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I see the week as a hill. Uphill from Sunday night and reaching the peak at Wednesday lunchtime. Then it's all downhill to the weekend.

You can check out any time you like But you can never leave

There's a golden rule in statistics "Correlation does not imply causality". In other words, just because 2 sets of statistics correlate, it does not mean that one has caused (or is caused by) the other. It would need a lot more detailed study to show this.

Sky Movies have been running the Godfather trilogy for the past week or so. I do like I and II but Goodfellas is up there with them.

Benefits were more generous in the 80s even under Thatcher. In 1987 I had a brlef period of unemployment after being made redundant. With a wife, a 6-month old son and a mortgage, the amount I could claim meant that we could just about manage. Fortunately I got a new job after a few weeks so I don't know how it would have been over a longer period.

Euro 2016 - 10th June to 10th July.

Just saw a rather inept performance from Liz Truss (Environment Minister) on the Daily Politics. She was boasting that, last year, the government presided over a record number of house building starts. Andrew Neil asked her how many but she didn't know. So he asked her how did she know it was a record. She replied "Eric Pickles told me". Neil then informed her that, last year there were around 110000 starts whereas in 2006 under Labour, there were 170000 and the average under Labour was greater than their "record". She'd originally said that the record was house completions but when Neil proved her wrong she switched to house starts. She looked extremely uncomfortable and then tried again and said she meant council houses. She'd obviously had no idea of the figures and just expected everyone to believe her fiction.

Where's Guardiola, Ancelotti or Benitez? Surely they would jump at the chance to manage the biggest club with the bestest fans in the world.

One of his pearls of wisdom: "If you can add to what's on the screen then do it, otherwise shut up." Some of todays commentators (especially in football) could learn from that.

Agree Redknapp was crocked but he gave it a good go when he did play. I remember him him being interviewed after the Man U game when we were relegated and he said "The fans applauded us off but we didn't deserve it. We let them down". It may have been professional pride but it seemed like he really cared. Also remember being at the Clock End at Highbury when Howells scored to cancel out Bergkamps goal to earn us our second point of the season (in October).

Interesting article on what would have been reported if it hadn't been captured on video. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/08/walter-scott-shooting-without-video_n_7024404.html?utm_hp_ref=uk&ir=UK

Hope Burnley stay up. I was quite impressed by them at St Marys a few weeks ago. They gave it a real go and there was no diving or rolling around on the floor and no moaning to the Ref. A good honest team with a good manager.

Maybe not..... http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/tottenham-transfer-news-spurs-will-revert-to-policy-of-signing-1015million-players-says-daniel-levy-10151564.html

I remember when Blair was entering Downing St after winning in '97 he said "People will be surprised at how radical we'll be". Great, I thought. He'll start to repair all the damage that Thatcher had done. Instead he carried on where the Tories left off. The fact that Thatcher later expressed her admiration for him and that Cameron admired him says everything about how radical he was, but not quite how a lot of people expected.

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Lifted from a legal advice website (It's Scottish but the law is the same in England): "If private landlords do not respond to complaints of antisocial behaviour in relation to their tenants, occupiers or visitors to the property they own, the local authority can serve an antisocial behaviour notice (ASBN) on the landlord. An ASBN will set out steps that the landlord must take in order to tackle the antisocial behaviour. If the private landlord does not take these steps, the local authority can do a number of things, including obtaining a rent penalty order or a management control order. A rent penalty order means that no rent is payable on the property until the landlord addresses the problem of antisocial behaviour. A management control order means that the local authority takes over the landlord’s functions in relation to the property. In extreme cases, the local authority can refer the landlord to the Procurator Fiscal for prosecution as it is a criminal offence to fail to comply with an antisocial behaviour notice."

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Lets assume that the barrel is cylindrical. If you stand it on its end then the relationship between volume and surface area is linear (if you plotted one against the other you would get a straight line). Therefore half the volume will cover half the surface area and so on. If you lay it on its side the graph would be a sort of "S" shape. Again, half the volume would cover half of the surface area but if it was less or more than half then the relationship would not be linear. So the answer depends on how much you put in the barrel. The maths are pretty straightforward for a true cylinder, the barrel is a bit more complicated. Useful calculator here: http://www.aqua-calc.com/calculate/volume-in-a-horizontal-cylinder

So if they broadcast "The Merchant of Venice", would you accuse them of anti_semitism?

What laws are those?

"The Channel 4 programme makers have said that they have not misrepresented Mr Farage's views. "He was asked a direct question on whether there would be a law against discrimination on the grounds of race or colour and he replied no," he said." I would have thought that most employers want the best person for the job regardless of where they come from.

UKIP announced this morning that, in the unlikely event of them running the country, they would remove racial discrimination laws regarding employment, so that you could be refused a job on racial grounds. Back to the 1950's eh?

Exactly. The opposite also applies. I quite liked John Major. He seemed quite an affable bloke and so does Cameron when he's not being Prime Minister and also Farage (but I think it's an act with him trying to play down his privately educated, City trader background), but I wouldn't vote for any of them.

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Maybe not for much longer. From the New York Times: "Recently, the geneticist J. Craig Venter showed that the entire genetic material of an organism can be synthesized by a machine and then put into what he called an “artificial cell.” This was actually a bit of press-release hyperbole: Mr. Venter started with a fully functional cell, then swapped out its DNA. In doing so, he unwittingly demonstrated that the female component of sexual reproduction, the egg cell, cannot be manufactured, but the male can."