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Mr Hoskins was an actor who portrayed many roles. One role he never portrayed however was that of a spoilt brat with more money than sense. As Chish says, he was down to earth and likeable for it.
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Trevaunance
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Hi and welcome back, daunting though that my be.
We remember you from the good old days in the south east chatroom, though we never had the fortune to meet.
Hope you enjoy your time back here
We remember you from the good old days in the south east chatroom, though we never had the fortune to meet.
Hope you enjoy your time back here
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That program was first aired just before Christmas IIRC and it was a pile of crap.
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I'm old before my time. The reality is I am already a museum piece, literally. But I still cling to life. I rarely watch BBC, in fact the only BBC program I watch on the TV is Doctor Who!
I for one am not heartened by today's decision, but dismayed that i am still being taxed for a service I don't want.
I for one am not heartened by today's decision, but dismayed that i am still being taxed for a service I don't want.
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I object to paying for a TV licence, so I don't pay it
It looks like you may no longer be a criminal if these get there way. Sasha won't have to bake any more cakes with files in!
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Of course it's always in the last place you look. Once you have found it you stop looking don't you?
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Some other snippets from 'experts':-
A physicist - At 80kmph - water is harder than concrete.
An RAF SAR pilot - A person wearing a high visibility jacket is only visible at a range of in good weather and flat seas.
A Pathologist - Bodies would not surface until day 7-8 when decomposition gases make them buoyant.
A Marine Biologist - the bodies may never be found as the South China sea is a breeding ground for Sharks and March/April/May is the main breeding season....
They seem reasonable.
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No I don't buy that one, there have been many cases of planes crashing in remote areas sometimes vast in size such as Siberia or the Andes or remote parts of Australasia, South America and Canada black boxes have been pivotal in finding these aircraft.
No they haven't.
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Now I buy it.
I just did some googling and your right, it is water activated, but that seems a bit silly, for the reasons I stated in my previous post, it is not just when planes are submerged or crash into the sea that it might be helpful to have a homing signal pinging away, we have the technology, otherwise how would air traffic control know where the aircraft was in the first place ? it seems crazy that a black box doesn't have the same equipment that the cockpit has in sending out a signal to ATC, often the cockpit is destroyed but the black box is not, which means that the signal the cockpit sends to ATC is lost.
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The simple fact is that the aircraft wreckage will be found by an emergency location transmitter. However the batteries on these tend to last no more than 48 hours reflecting the easier locating and rescue of people on board and the increased likelihood of surviving. This is not the black box that you keep talking about. If an aircraft crashes on land the boxes will be easier to locate within the wreckage.
The black box has the submersible activation method to locate the black box, not necessarily the aircraft, because wreckage settling on the sea floor can be spread over a larger area, dispersed by tidal influences and even covered over by shifting sands. The chemical reaction in the submersible activator will last for around 30 days.
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The purpose of the homing beacon is to help identify the crash site where there is little or no sign of the wreckage, such as under the sea. If the aircraft crashes on land then the wreckage, debris field or impact zone is far easier to detect, especially today with the use of satelite imagery. Some systems include a battery pack activated by a fail safe mechanism in reaction to the loss of external power, but these tend to only last for a short period, maybe 48 hours at most in reflection of the easier detection on land.
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if i was in charge all women would have to wear mini skirts by law :lickface:
it appears at least one agrees with you
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But critics have raised concerns that Britain could suffer ‘mission creep’ and be sucked into another bloody war just as fighting in Afghanistan - which has cost 444 UK lives - is drawing to a close.
Really? Hmmm? Who'd have thought there was any risk of British troops fighting a war in Africa.
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Political and military chiefs have acted amid mounting fears that Libya is rapidly becoming a safe haven for Islamist fanatics after Colonel Gadaffi was toppled in October 2011
Libya was no stranger to terrorism; but Gadaffi was considered as one of the best influences against AQ et al in Africa. He had a zero tolerance policy towards them, ironically some would say. Libya was actually carrying out counter-terrorist operations and repression for many years leading up to the revolt. This enhanced his value to the US and other western governments and reflects how in the years leading up to the revolt Libya was slowly improving relations with the West.
Ironically someone who was perhaps a good ally (symbolically at least) with us against AQ was bought down by AQ elements (amongst others) with our support. Creating a power vacuum in a state awash with factious in fighting and weapons by the lorry load. Arms dumps all over Libya are slowly being discovered and emptied, and who knows who is getting their hands on them.
The trouble is once you *start interfering it's difficult to stop.
*edited because I'm a biff :lol:
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So called 'black boxes' continuously operate from the moment ground power is attached to the aircraft. Aircraft are equipped with sensors that gather data. There are sensors that detect acceleration, airspeed, altitude, flap settings, outside temperature, cabin temperature and pressure, engine performance and other data including the cockpit voice recorder. Passenger carrying aircraft are usually equipped with two devices, although some aircraft can have up to four to allow a greater chance of detection and usefull data collection in the event of a disaster. They are installed in the tail of the plane because putting them in the back of the aircraft increases their chances of survival. Magnetic-tape recorders can track about 100 parameters, however they are slowly being phased out for sold state (hard drives/memory cards etc). Solid state recorders can track more than 700 types of data in larger aircraft.
If a plane crashes into the water, the 'homing beacon' is activated by a submergence sensor on the side of the beacon that looks like a bull's-eye. When water touches this sensor, it activates the beacon. Much like the automatic lifeboat launchers on ships.
Black boxesare not actually black. Think about it, being coloured black would make them hard to find. They are day glo orange with reflective strips.
If a plane crashes into the water, the 'homing beacon' is activated by a submergence sensor on the side of the beacon that looks like a bull's-eye. When water touches this sensor, it activates the beacon. Much like the automatic lifeboat launchers on ships.
Black boxesare not actually black. Think about it, being coloured black would make them hard to find. They are day glo orange with reflective strips.
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And you know that the soldiers have decided ? I am sure they will have something to say about serving an what they will see as an English army who might however slight the chance, be called upon to fight against Scotland.
Of course I don't know for sure. But nobody does. Many of the guys that may one day have to make that decision are still in schools and colleges as we speak. Here's some .
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I think they are simply looking in the wrong place. The aircraft would not have dropped instantaneously from the sky, unless blown up, as it would still maintain some of it's forward momentum. The trouble is that if whatever caused the crash in the first place threw the aircraft to face a different direction then it's not going to have crashed where it's expected to.
Whatever has happened is clearly very strange so perhaps there is a strange explanation to the aircraft being missing. Maybe the aircraft has sunk in the deep water and is relatively intact rather than a mangled wreck. It's unlikely but possible.
Whatever has happened is clearly very strange so perhaps there is a strange explanation to the aircraft being missing. Maybe the aircraft has sunk in the deep water and is relatively intact rather than a mangled wreck. It's unlikely but possible.
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Mostly agreeing with Mids, the EU seems to want to try and have just about EVERY Country on the Continent to be influenced by or part of the EU. Obviously Russia has a large interest in Ukraine and is especially sensitive about Crimea, as it is home to the Black Sea Fleet.
I think Putin has got his way now and Crimea will go back to being part of Russia, but Putin perhaps should have invited independent observers in to oversee the referendum. He should also have distanced himself from the deposed Ukraine President and promised to work with outside Nations to recover for Ukraine any money stolen by the ex-pres.
Putin is no fool and he can out-smart very many Western Politicians.
I think your right, Putin has got his way and knew he would all along. He deployed his troops in full view of the world into an independent country and bullied his way to what he wanted knowing full well that no military force would be sent against him and that economic force is largely balanced in his favour, at least it is in the short term.
Makes you wonder where they're gonna try to claw back next?
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As Scottish people would reside outside the United Kingdom and would not be members of the British Commonwealth the rules are very clear, the British Army would have no right to hold them to their original allegiance having accepted that they are no longer part of the United Kingdom in the same way that soldiers from Rhodesia were released from the British Army when they became an independent Nation.
Individual members of the UK Armed Forces, in whatever units they serve, could not simply be moved into the forces of a separate Scottish state. Existing members of the UK Armed Forces would still be part of the UK Armed Forces and, as far as the UK Government is concerned, would be able to continue to serve in them.
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There is no such entity as Scottish troops. They are Scottish by birth and serve in the British armed forces swearing allegiance to the Monarch and the Union as a whole, not a constituent country. I also doubt that any of them would be released from the forces 'immediately' in the case of a yes vote for independence. But that's a tangent.
The fact that the UK Government and Scottish parliament are working together and that, aside from campaigning, it is business as usual goes to show how different that situation is from the one in Ukraine. It is a peaceful democratic vote not an armed invasion by third country nationals.
The fact that the UK Government and Scottish parliament are working together and that, aside from campaigning, it is business as usual goes to show how different that situation is from the one in Ukraine. It is a peaceful democratic vote not an armed invasion by third country nationals.
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Is this situation any different to the one we have here in the United Kingdom where we are about to respect the wishes of the Scottish voters should they decide to leave the Union and become an independent Nation ? The Crimea has it's own Russian and Ukraine approved parliament and operates as an independent state of the Ukraine.
Scotland has it's own government. Scotland doesn't want to join another nation. Neither Scotland, England or any other country has deployed armed troops on the streets to force the issue. So it is similar, but not the same.
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Well don't blame me blame the BBC for the way they reported it giving the impression to not only me but obviously to those who felt left out that they had been omitted, a good reporter would have said to those people "but details of the measures taken for your area have already been announced" when the people said what they said to them, but there again we all know that reporters do like to be controversial and have been known to leave bits out in order to make news
I'm not blaming you, I'm educating and informing you.
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I'm sure they are doing well and I wish them well. However I am ambivalent at best towards the winter Olympics and watched very little. With only 15 Team GB athletes in the winter Paralympics it floats my boat even less.
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Yes I do recall you saying that people up north were concerned that they weren't going to be seeing any benefit from an announcement of funds for the Somerset levels. But that goes to show how stupid they are.
I also recall you saying that it was wrong not to have mentioned other parts of the country in the announcement on the Somerset levels, despite the fact that there was mention of other parts of the country in your own pasting of the announcement.
Im suprised you couldn't carry out a simple search and find information, it has been freely available to me and predates your own posting so must have been available at the time.
So it would appear that the rest of the country had announcements made for it some time ago, and in fact it is Somerset that has been left behind again.
I also recall you saying that it was wrong not to have mentioned other parts of the country in the announcement on the Somerset levels, despite the fact that there was mention of other parts of the country in your own pasting of the announcement.
Im suprised you couldn't carry out a simple search and find information, it has been freely available to me and predates your own posting so must have been available at the time.
So it would appear that the rest of the country had announcements made for it some time ago, and in fact it is Somerset that has been left behind again.
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But if you want a personal opinion mine would be that it is a little tactless by the government to announce payments to one sector of the community hit by flooding and regarding the future of the problem not the present situation.
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It just might have been more prudent as part of the statement to say something to the effect of "we will be looking at measures to prevent flooding in other areas of the Country as well as prevention funds for the Somerset area which has been hit the most"
Did you not read what you copied?
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Standing in for Environment Secretary Owen Paterson who was rushed to hospital overnight for emergency eye surgery, Communities Secretary Eric Pickles announced new £130m funding to repair damaged flood defences and outlined plans to 42 new flood defence schemes that will be completed during this parliament.
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Pickles also announced further details on the government's pipeline of new flood defence schemes, confirming that 42 new schemes will be delivered in 2014 and 2015, including projects to protect homes in Salford, Clacton and Willerby. And he confirmed plans for a new six year programme of flood protection projects would be announced by the autumn, confirming "record levels of capital investment in improving defences" that would rise to £400m a year by the end of the decade.
A quick and easy search shows that some of the other schemes are:
£9.4 million Port Clarence and Greatham scheme in Teesside which will improve protection to 350 homes from flooding;
£4 million scheme in Croston, Lancashire which will improve protection to 460 homes from the River Yarrow; and
£2.5 million scheme on the Upper River Tame in Titford, which will improve protection to 150 homes.
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There was a discussion on this subject on the Jeremy Vine show today. To be fair there was lots of anecdotal evidence of less than honest users of the service.
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It's not as bad now as it has been in the past; It helps that we have stricter border controls on the Chunnel and legal jurisdiction at the other end.
Personally I don't think that other governments are complicit, but by immigrants transiting through there country, for example France, and ending up here it prevents the French from having to support them.
Personally I don't think that other governments are complicit, but by immigrants transiting through there country, for example France, and ending up here it prevents the French from having to support them.
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Anyway, £100 million to prepare for future problems, I consider that very cheap and very affordable by the Nation,
I'm not sure where you get the figure of £100M from or what it would fund, but in principal I agree that it is an affordable amount.
I think more information will be forthcoming over the next week or so as questions are put to the Government by the opposition and media about the sum of money.
How right you are. The first thing they need to announce is where the remaining 80% of the money is coming from!
As for the guys up north, I really don't think they will get any money from the 'Somerset levels flood action plan'
