SOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To: JET-site
Subject: Hot News - ITER European site is France

BRUSSELS, Nov 26 (AFP) - EU research ministers on Wednesday chose France to host an ambitious project to replicate the Sun's nuclear fusion, beating a Spanish bid, diplomats said. The southern French town of Cadarache in southern France had been bidding against Vandellos in Spain to host the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER). Canada and Japan are also pitching for the 4.5-billion-euro project, which will seek to replicate the kind of nuclear fusion seen in the Sun to deliver clean energy from hydrogen. Project partners, which include the EU, Japan, the United States, Canada, China, Russia and South Korea, are expected to announce their chosen site for the reactor at a Washington meeting next month.

BONJOUR FRANCE!!!!!

It is nearly time for people to chose between the two european ITER sites, one in Cadarache in France (BOO BOO) and other other in Vandellos (just by Barcelona, HURRAH) and it is starting to get quite exciting. I want it to go to Spain for two reasons, France already has a major centre Tore Supra, which they would have to shut down if they operated ITER Spain have just made the following bid. LET it be SPAIN, I want to live in Barcelona.

Spain offers a total of 900 Million Euros

Spain proposes to double her contribution to host ITER the experimental fusion reactor. The prime minister Jose Maria Aznar has informed the president of the European commission Romani Prodi and the rotating presidency of the European Union, held by Italy, that Spain will double its contribution to host ITER from the 450 million Euros agreed so far to 900 million Euros. The science and technology minister, Juan Costa, stated that Spain is now willing to contribute 20% of the ITER construction costs (4500 million Euros) instead of the 10% to which the government initially agreed in order to host this international nuclear fusion project. With this offer the government reiterates their commitment to this project and guarantees its viability, Costa said. He also indicated that the government expects the European Union take into account this Spanish financial commitment in the final selection of the European ITER site. The European Union will decide on the 27th of November on the European ITER site between France, with the Cadarache site, and Spain with Vandellos. The Spanish government has proposed that the EU submits the two ITER European sites to the final international selection but the rest of the EU members and the European Commission prefer to submit only one European ITER site and, thus, it is expected that the European Council of Ministers will have to decide the European site by a majority vote if there is no agreement on a single site before. ITER is an international consortium whose members are the EU, with a participation between 10 and 30% of the project budget, USA, Canada, Japan, Russia, China, and South Korea. This consortium must decide in December, in a meeting scheduled to take place in Washington, which country will host ITER, the largest nuclear fusion project for which besides the EU there are other two hosting offers from Japan and Canada. ITER is project designed to develop the technologies to be used in the production of energy from the fusion of hydrogen nuclei. The selection of Vandellos as the ITER site will bring to this area 1000 ~ 2000 highly qualified scientists and the creation of 100000 jobs along the next 30 years.

America is getting more interested in ITER as well look at this DOE release

Well I think I said at the start of the season and will repeat it now Villa are going down and it is all that old bastards, Deadly Doug's fault. LEAVE VILLA.

ENGLAND - CHAMPIONS OF THE WORLD
Doesn't that sound nice. After a very tense final, I am so pleased that an England team in any sport kept their bottle long enough to get their rewards. It was a great all round performance although Johny will undoubtedly get most of the glory (can't say fairer than kicking the winner with your wrong foot with seconds to go). Was a great day even with my neck in a brace.

COME ON ENGLAND, WE BEAT THE AUSSIES!!!!!

Having many happy years of playing the ultimate card game (president and a******) I have now rediscovered the pure joy of one of the ultimate card games namely Top Trumps. After purchasing the Marvel Comic book heroes and Lord of the Rings set I have now become hooked. Its amazing how much fun you can have with just one of cards, and I dont have to deal or make the tea (or lose money). Nice!

Anyway after a few games at the weekend we thought it would be cool to make up Top Trumps for all the colonels that we know. A few suggestions for categories were

Appetite
Confusion Rating
Larging It
Loudness
Shoe Size
Camp factor
Footballing talent

There are a few obvious candidates for top trumps in certain sections. Who could beat Daves 14 in shoe size, Slaters 10/10 for appetite or Smarts maximum confusion rating...

From our Antipodean Cousins

A bloke walks into a bar with a dachshund under his arm. The dog is wearing an England rugby jersey and is festooned with England pom-poms. The bartender says, "Hey! No pets are allowed! You'll have to leave." The guy begs him, "Look, I'm desperate! We're both big fans, the TV's broken at home, and this is the only place around where we can see the game." After securing a promise that the dog will behave, and warning him that he and the dog will be thrown out if there's any trouble, the bartender relents and allows them to stay in the bar and watch the game. The big game begins with the Poms receiving the kick-off. They march down field, get stopped at the 22, and kick a penalty goal. Suddenly, the dog jumps up on the bar and begins walking up and down the bar giving high-fives to everyone. The bartender says, "Wow, that is the most amazing thing I've seen! What does the dog do if they score a try?" The owner replies, "I don't know, I've only had him for three years.

Happy Birthday Wheels!! 30 you old bugger

This is all I got back from the Association of Christian Teachers. STOP BEING SO NICE I WAS TRYING TO ANNOY YOU!!!!! But to the guy's credit he followed me up to my website as I never metioned either Philip Pullman or His Dark Materials

David

Thank you very much for taking the time and the trouble to write to
me regarding Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials.

Rupert Kaye
Chief Executive, Association of Christian Teachers and Editor, ACT Now magazine

Quaker Barn - Norfolk - Wheels Suprise 30th

Had a great time in Norfolk with Wheels, Kate, T, Ailsa and Miss Cole. Very civilised went for a few walks and had some nice food and drink. The picture is off the man himself after his usual classy first touch(ha ha) sending the ball down on to the beach. He chased it all the way even when the ground changed from a nice firm hold to a squishy oily mud bath, he lost his shoe under about 8inch of crap but as any good engineer (as if, I don't care if you have a degree and a PHD in engineering, if your an engineer I am a zooilogical dentist) devised a plan to retrieve it which included trusting me not to let him fall in the mud. I was tempted but just laughed at him instead

The other day while walking to Kung Fu I saw a wee little bunny rabbit on the road and I picked the little fella up and went to the nearest house to hopefully find it's owner. Unfortunately the rabbit didn't belong to them and the owner didn't know whose it was. Anyway to cut a short story shorter, I had to go to Kung Fu so I left the job of finding the owner to Ailsa and Nat while I and D trained. By the time I had got to where I was training I remembered how allergic I was to rabbits and for about two days my head looked like a bloody beach ball. I think of myself as quite tough being taught to defend myself against multiple assailants but I think I still need defensive lessons for fluffy things that can knock me out for days.

ACT Attacks National Over His Dark Materials

The Association of Christian Teachers has had a pop at the National Theatre for staging Philip Pullmans 'Dark Material Trilogy'. He must be quaking in his boots with that bunch of courdroy wearing cult following idiots having a pop. I am not sure these sort of people should be allowed to teach the UK's children and pollute their little heads which I told them in the following e-mail

I am not sure I agree at all with an almost political association such as yours trying to teach the children of the UK your twisted views of the world. I hope you are not trying to deviate from the national curriculum teaching your funny middle ages creationary theory instead of the scientific backed evolutionary theory. The thought of missionaries come to mind, touring around innocents of different faiths and cultures in the early 19th century, manifesting fear and guilt to all who passed before in order for them to get them in your ‘flock’. I do hope this email doesn’t mean I will go to hell, I have heard it’s a frightfull plac,e but I suppose there will be a few of us (everyone who is not a Christian).

When to see Philip Pullman give a lecture on his new book Lyra's Oxford, he is an interesting guy and the only bad thing about his new book is that it is so short!!! This is the main Dark Materials Website and here is a interesting website by a guy who is writing the sequel live on the net quite cool

Raigly passed his MBA yesterday. That is top mate. Drinks are on you then

FIFA Soccer 2004

Gamers and especially gamers who love footy games are divided in to two categories those who love Fifa footy and those that don't, I happen to love it and after buying the new game for the PS2, I have been hooked it is worth buying just for the new super duper freekicks. The only thing that I must complain about is that Villa are rubbish I mean really rubish!!!

Jonny & Mel Hornby - tieing the knot!!!!!!!


Well it was a top day and a beautiful ceremony and a few beers to celebrate with before and after what more can you say except I hope both of you have many wonderful years in front of you. Think I must of had a few beers cos I woke up on Saturday feeling like I had been run over, but then again Sheppard had a couple of glasses of wine so probably felt worse than me. The boys can get dressed up smart if needed to. NICE

In response to Matty turning Delia, here is the recipe for the perfect curry.

This will make about 5-6 servings.

Ingredients

Spices
Garlic
Black mustard seeds
White mustard seeds
black Onion seeds
Turmeric
Cumin seeds (can use with powder)
Ginger (fresh or powder tho powder is way easier)
Paprica
The old faithful mixed herbs

Veggies
Your choice but I use:
2xLarge onions
2xPeppers
Mushrooms - Lots, I mean lots! When buying in the supermarket use the plastic bags not the paper ones, can't get enough shrooms in the paper bags
2xCourgettes
Packet of baby sweetcorn
Couple of potatoes - (boil for 5-10 mins to soften but you don't want them to go mushy)
couple of fresh tomatoes
handfull of fresh green chillis
frozen peas
corriander

Liquids
Oil
Tin of peeled or chopped tomatoes (might need two)
Pataks curry sauce - jalfrezi is best, madras is alright
Tamarind sauce
Hot chilli sauce

Instructions

Chop all veggies and meat, Heat oil in pan, add all spices and chopped chillis, add large splash of tamarind sauce and hot chili sauce, give it a really good stir, add onions and meat then cook and stir till the meat is done and the onions are golden, add 3/4 large tablespoons of Pataks sauce, stir in well. add rest of veggies stirring all the time. Add tinned tomatoes, give it a really good stir. stir in the chopped coriander, I don't use too much of this as it tends to take over, Then cover and leave on a lowish heat for 20-30 mins.

The Anglican Church is spending a lot of time spanking the Bishop, of New Hampshire.

First I should get this straight I am devoted agnostic, as a scientist and as there is no unequivocal proof that god does not exist I am quite willing to believe that there may be an all powerful being that created everything (although It does sound a wee bit far fetched).

What I am trying to figure out is why the Christians are so miffed about a gay bishop and I think it because of the massive contradictions in their word of god (i.e. the Bible).

’In the beginning god created the heaven and the earth‘

Alright that’s the start, he then set about building everything else and creating every creature, including us; well if we are all made from his image then surely gay people are also his creation and therefore have as much right to become a bishop as the heterosexuals. I suppose there will be people that say there are passages in the Bible (Leviticus 18:22) that says that it is immoral, but then surely that’s why the Bible contradicts itself, how can god create everything from his goodness and then create something that he thinks is immoral, unless of course somebody else (like that bad old devil dude) created all the immoral, bad stuff and then god can’t be all powerful then anyway.

I am going to try to make this readable and not a complete rant. In most deity based religions not only do you have to believe in the god but you also need to believe in the particular words of god that are set down in some text. As an example, let’s take the Christian religion as the right religion, meaning when Ned Flanders goes to the pearly gates, St. Peter is waiting for him with port and cigars (I could have quite easily picked the Muslim or Jewish religion). Firstly lets remove everyone who doesn’t believe in that God, obviously these heathen go straight to hell (oh bugger that includes me), it makes no difference how good you are, what you do in your life, how you help the world to become a better place, how well you treat people or how many old ladies you walk across the street you are up to your knees in lava and general torture stuff. Ok then there are the other religions that do actually believe in god but haven’t followed the right book, take a Muslim turning up to the gates of heaven only to find good old St Peter, ‘arse’ thinks the Muslim, right god, wrong religion. Although he has prayed his entire life to the correct god, because he has done it in slightly a different way he is still sent directly to hell, he does not pass go, and he does not collect £200, in fact all he gets is fire and brimstone. This gets even dumber when you look at different factions of the same religion (Catholicism, Eastern Orthodox Church, Quakers, Mormons or the Exclusive Brethren) and within these subsets you also have the possibility of taking a lava shower and a quick flay.

Are we saying that God only allows you in if you believe in him and you believe in the correct text and everyone else is screwed, does he send Mother Teresa to hell because she’s not a Muslim, does he send Mahatma Gandhi because he is not a Christian. If this is correct then surely heaven's like one of those crap clubs in London that only lets toffs and celebrities in, if that is the case then I may become religious just to earn my right to go to heaven (if I am lucky enough in the religion lottery chooser) just to tell him to sod off and that I chose hell with the rest of my fire brothers.

We must all be willing to be true to ourselves and each other and if we follow a moral code that shows compassion, respect and unprejudice and we do it because it is right and not because its forced upon us then we are the truly enlightened.