Mushrif Tipene, Turing, Skylifter

Mushrif Tipene

"the return of the Mark Hotchin - dubbed the Prince of Auckland's "Parasite Drive" - has finally prodded one of our watchdogs into saying they will make a decision before Christmas whether to lay criminal charges against directors of the Hanover Finance companies
It goes without saying that investors - who were angered by the "partying up large" style of the fabulously thick-skinned Hotchin and playboy Eric Watson - won't be satisfied unless Jane Diplock's Securities Commission throws the book against the two Hanover shareholders.
...the Serious Fraud Office has yet to indicate where it sits. ...
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tantalisingly open as to whether other former Hanover directors such as Pumpkin Patch's Greg Muir and establishment favourite Sir Tipene O'Regan might also be in the frame "

nzherald Fran O'Sullivan ...NZHerald 20Nov10

Mushrif Tipene, or Stephen, as he was known in our kitchen, around plates of Bluff Oysters fried in oatmeal, appears to be a member of the new aristocracy.

I hope that Ngai Tahu are not responsible for the transfer of union fish-factory jobs to offshore ship-board non-union.

I hope that Tipene ("sir" Tipene if you subscribe to aristocratic ideology), now that we have handed him our fish stocks, will not sell them to foreign factory-ships. A family legend (surely not true) has it that once, grandad Tom's cane was broken, the Pounamu handle somehow was handed to Mushrif Tipene for repair. He then is said to have refused to return it, because our family was not Maori. Cant be true. As a lad, the Steven O'Regan I knew was yet to become a Maori aristocrat.

I suppose its absurd of me to dislike aristocrats, whatever their race.
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The isolated man does not develop any intellectual power. It is necessary for him to be immersed in an environment of other men. From this point of view the search for new techniques must be regarded as carried out by the human community as a whole, rather than individuals'.

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Top 10 Battles for the Control of Iraq
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1915 AD - Siege of Kut-al-Amara
the British finally took Baghdad, but the Siege of Kut-al-Amara was the army's greatest military defeat.
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Wormwood cont...
the German government is making big payments to hunters to compensate them for radioactive meat that is considered too dangerous for human consumption.
.. Environment Ministry in Berlin.. euro425,000 was paid to compensate hunters for contaminated wild boar meat - four times higher than payments made in 2007.
.. Der Spiegel.. more to do with the exploding boar population, caused by climate change. As Central Europe warms up, beech and oak trees overproduce seeds and farmers are growing more crops that the wild pigs eat
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LBT Sharper than Hubble: Large Binocular Telescope achieves major breakthrough
June 15, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The next generation of adaptive optics has arrived at the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) in Arizona..
The LBT, with its two 8.4 metre -mirrors, is the largest single optical telescope
...The LBT’s adaptive optics system, .. First Light Adaptive Optics system (FLAO), immediately outperformed all other comparable systems, ..three times sharper than the Hubble...just one of the LBT’s .. mirrors. As soon as the adaptive optics are in place for both mirrors ..it is expected that the LBT will achieve image sharpness ten times that of the Hubble.

..unit of measure..of image quality ..the Strehl ratio..100 % = ..perfect image
. Without adaptive optics, .. ground-based telescopes is <1%>......

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Fast Breeders fail
France built with Superphenix, the only commercial-size plutonium fueled breeder reactor ...
.. After an endless series of very costly technical, legal and safety problems it was shut down in 1998 with one of the worst operating records in nuclear history."

Thomas B. Cochran.. "Fast reactor development programs failed in the: 1) United States; 2) France; 3) United Kingdom; 4) Germany; 5) Japan; 6) Italy; 7) Soviet Union/Russia 8) U.S. Navy and 9) the Soviet Navy. The program in India is showing no signs of success and the program in China is only at a very early stage of development...only one of these, the BN-600 in Russia, is a commercial-size fast reactor and it hardly qualifies as a successful breeder. The Soviet Union/Russia never closed the fuel cycle and has yet to fuel BN-600 with plutonium."
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China’s long awaited China Experimental Fast Reactor (CEFR) is due to be finally connected to the Chinese electricity grid this June.
... 260 tons of liquid sodium.
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If China does deliver the CEFR in June then it will be the only third power-generating fast reactor in operation globally.
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'Ordinary' pWRs:
start of 2010 China 11 PWR 8.7GWe a further 17 under construction..16.2GWe.
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