sandrabbit

As a Leeds follower I've had 4 yrs of this nonsense, every time you get your hopes up they get shot down. I think God hates Leeds (yes I know quite a few football fans of other teams do as well). 

I'm Welsh and hope the rugby doesn't get cancelled last minute like the F1 did (will get back to that in a minute). You can't have a 6 nations game without a crowd, each stadium has it's different charms with the home crowds creating brilliant complimentary atmospheres. 

The F1 is an absolute disgrace, they should have realised what was going to happen when motogp cancelled the main race in Qatar then Buriram as the writing was on the wall especially for Italian teams ( most of the rest are British based). I was watching Sky Sports News in the early hours (about 02:30) and the decision still hadn't been made about racing after the Mclaren news but Mark Slater did say that it looked liked it was going to be cancelled. There were fans at the gate waiting to get in when they heard the news, I'd have been really <deleted> off if I'd flown from Europe to find it had been cancelled at the gate.

Apparently motogp needs 13 races completed to award a championship but I can't see this or F1 completing their respective series. Last week I was looking forward to Qatar and this week Oz and i don't think we will get any competitive racing this season. 

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/mclaren-withdraws-from-australian-gp/4742628/

Breaking news. Mclaren have pulled out of Australian F1 due to 1 of their staff testing positive. I think it will end up being cancelled.

it's not a good move, at least when the tolls are working they have to slow down at the booth gate.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/coronavirus-man-arrested-licking-fingers-161800542.html

This is as bad as that idiot Canadian on a plane to Mexico saying he had the virus and they had to turn back,

9 minutes ago, Logosone said:

Who called for a referendum and took the UK out of the largest single market it was ever in?

I think the largest single market the UK was in the was the world going back just over a 100 years ago.

3 minutes ago, Logosone said:

Toyota and BMW also made clear they are leaving the UK if the trade deal is not good.

Threats, UK biggest market for BMW products outside of Germany. Toyota made their money and want to run same as Ford & GM did in the UK and will lose customers.

Financial institutions always threaten and cut and run, they have no interest in people.

1 minute ago, Logosone said:

Of course, they only made electrical cars in the UK.

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39 minutes ago, Mike Teavee said:

Was in Jomtien last week & the majority of Farang visitors seemed to be from Russia so I’m guessing the beach vendors, restaurants etc... will miss them 

 

in Koh Samet this week & a largish group we’re at Ao Prao beach earlier so I’m guessing their absence would be felt here also

Still a lot of Russians here in Rayong

6 hours ago, rabas said:

Surely, you jest. I live in -

 

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but that was done to outdo the Welsh name and claim the title.

7 hours ago, Tug said:

Good but transfer him from club fed to Angola general population 

no Angola is not so bad, Bangladesh would teach him a lesson

Sorry to see them go as I thought they were quite good for a budget airline plus they had some good flight connections to Cardiff airport.

and Qatar has lost motogp race because they won't allow Italians to travel, moto 2 & 3 were already there testing so this weekend we can look forward to moto2 as the title race but I think moto 3 should be the title race.

https://www.crash.net

get up to date news on motorsport cancellations on this site, plus some good reporting.

On 3/1/2020 at 10:51 PM, Mises said:

Yes, electrical devices cannot be sold in the UK without a fitted fused plug.  And, of course the fuse has to be the correct rating for the device.

 

There are downsides to all this though.  Even if you have a degree in electrical engineering or, in my case, the ability to wire a 3 phase industrial unit safely through experience, it is illegal to fit in your own home an extra socket on a spur off the ring main unless you have a stupid piece of paper from some electrical federation or whatever. It's the same as the legal and medical profession protecting their monopoly.

 

The ultimate stupidity in the UK is PAT testing (Google it) whereby in a commercial environment you have to pay once a year an approved person £2-5 to plug, say your phone charger, with its plastic earth pin in a testing device to record any earth leakage. Well guess what, the result will be zero and the approved guy sticks a sticker on the plug and plans his next holiday to the caribbean because he can do 30-60 an hour, Dito double insulated electrical appliances.

quite agree I have worked in nuclear power stations, offshore etc and because I didn't have part p or whatever it is I couldn't sign off my own work in my own house even though in worldwide commissioning was signing off 3 phase switchgear testing. I am safer than a kitchen fitter or carpenter to wire a spur. the electrical industry discovered how much the gas industry was making from training. I was Corgi registered for industrial gas installations but it wouldn't allow me to work on domestic equipment. when I did my corgi course there were 3 industrial and 3 domestic doing the course and the 3 domestic plumbers did not want to do it and it showed in the test results, 1st time on course you can fail tests 3 times without being kicked off, renewals was 2 times. pat testing is <deleted>, it's snake oil selling when you have a brand new CE certified device and you go on to a site and it has to be pat tested?. the only place i have been that's more stupid than the UK is Aus, I couldn't even switch a breaker off because i wasn't qualified in Aus and the more stupid thing is you could be qualified in east Aus but if you weren't qualified in west Aus you couldn't do the same job and the Aussie guys tried to say the UK was worse.

ps I was representing one of the biggest electrical engineering companies in the world, I was working for a vendor.

1 hour ago, Delight said:

 My question to the experts.

Given the   fast speed that breakers operate at -do you really need an earth

A few years ago I plugged in a brand new water heater

There was an immediate flash and all power in my condo shut down.

The amazing thing was that the breakers in the box in the room all were in the 'ON ' position.

So I have no power in the room but all the power switches showed 'ON'

I contacted the security guard. He opened a large cupboard on the corridor. Then he reset a switch pertaining to my room.

So my Q is given the speed of the breaker in the corridor-is an earth necessary or simply a relic of out of  out date technology

in industry we called it 'belt & braces' which means you are not relying on one thing for your safety. breaker contacts can weld closed which means your rcd won't trip plus rcd's can be damaged by someone doing insulation testing (although I've never seen a domestic electrician insulation testing here).

7 hours ago, Don Mega said:

Thanks, yeah my bad I got my races mixed up.

I crew for a TA2 team and season 1 race is in Hanoi at the F1.... I got my China and Vietnam confused.

but it was old news and you could have searched for it yourself ..............

The FIA has postponed the Chinese formula 1 event April 17-19th. 

1 hour ago, neeray said:

PLUS, can't recall which mini-puppet but one of them predicted that the virus probably won't survive in the hotter weather.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/health-wellness/coronavirus-expert-says-the-virus-will-burn-itself-out-in-about-6-months/679415

5 hours ago, IAMHERE said:

Sounds logical that the virus could hibernate, then return. Isn't herpes a virus? If covid-19 returns to a person are they infectious again?

apparently facial herpes hides in the spine at the neck and sexual herpes hides in the base of the spine.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/294379#Meanwhile,-virus-proteins-are-transcribed-perfectly

9 hours ago, mfd101 said:

he other is that you 'recover' with no further symptoms for a while but the virus is still present and becomes active again at a later date (perhaps for reasons such as stress, tiredness, poor health generally ... )

like malaria

8 hours ago, WaveHunter said:

#1 SCIENTIFIC BASIS FOR BELIEVING THE CASES IN THAILAND MAY BE UNDERREPORTED

So, firstly there is this modelling study, "Assessing spread risk of Wuhan coronavirus within and beyond China, January-April 2020: a travel network-based modelling study  Note, this is not yet peer reviewed.  It was written about two weeks ago.

 

Based on this modelling study, they were able to assess which countries and cities were most at risk for importation of the virus.  What they found is that Thailand should be #1.  It also showed Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea at the top of the list.

 

With the exception of Thailand, all the other locations were accurately forecasted.  So the big questions is WHY WAS THAILAND THE ONLY OUTLIER in this group?

 

 

If you look at this graph in the study showing actual cases reported as of two weeks ago, you can see that the number of cases (on the vertical Y axis) correlated well with their estimated risks shown in the table above.  However, Thailand is the outlier.  You can see that the number of cases is less than you'd expect from the table.

So why is Thailand the outlier here?  There is a high probability that Thailand has missed some of the cases.  In fact, the Ministry of Public health in Thailand now acknowledges this is probably the case, and last week they instituted completely new and much more aggressive screening guidelines and have begun an enhanced second round of tightened screening using the new criteria in 8 provinces popular with Chinese tourists.

 

There is also another report released by the World Health Organization (WHO) and prepared by the Imperial College of London, entitled: Report 6: Relative sensitivity of international surveillance

 

It looked at the actual number of people that travelled from infected areas of China and compared that to the number of cases of Chinese travellers that had been detected with the virus in those countries. 

 

FIGURE 1:  What you see in this graph is that the cases of infected Chinese travellers that have been detected in those countries on the Y axis (vertical axis) works pretty well with the air traffic from Wuhan (on the X axis)

 

FIGURE 2 EXPECTED VS OBSERVED CASES:  Based on their analysis and assumption that countries like Singapore have been pretty good at detecting infected Chinese travelers, they were able to estimate how many cases of Covid-19 should have been detected in those Chinese travelers for the various countries shown.

As you can see, Thailand had many less observed cases (X-axis) than the number that was expected (on the Y-axis). 

 

Since this model proved accurate with Singapore, and most of the other countries tracked, Thailand is again an outlier, and indicates that perhaps these cases of infection were missed.

 

So, these two studies are are not proof that Thailand has more cases than being reported, but they are strong indicators of that being the case.

please stop posting a linear graph, I'm industrial electronics and that's not exponential and then you have the discussion whether it should be base 10 or natural logs and as it is to do with the natural world maybe it should natural logs.............