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To be fair in your Quiz it would be more like "Name the cousin of the great great great great uncle of the person who first had the idea to implenent the winter break. Bonus point if can name the song that was playing in the background when he got the idea."

Also, there are regions in Germany, where snow is the rule not the exception around late December early January til February. The winter break was introduced because many matches had to be postponed the years before, although playing on a snowy grounds wasn't seldom those days.

The next 20 years are going to be fantastic…….

The narrative from Newcastle fans shown on TV and radio today that the club has endured endless misery and suffering over the past ten years is absurd and strange. Equally, “today isn’t the day for that” in regards to the issues with the Saudis is a funny stance from people so ardently abusive with their dislike and disdain for their previous owner is a funny one. I’m not a fan of fans celebrating new owners like they’re celebrating league wins or legends of the club returning. I just find it all a bit strange really. Don’t get me wrong, I get they’re happy to see the back of Ashley and there may be a percentage purely celebrating that but are new owners really to be celebrated? There’s no guarantee these will be any better and having been burnt by Ashley and the various characters he’s had associated with the club over the past however many years he’d been there, is there any guarantee this one is going to be any better? Just because this one has money (so does Ashley though), is that okay? Having seen what a bad owner can do to a football club and having been broken by a megalomaniac, with a new play thing before the money stopped, that left me repelled from the club and confused and angry that the next chairman with no links to the country let alone the city, the place or the club to be treated like some sort of hero and celebrity, I hope Newcastle fans get a club they can be proud of and aren’t at the end of another bad owner. It’s not pleasant and it’s not nice, ultimately, to have to make a decision to walk away. If it’s done “right”, Newcastle could well make the big six, a big seven and provide a new test to the traditional names but they’ll do their bit to push back on their monopoly being challenged by a newcomer.

Right now they were incorporated into the rest of Pakthun province from being a special federally administrated region. So on paper they are completely part of the country. But on the ground yes their own set of rules and code is still much relevant. Tribal chiefs are mainly elected in the assembly, their own tribal courts have more value than actual courts etc That is the history of that region. Even British used it mainly as a frontier with Afghanistan not wishing to establish their rule on it. I don't really mind it you can't force someone to hug something, If they prefer their thousand years old tribal code more that shouldn't be an issue. Spain has similar kind of problems in some of it's regions, problem arises when you resort to violence to challenge the state which creates nothing but unnecessary deaths for everybody and doesn't achieve anything. In that way situation is much better than 10-12 years ago it was really made worse by WoT since US drones killed people there and they turned on Pakistani govt for siding with US the reason TTP the Pakistani Taliban group were created, many have formally joined the state setup but some factions still remain at odds and reports are Pakistani govt is in talks with some of them who are willing to negotiate. I'm totally for negotiations but there is one faction within them which used to run drug trade in those parts who carried out that attack on school killing 140 children in 2014, no matter what happened killing children is part of no tribal code or armed conduct. They should be brought to justice and they aren't willing to talk either.

4 additional matches per season doesn't sound like much but that is usually the difference in having a Christmas break versus not. Personally, I don't watch much football around the holidays anyway and I'm all for having a nice mid-season break.

It's easy to chastise from a far, but I and many other Newcastle fans have to learn how to live within this situation. How to challenge and when to challenge. In my view today is not the day for the Newcastle fans to challenge. Today is about a new start for our community and for me personally its a hope of rebuilding family relationships that were heavily damaged by Mike Ashley. It is however the day for you to flag the Saudi's. I encourage you to do so. Nationally you need to play that role, but I vehemently disagree with pinning it on the Geordie and making the Geordie carry the burden and shame. Particularly when it's impossible to have a view of the takeover without being a hypocrit, either way.

Fantastic news. Keeping our best talents in the club long term gives me hope... Especially considering that he chose us instead of Juventus, Chelsea or Leverkusen.

Long term the stadium will price local people out of the area, it is a hub (hence its location) for further gentrification and will harm the local residents of Tottenham, turning it into another Brixton or Peckham and a hub for the middle classes who live (and who will in future live) in Tottenham and those who travel in on match day from the Home Counties. Hundreds of millions of pounds passing through a football club, a football club uses the area it is in and the people who live there to market itself but then does not share much of its wealth with that community which is generally a pittance in comparison to what is being paid out to other departments within the club, generally in football and especially in Spurs’ case this means the area the club is located in is one of the most deprived parts of the country. The concerns of gentrification and wealth hoarding are not whataboutery. They are legitimate concerns that cause poverty, poor mental health, physical ill health and death. The difference between those issues and this issue is that they generally remain invisible to the average person who is not from that local community and not affected by it, this however is front page news. You can be against the regime without being selective about who you direct your anger towards, in this case football fans in Newcastle. Otherwise I hope you are equally demanding of yourself in every facet of your day to day life in not participating within systems much greater than you that have become the day to day norm throughout British society that either destroy the environment and/or oppress and exploit people elsewhere around the globe. And it’s not your word to own if you’re not Jewish, after all there are a lot of Jewish people who are against the use of that word from non-Jewish people. Far greater I would imagine than the amount of people that support Tottenham.

UK Red list reduced down from 54 to 7 countries. Personally happy as Jamaica is off the list! Absolutely gutted Peru stays on....

@MUFC

Tbf MBS is leading a campaign of starvation on Yemen, an advocate for the Balkanisation of the country my mums from, and got caught ordering dismembering a journalist alive and sort of just got to shrug his shoulders and lol about it. And one of the biggest exporters of Wahhabism… I’m not claiming to be a perfect person or anything, but you are now owned by a group chaired by one of the genuinely worst people alive imo. So people are going to hate your club for him being involved with your club. Myself included.

"Round 13, Question 1: why was the winter break introduced in the Bundesliga?"

I look forward to Spurs fans boycotting their game with us in protest. Oh. These people invest in much of your daily life, it's a national question. The nation allows them in under our rules, to allow them in to chip away at them to change back home. The model is to allow positive relationships with an overarching reputational challenge to bring about change. Whether anyone likes it or not Newcastle and Tyneside's role in that kind of relationship is now primarily the positive aspect to this diplomacy, yes with some negative questioning and the local press will get that ball rolling. I accept that we as a club are fair game when it comes to Saudi reputation now. I'd prefer if we weren't, but I will defend the community from attacks by hypocrits. Why is it OK for you to benefit from dodgy arab money in your life but it's not ok for the Newcastle United fan with a tea towel on his head, the Geordie should sacrifice his football club at the alter, he should carry the weight of it all whilst you continue to sacrifice nothing. That will help maintain the myth of football being more virtuous than other businesses probably. Have them take this money that will bring jobs to Tyneside and fuel south east house prices some more instead perhaps. We will see a lot of people tweet about how a brick layer from Heaton should be burning his club to the ground in anger, completely unaware of Saudi funding to keep twitter going. Herein lies the hypocrisy that comes with having an opinion on this takeover. Beware anyone who claims to be virtuous and clean for they are simply part of the big dirty lie that besets the United Kingdom. Watch how easy the middle class target working class blokes with Saudi flags, far easier and comfortably than anything else they've bothered to do to rid their country of investment from people that are wrong'uns.

A winter’s tale (in the Kuiper belt) As Pluto’s orbit takes it further from the Sun, scientists get an opportunity to study how the dwarf planet stores heat. Winter is coming on Pluto. And it is a winter, scientists say, unlike anything imaginable on Earth, a winter in which the dwarf planet’s entire atmosphere is expected to freeze out as frost, leaving it nearly as airless at the Moon. Not that Pluto has ever had a thick atmosphere. Its current surface pressure is only a bit more than 0.001% that of Earth’s, and there are indications that this is the densest it ever gets. What’s surprising, says Eliot Young, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, Colorado, is that Pluto’s nitrogen atmosphere is as actually as dense as it is. Since 1988, when its density was first measured by observing the way it dimmed starlight when Pluto passed in front of a star, it’s actually increased by a factor of nearly three, something that can only occur if frost has been steadily sublimating from the surface during the intervening years. That would make sense if Pluto’s elliptical orbit was carrying it closer to the Sun. But it reached its closest approach in 1989 and has since moved 10% farther out, which, given the way solar heating works, means it is receiving only 77.8% as much energy from the Sun now, as then. “It’s a surprise that Pluto’s atmosphere is as big as it is and has been growing for 30 years,” Young said on Monday at a virtual meeting of the American Astronomical Society’s Division for Planetary Sciences. Now, however, it appears that this trend is on the cusp of reversing itself. _____________________________________________________________________ Read more: In the Kuiper Belt, a baffling lack of small craters _______________________________________________________________________ In August 2018, astronomers realised that Pluto was about to pass in front of a fairly bright star – an occasional event which, like the first one studied in 1988, allows them to probe the density of its atmosphere by watching how the starlight dims before it winks out… and how it brightens as Pluto moves out of the way. Better yet, this was going to be observable along a broad arc running across much of the US from Texas to Virginia – making it easy for Young’s team to deploy a dozen or so portable telescopes (16- to 20-inch apertures) along that arc in the hope of observing the two-minute event from as many cloud-free locations as possible. Luck was on their side, and they not only had clear skies, but even managed to predict the centerline of the arc so well that one telescope wound up only six kilometres from the perfect location. “We’ve never gotten that close to the centreline before,” Young says. “It wasn’t long ago where we’d have been happy to have gotten within 100 kilometres.” When NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto in 2015, it measured the surface pressure of Pluto’s atmosphere at 11.5 microbars. (One microbar is one millionth the pressure of Earth’s atmosphere). If Pluto’s atmosphere had continued thickening at the rate seen in prior studies, Young says, his team would have expected to see a pressure of 14.4 microbars. But instead, they got 11.4 microbars, “basically the same thing New Horizons saw.” That may not sound like the onset of winter, but it’s definitely the beginning of fall. And once Pluto’s temperature starts to drop, Young says, its atmosphere is going to freeze out very quickly, with half of it freezing out with each 1.5°C drop in surface temperature. The reason the big freeze has been delayed this long, he adds, is similar to the reason why beach sand continues to heat up after high noon, or why the hottest time of year isn’t the summer solstice, but later on. Even though the solar intensity is waning, heat has penetrated below ground, from where it is slow to dissipate. “It keeps the surface warm,” he says. Studying the timing of this process as Pluto continues to move outward from the Sun (eventually to about 1.67 times the distance it was in 1989) will teach scientists a lot about how its subsurface retains heat, Young says, including such factors as how porous its materials might be. “It’s a chance to look below the surface and see how heat is stored,” he says.

There have always been loose talks about stocking it up to 20, but it never really became a serious option as far as I know. 18 seems fine to me.

I admit i like watching this

Accidentally stumbled upon Tales from the Loop on Amazon Prime, and wow... Can't believe it went completely under the radar. Very unique story and general vibe. https://imdb.com/title/tt8741290/ @Bluewolf And since the show's eery, somber, melancholic tone reminds me of Dark, here's the obligatory shoutout to @Tommy, @Faithcore, @Eco, @Rucksackfranzose, and @Viva la FCB

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Takeover done.

A big pileup in Nürburgring during Touristenfahrt on Monday. 10 vehicles involved, 1 dead, 7 injured, 2 of them seriously

In the latest quiz there were two questions where I knew the song but of course those questions came without any bonus I don't know how but somehow she knew...

Found the latest video of @Carnivore Chris from work the other day