Brexit, for once some facts.

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Just realised what I have had almost going round my head for several weeks:

There she stands among the daffodils she sells,
Dressed in blue and yellow,
Wonder why I felt so much in love with her,
Daisy Lady,
I wonder maybe,
If some lazy day will stray away with me,
Oh, will drive me, crazy...

Due to Covid fears, I now have that hair... and because of the self-isolation effects, also the guitar... I wonder what this tune fixation means to your deep psyche oyster?
 
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Anyone know how many generals Russia has?

Life expectancy must have dropped significantly. So Kremlin likely to save on pension payments.
 

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Probably just that I am stuck decades back in musical history.
There's nothing wrong with that! It sounds better anyway, recorded on tape, which applies it's own natural compression - at the high end some still master on tape, after creating or arranging music digitally for that reason. Wish I could afford an old Ampex.

I'm having a lot of fun with this old Line 6 Amplifi TT - it's a long video, so I recommend skipping around. It sounds a little digital, but that can be mellowed by playing through a cab and recording the output with a Shure SM57 mic:

 
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There's nothing wrong with that! It sounds better anyway, recorded on tape, which applies it's own natural compression - at the high end some still master on tape, after creating or arranging music digitally for that reason. Wish I could afford an old Ampex.

I'm having a lot of fun with this old Line 6 Amplifi TT - it's a long video, so I recommend skipping around. It sounds a little digital, but that can be mellowed by playing through a cab and recording the output with a Shure SM57 mic:

My tape recorder history was using Revox.
 
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My tape recorder history was using Revox.
Not too higha a price, refurbished:


...and many audiophiles prefer tape:

 

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A completely irrelevant observation. The flag of Pembrokeshire has considerable colour commonality with that of Ukraine.

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Fish and vegetables grown near the old Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan can be freely sold in Britain after the Food Standards Agency scrapped a rule on radioactivity levels in produce

Ingenious! food you can not only eat but read by :cool:
The only Japanese food I positively seek is potato starch. But no idea where in the country the potatoes are grown!

And is the change because they have found it is safe, the limit has been increased, or no-one cares any longer?
 

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Fish and vegetables grown near the old Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan can be freely sold in Britain after the Food Standards Agency scrapped a rule on radioactivity levels in produce
And is the change because they have found it is safe, the limit has been increased, or no-one cares any longer?
It's safe, it always has been. The rural people of Chernobyl returned almost immediately after evacuation, being fed up with enforced town life. They've lived there ever since, eating both plant and animal foods they produced on supposedly heavily irradiated lands, producing very healthy children who've grown into healthy adulthood and their parents living into their 80s.

There is far too much hysteria about radiation, with further proofs of that from the pacific atolls used for nuclear bomb testing. When animal life first appeared in primitive forms long ago, the earth's level of radioactivity from uranium 235 was far, far higher then it is today. But that didn't prevent animal life developing to today's pinnacle of homo sapiens, all fed on produce from the land more heavily radioactive in the past.
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It's safe, it always has been. The rural people of Chernobyl returned almost immediately after evacuation, being fed up with enforced town life. They've lived there ever since, eating both plant and animal foods they produced on supposedly heavily irradiated lands, producing very healthy children who've grown into healthy adulthood and their parents living into their 80s.

There is far too much hysteria about radiation, with further proofs of that from the pacific atolls used for nuclear bomb testing. When animal life first appeared in primitive forms long ago, the earth's level of radioactivity from uranium 235 was far, far higher then it is today. But that didn't prevent animal life developing to today's pinnacle of homo sapiens, all fed on produce from the land more heavily radioactive in the past.
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The rates of thyroid disorder including, but not only, cancer are very high in Ukraine and Belarus. And rates of other cancers are also high.

More than 2 million refugees have fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion began on Feb 24, 2022, and over 4 million people, 10% of the population, are expected to be forcibly displaced as they seek safety, creating a wide-ranging humanitarian crisis. Ukraine has a high cancer burden with more than 160 000 new diagnoses in 2020 alone. The country also has one of the highest childhood cancer mortality rates globally. Thus, disparities in cancer care in Ukraine were already high before Russia's unprovoked aggression and will now undoubtedly worsen as a result of the conflict.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045(22)00149-8/fulltext


Thyroid cancers have increased tenfold among Ukrainian children since the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power station disaster. And most of the malignancies are unusually aggressive and rapidly metastasise to nearby lymph nodes, reports a new epidemiological study (Cancer 1999; 86: 148–55).
 
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The rates of thyroid disorder including, but not only, cancer are very high in Ukraine and Belarus. And rates of other cancers are also high.

More than 2 million refugees have fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion began on Feb 24, 2022, and over 4 million people, 10% of the population, are expected to be forcibly displaced as they seek safety, creating a wide-ranging humanitarian crisis. Ukraine has a high cancer burden with more than 160 000 new diagnoses in 2020 alone. The country also has one of the highest childhood cancer mortality rates globally. Thus, disparities in cancer care in Ukraine were already high before Russia's unprovoked aggression and will now undoubtedly worsen as a result of the conflict.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045(22)00149-8/fulltext


Thyroid cancers have increased tenfold among Ukrainian children since the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power station disaster. And most of the malignancies are unusually aggressive and rapidly metastasise to nearby lymph nodes, reports a new epidemiological study (Cancer 1999; 86: 148–55).
I was posting about food grown or reared in high radiation regions though.
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Don't you think that at least some cases were caused by consuming local produce?
I've no idea, cancer has so many and varied causes but few caused by natural foods we eat, unless of course eaten to excess.

I take all the information spread about radiation and cancer with a pinch of salt. There's a huge anti all forms of nuclear lobby very active in the world and those involved seize any and every opportunity to be alarmist with their propaganda.
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