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SLAB can surely win this one back? – politicalbetting.com
SLAB can surely win this one back? – politicalbetting.com
On the Smarkets exchange punters have a SLAB gain as an 87% chance. It is hard to disagree.
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Ceramic composite with superconductivities over room temperature at atmospheric condition and method of manufacturing the ceramic composite
https://web.archive.org/web/20230726011955/https://patents.google.com/patent/KR20230030188A/en?oq=WO2023027536A1
It’s a doddle. I’ve just left Ukraine and I’m now in Romania
Incidentally I believe I have found the easiest and quickest way into Ukraine. You fly direct from london Luton to Suceava, Romania on Wizzair. 3 hours 30.
Another 3-4 hours on a bus from Suceava takes you over the border to Chernivtsi Ukraine. That’s it
That is surely why all the rich dudes are in Chernivtsi. It’s the easiest way in and out - and off to the West
Going to Ukraine is like parachuting. Statistically it is safe (away from the front line) Yet your mind says No! Reflexively. Because it’s a war zone. Like jumping out of a plane feels all wrong
But then you jump and you realise it IS safe. And also exhilarating. And you want to do it again
I’m going back ASAP. Odesa probably
The interesting bit - he's been able to provide more information about the building which answers a lot of questions. The village was built in 1795 as a planned village by Sir William Forbes. I knew that he was a banker (initially with Coutts...) and obviously his ancestors ensured the name continues to be linked with finance.
There had been some debate about when the property was built - definitely in two stages, but when did it begin? Our visitor confirmed that this was built and run as a bank by Forbes, Hunter & Co in 1795 where it was a branch of that private bank, making this a very very old example of a bank branch.
The title deeds had suggested the main part of the building may have been c 1869, but its 70+ years older than that. I think I need to go to the Lloyds archive in Edinburgh and see what other information can be dug out.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16107791-monrovia-mon-amour
Despite 25 Scottish GE polls having been published so far with fieldwork in 2023, there's not been a single one for over a month. So we're a bit in the dark right now on whether there have been any recent shifts in opinion in Scotland.
Well, we were talking about the brilliance of Airplane earlier...
If the SNP are to recede as quickly as they swept in, it won't just be Labour who benefit. Yes they will be a lot of red seats, but potentially a couple of orange ones, and I would expect the Tories to do better defending seats up here than they do in England.
Big test - is the future prospect of independence SNP-style a big enough pull to keep their voters on board despite all of the other scandals?
It is like trying to patent a nuclear bomb though.
There's no way China is going to say, oh dear, that's a shame, they won't give us a licence to make this. We'll have to go without.
Anyway, I would guess that if this does work it will be one of a new class of superconductors, some of which may end up being better.
Maybe https://digital.nls.uk/histories-of-scottish-families/archive/95086986#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=5&xywh=-1902,-234,6303,4672. Or another one? Pitsligo or Craigievar?
Check the National Records of Scotland for estate/family papers? Estate maps may be here and/or in NLS (the latter both as MSS and in the maps online section nls.uk/maps, which should also give you indications of the physical evolution of the building from various maps ).
Also do you have the primary sasines from the original feuing? Lots of description there, potentially.
The Ordnance Survey/Inland Revenue assessment of c. 1900-1910 is also in NRS. Could there be two different properties involved?
And there has been a lot of research done on that side of Scottish history.
The visitor was the ghost.
On my way back from the supermarket, a pepparami in lycra was following a bus very closely. Too closely, in fact, as when the bus stopped at a bus stop, he smacked into the back of it. Fortunately he managed to brake to a low speed, and though he fell off, both he and the bike seem okay. The bus driver did not seem to notice and just went off from the stop a minute later.
Anyway, my good deed for the day year done.
A fun one that is still very classified (for no real reason) is the British invention of a two stage primary - the first bomb compresses, via radiation pressure, a second core.
But don't get too close.
Will be interesting.
To be fair to him, he didn't blame the bus. The odd thing was I could almost see it going to happen, as I followed them along the road. "He's too close," I thought. "What happens at that bus stop...?"
“If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole.”
Meanwhile in Norfolk the Cons lost Freebridge Lynn to the Lib Dems. Unless you know West Norfolk you can't know quite how startling that is. To put it into context - if the Cons are losing the wealthier pensioners then where can they win?
Should push KAIST up the world rankings, anyway.
In Aldi, it's all happening.
The comments on this piece in the Heil are timeless:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12369747/Aldi-staff-told-refuse-serve-customers-dont-bags-checkout-belts-budget-supermarket-launches-shoplifting-crackdown.html#comments
Apparently shoplifters are all on drugs, in receipt of loads of money in benefits, and carrying the latest iPhones, and they only steal stuff so as to sell it on. And Heil readers have to pay for it all, apparently. And of course if you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear. Makes you wonder why the Heilies all have net curtains.
And apparently nothing happens to shoplifters anyway, and only 5% of them get taken to court.
* resolves not to return any time soon to a Heil comments column *
But as far as this particular compound is concerned, it's a broad use patent which covers it with regard to solid state electronic devices.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/04/trump-polls-2024-desantis-00109825
Except those who listened to HY!
What does HHP Francis have to do with a Nottingham-based multiple store?
Mind you, the SNP have been generous in their help as well.
CDU/CSU 27% (nc)
AfD 23% (+2)
SPD 17% (-1)
Greens 14% (nc)
Left 6% (nc)
FDP 5% (-1)
Others 8% (+1)
https://www.wahlrecht.de/umfragen/
But it does present his challengers with an opportunity. And not all are as despised as Ted.
But you can’t compare with the UK directly. I’d guess that at least 10% of the CDU’s 27% would be Lib Dem or Blairite centre left here, and about half of the AfD vote would be voting conservative here. And of course they don’t have separatist parties in the same way.
The Rt Rev Rachel Treweek told Gove of her “frustration and confusion” at the “recovery” of a planning application for 350 homes in Leckhampton, Gloucestershire, for his own determination.'
https://www.building.co.uk/news/goves-latest-housing-intervention-puts-him-on-collision-course-with-bishop-of-gloucester/5124516.article
As it happens, I’m now sitting in the hotel bar at Warsaw airport, waiting for my wife to arrive (because I screwed up and we ended on different flights).
Sitting at the next table there’s a group of Amercian journalists talking rather loudly, as one might think they always do. It’s clear where they’re going, and it’s a lot closer to the action than would be comfortable for most of us!
Out plan is to head out of Warsaw tonight and probably end up at least in Lviv, and from there to Zhytomyr to meet up with the father-in-law.
https://www.leicesterbuses.co.uk/hop
https://twitter.com/benscribbles/status/1687442783240331264?t=ajPECWQCi83C75DAOPF9zQ&s=19
https://twitter.com/maria_avdv/status/1687376511597178880?s=61
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4137407-trump-calls-on-supreme-court-to-intercede-in-legal-fights/
Former President Trump is calling on the Supreme Court to intercede in the legal battles he is facing after he pleaded not guilty federal to charges related to special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot and efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Trump, in a post on Truth Social early Friday, repeated accusations that President Biden is pushing for the cases against him for political purposes. Trump also said the multiple cases against him will require “massive amounts” of time and money and force him to use resources on court battles that could have been used for advertisements and rallies.
“I am leading in all Polls, including against Crooked Joe, but this is not a level playing field. It is Election Interference, & the Supreme Court must intercede. MAGA!” Trump said...
Is this "MAGA !" some form of mystical invocation compelling the wizards on the Court ?
SDP came very close in 1983, but that is about it.
Pretty solidly Liberal before 1910 though !!!!!!
https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2023-08-02/nh-republicans-size-up-desantis-as-he-offers-harsh-rhetoric-in-primary-campaign
...“We’re going to ensure the woke agenda ends up in the dustbin of history,” DeSantis said Sunday.
Throughout his trip to New Hampshire, he appeared bent on demonstrating that no candidate talks tougher. He promised that, under his presidency, Mexican drug cartels would be “shot stone cold dead,” and vowed that when it comes to federal bureaucrats, “we are going to start slitting throats on Day One.”
The crowd that listened to DeSantis at the Rye event, a barbeque, hosted by former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown, was heavily Republican. And, by and large, DeSantis’ message went down fine. But not everyone liked the word choice, particularly the bit about slitting throats.
“If I was in charge of his PR, I would have said, ‘Don’t use that terminology,’ ” said Norm Olsen...
The SNP has lost only one other parliamentary byelection in its 89-year history.
Activists report “embarrassment” at being asked to promote the party on the doorstep given its financial problems, including a police probe, and lack of progress on independence.
One councillor admitted they could not “in good conscience” ask people to vote for the SNP at the present time.
Labour sources also report the SNP vote is “very soft” with an unusually high proportion of former SNP voters now describing themselves as don’t knows - an ominous sign for the Nationalists.….
An SNP source estimated the party would be lucky to get 25% in a byelection.
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23687670.humza-yousaf-faces-byelection-thumping-snp-support-evaporates/
I assume the duty cycle is more ideal for electric than other routes.
https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1687469428584144896
I had a meeting with a member of the Republican Party, former Governor of New Jersey, Christopher Christie. And it is very important that Mr. Christie began his visit to Ukraine with a visit to Bucha to see with his own eyes the threat to freedom and to everyone in the world posed by Russian aggression.
I thanked all Americans, each and every one, for their vital support.
We are confident that we will end this Russian war against freedom with our victory – the victory of the free world, the victory of democracy, the victory of freedom.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-66402140
IMV the driving test should include sitting in an HGV cab to see viewing angles, and a simple towing task. It's not just about what *you* are driving; it's about what other road users can do. I fear this is much of what the driver<->cyclist antagonism is about: if you don't cycle, you are unaware of how it feels to have a car rush past a foot from your handlebars. If you don't regularly drive, you are unaware of how it feels to have a cyclist undertake you as you are moving...
https://twitter.com/TansuYegen/status/1687365184992464896
Are there any markets on GE turnout? I reckon it will be terrible, as in 55-60%.
It should then once that has been agreed be alternated amongst the main Commonwealth nations again
The basic "skate" was perfectly adaptable single decker designs, of course.
Which is a pity as I found Romanian people to be warm, welcoming and funny. And even they thought their towns were awful.
Talking of such things, the World Athletics Championship at the end of this month is looking to be an event worth watching. There’s very few world records that look safe, including many that have stood for decades. There’s a huge group of young athletes that have come up in the last couple of years.
Waiting for a flight and decided I'll tweet out some things I know about #LK99 that I haven't seen confirmed anywhere else, per my conversations with Professors Hyun-Tak Kim and Mumtaz Qazilbash at William & Mary:
https://twitter.com/Daniel_Kalish_/status/1687439027970969600
Talking of toilets this bar I am in (3 hour wait for the train to Bacau) has a squatter toilet. Surely one of the last in Europe? Has anyone else seen one recently?
Unless you have brand new infrastructure, they won't award the games. Because their blazers look slack, if they aren't stuffed with money.
You probably don't remember how the UK used to get passed over for Olympic bids, because the government would take a pragmatic view of spending zillions on one-shot facilities. So we used to bid, sometimes, but with too much re-use of existing facilities.
Toad class.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ropucha-class_landing_ship
If it had been in a substantial burgh I'd have said to check the Dean of Guild Court for the equivalent of planning applications, but there won't be one there alas I should think.
Worth looking in Canmore and Scran for old photos etc (the latter usually free ifg you have a local library card and the associated pass).
He wouid drive me, my mum and my sister down to Collioure for two weeks every summer
My sister hated it partly because of the weirdness (where’s Dad?) but also because of the squatter toilets all the way down France from Calais to Le Soleil
She sometimes refused to “go” all day until we reached the next hotel
I don’t blame her. I don’t care if they are more “sensible”. They are disgusting
You had a choice
And it was extremely obvious which one people chose. There was always a long queue of Japanese people for the western loos and no one wanted to use the squatters
Now they have bum guns and mini bidets and their Loos are better than ours
"Tell me, what do you set the monte carlo settings to... If you run 1,000 simulations...?"
Chip design... betting... what's the difference... ?
Better let the LibDems have a go to be on the safe side.
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British boozing has moved in a Frenchier and yuppier direction:
- less beer, more wine
- pubs are down, but breweries (and vineyards) are surging
https://twitter.com/TorstenBell