The research points to a very quick reduction in co2 emissions from humans.

Point us to the research, then.

ninfan, I asked for the data and instead you’ve given me a conspiracy theory. You should post your bold ideas (without evidence) over here, or here[/url], or here[/url], or here[/url].

Good luck.

Link to the data then, and why that stops supporting the hypothesis that increased atmospheric CO2 is influencing global climate.

You’re in even more trouble if the data stops supporting the experts/science

Good job that’s not happening then!

The BBC video explains exactly why Antarctic sea ice is increasing in a warming world, namely:

* stronger winds creating more areas of open ocean to form ice in
* higher fresh water influx from increased melting of the Antarctic [land] ice sheet, creating greater stratification in the Southern Ocean, therefore less vertical transfer of heat from the deep ocean (i.e. the top layer of the Southern Ocean is getting colder and fresher, therefore easier to freeze)

You can read more, if you’re interested, here: http://www.skepticalscience.com/antarctica-gaining-ice-intermediate.htm

There’s an afternoon of talks about “Data Science” on 3rd November in Ednburgh, if anyone’s interested. Unis deal with huge datasets on a regular basis 🙂

http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-of-the-epsrc-centre-for-doctoral-training-in-data-science-registration-13325592205

Yeah I found it challenging my thoughts on how risky my commute is!

And indeed anything off the Show and Tell album: http://www.allmusic.com/album/show-tell-a-stormy-remembrance-of-tv-themes-mw0000236617

Ta gents. I’m not actually involved in this (I’m at Edinburgh Uni), but just helping out a pal!

Just because the vote was 45/55 you can’t say the media didn’t have a major influence.

Nor can you say it did. Anything about media influence is speculation, unless there’s a survey of media consumption vs voting habits. Is there?

In a world where many (most) people don’t bother to do their own research, the media has enormous power.

If the coverage was so biased, and the media wield so much power, then why was the vote not representative of this? Perhaps because traditional media outlets aren’t as powerful as you’re assuming?

I’m 34 and have been recommended for an entire penile skin graft. To be sure, I’m not looking forward to it 🙁

I’ve seen photos tonight from Northumberland, Aberdeenshire (Bennachie + Stonehaven) and Shetland, and heard report of some showing near Dunbar.

The bell really sets it off nicely.

you can feel stretching and pressure in the gut but you can pinch, cut, or burn the intestines without generating a pain signal. the sensors are limited and imprecise so its not the same as the skin. IBS is as far as I know an electrial issue with the nerves found within the gut. not all nerves are pain receptors.

Interesting, thanks! But still doesn’t mean that shoving a camera up your colon is going to be free of pain 😉

There are no pain receptors in the colon

I don’t believe this is true, since people with IBD can experience a lot of pain in their bowels, and getting a colonoscopy or sigmoidoscopy is certainly not a pain free procedure for many people.

I’ve had two colonoscopies (and a bunch of sigmoidoscopies under a general anesthetic) and both were extremely uncomfortable, even with the sedation I had. Not convinced I had been given enough, though, and I know you can ask for more if it’s unbearable.

Is this helpful?

To test the FinePix HS30 EXR’s continuous shooting performance I fitted it with a formatted 8GB Sandisk Extreme UHS-1 card. Set to the full resolution 8fps continuous mode it fires a burst of six frames marginally faster than the quoted 8fps rate. Set to the fastest 11fps mode it fired off a burst of 13 8 Megapixel images at close to 12 frames per second. So a good performance slightly better than Fujifilm’s quoted speeds but the short burst rates, even at the lower resolution will allow the capture of only very short action sequences of around a second or so. With the UHS-1 card, the full buffer takes just under 10 seconds to clear, slightly faster than with a Speed class 10 card, which takes almost 12 seconds.

From: http://www.cameralabs.com/reviews/Fujifilm_FinePix_HS30_EXR/

I am sure there will be plenty of pics online after the event ?

Yeah, you wonder why photographers bother, really, what with everyone else taking their pictures for them…

Hmmm, interesting ideas!

Yeah, I’m not after a photo rucksack. More like a normal pack, which will take a camera. I know I can just buy a bag for the camera and use any backpack, but wondered how other folk did it.

Cheers anyway!

I wouldn’t take lecturing on the morality of paying taxes seriously from anyone who’s posting here on company time 😉

I’ve never been stopped at Customs on my return to the UK, from anywhere. In fact, after passport control, the Customs stations are deserted!

I used these guys: http://www.spaceshipsrentals.co.nz/, although I see they don’t do pickup/dropoff in Queenstown… They did me a mega deal last year, but it was off season so probably why ($25 per day all-in).

I went whale watching, Milford Sound, penguins, steampunk, flights over the Alps on the south island. All great, I don’t think you can go wrong, really. I ended up on the north island too, did both in 18 days or so.

http://kitcarruthers.wordpress.com/2013/09/26/sun-sea-and-steampunk-in-new-zealand/

That’s why you need a “cycling specific” tweed blazer.

If it’s as durable, smell-resistant, comfortable, and sweat-wicking as my old merino top at the same price, then they might be on to a winner 😀

It’s all very well wearing nice clothes to cycle and work in…unless you live in a hilly place, then the last thing I’d want it to be sweating buckets inside a tweed blazer before festering in it in an office for the next 8 hrs!

I had two people yesterday tell me I needed a bell…I was unfailingly polite to everyone I needed to pass, but apparently this counts for nothing. I was thinking about getting one of those boxing bells on the handlebars 😀

A First Bus spokesman said the firm would be launching an investigation into the ?accident.

Indeed, like how they accidentally managed to train one of their drivers to avoid cyclists, instead of driving as close to them as physically possible. Like normal.

Aye, connecting through the web and the mobile apps. Connects fine over the local LAN using the IP address.

High Street Fringe by Ginger F0x[/url], on Flickr

I went 2 years ago. To be honest, I don’t know if you can go far wrong anywhere you go! Be prepared to do lots and see lots of totally random things in Japan.

I was in Kyoto for a week for a conference in November i.e. autumn. The best bits of Kyoto are around the edges e.g. the Fushimi Inari Shrine (“1,000 Torii gates), Ginkakuji (Silver Pavilion), any of the gardens, etc. Did a saki tasting in a wee back street bar run by an Israeli and one dat took 4 trains, a cable car and a bus to visit a thousand year old mountain cemetery (Okuno-in)!

Prayer space by Ginger F0x[/url], on Flickr

Bright mystery food 1 by Ginger F0x[/url], on Flickr

Popular transport by Ginger F0x[/url], on Flickr

Impressive sand sculpture by Ginger F0x[/url], on Flickr

Then headed on the Shinkansen (bullet train) to Hiroshima, which I loved. It’s got a great feel to the place and because of the memorial park in the centre, the city doesn’t feel so crowded as other places I visited. We stayed with the World Friendship Centre (http://homepage2.nifty.com/wfchiroshima/), which is a ryokan style guesthouse, and they organised for us to have a (free) 1hr guided tour of the Peace Park and to meet a hibakusha (A-bomb survivor) called Kiyomi. It was a…memorable…experience (I wrote a blog about her http://kitcarruthers.wordpress.com/2014/01/29/hiroshima-kiyomis-story/) which I’d highly recommend, although take some tissues! While we were in Hiroshima (24hrs!) we also made it to Miyajima island, which was pretty cool! Fed squid to deer, got a cablecar and ended up walking down the hill in the pitch dark before having a “curry” back in Hiroshima.

View over the bay to the mainland by Ginger F0x[/url], on Flickr

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park 4 by Ginger F0x[/url], on Flickr

Shinkansen to Nara, which has one of the largest buddah’s in the world, and one of the largest wooden structures in the world (Todai-ji), plus a nice park with “sacred” deer.

Careful now! by Ginger F0x[/url], on Flickr

Ended up in Tokyo for a few days. It’s an incredible place. I thought it was a worth a visit, but then I’d wanted to go there since I was a teenager, so it was almost a pilgrimage for me. Especially going to Akihabara! Stayed in a capsule hotel for a night, which was like a big male-only hostel.

Mout Fuji over Tokyo by Ginger F0x[/url], on Flickr

Suidobashi Heavy Industries Kuratas mech 2 by Ginger F0x[/url], on Flickr

Sushi breakfast by Ginger F0x[/url], on Flickr

Panorama 1 from Roppongi Tower by Ginger F0x[/url], on Flickr

Top tip: you can buy a rail pass (http://www.seat61.com/Japan) which you have to buy before you go, and it gets you free travel on any JR (Japan Rail) transport, not just trains. So for example, it covered all our bullet trains (3), all the above-ground trains in Japan operated by JR (i.e. most you’ll ever need), plus we used it to get a train out to the ferry terminal for Miyajima AND it got us free travel on the ferry. It saved us maybe £200.

Food is pretty varied, from noodle soups to deep fried anything to sushi and sashimi (raw fish) to Western food to Japanese curries and so on. If you’re not scared of trying something that you have no idea what’s in it then you’ll be fine. Expect to eat lots of rice and drink lots of tea, and be constantly amused at hot coffee in a can vending machines everywhere. I’m a ceoliac, so it was a bit more restrictive for me, but most restaurants have either a menu with photos of everything or plastic models, so you get a good idea of what you’re ordering!

We were mostly in big towns and cities, so language was a not a problem on the whole. Never once struggled, but a friend went to more rural places and they spoke no English, but still got on fine. They’re very willing to help.

Culture is, odd, I’m sure you’re aware. I found it delightful, mostly, but their attitudes to women can be pretty bad. Careful which bit of the comic book store you walk into, for example…

I got myself a Rough Guide to Japan before I went and found it a good source of things to do, plus Tripadvisor for accommodation, and the Japan Guide page is really really helpful http://www.japan-guide.com/

If I remember rightly, I was not able to use my pre-paid Mastercard over there, except to withdraw cash from 7-Eleven cash machines (the only ones I found that would accept an international card) so you should bear that in mind. And it is expensive! I can’t remember prices, but I spent probably £100 a day on cheap accommodation, food, entry prices etc., and not including the rail pass and a SIM card.

Ah, so jealous of you! It’s amazing 🙂

I loved the irony of a real stone worktop inside a fake stone ‘mountain’ 🙂

Ex-bike

Car Park Cove by Ginger F0x[/url], on Flickr

Thanks for the update.

Yeti ASR5 by Ginger F0x[/url], on Flickr

Fiji 1 by Ginger F0x[/url], on Flickr

Shared on Facebook, will keep an eye out.

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Have mine at 140mm and it can be a little difficult to keep down on steep stuff, but then I have a few spacers under the stem too, and I’m out of practice. Realistically, is 10mm going to make much difference?