The village of Lanreath near Looe, Cornwall, lost its primary school in 2007 after pupil numbers fell to 11. Siobhan Rawlins, who led a campaign to save the school said the community has lost its connections between old and young.
The Calcutta Cup, which is awarded to the winner of Scotland and England's match in the Six Nations, may have lost its connection with history, but it has its origins in the 19thcentury, when an English side would pit themselves against a British all-stars side in the center of Kolkata.
David Cressy summarised the modern celebration with these words: "the rockets go higher and burn with more colour, but they have less and less to do with memories of the Fifth of November ... it might be observed that Guy Fawkes Dayy is finally declining, having lost its connection with politics and religion.
His grandfather, after whom he was named, invented the adding machine, but the family had lost its connections to the company by the time of the Depression.
"And the plain truth is this: The party that I love has lost its emotional connection with millions of people.
Hence, MR-UDP drops the connections as if the node had lost its network connection.
On the state of the party, Mr Burnham said he did not accept it was "ground zero", but Labour had lost its "emotional connection" with millions of people and needed to re-establish its reputation on the economy.
To do it, he said, he used a broadband connection at a Barnes & Noble store because his aunt's house in a Maryland suburb, where he was staying, had lost its Internet connection in a snowstorm.
The younger generation has seemingly lost its connection to what it was like pre-Facebook and pre-Marriage Equality.
