Continuing on from yesterdayâs item, thereâs a picture of all four fireworks at the link in the title. The articleâs the same as the one Mike linked to yesterday. Via Damian Penny.
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Well, this was in Denver. The air is thinner there, so the ball would go farther. And if a really strong gust came in at the right moment, it could go that far I suppose. Also take into account the fact that if the angle was right, the ball would have rolled on the ground a long time.
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Happy Gilmore lives.
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Question #1. Is the hole a sharp dogleg that runs down hill? Over an out of bounds area? A true "risk and reward" hole? Was there water involved? It says a marshy area so maybe it was?
I see several things wrong with this. 1) The penalty for a lost ball is always stroke and distance. he should of gone back to the tee and hit again hitting 3 (the exceptions for this are water hazards). @) Did he have any Identifying marks on his ball? Initials or some other such thing? If he did no doubt about it. Besides he's not the first guy to ace a par five. A club pro in England did a few years back the same day the clubs women pro shot a 2 (albatross) on the ifrst hole at the club (par 5, 90d dogleg, downhill with an OOB area that they had to drive over. So it can be done.
The only questio out there is just what title do you give this feat. 2 under is eagle, 3 under is albatross. $ under I IIRC they were talking about calling a condor to stick with avian names
As an aside a friend of mine had an "Ace" at one of the local clubs by putting the ball into the hole on the wrong hole with an errant drive. And that was an much tougher shot than the way the hole is normally played
Hot
Dry
Windy (30mph Tailwind)
Thin air (Denver, probably closer to 6000 ft)
Clubs:
Ball designed to fly.
Using composite specialty drivers.
Course:
Some downhill, and a dogleg, which was described as a "sharp right" after the swampy area. Rough described as "very shaort" - and Colorado is in a drought last several years including last year when this guy hit it, so it probably was very hard ground (meaning a lot of roll and very little bite).
Golfer:
The guy usually hits 250-300 on his drives and is a 4 handicapper so he hits straight.
That takes care of the drive - yep he may have hit it 350+ on the fly in those conditions, and the dogleg cuts the 517 down.
Then, to top it off, they think he hit one of the CONCRETE yardage markers - which, after a huge drive, would cause the ball to really bounce a LOOOONG ways.
So given all those conditions and a bit of luck (the yardage markers), its not impossible to ace a 500 yarder. But its still incredible.
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I'd be suspicious about this if the guy they waved through and who was 'ahead' of them and who didn't see anything, was a doctor or a lawyer or somesuch. But you can't find a person more honest and reliable than a groundskeeper (see Bill Murry in Caddyshack), even if you can't remember his name. I'm sure the ball couldn't have landed near him while he was right around the corner of the dogleg, just out of sight, and he didn't pick it up, hop into his golf cart, and put it in the hole. A groundskeeper would never do anything like that. Just about anybody else might (though he would have to be extremely deviant and evil) but not a groundskeeper, being so in touch with nature and the land, and being bound by the Groundskeepers Oath of Conduct and such.
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EFL (a little - too much good stuff to leave it out).
The ArchDruidbishop of Canterbury has again been pronouncing on British foreign policy. Last week, it emerged that Dr Rowan Williams had, with Dr David Hope, the ArchDruidbishop of York, written to the Prime Minister criticising "recent developments in Iraq and the Middle East". *snip*
Dr Williamsâs belief that Christendom and Islam are one was perhaps most apparent on December 21, 2003, when he condemned the detention of Muslim asylum-seekers who, the authorities believed, were planning atrocities against the Britain on whose mercy they had thrust themselves. "There is theological debate here which is real and deep," Williams said on that occasion of his relationship with Islam, "because we share some history killing each other and we can discuss it."
Can we discuss the fact that the Muslims here, all recent immigrants, enjoy rights - for instance to propagate their religion - that are unavailable to the Christians of the Muslim world? This is despite the fact that these Christians are the original inhabitants and rightful owners of almost every Muslim land, Preach it LOUD, brother. And watch your back.
and behave with a humility quite unlike the menacing behaviour we have come to expect from the Muslims who have forced themselves on Christendom, a bullying ingratitude that culminates in a terrorist threat to their unconsulted hosts.
Dr Williams has nothing to say about this: but then, Christian passivity in the face of Muslim narcissism and aggression is nothing new. "The history we share" is that Mohammed enjoined his followers to spread Islam by the sword. After his death in 632, Muslim armies poured out of the Arabian peninsula (the only place to which Muslims are native, though even there Islam was imposed by force) and, unprovoked, attacked its neighbours. Gee, nothingâs changed, has it?
Christian Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Anatolia, Spain, the Balkans, the Maghreb and Sicily, as well as Buddhist central Asia, Zoroastrian Iran and Hindu India, all became "Muslim" by virtue of naked imperialism. The indigenous non-Muslims were either exterminated (the fate of the Christians of North Africa), or reduced to the status of third-class citizens in their own countries, their fate to this day. And now the moslems are planning it for the Western countries, through stealth and immigration.
The Crusades - for which the Pope has apologised to Islam (he did so again last week), rather as an old lady might apologise to a mugger for trying to retrieve her purse - were simply an attempt by medieval Christians to get their homelands back. Spain, Sicily, and parts of the Balkans were recovered. Palestine wasnât, though the Muslim colonisers there - who are no more "native" to the Holy Land than the European Jews who removed them - were largely ejected in 1948. It goes without saying that todayâs Muslims - who, unlike todayâs Westerners, are very proud of their history of imperialism - are highly indignant at being parted from this stolen property. Hope youâve got a bodyguard, Mr. Cummins - moslems donât like infidels speaking the TRUTH.
As the Popeâs statement shows, Dr Williamsâs willingness to swallow the camel of Islamâs treatment of others while straining at the gnat of Christendomâs "sins" against Islam is traditional. What is unprecedented is the theological concession implicit in his remarks, ie that Islam is part of the Judaeo-Christian continuum. This idea naturally lends credence to the Muslim claim that Christ is not God, but just one in a line of Judaeo-Christian "prophets" whose "seal" is Mohammed, a claim which allows Islam to appropriate to itself the greater achievements of the Judaeo-Christian world.
As Councillor Fiyaz Mughal of Oxford wrote, in a letter to The Independent of Christmas Eve 2003 supporting Dr Williams, Christianity and Judaism are, to Muslims, "part of their own belief". And are thereby negated: for why bother to remain within Christianity or Judaism when the more "perfect" form of both is Islam? This presumptuous attitude to other faiths is so characteristic of Islam that the philosopher Konrad Elst has called it "jihad negationism". He has pointed out that its physical manifestation is Islamâs practice of eradicating older religions by planting mosques on their holiest sites; for instance, the Babri mosque in Ayodhya, the birthplace, to Hindus, of Ram; and the Omar mosque on the platform of the Temple in Jerusalem, the Holy of Holies of the Jewish people for millennia.
The endorsement by Dr Williams the ArchDruid of the idea of continuity between Christianity and Islam violates the teaching of every Church father since Muslim communities first appeared in the seventh century. These cite Christâs own warning that people would arrive in His wake claiming to bear a message from God superseding the Incarnationâs: "Beware of false prophets. They come to you in sheepâs clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. By their fruit you will recognise them."
The "fruit" of Islam is all around us: we can draw our own conclusions. It is felt in the presence of the Muslims who have fled to a thriving Christendom from the failure and horror of the Muslim world. (Would Muslims show a similar hospitality? It seems unlikely when they rail against the five million Jews who have settled in Israel, while gloating over the fact that 20 million Muslims in less than 30 years have inundated Europe.) These immigrants seem not to realise that the need they feel to flee Islam negates everything they say in its favour, as well as rendering absurd their constant anti-Western diatribes. The ArchDruidbishop of Canterbury has no such excuse. Bitch-slap extraordinaire! Maybe somebodyâs waking up?
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Bravo!!
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Mohammed....the ORIGINAL L. Ron Hubbard. Great article. Too bad people of the world today can't see what is right in front of their face.
Hat Tip: Lucianne BBC reports âlittered with errorsâ
By Chris Hastings, Media Correspondent
(Filed: 04/07/2004)
A significant number of BBC news reports are untrustworthy and littered with errors because the corporationâs journalists fail to check their facts, according to e-mails sent by one of the BBCâs most senior news managers. His messages reveal that the credibility of the news service is "on the line" because of a climate of sloppiness. So many rumors to invent chase, so little integrity time.
The internal memos, which have been obtained by The Telegraph, highlight concerns about the standard of journalism on local BBC television and radio, as well as on the BBCâs flagship News Online service. They suggest that the corporation is struggling to keep its promise to improve the standards of its news services following damning criticisms levelled against it by the Hutton inquiry into the death of Dr David Kelly. Struggling? Improve? How about just slowing the rate of decline?
The BBC was criticised by Lord Hutton after it emerged that Andrew Gilligan, the Radio 4 Today programme journalist - whose flawed story about the background to the Governmentâs claims on Iraqâs weapons of mass destruction was at the centre of the inquiry - had filed his report without it being checked by station managers. In their frenzied bid to topple Blair, perhaps? The Press Creed: To move UP the Food Chain, you must bring Somebody DOWN.
The leaked e-mails sent by Hugh Berlyn, an assistant editor of BBC News Online, show that despite the furore surrounding the Gilligan report, dozens of "unvetted" stories appear on the internet every day. The result is a string of stories that are, at best, littered with errors and, at worst, inaccurate and potentially libellous. I would suggest to Berlyn that "littered with errors" and "inaccurate" can be reasonably described as synonymous. Thus there is no difference between the "best" and "worst" of Beeb reportage. It all sucks to some degree.
In an e-mail last October, Mr Berlyn said journalists were not showing their reports to managers, who are supposed to check them in accordance with BBC rules. He wrote: "Yesterday we carried out a study of how many of your stories were being properly checked by a second pair of eyes before publication. To my surprise and concern, more than 60 stories around the country were apparently published without being second-checked." And Beeb Mgrs get paid for this non-performance?
Another e-mail, sent in February, said that the number of "justified complaints" about the lack of accuracy in spelling, names, grammar or simple detail was growing. Mr Berlyn told staff that he received dozens of complaints a day. "I really think the level of complaints is such that our credibility is on the line and that cannot be allowed to continue." Lol! The Understatement of the New Millenium regards Journalistic Standards. Meanwhile, over at the NYT... same, same.
Although his memos were addressed to staff at BBC Online, they highlight concern about local studios, which provide the internet service with much of its material. He said that it was no longer acceptable for News Online staff to justify mistakes by saying: "Thatâs what was in the radio and TV copy." He wrote: "We have to accept that the standard of journalism in local radio and regional TV is not the same as that required by News Online." Hysterical! Errors are okay in broadcast but less so for online? How about an internal single-source for copy / film which has been thoroughly vetted? F**kin Duh.
BBC Online is the most popular website in Europe, receiving 1.9 billion hits a month. It has two million internet pages. One misled customer is too many when the errors are preventable with minimum effort.
A BBC spokesman insisted last night that it had confidence in its journalists. "Since these e-mails were written, tighter procedures for checking copy have been put in place." The BBC has committed itself to implementing measures recommended by Ron Neil, the former head of news. Mr Neil, who was asked to investigate news services following the Hutton Inquiry, has recommended the establishment of a journalism college and expansion of local news services. Funny, I hadnât noticed a difference. If they ever get their act together enough to root out the agenda specialists, perhaps they can stage a comeback. With the Telegraph "outting" the Beeb, how does one classify this? Red on Red -- or Blue on Red?
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Much of the outright lies and hate directed at the US is the work product of the BBC. Don't expect it to get better. These are the dumb F***s that use the word "militants" to describe criminals and terrorists. They also put out pure crap about how the UK doesn't do enough to make imigrants who will never try and assimilate "feel welcome. These folks will never get it.
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Anonymous14453: Like the false story about WMD !
A "false" story that was corroborated by just about every intelligence agency in the world. Besides, we haven't found bin Laden yet. Does that mean he doesn't exist?
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Anonymous5430: Much of the outright lies and hate directed at the US is the work product of the BBC. Don't expect it to get better. These are the dumb F***s that use the word "militants" to describe criminals and terrorists.
It's not just al-Beeb. The Economist and the Financial Times have been on the same road for several years now. If they keep this up, they can kiss the non-hatriotic bits of their US market goodbye.
Lastnight on Fox News Bill OâReilly interviewed his fellow anchor, John Gibson, who has been censured by the British government, according to the Fox report. He had been particularly caustic about the actions of BBC reporter Andrew Gilligan and the Dr David Kelly affair. Gibson correctly stated that it is a golden rule in British broadcasting that anchors and reporters not editorialise. OâReiily, in unusually mellow tones, waxed lyrical about the BBC and its high standards.
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I'd noticed that the Economist had got a bit Anti-American over recent years (rather dumb for a publication based on Economics to decry the worlds largest economy, no?)
As for the FT, I've not read it enough in recent years to be able to give a definitive opinion, but there are certainly overtones there - again, not a particularly sensible move.
And by the way, a very Happy Independence Day to our former colonies! :)
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Cynic - I watched that very interview the other night. O'Reilly was waxing lyrical about the high standards of the BBC of days gone by, not the current Beeb.
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Oh, and Gibson was talking about the fact that he had been "censured" by Beeb for expressing his own opinion, labeled as opinion. You can "editorialize" through your choice of articles, through your headline writers, and in the course of the editing process. And of course there's also the use of 'quotes.'
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Some years ago, I briefly wrote a column for a local "arts and entertainment" monthly (that is, a hippy gimme rag).
I soon learned that the editor was the worst status snob I had ever heard of (declaring that "peons" like receptionists and janitors did not deserve respect), that she lied to advertisers about circulation (overstating it by 200%) and, conveniently enough, that she seldom bothered to review content before sending the new issue off to the printer.
I therefore inserted this passage into my next column:
"[editor] is a cretin and a fraud, nobody but her friends and a few doper-cranks read this stupid rag, and this is my last column"
Sure enough, it went to print exactly as I had submitted it, and it was indeed my last column. The editor threw an altogether satisfying hissy-fit. She even blurted out that she would sue me for libel before I pointed out that this would inevitably mean suing herself and her own paper.
Problems switching to breeder technology, but the usual politix.
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"Instead of reprocessing fuel, it would be wise for Japan to establish an interim storage space for spent fuel," like the U.S.-proposed site at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, Fetter said.
I would make it like Yucca, but with a slight modification. It would actually open for business.
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The country's first experimental fast-breeder reactor, Monju, also has been off-line since 1995, when more than a ton of volatile liquid sodium leaked from its cooling system.
The US Navy tried liquid sodium as the coolant in the 50's. The USS Seawolf (not the currently commissioned Seawolf) used it for 2 years. The Navy gave up on it because liquid sodium is highly corrosive and flammable. 1000 miles from land underwater + sealed compartment + leaking radioactive goo on fire = bad juju.
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Holy shia! They were using a sodium cooled breeder reactor?
Jesus... now crazy on three levels... but if it works it must be way the hell efficient.
Should have tried a carbon composite containment dome just test all systems at once.
old Larson carton
Dr. Zango tests his radical cure for fear of heights, snakes and enclosed spaces.
Cartoon of a telephone booth stuffed with patients hanging 200 feet over a snake pit.
Birminghamâs first Muslim lingerie shop has been targeted in a hate attack - for looking too much like a "porn parlour". Sisterâs Secrets in Balsall Heath was petrol-bombed just days after opening last week. The arrival of the store on Taunton Street has angered Muslim traditionalists who are suspicious about its blacked-out windows, alarmed door and suggestive name. Its strict women-only policy has also heightened fears that it could be an adult shop selling porn and sex toys. One local said last night: "I donât have a problem with a shop that sells underwear like Marks and Spencer. But this looks like a seedy porn parlour. A lot of local Muslims are upset because they canât see whatâs inside. Some women whoâve gone in say it sells very sexy underwear, lacy basques and thongs in all kinds of colours. One or two think that in itself is degrading to Muslim women." Birmingham Central Mosque, which does not object to the shop, confirmed it had been inundated with complaints. "We have received complaints that certain individuals believe the public may mistake the lingerie store for a sex shop because of how itâs portrayed," said a spokesman. "This may not reflect positively on the sisters who are visiting this store."
Last night owner Umm Zakariah, 31, from Balsall Heath - a Muslim who wears the traditional veil and full-length gown in public - vowed the attack would not drive her out of business. "Weâre not sure exactly what was thrown because it happened in the middle of the night," she said. "But we think it was probably a petrol bomb. It was thrown at the shopâs sign which bears our name, Sisters Secrets. This makes us think that tradition-alists rather than younger folk were responsible. "It cost us £300 to put up a new one, this time with the name La Femme. Iâm still keeping the original name for marketing purposes, though." She vowed that the attack would not deter her from carrying on the lingerie trade. "The shop is for all women," she said. "Yes, itâs run by Muslims and most of our customers are Muslims but all women are welcome. Weâve had black and white women coming in to have a look. The windows are blacked out because we want to keep an air of mystery about whatâs inside. All Iâm doing is providing a much-needed service. My husband and I went to Syria recently and I wanted to buy some underwear but all the shops were run by men. In the ordinary underwear shops in Birmingham there are always male customers about. Most women choosing lingerie would prefer some privacy. And most would prefer to give their measurements to a female assistant rather than a man. A lot of women, most of them Muslim, have told us they love the shop."
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Don't like the burkas that stop at the knees and the veils that show off the cheekbones, huh? I still say we should carpet-bomb Islamic countries with Victoria's Secret catalogs . . .
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Constitution extends majority voting to greater areas of legislation, but has retained the national veto on issues such as economic policy, defence and foreign affairs.
Jumpin' Jeezus on a pogo stick! The Brits actually agreed to what the EU/UN has been trying (unsuccessfully) to do to us for years.
I greatly admire and respect Britain, but their government has gone fucking NUTS!
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EU economics commissioner Joaquin Almunia wants ministers to approve an "early warning" which could lead to fines for Italy for breaching EU's deficit rules.
LOL! Aris! Give us the lowdown on why Italy will be sanctioned and not France or Belgium.
Got this from my cousin,she is a liberial who can not stand Kerry. Go figure!
During a campaign tour of the Apache Nation Wednesday, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said he had a plan to increase every Native Americanâs income by $40,000 a year. Senator Kerry refused repeated requests for details of his plan, however. He also told the Apaches that during his Senate career, he has voted YES 9,637 times for every Indian issue ever introduced.
Before his departure, the Apache Tribe presented the Presidential candidate a plaque inscribed with his new Indian name, Running Eagle.
After Kerry left, tribal officials explained that Running Eagle is a bird so full of shit it canât fly.
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After Kerry left, tribal officials explained that Running Eagle is a bird so full of shit it canât fly.
No! - that's got to be a wind-up! If it isn't, then it's a superb slap-down!
Also, a Happy Independence day to our former colonists! :)
(I'm repeating this in every comment I make today, as it's worth repeating...)
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Raptor - You're blocking cookies. RB tries to write a cookie to your machine when you post a comment - with your nym being one of the data items (The only item, Fred?) saved. If you're paranoid, and tracking cookies (in conjunction with registry changes and other stuff) can be part of a malicious spyware gig on your machine. No big deal most of the time except it will slooooooooow your machine down while it reports back to its master where you go and what you do. Doh!
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I was actually suprised this past week not to hear one idiot complain "just think what we could of done with al that money 'wasted' in space" As if the money spent on these types on projects ever leaves the economy. But not once do I ever hear the morons that mouth these views demand that the money spent on schools, social programs and the like be spent wisely or even accountability be taken into account.
Now as to the science teams at JPL and elsewhere being suprised. If they knew the answers the Cassini probe would never of been launched or built. Also the anti nuclear crowd tried to get the mission scrubed at the last minute in enviormental grounds
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What a shocker. A "theory" is wrong. So what? Does anyone out there (not you all) really want to accept and acknowledge what an accomplishment this program is? Or the twin Mars rovers? Or SpaceshipOne? And what we can learn from all of them collectively?
I haven't heard any complaining yet, either, but I'm sure it'll come. There are so many armchair experts out there who second-guess everything and hope for failure in every endeavor (the WoT, the American Way, etc). Not sure what's going on in society, but I hope this cynicism cools down soon.
Sorry for the rant, but I just got fired up. I love the Space Program. Here's a good link for updates on the Cassini probe, too: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/
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I'm still trying to grok how we can be exploring Mars and Saturn simultaneously, whilst over in The Big Sandy, subhumans high on the smell of blood are hacking heads off. It. Does. Not. Compute.
I know what you mean. And that's precisely why we need to win the WoT, so we aren't just looking at the stars wondering what's out there -- we're actually exploring them. They can stay in the 7th Century over there if they want. Don't force the rest of us to live that way...
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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