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October 31, 2003
A Hard Man's just reward.
Mirror.co.uk - COLONEL COLLINS GIVEN OBE
CIGAR-chomping Gulf hero Colonel Tim Collins has been awarded an OBE in the war honours list.
It is proof the brave 43-year-old nicknamed Nails performed in an exemplary fashion during the conflict.
The Royal Military Police earlier cleared him of mistreating prisoners. after a US soldier complained.
Throughout the war, the Ulster-born dad-of-five led the 1st Battalion Royal Irish Regiment from the front, taking on Iraqi fighters personally.
His moving eve of war speech, when he urged his men to be "ferocious in battle but magnanimous in defeat" so impressed George Bush he hung up a copy in the White House.
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Youngsters today - huh!
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Trooper who saved friend in face of friendly fire awarded George Cross
The highest British honour for gallantry has been awarded to a 19-year-old soldier for his bravery after being attacked by US aircraft in a "friendly fire" assault during the war in Iraq, it is revealed today. Trooper Chris Finney of the Household Cavalry Regiment was awarded the rare George Cross, which has equal status with the Victoria Cross, after he struggled to haul his colleagues from a burning tank while being shot at.
The VC is only awarded to those who come under enemy fire.
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October 30, 2003
Can you stand more on the Tories?
The Edge of England's Sword reports what the BBC has to say.
After years of self destruction, the Tories appear to have snapped out of it and decided to turn their energies onto the government...But the apparent deal to ease Michael Howard into the leadership not only shows a parliamentary party finally accepting it has to unite or die - to quote its ousted leader.
It also shows that the rival factions seem to have learned the lesson Labour did two decades ago - political purity must come second to winning.
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Tory Turmoil - over?
For once the Tories have amazed me and done something sensible, all rallied round one person and decided to get on with life - I wouldn't have chosen Howard myself - but they needed to STFU and get on with fighting Labour rather than fighting each other.
UK free democrats has written on this better than I could.
They only thing that could spoil the party is if the traitor Clarke chucks his hat in..
So Yeo, Davis, Letwin, Fox have all ruled themselves out. Clarke has not ruled himself out but with even Stephen Dorrell supporting Howard the writing is on the wall. Unless Ancram decides to push it to a vote, which given the Ancram good guy image is unlikely it will be Howard without a contest. The remakable thing is the Tories do look as if they will rally round, on Newsnight Dorrell, Boles, Letwin and Yeo all effectively endorsed him so did Stuart Wheeler. So the left of the party is on board with a candidate precieved to be on the right. Norman Fowler came on to say what a great guy he is.
What's more Howard is the continuity candidate he will policy wise not change much - a good thing. Davis would probably have been better at getting floating voters but that would have been squandered with division and Howard promises to bring unity.
If this happens we can expect a Davis promotion perhaps to Shadow Chancellor. Howard is an old man at 62 a unified partyHoward fights the next election and his popular Shadow Chancellor David Davis wins the leadership taking them on to victory in 2010. stranger things have happened.
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Farrow's Cream
Darlings, I have had the new place tastefully decorated in Farrow & Ball Colours. The background is "Farrow's Cream", the sidebar "Printroom Yellow" and the Title bar "Bookroom Red". I think this gives this site a traditional restrained English Country house look - Your comments?
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Lib Dems at work.
Hurray for the workers - as always the only good thing about a Lib Dem council is that come the Glorious Day they make sure there will be enough Lamposts for every single one of them...
thisisSouthDevon : Herald Express News : UP THE POLE
Moves to replace Union flags around Torbay with European Union emblems have triggered a Town Hall revolt.
Council workers have mounted an official protest over plans to take down the British and English flags at seafront locations in Torquay and Paignton. The ruling Liberal Democrats also want to take down the St George's flag and Union flag at the Town Hall in Torquay.
They would be replaced by the EU flag and "rotated" so the St George's and Union flags will fly for part of the week and the European one for the rest.
The news came in a memo to council staff from director of strategic services Tim Whitehead on behalf of council leader Cllr Chris Harris and deputy leader Cllr Andrea Colborne.
One worker said: "We object to being told we must have the Euro flag.
"They might want it but why should it be stuffed down our throats?"
It is understood the Town Hall "keepers" refused to carry out the switch.
And a staff petition was started which quickly gathered more than 130 names.
They plan to present the petition to council managing director Richard Painter.
Cllr Harris said: "The best way forward is to recognise that we are part of England, the UK and Europe.
"Look at Torquay harbour and see how much money we have had from Europe.
"It is important that if people are going to be assessing Torbay for European money we are seen to be part of Europe."
He said Union flags at seafront locations would be replaced by European flags or those of other European nations.
He said multi-national flags used to fly at prime locations but were replaced under the last Tory administration to tie in with the Queen's Golden Jubilee.
He said they were planning to "rotate" the St George's flag and Union flag at the Town Hall with the Euro flag.
"That may mean one day of the week or it may be three or four days," he said.
"I think the workers feared the St George's flag was coming down completely.
"There has been some misinterpretation and that is not the case."
He added: "We want to welcome visitors from Europe. We want to keep our workers happy and I am sure when they realise what is happening they will be happy."
The Lib Dems tried to get the Union flags replaced while the Tories were in power, but their proposal was unsuccessful.
Tory group leader Cllr Eileen Salloway said: "Our national flag is a matter of great pride, not least for those who have fought for this country under British colours.
"This arrogant and unpatriotic action by the Liberal Democrats will cause great offence to many."
Torbay hotelier and South Devon MEP Graham Booth, who represents the United Kingdom Independence Party, said it was "appalling".
And he felt the council was admitting it was being run by the EU.
He said: "They are run by the EU these days so at least they are being honest.
"With the programme of regionalisation the councils and district councillors are going to disappear anyway, so they are just getting ready for that."
He added: "It's appalling to see it but what more can you expect of them? It shows them for precisely what they are."
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October 29, 2003
During the England Samoa Rugby Match England sent Dan Luger onto replace centre Mike Tindall, who was being treated for injury but had not left the field, and while England had 16 players Luger made a tackle before being told to leave, less than a minute after going on.
It was a mistake, the injuried guy was not taking part in play and had no material effect on the outcome (England were lucky to win after playing appalingly) but our Australian friends are whining as usual:
"Australian forward Toutai Kefu, who is missing the World Cup with a shoulder injury, demanded that England should be stripped of the points for winning the match and that Samoa should be awarded the win.
"Arrogant Poms should be stripped," was the headline over his column in the Brisbane Courier Mail."
- The game plan is to get the excuses in early in case they don't win!
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Back to the stone age.
Looks like a victory for the precautionary principle.
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | EU launches chemicals crackdown
The knock on effect will be that thousands of useful chemicals that have never done any harm will not be tested as it won't be worth while paying to test them.
I look forward to seeing if this chemical passes:
Oral toxicity (The Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances, 1986):
Human; TDLo: 12,357 mg/kg/23 D-C
Mouse; LD50: 4,000 mg/kg
Rat; LD50: 3,000 mg/kg
Rabbit; LDLo: 8,000 mg/kg
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All lit up.
A few years ago as I was walking home across the field from the Pub when the northern sky lit up with the most amazing display of the Northern Lights. It being 1:30 in the morning and me being very very drunk, I thought about ringing lots of people up and saying - look out your window - but I thought no one would either thank me or believe me.
So according to Samizdata.net - Arrival of the big one there is a chance it might happen again tonight. If it does don't miss it because I intend to get very very drunk and see if it happens again for me - and I will ring you if it does...
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Let loose the pigs of war!
Jewish settlers in the West Bank are being asked to trade in their guard dogs for pigs. The animals, considered unclean in Judaism for thousands of years, would help protect the settlements from attacks by Palestinians.
A company which supplies guard dogs to the settlements in the West Bank has asked senior rabbis for approval under Jewish law to train the pigs. The company says they are better than dogs because they have a stronger sense of smell. Because they are considered unclean by Islam as well, their presence could discourage Muslim attackers.
I feel a need to have a pig category of postings as I'm a great fan of all things porcine.
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October 28, 2003
News from the left coast.
Smoking ban may soon extend to L.A. beaches
Doesn't seem to be working judging by this
Nasa photo of the smoke
I'm sure patriotic Americans are blaming the Fu-Go Weapons.
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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
Labour hypocrisy on Schools - again
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Something good you can do for Iraq.
A Utah soldier's instinctive reaction to help a child in Iraq has blossomed into a national toy donation drive for the children of that war-torn country.
Operationgive.org began last month, after "Chief Wiggles" � a member of the Utah National Guard stationed in Iraq, who maintains a Web-based journal, chiefwiggles.blog-city.com/; posted a description of his touching encounter with an Iraqi girl.
He said he saw a little girl crying outside the barbed wire fence by the front gate of the former palace where he works. Her mother, who had only one leg, had hobbled inside to talk to someone.
"She was obviously very poor, in her tattered old dress, totally worn out plastic flip-flops, her hair matted against her head indicating she hadn't had a bath in a long time and her skin blistered from the dirt and weather," wrote Chief Wiggles, whose real name is withheld for security reasons.
"Once I saw her I quickly told the MPs to move the barbed wire back to let her in to join her mother. Her crying stopped as she darted in to grab ahold of her mother's long black dishdasha, torn and frayed from years of use."
Wiggles went to his office and found some toys and necessities. He brought them back to the little girl and her mother. Through an interpreter, he explained about using one of the gifts, a toothbrush, every day. He also gave her a whistle and a toy monkey.
"Her eyes lit up with such joy as I put the monkey arms over her head. She was so excited to receive everything, being somewhat shy though, not having dealt with an American before," he wrote.
The day after that posting, about 1,000 e-mail messages flooded in to the chief's Web site, said Scott Evensen, a Provo friend who maintains the site. The notes asked, "Where can we send toys?"
The result was Operationgive.org. Hundreds of boxes of toys and necessities were shipped to Iraq's children. So many toys were sent that distribution difficulties cropped up and the shipments had to be temporarily halted.
"We should have an address for shipments this week," Evensen said. Meanwhile, for information about how to donate money for the drive, check the Internet site at operationgive.org.
Backers have lined up warehouse space and volunteers will operate the warehouse, located in Baltimore. They have also made arrangements to ship the material to Kuwait at about $3,500 per shipping container, each of which may hold in the neighborhood of 800 to 1,000 boxes, Evensen said.
Chief Wiggles is arranging for a container to be sent from Kuwait to Baghdad, where he has been able to obtain warehouse space, he added.
As of Sunday, more than 500 boxes had been delivered to the chief.
Evensen said orphanages asked for school material and underwear, and these are being forwarded also.
Internet commentator Dean Esmay, a volunteer in Detroit, said that in one week, the Iraq end of the pipeline received more than 200 boxes of toys and $21,000 in donations.
A lawyer has been setting up a nonprofit corporation to handle the contributions, he added.
Evensen wrote in an e-mail to the Deseret Morning News saying that on Monday, Chief Wiggles was "visiting a 300-bed children's hospital in Baghdad. The Army is sending a film crew along."
The toy drive has drawn so much interest that an English newspaper plans to visit Chief Wiggles next week in Iraq and MSNBC is planning a special report on him, he added.
One of Chief Wiggles' most ardent supporters is Gail S. Halvorsen, the Spanish Fork man who became known as the "Candy Bomber" and "Uncle Wiggly Wings" when he dropped candy to the children of post-World War II Berlin, 55 years ago.
"I'm 100 percent for it," Halvorsen said of the chief's drive. "I'm Uncle Wiggly Wings and he's Chief Wiggles. . . . I think it's a marvelous thing he's doing."
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Faggot news.
Brain's Faggots maker calls in receiver
I hope someone buys the firm - life would be so much duller without packets of Brain's Faggots on the shelf. Luckily I have a couple of local faggots in the freezer that I bought at the Farmers Market on Sunday. Served with gravy and peas nothing could be better.
(and if you have to ask what is in a faggot you don't want to know.)
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Real science
The 2003 October edition of NumberWatch is a classic must read for anyone interested in the Truth vs Media scares.
Global Warming
Electromagnetic radiation
Kyoto Protocol
Gun Crime Statistics (especially kids killed by guns)
Shock horror 1. If you feed your baby 100 tons of proprietary baby food, it might get cancer.
Shock horror 2. GM crops do exactly what they were designed to do.
Rural Wiltshire
Wind Energy
and so on - if any of these interest you go to the site.
"We have the misfortune to live in the new Dark Ages, where science and beauty alike are buried in a morass of myth and superstition."
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P800 Sony Ericsson Ligula
Reading my Roman history and using my P800 phone stylus to clean my ears at the same time made me wonder?
A ligula was an instrument with a narrow cup-shaped scoop at one end. It may have been used as a medical probe, or as an ear scoop or for picking up small quantities of ointment (medical or cosmetic) from jars.
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A Dad's Nightmare
Boy, 8, dies in game of Tarzan: "A boy of eight died after becoming entangled in a rope while playing a game of Tarzan at his tree-house."
The poor father of this boy has all my sympathies and my admiration because he came out and said that you can't wrap children in cotton wool all the time if they are going to grow up and enjoy life, and sometimes accidents happen. And that is the truth.
(#1 I mention only the Dad because he is the only one to be featured in the press, and in no way do I mean to not recognise the devestation such a loss has on the rest of the family - but I also guess it was Dad who built the tree-house etc and so his feelings of guilt will be tremendous.)
(#2 I know of what I speak here though through luck and modern medicine my sons are alive and well.)
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German plans show drive for unified Euro-army
EUobserver: "Germany is pushing for the creation of a fully-fledged Euro-army, according to plans obtained by the Conservative Party in Britain, writes the Telegraph. This revelation is likely to send ripples of concern through Britain, one of the more sceptical member states - over close military co-operation in Europe.
The memorandum, written by senior Germany army officials on the future of European defence, allegedly suggests that a European army should have joint structures that go beyond the ones already in place.
The document adds, 'The army would report to the EU government and to the EU Parliament. Through a deployment law Parliament should decide if deploying troops is an option or not.'"
"The plans also have the backing of France and Belgium, according to the Telegraph."
Well at least the uniforms might be smart, His Tonyness claims to be against it but the ratchet still clicks towards it. Time to release the pawl with whatever it takes.
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IRA 'sorry' for Disappeared
BBC NEWS | Northern Ireland | IRA 'sorry' for Disappeared: "The IRA has apologised for the grief caused to the families of the so-called Disappeared. "
So that's all right now then - No it f***ing isn't.
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Nanny State - eh?
Came across pages of advice about Halloween from the Canadian Health busybodies - someone gets paid to write and publish all this stuff - but as always "it's for the children" so thats OK then...
It is all probably sensible advice, but if you are an anxious parent you will be able to look after your kids already, and if you don't care then a po-faced web site isn't going to make a difference. And Jesus wept, let the kids eat real sweets one night of the year!
Health Canada - Halloween
October 31 can be a chilly night so make sure that costumes are loose enough to be worn over warm clothing but not so baggy or long that trick or treaters can trip over their costumes.
Trick-or-treaters should wear sturdy walking shoes.
Make-up and face paint are better than wearing masks which can restrict breathing and/or vision. If you choose to use a mask make sure it is one that allows the child to see and breathe easily.
Swords, knives and similar accessories should be made of soft, flexible material.
You might want to offer an alternative to sugar-based treats. Gum should be sugarless. Stickers, multicoloured pencils or beads can be a nice surprise in place or in addition to traditional treats
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October 24, 2003
The new blog EnviroSpin Watch
The new blog EnviroSpin Watch has become an essential daily read.
The ecoterrorists and enviroidiots are becoming one of the biggest threats to peace and prosperity the world has known - A bit strong? No - the Greens are killing millions with their halfwitted policies, and that isn't very nice for those killed and out of pure self interest doesn't make for a safe and prosperous world to live in.
When they can they plan to feature a guest essay from a famous writer or scientist. The first is from one the world's most popular science writers, Matt Ridley, celebrated for his many fine books. Any Cance to read matt Ridley should be grabbed - so go to it!
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October 23, 2003
EU Commissioner Backs Irish Smoking
EU Commissioner Backs Irish Smoking Ban: "EU Commissioner Backs Irish Smoking Ban
Source: Reuters Health, 2003-08-04
"Irish plans to stamp out smoking in public places were backed on Monday by the European Union 's (EU) top health official, who also accused the tobacco industry of aiming products at youth.
The ban, proposed by Irish Health Minister Micheal Martin, would take effect from early 2004 despite fears from the bar and restaurant industry that profits will be hit.
'Are we going to put into the balance the health of the public against profits? I am sure the population of Ireland and other places in the EU (don't) want (that),' said Health and Consumer Affairs Commissioner David Byrne, who is Irish.
'I believe the tobacco industry is manipulating and misleading people and targeting young people and adolescents because they realize that if they get them young, they're hooked,' he told a news conference at the 12th World Conference on Tobacco or Health in the Finnish capital"
OK where to start?
EU involvement.
Banning smoking in Bars - I don't smoke but give the freedom to chose.
Profits - a dirty word.
Industry -a dirtier word.
Its for the children - yeah.
People are being manipulated and mislead - by safty Nazis like you Mister.
Are the Irish smokers too lilly livered not to stand up to this -
THE wine-cup is circling in Almhin's hall,
And its Chief, 'mid his heroes reclining,
Looks up, with a sigh to the trophied wall,
Where his sword hangs idly shining.
When, hark, that shout
From the vale without --
"Arm ye quick, the Dane, the Dane is nigh!"
Every Chief starts up
From his foaming cup,
And "To battle, to battle!" is the Finian's cry.
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This is a public service
This is a public service announcement about the sighting of an enemy.
Read Samizdata.net - Silly burgers for the full details, I will just quotye the quotes they talk about.
"People are incapable of saying no to junk food and other health risks, and it is the duty of the State to influence them, according to a senior public health official.
In defence of the "nanny state", Professor Dr John Ashton, regional director of public health in the North West, said yesterday that government intervention was needed to protect those incapable of protecting themselves. "Individuals cannot protect themselves from bioterrorism, epidemics of Sars, the concerted efforts of the junk food industry, drug dealers and promoters of tobacco and alcohol," he said."
"He has three grown-up sons, but recently became a father again with his partner Maggi Morris, 47, a director of public health in Preston. Their baby has been named Fabian Che Jed, after the Fabian Society, Che Guevara and the Old Testament prophet Jedediah."
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October 22, 2003
Just catching up with a
Just catching up with a story about the Great Virgin Hair Robbery, as one does when I noticed the next two headlines on the page:
Norway world leader in casual sex:
UN: Its best to live in Norway:
Any connection I wonder...
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October 21, 2003
I thought I would give
I thought I would give this a bit of publicity - just in case there any younsters reading this old fogey...
Institute of Economic Affairs: "Student Essay Competition - Entries must be submitted by Wednesday 10th December 2003
21 October 2003
An essay contest for students aged 18 or under. £1000 for first place and three £500 winners
Demonstrate your understanding of principles of economics by answering ONE of the following questions in 1500 words or less:
*Is the concept of a 'Mixed Economy' flawed? If so, why? If not, why not?
*Can government regulation fine-tune a capitalist economy? If not, why? If so, under what circumstances?
*What is meant by 'Market Failure' and 'Government Failure'? How should we choose which of these two institutions should undertake what roles in the economy?
Entries should be submitted by email to Christine Blundell
Mailing address for postal entries is:
Christine Blundell
2,Lord North Street
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I don't know much about
I don't know much about the Swiss People's Party but the BBC calls them far-right, but from the BBC site they appear to only be far-right if you are of the BBC mindset - here is the links and the "crimes they are accused of believing in.
"Opposed to European Union membership
Accused of racism after saying drugs controlled by 'Albanians and black Africans'
Used the word 'negro' in campaign poster "
Maybe the overwhelming victory is actually because of the reasons noted by:
"The BBC's Imogen Foulkes:
"The promises to lower tax and stay away from the European Union were well received"."
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October 20, 2003
The Seattle Times: : "Friday
The Seattle Times: : "Friday is the statistical day when Americans will have worked as much as their European counterparts will all year long, counting vacations, holidays and shorter workdays."
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October 19, 2003
"we shall fight them
"we shall fight them on the beaches, we shall fight them on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the field and streets, we shall fight them in the hills. we will never surrender'"
Melvyn Bragg in an excerpt from his new book about how English became the Lingua Franca of the world used the above quotation to illustrate how Old English words are so powerful - they all are Old English apart from "surrender" which is French. - Need I say more.
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October 18, 2003
David Blaine who cares? I
David Blaine who cares? I have been proud of the way nearly the entire British nation has treated him, as a joke. I think he believed he would get "respect" - no he got eggs thrown.
See also a heavy article on what a twat he is Jesus Christ, David Blaine, Bobby Sands and Orson Welles.
(Only good point is that he has pissed off those who hold the memory of Bobby Sands sacred.)
-- Reading the above it is ironic that Blaines stunt is described as "beyond the pale" - Pale, in this case, comes from the Latin palus : a stake in the ground to mark a territory. The expression, beyond the pale, means outside the rules of society or civilized behavior. It originates from the boundary around Dublin when Dublin was under British rule and the rest of Ireland was only nominally. So to be pedantic it is the IRA who are beyond the pale in this, and probably every other, case.
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The Hunting Declaration - 1st
The Hunting Declaration - 1st November - It isn't just about hunting, it's about liberty and standing up against unjust laws.
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October 17, 2003
Samizdata.net reports on the irony
Samizdata.net reports on the irony that traditional history teaching was "abandoned in the 1970s for a more pick-and-mix, bring-it-alive and never-mind-when-exactly-it-happened approach to history, and the only bit that kids now want to pick is The Nazis."
And now our German partners in the EU are complaining and the British Education Minister (Labour Europhile) is agreeing with them.
"How huge an irony would that be? The very people who have worked hardest to beat British national pride out of Britain, namely the teaching profession and the theorisers of teaching who have been guiding them, have ended up with a kind of History that says only one thing: Germany bollocks!! Don't want nothing to do with them bastards!!! As a result these anti-historical history persons, mostly rabidly pro-EU on anti-British grounds, could be achieving what looked impossible as recently as only a decade ago, namely the saving of Britain from permanent EUro-subjugation.
Lefty bastard enemies of British History, we hail you, the savours of British national independence."
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OpinionJournal - Leisure & Arts:
OpinionJournal - Leisure & Arts: "A casualty list from the Knob Creek Gun Range, which hosted one of the country's largest machine-gun shoots this past weekend, would look something like this: Two dozen old appliances. A dozen junked cars. Tens of thousands of rounds of spent ammunition. Zero people."
"These statistics will be disturbing to the myopic antigun crowd, which fails to recognize the millions of rounds fired safely every year, including the tens of thousands fired at this twice-yearly event that draws everyday folks from as far away as California and Florida."
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I imagine, Dear Reader, that
I imagine, Dear Reader, that you read Kim on a daily basis - if not you should - but whatever else you do you MUST read this article
Kim du Toit - "Imagine if an American president said that the United States was going to subjugate its Constitution to one drawn up by the United Nations -- and refused to allow a vote on the subject.
Can you say 'armed rebellion', children? Thought so.
Yet that's precisely what Oily Heap Of Shit BritPM Tony Blair is trying to do with Britain and the European Union's constitution, in the face of 'concern' by the Queen (in diplo-speak, that's the equivalent of 'Are you crazy?'), and in spite of searing condemnation"
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October 16, 2003
"Hollywood actor Ben Affleck has
"Hollywood actor Ben Affleck has attacked US President George Bush's 'dangerous right-wing' policies, which he said were eroding civil liberties.
Speaking in Los Angeles, Affleck, 31, was accepting an award from political group, People For The American Way.
He received the Spirit of Liberty award for his work on behalf of children's rights and voter registration.
Affleck also compared the current state of US politics to the last days of the Roman Empire.
Referring to fellow film star Arnold Schwarzenegger's recent election as Governor of California, he compared "the dawn of the Schwarzenegger era in American politics" to the empire's decline.
Other stars attending the People For The American Way event included Harrison Ford, Bruce Willis and the Dixie Chicks.
- Jesus, where is a meteor strike when you need one, could have got a whole barn full of them!
Posted by The Englishman at 10:32 PM
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature |
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | GM tests show danger to wildlife:
That's the headline - the story actually manages to be more balanced.
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BBC NEWS | Politics |
BBC NEWS | Politics | Straw says 'no case' for EU vote: "Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has insisted there is 'no case' for a referendum on the draft European constitution. Because the fundamental relationship between the United Kingdom and the EU will not be altered."
Let me translate:
"Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has insisted there is 'no case' for a referendum on the draft European constitution. Because
the fundamental relationship between the United Kingdom and the EU will not be altered. we would lose it - oh and I'm lying through my teeth in the hope of keeping my job"
Posted by The Englishman at 10:22 PM | Comments (0)
Reuters | Latest Financial News
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage: Only 10,250 gun crimes so that is OK then. I'll leave it to my friend Michael over at Free Market Fairy Tales to expand on how grateful he is that the politicians have disarmed the population to make us all feel safe.
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I have to say the
I have to say the care and attention we are receiving at our local hospital with our new born Mary Jane is exemplary and a wonderful part of the NHS ( we had to go to Bath hospital for a test and that is still chaotic and in the patient waiting area has the filthiest carpet I have ever seen - worse than the grottiest pub - I watched as the cleaner came in and tenderly cleaned the great god they all worship - the TV - but ignored the lumps of food on the floor).
But other parts of the NHS are still as bad as ever - this enterprising Granny mixed up fake blood from Cranberry Juice and Biscuits, called an ambulance and got her operation...
Times Online - Britain: "HERNIAS are very common, sometimes unpleasant, but almost never life-threatening. It is for this reason that operations to deal with them have some of the longest waiting times in the NHS.
The seven months that Mrs Litton waited for her operation is not uncommon, and in some parts of the country could have been longer.
Overall, nearly 30,000 patients are waiting more than six months for Âgeneral surgeryÂ, under which hernias are classified. Of these, 7,565 wait more than nine months."
And if you are in a similar situation here is The Times advice:
Cranberry juice and digestive biscuits is not a classic recipe for fake blood but it could create a realistic congealed effect, according to a leading professional make-up artist (Patrick Barkham writes).
Julia Cruttenden, the principal of Greasepaint, an international school for stage, television and film make-up, said that she normally used washing-up liquid or golden syrup with red and yellow food colourings and a dash of coffee. Ms Cruttenden, who has been making fake blood for 25 years, heats the ingredients slightly to get them to mix.
She said: ÂCranberry juice on its own might be a bit pink. You might get a nice congealed and scabby-looking blood with biscuits. Using biscuits might just work; IÂll have to try that.
ÂIf you want runny blood you need washing-up liquid or golden syrup as a base to give it the right consistency. A bit of coffee works a treat because blood is browner than you think.Â
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The US version of BBC2
The US version of BBC2 comedy Coupling has been unceremoniously yanked from the NBC schedule after only three episodes, prompting fears about the show's future.The US translation of the BBC2 comedy has attracted criticism in the States for its frank and frequent references to sex - two TV stations even refused to broadcast the show.
However, perhaps the most damning comment from US critics - who have seen the original version of Coupling on digital cable channel BBC America - is that it is just a pale carbon copy of the British show."
Why is that shows are always remade - is it that the networks believe Americans are too dumb or parochial to understand - or bond with British actors? Is it something to do with royalties? Why don't the networks grow up and try the original on the audience?
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October 14, 2003
BBC NEWS | Politics |
BBC NEWS | Politics | Blunkett targets nuisance neighbours: "Neighbours who spoil the lives of law-abiding people in their communities will face tough action in a new campaign, Home Secretary David Blunkett has promised.
Under plans announced earlier this year, the worst offenders could be relocated, while others could see their tenancy contracts reduced from 12 to six months, be sent to parenting classes or issued with fixed penalty notices. "
Why am I uneasy about this new crusade?
Not just because this is a government that thinks there is nothing odd in giving the Egg Marketing Directorate full access to data gathered under anti-terrorism legislation, but because my definition of anti-social isn't theirs. And I doubt it is yours either.
Let me list a few possible antisocial behaviours, which do you think Mr Blunkett would clamp down on:
Playing loud music which is part of my culture, man.
Cleaning a legally held gun on your back porch.
Slaughtering a goat in the street as part of a religious festival.
Shooting a fox in your garden.
Having five kids from five different men, probably five but not really sure.
Rejecting the advice of social workers.
Taking the kids on holiday during the school term.
Home schooling.
Teaching your kids how to nick cars.
Teaching your kids how to shoot.
Chucking bricks at huntsmen.
Chucking eggs at Labour politicians.
- Put me down for being anti-social..
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October 12, 2003
The New Scientist reports on
The New Scientist reports on a suggestion that developing nations need control to help them grow - it sounds a bit like the old liberal view that nanny knows best - and like the old racist imperialist view that "darkies can't run a bloody thing". I think they are heaping the blame on Free Trade when it actually shows the need for law and order, especially property rights. Still read on and see what you think.
"If developing countries join the global economy too soon, they risk becoming trapped in a cycle of poverty and corruption, a new analysis suggests.
A number of empirical studies have shown that poorer countries experience higher levels of corruption. Badly paid officials are easily tempted by bribes, the reasoning goes, while the well paid officials in richer nations risk losing their comfortable salaries if they are caught taking backhanders. But if corruption so bedevils developing nations, how do they escape and become rich?
Daniele Paserman, an economist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, and his colleagues say they have found a simple answer. If a poor country opens up its economy to the outside world too quickly, the flow of money across its borders encourages corruption, which in turn hampers growth"
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Rugby Union | Lomu
Rugby Union | Lomu to receive honour Good - recognition for a great and brave man.
Football | Brave England qualify Bad - these soccer ponces wouldn't know bravery if they ever lifted their snouts out of the designer troughs long enought to look at the real world.
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October 11, 2003
Just looked in the stats
Just looked in the stats for this page and the last search result that caused someone to visit here was from Australia : Google Search: Jonny Wilkinson skin tight image -
I hope the searcher wasn't too disappointed!
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October 10, 2003
My old friend David Lovibond
My old friend David Lovibond writes about my local town Devizes in this week's Spectator - Ali and the new baby - Mary Jane Austin - are in there tonight.
"In better days the world left Wiltshire alone. Blighted by neither coastline nor famous hills, the county was merely on the way to somewhere else. In the heart of this fortunate backwater, Devizes was the very archetype of an English market town. There is a castle, a square big enough to have burned at least one Protestant martyr in, and fine curving terraces of Georgian houses paid for by Wiltshire's fat cornlands.
... But it is only recently that suicidal drunkenness and the ubiquity of hard drugs associated with inner cities have appeared in the town and made street crime and even gang fights commonplace.
The Home Office lists Wiltshire as the second safest county in England, despite an increase of 20 per cent in reported crime over the past eight years. In Devizes, though, police figures show an astonishing 77 per cent growth in crime over the same period. Lawlessness on this scale means discarded hypodermics by the swings and blinged-up youths in fast cars parked nose to tail in the square, windows down and trading. It means an old red bus camped behind the town asylum, open for business and supplying the schizophrenics with the pills to keep them mad. It is shop windows smashed on Saturday nights and the town centre a no-go area every night. It is mini- riots outside the takeaways at closing time, and swirling groups of boozed-up teenagers in broad daylight shouting and threatening anyone who comes near. It is beggars at the cash-dispensers, mugged tourists, burnt-out cars, blizzards of litter, bikes ridden unchecked through pedestrians and the stink of piss in the alleys. It means CCTV cameras at every corner, and never meeting a stranger's eye. And for me it means that my local, the ancient and once wonderful pub where General Wolfe recruited soldiers for his victorious campaigns in Canada, is frequently infested by redundant cannon fodder; hopeless old-young men gruesomely decorated with purple tattoos, uniformed in combats, woolly hats and 'hoodies', braying like donkeys and looking for trouble. It has become a place where extreme violence is only an unwise glance away; a commotion of running feet, flailing fists and a victim staggering, his head a red cap of blood."
And what has caused it?
"Like everywhere else in England, Devizes has lost its homogeneity. The pervasive blight of multiculturalism has, for the young especially, killed off any feeling of a personal relationship with their surroundings. Children at the local comp may have an excellent grasp of England's pernicious role in the slave trade and know how it felt to be an oppressed Muslim in British India, but they won't have a clue that Alfred the Great stopped the Viking hordes just down the road, or that the hill they see from their classroom windows is a Civil War battleground. The youths hanging round the fountain, or drifting listlessly from chip shop to pub to street corner, have no sense of ownership of the history that made their town. They have lost the instinct of belonging that their grandparents took for granted; the connection between people and place has been broken. "
I must say David lives in the other side of town to the bit I know, but his rant (go to the site and read it all) illuminates the decline of the England I love.
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Just a question - if
Just a question - if homoeopathy works why do drug dealers sell the real thing? If diluting dung beetle resin to one part in a trillion makes it more potent think what it could do for the crack dealer - very low raw material costs and when you are busted all you are selling is pure water with the hint of a molecule of dope in a swimming pool amount of water - probably purer than the mains. I looked but couldn't find the answer - Google Search: homoeopathy heroin:
"homoeopathy" or "homeopathy" give the same result but only one spelling is correct to me!
Posted by The Englishman at 9:23 PM | Comments (0)
October 9, 2003
It's a GirlHuge page of
It's a Girl
Huge page of all the pictures - but I'm so proud I don't give a damn!
Posted by The Englishman at 11:41 PM | Comments (0)
WowAfter a day of nothing
After a day of nothing happening, 5:00pm Ali got a few twinges, 5:40 we left for the hospital, 5:50 we arrived, 5:57 we had the most beautiful 6lb 15 1/4 oz girl in our arms - An hour later she was suckilng and mum and baby doing fine.
Two bottles of Wiltshire fizz late all I can say is wow!
Welcome to the world!
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Sat at home today with
Sat at home today with Willie Nelson playing on the computer feeling mellow, the sun is shining, Wiltshire is beautiful. My little girl had the first night without waking in pain for a week which is great and Ali is out walking round our fields with the dogs to see what happens because her waters burst earlier this morning and she is impatient for the baby to arrive..
I'll keep you up to date when I can.
Posted by The Englishman at 12:53 PM
October 8, 2003
Latest news from Oklahoma:KOTV -
Latest news from Oklahoma:
KOTV - The News On Six: "Gasoline prices are again on the rise in Oklahoma.
Self-service unleaded is selling for an average of a $1.36 a gallon statewide, up a penny from Monday."
That is what we pay for a litre in the UK!
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Gentlemen's Relish: "There is a
Gentlemen's Relish: "There is a question that many of us are asking ourselves these days, and it is this: "What is the Internet and can it be of any use to a gentleman?" The answer generally perceived to be the most accurate is: "Leave the beastly thing alone and your pleasant life of indolence will not be affected in the slightest." However, if curiosity does get the better of you, it is important that you are aware of the true potential of the Internet. "
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October 7, 2003
Translated version of http://www.checkpoint-online.ch/CheckPoint/Monde/Mon0068-IrakSituation.htmlAn long
Translated version of http://www.checkpoint-online.ch/CheckPoint/Monde/Mon0068-IrakSituation.html
An long article from the Swiss on the situation in Iraq ( lifted from Samizdata.net ) - however being the monoglot that I am I have linked to a Google translation - (which runs out half way through) -
Choice excerpts - in Google transalated phrases which add to the flavour:
Contrary to the litanies of the media, the stabilization and the democratization of Iraq are in good way.
It is that Iraq of today, 4 months after the catch of Baghdad, does not resemble the mud pit which is described to us daily. The reports and the dispatches of all the Western press not only describe a reality much more moderate, but also make it possible to acquire an overall picture showing clearly that the coalition is on the good way.
The number of attacks is a good indication of this reality. At the end of June, it reached its top with an average of 25 daily attacks to the weapon with fire and the explosive, and a total of 40 serious incidents, but these figures are gone down again today to respectively 12 and 30. The reduction of the attacks, combined on the constant level of the losses, shows that a reduced number combatants improves its tactics and increases its effectiveness. But of the so low figures, for a country of 24 million inhabitants and vis-a-vis a force of 160' 000 men, indicate especially the absence of any popular resistance. For memory, between 1946 and 1947, the Jews conducted 578 attacks per day in Palestine on the British troops!
(whoops mentioned the Jews as proto-terrorists - that will probably get me blackballed - but I'm only quoting from this article!)
L'explosion de la criminalité surtout à Bagdad l'exige. En juillet dernier, la morgue de la capitale a dénombré 10 fois plus de victimes par balles qu'en juillet 2002, même si les rafales lâchées pour célébrer la mort des deux fils aînés de Saddam Hussein, selon un quotidien de Bagdad, ont à elles seules tué 31 Irakiens et blessé 76 autres. Malgré cela, la violence doit être relativisée : avec 470 morts par armes à feu en un mois pour une population de 5,6 millions d'habitants, Bagdad connaît un niveau de violence comparable à celui de Johannesburg (275 homicides par mois, 3,2 millions d'habitants) et un peu moins de deux fois et demi supérieur à celui de Washington (262 morts en 2002 pour 600'000 habitants).
Translate that bit yourself!
Posted by The Englishman at 11:45 AM | Comments (0)
EUobserver: "Seven out of ten
EUobserver: "Seven out of ten German voters would reject the euro if they were given the chance, a new poll has shown.
Only 29 percent of Germans would vote to keep the euro if a vote were held today. In contrast, 70 percent would reject the euro, given the opportunity.
Maybe surprisingly, it is younger Germans that are the most eurosceptic, with 73 percent of 18-24 year olds saying they would reject the euro. "
So there is hope after all - the young Germans are getting over the collective guilt trip of their fathers and are not thinking they have to agree to every and any thing that has the words European Unity written all over it. The EU might have been the answer to yesterday's problems but not tomorrow's.
Posted by The Englishman at 9:33 AM | Comments (0)
Jonny WilkinsonAs an English Rugby
Jonny Wilkinson
As an English Rugby fan I have great hopes for our team in the World Cup which is about to start. And it is a team game, but for my colonial friends I just wanted to bring to their attention Jonny - acknowledged by friend and enemy alike to be at the pinnacle of the toughest game around. And he believes in hard work, modesty and being thoroughly a good bloke - compare and contrast to the hissy Prima Donnas in the soccer world who earn ten times as much.
And this year the new strip is skin tight so the Present Mrs is also happy to sit down and wath the games :)
(Oh and boasting about him being the best is not just because he is English - I also cant praise highly enough Jonah Lomu of NZ who is another great sportsman - his dignity and courage in being robbed of the best years of his playing life by a terrible disease and coming back to the game is what being a sportsman is being about.
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October 6, 2003
From those lovely people at
From those lovely people at the IEA - Institute of Economic Affairs -
a pdf article about the "flatearther's" belief in the Free NHS.
As always their articles are a worth the read.
Posted by The Englishman at 4:04 PM | Comments (0)
October 4, 2003
Didn't spot this on the
Didn't spot this on the BBC about our old friends across the channel supplying missiles made this year to Iraq!
Colorado Conservative: Here's the Reuters story on French Missles in Iraq
Posted by The Englishman at 2:10 PM | Comments (0)
October 3, 2003
Excellent article on the current
Excellent article on the current World Climate Conference in Russia - Thanks to The Brazos de Dios Cantina for pointing it out to me.
The Edge of England's Sword: The Knight's Move: "the head of the Russian Academy of Scientists (not a fringe scientist, by any means, although I'm sure the ad hominem attacks will start) saying that the only people who would be affected by the abandonment of Kyoto "would be several thousand people who make a living attending conferences on global warming" .... Go read.
Posted by The Englishman at 3:56 PM | Comments (0)
TCS: Tech Central Station -
TCS: Tech Central Station - 'The Protection of the Foolhardy or Reckless Few'?: "'It is not, and never should be, the policy of the law to require the protection of the foolhardy or reckless few (and therefore) to deprive, or interfere with, the enjoyment by the remainder of society of the liberties and amenities to which they are right entitled,' the Appellate Committee from the House of Lords opined."
Thanks to Judicious Asininity for bringing this to my attention.
Poor guy ignored a DO NOT SWIM sign - did - hurt himself - sued - case chucked out eventually with those stirring words. Whilst I'm sorry for the guy being all smashed up this is good news.
Posted by The Englishman at 11:13 AM | Comments (0)
I noted this travel article
I noted this travel article about a little Dorset village -
Telegraph | Travel | The village that died - it happens we went there this summer and it is as described. I live near Imber. As I walk the dog this morning I will go past a Pill Box / gun emplacement where a few locals were prepared to stay and slow down the invasion for a couple of hours or so. If I could walk ten miles south I am in a military training zone - Salisbury Plain. Random notes maybe, but protecting this "homeland" (as the Americans would say) is part of the warp and weft of where I live and who I am.
Posted by The Englishman at 6:58 AM | Comments (0)
October 2, 2003
For 700 years - let
For 700 years - let me repeat that for 700 years we have had a system for hallmarking precious metals. It works.
The bloody Italians in charge of the EU this week want to change it because :
The Precious Metals Directive had been shelved for more than a decade, but under the presidency of the EU by the Italians - the Continent's largest jewellery manufacturers - it was reinstated.
The original directive maintained that the variations in testing and marking items of gold, silver and platinum from country to country distorted European trade laws.
It claimed that the UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Portugal, France and Spain should relax their tradition of compulsory third party testing in favour of a Europe-wide option of self-marking. For more see: ic Birmingham - Fingerprint of quality lost
So the Italians are going to tell us about honest trading, and destroy part of our heritage on a fanciful whim - oh and guess who are the biggest jewellery manufacturers in the Eu , and who haven't got hallmarks - the fucking Italians.
There is a wider point Universal Darwinism applies to laws and customs of a country - if it has stood the test of time - it probably bloody works. If you want to bring in a new system , bring it in alongside and let them compete. Currency, units of measure, etc this all applies. When you see a shrill demand to BAN the old you know the new isn't going to win on its merits.
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Obey the suit ..my day
Obey the suit
..my day at the office (if only!)
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Lib-Dem World has now gone
Lib-Dem World has now gone in to action - I'll miss the old bugger on CIX but I will be a regular here (oh and he is less of a lib-dem than I am) guaranteed to offend everyone.
Posted by The Englishman at 8:51 PM | Comments (0)
So Rupert Murdoch the great
So Rupert Murdoch the great republican has suddenly discovered the benefits of hereditary succession:
"City analysts have expressed deep concerns at the prospect of Rupert Murdoch's younger son, James, taking over as chief executive of BSkyB, branding him the wrong man for the job.
They are worried he lacks experience to take over the publicly listed company and claim the move is damagingly 'nepotistic'. "
One day I'm going to write the definitive article on the advantages of having an element of hereditary governance. Simply, elected rulers spend their time and our money on ensuring their re-election and the wellbeing of their families (for natural reasons). "For life" appointments such as Judges show how this can grant independence from the day-to-day desire for re-election. Hereditary rulers are even freer because they do not have to consider how to help their offspring up the greasy pole. Their removal only comes if they prove disastrous in the long term, not just in the run up to Polling day; or if they prove too troublesome or uncool. There is also an element of the old Greek idea of random choice of legislator and how no-one who wants to be a ruler should be allowed to.
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The best news I have
The best news I have heard about the NHS for a long time - a bit of competition creeping in. Lets hope this breaks open the floodgates of demand.
BBC NEWS | Health | Hip op ruling: Freedom to travel?: "Hip op ruling: Freedom to travel?
A High Court judge says that, in principle, at least, if you have suffered 'undue delay' waiting for your NHS operation, you can go to Europe, have surgery - and leave the NHS to pick up the bill. "
Worth going to the BBC site for the full story and try and pick out the truth from the bias.
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VFS: Cannot open root device "hda3" or an unkown block(0,0) Please append a correct "root=" boot option kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount rootfs on unkown block(0,0)
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I believe its the problem with root(0,0). Since you root is /dev/hda3 I think you should change it to root(0,2). See if that works."There is no sixth rule"
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The HPC Asia 2009 keynote speech given by Dr. William T.C. Kramer introduces us to the NCSA beginning with its history in field of HPC and continuing on with its latest development, the Blue Waters project. The talk also examines the concepts behind the open science-based projects and applications that are slated to run over Blue Waters. Dr. Kramer then concludes with his insight into Petascale and Exascale era challenges of the future.
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Part 4: Lessons Learned From the Terascale Era
So given what users expect of our machines, and they expect the same thing of our Terascale machines, what lessons can we take out of the Terascale era? First, it is important to realize that sustained performance is significantly disconnected from peak performance. Peak performance and simple tasks do not indicate at all how well sustained performance for real world applications will operate on machines.
The next lesson we talked about for a long time….. Will applications scale to the number of cores that are needed and are available? And for the most case, the answer is "yes." The application scientists have been very innovative in scaling their applications to the large scale. They approach it often in the Terascale era with weak-scaling. And because of the complexity of the code, what we're seeing is more people working on the same code, that being what we call community code. So we have larger and more complex codes, codes with different multi physics, codes with multi different aspects, all combined together with many workers. In some cases many hundreds or even thousands of people contributing to the same code. So that makes code maintenance more complex, but it actually does achieve to the point of running at high performance and high scalability. In order to make that work, significant funding was provided to all areas to make the applications teams re-engineer their applications codes from single processor or small numbers of processors. And new algorithms, things like adaptive mesh refinements and sparse methods were introduced and they had at least as much to do with the increase of performance and productivity from the codes as did the rule of Moore's Law.
Another lesson is that Linux and Unix-based OSs are sufficient for Terascale computing. What we need to pay more attention to are things like OS Interference in order to continue the scaling activity. Another big challenge is finding information as to what the system is doing. In some ways the systems are chaotic. They are chaotic in the sense that a small probation in one place can have a very large and unexpected impact on another place. The information that comes out of the system can help you diagnose what's going on in the system and help you discover if it is properly configured and running correctly. This is particularly important in systems that are horizontally integrated where people have one-of-a-kind clusters that have software combinations that are unique across that cluster.
The programming languages have stalled somewhat. MPI is a great methodology for Terascale but it has challenges for going from multi core into Petascale because Petascale relies on multi core. And the bugging performance analysis for what I call the "Strong of Heart and Mind," in other words, it's non-trivial. Indeed, most people are not using the tools that we thought they would be using in order to do debugging at scale. They are too complicated, too hard to use, and too hard to learn.
So, we've talked about some of the reason that sustained performance is sliding. The graphs over here combine peak, LINPACK, and sustained performance. The tallest one is peak obviously. This one here is the LINPACK. These are the machines that happen to be fielded at NERSC for the last 10 years. And we have sustained system performance measures; metrics that we use at NERSC, that we believe represents a reasonable expectation of sustained performance across that range of applications. You can see here that that's not keeping up. This graph down here shows the ratio of LINPACK performance to sustained performance and you can see that it has dropped over time. So, the memory latency that you've heard so much about is impacting us. But also, the latency and bandwidth and, in particular, the latency associated with the communication interconnect for very large scale programs, is impacting us as well. That will probably continue to affect us as we go through the many core phases also.
Throughout the rest of this discussion, I want you to pay attention to the word "sustained" because I will never use the word "peak" again after this last slide. "Sustained" is the only real performance metric that the scientists and research community want or need. So we need to be able to translate our discussion into " sustained" performance and compare things like the value proposition of systems based on sustained work coming out of those, that is, how productive they are, how useful they are, and how much work comes out of them. Here's a brief analogy. I guess I do use the word "peak" one more time. My boss, Tom Dunning, says "peak" is like buying a car based solely on the speedometer top speed. "You'll never get up to it and you'll never use it." And I would make an analogy that looking at just one metric like LINPACK, is like buying a NASCAR which is the U.S. auto racing structure. It turns out that you can go to Las Vegas, if you can rent a NASCAR car and drive it on a NASCAR track. My cousin did that and he got up to about 160 miles an hour. This is something that he had never done before. He did it a very specialized car tuned only for that race track with a very dedicated set of professionals to help him, and he got to drive that car for a 1 hour. After that, he went back to driving his regular car at 55 or 60 miles an hour and that's the performance that he gets out of the auto industry.


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Speaker Slips Into Paranoia
John Bercow has responded to increased scrutiny by briefing against his imaginary enemies to the Observer. An "ally" – in all liklihood himself or his spokesman – says he is being targeted because he is a "reforming Speaker, and some people don't like that", while "sources close to him" say asking for a simple explanation constitutes a "rightwing hatchet job". He doth protest too much…
This has nothing to do with Bercow's "reforms", it is a simple question of why he lets a businesswoman funding his re-election campaign use parliament as a playground. The claim that his critics are all "rightwing" is patently untrue, you can read about the story in the Mirror and Tory MP Rob Wilson, who has been keeping the pressure on, is hardly a standard bearer for the right.
Bercow's grubby mitts are all over the Telegraph today as well:
"Parliamentary passes grant the holders the right to mingle freely with ministers and MPs in Commons corridors and cafeterias, making them highly sought-after by ex-politicians who now work as lobbyists. It is understood that Mrs Sassoon's pass does not grant her such privileges, and she can only access the wing of Palace of Westminster occupied by the Bercows."
Officially, that may well be the case, but Sassoon has been spotted talking to ministers and MPs on the terrace on countless occasions. As Guido reported last week, she even pretended at one point to be a Labour adviser whist talking to one Tory MP and claimed to have a business relationship with Speaker's wife to another.
What it really comes down to is that the Speaker is meant to be setting an example. The first commoner is meant to embody the rules, not wriggle above them. The example he appears happy to be setting at the moment is one where anyone can loiter around the Commons pretending to be a Labour adviser if they are your wife's chum and they write you a cheque. So much for a 'reforming Speaker'…


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House Bill 735 was unanimously approved by the House on June 15, and was approved by a vote of 46-3 in the Senate and signed the bill into law on Dec. 15, but the change in law didn't take effect for 60 days.
With the new license format, the change in law makes hunting less complicated, improves license management by hunters and trappers, and limits the inconveniences associated with lost or misplaced licenses.
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Nobody's perfect.
How often have we heard that sentiment? How often have we repeated it?
I'm here to tell you that the phrase "Nobody's perfect" is wrong. Entirely wrong. Completely untrue.
Because, I am perfect. Wholly, 100% perfect.
And so are you.
What if we led our lives, instead of looking for kinks and blemishes and imperfections, as though we and those around us are inherently perfect? How might life present differently?
Instead, we seek to mess with perfection every day. We poison perfection with jealousy, ego, contaminated foods and beverages, ill thoughts, and aggressive actions. I guess that's a part of being human.
Another part of being human is that we have been given the capacity to reason at a level bestowed only upon our species. With that reason, we can find peace, joy, happiness, fulfillment, generosity, kindness, and nurturing in ourselves and share it with others. Yet something within our societies gets in the way. I call it selfishness, though many other adjectives might apply.
For the sake of their own profits, advertising agencies and the corporations they serve have sent out billions of messages over the years to make us feel inadequate. We are not inadequate, yet they create an us/them narrative to wheedle that notion into our minds. Someone has a "better" car than you, "better" clothes, "better" hair, "better" spouses, "better" kids, "better" homes, "better" everything. You just might have felt fine without seeing the messages, though they are very hard to avoid. Shut the television, internet, newspaper, radio, and mailbox and you can keep the message of inadequacy out of your home. Step outside, and the side of the bus, the bus stop you pass, the billboards, and again the radio will creep the message back in. If you want to keep your kids from the messages, you would not let them watch television, go to school, have friends, or read.
Put simply, the message is virtually impossible to ignore. Check out the Christmas advertising that is running over and over and over. "Be reasonable in your spending, so buy this luxury vehicle." "Don't buy me a shoe I don't like or I will sing a nasty carol at your door." "Show the woman afraid of storms you love her by buying her this questionably sourced expensive diamond." "Let this hipster kid who never changes his outfits tell you you drive a lame car." If you don't, then what kind of person are you?!
Certainly not perfect!
Check out food advertising. Everyone who gets meals at cholesterol-, fat-, sugar-, and salt-laden fast food restaurants is skinny, happy, and absolutely delighted with life, even though this same "food" is shown scientifically and experientially to dampen libido, enhance weight gain, block blood flow, encourage diabetes, and set off depression. But they're having so much fun and are so vibrant! Surely, you're an ignorant square if you eat steamed veggies or meat products you can recognize. The message is that you are far from perfect. The reality is that this food disrupts the chemistry that guides your body toward survival, thrival, and perfection.
Listen to the politicians or the pundits. Okay, don't! But if you do, you will likely find yourself arguing against your own self-interest, the interest of the wider community, and the interest of many species' survival, including our own, here on this planet. What do you mean you think everyone should have access to health and wellness, clean drinking water, clean air, and clean food? Where's the fun and profit in that?! And how can you be against profits? You're un-American. And in this country that makes you very far from perfect!
You imagine what life was like when you were 2 or 3. When everyone, no matter their color, gender, age, or body size was one thing – the perfect playmate. When you didn't judge others, because you didn't have that capacity. When you naturally shared, because you didn't know about stockpiling for yourself. When you hadn't ingested the messages of inadequacy that divide the population from each other and split us from certainty in our minds and confidence in our bodies. It was a time when we knew that we were perfect, because there wasn't any other way.
Everybody's perfect.
The illness, avarice, and contention we have in our societies are signs that we have strayed out of balance with that inherent trait of our being, consciously or unconsciously. These qualities show us how much we are intertwined, that we are one, not separate as we travel this Earth together. An asthmatic child did not create the smog that causes his inability to breathe. Someone did. Messing with someone else's perfection.
So, I ask again: If we see ourselves as perfect and we see all our fellow humans as perfect, what kind of world would we create where we can preserve that perfection?
"Nobody's perfect." Live by negative sayings, create a negative world.
"Everybody's perfect." Live with positivity, create a positive world?
I don't think it's been tried yet. Perhaps now is the time…


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The word Droghedea came from Wales in the early 1800's, then bought to Newfoundland which later became a fishing and lumber community. Droghedea means " Valley of Hope".
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Vanity Fair did a Q&A with Jaleel White who gives us a brief glimpse into what dark disruptions of the human soul it takes to properly portray Urkel. Shudders.
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Hm. I didn't expect them to actually talk about Urkel's sausage. Thanks for that link. Sweet dreams for me tonight, I'm sure.
I admire that he is able to take everything in stride, did I just say I admire Jaleel White?
His first sentence is like an Escher drawing:
"I almost preferred that you had a six-year-old daughter and sent her in there and let her come out with her review."
I don't… I don't know what that means.
I can't help but wonder if he discusses doing The Urkel with Bea Arthur. I think we can all agree that the nation took a cultural turn at that moment and White needs to weigh in on that.
I once had a twitter exchange with Jaleel White… Hold on! Don't push, there's time for all of you to get my autograph.
Between sir-shoots-alot and moneybags urkel today's turning out quite smug.
Article:"As White says, he made a "shitload of money,"
Me: No shit, I bet!
Article "even if that did mean having to cover up a newfound bulge in his pants as he aged."
And then I quit reading, possibly forever.
One time I thrill-killed a drifter and was collared for it, but then I was all like "Did I do that?" and we all laughed. Then I ran.
Urkle suasage is made when you take ur top off, baby
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Boogaloo, Latin Soul, Rhythm and Blues, Salsa, Disco, Latin Funk, Latin R&B Latin Jazz, Rap .... What didn't Joe Bataan sing? Joe Bataan was born and raised in Spanish Harlem (East Side of Manhattan New York) in 1942 to an African-American mother and Filipino father. His given name was Bataan Nitollano.
Wikipedia Music Encyclopedia defines Latin Soul as " a blend of mambo and pop tinged with R&B and Latin Jazz, emphasizing short, ultra-catchy tunes and infectious rhythms." I would like to add to this definition " authentically created by Joe Bataan" Self taught on the piano, he organized his first band in 1965 and scored his first recording success in 1967 with " Gypsy Woman " on Fania Records. " Gypsy Woman " crossed over to R&B radio along with " Subway Joe " The title track of Gypsy Woman was first aired by radio DJ Dick "Ricardo" Sugar, became an instant hit in New York's Latin community. Ironically, Mr. Bataan had initially written the song " Gypsy Woman" with Spanish lyrics for the band's co-lead vocalist Joe Pagan to perform. It didn't seem to work, so he started singing the song himself in English at gigs and received an enthusiastic reaction. The late George Goldner, boss of the Cotique label (a rival of Fania at the time), disapproved of Bataan's rendition and advised him against recording it. Clearly, Joe's refusal to take this advice proved to be the sounder judgment.
Another smashing hit from the Fania label was the Latin Soul ballad " Ordinary Guy " Addressing an ex-lover, Mr. Bataan plaintively sings: " I don't have thousands to spend, Or a seaside cottage for the weekend, I'm just an ordinary guy, you left behind." You were guaranteed at least four hits or more on a Bataan's album. Even songs that did not hit the billboard charts were phenomenal. Several songs were mainly about his life experience.
By the mid 70's Latin Soul music began to fade away. Another genre of music was making the scene and it was called Disco. Bataan's next big hit in 1979 was " Rap-O Clap-O " on Salsoul records, which he co-found. It was the first Rap Disco hit with a smooth disco rhythm. While it didn't chart domestically, " Rap-O" went top 10 throughout Europe. " Rap-O, Clap-O" was accredited as the first Rap song in Europe. No recording artist has more impeccable street credentials than Joe Bataan, the originator of the New York Latin Soul style that paralleled Latin Boogaloo and anticipated Disco.


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mwjones - Can you give a comparison of your mileage with and without Ethanol? Thanks a bunch.
Hey Good Buddy, Notice you have reach 2800 Days Mark Posting, Keep up the good work, Your Gas Buddy
2800 in a row! Wow!
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Congrats ahead of time on hitting 3,000,000!
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Congratulations on posting for 2700 consecutive days. That is real dedication. . Wishing you success in all that you do.
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