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    1 and knew 0. Almost did a Jacksgranda.
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    Except there is no STV to bring all the various flavours of Unionism back together by the point that the sixth seat is decided, so the Scottish d'Hondt system is still rigged in favour of the party gaining the most votes, which was supposed to be Labour rather than the SNP.
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    It wouldn't be just another version, my argument is it should be merged right into junior and Highland League football in an east-west-north format at the third tier. Have you ever been to a top junior game? The players and fans take it very seriously. Having watched both grades (senior more than junior) over the years, I don't get why lower division SPFL fans think their clubs are special in some way compared to the likes of Bo'ness United, Pollok or Auchinleck Talbot (take away the subsidy from league and association handouts and there would be little to no difference) and why Alloa would see a trip to Stranraer as better than a trip to Bo'ness when the scope for extra well-attended local derbies is obvious in a regional format.
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    How does a regional format stop any of those things from happening?
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    Have already responded to this point. The obvious regionalisation would be a three-way east-west-north format along the lines of the east and west junior superleagues and the Highland league, so that is not the case. Most of Alloa's opponents would be in Fife and the Lothians and within an hour's drive if that approach were to be adopted, as is the case for Bo'ness United at the moment, which was the example I used.
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    3 and knew 3 today.
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    Amazed to get 8/10 as I only knew three. The Greek cake and 1948 PGA questions let me down.
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    Not as far as I am aware. What the top clubs wanted to do when the SPL-SFL merger negotiations started up was to have their U-20 teams playing against lower division part-time clubs on a regular basis and regionalisation was very much on the agenda in that context. The full-time clubs would probably prefer to keep players in house more of the time rather than loaning them out to other clubs. This year's Challenge Cup might be the thin end of the wedge on that given the U-20 teams seemed to hold their own quite well against that level of opposition.
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    Suspect what she has in mind would be something similar to Austria's 10-10-[16/16/16] format, so there would be no need to do things that way. The Highland League, and east and west junior superleagues provide the obvious template for a similar regionalisation in a Scottish context, and the twenty demoted SPFL clubs could easily combine with 28 or so from the existing regional setups to facilitate that sort of league structure, if Scottish football ever got serious about having a pyramid. Set things up that way and you have 48 clubs only two promotions away from the big time rather than having 10 and that means many more local communities with a team that people might take an interest in rather than gravitating towards the Old Firm.
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    Malta is only slightly bigger than Clackmannanshire with less than a tenth of Scotland's population, so that isn't a sensible parallel. Not sure why people see having twenty fewer clubs in the national divisions as meaning clubs would no longer exist. Most of Scotland's 950 or so Saturday afternoon teams already play outside the SPFL. Bo'ness United vs Alloa makes more sense than Stranraer vs Alloa from a logistical standpoint when part-time players are involved and you would still get a decent sized crowd along to watch it. Regional divisions at the top part-time level would not be the end of the world for the clubs involved.
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    Think she's right that the two mainly part-time divisions really don't need to be under the SPFL banner and would be better placed in a regional format like the east-west-north juniors setup, but there's nothing new in any of this. There are 42 SPFL clubs because a super-majority of SFL clubs was needed to get the merger through, not because the top full-time clubs value the presence of the bottom two tiers in any way. If SPL2 had been doable without any need for an ongoing breakaway payment and League Cup entry to the 20 or so remaining SFL clubs, odds on they would have pursued that option instead.
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    5 and knew 5
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    3/10 and knew 2
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    The Pentland Firth is the mother lode on that globally. Tidal power is cyclical, so unless you have something like pump-storage hydro you can't match it to peak demand. The problem is that even on renewables you can get all kinds of beardie wierdies kicking up a fuss because some rare flower might go extinct or something like that and even building a set of pylons through the Highlands gets all kinds of landscape fetishists very upset. NIMBYism isn't just an issue with nuclear.
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    There already is to a limited extent, but there needs to be a lot more to make the renewables thing work without needing to have natural gas fired power plants as the backup. There are plans for more: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-17061075 but the big problem is that this sort of thing runs into a lot of opposition from people who see it as destroying the Highland landscape etc etc http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/fury-scottish-councillors-back-controversial-1409320#ojSOGk3JYu8uCmWV.97
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    With more pump storage hydro along the Great Glen renewables to help balance out supply with demand and renewables would be the way to go in a Scottish context. In England there is a better case for nuclear.
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    4/10 and knew 3. Knew the ungulate, the Liberian flag and official name of Bangalore.
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    2/10 and knew 1.
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    Very happy with 6, only sure on 2.
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    Looks like the guy immediately behind the Dear Leader in this photograph is the uncle of Kim Jong-un that got executed. If that's a photo that was never online before, maybe the Korean hacking earlier on was no coincidence? If so, I hope they have fun translating this in Pyongyang and figuring out what it means. 8마일의 버퍼는 김 왕조에서 똥 놀아나.
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    5/10 and knew 3
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    7/10 and knew 5.
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    Happy with 5 and knew 2. Heavy on obscure Aussie stuff today.
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    7/10 and knew 4.
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    5/10 and knew 2.
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