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The idea of parallel universes has been around a long time as a standard scifi plot device, but multiverse theory is now part of science mainstream. As I understand it the mathematics - hence maths - permit time travel but only between these universes Read this for the grandfather paradox and other fun stuff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfather_paradox

So the title's gonna be Earth Wind and Fire ?

Nope - you'd have entered a new parallel universe where you suddenly materialised and the "old" one simply continued ... but without you .

At date of casting the youngest Hartnell could have been is 55 years 5 months and the oldest Capaldi could have been is 55 years and 3 months. So William Hartnell was the oldest actor when cast as Dr Who. I know how important stuff like this is to true Whovians

Problem is humans see things like this on their tiny tiny timescale - we live for a speck of time. Even our collective memory is just a speck - Native Americans a lot longer due to their oral traditions. The forest has been around for millennia and has always recovered. But we're incapable of thinking along those lines. So we intervene. We change nature. And, so far, we've been spectacularly unsuccessful. Hubris is our downfall. .

Yeah ... until you get an abscess Jo Ann

Subject knowledge is necessary, but it's not enough. For me it's about enthusiasm - for the subject, and for the students - and getting the students involved in the lesson, encouraging them to ask questions, while balancing that with control. That needs aptitude and skill. You can learn the latter but you need to have the former. Not everyone can be a good teacher. And teachers should not feel they have to know everything - which makes them defensive and alienates students - but they should be honest and engage with the students. They should encourage questions and if a question is sometimes asked that they don't have the answer to - and this will happen to any teacher - they should be honest, praise the student for asking the question "that's a good question" and say they'll have an answer for the next lesson. Students that ask challenging questions usually have a good teacher.

I'd go back to my 20 year old self and give some personal advice - oh yeah, and some share tips

Terrible destruction of such beautiful wilderness. Seems the regular fires that have always occurred and cleared scrub in forests haven't been allowed to happen under human management meaning when this fire broke out there was an unnatural quantity of scrub fuel causing such intense burning and heat that the burnt forest won't be able to recover in our lifetime

Yeah, available to everyone in the UK. But I posted this for non-UK Whovians who may not get a chance to see it - 480p is fine on a PC but don't delay cos the Beeb probably won't let this stay on Youtube *YT vids are also downloadable if you use Firefox *

This special Dr Who 50th anniversary BBC Proms concert was broadcast by the Beeb on Monday and is currently on Youtube in full http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaFGwIGyzDA I'm guessing it'll get taken down so watch it now if you've not seen it. It's great fun and has Matt Smith, Peter Davison, and Carol Ann Ford, granddaughter and the first Dr Who companion of William Hartnell and LOTS of monsters prowling around the Royal Albert Hall terrifying the kids in the audience Early Dr Who had crap special effects but the music was always fab and in 1963 the sound created by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop under Delia Derbyshire produced the most advanced electronic sound effects anywhere in the world - and that fantastic theme

Wow, Maasai Warriors in London today to watch the cricket. How cool is that!!

Well no. Because the law was changed. Rule of law means the law as it is at the time, and laws change all the time. If they didn't then the Legislators would start getting nervous, cuz they know we'd start grumbling and complaining "why are we paying these idle f**ckers" So in fact changing the law to improve gay rights is good for the Legislators - proves they're actually doing something

Yeah, stabby scissors SNIP! SNIP! SNIP! Always a bit of a worry near the ears and eyes - might be a trainee on work experience Reminds me I had weird phobia as a small kid - hated the tips of my ears being touched. Bit of a problem at a barber's as I wriggled and squirmed in the seat. Amazed I got to adulthood .

One difference is the term "terrorism" is now being stretched to include all sorts of activities that no-one in the 60s or 70s would have ever considered to be terrorism and no reasonable person should consider to be so today either. It gives governments across the world a handy excuse to use oppressive laws in everyday business. That's a real worry. As to your comment on "general standards" of law that's a philosophical matter. Moses had it easy - he was given them on a plate ... er, tablets of stone

Where you have a secular state, like the US and Britain, the rule of law has to trump all other "rights" and it matters not a jot how emotionally those other "rights" are campaigned about. They can vent their spleens and burst their blood vessels, but they are relics of another age and they can't pick and choose which laws they like and don't like

It's quite simple. Laws derive from the legislature - the system most Commonwealth countries have adopted from the Mother of Parliaments. Same in the US. And the "rule of law" in Britain derives from an independent judiciary which has been well developed over several hundred years, but is less clear in the US due to party political contamination. So in Britain it is a very robust control for those "freedoms" that exist within the legal framework. Terror laws passed in the US and Britain pose serious risks to many of our long established "freedoms" and we do not yet know how this is going to pan out. Snowden has woken up the complacent to the real threats that 100% surveillance poses to those "freedoms" and the fact that - though we are not there yet - that is the end game the security services wish to achieve, and for that he should have our gratitude. Armed with this knowledge it's up to the citizenry to ensure that end game is not achieved. Unless they're content to end up back in 1984. I don't agree with Westie that "You surrender your rights to the needs of your nation". If that were so we would be no different from China and communist systems where the collective always trumps the individual. That is not the case in Britain.

The Israel Memorial is good news. Ever wondered what the pink triangle means? A lot of gay people don't care about gay history. They should. History has a nasty habit repeating itself. This bit of history concerns what the Nazis did to gays during WWII and also shockingly - and which has been forgotten - what happened to them after WWII ended under Germany's Paragraph 175: During the Nazi years in Germany jews and gays were sent to the concentration camps along with gypsies, the "feebleminded" and several other categories of people who did not meet the Nazi standards of "full human beings". Jews were forced to wear yellow identification badges, gays had to wear pink ones. We know the terrible fate that befell so many of these wretched people during the war years. But what is not so well known is the tragedy that occurred after the war. When the Allies defeated Germany and the Nazi Regime, the political and remaining Jewish prisoners were released from the camps (the regular criminals- murderers, rapists, etc.- were not released for obvious reasons). But the homosexual prisoners were never released because Paragraph 175 (a clause in German law which prohibited homosexual relations) remained West German law until 1969 when it was moderated (but not finally abolished until 1994). So these poor innocent men, whose only crime was to be gay, watched as their fellow prisoners were set free, but they remained prisoners for up to 24 more years. https://www.gayauthors.org/forums/blog/513/entry-13405-paragraph-175/ .

Truth!

God, I've just squandered 3mins 25secs of my life for that "little half smile", during which I had to endure all that hair swishing, writhing and pouting by the MC creature AND - worst of all - she snags him at the end! .

I really don't see that this thread has a valid purpose. It should be moved to a blog.

Maybe. Addy would still run, screaming ...

There's no reason for anyone to "feel" anything about this. Gender identity is an entirely personal matter for the individual. There are plenty of threads on this if you want to discuss transgenderism but to conflate this with other stuff that we all know about is simply inappropriate. https://www.gayauthors.org/forums/topic/36199-the-term-cisgendercissexual/?hl=%2Btransgender#entry397508 https://www.gayauthors.org/forums/topic/36987-gender-and-sexuality-how-do-different-cultures-respond/ https://www.gayauthors.org/forums/topic/36946-research-gender-dysphoria-and-reassignment-therapy-in-young-people/ https://www.gayauthors.org/forums/topic/36732-male-female-who-decides/

Britain does, however, have an essential control for freedom - the rule of law. We have a legal system that is independent of party politics. Judges are not party political appointments with claimed affiliations to any political party. It's no big deal when UK judges rule against the UK government - we expect that to happen when law is breached. That's our ultimate guarantee of "freedom" however you wish to define it.

Good for him. Every gay guy should be proud of him for making a stand for gay people. He alone won't change anything, but if no-one is prepared to stand up and be counted then the outlook for gays in Russia is bleak Course, being a sexy guy also helps Just in case you need reminding here are some taken earlier ... .