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Listening on Radio Derby. They have been very critical of referee Jeremy Simpson - apparently the same one who sent Louie Sibley off for being fouled, so it had to be overturned a couple of days later. Great to have the lead in what sounds a game with few chances. When things are so tight, you need magical finishers, but of course Sibley was dropped. Good that left back Cashin found the net from a set piece. Sounds a really odd lineup, starting with so many defensive players on the pitch and attacking players on the bench, Fantastic to be winning, but Nathan Jones is a better tactician than Warne, making me fear a little for us in the second half. Maybe Warne can change things around sooner rather than later and keep Jones off balance? Maybe we can bag goals 2 and 3 and relax? We all live in hope - come on you Rams!

America's Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has finished its look at the 2nd flight test, so we're now nearly ready to go with the third (a new licence must still be requested). But, meanwhile, SpaceX twice attempted what's called a wet dress rehearsal (to test the spacecraft and ground systems) last week, with Ship 28 stacked atop Booster 10, and it didn't work. As an indication the problem is with the spacecraft, Booster 10 has returned to the hangar for inspection and repairs while the Starship (28) remains at the pad. My guess is this means the third Integrated Flight Test won't launch until mid-March at the earliest.

Ha! I wonder as well. So many sliding doors moments supporting Derby - one of which was the Madley game against Burnley. My hope was actually that he would remain the ref for this, but be aware of the scrutiny he would be under, and err on the side of giving us decisions. I missed the game but haven't seen any complaints about the replacement ref.

I even updated Wikipedia to that effect after it happened. You'd think Maguire might have at least looked there!

I will go with the In No Particular Order thing: Cosmos Blake's 7 Babylon 5 The Professionals Sapphire and Steel X-Files Twin Peaks The Tube The Word Tomorrow's World

Here's a simple video showing the initial design of the Starship. All the space above where they place the battery back (22 seconds) will be the cargo hold or, ultimately, crew quarters.

As others have said, we can't outsource our own problems to other people to deal with. She is our responsibility and should be dealt with here. I think a reason some don't seem to see this, and are happy to be rid of her, is that probably hardly anyone has confidence the British state would do a good job of dealing with her in a just and effective way. The country is in a mess - schoolgirls willingly going off to be Islamic brides for an evil terrorist movement with a penchant for beheadings, is just one symptom of that.

FWIW my Twitter alter ego did get the referee replaced for Barnsley vs Derby this weekend. Amazing to see the power of one post on social media: 168,000 views as I post it here.

I imagine that could make the train unsafe, and it would be scary to be onboard. Derby fans trying to win the Darwin award? Early atmosphere sounds great. Come on you Rams!

Is that an actual "pea mix" (I think the term was), as described in other threads?

I feel Gareth Edwards is the finest director currently working in terms of visual imagery. But his writing is mediocre. I'd love him to work more on other people's scripts. For instance he did an incredibly important job for the Star Wars franchise with Rogue One. The Creator looked sumptuous - unlike anything else - but was basically a re-run of The Golden Child. Felt a waste of such a beautifully imagined world.

Fantastic! "where the ref comes from" slipped in there. Well done Paul Warne, not dwelling on it but making sure Madley is aware.

I do think it's very wrong that a former Barnsley youth player is reffing this match. So I'm pleased word has gotten out, meaning at least Madley will know he's under scrutiny, which has to be better for us than not. If there's a contentious call to be made against us, he will think twice. Here's what I put on Twitter yesterday evening. 130,000 views, so at least it's been noticed.

Bitcoin at around £41k, despite the global attempts to shut it down, shows how powerful the technology remains. And Ether heading towards £2500 too. The biggest disappointment in the UK was the original promise you'd be able to buy a Tesla using Bitcoin, but the climate lobby put a stop to that. But, because of that, they should let you buy with Ether instead. There are plenty of countries where you can use crypto as an everyday thing, but we're still waiting.

After the event it's too late. As I've said in other threads, there are times you have to use whatever advantage you have. Rather than this be a disadvantage to us, let's turn it into an advantage. And the club doesn't have to be involved. In the hour since I posted, more than fifty thousand people have already seen my tweet about it, meaning Madley will have to think long and hard before giving decisions against us.

I do think it's astonishing an ex Barnsley player, and with previous form against us, is reffing the game. Given the club is far too nice to ever mention this, I've put Nixon on the case on Twitter, who's posted it out. So, hopefully, it will be "out there". Meaning Madley is forewarned and may think twice about reaching for a red card or pointing to the penalty spot.

Ravel apparently a free agent, being looked at by Bolton and Peterborough: https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/derby-county-ravel-morrison-transfer-9114524

I remember Steve Claridge was doing the highlights punditry on the telly. The main TV man was saying although Madley got the main decision badly wrong, perhaps he was influenced by Chris Martin's "repeated fouling" earlier in the game? Madley had blown up something ridiculous like 5 or 6 times against Martin in the first half. Claridge went through all of those decisions and kept saying "it's not a foul, it's not a foul". Referees like Atwell are clearly incompetent, but I've never seen one go into a game with such an agenda as Madley did for that match. Should have been banned.

What a poor survey. This is a key point for me that stops me going to any night games at Pride Park - you can't even get back to London afterwards. Yet there was nowhere to raise the issue.

Interesting astronomy piece. What it doesn't seem to say anywhere is that, the further away you look the further back in time you go. So what we're seeing was 12 billion years ago. With the Big Bang thought to be 13.8 billion years ago, this was happening early in the universe (even today, if our theories are right we're still VERY early considering how far ahead the universe has to go). This will feed into ideas about early galaxy formation - a fascinating emerging problem with astronomers' ideas is that the new James Webb Space Telescope has found too many big early galaxies to fit with our understanding: https://phys.org/news/2023-05-james-webb-massive-galaxies.html. There shouldn't have been enough time for such large galaxies to form. Even the terminology in the article shows the shift in our thinking/understanding over recent decades. When I was growing up, quasars were mysterious incredibly bright distant objects and the actual existence of black holes was still being questioned, whereas now we understand quasars are generated by the accretion disks around supermassive black holes that are devouring lots of matter at the centre of galaxies.

Final score: Cambridge 1 Bolton 2 You can see from this we're still a fair way behind. But also, as I posted in the match thread for the coming weekend, win away at Barnsley and they are effectively out of it and it's a three-horse raise for the automatic places.

What are we currently looking at? Out for the season (which ends end April): Jake Rooney (ACL) Tyreece John-Jules (hamstring) James Collins (knee ligaments) Potentially back mid-to-late March: Josh Vickers (thigh) Conor Washington (ankle) Back end Feb/early March Corey Blackett-Taylor (hamstring) Craig Forsyth (calf) Martyn Waghorn (calf)

The tacit assumption is that we are going for automatic promotion, so will not have a collapse in form. If we do collapse, it doesn't matter whether or not Barnsley catch us as we're not in the race for the autos anyway. Win and we'll have 69 points from 34 games. Even just on season-long form that points to 93 or 94 points, but we know how poor we were in the opening games of the season. If you look at, say, our last 20 games, we're averaging 2.25 points a game and a continuation of that would see us end the season on 96 points. In this situation Barnsley would have 60 points from 33 games, so only a possible 99 if they were to win all their remaining 13 games. Lose 1/13 and their max is 96; lose 1 and draw 1 and they only get 94 points; win 10, draw 2 and lose 1 and they're already down to 92 points.

Win and we're 9 points ahead of them and they will have only 13 games left, so they wouldn't be able to catch us (unless they won at least 12 of those games). Meaning win, and automatic promotion becomes a three-horse race between Portsmouth, Bolton and us. That's what's at stake. Gayle isn't going to be fit, but will surely start on the bench. Meaning again we don't have a true centre forward, but Sibley showed us the way to goal, and has to start as an attacking midfielder. Wildsmith Nyambe Nelson Cashin Elder Adams Sibley Bird Wilson Mendez-Laing Barkhuizen Bench: Loach Bradley Ward Hourihane Smith Blackett-Taylor Gayle Harsh on Thommo and Fornah, but given Warne brought Smith on first last weekend, and Hourihane is the skipper, it's tough to see either of them included.