No, nothing to do with that. This is the Tropical Eastern Atlantic - it’s the miniature Atlantic equivalent of El Niño, but concentrated on the Gulf of Guinea.
You can see a patch of coolish water South of the Equator. If this were the day after tomorrow and the AMOC was shutting down we’d see cold anomalies developing in the North subtropical and mid latitude Atlantic, and warming in the Southern Hemisphere.
The NS article’s title somewhat belies the actual content.
"Michelin star restaurant turns prices back 30 years
One of London's most lauded Michelin star restaurants is turning the clock back on its prices by 30 years next month.
The nose-to-tail cooking specialists at St John, in Smithfield, will charge diners what they would have paid when the eatery first opened its doors in 1994.
Celebrating its 30th anniversary, St John will offer the same dishes it served up in the mid-90s for as little as £3.50 (Welsh rarebit, if you were wondering).
Roast bone marrow and parsley salad will set you back just £4.20, while pheasant and trotter pie comes in at a very reasonable £18 between 9 and 27 September.
The Michelin Guide describes the restaurant as creating a "joyful experience" with "very little ceremony".
"As one of the foremost proponents of nose-to-tail cooking, this is the place to try new things," it reads.
The restaurant puts seasonality "at its core", said the guide, which recommends ordering the warm madeleines for the journey home."
There's a thought - Del-Boy and Rodney in a pie. I'm sure there was a Hammer House of Horror where there was a meal with a famous pie once a year, and next year's pie was made from this year's guests. I'd like to see that again.
Is this one of those Smithfield Restaurants where they open from 7:30am to Midnight approximately?
"Michelin star restaurant turns prices back 30 years
One of London's most lauded Michelin star restaurants is turning the clock back on its prices by 30 years next month.
The nose-to-tail cooking specialists at St John, in Smithfield, will charge diners what they would have paid when the eatery first opened its doors in 1994.
Celebrating its 30th anniversary, St John will offer the same dishes it served up in the mid-90s for as little as £3.50 (Welsh rarebit, if you were wondering).
Roast bone marrow and parsley salad will set you back just £4.20, while pheasant and trotter pie comes in at a very reasonable £18 between 9 and 27 September.
The Michelin Guide describes the restaurant as creating a "joyful experience" with "very little ceremony".
"As one of the foremost proponents of nose-to-tail cooking, this is the place to try new things," it reads.
The restaurant puts seasonality "at its core", said the guide, which recommends ordering the warm madeleines for the journey home."
There's a thought - Del-Boy and Rodney in a pie. I'm sure there was a Hammer House of Horror where there was a meal with a famous pie once a year, and next year's pie was made from this year's guests. I'd like to see that again.
Is this one of those Smithfield Restaurants where they open from 7:30am to Midnight approximately?
ST John is great. I liked their one in Chinatown best, but it didn't survive Covid. The madeleines *are* great, but their proper gelaine jelly puds are the best.
For those who have had chemo, how long did it take to get your normal energy levels back?
I had chemo last August, the Consultant was happy that my numbers were back to 99% by April, and I still find I am sleeping 3-4 hours a day.
Any thoughts would be welcome, as it is a touch frustrating.
Sorry to hear, but chemo for what? It literally means just therapy by any chemical. I had it for bowel cancer and everyone was surprised my hair didn't fall out. The relevant chemical just doesn't do that.
ETA in an effort to sound more helpful: well over a year in my case.
Some quite wild rumours coming over the border from Russia in Tallinn tonight. Emergency meetings, plots and counter plots. The Rouble seems to have gone over the edge and even Elvira Nabiullina seems unable to bring it back, basically the government has run out of cash. Putin is AWOL and despite his doubles making an appearance, the real thing, when he has appeared, seems like a rabbit in the headlights. Big decisions seem to be in train, but neither the army nor the FSB seems in control of events, even while they are at daggers drawn with each other.
Rumours are swirling about trouble in Belarus as the regime there is cracking down still further on dissent.
August is a dangerous time in Russian history, it feels like something might be about to break.
Should I feel guilty that I don't give a flying fuck about speed limits on Welsh roads?
No but the fact people feel strongly about things like this is an interesting facet of democracy. Very few people get similarly engaged in, for example, health policy, industrial policy ....
True. But stuff like this does matter to people.
My next big campaign is against the millions of cables that hang off the front of tenements in Scotland. They are ugly, damage the masonry and rattle off the windows in the wind. Only about 20% are actually doing anything and utility companies have no obligation to remove or tidy them up, so the street ends up looking like a third world country.
This plus street scars (where they tear up the setts/paving stones and replace with tarmac) make telecoms companies worse than the water companies in my eyes.
Why on earth do they have no obligation to tidy up when they presumably have fitted new ones?
In practice they don't in England either. The obligation is to restore the surface (it couldn't really be anything else, could it) but once the Wild West had been created starting with Mrs Thatcher's day, there was no capacity for regulation so we now have a version of chaos.
Of course there is no coordination, so it is normal for brand new high quality surfaces to be wrecked by Rush, Bodge and Carapulator who come along to install something soon after the project has finished.
There are several roads in my town where I have cycle in the middle of the lane for tens or hundreds of metres because the line I would like to follow is either sunken enough due to the installation of pipes / cables which have not been made sufficiently good to be dangerous, or are bumpy because there are sunken surfaces of refilled holes every few metres created looking for a gas or water leak.
It's a shit rules, planning, capacity of LHAs to manage, and couldn't give a damn by the contractors issue.
The big contrast between the UK and other developed countries (I'm thinking Australia and Germany in particular) is enforcement. I didn't come across a single illegally parked car over there, any ripped up streets, no scaffolding left up for weeks even after the construction work has finished.
What's weird is that this can be revenue neutral for local councils and the government. I don't know why we are so tolerant of this kind of behaviour - even the Americans, despite all their small-government chat, have insane fines for environmental damage and general arseholery.
For those who have had chemo, how long did it take to get your normal energy levels back?
I had chemo last August, the Consultant was happy that my numbers were back to 99% by April, and I still find I am sleeping 3-4 hours a day.
Any thoughts would be welcome, as it is a touch frustrating.
Sorry to hear, but chemo for what? It literally means just therapy by any chemical. I had it for bowel cancer and everyone was surprised my hair didn't fall out. The relevant chemical just doesn't do that.
ETA in an effort to sound more helpful: well over a year in my case.
Hairy-Cell Leukemia - so the loss of energy is related in part to the capacity of blood cells to function. The 99% is % of bone marrow now free from the condition.
The condition comes back out of remission at some point say 4-10 years in the future, and it is retreated.
Some quite wild rumours coming over the border from Russia in Tallinn tonight. Emergency meetings, plots and counter plots. The Rouble seems to have gone over the edge and even Elvira Nabiullina seems unable to bring it back, basically the government has run out of cash. Putin is AWOL and despite his doubles making an appearance, the real thing, when he has appeared, seems like a rabbit in the headlights. Big decisions seem to be in train, but neither the army nor the FSB seems in control of events, even while they are at daggers drawn with each other.
Rumours are swirling about trouble in Belarus as the regime there is cracking down still further on dissent.
August is a dangerous time in Russian history, it feels like something might be about to break.
For those who have had chemo, how long did it take to get your normal energy levels back?
I had chemo last August, the Consultant was happy that my numbers were back to 99% by April, and I still find I am sleeping 3-4 hours a day.
Any thoughts would be welcome, as it is a touch frustrating.
Sorry to hear, but chemo for what? It literally means just therapy by any chemical. I had it for bowel cancer and everyone was surprised my hair didn't fall out. The relevant chemical just doesn't do that.
ETA in an effort to sound more helpful: well over a year in my case.
Hairy-Cell Leukemia - so the loss of energy is related in part to the capacity of blood cells to function. The 99% is % of bone marrow now free from the condition.
The condition comes back out of remission at some point say 4-10 years in the future, and it is retreated.
Should I feel guilty that I don't give a flying fuck about speed limits on Welsh roads?
No but the fact people feel strongly about things like this is an interesting facet of democracy. Very few people get similarly engaged in, for example, health policy, industrial policy ....
True. But stuff like this does matter to people.
My next big campaign is against the millions of cables that hang off the front of tenements in Scotland. They are ugly, damage the masonry and rattle off the windows in the wind. Only about 20% are actually doing anything and utility companies have no obligation to remove or tidy them up, so the street ends up looking like a third world country.
This plus street scars (where they tear up the setts/paving stones and replace with tarmac) make telecoms companies worse than the water companies in my eyes.
Why on earth do they have no obligation to tidy up when they presumably have fitted new ones?
In practice they don't in England either. The obligation is to restore the surface (it couldn't really be anything else, could it) but once the Wild West had been created starting with Mrs Thatcher's day, there was no capacity for regulation so we now have a version of chaos.
Of course there is no coordination, so it is normal for brand new high quality surfaces to be wrecked by Rush, Bodge and Carapulator who come along to install something soon after the project has finished.
There are several roads in my town where I have cycle in the middle of the lane for tens or hundreds of metres because the line I would like to follow is either sunken enough due to the installation of pipes / cables which have not been made sufficiently good to be dangerous, or are bumpy because there are sunken surfaces of refilled holes every few metres created looking for a gas or water leak.
It's a shit rules, planning, capacity of LHAs to manage, and couldn't give a damn by the contractors issue.
The big contrast between the UK and other developed countries (I'm thinking Australia and Germany in particular) is enforcement. I didn't come across a single illegally parked car over there, any ripped up streets, no scaffolding left up for weeks even after the construction work has finished.
What's weird is that this can be revenue neutral for local councils and the government. I don't know why we are so tolerant of this kind of behaviour - even the Americans, despite all their small-government chat, have insane fines for environmental damage and general arseholery.
I think if there was a single thing I would point to as prime cause, it is treatment of local government as an inconsequential plaything in national politics.
No, nothing to do with that. This is the Tropical Eastern Atlantic - it’s the miniature Atlantic equivalent of El Niño, but concentrated on the Gulf of Guinea.
You can see a patch of coolish water South of the Equator. If this were the day after tomorrow and the AMOC was shutting down we’d see cold anomalies developing in the North subtropical and mid latitude Atlantic, and warming in the Southern Hemisphere.
The NS article’s title somewhat belies the actual content.
And then @williamglenn chose to truncate the headline even more.
No, nothing to do with that. This is the Tropical Eastern Atlantic - it’s the miniature Atlantic equivalent of El Niño, but concentrated on the Gulf of Guinea.
You can see a patch of coolish water South of the Equator. If this were the day after tomorrow and the AMOC was shutting down we’d see cold anomalies developing in the North subtropical and mid latitude Atlantic, and warming in the Southern Hemisphere.
The NS article’s title somewhat belies the actual content.
And then @williamglenn chose to truncate the headline even more.
No, nothing to do with that. This is the Tropical Eastern Atlantic - it’s the miniature Atlantic equivalent of El Niño, but concentrated on the Gulf of Guinea.
You can see a patch of coolish water South of the Equator. If this were the day after tomorrow and the AMOC was shutting down we’d see cold anomalies developing in the North subtropical and mid latitude Atlantic, and warming in the Southern Hemisphere.
The NS article’s title somewhat belies the actual content.
And then @williamglenn chose to truncate the headline even more.
The Democrats have a whole roster of talented public speakers, but Buttigieg is the master of the media interview, both hostile and, like here, friendly.
The 3rd Assault Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has successfully launched a counteroffensive in the Kharkiv region.
They have managed to seize a significant portion of territory previously occupied by Russian forces, including several key defensive positions. This counterattack has been specifically designed to weaken the offensive capabilities of the 20th Russian Army, according to the brigade commander Colonel Andriy Biletsky. https://x.com/BohuslavskaKate/status/1826667256559915326
There used to be a torrent site given over to rare old documentaries, art shows, etc which people had rescued from old VHS/tape recordings.
Thankfully it was shut down after legal threats. Otherwise we'd have had access to all sorts of things we'd paid for.
It doesn't even bare thinking about.
Interesting. Incidentally this channel includes the controversial police documentary from 1982 (filmed in 1980) which hasn't been available since then.
Some quite wild rumours coming over the border from Russia in Tallinn tonight. Emergency meetings, plots and counter plots. The Rouble seems to have gone over the edge and even Elvira Nabiullina seems unable to bring it back, basically the government has run out of cash. Putin is AWOL and despite his doubles making an appearance, the real thing, when he has appeared, seems like a rabbit in the headlights. Big decisions seem to be in train, but neither the army nor the FSB seems in control of events, even while they are at daggers drawn with each other.
Rumours are swirling about trouble in Belarus as the regime there is cracking down still further on dissent.
August is a dangerous time in Russian history, it feels like something might be about to break.
The Democrats have a whole roster of talented public speakers, but Buttigieg is the master of the media interview, both hostile and, like here, friendly.
"Speed limits do not apply to cyclists, meaning safety and support vehicles would not be able to keep up, Mr Hopkins said."
The speed limit should apply to cyclists: and I speak as someone who rides (and has now done several races - slowly. )
Though for 'special' races such as this, there should be the ability for the rules to be lifted as long as extra safety precautions are taken, e.g. marshalling.
"Speed limits do not apply to cyclists, meaning safety and support vehicles would not be able to keep up, Mr Hopkins said."
The speed limit should apply to cyclists: and I speak as someone who rides (and has now done several races - slowly. )
Though for 'special' races such as this, there should be the ability for the rules to be lifted as long as extra safety precautions are taken, e.g. marshalling.
They need to apply to close the roads for a ‘motor race’.
"Michelin star restaurant turns prices back 30 years
One of London's most lauded Michelin star restaurants is turning the clock back on its prices by 30 years next month.
The nose-to-tail cooking specialists at St John, in Smithfield, will charge diners what they would have paid when the eatery first opened its doors in 1994.
Celebrating its 30th anniversary, St John will offer the same dishes it served up in the mid-90s for as little as £3.50 (Welsh rarebit, if you were wondering).
Roast bone marrow and parsley salad will set you back just £4.20, while pheasant and trotter pie comes in at a very reasonable £18 between 9 and 27 September.
The Michelin Guide describes the restaurant as creating a "joyful experience" with "very little ceremony".
"As one of the foremost proponents of nose-to-tail cooking, this is the place to try new things," it reads.
The restaurant puts seasonality "at its core", said the guide, which recommends ordering the warm madeleines for the journey home."
There's a thought - Del-Boy and Rodney in a pie. I'm sure there was a Hammer House of Horror where there was a meal with a famous pie once a year, and next year's pie was made from this year's guests. I'd like to see that again.
Is this one of those Smithfield Restaurants where they open from 7:30am to Midnight approximately?
Yes there was. The one about the survivors of a Plane Crash. It is a cracker too.
The Democrats have a whole roster of talented public speakers, but Buttigieg is the master of the media interview, both hostile and, like here, friendly.
The Democrats have a whole roster of talented public speakers, but Buttigieg is the master of the media interview, both hostile and, like here, friendly.
Very good at speeches and interviews, but somewhere between crap and sh!t at his current day-job running transport.
He’s a McKinsey consultant…
What’s the evidence he’s been a poor transport secretary though?
The worst I can see is him not showing his face soon enough after the East Palestine derailment. Generally he seems to have been pretty busy.
There is very little evidence that he's been a poor transport secretary. It's a job where the everyday rarely gets noticed, especially internationally, and previous incumbent are also pretty invisible. For instance, most of us politics addicts should be able to name previous secretary of defence. But previous holders of the post of secretary of transportation?
SoT is also, AIUI, a post where it is hard to achieve things. Firstly, infrastructure improvements are often long-term projects, and four years is not a great deal of time in which to get solid improvements in big ways - though you can change the mood music. Secondly, he is reliant on Congress for funds for any significant projects.
But I notice the people criticising him for the Baltimore Bridge collapse response have mostly gone quiet...
Buttigieg is hated by the pro-Trump shits as he's a very effective speaker.
Rather relieved. Halfway through a 'do not turn off your computer' update, the power went out. Just came back now, I think everything's ok. Was worried my desktop, which I've only had a few months, might've become a brick.
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Here’s the current global anomaly map.
https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/cb/ssta/ssta.daily.current.png
You can see a patch of coolish water South of the Equator. If this were the day after tomorrow and the AMOC was shutting down we’d see cold anomalies developing in the North subtropical and mid latitude Atlantic, and warming in the Southern Hemisphere.
The NS article’s title somewhat belies the actual content.
Just found a YouTube channel with some rare and interesting documentaries from the 1980s and 1990s.
https://www.youtube.com/@FHjsgy7bm/videos
Is this one of those Smithfield Restaurants where they open from 7:30am to Midnight approximately?
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They're not beating the weirdness allegations (believe it or not, this is a real ad running on Newsmax)
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1826636139970621747
For those who have had chemo, how long did it take to get your normal energy levels back?
I had chemo last August, the Consultant was happy that my numbers were back to 99% by April, and I still find I am sleeping 3-4 hours a day.
Any thoughts would be welcome, as it is a touch frustrating.
Does it come with Assassination Edition Gold Baseball Boots?
In response Russians Park Drive
ETA in an effort to sound more helpful: well over a year in my case.
Oh wrong Dave Allen
What's weird is that this can be revenue neutral for local councils and the government. I don't know why we are so tolerant of this kind of behaviour - even the Americans, despite all their small-government chat, have insane fines for environmental damage and general arseholery.
The condition comes back out of remission at some point say 4-10 years in the future, and it is retreated.
More information:
https://www.cancer.gov/types/leukemia/patient/hairy-cell-treatment-pdq
https://gizmodo.com/the-atlantic-is-cooling-at-a-mysteriously-fast-rate-after-record-warmth-2000488967
They have managed to seize a significant portion of territory previously occupied by Russian forces, including several key defensive positions. This counterattack has been specifically designed to weaken the offensive capabilities of the 20th Russian Army, according to the brigade commander Colonel Andriy Biletsky.
https://x.com/BohuslavskaKate/status/1826667256559915326
Thankfully it was shut down after legal threats. Otherwise we'd have had access to all sorts of things we'd paid for.
It doesn't even bare thinking about.
Where do you think things are Goeben’ing?
Trump 2.06
Harris 2.08
https://www.betfair.com/exchange/plus/politics/market/1.176878927
W? Really?
Trump 2.06
Back both for a guaranteed profit unless one or other does not make it to November. The near-miss with Don's ear has spooked the markets!
Democratic 1.98
Republican 2.02
Male 2
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/investing/stocks-shares/325m-investments-no-mortgage-children-enough-retire/ (£££)
He's 63, she's 58. The Telegraph is the spiritual successor to Henry Mayhew.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4glzl7e157o
The speed limit should apply to cyclists: and I speak as someone who rides (and has now done several races - slowly.
Though for 'special' races such as this, there should be the ability for the rules to be lifted as long as extra safety precautions are taken, e.g. marshalling.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-kemp-georgia-republicans-voting-dc899715005b3f21228f2ea437d48b8a
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammer_House_of_Horror#2)_The_Thirteenth_Reunion
NEW THREAD
The worst I can see is him not showing his face soon enough after the East Palestine
derailment. Generally he seems to have been pretty busy.
SoT is also, AIUI, a post where it is hard to achieve things. Firstly, infrastructure improvements are often long-term projects, and four years is not a great deal of time in which to get solid improvements in big ways - though you can change the mood music. Secondly, he is reliant on Congress for funds for any significant projects.
But I notice the people criticising him for the Baltimore Bridge collapse response have mostly gone quiet...
Buttigieg is hated by the pro-Trump shits as he's a very effective speaker.
Rather relieved. Halfway through a 'do not turn off your computer' update, the power went out. Just came back now, I think everything's ok. Was worried my desktop, which I've only had a few months, might've become a brick.