tm4tj

I'm in, what do I win.

It's fekkin brilliant isn't it.

Just the little pick me up you need before the World Cup starts. :)

It'll do, no complaints.

what world cup? :-

Something odd going on. How can ICT be the first reserve all along then all of a sudden they spring this one on us.

Tell them to stick their competition up their erse, we appear to have been misled from the start, once again Scotland are just shoved aside, we have no standing whatsoever in European football.

:-

Brilliant, but don't just take my word for it.....read on, and my pics are in the photo gallery

CLICKY Bad to the Bone pics here CLICKY

The band took to the stage with a thundering rendition of ‘Be Bop Grandma’ to rapturous applause and a sudden surge forward from the crowd. What took me by surprise was a guy trying to body surf the crowd - a miscreant from Lollapalooza perhaps? Otherwise the sea of bald heads and Led Zeppelin T-shirts had gone back 30 years to days of old and no-one was going to stop them enjoying the night.

The Destroyer’s untameable style showed through with the grinding riffs and demonic sax taking centre stage - if the ageing rockers had difficulty looking the part (comfy beating cool in the dress stakes) they certainly sounded the part. The crowd loved it and were all dancing wherever they could. There is something about rock and roll with a touch of blues that never fails to appeal.

As was expected, many classics such as ‘Madison Blues’, ‘Who Do You Love’, ‘Night Time’, ‘One Bourbon, One Scotch And One Beer’ and ‘I Drink Alone’ gave the crowd ultimately what they were looking for but it was subtly mixed with some new tracks from the ‘Ride ‘Til I Die’ album, which shows they are yet to fade away into obscurity, but are by no means flogging a dead horse.

For someone who is quoted as saying his guitar playing is mediocre, George Thorogood made an amazing five guitar changes throughout the night, all of which seemed to belt out the same George Thorogood wailing sound. But that is what everyone wanted.

Now pushing 60, Thorogood still appeals to a wide audience, especially those who have grown up with him and his music whilst his claims of being a dirty man still did the trick with the ladies - although in some other situations he may well have had to sign the register. The only down side to my evening was their decision not to play their cover of Hound Dog Taylor’s ‘The Sky is Crying’ - although they suggest on their play list that they did! However, on the night’s display I will almost certainly return the next time they are back to see if they do. Ending the toe tapping night on ‘Rocking My Life Away’ seemed very apt for a band now in their third decade together and still with the original line up!

It is true that their glory days are probably past them but any band that can enjoy what they do so much whilst whipping up a crowd of over 40’s into a frenzy never seen before except at perhaps the launch of Radio 4 are well worth the watch. Their music style and stage presence scream that if you can have fun and enjoy playing your music, you’re going to go far. I fear George Thorogood and The Destroyers will be limited only by themselves in years to come but will indeed ‘Ride ‘Til They Die’.

words: Dave Harris (eyeball kid.com)

Thats the saddest thing

I have read this Spring.

Meet you in the Innes

for an ice cold Guinness.

A voddie for the body,

or a drammie for the Mannie.

Gosh......I'm a poet

and I didna know it.

later.

Of the Scottish News of the World to give out free DVD's of the 2-3 victory over the Auld enemy at Wembley in 1967. We were unofficial world champions, the first team to topple England after that fateful day in '66, how appropriate to issue this just the week before the world cup starts. Those were the days when Scotland had quality players, Law, Baxter, Bremner, Gemmill, yes young people, we did have the quality and the passion for it.

bring it on.

Yer using too much Bisto then.

Misconception about aquifers and groundwater

A common misconception is that groundwater exists in underground rivers (e.g. caves where water flows freely underground). This is only sometimes true in eroded limestone areas known as karst topography which make up only a small percentage of Earth's area. More usual is that the pore spaces of rocks in the subsurface are simply saturated with water — like a kitchen sponge, which can be pumped out and used for agricultural, industrial or municipal uses.

The beach is an example of what most aquifers are like. If you dig a hole into the sand at the beach you will find very wet or saturated sand at a shallow depth. This hole is a crude well, the beach sand is an aquifer, and the level which the water rises to in this hole represents the water table.

Aquifer classification

Saturated versus unsaturated

Groundwater can be found at nearly every point in the earth's shallow subsurface, to some degree; although aquifers do not necessarily contain fresh water. The earth's crust can be divided into two regions: the saturated zone (e.g., aquifers, aquitards, etc.) and the unsaturated zone (also called the vadose zone). Saturated means the pressure head of the water is greater than atmospheric pressure (it has a gauge pressure > 0). The definition of the water table is surface where the pressure head is equal to atmospheric pressure (where gauge pressure = 0). Unsaturated conditions occur above the water table where the pressure head is negative (absolute pressure can never be negative, but gauge pressure can) and the water which incompletely fills the pores of the aquifer material is under suction. The water content in the unsaturated zone is held in place by surface adhesive forces and it rises above the water table (the zero gauge pressure isobar) by capillary action to saturate a small zone above the phreatic surface (the capillary fringe) at less than atmospheric pressure. This is termed tension saturation and is not the same as saturation on a water content basis. Water content in a capillary fringe decreases with increasing distance from the phreatic surface. The capillary head depends on soil pore size. In sandy soils with larger pores the head will be less than in clayey soils with very small pores. The normal capillary rise in a clayey soil is less than six feet but can range between 5 and 100 feet. [1]

The capillary rise of water in a small diameter tube is this same physical process. The water table is the level to which water will rise in a large diameter pipe (e.g. a well) which goes down into the aquifer, and is open to the atmosphere.

For more detail on the saturation of an aquifer, see the water content and soil moisture articles

Aquifers versus aquitards

Aquifers are typically saturated regions of the subsurface which produce an economically feasible quantity of water to a well or spring (e.g., sand and gravel or fractured bedrock often make good aquifer materials). Aquitards (sometimes, if completely impermeable, called an aquiclude or aquifuge) are saturated regions, which due to lower hydraulic conductivity, do not yield a sustainable amount of water in an economic fashion (e.g., clay, silt or fresh bedrock often form aquitards). Economically feasible is a relative term; for example, an aquifer that is quite adequate for local domestic use, as in a rural area, might be considered an inadequate aquitard for industrial, mining, or urban water supply.

In non-mountainous areas (or near rivers in mountainous areas), the main aquifers are typically unconsolidated alluvium. They are typically composed of mostly horizontal layers of materials deposited by water processes (rivers and streams), which in cross-section (looking at a two-dimensional slice of the aquifer) appear to be layers of alternating coarse and fine materials. Coarse materials, due to the high energy needed to move them, tend to be found nearer the source (mountain fronts or rivers), while the fine-grained material will make it farther from the source (to the flatter parts of the basin or overbank areas - sometimes called the pressure area). Since there are less fine-grained deposits near the source, this is a place where aquifers are often unconfined (sometimes called the forebay area), or in hydraulic communication with the land surface.

For more details on ranges of parameters in aquifers and aquitards, see the hydraulic conductivity and storativity articles

Confined versus unconfined

There are two end members in the spectrum of types of aquifers; confined and unconfined (with semi-confined being in between). Unconfined aquifers are sometimes also called water table or phreatic aquifers, because their upper boundary is the water table or phreatic surface. Typically (but not always) the shallowest aquifer at a given location is unconfined, meaning it does not have a confining layer (an aquitard or aquiclude) between it and the surface. Unconfined aquifers usually receive recharge water directly from the surface, from precipitation or from a body of surface water (e.g., a river, stream, or lake) which is in hydraulic connection with it. Confined aquifers have the water table above their upper boundary (an aquitard or aquiclude), and are typically found below unconfined aquifers. A "perched aquifer" occurs when the porous, water-bearing segment of rock is located on top of a layer of non-porous rock.

If the distinction between confined and unconfined is not clear geologically (it is not known if a clear confining layer exists, or the geology is more complex, e.g., a fractured bedrock aquifer), the value of storativity returned from an aquifer test can be used to determine it (although aquifer tests in unconfined aquifers should be interpreted differently than confined ones). Confined aquifers have very low storativity values (much less than 0.01, and as little as 10-5), which means that the aquifer is storing water using the mechanisms of aquifer matrix expansion and the compressibility of water, which typically are both quite small quantities. Unconfined aquifers have storativities (typically then called specific yield) greater than 0.01 (1% of bulk volume); they release water from storage by the mechanism of actually draining the pores of the aquifer, releasing relatively large amounts of water (up to the drainable porosity of the aquifer material, or the minimum volumetric water content).

For more details on parameters related to the confined vs. unconfined distinction, see the porosity or storativity articles.

Human dependence on groundwater

Most land areas on Earth have some form of aquifer underlying them, sometimes at significant depths. Fresh water aquifers, especially those with limited recharge by meteoric water, can be over-exploited and, depending on the local hydrogeology, may draw in non-potable water or saltwater (saltwater intrusion) from hydraulically connected aquifers or surface water bodies. This can be a serious problem especially in coastal areas and other areas where aquifer pumping is excessive.

Aquifers are critically important in human habitation and agriculture. Deep aquifers in arid areas have long been water sources for irrigation (see Ogallala below). Many villages and even large cities draw their water supply from wells in aquifers.

Some aquifers are "riparian aquifers". These are related to rivers, fluvial deposits, or unconsolidated deposits along river corridors, and are usually rapidly replenished by infiltration of surface water. Some municipal well fields are specifically designed to take advantage of induced infiltration of surface (usually river) water, leaving them potentially vulnerable to water quality problems in the surface water body (chemical spills, petroleum spills, and bacteriological problems).

Aquifers that provide sustainable fresh groundwater to urban areas and for agricultural irrigation are typically close to the ground surface (within a couple of hundred meters) and have some recharge by fresh water. This recharge is typically from rivers or meteoric water (precipitation) that percolate into the aquifer through overlying unsaturated materials.

Subsidence

In unconsolidated aquifers, groundwater is produced from pore spaces between particles of gravel, sand, and silt. If the aquifer is confined by low-permeability layers, the reduced water pressure in the sand and gravel causes slow drainage of water from the adjoining confining layers. If these confining layers are composed of compressible silt or clay, the loss of water to the aquifer reduces the water pressure in the confining layer, causing it to compress due to the weight of overlying geologic materials. In severe cases, this compression can be observed on the ground surface as subsidence. Unfortunately, much of the subsidence due to groundwater extraction is permanent (elastic rebound is small). Thus the subsidence is not only permanent, but the compressed aquifer has a permanently-reduced capacity to hold water.

Examples

An example of a significant and sustainable carbonate aquifer is the Edwards Aquifer [2] in central Texas. This carbonate aquifer has historically been providing high-quality water for nearly 2 million people and, even today, is completely full because of tremendous recharge from a number of area streams, rivers and lakes. The primary risk to this resource is human development over the recharge areas.

One of the largest aquifers in the world is the Guarani Aquifer, with 1.2 million km² of area, from central Brazil to northern Argentina.

Aquifer depletion is a global problem, and is especially critical in northern Africa; see the Great Manmade River project of Libya for an example. However, new methods of groundwater management such as artificial recharge and injection of surface waters during seasonal wet periods has extended the life of many freshwater aquifers, especially in the United States.

The Ogallala Aquifer of the central United States is one of the world's great aquifers, but in places it is being rapidly depleted for growing municipal use, and continuing agricultural use. This huge aquifer, which underlies portions of eight states, contain primarily fossil water from the time of the last glaciation. Annual recharge, in the more arid portions of the aquifer, is estimated to total only about ten percent of annual withdrawals.

The Mahomet Aquifer supplies water to some 800,000 people in central Illinois and contains approximately four trillion US gallons (15 km³) of water. The Mahomet Aquifer Consortium [3] was formed in 1998 to study the aquifer with hopes of ensuring the water supply and reducing potential user conflicts.

The Great Artesian Basin is one of the largest groundwater aquifers in the world. It plays a large part in water supplies for remote parts of South Australia.

hmmmmnnnn, no mention of the ICT aquifer, (sometimes known as the IHE aquifer)

Methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) is a chemical compound that is manufactured by the chemical reaction of methanol and isobutylene. MTBE is produced in very large quantities (more than 200,000 barrels per day in the United States in 1999) and is almost exclusively used as a fuel component in motor gasoline. It is one of a group of chemicals commonly known as oxygenates because they raise the oxygen content of gasoline. MTBE is a volatile, flammable and colorless liquid that is relatively soluble in water. When in groundwater MTBE moves more quickly than other fuel components. (California Air Resources Board, 2004). MTBE has a typical odor reminiscent of diethyl ether, leading to unpleasant taste and odor in water. MTBE is used in organic chemistry as a cheap solvent with properties comparable to diethyl ether but with a higher boiling point and lower solubility in water. It is also used medically to dissolve gallstones.

MTBE has been used in U.S. gasoline at low levels since 1979 to replace tetra-ethyl lead to increase its octane rating and help prevent engine knocking. Since 1992, MTBE has been used at higher concentrations in some gasoline to fulfill the oxygenate requirements set by Congress in Clean Air Act amendments; however, since 1999, in California and other locations MBTE has begun to be phased out because of groundwater contamination (California Air Resources Board, 2004), citing unproven health effects. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 drops the federal requirement for oxygen content in reformulated gasoline.

Thats all I can remember about it, sorry.

Nice to see one of our players getting a bit of good press and well deserved recognition for his contributions this year, and last year. Well done yersel, Broonie. :021:

Time for Black to move on now, word on the street is that he may be getting above his station, another Bajram, we don't need any disruptive influences in the dressing room. Best to keep Dods though.

Alex, wheres Ostermilk?........is it in Belgium or Holland?

Bonzo, wheres yer dog and yer doo-dah band?

Skye marble.

what!

Hello tm4tj, so this is where you are.

Just like to share what is blasting out of my surround sound at 20db just now.

Speed King.....................Deep Purple

Whisky in the jar.............Thin Lizzy

Free Electric Band............Albert Hamond

25 or 6 to 4....................Chicago

I'm a Man.......................Chicago

Ace of Spades..................Motorhead

Lets work together............Canned Heat...........effin brilliant tune

Paranoid.........................Black Sabbath

Spirit in the sky...............Norman Greenbaum

Purple rain......................Prince

She fekkin hates me........Puddle of Mudd

Lifes been good to me.....Joe Walsh

On January 23, l978, Chicago guitarist and singer Terry Kath died from an accidental gunshot wound. "Terry Kath was a great talent" says Jim Guercio, who worked with him on a solo album that was never completed. "Hendrix idolized him. He was just totally committed to this band, and he could have been a monster (as a solo artist)."

But, this is what actually happened:-

Around 5 p.m. on the evening of January 23, 1978, after a party at roadie Don Johnson's home at 5754 Fallbrook Avenue in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, Kath — being a gun enthusiast — took a 9 mm semi-automatic pistol and began cleaning it. When Johnson yelled from the kitchen for Terry to be careful, Kath removed the magazine to 'prove' that the gun was not loaded, pointed the gun in the air and pulled the trigger. However — in his inebriated state — he forgot that some semi-automatic pistols have a built-in safety feature that prevents the discharge of a chambered round when the magazine is removed (this is why the chamber should always be checked visually). When he reinserted the magazine, Kath put the gun to his temple and pulled the trigger, infamously saying, "Don't worry, it's not loaded", in another attempt to prove that everything was safe. Unfortunately, with the magazine reinserted, the chambered round discharged and killed him — a week shy of his 32nd birthday

Albert Hammond (born on 18 May 1942) is a singer-songwriter, whose family came originally from Gibraltar.

Hammond was born in London, due to a war-time shift in family circumstances, and later moved to the United States, where he began his professional career as a musician. He is best known for his hits of the 1970s such as "It Never Rains in Southern California", "The Free Electric Band", and "Down by the River".

Hammond has released albums in both English and Spanish, and recorded many of his songs in both languages.

His son, Albert Hammond Jr, is a member of the band The Strokes.

Canned Heat:-

The group was led by Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson (guitar, harmonica, vocals) and Bob "The Bear" Hite (vocals, harmonica). Henry "Sunflower" Vestine also played guitar and was an ex-member of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention. Larry "The Mole" Taylor (best known up until then as the Monkees session bassist), was their studio bassist, (joining full time through 1970), along with drummer Frank Cook for their first album. Canned Heat took their name from Tommy Johnson's 1928 "Canned Heat Blues", a song about an alcoholic who has desperately turned to drinking Sterno, which is generically called canned heat.

Norman Greenbaum, a singer and songwriter, was born 20 November 1942 in Malden, Massachusetts. He studied music at Boston University. Greenbaum is best known for his "Spirit In The Sky", which sold 2 million copies in 1969 and 1970 . The song, with its combination of "heavy" guitar, hand-clapping, and spiritual lyrics was a memorable one-hit wonder.

The song has been used in many advertisements and television shows as well as films including Remember The Titans, Contact, Apollo 13, Ocean's Eleven, Wayne's World 2 and the 2005 remake of The Longest Yard. A cover version by the British band Doctor and the Medics reached number 1 in many countries in 1986. In 2000, the song was again covered by the Christian Rock group dc Talk for the CBS Mini-series entitled 'JESUS: THE EPIC MINISERIES'. Goldfrapp sampled the song in her 2005 single Ooh La La.

"It sounds as fresh today as when it was recorded," Greenbaum said in an interview. Greenbaum lives in Petaluma, California. He no longer performs in public, but continues to promote concerts and lives off the royalties from his songs.

Greenbaum is notable for the rare achievement of having recorded two one-hit wonders. In 1968, under the name Dr. West's Medicine Show and Junk Band, he recorded the novelty hit "The Eggplant That Ate Chicago" .

Thin Lizzy was an Irish Rock band, formed in Dublin in 1969. The band was led by bassist, songwriter and singer Phil Lynott. Lynott was born in Hallam Hospital (now Sandwell General Hospital) in West Bromwich They are best-known for their 1976 song "The Boys Are Back In Town", He died in January 1986, a victim of drug abuse

Puddle of Mudd:-

The band was named after the band's old practice spot on the Missouri River flooded leaving a puddle of mud in their practice area. The band's original name was Muddle of Pudd, but was later changed to a better sounding Puddle of Mudd

So good, I have put the CD on again.

Jimmy Spankie

Ten Years After............I'm Going Home, (live)

Hers some info on them from my mate Wikipedia

Ten Years After is a British blues rock band popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

The band consisted of:

Alvin Lee — guitar, vocals; born 19 December 1944, in Nottingham.

Leo Lyons — bass; born 30 November 1943, in Mansfield.

Chick Churchill — keyboard; born Michael George Churchill on 2 January 1946, in Ilkeston.

Ric Lee — drums; born 20 October 1945, in Mansfield.

History

After several years of local Nottingham success as the Jaybirds, the band moved to London, changed their name to Ten Years After, and secured a residency at the famous Marquee Club. An invitation to play at the Windsor Jazz Festival in 1967 led to a contract with Deram, a subsidiary company of Decca — the first band so signed without a hit single.

After touring Scandinavia and America, Ten Years After released their second album, Undead, which included the hit single "I'm Going Home". This was followed by Stonedhenge, a British hit. In 1969, they appear at the Newport Jazz Festival, in the first event to which rock bands were invited. In August, Ten Years After performed a breakthrough American appearance at Woodstock; their furious-to-slow-to-furious rendition of "I'm Going Home" was featured in both the subsequent film and soundtrack album and catapulted them to star status.

During 1970, Ten Years After released "Love Like a Man", their only hit in the UK singles chart. It was the first record to be issued with a different playing speed on both sides - one a three-minute edit at 45 rpm, the other, a nine-minute live version at 33 rpm. In August, Ten Years After played the Isle of Wight Festival 1970 to an audience of 600,000 hippies. Their set was highlighted by performances of "I'm Going Home" as well as the blistering guitar solo and tuning parts on "I Can't Keep From Crying".

In 1971, the band released the album A Space In Time, which featured "I'd Love To Change The World", a hippie anthem of sorts, protesting about the Vietnam War and possibly even capitalism itself. At this point in time, Ten Years After were in their heyday: at the beginning of their twelfth US tour, they played to a sold out Madison Square Garden of 20,000 fans.

Taking the second half of 1973 off to pursue side projects, news of a band break-up ran rampant, but the album Positive Vibrations was still recorded and released in 1974. After a tour of the UK, and their last tour (number 28) in the US, Ten Years After broke up for the first time.

Ten Years After reunited in 1983 for a tour of the UK, and in 1988 for several American concerts and a single album, About Time (1989).

In between times, Alvin Lee fronted a band called "Ten Years Later" with a bass player and drummer who did some UK gigs, including the Bristol Coulston Hall.

In 2003, a version of "Ten Years After" re-appeared, featuring every original member except Alvin Lee. Their new guitarist is Joe Gooch. They were still touring France in May 2006.

Discography

Studio and live albums

Ten Years After 1967

Undead 1968

Stonedhenge 1968

Ssssh 1969

Live At The Fillmore East 1970

Cricklewood Green 1970

WATT 1970

A Space In Time 1971

Alvin Lee & Co. 1972

Rock & Roll Music To The World 1972

Recorded Live 1973

Positive Vibrations 1974

About Time 1989

Sorry, I don't do hollyoaks

The skittle bar and the Osprey ballroom, then off for a swim or do some ice skating.

What

Good news. Lets hope he now gets his finger out and puts in the same effort as Bayne does, then maybe he will be back to the prolific scorer we knew before.

At the end of the season he looked to be just going through the motions, and made me wonder why we would want to offer him the contract. I know he can do it, I just want to see him work for the jersey...........right foot scoop, double shuffle, goal, that'll do for me.

Benchy, don't mistake banter for real life. Brewster took us to another level, we have since then realised that there is more to life than being fit, we have now moved on and are capable of playing better foorball than we did when Brew was playing. We don't use the target man approach as much, preferring to play forward on the wings. I believe we miss Brew more as a striker than as a Manager. He was normally very good at holding and shielding the ball before being able to play someone in. We can now use the pace of Dargo and the touch of Wyness to create and score goals, therefore based on that we are not missing Brew as much as we thought we would when United made that initial approach for him. As we say up here, onwards and upwards, or in Brew's case, onwards and downwards.

Harry, six of the strap for you, we are not questioning the merits of this venture, merely being asked if we want to go along for a bit of light entertainment, chill out, and bend over.

Alan, I like you...........................just not that much.

Bloody beastie, can't stop humming it now

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Doo doo, doo doo, doodud doo

Doo doo, doodud doo dudoo, doo dudoo dudoo, doo doo doodud doo

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Doo doo, doo doo, doodud doo

Doo doo, doodud doo dudoo, doo dudoo dudoo, doo doo doodud doo

Doo doo, doo doo, doodud doo

Doo doo, doo doo, doodud doo

Doo doo, doodud doo dudoo, doo dudoo dudoo, doo doo doodud doo

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Doo doo, doodud doo dudoo, doo dudoo dudoo, doo doo doodud doo

Get your apologies out and start grovelling, Caley100 runs a garage, you know the type, the ones that repairs customers cars, you know, the customers cars that would be parked in front of this garage thet he runs, and maybe, just maybe, he does not want to hand the customers cars back to them covered in birdie poo.

Now then are we feeling a little silly now, run along and behave.