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Splendid view of St Ann's Square in M/c. Looks different of course with typical Manc rain and it's remembered in the 1950s when all the buildings were blackened by the soot from the ubiquitous coal smoke. We've come a long way.
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Surely importing young people can't be a sustainable solution to a UK demographic problem. Those young people get old and so it goes on. Also isn't it a problem to draw young people from societies that need them for their own futures?
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Apparently a Zipf distribution is a reasonable fit as a model for this data set but not sure why and maybe just the boring coincidence?
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Probably because they're Spanish speakers. Viva la diferencia! Long may it continue.
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Fair point but it's difficult to argue that UK stupidly leaving the EU threatened the whole world order. Sincere best wishes for your opposition.
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Brock is probably off to Waitrose to do a bit of foraging.
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Can't understand where the Democrats are. Where's their Leader and Spokesperson. The world needs them to act now.
(Apologies, speaking as a Brit probably don't understand the US system).
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Hyperbolic moi?
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At least Trump will have been discomforted by the sentiments in the eulogy delivered by the old grey Dean of the College of Cardinals.
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Similarly what if Mexico invaded the US to "recover" Calif, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico etc that used to be Mexican and Macron told Trump he should give up those states to get "peace".
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Fair enough but if you have a change of heart please let me know! Thanks and keep up the good work.
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Impossible to imagine such a run. Buena suerte hombre.
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It would be really useful if a abridged version of the content of this course could be made available, maybe at nominal cost, to a wide audience of people with an interest in the water cycle.
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Not sure about the BAAS meeting. It might be worth asking the College if there is any record of JCM being there.
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I spy Tewkesbury. This is a view seen almost every year but note the old buildings not flooded they had more gumption. Modern housing built nearby is in the flood plains and only a matter of time. People will then say "why did they let them build"
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Such an amazing man and lost so young. Just down the road: Cheltenham College where he had a temporary role in 1850. No blue plaque though, unfortunately.
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Not a joke more a tragedy. Enjoy your retirement.
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A recipe for disaster. We could expect a whole lot better from the Environment Secretary
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When you go round our town centres there seem to be large numbers of rooms above retail and commercial properties unused. Could these rooms be used for residential purposes for say single people or couples without children. Could ease the pressure to build on green fields?
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We haven't had 'sewage farms' for nearly a century. Sewage treatment works George. Processes for controlling discharge of toxic trade effluent to public sewers in place since 1937 and disposal of sewage sludge to land is or should be controlled. Another case of failure of regulation.
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Apologies for doubting. Raw data ie your site inspection trumps an armchair comment. Presumably the nearby canal overflow would cope with the M6 runoff volumetrically but certainly there would be settling out of particulate matter from the M6 runoff and an effect on canal WQ
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Seems very unlikely that highway drainage would be discharged to the canal given the obvious flooding risk. Could the M6 drainage outfall actually be to the River Douglas, which runs close to the canal but at a lower level?
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Not a brilliant idea to grow watercress downstream of untreated or even treated sewage effluent discharges n'est ce pas?
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Just think how many solar panels could be fitted to that humongous Nissen hut.
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Since when has Severn Trent been treating and discharging sewage effluent in Kent? It should get it's own house in order before venturing into other company's territory?
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I wonder if highway authorities still use urea on elevated sections of motorways? Led to huge spikes in ammonia in d/s watercourses following melt or rainfall.