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Eddie remembers carrying kit like this (above). Sometimes he takes the old BBC backpack out to record for old times sake, do say hello if you see him.
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I believe that this nostalgic moment done by Eddie shown the real meaning of humble beginning towards happy ending. From that pieces of obsolete devices gave the high value of how important is instant communication needed to produce quality news.
That is why I like much BBC "Hardtalk" talkshow on BBC channel.
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We need to do something about climate warming - note warming.
In France they have electric vehicles for municipal operations - rubbish trucks, road sweepers etc. This is good because a dust cart roughly how much energy they need for the day and they know their location to get recharged overnight. Simple. Clean. Use renewable energy for that one
Instead of us trying to make us lesser mortals get electric cars/vans first, get the local councils to move in that direction. Then do the companies that do local deliveries. The vehicles have a known pattern, known place where they can get changed and a known usage pattern.
Would that be better than trying to have charging points all over the shop in the first instance.
Discuss,
Ed
BTW - The technology for this is already available. See Paris for full details.
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Not stricly a story, but in the light of the blooper played, I found this.Pictures of both Eddie Mair and Laurie Mayer - not particulary the rather youthful features of our Eddie!
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There is an article in the Media Guardian today about the contribution of women journalists.
Clearly had a bigger impact on the BBC than Fleet Street.
cf. the blog comments on http://moralorder.mediumisthemess.com/
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Responding to message 3 from Stephen, Leader of Strop (have I missed an axplanation of this acronym?):
Wonderful wonderful link, marred only slightly by the horrific use of the apostrophe (it's [sic]launch). In the one short piece both the justification for and demonstration of the waste of the licence fee (which I know is not for radio, but you get my drift.)
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Responding to my own message (5)
Physician heal thyself: it should of course be 'explanation' but that is a typo, so it doesn't count!!
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I was listening to PM and you had quite a big couple of segments about broadband in rural areas (Tues 16 June). I thought you may be interested South Cambridgeshire District Council had a very big push a few years ago, of which I was a part as a villager and techie not as a councillor or anything, of getting the WHOLE of south cambs on broadband. It took us about two years but in the end we got there and everyone in south cambs is now on broadband you just have to CAMPAIGN CAMPAIGN CAMPAIGN. Obviously this is quite a high tech area but even so when you are out in the sticks you get very little. I just kept putting bits and pieces in to the council into the local papers etc and WE GOT IT FOR EVERYONE. I reckon my local pub the Chestnut Tree in West Wratting was the first pub in Cambridgeshire to have free wireless internet access for everyone, once we got it the broadband I donated and set up the box (a bit trickier than it is now) and we donated a laptop so that anyone coming in the pub could use their laptop or use the pub's. So we have taught lots of people who have never used Internet before how to use it and you know not perfectly butjust how to get started. Just thought you might be interested. I guess this would be about 5 or 6 years ago now I would have to check.
Best wishes, Si.
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I'm dismayed to hear about the proposed digital switchover from FM. Two reasons:
1. I like to listen with two or more radios around the house in different rooms. I've tried four or five DAB radios,but they all have different delays in their signal processing time, and they all lag the FM signal by several seconds. Indeed, one of the DAB/FM radios even had a delay in FM reception. The result is a cacophony - you just can't have more than one DAB radio on at the same time in the same room.
2. The sound quality is usually compressed and poor, and the more 'musical' the station, the worse it sounds.
I can perhaps cope with No. 2 - that is, goodbye good sound quality on live radio. Live concerts in high quality will be a thing of the past, and I'll have to fileshare and copy my music instead. OK, I'll do that if the BBC wishes.
But No. 1 worries me more. AND NOBODY IS MENTIONING THIS.
Please would you find out what the BBC or the govt are doing about the signal processing delays in equipment that make it impossible to listen to two radios at the same time. Will it mean the end of listening with radios in separate rooms?
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I now see that GrannyButtons has posted a similar item - but there's more:
Why is so little fuss being made over the shutting down of analogue radio broadcasting in 2015?
This will render every such radio receiver, be it a portable 'tranny', ghetto blaster or hi-fi stereo tuner useless, and all must be replaced by a digital receiver.
Why's this a problem? Well - for one thing, digital receivers consume far more power than their analogue counterparts. For another, it's a complete waste of perfectly adequate, cheaper technology which does the job better than digital in many cases.
Digital channels are often over-compressed or have too low a sampling rate to compete with the quality of FM stereo.
Digital coverage is incomplete and still will be in 2015.
Maritime listeners will lose the long wave shipping forecast.
On a nostalgic note - it will no longer be possible to build a crystal radio for a pound or so, because there'll be nothing to hear but screaming digital code.
How many radios will be thrown on the scrapheap? Here's what Radio Joint Audience Research (RAJAR) said in 2006:
"Most households in the UK have at least one radio, and 60% have four or more in the home. The total number of radios in the UK is approximately 188 million."
Most discussion I have heard in favour of digital radio centres on 'opportunities for the advertiser' and 'choice' (that is, narrowcasting).
But - if it's so wonderful, why have Channel 4, for example, dropped plans for DAB?
I'm aware that it's hard not to be seen as a sentimentalist - but I think some audience consultation should take place at least.
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If we are to ,because we have a telephone landline, pay 50p per month to make better broadband more widely available. Why can we not use the same tax raising scheme to raise some extra cash for the NHS.
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We all know that the UK seems to be the destination of choice for migrants from Africa etc. But why is this? Given the many benefits France has to offer - why don't they just stay there? Surely, the EU means that we have to treat them all equally? I would like one of your investigative journalists to draw up a sort of immigrants' check list of benefits available here compared with our European neighbours. Are we more generous or is this just a fallacy? I have tried to do it myself, but it's really difficult to access the information. Thanks
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A Fresh Commission for The Daily Telegraph?
Whenever Fleet St. advises us that they are embarking on some expose in our interests, anyone past the age of blissful naivete will likely feel a compulsion, born of previous experience, to do a quick double-take.
For example, when the News of the World decided to publish the names and addresses of offenders in the dark and dreadful world of child abuse, they justified their actions in the name of Public Interest. Such a motive wore pretty thin in the light of the grave admonitions issuing from the Police. They clearly stated that such volatile revelations would severely jeopardise the safety of children by sending those aberrants known to police to ground. Thus, as they obviously now would be acting against childrens interests by proceeding, one can only interpret their motive as a cynical means of increasing circulation.
I have always been baffled that after whipping up hysteria in the otherwise surely good and peaceful folk of Southampton to almost riot proportions, and, since, presumably the Police did not proffer the information, illicitly hacking into some computer to obtain it, there was no censure whatsoever from Govt. of this endangering commercial venture.
If a private citizen, not seeking profits but passionate about GM crops or animal rights or nuclear weapons were to act similarly to uncover locations it seems unlikely he, or she, if discovered, would escape recrimination. That didnt seem to be the case with The Kid and The Pentagon for example as I recall, or many other such individual transgressions.
However, in the current matter of MPs expenses, and witnessing
the Govts reticence, reinforced by redaction, to deal with the issue, the D T could lay a better claim to this Public Interest criteria. Nevertheless, I still do my double-take and wonder if it does not seem too, too convenient that this righteous eye should be cast on our MPs just when we are reeling from the fiscal disasters piloted by our Captains of Commerce.
Whilst Allen Stanford is being indicted, and public prosecutors across the U.S. pursue more Madoffs, our media saturates the public consciousness with MPs expenses. Though these are indeed odious and require attention they are very , very small change compared to the enormous personal and irresponsible greed of our financial leaders.
I used to want to vomit when I heard them justify their excessive rewards on the grounds that if you want the best people you must pay them excessively. Now, even with the incontrovertible evidence of where this has led us, I hear people still positing this notion and want to slit my throat or, perhaps, not to get too worked up about it, theirs.
Accordingly, a dash of conspiracy theory has invaded my thoughts. Andy Hamilton would best describe this, but I picture a satanic room somewhere in Murdochs Mordor, where a horned Rupert addresses an assembly of FCS* demons. He warns them that the Plebs are getting uncomfortably close to discovering the full scale of the collective perfidies they have perpetrated on us all. He goes on to assert that a distraction is needed, perhaps in the form of an expose of MPs expenses. He points out that the unholy alliance forged by Mrs.T. between business and politics might be weakened, but sacrificing the MPs might be enough of a delay to kill the impetus for scrutiny of his assembled cohorts. It could then be business or recklessness as usual. A vote is taken, his resolution, as always, passed, and the job is assigned to the DT on the basis that the Sun, Sky or News of the World would be so close to home as to risk outFOXing himself.
So, if the DT is so committed to the Public Interest I offer them a new vastly superior commission. Why not use their undoubted skills of investigation and disclosure to publish daily lists of specific FCSs*, revealing their post-Thatcher reward packages, and linking the decisions they took to an informed estimate of how much they eventually dearly cost us.
By so doing we could then have many cheques for returned ill-gotten millions, instead of the paltry few thousand pounds here and there from MPs, though we could continue to retrieve theirs as well. We could even prosecute some of the more fraudulent as the US is doing and seize their entire assets to help reduce the huge debt they have devolved upon us.
If you are careful not to look directly into Rupert,s mesmeric eyes Dear DT, then you could do this for us please. Even though the MPs may be complicit, let us not obscure the real and present evil of the FCS with this Westminster trivia. Strike a blow for all those lifelong hard-working people who have lost their savings and their retirement dreams, and for all those who have been consigned to a future of financial anxiety and uncertainty via the relentless greed of these people.
In case anyone has any difficulty in penetrating the acronym FCS, it denotes Fat Cat Scumbag. I use this nomenclature not in the manner of insult or abuse, though some may find its connotations a useful corollary, but merely as an adherence to a related basic physical principle of our World. When you bring together elements that have an inescapable propensity to ferment, viz Politics, Global Business and Finance in this case, the scum will generally float to the top. Ever since the great architect of ordinary honest peoples current miseries, Mrs. T; prevented us from skimming off or regulating this scum, it has been able to rise, remain on top and taint to unpalatability the brew that is our lives.
Ciao Everybody
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