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Thanks to Luis Reyes at AutoNotion (sorry the Headline is too long)

So to process all this data generated by us we need servers. Servers need electricity and water( to cool them down). Microsoft trialed having a server in the coastal waters off Scotland which worked well for them, using the surrounding sea water to cool the servers and an efficient wind powered electricity supply. The underwater tube was hermetically sealed  and pumped full of nitrogen to prevent any oxidisation.

The trial was a success , but the project was scrapped as the concern was how do they access the tube when things go wrong and possibly the practicalities of having an underwater server in a busy New York waterway with all the associated paperwork in getting access. The environmentalists were concerned by “heating up the sea water”.

Enter the Chinese who have built a full scale version of an underwater Server closely based on the Microsoft Pilot and seem to be having some success with it.

The problem remains that Servers on land require, a massive water supply ( for cooling all our hot ideas!) and a small power station requirement for electricity. Not to mention all the concrete used to house the server.

I thank Autonotion for explaining the situation so well,it seems sad that the Servers use so much energy and perhaps we need to understand better what use they are being put to and is it worth destroying the planet?

Thanks to Tommy Begley and Motorcycle News for the Headline.

Sad to say, despite the Ace Cafe being in a superb location in London on the North Circular Road , accessible to many bikers and a Legendary Biker’s Caf, (reopened thirty years ago by Mark Wilsmore )

Since the 17th July this year,it’s had to close its doors at 6pm on Friday evening.

This is a great shame as on a Friday night how brilliant it must have been to gather at this iconic venue and meet up with other bikers over nice food and drink. To sit and watch the world go by in their very boring cars.

Unfortunately, due to irresponsible rat run bikers taking to the North Circular until the early hours and causing distress and potential fatalities Mark had to make the decision that he could no longer open on Friday Evening as the risks to his customers and other road users on the North Circular was too great.

Rossi and Barry Sheene have said that racing on bikes on public roads is a risk too great to take. Stick to the Race Days, with their run offs and no stone walls , barriers or telegraph poles and enjoy your coffee and bacon rolls on a sunny evening. So the Ace Cafe can get back to being a brilliant place to go on a Friday night in London.

Namaste and Thank You for Reading.🙏

Thanks to Georgie Docker at BBC Online News

The Creamfields Festival is held on land owned by the Daresbury Estate, about half an hours drive from Liverpool. I read a blog about someone who has been to the festival four times and recommends it. It’s electronic dance music , House and Tech House, Techno and Trance.

The Daresbury Estate is quite an extensive area, however, in true Modern Day Pirate Fashion, the drug dealers who wanted to “supply” at the festival buried their various stashes in the land where the festival would be held, presumably in the middle of the night over a period of months before the festival started with the intention of unearthing them when the festival was running, thus getting by the strict security at the Festival.

They were foiled by the Police and presumably sniffer dogs who must have had a whale of the time running across the land and finding stashes of buried drugs. The Police with the usual dry humour have said that if anyone wants to reclaim their property to please contact them. The fact that these stashes have been found has probably saved someone’s life, drugs are so dangerous and unpredictable.

Namaste and Thank You for Reading.🙏

Thanks to Dan Sales and BBC Online News for the Headline.

A father and his two sons were on the ascent up to the summit of Mount Fuji when his 7 year old complained that he was tired.

The father in what he described “as a rash decision” decided to continue with his older son and leave the child sitting on a bench with some snacks and a soft drink. The bench was located at a height of 6500ft (over 2000metres) and conditions were foggy and rainy.

The father continued his hike and was three hours hike away when the Police caught up with him and after eight hours he was reunited with his “tired and fussy seven year old”.

The poor dad was probably coerced into going further by the elder son who was probably glad to see the back of the little “whiner”. The dad was caught between a stone and a hard place. Glad it all ended well though.

Namaste and Thank You for Reading.🙏

Thanks to Danielle Herbert and BBC News Online for the Headline

For one little boy a shoe box with gifts in it for Christmas , prepared and sent nearly 40 years ago helped him so much with the trauma of having to leave his home Country of Croatia and move to Sweden , because of the conflict in the Balkans. The boy never forgot that kindness.

All he had was a photo of the two children who had prepared the box and their location written on the back of the photograph, “Mold in Wales”. He put a message out on Facebook through a Mold Community Group and this time social media proved a positive influence and the family who had sent the box recognised their picture and got in touch with the boy who is 40 years old now. The children who sent the box have grown up now and it’s their children who want to keep the tradition of sending shoe box gifts going as they can see what a difference it can make.

Thanks to John Bowden and the Independent Online for the Headline.

I never really trusted polls and now even less. Apparently the candidate who really had no chance and was a poor third in the election anyway. Commissioned a poll to say they were a lot more popular than they were and to make things worse the pollster fiddled the figures to make it look like the candidate James Fishback looked more popular than he was.

Have no fear James Fishback was not elected and also The Polling Aggregator (whoever they are ) said it would not use the particular poll company in its analytics in the future( would we know?)

You can all sleep safely with this knowledge.

Namaste and Thank You for Reading

Thanks to ITVX Online News for the Headline.

This headline struck a chord with me as I have an allotment and enjoy growing all sorts of fruit , vegetables and some flowers on it. There are successes and lots of failures, there’s hard work preparing the soil and there’s the idiosyncrasies of the weather.

The land the allotments have been set up on is part of a large school playing field, but increasingly land around the allotments is being used for Housebuilding. I do wonder , if the land will become too valuable and as the Headline says we will be turfed off to make way for Housing. I hope not.

The article is very sad as the process to remove the people who were growing on their allotments began in February, they were given six months to vacate the plots. Anyone who grows their own fruit and vegetables , knows that August is a busy harvesting period and now the people have been forced to abandon the things they have grown. Despite appeals , the landowner’s agent is insisting that the plots be vacated .

Namaste and Thank You for Reading.🙏

Thanks to Mal James and the Space Daily Editorial Team and Space Daily for the Headline.

There are a lot of landed gentry in England and Wales , who do not want common people wandering over their lands, we also have a lot of bridleways, right of ways and also a protest group called Right to Roam who work to ensure the access that exists at the moment is not further reduced.

Scotland, however, has open access laws , similar to Finland and commonly known as the right to roam. This allows walking, running, cycling , horse-riding, wild camping, climbing and water sports like canoeing or wild swimming. The proviso is leave the land as you found it and do not invade people’s privacy.

Fishing and hunting is a bit more tricky, there are licenses for certain activities that need to be obtained. The shared expectation is that people experience the countryside without causing damage or disturbance. No off road vehicle racing or indeed snowmobiles which scar the land.

Ownership need not regard access as potentially damaging and the Countryside and it’s benefits should be accessible to all. In Finland (and Scotland) it seems to work well.

Namaste and Thank You for Reading.🙏

Thanks to Awogbemila Temitope and Business Insider Africa for the Headline.

South American Columbia has embroiled itself in Middle East Politics by recognising Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights.

The United Nations consensus is that the Golan Heights are Syrian territory and as such are under occupation.

Columbia’s decision under President President Abelardo de la Espriella means that consensus is under threat.

Egypt (presumably according to the Headline) Africa’s strongest military force has warned that Colombia’s stance threatens regional stability and undermines peace and the UN Charter.

Colombia has also supported Morocco’s claim for sovereignty over the Western Sahara.

It seems that Colombia is trying to gain an economic advantage in the middle East and African Continent by supporting these claims. Given the inherent instability of the Colombian Economy and their reputation for Drug Cartels, I would hope that the business they wish to promote are beneficial to all parties and doesn’t do harm, even if it helps their balance of payments.

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Thanks to Milena Wălde and Politico for the Headline

The Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš went for a hike in the beautiful National Park in eastern Czechia which encompasses a mountain called the Lysá Hora. He picked a few flowers on his way up and tucked them into his rucksack and laid them at the monument at the summit to remember a colleague who had sadly died. They both had previously completed the mountain hike together, so it was a mark of respect for his deceased colleague.

Sad to say, this reached the press and PM Andrj Babiš explained his reasoning , however, he did offer to pay any fine attached to the misdemeanor.

Interestingly enough the National Park Officials said that no harm had been done as the species of flower that was picked was common.

This is fair enough , but as a general rule it’s probably best not to pick any wildflowers in National Parks, though I appreciate PM Babiš offer to pay the fine, perhaps to discourage others from picking wildflowers willy nilly.

Namaste and Thank You for Reading.🙏