scholars collect valid research while changes are being made so expeditious?

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A Comparison of RTD and Steven Moffat: Saving The Day

So for this analysis I’m going to compare when Moffat and RTD save the day well and when they save it poorly. There are a few bits of criteria I need to explain.

 First I will only be including main series, no Torchwood, no spin-offs, and no mini episodes.

Second, I have to define what makes a good and a bad ending (my examples will come from episodes written by neither of them): 

Bad endings include when the sonic saves the day (see The Power Of Three) (there are exceptions, see below), when a character spouts some useless technobabble that doesn’t make any scientific sense/when it doesn’t make logical sense in general, when the Doctor invents/presents a machine/equipment that miraculously stops the baddy and is never referred to again (see Journey To The Centre Of The TARDIS), and any other ending I deem to be bad (see The Vampires of Venice)

Good endings include when the sonice activates a device that has been well established to save the day, when technobabble is used that actually makes some scientific sense, and just generally when the baddy is destroyed in what I deem to be a creative manner that makes sense with all the things that had been set up in that episode (see The Unquiet Dead).

There will also be cases where there isn’t really a day to be saved, however this happens more often with Moffat.

Let us begin (obviously there will be spoilers but the last episode in the list aired nearly 4 years ago so what you doing with your life).

RTD:

Rose: Bad

What even is anti-plastic?! Like seriously, he’s faced the Autons loads of times and has never thought to use it any other time.

The End Of The World: Bad

The Doctor just goes up to the appearance of the repeated meme (ha meme) and rips its arm off. He then just summons Cassandra back by twisting a knob which apparently everyone can do if “you’re very clever like me”.

Aliens Of London/World War Three: Good

Just nuking them all was a bit dodgy but I’ll give it to him purely because it had been set up earlier in the episode and it is a genuine option that could have been taken.

The Long Game: Good

The heating issue was set up within 2 minutes of the episode starting. It’s always good to see the Doctor using his enemies weakness against them.

Boom Town: Good

Only just. It’s technology that hadn’t been showcased ever before and came out of nowhere, but I’m allowing purely because it was setting up The Parting Of The Ways.

Bad Wolf/The Parting Of The Ways: Good

See above. It was set up the story before so it works.

The Christmas Invasion: Bad

This was so close to being good. If RTD had just let the Sycorax leader be honourable then everything would have been fine. Instead he had to let him be dishonourable and then the Doctor through the Satsuma at a random button that for no apparent reason caused a bit of floor to fall away.

New Earth: Bad

It only makes sense if you think about it for less than 10 seconds as just pouring every cure to every disease ever into a giant tub and then spraying said supercure onto them all, then having them hug each other to pass it on. That is suspending my disbelief just a bit too far.

Tooth And Claw: Good

Everything is set up in the episode so I’ll allow it but I fail to see how Prince Albert had the time to ensure that the diamond was cut perfectly.

Love And Monsters: Bad

It’s Love And Monsters. Need I say more?

Army of Ghosts/Doomsday: Good

It was very clearly set up throughout the episode.

The Runaway Bride: Bad

I don’t like how a few bombs can supposedly drain the entire Thames.

Smith And Jones: Good

All the events were well established

Gridlock: Good

It’s a fairly bland way to save the day, just opening the surface to all the drivers. But how else could he have done it?

Utopia/The Sound Of Drums/Last Of The Time Lords: Bad

As much as I like the idea that he tuned himself into the archangel network, he basically turned into Jesus. It is arguably the least convincing ending in modern Doctor Who history.

Voyage Of The Damned: Bad

Why was he the next highest authority? If he’s the highest authority in the universe why didn’t they default to him in the first place? If not then why not default to Midshipman Frame? And if he’s somehow in between them then why? Also Astrid killed herself for no reason when she easily could have jumped out of the forklift.

Partners In Crime: Good

It works in the context of the episode, but I don’t see why they needed two of the necklace things.

Midnight: Good

It’s human nature, you can’t get more well set up than that.

Turn Left: Good

It works logically

The Stolen Earth/Journey’s End: Bad

Donna just spouts a load of technobabble whilst pressing buttons and then the Daleks are magically incapacitated.

The Next Doctor: Bad

Why do the infostamps sever Hartigan’s connection with the Cyberking? As far as I remember it ain’t explained.

Planet Of The Dead (co-written with noted transphobe Gareth Roberts): Good

A good couple scenes are dedicated on getting the anti-gravs set up.

The Waters Of Mars (co-written with Phil Ford): N/A

The day isn’t really saved cause everyone still dies anyway.

The End Of Time: Good

Using a gun to destroy a machine is much better than using the sonic to destroy it.

Summary for RTD:

Out of 24 stories written by him, I deem 10 to be bad endings with 1 abstaining. That’s 41.7% of his episodes (43.5% if we don’t count any abstaining).

Steven Moffat:

The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances: Good

You’ll see this a lot with Moffat, he knows how to explain things without stupefying levels of technobabble. “Emailing the upgrade” is a perfect example of this.

The Girl In The Fireplace: Good

Some basic logic, the androids want to repair their ship, but they can’t return to it, they no longer have a function so they shut down.

Blink: Good

Always loved this one, getting the angels to look at each other, however they do look at each other sometimes earlier in the episode.

Silence In The Library/Forest Of The Dead: Bad

This is more of a problem with the setup of the episode, I don’t like that he can negotiate with the Vashta Nerada. I’d rather see them comprehensively beaten, but I guess it’s good for the scare factor that they can’t be escaped from.

The Eleventh Hour: Good

He convinced the best scientists all around the world to set every clock to 0 all in less than an hour. In the Doctor’s own words “Who da man!”

The Beast Below: Good

The crying child motif pretty much ended up saving the day (well for the star whale, life went on as normal for pretty much everyone else).

The Time Of Angels/Flesh And Stone: Good

The artificial gravity had briefly been set up earlier so I’ll allow it.

The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang: Good

Everything had been set up perfectly, the vortex manipulator, the Pandorica’s survival field thingy, the TARDIS exploding at every moment in history.

A Christmas Carol: Good

Literally the entire episode is the Doctor saving the day by convincing Kazran not to be a cock.

The Impossible Astronaut/Day Of The Moon: Good

The silence’s ability to influence people is their whole thing, so using it against them is a good Doctory thing to do.

A Good Man Goes To War: N/A

The day isn’t really saved, Melody is lost, but River shows up at the end so is all fine? I love the episode it’s just the day isn’t really truly saved (yes I know Amy was rescued but she still lost her baby).

Let’s Kill Hitler: N/A

There isn’t really a day to be saved. They all get out alive but no one is really saved other than maybe River but we all knew she was gonna live anyway.

The Wedding Of River Song: Good

Whilst opinion is divided on the episode, the ending still works. the Tesseracta was established in Let’s Kill Hitler, and the “touch River and time will move again” was established well in advance.

The Doctor, The Widow And The Wardrobe: Bad

I don’t like how the lifeboat travels through the time vortex for no reason but to rescue the dad. It don’t make no sense and I don’t think it’s explained

Asylum Of The Daleks: Good

Oswin had access to the Dalek hive mind so of course she should be able to link into the controls and blow everything up.

The Angels Take Manhattan: Good

Paradoxes really do be something powerful, and they even acknowledge how nobody knows if it’d work so I’ll let it slide.

The Snowmen: Bad

Lots of people cry at Christmas, why are the Latimers anything special?

The Bells of Saint John: Good

The whole episode is about hacking so why shouldn’t the Doctor be able to hack the spoonheads

The Name Of The Doctor: Good

It was the story arc for the season pretty much, so of course it was explained well in advance.

The Day Of The Doctor: Good

Both the storing Gallifrey like a painting and the making everyone forget if they’re Human or Zygon works in the context of the episode.

The Time Of The Doctor: Bad

Since when were the Time Lords so easily negotiated with?

Deep Breath: Good

I like the dilemma over whether the half-face man was pushed or jumped.

Into The Dalek: Good

It’s set up well with this new Doctor’s persona of actually not being too nice of a guy (at first).

Listen: N/A

There isn’t a day to be saved. It’s just 45 minutes of the Doctor testing a hypothesis and I low-key love it.

Time Heist (co-written with Steven Thompson): Good

It works logically so I’ll allow it however it isn’t very well set up at all.

The Caretaker (co-written with noted shithead Gareth Roberts): Good

The machine to tell the Blitzer what to do was set up well in advance so I’ll allow it.

Dark Water/Death In Heaven: Good

The fact that Danny still cares even as a cyberman is set up fairly early on after his transformation.

Last Christmas: Good

He does use the sonic to wake up Clara but he convinces the others to wake up through talking so I’ll allow it.

The Magician’s Apprentice/The Witch’s Familiar: Good

It’s set up well with that little scene from actually inside the sewers.

The Girl Who Died (co-written with Jamie Mathieson): Good

IDK why the vikings would randomly keep electric eels but they’re set up well so I’ll ignore it. 

The Zygon Inversion (co-written with Peter Harness): N/A 

Not including this one as it’s only the second part and I’d argue the ending is most likely Harness’.

Heaven Sent/Hell Bent: N/A

Again there isn’t really a day to be saved, yes Heaven Sent really is amazing but it’s only the first part and, being completely honest, he dies several billion times before finally getting through the wall.

The Husbands Of River Song: N/A

Again there isn’t really a day to be saved here.

The Return Of Doctor Mysterio: Good

He gets Grant to catch the bomb which is good. But he does just sonic the gun out of Dr Sim’s hand and says UNIT is on its way which just sort of wraps it up very quickly.

The Pilot: N/A

No day to be saved here.

Extremis: Good

You could technically call it the sonic saving the day, I consider it to be the Doctor emailing the Doctor to warn him of the future.

The Pyramid At The End Of The World: Good

The fire sanitising everything makes sense and it’s in character for Bill to love the Doctor enough to cure his blindness in return for the world

World Enough And Time/The Doctor Falls: Good

Yes it is the sonic just blowing the cybermen up, but it’s blowing them up with well established pipelines so I’ll allow it (also the story is amazing).

Twice Upon A Time: N/A

No day to be saved here. Just Doctors 1 and 12 getting angsty about regenerating.

Summary for Steven Moffat:

Out of 39 stories written by him, I deemed 4 to be bad with 7 abstaining. That’s 10.3% of his episodes (12.5% if we don’t count any abstaining).

Conclusions:

Moffat was much better at saving the day than RTD

Moffat liked telling stories where the day didn’t actually need to be saved

I’ve spent way too long on this and I need to sleep

If I spent as much time on this as my coursework I’d probably pass

If you’re still reading this, you probably need to get a life

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I was tagged by @zavens and it seemed fun so *side eyes* here I am Pick 5 shows, then answer the following questions. don’t cheat. tag 10 (or however many) peeps. 1. The 100 2. Arrow 3. Supernatural 4. Game of Thrones 5. Stranger Things

1. who is your favorite character in 2? Oliver fcking Queen, the man who deserves a way better ending that the one they gave him so far. Dude saved the world idk how many times and this is what you’ll give him? Nah. 2. who is your least favorite character in 1? Well right now, it’s Mrphy. I got fine with him on s5 like he was gaining points but then s6 happened and nop. He’s not my “trash son” he’s just trash. I coulda said Abby too but since she’s apparently dead now *shrugs* 3. what is your favorite episode of 4? The Iron Throne ofc. High quality tv. No I’d say Winds of Winter (aka where the show soulda ended) 4. what is your favorite season of 5? Well looking back I’d say three! 5. who is your favorite couple in 3? Sam/Eileen, okay, these cuties deserved better 6. who is your favorite couple in 2? Olicity, duh. Anything that makes my boi happy. 7. what is your favorite episode of 1? I’d say Praimfaya part 2. So 4x13. Even tho now I’ll say it I HATE THE TIMEJUMP. 4x13 with Clarke getting to space + time jump à la 5x13 would have been perfect. 8. what is your favorite episode of 5? I’d say the final episode of s3. So The Battle of Starcourt. I really loved all the s3 episodes tbh. The Mall rats and the Sauna Experiment especially. 9. what is your favorite season of 2? I think season 2. Or s5. 10. how long have you watched 1? Since the beginning of the show. I started watching the pilot back when it came out. 11. how did you become interested in 3? It’s my fucking life? What do you want me to say idk. I started back in 2005 when it came out, and it was awesome and I love the characters so much and I mean, I remember so vividly the s2 finale where Sam dies and I went like “WUT” and then the seasons were coming out so slowly in France, that’s basically how I started streaming too lol. We didn’t have s4 for MONTHS if not +1 year and it was excruciating and Michael Jackson had died this year so the french network that had Supernatural delayed Supernatural AGAIN and put a show about MJ and I went like “fck it I’m watching on the internet” and basically that’s how I discovered a whole new world. 12. who is your favorite actor in 4? Charles Dance, hands down. I also adore Sophie Turner, she’s wifu. 13. which do you prefer, 1, 2, or 5? Plotwise, Stranger Things has been the strongest. But y’know for the power of Bellarke I’d keep The 100 cuz I’m a hoe. 14. which show have you seen more episodes of, 1 or 3 ? Oh well, I think that one is easy. Supernatural ofc. Probably because there’s 300+ episodes of this show lol. 15. if you could be anyone from 4, who would you be? Hot Pie. Or Drogon. 16. would a crossover between 3 and 4 work? Lol the Supernatural writers would make it work, they make everything work. 17. pair two characters in 1 who would make an unlikely but strangely okay couple. I can say Bellarke right? I mean they ain’t canon, technically. Literally I don’t think about anything else than Blarke on this show (otherwise, lol Abby and Russell, body snatchers unite) 18. overall, which show has the better storyline, 3 or 5? *sigh* I adore Supernatural too much not to say this one. Even tho I can recognize the qualities of Stranger Things and there are the usual CW too-long-of-a-season fillers in Supernatural. But I just adore the idea of demon hunting and ghost hunting and Sam and Dean, I love them so much, like- despite its flaws, Supernatural is my tv show, by far. 19. which has the better theme music, 2 or 4? I looooove Blake Neely but I mean, my man Ramin wins for this one, easily (again). So Game of Thrones ofc. (Blake is close second in this list tho- and yeah, above Tree Adams). Tagging: @jellamyjake ; @princessclarke ; @detectivebellamyblake ; @bellagio-blake ; @charlie-bradburyss ; @jemmablossom ; @oswin-whouffle ; @joanna-lannister ; @picquery ; @clarkesalive ; @baratheons ; @rhaellavtargaryen ; @scarmander ; @nebula-has-a-heart ; @lovedsammy

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Accept My Friend Request

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by UnluckiestFridays

Would the Doctor still be the Doctor if they hadn't experienced all humanity has to offer? Well, yes, but that's not the point. Join the Doctor and friends (and the occasional enemy) as they get up to all kinds of shenanigans on social media.

Words: 174, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Series: Part 7 of The Doctor Meets the Doctor

Fandoms: Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/F, F/M, Gen

Characters: The Doctor (Doctor Who), Tenth Doctor, Eleventh Doctor, Twelfth Doctor, Thirteenth Doctor, Rose Tyler, Jack Harkness, Mickey Smith, Jackie Tyler, Martha Jones, Donna Noble, Wilfred Mott, Amy Pond (Doctor Who), Rory Williams, River Song, Madame Vastra (Doctor Who), Jenny Flint, Bill Potts, Nardole (Doctor Who), Missy (Doctor Who), Clara Oswin Oswald, Graham O'Brien, Ryan Sinclair, Yasmin Khan

Relationships: The Doctor/River Song, Metacrisis Tenth Doctor/Rose Tyler, Amy Pond/Rory Williams, Martha Jones/Mickey Smith, Jack Harkness/Other(s), Jenny Flint/Madame Vastra

Additional Tags: Social Media, Social Networking, Humor, Crack Treated Seriously, Fluff

read it on the AO3 at http://bit.ly/2X1GG7d

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Accept My Friend Request

read it on the AO3 at http://bit.ly/2X1GG7d

by UnluckiestFridays

Would the Doctor still be the Doctor if they hadn't experienced all humanity has to offer? Well, yes, but that's not the point. Join the Doctor and friends (and the occasional enemy) as they get up to all kinds of shenanigans on social media.

Words: 174, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Series: Part 7 of The Doctor Meets the Doctor

Fandoms: Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/F, F/M, Gen

Characters: The Doctor (Doctor Who), Tenth Doctor, Eleventh Doctor, Twelfth Doctor, Thirteenth Doctor, Rose Tyler, Jack Harkness, Mickey Smith, Jackie Tyler, Martha Jones, Donna Noble, Wilfred Mott, Amy Pond (Doctor Who), Rory Williams, River Song, Madame Vastra (Doctor Who), Jenny Flint, Bill Potts, Nardole (Doctor Who), Missy (Doctor Who), Clara Oswin Oswald, Graham O'Brien, Ryan Sinclair, Yasmin Khan

Relationships: The Doctor/River Song, Metacrisis Tenth Doctor/Rose Tyler, Amy Pond/Rory Williams, Martha Jones/Mickey Smith, Jack Harkness/Other(s), Jenny Flint/Madame Vastra

Additional Tags: Social Media, Social Networking, Humor, Crack Treated Seriously, Fluff

read it on the AO3 at http://bit.ly/2X1GG7d

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Accept My Friend Request

read it on the AO3 at http://bit.ly/2X1GG7d

by UnluckiestFridays

Would the Doctor still be the Doctor if they hadn't experienced all humanity has to offer? Well, yes, but that's not the point. Join the Doctor and friends (and the occasional enemy) as they get up to all kinds of shenanigans on social media.

Words: 174, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Series: Part 7 of The Doctor Meets the Doctor

Fandoms: Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/F, F/M, Gen

Characters: The Doctor (Doctor Who), Tenth Doctor, Eleventh Doctor, Twelfth Doctor, Thirteenth Doctor, Rose Tyler, Jack Harkness, Mickey Smith, Jackie Tyler, Martha Jones, Donna Noble, Wilfred Mott, Amy Pond (Doctor Who), Rory Williams, River Song, Madame Vastra (Doctor Who), Jenny Flint, Bill Potts, Nardole (Doctor Who), Missy (Doctor Who), Clara Oswin Oswald, Graham O'Brien, Ryan Sinclair, Yasmin Khan

Relationships: The Doctor/River Song, Metacrisis Tenth Doctor/Rose Tyler, Amy Pond/Rory Williams, Martha Jones/Mickey Smith, Jack Harkness/Other(s), Jenny Flint/Madame Vastra

Additional Tags: Social Media, Social Networking, Humor, Crack Treated Seriously, Fluff

read it on the AO3 at http://bit.ly/2X1GG7d

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The Bells of Saint John (Doctor Who S07E06)

Today Jon is forced to watch and recap “The Bells of Saint John”, the sixth episode of Doctor Who’s seventh series, as well as its prequel. The Doctor’s still trying to chase down the mysteriously reappearing Clara Oswin Oswald, but this time he’s got a real raster blaster of an octal forty on his hands and he’ll have to jack into the darkframe to warm boot this i14y if he wants to bypass hyperspace. Can he let the smoke out of this waterwitch before he gets a killer poke? Can Clara smash the stack before she gets wedged by a slopsucker? Can the Doctor backtrack this snivitz before all of London eats flaming death?

Keep reading to find out…

Eli, I’m glad you had such a good time with “High Anxiety”! I don’t think it’s the best of what the show has to offer, but it’s definitely among the most discussed, at least from what I’ve seen. I agree that it’s really jarring to see Rose suddenly so angry and aggressive, and the revelation that she’s been using the whole time she’s known the Girls is pretty mind-blowing. Plus, I’ll definitely have to look up Gordon the Chicken and get his input the next time we have our Act One Oscar Challenge!

You did a great job, Chief, but now it’s time to head for London! Buttocks tight!

Prequel directed by Colm McCarthy and written by Steven Moffat

The Doctor is sitting on a swing set when a young girl walks up and says hello. She’s curious about why an old man is swinging like that, and reflects on how her mom tells her she’s not supposed to talk to strange men. She really wants to talk to this strange man, though, and points out that the Doc is lonely. She can tell he’s lost something, and he says this is true. He’s lost a friend of his not once but twice, and now he’s not sure if he’ll find her again. He’s been looking for her all over, but he hasn’t had any luck. He’s hoping he’ll just sort of run into her because of destiny or whatever, but the girl thinks that’s pretty dumb. She wishes him luck on his search and then runs off to be with her mom, who identifies her as Clara Oswald.

Episode directed by Colm McCarthy and written by Steven Moffat

Episode directed by Colm McCarthy and written by Steven Moffat

Starting off, we see a video of a man warns anyone who will listen that if they’re looking for wi-fi and see a network with a name made up of weird signals, they shouldn’t click it. If they do click it, you’ll be chosen by ‘them’ and ‘they’ will get into your computer. Once that happens, you’re going to die and then your soul is going to get uploaded to the internet. Really. We get a dramatic zoom out, revealing that the man’s video is just one of hundreds and that he, too, has been chosen, killed and uploaded.

After the opening credits, we jump to Cumbria in 1207. A monk runs to an abbey and calls for the Abbot, saying the bells of Saint John are ringing. The Abbot heads down to let the Mad Monk, an Oswald-obsessed Doctor, know about the bells. Jumping back to 2013, we see the latest version of Oswald (Jenna Coleman), also called Clara, with the family she works as a nanny for. One of the kids she takes care of heads out with a copy of Summer Falls by one Mrs. Amelia Williams, while the other one plays on her computer. Clara’s having computer problems of her own, and when she checks the internet connection on her laptop she sees the network with the name made up of those weird symbols. She doesn’t click it right away, at least, but instead calls tech support. The phone in the TARDIS is ringing, and this is the sound of Saint John’s bells ringing. The Doc is brought to the TARDIS and answers the phone, finding Clara on the other end.

Clara explains her internet woes, and how she got this number from a woman in a shop who said this was the best help line in the universe. The Doc recognizes her as the person he’s been looking for, but by this point Clara has clicked the weird-looking network and been chosen. Her face shows up in that wall of people who have died and been trapped, but she’s pulled away from the computer by a knock at the door. She finds the Doctor waiting for her, but she doesn’t know who he is. She confirms that she is Clara Oswald (there’s no Oswin this time) but she definitely doesn’t know this guy.

Meanwhile, that big wall of screens, it turns out, is overlooking an office staffed by people working at computers. One of them, Alexei, lets his boss, Miss Kizlet, know about Clara and she orders him to upload Clara. Once away from Alexei, Kizlet lets another one of the people here, a man named Mahler, know that she’s going to have Alexei killed when he gets back from vacay. Mahler says they’re uploading too many people too quickly and are going to be noticed. Kizlet says he’s having a crisis of conscience, and tells him that they’re giving the people they’re uploading a sort of immortality. She hacks into Mahler’s mind and gets him to change his mind about having concerns.

Back at Clara’s boss’ house, she’s still not letting the Doc inside, but suddenly there are sounds of someone moving around upstairs when no one should be up there. A young girl comes downstairs, but Clara realizes she’s the girl from the cover of Summer Falls. With her cover blown the girl’s disguise begins to fall apart. The Doctor takes the time to change his clothes, but by the time he gets back Clara’s body is dead and her mind is being uploaded by the machine that was disguised as that unsettling girl. The Doc gets Clara’s laptop and hacks the mainframe to tech the honeykernel and slice the pie in time to get Clara’s mind back in her body.

Mahler lets Kizlet know the Doc left a message saying Clara was under his protection when he jacked into the cyberzone, and when she realizes the Doctor’s involved she calls the client, the person funding all this nonsense, to let them know the person they warned her about is here. Back in Clara’s boss’ house, Clara’s passed out and the Doc decides to be as creepy as possible and go through her things. He heads outside just as she wakes up. She leans out of her window to let him know she doesn’t remember what happened to her, but she appreciates him looking out for her. She comes out to join him for tea and he explains wi-fi’s all over the place and that’s a perfect place for something to hide and prey on humanity. Over the course of this conversation Clara realizes her mind was altered by her being partially uploaded, as she now knows all about computers when she didn’t before.

Speaking of computer nonsense, another one of those robots is sent in by Kizlet and it uses wi-fi to… I guess possess? everyone on Clara’s boss’ street. That wasn’t enough, though, because it also causes a blackout all over London and redirects a plane to crash into where Clara and the Doc are standing. The Doc takes Clara into the TARDIS and we get the usual new companion surprised reaction, and then the Doc takes the TARDIS onto the crashing plane. The Doctor manages to stop the plane from crashing and then takes Clara for breakfast. She uses her newfound computer skills to black hat the botnet to deepweb the metadata and phish the 0day, and find out where the people who are doing all of this are physically located in the process. She sets up the username ClaraOswalffortheWin and shortens that to Oswin, much to the Doc’s dismay.

The Doc goes to get coffee and Kizlet uses the wi-fi to take over everyone in the café to spook the Doc and let him know how in control she and her people are. Clara’s figured out that Kizlet and her people are in The Shard, but when the Doctor returns and she lets him know she realizes he’s yet another robotic double that downloads her consciousness to the dark net honeypot Kizlet’s got set up in The Shard. The Doctor shows up in Kizlet’s office, only he’s not really there. He hacked his cyber double and uses it to upload Kizlet in the hopes that this will convince her people to free everyone trapped in the cloud. It doesn’t work at first, but luckily the Doc’s white hat techno double is there to hack Mahler’s head and make him free everyone.

Clara wakes up back at the café with the Doc just as UNIT seizes control of Kizlet’s office in The Shard. Turns out Kizlet’s client has been the Great Intelligence this whole time, and the Intelligence says she has to restore everyone to the state they were in before they started working for it. She does, and suddenly no one who worked in The Shard knows what they’re doing there or why.

Back at Clara’s boss’ house, Clara spots the TARDIS outside and goes to speak with the Doc. She tells him she always planned to travel, but her friend died and she took the job as nanny to take care of her kids. The Doc asks her to travel, but she says she’s not running off just like that. She tells him to come back tomorrow and ask her to travel with him again then, and maybe she’ll say yes.  

The End

~~~~~

Like last time, I’m a bit conflicted here. I genuinely didn’t expect to see the Great Intelligence again, so that was a pleasant surprise, but once again the plot involving the Intelligence doesn’t make any sense. You can’t just set up a premise like ‘wi-fi lets us control people’ by explaining how the hell that works. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I don’t have the first clue how wi-fi works or what makes my computer go, anymore than I know how gravity works or what makes that angry yellow ball in the sky go away at night, but even I know this isn’t how wi-fi works. The Amy shout-out was fun and I’m still enjoying Jenna Coleman, but the plot of this one was just so silly that I kind of can’t get over it. Why the heck does the Great Intelligence need all these human minds in the first place? Does it need them to get smarter? It’s already literally named the Great Intelligence, how much smarter does it need to be?

I give “The Bells of Saint John” QQQ on the Five Q Scale.

Tune back in Tuesday when Eli will bring some old grudges to light with the next episode of The Golden Girls, “Little Sister”, and then your main man JMo will jump back in the game and bring you a recap of the next episode of Doctor Who, “The Rings of Akhaten”.

Until then, thanks for reading, thanks for jacking in and thanks for being One of Us

[owolau]

which supports are you doing?

i’ll leave my Support Network™ under the cut

i have lowen maxed with A with marcus and B with eliwood

also planning to A eli with lyn, who will B with florina

florina will also C with hector and B with nino when she comes

hector is going for A with oswin and he may be stuck with 4 supports only

oswin is going for B with priscilla, who i’m trying to get A with sain

raven will only get to A with lucious

lucius will B with karel

karel will A with dart

that chain ends there

sain will also get to B with louise

pent will B with canas, who will A with nino

oh and marcus will B with merlinus

[disappointingyet]

The Forty-Year-Old Version

Director Radha Blank Stars Radha Blank, Peter Kim, Oswin Benjamin USA 2020 Language English, a little Spanish 2hrs 3mins Black & white with a little colour

Midlife crisis from a different perspective

Why is this movie in black & white? Maybe that’s just because the film-makers thought it would look good, and it does, it looks terrific. But it also creates a sense of timelessness and maybe detachment. For instance, a stress-filled bus ride feels less fraught in (this) B&W.  There almost always seems to be space in this film, even when there are lots of people in a small room.  The choice to (mostly) not to use colour also evoked (to me) earlier American low-budget movie-making, rather than the black & white era proper.

I wanted to start by talking about the look of the film because I’m guessing it will mostly be discussed in terms of what Radha Blank is saying with words here. This is a movie about a writer that spends a lot of time discussing what stories black Americans are allowed to tell and in what contexts. This is not a movie where the ‘about’ is incidental. 

Blank plays Radha Blank (yep), a once-promising Harlem-based playwright who is struggling. She’s about to hit 40, she hasn’t found a way of dealing with the death of her mother the year before, her career has stalled and – as Lamont (Jacob Ming-Trent), the rough sleeper who lives across the street points out – she hasn’t got laid in a while. Her midlife crisis takes the form of a decision to start rapping again, something she hasn’t done since school.

On the upside, she has a strong support network. There’s Archie (Peter Kim), who is her agent but more importantly someone with whom she has shared a lifelong non-sexual love. There are the kids she teaches theatre to. There is the selection of neighbourhood characters who offer their views of how she’s doing to camera at various points. There’s her new acquaintance, taciturn hip-hop producer D (Oswin Benjamin). Even the villains of the piece – patronising white theatre producer Josh Whitman (Reed Birney) and director Julie (Welker White) – want her to do well, just on their terms. 

Radha’s problems, then, are a mixture of the genuine (her mother died) and the self-inflicted. The world owes nobody a decently paid living making work they find artistically satisfying, whatever writers and directors and painters etc think. But Radha’s resistance to ‘selling out’ is more justifiable in this story because it’s not to tacky commerce but to grisly grasp of the liberal white power theatrical establishment*. But that’s theatre for you…

This is a film I enjoyed quite a lot, but maybe don’t want to think about too hard. There’s a bunch of the things that Blank – as both the character in the movie and as a writer-director – argues for that I don’t really agree with, eg about hip-hop lyrics needing to mean something. And it’s at least 20 minutes too long. The title is terrible but less so once it’s given context in the movie. But it’s funny in places and likeable and – to bring us back to where we began – looks great.

*Are the NY art elite crowd shown here the same people who were at the party in On The Rocks?

[ao3feed-doctorwho]

one in a million

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by kavinotes

If there's anything the Doctor knows, it's that if Jack Harkness makes a house call, it's never good and always interesting. But surprisingly, the alien race that's trying to enslave all of human kind via the wifi network isn't the most intriguing thing about this situation. No, everything seems pale in interest next to the brilliant and brilliantly named young TORCHWOOD recruit.

or

Oswin Oswald's bored, and the Doctor is anything but.

or

What if Ten met Clara?

Words: 1758, Chapters: 3/?, Language: English

Series: Part 1 of ten's impossible girl

Fandoms: Doctor Who (2005), Doctor Who & Related Fandoms, Torchwood

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/M

Characters: Tenth Doctor, Clara Oswin Oswald, Oswin Oswald, Jack Harkness, Original Characters

Relationships: Tenth Doctor/Clara Oswin Oswald

Additional Tags: Impossible Girl, Friendship, Time Travel, TARDIS - Freeform, with the brakes on, our boi jack harkness

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[chasingthecosmos]

By Any Other Name

Fandom: Doctor Who Rating: G Pairing: The Doctor/Rose Tyler, Eleventh Doctor/Rose Tyler (The Doctor/Clara Oswald, Eleventh Doctor/Clara Oswald) Chapters: 3/26 Read on AO3 here.

“Rose Tyler was dying - or, at least, she was relatively certain that that’s what was happening …” A Season 7 AU where Rose returns to her home universe only to find that 100 years have passed and nothing is quite the way that she remembers it. She wakes up with a new body, a new life, and a new Doctor. What has the Bad Wolf gotten her into this time? Rating may go up as the story continues

It didn't take Rose long to square everything away back in her waking life. Most of her physical assets had been bequeathed to her after Pete had passed away, so it was easy enough to pass on what remained to Tony and his descendants. She left all of her husband's remaining things to Tony as well. She knew that her brother would look after the Doctor's memory in this universe and pass on his fantastic, impossible stories so that they might live on forever.

Still, she was forced to wait for three more months before the Bad Wolf visited her again. And in that time, Rose never once stopped dreaming about him. Every night he was there, waiting for her in some form or another. Sometimes they were memories of their past adventures. Sometimes they were recollections from the two previous times when the Bad Wolf had allowed her a glimpse into the parallel world. Sometimes, it was just her and her husband living a normal, human life. His face never looked the same way twice, but it was always, without fail, the exact same man.

She was dreaming of his newest face - the one with the floppy hair and the youthful complexion - when the Bad Wolf finally came for her again.

"Are you ready?" the lady in gold asked gently.

"Does it matter?" Rose asked sarcastically.

"No," the Bad Wolf agreed simply. "But I have seen all of time and space and I know how humans can be about death."

"Well, you already told me that it's not really a death, remember?" Rose reminded her teasingly. She sobered quickly under the creature's strange, otherworldly expression, though, and she added, "What's going to happen to my body?"

"It will disappear from that universe and your atoms will be redistributed as your mind is pulled into this universe, where your cells will reconverge and form into a new body," the Bad Wolf replied, her words rattling off in that factual, practical way that Rose had always associated with the Doctor.

"Right," Rose sighed slowly. No chance she had the time to work that one out, so she simply took one last deep breath before completely surrendering herself to the alluring hum of the Bad Wolf's energy. She had another brief flash of memory from her life from oh, so long ago when she had seen for just a moment all of time and space laid out before her in the time vortex. Somehow, Rose knew that this had to happen - that it was always going to happen - in exactly this way.

Rose felt no sense of fear or foreboding as she stepped into the blinding golden light of time and felt herself being slowly disintegrated into atoms. She simply filled her mind with memories of the Doctor and trusted the universe to sort out the rest.

--------------------

This time, when she awoke in her home universe, it was so immensely different from anything that she had experienced before that it made Rose's head spin. She wasn't just dreaming anymore - the Bad Wolf had taken her way past that. She was actually, properly

there

- lying in a bed that she didn't immediately recognize and looking around at a stranger's room.

She supposed that she shouldn't have been surprised when she looked down and noticed a young, petite frame instead of her usual body- she should have been used to the Bad Wolf putting her into other people's heads by now. But it wasn't someone else's head - not this time. It was hers.

"Okay ..." Rose muttered slowly, her throat closing up in surprise when a strange voice suddenly sprang of her mouth and reached her ears.

"Hold on ..." she gasped breathlessly, "that's ... that's a new voice!"

She immediately jumped to her feet and began scanning about the strange room in search of some sort of reflective surface. Everything around her felt ... different in a way that she had never experienced before. She blinked hard a few times and realized that it wasn't her eyes playing tricks on her - she was simply a few inches shorter than she was used to.

"Alright, this is really, properly weird," she muttered out loud to herself. "Have I finally lost it?"

Unable to find a mirror anywhere during her cursory glance of the room, Rose moved to the desk chair sitting at the end of her borrowed bed and collapsed down into it, suddenly feeling weak-kneed and dizzy. Movement out of the corner of her eye drew her gaze to the black laptop screen sitting on the desk before her, and in its darkened reflection, she finally caught a proper glimpse of herself.

She was the same girl again - the Clara/Oswin/Oswald woman.

"No way," Rose gasped out loud in surprise, blinking hard at her odd new reflection and then reaching up to tentatively poke her own cheek in disbelief. "This is ... this is completely mad."

"Clara!"

The sudden voice made her startle and Rose had to choke down a scream as a young girl suddenly filled the doorway to her left.

"What, can you seriously still not get it to work?" the stranger asked, rolling her eyes at Rose in that bored, exasperated way that all teenagers did.

"What? What's not working?" Rose stuttered awkwardly.

"Your ... computer," the girl replied, looking confusedly between Rose and her darkened laptop screen. "You know that it has to be turned on, right?"

"Er, right!" Rose agreed, her voice coming out thin and slightly shrill as she fought to get a handle on the insane situation that she had suddenly found herself in. "Right, of course. I knew that."

"Right ..." the young girl replied skeptically. "Well, is it okay if I go and see Nina? You can call her mum."

"Er, yeah, sure, of course!" Rose replied brightly, attempting to hide her confusion and worry with a forced smile and a terse nod. It was obvious that this girl somehow knew her, but Rose had no idea what their relationship was. Were they related? Was Rose somehow meant to be watching her? She didn't even know this girl's name!

The girl smiled at her, though - obviously pleased to have gotten what she wanted. She hesitated in the doorway for just a moment more and then turned a thoughtful look on Rose. "You should phone that number if you're still having trouble," she suggested.

"Number?" Rose repeated, tilting her head in question at the young girl.

"Yeah, that number you got from the lady at the tech shop," the teenager elaborated with another haughty roll of her eyes. "It's a help line."

"Right, yes," Rose muttered distractedly. "I'll do that, then, I'll call them!"

The teenager flashed Rose one last strange, skeptical look before she disappeared from the doorway and left Rose alone with her own thoughts once more.

"Right, then, I'll just phone them, shall I?" Rose muttered under her breath to herself. "I'll tell them all about how I've just woken up in a different universe, in a different body and see if they've got any specialists for that."

She paused for a moment in her one-sided monologue and watched her expression screw into one of confusion as she met her eyes in the dark monitor of her laptop once more. "Why am I talking to myself like this? I don't usually do this ..." she mused to herself, cocking her head to the side as she leaned in closer to her reflection. "Do all of these words just come along with the new body? Is this what's meant to happen? Blimey, now I know how the Doctor feels ..."

Her words halted again and she watched her strange new face shift into an expression of wide-eyed, open-mouthed shock. "The Doctor!" she gasped. "Of course!"

Rose suddenly remembered that she had been brought here by the Bad Wolf to find the Doctor. The only question now was - how was she supposed to do that? She didn't even rightfully know where and when she was, let alone where he might be on his own timeline. She wondered if this universe's Torchwood was still up and running - if she could hack their databases, then maybe she could find a clue as to where he was and what he was currently doing.

Rose reached forward and powered on the laptop without a second thought, waiting impatiently as it booted up. Her foot jiggled underneath the desk table and she bit her lip in anticipation as she watched the loading bar slowly fill and then the stock image of a wide, open field underneath a bright blue sky lit up her desktop screen.

She immediately attempted to open the Internet, but an error message interrupted her, telling her that she was having network connectivity issues.

"Oh, come on," she groaned under her breath, moving to click on the empty-looking Wi-Fi button at the bottom of her screen. But it seemed that her laptop wasn't able to pick up any nearby networks and her screen remained as blank and unresponsive as ever.

Suddenly, Rose caught sight of a bright yellow post-it note clinging to the edge of the desk near her right hand. It had a phone number scrawled on it in an unrecognizable hand along with an eight-digit string of nonsense letters and numbers. Her gaze immediately moved up to the phone that was sitting on a charging cradle on the far corner of the desk and Rose narrowed her eyes on it speculatively before finally shrugging and reaching for it.

She dialed the number that had been left for her and was about to hang up after the tenth ring when suddenly a man's voice met her ears.

"Hello?"

"Ah! Hello!" Rose replied brightly. "I can't find the Internet."

"Sorry ...?" the man responded slowly.

"Well, I'm trying to get my Wi-Fi connected," she elaborated, "but it's like ... there's nothing there?"

"The Internet?" the man repeated dubiously. "It's 1207 ..."

"No, I've got half-past three," Rose replied slowly, glancing at the date and time readout at the bottom of her laptop screen. "Could that be a part of the issue? Is there something wrong with my settings?"

"Listen, where did you get this number?" the man demanded, completely ignoring her.

"The ... woman in the shop?" she replied hesitantly. That is what the teenager had said, right? Some lady had given her that number? "Someone wrote it down for me. This ... this is a helpline, isn't it?"

"What woman? Who was she?" the man asked, his voice just as confused and demanding as ever.

"I don't know, she was just some woman," Rose replied evasively. "So, is this a helpline or not? Can you help me fix my computer?"

"Well, I'm not actually ... this isn't ..." the man stuttered awkwardly before sighing heavily and asking, "You have clicked on the Wi-Fi button, haven't you?"

"Of course I have," Rose snapped impatiently. "It's not my first time using one of these things, you know, I just ..." Her words ended on a gasp as a new network connection suddenly popped up on her screen. It was labeled "Maitland_Family" and it was at full bars. She clicked on it without a second thought, eager to have this issue fixed so that she could move on to more important things.

"Oh, wait! Something's just come up," she explained into the phone receiver. A window filled the center of her screen, prompting her for a password. "Oh, but it needs a password ..."

"So ... put in your password ..." the man replied slowly.

Rose was really getting tired of his condescending remarks very quickly. She rolled her eyes as she remembered all of the times when she was still so young and the Doctor had treated her like a dribbling, useless child.

"Yeah, thanks, I know how passwords work," she responded tersely. "I just haven't got one ..."

"Well, you'll need a password ..." the man explained with a sigh.

"Oh, wait!" Rose cut him off, remembering once more the small yellow post-it note where she had first found the number to call him. "There's some letters and numbers written down here, I'll try that ..."

It wasn't until she was four digits into the strange sequence that something clicked in her mind and her fingers immediately froze over the keyboard as she stared down in shock at the eight-digit code.

"Well ...?" the man on the other end of the line was prompting her. "Did that work?"

But Rose couldn't find it in herself to answer him. She was still too busy simply staring at those six seemingly-random letters scrawled out in pen before her.

"Oh ..." she breathed softly. "But that's ..."

"What? What is it now?" the man asked irritatedly.

RYCBAR

"Run, you clever boy," Rose whispered as images from her vivid dreams played before her eyes like a movie reel, "and remember ..."

"What did you say?" the man demanded, his voice cracking through the connection as his words came out in a shout.

"It's ..." Rose attempted weakly, but her words were cut off as a loud pounding began to shake the room around her and the sound of a doorbell being insistently run filled her ears.

"Oi!" she snapped, instantly hanging up the phone and shutting her laptop in frustration. "What's all that noise, then?"

She peered curiously out of the room that she still hadn't managed to venture out of yet and had a look around the corridor outside. It seemed that she was in some sort of small, two-story house and - since the teenager had left - she was completely alone.

Did she live here, then? Would it be odd for her to check the door and see who could be trying so desperately to get in?

Rose decided that she would have to take her chances, because there was no way she could sit through the rest of the day with all of the racket that the person at the door was making.

"Hello, yes, I hear you!" she called out over the noise as she quickly descended to the lower level of the house. The mottled glass door at the foot of the stairs gave her a blurry look at the person making all of the fuss outside, and she could see what looked like the outline of a man in strange brown robes.

"Hello?" she asked as she turned the knob on the unfamiliar door to reveal ...

"Clara!" the man breathed in quiet disbelief. "Clara Oswald!"

"Oh," Rose replied intelligently as she matched the man's wide-eyed expression of shock. She was distantly aware that her mouth was hanging slightly open, waiting for her to come up with something better to say, but no words came.

Because standing right in front of her with a brand new face and a look in his eyes like a dying man who had finally found salvation was none other than the Doctor.

[yvmedia]

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[mulgasuk]

Your one-stop-shop to locating office space in Woking

A new property search web portal designed to make finding commercial property within the Borough ‘a piece of cake’ will launch on Monday 26 June 2017.

The new portal, hosted on Woking Borough Council’s Woking Works website under ‘Locate’ - will list all commercial property available within the Borough.

At its launch, approximately 50 sites will be available to view, with each record showing the square footage available, type of space, photographs of the location, approximate cost and contact details of the agent representing the property.

With the support of the major estate agencies throughout the Borough, including Curchods & Co, New Ballerino and Hurst Warne, the portal means those looking for commercial property within the area no longer have to sift through numerous websites to find their ideal space to call home.

Cllr Saj Hussain, Woking Borough Council’s Portfolio Holder for Economic Development, said: “Part of the Council’s inward investment and retention strategy is encouraging businesses to relocate or stay within our Borough. We have so much going on in Woking right now, with a great housing regeneration scheme, new school and the continuing town centre redevelopment, many businesses can see our future potential and want to relocate to the area. That’s on top of all the small enterprises growing so successfully that they need new places to do business.

“We want to make it as easy as possible for businesses to work within our Borough, and this portal should save people a great deal of time and effort when they are picking a new location for their organisation.”

Ian Oswin, Senior Partner at Curchods & Co, said: “Woking is perfectly placed for those travelling in and out to London, out of the major airports, or down to the south of England with its great transport links, and yet it also offers country living on the doorstep. We want the property market in our area to stay buoyant and attractive and this portal offers us another way to reach potential customers. We can make sure that properties are filled quickly, keeping our local economy thriving.”

As well as helping companies find a home in Woking, the Woking Works team also offers support for businesses from serviced offices to sponsorship opportunities, networking and information events to reduced rate wi-fi provision.

For start-ups and established concerns, free business surgeries and advice sessions are available on a regular basis. These sessions are supported by the five Woking Works partners, who have committed their time and expertise to supporting other businesses: Arcom IT, Barlow Robbins Solicitors, Hamlyns Chartered Accountants, NatWest and Something Big Creative Agency.

To find out more about how you could boost your business, please visit www.wokingworks.com

from Woking Borough Council Latest News https://www.woking.gov.uk/news?item=000059494623.A20DBC27.000016C9.0002

[ubizheroes]

Oswin, distribuidor exclusivo de la portuguesa Belone

InmoDiario La empresa Oswin Office Solution ha alcanzado un acuerdo con la empresa portuguesa Belone para distribuir en exclusiva en Madrid y Barcelona su mobiliario de oficina. Tras este acuerdo, Belone se suma a la cartera de primeras firmas de mobiliario de oficina que Oswin distribuye en España desde hace una década, entre ellas, Raio, Alital, Ofita, Interstuhl, Inclass y Leber. Con sede en Madrid, Oswin diversifica su actividad entre la venta de mobiliario de oficina nuevo y reciclado, la recompra de mobiliario de oficina y la instalación de mamparas. Completa su oferta de productos con la gestión integral del proyecto, desde el traslado o la desimplantación de oficinas hasta la planificación del espacio. “Aportamos ideas sobre la mejor forma de optimizar el espacio”, señala Óscar Herrando, socio de la firma. Por su parte, Belone es el nuevo proyecto empresarial de la familia Estima, de larga y reconocida trayectoria en el sector. El motor de todo, Carlos Estima, en los años 70 empezó a fabricar muebles para cocinas y oficinas y poco tiempo después su pequeña empresa se posicionó como la primera del sector en Portugal. Hoy dirigen esta nueva empresa sus hijos Gabriel y Marcia. Belone acaba de lanzar una colección de mobiliario de oficina firmada por el diseñador industrial Gabriel Teixidó. Sobre Oswin: Desde el inicio, realiza una planificación del espacio a adecuar con el objeto de visualizar la nueva distribución. Aporta ideas sobre la mejor forma de optimizar el espacio y por tanto requerir menos m2 y mejorar los coste. Prepara sin compromiso un presupuesto de ejecución de todos los trabajos que integre las mejores ofertas respecto a mobiliario, compartimentación, instalaciones y hasta la mudanza. Oswin comercializa tanto mobiliario de oficina nuevo como semi nuevo. Mobiliario nuevo Oswin equipa las oficinas con todo tipo de soluciones en mobiliario de primeras marcas. Trabaja con los principales fabricantes nacionales e internacionales para los diferentes espacios-tipo:Recepciones, despachos, zona de espera, puestos operativos, salas de reuniones, phonebooth, zonas de trabajo informal y zonas de descanso. Además, dispone de una amplia gama de sistemas de mamparas desmontables: Mamparas vidrio, Mamparas ciegas, Tabique armario, Tabique móvil, Diferentes acabados y modulaciones. Oswin también, ofrece servicio de recompra. Si el cliente está pensando en cambiar su mobiliario de oficina y no sabe que hacer con el, se lo compran. Compran todo tipo de mobiliario en grandes cantidades, y se ocupan de recogerlo sin coste, según estado. Además, ofrece el servicio de alquiler del mobiliario de oficina, para aquellas empresas que necesitan tener esa disponibilidad, desde una silla hasta una oficina completa: recepciones, puestos operativos, despachos, salas de reuniones y zonas de descanso o áreas para la colaboración. //pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push(); Source link from Blog https://goagencies.com/oswin-distribuidor-exclusivo-de-la-portuguesa-belone/ via Go Agencies from Network Coaching https://thenetworkcoaching.wordpress.com/2017/05/27/oswin-distribuidor-exclusivo-de-la-portuguesa-belone/ via IFTTT from Local SEO Guru http://localseoguru.tumblr.com/post/161132613628 via IFTTT from Tumblr http://tomeucapella.tumblr.com/post/161132833685/oswin-distribuidor-exclusivo-de-la-portuguesa via IFTTT

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Oswin, distribuidor exclusivo de la portuguesa Belone

InmoDiario La empresa Oswin Office Solution ha alcanzado un acuerdo con la empresa portuguesa Belone para distribuir en exclusiva en Madrid y Barcelona su mobiliario de oficina. Tras este acuerdo, Belone se suma a la cartera de primeras firmas de mobiliario de oficina que Oswin distribuye en España desde hace una década, entre ellas, Raio, Alital, Ofita, Interstuhl, Inclass y Leber. Con sede en Madrid, Oswin diversifica su actividad entre la venta de mobiliario de oficina nuevo y reciclado, la recompra de mobiliario de oficina y la instalación de mamparas. Completa su oferta de productos con la gestión integral del proyecto, desde el traslado o la desimplantación de oficinas hasta la planificación del espacio. “Aportamos ideas sobre la mejor forma de optimizar el espacio”, señala Óscar Herrando, socio de la firma. Por su parte, Belone es el nuevo proyecto empresarial de la familia Estima, de larga y reconocida trayectoria en el sector. El motor de todo, Carlos Estima, en los años 70 empezó a fabricar muebles para cocinas y oficinas y poco tiempo después su pequeña empresa se posicionó como la primera del sector en Portugal. Hoy dirigen esta nueva empresa sus hijos Gabriel y Marcia. Belone acaba de lanzar una colección de mobiliario de oficina firmada por el diseñador industrial Gabriel Teixidó. Sobre Oswin: Desde el inicio, realiza una planificación del espacio a adecuar con el objeto de visualizar la nueva distribución. Aporta ideas sobre la mejor forma de optimizar el espacio y por tanto requerir menos m2 y mejorar los coste. Prepara sin compromiso un presupuesto de ejecución de todos los trabajos que integre las mejores ofertas respecto a mobiliario, compartimentación, instalaciones y hasta la mudanza. Oswin comercializa tanto mobiliario de oficina nuevo como semi nuevo. Mobiliario nuevo Oswin equipa las oficinas con todo tipo de soluciones en mobiliario de primeras marcas. Trabaja con los principales fabricantes nacionales e internacionales para los diferentes espacios-tipo:Recepciones, despachos, zona de espera, puestos operativos, salas de reuniones, phonebooth, zonas de trabajo informal y zonas de descanso. Además, dispone de una amplia gama de sistemas de mamparas desmontables: Mamparas vidrio, Mamparas ciegas, Tabique armario, Tabique móvil, Diferentes acabados y modulaciones. Oswin también, ofrece servicio de recompra. Si el cliente está pensando en cambiar su mobiliario de oficina y no sabe que hacer con el, se lo compran. Compran todo tipo de mobiliario en grandes cantidades, y se ocupan de recogerlo sin coste, según estado. Además, ofrece el servicio de alquiler del mobiliario de oficina, para aquellas empresas que necesitan tener esa disponibilidad, desde una silla hasta una oficina completa: recepciones, puestos operativos, despachos, salas de reuniones y zonas de descanso o áreas para la colaboración. //pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push(); Source link from Blog https://goagencies.com/oswin-distribuidor-exclusivo-de-la-portuguesa-belone/ via Go Agencies from Network Coaching https://thenetworkcoaching.wordpress.com/2017/05/27/oswin-distribuidor-exclusivo-de-la-portuguesa-belone/ via IFTTT from Tumblr http://localseoguru.tumblr.com/post/161132613628/oswin-distribuidor-exclusivo-de-la-portuguesa via IFTTT from Local SEO Guru http://thelocalseoguru.blogspot.com/2017/05/oswin-distribuidor-exclusivo-de-la.html via IFTTT from Blogger http://buyvipbids.blogspot.com/2017/05/oswin-distribuidor-exclusivo-de-la.html via IFTTT

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Oswin, distribuidor exclusivo de la portuguesa Belone

InmoDiario La empresa Oswin Office Solution ha alcanzado un acuerdo con la empresa portuguesa Belone para distribuir en exclusiva en Madrid y Barcelona su mobiliario de oficina.

Tras este acuerdo, Belone se suma a la cartera de primeras firmas de mobiliario de oficina que Oswin distribuye en España desde hace una década, entre ellas, Raio, Alital, Ofita, Interstuhl, Inclass y Leber.

Con sede en Madrid, Oswin diversifica su actividad entre la venta de mobiliario de oficina nuevo y reciclado, la recompra de mobiliario de oficina y la instalación de mamparas. Completa su oferta de productos con la gestión integral del proyecto, desde el traslado o la desimplantación de oficinas hasta la planificación del espacio. “Aportamos ideas sobre la mejor forma de optimizar el espacio”, señala Óscar Herrando, socio de la firma.

Por su parte, Belone es el nuevo proyecto empresarial de la familia Estima, de larga y reconocida trayectoria en el sector. El motor de todo, Carlos Estima, en los años 70 empezó a fabricar muebles para cocinas y oficinas y poco tiempo después su pequeña empresa se posicionó como la primera del sector en Portugal. Hoy dirigen esta nueva empresa sus hijos Gabriel y Marcia.

Belone acaba de lanzar una colección de mobiliario de oficina firmada por el diseñador industrial Gabriel Teixidó.

Sobre Oswin:

Desde el inicio, realiza una planificación del espacio a adecuar con el objeto de visualizar la nueva distribución. Aporta ideas sobre la mejor forma de optimizar el espacio y por tanto requerir menos m2 y mejorar los coste. Prepara sin compromiso un presupuesto de ejecución de todos los trabajos que integre las mejores ofertas respecto a mobiliario, compartimentación, instalaciones y hasta la mudanza.

Oswin comercializa tanto mobiliario de oficina nuevo como semi nuevo.

Mobiliario nuevo

Oswin equipa las oficinas con todo tipo de soluciones en mobiliario de primeras marcas. Trabaja con los principales fabricantes nacionales e internacionales para los diferentes espacios-tipo:Recepciones, despachos, zona de espera, puestos operativos, salas de reuniones, phonebooth, zonas de trabajo informal y zonas de descanso.

Además, dispone de una amplia gama de sistemas de mamparas desmontables: Mamparas vidrio, Mamparas ciegas, Tabique armario, Tabique móvil, Diferentes acabados y modulaciones.

Oswin también, ofrece servicio de recompra. Si el cliente está pensando en cambiar su mobiliario de oficina y no sabe que hacer con el, se lo compran. Compran todo tipo de mobiliario en grandes cantidades, y se ocupan de recogerlo sin coste, según estado. Además, ofrece el servicio de alquiler del mobiliario de oficina, para aquellas empresas que necesitan tener esa disponibilidad, desde una silla hasta una oficina completa: recepciones, puestos operativos, despachos, salas de reuniones y zonas de descanso o áreas para la colaboración.

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