08/09/16

[Maik]

Tender for subsidized flights to remote areas under way
The Civil Aviation Authority is auctioning the right to operate 20 flights in remote areas

Olympic Air, Sky Express and Astra are all competing for the right to operate flights to 20 remote areas in Greece from October 2016 to the end of September 2020. The financial offers of the three airlines will be publicized in the next few days.

The 20 flights, along with the maximum annual subsidy, are the following:......

•Corfu-Aktio-Kefalonia-Zakynthos: €700,000

http://www.tovima.gr/en/article/?aid=827005

[Maik]

DNA confirms cause of 1665 London's Great Plague

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-37287715

[Maik]

Storms have caused flooding in Argostoli and closed the Argostoli-Poros road between Simotata-Vlakhata for several hours. Also heard Lourdas beach is a bit of a muddy mess.

[Maik]

Argostoli police have arrested three Albanian nationals, aged 31, 29 and 23 respectively, and two local Greeks aged 46 and 30, for their part in an organized drugs trafficking ring dealing in raw cocaine and cannabis. Seventeen customers also arrested.

[Maik]

Sailing boat, the ΚΟΣ 45.6, ran aground off Ithaka yesterday and had to be towed into Vathi. No injuries reported to any of the eight occupants.

[Maik]

The changing face of Liverpool's Anfield: From uncovered terracing in 1894 to a 20,500-seater main stand

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2016/09/08/the-changing-face-of-liverpools-anfield-from-uncovered-terracing/

[Maik]

The Ministry of Defence is moving its computing from the secure military network it has used for the last decade to data centres owned by Microsoft.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/09/07/ministry-of-defence-switches-to-the-cloud-as-microsoft-opens-fir/


What 'the cloud' looks like

[Jolly Roger]

Storms have caused flooding in Argostoli and closed the Argostoli-Poros road between Simotata-Vlakhata for several hours. Also heard Lourdas beach is a bit of a muddy mess.

I have recorded 147mms of rain over the last few days.

[Maik]

Bye 'eck! And for those of us who still work in pounds and ounces...... that's almost six inches of water!

(I think)