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VFM et al, it seems you are correct. Today’s graph (a third format layout) shows yesterday and day before were a wee bit anomalous. Back up to looking natural again. Of the 493 deaths quoted, only 14 are outside Hubei province. Thinking about it, with total of 25 thousand, there is a long way to go before the “feedstock” reduction limits growth. Of course the localised restrictions must help.
By coincidence or otherwise, “Bargain Hunt” on BBC1 yesterday whilst eating midday meal had a small section about the self isolating Derbyshire village during the 1666 plague. A repeat, so maybe chosen as topical.
Les.
Yesterday’s infections numbers showed a significant flattening off. Today’s continue the trend. It does seem the draconian containment measures taking in China are now showing real results. They may have been slow at the start (which is now admitted), but they are well into it now. One new hospital opened, the second on its way. The realisation that their economy will be hit. I can see a serious attempt to clean up the source spots for this sort of thing. Introduction of real hygiene legislation and woe betide those who ignore it. The world may well become safer on the back of this.
Edp, I DO NOT think this will become endemic in the west, sincerely hope not.
Les.
A very simple question, now all the vitriol seems to have subsided, will this thread be formally closed tonight?
Maybe a new one with a bright new title should be opened tomorrow?
Les the stirrer.
Returning to an earlier part of this thread, porridge. Not every day yet, still need to put away the cereal in the cupboard, but I am sure we are seeing benefits. My stool presentation seems improved, with less variation from rather soft to rather hard. More in between.
Ed, you suggested adding oat bran; what sort of proportions? We found some in Holland and Barrets, but no “instructions”. The packaging suggests to me 100%, but I don’t think I will go there. Currently about 20%.
Les.
I have been watching that distribution graph since VFM first linked to it. Yesterday it took an anomalous “slow down” in cases and deaths, but all corrected today. it started as a natural growth rate, but it RATE OF INCREASE seems to be reducing. Not the INCREASE of course. Population growths can NEVER be truly exponential, as they start to lose the “feed stock”. This looks typical and frightening. Currently 170 deaths, 133 “recovered”, whatever that means. not uncommon for recovered people to get big problems later. Remember the Scottish nurse and her ebola attack.
Les.
Duke, cut down on meat, YES, but don’t just “Go chicken”. Beef is good for you, just not too much. Tamara weighs the meat we eat, 45 to 70g each is typical, depending. Sunday and tonight we had a small piece of pheasant. Just before Christmas one of the lads spotted a freshly killed one on the way to our Saturday meeting, so he stuck it in a plastic bag and gave it to me. I made short work of i and presented it to Tamara who got it table ready. Maybe Christmas dinner? Then on the following Wednesday, we spotted a freshly killed one, so then two small birds in the freezer. There they stayed until Saturday. Tamara marinates them overnight with various herbs and (mild) spices, olive oil and vinegar (I think that is it). Sunday morning into the bottom oven until evening meal. REALLY GOOD MEAT, and the way she prepares it, very tasty. None of the “hang it until rotten” nonsense.
No unwanted fat, just good strong, dark lean meat. I have never hit a pheasant, but am quick to collect the work of others. One Sunday last autumn, TWO carcasses on one ride out on the bike. NEVER without a lightweight back back.
Les.
Yesterday I decided to scrap the Lenovo T61 (no real alternative), and also a Samsung that came to me that has the “probably graphics chip needs reflowing” problem. Can’t be a**ed trying that, though I OUGHT to be able to do it after over 65 years of all sorts of soldering! I then spotted this one again, so thought “try Ubuntu 10.04”. It would not load. OK, try 8.04. That loaded and installed OK, even flagging a couple of updates needed. It had found my WiFi, so I tried, but was informed that they did not have the right permissions (or something like that). google would offer a load of choices for any search, but would not actually connect to any WWW that it happened to cite. Sometimes an error 404 may be present, but always it refused to load due to permissions. I decided to try 10.04 again, and this time the downloading to install went further (65% not 24% like the first time.
Then I thought maybe it is my CD disc that is the problem. I downloaded from an archive, burned the iso, and tried again. Some of the preliminary steps seemed slightly different, but I loaded to desktop (still in RAM of course). then connected to my WiFi. OK. Now try the install icon. But it again crashed, this time BEFORE the actual file loading began.
Is there a hardware fault (overheating maybe). The way the mouses “pointer” just locks up, with no other indication makes me think it is overheating. Yet it did load the 8.04 last bnight, and was left running (idle) for an hour or more, with everything looking happy. I will try again in the (cooler?) morning (or Thursday) and see if I get progress.
Before writing this, I re-read everything, and saw VFM’s comments on Puppy 5.6. I have a re-writeable DVD which I load stuff on, but whilst it mentioned the “Bhodi” iso, nothing about Puppy, so I think I must have got sidetracked and did not try it. Maybe have a try with that.
Les.
It seems this is a known fault for certain aged T61s, those with nvidea especially. Time to scrap it and start searching for something else. It only cost £40 (or £80 for two) so i still have one good one. For how long?
Dave, don’t want to pay that sort of money, but I may get pushed that way.
Les.
Richard, the first time I made the porridge, I just put the stuff in a pan into bottom oven overnight, then in the morning brought it up to the boil. When I started eating it, I soon realise it was just a bit too hot, and I had burned the roof of my mouth. I am particularly sensitive there. Slightly hot cheese on toast leaves my mouth roof in a right mess.
Next time, the boil at night and cool in the bottom oven had it “Just right” as with Baby Bear.
In fact tonight I shall not boil it, just stir in the morning and try it. As Ed says, I can judge how much it has “dissolved” when I clean the casserole dish. I suspect previous night boil will be better, even if time consuming.
I will look into the additional bran suggestion.
Les.
I am not a “Donner” type, just plain old fashioned English cooking. We have a Rayburn oil fired cooker which is always on, and we use the bottom oven for slow cooking. A piece of beef which would normally be somewhere between bloody and tough as old boots, put in the bottom oven before 10:00am, is beautifully soft and tasty by 6:00pm.
After a recent suggestion from Drs that Tamara’s Cholesterol was getting a bit high, we have now changed breakfast cereal (muesli for me and “Fruit ‘n Fibre” for Tamara) to porridge. It goes in the bottom oven in a casserole last thing at night, having been brought first to the boil with plenty of fruit, until morning.
Very enjoyable. Long live the Rayburn, if the climate gods don’t stop my kerosene supplies.
Les.
All in all, a s****y day, but I seem to have got everything done. On the tablet front, since it is only used to (a) read Russian novels and (b) read aloud from “The Railway Children” (her spoken English is OK, but reading AND UNDERSTANDING is poor. Now she reads aloud to me, improving steadily. I copied the two Firefox addresses, checked which google account was used, and did a factory reset. FIXED! Reinstalled Firefox, by-passed all the “try this” nags, copied those two addresses back, and all is working fine.
Meanwhile, I did a backup of my stuff, and let Mint 19.2 update itself seamlessly to 19.3. No data lost, it WORKS!!!
Les.
Just TWO attacks of migraine this morning, so Gboard will wait for now, but I think you have given me enough to go on. Thanks.
Linux Mint upgrade to 19.3 today if required; that will have to wait as well.
Les.
I thought Len McCluskey would be the first to speak, he has said a few words over the last couple of months. Trouble is, he is not left wing like some of the other union leaders, as it may take ALL of them to dislodge Momentum. Remember they control the rules which they have already altered to suit themselves. It may take union money to be moved to another centre for the moderates to form a new Labour party. With only £3 per head subs or whatever it is, they would not last long then.
Remember last time this happened, it took Kinnock senior to call them out, and they blinked. But there is no Kinnock senior today, McCluskey had better succeed.
Bob, remember mine was a wish list I am not a seer And it was only half right.
Les.
Bye the way, should this thread title be changed now? Not sure anybody would be bold enough to try court action right now!
Well, it was a wish list not a prediction I made, and it seems it came to pass with regard to the majority, but Bojo stayed. No idea what his majority ended up at.
I still worry about the JM part of the JC & KM duo, and will momentum be destroyed. Not sure it will any time soon. It needs all those former labour MPs from the time of JCs stupid accession to stand up and shout, plus those who lost their seats last night, plus those who shifted allegiance to shout with them. But does momentum now have a stranglehold on the party’s machinery?
I suppose you had better puzzle it out among yourselves.
Les.
Well, this only affects us here indirectly but I have considered and think I know the ideal result. Usually, I think the best result is a main party with a SMALL MAJORITY, such as you are predicting, but this time I see it differently, so your ideal result would be a tory majority of 60 to 70, but with Bojo losing his seat as was suggested as a possibility previously. That SHOULD make the tories more acceptable, provided they can choose a better PM. Don’t give Bojo time to beg for a quick safe seat please. Such a majority would hopefully allow Labour to purge themselves of JC, JM and momentum, and in one or more parliaments, become once more an electable party with a manifesto that makes sense.
One may not have liked Blair, but he did not completely kill the UK over 13 years. JC and JM would have done the whole thing inside one parliamentary term, and maybe, using Hitler techniques, made themselves a non-removable government.
Oh Hell! They still could, we won’t know before 10:00pm. If they do get in, I predict a big rise in house prices, HERE on the Isle of Man.
Les.
Everything in this world is moving towards economy (BMW and Mercs excepted), so the idea of pneumatic valve closing strikes me as stupid outside of F1. Valve springs are almost energy waste free, pneumatics must be very energy inefficient. Work done compressing a gas it HIGH, all wasted on exhaust expansion. If you want the valves to follow the cam profile, follow the Ducati profile and go desmodromic. In the ’40s, they adopted “pull rods” for controlled closure on their 48cc moped engine.
Late fifties, a fully developed race motor that won races. Early ’70s, production 250’s and 350’s , later followed by roddie 750s, then 860s, and from 1978, ALL production desmo operated.
No energy waste, and cam profiles followed.
Les.
Bob, that is interesting about it being imported. A bit unusual. I stand corrected under these special circumstances.
You were lucky in more ways than one. My 200SS was what was referred to in the service manual as a “pre-modification” unit.I had a clutch casting BREAK off between centre and main part — Pre-mod. Sheared K/S gears, -pre-mod (though they were still bad later on. Wheels became “wonky” and had to be respoked with new rims — Ducati used thin spokes and alignment washers instead of thick ones, so with the VERY powerful brakes, they just got pulled seamrent. So many problems, but it sucked me in for life, and still got me!
Les.
Oh dear, i really am going to get it for pedanticism, but once more:-
Ed, if that was a Black Knight, it would have been a Vincent, not a Norton.
Post war, Vincent made 500cc singles and 1,000cc Vee twins. First Series B with “normal ” girder forks, then Series “C” with their patent and rather clever “Girdraulic” forks. 1954-55 saw in the Series “D” models which included the Black Price and Black Knight, which were fully enclosed in a large, black fibreglass fairing. Not many things sticking out on those, so he must have been very unfortunate.
I don’t recall the weight, but 500lbs sounds rather more than it should be, more likely 400lbs I would guess.
They were bikes made to an amazing standard of detail, mostly from aluminium alloys and were surprisingly light all things considered. I could write about the detail points of design all night, so will stop before too late.
!963, I bought a 1949 Series “B” Rapide (1,000c) for just £35, later fitting the engine unit in a Norton “Featherbed” frame. Fantastic bike. Of course I would need to add up to three zeros on the end of what I paid to get a similar one today!
Les.
JCD, yes, maybe I was a year or so too soon. However, i must correct you on one thing.
It was a Mk.111 Desmo, NOT a Mach111 Desmo.
You realise that make your less than a decade younger than me. you are getting old!
Les.
Bob, I think you are just a bit off with your Ducati Dating. Fairly certain the first UK 250 was the light blue “Daytona”. That would be about 1962. The Mach 1 followed shortly afterwards. I bought my first Duc in 1960, a 6 month old 1959 200 Super sports. Long time ago, but still riding rather bigger V twin Ducatis.
Les.
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