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Will Offering Free Childcare To Poor Children Improve Their Life Chances

There is a story in the UK Independent today (15 April 2012) saying Nick Clegg, UK deputy prime minister, plans to hire 65000 nursery workers to prepare children from poor backgrounds, as young as two for success at school. The … Continue reading

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Repaired Groynes At Holland On Sea

I reported the results of FOI request to TDC to find out how much had been spent repairing groynes (or breakwaters) in Frinton, Holland and Walton This didn’t tell me which groynes had been repaired.  So I made another FOI … Continue reading

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Sea Levels Still Rising And Envisat Records Altered To Show This

James Sexton recently pointed out on his blog and in a comment to this post at WattsUpWithThat that the data for Envisat had been altered substantially in the last few days. You can download sea level data for Envisat Poseidon/Topex … Continue reading

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Set Your Expectations And Your Marketing To Only Attract Clients That Value You

Recently Ben Locker a commercial writer who lives close to me tweeted about the trend for customers to move payment terms from 30 days to 45 to 60.  Some larger organisations have 90 day payment cycles, if one of your … Continue reading

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The Whole Of Practical Politics Is To Keep People Scared

Saw this great quote from HL Mencken buried in the comments to some newspaper story this week and felt it deserved more prominence. The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be … Continue reading

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Money Spent On Wooden Groynes At Holland-on-Sea, Walton-on-Naze and Frinton-on-Sea Since 2004

I have blogged about the state of wooden groynes (or breakwaters) at Holland-on-Sea compared to Walton Frinton Clacton south of the pier The groynes at Holland seem to have been totally neglected and as a result the level of the … Continue reading

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Snow On Beach At Walton Shows Sea Doesn’t Reach Sea Wall At High Tide

Snow fell in Tendring on the night of 4/5 February 2012. This picture of the beach at Walton-on-Naze was taken about 8:30am on 6 February, so there had been at least 2 high tides since the snow fell. And this … Continue reading

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Comparision Of UK Sea Level Rise Posted Here On 11 Jan 2012 With Those From Prof Woodworth MBE

Bill Donovan of EA has sent me a paper by Prof Philip Woodworth and others which discusses “Trends in UK Mean Sea Level Revisited” and is dated 4 August 2008. Philip Woodworth received his MBE in recognition of his work … Continue reading

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Graphs And Rates Of Sea Level Rise Around UK

Previous posts have featured graphs of sea level rise and quoted rates of sea level rise for East Anglia. Here I have produced graphs and a table of rates of sea level rise for all stations around UK for which … Continue reading

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A Great Free Online Tool For Drawing Graphs

This is a short plug for mathworksheetsgo.com free online graphing calculator which is a great tool for exploring graphs of various functions. You start with this form. Add one or more lines by clicking  on buttons to the right Click … Continue reading

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