#severn trent

[bonefall]

Since the lake territory is so close to the ocean, are there any anadromous fish that are going to be new for Riverclan to catch and eat?

Also, are all the clans going to have access to freshwater shellfish from the lake if it has any?

Yes! They have Atlantic Salmon (Salmo Salar), Brown Trout (Salmo Trutta) and the anadromous version of brown trout, the beloved Sea Trout.

If there are more anadromous fish in this part of England, I am not aware of them yet. I have heard that the Twait Shad (Alosa Fallax) could hypothetically be found around here, but it seems like in practice it's only been found in the Severn (too far south for my survey) and southern England.

There is also the catadromous River Eel (Anguilla Anguilla), which I think counts.

And YES the Lake has freshwater shellfish-- Freshwater Pearl Mussels (Margaritifera Margaritifera) specifically. Only RiverClan can access these though, no other Clan can swim and dive like they can.

But since RiverClan prefers the taste of proper fish, the mussels are usually safe except in very hot summers, when diving for them accents their diet and also is a fun training exercise in holding your breath.

And lastly there's the Signal Crayfish (Pacifastacus Leniusculus), an invasive that displaces the native shellfish species. They like marshes and rivers. RiverClan can catch these, but only ShadowClan likes to eat them.

[jthurlow]

The Big Chute Fiasco and the Great Rest, 126 days into America's Great Loop

Ed and I are 126 days into America’s 6000 mile Great Loop. Since I last wrote we have gone from Big Chute to Midland; Midland to Parry Sound; Perry Sound to Britt; Britt to Killarney; Killarney to Baie Fine; Baie Fine to Drummond Island; Drummond Island to Mackinac Island; Mackinac Island to Mackinaw City; and Mackinaw City to Beaver Island. At Drummond Island we went through Customs and…

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"The commissioners met at Peterborough on 11 August to consider what was to be done about the surrendered contracts. (Hartwell had also abandoned the Bobcaygeon works.) It was decided that Baird would take over personal superintendence of the work and finish the construction with day labourers. He was to "ascertain the extent of quarrying and cutting stone for Whitla's Rapids and receive tenders for the same being done." It is doubtful if many tenders were received, but Thomas Choate, a cousin of Zaccheus Burnham and superintendent of Burnham's mill at Warsaw, together with Sutherland, received a contract for cutting stone at the rate of $8 per large stone. McNeil was to engage teams for drawing the stone to Whitla's Rapids "at a rate not to exceed [20 cents] per cubic foot in the rough" and "[18 cents] per cubic foot for finished stone or [ $3 ] per day."

McNeil still had difficulty getting teams. It seems that Mackenzie's brief rebellion had created a defiant attitude among workers and tradesmen. Barnabas Bletcher, operator of a stage service from Port Hope, and his partner, Thomas Harper of Peterborough, organized all the teamsters around Peterborough into a combine; consequently all but two teamsters in the area refused to haul stone for less than 25 cents per cubic foot. McNeil was then forced to travel through Smith, Cavan, and Otonabee townships in search of teams. He received a promise from several men to come with horses and oxen, but by 15 January none had made an appearance. Later in the month, teams did come forward, and for a while McNeil had 22 teams on his list, but because of accidents occurring daily he was never able to keep more than 12 teams engaged at one time. And there was always a "great outcry for money." Sutherland complained frequently that if he did not get paid he would have to discontinue quarrying, which is precisely what he did."

- James T. Angus, A Respectable Ditch: A History of the Trent-Severen Waterway, 1833-1920. Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's Press, 1988. p. 44

[insidecroydon]

Thames Water faces £159m courtroom challenge over pollution

A week after precautionary checks for contamination in the water supply in Beckenham and Penge, the failing privatised utility company is forced to issue bottled supplies to residents in a village in the Surrey constituency of Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt Water warning: around 600 households in Surrey have been told not to drink their tap water On the day that the multi-billion-pound pollution…

[unsettlingcreature]

Ouurggvhhh.... phone calls make me anxious but I've been so lucky with customer service recently. I'm going 2/2 on nice customer service reps........

[ask4write]

Problem solving: Severn Trent Services- Supplier Selection, Tender Evaluation and Recommendation

CW2: Introduction The current reflective essay is citing my learning and experience throughout the understanding of negotiation game in purchase and procurement. However, the learning and experience with upcoming practices in purchase and procurement. Throughout the discussion in this reflective report, the key focus will be negotiation for the business conflicts during the course of supply and…

[freenorthnow]

No one should be making millions in bonuses on something as essential as water.

Especially not the water companies responsible for record amounts of sewage in our waterways.

Nationalise water companies now.

[peterborough-scapes]

Late Autumn Hues

The Trent Severn Waterway from Trent University Nature Area.

©2020 Ken Oliver

[scavengedluxury]

The state of this! “The Labour leadership is aware we are soft testing various ideas but have asked us to keep it highly confidential so please don’t forward this email.”

[purple-dahlias]

Ok. Who wants to help me rank this list of places so that the algorithm can decide where I’ll be living and working for the next 2 years

London

East of England

Kent Surrey Sussex

Leicester Northampton and Rutland

Severn

Wessex

North west England

Wales

Scotland

Northern Ireland

Oxford

Peninsula

Northern

Trent

West Midlands north

West Midlands central

West Midlands south

Yorkshire and Humber

[probablyasocialecologist]

Liv Garfield, the boss of FTSE 100 water giant Severn Trent, is trying to bring a taskforce of utility bosses together with the Labour party in a bid to head off the threat of nationalisation. In an email sent to other utility CEOs which she describes as “sensitive” and “highly confidential”, the £4 million a year Garfield asks them to join an “off-the-record roundtable” with Will Hutton, the Observer journalist best known for books critical of capitalism including The State We’re In. Her move comes as water companies face the threat of being re-nationalised, decades after they were privatised as one of Margaret Thatcher’s free market reforms.

[russellstyles]

🍁... 

 There are not a lot of things i recall from my high school years, but one thing in particular did stick and has resonated with me since then and often comes back when i am out with my 'image taking devices'. His words "take your head out of your arse and be aware"..have translated over these passing years into " look up, look down and look all around"...I have thanked 'Fletch' (our geography teacher ) on many occasions for this insight, life lesson and instilling a curiosity to travel. I became a 🇨🇦 Citizen this year , this image somehow felt right.....so once again: "Thank YOU Mr. Fletcher" 

 Lock 21, Trent-Severn Waterway, Peterborough, Ontario,🇨🇦 

[briantravels60]

Day 4 - Hastings to Tweed - 86 km

Moderately hilly

Today things changed, the weather was cooler (good) but the trail wasn’t to the standards of the first 3 days (not good) and there was a strong headwind (not good).

Last night I stayed at my brother-in-law and sister-in-law’s home (Rich & Karen). Probably not available to other travellers but there is at least one B&B in Hastings, Hastings House B&B. Is anyone picking up on a trend with my accommodation habits?

The day started riding through farmland and crossing plenty of rivers with the sounds of birds and frogs.

A peaceful ride along the historic Trent-Severn Waterway. Later I crossed the river via the Ranney Gorge Suspension Bridge.

At times the trail was rough, so rough that it was like riding on a dried up river bed – rocks the size of golf bases and sometimes the size of baseballs, potholes a foot deep, washboard surface, and soft gravel so thick that it felt like riding in soft sand.  The portion from Campbellford to the point where I turned north onto the Hastings Heritage Trail was terrible. Riding required 100% concentration to snake my way along the trail, avoiding the worst spots, so I missed a lot of the scenery today. By the end of the day my knees, my butt, and my shoulders all ached.

Not a large rock but it looked like one as I approached it.

While many parts of the trail were adequate, the path between Campbellford to the Hastings Heritage Trail was the worst segment.

All terrain vehicles (ATVs) are permitted on the trail in this part of the trail, and, maybe 30% of the trail riders that I saw today seemed to think that they are riding on the TCT Speedway as well as feeling entitled to fishtail along the trail, completely ripping up the surface. Some of these ATVs are the size of Hummers. I find it interesting that large ATVs can ride on the trail when small SUVs can't. Hmmm?

At one point I tried to ride on the road. I quickly decided that riding the trail was easier than pedalling up steep hills and into a strong headwind.

In fairness to the TCT, it is called the Trans Canada Trail and not the Trans Canada Road or the Trans Canada Sideway. I think that I have been spoiled by the quality of the trail my first 3 days. It's very good for walking, hiking, mountain biking, and fat tire biking, just challenging for a hybrid bike like mine.

Tweed has a nice beach and North America's small jailhouse.

[rhetoricandlogic]

The King in Yellow - Robert Chambers

Along the shore the cloud waves break, The twin suns sink beneath the lake, The shadows lengthen In Carcosa. Strange is the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies But stranger still is Lost Carcosa. Songs that the Hyades shall sing, Where flap the tatters of the King, Must die unheard in Dim Carcosa. Song of my soul, my voice is dead; Die thou, unsung, as tears unshed Shall dry and die in Lost Carcosa. Cassilda's Song in "The King in Yellow," Act I, Scene 2

(I probably shouldn't open a review with lines from a play that has such ill effects on people, but the excerpts from the play were my favorite parts.)

I have done homework for this review, which I now share with you: In about 1887, Gustave Nadaud writes a poem called "Carcassonne" (available online here) about a man dying before he sets eyes on the city of his heart's desire. This inspires Lord Dunsany to write a short story of the same name (included in A Dreamer's Tales), William Faulkner to write a short story of the same name (available in These Thirteen), and, apparently, Ambrose Bierce to write a short story called "An Inhabitant of Carcosa" (available in Can Such Things Be?).

Bierce's story in turn inspires Robert W. Chambers to write a collection of short stories called A King in Yellow (a review of which you are now reading), in which the first four interlocking stories follow the repercussions of a fictional play also called A King in Yellow set in the theoretically still fictional Carcosa. Which in turn inspired H.P. Lovecraft to do something I haven't finished researching yet. Which has apparently spawned a whole cottage industry of books about the king in yellow and Carcosa (just judging by what I'm seeing on Amazon, here). So this is a literary iceberg we're standing on.

The Repairer of Reputations The first story stars a Mr. Hildred Castaigne, convalescing from a concussion, poor man. The story shines in the first part for the sheer 'what on earth am I reading?' reaction it provokes, but half that reaction comes from the fact that the book was written in 1895 and describes a utopia (complete with a nasty little bit of racism) imagined in 1920. The other half comes from Mr. Castaigne, (view spoiler). The Mask The second story stars a character mentioned briefly in the first story, Boris Yvain, and narrator Alec. I think of this one as a retelling (view spoiler). I rather enjoyed this one. In the Court of the Dragon This one stars an unnamed narrator and only names a Monseigneur C____. It is therefore difficult to say the exact links, but I have my suspicions. The Yellow Sign The fourth story stars Jack Scott (from the second story), an organist who may or may not be from the third story, as well as (view spoiler), and references the events of the first story. This is the most horrific story of the quartet. The Demoiselle D'ys Starring Philip and Jean D'ys. No links to other stories, but a pretty tragedy. The Prophets' Paradise A little bit of experimental fiction that didn't really work for me, although the words were strung together nicely enough; it might be better understood as poetry. The Street of the Four Winds The last four stories also form a quartet, but they have nothing to do with Carcosa or the horror genre. This first of the four stars Severn and Sylvia Elven. I kind of this one, because Severn is the kind of man who will feed a hungry cat better than he feeds himself. The Street of the First Shell This one also has a Sylvia, and a Jack Trent? Annoyed. Long war story. Skipped. The Street of Our Lady of the Fields Americans studying in Paris. Romance. Officially bored now. Barely skimmed. Rue Barree Same Americans (different set), still a romance. Skimmed.

Overall, this was really a 2.5 for me (as a 200 page book that took me over a week to read). But I'm glad I read it for the sake of all the allusions I'm sure I've been missing and will now be able to understand. So it's got that going for it. And looking back I really did like the first four stories and a couple of the later ones, for all that the book was a slog. Rounding up.

[accapitalmarket]

GBPUSD breakdown Darvas Box as US PPI spikes

UK stocks ended mixed on Thursday following surprises in the latest US jobless claims and wholesale inflation data which dragged US markets lower although it still left intact expectations for a rate cut by the Federal Reserve next week.

Meanwhile, the European Central Bank announced a 25-basis-point reduction in its key interest rates, as was widely anticipated.

US annual producer price inflation (PPI) jumped to 3.0% in November, up from 2.6% in October, sharply higher than the consensus which had predicted it remaining at 2.6%.

Separately, the latest seasonally adjusted initial jobless claims rose by 17,000 to 242,000 in the week ended December 1, higher than forecasts for a fall to 220,000.

On foreign exchanges, sterling fell 0.17% versus the dollar to 1.2748 but added 0.10% versus the euro at 1.2143 ahead of next week’s Bank of England meeting, with markets uncertain whether UK policymakers will again join in that rate cutting party.

GBPUSD H1

Thursday’s UK showed house prices continue their upward trajectory in November, with market strength evident across most regions, according to the latest report from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). A net balance of 25% of survey respondents reported price increases, up from 16% in October and marking the fourth consecutive month of improvement.

At the stock market close in London, The FTSE 100 index was up 0.1%, at 8,311, but the FTSE 250 index ended down 0.1%, at 20,949.

Among the gainers, electricals retailer Currys surged 13.9% higher after reporting a return to profitability in the first half, supported by strong performance in the UK and Ireland, which helped offset weakness in its Nordic operations.

Meanwhile spirits group Diageo rose 2.6% following an upgrade to 'buy' from 'sell' by analysts at UBS, who highlighted upside potential in the company's US business.

Utilities stocks stood out, with Pennon climbing 4.2% on the back of an upgrade to 'overweight' from analysts Barclays, while Severn Trent gained 1.8% after Barclays’ hiked its price target.

UK100 H1

On the second line, SThree plunged 26.6% after the recruitment firm reported a 9.0% drop-in net fees and warned of ongoing market challenges that are expected to impact profits. Sector peer Hays also suffered, down 3.6%.

But Auction Technology gained 4.0% after funds managed by private equity firm TA Associates sold their entire 12.6% stake in the auction market operator.

And RWS gained 6.5% as the language services tech provider swung to a pretax profit in the financial year to the end of September.

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[news-wtf]

The car was built by students at Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) at the University of Warwick and will run off a byproduct of wastewater from the utilities company Severn Trent Water.

The Waste2Race Le Mans Prototype race car (LMP3) has been built from a selection of spare and unused parts to further its sustainable street cred in a world little-regarded for its sustainability—motorsport.

The car itself will be used to try to break one of several land speed records depending on how it performs, including the fastest standing and flying starts for both a mile and a kilometer. Its creators hope to have the car fully up and running in the next 6 to 12 months.

The parts themselves come from Ginetta, a British specialist builder of racing and sports cars based in Leeds. Among its green bits and bobs are materials made from recycled carbon fiber and a wing mirror made from beetroot waste.

The steering wheel is also 100% natural, while the firm ENRG Motorsport contributed a battery recovered from a crashed road car.

“These sorts of collaborations are a great example of how businesses, universities, and the endless curiosity of our students can break barriers and push the boundaries of what’s possible,” said Head of the Sustainable Materials and Manufacturing Research Group at WMG, Professor Kerry Kirwan.