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Which Two Options Do You Want to See Most?
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This is very interesting. I'm looking to get a Razer Phone 3 this year which I hope adds a headphone jack. As a gamer, one of the most important features for me is having a strong audio quality for both speakers and headphones. The other is cooling so my device can perform better and last longer. With that in mind, my vote goes to the Dolby Audio Gaming Sound Profiles and Gaming Optimizer.
Also, it would be great to see more games support the 120Hz display.
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FPS toggle for each game and Dolby enhancements for sure from me.
I'd also personally like to see game booster get themed with the Razer Theme store themes. I know when it first launched it was able to show the wallpaper but that seems to have been removed.
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I saw a reddit post with a chroma keyboard working, would love to see that added officially.
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play with the razer wolverine !
Some of the most important parts for me when playing a game would be good audio quality and good graphics, even when playing on phone.
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Same reason I still did not buy Razer phone, only cause headphone jack.
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FPS displayed would be a cool thing, but it still has to be a best performance working type of game.
Glad to see others in support for better audio quality through Dolby Audio. It's something that I feel is missing in a lot of phones especially with the trend of removing the headphone jack. It would be disappointing to see Razer neglect audio quality when they own THX.
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The cause of a "loud bang" that sparked an evacuation at Bluewater has been revealed.
One person suffered minor injured and shoppers were said to be "running and screaming" at the Greenhithe shopping centre, according to numerous posts on social media, after two fire alarms went off just after 3.20pm on Saturday.
The alarm was triggered due to a problem with a cooking appliance at Nando's.
A Kent Police spokesperson: "A loud bang caused many shoppers to rush to leave the building and there is a report of one person being injured.
Eyewitnesses claimed some shoppers shouted "bomb" during the evacuation, sparking panic amongst shoppers.
One witness described the incident as "the most terrifying experience of our lives", writing: "Sitting with kids in the food court at Bluewater when we hear the loudest bang, fire alarms start going off with an evacuation announcement over the tannoy system.
"The sheer panic on people's faces was awful. Food thrown everywhere, shopping left everywhere, baby prams tipped over, people literally running away fearing for their lives.
A spokesperson from Secamb confirmed one ambulance was sent to the incident, but "was only at the scene for a couple of minutes".
A Bluewater spokesperson said: "An alarm was triggered on Saturday at Bluewater due to a fault in one of the restaurants.
"The Winter Garden was temporarily evacuated while Kent Fire and Rescue investigated the alarm.
"The safety and wellbeing of our staff and guests is our highest priority.
Kent Fire and Rescue Service confirmed it was called to the restaurant at 3.21pm, sending two fire engines to the scene, before crews realised the call was a false alarm.
Crews worked together Bluewater's management team and Kent Police during the evacuation.
The shopping centre reopened later that evening.


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This is EXACTLY what I first preached in the print pages and the webpages of All About Beer (beginning here. here,, and here in June, 2011 and with In Support of Small, AAB Vol. 32, Iss. 2 from May, 2012). Nips (or pony bottles) are a subject also covered by Punch Magazine's Megan Krigbaum last August and veteran beer scribe Lew Bryson online at The Full Pint just a couple weeks ago. They're even one of my silly Twitter handles: @WeLoveNips.
Now, Firestone's move sees the company abandoning 22-ounce bottles for regular 12-ounce bottles, akin to downsizing from 750s to "splits" (375-ml). As the release notes, "A 12-ounce bottle is perfect for two reasonable servings." While I'd personally love to see this movement lead to the full mini-monty—meaning traditional third-liter nips or between 166 and 250 ml—even the move into 355-ml like a twelve is a victory. It will result not only in more people actually being able to afford beers like Bravo and their stellar anniversary beers, but more people actually drinking them since we no longer will have to wait for just the right moment when just the right people are over to crack and enjoy it. After all, you are the right person and this move makes it feasible to enjoy with the best person you know: yourself.
Paso Robles, CA: For the first time since its brewing inception more than a dozen years ago, Firestone Walker's "Bravo" imperial brown ale is finally finding its way into the bottle, with a limited release set for early February across all Firestone Walker markets.
Along the way, Bravo ($9.99) launches the transition of all Firestone Walker Vintage Reserve barrel-aged beers from 22-ounce bombers to individually boxed 12-ounce bottles in 2017, to include longtime stalwarts such as Parabola and the annual Anniversary Ale.
Bravo was the first beer matured in retired spirits barrels by Brewmaster Matt Brynildson in late 2004, during the experimental stages of what would become Firestone Walker's inaugural Anniversary Ale.
Bravo has remained one of the driest beers in Firestone Walker's Vintage Reserve series of barrel-aged beers, and since day one has been considered a vital component in the annual blending of the Anniversary Ale, balancing out some of the stickier components.
Henceforth, all beers from Firestone Walker's Vintage Reserve line of barrel aged beers will be bottled in the 12-ounce format, although total production of each beer remains the same.
Brynildson noted that the primary benefit is the ability to enjoy a high-gravity, barrel-aged beer without committing to consuming a full 22-ounce bottle.
"With beers like this, a 12-ounce bottle is perfect for two reasonable servings," he said.


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The things that own you?
But of course, we've to exist (i.e. live) in a world that seeks conformity.
I can be more specific: we are our work until we retire or die.
And in that space, very few of us feel able or do speak our truth!
Instead, we lay down our lives for fear of losing what we've got.
Hey, I've been there and feel like I'm back there again, having taken a break from the Hamster Wheel (2010-2017).
Actually, it's more than that; namely, it denudes us of our soul. And as a result, we're torn apart by living a shadow life.
Wind the clock back to your childhood.
You may have been conditioned to believe that your life would be lived out through a crummy job where the money was the only thing forcing you to get out of bed in the morning, but I doubt it. Even my parents, for all their Victorian sensibilities, didn't compress my soul until I was about 13 or 14 at which stage, mostly, I suspect, for their benefit did they start talking about the need to work hard to get a job. I didn't buy it. In fact, I kicked out good and hard — there were plenty of tears and lots of shouting.
It went on like this until I flew the nest age 18, and I've never been back.
Imagine, instead, if my parents had cherished my inner soul and told me I could have done anything I wanted, e.g. start a business, be a writer or become an artist. But that wasn't within their compass: all they'd ever know was routine work for routine pay with the possibility that one day they might escape the clutches of the Boss and live out retirement in a degree of comfort. In the end, by dint of my father losing over 50% of his pension in the Equitable Life debacle, he ended up working until 70, as did my mother.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that they were wrong and I was right — hell, I've made more mistakes than I care to mention — but they should have seen through my teenage angst and asked a more beautiful question than "What job do you want to do?".
I suspect my answers would have been as vague as they were in respect of the GET A TRADE variety but at least it would have left open the possibility that I wasn't going to be judged by them or anybody else based on how secure I could make my life.
I recognise that this might look like the classic dilettante but what's wrong with spending a few years trying to come alive to true self?
In the end, I did find my way, albeit I ended up working in a profession (law) that seemed intent on breaking me and my soul; but not to the point that my spirit died.
Well, it's not too late for me to craft a life as an artist. Yes, it's going to be tough when I'll need to work for the Man for the next few years but not impossible. I mean, it's not that hard to sit down in a chair and write, draw or read.
Of course, you may have no interest in art but if I've any advice, it's to see work as work. Yes, it would be humbling if you were living out your dreams in your work but it's very unlikely to be the case. Instead, perhaps it's time to compartmentalise work as no more than a means to end, and to open up your soul to a bigger, more spiritually-connected world.
I appreciate that with the hours some people work it's hard to conceive how you might do anything other than survive, but in my experience, even when I've had my nose pressed to the grindstone for 16 hours, I always managed to find time to do one or two things that brought me greatest joy.
Frankly, if you don't you'll be accepting that the system has won, and that would be a travesty.
So, as you start another week and you slap on the game face, perhaps it's time to start a new project and see if you can commit 10 or 15 minutes a day to breath life into it.


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As the name implies, the primary feature of this games is that the player is given the ability to employ a late surrender option, which means that he/she can surrender any number of cards. While this feature is on offer largely to trap the majority of players who are inclined to surrender too often, there is a way to use it to your advantage and this is to only surrender if you hold a hard 16 against a dealer's nine, ten or ace. Or if you hold a hard 15 against the dealer's 10. It is imperative that you do not surrender a hard 15 against the dealer's Ace or Nine card.
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Aion-JSW Steel Wins Monnet Ispat Bid; Banks Take 74 Per Cent Haircut
The bankrpupt Monnet owes over Rs 11,000 crore to a clutch of lenders. This means that banks and other financial creditors will take a massive 74 per cent haircut as the bid is worth only three-fourths or 26 per cent of the dues.
Updated: July 20, 2018 11:22 AM IST
Mumbai, Jul 19 (PTI): The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) today approved a Rs 2,875-crore bid by a consrotium of Aion Investments-JSW Steel to acquire the bankrupt Monnet Ispat & Energy, JSW Steel said.
The Aion-JSW consortium was the sole bidder for the 1.5 million tonne asset in Chhattisgrah, the company added.
JSW Steel said detailed NCLT order is awaited as the tribunal gave a verbal order today with some modifications to the original bid.
But it is not immediately known what are the modifications that the tribunal has sought, and when contacted JSW Steel refused to elaborate stating they are awaiting the detailed order.
"NCLT today verbally approved the bid by Aion Investments-JSW Steel for Monnet Ispat. The consortium will hold 75 per cent equity in in Monnet. Of this Aion will hold about 70 per cent and the rest will be held by JSW Steel," Aion said in a statement.
"The resolution plan submitted by our consortium and approved by the committee of creditors of Monnet was approved with modifications at today's hearing by the Mumbai bench of the NCLT," JSW Steel said in a statement.
The consortioum earlier had discussed points like acceptance of payment to operational creditors aggregating to Rs 25 crore and small shareholders to continue with the company, sources said, adding there may be some more modifications which will be known in the written order.
The acquisition of Monnet Ispat is expected to help JSW Steel consolidate its position in Eastern markets.
Monnet Ispat, once one of the country's foremost steel makers, ran a successful coal-based sponge iron plant with an annul capacity of 1.5 million tonne in Chhattisgrah.
The company ran into problmes when the coal mines attached to the plant was cancelled in 2014 after the Supreme Court order. Crashing steel prices on account of Chinese dumping further aggravated its crisis and resulted into bankruptcy proceedings.
Monnet was one of the 12 accounts that the Reserve Bank had identified in its first list tagged as the 'dirty dozen' for an immediate resolution mid-last year.
Updated Date: July 20, 2018 11:22 AM IST
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The world's largest exporter, China, faces more challenges and uncertainties this year due to persistently weak global demand and rising concerns of a possible trade war with the United States.
The U.S. trade deficit in November rose to the highest level in nine months. Imports of oil and other foreign goods increased, while American exports fell for a second month.
Policymakers are grappling with how to attack excessive borrowing and rein in soaring property prices while maintaining rapid growth. They're also battling yuan depreciation and capital outflow pressures as US interest rates rise, while on the horizon looms the risk of confrontation with America's President-elect Donald Trump on trade and Taiwan.
The economic outlook for this year looks similar to 2016 - uneven and unspectacular, according to economists worldwide polled by Reuters in December. The result is despite investor optimism about a breakout for the world economy.


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I've been stuck between 650 and 721 since the new season started. Keep getting stuck in All Star games where every game is a literal home run derby.
What starting pitchers are good on All Star? None of my rotation can get it done (except for Walter Johnson).
slamdunk_316
Forrest Whitley, Luzardo and Kershaw for me
beanball0571
None, that's the problem. Last year you could use a rotation just for all star, then switch to the hof rotation. This year it seems like nobody is good on all star. It's just hope you get lucky
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Seriously. Just played had an 18 hit game and lost. Other guy had 21 hits. It's honestly ridiculous.
Hubijerk
So, ive done pretty well with Orel, Wood, mills, giolito... also feller and sale but i got them cheap earlier. Ive had a lot of really low scoring games on AS lately, and giolito and mills have really given me a hard time and it seems like everyone is throwing them.
Also johnson isnt yertible, but his sinker seems to be pretty useless.
MikeForbes101
Whitley is really good on all-star.
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Yep, him too, he just runs out of gas earlier, pull him after 6 or 7
sbevans142
I don't know how yall are doing it with Whitley. He gets rocked every time. There's a big difference in <650 all star and >650 All Star. Over 650 is a bunch of dudes like you who are bouncing in and out of HOF. You guys drill everything. Under 650 there are some good dudes,but there are flaws you can attack. One guy can hit only fast balls. The next guy hammers everything low in the zone, but can't touch anything up. Next guy hits anything except pitches low and away. It's weird. Most don't adjust as the game progresses
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138 Park Lane is a neglected Grade II listed townhouse with a Heritage at Risk status, which the client wished to develop into 4 residential units. M3 managed a team through planning and listed building consent, in order to guarantee a long term future. The key challenge for the design and planning process was to achieve a sensitive balance between extensive preservation works and appropriate development for the high end residential market.


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DARKEST HOUR (2017) - I saw this movie twice in the theaters, and I DVR'd it this week so I could watch it again.
Gary Oldman's portrayal of Winston Churchill is arguably the finest depiction of a real historical figure by an actor that I have ever seen (the only one that rivals it would be Daniel-Day Lewis in LINCOLN). And this film's focus on Churchill's first month in office, at a time when he was far better known for his failures and shortcomings than he was for his courage and tenacity, shows us the man behind the legend in a portrayal that is both humorous and poignant. One of my favorite historical films of all time! 5/5 and then some!
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rc - those mid 60's almost all the way to full exploitation ones but still with a classic feel are great. like the one with the nazi guy on the beach and the glowing sea blob
The FLESH EATERS (1964)!
Great movie!
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the BERMUDA TRIANGLE (1978)
A boatload of morons go to the Bermuda Triangle in search of a lost underwater city.
Among them Hugo (CITY OF THE WALKING DEAD) Stiglitz, the guy who played PUMAMAN, and...John Huston?
While cruising to their doom, they find a cursed doll floating the seven seas of Hell, get attacked by headless parrots, see weird lights, encounter a ghost ship, and some other plot lines that meander like a homeless guy pushing a shopping cart full of garbage.
Directed by the cinema genius that is Rene Cardona Jr, who gave us NIGHT OF THE BLOODY APES, this might have been entertaining in a BAD movie way, if it wasn't almost 2 HOURS LONG.
This trailer may feature John Huston, but his total screen time amounts to maybe 5 minutes max.
http://youtu.be/fIUBft7pwHE
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Oh yeah. It's on Tubi. If you feel like having a 3 day drunk fever dream come to life.
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Movies, Metal, Beer!
"Into the Dark: Pilgrim" (2019)
This seemed appropriate for Thanksgiving night viewing.
A privileged suburban family hires a group of Pilgrim "re-enactors" to their home on Thanksgiving to give them a truly "authentic" Turkey Day experience. Unfortunately for them, these "Pilgrims" have rather strict rules about being properly "thankful" and begin handing out stern punishments for the family's "ungrateful" ways.
This slow burning Hulu original (part of their ongoing "Into the Dark" series of seasonally-themed horror flicks) from the Blumhouse Productions factory takes a little while to get going, but cranks up the nastiness in the satisfyingly gory, ultra-violent second half. I wasn't expecting much from this one at first, but it turned out to be a pleasant surprise.
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WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST (1958)
Ok- This is a sequel to the AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN (1957) wherin Col. Glenn Manning gets turned into a 60 foot giant after getting caught in an A-bomb blast. Of course!
Anyway- he survives that film and comes back as a 60 foot mutated, really ugly, Frankenstein grunting monster. Plus for his death, like TEENAGE FRANKENSTEIN, the film breifly goes COLOR!
Plus the monster is real scary looking!
It also helps that you see the monster early in the film. I hate it when they take an hour to show the monster.
This is not a gothic horror film. It's a giant monster movie. Gimme the monster!
I love this movie.
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Bad Movie Lover
Cthulhu for president! Why choose the lesser evil?
Tau (2018)
A small time pickpocket gets kidnapped by an IT genius to serve as a guinea pig in his project develop an AI. In order to escape she has to outwit her captor and the AI running the house.
A bit of a disappointment. It is not bad as such, the plot has enough twists and turns to keep it interesting, both actors (and Gary Oldman, voicing the AI) give solid performances, but it is a bit too much by the numbers to be really interesting. More could have been made of the psychological duel between the arrogant and erudite psychopath on the one hand, and the resourceful small time hustler who had learned to survive on the streets, on the other. Ed Skrein and Maika Monroe do what they can, but they don't have all that much to work with. Also, the movie tries to be philosophical about the status of AI and the question of what constitutes a person, but is not as clever as it thinks it is. Ex Machina, it is not.
It is, however, exceedingly stylish. It takes the cyberpunk neo film noir esthetic of Blade Runner 2049, turns it into high fashion gloss and then cranks everything up to 11. You get one amazingly beautiful shot after another. Too bad that the CGI is a bit dodgy in places.
Not a waste of time, but not a must see either.
"Once you get past a certain threshold, everyone's problems are the same: fortifying your island and hiding the heat signature from your fusion reactor."
Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! ... Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput.
VAMPIRE DOLL (1970)
A young man returns from America to Japan to visit his fiancee, only to discover she has died.
Or has she?
Amazing photography, good acting, and a scary as hell vampire girl make this gothic horror from Toho Studios (!) worth your while.
1917 - I rewatched this World War I epic last night and am still very impressed with it. Beautiful cinematography, haunting soundtrack, and an engaging story make this one of my favorite war movies of all time. 5/5
It's root beer & a candy cigar!
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Made for a long afternoon; they probably could've made 2-3 movies from that one book!
"Anna and the Apocalypse" (2017)
Scottish teens sing, dance, and slaughter their way through their zombie infested small town as they try to reach their families during the Holiday season. Yes, this is a zombie Christmas musical... and as absurd as that concept sounds, it works. The young cast totally sells it (especially Ella Hunt, who plays "Anna") and even though I usually hate musicals, I gotta admit, some of the songs were actually pretty catchy. "Anna" is a funny, bloody, tongue-firmly-in-cheek genre mashup in the vein of the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" TV series (whose musical episode, "Once More With Feeling," was clearly a major influence on this flick).
You may love it, you may hate it, but it's worth seeing this sing-along sickie at least once.
"Cop Out" (2010)
Two NY cops (Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan) tangle with a brutal gang of Mexican drug smugglers as they try to recover a stolen, extremely valuable baseball card. Pretty typical "buddy cop" shoot'em up nonsense, but Willis and Morgan make a good team.
"Cop Out's" back story is almost more interesting than the film itself - this was Kevin "Clerks" Smith's first and only "director for hire" gig. Apparently he and Bruce Willis did not get along at all during filming, and the the experience was so unpleasant for Kevin that it put him off working for the major studios (as well as films that he didn't write himself). In spite of all the behind the scenes drama, "Cop Out" turned out to be a decent rainy day time waster.
lester1/2jr
Lisa (1990) - this is one of those movies that's interesting and even compelling, but you can see why it doesn't get talked about much.
A girl and her Mom (Cheryl Ladd who looks okay) are having typical coming of age teen/ mom fights. Somehow this results in the 14 year old girl becoming fixated on a much older man...who's also a serial killer!!
As salacious as that sounds, the director, while talented, just doesn't have the gusto to go for the Orphan like sordid disaster this needed to be. The finale doesn't have the tension it needs, Cheryl Ladd is mostly annoying, and basically it can't decide if it wants to be a lifetime movie or a horror movie. At the same time, the girl and her friend were funny and it was unique. I had to stop it a bunch of times to read my twitter feed though
I'll say 3.75 /5 it's well made but not super engrossing,
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"LIve Free Or Die Hard" (2007)
High tech terrorists are systematically shutting down the United States via a series of cyber-attacks, and of course our only hope is good ole John McClane. As usual, lots of stuff gets shot, punched, crashed, and blown up real good. This was the first "DH" film in a dozen years and though it doesn't quite match up to its predecessors, it's an entertainingly ultra-violent butt kicker.
"Silent Night" (2012)
Small town Wisconsin cops hunt for a psycho dressed as Santa, who's killing off "naughty" citizens in extremely gory ways. Unfortunately the town happens to be full of guys in Santa suits for the annual Christmas parade, which obviously complicates the process.
This "loose remake" of the classic 1984 Santa slasher "Silent Night, Deadly Night" might have an even bigger mean streak than the original. The kills are brutal and gory, and the performances are great (esp. Malcolm McDowell as the gung-ho Sheriff and Donal "Grounded For Life" Logue as a drunken anti-capitalist street Santa). There's even a "garbage day!" reference and several nods to the original "SNDN" for sharp eyed fans.
If memory serves, I wasn't crazy about this flick the first time I saw it a few years ago, but something about it "clicked" with me the second time around. Worth a look, even if you usually hate remakes.
Mildly unsettling fun fact: the psycho Santa's weapon of choice in this movie - a flame thrower - was apparently inspired by a real Christmas Eve mass killing that happened in California in 2008. Ho ho ho, indeed.
"Crumb" (1994)
Terry Zwigoff's portrait of underground cartoonist Robert Crumb, whose psychedelic and psycho-sexual comic strips defined the late '60s counter culture movement. Robert's a weird guy who draws weird comics, but when you meet his brothers Charles and Max, you'll realize that he's the most normal one in his family... which is really sayin' something.
"Crumb" is not so much a celebration of Robert's famed artwork, but more of a disturbing study of family dystunction and its effects on each generation. Weird and fascinating in equal measure.


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Lamberton is a hilly, former landed estate in Berwickshire, Scotland, its eastern boundary being the North Sea. It is  north of Berwick-upon-Tweed, on the Great North Road (today the A1).

Original family

Adam de Lamberton gave a charter of a third part of his land of Lamberton to his grandson, Galfrido de Hasswell between 1190 and 1200.

In the National Archives of Scotland (RH1/2/59) there is a charter of Sir Peter de Mordington, knt., son of the deceased Sir William de Mordington, as superior, in favour of Simon de Baddeby of certain lands in Lamberton, dated 1270.  A William de Lamberton was superior c. 1318.

Barony

Some records give Lamberton as a feudal barony; others that it became part of the vast barony assigned to Coldingham Priory. (It may be partly both).

Renton family

A charter (RH1/2/98) dated November 21, 1325 of Agnes de Mordington, in favour of John de Raynton, thereafter designated as "of Lamberton", appears to herald the long possession of Lamberton by this family, descendants of the ancient foresters of Coldingham Priory. "Robert de Renton, Lord of Lamberton" was in possession in 1407. In 1632 David Renton of Billie held "the forty husbandlands (1040 acres) of Lambertoun within the lordship of Coldingham".

By the 18th century the Rentons had passed their ancient estate of Billie to the Homes, but retained Lamberton. The Rentons of Lamberton were in the early 19th century represented by Alexander Renton of Lamberton (d. before March 1831), who was served his father's heir in the lands and mains of Lamberton in 1774, and whose only child, a daughter Susanna, married Robert Campbell, a Colonel in the 42nd (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot. Their son, Charles Frederick (1819 - 1891), Colonel in the 87th Regiment of Foot, hyphenated his surname. The Campbell-Rentons of Lamberton, and, later, Mordington House, also failed in the male line with the death in 1948 of Robert Charles Campbell-Renton.

Royal connection

The now ruined Lamberton Kirk was the church where, in July 1503, Margaret Tudor the daughter of King Henry VII of England, met the representatives of King James IV of Scotland (and traditionally is said to have married him by proxy), thus leading to the eventual succession of James VI to the English throne. Only ruins of the nave and chancel remain, as the burial-place of the Rentons of Lamberton.

Tournament
A tournament featuring knights from both England and Scotland participated in a tournament on Lamberton Moor to celebrate the marriage of Margaret Tudor and King James IV.

Links with the Earls of Eglintoun
Susanna Montgomerie (died 27 July 1754) was the third daughter of Alexander Montgomerie, 9th Earl of Eglinton by his third wife, Susanna Kennedy, daughter of Sir Archibald Kennedy of Culzean. She married (before 1 August 1739) John Renton of Lamberton and had two daughters: Susan Renton who married Sir Robert Murray of Clermont and Hillhead, 6th Bart (died 1771); and Eleonora Renton who married (22 August 1770) Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe of Hoddom (1750–1813).

Irregular marriages

The now demolished Old Toll House at Lamberton, situated just across the border in Scotland, was famous for its irregular marriages. From 1798 to 1858 keepers of the Toll, as well as questionable men-of-the-cloth used to marry couples in the same fashion as at the more familiar Gretna Green. The site of the house is marked by a plaque.

Smallholdings

Lamberton today consists largely of smallholdings  compulsorily purchased, under an Act of Parliament, from the last Campbell-Renton laird, to provide a living for soldiers returning from The Great War. However, the land was not suited to crops, the holdings were too small for anything other than subsistence living, and today the original holdings are generally merged with others to make larger farms. Some modern house-building activity has taken place over the past decade along the original A1 (now bypassed). There is no town or village, as such, just scattered housing, with views over the North Sea.

Foulden, Mordington and Lamberton Community Council

The regional authority today is the Scottish Borders Council, based some  to the west at Newtown St. Boswells, Roxburghshire. Lamberton also returns three elected councillors to the Foulden Mordington & Lamberton Community Council, similar to an English parish council. Meetings between April 2020 and April 2021 were held on-line due to the COVID-19 pandemic. From May 2021, the Community Council has resumed face to face meetings with the community councillor team at  Foulden Village Hall.

See also
Lamberton Skerrs
Lambroughton or Lamberton - in North Ayrshire.

Notes

References
 The Scottish Nation, by William Anderson, Edinburgh, 1870, volume 2, pps: 338-9.
 A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, by Sir Bernard Burke, C.B.,LL.D., Ulster King of Arms, Ninth Edition, London, 1898, p. 1251.
 Borders and Berwick, by Charles A Strang, Rutland Press, 1994.

External links
The narrated history of Lamberton Kirk

Lamberton
Lamberton Kirk
Anglo-Scottish border

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Here is Bonnie, my black/cream brindle, waiting to get on the plane back to Texas!
Here is one of my past puppies, a red brindle.
And here is a blk/tan brindle.
My soon to be cream brindle Rachel.
My new red brindle "Shiloh"!
She almost looks dappled...LOL...in these pic's but she is brindle!!


The Flyers were brought back down to Earth over the weekend.
The Penguins handed them their first loss in regulation in six games with a dominating 4-1 victory on Saturday at the Wells Fargo Center.
Now, the question for the Flyers is how do they react? Does this loss crush all of their momentum or can they quickly bounce back?
The Penguins usually bring out the best in the Flyers, but they had the complete opposite effect. After Radko Gudas put the Flyers up 1-0 two minutes into the second period, the Penguins answered 61 seconds later with a goal and took control over the final 37 minutes. The Flyers were held to a season-low 17 shots.
They hope it's the way they responded the last time they had a flat performance. Following a 4-0 loss at home to the Oilers on March 3, the Flyers got 11 out of a possible 12 points in their next six games until running into the Penguins.
However, a quick turnaround must occur on the road, where they are 15-14-5 this season.
The Flyers open a four-game trip on Monday with back-to-back games against the Islanders, who lead the Flyers by five points for the first wild card berth, and Blue Jackets. From there, it's off to Colorado and Arizona.
They are going to have to finish the rest of the season without backup goalie Michal Neuvirth, though, who the team announced Sunday morning is out three weeks with a lower-body injury. He was scheduled to start on Saturday but Steve Mason got the nod just before warm-ups.


I wanted to explore more gravel rides this year after last years awesome intro to gravel. I made a few changes my Specialized Crux for gravel rides in the cyclocross off-season including Surly Knard 41c tires, side entry water bottle cages, and a Revelate Tangle frame bag.
I knew I needed to be able to carry a variety of items on longer gravel rides. I choose a half frame bag because full frame bags removed the option of water bottles, and saddle bags removed the option of easy access during riding. I choose a Revelate Tangle frame bag because of their build quality and materials used.
I really like that the left side and the right side compartments are separated (roughly 80% 20% spit). It allows for easy access to some things while not having to deal with sorting through other types of items.
The fit of the bag is great and allows for use on a variety of frames because of the versatility the Velcro and straps have.
Overall I'm thrilled with the bag. I love that it keeps all water out. The zippers are high quality and feature weather sealing. I like that the interior fabric is bright yellow, making things easier to find. I like there is an access hole to put a hydration bladder inside and run the hose and mouth piece out. There is nothing I'd change about the bag or things I wish it did differently. It's awesome!
Is that a small or med. size bag? I have a 2013 crux disc pro and love it i have the same bag in the light weight white color material. also how do the 41 fit on the cux iam running Bontrager 38 now and have room to spair. any word on the new hydro brake system.
The bag is a medium size I believe, sorry it's been a bit since ordering it. The Surly Knard 41c's fit but there is not a lot of left over space as you would imagine, and I am running mine tubeless so they may be a bit rounder than if I ran them with tubes. The last I heard from Sram was the revised brakes were ready to be sent to the dealers/ local bike shops. I would think we'll have them in the next month or so. I'm ready to get the hydraulics back!
Hey, Matt. Did you get that through BC&F? I wonder if the velcro is long enough to work with the huge tubes on my Beargrease?
Hey! I did but that at BCF. Mike helped me order it. They have several sizes to choose from. You are more than welcome to borrow mine to check out the Velcro strap length.


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Whilst I never had the chance of hearing Dame Joan live in Sydney (basically because I wasn't interested in opera at the time). I have of course since then purchased CDs (my favourite one of hers staring as Esclarmonde in the opera of the same name by Massenet).
Dear lovely Dame Joan, may you rest in peace for your recorded legacy will ensure your voice enchants us for a long time.
marval
I just heard about her death on the news. She had a voice that was supreme, and will be sadly missed. Heaven's choir will be singing all the sweeter.
Margaret - she was an astounding singer for sure, as good as your wonderful Heather Harper (with a very different voice I know). Such stars as these are begotten seldom.
And here's an interview with lovely Dame Joan and Margaret Throsby, ABC FM radio presenter: quite fascinating.
http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/classic/podcast/current/audioonly/mti_20101012.mp3
Bahaichap
Tomorrow is the funeral of soprano Dame Joan Sutherland(1926-2010) whom some have called the operatic voice of the 20th century. Three years ago she said that she "did not want to have anything to do with opera anymore." Fair enough; she was 80 and had just broken both her legs! Readers of this prose-poem can google all sorts of words of encomium and very little opprobrium about her life. I can hardly add anything to what is known. I am not even an opera buff. I have not read her autobiography published, as it was, in 1997 two years before I finished my 30++year teaching career. Sutherland started to seriously study voice in 1944, the year I was born. Like all babies I, too, was seriously studying voice, of course, in quite a different sense.
Sutherland became a star in 1959 when she sang at the Royal Opera House. 1959 was a big year for me; I joined the Baha'i Faith that year at the age of 15. I could follow my life and Sutherland's to her death this week and to my own years of late adulthood and life on a pension here in Australia. But I shall take this prose-poem in a different direction; this quasi-eulogy on a person whose voice possessed a crystal-clarity, the finest of diction and was incredible, miraculous.(2)
The word 'opera' comes from the Latin and means 'work.' It was invented, writes art critic Kenneth Clark, in the seventeenth century and made into an art form by the Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi (1517-1643). Opera houses were often the largest buildings in a town or city especially in Catholic countries. They came in when churches were going out, Clark continues.(1)-Ron Price with thanks to (1)Kenneth Clark, Civilization, Penguin, NY, 1969, p. 169; and (2) "Joan Sutherland: 1926-2010," Andrew Patner: The View From Here, 11 October 2010.
People sit and listen to words
they do not understand and to
a plot they do not know---such
an irrational entertainment; it's
a display of skill and the words
are sung because they are just
too silly, too subtle, too deeply
felt, or too revealing to be said.
There is a very real extension of
human feelings and faculties in a
world where the pursuit of love &
happiness, which had once been so
simple, is now very, very, complex.1
And, Joan, you gave us rock-solid
technique, confidence without any
arrogance, a four-decade career &
you became known, therefore, in a
bel canto style as…..La Stupenda!!
1 Kenneth Clark, op. cit., p. 170.
Lovely piece Bahaichap, a fitting memorial to a great lady.
It vexes me no end that I spelled stupenda incorrectly on the title of this thread ... hoping a mod. might solve that typo for me ... phui!
wljmrbill
I too will miss her presence on this earth...so many of the greats are now in that great eternal choir. It is times like this that "youtube" helps us to remember one the Greatest "bel canto" singers. RIP Dame Joan.
Anna Netrebko is alive, she has a beautiful voice and she's beautiful. La Stupenda lived for more than 80 years. RIP...Let's speak about the present!
After some 4 years, I offer my belated thanks for your responses.-Ron Price, Tasmania
I prefer Joan Sutherland's voice to that of Callas (now I will be savaged by the Callas Dogs Ha Ha) one of my favourite arias is of her singing:
Il dolce suono mi colpi di sua voce. Ardon gl'incensi (Mad Scene) from Lucia di Lammermoor,by Donizetti, so much feeling. and wonderful music
Ella Beck
An amazing singer - may she rest in peace.
When I was at junior school, her 'Ave Maria' was used as music to go out by. It wasn't a church school, but the head master loved classical music.


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The BBC and Patrick Minford
Over the last few days the BBC has given considerable publicity to Patrick Minford's new report published by the 'Economists for Free Trade'. I have looked at both the BBC News website entry and listened to the Radio 4 Today programme's discussion. They are both classic '2 sided controversy' formats, with Monique Ebell from the National Institute of Social and Economic Research (NIESR) providing the main opposition.
So why was this coverage something the BBC should be deeply ashamed about? There are two main reasons, but first let me make a more general point which applies to journalism more generally. There is no quality control in most of the media when it comes to giving publicity to a report like this. There is a very simple reason for this, and that is the primacy given to immediacy. In a better world, when a report like this came out, journalists would spend a few days ringing around to see what the reaction of other experts were, or nowadays just look at reactions on twitter.
In this particular case such a strategy would have thrown up some apparently large errors, and this should have led journalists to question whether they should give the report any publicity. They might at the very least have waited until the full report was published next month.
Let me give an analogy. Suppose a report of a medical trial had suggested a miracle cure for some serious disease. The report had not been peer reviewed, and its author had connections to a drug company that stood to benefit from the alleged cure, but the BBC had decided to give it considerable publicity nevertheless. Within days it became clear that there were serious problems with the report, and that there were other existing papers that came to a completely different conclusion. The BBC would then look very foolish, and many sufferers from this disease would have been given false hope. I suspect for that reason the BBC would be much more cautious. Yet if the report is about a subject matter with any political implications this caution appears to go out of the window.
Now let me get to the two reasons why the BBC should be ashamed in this case. First, Patrick Minford is no expert in international trade. He is a macroeconomist, who in his younger, less obviously political, days served as something of a role model for me. He published a very similar argument about the benefits of unilateral trade liberalisation during the referendum campaign. It was heavily criticised by individuals or groups that are experts in international trade. So we have already had the quality control, yet the BBC decided to ignore that. Returning to my analogy, it is as if there had been earlier claims of miracle cure that had been thoroughly debunked by medical experts and the BBC had ignored these.
Second, at no point in either of the two items I looked at is there any mention that the overwhelming consensus among academic economists is that Brexit would be harmful to the economy. We just have reports that give two opinions, with no context whatsoever about which opinion is the consensus view and which is the maverick. It is exactly equivalent to giving considerable publicity to a report from some climate change denial outfit, and including a response from one or two climate scientists with no mention of what the consensus among climate scientists is. Again to draw on my analogy, it is like reporting a miracle cure and failing to say that nearly all doctors thought this was rubbish.
This last point about ignoring the clear consensus touches a particular nerve for me, because it is exactly what the BBC appeared to many of us to do during the referendum campaign. Yet when the Royal Economic Society complained about this, they were told that the economic consensus had been mentioned in this and that bulletin. Whether this was cherry picking by the BBC is not easy to establish after the event. [1] Well here is an example where it was not mentioned, and I would like to hear from the BBC why this information was not thought to be useful to convey to its audience. [2]
On both counts, this is very bad journalism, even if you do not think economics has the same standing as medicine. The BBC may have thought they had brushed off complaints from economists, but here is a specific example where they really do have a serious case to answer. As Ben Chu rightly says: "The legitimate news story around Minford's work is how bad science can survive and thrive when it supports the desires and prejudices of powerful people in our society … the BBC ... has become part of the problem." Brexit is the Emperor's New Clothes, and no one - including the BBC - dares say that the Emperor has no clothes.
[1] Not easy but not impossible: it would cost a few thousand pounds in research time for someone to go through the main news reports during the Brexit campaign and establish how many times the economic consensus was mentioned.
[2] Channel 4 News did put the point to Minford that many economists thought his work was flawed, to which he responded by saying "all these trumped up economists and the consensus they are all hired hands"'. A very political answer from a very political economist, and therefore very revealing, but not a question the BBC apparently thought worth asking.
Labels: BBC, Ben Chu, Brexit, media, Monique Ebell, NIESR, Patrick Minford, Royal Economic Society
When I looked on Sunday at the BBC's red button teletext service, the Minford report was top story under UK News, under Politics, and under Business.
The title of the piece and the way it had worked its way into BBC news across its Sunday coverage suggests to me this was a think-tank manoeuvre of the sort the BBC has been supplicating to for decades.
I think we have a recent analogy when it comes to bad journalism, those reports of the MMR jab.
Sadly, the BBC has become, since 2008, a quack institution fit only for careerists.
I think the BBC as become part of the problem because it kills two birds with one stone,it discredits the BBC which also serves those powerful forces in our society! whilst also putting out flat earth economics ideology,this can be seen by the fact private news as kept away ,well until the storm brews and then they will use it to attack the BBC but without ever actually debunking it themselves,this is how our"free to abuse media" works,the BBC needs changing and (made independent once more)other media needs strong enforcement over it!
excellent and important post. I do hope to see a response from the BBC.
The economics profession needs to become better at communicating the consensus positions.
If you haven't seen, the Zurich based Media Tenor put the BBC bias ratio in EU stories at 5:1 over last 15 years. Shameful. see: http://mediatenor.com/images/files/pr_brexit_june_24_2016_1.pdf
Robert Jones 23 August 2017 at 12:25
Many people would criticize the BBC as you have done and for exactly the same reason. They may think that they cannot win in a situation like this and will never get it right and tend to withdraw to the line of least resistance. And they are probably right and the fact of your ire tends to confirm that.
Richard Bourke 23 August 2017 at 12:28
It's curious. I remember a radio discussion panel among economics journalists in German, immediately after the Referendum. One participant confidently predicted that the UK would become "Europe's Mexico". A centre of low-cost, low wage manufacturing.
It seemed a bit far-fetched to me - I felt the UK had plenty of other advantages in trading, even post-Brexit, even outside the Single Market.
But it's actually eerily similar to the prognosis of Professor Minford
http://www.economistsforfreetrade.com/News/brexit-could-boost-uk-economy-by-135-billion-say-top-economists/
"The very threat of UFT would also put huge pressure on the EU to offer Britain a free trade deal because, if it did not, its producers, such as car makers and farmers, would find themselves trying to compete in a UK market flooded with less expensive goods from all over the world, Professor Minford argues. Much the same would happen even if the UK simply obtained FTAs with key world suppliers of food and manufactures that are keen to do so such as the US, Australia and New Zealand."
With the slight difference that the German journalist sounded appalled at the prospect, on Britain's behalf.
«One participant confidently predicted that the UK would become "Europe's Mexico". A centre of low-cost, low wage manufacturing.»
But that's not a prediction of the future, it is a description of the past. For example Sunderland is a low-value added Nissan "maquiladora" plant in which Japanese and continental manufactured car blocks are merely assembled for re-export. An article in the FT reports that 75% of the parts that go into Vauxhalls assembled in the Ellesmere "maquiladora" come from continental (polish, french) sources.
These "maquiladora" plants were sited in England because at the time it had the combination of lowest wages and weakest labour laws in the pre-enlargement EC.
That was why M Thatcher pushed hard for a customs union and complete removal of barriers within the EC with her Single Market plan: she was persuaded that having cut wages and wreck the unions, and privatized whatever could be, english industry unleashed by her neoliberalism would outcompete and smash the lumbering socialist and corporatist industries of France and Germany, dragged down by the costs of socialdemocracy and the delays from state influence.
Thus english exports to the rest of the EU would surge with english business profits, and dominance of the EU single market would give the english government greater power in setting EU policies. Rule Britannia! :-)
Odd?
I read said article on BBC website, and was left in no doubt that Minfords model was fundamentally flawed and that a significant number of serious sounding bodies (I'm not an economist - i live somewhat in the real world) had models that showed (presumably agreed with eachother - for a given value of agreed) a substantially different outcome to the brexopalypse.
Robert 25 August 2017 at 13:14
The original report on the BBC website described Minford and his colleagues as "economists", while those cited with opposing views were called "campaigners"; so the impression given to the naive reader was that the expertise was on Minford's side, and criticism was politically motivated. That version was replaced with a more balanced one within a few hours, I presume in response to the many complaints. You must have read this second version.
It left me fuming at the partiality of bbctoday
The exposure given to Minford may be excessive but it does raise an interesting question: why isn't any prominent defender of Brexit saying "that's not what I meant at all"?
I think you are right about the BBC's economics coverage but I am far from sure that it is much better in other fields. The case of the MMR jab mentioned by another correspondent is a good one. Back in the 1970s John Birt complained that TV news and current affairs was a conspiracy against understanding. Little has changed.
Baddaddy 23 August 2017 at 18:24
The online story may have been edited later. The one I read had balancing comment but you had to read on to get to it. Arguably, the balance should have been in the second sentence or paragraph.
Jim Cuthbert 24 August 2017 at 00:03
What is "economists for free trade"?
Is it a think tank?
Who funds it?
They do have a plausible collection of eight economics/finance Professors, and former MPC members, http://www.economistsforfreetrade.com/who-we-are/ which gives an aura of academic respectability for their views.
Their advisers, Rees-Mogg, Patterson, Ridley, et al, are rather more obviously oriented in ideology, than evidence based science.
FWIW my previous complaints to BBC about Today's 1v1 adversarial discussions, on e.g. Lord Lawson, have met with well practised straight bats.
Johnb 24 August 2017 at 08:07
Quote:- "he responded by saying "all these trumped up economists and the consensus they are all hired hands"'. Well Simon, there's another mention of the consensus for the BBC to count.
"Let me give an analogy. Suppose a report of a medical trial had suggested a miracle cure for some serious disease. The report had not been peer reviewed, and its author had connections to a drug company that stood to benefit from the alleged cure, but the BBC had decided to give it considerable publicity nevertheless."
This is exactly what happens in certain mainstream newspapers, and I fear that the BBC is heading the same way. It has neither the capacity nor willingness to exercise quality control. One possibility is that the unwillingness to exert quality control would put it in open conflict with the right-wing press and it wants to avoid that.
Guano
StuartP 24 August 2017 at 12:48
Your group of 'individuals and groups that are experts on international trade' doesn't seem to include a single person who trades anything internationally.
This reminds me of the accusations of "science by press conference" around the link between the MMR vaccination and autism. Fundamentally the media seems ill-suited to covering discussions within academia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMR_vaccine_controversy#Media_role
Mervyn Hyde 24 August 2017 at 16:01
This extract from Wikipedia sums up the BBC perfectly for me:
"Israeli–Palestinian conflict[edit]
Criticism of the BBC's Middle East coverage from supporters of both Israel and the Palestinians led the BBC to commission an investigation and report from a senior broadcast journalist Malcolm Balen, referred to as the Balen Report and completed in 2004. The BBC's refusal to release the report under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 resulted in a long-running and ongoing legal case.[45][46] This led to speculation that the report was damning, as well as to accusations of hypocrisy, as the BBC frequently made use itself of Freedom of Information Act requests when researching news stories.[47]
After the Balen report, the BBC appointed a committee chosen by the Governors and referred to by the BBC as an "independent panel report" to write a report for publication which was completed in 2006. Chaired by the British Board of Film Classification president, Sir Quentin Thomas, the committee found that "apart from individual lapses, there was little to suggest deliberate or systematic bias" in the BBC's reporting of the middle east. However, their coverage had been "inconsistent," "not always providing a complete picture" and "misleading", and that the BBC failed to adequately report the hardships of Palestinians living under occupation.[47][48][49] Reflecting concerns from all sides of the conflict, the committee highlighted certain identifiable shortcomings and made four recommendations, including the provision of a stronger editorial "guiding hand"."
As a casual observer of the media and BBC in particular I have always recognised the bias, the BBC has been decked out completely by establishment sycophants that peddle propaganda as though it were fact
An old trick explained to me by a local journalist, was ommission, when for example this journalist (we used to call them that in the 1970s ) said that when he wrote an article favourable to Labour in some respect, the editor had a blue coloured pencil and just crossed through it, cancelling out balance in reporting.
We only have to look at the people now presenting politics at the BBC to know what the BBC represents, Nick Ferrari being the latest addition to the Tory Stable. The latest applicant to join Theresa May's team Robbie Gibb, Robbie Gibb edits the Daily and Sunday Politics programmes. now the new Tory Communication director.
There were always people that would cry out conspiracy theory when others made claims that the establishment had a hand in any of the underhand tricks perpetrated against the public at large, but today we see it first hand as an open conspiracy, and they simply don't care.
The latest evidence of that is hot of the social media, "Traingate" where Branson lied about Jeremy corbyn pointing out overcrowding on
Virgin trains.
https://twitter.com/ToryFibs/status/900309939201204224?t=1&cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjc18y&refsrc=email&iid=f05e1f2c1ab74bcfb733f30da6abbff3&uid=330210724&nid=244+289476608
Perhaps the BBC are cleverer than you think. Had they interviewed bankers, market experts, and indeed even economists, during the 1990s and early to mid 2000s, they would be told that deregulation of international labour, goods and even capital markets was a unanimously good thing because it ensured "an efficient allocation of resources" - and this would be the unquestioned mainstream consensus. This would be based on evidence presented by "experts" with "sophisticated" models that only they could understand. Sceptics, which would have included people with backgrounds in history, philosophy, anthropology and history would have been ignored.
I suspect the BBC also gives voice to climate change denialists. However, even if they do they would have little traction in the eyes of the public because the science behind climate change is fundamentally sound. It does not rely on abstraction; scientists literally go to glaciers and collect all kinds of quantitative and non-quantitative evidence. The science is also multidisciplinary - and includes every one from historians (real ones) to soil experts. When was the last time you got primary evidence from the labour market, including paying a view visits to factories? Do you do this or do you just input numbers into an econometric model? The recent financial crisis exposed the economics (and financial) profession and their models and ways of doing things for what they were. Of course such experts are going to be met with scepticism.
I do not like Patrick Minford and his rational expectations models, but I do appreciate what the BBC is trying to do.
I'm not alone in finding BBC 'news' coverage increasingly 'tabloid', by which I mean sensationalist and lacking rigorous analysis.
I used to think that if each of the main political parties was insistent that the BBC was biased against it that that was a fair sign that it was doing a good job in its attempts at impartiality.
BBC impartiality on the matter of Scottish affairs is also seemingly non-existent.
Increasingly I turn to Al Jazeera (online) for a view that may be more balanced. I no longer regard the BBC as a reliable news source. In fact I'd go so far as to say that that I regard it as a source of 'establishment' (not necessarily government) propaganda.
And I decline to pay the licence fee. Have done for a number of years and recommend others to do likewise. Not being exposed to television 'noise' is very mentally liberating I find.
It is important to chat to Japanologists (and I stress Japanologists - not so called Japan experts who go to Model rather than an extensive knowledge of the country).
The Japanese had to put up with a lot during the 1990s and 2000s when the macro-elite (including the IMF and OECD) said that their debt levels were too large. This included, by the way, Paul Krugman - for a very long time before he changed his tune. But believe me it was what you would call the Japanese heteredoxy and old-school Japanese economists saying that Japan should not worry about its government debt levels because of malaise in the private sand especially the financial sector - not mainstream economists (including Japanese economists who were part of this international elite).
Careful with this "borrowing in your own currency" thing. While this is true for Japan (which is, perhaps surprising to many, largely a closed country), it is not for say South Korea - which must borrow in dollars to finance its trade. Such countries are OK as long as they do not have large external deficits.
NK.
Andrew Carey 27 August 2017 at 21:32
Perhaps it is time to make the BBC accountable to the people who pay for it. The current system of a Board appointed by people appointed by government is not healthy imv.
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Enroll-HD is a longitudinal, observational, multinational study that integrates two other HD registries, REGISTRY in Europe and COHORT in North America and Australia, while also expanding to include sites in Latin America and Asia. With annual assessments and no end date, Enroll-HD is building a comprehensive database of longitudinal clinical information and biospecimens that will be used to develop tools and biomarkers for disease progression and prognosis, identify clinically-relevant disease characteristics, and establish clearly-defined endpoints for interventional studies.
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Catalytic N_2-to-NH_3 Conversion by Fe at Lower Driving Force: A Proposed Role for Metallocene-Mediated PCET
Chalkley, Matthew J. and Del Castillo, Trevor J. and Matson, Benjamin D. and Roddy, Joseph P. and Peters, Jonas C. (2017) Catalytic N_2-to-NH_3 Conversion by Fe at Lower Driving Force: A Proposed Role for Metallocene-Mediated PCET. ACS Central Science, 3 (3). pp. 217-223. ISSN 2374-7943. PMCID PMC5364448. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20170221-122959469
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We have recently reported on several Fe catalysts for N_2-to-NH_3 conversion that operate at low temperature (−78 °C) and atmospheric pressure while relying on a very strong reductant (KC_8) and acid ([H(OEt_2)_2][BArF_4]). Here we show that our original catalyst system, P_3^BFe, achieves both significantly improved efficiency for NH_3 formation (up to 72% for e^– delivery) and a comparatively high turnover number for a synthetic molecular Fe catalyst (84 equiv of NH_3 per Fe site), when employing a significantly weaker combination of reductant (Cp*_2Co) and acid ([Ph_2NH_2][OTf] or [PhNH_3][OTf]). Relative to the previously reported catalysis, freeze-quench Mössbauer spectroscopy under turnover conditions suggests a change in the rate of key elementary steps; formation of a previously characterized off-path borohydrido–hydrido resting state is also suppressed. Theoretical and experimental studies are presented that highlight the possibility of protonated metallocenes as discrete PCET reagents under the present (and related) catalytic conditions, offering a plausible rationale for the increased efficiency at reduced driving force of this Fe catalyst system.
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© 2017 American Chemical Society. ACS AuthorChoice - This is an open access article published under an ACS AuthorChoice License, which permits copying and redistribution of the article or any adaptations for non-commercial purposes. Received: January 9, 2017. Publication Date (Web): February 14, 2017. This work was supported by the NIH (GM 070757) and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. This work used the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), which is supported by National Science Foundation Grant No. ACI-1053575. M.J.C., T.J.D.C., and B.D.M. acknowledge the support of the NSF for Graduate Fellowships (GRFP). Author Contributions: M.J.C., T.J.D.C., and B.D.M. contributed equally to this work. The authors declare no competing financial interest.
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Catalytic N2-to-NH3 Conversion by Fe at Lower Driving Force: A Proposed Role for Metallocene-Mediated PCET Matthew J. Chalkley, Trevor J. Del Castillo, Benjamin D. Matson, Joseph P. Roddy, and Jonas C. Peters ACS Central Science 2017 3 (3), 217-223 DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.7b00014
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Sapphic Musk: "Nordic" Homo Ladies Invade Silver Lake's Spanish Quarter!
"Nordic" punk metal rockers Sapphic Musk occupied El Cid Restaurant on Saturday night, much to the delight of the crowd (sapphic inclinations or not) who welcomed the invaders with open arms. Sapphic Musk is comprised of veteran LA rockers vocalist Sara Truusselson (Sara T. Russel, Silver and Gold, Sharp Ease), guitarist Miia Ferraarigaard (Mia Ferraro, Silver and Gold, Bobsled), bassist Christie Greinwiod (Christy Greenwood), and drummer Tamz Garmaskagaard (Tammy Germani). Among those in the crowd who were eye-and-ear witness to the one hour adrenalin-inducing rock occupation were Carole Pope (Rough Trade), Chris Freeman (Pansy Division, GayC/DC) and bandmate Brian Welch (GayC/DC). Sapphic Musk have promised to "return" to America soon – from the crowd's reaction this will be a re-occupation they look forward to!
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3 Responses to Sapphic Musk: "Nordic" Homo Ladies Invade Silver Lake's Spanish Quarter!
Great pictures! Any idea when Pansy Division is going to play again?
nope, they usually play only 1-2 times a year…they all live in different cities!


Federal Court Justice Richard Mosley has ruled that the applicants in the recent high-profile election fraud legal challenge will not have to pay the Conservative Party $355,907 in legal costs, ruling on a reimbursement request that was filed this past June.
In the Conservative's bid to commit "trench warfare" (called by the judge) by delaying the court, thus increasing the costs to the applicants and ultimately Canada's democracy, they were unable to garner the reimbursements from the high-profile election fraud challenge.
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