I don’t know much about coffee, but might be able to help with your PID tuning, I’ve worked on thermal systems for 20yrs.

Turn off the I and D terms, increase the P value until the temperature is steady, then decrease it until the temperature starts to oscillate. Record the Proportional term and the period of oscillation (in seconds).

Now set the terms to;
Proportional = Proportional * 1.75
Integral = 0.5 * period of oscillation
Derivative = 0.1 * period of oscillation

I hope that helps, for more info have a search for the Ziegler–Nichols method.

All of the people we know that are ‘rich’ have inherited property. We know one couple who between them inherited 6 houses before they were both 25, they’re doing OK!!!

I have a cross beagle spaniel. 75% beagle.

We do too, and have experienced all of the negative behaviours above. Rolling in, and eating poo is probably the most disgusting habit. The bin has been emptied so many times and as a pup she was at the vets a lot due to eating stuff she shouldn’t (roll of insulation tape, box of chocolates etc..) so get insurance. She can open doors and the fridge, and jump on the kitchen worktop so the kitchen has to be locked when we go out. Prey drive is pretty strong too, as a pup she would chase rabbits until she was exhausted.

On the plus side, she is really easy to train because she’ll do anything for food. Is incredibly affectionate and we don’t have to empty the kittens litter tray!

The 87mm dimensions is reference only. But because the connecting line between the 72 and 35 radius curves is tangential to both, if you dimension the vertical ends of that line 26 and 18 respectively it fully constrains the profile. You don’t need to know the horizontal position of the curve/tangent intersection.

IANAL, but yes, the child will qualify for dual citizenship unless Begums (British) citizenship was withdrawn before it was born. Basically under Dutch and British law, citizenship is passed down by the parents. I assume that one (or both) of Begums parents have been granted British citizenship or qualified for settled status before she was born.

Then there is the child, which is also British. It has effectively been sentenced too.

The child is Dutch as well as British,

“A person born on or after 1 January 1985 to a Dutch father or mother (afstamming) is automatically a Dutch national at birth (van rechtswege). It is irrelevant where the child is born.”

Bought my daughter a UE Wonderboom which is pretty good. Enough volume for a portable, battery life is good and it’s waterproof for when she drops it in the bath.

Pierre Victoire, Malmaison or The Pint Shop in town. The Perch or The Fishes if you want to go out of town by the river.

Do they make good trail dogs?

I would say no, they can and will run for hours but they will stop dead if there is anything that they think is edible on the side of the trail (or any fox poo to roll in)

The are very food driven as well. It helps with training to a certain extent but you will never eat a bacon sandwich alone again! Any food left on kitchen worktops will vanish and kitchen bins become redundant because they will just turf it all out to get at a discarded fragment of chicken wing.

This one contains an overview of training and nutrition;

I found it quite a good read.

I did my first marathon after 15 years of not running on the “FIRST” training plan, 3 runs a week and cycling as cross training on the other days. 80:20 running has the option to substitute running with cross training as well.

But as mentioned, how are you getting a London place, ballot and GFA entries have closed for 2018.

When the flow detaches you get the area of negative pressure (what twisty is trying to eliminate with his fairing) which causes a lot of the drag

Yeah, but the OP is talking about long aspect ratio fairings (7:1) which work great in laminar situations, but the flow is unlikely to be laminar at the fairing. Something a lot blunter would maybe help. I’m thinking of the ‘dip’ in cylinder drag that happens around Re=10^5 where a stable narrow turbulent wake is developed.

Managing a 35km commute in Singapore is impressive, It can’t be possible to live much further away from work can it?

When I’ve got a bit of time I’ll try to set up some kind of CFD before I start carving out shapes in polystyrene. Although punching a bigger hole than a recumbent it is also a messier hole to reattach which may affect practical gains.

It’s an interesting project – but there are a lot of variables and unless you have a lot of data you’ll struggle to validate any of the results. Reynolds number is quite low, but from the bars backwards things get messy with legs moving etc. So I would expect a lot of turbulence, the team Sky skinsuits that have dimples to initiate turbulent flow at the shoulders, which presumably helps due to the flow lower down being so messy. If the fairing gets too long you might just end up increasing skin drag. Also don’t forget to look into loading from side winds – it’s no good being 5mins faster on a good day if you’re being blown off the road when the winds coming from the wrong direction.

First thing would be to check if there are any fish there!

Then you need to do is check the permit – it could be fly only.

I would serious re-consider on the standard USB cable requirement. My last 2 Polar watches both had standard USB connectors and in both cases it was the USB socket in the watch which led to their demise. Water/sweat gets trapped inside the socket and they corrode.

And another HR user here – mainly for easy runs where I have an upper limit, but also useful for tempo runs off-road in the mud or when it’s hilly so pace is hard to judge.

It’s because of latent sexist attitudes in society that see women’s sport as inferior. People don’t watch it because it’s not on, it’s not billed the same, standards are lower because there’s less money in it because it’s not on and it’s not watched as much. Little girls have to struggle to find sporting role models and to compete in high quality competitions. You don’t see little boys short of sporting role models do you?

Speaking as a father of a ‘sporty’ girl I honestly think this is complete bollocks. It’s nothing to do with “sexist attitudes” it’s inferior because it is – not because of money, billing or how many people are watching it, it’s because women aren’t as good at any given sport – look at the record books and men are ~10% better across pretty much all sports. You can smash as much testosterone down female athletes and they can turn their phones off when the inspectors come knocking as much as they want but they simply aren’t as good as the men. And when it comes to pro sport if i’m paying to watch it, I want to be in awe, not watching performances that club athletes that I know can churn out.

They don’t have to struggle to compete in high quality competitions, my daughter has competed at international level in 2 different sports in the last few weeks and her best friend has competed in another 2, boys in her peer group have a much more competitive pool to beat to get anywhere close to that level.

And as for female role models: again, this is pure nonsense; there are plenty around, my daughter has posters of KJT, Simone Biles and Gabi Butler on her wall.

She’s young enough to be able to compete with her male peers (they’re YR6) which is why I had a group of them chasing me around the parkrun on Saturday with the aim of being the first one in their class to go <20 (2 girls and 2 boys did it out of the 7 FWIW) but ultimately she knows that even if she gets to Olympic standard for her chosen sport that ‘average’ men will beat her. It doesn’t make her achievements less worthy, but I can fully understand why people wouldn’t want to watch her.

North Uist: Head down to Kallin Shelfish, just pick what you want from langoustines, crab, lobster, as fresh as you can get and you won’t get better.The smoke house near to Clachan stores is really good as well.

I think they (AG2R) put the hammer down as a team, everything went their way (with Froome’s puncture) and when Froome and Landa rode back on they realised they couldn’t beat them, and without Estana being able to help out they realised it was game over – I thought it was a massive morale boost for Sky today.

Anything not to miss?

The fishing – unbelievable brown trout and sea trout fishing.

Not local to Manchester but I’ve had to be a club member of every track I’ve been to.

Maybe look into which club has sessions at your local track – membership is usually quite cheap

We’ve had one just over a year now, mainly canal use but it’s been in the sea a few times. Haven’t had any issues yet. They are a lot harder to paddle than a rigid one though.

I shared Aru’s frustration when the other guys pulled it back

He could have just cracked on himself – they just wouldn’t go through so he was just annoyed that nobody else would work with him.

To be honest I don’t think it would have been any different had Froome not had the mechanical, he was a major GC contender who put in a dig, Porte etc. shut it down and sat on him which is pretty much standard practice.

MTB: Yeti
Road: Most of the plastic bikes look alike really but I quite like the current Cervellos
Cross/Gravel: Niner apart from the steel one.

and probably metre sized jumps

Not for world cup ‘cross, max height of a feature is 40cm

I think you need to work out who the victim is.

I think you need to accept that the cyclist isn’t always the victim in these incidents – for sure they will pretty much always suffer the worst injuries, but that doesn’t mean they are always the victim (in a legal sense).

it gives me the impression you haven’t understood my argument at all.

I understand your argument completely – I just don’t agree with you.

irelanst » Except in this case the cyclist didn’t just put his fingers in an unguarded machine, he removed the guards, unlocked the isolator, bypassed the interlock
Nope – there was no guard, isolator or interlock – an example of one of those would be the 2nd observer.

There was, the cyclist made a number of deliberate decisions which put him into danger, filtering up the left turn only lane, sitting in the lorries blind spot at the lights, staying in the lorries blind spot as it pulled away, failure to indicate his intention to join the lorries lane and then attempting to force his way in front of a lorry. Whataboutery about glass
cabs and second observers are tantamount to victim blaming.

The absolute root cause of this incident was the behaviour of the cyclist, I have zero doubt about that (although I’m sure you’d blame the lorry driver for the guy riding along the pavement as well).

Unguarded machine tools – the operator was being an idiot putting his fingers in, all his fault?

Except in this case the cyclist didn’t just put his fingers in an unguarded machine, he removed the guards, unlocked the isolator, bypassed the interlock, unzipped his fly and chopped his old todger off.

Prior to the collision the cyclist made a series of poor decisions, if he’d reconsidered at any of those points then the collision wouldn’t have happened.

Worth checking if you would qualify for the 30% ruling (you then pay a flat rate of income tax of 30%) will make quite a saving over the normal Dutch rates (a bit higher rates than the UK).

will I be blown away by one

I would say “unlikely”. They are by definition a compromise, I ride mine a lot, but on most rides there are bits were a road bike would be better, others where a hardtail would be better. But I know I can grab my ‘gravel bike’ (it’s a cyclocross bike) and head out for 50 or 60 miles in the cotswolds and ride pretty much anything I see.

Murderer of innocents is all that needs to be said about his actions.

I don’t think it’s been confirmed that he’s killed anyone yet (not trying to defend his actions BTW)

We’ve used BT for the last 18 months, not really had any problems with it. I don’t really get the hate for the ‘box’ it’s pretty easy to use and everything seems to work OK.

Looks like some sort of filter to me.

I don’t think they should have waited, they had been riding all day to isolate TD and at the very point that they were going to really put the hammer down he pulled over for a break. If everyone waited then what happens the next time that TD is maybe struggling to hold the wheels, he pulls over for a phantom poo and they all have to sit up and wait for him to climb at his own pace? It was unfortunate for TD and might well cost him the Giro, but it wasn’t a racing incident.

That said, I don’t particularly want to see Nibbles or Quintana win so hope that TD can keep them within range for the TT.

Nice pics, now show me some weevils.

Well it’s one weevil

IMG_2201(2) by Irelanst[/url], on Flickr

Lapsteel and Binners, thoughts are with you and to anyone caught up in this, awful, cowardly act.

+1

Little miss irelanst got an uncomfortably long (for her) hug at the school gates this morning.

I attended a premier league fixture between 2 mid table teams.

Last day of the season, nothing to play for, probably just grinding out 90mins before jetting off somewhere nice with an underwear model for the summer.

I tie much more than fish these days but IMO small ‘put an take’ stillwaters are probably the easiest way in to fly fishing.

IMO It’s easy to get caught up in the mechanics of casting – sure you need to be able to get the flies in the water but you see so many people trying to put out a full line when the fish are much closer in.

My daughter’s best friend has something which sounds very similar at the moment. Docs initially thought is was viral, but now thinking it’s a form of eczema.

I’ve got an old Moto G (2nd Gen) that’s connected via bluetooth to my fenix all the time, I charge the phone every night but it’s very rare that the low battery warning appears.