TaxPayers’ Alliance Bulletin – 16 December 2011 Every now and again we hear stories of people who have done something so awful – either in the office or outside of work – that their employer is forced to consider whether they can still be kept on in their job. When that employer is a local [...]
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Up to ten times or twelve? We tackled twelve times a bit later. Also, why must government decide? What kind of primary teacher does not teach numeracy anyway? Where are the parents in all this?
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[Quick note from JH - JD usually does the Christmas programme at N.O. Dearieme will be tomorrow, Saturday 17th, then Wednesday 21st and Wednesday 28th.]
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Appropriate for a day of snow. Today was superb – not too cold, the snow lightly falling, albeit wettishly, a bit of spare time, darkness for most of the day as the night draws in early but the magic is only for a short time, sadly. Here is a reminder of it:
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Two mathematicians walk into in a bar. The first one says to the second that the average person knows very little about basic mathematics. The second one disagrees, and claims that most people can cope with a reasonable amount of math. The first mathematician goes off to the washroom, and in his absence the second [...]
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When I can do more justice to this in an article for OoL, I’ll post there but meanwhile, on the run, Churchmouse’s piece on the defecation within St Pauls needs to be publicized: Senior Anglican clerics are quiet on the matter. After all, only last week the spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion — the [...]
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Laura Dekker is on the home stretch. Having travelled east to west the hard way, she’s left Capetown and is now out of the worst of the wind heading north up the Atlantic. Why is she succeeding [touch wood] and why did Jessica Watson succeed where Abby Sunderland did not?
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Were you ever into model trains or trainsets?
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There appear to be a number of Blogger/Google comments forms but for those fellow blogger readers who do happen to venture this way and are not miffed by my non-commenting, may I bring it to your attention that if you run this sort of comment form below: … then that’s why I haven’t commented for [...]
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The purpose in running this was to find out more from readers. Having come very late to the issue, which no doubt you’ve seen and have your opinion on, I’m still on the fence over it. It began by me watching a series and this episode came up. Up to this point, the young Scot [...]
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“We just have to stop the lesser from breeding. Let’s cap the population at 8.3 billion.”
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….for James
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UPDATE: Eureka – unexpected postponement until Monday. Get some of the other jobs done and get around the blogs. There are issues – the required reading for the course and I’m behind, with an assessment tomorrow, the other work things which are piling up, BT redefining my contract today and making something happen which logs [...]
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You are on a Horse, galloping at a constant speed. On your right side is a sharp drop off, and on your left side is an Elephant traveling at the same speed as you. Directly in front of you is a galloping Kangaroo and your horse is unable to overtake it. Behind you is a [...]
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When Chuckles sent me this, I was always going to probably select examples other than what he would have selected. My top dozen are below [of those on display - they left out the recent AMs]. Now he is welcome to do a post with his top dozen, of course. In no particular order: Jaguar [...]
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This post speaks of Groupon but is not specifically about that company – it’s about the philosophy, the idea. The reason I’m interested is because I was exploring doing similar in the local area. Here are two takes on the issue – firstly, Drew’s Eatery: As many have pointed out, Groupon and other daily deal [...]
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Can’t think of anything interesting to say about it so other folk can do that: http://www.businesslive.co.za/southafrica/2011/11/28/rain-death-and-retreat-cop17-off-to-dreary-start http://akhaart.blogspot.com/2011/12/well-delusional-freakfest-cop17-is.html http://www.wonkie.com/2011/12/11/cop17-huge-success-for-global-warming/ http://www.nortonrose.com/knowledge/publications/58837/blog-un-climate-change-negotiations-durban-november-2011 This is the sort of thing they went to Durban for: However, the parties were only able to “take note of” the quantified economy-wide emission reduction targets to be implemented by Parties and of the intention [...]
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It’s probably been obvious that I haven’t been “present” as much and that’s because of a hell of a lot of reading in two spheres – the RL course I’m doing which is approximating a student load of online reading, coupled with a fair amount of material coming my way which I’m trying to keep [...]
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… colourfully:
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… just to save you some time like. My mother wasn’t overtly racist as far as I could see although I did hear her once refer to someone with a tan as having “a touch of the chocolate there” and I did have a golliwog as a young boy. Noddy and Big Ears was our [...]
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Obama’s inauguration: President Obama took the oath of office Tuesday outside the Capitol, as millions watched in person and on TV. He took it again Wednesday night — this time in the privacy of the White House, with only a few aides and reporters looking on.
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….so it is time we had some more!
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It’s a time of peace, when we can put aside our woes for the moment and relax with others, when our homes are warm or we can rug up, where we turn into our families and friends for a cup of good cheer, where beauty abounds.
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How much evidence is required? In another blow to star of the Coalition’s “digital economy” strategy, Netflix has decided to base its European HQ in Luxembourg, not “TechCity”. Although Netflix is using the UK to spearhead its UK expansion – launching its video-on-demand streaming service here first next year – it will instead be “joining [...]
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Regarding the UK serious danger of “underspend” of £1m pounds of taxpayers’ money: “I don’t suppose we could do inward investment stuff, could we? Could we use it for our leadership conference? Perhaps to provide funds for all of our staff to go out and visit companies and do promotional events…?”
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