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As it happens the latest PAMCo figures are out today Ed. I will leave you to look them up yourself but the Sun is now top in both print and online with the Mail a close second.
OK as both were BELEAVE rags, those numbers make up for my forgetting to include the Beeb on-line audience of 19.5mm. I have not bothered to change my earlier numbers as I did not know how to translate monthly readership into daily ones!
BBC News has a nightly audience of 5.3 million viewers, the Daily Wail has a claimed audience of 18.5 million (print+on-line), by extrapolation from print figures the other right-wing Tory rags probably have an additional 4 million.
If you do not agree with the Beebs views there are numerous other news channels to pick. Try Sky News for a change, and RT for balance!
The only ones I have known to show any bias are the comedians who have hated Brexit in all its forms from the very beginning Not too surprising really given that most comedians are University Graduates..
More than balancing that possible bias, the popular press has been rabidly anti-EU from the start , with the right wing Tory Press of the Daily Wail etc leading the charge.
The Pi can be quite picky wryt SD cards. Try using SD Formatter to recover them, but I now tend to prefer to use usb sticks or a cheap ssd with the pi as the combination of swap files and updates can eat into the life potential of SD cards in a noticeable way
A major deviation, but Dave’s references to a ‘smart Electricity Meter’ reminded me of ‘Smart Thermostats’ such as that from Nest (there are others). These are normally paired with the phones of the householders and switch the thermostat to an ‘away’ setting when everyone is out. This works and does save money if your house is frequently left empty (roughly a five year payout in my case). There are very real and much larger savings for working households, and smaller but real savings when everyone just goes out for the day.
Of course equal savings could be made by manually setting the thermostat, but that soon gets easy to forget. The stats may also be a bit smarter than the average human in that they monitor outside temperatures and adjust the heating accordingly.
Ideally we should have another referendum/election when the politicians are found to have lied over their manifesto promises.For example, Cleggs gutless behaviour on his manifesto promises should have triggered a new election.
As lies, vested interests and politicians are inseparable, we are unlikely ever to get this as law, but I can always dream.
Staying on the gut, this week’s New Scientist has an article on the way different foods affect the gut and its microbiome. In particular it focusses on the different problems that FODMAPS can cause some people. Worth a read if the specialists have deemed your problem a ‘syndrome’ (medical short hand for it is a real issue, but it beats the hell out of me’.)
If you are offered sedation (normally one of the ‘date-rape’ drugs), my advice would be to take it.
Does Wave handle BACS? We now tend to set up a BACS to facilitate payments for regular service charges e.g annual boiler maintenance, alarm system etc.
These payments are generally made to small companies who cannot afford the 3% or so merchant service charge on credit cards, and the even higher charges on cash!
I see from the newspaper headlines that the Daily Wail is trying to head off the Brexit Fuel Tax rise in order to keep down the cost of petrol/diesel.
In point of fact the Wail is doing a Canute! Most oil pundits forecast that oil prices will continue to rise and some even project that a 50% hike is likely by the time we are due to leave the EU, one extremist even forecasts a doubling. If those pundits are directionally correct, petrol and diesel prices will top £1.50/litre even if nothing else such as a Sterling crash or Fuel Duty rise happens. I have not seen a jet fuel or gas forecast but those should also trend with oil pricing.
Apart from doing yet another Brexit Cassandra, the practical use of these forecasts are that you should lock in whatever you can that is likely to be affected by an energy price hike, and spend spare cash on things that improve energy efficiency.
If however Trump does a deal with Iran then these forecasts will prove wrong. Your bet then is whether Trump is capable of rational thought and action! I know how I’ve placed my own bet!
I think your example of market movers is better overall, but specifically for Bitcoins imo the Mafia case is probably more realistic. Remember what happened to bitcoin prices when the Cypriot banking system went into meltdown and hot money started to flee Cyprus and re-emerged in New York and London. Imo bitcoins were the major unrtraceable transportation vehicle.
“Bitcoin prices more than doubled between July 1 and August 18, 2012. Then in a matter of minutes, the price of Bitcoins fell from $15.25 to $10.50. The decline continued over the next two days, reaching a low of about $7.50. The price didn’t rise above $15 again until the new year.”
(If you have wandered around Cyprus during the last thirty years you would have to be a complete non-linguist not to have heard all the Russian voices pre 2013, and most were not oligarchs!).
I doubt that we as buyers/sellers have a say in it.
If you are saying that the average individual punter is not a market mover then you are absolutely correct. If though you were moving many thousands of them then that should affect the prices. For example if you were an Albanian Mafia Don then you probably could have a major influence! link
The only way that punters will move markets is through herd panic or playing ‘follow my leader’.
Westmonger is like Boris it picks and chooses its facts. From exactly the same source:
“We first asked whether people thought the Brexit vote was right or wrong. The result was a four-point lead for “wrong,” with 47 percent to 43 percent for “right,” and 10 per cent undecided.”
i.e the majority thought that it was wrong to leave the EU!
That Garage ‘beer’ looks like a badly poured ‘live’ IPA laden with yeastie beasties all ready to give you a head banger followed by the runs.
Your talk of cloudy cider reminds me of the scrumpy my Godfather used to brew, he would chuck a few bits of ham into the keeving mix to add ‘body’ and did not mind too much if the odd rat fell into this malignant crusty brew. Apparently he brewed a good scrumpy as the keeving vat was all of eight feet across and probably contained at least 1000 gallons.
However once it had gone through its primary fermentation in barrels, he would call any secondary fermentation that produced cloudy cider as ‘sick’ and undrinkable. I guess tastes change!
a nice Indian meal with a Cobra or two
When I had business in India, the bottled water in some areas was rumoured to be just tap refills, so Cobra was used to clean teeth!
Imo Dyson became an also ran when it transferred its design and manufacturing side to Malaysia. I was very familiar with the quality and work ethic of the Bumi population in Malaysia and I worried that product quality would suffer. In fact their first product the ‘Animal’ was a real dog. Crap design of the exhaust air which blew dust all over the place, other aspects of the design were equally bad (what idiot designs a vac exhaust system that points at the floor!). Unfortunately I bought one, but nothing since!
In a previous life Apple was the only machine for graphics designers and photographic work. That was yesterday’s situation. Apple has basically stood still for over 5 years and Windows machines have overtaken Apple for capabilities and grunt. On a bang for the buck, Apple does not come close.
However, Apple still leads windows in respect of fast start-up/shutdown. Windows machines are positively clunky in that respect. Apple also does not suffer from the interminable updates that MS Windows demands. Some updates have a reasonable security tag attached, but I reckon at least 50|% of the updates are just nice to have tweaks with a security label attached.
I know that many will cry out Linux!. However while it has many positives Gimp is pretty carppy compared with commercial software, and good as it is I still find Blender a pain to use. Linux really isn’t a good contender once you go beyond office and Internet software.
Taking the initiative works wonders. If you have neighbours who do not speak to you, try speaking to them first. (This unwillingness to speak first is why South-eastern people have the reputation of being ‘cold’)
I did just that with an old ‘grandfather’ Pakistani near neighbour who I saw most days walking from his house to the mosque and back. A simple ‘Salaam alaikum’ followed by ‘Hello’ for a couple of weeks soon had him trying to engage in some sort of English conversation.
Ghettos form when people cannot communicate, I welcomed the relatively recent Government initiatives to force new arrivals to learn English, as otherwise it will be twenty years before their kids can really start the integration process.
this time to a gastrointestinal specialist
Good luck with that! I was told that there is a dire shortage of such specialists within the UK, so their quality is a little variable. I was extremely lucky, the shortage is so bad in my area that I ran well over the NHS time-promise and was referred to a private specialist who really knew his stuff. (i.e. Clued up on the micro-biome aspects of the gut and their influences on nearly every aspect of health including allergies and autoimmune issues. A rare individual by all accounts)
This made a lot more sense when originally posted, but I messed up on ‘how-to’ post to the Beer Group so forgive the fact that it now does not segue very well to Sam Smith#s Beer!
Anyway, my wife is a huge fan of German Dunkel Beer (Belgium is also OK if you twist her arm). During a pilgrimage to her home city of Manchester she sampled some craft beer at a pub, and stated that Titanic Plum Porter is as good as a Dunkel – I don’t know if that is true but their draft Captain Smith’s was a pretty nice drink, and in the spirit of the great Sam Smith.
Worth a try if you see Titanic on offer during a craft tasting. Titanic is a small Stoke on Trent Brewery so its beer is not widely available.
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