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Bernard Hopkins has never been a taciturn figure, so that he would crow loudly over taking Tavoris Cloud's IBF belt and pushing his own record as boxing's oldest world champion forward a notch isn't surprising. However, only boxing fans with long memories and a keen interest in the sport might have understood why he was boasting about "putting Don King out of business." Out of Business? Credit: Will Hart - HBO The start of 2013 might very well prove the death knell for Don King Productions. King, who was once the sport's dominant promoter, has been semi-retired for years and started the year with only three world champions in his stable: Cloud, junior middleweight Cornelius Bundrage, and cruiserweight Guillermo Jones. Bundrage lost his own red IBF belt last month, so when Hopkins beat Cloud this weekend, King was left with only Guillermo Jones. Of course, King has suffered severe setbacks before. Indeed, the history of boxing over the last 40 years could be written around King's m...
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best thing i,ve heard in the past 360 days
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HAHA . oh my god ! Did THAT really happend ? ! ? ! ? !
The guy might have had a bit more luck trying to get it through their thick skulls if he had just pointed out that 0.002C per Kb = 2c per Mb (approx) so how much is 36Mb? (though maybe not .. they appeared to be particularly impervious to logic )
hopefully for that guy his phone company isn't making the same mistake
That was simply hilarious Unbelievable, he asks the difference, each time they say yes. He keeps going lower, yes, yes, yes. But all of a sudden $0.002 is the same as 0.002p, wtf
We should try to charge people like this too!
oh man … im in love with this video
That was hilarious! I remember learning it at school, that's just basic math! I must admit the guy didn't loose his temper all the way through the call. They should've pay him instead for teaching math:)


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text: Love it!!! Before I had kids, I always thought that as long as they tried I would accept the result. That was before I realized that kids can be very efficient with their energy. If they think just trying will work, that is all they will do. Now I hear myself saying, "I don't want you to try; I want you to do it!" "It" being cleaning their bedrooms, getting to bed on time, not leaving the bathroom in a complete mess, etc, etc. I do understand that sometimes all you can do is try your best, but really, for simple tasks, like Nike says, "Just do it!"


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The Pittwater by-election stands as a disaster of historic magnitude both
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The Pittwater by-election stands as a disaster of historic magnitude both
The Pittwater by-election stands as a disaster of historic magnitude both for the New South Wales Liberal Party, which has lost its third-safest seat, and for the Poll Bludger, who has lost $25. Apologies are due to Alex McTaggart and to various journalists whose prescient remarks about the Liberals' troubles received short shrift on this site.
In my defence, I was in good company – my assessment was echoed by Antony Green, whose recent Parliamentary Library background paper on New South Wales by-elections from 1965 to (early) 2005 provides historical perspective on the scale of the disaster. The paper notes that major parties have often declined to nominate candidates because they felt that leaving the field vacant for independents was the best chance of depriving their opponents of the seat. Until yesterday, the tactic had not been particularly successful. Antony lists 24 "one-sided" by-elections held in New South Wales between 1975 and 2004, to which two more were added at the triple M by-elections of September 17. Of these, the only defeat for a major party candidate was at last year's Dubbo by-election, and this did not represent a loss for the relevant major party (the Nationals) because the previous member had also been an independent.
This should not come as a surprise, because newcomer independents traditionally win their seats on the back of major party preferences. Once they are privy to the advantages of incumbency it is not uncommon for independents to turn in results as good as that achieved yesterday by Alex McTaggart, but getting their foot in the door normally involves finishing second and then surging ahead on preferences from a third-placed major candidate. That McTaggart was able to skip this phase and outperform Paul Nicolaou on the primary vote underscores the magnitude of the catastrophe for the New South Wales Liberals.
As the Sun-Herald puts it, "the result has left poll specialists reaching for history books to find when a safe seat had swung so demonstrably against one of the major parties". In the Federal arena, the examples that spring to mind are Bass in 1975 (when Labor's primary vote fell 17.5 per cent), Canberra in 1995 (when it fell 21.8 per cent) and Cunningham in 2002 (down 6.1 per cent, but with the result being a historic loss to the Greens). At State level, the Sunday Telegraph quotes Antony Green citing the Coffs Harbour by-election of 1990, when the National Party vote fell from 67.3 per cent to 37.4 per cent. But this was partly influenced by an increase in the number of candidates from two to seven, and the Nationals still won the seat by a two-party margin of 5.4 per cent.
Since my command of the subject is sketchy, I would be grateful if readers can help me put together a list of noteworthy State by-election massacres. Major disasters only please – as a rough guide, it will take a primary vote swing of at least 15 per cent to make the cut. To get the ball rolling, here are three examples that do spring to mind – note the home state bias.
Benalla, Victoria (13/5/2000). Locals were not pleased when Nationals leader Pat McNamara quit parliament not long after the unexpected defeat of the Kennett Government, and reacted by sending the party's vote down from 57.4 per cent to 41.0 per cent and delivering the seat to Labor for the first time in its history. Unsuccessful Nationals candidate Bill Sykes would go on to narrowly recover the seat from Labor's Denise Allen at the otherwise disastrous 2002 election.
Floreat, WA (16/5/1991). Now the member for the successor electorate of Churchlands, Liz Constable came to parliament in this safe Liberal seat at a by-election brought on by the death of Andrew Mensaros. Constable was the popular local choice for a Liberal preselection that instead went to the favoured candidate of controversial powerbroker Noel Crichton-Browne. She contested as an independent and scored an easy win with 49.0 per cent of the primary vote, with the Liberal vote falling from 63.3 per cent to 37.0 per cent in a field vacated by Labor.
Geraldton, WA (13/4/1991). Carmen Lawrence's Labor Government was already reeling from the WA Inc fiasco when a botched reshuffle caused three dumped ministers to quit the Labor Party, depriving it of its parliamentary majority. Geraldton MP Jeff Carr quit parliament altogether, prompting a by-election at which the Labor vote fell from 47.6 per cent to 16.6 per cent, leaving the Liberal and National candidates to fight it out for first and second place. The narrow winner was Liberal candidate Bob Bloffwitch, who would go on to suffer an electoral meltdown of his own at the 2001 State election.
Surfers Paradise, Queensland (5/5/2001). Upon conceding defeat after the disastrous 2001 election, at which he had taken his party from 23 seats to 12, Nationals leader Rob Borbidge told supporters that his own seat of Surfers Paradise was among the casualties. This puzzled election watchers who correctly believed him to be about 5 per cent in front. It may have amounted to wishful thinking, as his resigned his leadership and parliamentary seat immediately upon his re-election. The resulting by-election reduced the National Party from a near primary vote majority (49.7 per cent) to the status of a minor party (8.0 per cent). Votes were lost to the first Liberal Party candidate in the seat since 1992, John-Paul Langbroek (21.2 per cent), and to Gold Coast mayor and independent candidate Lex Bell, who won the seat with 35.9 per cent of the vote. The result meant the end of the National Party as a force on the Gold Coast, although they still won't admit it. The seat returned to the Coalition fold at the 2004 election partly because Bell had became mired in local scandals, but also because the Nationals left the field free to the Liberals, who again ran with Langbroek. Tip: Darryl Rosin.
Bass Hill and Rockdale, New South Wales (2/8/1986). The writing was on the wall for Barrie Unsworth's Labor Government after the two by-elections marking the departure of his predecessor, Neville Wran (Bass Hill), and another MP in a safe seat, Brian Bannon (Rockdale). Unsworth used Rockdale to make the necessary switch from the upper to lower house a la John Gorton in 1968, but received the shock of his life when a 17.1 per cent dive in the primary vote combined with hostile independent preferences to bring him to within 54 votes of defeat. The result in Wran's old stronghold was even worse, with a 22.2 per cent drop on the primary vote delivering a 103 vote victory to the Liberal candidate. Although Unsworth was swept from office at the subsequent State election in 1988, both Bass Hill and Rockdale reverted to type and were easily won by Labor. Tip: Geoff Lambert.
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Hi, have to say I'm delighted with the Pittwater result – not only delighted but proud of my fellow residents. The Liberals have taken this electorate for granted – they thought that Pittwater "belonged" to them. The "right" of the party thought they could get rid of a leader they perceived to be too moderate and then replace him with an outsider whose biggest claim to fame was the ability to raise funds for their party.
The "Liberal right" totally usurped Brogden and even when they had his resignation as Leader of the Opposition they couldn't rest there. They added further salt to his wounds through further media leaks, resulting in John trying to take his own life.
The ego of those involved is beyond belief. They had achieved their aim in getting rid of John and now they felt so pumped up with ego and their own self worth, they didn't listen to the local Libs who told them they had better elect a local representative – they were on a roll; adrenalin was pumping; they were the victors; they were invincible –they endorsed an outsider.
The electorate was outraged but the party know-alls still kept on steamrolling. I received 8 personalised letters and 9 brochures (some of which were enclosed with the letters). Not only were we bombarded with direct Liberal mailings, we also received the infamous "Dear neighbour" letters that were placed in most of the peninsula's letterboxes. We were besieged by their propaganda and each letter/brochure appeared more desperate. McTaggart was painted as a Labor candidate and it was suggested that voting for an independent was in fact a vote for Labor ("Don't reward Labor by voting for an Independent" – this was openly said in literature and at polling booths on polling day). We knew the truth of what happened to John; we watched as further "unconfirmed leaks" were carried in the media and in many ways learned more about dirty politics than ever before.
We watched as Liberal money obscenely flowed into publicity, postage and media stunts and every day through our local paper learned that yet another issue would seemingly be solved once the new Liberal was elected. We were treated as children vying for candy – insult had been added to injury.
We proved we're not children yesterday and this electorate came of age.
The residents of Pittwater are not silvertails as Labor sometimes paints us. "We're hard working individuals who believe in a fair go. We believe in paying taxes but also expect that those taxes should pay for services that are essential to the wellbeing of our community.
Watch out you'll be hearing from Pittwater. McTaggart has 16 months to prove he is worth his mettle – gosh I hope he can.
If Di's ebullience spreads to other Liberal electorates, and not just disadvantaged areas like Pittwater, then Morris Iemma won't win the 2007 election, he'll receive a coronation.
n.b. – please read the above with some irony.
Actually, I'll make a post and ask people to give their opinion.
On past evidence, the seven current Independents will all be re-elected in 2007. Six represent safe Coalition seats (Dubbo, Manly, Northern Tablelands, Pittwater, Port Macquarie, Tamworth) and one a Labor electorate (Bligh, re-named Sydney in 2007.)
Say Labor loses 10 seats to the Coalition. That leaves the Parliament as 45 Labor, 41 Coalition, 7 Independents. There is no majority. Who should form government?
If most of the Independents back Labor because they have more seats, it is the easier option. On difficult issues, they can always abstain without bringing the government down.
Or as 6 of them hold overwhelmongly non-Labor seats, should they back the Coalition, even though that requires them having to be brought into discussion on every piece of legislation? Would such an arrangement compromise independence?
Some background on the above. If the hung parliament result occurred and the Iemma government made no arrangement with the Independents before Parliament sat, it would continue in caretaker mode until the Parliament met. It can then only be defeated by a vote that can unambiguously be classed as a no-confidence motion. On the first sitting of Parliament, the election of the Speaker is usually the important vote. If defeated, the Iemma government would probably have to resign and presumably be replaced by a Coalition government.
I say probably, because if the Opposition viewed they did not have the complete support of the cross-benches, it could refuse to take government.
The NSW Parliament's fixed term legislation now has quite strict rules on no confidence votes. If a government is brought down by a no-confidence vote, a set period is set down in which the government can re-assert confidence, or in which a new government can be formed. If neither end can be met, the result will be an early election after a delay while the constitutional niceties are resolved.
Having covered the 1991-1995 NSW parliament, and followed closely the hung Tasmanian Parliaments of 1989-92 and 1996-98, I can assure everyone that they are extremely interesting to watch and extremely stressful for the participants.
Antony's hypothetical reminds me of the 1998 Queensland Election when Rob Borbidge said the Labor Party they didn't have a mandate to form a government. Wags I speak to reckon the next NSW Election will yield even more independents as non Iemmaphiles in Labor, and tired old past-its stand down.
Hi Antony, don't get too carried away. Your quote "Morris Iemma won't win the 2007 election, he'll receive a coronation" doesn't address the vast majority of voters who feel totally disillusioned with Labor. Quite a few of us can't work out whether they are totally inefficient or corrupt. There have been many incidences, apart from the Cross City Tunnel that have us shaking our heads and wondering what the hell is going on.
We're all asking "Where has the money gone?" The NSW govt has over the past five years had a bonanza from stamp duties on property sales and the GST reimbursed from the Federal government – why when they have had all this extra money and have been fending off their other responsibilities (roads, etc) to PPP's have they not at least kept up with maintenance on our hospitals and schools? Both major parties are not representing us as constituents – they are representing their own interest.
Maybe it's time for all of us to kick out both major parties and hopefully we'll see the emergence of a new party that actually has Australia's future in mind – not their greedy selves. Most of my friends at the moment are very disillusioned with both major parties – state and federal. We're sick of picking the better of two evils – we want someone we can really believe will make a difference and hopefully set Australia up for our grandchildren.
Alex Hawke is better than Harry Potter. His magic can not only destroy a party leader, he can get rid of his seat too!
Di. There is always a conflict between what an MP can achieve for their constituency and what government can pay for. I'm not going to try and defend every spending initiative of the current or previous state governments. But in the end, Independents must fight for local services up against all the other MPs in the parliament, both party and non-party.
Government is about trying to find some way to allocate resources between these competing demands. As an example, Mona Vale Hospital. It covers one small and relatively isolated part of Sydney, and a part that does not have a growing population. Perhaps there is a good case for upgrading the hospital. But if there is, there is a good case for upgrading many hospitals. But how do you pay for upgrading them all, and if you don't upgrade them all, which ones do you upgrade and how do you decide?
Perhaps the Labor and Liberal parties are under the thumb of their 'interests'. Perhaps that's why they build the new hospitals and roads in politically sensitive areas. But in putting those services in marginal seats, aren't they just repsonsing to the interests of their constituents in those seats?
Isn't the argument of independents, that if they make their seat more marginal they will get more services, just another way of jumping the queue?
Now before you jump down my throat, I'm being deliberately provovative. All I like to point out to people who believe their area is so specially deserving is that many areas are deserving, and while Independents may be able to do a wonderul job working on local roads, hospitals, schools etc, the money all has to be pulled from a big pot of money taken from taxpayers and doled out between competing interests. Depending on your point of view, a vocal local MP can gain what the local area rightfully deserves, or can distort the rational allocation of resources between competing ends. Which of these views you take probably depends on where you live and if your area was a winner or not.
My comment about the Iemma government's 'coronation' was because most of the upwelling of Independent support is in safe Liberal and National seats. All seven current Indepdnent MPs were originally elected in Coalition seats, though Clover Moore's seat of Bligh would now be a mainly Labor seat.
Labor lost Wollongong to and Indepdnent in 1984, and Balmain, Newcastle and Swansea in 1988. It won all 4 back in 1991 and hasn't lost one since. Apart from North Shore, the Coalition have not been able to defeat a sitting Independent in 25 years.
Labor might be in trouble to Greens in Balamin and Marrickville in 2007, but so far the Indepdnents are a problem which is besetting the Coalition, not Labor.
Antony, what ten seats do you believe will swing to to Liberals in 2007 and why?
Also if you look at the work done by the independant member for Manly David Barr for the local electorate in return for his consistant voting with Labour, he has managed to get the local Seaforth TAFE closed, Manly hospital just had its maternity section closed and also the local Beacon Hill High School also closed, not to mention his great plan to widen the Spit Bridge(has not happened and likely will not happen), and would not have prevented the horrible bus crash we saw the other week on Spit Hill, nor reduce the take on one of the RTA's best speed camera. Good luck Pittwater you have just elected a Lame Duck member as effectice as David Barr in Manly and probably ensured victory for Labour in 2007. The rest of NSW thanks you for returning Carl Scully, Di Beamer and John Aquilina and Iemma Who? So next time you are complaining about Cross City Tunnel, Lane Cove Tunnel, desalination plants and Zoning issues, remember you voted to continue as is with the current management.
Di, the local Pittwater Liberals actually preselected Paul over a local, because they believed that he would make the best member to represent Pittwater out of the candidates who put themselves forward in the pre-selection.
Sally, don't believe all the conspiracy theories that you read, join a party get involved and you will find out for yourself the actual facts rather than rely on fictional media releases 'leaked by factoinal war lords'.
Some of those independents who have been elected, while sitting in areas where the Coalition are broadly considered to be the 'natural' major party (country NSW and northern Sydney).
In New England and Central West NSW, people are represented by independents both on a state and federal level, and have seen a successful transition from one independent to another. So independents seem to be becoming systemic, rather than just being about a single personality.
The point of this is that it isn't easy to say that independents are in "conservative" electorates so will support the coalition. Firstly, the fact that their main competition is usually the Coalition may lead them to be less likely to support a Coalition government, and voters who may support the ALP or Greens in Sydney are among the supporters of the country independents.
So while not being an expert, I'd predict that at the very least Labor would get support of half the independents, and if Labor comes out ahead (which I would say is more likely than not) there would be more.
Added to this is the possibility of Greens in Balmain particularly, but also Marrickville and Ballina.
Of course, a Labor government supported by independents/Greens would be different to a Labor government with a majority in the Legislative Assembly.
Of course, a question not being discussed is the prospects in the Legislative Council. The LC seems to be tending towards more consolidated parties. Out of the 6 crossbenchers up for election in 2007, I'd expect the Greens and CDP to retain their seat, and Greens to gain one, but the other four should all lose their seats (David Oldfield, Jon Jenkins, Democrats, Unity). Overall, even if another party wins a seat, you'll see political parties having more control of the LC and more of a real "balance of power", whereas currently the ALP, needing 4 votes to have a majority, can pick and choose from a very diverse group of 11 crossbenchers.
So while the 11 currently are made up of 8 parties, I'd be surprised if there are more than 4 parties (including those with only 1 seat) on the crossbenches after March 2007.
Just discovered today what a crap newspaper the Manly Daily is.
After initially refusing to make a prediction for Pittwater, I was assured they were just after a comment for inside the article.
So what do they do. Turn a cautious prediction into a frontpage headling screaming 'Guru picks Libs'.
Chalk it down to experience, but I know what to say if the Manly Daily ever rings again. No point putting your reputation on the line just to give some trashy local paper an unjustified headline.
Surely the broader point of Pittwater is that the Coalition is hollowing out. What was traditionally a state-based organisation is eroding at the state level in its core constituencies across the country. Labor is also having a problem but at least has some constituency especially with public sector workers. I think this phenomenon is being concealed because Howard is still in at a Federal level. But it would suggest to me that 1) he will hang around too long 2) when he goes the Liberal disarray will become fully evident.
Noteworthy Qld by-election: Sufer's Paradise 2001.
Opposition leader and former Premier Rob Borbidge resigns after the 2001 disaster. National Party primary drops from 49.7% to 8%. (the by-election was a four-cornered contest – the Libs got 21.2% and Labor declined from 38.3% to 20% – but that's still a combined swing of over 20% away from the Coalition).
The Liberals made two disasterous mistakes in Pittwater and both factions have to take responsibility
1/ Leaking polling in the last 10 days which identified Mcaggart as their main threat – and therefore establishing him as a lightning rod. They should have leaked polling identifing both McTaggert (for credibility) AND another independent as equal threats – therefore splitting up non-Liberal vote. Even better, they could have run a well funded dummy independent with a "just vote one" card. Failing that they should have just kept quiet.
The blame for this must go to the right wing run state executive which presumably ran or at least oversaw the campaign.
2/ The second stuff-up however is not of the right's making. I find it interesting that they are now being blamed for endorsing an out of area candidate when Nicolau was clearly the darling of the group / moderate faction with a history of spectacular failure in Ryde in 2003 with a 9% 2pp swing against him. I'd go so far as to say the right permitted him to run against their better judgement? due to fear of more talk of a factional takeover if they didn't. In so doing they copped a dud candidate with no affinity to the area and made a bad situation worse.
Dosen't say much for the judgement of either faction…
Antony, what happens if the indepe's get together and support the ALP for Government and make a Liberal the speaker? in your scenario.
If I remember correctly, before Federation nearly all Victorian MLA's were independants, with around 15 governments in the last 10 years of the colonies existance, could we be heading down a path of the rump of the majors combined controlling say 705 of seats and the rest becoming Inde's
Well, that would be fun. But it would deny the Liberals a vote, as the Speaker only gets to vote on a tie.
Just a bit of history. In 1913, the sudden resignation of two Labor MPs cost the McGowan Labor government its majority. With the opposition about to move a vote of no-confidence, Acting Premier Holman asked the Governor to prorogue parliament until the by-elections were held. The Governor refused and Holman promptly resigned the government's commission, which created a pickle for the Governor as Holman had not lost a vote and the Opposition could not form government. He had to back down, allow Holman to withdraw his resignation and prorogue the Parliament.
From 1920 to 1925, the NSW Parliament was elected using the Hare-Clark electoral system. At the 1920 election, Labor won 43 of the 90 seats, with the opposition split between the Nationalists and Progressives with a couple of Independents. With no Coalition agreement, Nationalist Daniel Levy took the Speakers chair.
In late 1920, it looked like an agreement had been made for a Coalition. Levy resigned as Speaker, Labor Premier James Dooley resigned but stayed as caretaker for a week until until the Fuller Government could be sworn in.
It was sworn in on 20 December 1921, but the Coalition agreement had come apart during in the week and the government resigned seven hours later. It was the shortest government in Australian political history.
I think revolving door government like that, or as occurred in Victoria between 1945 and 1952, would not be acceptable these days. In a hung Parliament with more than half a dozen Independent and minor party members, there would be constant pressure in parlimamentary divisions and enormous pressure to consistently back one side or the other.
Ben Raue from the Greens is conveniently overlooking the Greens dismal performance in the Pittwater by-election (almost halving their vote from 14% to 8%) and their average performance in the Marrickville by-election, where although they increased their vote (in the absence of a Liberal candidate) so did the Labor party.
It is important to note these points because the Greens, as a party of protest, should be able to harness additional votes in by-elections, and in seats like Marrickville they really should have won given the current state of NSW Labor.
Failing to do this in a by-election (and also given they are not competing with the Democrats for votes), I don't like their chances in winning Marrickville or Balmain in the 2007 State Election.
The Greens never do as well in seats where there is a significant Independent. They don't poll nearly as well against Clover Moore in Bligh despite record votes in neighbouring Marrickville and Port Jackson. The Pittwater result is meaningless for how the Greens will poll in 2007.
Brett J. The fact that you see the Greens as a protest party shows how little you know about these things. Yes, it is a protest party in that it gains a lot of dissaffected voters. However, the fact that it is one of only 4 parties that has a comlete and up to date range of policies. The other three are Lib, ALP and NATS. This shows they are a serious party and are here to stay, unlike the Dems, One Nation, DLP, and so on.
Ok Deewun, well tell me this, how many Greens voters actually vote for the Greens on account of their 'full range of policies'? I suspect it's an extremely small amount of their total voter base. Biggest chunks come from disaffected ALP voters and Liberal voters who still think the Greens are warm-and-fuzzy-environment types (and who obviously haven't delved into the 'complete range of policies' on things like open border immigration and over the counter illegal drugs). Therefore they get the lions share of their vote as a 'protest party'.
But… I suspect this moves off the topic of Pittwater. 🙂
Well, for one those two aren't policies, which could be why no one looks at them. For another, how many voters look at more then one or two policies anyway? But, yes, the Greens are getting most ly protest votes, but this is because the major parties are so bad that the Greens would be voted for if their policy was to prove the moon was made of cheese.The greens gain the voters with a protest vote and keep them with the policies. This is relevent to Pittwater because since Cunningham, the Greens hoave shown they can win, which means they get less of a protest vote, which accounts for a large amount of votes in a by-election.
The Pittwater By-election was nothing but a referendum on Mona Vale Hospital, an issue that has 99% of the electorate engaged
I had never been phone polled before the election, but during the run up to this poll I was phone polled 3 times!!
On one occasion when I said that the main issue to me was Mona Vale Hospital the person calling me immediately said, without thinking, "everyone is saying that".
If the Liberals had supported the Level 5 hospital at Mona Vale they would have retained the seat.
If the Labour do not now support the Level 5 hospital at Mona Vale they are mad. If they do, it will ensure the seat remains independent.
I think, Anthony, you placed far too much weight in the Brogden factor and ignored the real issue when making your prediction
I don't quite agree Parry. Pittwater is safe Lib vs Labor, and when Labor contests it, it will likely become safe Liberal again. It being in independent hands, where under any normal circumstances would have had it in blue hands is a positive for Labor. North of Sydney has a weakness for independents, and McTaggart might hang around for a while, it's extra resources the Libs have to spend to get a seat back at the expense of funding elsewhere, all the while, Iemma will dole out the money in the marginals and be at significant advantage – much smarter than dropping money on the Mona Vale hospital.
The reason I am so sure it was all about Mona Vale hospital is it is an issue that has been number one on the community agenda for 5 – 6 years
There have been many rallies (over 6000 attended one Rally), 40000 signatures on petitions etc.
The Area Health want to close Manly and Mona Vale Hospitals and have one acute hospital on the Northern Beaches.
It is for sure and for certain that if Mona vale hospital is not upgraded to the Level 5 Acute hospital it will eventually close and the land sold off for development.
The Liberals did not support the Level 5 at Mona Vale!
The very powerful Save Mona Vale Hospital Committee endorsed McTaggart, who is best known for his support and efforts in the fight for Mona Vale Hospital.
The Liberals thought it was about Mona Vale Hospital, just look at their advertising and campaign material.
Polling done also verified it was all about the Hospital.
The Liberals believed they could win without offering the Level 5 at Mona Vale. They were worried about the seat of Manly which is currently held by David Barr (ind) which they need to win if they are ever going to govern again. They were wrongly frightened that they would hurt their chances in Manly if they agreed to the Level 5 at Mona Vale instead of down the Manly end.
I don't doubt that people attended rallies. But some people I know who went out and protested IR reform still voted for John Howard, and will do so again.
But anyway, my main point still stands; Labor are not mad if they don't support the hospital, because on a regular Labor vs Lib measure, Pittwater ain't on their radar. That's why they sat out – like an inverse Cunningham, if they'd entered, the Liberals would have been returned with a smaller margin.
You mean to say that people can't help vote for the same guy whether he has done good or bad to the whole nation?
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - Ten North Carolina players have been named to Phil Steele's 2012 postseason All-ACC squad led by first-team selections Giovani Bernard at running back/punt return, Jonathan Cooper at guard, James Hurst at offensive tackle, Sylvester Williams at defensive tackle and Kevin Reddick at linebacker.
Tight end Eric Ebron, defensive end Kareem Martin and punter Tommy Hibbard were second-team picks. Quarterback Bryn Renner and place-kicker Casey Barth earned a spot on the third team.
Bernard led the Atlantic Coast Conference in rushing, scoring, all-purpose yards and punt return average. He rushed for 1,228 yards on 184 carries, finishing 11th in the nation with 122.8 yards per game. Despite missing two games this season, he scored a league-best 19 touchdowns (12 rushing, five receiving, two on punt returns) and averaged 11.4 points per game to rank fifth in the nation. Bernard finished fourth nationally with a single-season school record 198.1 all-purpose yards per game.
Cooper graded out at a team-best 90 percent and had double-digit knockdown blocks in nine of 12 games this season. Hurst was an oustanding blocker, lining up beside Cooper to provide one of the best blocking tandems in the country.
Williams posted 42 tackles, 13.5 tackles for losses and six sacks. A transfer from Coffeyville Community College in Kansas, Williams started all 25 games at UNC.
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Yuan Wang tracking ship
An ocean going instrumentation ship is a special ship built for the development of intercontinental guided missile, submarine to shore missile and astronautical technology. The Chinese ocean going fleet of survey ships has successively completed intercontinental ballistic missile full range flight test, submarine to shore guided missile underwater launch test, communications satellite launch test and southpole visit, making a great contribution to China's science and technology development as well as weapons and equipment development and test.
The four Yuan Wang tracking ships go to "three major oceans" to support piloted missions. They are assigned to the western Pacific Ocean, southern Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean west of Australia, and southern Atlantic Ocean to track and control the Shenzhou spacecraft. That was a pattern similar to Russian deployment before piloted flights. Ever since the first launching in November 1999 this has meant Yuan Wang 1 and 2 going into the Pacific, 4 being based in the Indian Ocean with a call at Fremantle in Australia, and Yuan Wang 3 coming to Durban from where she heads around the Cape for the Atlantic coast.
During the 1999 launch of Shenzhou I Yuan Wang 3, which was on station off the Namibia coast, sent the signal to fire the retro rockets and bring the returning capsule safely out of orbit to a landing northwest of Wuhai in Inner Mongolia, after 14 orbits lasting 21 hours.
Yuanwang means "Long View." The Chinese refer to the fleet as "maritime aerospace survey vessels" carrying "transoceanic aerospace observation and control technology." Each ship has an impressive array of dishes and scanners.
These ships were built under the "718 Project." These are the oceangoing aerospace synthetical measuring ships. Type Yuan Wang for observing and measuring the trajectory of long range missile and satellite, the oceangoing salvage ship "J121", and oceangoing exploration ship "Xiang Yang Hong 10". Xu Xueyan, was appointed the chief designer in the 1970s, and was awarded the national special class scientific and Technological Advancement Prize (twice) for the design of Yuan Wang and Xiang Yang Hong 10 in 1985 and national First class Scientific and Technological Advancement Prize in 1985.
In 1965, Premier Chou Enlai proposed the grand concept of China developing its own oceangoing aerospace measuring ships. In 1968, Chairman Mao Zedong personally approved the plan to develop oceangoing aerospace measuring ships. After passing through the storms of the cultural revolution, the Yuanwang 1 and Yuanwang 2 measuring ships were finally put into the water on 31 August 1977 and 01 September 1978, respectively. This marked the end of the period in which China was unable to measure launch vehicle and satellite orbits from outside its national territory.
Yuanwang 1 and Yuanwang 2 carried out measuring assignments for the first time in May of 1980, with complete success. Subsequently, the two ships successfully completed measuring assignments relating to China's own independently designed and developed test communications satellite and the third stage of its launch vehicle. In order to adapt to the needs of international commercial launches, Yuanwang 1 and Yuanwang 2 both underwent technical reconstructions in 1986.
On 18 July 1999 a new space tracking ship, Yuan Wang 4, was delivered to the user, China Satellite Launch and Tracking Control General, by China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC). This is the 4th tracking ship in China's Yuan Wang space tracking fleet. The Yuan Wang 4 tracking ship was converted from the scientific survey ship "Xiang Yang Hong 10" that was launched years earlier.
On 15 December 2003 "Yuanwang" No.2 survey ship docked at the port for space survey ships. Thus all four "Yuanwang" survey ships had returned home after they successfully completed their survey and control mission over Shenzhou V manned spaceship. Since 08 September 2003 this year, "Yuanwang" survey ships have been sent to the designated sea areas in the Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean to carry out survey and control missions for Shenzhou V, China's first manned spaceship.
The four "Yuanwang" survey ships successfully sailed across the Taiwan Strait, Malacca Strait and Cape of Good Hope, covering about 60,000 nautical miles. During this period, crewmembers as well as scientific personnel on the ships overcame various difficulties and successfully completed the survey, remote measurement, remote control, earth-sky data and picture transmission and voice communication for Shenzhou V spaceship during the phases of operation, reentry and orbiting of Shenzhou V. The ships accurately sent 212 remote orders to the spaceship, which was an important contribution to the success of China's first manned space flight.
After going through five times of practical test of the space flight, the survey and control capabilities, the accuracy of survey and control, automation level and reliability of these survey ships have been remarkably improved and the overall survey and control technologies on the sea have been on a par with the world advanced level.
Since its establishment, the "Yuanwang" survey fleet sailed to the three major oceans for 44 times, covering a distance of over 800,000 nautical miles. So far the fleet has carried out more than 50 survey and control missions for space flight with a success rate of 100%.
Yuan Wang 3
In the mid sixties, in accordance with the development plan of ocean going instrumentation ship assigned by Commission of Science and Technology for National Defense (COSTND), the overall design departments of the Seventh MMB, the Seventh Academy of the Sixth MMB and test bases of the Commission of Science and Technology for National Defense concerned organized a " three in one" concept study team to conduct studies of the survey' concepts at sea and survey control system of this ship.
At the same time, the Seventh Academy organized a "Six Four workteam" made up of personnel from its ten institutes, and under the direction of Xu Xueyan, with Shangguan Shipan, Wang Lichun and others of the test bases to conduct concept studies of the instrumentation ship. Through many years' effort in investigations, tests, studies, finally the overall instrumentation ship concept, and the technical concepts of measurement and control, communication, navigational positioning, salvage and meteorological systems were defined.
In 1974, the units responsible for the development began their work in ship overall design and equipment development. In the same year, the No.708 Institute, Jiangnan shipyard and the test bases once again organiseed a "three in one" design team under the direction of Shu Fuliang to conduct the technical design of the ship. In May 1975, after the approval of the technical design by the leader group of the ship, Jiangnan shipyard under the direction of Xu Mingliang began the ship's detail design.
The ship's endurance is great, the resistance to wind and seakeeping is good; it has a length of 191 meters, a height of 38 meters, a breadth of 22 meters, with a nine story hold equivalent to a 14 story high building; on the deck 50 antennae are installed; full load displacement of the ship is 20,000 tons; it has an average speed of 18 knots. The ship is equipped with high precision measurement and .control systems, mufti means, mufti network, long distance, all weather communication system and advanced composite navigational positioning system and meteorological system. The electric power consumed by this ship is equal to that of a medium city with a population of 300,000.
This ship is China's first generation of composite tracking surveying station at sea, the development work was an extremely complicated and large system engineering task, which combined many new scientific and technological achievements of China. Many critical technical problems were solved in the process of overall design, construction, and equipment development, installation and debugging.
In order to ensure the ship stability in sea storm so as to ensure the measurement precision, a three level stability system was adopted. The first level stability was the inherent stability of the ship, in the ship two pairs of large sized retractable anti rolling fins and a super large single plate bilge keel were installed. The drift and yaw were controlled coordinately by the active rudder and bow thruster to ensure that the measurement apparatus were stabilised within the limits of operational sighting field. The second level stability, based on the first level stability of the ship, adopted a planar coordinate stability system. By putting the ship's residual roll angle through the stable platform system, the stability precision of the measurement apparatus could be ensured to reach a precision level in angular minutes.
The third level stability consisted of a servo system connected to the measuring radar, remote measurement and dual frequency speed measurement equipment. The servo system used the signals supplied by the computing center to automatically control the azimuth and pitching angle of the equipment, so the stability precision reached the level of angular seconds. By all these measures, the aim of capturing, continuous tracking, and measuring of the target were attained.
The tracking measurement of flying guided missile put forth very high requirement on the measuring ship, a very small longitudinal deflection of the ship's hull would bring a large error to the measurement. To solve this problem, the No.708 Institute, on the one hand, adopted special measures on the structural design and arrangement of the hull to increase the hull rigidity and reduce deformation of the hull over waves while not increasing the structural weight of the hull; on the other hand, put on the ship an optical bending deformation measuring apparatus developed by the Changchun Optical Precision Mechanism Research Institute to measure and correct the inevitable residual deformation, with the result that the precision measuring equipment such as laser cinema theodolite could be secured in a place where the hull deformation reached the requirement of 1/1,000 of hull length.
On the instrumentation ship there were a large number of precision electronic and optical equipment, which required small vibration and low noise. The No.708 Institute adopted in its overall design the steam turbine produced by Shanghai Steam Turbine Plant as prime mover, designed a new type propeller and took some measures on structures to satisfy the requirement of small vibration. In general arrangement, the machinery and boiler spaces were placed at the rear of the mid ship section of the ship, while the measuring equipments were placed in the mid ship section or the forward of the mid ship section of the ship so as to put them far apart. Double doors and materials such as foam plastics were used to reduce noise. Through measurements, it was found that the noise of the machinery room and other rooms actually reached the standard.
The instrumentation ship was equipped with more than 50 antennae, and more than 1,000 electronic equipments. So many equipments with wide frequency bands and big transmitting power congested in one ship, electro magnetic interference was a serious problem. The Overall Design Institute of Measurement and Communication of COSTND together with No.708 Institute and Jiangnan Shipyard took measures in antenna area division arrangement and electromagnetic compatibility technology; No.704 Institute, Cable Research Institute and Cable Production Plant helped to measure the cable coupled interference data to develop the high frequency assembled in group cables, classify cables in layers and bundles according to the different kinds of frequency bands and lay cables in special cable conduits to check coupled interference; Changzhou 2nd Radio Factory trial produced a shipboard power supply filter of good quality to check conduction interference. In addition, many shielding measures were adopted to check radiation interference, all these served to better solve the electromagnetic compatibility problem.
The Division of System Engineering was responsible for the navigational positioning system. The means adopted for positioning were the inertial navigation system developed under the guidance of Zhang Zhongshun of No.707 Institute, the global, all weather, high precision satellite navigation system developed under the guidance of Ma Yeqin of No. 1020 Institute and the astronomical theodolite developed under the guidance of Yang Ming of No.717 Institute. The composite positioning system composed of these three means was connected to a computer, and utilizing the high precision location data fed by satellite navigation and the astronomical theodolite to check the zero drift accumulated in the inertial navigation system during the long period of voyage, thus the locating precision of this ship was raised to higher level.
Communication Division of Headquarters of the General Staff was responsible for the communication system of the instrumentation ship. The ship was equipped with a complete communication system composed of equipment developed by No.722 Institute and related institutes and factories of the Ministry of Electronics, i.e. long range, high power short wave communication; ultra long wave communication; relay communication; satellite communication and digital transmission; frequency shift and phase shift telegraph; telex and secret telephone etc., and also a time clock system based on an atomic frequency standard clock. This served to ensure the fast, all weather transmission and communication of a great quantity of data and information between ship and ship, ship and shore, and ship and air.
The Meteorological Bureau of Headquarters of the General Staff was responsible for the system. The ship was equipped with a weather forecast system composed of meteorological radar, air sounding instrument, helium high altitude balloon release apparatus, satellite cloud chart receiver, radio meteorological communication equipment and conventional meteorological equipment to provide high altitude meteorological parameters at sea in time.
The Division of Voyage Logistics of the Navy Headquarters was responsible for this system. The ship was equipped with salvage and life saving motor boat, hydraulic foldable arm crane, helicopter take off and landing platform and its control tower, and corresponding navigational and communication equipment. The ship can retrieve and house the data capsule of missile test, and rescue the astronauts.
In accordance with the measurement and control concept developed and designed by the Overall Institute of Measurement and Communication of COSTND, the ship was equipped with a system composed of a single pulse precision measurement radar developed by No. 14 Institute of the Tenth Academy, laser cinema theodolite developed by the Institute of Optical Machinery of Changchun and Shengyang Automation Institute, double frequency speed measuring apparatus developed by No.504 Institute, and the composite remote measurement equipment developed by No.704 Institute of the Ministry of Astronautics, and a central computing system with a speed of one million instructions per second developed by No.15 Institute of the Tenth Academy and Changsha Industrial College, thus the problem of tracking, measurement, capture and guidance at sea was solved with a high probability.
Beginning from 1975, the instrumentation ship entered the phase of construction, trial, equipment installation, debugging, check and calibration. In accordance with the requirement of the CCCPC Special Commission, Jiangnan shipyard, No.708 Institute, the Overall Institute of Measurement and Communication and the Instrumentation Ship Base completed in 1979 the work of construction, equipment installation, debugging and sea trial and test.
During this period, under the direction of Li Qi of the Coordination Group of the COSTND stationing in Shanghai, the Sixth MMB together with the departments concerned in Shanghai, organized Jiangnan shipyard, No.708 Institute, Instrumentation Ship Base, and the naval representatives in the factory to conduct five major tests of technical coordination, gearwheel grind in, real ship performance check and correction test, to check the performance of the measuring equipment.
Through one year long test period the ship passed 816 items of special inspection, 353 items of military inspection, all reached the design requirement. In the beginning of 1980, the ship conducted system debugging, the overall ship calibration combined with flight check, and finally through flight test at sea and demonstration off shore, the systems and the equipment of the ship, under the unified control of the central computer, coordinated and worked well, thus all were ready to accept task assignment.
In 2016, Yuanwang ships completed 14 major scientific research and experiment tasks, including maiden flights of the Long March-7 and the Long March-5, and space journeys of the Tiangong-2 space lab and the Shenzhou-11 manned spacecraft. Yuanwang space tracking ships, which follows the progress of satellites and other space-bound craft, will carry out 19 maritime space monitoring missions in 2017, according to the maritime satellite measurement and control authority.
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Chiefs head coach Andy Reid said Monday, as expected, that he will call the plays for the team's offense next season. Fomer 12-year NFL quarterback Doug Pederson has been named offensive coordinator, and Reid said Pederson is a "creative guy" who "knows this offense like the back of his hand." But for the time being, he will learn under Reid.
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Reid likes to throw a lot, but with Matt Cassel and no quarterback logically available with the No. 1 overall pick, that's probably not a method that will be beneficial for the 2013 Chiefs. Fortunately, Reid knows how to make stud running backs. Duce Staley, Brian Westbrook and LeSean McCoy all carried the load for Reid over long periods of time, and each of those backs had multiple seasons with 50 or more receptions. Jamaal Charles , like McCoy and Westbrook, isn't the biggest running back around, but you should trust Reid to get the ball into his hands often over the course of a season, especially as a receiver. Yes, there will probably be games in which Reid inexplicably forgets that you are allowed to use a running back in the NFL, but the Reid hire does give Charles' fantasy value a boost in PPR leagues.


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This morning's Observer reports that Andrei Vavilov, the Russian oligarch who sued the Plaza's developer to get out of his $53.5 million deal for a two-unit triplex penthouse, compromised by paying a bit more than $11 million for the smaller penthouse unit.
Mr. Vavilov has already put the 2,906-square-foot apartment back on the market, according to the Brown Harris Stevens' Web site, and he's hoping for a profit: The asking price is $12.5 million.
Famously, Mr. Vavilov's lawsuit complained viciously about the Plaza, even invoking an imaginary character: "[U]nlike in the classic Eloise series of children's books set in the Plaza Hotel, where the rooms at the Plaza Hotel embodied the height of elegance and sophistication, the same can not be said of the Penthouses. The completed Penthouses utterly fail to live up to the representations of [developer] El-Ad to Plaintiffs of superior condition, quality, and overall appearance." There were "unobstructed floor to ceiling windows"! And "lower than represented ceiling heights"! And "unappealing drainage grates which further impeded Plaintiffs' views"!
But, hilariously, the Brown Harris listing with Brenda Powers and Elizabeth Lee Sample–who told The Observer last year, "When I first started in the business, I was almost kidnapped by a guy that was wanted by Interpol … for arms smuggling"–describes the apartment lovingly. The adjectives in the listing include "spectacular," "magnificent," "one of a kind," "top of the line" (twice), "grand" (twice), and "luxurious" (three times).


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And I was like NO. That did NOT just happen.
But it turns out it totally did happen.
So I had to rewrite the entire thing. Which brings us to today.
If you're new here, I suggest you start with How Ryan Met Lauren Part 1, How Ryan Met Lauren Part 2 and maybe take a quick peek at The Engagement and then if you're not too dizzy and/or horrified, come on back here.
Oh you're back? You must be crazy. But whatever, let's move on.
Ryan proposed March 27th, 2010. Ryan and Lauren got married December 11th, 2010. Let's reminisce shall we?
Lauren (that's me, for some reason I always write these posts in the third person) had always wanted a Winter wedding. She daydreamed about soft snowflakes and twinkling holiday lights and about how all the bees would be dead because Winter is too cold for fucking bees.
Unfortunately, upon waking the morning of the wedding and running to the window of her fancy hotel suite, there was nary a snowflake in sight. At least Lauren assumed this was true. She couldn't positively say that it wasn't snowing because it was pretty hard to see anything through all of the rain.
Luckily Lauren is a hard girl to flap, so she took a deep breath, gave the rain her middle finger, then apologized to the rain because she is a lady and middle fingers have absolutely no place in fancy hotel suites, and trekked downstairs to get some coffee.
A short time later the hair and makeup girls showed up and whipped Lauren into shape. It was surprisingly painful. Like side-burns-waxing painful. Lauren didn't even know that was a thing.
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And then Lauren's sister Jordan, the Main of Honor was like "Ryan is so lucky he gets to marry you."
And Lauren was like "I know. I wonder what he is doing right this second."
Later she found out that at right that second Ryan was panicking back at their condo, surrounded by groomsmen and ushers because no one knew how to tie a bow tie and he hadn't actually learned how to tie a bow tie like he had told Lauren and there was no one to tie the bow ties.
So he called the tux place and they actually had to send an associate over to our home to tie all of the dumb boys' ties.
|OH! So you TIE it into a BOW? Wow I was way off.
It took twenty minutes and three bridesmaids to get the dress on.
|I am saying a little prayer in my head right now. Oh Dear Lord, Please Let This God Damned Dress Fit.
|This is a grimace, not a smile.
|Vanessa is definitely thinking "I TOLD her a Quesadilla Wedding Diet wasn't a thing"
|This is when I shouted "See Vanessa! I CAN eat a quesadilla for every meal for a week and still fit into my dress! You were wrong to doubt me and wrong to try to take away all of my quesadilla-making ingredients."
|This is looks like glamour, but really it is me not being able to breathe or sit on a chair like a regular person.
|This looks like glamour but really it is me being like "Oh look, my shoulder is sweating."
They should really let you wear your dress around for like two days before buying it. Because those things can be HEAVY and HOT and underneath her dress Lauren was like, covered in sweat.
Soon Ryan and company arrived at the hotel and it was time for Ryan and Lauren to do their "Reveal." The moment they saw each other for the first time.
|Why is her back so sweaty?
|At this point I got nervous and as I turned around I said "It's Me!" and Ryan was all "I kind of thought it would be."
|He was glad it was me.
|At this point I was thinking "After today, no one can think I'm a slut if I get pregnant."
After the Reveal, it was on to group pictures. Unfortunately, it was still raining cats and dogs and bats and frogs and gnats and hogs and rats and logs.
And since all of the bridesmaids were newly beautified, it was decided that the original plan of getting pictures of everyone out and about in Chicago would need to be changed. So they took some pictures inside and some pictures outside, (but still under the hotel's awning) and then released everyone to the party bus.
|Stop looking so happy OJ, it's not YOUR wedding day. It's MINE. I mean, mine and Ryan's.
|Rain Rain, Go Away, Come Again Any Other Fucking Day.
We released everyone to the bus except OJ that is.
Because of the rain, OJ was in charge of being my Man of Honor. Which meant that he had to keep me dry and my dress dry and my wrap dry while he and Ryan and I traipsed about the city.
|He's VERY handsome and loves the Batman movies and lies about his height.
|When we first got engaged, I wanted to get married at the Harold Washington Library, which is gorgeous. But Ryan said no because he thought I'd "sneak away and read books."
|And then the photographer was like "Look Drunk!" and we totally pulled it off. (I swear I didn't have a drink until 11pm when the photographers left.)
|A picture of us walking around in the rain with umbrellas.
|Another picture of us walking around in the rain with umbrellas.
|Last time OJ was visiting, I went to bed by myself while the boys stayed up talking. When I woke up there was a Lauren, a Ryan AND an OJ in my bed. And OJ was in the middle.
|I look pregnant in this picture. Sadly I was not actually pregnant.
|Yoouuuu My, Brown-Eyed Girl.
Then picture time was over and everyone headed over to the venue to watch Lauren and Ryan say I Do.
|Another picture of people walking around in the rain with umbrellas.
Although OJ volunteered to step in if once again, Ryan couldn't perform.
|That's not even a ring OJ, that's a fucking cookie in a box.
So that's all for now, I'll get to the ceremony and the reception on Monday! But I'll leave you with some more gratuitous wedding photos. Because this is my blog and I can do whatever I want on it.


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1. Since cyclists ride the same direction as traffic, HOW IN THE fukc ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO KNOW YOU'RE HAULING A 10K TRAILER?
2. Smoke =! power
3. Hicks that like to turn up the fuel and make smoke are now the public's #1 negative association with diesels, the accelerated emissions standards for particulates AND the reluctance of OEM's putting smaller diesels in 1/2 ton trucks.
Just saying - you have some strange logic going on there.
1: If they cant hear a 7.3 at 2500+rpm downshifting behind them, they must be deaf. The trailer bounced around and was pretty loud too.
2: I know smoke does not equal power
3:The trucks were stock, a 96 and a 97. No chips or anything like that. Only reason they smoked was elevation change, it wasnt nearly as much as the video.
I only smoked people on two occasions, and I feel they both deserved it.
One guy was riding down the middle of the lane, I honked the horn a couple times and he wouldnt get over, I had 5 people behind me, when I finally got to pass he got a little smoke.
Other guy was at the bottom of a hill in the middle of the lane, Powerjoke doesnt slow down too good with 10k behind it and no trailer brakes. He got a little when I passed too.
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Bragg: Hello, and welcome to another space/time continuum, in which I, Melvyn Bragg, am still starting the week. Here to discuss whether this is actually possible is Dr Peter Chuzzlewit, whose new book on time is called Due Out Soon, Lisa Kincardine, who is giving a lecture this Wednesday on Renaissance man...
Kincardine: Last Wednesday, Bragg: Sorry about that, who was giving a lecture last Wednesday on Renaissance Man, Jonathan Miller, who isn't here yet, and Professor Steve Jones, who is always here. Professor Chuzzlewit?
Chuzzlewit: Yes?
Bragg: Is it actually possible?
Chuzzlewit: Is what possible?
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Chuzzlewit: No.
Bragg: It's not possible?
Chuzzlewit: No, certainly not.
Bragg: So this conversation is not actually happening at all?
Chuzzlewit: No.
Bragg: Fascinating.
Chuzzlewit: I mean, if you were to suppose that the Melvyn Bragg Start the Week were going on in an alternative time/space continuum, you might also suppose that your predecessor, Richard Baker, was also continuing somewhere else with his version of Start the Week.
Bragg: Couldn't that be so too?
Chuzzlewit: No. The idea is too horrible to contemplate.
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Chuzzlewit: About time for what?
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Chuzzlewit: Well, the idea behind the book is that books about time make a lot of money so it was time to write another one.
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Kincardine: Frankly, my chief worry is whether I can get out. I have got an appointment in the real world at 11am. I have never been in an alternative space/time continuum before, so I don't really know the ropes. For instance, Melvyn, have you still got a peerage in this universe?
Bragg: I should jolly well hope so. In the real world I always insist that people should behave as if I wasn't a peer and was quite ordinary and I would like to do the same here. If I haven't got a title, I can't.
Kincardine: Of course, it's quite possible for people to have a title and for nobody to know about it. Jonathan Porritt, for example.
Bragg: Has he? I had no idea...
Jonathan Miller: [opening door] Sorry I'm late. Did I hear someone say the word "cognitive"?
Bragg: No.
Miller: Oh. Righty ho. [He leaves again.]
Bragg: So, Lisa Kincardine, you've written a book on the subject of Renaissance man?
Kincardine: No, but I did give a lecture on the subject last Wednesday.
Bragg: Oh, right. And what did you say?
Kincardine: I can't remember.
Bragg: You're joking!
Kincardine: Yes, I'm joking. What I said was that our conception of Renaissance man has no real connection with the real Renaissance at all.
Bragg: In what way?
Kincardine: The real Renaissance was a rebirth. It was the rediscovery of old knowledge. But what we mean by Renaissance man is simply someone who knows a lot about a lot of things. A sort of super quiz contestant. This shift of meaning reflects rather badly on our TV age.
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Chuzzlewit: No, it's not.
Bragg: Steve Jones, do you think there is a gene which allows us to exist simultaneously in different universes?
Jones: I don't know! I just want to get out of here and back to the real world!
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