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I had extended loan of a Gamma and whenever I rode it I tended to keep my fingers on the clutch lever for the irrational fear of it seizing. Light switch throttle response, wafer thin two stroke power band, rigid chassis and tyres like rocks back then, straight off the GP circuit and some lights and indicators flung on. Like my Becketts tuned 350LC, huge amounts of fun though. I had a full power V Max too. Canadian gray import. Yamaha seemed to have invested all their time and money in developing that monster 1,198cc Venture engine - a big-bore, liquid-cooled 70-degree V-4 - where they forgot about the frame to house it. A tubular cradle spindlier than Kate Moss's ribcage, spaghetti forks and a pair of 282mm discs with measly two-pot calipers that you soon discovered fired blanks when you tried to haul the thing up. It steered like a barge and handled like a puppy on a lead, but the V-Boost concept, which kicked in at six grand still makes me smile. The shaft meant that a few horses were shed, but with an engine and torque like that, who cared? The flex meant that the spectre of a tank slapper was never far off, but what I found tended to happen was at 120mph plus the entire bike entered a bizarre lazy wallow, the bar tips in a circular motion which evolved into a slow speed wobble as you rode through it but never a full on slapper. The large airbox under the dummy tank meant that the actual fuel tank had to be housed under the seat, meaning the gas guzzling motor had a paltry range - exactly the same problem as my current FTR. We lament over these prehistoric machines, because they really were truly hard to master, and yet today, we have freaks like the supercharged Ninja H2 which is banned from road use in most civilised countries.

Good advice this - so long as you don't opt for a hyper-sports machine as a first bike! Problem is, there are riders out there that think they are in control but aren't. But as much as power can get you into trouble, it can also get you out of it. Torque is your friend.

Since no further series have been commissioned, no actor has been put on place to play the sixteenth incarnation of the Doctor. It may possibly be that Billie Piper is earmarked for this, but her appearance is certainly to create intrigue and suspense in the absence of certainty about the show's future or who will success Ncuti Gatwa.

Precisely, and this in infinitely more complex that the same rapid prototyping and hardware rich philosophy that was so successful in the development of Falcon. They will continue to learn, iterate, and iterate over and over again until they figure it out. I think one of the most challenging aspects of Flight 9 was the higher angle of attack on the descent of Super Heavy. By increasing the amount of atmospheric drag on the vehicle through this, they can achieve a lower descent speed, which in turn requires less propellant for the initial landing burn. Rather than risking a launch tower, they opted for a hard splashdown - unfortunately, it broke apart at the start of the landing burn.

It's a forum - my apologies if it comes across that way - and there was no "abuse". I remarked on your flawed logic, called your comment ludicrous and populist drivel, which is was. There was no personal or ad hominem attack, rather a rebuke of your opinionated, rather needless post. I'm genuinely sorry if that offends you. Perhaps however, as suggested previously, you shouldn't be such a contrarian purely for the sake of it. Reread what you wrote. It's absurd.

Absolutely ludicrous post. He's in the public eye and high accountability - side from being the US Health Secretary ffs. This is grossly irresponsible. Because much of the American populace have a great track record when it comes to "making up their own minds" don't they - particularly when it comes to public health.. By your flawed logic it would be perfectly fine for him to continue to deter parents rom vaccinating their children due to a claimed link to autism. Because, y'know, you ca't live yur life doing everything with a view tor what other people will think. Pure populist drivel.

There were plenty on here that felt we had a decent chance - as did I. And why shouldn't Forest supporters feel the same?

They probably said exactly the same about us in 2021.

I once knew of a bloke called Walsh that had an eye for them. Jamie Richard Vardy, £1m, Fleetwood; Riyad Karim Mahrez, £450,000 Le Havre; N'golo Kante Caen, £8m.

'10 Hours in L.A.' from Round Corner Brewing, which is branded as a Pacific pale ale renowned for its 'citrusy hop flavours'. Wouldn't disagree.

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No, I really am not. I am wholeheartedly in agreement with you there and that wasn't what I was disputing.

But your argument is predicated upon the false premise that longer working hours are beneficial to the state economy. Studies have shown productivity per hour declines after employees work more than 50 hours a week and the drop off is even more pronounced after 60 hours. That there is an inverse relationship between productivity and longer working hours is now consensual. I think that it is far more likely that in the near future the state retirement age will be raised to 70 - possibly for those born on or after April 1980.

Obviously, disregarding some of the outright abject stupidity that has been posted on this forum, it's hard to recall a recent time in which I've so vehemently disagreed with an opinion from such and ordinarily rational member. Taking Japan as an example, who have long faced international condemnation for their excessive working hours and levels of presenteeism leading to work related stress and related health and well being issues, they are actively working to reduce working hours, with initiatives like the 'Work Style Reform' campaign. This aims to limit overtime, engender flexible work arrangements with the objective of fostering a more favourable work-life balance. The voting public simply will not accept a reversion to a longer working week and the majority of employers will oppose it. We are moving in the opposite direction. Microsoft Japan and a host of other companies, including Panasonic and Unilever, experimented with a four-day working week. Microsoft Japan's experiment in 2019 reported a productivity increase by 40%. Other companies, like Bolt and Kickstarter, who have also explored the idea still offer it several years after a successful pilot scheme.

Well there was that outrageous pass against Fleetwood Town in the FA Cup, and the assist for Mahrez against Watford. So not strictly true.

People that cause unnecessary queuing at filling stations because they either lack the confidence to use the opposite side to their fuel tank filling or are completely unaware of the hose reach on fuel pumps.

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Meanwhile, on a different subject, spectroscopic analysis is not definitively conclusive about whether Betelgeuse is in the core helium or carbon burning stage of its evolution. Some studies conclude that the star is likely in the late stage of core carbon burning, and a good candidate for the next Galactic Type II supernova. Observations of Betelgeuse's pulsation periods and changes in spectral lines during the star's dimming in 2019 and 2020 indicate material movement and shedding, further supporting the red supergiant stage and its potential for a future supernova. For a 15 solar mass star such as Betelgeuse, the carbon burning phase may be as little as 100 years and so it may already have already have gone supernova and we don't yet know, given that we are seeing the star as it was during the reign of Edward IV and the advent of Caxton's printing press. Some astronomers contend that it is somewhere within its penultimate helium burning stage which for a star the mass of Betelgeuse, could be up to 20 million years in duration. I'd suggest ignoring clickbait You Tube or Tik Tok videos that tell you that the star is imminently about to light up the night sky. Betelgeuse is four times the distance that K2-18b is from Earth so in the case of the latter, we are only peering back in time to the reign of Edward VII and propagation of the first transatlantic radio signal. The red dwarf star that it orbits within the habitable zone, is around 2 billion years old. Perhaps in 5 billion years time when the postulated single celled organisms have evolved into advanced sentient beings that (unlike us?) avoid prematurely destroying their civilisation, instead preserving it, they may gaze at and derive measurements of our own star, by then a red giant that has long since engulfed any traces of our own. Only 6% of presently observable galaxies remain reachable meaning 94% already lie beyond our reach. So, even if we traveled at the speed of light, (which according to relativity is impossible since it would require an infinite amount of energy), currently, we’d never catch up to these galaxies. Each year, another 160 billion stars - equivalent to a major galaxy - become newly unreachable. Meanwhile, the 'unobservable universe' which encompasses all that is beyond the reach of our current technology and understanding. is postulated to be at least 250 times larger than the observable universe, or 7 trillion light-years across. The "observable universe" is defined by the distance light has traveled since the Big Bang, roughly 13.8 billion years ago. This means it's a sphere with a radius of about 46 billion light-years, meaning that we can see objects that emitted light 46 billion light-years ago, nothing further. Since the universe's expansion is demonstrably accelerating, all currently observable objects, outside the local supercluster, will eventually appear to freeze in time, while emitting progressively redder and fainter light. Apropos; objects with the current redshift z from 5 to 10, they will only be visible up to an age of 4–6 billion years. In addition, light emitted by objects currently located beyond a certain comoving distance, (about 19 gigaparsecs), will never reach Earth.

As I recall, we played a Europa Conference fixture and the host club, (can't remember whether it was Randers, Rennes or PSV Eindhoven), did their research on our history and unearthed the recording by Jersey Budd which they played pre-match. I may have this wrong...it could have been during the Europa fixtures, but it definitely wasn't Napoli and it was unlikely to have been either Legia Warsaw or Spartak Moscow. Pretty sure it was Rennes or PSV. Anyway, the club quickly adopted it at home.

I have a friend in LA who played in a band with him and the grief has hit him particularly hard. Sadly, he is also suffering from what appears to be terminal cancer.