In February the KFC(UK) run out of chicken! Hee hee
In December the Abortion law was repealed in Ireland and passed. Yep the ladies in Ireland can have an abortion legally now. Hurray after 35 years!
In September Gay Sex was legalized in India. Atlast.
In December Australian scientists have developed a universal cancer test that can detect traces of the disease in a patient’s bloodstream. Caution! Does not show where in the body.
England's hottest summer on records.
England got through to Semi-finals in the World Cup.
Russia sent two assassins to UK. Ooops that was not a best thing! Damn who writes this stuff. Blame Russel Howard.
Ozone layer is finally recovering from the ealier Aerosol attacks by us humans. If I knew it that time I would not have used a can of Whats-it to repel a bloody rat out of my bedsit. You hold lighter underneath the nozzle and squirt it. Damn good flame thrower.
Britain's carbon footprint is lowest since 19th century. Shhhh....Do not tell the MP.
The world is producing more renewable energy than ever before. Yeah...keep it up. Write to your government to get more.
The number of democracies are at an all time high.
Less people are living at extreme poverty than ever before.
We are living longer.
Global hunger is falling.
More people are getting an education in schools.
Child labour(for US spelling please understand this is English) is declining.
Hey hum it was not a bad year at all. I wish you all a similar or better 2019
I read this report with much trepidation , but as I am too old and childless I stopped my stress about it. Here is some of the summery the report mentioned:
FAQ1.1:Why are we talking about 1.5°C?
Summary: Climate change represents an urgent and potentially irreversible threat to human societies and the planet.In recognition of this, the overwhelming majority of countries around the world adopted the Paris Agreement in December 2015,the central aim of which includes pursuing efforts to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C.
In doing so, these countries, through the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) also invited the IPCC to provide a Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emissions pathways
FAQ 1.2: How close are we to 1.5°C?
Summary:
Human–induced warming has already reached about 1°C above pre-industrial levels at the time of writing of this Special Report. By the decade 2006–2015, human activity had warmed the world by 0.87°C (±0.12°C) compared to pre-industrial times (1850–1900). If the current warming ratecontinues, the world would reach human–induced global warming of 1.5°C around 2040.
FAQ 2.1:What kind of pathways limit warming to 1.5°C and are we on track?
Summary: There is no definitive way to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C above pre-industriallevels. This Special Report identifies two main conceptual pathways to illustrate different interpretations. One stabilises global temperature at, or just below, 1.5°C. Another sees global temperature temporarily exceed 1.5°C before coming back down. Countries’ pledges to reduce their emissions are currently not in line with limiting global warming to 1.5°C
FAQ 2.2:What do energy supply and demand have to do with limiting warming to 1.5°C?
Summary: Limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels would require major reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in all sectors. But different sectors are not independent of each other and making changes in one can have implications for another. For example, if we as a society use a lot of energy, then this could mean we have less flexibility in the choice of mitigationoptions available to limit warming to 1.5°C. If we use less energy, the choice of possible actions is greater. For example we could be less reliant on technologies that remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere
FAQ3.1: What are the impacts of 1.5°C and 2°C of warming?
Summary The impacts of climate change are being felt in every inhabited continent and in the oceans. But they are not spread uniformly across the globe, and different parts of the world experience impacts differently. An average warming of 1.5°C across the whole globe raises the risk of
heatwaves and heavy rainfall events, amongst many other potential impacts. Limiting warming to1.5°C rather than 2°C can help reduce these risks. But the impacts the world experiences will depend on the specific greenhouse gas emission ‘pathway’ taken. The consequences of temporarily overshooting
1.5°C and returning later in the century, for example, could be larger than if
temperature stabilizes below 1.5°C. The size and duration of an overshoot will also affect future impacts.
FAQ 4.1:What Transitions Could Enable Limiting Global Warming to 1.5°C?
Summary: In order to limit warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, the world would need to transform in a number of complex and connected ways. While transitions towards lower greenhouse gas emissions are underway in some cities, regions, countries, businesses and communities, there are few that are currently consistent with limiting warming to 1.5°C. Meeting this challenge would require a rapid escalation in the current scale and pace of change, particularly in the coming decades. There are many factors that affect the feasibility of different adaptation and mitigation options that could help limit warming to 1.5°C and withadapting to the consequences.
FAQ 4.2:What are Carbon Dioxide Removal and Negative Emissions?
Summary: Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) refers to the process of removing
CO2 from the atmosphere. Since this is the opposite of emissions, practices or technologies that remove CO2 are often described as achieving ‘negative emissions’. The process is sometimes referred to more broadly as greenhouse gas removal if it involves removing gases other than CO2. There are two main types ofC DR: either enhancing existing natural processes that remove carbon from the atmosphere (e.g., byincreasing its uptake by trees, soil, or other ‘carbon sinks’) or using chemical processes to, for example, capture CO2 directly from the ambient air and store it elsewhere (e.g., underground). All CDR methods are at different stages of development and some are more conceptual than others, as they have not been tested at scale
FAQ 4.3:Why is Adaptation Important in a 1.5°C-Warmer World?
Summary: Adaptation is the process of adjusting to current or expected changes in climate and its effects. Even though climate change is a global problem, its impacts are experienced differently across the world. This means that responses are often specific to the local context, and so people in different regions are adapting in different ways. A rise in global temperature from the current 1°C above pre-industrial levels to 1.5°C, and beyond, increases the need for adaptation. Therefore, stabilizing global temperatures at 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels would require a smaller adaptation effort than at 2°C. Despite many successful examples around the world, progress in adaptation is, in many regions,in its infancy and unevenly distributed globally.
FAQ5.1: What Are the Connections between Sustainable Development and Limiting Global Warming to 1.5°C above Pre-Industrial Levels
Summary:Sustainable development seeks to meet the needs of people living today without compromising the needs of future generations, while balancing social, economic and environmental considerations. The 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) include targets for eradicating poverty; ensuring health, energy and food security; reducing inequality; protecting ecosystems; pursuing sustainable cities and economies; and a goal for climate action (SDG13). Climate change affects the ability to achieve sustainable development goals, and limiting warming to 1.5°C will help meet some sustainable development targets. Pursuing sustainable development will influence
emissions, impacts and vulnerabilities. Responses to climate change in the form of adaptation and mitigation will also interact with sustainable development with npositive effects, known as synergies, or negative effects, known as trade-offs. Responses to climate change can be planned to maximize synergies and limit trade-offs with sustainable development.
FAQ 5.2:What are the Pathways to Achieving Poverty Reduction and Reducing
Inequalities While Reaching the 1.5°C World?
Summary:There are ways to limit global warming to 1.5°C above pre
-industrial levels. Of the pathways that exist, some simultaneously achieve sustainable development. They entail a mix of measures that lower emissions and reduce the impacts of climate change, while contributing to poverty eradication and reducing inequalities. Which pathways are possible and desirable will differ between and within regions and nations. This is due to the fact that development progress to date has been uneven and climate
-related risks are unevenly distributed. Flexible governance would be needed
to ensure that such pathways are inclusive, fair and equitable to avoid poor and disadvantaged populations becoming worse off. Climate-resilient development pathways (CRDPs) offer possibilities to achieve both equitable and low-carbon futures
The observable universe is understood as a sphere around the Earth extending 93 billion light years (8.8 *1026 meters) But the problem is we cannot see beyond this due to red shift and we see the cosmic microwave background (CMB). (This is a scientific fudge factor introduced to explain the un-explainable things.) Is the observed universe from earth the same as the real universe. Scientists do not know. So they devised a plan to get rid of all these unknowns. they made a model of the universe with our limited knowledge and tested it. Viola we have a flat expanding universe.
This is like a fairy tale.......
Wiki says:
Many things about the nature of dark energy remain matters of speculation.[12] The evidence for dark energy is indirect but comes from three independent sources:
Distance measurements and their relation to redshift, which suggest the universe has expanded more in the last half of its life.[13]
The theoretical need for a type of additional energy that is not matter or dark matter to form the observationally flat universe (absence of any detectable global curvature).
It can be inferred from measures of large scale wave-patterns of mass density in the universe.
Well this problem came to the scientific world when they calculated the amount of matter in the observed universe. oops only 4%. Where is the rest OMG about 96%. So all the boffins are looking for it and came up with a very good idea. 74% Dark Energy and 32% Dark Matter.
It sounds rather strange that we have no firm idea about what
makes up 74% of the universe. It's as though we had explored all the
land on the planet Earth and never in all our travels encountered an
ocean. But now that we've caught sight of the waves, we want to know
what this huge, strange, powerful entity really is.
The strangeness of dark energy is thrilling.
It shows scientists that there is a gap in our knowledge that
needs to be filled, beckoning the way toward an unexplored realm of
physics. We have before us the evidence that the cosmos may be
configured vastly differently than we imagine. Dark energy both signals
that we still have a great deal to learn, and shows us that we stand
poised for another great leap in our understanding of the universe.
Watching this program on 13/10/2015, on BBC Newsnight program; I realised the following logic:
1...... there was PLO...... jewish meaning
2.....They made Israel nervous....
3.......Israel made Hamas to divide Palestine......
Learnt from Machiavelli I think "Divide n r..."
4..........Both PLO and Hamas lost faith, inside the minds of the up-growing kids, who were born to solitude under Israel.
5......................Reasonable to believe that ISIS and Zionists have joined forces or....big or m8s .....Zionists are creating another force in Palestine to divide the population again.
All the Western media points to the opposite direction. Will the bankers become us?
Lydia Fairchild is an American woman who exhibits chimerism,
with two different sets of DNA present in her body. She was pregnant
with her third child when she and the father of her children, Jamie
Townsend, separated. When Fairchild applied for child support in 2002,
she was requested to provide DNA evidence
that Townsend was the father of her children. While the results showed
Townsend was certainly the father of the children, the DNA tests
indicated that she was not their mother.
Digenetic trematodes are parasitic flatworms with complex life cycles, typically involving two or more hosts.
This guy first (damn chicken and egg situation here) gets into a water snail and lay the eggs. The larvae eat the snail inside out. Then they escape into the pond. Gets a bit funny. So these larvae search tadpoles and get into their rear ends. They wait untill the tadpole gets begger and into a frog. The parasite then make the frog's body make an extra leg at the rear end. So the frog is hmmm disabled and cannot escape the predatory birds. So the frog gets eaten by a bird. This is what the prasite has been waiting for. Sex.
In the bird's tummy the perasite have sex and goes out of the bird as poo. Hey hey we start at the hmmmmm startd. In the pond bird's poo eaten by the snail. Gosh. That must have been a lot of reseach for the parasite init?
there is a reddish brown falls which extentds a few kilometers were found in Antarctica. An Australian geologist Griffith Taylor, who first explored the valley that bears his name. He thought it was because of red algae. That supposition was held for 100 or so years.
In comes geomicrobiologist Jill Mikucki at the University of Tennessee, who was interested in this phenomena since her graduate days. Ultimately she got funded and took a crew to Antarctica to investigate. She found a massive salt water lake under the ice. ,The brine is 3 times more concentrated with salt than normal. There is no oxygen. Her crew found there; a rare subglacial ecosystem of autotrophic bacteria developed that metabolizes sulfate and ferric ions, in the lake. So the problem solved huh?
God? What do you know about your God, you believe in? Who told you about God? Did you read about God?
In any case you perceive, by reading, hearing etc through an outside sourse. So you analyse and believe by your own logical thoughts. Now; how can you say that particular god you believe in, is the same as what you read or heard of?
Going back a long long time ago Mayan civilization was into Time in a big way. When it comes to that so were lots of other civilizations. Time is not a particular one to all. It can be different to observers in different places and if some one is moving and the other is not.
We all debate whether it is something we feel as some kind of sensation. Does it matter? I do not have an opinion on that, as it is not in my logic. After thousands of years of observing the sun and the moon we have a 24 hour day etc. When we made use of powerful radio telescopes we timed our earth's rotation with reference to a distant quasar. But when considerd that 600 million years ago we had 22hr day we knew we have to find another way.. Now we have a cesium atom being bombarded with energy to move an electron to an outer shell, then wait for the electron to move to inner shell. When that happens a photon is emitted with a certain frequency. Yeah all our international clocks are timed with that contraption.
Then we know that; when we go to the quantum levels, we notice that time is in quanta-tic little bits of time which keeps on adding. Hmmm I like this.
So we can call this lowest unit of time: TIMETON.
We cannot measure anything smaller than the Plank's Constant viz. 6.62607004 × 10-34 m2 kg / s
So Timeton is just that or to be sure make it 6.0× 10-34 s .
SUMMARY1. We measure time by comparing one standard motion against another. Time may not have any independent existence. Time and clocks are used for convenience. The motion could have been compared directly.
2.
Motion alone is not enough to explain time. Forces also appear to be
part of time. Arrow of time may be explained if we think of time as presence of forces and motion.
3.
Perception of time as past present and future gives us the illusion of
the passage of time as well as the block universe view of time. Above it is shown that this perception may just be an illusion and time is more like memory and recording devices.
The similarity of time characteristic of past present and future in
historical events and made up stories also suggests that our
perception of time is an illusion and this aspect of time is also like a
record. The fact that the present which gives us the most real feel of time cannot be measured while the inaccessible past and future can be measured as durations strongly suggests that the way we perceive time (present-ism or the block universe view) is an illusion.
4.
Slowing of time in motion and gravity does not lead to disappearance
into the past as should happen if there was block universe. Absence of time travellers from futuristic advanced civilizations is also against the concept of the block universe.
5.
The concept of origin of the universe in the Big Bang is at complete
odds with the block universe view of time. If the block universe
which is supposed to be laid out as a time-scape (from the past to the
present to the infinite future) exists and began in big bang then
it would mean that all of the time up to the infinite future would come
into existence in the instant of the big bang. This idea is truly preposterous.
6.
Slowing of time in gravity and in motion as well as the ultimate speed
limit c provides us the necessary clues to understanding the cause
of the phenomenon of time however we need to first convince ourselves
that time is a process that is linked to motion and forces and the block universe view of time is not correct.
1. What is time? 2. Is time a dimension? 3. Why time is related to the curvature of space? 4. How mass causes space to curve? 5. What causes time dilation in gravity? 6. What is gravity and why gravity is only attractive? 7. What causes time dilation in motion? 8. How speed of light remains constant in moving objects? 9. What accelerating universal expansion is really telling us? 10. What causes length contraction? 11. How masses move through the structure of space without any resistance? 12. What causes inertia? 13. Why objects gain mass with increase in velocity? 14. Why despite the runaway gravity of the black holes they do not disappear from the universe? 15. Is there singularity in black holes? 16. Why time has a direction?
The
brain is neither analog nor digital, but works using a signal
processing paradigm that has some properties in common with both.
Unlike
a digital computer, the brain does not use binary logic or binary
addressable memory, and it does not perform binary arithmetic.
Information in the brain is represented in terms of statistical
approximations and estimations rather than exact values. The brain is
also non-deterministic and cannot replay instruction sequences with
error-free precision. So in all these ways, the brain is definitely not
"digital".
The question is are human being digital? The brain function can be like above.But consider this:
First "Shall I drink water?" The body says "I am thirsty" So my brain is analog and digital before any action. Then I decide to drink. That action is digital. Because there are only 2 states in the action. yes /No.
So I firmly believe I am Digital being. Same goes to all other situations as they are digital. There can be many states before the action. But when the action happens there are only 1 or 0.
A potluck is a gathering of people where each person or group of
people contributes a dish of food prepared by the person or the group,
to be shared among the larger gathered group. Synonyms include: potluck dinner, spread, Jacob's join,[1][2]Jacob's supper, faith supper, covered dish supper, dish party, bring and share, dutch, pitch-in, bring-a-plate, dish-to-pass, fuddle.
But today I heard on the TV in "Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is" program about antiques, from david Harper a different version. Long time ago when they transported pots with lids, the two come in different boxes. So when they put the lids back to sell them, sometimes you get the right lid. So it potluck.
As a normal person who has not gone into Astro physics in a big way, i do not believe in Big bang. Good name for people who believe in an all mighty God. my beliefs set aside I like to point out certain assumptions made by eminent Prof Michio Kaku , has certain big holes in them.
In this program made by UK Horizon, "What Happened Before the Big Bang" he goes into a NASA's Plum Brook Station, in Sanduski Ohio US. there is the biggest vacuum chamber. It has 9 foot aluminium walls.(I know Americans cannot pronounce the word Aluminium ) . So they take all the air and all the atoms out. Then he says in the vacuum there is energy. And he postulates that before the BB there was a vacuum and there were energy waves which could have made temporary particles which explode. a collective particle explosion created the BB.
Now then professor the vacuum you created has walls they are of course matter. Now I understand that all matter produce waves. So .....??? I got a problem which has; no answer to it right now, unless someone with more knowledge than me explain this.
I found some very tested comments from a BBC. It is not good news for Hanuka honey producers. here it is:
Manuka honey has become increasingly popular in recent years, and
can be very expensive. It tends to be sold as having health benefits -
but what is the evidence for these?
Manuka honey originated in New Zealand, and it is made from nectar
collected by bees that forage on the wild manuka tree, which give it a
distinctive flavour. But what about its supposed health benefits?
Most
honey is believed to have some bacteria killing properties because it
contains chemicals that produce hydrogen peroxide. However, in 1991 a
study from the Honey Research Unit in New Zealand showed that when you
remove the hydrogen peroxide from a range of honeys, manuka was the only
type that kept its ability to kill bacteria. This is due to the
presence of a unique ingredient, now identified as methylglyoxal, which
has specific antimicrobial properties.
In response to this discovery, jars of manuka honey began to be
marketed bearing a UMF number – "Unique Manuka Factor" – relating to how
many bacteria the honey could kill once the hydrogen peroxide had been
removed. The labeling on jars has, however, caused some
confusion. As well as the UMF rating, some jars display MGO,
(methylglyoxal) which equates to the same sort of measurement, while
others show NPA or TA. The NPA (non-peroxide activity) rating is
similarly founded on the level of methyglyoxal the honey contains once
the hydrogen peroxide has been removed. TA is instead the total
activity, so this includes the hydrogen peroxide, which is present in
normal honey. At the same time, some jars can be found with ‘Activity’
or ‘Active’ next to numbers, while some just have numbers alone with no
explanation as to their justification.
The Sunday Star-Times
has a story about a small, short-term, unpublished randomised trial of
mānuka honey for preventing minor illness. There are two reasons this is
potentially worth writing about: it was done by primary school kids,
and it appears to be the largest controlled trial in humans for
prevention of illness.
Here are the results (which I found from the Twitter account of the school’s lab, run by Carole Kenrick, who is named in the story)
And:
You might, at a stretch, say mānuka honey could affect bacteria in the gut, but that’s actually been tested,
and any effects are pretty small. Even in wound healing, it’s quite
likely that any benefit is due to the honey content rather than the
magic of mānuka — and the trials don’t typically have a normal-honey
control.
I am on benefits due to illness. I will be able to get more money if these rich pigs pay their taxes properly. I am truely disgusted by the filthy rich who are greedier than me with my sweets when I was a kid.
Tax avoidance schemes cost the UK £3.1bn in 2012-13 (the most recent figures), the HMRC says
The HMRC says: "The avoidance tax gap
is an annual estimate of the tax lost due to avoidance schemes that are
subject to HMRC scrutiny and frustrate the intention of Parliament."
£1.4bn of that was through income tax, national insurance contributions and capital gains tax
£1.3bn was in unpaid corporation tax
£0.1bn was lost through VAT and the remaining £0.2bn was through other direct taxes
Source: HMRC
According to a YouGov survey
published in November, 63% of British people said they believed the
moral duty to contribute to public services was stronger than the right
to keep the money one earns. In the US, only 37% agreed. Attitudes
may have hardened since then, following revelations that banking giant
HSBC helped wealthy clients across the world evade hundreds of millions
of pounds in tax. It's true that different people who use the
term "tax avoidance" mean very different things by it, as Shadow
Chancellor Ed Balls found when he was drawn into a row about whether one
should get a receipt for hedge-trimming services and was subject to a
newspaper investigation into how he pays his window cleaner.
Income tax - who pays what?
Basic rate 20% - £0 to £31,865
Higher rate 40% - £31,866 to £150,000
Additional rate 45% - over £150,000
Most people are entitled to earn the first £10,000 tax free
Source: HMRC
Here is a list of Britain's wealthiest 25 people, according to The Sunday Times Rich List:
Len Blavatnik £13.17 billion
Sri and Gopi Hinduja £13 billion
Galen and George Weston and family £11 billion
Alisher Usmanov £9.8 billion
David and Simon Reuben £9.7 billion
Ernesto and Kirsty Bertarelli £9.45 billion
Lakshmi Mittal and family £9.2 billion
Kirsten and Jorn Rausing £8.7 billion
The Duke of Westminster £8.56 billion
Roman Abramovich £7.29 billion
John Fredriksen and family £7.24 billion
Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken and Michel de Carvalho £7.145 billion
Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay £6.5 billion
Hans Rausing and family £6.4 billion
Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber and family £5.935 billion
Carrie and Francois Perrodo and family £5.8 billion
Nathan Kirsh £5.06 billion
Earl Cadogan and family £4.8 billion
Nicky Oppenheimer and family £4.55 billion
Sir Richard Branson and family £4.1 billion
Bruno Schroder and family £3.76 billion
Mike Ashley £3.5 billion, Sir James Dyson and family £3.5 billion, Sir Philip and Lady Green £3.5 billion
Today we THINK that dark matter not only exists, but is a vital part of our universe. The world we can see today would not exist, because it is the dark matter which made the galaxies hold together, but it is the dark matter brought the clouds which formed the galaxies and ignited the suns.
Now we have a new boy in town called Dark Energy. So now this is the new fudge. Carry on boyyo, you boffins have been giving me the shits since I opened my first physics book.
So we summarise: First the big white light which created universe. "Hello: God I presume?"
Then came the devil, dark as it can be. The Dark Matter. It gave the world the sins of our fathers by making the suns and planets etc. Then we found out, in the last few years, the Dark Energy which will pull everything God created apart and we all will be isolated.(like u n me will be thousands of meters apart)(one of my cells will me meters apart) Amen
