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Regenerations... Doctor Who first explained that the Doctor had a 12 regeneration limit in the classic Tom Baker serial "The Deadly Assassin." While Matt Smith was the Eleventh Doctor, he was only on his tenth regeneration. But now that John Hurt has been introduced into the mix, the Eleventh Doctor is now technically on his twelfth incarnation — which would make his transformation into Peter Capaldi's Doctor the thirteenth and final one (so to speak). Here's what Moffat had to say about the matter at the Doctor Who 50th Celebration, including why Matt Smith is still "The Eleventh Doctor" regardless of John Hurt: "He has no more ever called himself the 11th Doctor than he would call himself Matt Smith. The Doctor doesn't know off the top of his head [what number he is]. If you worry about such things, and I do, then I specifically said John Hurt's Doctor doesn't use the title. [Matt Smith's Doctor] is in his 12th body but he's the 11th Doctor, however there is no such character as the 11th Doctor - he's just The Doctor, that's what he calls himself. The numbering doesn't matter, except for those lists that you and I have been making for many years. So I've given you the option of not counting John Hurt numerically - he's the War Doctor." That makes a lot of sense, and keeps people from having to renumber the Doctors in their heads. However, The Mirror has stated a new rumor — take it with as large a grain of salt as you'd like — that in the upcoming Christmas special, Matt Smith will reveal he's actually the thirteenth and technically final incarnation of the Doctor. Now, there's not going to be another secret incarnation of the Doctor that appears (well, probably), but instead this is because of the David Tennant episode "The Journey's End," where the Time Lord used one of his regenerations to save himself. That, including John Hurt, would indeed make the switch from Tennant to Smith the 12th and final regeneration. Here's everything The Mirror has to say about the Christmas special and the reveal (again, grain of salt): "Doctor Who will face the end of a 50 year story in the Christmas special – when Time Lord Matt Smith reveals he is actually the 13th and 'final' Doctor. Actor Matt, 31, has long thought to have been the Eleventh Doctor on the hit BBC sci-fi show, which can only regenerate 12 times according to the show's folklore. Fans have worried for years that the show will have to end once the 13th Doctor dies. But on December 25, current theories among millions of fans will be exterminated once and for all when Matt says in a dramatic speech he is the 13th Doctor and adds: "I'm dying and there is nothing I can do about it." On Saturday night at the end of the show's 50th anniversary special, all the Doctors lined up, including John Hurt who was previously not thought to count. David Tennant's Time Lord also used up an extra regeneration to save himself in an episode called Journey's End. A show source explained: "There have been two David Tennant Doctor Whos technically and with John Hurt playing another Doctor in the film, it basically means he can't regenerate again. "The riddle of the regeneration problem, something fans have talked about for decades, will be faced head on at Christmas. There is going to be another huge cliffhanger and somehow Peter Capaldi has to join and the series has to continue." I trust that's all clear... :funny: http://io9.com/doctor-whos-regeneration-history-may-be-more-insane-th-1471410501/@bricken

I can name one province - Hebei Province. I know it cos there's a beautiful and amazing single-span road bridge there built around 600 AD, still in daily use

The Brit view... The American view... http://alphadesigner.com/wp-content/uploads/europe-according-to-the-united-states-of-america.png See, easy peasy :funny:

sorry I missed the day Addy but here's a deelicious and fresh birthday treat which I just know you're gonna love

Although I self identify as gay I don't believe in labels - I believe in the Kinsey Scale

John Cleese in Doctor Who! Classic scene from "City of Death" in the Tom Baker era with art critic John Cleese praising the TARDIS "exhibit" ... I love the faintest beginnings of a corpsing smirk at the end

Heheh Glad you like the stylin'. Another GA member was traumatised by my nekkidness - those Swedes are such prudes

Sure you know But for any who don't, it's 'cos the world is still controlled by men - statistically mostly straight men - and men have a pretty bad track record in terms of sexual politics - oops, can't say that - in terms of their behaviour. Yeah, bad behaviour, double standards and... you get the idea Edit: oops, omitted the old sexual insecurities thing too - yep, that's deffo a big one

the reality is most who work as creative artists never achieve commercial success as artists as for the question "where is he going to go on from there" that's why I posted #87 the link to his interview with CBC which pretty much answers the who what how why where

Sadly no, but just google "An Unearthly Child" and you can find several postings on Dailymotion. Not looked for "The Night of the Doctor" mini episode - it may be there, or try google again. FRIDAY 22 NOVEMBER CRITIC'S CHOICE: Me, You and Doctor Who: a Culture Show Special BBC Two, 9.30pm This sounds good “I actually think that Doctor Who is one of the most important things in our culture, one of the most rich and interesting things that has been made in our country.” These are the words of presenter Matthew Sweet, who pins his colours firmly to the mast from the outset. This Culture Show special is an hour-long hymn of praise to “Doctor Who’s greatest victory – how he became part of our culture, how he became indestructible, how he got inside your head”. It’s all good nerdy fun, especially in the first half-hour as Sweet beavers around busily in the archives for traces of the Doctor’s earliest origins – successfully uncovering a distant antecedent in a long forgotten 1957 stage play. Sweet meets pioneering directors, plays the theme tune mastertapes spliced together in the revolutionary BBC Radiophonic Workshop by Delia Derbyshire, explores The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’s Douglas Adams’s time as script editor. Among the contributors are playwright Mark Ravenhill, politician Ken Livingstone, psychotherapist Philippa Perry and writer Caitlin Moran. For Doctor Who diehards, this is an absolute must ahead of tomorrow’s epic 50th anniversary special.

Point taken Although I did say I gave up trying to define art a long time ago And even with "performance arts", while accepting what you say, it seems difficult to give a comprehensive definition with terms like "live performance", "happening" and so on, and setting out where the boundaries lie exactly. The dance critic Sally Banes wrote "by the end of the 1980s, performance art had become so widely known that it no longer needed to be defined; mass culture, especially television, had come to supply both structure and subject matter for much performance art; and several performance artists, including Laurie Anderson, Spalding Gray, Eric Bogosian, Willem Dafoe, and Ann Magnuson, had indeed become crossover artists in mainstream entertainment.” Certainly the idea of shock is important. But however it's defined, if this is even possible, the risk of not being able to practice and rehearse for this particular "event" remains

Spot on Ron Speak to any musician or actor and they'll tell you some performances are magical, others just don't go so well despite rehearsals and practice. Maybe no-one will know why, or maybe it'll be reasons including those you gave. That's the appeal of live performance art, it's unpredictable and "of the moment" But there's another risk with this particular event ... they can't exactly rehearse or practice

*is wondering what happened to common sense ... *

I've copied this to the Dr Who thread

For Dr Who fans it's essential viewing The recreation of the TARDIS and the console was just beautiful and I loved seeing the Cybermen smoking in between takes Some parts were really sad as the role became more difficult for Hartnell to cope with, but there were some funny moments too. Hartnell famously fluffed his lines and I laughed out loud when the show included this line in the script: "Quickly, child! We're running out of time! Check the fault locator" and Hartnell gets it wrong and screams "Check the fornicator!" It's being shown tomorrow night on BBC America so catch it if you can Immediately afterwards the Beeb showed the whole of the very first series An Unearthly Child and then a new mini-show "The Night of the Doctor" with Paul McGann who "dies" at the end and then regenerates as the John Hurt doctor. I guess this is the link between the 1996 movie and the TV show timelines which will feature in the 50th anniversary show on Saturday... less than 36 hours to go!!

Sometimes you have to stand up to authority and just say "No!" Let the law take you to court, use that platform to name names - those who passed such a crass law and those who enforce it without common sense - refuse to pay and tell the court that you hold IT in contempt, contempt for basic common sense. Let it send you to prison and then crank up the heat on those named until they crumble. As Dicken's Mr. Bumble observed "the law is a ass—a idiot. If that’s the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is that his eye may be opened by experience—by experience.” Experience and common sense. Because no single meal has to be "balanced", it is diet that has to be balanced - the child's intake over days, and weeks, and months - and the idiots who passed and enforce this ass of a law are taking no account of that. Shame on them. Name them and shame them!

True Yeah kudos to Joe Boxer, Kmart and all other companies with a sense of humour that hurts no-one Companies are like people because they're run by people, all kinds of people - nice people, nasty people, philanthropic people or ignorant bigots So when we buy products we choose which companies to give our money to. This is why I'll consider Renault for my next car And this is why Flora can go f*#k themselves ... Anglo-Dutch firm Unilever says it has ordered the withdrawal of a Flora margarine advertisement in South Africa that has been condemned as homophobic. The advert features a bullet with the words "Uhh dad I'm gay" flying towards a heart made of china. The advert, on a pink background, includes the tagline "You need a strong heart today" near the Flora logo. International advertising firm Lowe and Partner, which designed the controversial advert, said it was "very sorry". youtube.com/watch?v=ozVClBTao3s

Maybe I missed something but we're not exactly dealing with real news or serious journalism here are we? This HP thing is just an online version of Tit-Bits magazine

If you're interested in why what where and how, here's an interview Clayton Pettet has given with CBC http://www.cbc.ca/q/blog/2013/11/13/virgin-art-student-opens-up-on-plans-to-have-sex-publicly/ Click the "listen" tab just below his pic to hear the interview with him and also with Therese Shechter whose movie How to Lose Your Virginity has just been released. It's a serious discussion, answers a lot of questions raised in this thread and does raise some interesting points. And if you've not yet applied for tickets... then you're too late!

LDV probably got the idea from the hurdy gurdy, which uses the same idea of spinning wheels on strings. These are the drawings You can see from this pic Slawomir Zubrzycki constructed four spinning wheels to play all the strings It isn't the first instrument built from LDV's design but it's certainly impressive

This is the law in England and Wales ... "An adoption order has a quite different standing to almost every other order made by a court. It provides the status of the adopted child and of the adoptive parents. The effect of an adoption order is to extinguish any parental responsibility of the natural parents. Once an adoption order has been made, the adoptive parents stand to one another and the child in precisely the same relationship as if they were his legitimate parents, and the child stands in the same relationship to them as to legitimate parents. Once an adoption order has been made the adopted child ceases to be the child of his previous parents and becomes the child for all purposes of the adopters as though he were their legitimate child.” [Lord Justice Swinton Thomas in Re B (Adoption: Jurisdiction to Set Aside) [1995] Fam 239, at 245C] Well that's pretty crystal clear In other words, an adopted child is exactly the same in the eyes of the law as a birth child. So the suggestion that an adopted child can somehow be treated differently from birth children by adoptive parents -"given up", "handed back" or whatever - is incorrect. There is no difference, nada. The case I mentioned before, from memory, I got some of the facts wrong - in fact it was far worse. But the court made clear that powers to revoke or set aside an adoption are very very restricted. The finality and irrevocability of adoption trumps everything - except flawed consent based on mistaken fact, procedural errors in the adoption process, flawed foreign adoptions, or fraud - although interestingly in that case there was no referral to the ECHR. But this case happened in the US. What does US law say? http://www.newlawjournal.co.uk/nlj/content/family-revoking-adoptions

wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who#Viewership) lists countries that show it including Sweden: BBC Entertainment BBC HD TV4 Guld Kanal 9 SVT but obviously it's out of date The docdudrama (#59 above) is called "An Adventure In Space And Time" and BBC America is showing it on Friday 22 Nov. The 50th anniversary special is being shown simultaneously worldwide in 75 countries on Saturday - so that's 2.50 pm Eastern, 11:50 am PST http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-worldwide-time-set-for-doctor-who-the-day-of-the-doctor-20131108,0,5722192.story#axzz2l7nnAYLR http://www.hitfix.com/whats-alan-watching/bbc-america-to-simulcast-doctor-who-50th-anniversary-special

BBC rebuilds original TARDIS! This is the original TARDIS from the feature length docudrama to be shown this week on Thursday 21 Nov 9.00pm on BBC2. With vintage cameras and period colour tint they've really captured the feel of 60s shows The show tells the story of how Dr Who came to be made by the BBC's first ever female drama producer, Verity Lambert. Looks like the Beeb has spent decent money to make this a great show with Mark Gatiss [scriptwriter], Brian Cox [bourne Identity] and an excellent William Hartnell looky-likey Now they've spent good money on the sets these could be re-used in future "multi-Doctor" stories Then it will be just another two days for the 50th!

Glad the Abominable One is back!

Sex trade aside, Hindu culture in India elevated sex to high art with the Kama Sutra and temple sculptures like this ...