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Lytton, near the mouth of the Brisbane River and Port of Brisbane, is one of the most historically significant areas of Brisbane. The suburb is home to Fort Lytton, built as a first line naval defence between 1880 and 1881.
Constructed more than 30 years before the outbreak of World War One, Fort Lytton's role was to protect the city and its shipping routes from naval invasion. One of the most well preserved forts of its kind in Australia, Fort Lytton is encircled by a water-filled moat, and is concealed behind large grassy ramparts. Hidden underground passages secretly connect different sections of the Fort and many of the original guns have been restored to working order. If you visit the Fort on special occasions you might be lucky enough to see a military re-enactment and hear the booming 64-pounder guns in action.
To get the most from your visit to the Fort join a guided tour and immerse yourself in Brisbane's wartime history at the Fort Lytton museum. On Sundays and Public Holidays, volunteer guides offer tours, sharing their knowledge and insights of Fort Lytton and the heritage it preserves.
Aside from its military importance, the Fort also claims a place in history as an airstrip once used by Australia's most famous aviator, Sir Charles Kingsford Smith.
Surrounded by scenic river views, Fort Lytton is a great place for a picnic and is just half an hour drive from the centre of Brisbane. Good accommodation options can be found nearby at seaside Wynnum. Hotels, motels, hostels, self-contained units and holiday rentals are all available.
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Baseball Eliminated from SEC's; Awaits NCAA Berth
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HOOVER, Ala. - Second baseman Matthew Britton's RBI single in the bottom of the 10th inning Friday lifted No. 21 Mississippi State to a 4-3 win over second-ranked LSU in the SEC Tournament at Regions Park.
Mississippi State (37-21) advances to the tournament semifinals, where the Bulldogs will face Kentucky at Noon CT Saturday. LSU (43-16), the 2012 SEC champion, was eliminated from the tournament with Friday's loss.
The Tigers will await word from the NCAA Baseball Selection Committee, which will announce the 16 regional sites on Sunday afternoon (2:30 p.m. CT, NCAA.com) and the entire 64-team field - including the eight national seeds - at 11 a.m. Monday on ESPNU.
"This is a tough loss, but it's one we can learn from as we go forward in the postseason," said LSU coach Paul Mainieri. "It hurts right now because the game didn't go the way we had hoped, but that's how baseball is sometimes. As they have all season, our players competed extremely hard, but we just fell short today. It's been a tremendous year for our team, and now we have the opportunity to make it a very special season. We've got time to regroup and start preparing for the NCAA Tournament."
Trailing 3-1, Mississippi State scored two runs in the bottom of the ninth inning against LSU closer Nick Goody to send the contest into extra innings.
First baseman Wes Rea led off the MSU ninth with a double down the right-field line. Britton was inserted as a pinch runner for Rea at second base before Goody struck out second baseman Sam Frost for the first out.
However, third baseman Daryl Norris singled to send Britton to third, and shortstop Adam Frazier singled to score Britton and reduce LSU's lead to 3-2. Brent Brownlee, pinch running for Norris, moved to third on Frazier's hit.
Goody hit rightfielder Tyler Fullerton with a pitch, and designated hitter Luis Pollorena lined a sacrifice fly to center to score Brownlee with the tying run. Goody retired centerfielder Hunter Renfroe on a fly ball to end the inning.
Mississippi State reliever Jonathan Holder held the Tigers scoreless in the top of the 10th, setting the stage for the Bulldogs' final at-bat. Goody retired leftfielder Demarcus Henderson on a grounder to short to start the inning, but catcher Mitch Slauter doubled to center field.
Nick Rumbelow relieved Goody, but Britton lined a Rumbelow pitch to right-center to score Slauter with the winning run.
LSU grabbed a 2-0 lead in the top of the first when designated hitter Ty Ross delivered a two-run single with the bases loaded, scoring shortstop Austin Nola and rightfielder Mason Katz.
The Tigers added a run in the second when second baseman JaCoby Jones singled, moved from first to third on a groundout by centerfielder Arby Fields and scored on Nola's grounder to short.
LSU, however, could not expand the lead against MSU starter Jacob Lindgren and relievers Caleb Reed and Ross Mitchell. Reed worked 3.1 scoreless innings, allowing three hits with two walks and no strikeouts.
The Bulldogs scored a run in the eighth against LSU reliever Chris Cotton when Renfroe delivered an RBI single, narrowing the deficit to 3-1.
LSU starter Ryan Eades fired six scoreless innings, limiting the Bulldogs to four hits with four walks and one strikeout.
Holder (2-0) was credited with the win after pitching a scoreless 10th with one strikeout. Goody (1-2) was charged with the loss as he gave up three runs on four hits in 1.1 innings with no walks and one strikeout.
Mississippi State 4, LSU 3 (May 25, 2012 at Hoover, Ala.)
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Pitchers: LSU - Ryan Eades; Chris Cotton(7); Nick Goody(9); Nick Rumbelow(10) and Jordy Snikeris; Ty Ross.
Mississippi State - Jacob Lindgren; Caleb Reed(5); Ross Mitchell(9); Jonathan Holder(10) and Mitch Slauter.
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On Friday, "Snow White and the Huntsman" will debut on movie screens across North America. The film is a live-action retelling of the "Snow White" legend, starring Charlize Theron as the wicked queen and Kristen Stewart of the "Twilight" saga as the fairest one of all. The budget for the film is $170 million, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The amount is actually relatively modest for the fantasy genre, in which films with budgets exceeding $200 million are par for the course. "John Carter," which was released in March and had a budget of $250 million, had an opening-weekend domestic box office take of $36 million, making it one of the first major flops of 2012. But that's fantasy filmmaking for you. It's a high-risk genre that requires spectacular visual effects and huge budgets, and the potential for failure is immense. When a fantasy movie connects with audiences, however, a potential gold mine awaits, with sequels, prequels and spin-offs extending into the next decade and beyond.
CNBC.com collected the domestic gross box office of fantasy movies, using data from BoxOfficeMojo.com and adjusting the numbers for inflation to see which fantasy movies, as defined by BoxOfficeMojo.com, are the highest grossing of all time. Read ahead to find out.
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Parents just don't understand
Defining Common Core
The set of Common Core Standards, first adopted by some states in 2010, is an education initiative sponsored by the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) that details clear, consistent educational expectations for students in the United States to achieve in each grade (K-12) in the areas of English language arts and mathematics. The Standards emphasize mastering fewer subjects, rather than a basic understanding of several topics; and analyzing and applying information rather than simply recalling it. Teachers, researchers, and design experts across the country collaborated to design and develop these Standards, and each state decides independently whether or not to adopt them.
The goal of the Standards is to help students across all states compete with other students on a national and global scale, and ultimately prepare all graduating high school students for a 2- or 4-year college program, or the workforce. Texas, Virginia, Alaska, and Nebraska are the only states that have not yet voluntarily adopted any of the Common Core Standards, while Minnesota has only adopted the English language arts standards, so for most U.S. children, this is the new reality in school. View this map to see when each state adopted, or will adopt the standards.
In an effort to bring parents up to speed, most schools distribute a "Parents' Guide" at the start of the school year when they're implementing the Common Core to help explain new terminology and concepts that apply to children's homework.


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I'm just stepping into Sabayon linux from Gentoo, Fedora and other distro's.
So Sabayon didn't auto-config my card (intel i810) to work out of the box but with some editting of xorg.conf and tinkering I managed to get compiz fusion loading at least.
However, I'm having some trouble getting it to operate properly; for example, when it loads many shadows are white borders around menu's and windows, also window contents are not always visible nor clickable.
I think this is related to the warning I get when I run compiz-start:
I have read this having to do something with cachelines or another and there being too little ram allotted to the 3d drivers.
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libGL Warning: 3d driver claims to not support visual 0x73.
I'm kinda lost and too busy to spend days on this to solve it, can anyone help?
Mind you I have had beryl running on Gentoo, Ubuntu and Fedora on this very laptop - so I know it does work - unless compiz-fusion is THAT much different. Regardless in the end though as I had ubuntu with compiz-fusion running on this very laptop too.


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Defensive miscues and missed opportunities on the offensive end allowed 24th-ranked UAB to get out to an early 3-0 lead against the Lipscomb soccer team as the Blazers captured the Hyatt Place Select Invitational with a 4-0 win over the Bisons' Sunday afternoon at the Lipscomb Soccer Complex.
The loss dropped the Bisons' record to 3-3, snapping its three-game winning streak, UAB won its fifth straight match to improve to 5-1.
"We didn't respond well to the adversity we faced in the first half," Lipscomb coach Charles Morrow said. "We had some early mistakes and goalkeeping errors that led to their first half goals and we left some good opportunities out on the field."
"I was disappointed in the way we reacted after falling behind in the first half. We talk about responding and bouncing back and we didn't do that today. When you are playing against a good team, you can't leave goals out there and we did that today and in the first half against UNC Asheville on Friday."
Despite holding a 16-13 advantage in the shots department, Lipscomb struggled to keep the Blazers out of the box in the opening stanza.
UAB took a 1-0 lead at the 16:19 mark when Kofi Gyawu took advantage of a scramble in front of the net and struck one by LU goalkeeper Brent McGee into the back of the net.
Five minutes later, the Blazers added to its lead when Anthony King struck one from the end line far post past the outstretched arms of McGee.
With a 2-0 lead, UAB added its third goal of the half when Gentry Smith took advantage of a dropped ball by McGee off a lofted cross to the middle of the box, giving the Blazers a three goal advantage with 10 minutes left before intermission.
UAB (5-1) tacked on its fourth and final goal of the game when Kevin Sawchak converted a penalty kick with just under seven minutes to play in the game.
Isaac Pile made three saves for the Bisons' in the second period after replacing McGee.
Lipscomb finished the game with five shots on frame as they were shutout for the first time this season.
"The challenge we face now is how we move on from today," Morrow said. "I am confident the guys will put this game behind them and get back to working hard in practice."
The Bisons will return to competition next weekend as they travel to the "Buckeye" state for a pair of road contests next weekend. Lipscomb will play Xavier in Cincinnati on Friday before squaring off against the Falcons of Bowling Green on Sunday.
Following Sunday's game the All-Tournament team was announced. Lipscomb's Garrett McLaughlin and Kevin Barbar represented the Bisons' on the team. McLaughlin scored two goals in the second half against UNC-Asheville on Friday and Barbar posted excellent defensive play all weekend. See below for a complete listing of the All-Tournament team.
Hyatt Place Select Lipscomb Invitational All-Tournament Team
Anthony King, UAB
Carl Woszczynski, UAB
Curtis Ushedo, UAB
Babayele Sodade, UAB
Diego Figueroa, Belmont
Bradley Shuck, Belmont
Brandon Tarr, Belmont
Garrett McLaughlin, Lipscomb
Kevin Barbar, Lipscomb
Lassi Hurskainen, UNC-Asheville
Jake Sides, UNC-Asheville
Article by Travis Young for Lipscomb Athletics


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Disputing what Jon Heyman reported on Friday, the Mets are talking to free agent closer Fernando Rodney according to Adam Rubin of ESPN New York.
However, Dan Martin of the NY Post says that one team official called the chances of landing him a long shot.
"I'm not sure there's a fit there," the official said.
Another team official echoed that.
"We've talked about him, but I don't think we're ready to take any action on it yet," the source said. "He's been on our radar as someone we're interested in."
So the search for a veteran reliever pushes on for Sandy and the Mets…
I wonder if they are second guessing the move to pass on LaTroy Hawkins for $2.5 million? You have to admit, that looks like a steal right now…
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While the Mets reportedly made a run at Grant Balfour only to be turned down because the former A's closer wanted to stay near his home in Florida, it doesn't necessarily mean that reliever Fernando Rodney is next on their list.
According to Jon Heyman of CBS Sports, the early word is that the Mets front office is not likely to pursue Rodney. Of course, with Sandy, that's code for "we're gonna get that guy."
Rodney, who Balfour replaces for the Rays, has saved 85 games over the past two seasons and has had phenomenal success as a closer, especially in 2012 when he saved 48 games with a dazzling 0.60 ERA.
Last season saw Rodney post a 3.38 ERA while racking up 37 saves. He features a high 90s fastball with great late movement that misses a lot of bats and has led to an impressive 10.1 strikeout rate over the last two years in Tampa.
One reliever who has been connected to the Mets is right-hander Mitchell Boggs. He's had moderate success as a middle reliever but has always been plagued by command and control issues. After walking an appalling 7.7 batters per nine innings last season, which saw his ERA skyrocket to 8.10 for the Cardinals and Rockies, Boggs was non-tendered this offseason.
However, the real storyline from yesterday's near miss on nabbing Balfour was whether it signaled that something was amiss with current closer Bobby Parnell. So far mum's the word on him and the last we heard was that he was feeling great and throwing in St. Lucie with no apparent setbacks in his rehab from neck surgery. Hopefully, that is still the case, but these are the New York Mets and you, my friend, are in the Twilight Zone.


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I did a google search and nothing came up as far as posts, so I thought I'd go ahead and start something.
I downloaded the "Doctor Who Confidential" and the first episode "Rose" using bittorrent, and I'm not entirely sure what to say.
The opening sequence is really cool. I especially like the part where everything freezes and you, as the observer, spin 180 around the TARDIS.
All in all, I liked it. Christopher Eccleston is very off-the-wall and zaney but he has a lot of promise and a great smile to boot. (something that's always been important for the Doctor) He very much seems to be a Doctor for the 21st century. (Which is a funny concept, considering.)
The episode seemed rushed, which could be just because the episodes used to be at least 2 hours long (in four parts), but it could also be a symptom of trying to pack what is in effect a series opener all into one hour, instead of into two hours like most series do. And yes, in effect, this is the beginning of a whole new series. It's just using the same universe (and even the same title character) as a previous long-lived show. (Think DS9 in the TNG universe)
I did think part of it was kinda cheesey... mostly the Doctor trying to talk to a big puddle of plastic, but I was generally pleased. And I was glad that his companion, Rose, has some backbone of sorts. I've always thought he was better suited to companions that could handle themselves rather than brutes or helpless women.
Anyone else see this? I realize this thread will probably fall off page 1 pretty quickly, so I didn't call it the "Perpetual Dr Who" thread or anything, but I thoguht it was worth noting.
I did a google search and nothing came up as far as posts, so I thought I'd go ahead and start something.
We've had at least two threads on it in the last few weeks, however a quick search turns up neither of them.
Aww.. I figured it MUST be somewhere out there. However, as RavenDuck said, the search did not turn it up. I even used Google, and while there were several links for "arstechnica" and "Doctor Who" together, nothing was actually a post, so I thought I'd give it a shot.
It's good. It's campy, it's funny, it's Dr. Who. What the hell did you expect?
Doctor Who
You make my brain hurt, bowtie.
lol, actually years ago I'd go on and on about how it was really pronounced like Doctor, Who? and bring up URLs of interviews of the creators stating how his name isn't Who but how it just happened to be mistaken as such.
One of the things I find interesting is that this is a 13-episode run, and the last episode is listed at the "Finale episode of the new Doctor" which makes me wonder... are they saying this is it for now and waiting to see how it's received before trying to make a second season (much like Battlestar Galactica), or are they dead-set against making a second season? I of course would prefer the former, but I wouldn't put it beyond tv people to do the latter.
Oh well, I guess you can never have too many Dr Who threads. Fuck, if every second thread can be a car or gun thread, we can have three Dr Who threads
Considering that something like 10 million people watched the first episode (there are only 60 million in the UK), a second season looks like a good probability.
That part of the title sequence is nice, but I was a bit underwhelmed by the rest of it. The programme itself however I thought was brilliant.
What is it with Americans and the word 'zany'? Sorry, it really makes me cringe.
The old series was made of mostly four 25-minute episodes. I can see how that might add up to 2+ hours in advert land, but I thought Dr Who usually goes out on PBS in the US?
It does go at one hell of a pace though, but then it has so much to do in just 45 minutes: Introduce Rose, introduce the Doctor and his essential baggage, and have some sort of adventure. The way the story was centred around Rose and showed us the Doctor as she herself met him was a pretty clever idea. This also allowed us to begin the story part way through the Doctor's actual adventure - he's actually up to about part 3 or 4 of a traditional story when he meets Rose in the basement.
Nope, it's a continuation from the old series. This is the 9th Doctor (and yes, that is recognising Paul McGann). A lot of things have changed, and doubtless some continuity will be broken, but then some of the best Doctor Who has involved pissing all over its own 'continuity'. I use the term in inverted commas because the show regularly contradicted itself.
A second series is almost guaranteed at this point. The producers want to make one, the story outlines are written, the stars are apparently contracted for one, and so on. The only proviso is that the BBC want to see how well this series does, and I believe won't make a decision until the 6th episode has been broadcast. However the first episode netted over 10.5 million viewers, which is pretty phenomenal by modern UK standards. They'd have to drop catastrophically for the BBC to not be all over a second series, and given that the audience response has been overwhelmingly favourable, that doesn't look likely.
The only other potential spanner in the works is Chris Eccleston himself - he's been very noncommital about doing another series in interviews. His is signed to a two-year contract with an option for a third though, and would piss off a lot of people in high places if he walked. He could be hedging his bets in case the series flops, he could simply not be used to working on a series like this and the publicity circus that surrounds it, or it could be that there's a big surprise at the end of the series that will be more fun if we don't know the Doctor's fate at the time of broadcast.
Anyway, bring it on! I can't quite believe Doctor Who's back properly for the first time in 16 years, this time without being painful to watch.
There is a limit on the number of times a timelord can regenerate. I thought it was seven, but obviously that's wrong.
I think 'continuity' is by definition a very fluid thing when your main character is a time traveller who is not averse to changing the course of history in major ways. Timelords do have rules (even though the Doctor regularly ignores them), but there is no "Temporal Prime Directive".
Rather, the Doctor more or less operates on the assumption that things turned out in the future like they did because of what he does (or is about to do) in the past.
Regarding the ratings, that's especially impressive seeing every man and his dog (except me) downloaded the leaked episode off the net, so by the time it was actually broadcast, many people were probably watching it as a repeat.
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Ah, sorry, thought you were under a mistaken impression. It's rather like a reset button on the series - all the excess baggage of 26 years has been set aside, but the best and most essential ideas have been kept. It's also fun to note the similarity between Rose and An Unearthly Child - both introduce the Doctor through someone else's eyes.
I think a lot of minor stuff will be ignored, but there is one HUGE change coming up in the series, and it'll be interesting to see the specifics of it, assuming they're anything but vague, which is a big assumption. Whether this turns out to be a change that has happened since we last met the Doctor, or a radical change to established canon will probably indicate how the earlier stuff will be handled.
Leela was always my personal favourite - Romana seemed too drippy and wet (that's in a useless and girly-girly way, not in a VR way). How many other assistants got to KILL people with their big knife, eh?
As a piece of Whovian trivia - Leela started off with brown eyes, and the actress (Louise Jameson) had to wear contacts to disguise her piercing blue eyes. The contacts caused her so much discomfort that they had to write in a plot McGuffin to change her eyes to blue - the flash from a starship self-destruct detonation in the sky, apparently......
I reckon if they get to 12 actors and need a 13th, the Gallifreyan physiology manual might get rewritten.
Re: Continuity. I don't really care too much about long-term continuity as long as each story arc is internally self-consistent and there aren't too many "sonic screwdriver" moments. Those are a bit too much like "reversing the field polarity" in Star Trek, when the chief engineer twiddles a knob, spouts some techie bullshit that was clearly made up over a cup of coffee the day before and magically extracts the ship from a sticky situation. Whip out yer sonic screwdriver and avoid certain death by doing something completely unprecedented and unlikely to a piece of random equipment.
Definitely agree with that, although I hope they can squeeze in the line "reverse the polarity of the neutron flow" just for old times' sake.
I didn't even notice that they were Brown before, but yes, I can remember the comment about the change in her eye colour at the end of The Horror of Fang Rock (or something along those lines).
Photos I have seen of Louise Jameson seem to indicate that she is actually a redhead, although she looks like a brunette as Leela. Of course, it's possible that she's coloured her hair since.
Did you catch that documentary the week before when they were discussing that very line?
To recap: Jon Pertwee was a bit of a luvvie, and absolutely hated having to memorise science-talk dialogue. So he was terribly proud of having grasped "reverse the polarity of the neutron flow", and being able to imbue it with the proper resonance. The writers made a point of slotting it in whenever they could just to keep him happy. Didn't work, mind you - he buggered off to play Worzel Gummidge, didn't he.
With as many people tuning in to the latest incarnation, and as many people d/ling it, the bbc should realise this is an important show to a lot of people. I can't imagine them pulling it after one season, though they didn't have much respect for Faulty Towers (also given one season, even though it had John Cleese as the star).
Yes, although I've heard the tale many times before - I used to be something of an obsessive fan and bought the magazine every month. Then around 1990 or so I lost interest as university life made me a more social person.
I've started getting back into it in the past few years though. It started with a few DVDs and I've recently acquired a ridiculous amount of old stories. Everything from Hartnell to Davison bar a few Troughton ones actually.
Bit of a nit-pick, but the reason for the long delay between the two series of Fawlty Towers is that Cleese and Booth didn't think they could match the quality of the first series and had to have their arms severely twisted by the BBC.
Can I ask a Whovian question, then? I've been wondering this for a while, but was too scared to enter into the furry-toothed world of Who fandom to ask it. You seem reasonably sane.
I cannot remember the name of an old story, but I can vividly remember some details from it - it was Tom Baker, and possibly Romana (not sure about her), and they were in a long-abandoned indoor complex (maybe a city or a starship). They were trying to get... somewhere... and the corridors had traps to get round. One of these was a sort of checkerboard arrangement on the floor. When the Doctor chucked a penny onto one of these squares, a lightning bolt zapped it. Some more penny-chucking later, he had worked out the logic and hopscotched his way across the board without getting zapped.
Does this ring any bells at all?
I remember seeing it, but I couldn't tell you what it was. I'm pretty sure I've seen every Pertwee, Tom Baker and Davidson episode.
Ha! Another victim to share my pain.
Oh, I have to mention something... If you're into Christopher Eccleston (tough last name to spell, eh?) then I definitely reccomend watching him play 'Ben Jago' in the BBC's rendition of Othello that was made in 2002. When I was watching the documentary someone said 'you can tell he's done a bit of Hamlet' which totally reminded me that I first saw him play the more modern Iago two years ago, and he is excellent in that part. Then I also realized he's been great in some american stuff as well, like the film Gone In 60 Seconds.
The checkerboard part you recall is from The Five Doctors, the 1983 20th anniversary special. The Doctor tossing the coin was the first Doctor, played by Richard Hurndall as Hartnell was pushing up daisies by this point. It's odd that you remember it as Tom Baker, because apart from a brief clip from the unfinished and unbroadcast story Shada, he wasn't in it.
EDIT: Thinking about itr some more, it seems likely you've got this confused with the 1974 Jon Pertwee story Death to the Daleks, in which the Doctor and Bellal (a freaky rock-like alien) infiltrate a dead city. In this one the checkerboard is more based on diagonal patterns, and is red and white, and the Doctor negotiates using the trusty sonic screwdriver rather than any real wit.
I'm just killing time before I go to the pub now.
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And I think the companion he was with was Tegan (having swapped Susan for Tegan with the fifth doctor, Peter Davison, which I wouldn't consider a good swap at all). [edit: HA!! the photos posted above while I was posting confirm my memory re Tegan!! The old brain isn't dead yet!!!]
I'm sorry but all you Leela and Romana lovers need to go have your heads examined. Sarah Jane Smith was and always will be the greatest of the Doctor's companions. Her cuteness is only surpassed by her exquisite helplessness and her ability to produce such a lovely b-movie cry of terror.
That's IT!! That's why I could never bloody find it on the Internet - I kept scanning through Tom Baker stories.
Thank you, thank you.
I heartily endorse this statement.
As soon as I'd suggested The Five Doctors, I thought I seemed to remember you being a touch older than me which would put your hazier memories squarely in the Pertwee era.
12 regenerations is different from 12 incarnations. Since a regeneration involves going from one to the other, he is currently on his 8th regeneration (9th doctor). That means they can have 13 Doctors. (Unless you count the Valeyard as the 13th, which I'm sure we wouldn't like to see.)
But yeah... they'll re-write it if necessary. They'll probably just give him more or do something whacky. I mean, they effectively gave the Master 13 regenerations by letting him "consume" Nyssa's father.
In this morning's Vancouver Sun: Canadian TV worker fired for leaking Doctor Who
How stupid, that leak was worth far more publicity than anything they did themselves. The only time pre-release leaks hurt is when the show/movie/album sucks.
She also delivered some of the best lines . . .
Eldrad MUST live!
and, while the Doctor tried to instruct her on using a rifle, she simply shoulders it (while wearing a victorian dress) and says flatly, "Don't worry, I know what I'm doing."
News flash! Second series is in, but Eccleston is OUT as the Doctor!
Obligatory link.
14 if you count the ektoplasm/cop abomination/T-2 ripoff.
Sarah Jane Smith was very cute. Wasn't she the longest serving companion (although some of her time was shared by the male military doctor whose name I can't recall).
Whilst the companions were never the Doctor's equal, she seemed to be the helpless victim more often than most, IIRC.
I've only seen one episode and already I'm upset by this news.
I don't know, but I really get pissed off at actors who say they'll do a show and then get all whiney about typecasting and schedules after the first season and then decide to leave. Yes, they can just make the 10th Doctor, but it shortens the series potential a bit and this guy has a lot of potential.
What they don't realize is that it's better to be typecast and have one great role you can milk for the rest of your life than not, and fade off into nothing. At least they already have everything built into the series to deal with changing the actors, it's much less of a problem than it would be on most shows.
I understand that he didn't want to get Tom Bakered. But one series? Come on, that's not going to get anyone typecast. Peter Davison played the role for three (four?), and hardly anyone even remembers it.


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A new tutorial has been posted on the SitePoint site today - Jonathan Snook's look at combining CakePHP and Flicker to build a photo gallery.
Want to share your Flickr photostream with the world, but only once you've given it a nice, customized touch? Look no further than CakePHP -- and a few lines of code -- to pull off some magic! In this article, we'll use the Flickr API and CakePHP to take the images we've loaded onto Flickr and use them to build our own, non-Flickr web gallery.
He steps the reader through the tools needed (including the Flickr Component for CakePHP) and how to get things set up and working together. With just a few simple calls to the Flickr API, the script grabs a photoset, gets the information about them and, finally, grabs a list of them to use in the photo gallery layout. He even throws in a sample usage of the popular Lightbox Javascript helper to show off the photos.


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By Claudia Assis
While some of us might be dreaming of one day owning an electric car, electric-car owners are charging up their vehicles and using "gobs of electricity," says Opower, Inc.
And their over-consumption doesn't end in the wee hours. Opower /quotes/zigman/30072109/delayed /quotes/nls/opwr OPWR , an energy data and efficiency company that recently went public, found that most EV owners live large: They own bigger-than-average houses, with more amenities, and are more likely to own a solar-power system big enough to send energy back to the grid.
In a blog post on Opower's website, Opower's Barry Fischer and Ben Harack wrote that data they mined suggest that incentives toward off-peak electric-car charging have worked.
As expected, electric-car owners who have signed up with their utility to get discounted electricity between midnight and 7 a.m. follow through once they are enrolled in a time-of-use rate plan.
High electricity demand in the afternoon hours are known to destabilize the power grid, and utilities in several states, including California, Georgia, and Texas, have introduced off-peak programs as a way to integrate electric-car charging into their territory.
Interestingly, however, households with electric cars continue to consume more energy between 7 a.m. and midnight — using on average 21% more electricity from the grid than a typical single-family household, Fischer and Harack wrote.
The authors evaluated Opower's anonymous data from about 2,000 electric car owners in the western U.S., "a region where Teslas, Nissan Leafs, and other plug-in electric cars abound," they wrote.
EV owners appear to have larger electricity needs, they wrote.
"EV owners may be especially likely to use more power at those times because they have bigger homes as well as bigger amenities … it's also entirely plausible that some EV owners may occasionally charge their EV during those times, even though their time-of-use rate plan discourages this kind of behavior."
Electric-car households in the dataset are 25% bigger by square footage, 53% more likely to have a swimming pool, and 6.6 times more likely to own solar panels that send electricity back to the grid, the authors said.
— Claudia Assis
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011
/clinks glass with spoon
*Astros County is taking applications for the following positions:
-County Clerk
-Juvenile Court Clerk (Eddie's Farm)
The Wife has noticed that I've been fairly downtrodden lately, and made the valid point that Astros County has been around for .375 of our marriage. "I didn't let you do this for almost three years for you to arbitrarily shut it down for no good reason," she said.
So, Astros County will continue to exist, with some new leadership. The County Clerk and Juvenile Court Clerk have resigned their positions. If you are interested in the above positions, send an email to astroscounty (at) gmail.com with an example - using last night's loss to the Cubs as a reference point. Astros County will continue once these positions have been filled. In the meantime, regular posting will begin again, probably tomorrow.
Thank you for your attention.
7 comments:
- Denny said...
Yes! Glad to hear it!
- August 16, 2011 at 2:16 PM
Sweet. I really didn't want to set up a Twitter account.
- August 16, 2011 at 3:38 PM
This is great news
- August 16, 2011 at 6:38 PM
Awesome news!
- August 16, 2011 at 7:00 PM
I don't want the job but I will comment on the Astros loss to the Cubs last night.
"I didn't even know they were playing and one other thing, I turned down free tickets with hotdogs, chips and drinks thrown in. Why? Because the urinal at Minute Maid isn't worth my pee. I want to use the old Michael Jackson joke about wearing a single glove for no apparent reason but now we know Michael had a skin rash he was covering up. The Astros have no such excuse. I will comment on what the rest of the season will be like at all levels of Astrodom. Sucking like a Dyson with the big yellow ball."
I feel better. I'm going to go plug in the Buddha.
- August 16, 2011 at 9:57 PM
Happy you're still up and running, you're my co-main event site. I appreciate the work you do
- August 18, 2011 at 1:50 AM
So the wife is the one that thought this through. Good for her.
- August 18, 2011 at 4:33 PM


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Associated Press
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) – When the Navy trains for responding to a terrorist attack on one of its U.S. bases, it's not just explosives, gunmen and suspicious fishing boats that the service's top leaders are concerned about. It's the traffic.
That vulnerability was highlighted in major Navy ports like those in San Diego, Mayport, Fla., and in the Pacific Northwest during last year's annual exercise, when heightened security at bases resulted in severe gridlock. Navy officials say that traffic leaves sailors waiting to get on base vulnerable to attack and can keep emergency vehicles from being able to quickly respond.
Navy officials are vowing to fix the traffic problems for this year's weeklong exercise, which begins Monday and affects every Navy installation in the continental U.S.
"Last year, the admiral said, `Well look, we need to know what would happen in the real world if this happened during rush hour.' And so we did it, and we found out that we had some issues that needed to be addressed," said Capt. Matthew Colburn, director of fleet anti-terrorism at U.S. Fleet Forces Command in Norfolk.
Some people waiting to get on base in already traffic-snarled regions complained of sitting in their cars for hours as security personnel thoroughly checked IDs, inspected vehicles and occasionally used bomb-sniffing dogs. One of the primary culprits was people coming onto base who didn't need to be there.
Adm. John Harvey, commander of U.S. Fleet Forces Command, said security conditions last year reached a point that commanders should have only required essential personnel to report to base.
"But very few across the nation actually took this step. This low rate of participation works against the intent of the exercise and prevents us from accurately simulating the conditions that would be present and operating during a real-world threat," Harvey wrote in a blog post leading up to this year's exercise.
The Navy is encouraging those who can telecommute to do so, among other things. The Navy says people should still expect traffic delays near bases, but they're hoping they won't be nearly as long this year.
The traffic wasn't a nightmare for only sailors waiting to get on base. It created significant problems for civilians, too. Commuters were caught in the traffic, and public transit was delayed. In some areas, children riding school buses showed up more than an hour late to class and others had long waits to be picked up.
"I think everyone was affected by it. It didn't matter whether you worked on an installation or if you were a child on a school bus trying to get from point A to point B," said Capt. Mary Jackson, commander of Naval Station Norfolk, the world's largest naval base.
One of the primary lessons learned from last year was the importance of communication. The Navy has spent the past year working with communities around the country to ensure police, transportation officials and school systems aren't caught off-guard.
That kind of coordination could be useful during other emergencies, too, such as hurricanes, Jackson said.
In Virginia Beach, which is home to the Navy's East Coast master jet base, 24 of the district's 85 schools had children showing up late because buses were stuck in traffic last year. The district is the state's third-largest, with nearly 70,000 students.
Nancy Soscia, a Virginia Beach City Public Schools spokeswoman, said the military has made sure school officials wouldn't be taken by surprise again this year.
"They were actually very apologetic and said we kind of learned what happened last year," she said. "… They said it wasn't a pleasant couple of days for them either."
The Navy said it has been invited by the Virginia Department of Transportation to have a liaison at its traffic command post _ where cameras monitor roadways _ during the exercise as well as in the event of any emergencies. VDOT officials said they would work closely with the Navy to address traffic issues, but did not specify how, citing security concerns.
School systems have also been told which days traffic will be especially bad. Soscia said that in a real catastrophe there may be little the district could do to avoid students getting stuck in traffic, but that it could use its emergency notification system to let parents know why their children are late.
While Navy officials are working to address traffic problems, they also acknowledged there will still be delays, particularly in fleet concentration areas like in southeastern Virginia and San Diego.
Those who live or travel near bases may see more emergency vehicles and patrol boats with their lights flashing than normal.
Colburn declined to offer specific threats the Navy will be responding to during the exercise, but said they could range from a Fort Hood-style shooting to a water-borne attack. In the San Diego area, Navy officials have said this year's exercise will involve the Red Cross, the Marines and city homeland security officials to provide additional realism.
"We change the way we do business based on the change and the threat, and that means we have to test our procedures as they change," he said.
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car runs good but smokes,has oil around front plug after running a while. has great compression, could this be a valve guide problem or even an oil ring? have been putting marvile mistery oil in plug holes way before trying to crank he up,since she had been sitting for 16 years.this is a low milage car, 7k. engine has never been into. help,if I am going to start turning wrenches I want to do it right.
sounds like front cylinder is not firing or valve may be stuck open, check compression on all four.
Thomas, if you are saying that oil is coming out around the threads of the plug, then you should seal the threads with pipe dope or such. A loose plug will cause it to pump oil. KB
First off you say the compression's good. I don't know how you know this but assuming you're right you might not be seeing oil at the plug threads but un-burnt combustion residue. Now as Joe mentions (and I heartily concur) a comprehensive compression test, first dry then with oil squirted into each cyl, is the only way to go to figure out what your engine needs. If you want to do anything before turning wrenches a comp. test is it. Other's will disagree but it's my belief that due to it's relatively low compression (compared to a modern engine), that The T should be compression checked when cold. With a really great pressure of 60 Lbs. a 10 or 15 Lb. difference would be very noticeable and might be masked by heated/expanded parts falsely raising it. You want to know if there's enough compression to start it cold.
If the engine runs smoothly, that is on all 4, which can be determined by running it at a fast idle and grounding out the conductor at each plug one at a time. It should start to run rough and slow down a bit each time a plug is grounded. If it does what I have posted above, you are running on all 4. If it runs the same when one particular plug is grounded, that plug is not firing, or the compression is so low the cylinder is dead. First replace the plug and if it fixes the problem, you have a fouled plug. If not, something else. could be a timer or coil problem or valve problem.
Next thing to do is to seal the plug. If tightening it down doesn't keep the oil from coming up, try some pipe dope. I have also found that a piece of aluminum foil wrapped around the spark plug threads helps.
The oil leaking around the plug indicates you are losing some compression around the plug. Sealing it will raise the compression a little bit, but you will not be able to measure it because the plug is in the hole.
Next thing to do is to drive and enjoy the car. You can tell by driving it, how much oil you need to add and how often. Also driving it will tell you if it is using enough oil to foul the spark plugs. Smoking can also be caused by poor fuel mixture. Try leaning the carburetor until it starts to sputter and then enrichen just enough to make it run smoothly. Do this after the engine is warmed up. The other thing which will look like smoke is coolant leaking into the cylinder. This will appear as white smoke when you first start the engine and will clear up as it warms up. In that case you will need to pull the head to find the source. Could be a leaky head gasket or worse, a crack. Sometimes if the surfaces on the head or block are not flat, the gasket will not seal.
My suggestion would be to drive the car as long as it runs smoothly without a severe knock or sever oil consumption. It could even get better with running it.
Assuming you have not been running it for very long the smoke you are getting may well be from the Marvel Mystery oil you have been putting into the cylinders. If they are oil soaked it can take quite a while to burn it off. Another possible cause may be clogged return holes in the valve area or, if it is an early car, there may not be any return holes at all. As far as oil around number one plug is concerned I'd try to tighten it a bit when hot and if that doesn't work I'd coat the treads with pipe dope to stop the leak. That has always worked for me.
Thomas, you say a low milage never been into engine, if that's the case, it will more than
likely use oil, original T's had no oil rings and Ford Service of the day was, minimum oil and gas consumption, the rings should be renewed every 10,000 miles.
the engine has never been opened up? its very common to have stuck rings,
if its running smoothly and on all four, keep some MMO in the oil and in the fuel and go drive it. many times they just need to get worked and have all the junk blown out of them. if it doesnt clean up then pull the engine and "go through it" not rebuild necissarily, check and replace things as necissary, rings, hone, cam, gear yada yada. if its completely worn out then fully rebuild it.
7k miles can mean alot of things, friend of mine had a truck with 30k on it, engine was completely worn out. turns out those 30k mies were made on a farm. thats alot of driving!
Stop putting Marvel Mystery oil in the cylinders and it will probably stop smoking.


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Students have a blast on spring break
Photo: Michael Zamora, AP, Corpus Christi Caller-Times
In keeping with tradition, high school and university students across the country swarmed sunny beaches for spring break this year. From Miami Beach, Florida to Cancun, Mexico, bathing suit-clad revelers lounged on the beach, danced on the sand and frolicked in the waves.
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It's a gay tourist mecca. Cute guys in sexy tank tops cruise the boulevard, looking at other men's crotches, grabbing their own packages, and saying, "Show me what you've got." If a man expresses interest but wants to go somewhere private, the answer is no: "Show me what you've got."
The men doing this crude cruising are heterosexual police in idyllic Palm Springs, California, where up to 30 to 40 percent of the population and the majority of tourist dollars are gay. Two dozen men entrapped in this sting last summer now face lifelong penalties under mandatory sex offender registration laws.
Before the sting began, local police allegedly negotiated a deal with the District Attorney's Office of Riverside County that men would be arrested on misdemeanor charges of lewd conduct and indecent exposure (penal code sections 647(a) and 314), which require lifelong sex offender registration under the state's Penal Code section 290(c), and would not be allowed to plead guilty to lesser charges not requiring registration.
In court documents, the men claim their prosecutions are discriminatory, because police ignore similar conduct by heterosexuals. A security guard at a water park catering to families with children said she observed 10 to 15 incidents of public sex between heterosexual couples at the park, yet no arrests were made; another security guard made similar observations at a downtown parking structure. And a review of all public defender cases over a 10-year period found not a single case of a heterosexual being prosecuted for having sex in public, said Roger Tansey, a defense attorney representing five of the men. Defense documents also accuse Palm Springs police of giving preferential treatment to soldiers, allowing Marines to escape arrests for public drunkenness, fighting, and battery upon girlfriends.
"Heterosexuals in Palm Springs are free to engage in lewd conduct, expose their private parts, perform fellatio and cunnilingus, or enjoy sexual intercourse naked in public without fear -- Palm Springs Police Department undertakes no stings to discourage this behavior, nor has it ever arrested them," alleges a defense document.
A report on the controversy by Emmy Award-winning reporter Hank Plante, a Palm Springs resident, in today's San Francisco Chronicle is HERE. News accounts by Ken Nelson, Editor in Chief of San Diego Gay and Lesbian News, and by El Walsh of the Bay Area Reporter are HERE and HERE.
July 18, 2010
Sex offender registry: Weapon of homophobia?
2 comments:
- FpsY said...
Appears to be a very clear cut case of discrimination against homosexual men in the legal system.
- July 18, 2010
- The Fallen One said...
This sounds awfully familiar-- a "gay Mecca," strict laws targeting gays, labeling them as sex offenders. Where have I heard it before? Oh yeah, it sounds a lot like post WW1 Germany. Paragraph 175.
I'm heterosexual and a Christian. Still, I believe Go gave us freedom of choice and I don't think it fair to persecute any group of people simply because they are an unpopular group.
- July 19, 2010
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Two, not one: A welcome Texas surprise
Published September 30, 2004, in issue 0339 of the Hook
Porter Davis
at Miller's
Saturday, September 25
Expecting a singer songwriter by the name of Porter Davis to be performing at Miller's Saturday night, I was pleasantly surprised that instead of more love songs and faux-witty lines about "doing it" from a sensitive soul, there appeared a duo of young ruffians from Austin, whose chosen moniker appears to designate a group identity rather than refer to either of them in particular. ("We're Porter Davis" began the singer.)
The standing acoustic guitarist looked a little too Phishy for my taste when he first took the stage, but the seated percussionist, playing a series of instruments I had never seen before, led me to believe the group had something different, even before they started to perform.
The two played a surprisingly refreshing mix of blues and pop, with the sparseness of the sound setup proving to be one of their definite strengths rather than a limitation. Starting off with a bluesy riff, notable for its scarcity of notes, the guitarist was soon joined by the percussionist playing what I believe was a Bodhran (an Irish pan drum) rather like a tambourine without the miniature cymbals.
Out of this simple setup, the performer was able to get a multitude of sounds, from snare to bass and in between, so that simple rock beats– bass-snare-bass-bass-snare– were easily accessible, and more complicated lines could be produced.
The pair was tight, right off the bat, and the song's blues and beat-heavy sound reminded me of the career of '90s genre mixers G. Love and Special Sauce, with less swank. A harmonica strapped around the guitarist's neck provided the sound for the song's solo, while the body of the song was interspersed with harmonies provided by member #2.
The next tune featured a more droning guitar riff, though the singer sashayed around his range quite nicely, and the melody was anything but repetitious. The next tune was introduced by the guitarist's "Is it all right if Mike plays the spoons?" followed shortly by a generally two-chord Buddy Holly-type swinger. Repeating vocal lines were backed by what I have to call the best spoon playing I've ever heard (I admit the pool of contenders is limited), and though the song was slower, it still held up well.
The set's slowing nature was apparent over the next couple of tunes, including a fine– though more than slightly Pearl Jam-esque– number about the group's hometown. But things just seemed to get bluesier, which made the loss in velocity all right.
I wasn't expecting much on Saturday night, but what I saw was two gentlemen creating a sound that I might hesitate to call "totally new," but is definitely apart from the mainstream.
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Of course, we all know the answer to that one, don't we...
We know that plants don't have a nervous system, but they do respond to light. Light causes chemical changes in many plants causing them to react: opening/closing petals or just following the sun. I also note that if you "wound" many types of trees and shrubs and then bind the wound in moist compost, the plant responds by producing roots.
I'm sure others can find many more examples.
There's a point to all this (Dawkins may already have raised it, I don't know) - the eye is nowhere near as unique as creationists would have people believe.
(There are many types of eye that have evolved over the years in the animal and insect kingdoms but this isn't the point here).
Although our eyes are the product of millions of years of evolution, the actual process that works them (chemical changes in cells due to the interaction with light) has not altered that much. My understanding is that persistence of vision (the wonderful effect that allows us to enjoy movies) is largely due to the "slow" reactions of the chemistry involved.
Now, if we know that vision is the result of a chemical reaction and that a plant also responds to a light using a photo-reactive chemical change, it's not a huge jump to note the fundamental connection and another demonstration that evolution created us.
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That's a good point, but wouldn't it be more convincing to observe that virtually every organism on the planet has DNA? And not only that, but we share a large % genes with all other animals AS WELL AS PLANTS. This is much more compelling than narrowing the arguement to photoreceptivty.
On the other hand, no evidence will convince a determined idiot.
Every living organism has DNA, Roman, I think.
While I'd agree that you can only "Lead a horse to water..." the difficulty with DNA is that you can't see it.
This example is only another example to add to our armory! ;-)
The big problem we're facing is that the idiots are out-breeding us. There was a time, some millenia ago, that we had larger brains and our ancestors evolved smaller brains to survive. Current "evolution" is driven by idealistic altruism but it does not favor the intelligent; it favors the drop-out dads and mothers who have multiple partners... It favors the Roman Catholic idea of huge families.
We're part of a huge course correction - and the likes of you and I are going to go extinct.
I think otherwise - the Roman Catholic Church has accepted evolution (even though with a caveat), the general population is becoming more non-religious, if not atheist, and young fundies are dropping some of their rigid beliefs and taking up some "liberal" activities.
Not so much evolution, Roman. I mean the STUPID people are breeding.
We live in a technological society and fewer and fewer people know how to maintain let alone create it.
Worse, all the climate change deniers (etc.) are having more children than the more careful "educated" people because they see things differently - they don't plan ahead; we do and it will be our undoing.
I've put some thought into this, with regard to science fiction. I always hate when science fiction lazily uses earth classifications for their organisms. I get it, your imagination is limited, but you could, at least not call it Bajoran wheat. Wheat refers to a group of organisms that are all related and share an evolutionary history. Even if you had something that looked exactly like wheat, it wouldn't actually BE wheat.
Organs are different in this respect because what we call an eye has evolved multiple times throughout evolutionary history. An organ can be defined by its function. Therefore, I wouldn't begrudge calling any organ with a lens that focused light and sent that information to the brain, an eye.
But ah, I don't guess these are really eyes, exactly, but they're definitely photosensitive, and utilize proteins that are photosensitive, and the earliest eye-like organs did that, but without a lens, I dunno if I'd call it an eye, exactly.
Completely with you on that - I'm just looking for novel explanations to throw the usual suspects off track. Unless they're connected to the Internet and have a ready explanation, this sort of stuff really plays hell with them.
I'm growing a couple of Triops right now - they have three eyes although I'm unsure if the nauplus eye actually has a lens at all.I'm not all that keen on Wikipedia, but this picture should be OK...
I'd agree that this behavior is more akin to stem cells than even a primitive organelle, but it goes some way to show how a simple eye can come about and anything that flummoxes a cretinist has to be a good thing! ;-)
At what point does a cluster of light sensitive photo-receptors become functional optical eyes? Specialized cells that detect and react to light is, in my view, the base requirement for an eye, then light / dark differentiation and movement and the neural equipment capable of processing and reacting. True, a plant has a photo reaction (a tropism ) but the mechanism does not resemble animal eyesight. We can determine up and down by the pressure on our feet, strain on certain muscles and the little leveling doodad in our inner ear. Plants can also determine up and down but, again, not with the same mechanisms also true of water sensing Hydro -tropism, or touch Thigmo-thropism, Thermo-tropism, Chemo-tropism and a few more. All of the tropisms are survival positive attributes.
Having said all of that I am convinced that we know very little of plant awareness states of its environment - if any exist. Studies to answer that question are not what could be called robust. However, in a world falling off the edge of starvation - the more we know about the plants that feed us is a worthy goal.
It's not that simple. Eyes are a spectrum, not just something that looks exactly like our eyes.
Potatoes have eyes.
I was wondering when someone would say this. I'm amazed it took this long.
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End times predictions have always been a lot of fun. For most of my childhood, I thought the world would be destroyed on May 5, 2000 because of a certain book that's not selling very well nowadays. Of course, when May 5 came and the world didn't tip over and spill Antarctic ice everywhere, I learned an important lesson: most end times prophecies aren't very reliable. In fact, so far, every single prediction that the world will end has gone unfulfilled. Of course, this doesn't mean that all such prophecies must therefore always be wrong, but it has become a rather reliable source of amusement when nothing happens.
In a recent example, Christian radio host Harold Camping has predicted that the Rapture will occur this May 21 at about 6 PM. 6 PM where? Well, everywhere! Through the highly technical process of picking certain numbers out of the Bible and multiplying them together, Mr. Camping has concluded that May 21 will be the day when a massive earthquake will "throw open all graves". At about 6 in the evening in every time zone, "the bodies of all unsaved people will be thrown out upon the ground to be shamed". Given Mr. Camping's prediction that only 2% of the world will be saved, and various estimates that a hundred billion people have lived throughout history, it seems that the rest of us are going to be buried under a steadily advancing wave of billions of reconstituted corpses. Praise the Lord!
According to Mr. Camping, "The inhabitants who survive this terrible earthquake will exist in a world of horror and chaos beyond description", which doesn't really sound much different from how things are now. Of course, the party won't last forever, since God is going to destroy the world five months later on October 21. I guess we'll have to amuse ourselves with all the remaining believers whose religion has just been proven false.
Of course, plenty of people have wondered what would happen if May 21 arrives and there's still no Rapture. What would Mr. Camping do then? To hear him tell it, "The Biblical evidence is too overwhelming and specific to be wrong." Can't argue with that! He's even claimed that the success of the gay rights movement is really because God has planned it as a sign of the end times. So if anyone ever has a problem with us, we can just say we're doing God's work.
It's hard to imagine how Mr. Camping would recover from a failed prophecy, given that he's left himself no way out. If he thinks he can't possibly be wrong about this, who's going to believe him when he says the same thing next time? With the support of his followers, he's launched an entire network of radio stations centered around the idea that the Rapture will happen on May 21. If they don't get swept up into heaven, where are they going to go? The world will still be here, and there's no way for them to pretend otherwise. What happens when an unstoppable belief meets an immovable reality?
On the other hand, we should always be prepared for the possibility that this might actually happen. Sure, some people might say that listening to mythical nonsense on the off chance that it might be right is a stupid way to go about your life, but obviously they've never heard of Pascal's irrefutable wager. Better safe than sorry!
I'm pretty sure that forcing myself to believe all this in order to be saved is kind of unrealistic at this point, so in the event of a Rapture, I'll be assembling a crash program of leading heathens, Satanists and wizards to overthrow God before he can destroy the world. We'll have a whole five months to work on it, and the theological data generated by a second coming will be invaluable. I probably won't have time to keep doing videos, so if there is a Judgment Day, I'll just hand over my channel to Maggie Gallagher. I'm sure she'll have something interesting to say!
So mark the date: May 21. Either the most unexpected turn of events in history, or the most predictable failure of religious prophecy. No matter what happens, I can't wait!


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Most of our day was sunny and 86 degrees. The temperature didn't feel hot at all because there was a strong breeze.
Here's a quick view of the sky as we drove over the Sanibel Causeway about 3:00 this afternoon.
There were some huge clouds hanging over the area in Ft Myers, that we were going to. Luckily we didn't get into any rain there.
On the way back sunrays and clouds
kept me entertained. :)
About a half mile before we reached the
Sanibel Causeway,we ran into heavy rain.
By the time we reached the toll booth, it was over!
This makes it look like the rain
was coming down on the island,
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