soubriquet
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Jimmy Reed. Blues master with a masterpiece. So laid back he's horizontal.
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I managed to get well offside with Pearl in about 2000 (AD) pointing out that Italy seemed more interested in haircuts than playing football. Being right didn't help my case.
I'm still on the loosing side, but England's tattoos don't seem to help much. Maybe more bigger tats will produce results.
In the meantime I'm enjoying watching sports women playing for love of the game.
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Who gives a rats arse about England's tattooed arseholes failing to perform for the 45th year running?
Personal failing. I prefer to watch Japanese chicks in sportwear than toy boys.
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Barbara Lewis. Seems like a mighty long time. DooWop at it's finest, beautiful voice and great arrangement. An alternative to Death Metal for more sensitive occasions.
http://www.wat.tv/video/barbara-lewis-hello-stranger-2e50n_2iwkx_.html
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Who was it who said "we play against Germany for 90 minutes, then we lose"?
A good result here: Germany 0-1 Japan.
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An Apple product? Next you will be driving a BMW and lecturing the lesser classes about our stupid, futile lives.
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Tea farmers pick the new leaves and leave the old. It is known as 'harvesting' (sorry, a technical term). If the new 'harvest' is outside limits, then it will be discarded. This is known as 'dumping' (technical term).
Wss there any context in this progamme? How do the measurements presented compare with standard background?
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Were these the same people who can't work out the difference between a becquerel and a seivert? After all, hard-hitting experts should be posing serious questions here.
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I missed it. What did it say?
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That's fair enough g-g. Tell me, why (because I was in the science stream) was I forced to do general studies?
After all, just because some people find the humanities fascinating doesn't mean everyone should.
T-B. I was a total failure at school. I left at 16 with 3 O-levels. English, maths and physics, to go to work on a farm. I started university at 29. Going back in after 13 years, trying to match it with the newly minted A-levels, was a struggle. To put it mildly.
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Interesting that t-b. Scotland has the best education system in the UK, but it is still possible to slip through without any physics. Saddening and depressing. After all, the laws of physics merely describe the universe and everthing that's in it. What possible interest can that be? How boring.
I had a discussion about energy with the memsahib at work this morning, as we watched the stirring machine turn a cauldron of boiling ingedients into sweet bean paste. Her background is arts/humanities, but she loved the conceptual physics she studied at primary school. The job used to be done by muscle power, now it's done by electic power. The amount of energy required is the same, just a different form. She has a perfect grasp of the law of conservation of energy.
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Because its an estimation of damage. It depends on the nature of the radiation (alpa, gamma etc.) and its associated energy.
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Spot on g-g. The reporting is utterly meaningless to everyone except dweebs and sad people like me.
We have a problem.
The problem is the people who are paid money to report what is going on don't have a freaking clue. No-one in the mainstream media know anything about science. That's why they can't explain it clearly. The route into journalism is humanities and meeja studies. Nothing wrong with that, unless if you want to know slightly more than fashion and royal weddings.
If you want some real information, my suggestion is you start with The register. http://www.theregister.co.uk/
Go to science or odds and sods. There's no agenda here except tech.
An alternative is The Economist.
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The units are standardised. The SI units are these:
The SI unit: 1 becquerel = 1 disintegration per second. That is the radioactivity of any given substance.
The dose equivalent is a measure of biological effect for whole body irradiation. The SI unit for the effect of radiation on the body is the seivert.
Becquerels are measured. You can use a geiger counter for that. That is why the children's piss is reported in becquerels.
Seiverts are calculated. We don't know what radiation dose these children have received until someone has done the calculations. I'm not holding my breath for a green NGO to do that.
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That's not meant as a dig, apologies for being unclear. We studied radiation in school physics. Apha, beta gamma particles.
Teacher Mr Fleet carefully extracted the radioactive source from its box with tweezers, and ran it past the geiger counter. He then showed that bricks, bananas and peanuts were radioactive. He then tested us. When he got to my watch (dads WWII service issue luminous) it went off scale.
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This is where I have to ask the question: what did they teach you at school?
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"One Bq is defined as the activity of a quantity of radioactive material in which one nucleus decays per second.
The average human experiences 4400 becquerels from decaying potassium-40 which is naturally present within the body."
Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becquerel
1.13-1.30 becquerels per litre of urine is therefore approximately 1.13-1.30/4400th * weight in kg of the body's natural radioactivity.
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I drink the black, no sugar. Memsahib buys litre cartons of perked coffee. That's much better than instant.
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Euro-boffins sent a space-station turd hearse to a fiery death over the Pacific Ocean.
As well as 1,200kg of ISS waste and....
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You were probably a teeny bit heavier than a frog. There is a size/weight limit below which things don't hurt themselves jumping off 3rd floor air conditioners.
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Crikey! It's up to 32C here in the Control Room at The Facility. Time to turn on the fan, methinks.
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Yes, they always produce water.
"Humidity control
Refrigeration air conditioning equipment usually reduces the humidity of the air processed by the system. The relatively cold (below the dewpoint) evaporator coil condenses water vapor from the processed air (much like an ice-cold drink will condense water on the outside of a glass), sending the water to a drain and removing water vapor from the cooled space and lowering the relative humidity. Since humans perspire to provide natural cooling by the evaporation of perspiration from the skin, drier air (up to a point) improves the comfort provided."
Wiki.
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How's your earthquake kit? Water, candles, torches, radio, batteries. Water, you'll need water, start with 10 litres. Also, some dried food and one of those pocket sized gas burners. Did I mention water?
Edit. If you get a big one and the power goes off, fill the bath (if you can) while the water is still running.
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Does that translate as "someone cocked up"?
Had the good lady read through it (not me). That seems like a very good translation. Valve not set from manual to automatic.
Earthquake/tsunami in Tohoku, North East Japan (11th March 2011)
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The memsahib and I went for a swim today. We went to my favourite place, past Ishinomaki and up to Onagawa on the northern Miyagi coast. This is a beautiful ria coast, with wonderful clean water. Some photos. These were fishing villages.
Here is a harbour. The quay is drowned with the old tideline about 1.5 metres below sea level. You can see it with the line of oysters in the lower front of the photos.