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We had a winter storm here in coastal SC at the turn of the year, so it's been cold. January 2 & 3 brought freezing rain and power outages for a couple days. Today it's all melted off and the high was in the 50s.
The bees were visiting my camellias and gathering fresh pollen.
The sun gets higher every day. Spring will soon be here...
(Just have to pick on northerners...yeah we do get an occasional storm; it's mandatory that we have a week or two of winter, but it melts off fast.)


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A Carbon Neutral Program
Everything we do in our daily life either impacts the environment in a positive way or a negative way. It is as simple as that. At Escape Adventures, we understand this and take it very seriously. Escape Adventures is value-based and mission-driven. We work hard to be socially and environmentally responsible. We carry these values because we care about you, our employees, the environment, and the future generations.
What is the big deal about pollution and global warming?
"Carbon dioxide and other gases warm the surface of the planet naturally by trapping solar heat in the atmosphere. This keeps our planet habitable. However, by burning fossil fuels and clearing forests we have dramatically increased the amount of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere and temperatures are rising. The vast majority of scientists agree that global warming is real, that it's already happening and that it is the result of our activities and not a natural occurrence. The evidence is overwhelming and undeniable. We are already seeing changes. Glaciers are melting, plants and animals are being forced from their habitat, and the frequency of severe weather is increasing" (SGW.ORG).
What is ESCAPE ADVENTURES doing about this problem and how will your trip help to fight the problem?
Well, first of all, except for your air travel, we've already taken the steps to make your trip environmentally sound (carbon neutral). Here's how:
- Support Vehicles. We are the first (and only) outfitter in America that uses support vehicles powered by vegetable oil. Our diesel engine vehicles run off the clean burning and naturally renewable oil of plants. The emissions created are only a fraction of what gasoline would produce. In addition, the oil we use is waste oil gathered from restaurants that would otherwise be sent to landfills. Finally, any gas engine vehicles that we still have in service, have been offset with greentags.
- Products we use - and don't use. We make every effort to use only 100% recycled paper, purchase local, organic foods, and support value-based businesses who share our same philosophy.
- Waste Generation. We recycle more than 90% of the waste generated on each tour. The remaining 10% is offset with greentags for the purchase of renewable energy and energy efficiency projects.
- Electricity Consumption. Escape Adventures has committed solar cells to run its Moab based operations and bicycle shop as well as its Las Vegas based bike tour warehouse. This means that every e-mail, light, power tool usage, hot shower, and just about any other energy use, comes from the sun. Not a pound of carbon dioxide is released into the air as a result.
- Employee Travel. If our employees need to travel to a tour area, we offset the air travel carbon emissions by prepaying for greentags and specifically try and plant trees for each flight.
- Employee Programs. Currently Escape Adventures has a "ride to work" program in effect. At our Las Vegas location, employees are given a $5 per day bonus NOT to drive a car - thus reducing vehicle emissions. This makes the air cleaner so that your lungs are fresher for the tour!
- Freshwater Consumption. Escape has measures in effect to reduce the consumption of freshwater. This includes using low flow faucets and toilets, and avoiding any water-wasteful activities such as watering grass. Escape Adventures brings its own water on all tours where freshwater is limited to avoid impacting local water sources.
- Ecosystem and Biodiversity Conservation. Escape Adventures follows the strictest field policies to reduce any possible negative impacts on the ecosystem. This means we plan trips to avoid areas where wildlife may be disturbed, and never allow animals to reach our food. We remove all litter we come across, and our guides are knowledgeable about local plants and wildlife and practice Leave No Trace camping ethics.
- Indigenous Communities. Escape helps preserve social norms and cultures of local indigenous communities by making philanthropic contributions, providing opportunities for community development, and ensuring clients are always briefed on culturally-appropriate behaviors. In addition Escape Adventures helps indigenous communities by providing economic benefits with donations, visits to cultural attractions, and support for the arts and sports activities.
How can YOU help to fight the problem?
Well, it's actually pretty simple. Visit our carbon calculator to calculate your personal impact and see how much CO2 you produce each year. If you want to make your trip completely carbon neutral, just calculate your flight distance. Your small investment will go to Sustainable Travel International who will ensure that for every ton of carbon dioxide you emit, a ton of carbon dioxide will not be released into the atmosphere. At the same time, by offsetting your carbon use, you'll be supporting renewable energy and energy efficiency projects. And you can feel really good about what you're doing!
There is no doubt we can solve this problem while still enjoying everything life has to offer. Escape Adventures and you have the power to make a difference!


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A Farewell to Ray Bradbury
"Fahrenheit 451" author and Playboy contributor Ray Bradbury passed away Tuesday night. Read one of Hugh Hefner's favorite Bradbury shorts that first appeared in the June 1956 issue.
Editor's Note: We at Playboy were greatly saddened yesterday to learn of the death of legendary science-fiction writer Ray Bradbury. The partnership between Playboy and Bradbury dates back to our earliest days. His novel Fahrenheit 451, which he wrote in less than two weeks using nickel-slot typewriters available at the L.A. public library, was serialized in the third, fourth and fifth issues of the magazine. Another of our favorites, the short story "A Sound of Thunder," was published in the June 1956 issue and inspired the term "butterfly effect." You can read the full story below; visit iplayboy.com to find all of Bradbury's published Playboy work.
THE SIGN ON THE WALL seemed to quaver under a film of sliding warm water. Eckels felt his eyelids blink over his stare, and the sign burned in this momentary darkness:
A warm phlegm gathered in Eckels' throat; he swallowed and pushed it down. The muscles around his mouth formed a smile as he put his hand slowly out upon the air, and in that hand waved a check for ten thousand dollars to the man behind the desk.
"Does this safari guarantee I come back alive?"
"We guarantee nothing," said the official, "except dinosaurs." He turned. "This is Mr. Travis, your Safari Guide in the Past. He'll tell you what and where to shoot. If he says no shooting, no shooting. If you disobey instructions, there's a stiff penalty of another ten thousand dollars, plus possible government action, on your return."
Eckels glanced across the vast office at a mass and tangle, a snaking and humming of wires and steel boxes, at an aurora, that flickered now orange, now silver, now blue. There was a sound like a gigantic bonfire burning all of Time, all the years and all the parchment calendars, all the hours piled high and set aflame.
A touch of the hand on this burning would, on the instant, beautifully reverse itself. Eckels remembered the wording in the advertisements to the letter. Out of chars and ashes, out of dust and coals, like golden salamanders, the old years, the green years, might leap: roses sweeten the air, white hair turn Irish-black, wrinkles vanish: all, everything fly back to seed, flee death, rush down to their beginnings, suns rise in western skies and set in glorious casts, moons eat themselves opposite to the custom, all and everything cupping one in another like Chinese boxes, rabbits into hats, all and everything returning to the fresh death, the seed death, the green death, to the time before the beginning. A touch of a hand might do it, the merest touch of a hand.
"Hell and damn," Eckels breathed, the light of the Machine on his thin face. "A real Time Machine." He shook his head. "Makes you think. If the election had gone badly yesterday, I might be here now running away from the results. Thank God Keith won. He'll make a fine President of the United States."
"Yes," said the man behind the desk. "We're lucky. If Deutscher had gotten in, we'd have the worst kind of dictatorship. There's an anti-everything man for you, a militarist, anti-Christ, anti-human, anti-intellectual. People called us up, you know, joking but not joking. Said if Deutscher became President they wanted to go use in 1492. Of course it's not our business to conduct Escapes, but to form Safaris. Anyway, Keith's President now. All you got to worry about is——"
"Shooting my dinosaur," Eckels finished it for him.
"A Tyrannosaurus rex. The Thunder Lizard, the damnedest monster in history. Sign this release. Anything happens to you, we're not responsible. Those dinosaurs are hungry."
Eckels flushed angrily. "Trying to scare me!"
"Frankly, yes. We don't want anyone going who'll panic at the first shot. Six Safari leaders were killed last year, and a dozen hunters. We're here to give you the damnedest thrill a real hunter ever asked for. Traveling you back sixty million years to bag the biggest damned game in all Time. Your personal check's still there. Tear it up."
Mr. Eckels looked at the check for a long time. His fingers twitched.
"Good luck," said the man behind the desk. "Mr. Travis, he's all yours."
They moved silently across the room, taking their guns with them, toward the Machine, toward the silver metal and the roaring light.
• • •
First a day and then a night and then a day and then a night, then it was day-night-day-night-day. A week, a month, a year, a decade! A.D. 2055. A.D. 2019. 1999! 1957! Gone! The Machine roared.
They put on their oxygen helmets and tested the intercoms.
Eckels swayed on the padded seat, his face pale, his jaw stiff. He felt the trembling in his arms and he looked down and found his hands tight on the new rifle. There were four other men in the Machine. Travis, the Safari Leader, his assistant, Lesperance, and two other hunters, Billings and Kramer. They sat looking at each other, and the years blazed around them.
"Can these guns get a dinosaur cold?" Eckels felt his mouth saying.
"If you hit them right," said Travis on the helmet radio. "Some dinosaurs have two brains, one in the head, another far down the spinal column. We stay away from those. That's stretching luck. Put your first two shots into the eyes, if you can, blind them, and go back into the brain."
The Machine howled. Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them. "Good God," said Eckels. "Every hunter that ever lived would envy us today. This makes Africa seem like Illinois."
The Machine slowed; its scream fell to a murmur. The Machine stopped.
The sun stopped in the sky.
The fog that had enveloped the Machine blew away and they were in an old time, a very old time indeed, three hunters and two Safari Heads with their blue metal guns across their knees.
"Christ isn't born yet," said Travis. "Moses has not gone to the mountain to talk with God. The Pyramids are still in the earth, waiting to be put up. Remember that. Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, Hitler — none of them exists."
The men nodded.
"That" — Mr. Travis pointed — "is the jungle of sixty million two thousand and fifty-five years before President Keith."
He indicated a metal path that struck off into green wilderness, over steaming swamp, among giant ferns and palms.
"And that," he said, "is the Path, laid by Time Safari for your use. It floats six inches above the earth. Doesn't touch so much as one grass blade, flower, or tree. It's an anti-gravity metal. Its purpose is to keep you from touching this world of the past in any way. Stay on the Path. Don't go off it. I repeat. Don't go off. For any reason! If you fall off, there's a penalty. And don't shoot any animal we don't okay."
"Why?" asked Eckels.
They sat in the ancient wilderness. Far birds' cries blew on a wind, and the smell of tar and an old salt sea, moist grasses, and flowers the color of blood.
"We don't want to change the Future. We don't belong here in the Past. The government doesn't like us here. We have to pay big graft to keep our franchise. A Time Machine is damn finicky business. Not knowing it, we might kill an important animal, a small bird, a roach, a flower even, thus destroying an important link in a growing species."
"That's not clear," said Eckels.
"All right," Travis continued, "say we accidentally kill one mouse here. That means all the future families of this one particular mouse are destroyed, right?"
"And all the families of the families of that one mouse! With a stamp of your foot, you annihilate first one, then a dozen, then a thousand, a million, a billion possible mice!"
"So they're dead," said Eckels. "So what?"
"So what?" Travis snorted quietly. "Well, what about the foxes that'll need those mice to survive? For want of ten mice, a fox dies. For want of ten foxes, a lion starves. For want of a lion, all manner of insects, vultures, infinite billions of life forms are thrown into chaos and destruction. Eventually it all boils down to this: fifty-nine million years later, a cave man, one of a dozen on the entire world, goes hunting wild boar or saber-tooth tiger for food. But you, friend, have stepped on all the tigers in that region. By stepping on one single mouse. So the cave man starves. And the cave man, please note, is not just any expendable man, no! He is an entire future nation. From his loins would have sprung ten sons. From their loins one hundred sons, and thus onward to a civilization. Destroy this one man, and you destroy a race, a people, an entire history of life. It is comparable to slaying some of Adam's grandchildren. The stomp of your foot, on one mouse, could start an earthquake, the effects of which could shake our earth and destinies down through Time, to their very foundations. With the death of that one cave man, a billion others yet unborn are throttled in the womb. Perhaps Rome never rises on its seven hills. Perhaps Europe is forever a dark forest, and only Asia waxes healthy and teeming. Step on a mouse and you crush the Pyramids. Step on a mouse and you leave your print, like a Grand Canyon, across Eternity. Queen Elizabeth might never be born, Washington might not cross the Delaware, there might never be a United States at all. So be careful. Stay on the Path. Never step off!"
"I see," said Eckels. "Then it wouldn't pay for us even to touch the grass?"
"Correct. Crushing certain plants could add up infinitesimally. A little error here would multiply in sixty million years, all out of proportion. Of course maybe our theory is wrong. Maybe Time can't be changed by us. Or maybe it can be changed only in little subtle ways. A dead mouse here makes an insect imbalance there, a population disproportion later, a bad harvest further on, a depression, mass starvation, and, finally, a change in social temperament in far-flung countries. Something much more subtle, like that. Perhaps only a soft breath, a whisper, a hair, pollen on the air, such a slight, slight change that unless you looked close you wouldn't see it. Who knows? Who really can say he knows? We don't know. We're guessing. But until we do know for certain whether our messing around in Time can make a big roar or a little rustle in history, we're being damned careful. This Machine, this Path, your clothing and bodies, were sterilized, as you know, before the journey. We wear these oxygen helmets so we can't introduce our bacteria into an ancient atmosphere."
"How do we know which animals to shoot?"
"They're marked with red paint," said Travis. "Today, before our journey, we sent Lesperance here back with the Machine. He came to this particular era and followed certain animals."
"Studying them?"
"Right," said Lesperance. "I track them through their entire existence, noting which of them lives longest. Very few. How many times they mate. Not often. Life's short. When I find one that's going to die when a tree falls on him, or one that drowns in a tar pit, I note the exact hour, minute, and second. I shoot a paint bomb. It leaves a red patch on his hide. We can't miss it. Then I correlate our arrival in the Past so that we meet the Monster not more than two minutes before he would have died anyway. This way, we kill only animals with no future, that are never going to mate again. You see how careful we are?"
"But if you came back this morning in Time," said Eckels eagerly, "you must've bumped into us, our Safari! How did it turn out? Was it successful? Did all of us get through — alive?"
Travis and Lesperance gave each other a look.
"That'd be a paradox," said the latter. "Time doesn't permit that sort of mess — a man meeting himself. When such occasions threaten, Time steps aside. Like an airplane hitting an air pocket. You felt the Machine jump just before we stopped? That was us passing ourselves on the way back to the Future. We saw nothing. There's no way of telling if this expedition was a success, if we got our monster, or whether all of us — meaning you, Mr. Eckels — got out alive."
Eckels smiled palely.
"Cut that," said Travis sharply. "Everyone on his feet!"
They were ready to leave the Machine.
The jungle was high and the jungle was broad and the jungle was the entire world forever and forever. Sounds like music and sounds like flying tents filled the sky, and those were pterodactyls soaring with cavernous gray wings, gigantic bats out of a delirium and a night fever. Eckels, balanced on the narrow Path, aimed his rifle playfully.
"Stop that!" said Travis. "Don't even aim for fun, damn it! If your gun should go off——"
Eckels flushed. "Where's our Tyrannosaurus?"
Lesperance checked his wrist watch. "Up ahead. We'll bisect his trail in sixty seconds. Look for the red paint, for Christ's sake. Don't shoot till we give the word. Stay on the Path. Stay on the Path!"
They moved forward in the wind of morning.
"Strange," murmured Eckels. "Up ahead, sixty million years, Election Day over. Keith made President. Everyone celebrating. And here we are, a million years lost, and they don't exist. The things we worried about for months, a lifetime, not even born or thought about yet."
"Safety catches off, everyone!" ordered Travis. "You, first shot, Eckels. Second, Billings. Third, Kramer."
"I've hunted tiger, wild boar, buffalo, elephant, but Jesus, this is it," said Eckels. "I'm shaking like a kid."
"Ah," said Travis.
Everyone stopped.
Travis raised his hand. "Ahead," he whispered. "In the mist. There he is. There's His Royal Majesty now."
• • •
The jungle was wide and full of twitterings, rustlings, murmurs, and sighs.
Suddenly it all ceased, as if someone had shut a door.
A sound of thunder.
Out of the mist, one hundred yards away, came Tyrannosaurus rex.
"Jesus God," whispered Eckels.
It came on great oiled, resilient, striding legs. It towered thirty feet above half of the trees, a great evil god, folding its delicate watchmaker's claws dose to its oily reptilian chest. Each lower leg was a piston, a thousand pounds of white bone, sunk in thick ropes of muscle, sheathed over in a gleam of pebbled skin like the mail of a terrible warrior. Each thigh was a ton of meat, ivory, and steel mesh. And from the great breathing cage of the upper body those two delicate arms dangled out front, arms with hands which might pick up and examine men like toys, while the snake neck coiled. And the head itself, a ton of sculptured stone, lifted easily upon the sky. Its mouth gaped, exposing a fence of teeth like daggers. Its eyes rolled, ostrich eggs, empty of all expression save hunger. It closed its mouth in a death grin. It ran, its pelvic bones crushing aside trees and bushes, its taloned feet clawing damp earth, leaving prints six inches deep wherever it settled its weight. It ran with a gliding ballet step, far too poised and balanced for its ten tons. It moved into a sunlit arena warily, its beautifully reptile hands feeling the air.
"My God!" Eckels twitched his mouth. "It could reach up and grab the moon."
"Sh!" Travis jerked angrily. "He hasn't seen us yet."
"It can't be killed." Eckels pronounced this verdict quietly, as if there could be no argument. He had weighed the evidence and this was his considered opinion. The rifle in his hands seemed a cap gun. "We were fools to come. This is impossible."
"Shut up!" hissed Travis.
"Turn around," commanded Travis. "Walk quietly to the Machine. We'll remit one half your fee."
"I didn't realize it would be this big," said Eckels. "I miscalculated, that's all. And now I want out."
"It sees us!"
"There's the red paint on its chest!"
The Thunder Lizard raised itself. Its armored flesh glittered like a thousand green coins. The coins, crusted with slime, steamed. In the slime, tiny insects wriggled, so that the entire body seemed to twitch and undulate, even while the monster itself did not move. It exhaled. The stink of raw flesh blew down the wilderness.
"Get me out of here," said Eckels. "It was never like this before. I was always sure I'd come through alive. I had good guides, good safaris, and safety. This time, I figured wrong. I've met my match and admit it. This is too much for me to get hold of."
"Don't run," said Lesperance. "Turn around. Hide in the Machine."
"Yes." Eckels seemed to be numb. He looked at his feet as if trying to make them move. He gave a grunt of helplessness.
He took a few steps, blinking, shuffling.
"Not that way!"
The Monster, at the first motion, lunged forward with a terrible scream. It covered one hundred yards in four seconds. The rifles jerked up and blazed fire. A windstorm from the beast's mouth engulfed them in the stench of slime and old blood. The Monster roared, teeth glittering with sun.
Eckels, not looking back, walked blindly to the edge of the Path, his gun limp in his arms, stepped off the Path, and walked, not knowing it, in the jungle. His feet sank into green moss. His legs moved him, and he felt alone and remote from the events behind.
The rifles cracked again. Their sound was lost in shriek and lizard thunder. The great lever of the reptile's tail swung up, lashed sideways. Trees exploded in clouds of leaf and branch. The Monster twitched its jeweler's hands down to fondle at the men, to twist them in half, to crush them like berries, to cram them into its teeth and its screaming throat. Its boulder-stone eyes leveled with the men. They saw themselves mirrored. They fired at the metallic eyelids and the blazing black iris.
Like a stone idol, like a mountain avalanche, Tyrannosaurus fell. Thundering, it clutched trees, pulled them with it. It wrenched and tore the metal Path. The men flung themselves back and away. The body hit, ten tons of cold flesh and stone. The guns fired. The Monster lashed its armored tail, twitched its snake jaws, and lay still. A fount of blood spurted from its throat. Somewhere inside, a sac of fluids burst. Sickening gushes drenched the hunters. They stood, red and glistening.
The thunder faded.
The jungle was silent. After the avalanche, a green peace. After the nightmare, morning.
Billings and Kramer sat on the pathway and threw up. Travis and Lesperance stood with smoking rifles, cursing steadily.
In the Time Machine, on his face, Eckels lay shivering. He had found his way back to the Path, climbed into the Machine.
Travis came walking, glanced at Eckels, took cotton gauze from a metal box, and returned to the others, who were sitting on the Path.
"Clean up."
They wiped the blood from their helmets. They began to curse too. The Monster lay, a hill of solid flesh. Within, you could hear the sighs and murmurs as the furthest chambers of it died, the organs malfunctioning, liquids running a final instant from pocket to sac to spleen, everything shutting off, closing up forever. It was like standing by a wrecked locomotive or a steam shovel at quitting time, all valves being released or levered tight. Bones cracked; the tonnage of its own flesh, off balance, dead weight, snapped the delicate forearms, caught underneath. The meat settled, quivering.
Another cracking sound. Overhead a gigantic tree branch broke from its heavy mooring, fell. It crashed upon the dead beast with finality.
"There." Lesperance checked his watch. "Right on time. That's the giant tree that was scheduled to fall and kill this animal originally." He glanced at the two hunters. "You want the trophy picture?"
"We can't take a trophy back to the Future. The body has to stay right here where it would have died originally, so the insects, birds, and bacteria can get at it, as they were intended to. Everything in balance. The body stays. But we can take a picture of you standing near it."
The two men tried to think, but gave up, shaking their heads.
They let themselves be led along the metal Path. They sank wearily into the Machine cushions. They gazed back at the ruined Monster, the stagnating mound, where already strange reptilian birds and golden insects were busy at the steaming armor. A sound on the floor of the Time Machine stiffened them. Eckels sat there, shivering.
"I'm sorry," he said at last.
"Get up!" cried Travis.
Eckels got up.
"Go out on that Path alone," said Travis. He had his rifle pointed, "You're not coming back in the Machine. We're leaving you here!"
Lesperance seized Travis's arm. "Wait——"
"Stay out of this!" Travis shook his hand away. "This fool nearly killed us. But it isn't that so much, no. It's his shoes! Look at them! He ran off the Path. That ruins us! We'll forfeit! Thousands of dollars of insurance! We guarantee no one leaves the Path. He left it. Oh, the damn fool! I'll have to report to the government. They might revoke our license to travel. Who knows what he's done to Time, to History!"
"Take it easy, all he did was kick up some dirt."
"How do we know?" cried Travis. "We don't know anything! It's all a mystery! Get out of here, Eckels!"
Eckels fumbled his shirt. "I'll pay anything. A hundred thousand dollars!"
Travis glared at Eckels' checkbook and spat. "Go out there. The Monster's next to the Path. Stick your arms up to your elbows in his mouth. Then you can come back with us."
"That's unreasonable!"
"The Monster's dead, you idiot. The bullets! The bullets can't be left behind. They don't belong in the Past; they might change anything. Here's my knife. Dig them out!"
The jungle was alive again, full of the old tremorings and bird cries. Eckels turned slowly to regard the primeval garbage dump, that hill of nightmares and terror. After a long time, like a sleepwalker he shuffled out along the Path.
He returned, shuddering, five minutes later, his arms soaked and red to the elbows. He held out his hands. Each held a number of steel bullets. Then he fell. He lay where he fell, not moving.
"You didn't have to make him do that," said Lesperance.
"Didn't I? It's too early to tell." Travis nudged the still body. "He'll live. Next time he won't go hunting game like this. Okay." He jerked his thumb wearily at Lesperance. "Switch on. Let's go home."
1492. 1776. 1812.
They cleaned their hands and faces. They changed their caking shirts and pants. Eckels was up and around again, not speaking. Travis glared at him for a full ten minutes.
"Don't look at me," cried Eckels. "I haven't done anything."
"Who can tell?"
"Just ran off the Path, that's all, a little mud on my shoes — what do you want me to do — get down and pray?"
"We might need it. I'm warning you, Eckels, I might kill you yet. I've got my gun ready."
"I'm innocent. I've done nothing!"
1999. 2000. 2055.
The Machine stopped.
"Get out," said Travis.
The room was there as they had left it. But not the same as they had left it. The same man sat behind the same desk. But the same man did not quite sit behind the same desk. Travis looked around swiftly. "Everything okay here?" he snapped.
"Fine. Welcome home!"
Travis did not relax. He seemed to be looking through the one high window.
"Okay, Eckels, get out. Don't ever come back." Eckels could not move.
"You heard me," said Travis. "What're you staring at?"
Eckels stood smelling of the air, and there was a thing to the air, a chemical taint so subtle, so slight, that only a faint cry of his subliminal senses warned him it was there. The colors, white, gray, blue, orange, in the wall, in the furniture, in the sky beyond the window, were … were … . And there was a feel. His flesh twitched. His hands twitched. He stood drinking the oddness with the pores of his body. Somewhere, someone must have been screaming one of those whistles that only a dog can hear. His body screamed silence in return. Beyond this room, beyond this wall, beyond this man who was not quite the same man seated at this desk that was not quite the same desk … lay an entire world of streets and people. What sort of world it was now, there was no telling. He could feel them moving there, beyond the walls, almost, like so many chess pieces blown in a dry wind …
But the immediate thing was the sign painted on the office wall, the same sign he had read earlier today on first entering. Somehow, the sign had changed:
Eckels felt himself fall into a chair. He fumbled crazily at the thick slime on his boots. He held up a clod of dirt, trembling, "No, it can't be. Not a little thing like that. No!"
Embedded in the mud, glistening green and gold and black, was a butterfly, very beautiful and very dead.
"Not a little thing like that! Not a butterfly!" cried Eckels.
It fell to the floor, an exquisite thing, a small thing that could upset balances and knock down a line of small dominoes and then big dominoes and then gigantic dominoes, all down the years across Time. Eckels' mind whirled. It couldn't change things. Killing one butterfly couldn't be that important! Could it?
His face was cold. His mouth trembled, asking: "Who — who won the presidential election yesterday?"
The man behind the desk laughed. "You joking? You know very well. Deutscher, of course! Who else? Not that fool weakling Keith. We got an iron man now, a man with guts!" The official stopped. "What's wrong?"
Eckels moaned. He dropped to his knees. He scrabbled at the golden butterfly with shaking fingers. "Can't we," he pleaded to the world, to himself, to the officials, to the Machine, "can't we take it back, can't we make it alive again? Can't we start over? Can't we——"
He did not move. Eyes shut, he waited, shivering. He heard Travis breathe loud in the room; he heard Travis shift his rifle, click the safety catch, and raise the weapon.
There was a sound of thunder.
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Feb 16, 2010 at 3:03 pm #1255359
Addie BedfordBPL Member
@addiebedfordLocale: Montana
Companion forum thread to:Feb 16, 2010 at 3:36 pm #1574619
Brandon SanchezMember
@dharmabumpkinLocale: San Gabriel Mtns
I am really pleased with mine as well. Makes a great one=person palace. Can also be set-up in a "fast fly" style like the Big Agnes tents. Can take a wind beating. 6 storage pockets on the inside are really nice. Plus, there is a clip in the center middle that is perfect for the Black Diamond Orbit if you are playing cards or waking up early/staying up late. Glad I own it!Feb 16, 2010 at 9:58 pm #1574782
Amy LauterbachBPL Member
@drongobirdLocale: San Francisco Bay Area
Jim and I have used our Quarter Dome T2 for 35-40 nights of backpacking and we've been very pleased. Two thumbs up from us.
We took a five week hike in Wales/England in July 2009. The first 15 days of the trip were on the Cambrian Way (Cardiff to Conway via the mountains) during the wettest July on record. The Welsh mountains are wet enough in an average year; we had rain every day for two weeks, with fairly relentless Beaufort force 5-7 winds. It was terrific to have a well-ventilated, solid, easy-to-pitch tent in which to retreat.
Trip photos:
Part 1 (the wet phase in Western Wales)
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Roger CaffinModerator
@rcaffinLocale: Wollemi & Kosciusko NPs, Europe
> The Welsh mountains are wet enough in an average year; we had rain every day for
> two weeks, with fairly relentless Beaufort force 5-7 winds.
But that IS average for Wales … :-)
We had the same in 97 on Offas Dyke.
CheersFeb 17, 2010 at 4:36 am #1574816
jeff arnfieldMember
@windwardLocale: NE Tennessee
I purchased a T2 last year to replace a failing North Face Westwind (coating on fly and floor flaked off, but after 30+ years the tent owed me nothing), and have used it on several weekend trips in the mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina.
My wife is not yet a fan of minimalist shelter, so when she backpacks with me we're in the T2. When solo or with my buddy Sam I use my MSR Twin Peaks from October through April, but the T2 fends off both rain and ambient mosquitoes in the summer months.
The T2 is light enough that I don't grouse much about carrying it, easy to set up, well made and apparently durable (not enough trips to really know yet). Having separate doors and vestibules makes a world of difference in perceived space; it's close but comfortable for two people 6' or shorter, although I'd probably have purchased the larger T2 Plus had it been available.
In the summer I enjoy a mosquito-reduced environment so I can sleep on top of my bag on warm nights. Although T2 is only a few ounces heavier than my current solo tent, a North Face Canyonlands, I may redeem this year's REI dividend for a T1 to trim another pound or so from the solo summer load.Feb 17, 2010 at 5:02 am #1574821
Joe ClementBPL Member
@skinewmexicoLocale: Southwest
T3 is great for 2.Feb 17, 2010 at 5:16 am #1574823
DougBPL Member
This was my first tent when I got back in to backpacking a couple of years ago. It was a nice tent, I used it most of one summer. Easy to pitch, airy, a palace as others have said. Sold it to buy a Contrail. Missed the space, but not the weight! Missed the space so much I moved up to a Cloudburst!Feb 17, 2010 at 6:45 am #1574846
Lucas BoyerBPL Member
@jhawkwxLocale: 38.97˚N, 95.26˚W
I notice in the comparison tables that Big Sky went w/ a lighter fly and MSR went light on both fly and floor. Appears as though REI is still manufacturing w/ the intent that people will abuse the heck out of these tents and return them when they fail. Marginal gains in weight for the insurance against dissatisfied customers I'm sure. I really like these double walled tents. I have a Sierra Designs Electron for wife and dogs. It's really nice when we are getting eaten alive by mosquitoes. If you drop weight on everything in your kit, you can pull off a pretty low base weight and still carry one of these tents. I take the stakes, tent, footprint and give my wife the tent and fly. Gives you a nice space to ride out bad weather, etc. Nice write up. Thanks Ray.Feb 17, 2010 at 10:50 am #1574932
Scott BentzBPL Member
@scottbentzLocale: Southern California
One thing I teach my scouts is that a 3.8 lb. tent is not that heavy when shared with 2. We take everything out of the stuff sack and then just divide by 2. If you like to use a double wall tent and are sharing it with someone you each are going to roughly carry about 1.9 lbs. Not bad for a complete double wall shelter. The trick is to find one that starts out light as possible. The T2 looks like a good start.Feb 17, 2010 at 12:02 pm #1574963
Casey BowdenBPL Member
@clbowdenLocale: Berkeley Hills
Did you ever have to pitch the T2 in the rain? If so, any tips or tricks?Feb 17, 2010 at 1:02 pm #1574987
Michael JohnstoneBPL Member
@mjohnstoneLocale: Midwest
I have done several father-son backpacking and canoe trips with the T2. I have been very happy with the easy set-up, mess pockets, double doors, and fairly light design.
Casey, I have never set up a T2 in the rain, but have been through a few storms. It works like a champ. My only struggle is opening and closing the rain fly vents to get some ventilation while minimizing the amount of spray that comes in through the vent in a heavy storm. You have to open the door on the tent and then reach up and around the tent to adjust the vent.Feb 17, 2010 at 8:38 pm #1575199
Jeff KMember
@jeff-kLocale: New York
I have never setup my T2 in the rain, but I have weathered some huge rainstorms perfectly.
If you are carrying the footprint you can use that to setup the poles and put the rain fly over that. You can then setup the tent underneath the fly.
If you were good I guess you could stake the fly to the ground and then setup the poles under it. And then attach the tent underneath the fly. I assume this is possible but extremely difficult.Feb 18, 2010 at 10:44 am #1575353
Ben 2 WorldBPL Member
@ben2worldLocale: So Cal
If you have the dedicated footprint, you can use it to first set up / stake down the fly. Then, you can leisurely crawl in and set up the inner tent from the inside — protected from rain.
EDIT: Just realized I was repeating what's already been suggested. Note to self: need to read these posts more carefully!Feb 18, 2010 at 10:56 am #1575365
Casey BowdenBPL Member
@clbowdenLocale: Berkeley Hills
Thanks Guys,
It's nice to know the tent can be clipped into the pitched fly.Feb 19, 2010 at 2:46 pm #1576010
Trent HoldernessMember
@tholdernessLocale: Idaho
We love our T3. Our preferred tent for my wife and I plus our seven-year-old.Feb 20, 2010 at 5:39 am #1576273
Amy LauterbachBPL Member
@drongobirdLocale: San Francisco Bay Area
Roger asked "how much rain"? Cats and dogs. July 09 rain was 3x normal in south and 2x normal in north. Western Welsh mountains are much wetter than eastern Wales – more like Scotland or Ireland. We frequently had prolonged torrential driving rain, and the Cambrian Way is primarily in the moors, with no trees or buildings. Quite an experience.
The second half of our trip, Eastern Wales on Offa's Dyke and then on into England, was quite dry and had trees and buildings to boot! We had day-time rain for a total of just a couple hours during the last 3 weeks of the trip — our reward for the first 2 weeks.
Casey asked about setting up in the rain. We set up in the rain (and wind) for ~10 of our first 15 nights. We didn't carry a footprint, so couldn't do that trick. I think it would be tough for one person to minimize saturation during setup, but with two people it is possible. I can't adequately describe how – practice it at home to figure out a system that will work. We got pretty good at it.
I line my pack with a trash compactor bag. Then, inside and at the bottom of that I put the down double-sleeping-bag and camp-only clothes, in its own plastic bag. I put all the other keep-dry stuff in the outer plastic bag and rubber-band it shut. Then, the rain gear and the food/gear for the day is outside that plastic bag so I can access it during the day.
Jim carries the tent, vertically on one side of his pack. On the other side is a vertical plastic bag with his keep-dry stuff. His rain-gear is on top. So we don't ever need to open our plastic bags until the tent is up and we are inside.
When we get in the tent, every surface is soggy. We keep the dry stuff in the plastic bags until we finish wiping everything down with MSR packtowel – essentially sponge dry the whole system, ourselves and our gear. In that sense it doesn't really matter how much rain gets in during setup, you can sponge dry it before exposing the dry stuff.
I'll close with a plug for walking in Great Britain. The 5-week Wales/England loop was our 6th trip there (3-5 weeks each), and we have enjoyed all of them.Feb 20, 2010 at 2:56 pm #1576438
Pamela WyantMember
Nice review Ray. The photos did a great job of showing the unique design. I really like the way the pole system opens up the top of the tent.
This looks like it would be a good, relatively inexpensive tent for youth groups or a family trip with kids where a tent that is reasonably light but can take a little abuse would be beneficial (or for beginning backpackers not wanting to sink a fortune into equipment).Feb 21, 2010 at 8:52 am #1576665
Mark CooperMember
@cooporlandoLocale: Central Florida
I am 6'6" and was wondering if any taller hikers out there have tried the T2 "Plus" version of this tent. I am ready to spring for it the next time an REI 20% coupon comes out, but would be interested to see the same long sleeping bag photo in the Plus to see what kind of stretch space might be available. I know it adds a few ounces, but would be worth it not to have to scrunch away from the walls.Feb 28, 2010 at 10:25 am #1579650
Gary Swanson-DaviesBPL Member
I'm 6'2" and my long down bag has plenty of room.Apr 8, 2010 at 5:32 pm #1595917
Dan DurstonBPL Member
@dandydanLocale: Cascadia
I'm really surprised with this tent considering it's from REI. Depending on what you're looking for, it seems to compare really well for 2 person use. If you're planning on using a 2 person tent for 1 person use then the Big Agnes FC2 is unbeatable.
Eliminating tents with significantly smaller floors (MSR Carbon Reflex 2, Terra Nova Laser) or heavily sloped walls resulting in way less interior room (Big Agnes Fly Creek 2, SMD Haven) and you're not left with very many 2 person double wall tents under 4 lbs. To my knowledge, the competitors are:
– Mountain Hardware Skyledge 2.1 (55oz)
– Big Agnes Copper Spur UL2 (54oz)
– MSR Hubba Hubba HP (59oz)
– Big Sky Intl. Revolution 2P (54oz)
– Sierra Designs Lightning XT (61oz)
– TarpTent Scarp 2 (53oz)
Looking at that list of tents, the 60oz T2 seems like a no brainer winner over most of the tents because most of them provide no compelling reason to spend way more money (the T2 is $100-$200 cheaper than any of these competitors). The exceptions being the Hubba Hubba HP and Scarp 2 which have fabric inners (option on the Scarp 2) and are more suited for winter use.
The only tent that I would say is significantly lighter than the T2 is the MH Skyledge, because the Big Sky, Big Agnes and TarpTent shelters all use thin 30D floors with borderline waterproofing, so a ground sheet weighing several ounces is required IMO. The Skyledge looks like a nice tent but the sidewalls do slope inward somewhat so you're giving up some interior volume in exchange for 6oz saved.
I'm thinking the ideal choice is buying a T2 and then spend the $100-$200 saved on buying cuben for a MYOG fly. A cuben fly should weigh ~8oz which would save a huge 16oz and bring the total T2 trailweight down to 2lbs 12oz. If you could somehow source carbon fibre poles you could bring that down even further without compromising livability.Apr 11, 2010 at 7:26 am #1596701
Brendan McAdamsMember
Walked into REI to pickup some other gear this weekend and noticed they're running a "Members get 20% off any one full priced item" (http://www.rei.com/promotions/member-rewards-coupon.html).
Had my eye on this tent for a while (the BPL review helped), and with my dividend managed to snag it for nothing out of pocket, plus the $20 for the fly.Oct 9, 2010 at 4:03 pm #1652953
Elisa UmpierreBPL Member
@eliumpLocale: Midwest
I own the Quarter Dome T2 and was initially concerned that if arriving at camp while it was raining, all the mesh that makes up the tent's body would make for wet sleeping quarters. Well, no need to worry. The T2 can quite easily be set up by first pitching the fly and then the tent's body. With the fly set up just crawl beneath it, pull out the tent's body and set it up all under the cover of the fly. This worked very well. So far, I love this tent.
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Very Big and Very Centric Room
Size25 m²
Floor No.4
- Internet/WiFi
- Balcony/terrace
- Towels
- Family/child friendly
- Pets allowed
- Smoking allowed
- Washer/dryer
Accommodation summary
|Escudellers Blancs, 08002 Barcelona, Spain
|Property type
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Complete kitchen and wc with shower only shared with me. There is not a living room. You have a very big room and me too.
One extra person will be welcome with an extra charge of 20€ per night.
I´m male, catalan, 45 years old, quiet, discreet and respectful. You will not see me very much, but I will be happy to help you with anything you need.
Location is in a narrow street in the centre of the Gothic area, next to Las Ramblas. There are many bars and restaurants around, but you will be on the inner side of the flat which is quite quiet.
It´s a nice area to just walk around or you could rent a bicycle.
Excellent metro and bus communications. It´s city centre! Metro Liceo or Jaume I.
Aerobus in Plaça Catalunya 10 min walk.
4th floor without lift. 78 stairs, be aware in case of mobility problems.
If it´s cold, there are a few heaters to warm enough the space, but there is not a central heating for the whole house.
Special offer to my guests. Nice Thai massage or quiromassage with oils, 1h15min only for 30€. I have a massage room in the house. Don´t miss it!
House rulesParties and visitors are not allowed.
Quiet time after 22h.
Respect to neighbours.
Punctuality at arrival meeting time, please.
20€ extra charge in case of late arrivals after 12am.
|Price for > 2 guests
|€ 21 per guest/night extra
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Reviews of this property
Great apartment in a nice central location. Marc was friendly and helpful. Marc has a separate room of the apartment and is there occasionally, but very respectful of privacy. We stayed 9 days and saw him only a few times. He has great communication and you can contact him through Whats App. You also share a main door with another rented apartment of Marc's - we didn't see the other guests, but heard use of the door.
Apartment is on the 3rd floor so be prepared to climb some stairs (four flights up). The place was clean and well cared for. Great authentic stay in Barcelona.
Cozy, silent and super clean room and apartment. Very central and perfectly connected also with the airport.
Ideal if you're not scared of the stairs as the old building does not have an elevator
We had a good time at marcs place. Everything was clean and worked well. We didn't see marc that often but he is verry nice and trys to help you with any problem you have.
Super flat very central situation ! The room is exactly as it is on the photos : bright and charming. Marc was a super host disposable for any questions. Discreet welcoming and accomodating with schedules. For sure I recommend. Thank you Marc !
We had a perfect stay at Marc's place. Before our trip, Marc provided us with sufficient info on how to get from the airport to his place. He was also really easy to reach via WhatsApp. Marc is a nice guy who you won't see that much. Therefore, it almost seems like you have a whole appartment for yourself!
The appartment is spacy, clean and comes with a fan (which comes in really handy during hot summer nights). Keep in mind though that the location is in the middle of the city centre ( it can be a bit noisy!), and that the appartment is located on the 4th floor, and there is no elevator... the stairs might be a struggle after a long day of sightseeing ;). The bed is good and the bathroom is (a bit small but) clean.
We defenitely recommend Marc's place!
The flat is really nice and also the location! Perfect for 2 or 3 person or a small family. We had a great time there!
Excellent !!!
I recommend this accommodation, Marc is a very polite and pleasant person, and the room is very spacious, neat and comfortable. Worth
Recomiendo este alojamiento, Marc es una persona muy atenta y agradable, y la habitación es muy amplia, ordenada y cómoda. Merece la pena
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Glen Ridge Indoor Track's Gomez places 14th at Meet of Champions
Junior Phil Gomez's performance at the Meet of Champions marks the first Glen Ridge High School student to make the event in over a decade. His time of 1:58.67 in the 800 meter run was good for 14th place out of the 38 participants and set a new Glen Ridge High School record set by Garret Barbolanardo (1:58.70) three years ago. What's more impressive is Gomez didn't start training and running the 800m until this Indoor Track season.
"His season has been very successful," said head coach Ira Ford. "He's a 400m runner, but he was doing 800m training. Most good 400 runners and good 800 runners. He went from 2:13 at the beginning of the season down to 1:58.67."
"It's pretty special because I always looked up to the person who last got there," said Gomez. "He's a friend of mine, actually. I was always impressed by that. Now I hope I can go back."
Gomez wanted to concentrate on improving his 400m times for this spring's Outdoor season by training for the 800 during Indoor.
"The 800 is basically under the same category as the 400," said Gomez. "What you train most is speed endurance. 4 and 8 are very tough because you have to keep up that speed in such a long pace. Your basically sprinting all out. So to keep that up for the entire time, it wasn't that easy. It's a variety of training."
To get to the Meet of Champions, Gomez placed third at the Group 1 Championships with a time of 2:00.55. He missed a first place second by less than a quarter of a second.
All this work in the 800 now only better his chance to reach his personal goal for the 400 meter run in the Outdoor season this spring.
"I want to break 50 seconds," said Gomez. "If you break 50, people will know you. That's a very important mark to make. I want to break that consistently. I want to get to 48 or 49 for the season. Also we want to try to get a relay for the 400."
Senior Natalie Ruiz also made the Groups. She ran a 1:05.11 in the 400m dash, good for 18th overall.
The team's recent success is due to their consistent training methods.
"Every workout we do is done in cycles," said Ford. "These workouts are based on 4-6 week cycles. That's how the body adapts. As you finish the cycle, you adapt to another training phase. Which is, basically, when the intensity goes up and the duration goes down."
The Ridgers also had an increase in number for the Indoor season with 42 student athletes coming out to run.
"The whole team saw success in just about all of our events," said Ford. "When athletes are training correctly and having proper rest, and you've heard me say this many times, regeneration, it shows."
In the Sectional Meet, Gomez took home a first place medal for the 800m with a time of 2:03. Ruiz came in sixth in he 400m dash with a time of 1:05.11. Junior Natash Dombrowski had a time of 8.33 in the 55m dash to take 15th overall.
The team's soccer cross-over, Robbie Brandel saw more success after his ECT Championship in the 1600m earlier in the season. The junior placed second at sectionals in the same event with a time of 4:42.04. This qualified him for a spot in the Group Championships (the top six advance) along side teammate Gomez and Ruiz, but his soccer duties called. If he ran at Groups, Glen Ridge could have sent two runners to the Meet of Champions.
"Robbie would have advanced also," said Ford. "But he is also big into soccer and he had to go away. He advanced to go to the Groups, but he couldn't go because he had a commitment. But he would have made it to the Meet of Champions."
For Glen Ridge Track program, the Indoor season was a successful one, but it was just one step along it's long-tem goal: to become a Track powerhouse in all three season.
"My goal is to build a successful track and field program here at Glen Ridge," said Ford. "I think we are taking the steps, not myself , but with the coaching staff and the enthusiasm we have. We're going to see that in a couple years. We're working on hurdles now, we're working on shot put. We have a shot put coach and a good field event coach."
Junior Reid Hawkins is looking to put Glen Ridge as a team on the leader boards for meets in the spring. Hawkins wasn't able to make the Groups because of injuries, mostly due to growth in his legs, that he suffered towards the end of the year.
"Being injured was obviously a major issue, but I'm healthy now and looking forward to spring when we should be performing well in relays, individual events, and maybe even winning some meets overall with the really strong team that we have right now," said Reid.
Coach Ford plans to bring Glen Ridge to the Penn Relays at the University of Pennsylvania. This event is one of the largest Track and Field events in country, where world-class runners will perform. Since this is an Olympic year, the team will be able to see big-name runners such as Usain Bolt run at Penn.


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never got to do my last mock after the super bowl, so i'm doing it now.. What a ride, the 2011 season was for us..
1. Dwayne Allen Te Clemson- I think Allen makes to much sense, and if hes there, with the injury to ballard and beckum, will be the pick... Allen would also help ease the pain of losing mario as well(if we do lose mario, which i think we will)
2. Bobbie Massie Ot Ole Miss- A really solid tackle prospect, whos under the radar some , for the bad season the rebels had this past yr, but i can remember seeing Massie as a 1st rder by some going into this past season.. Massie would give us depth at the Tackle positon, which is a need, and he could challenge James Brewer for the future at RT, and probably fill in for Will Beatty down the line at LT if need be...
3. Nigel Bradham Lb Fla St- Good looking thumper from FLA ST, who could probably play Strongside, and weakside if need be.... Great intensity, which would fit well with the young players we got coming along on defnese..
4. Vick Ballard Rb Miss St- Thumper would be great duo back with Bradshaw going forward, regardless if we keep BJ or not.. Very underrated in a class full of depth at RB...
5. Tysyn Hartman S Kan St- good size and length, and makes plays.. Was heart of backfield on stong defensive unit at K-st this past season... Kinda flying under the radar, and could fill the role Deon Grant played for us the past couple seasons..
6. Chandler Harnish Qb No Illinois- Nice developmental QB, who can run with the ball and throw it..
7. D'anton Lynn Cb Penn St- fits the giants prefrence of bigger stronger CB's, and could possibly stick..[/quote]Love rounds 2-4. I like Allen, I just prefer Fleener and I really don't even want a TE with the first pick. So overall, very good. Massie will be a stud.[/quote] Massie weighed in at 6ft 6in 316lbs with 35in arms... I like em more and more... This guys gonna be a freaking stud!~


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This is the fourth installment in a series inspired by exchanges with Jerry Coyne. Readers might want to read the first in the series for orientation.
The third straw man I want to examine is the claim about philosophical consistency, which is used repeatedly to argue that science and religion are incompatible. Accommodationists like myself and my colleagues at BioLogos claim that a scientist can be religious. Francis Collins can go to church without having a logic-induced seizure or needing to put his fingers in his ears and singing "La La La La" while the sermon is being preached. But,according to Coyne, he can do this only by being philosophically inconsistent, and that is automatically bad.
A rather dreadful analogy circulates on this point, comparing a religious scientist to a priest who is a pedophile. New Atheists argue that just as we know that the existence of pedophiliac priests does not establish a philosophical compatibility between Catholicism and pedophilia, so too the existence of religious scientists does not establish that religion and science are philosophically compatible. I did my best to demolish that malignant analogy in a recent piece on The Huffington Post.
What I want to look at here is the question of philosophical consistency and exactly how high a pedestal it should be placed on. Is it the case that people or ideas that are philosophically inconsistent have no credibility?
There are two things to note here: 1) science is itself plagued by some deep internal philosophical inconsistencies so the black pot of science should exercise caution in noting the color of other people's kettles; and 2) philosophical consistency is an ambiguous virtue at best.
For centuries, philosophers have tried to establish a philosophical foundation for science. Science, from its inception, was impressively adept at acquiring knowledge and, in contrast to warring religious factions, seemed fully capable of achieving agreement among its practitioners. Interest in how science worked ran high, both for its own sake, and to illuminate the dark corridors of other fields. A companion discipline called the "philosophy of science" sprang up with the goal to figure out the rules of science—the scientific method—and perhaps create a prescription that could be used by anyone seeking knowledge.
All of the earliest scientists—Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Descartes—addressed questions of scientific method, explaining to their generation how nature should be investigated. One of the more articulate discussions was that of Francis Bacon, who argued that science was an inductive enterprise. Scientists should free their minds of preconceptions and bow humbly before the facts of the world, which will assemble themselves on the blank slates of their minds into generalizations, uncontaminated by the prejudices of the scientist.
Bacon's scientific method had a certain appealing purity, but everybody knew that science just didn't work that way. Scientists simply could not pursue facts in isolation from some idea guiding the selection of those facts. (Imagine going into a town where everyone was sick from a mysterious illness and gathering information with no preconceptions about what sorts of things that cause illnesses. You would record birthdays, favorite songs, shopping patterns, vacation schedules and recent eating habits with no idea which of those disconnected facts were more likely to be relevant.) Subsequent efforts to improve on Bacon failed to produce a satisfactory philosophy of science. Perhaps the most interesting of these failures was that of Karl Popper, who argued almost the exact opposite of Bacon.
Popper advanced the idea that scientists should creatively conjure whatever imaginative explanation suited their fancy and then try to falsify it. Any conjecture that could, in principle, be falsified met Popper's criterion for being a scientific claim. Popper was quite influential and, in a 1982 court ruling in Little Rock, Arkansas, Judge Overton ruled that creation science was not scientific because it could not be falsified. (He also had other critiques.)
Philosophers of science were critical of Overton's decision and produced arguments why Popper's falsification was inadequate. In fact, Popper should have known better for there were ample historical examples making this clear. Newton's theory of gravity was, in fact, "falsified" by observations that ran counter to it—Saturn's orbit didn't follow the law of gravity. But he and his fellow "Newtonians" stubbornly refused to surrender and soon the falsifying observations were shown to have been misinterpreted—unknown planet Uranus was occasionally disrupting Neptune's orbit. The chief objection to falsification is that there exists no simple way to isolate a particular idea from its larger context to in order to try and falsify it all by itself. Most scientific ideas are embedded in a network of supporting ideas and, if the idea "fails," it is hard to specify exactly where the failure occurred.
Most philosophers of science have now abandoned arguments trying to specify the rules of science. Thus there is no specified philosophical framework for science to be juxtaposed against another set of ideas. (Anticipating wild cheering from constructivists, I hasten to point out that this does not imply that "anything goes." What it does imply is that the "boundary" that separates science from non-science is not well defined. Ideas far from that boundary can be labeled science or non-science without ambiguity.)
Things get even worse when we look more closely at particular scientific ideas in light of each other. There is a widely known contradiction in physics between General Relativity—the science of the very large—and Quantum Mechanics—the science of the very small. In certain circumstances, like black holes, they contradict each other by predicting incompatible things. To believe in the truth of things that contradict each other is the very definition of philosophical inconsistency.
Coyne is certainly free to disparage religious believers for being philosophically inconsistent but he needs to know that every physicist in the scientific community, in embracing both General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics, is also forced to be philosophically inconsistent. The physics of the 20th century turned out to be riddled with these sorts of problems. Neils Bohr noted this famously when he said: "There are trivial truths and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true."1
I don't want to over emphasize this point and end up creating my own straw man argument. Coyne is right that there are important and profound tensions between the scientific and religious ways of understanding the world—tensions that do not simply go away by noting that science has been unable to articulate its own rules so that they can be applied in all investigations without ambiguity. It would be an egregious straw man argument to leap from this argument to the conclusion that scientific and religious truth claims are comparably problematic. Religious claims are much more challenging.
However, I think it is fair to say that there is no simple a priori argument that scientific and religious ways of thinking are incompatible. If you look at the reasons why some cosmologists endorse the existence of multiple universes, they bear a faint resemblance to the reasons why some believers endorse the existence of God.
1. Editor's note: Bohr was saying, in a paradoxical way, that contradictory things can both be true.


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Student uses linguistics to compare Turkish and American music
Maria Cupery compared the top ten song charts in Turkey and the United States for her research project. She presented her findings at a national conference this spring.
May 21, 2014 | Connor Sterchi
Fulbright to teach English in Turkey
Emily Pope is captivated by the history, archeology and culture of the Middle East.
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That would be interesting to get.
"Shakin' it over here, boss"
That would be interesting to get.
"To show you how radical I am, I want carjackers dead. I want rapists dead. I want burglars dead. I want child molesters dead. I want the bad guys dead. No court case. No parole. No early release. I want 'em dead. Get a gun and when they attack you, shoot 'em."
Ted Nugent - speaking at the NRA convention April 17, 2005
unless BHO and Mr holder need to send these to there friends south of the border, I doubt they will let them in here, heck we can't have WW2 & Korean war semi's
Sprat and sprat1 are one and the same.
That would be interesting if they do import a civilian version. I'd love to check it out and test it. I would really love one of those 60 round mags, just for kicks.
Enforcement, NOT Amnesty!!!!!!
"If theyre going to come here illegally, apply for & receive assistance through a corrupted Government agency encouraging this lawless behavior, work under the table & send billions of dollars each year back to their families in Mexico, while bleeding local economies dry, protest in our streets waving their Mexican flags DEMANDING rights, while I have to press 1′ for English, then they need to be shipped back to where they came from!" -Chad Miller
I finally got to shoot one of the Sagia 12's the other day and I honestly don't see what all the hype is about,,I think they suck myself, hate them ! Yea, they'll lay down a hell of a field of fire,,,
but bunnies don't really scare me that much!!
Both my mossy 500's do everything I need a shotgun to do, and will do most things better IMHO. I don't need no stinking , clunky 12 pound shotgun, thanks anyways, I'll be passing on one myself.
You guys can have my share though,,,,Have at it,,,that's one more in the supply chain for whom ever.
I guess reading the link before you tried to comment on it was just too much effort?
Maybe you need to read the article too?
But to give an idea of what it's about, they only mention these caliber; 545x39, 556x45, 762x39 & 762x51Hmm, maybe the 12 in AK-12 is for 2012?The Russian military hasnt had a significant assault rifle upgrade since the AK-74, but that is about to change with the adoption of the AK-12, which is entering service in 2014
"Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem" Ronald Reagan
DUH,,,I guess I'd better read it better too, I just took a quick glance and thought it was just another 12 ga AK platform,,Get With The Program Les!!!! Gezzzzz!


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Enjoy the gastronomic fair "Bio & Co"!
Size16 m²
Floor No.1(with elevator)
- Family/child friendly
- Kitchen
- Parking available
- Smoking allowed
- Breakfast
- Elevator in building
- Balcony/terrace
Accommodation summary
|Rue d'Andlau, 67800 Strasbourg, France
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I offer a charming and comfortable room accommodating two people and I propose a delicious continental breakfast for a great start in your day! My flat is located on the first floor of a small building and can be accessed by elevator. It is located in a calm and friendly district, 50m away from the tram station "Général De Gaulle". The B line will take you to the city center in less than 12 minutes.
You can also take advantage of a private parking space right in front of my building.
Clean sheets and towels will be kept available. The toilets and bathroom are separated; the latter contains a bathtub. You will be given access to the kitchen, equipped with a micro-wave oven and a refrigerator, as well as to the living room. A large balcony with view over a park is also available for my smoking guests.
I will do my best to make your stay in Strasbourg unforgettable and will welcome you either in french or in english.You can count on me to give you all my good tips to discover the city!
TIP OF THE MONTH: The gastronomic fair "Bio & Co" will be held during from May 5 to May 8, from 10AM to 7PM. The fair takes place in the Wacken Exhibition Center, a stone's throw away from my place.
House rulesSmoker-friendly: my guests are welcome to smoke on the balcony.
No pets allowed!
|Price for > 1 guests
|$ 12 US per guest/night extra
|Maximum nights
|2 weeks
|Check-in after
|On arrangement
|Check-in before
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|Check-out before
|Cancellation Policy
Reviews of this property
We spent 3 nights at Cliff´s home and appreciated very much his helpful and warmhearted hosting. As we didn´t have exact plans for our stay in Strasbourg he gave us a lot of tips what to do and see there. The room was clean although the building itself could need some renovation.
The bathroom was shared with another guest. All in all we liked our stay in Strasbourg very much. If you visit Cliff, you should also ask him to tell the story how he met the pope of rome.
Very Friendly and helpful guy with a nice place to stay.
He gave us also a lot of information about Straßburg and even drow us a map of the city. We would enjoy to come back some time.
Stephan and Lara
Clifford is a very nice and helpful man - and spontanous! We decided to go to Strasbourg 2 hours before arriving there and the next day to stay another night. No problem for Cliff! He gave us very good recommendation for concerts, restaurants and wine addresses.
The appartment is very nice and clean and in a quiet settlement.
Merci beaucoup, Cliff! Cordialement, Betwi de Stuttgart;-)
We really enjoyed our stay at Clifford's home. He is such a nice and open person. We talked a lot to him. He went with us in the city to show us some nice places. The breakfast in the morning was prepared with love ;) the room is simple but there is everything you need! Thanks Clifford for everything!
The room is big enough for two people. The neighborhood is quiet and safe. Clifford is a very nice person and personally cares for all his guests very much. The whole apartment can be used and it is tidy and clean.
We were received with great warmth and kindness.
My husband was ill and at 5 am, Clifford did not hesitate to call SOS doctors then accompanied me to the pharmacy.
He was very concerned about our well-being.
We would not find it more helpful and friendly.
If the opportunity arises we would not hesitate to return home.
Nous avons été reçus avec beaucoup de chaleur et de gentillesse.
Mon mari a été souffrant et, à 5 heures du matin, Clifford n'a pas hésité à appeler SOS médecins puis m'a accompagnée à la pharmacie.
Il a été très soucieux de notre bien-être.
Nous n'aurions pas plus trouver plus gentil et serviable.
Si l'occasion se présente nous n'hésiterions pas à retourner chez lui.
Pleasant, Friendly and available. Good relationship, competent and rich in review useful places for the traveler.
Agréable, Sympa et disponible. Bonne relation, compétant et riche en avis sur les lieux utiles pour le voyageur.
we were greeted like royalty. Clifford has a heart as big as that ... He likes to talk and be discreet to leave your place. His kindness will caption if not already done. The apartment is very quiet, excellent bedding. The tram is not 3. Really great.
nous avons été accueillis comme des rois. Clifford a un coeur gros comme ça... Il aime discuter et se montrer discret pour vous laisser votre place. Sa gentillesse fera légende si ce n'est déjà fait. L'appartement est très calme, la literie excellente. Le tram est à 3 pas. Vraiment super.
Great time, great welcome!
Super séjour,super accueil!
Now I have been soooo many times in Strasbourg, but never as comfortable and relaxed as now the 3 days at Cliff.
A better guide, I can not imagine and I enjoyed our "smoke evenings" on the balcony very .... :-)
Any time!
jetzt war ich schon soooo oft in Straßbourg, aber noch nie so bequem und relaxt wie jetzt die 3 Tage bei Cliff.
Einen besseren Stadtführer kann ich mir nicht vorstellen und ich habe unsere "RauchAbende" auf dem Balkon sehr genossen.... :-)
Jederzeit wieder!
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