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these look ok from 3 years ago, selling for about 500 used on ebay, maybe worth a punt from a seller with good feedback a new version is around 1500. Only suggested this model as it has a tablet style interface too. Or go back to basics and get a Rasberry Pi

I was being a grammar Nazi, being petty as papers is plural, I thought you should have used are https://www.grammarly.com/blog/is-vs-are/ Your point about confirmation bias is valid, there is probably a raft of research on how often researchers search for material to back up their own work, particularly if they are up for funding

re above comment - even people with 'some' experience can get the Darwin award, don't underestimate the dangers of conny bashing https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/tree-surgeons-haunting-text-message-11618912 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5124261/Father-two-tree-surgeon-36-fell-death.html

actually that may be wrong, sorry! It just didn' sound right -are enough papers, is enough papers

can confirm it's are for plural

an interesting thing nowadays is preprint servers -scientific research, not all of it, but certain areas, people are publishing stuff before it has been reviewed. The preprints are bound to contain many errors, but the scale of what is being done and instantly transmitted globally is amazing - the server below currently has over 2000 articles on Covid-19. So anyone working on something similar can take a trawl through the server and see what other people are coming up with. Many of the new developments in the news the journalists are looking through these servers for a scoop https://connect.medrxiv.org/relate/content/181?page=1

This is the spur, I'm going to buy the Schultz effect and look at SRT seriously while I have a bit more time. these guys climbing tutorials also worth checking fortunately they haven't yet started using saws

Clearly the government help is working for businesses with PAYE staff. It was in the news the other day gov had just 'employed' over a million people through the furlough scheme, so their employers didnt have to lay them off. However, crowdfunding does offer a chance of hitting the jackpot, I wish i could write a page so 50 million people give me a penny each. Tell them Im developing a cheap battery tool for car owners to change their own cam belts

Ah well we're getting into subjective judgements now. Each person can only give a penny to so many crowdfunders before they are queing at the food bank themselves.

From this table the number of people aged 18 and over in the UK in 2018 is projected to be 52,403,344 imagine 52 million times one pence, half a million quid out there somewhere

Cancer surgeon, suppose need a bit of light hearted gossip sometimes, cant always have your head buried in technical journals. Those sarcomas - no time to hang around waiting. Deadliest lumps known to mankind

I have been googling it, and saw the chinese, and italians had tried prednisolone or similar on covid patients, sort of improvising, while it knocks down the inflammation it also suppresses the immune system, so some of these patients take longer to clear the virus. I thought you may have shared some insight into the mechanisms involved

I remember you saying you were a consultant at your local hospital, maybe the modern ones talk like this. Or you're a lower grade NHS. You never replied to my question about what is known about treating Covid-19 associated atypical pneumonia with high dose steroids.

climb up the inside if its not littered up with bramble. Ladder to 20ft can help if resting safe and not going to snap out foliage you want to keep. I prefer goggles to mesh visor, seems less chance of something getting under. 200k worth of mechanised kit would trim those tops if theres access

I never know which button to press, blue or yellow

Hey Gimlet - what are your views on masturbation? I'd prefer an in depth reply if you can spare the time and dont find it a taboo subject. Any theories on long term effects? Why do some men only stay celibate and or wank, yet others are always with women? Is it genetic? Will wanking save the glaciers?

So what do you even mean kill the virus and corona ay the same time? You and Eggs - your posts are a bit like AI chat bots. Perhaps webmasters are investing in them to keep post count averages up

children of key workers still in school, key workers commuting, supermarket distancing a joke, flights still arriving without temperature checks on entry even so the daily hospital deaths hasn't been above a thousand yet, Nightingale hospital virtually empty.

That 1.8 trillion has built up over years of near zero interest rates - this one event, not just the bailouts and handouts, but the lost tax revenue is going to hit the public purse for gawd knows how much. North of half a trillion? Interest rates cant go lower, so the new thing every crisis is print

I thought I covered your questions in first post - to reiterate 1. any lockdown was going to nearly bankrupt the country - so the public needed to see significant hospital deaths recorded before they would believe it necessary 2 the graphs weren't included to look swanky - just to show the daily recorded positive tests aren't still climbing, nor is the hospital death rate. Do you honestly think the public would have put up with staying in and complete closure of all air and sea ports, shutting of non essential businesses without seeing a bit of blood in the streets first?

I think you two nailed it, saw a known specimen of amelanchier today(at least they knew the genus, but not the species or cultivar, called it serviceberry). The OP's one is a decent size, the one I photographed is hedgecuttered into a mushroom shape each year to allow light into a front window.

and you don't think the current government hasn't been through academia with a fine tooth comb looking for people who can at least partially understand these phenomena. Personally I don't think the advisers they have used either in government, or those in universities could have been any better. Remember all over the world scientists have been at odds over how to manage this. There are 3 main points 1 - lockdowns clearly slow the spread, the more complete the lockdown the better 2- shutting most of the economy for more than a few weeks may well cause more long term suffering than just letting people die and carrying on, with mass burials of those who don't make it. Putting financial strength and natural selection before compassion (hope they don't do this as I'm asthmatic and not looking forward to atypical pneumonia). The thing is the financial impact of the lockdown will suck wealth from the many to save the few who wouldn't survive the disease. We do this because we are compassionate. 3 - related to point 2, and very much realating to your point about hiring the best experts is the idea of herd immunity, now this is something nearly all experts agree on, but how to go about it is where they differ. I suppose a vaccine is artifical herd immunity, but it doesn't yet exist. Look at todays graph from the Uk gov Covid 19 dashboard, the government has listened to the best people and tried very hard to discriminate the relevant information. Chris Witty and his colleagues in the medical schools and universities have served us well - it's looking under control Sure a total lockdown a month earlier, including sea and land ports would have saved lives, but without significant hospital deaths being reported there would have been low acceptance of infringement of civil liberty and shuttering almost the entire economy. Just look at those charts - that is success, not failure. I say well done to all. No one alive has had to deal with shit like this before, so don't expect the PM to get every last detail right. Surely even an ex drug user would agree Boris is miles better than Trump? I know even my partially distorted reformed druggie brain can see that Boris is pretty good at this crisis. And in the past I've voted Labour, Green and Conservative. It would have been Conservative again before Christmas, but I had a broken ankle and it was a done deal so I put my feet up and abstained.

This on the BBC too, pro immigration propaganda, of course people in the building trades dont want to feel guilty about ruining the countryside, they are just meeting a demand caused by pro immigration government policy. Maybe Twig wouldnt mind some of the vast expanses of land within 50 miles of him to be turned into Legoland to house half a million immigrants. There's plenty of room here right? Boost the economy. Jobs for the boys. If net migration stays above 200k every single year, like it has for nearly twenty years that should keep a few brickies busy. Its all about trying not to feel guilty about economic growth. Vast acres gone and Barrat shareholders clapping like mad.

you said before about spending some of your time driving - surely you must have seen vast swathes of new builds that were open countryside in your younger days? The article states the obvious - that the Scottish highlands are still relatively unspoiled. If the 10% figure for England is correct it must mean the best 10% has gone, leaving a few flood plains, remote hill tops and boggy marshes we haven't ruined yet. Hey what a boon it would be for the building trade if we tried to turn for example Lyme Regis into this

I suppose seeing as you've emigrated you have to be a bit pro free movement of people - my mum has been in France for 30 years, can't have a rant to her about immigration, at least can't get her to see we are crowding them in like sardines now. Your map was taken in the good old days of the world - where land was plentiful. It's hard to imagine the world population was only about a quarter of what it is today after World War 1. I say the British were guilty of crimes against humanity in the expansionist phase - but that doesn't mean we shouldn't fight to keep our Island from being overcrowded now - there is no room for compassion when we are destroying so much of our countryside to make way for new housing. You want to go build enough houses to keep all these new people? Absolute crying shame what's happening to our once beautiful land Net migration to the UK, the difference between immigration and emigration, was estimated to be 258,000 in 2018. This is down from a peak of 336,000 in the year ending June 2016, just before the EU referendum each year another quarter of a million come over the picture above spreads out across our beautiful land like a cancer