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No chesters, no trick questions, not a scam.
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Monty Hall Paradox
The Monty Hall problem is a probability puzzle based on the American television game show Let's Make a Deal. The name comes from the show's host, Monty Hall. The problem is also called the Monty Hall paradox, as it is a veridical paradox in that the result appears absurd but is demonstrably true.
The problem can be unambiguously stated as follows:
Suppose you're on a game show and you're given the choice of three doors. Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. The car and the goats were placed randomly behind the doors before the show. The rules of the game show are as follows: After you have chosen a door, the door remains closed for the time being. The game show host, Monty Hall, who knows what is behind the doors, now has to open one of the two remaining doors, and the door he opens must have a goat behind it. If both remaining doors have goats behind them, he chooses one randomly. After Monty Hall opens a door with a goat, he will ask you to decide whether you want to stay with your first choice or to switch to the last remaining door. Imagine that you chose Door 1 and the host opens Door 3, which has a goat. He then asks you "Do you want to switch to Door Number 2?" Is it to your advantage to change your choice? (Krauss and Wang 2003:10)
As there is no way for the player to know which of the two remaining unopened doors is the winning door, most people assume that each of these doors has an equal probability and conclude that switching does not matter. In fact, the player should switch—doing so doubles the probability of winning the car from 1/3 to 2/3.
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Telephone SCAM
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Watch out for this one.
I was called today by a company called Dolphin International London
they said they were government approved and I had been chosen to get a device which when plugged into my power supply would reduce my costs by up to 45%.
The worrying thing was they had more of my personal details than I am happy for anyone to have, including the first 4 digits of my card.
they asked that I take out my card and confirm the rest of the numbers.
I refused and accused them of scamming and the guy said they had to check that it wasn't a stolen or lost card.
I told him to "go away".
Trading Standards, my bank, my power co and police informed.
BE ON YOUR GUARD, he nearly got me.
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Donfish, we won't have too much in common in terms of angling practices unfortunately. We return all of our tope so generally fish barbless hooks, we don't lift them by the tails as this damages their delicate linings around the organs. I understand in principle why you have posted, and maybe understanding the UK way of fishing for these sorts of species might be a benefit to you guys.
I'm not preaching, just pointing out that we hate pictures of dead sharks!
Very diplomatic response Glasgowdan,
Donfish, for the accepted code of practice in UK see ;
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Thanks Glen! To be honest I was hoping you would be a replier! I KNOW you have spent a long time on this!
Anymore please guys/Gals?
Have a look at Freeola.com
I use them no problems easy to use for non techies, & cheap
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Kliny try here for a bit of nostalgia.
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=h.../fiat_600_s1.jp
sorry that's a rubbish link. but there's lots of photos from its launch till 1969.
happy new year to you
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Hi HD, I really dont know whats going on with the worms mate. I dont like to think about it too much or I might never eat fish again. Ive heard all sorts of theories but no one seems to know what the cause is.
for some answers look here http://www.fao.org/wairdocs/tan/x5951e/x5951e01.htm
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Glad to see that there are still a few things that we see eye to eye on. A 'pet' stag is a risky prospect and as you say once adult they will be dangerous as soon as they go into rut for the first time. My grandparents had a female red deer (Elk to you Newt) as a pet for many years when my father was a child. My grandad found her in the hills when she was a fawn, some tosspot had shot the mother. If it had been a male he would have cut its throat on the spot.
In the end she was given to Calderpark Zoo. I believe that there is still a gravestone in the zoo for Dainty the Deer, it was there when I was a child at any rate.
Cory, sorry to say Calderpark Zoo closed Aug 2003.
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Im very New to growing my own vegies but have enjoyed doing it over the last three years with quite a high degree of success in the past, this year however Half my Runer Bean plants after initialy doing well and produceing flowers and imature beans wilted and died with no sign of infestation or indication to a reason, Also Ive got a bumper crop of toms that wont rippen, the plants are showing signs of dieing off allready full of Large healthy looking Green unripe fruit. I have started to rippen some on the windowcill but I prefer to have them go red on the Plant, What am I doing wrong Guys, Allso my carrots got to six inch plants and then gave up the ghost no sign of Carrot fly!!
FB; if they are in the greenhouse, put the heater on, it's heat that ripens toms more than sunlight,
perhaps an earlier start next year is called for to let them develop healthier roots, and good REGULAR water & feed. hope this helps.
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Blimey indeed.
I like the bit in the report that says ;
Some Kinshasa residents accuse a separatist sect from nearby Bas-Congo province of being behind the witchcraft in revenge for a recent government crackdown on its members
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Paracetamol can also be fatal to dogs. Cats cannot tolerate aspirin.
And for cat lovers, never bring lilies into the house.
lily pollen, even in small doses can be fatal if ingested by a cat.
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Can't give you the CEO's number, but for "high level complaints" it's 0113 2229100.
Tom Alexander
Orange Centre Office
The Point
37 North West Road
Paddington
London W2 1AG
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Hello
I' m a french fisherman. Living in Normandy. I like feeder and float fishing.
I' m happy to join the forum. The posts are very interesting.
Sorry for my english .
Welcome Manni,
I lived in Normandy for 8yrs St Ouen D'attez between Verneuil sur Avre & Breteuil sur Iton.
I miss the carp fishing and my friends in Normandy.
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This is not something that happened in camera or in subsequent post processing, I saw this and deliberately photographed it...admittedly badly.
The day was misty with huge banks of it difting all over the lake district early morning, I walked away from the circle to get a shot of the complete thing and saw this, what looks like an aura.
Has anyone any idea or explanation of what it is or is it just too many Druids clanking their crstals?
Steve...
Steve, check out this link, http://www.philiplaven.com/p2b.html
perhaps a fog bow
den.
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...and that'll be two minutes of my life wasted, No thanks. I'll carry on writng letters that seem to be making some kind of an impact. Is this what I had to stop getting folk to write letters for...
Petitions are useless - worse than useless they give folk the mistaken impression they have done something useful for conservation, whereas they have simply wasted a few minutes of their time.
The Uk government and the EU are both now talking about doing something to stop the plundering of the spurs in the west coast lochs, much better to keep up the pressure by writing letters to individual MP's MSP's MEP's etc - it is very easy to do so by using www.writetothem.com
and it gets some action!
"...and that'll be two minutes of my life wasted, No thanks. I'll carry on writng letters that seem to be making some kind of an impact."
Add that to the other 7 minutes you wasted criticising people who are prepared to try any and all avenues open to them to make a difference in their sport.
Those you choose to call time wasters may in fact be the very ones who get off their computer chairs and do actual deeds to benefit anglers.
Perhaps the targets of your criticism were physically attending meetings in Edinburgh to push for an Economic Survey relating to angling in Scotland, and those who pressed for the Defra Survey on Tope Exploitation, along with those who gave up their time to go to Brussels and speak directly with Government Officers on shark issues.
Allow each person their freedom to choose how much or how little they can or will do.
The Government and the EU may indeed be talking about Spurs, so, when they get back to you, will you share it with us?
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Although i don't usually post my fishing results, I though some would be interested to know we beat the British Bull Huss record today with a fish just over 23 pounds; on a day that produced 20 tope to 55 pounds
The Huss would have beaten the present record by over a pound. The fish was of course returned unharmed
Nice one Ian, well done!!!!!
den.
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Posted on behalf of David. Please add all replies to this thread:
Unfortunately David was probably eating one of the fish we are trying to get listed as endangered.
viz;
Previously used for the liver oil Spiny Dogfish are now primarily caught for their
meat which is sold as ‘rock salmon’ in restaurants and fish and chip shops.
the Spurdog.
Denis Kelly Liaison Officer Save-Our-Sharks
www.save-our-sharks.org
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Hiya,
Hope someone can help me here, i'm looking for a length of the white plastic board that goes round the underneath of the roof (sofit ??), I dont know the proper term for it, so cant really be surprised that the builders merchants I call, dont know what I am talking about...
:)Any help, gratefully received.
Cheers guys...
:)Hi Norrie look here, suppliers throughout uk, the word to search is "Roofline"
http://www.bayplastics.co.uk/product%20gui...pp-roofline.htm
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http://www.ices.dk/marineworld/fishmap/ice...rsemackerel.pdf
Mackerel, like most scombrids, are highly-streamlined, fast-swimming, pelagic fish, and they are
widespread in shelf seas of the North Atlantic, usually at depths of less than 200 m. They are a classic
shoaling fish, with shoals of up to 9 km long, 4 km wide, and 40 m deep being reported [2]. Mackerel is
caught in large quantities with purse seines and large pelagic trawls, but is also rewarded by anglers as a
sporting fish. Having no swim bladder, even dense schools do not show up clearly on echo sounders.
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Cheers mate I will put the chainsaw away then
http://middlepath.com.au/plant/loquat.php
Five bellies, even more than you wanted to know.
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Strange coincidence; did anyone notice the name of the restaurant;
To sum up "zizi" is the official (LAROUSSE) for a boy's "willy"
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Cycling along the country lanes this morning, a bird flew out from beneath the nearside hedge, in front of my wheel close to the ground, and disappeared into the thicket skirting the field on the other side of the lane.
As it passed in front of me I got a very good look from above.
The size of a blackbird, it's wings were brown, but the top of it's body was brilliant white, with brown 'leopard' markings.
My guess is that it is a female blackbird, which can part albino sometimes.
Yet the patternation was so striking and symmetrical it really didn't look like the kind of accidental mottling that I've seen before.
A pretty and unusual creature nonetheless.
Leon Ithink you may have been very fortunate and saw a rufous cuckoo (apparently always female)
the flight pattern is right. see the link;
http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/...ckoo/index.asp#
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Perhaps he's seen one of those nature films where the crocodiles explode up out of the river to grab the antelope from the waters edge....only he thought people would think him a bit weird if he was known as Antelopeman
We have our very own leopard man in Scotland
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Personally I would have thought that it was illegal to sell it or move it from one place to another without a a licence or permit. If my memory serves me right doesn`t frog spawn come under some form of protection similar to native fish? At least the bloke selling it has not had any offers yet.
On the other hand if it is not illegal to sell it then I may as well cash in myself as a lot of mine will be ruined when I strip the pond anyway.
You'r right Alan, see link
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It's the SSACN Summer Draw
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10 Glasgow Angling Centre filled rig wallets
Help support SSACN - Tickets are £5 per book of 5
To buy tickets log on to www.ssacn.org
Buy online we will post your completed tickets to you.
buy by cheque same procedure.
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