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Geografía

 Sorribas (Ames), aldea española de la parroquia de Trasmonte, del municipio de Ames, provincia de La Coruña, Galicia.
 Sorribas (Castiello), aldea española de la parroquia de Castiello, municipio de Lena, Asturias.
 Sorribas (Grado), parroquia española del municipio de Grado, Asturias.
 Sorribas (Piloña), parroquia y caserío español del municipio de Piloña, Asturias.
 Sorribas (Parres), parroquia española del municipio de Parres, Asturias.
 Sorribas (Rois), parroquia  y lugar español del municipio de Rois, provincia de La Coruña, Galicia.
 Sorribas (Toral de los Vados), localidad del municipio de Toral de los Vados, provincia de León, Canstilla y León.

Otros

 Sorribas (apellido), apellido de origen español.

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A Rotarian Action Group ("RAG") is an association of Rotarians from around the world who are dedicated to a, unique area of service. Members of a RAG conduct hands-on, global service projects that advance the objectives of Rotary International. Each RAG is officially approved and recognized by the RI Board of Directors, but functions independently of Rotary International and sets its own rules, dues requirement and administrative structure. Rotarian Action Groups shall be entitled to use the Rotary Marks, consistent with existing RI policy governing use of the marks. Rotarian Action Groups shall be entitled to communicate with the worldwide network of Rotary clubs, districts, and multi districts as per RI's communication policy.
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On Elegy in Blue, Benny Carter pays tribute to nine of his peers by performing a composition by each. The title track is Carter's own affecting dedication to these artists, most of whom were his contemporaries and several of whom were dear friends as well.
Benny Carter – Alto sax
Harry "Sweets" Edison – Trumpet
Cedar Walton – Piano
Mundell Lowe – Guitar
Ray Brown – Bass
Jeff Hamilton – Drums
Original release 1994, this release 2008.
Just a glance at the line-up tells any serious jazz fan that they are in for a treat. Benny and Sweets are (along with Ray Brown) some of the older musicians, but they are also among the best and the album demonstrates this throughout. What inspired choices Cedar Walton, Jeff Hamilton and Mundell Lowe were to complete the band: they all play their part to perfection. In these days, where a lot of the so-called jazz has no recognisable chord sequence or for that matter no time and swing, this record makes for most pleasurable listening. The music is always accessible and at the same time cleanly played.
The idea behind the choice of tunes is that with each track Benny should play a tribute to one of his illustrious contemporaries. According to the sleeve-notes, the guys had a great time in the studio and it shows in the music they produced. It all works well, because there is no attempt by any of the soloists to copy the style of the person to whom the tune is dedicated; instead in each case they interpret the tune in their own way. With a rhythm section like this one, the front-line men must have thought they were in heaven!
If, like me, you are tired of trying to understand the complex concoctions presented by many contemporary musicians on the jazz scene today, have a day off, sit in a comfortable chair, relax and enjoy this record.
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Earth 'on high alert' as two big flares set to be ejected from Sun
A solar storm warning has been issued after sunspots have raised the alarm of forecasters.
Holes in the sun's upper atmosphere, where the plasma is less dense and cooler than other parts, are known as coronal holes.
While most of the sun's magnetic field is closed, the coronal holes have an open magnetic field that extends into interplanetary space allowing solar winds to escape.
Taking to Twitter, Dr Tamitha Skov, a space weather physicist wrote: "No big Earth-directed storms yet, but we're on high alert. Several sunspot clusters are in Earth-view right now. At least two are big-flare players, but none have launched anything significant."
In a second tweet she said: "It looks like the pocket of fast #solar wind from the small coronal hole is over-performing! We should enjoy a bit of #aurora over the next few hours at least. What a great holiday gift for those in the UK, Iceland, & possibly East Coast of Canada, if these conditions last!"
How dangerous is a solar storm?
Like storms that take place inside the earth's atmosphere, solar storms are measured on a scale, with each end representing their danger to earth from mild to major.
The scale ranges from G1 minor to G5 extreme, as defined by the US Space Weather Center or SWPC.
G5 is the most dangerous and while minor G1 storms are only likely to cause minor fluctuations to power grid systems and "minor impact on satellite operations."
They can also cause high-altitude auroras and confuse migratory birds – but it is only when the storms get stronger the potential impacts become more severe.
The SWPC say some solar storms can reach speeds of 250km-3,000km a second.
The stronger storms can have particularly high impacts on orbital and terrestrial technology.
The SWPC say in G3 storms, "drag may increase on low-Earth-orbit" spacecraft and can lead to surface charging on satellites.
Bigger storms can cause damage to transformers leading entire power grids to collapse while low signal radio frequencies can be blocked for hours.
The SWPC say: "During storms, the currents in the ionosphere, as well as the energetic particles that precipitate into the ionosphere add energy in the form of heat that can increase the density and distribution of density in the upper atmosphere, causing extra drag on satellites in low-earth orbit.
"The local heating also creates strong horizontal variations in the ionospheric density that can modify the path of radio signals and create errors in the positioning information provided by GPS.
"While the storms create beautiful aurora, they also can disrupt navigation systems such as the Global Navigation Satellite System and create harmful geomagnetic induced currents in the power grid and pipelines."
It is believed a G5 strength event was recorded in 1859, with telephone lines set on fire and the northern lights seen in the Caribbean.
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As a Naval Academy graduate and Marine Corps Officer, Chuck understands the degree to which politics, diplomacy, economic success, and military action are intertwined. Ultimately, America is at its most secure when we are at our most prosperous. The world is constantly changing, and United States must be able to adapt to the shifting defense environment.
The United States is no longer the sole power in the world. The current administration is understaffed and inexperienced, causing America's global diplomatic reach to wither and allowing other countries to take a larger role in world affairs. China's economic and military prowess has made it possible for them to challenge the United States for supremacy in Asia. North Korea has unquestioningly become an nuclear power and must be treated as such. The threat of fanatical terrorism remains despite decades of war.
It is time for our nation to regain its footing. Reclaiming our position of leadership will require more than purchasing new airplanes or bigger bombs. It will require a renewed focus on changing environments, diplomatic outreach, recognizing enemy capabilities, and our own economic strength.


From the days when cars trickled along Route 66 through today's can't slow down world, Lee Marmon, known as the blue-eyed Indian, has photographed the people of Laguna Pueblo.
There are many beginnings, but this is as good a place as any to start: About 40 years ago, Lee was delivering groceries from his dad's trading post when he noticed an old man sunning himself beside an adobe wall.
"Hey, Jeff, how about a picture?"
"No," the old man said, scowling. "No picture."
The old man was Jeff Sousea, the popular caretaker of Laguna Mission. he had a reputation for taking an occasional sample of the sacremental wine and for telling tourists about lost gold mines.
Lee had tried to photograph him before, but he refused to remove his sunglasses.
"No," he scowled. "No picture."
By that time, Lee had earned a reputation of his own. He was the stocky kid with the camera, the one hounding the old folks. Sometimes they said yes. Sometimes they said no. Sometimes, Lee sweetened the deal.
"Here's a cigar, Jeff. how about a picture?"
And so, Lee Marmon knelt in the dust of Laguna plaza and photographed an 85 year old man wearing a traditional headband, traditional jewelry and a pair of Keds high-top sneakers.
He called the portrait, "White Man's Moccasins."
You might not guess on first glance, but the owner of the used bookshop at Laguna Pueblo, the man with the thick black mustache, baseball cap and faded blue jeans, once shook hands with presidents. He met an astronaut, and Wonder Woman too.
But you won't find him sunning at the Bahamas or putting at the golf course. You'll find Lee Marmon in a shopping center about an hour west of Albuquerque, sitting behind a cluttered desk, playing with his cat at the Blue-Eyed Indian Bookstore.
Lee is the blue-eyed Indian, one-quarter Laguna, born and raised on the pueblo. His grandfather, Ohio-born Robert Marmon, was the first white governor of Laguna and among the scouts who tracked Geronimo. His daughter, author Leslie Marmon Silko, wrote the acclaimed books Ceremony and Almanac of the Dead .
At age 69, he's quite accomplished himself, having been a teacher, a postmaster and a photographer whose work has appeared in galleries, books and magazines nationwide. He and his assistant, Robin Webb, were recently commissioned to photograph Colorado's Ute Indians. The 16 portraits will be permanently displayed at the new Denver airport.
These days, when he's not shooting weddings, portraits or publicity photos, he's at the bookshop, sorting through used novels. "This is the only bookstore between Albuquerque and Gallup," he says. "Probably the only one on a reservation. Truckers and tourists stop by all the time. You know, there's nothing like cheap entertainment." In the shop, you'll find everything from the 1995 "Women of the Navajo" calendar, pocket readers of Kant and summaries of President Clinton's health-care proposal.
You'll also find a modest collection of Lee's work: stark black and white photos of people such as Bruce Riley, former Laguna war chief; Santana, a renowned Santo Domingo potter; and old Jeff, who became his signature photograph.
When he shot the portraits, Lee never expected they would propel a career. He never thought they would leave the walls of his home. Back then, Lee says, no one knew things would change so fast.
When Lee was a boy, there were no telephones in Laguna. There weren't too many cars either. In fact, if eight travellers rolled by on Route 66, it was a busy day.
During the day, they worked in the fields, on the farms or for the Santa Fe railroad. At night, they listened to radio programs and dreamed of the big fiesta, a weeklong celebration attracting visitors from as far away as Arizona, some of whom arrived in covered wagons.
At one time or another, during fiesta or not, everyone from vagabonds to royalty walked through the doors of the Marmon Trading Post, which stocked shoes, lumber, soda pop, and postage stamps.
It was run by Lee's father, from the choice location on the main drag next to the railroad station. Among the notable customers who walked through its doors were Arthur MacArthur, the famous general's dad, and early Southwest photographers Edward Curtis, Adam Vroman and Willian Henry Jackson.
At the time, Lee didn't pay too much attention to celebrities, or cameras. He was busy hiking through the scrub-covered hills around the pueblo or target pracitising with friends, once severing the utilities while shooting at birds.
He also delivered groceries in a chopped down Model A pickup held together with bailing wire, bubble gum and prayer. From the seat of that open-air jalopy, he'd rip through the backroads of the pueblo, memorizing the houses and the people who lived there.
At age 10, he entered the ranks of professional photographers when he received a $2 check for shooting a truck wreck for an insurance company.
It had been his dad's idea. he was the one who heard about the wreck, handed the boy a Kodak postcard camera and said, go to it. When he thinks about it now, Lee says that the car wreck was a prophecy for what would come.
Like most kids his age, he dismissed such omens and eventually attended the University of New Mexico, where he planned to study geology. But after a few uninspiring semesters, he dropped out during World War II, joined the Army and served three years in Alaska. There, amid a landscape so utterly different from the New Mexico desert, Lee made a promise.
"I was on a ship and we were approaching the port and it was just beautiful," he says. "The water was like glass, there was snow on the mountains. I told myself I would get a camera if it was the last thing I did."
When Lee returned home, he bought a Speed Graphic camera and photographed everything in sight; penitente crosses, a bloody horse atop a crumpled Chevy, a pesky buzzard he brought down with a single pistol shot. Once, his photos of a burned down San José River bridge even made the morning newspaper in Albuquerque.
"I just shot anything that happened," he says, "Most of it was too bloody to print." Then, on the advice of his dad, Lee began seeking out village elders. "Take their pictures," his father said. "Soon they'll all be gone."
He photographed old-timers plastering walls, old-timers husking corn, old-timers being old-timers. He captured the scowling Platero, whose finger was bitten off by a horse, the grizzled Mateas, who modeling fee was two silver dollars and a pound of coffee, and José Teofilo, a hunter who tracked deer into his 80s.
In 1966 he left New Mexico for the swimming pools and golf courses of Palm Springs, CA, as the official photographer for the Bob Hope Desert Classic. In a blue binder in his bookshop, Lee keeps a record of those swinging years. there's page after page of bathing beauties, Hollywood royalty and vacationing Republican power brokers. During those years, he photographed Richard Nixon, Raquel Welch and Clint Eastwood, to name a few.
But, despite a substantial salary and all the nice things that went with it, Lee kept returning to Laguna, to those old faces and the portraits that have become the core of his work.
Today Lee Marmon is surrounded by memories.
He lives with his wife, Kathryn, and son, Leland, in the old Santa Fe Railroad building. He works in a darkroom converted from a Depression era washroom. He spends some afternoons walking by the adobe where he was born and the boarded up trading post where he once worked.
He still photographs the Laguna people, but has turned to weddings and conventions to supplement his income.
His father was right, he says. There was something special about the elders. They had an integrity and a spirit that you don't see much anymore. His biggest regret: he didn't take more portraits.
Every so often, a Laguna old-timer brings a grandchild to Lee's bookshop and stands before the portraits, explaining how life used to be.
For the price of a silver dollar, a pound of coffee, or even a cigar, Lee managed to preserve some of the old ways and the old faces. In his own way, he brought his people a measure of notoriety and even immortality.
Out there somewhere, old Jeff is smiling.
Reprinted from The Albuquerque Tribune , November 23, 1994.


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Whats the difference between Volkswagen and the Ontario Liberals?
Volkswagen was the world's largest car manufacturer until it became embroiled in a monumental scandal over lying about the fuel efficiency of its diesel engines. In the current quarter it announced a loss of $1.8 billion and slipped to second place in sales behind Toyota.
Kathleen Wynne's Ontario Liberals have been stumbling along for two years with a $10 million operating deficit. Now we learn that her government has been making under the table payments to teacher's unions who, in turn, have spent some $6.1 million supporting the party in at least three provincial elections.
The premier calls the payments "normal" while Liz Sandals, MPP, Guelph and Minister of Education, is quoted as saying the payments were "nothing about anything."
So what's the difference between Volkswagen and the Wynne Liberals?
Volkswagen fired its CEO, shook up the board of directors and acknowedged its mistake of lying to the public about the diesel mileage of its cars. They are pledged to fix it.
Kathleen Wynne and her sidekick, Liz Sandals, are still in charge and driving the public education system into the grave of John Ross Robertson, a key individual who originally set up Ontario's public education system.
This government has participated in a deal with three teacher unions in payoffs totaling $7.1 million. In exchange for labour peace the quid pro quo of the teacher union's exclusive support, the unions contributed money and manpower, to the Ontario Liberal party.
Premier Kathleen Wynne was a party to this in the last three provincial elections, first as Minister of Education and more recently as Premier.
The unmitigated folly of these two former public school trustees, thanks to a leaked secret 42-page document to the Globe and Mail, has created a political firestorm of outrage by the public. Thousands of elementary pupils, their parents and the taxpayers are at the mercy of the Elementary Teacher Federation of Ontarto (ETFO) and the government negotiators.
The strategy that backfired on the Wynne Liberals, authors of this debacle
The ETFO is the largest teacher's union in Ontario. It is the only public education union that refused to accept the million dollar government bonuses.
Last August, three unions settled a new contract, including a 2.5% increase and were paid as follows: The Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation (OSSTF), $1 million with 66,000 members; the Ontario English Catholic High Teachers Asssociation (OECTA), $1 million with 33,000 members, and the French language teachers (AEFO), $500,000 with 10,000 members.
But the ETFO refused to agree to a similar settlement and refused any so-called, undocumented payment for additional bargaining costs such as the other three major unions had received.
Today, Premier Wynne, announced that receipts were required before any under the counter payments were made. This was a complete slap in the face for Minister Sandals who told the media that her department did not require receipts because they were familiar with the costs of the union negotiating team.
Instead, negotiations broke down. To make its point the ETFO leadership moved to its job action program that started to inconvenience children and parents. Today, October 28, the teachers will leave the classroom at 3:15 and refuse to participate in parent/teacher interviews, will not write report cards, or work on any extracurricular activities.
It would appear that the premier is saying the offer the other three unions accepted, is still on the table. She has threatened to start docking the pay of those elementary teachers who do not carry out their responsibilities and end their job action starting this weekend.
So because the EFTO refuses to agree to the government's demand to settle on its terms; because the EFTO won't accept under the table payments or donate money to the Liberals; because the EFTO has some regard for its responsibility to the children and their parents; they are left with no choice.
The Wynne Liberals are determined to bring the ETFO to heel and accept their terms.
For Premier Wynne and Minster Liz Sandals to continue to inconvenience the lives of elementary pupils and parents for their party's personal gain and to maintain power, is an unconscionable misuse of their fiduciary responsibility and public trust.
It's time to resign, both of you, and turn out the lights when you leave.
Tagged as Education Minister Liz Sandals, Globe and Mail, Kathleen Wynne. ETFO, Ontario Liberals
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It's just news of the day ,a high percentage unions are paid for their accommodations during negotiations from Harper ,Wynne, Harris , Chreiten etc.Nothing new here next
Gerry Barker
Joe Black: This isn't about past political leader's practices, it's about Kathleen Wynne's relationship with the teacher and education support unions. I would hope that you are not so cynical that her action of handing out millions to unions just to negotiate is acceptable. I don't believe that this blatant misuse of public money should be ignored and Wynne should apologize and ask the auditor general to investigate.
This government has shown contempt for the public purse since they got into office. I cannot understand why there is not a criminal investigation into the payoffs given to more than just the teachers union. We as a province are numb by the constant back room deals this liberal government makes and yet the support they get in return is so strong in their favour we will never get them out of power. The same thing will happen federally as long as unions are allowed to advertise against people and polls are released during an election. The system doesn't work and no one will pay but us non government employees while they all relax on vacations collecting their wonderful pensions we were fleeced for. Nice work Ontario!
Just think about this.The Wynne government just made a 1.3 million dollar
payment to the unions for "bargaining".And then Wynne says that if the teachers are not back by Nov 1 they will be fined for every day that they are on strike.Me smells a rat.
Her government looks tough against the unions and the unions just give back the money they were given.
Gerald: You're getting it. The record shows the unions gave more money toward Liberal causes than they received. Guess it's the price obtaining favour with the ruling power in the Province. The bottom line is what has been going on between the Liberals and the education unions in the past eight years, must stop. The explanations from both sides of this conspiracy are ridiculous and an investigation by an independent authority is badly needed.


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Washington – Drug overdoses are the top cause of injury death in the United States, and heroin and controlled prescription drugs are the "most significant drug threats" to the nation, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration's 2015 National Drug Threat Assessment.
More than 46,000 people in the United States died from drug overdoses in 2013 ¬– most due to prescription painkillers and heroin. Every day, more than 120 Americans die from a drug overdose. Some controlled prescription drug abusers turn to heroin because it is cheaper, or they are unable to obtain prescription drugs, according to the assessment.
Heroin availability and the number of abusers, overdoses and overdose deaths have increased.
Deaths from prescription drugs have surpassed deaths from cocaine and heroin combined since 2002.
Abuse of controlled prescription drugs is higher than abuse of abuse of cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin, MDMA and PCP combined.
From late 2013 to early 2015, fentanyl – a synthetic opioid considered 25 to 40 times more potent than heroin – has caused more than 700 deaths in the United States.
The assessment includes information on drug abuse and trafficking trends from more than 1,000 state and local law enforcement agencies.


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Q: typescript acts up with mixed type... and I have no idea why it fails export interface TableSearchState {
    query: string
    selectFilters: Map<string, string>
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const TABLE_STATE_INIT: TableSearchState = {
    query: '',
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type UiTableRaw<A> = Omit<A, keyof TableSearchState>
export type UiTableState<A> = UiTableRaw<A> & TableSearchState
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Type '{ query: "1234"; }' is not assignable to type 'Partial<UiTableState>'.
Just can not understand it...
What I'd like to accomplish here is parameter is any object type and it would combine with certain interface and return it and lost at it...
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somebody help??? Thank you in advance.
like to find the way to accomplish what I intended..

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BUFFALO, N.Y. — As robot-assisted surgery changes the traditional interrelationships of surgical teams with the technology around them in the operating room, new opportunities arise for understanding and optimizing operating-room processes. In a series of three studies, researchers from Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center and the University at Buffalo (UB) have examined the dynamics of the robot-equipped operating room, sharing findings they hope can be used to streamline workflows and improve patient care.
The studies are a collaborative effort of the Applied Technology Laboratory for Advanced Surgery (ATLAS) program at Roswell Park and human factors faculty and students in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering within the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
The latest paper in the series, published online and in print by the Journal of Surgical Education, documents the team's efforts to design an approach for accurately capturing team communications and activities during robot-assisted surgery. The researchers recorded and analyzed 37 different robot-assisted surgeries performed in an operating room equipped with cameras and microphones, focusing on the nontechnical aspects of the procedures such as communications, ambulatory movements and procedural interruptions. They report that this approach allowed them to effectively monitor and assess the surgical team activities, including movements and interruptions that were determined to be avoidable.
"By identifying and analyzing team communications, procedural interruptions and ambulatory movements within the robot-assisted surgical arena, we can craft evidence-based strategies for improving operating-room layouts, improve the efficiency, safety and efficacy of robot-assisted surgery," says Khurshid Guru, MD, Director of Robotic Surgery and Professor of Oncology at Roswell Park, who was lead author on the three papers.
"We were able to capture data and characterize pathways in the high-stress environment of the operating room with a goal to minimize surgical errors and loss of valuable operative time," says Lora Cavuoto, PhD, Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at UB.
"It's our hope that these striking findings will guide the training of surgical teams and inform the future design of robot-equipped operating rooms," adds Dr. Guru.
Co-authors include Ann Bisantz, PhD, Chair of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University at Buffalo.
All three papers are available online: "The Loud Surgeon Behind the Console: Understanding Team Activities During Robot-Assisted Surgery" is available at jsurged.org; "Evaluation and Impact of Workflow Interruptions During Robot-assisted Surgery" at sciencedirect.com; and "Ambulatory movements, team dynamics and interactions during robot-assisted surgery" at onlinelibrary.wiley.com.
The work was supported by a grant from the Roswell Park Alliance Foundation.


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Carbon stored in mangroves and wetlands (known as blue carbon) is playing an increasingly prominent role in discussions about the world's emissions budget. Yet many questions remain about how coastal environments store and release CO2 and behave under climate change. A new study published in Nature Communications looks at the future of blue carbon, stressing the need for a better understanding of how coastal ecosystems can contribute to climate adaptation and mitigation.
Blue carbon (BC) refers to organic carbon that mangroves, tidal marshes, seagrass, seaweed and other coastal and marine ecosystems capture and store. Scientists and the international community are exploring its potential to tackle climate change. The merits of these ecosystems go beyond carbon sequestration, protecting coastlines and securing livelihoods for local communities. But for BC to have a say in shaping climate action, blue carbon science needs a more solid footing, the study points out.
"There have been moments where the science has been responding to management agendas, rather than playing a role in setting them," says Peter Macreadie, the paper's lead author and head of the Blue Carbon Lab at Deakin University. Aiming to map key gaps and controversies still clouding BC science, the researchers asked ten "fundamental" questions to the scientific community.
Across the globe, BC ecosystems vary greatly in their exposure to climate change, as responses collected from 50 experts show. Sea level rise has one of the biggest influences on coastal carbon storage: the more sea levels rise, the more wetlands adapt by building up more soil from mineral and organic matter. This allows it to capture more carbon.
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So far there are mostly global models looking at BC vulnerability to sea level rise, while studies of local areas – where extreme weather can affect carbon stocks and coastal ecosystems' health – are lagging behind.
Researchers need investigate how human activity disturbs carbon production and storage locally. Globally, land-use change on coasts – from agriculture, dams, expansion of cities and other human activities – produces an estimated 450 million tonnes of CO2. At the same time, oil spills, aquaculture or an overgrowth of algae can lower BC ecosystems' ability to store carbon. However, scientists need to take a closer look at what's happening at local levels. By protecting local BC ecosystems from disturbances, countries can avoid damaging emissions.
"Developing countries with BC resources have the opportunity to use them towards their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)," says Daniel Murdiyarso, principal scientist at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and co-author of the study. NDCs refer to countries' pledges to cut their emissions and adapt to climate change. "In Indonesia, for example, BC could help reduce emissions by as much as 200 million tonnes of CO2 annually, the equivalent of 30 percent of its emissions from land," Murdiyarso says.
While scientists know the rough distribution of mangroves globally, 75 percent of which is concentrated in just 15 countries, tidal marshes and seagrasses remain insufficiently documented. Researchers point out that they first have to find out how many BC ecosystems the world actually has. Also of critical importance is how fast they can degrade. For example, the rate at which seagrass is being lost has jumped seven-fold since the 1990s. Surveys, therefore, are critical to better understand these changes to ecosystem health.
Promoting the conservation of coastal ecosystems for climate mitigation still requires more evidence on how blue carbon helps reduce emissions. Studies still fall short of showing how CO2 exchanges between water and air affect carbon sequestration. Or how waves might impact the build-up of organic carbon, triggering disagreements among scientists.
Mangroves absorb as much as 700 million tonnes of carbon per year and return into the atmosphere 525 million tonnes annually, estimates show. But there's still a lack of data on other BC ecosystems and, equally important, how emissions of methane – with more warming potential than CO2 – and nitrous oxides might tip the scale in the carbon budget.
Ultimately, putting a number on blue carbon's ability to offset emissions will give coastal ecosystems a place on the international mitigation and adaptation agenda. Some countries are already developing climate change mitigation schemes focusing on blue carbon, providing economic incentives for their conservation. Avoiding degradation of mangroves, tidal marshes and seagrasses could help avoid emissions of about 1 million tonnes of CO2 per year; but international schemes for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation don't currently reward protecting these ecosystems. The study claims that they have been left off the agenda as their carbon storage remains uncertain.
"Findings in blue carbon so far are crucial, but we need to narrow down uncertainties and we should not wait," Murdiyarso says. "Countries that want to include blue carbon in their mitigation and adaptation plans under official commitments need to know fast how much blue carbon their coastal ecosystems can store."
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Ricardo Eduardo Latcham Cartwright (Thornbury, England, 5 March 1869 - Santiago, Chile, 16 October 1943) was an English-Chilean archaeologist, ethnologist, folklore scholar and teacher.

Born and raised near Bristol, England, as Richard Edward Latcham, he immigrated as a young man to Chile. There he became known for his ethnological and archeological work related to the indigenous Mapuche, Diaguita and Chango peoples.

He worked for the Chilean National Museum of Natural History. Based on his contributions, he was selected as a member of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.

Latcham married in Chile and had a son with his wife. Their son is Ricardo A. Latcham, known as an Anglo-Chilean writer and historian.

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StuartDickson Posts: 6,530
Scott_xP said:
Most people just want to get on with their lives.
And Brexit is making it more difficult and expensive than it was previously.
Which is why we will still be talking about it for the next decade (at least)
My guesstimate is five decades. After all, the heid jobs banged on about it incessantly 1973-present.
I won't see it in my lifetime and I'm mid 50s. Although I'll almost certainly be killed in a motorcycle accident in the next 5-10 years.
The most likely long term trajectory is the 6 counties back in via a united Ireland, Scotland fast tracked in to spite England. England and Wales gradually realign into a Norway type relationship with the EU.
I certainly hope not! I was convinced I'd never reach 30. Thank god I was wrong. Surviving cancer was the wake up call I needed, changed my life around. Sell the motorcycle and buy a cabin in the woods, à la James Taylor.
Big_G_NorthWales said:
There are three components to England's mental breakdown, and they are all interrelated:
- crippling fear of rejection (why do the Scots want to go?)
- self-hatred (hating foreigners is ultimately an indication of low self-esteem and lack of self-worth)
- and seeking external causes to rage against (Scotland, France, Germany, China, infectious foreigners etc ad infinitum)
Brexit was England's (over-)reaction to the first Scottish independence referendum. It was entirely avoidable, but their fate was sealed when in 2010 Gordon Brown, in a fit of pique, immediately rejected SNP support for a minority Labour government, thus forcing the astonishingly naive Lib Dems into David Cameron's rose garden/snake pit. The inevitable SNP landslide the following year sealed the process.
English voters very much do give a toss about Scotland and Scottish independence, not because of Scotland per se, but because of Greater England, otherwise referred to as the United Kingdom: the only thing separating England from the realities of being a modern, normal, average medium-sized country and the global power of her imagination. No Scotland = no Security Council seat, no independent nuclear deterrent and no "special relationship". English voters do care very, very much about Scotland. Without her they are King Lear bereft of his kingdom.
Claiming that Scots have an "inferiority complex" - standard patter on this board - is pure psychological projection. It is the English who are wracked in self-doubt and insecurity. Ditto "paranoid".
Sentiment? Biscuit tins? Monarch of the Glen? Not the signs of a serious, well thought-out post.
Sweden's own Sassanach expert chimes in about "English voters" yet again. A man who knows nothing and projects it into this board every day. Port guy. As I said yesterday, get a job, a hobby, anything. This malevolence is eating your soul you poor man.
Latching onto posts by particular posters on an obscure website seems to fill in a bit of time, maybe Stuart could take that up?
The one thing this is not is an obscure website and I was told yesterday that my post re Brentford scoring was quicker than BBC Sport live reporting
However, there is a polarised and rather unpleasant constant recurring theme on Scotland's Independence and Brexit that is going nowhere
I am not sure how old @StuartDickson is but I suspect he is not as old as myself, who encountered the same bitterness in the early 1950's when I lived in Berwick and when I say it is just plain tedious, posters can see how long I have listened to the debate and of course Berwick itself changed hands 13 times
Talking of Berwick, then Scotland's main port, 15,000 people were murdered in the English massacre of the townsfolk. No monument had been raised in memory of the slain when this article was published in 2013. Has any been erected since? Have the Scots ever received an apology?
https://www.berwickshirenews.co.uk/news/opinion/columnists/andrew-marshall-berwick-massacre-must-be-remembered-too-2346683
I thought countries would move on? Apologising for every massacre or other ills seems like it would take up a lot of valuable time.
Have the Scot Nats on here ever tried making a persuasive argument for independence, or have they always just called unionists "lickspittles" and hoped that that would do the job?
Many times you sarcastic halfwitted tumshie. Why don't you start sending me your wages every week and I will decide what they are spent on , I will even send you back a few pounds that you can spend on what you want rather than what I think you should want.
Gee we hid a lot o' fun pinchin' totties an' tumshies
SouthamObserver said:
I don't think the consequences for England of the end of the Union have even begun to be thought about in England. But it's hard to see how they will be positive, at least in the short-term. Internationally, it will be regarded as a humiliating emasculation. That will have consequences on many levels. Not least on the home front, where there will be three main reactions: indifference, regret and fury. The latter will mostly be on the right, which will seek revenge on Scotland through the most punishing of divorces and will go very, very heavy on English nationalism. We will not be a happy country to live in or next door to.
BiB - that sounds familiar. I can't imagine where the inspiration for that would come from...
But in all seriousness, what would a non-punishing divorce look like. How would a nice soft liberal like you handle it? The reality is that any punishment will be self-inflicted.
I would be in the regret camp. I would be looking for the closest and friendliest relationship with Scotland possible, and I would understand that would mean compromise on both sides. I would hope the lessons of Brexit would have been learned. But I am enough of a realist to know that they won't be. It would not be in England's interests to have the relationship with Scotland and the EU that so many on the right seem to want.
Would you be happy to have a currency union with Scotland where the BoE is the lender of last resort for banks in a foreign country? Should the rUK taxpayers continue to subsidise Scotland?
Ultimately the currency and social security make Scottish independence an order of magnitude more serious than Brexit. It's not nasty right-wingers like me who are responsible for that. It's just the reality of the situation.
rUK does NOT subsidise Scotland, it merely allots a large amount of rUK borrowing to make it appear Scotland is the issue. We have no idea what kind of deficit Scotland would have given it would never follow the mental path of rUK , pretending to strut around the world as a big shot whilst the arse is out of it's trousers.
Hard to imagine Scotland would be stupid enough to have a currency union either.
OldKingCole said:
Things that people keep predicting which stubbornly refuse to happen:
The collapse of the Euro
The collapse of the UK
The collapse of house prices
Things that people will still be predicting in twenty years' time and still won't have happened:
Well, the collapse of the UK is certainly happening. NI, remember? Not to mention what happened a hundred years ago.
All countries end eventually. The current borders of the U.K. having lasted 100 years is not a bad innings historically.
Thought-provoking and noteworthy post. The previous borders, of course lasted from 1803, when it was thought that the 'Irish Question' had been settled by unification.
The only European countries that seem to have managed to be unchanged for a REALLY long time are surely Portugal, ever since it regained it's independence from Spain, and Spain itself, since the loss of Gibraltar.
Two books shaped my current political thinking. "Vanished Kingdoms" by Norman Davies that showed me that countries end, all of them, eventually, and "The Politics of Social Ecology: Libertarian Municipalism" by Janet Biehl and Murray Bookchin which has led me to think that the basic political unit should be the municipality, not the nation state. My basic problem with Scottish Independence is that it doesn't go far enough.
It was someone on here that pointed me towards Vanished Kingdoms, and it was indeed thought-provoking. I'm especially reminded of it when political commentators talk about states and boundaries in the area between the Rhine and the Volga. And I know there's considerable doubt over Koestler's The Thirteenth Tribe, but it does point up the significant historical population movements between the Caucasus and the Vistula.
Vanished kingdoms made me wonder how any nation ever formed and lasted as it could be a bloody convoluted process.
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Once Scotland and NI have gone the impetus towards independence will be taken up here in Wales for independence too.
Wales is in a tricky position, independence-wise. Scotland is big enough to go it alone and is just off continental Europe. Northern Ireland can fold into a unified Ireland. Welsh nationalism, though, as Alex Salmond observed, is more of a cultural than an economic movement.
I think that probably shows how dated Salmonds views are. Considering that the Welsh Assembly barely scraped approval in a plebiscite in the nineties, there has been more and more movement to Welsh independence in the polls. Massive issues to resolve before it happens, but no longer the fringe view that it was.
I think it's more that the Berwick chap likes to encourage Berwick in every way he can, and is making his point in that sense. He's local and English. Not an apology so much as a reminder of Berwick's identity and history (the locals were very upset when it was subsumed into Northumberland some years back).
Foxy said:
Er, when did he make that comment?
Morris_Dancer said:
Dr. Foxy, the PM does not understand the concept of responsibility for one's actions. He's a damned fool and we'll all be better off when he's replaced.
Unless by it someone like Corbyn.
So do I take it you'd vote for Starmer's Labour rather than Johnson's Tories?
Morris_Dancer Posts: 57,693
Mr. kle4, it's a book focused on countries (ish) ending, though.
Consider how long Rome lasted (over two thousand years on the most broad ranging perspective). Or China. Or England (ok, part of the UK now, but still a cohesive area despite the best efforts of cretinous politicians to ignore or fragment it). Or France.
OldKingCole Posts: 25,988
Warlords and language.
Sure, and I'd be all for that, but stuart was talking of apologies, which I think would slow the move on phase.
Lots of what might be termed previously contested areas likely have some fascinatingly dark histories, and I'd love people to be more interested in the local tales and events.
Another element of vanished kingdoms IIRC was how some wider national myths have totally taken over and even the people there dont believe what is provably true.
Mr. Seal, the abuse of language has reached the extent that people use the slogan Defund The Police and then claim it doesn't mean defunding the police. If that's false, they're liars, if it's true then they're literally opposing the precise meaning of the words they've chosen to use.
Plenty of gay and lesbian people have also been pissed off by the BBC redefinition of homosexuality which now is about gender, not sex (ie biology), prioritising subjective perceptions over objective reality.
And let's not forget the daddy of them all - Leveling Up.
Zero Covid.
I think that you are over cooking it a bit, but elements of truth in there.
England is a strange place nowadays, and one divided against itself. I cannot see the Union surviving for much longer.
On the currency, Indy Scotland should join the Euro, but stay in the CTA. It works for Ireland. Probably need to have direct ferries to the continent again because of the land border to England. There will be teething problems disentangling from the Union, but in the long term better for Scotland to go its own way.
I have English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish ancestry, so will have some regrets at the end of British identity. I have always been more comfortable as British than English as an identity, but so it goes.
So if you're voting for Scottish independence you're voting to join the Euro?
I won't be voting for it, as I am not registered to vote in Scotland, but yes joining the Euro is the best option for Indy Scotland.
Apart from promising to join being a condition of membership the Euro is a solid reserve currency, and not liable to local debasement. Indeed lack of ability to debate the coinage is one of the criticisms people make of the Euro crisis of a decade ago.
Scotland would need to balance its budget, but individuals and institutions would be assured that their money retains value
Sensible opinion unlike the previous lies that you are forced to join the Euro, it is and always has been subject to meeting a set of rules. As we know some choose never to meet the requirements, but rabid unionists cannot see the woods for the trees.
Quite so - but how they got to that strength of position given how hard it is to get going was my point. The development of Prussia from tiny area to german behemoth to, well, today, was a gripping tale in Iron Kingdom.
SandyRentool Posts: 15,804
I see PB has reverted to the well-worn themes of Brexit, Scottish independence and Starmer's prospects.
Do I take it from this that nobody's seen any empty shelves in supermarkets recently?
I can report that Waitrose in Harborough has 2 sorts of flaked parmesan, organic and regular. There were a few gaps on shelves, but idiosyncratic so no Waitrose basmati but branded stuff was there.
Organic and regular. We can all sleep easily in our beds.
It's not in itself meaningless. A freind has been putting a lot of work into levelling up a concrete subfloor in his house - mixing and pouring large amounts of allegedly self-levelling screed. The result is leveller and on average slightly higher than before ...
Or as I tweeted yesterday in response to the #NewNormal astroturfing:
Our nurses have been drafted again for redeployment to ICU to look after the unvaccinnated on ventilators. This is why #NHS #waitinglists are mushrooming. This sadly is the #NewNormal
https://twitter.com/foxinsoxuk/status/1426244801985384455?s=19
Friday afternoon a rolling rota of theatre cancellations and redeployment to ICU were announced in my Trust. ICU cannot staff 10 beds because of a mix of vacancies, maternity leave* and long term sickness. We have 21 covid patients on ICU, all unvaccinated. To say Mrs Foxy and colleagues are unhappy about this is cannot be overstated. I expect a number to go off sick for mental health reasons rather than go back.
*pregnant staff go off on Mat Leave as soon as they can. Seeing pregnant women so poorly with covid tends to do that.
Is Stuart Dickson the Earl of Leven?
That's vague and so can be meaningless, so it might be infuriating, but I don't think its counter productive in the same way.
A slogan meaning the opposite of what it seems like is different to one which is not well defined but at least can be assumed to mean 'improve things, er, somehow'.
Part of my family is from the Borders and there are plenty of traditions and tales - very much remembered in the common ridings and in folk music. Which makes your point nicely.
In this case I think the chap was hoping to get more interest in Berwick history - for obvious reasons of access to upstanding remains most of the English Heritage stuff focusses on the Tudor and later period down to the C18 barracks (IIRC the first purpose built ones in the UK). It's hard to do much with the mediaeval era thanks to the Victorian railway engineers running what would become the ECML right through the Great Hall of the castle, and the goods yard (now car park) in the outer bailey, and the engine shed turntable in the millpond. Hence his article, I expect.
Tanktop on , check. Union jack underpants on , check . Right let's tackle this Scottish baddie , even though I never comment on Scotland , ever , promise. That told him off big boy style , he will think twice before daring to impugn rUK again.
You poor man. Thinking I am a Unionist FFS shows how far your internalised projection goes. Again, I am here for you if you want to reach out. You are in my prayers.
We are here for you Malc. We love you.
Theuniondivvie Posts: 30,768
My one experience of laying a concrete floor was that it covered up a multitude of sins and ended in a huge bust up (the one pro there, my brother, was helping as a favour & resented being bossed about). No metaphor intended..
Taz Posts: 3,022
And mine, bless him. He's so dense light cannot escape from his presence. He had me down as a unionist and a Tory last week when I am neither.
We are all here for you too big Mal. You are in our prayers son.
I'm slightly mystified why Unionists in Scotland seem to have such a thing about travelling folk, from their nominal leader right down to these bottom feeders. I know they have a rich cornucopia of other bigotries to choose from but gypsies really seem to trigger them.
https://twitter.com/Maureen6Johnson/status/1426312063207546882?s=20
Not exactly Romani or Shelta celebration day is it there?!
Technically it's not clear to me that that tweeter does live in Scotland. 'She' might live a long way away in a tiny tax haven and be all for doing things differently from the tax haven next door, but when it comes to devolution, never mind independence, oh my ...!
Scottish Tories are even more bigoted and racist than their southern brethern, they have to try harder being just regional appendages.
Money talks. The Government is prepared to let the anti-vaxxers (who can be reasonably estimated to be 10% of the adult population based on the first dose stats; the numbers who can't have a jab for medical reasons are insignificant as a percentage of the entire population) get away with this because it's a burden upon the hospitals, but not enough of a burden to necessitate health-induced economic restrictions.
If refusers were a big enough problem to cause more lockdowns then the pressure to force them into submission would quickly become overwhelming.
I wonder why those lickspittles will never vote for independence
Yes, but he could only do that by using more concrete.
This guy is a Scottish stalker, I cannot shake the halfwit off, obsessive union jack man.
I'm not sure what in my posts this morning has made me seem "animated" or "raging".
I'm really not. I can only assume this is projection.
Fair enough, you aren't very animated.
Glad to have helped with your self esteem issues with a couple of likes though.
Aw thanks! You can have one back x
At least gracious in defeat.
Because I love you. I hate to see the hatred consume a man. I want you to join me in prayer that we can cure what ails you.
Ok. But what slogan are you referring to that means the opposite of what it seems to?
NickPalmer Posts: 17,829
On topic I am sure that @Quincel is right. Labour stuck by Corbyn, even when the vast majority of his MPs could see that he was a disaster and gave a vote of no confidence in him. SKS has clear and strong support amongst those MPs, even if he does not engender anything like the same level of fanaticism in the membership.
The MPs support him because he is decent, intelligent, reasonably principled and not obviously subject to the same delusional mindset that Corbyn was. I personally think that he would be much better suited to being a PM than he is LOTO. I think opposing for the sake of it is not something that he is comfortable with; he is really uncomfortable with the sort of cheap shots and gimmicks that LOTOs have to indulge in to get attention, he is in many ways the epitome of the reasonable man.
I would have been utterly horrified if someone with Corbyn's mindset had ever become our PM. I would be disappointed if SKS did but not overly alarmed or concerned. The incompetence of government would probably continue at a normal rate but would not increase exponentially. The competence and quality of his Shadow Cabinet is a bit of a concern but there are some complete muppets in the current cabinet such as Williamson and the damage is localised if significant.
All of which is a typically long winded lawyers way of agreeing that @Casino_Royale has hit the nail on the head. He is not a politician, he's actually a better person than that.
Yes, but it also illustrates the problem. Making people feel that you are merely disappointing rather than horrific gets you precisely zero votes - DavidL is not comsidering voting Labour although he sees no great difference in the front benches and if anything seems to prefer Starmer to Johnson. Thus replacing Corbyn with Starmer loses the interest of left-wingers (although perhaps not their votes) without gaining votes from people like DavidL.
Being respected is a good starting point, but you need some positive appeal too. If you don't mind being a sample, David, what would make you actually vote Labour?
bigjohnowls Posts: 17,888
Lab Conference Arrangements Committee shows a majority of party members who can be bothered to vote are still supporting Socialist Candidates
Cue 43k new expulsions
CAC CLP representatives election results:
CHANDWANI Seema – 42,844 – ELECTED
HAYES Billy – 39,486 – ELECTED
TATLER Shama – 33,865
WIMBURY Mary – 36,593
We've always been at war with Eastasia?
@mrstrangefact
Genghis Khan and his empire cooled the earth. After killing 40 million people, vast areas of farmland were reclaimed by forests, removing 700 million tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
https://twitter.com/mrstrangefact/status/1426482931418255362
FF43 Posts: 13,107
The Scottish concept of nation goes back 1000 years and has been fixed more or less on current borders for most of that time. There are few nations in Europe with that consistency of nationhood. England is one of the rare other ones.
It is a mistake to see the Scottish debate about independence in terms of nationalism. 80% of Scots are nationalists, including many Unionists. The debate is about where Scotland's interest and destiny lie: as part of a United Kingdom or as an independent state.
You are mentally deranged
Denmark has had an excellent pandemic I think.
Broadly have kept schools open
Lowish death toll
High vaccine uptake
High testing
Restrictions phased out sensibly.
The voters seem pretty happy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_Danish_general_election
A religious zealot into the bargain, have you any redeeming features.
Exactly. Which he had to pay for.
NickPalmer said:
I cannot see myself voting LAB in 2024 if still led by this useless nonentity
Stockholm syndrome, many are institutionalised and brainwashed.
To be fair, Mr Seal is not threatening to invade. Which is a big improvement on some PBers.
FF43 said:
It is a mistake to see the Scottish debate about independence in terms of nationalism. 80% of Scots are nationalists. The debate is about where Scotland's interest and destiny lie: as part of a United Kingdom or as an independent state.
There are indeed few nations in Europe with that consistency of nationhood. The same could be said of the Eastern Roman Empire/Byzantium between roughly 143BCE and 1453CE. Scotland will likely become independent but what happens then is up for grabs, it could last until the heat death of the universe, or it could be shorter lived. But it will end - everything does. England too.
Does the Scots concept really go back that far? The Northern Isles, for a start were Scandinavian until medieval times, and I would have thought the linguistic differences would have counted against it. However, I'm willing to be told, and of course the Lord of the Isles was a Scottish nobleman quite early.
I'm not even a unionist FFS.
You are right. I am but a lowly sinner, as are we all, with nothing to offer but love Malc, nothing but love.
It was a generic point though Morris Dancer suggested Defund the Police. If not the opposite, it definitely over simplifies (more than a slogan would anyway) the aim in a misleading way, and some have definitely whinged about the confusion rather than addressing it.
To be honest I don't think society wide measures are viable with Delta. It is too infectious, and people have no stomach for it any longer.
The occupation of ICU by so many antivaxxers is going to be a major drag on NHS recovery plans though. It isn't about money. We cannot staff ICU by other means. I expect further staff departures as a form of attrition.
RochdalePioneers Posts: 15,393
Because like most of the hard left your enemy is the Labour Party. If you are a Labour party member then voting Labour shouldn't even be a question.
Truly, the destruction of the Khwarazmian empire was an act of love.
Perhaps a supervolcano could erupt to cool the earth for a year or two as well.
1231 for the Scots aristocrats to take over the Northern Isles; 1471 for formal annexation.
The English border was however stable once the Debatable Lands were divided ca 1530, but nobody cared much about them, and there was also that football field on the Tweed. That's about it.
(Nobody seems to have answered my questionm about the 1972 change: it was the annexation of Rockall.)
Mainland Scots is quite strongly cognate with Danish anyway though the Norwegian (Norn) survived till quite late in the Northern Isles and of course the Scots spoken there is still full of grammatical and word survivors.
Lord of the Isles was on the western side - though that was also Viking influenced: Sudreyar = Southern Isles = Hebrides, hence Sodor and Man (and ultimately Thomas the T. Engine, somehow).
You're not telling us that Twitter's got something right?
Ha ha, not an issue that would trouble you old mucked 😂😂😂😂
Not long ago did a WEA Zoom course on Icelandic Sagas and Ketill Flatnose was a significant character.
Moving house to Morningside? But that is a detail qualification: the wider principle stands, so I look forward to hearing the man himself.
I have a very soft spot for the Orkneymens' Saga myself.
The govt slashing costs of PCR tests by 20%.
https://twitter.com/sajidjavid/status/1426446910609629186?s=21
JosiasJessop Posts: 27,036
Speaking for myself, I have no problem with the concept of voting for Labour (or the Lib Dems, or Conservatives...) Leaving aside the quality of local candidates, what matters is the party, and that thrives or rots from its head. That is as true for Labour as it is the Conservatives.
IMO Starmer appears a little grey - but then so was Major. He also has the disadvantage of being a lawyer - a section of the populace less regarded than tax exiles. (runs for cover).
His big issue is that I have little idea what he stands for, aside from not being Corbyn. It must be very hard time to be opposition leader during an event like Covid, but it's also a good opportunity to build a policy platform and start selling it to the nation. I'm really not seeing that.
I'm far from convinced that he has the ability to promote such a platform (which Corbyn did), and I'm unconvinced there are enough A-list stars in the shadow cabinet to do it, either. Rayner, perhaps.
So I'd love to see more of the big picture from Starmer. His vision. For him to forget everything the government's doing wrong, and to see his vision for the country in ten and twenty years time.
Concepts of nationality and nationalism across Europe are very different now to what they were. A lot of people had only a very dim idea of what country they were in at the turn of the 2nd millennium. The only visible connection with central government in vast areas were heads on coins and most saw precious few of those. It took the printing press and the expansion of literacy to allow today's recognisable concepts of national identity to take place. Now the biggest revolution in communication since the printing press, the Internet, is tearing them back down again.
The Battle of Largs in 1263 pushed the Norwegians out of the West coast - their hold was tenuous for some time before that. Since then Scotland has lost Berwick, its main port in mediaeval times, and gained Orkney and Shetland. Fairly minor adjustments compared with today's borders, except for people living there of course.
Like everywhere else, Scotland was a feudal state in the Middle Ages. The modern idea of nationalism probably dates to the Wars of Independence and specifically the Declaration of Arbroath in 1320. That remarkable document isn't quite what it seems at face value however. It was a piece of Brucian propaganda designed to shore up the position of a usurper on grounds of his competence in serving Scotland's national interest.
I shouldn't think any of the Scot Nat posters will care but, for the record..
I'm against Scottish independence because I like the UK. It's the country I feel I've always lived in, and it's a special one because we get to be English/Scottish/Welsh/Irish, or a mix, as well or instead if we want. But I'm not particularly attached to that, and would wish an independent Scotland well while supporting constructive engagement between Scot/RUK governments and people.
I can easily imagine that if I were born, raised and living in Scotland, I might be an independence supporter. For much the same reasons that I supported Brexit as a Brit.
I sometimes enjoy the banter on here over the divide, but sometimes it just seems to get unnecessarily nasty. I don't know if there's really anything in that, or if it's just down to my mood on reading it.
Please play nicely
MattW Posts: 11,717
One for @NickPalmer .
Nick, what is your current view on the UK-Australia Trade Deal?
I thought it had gone quiet - no press coverage - then I picked up from Which that there seems to be a firm commitment to exclude hormone treated beef, and a chapter in the agreement on animal welfare, which seems to have received no coverage outside the specialist press.
Which Link:
https://www.which.co.uk/news/2021/07/five-changes-the-uk-australia-trade-deal-could-make-to-your-food-finances-and-data-rights/
Parliamentary Report:
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9204/
Do you have any knowledge as to where we are on this?
Aberdonian dialect. I lived there for 7 years from University. I have to admit it took me a while to retune my ear. I've never lost it though.
JosiasJessop said:
I'd like to see that from someone, anyone. I am convinced this Government is a complete shower, I don't need anyone to tell me that, I need to be able to buy into a future vision.
I thought the Great British Public were not allowed to know any details.
On topic: I can't see any way that Starmer/Labour can win the next general election. However, I can see several ways that Johnson/Tories can lose it. If Labour won most seats, but not an overall majority, I think they would be more likely to try and operate a minority government, than to try to form a coalition with the SNP or any other party, except possibly the Lib Dems and Greens.
Back off topic, like most of the rest of you: You are all welcome in Scotland, and will still be welcome in an Independent Scotland, as long as you don't want to tour the North Coast 500 in a motorhome. https://www.thenational.scot/news/19509224.nc500-motorhome-hire-company-urges-customers-avoid-route/. I would also recommend you to avoid Glasgow on September 18, unless you enjoy the company of thousands of aggressive, drunken bigots who will assault you if you try to cross the road. Thankfully, I will be on holiday in Yorkshire on that day. https://news.stv.tv/west-central/thousands-to-march-through-glasgow-as-34-orange-walks-planned?top
Furryboots are ye noo?
As a native speaker of Estuary, I had a similar problem in Sunderland.
Ah that one. It makes sense in America - people know what it means there - but it doesn't make the journey over here too well.
DecrepiterJohnL Posts: 11,292
Decades ago.
https://news.sky.com/story/nicola-sturgeons-sister-gillian-charged-over-alleged-domestic-incident-12381112
In other news, England have avoided the follow-on.
RochdalePioneers said:
Useless nonentities do not win GEs
Useless nonentities like RLB /SKS do not win GEs
Its not a factional thing its a useless nonentity thing.
KOTN types stand a chance of winning a GE
i dinna ken, fit like's yer loon?
Aberdonian in a shoe shop "Fit fit fits fit fit".
Sunil_Prasannan Posts: 39,070
Nope, Unionist parties still win more votes than Nationalists in NI and Antrim will never accept rule by Dublin.
BTW Tyrone and Fermanagh both had Nationalist AND Catholic majorities at the time of partition.
1918 Election:
Tyrone total vote:
Nat 54.6%
Uni 45.4%
Fermanagh total vote:
1911 Census:
Tyrone 55.4% Catholic
Fermanagh 56.2%
True in that North Sea Oil money was used as a magic money tree to hide the Thatcher government's economic policy failures. But less useful today because Nicola Sturgeon does not have a Tardis to go back to 1980 and set up a sovereign wealth fund like Norway's.
Chavvin' awa..
On the other hand, I am sitting on a sun-burned rooftop bar in Athens, eating prawn Saganaki salad, drinking cold Pirik beer, and staring right at the Acropolis, with the deep blue Med beyond. So there's that
Ken Loach expelled from Labour this morning
Ken Loach & Sixteen Films
@KenLoachSixteen
'Labour HQ finally decided I'm not fit to be a member of their party, as I will not disown those already expelled. Well...' KL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8txQMIxKIk
Interesting. Never knew that. Used to drink there regularly before catching my train home when I used to work down there. Thanks.
What's the difference between a Scotsman and Walt Disney?
A Scotsman wears a kilt and Walt Disnae!
There's also a Doric Tavern right next to Waverley Station in Edinburgh - been there a few times. Not sure if it means Scotland generally or the route to the NE!
Did you get to commune with any more ancient philosophers?
And yet you're on PB nevertheless? That's commitment. Or something.