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The Western Australia Space Center (WASC) is operated and maintained by SSC's Australia-based company SSC Space Australia Pty Ltd. The station is remotely controlled from the SSC Network Management Centers in Kiruna, Sweden and Horsham, PA USA.
The site has four full-motion antennas installed with capabilities to support satellites, launchers and lunar missions with Telemetry Tracking & Command (TT&C) and Data Reception services. The antenna systems support satellites, launchers and lunar missions in the frequency range of S, X and Ku-Band.
The station design is built to support multiple missions simultaneously with a high level of redundancy. The entire station, including the antenna system, is fully supported by a UPS power supply system that allows uninterrupted transfer between commercial electrical power and the backup generator. This design prevents the ground station from power outages during critical supports and normal operations. The ground station includes a data center which houses system electronics, data processing and frequency conversion equipment.
At WASC SSC offers customers available space for indoor and outdoor hosting installation. Today SSC hosts eight antenna systems at WASC including dedicated equipment shelters and rack space within SSC data center.
Western Australia Space Center, also called the "Pete Thomas" Facility, is located in Western Australia, 250 meters above sea level and approximately 400 kilometers northwest of Perth.
From this advantageous position, WASC provides
geostationary (GEO) orbit raising operations and first acquisition of the launch vehicle
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spacecraft telemetry at orbit insertion/deployment and daily pass support to low-earth orbit (LEO) missions
When this station is used in combination with SSC's Punta Arenas Satellite Station in Chile unmatched coverage opportunities are available for polar orbiting satellites.
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Home News Crime & Court €75,000 defamation award for Limerick solicitor
€75,000 defamation award for Limerick solicitor
Limerick solicitor Gerard O'Neill. Photo: Facebook
A LIMERICK solicitor has been awarded €75,000 and an apology from the Irish Small and Medium Enterprises Association (ISME) after suing the business group for defamation.
Gerard O'Neill, of O'Neill & Co Solicitors, Glentworth Street in Limerick City, acted for two claimants in a personal damages case that was dismissed by the High Court in 2019.
ISME issued two press releases and made a complaint about Mr O'Neill to the Law Society. The complaint was rejected and Mr O'Neill issued proceedings in March 2020 over the press releases.
According to the Irish Independent, details of the settlement came to light after ISME chief executive Neil McDonnell wrote to Justice Minister Helen McEntee, lobbying for defamation reform.
Mr McDonnell did not name the solicitor but said ISME's underwriters had settled a defamation action taken against it by a solicitor for €75,000.
In the letter, he told Ms McEntee that continued delay with reform of the Defamation Act was indefensible.
Mr O'Neill represented Ashraf Ali, of Dooradoyle, Limerick, and Rosaleen O'Connell, of Dock Road, Limerick, who sued for personal injuries arising from a minor road collision.
Both claimed they suffered soft tissue injuries when another car came into contact with the back of Mr Ali's car.
Mr Justice Michael Twomey dismissed Mr Ali's claim as "exaggerated", and said he gave "misleading" evidence about the crash, the nature of the impact and the effect it had on his neck and back.
The judge also concluded that Ms O'Connell, who claimed to have been a backseat passenger in the car driven by Mr Ali, was not in the car and that, on the balance of probabilities, she made a fraudulent claim.
In his ruling, the judge noted Mr O'Neill, rather than a doctor, referred the claimants to a consultant to progress their claims.
He said this led the court to the unavoidable conclusion there was "no medical need" for the referrals, but "a legal need" to support a claim.
Mr Justice Twomey said Ms O'Connell had used the professional expertise of two lawyers and two doctors in order to create what had all the appearance of a legitimate claim.
The judge said this could have led to a settlement if insurers had wanted to avoid the costs of a full High Court hearing. He said the case highlighted the need for lawyers, doctors and other professionals to be alive to the possibility of being used to facilitate fraudulent claims.
In a subsequent ruling in another case, Mr Justice Twomey referred to the Ali and O'Connell cases, saying it should be noted the solicitor and counsel involved "were not criticised by this court in any way for how they represented their clients".
"This is because they both have a duty to act on the instructions of their clients. The truth or otherwise of those claims is a matter for the court and not the lawyers," he said
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Berthold Huber: "Stations are the gateway for passengers to the train. We are therefore stopping the sale of reception buildings."
photo: Pro-Rail Alliance / Allianz pro Schiene/Berthold Huber: "Stations are the gateway for passengers to the train. We are therefore stopping the sale of reception buildings."
Deutsche Bahn (DB) will no longer sell reception buildings at stations with immediate effect.
DB Board Member for Infrastructure Berthold Huber said on July 11: "Stations are the gateway for passengers to the train, and their buildings and forecourts are virtually the calling card of a place. They have to be friendly and inviting. That's why we're stopping the sale of our reception buildings. We want to design and develop the areas together with the cities and communities."
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With the change, of course, all of DB's 700 or so reception buildings will remain in its ownership. A few properties are exempt from the sales stop, notably those where DB has already entered into contractual or pre-contractual commitments with the municipalities.
"To advance the mobility turnaround and increase acceptance of climate-friendly rail, we need attractive stations and a pleasant environment. Strong rail also includes inviting reception buildings. This is in the interest of the common good, and the communities benefit as well," says Berthold Huber.
Until now, DB has sold many former station buildings because they were difficult to maintain. Instead of selling them, DB is now focusing on further strengthening its station buildings. These are to be comprehensively developed. Good recent examples are the main stations in Halle (Saale), Cottbus or Saarlouis.
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When Merl spills fertilizer on the stump, it starts growing again! Pickle and Gull embrace the new growth, but Merl just wants to chop it all off.
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Look, all I ever promised was 100 words.
Here's a sentence I never thought I would find myself typing: A team of scientists in Hoboken have developed technology that creates entangled photons 100 times more efficiently than previously possible. Let's take a moment to reflect on what this might mean for the future of quantum computing. Now let's all acknowledge that while this is seriously cool science news, the inclusion of the phrase "in Hoboken" adds an inappropriate yet undeniable element of dopey humor. Also, the word "acknowledge" looks so funny when you type it out that I had to spell-check it twice. Okay. That's all I got.
Your Monday Boggle
You've no doubt heard about the rare conjunction in our skies of the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn, two well-known planets famous for such interesting features as spots and rings, respectively. They're just lining up from our perspective, of course, not actually getting close. I looked it up – they are about five times as far from one another as Earth is from the Sun. Also, Jupiter and Saturn together contain over 90 percent of the planetary mass in the solar system. So, they're real far part, and they're real big. In comparison, the largest omelet ever made contained 145,000 eggs.
Also, a bug up my butt.
I hate to keep harping on this but it's been a thorn on my side and a bee in my bonnet for an awful long time now which is the failure of hovercraft to ever deliver on their potential to be our cool futuristic transportation technology of tomorrow. What can be said of a culture that allows the pioneering early work of such giants as Thornycroft and Cockerell to languish fallow and neglected but that we had greatness within the span of our grasp and blithely frittered away their priceless legacy. I should have ordered the plans from Popular Mechanics.
absolute zero
so me and gus and phil were sitting around talking about what we might compose next and gus said he'd go cage one better and write a piece with four minutes and thirty-four seconds of silence but phil said you're missing the point he said i'm going for four minutes and thirty-two seconds which yeah that was okay until i said i'd just composed a piece called 00:00 which was absolute silence for a period of no duration whatsoever which was so good that we just sat there for a moment and listened to it an infinite number of times
A History of Innovation. A Heritage of Excellence.
The golden age of the heroic lone inventor has passed. No more pioneers like James Spangler, who invented the "suction sweeper" which so impressed his cousin that she got her husband, William H. Hoover, to invest in it. No more John Logie Bairds cobbling together televisions out of tea chests and sealing wax. Now they're just tweaking old ideas. Like for instance the first electric car, the Flocken Elektrowagen, came out in 1888. So okay, there is this one guy on YouTube who's selling a lump of rubber to chew on to develop a stronger jawline, but that's just sad.
I've no wish to bohr you, but
One of the nicest consequences of quantum uncertainly is that under currently accepted theory you most certainly can have your cake and eat it too. Which is great, because physics is not always your pal. Like Feynman diagrams, which as I understand it can be read in either direction, so cause becomes effect and vice versa. So maybe you're drunk right now because of the hangover you had tomorrow. All of this complicates linear storytelling. Not that I'm bothered since I'm one of those rare people who can live without a narrative. At least that's what I keep telling myself.
Another little jab
"Polio wasn't so bad, I just loaded up on vitamin C and chicken soup and watched a lot of daytime TV for a couple days," said absolutely nobody ever. Yet I just heard that something like 50 percent of Americans say they won't get vaccinated against COVID-19. They've heard it causes autism or socialism or something. While there's probably a wide range of opinions among anti-vaxxers, I know for sure they all have one thing in common: They've never had smallpox. But look. Maybe they'll take the vaccine if we put it in Kool-Aid. They got no problem drinking that.
the possible
Suppose your personal political philosophy is slightly to Trotsky's left. That's fine. But let's don't forget that digging in your heels means you're getting nowhere. Here's a tortured analogy: We got a bunch of hungry guests at the table waiting for supper. And we have plenty of beans and rice, but I'm like, "These nice folks deserve a big ham or roast turkey." And you go, "Yeah, they do, but what we got is beans and rice." And then I say, "That's not good enough." See, theoretically I'm a visionary, but on the practical level I'm saying, "Let 'em starve."
The Eye of the Hurricane
The dogs on my block were loud, then quiet. Our ears popped, the rain started, the wind picked up and the lights went out. The storm came sideways and what could bend bent and what couldn't broke. It was loud, then quiet. Everyone came outside to stand in the street and look at the sky. We agreed that this greenish orange purple light was like nothing we'd ever seen. I said, "So this is intermission," and our neighbor laughed politely. Then I said, "How do we know when it's over?" And she said, "I think they ring a little bell."
becalmed
I just want to mention that this cup of coffee is delicious. My chair is comfy, the dogs are calm and quiet. There's a banana waiting in the bowl that looks perfectly ripe. The weather is clear and dry and sunny with a slight breeze. I suppose I could seek out and respond to some irritant or other to offer a proper rant, but that doesn't seem necessary just at the moment. Maybe I deserve a day off. Maybe you do too. We're all doomed, of course, but right now this is shaping up to be a really nice day.
The datums are in
Look, Lambeau and the Superdome are not stadia. "Octopus" is an English word; the plural is "octopuses." You'd only need to say "octopi" when serving insalata di polpo to Julius Caesar, who I believe mostly spoke Greek anyway. Octopuses are one of those things that don't really taste all that much like chicken. In that group include two funguses, hen-of-the-woods and chicken-of-the-woods, both of which taste a great deal like mushrooms. Some people call iguanas "gallinas de palo," tree chickens. Iguana meat is not thing I have actually eaten, but I have been advised that it tastes just like octopus.
A cowboy needs a cowboy name. That's why the first cowboy movie star, Max Aronson, called himself Broncho Billy Anderson. Leonard Slye is not a cowboy name; Roy Rogers is. Rory Calhoun was Francis Durgin, Michael Landon was Eugene Orowitz. (Tom Mix was born Thomas Hezikiah Mix, which is so great I'm sort of bouncing in my chair here.) So anyway, there's this cowboy actor named L. Q. Jones. You'd recognize his face in a second – he looks more like Sam Elliott or Dennis Weaver than they look like themselves. But get this. His birth name is Justus McQueen Jr.
You can thank me later.
I need to tell you about a peculiar coincidence that has come to my attention. After scads of contemplation and a great deal of introspection, I have come to the conclusion that the things that I want to have happen are also exactly what God wants too. I don't claim to be a special or superior person; all I'm saying is this curious correlation between my desires and the will of our Creator is an interesting phenomenon that might inspire discerning folks to seek me out for advice so as to avoid an eternity in the fiery pits of Hell.
Ka-Ching!
Money is convenient because if you get a job painting a restaurant you don't have to carry home like 70 chicken fried steaks and several enormous tubs of potato salad. Money is weird because if you're a musician a big chunk of your pay comes from encouraging people to drink themselves to death. Money is dangerous because it lets you enjoy the labor of people half a world away without looking them in the eye. I'm more and more starting to think that money is powdered violence – dried out and ground up and sanitized so the smell isn't so bad.
These pearls ain't gonna clutch themselves.
The disasters don't even have the decency to wait for each other to finish anymore. All the wrong people keep dying. And apparently the best way out of this hole is to keep digging. We talk about how terrible 2020 is but look, was racism less systemic in 2019? Climate change less threatening? The wealth gap less unbalanced and health care less broken? All of a sudden this year are mean people meaner, poor people poorer, crazy people crazier? No. But we're noticing. So maybe this isn't the best year ever, but you have to admit it's got our attention.
Family in the Wind
Oh for crap's sake. There's another hurricane coming. The good news is we may finally get a chance to eat those tinned Vienna sausages we laid in for the last storm. Those little dudes are simultaneously disgusting and oddly appealing, like Abba or Circus Peanuts. It would be amusing to take a few cans to Austria and see how actual Viennese people react to them. Meanwhile, the hurricane. There's an F. Scott Fitzgerald story where two tornados in rapid succession devastate a small town. And one character says, "This is worse than a calamity. It's getting to be a nuisance."
Oh. And a mint.
I don't want to brag (I want to brag) but (because) I think I may have timed this exactly right. I showed up for the first round of aperitifs and as trays of piping hot canapes were emerging from the kitchen. I got a good seat. The soup was delicious, the salad superb. There was fish and fowl and meat. Two kinds of potato, three kinds of bread, then some cheese and fruit. Now I think I might have time for a nice dessert, a coffee, maybe even a cigar before excusing myself just as the check hits the table.
Explanations are in order
I'm starting to think that language was invented because people needed an effective way to avoid communication. Like, when people say "It's simple," they mean "It's complicated." When they say "It's complicated," they mean "I don't have time to explain it to you." When they say "I don't have time to explain it to you," they mean "I don't understand it myself." And by the time they get around to actually saying "I don't understand it myself," it's because they're finally ready to admit to themselves that they don't understand it themselves. That's when you say to them, "It's simple…"
Joe the Sea Lamprey
Practice makes perfect. For over a year I've been studying Spanish online. As a result, I've become quite adept at studying Spanish online. Someday I hope to say something in Spanish to a Spanish-speaking person. That's the long-term goal. Anyway, the other morning, I was tasked with translating this sentence: "She is lost and needs help." I typed, "Ella esta perdido y necesita ayuda." I was immediately corrected – it should actually be "Ella esta perdida y necesita ayuda." And I thought to myself, "For gosh sake! This is no time to quibble about grammar. She is lost and needs help!"
The Google Glass is half empty.
You know what's uncomfortable? Standing in one place for an extended period of time. After just a little while, you want to either sit down or walk around. To facilitate this, we have chairs and shoes. Combining the best of both is the bicycle, which allows the user to (sort of) sit down while (kind of) walking around. So anyway, somebody finally realized that the Segway was a terrible idea and they've stopped making them. Which, hmm, why didn't more people buy a complicated expensive machine to do something that can achieved better, cheaper, easier? Consumers can be so fickle.
potatopotatopotato
Hey! Great souvenir idea here: "My Grampa visited Sturgis, SD, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt… and COVID-19." One thing about Harley Davidson owners, they're loyal. They show the kind of brand affinity you normally see in preteen boy band fans. (Does anybody sell Harley puffy stickers and scented erasers?) Thousands of them were last seen racing off to their annual camporee (Well, not racing, actually. These are Harleys, after all.) to exchange anecdotes, tall tales, and of course deadly viruses. In a week or two, be on the lookout for some real bargains in slightly used motorcycles.
Hey! Here's an idea!
There's this little fly, so tiny that even ants don't bother with it. The female fly pokes a hole in an ant and lays an egg in there. The maggot eats its way up through the ant until it gets inside the head; the ant remains oblivious. Later, this maggot somehow convinces the ant to leave the nest and find a nice moist place, then releases a chemical that makes the ant's head drop off. The maggot snuggles down in there to metamorphose into adulthood. My point being, I guess, that you shouldn't trust everything that goes through your head.
Screw it. Here's the OED's 100 most common English words.
the be to of and a in that have I it for not on with he as you do at this but his by from they we say her she or an will my one all would there their what so up out if about who get which go me when make can like time no just him know take person into year your good some could them see other than then now look only come its over think also back after use two how our work first well way even new want because any these give day most us
Some of my best friends
People who claim to be colorblind say there's no difference between Black and white people but I call bullshit. I can name three differences right off the bat. First, the darker your skin the better you look when you go bald – less like a peeled egg. Number two: the potato salad. My experience has been that Black people potato salad is smaller bits, almost mashed, while white people potato salad is more chunky. I like it either way. And then third is how much less likely it is for a white person to get shot dead for a burned-out taillight.
What my brain does when I'm not using it
First it's art, then it's craft, then it's shtick.
Humming into a pocket comb is one of those things that sounds good on paper.
At its extreme, a lack of integrity can be so absolutely guileless that it's actually a form of authenticity.
Pete Best, Stu Sutcliffe, Brian Epstein, Murray the K, Billy Preston. By my count, Yoko is the 10th Beatle.
Pretty disappointed to learn that a squirrel gun is not at all what I had imagined.
I have all the symptoms of hypochondria.
Holy crap! I just realized that it's called a halter because it stops the horse.
Know Free Lunch
So you're walking through the park and some people are having a cookout. The tables are loaded up and everything looks and smells incredible. Somebody sees you standing there and they say, "What are you waiting for? Make yourself a plate." So you do; there's so much to choose from and it's all delicious. And next time you walk past this big cookout, you make yourself another big plate. It gets to be a regular thing – it's actually your favorite place to eat. So, the question is, when are you going to bring a dish?
That, friends, is an analogy.
There. Now you know.
Okay, okay. I think I got this. Folks noticed that some really big items acted differently than their science math said they would, specifically that galaxies behaved like they were much more massive than they really were, and they theorized that there was some invisible extra stuff that only showed up as mass, which isn't weight but might as well be. It was like the butcher's thumb on the scale. They called that undetectable cosmic thumb Dark Matter. Then some other people said, no, it's just that gravity acts different when things are extra heavy. Or, you know, massive. Whatever.
Apparently, this country can run pretty much okay when a major proportion of the bourgeoisie stop showing up. They can sit at home and order takeout and just leave the proletariat to handle everything. I wonder what happens next? On an unrelated subject, I need to mention that Friedrich Engels had the most epic beard ever. Seriously, every other Communist beard is a timid dusting of pubescent peach fuzz compared to his awesome whiskers. I tried pointing this out to some associates, but try having a serious political discussion with people who think "Trotsky" is a cute reference to diarrhea.
Swift Thinking
Look, I've done the math. About 13 percent of us are African American, about 60 percent are white. So, to be fair, how about if every time we kill one Black person we also kill between four and five white people – the actual goal would be to achieve a ratio of about 4.6/1. In the squad room, it would be like, "Okay, people. Let's stay safe out there, and let's all try to hit those quotas." I can hear the complaints already: "This used to be a great job, but I'm thinking of quitting because who needs all the paperwork?"
World's Worst Jew Quotes Talmud!
I'm hoping this isn't like pet rocks and hot yoga. Not like Cabbage Patch Kids or Beanie Babies or the big Quinoa Scare of '07. That this is the real deal and not a Geldof Moment. See, adrenaline is one hell of a drug, shouting is fun, outrage is contagious. Don't let's let this end up under the bed like a dusty Christmas guitar. "Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not expected to complete the work, but neither are you permitted to abandon it."
I'm itching to write this.
As one symptom of testosterone poisoning, many male humans grow hairs out of the bottom half of the front of their heads. A lot of us periodically remove this growth with tiny knives. And although most people would say we are beardless, we are technically sporting an extremely short beard. Not little boys, though. They are exempt. Many young men wear their beards longer to look more grownup. Bald men wear beards to at least have hair somewhere. And I think maybe old men let their beards grow because they just can't stand to look in the mirror any more.
Numbers don't lie, but I'm not a number.
It's Decoration Day. We should all be out tending the graves of the fallen, or at least eating grilled wienies and potato salad in the park. We should be pitching horseshoes in our shirtsleeves and yelling at the kids to stay away from the water for an hour after eating. We should at least be grateful for advances in civilization. For instance, every participant in the Great War died, and most all from WWII. Many survive from the Korean Conflict, and even higher percentage from Vietnam. So it can be shown statistically that each war is safer than the last.
Speaking Parenthetically
I'm out walking the dogs again. (I wouldn't want my readers to think I spend all my time walking [because I also spend time feeding {and picking burrs from dogs} dogs] dogs.) I have a full life. I'm standing in the street, one pocket containing plastic bags for poop, another with nutritious peanuts for my friends the crows. I am under a tree, torn as to which way to proceed – the dogs are tugging in opposite directions. A little fat gray bird above me is emitting one chirp every two seconds. And I think, "That thing needs a fresh battery."
For shame
People say they can tell when their dogs are ashamed but I have my doubts. Your average dog brain is about the size of a cue ball and just as smooth, lacking convolutions wherein regret might lodge. Humans on the other hand have all these notches and crannies that promote the construction of narratives. That means as we get older we build a richer story, gain a sense of perspective. So instead of tormenting yourself about some dumb or unkind thing you did last week, you can torment yourself about some dumb or unkind thing you did 50 years ago.
Our Wacky Planet!
Okay. So. Norway is not the tulip and windmill country. It is not the flatpack furniture country. It is not the sauna country, the marijuana country, or the mermaid country. Not the wooden shoes, not the Legos. When you think about Norway, the two words that spring to mind should be "toxic mucus," because Norway is home to the bootlace worm (Lineus longissimus), maybe the longest animal in the world. Like, 150 feet long and about a quarter inch thick. It feeds by squirting poison snot from its nose to immobilize its prey. I just thought you'd want to know.
From Wikipedia... really
"Crossover thrash … is a fusion genre of thrash metal and hardcore punk. The genre lies on a continuum between heavy metal and hardcore punk. Other genres … such as metalcore and grindcore, may overlap with crossover thrash. The genre is often confused with thrashcore, which is essentially faster hardcore punk rather than a more punk-oriented form of metal… The "-core" suffix of "thrashcore" is sometimes used to distinguish it from crossover thrash and thrash metal, the latter of which is often referred to simply as "thrash", which in turn is rarely used to refer to crossover thrash or thrashcore."
Colloidal silver is tiny bits of silver in a liquid suspension, marketed by some quacks and charlatans as a cure for HIV/AIDS, shingles, herpes, acne, cancer, and prostate troubles. It doesn't work. But in sufficient doses, it does lead to argyria, where your skin permanently turns a grayish blue color. Which is weird, but safer than big doses of Hydroxychloroquine, which can destroy your retinas or stop your heart. So what would be fun is if the president started saying that this stuff cured Covid-19. Because after that it would be easy to identify the people who take him seriously.
cien palabras
The computer keeps teaching me Spanish, and I'm currently proficient enough to construct the sentence "Nadia nunca nada con nadie," which means "Nadia never swims with anybody," a thing which I will probably never need to say. I'll persevere, though, because knowing a foreign language may eventually prove useful. Like, imagine you were traveling in Germany and some new local pals suggested you do some souvenir shopping at a little place with a sign that said "Gift Hut." Cool, right? No! Don't do it! In German, "Gift Hut" means "poison hat" and that nifty Bavarian fedora will kill you dead.
I'm no critic, but...
Submarine movies are rarely particularly good, and they're all pretty much the same. They have to shut off the motors and be real quiet and sweaty while the air goes bad and the enemy drops depth charges. Most naval-type story lines are not my cup of tea, except pirate movies when they run their hands through the treasure. Also, I hate when they make you think it's going to be a monster movie but it's actually an old dark house mystery with a snooty aunt and a plucky gal reporter. But you know what's the worst of all? Lumberjack adventures.
The French Quarter is shut down, and the rats don't like it one bit. They're scurrying around wondering where all the food went. To quote the mayor, "What we have seen is these practices are driving our rodents crazy." (I think referring to them as "our rodents" is a nice bit of inclusivity.) So the city is putting out Warfarin to kill them. But my thought is a lot of these rats have been overindulging for years on fried oysters, etouffee, red beans, beignets. A little dose of blood thinner may be just what they need to extend their lives.
finger on the pulse
I'm so ahead of the curve I'm in my own back pocket, so fashion-forward that last week's styles are already retro-chic, so on-trend that tomorrow has me on speed dial. Right now, my chosen beverage is lukewarm tap water in a Dixie cup, but I'm only breathing craft air. Music on vinyl? Not so much. I'm into a band so hip their new release is available only on two-inch 24 track or Edison cylinder. But I liked their earlier stuff more. Before they met each other. And actually they were best when they had another name and completely different members.
Stop your tittering.
Boys, stop that giggling or I shall have to separate you. As I was saying, the tufted titmouse is not a mouse at all, but a charming little bird in the tit and chickadee family. Its familiar song can be described as a lilting "peter, peter, peter" – Boys! I'll not warn you again! – a lilting "peter, peter, peter" in the trees. It is not to be confused with the edible dormouse, a small rodent that was considered a delicacy by the ancient Romans. It is consumed to this day in Slovenia, where the fur is used to make traditional hats.
It was a living heck.
Every generation has its cross to bear. Like, my grandparents had the Great War and Spanish Flu and their kids had the whole Hitler unpleasantness, and certainly I appreciate that many folks today are concerned about waves of viral infection scrubbing the entire human species from the globe although personally it's too late for me to die young. But we boomers had our own trials. It wasn't all Twinkies and Tang. It's probably difficult for a person who didn't come of age in the late '60s and early '70s to truly understand just how snugly our trousers fit back then.
In which Dave dreams big.
Travel is overrated. Most places are about the same notwithstanding variations in temperature and ambient light levels. But dang, I feel like I've been missing out big time because I've never been to Logan, Ohio. Friends, when the Reverend Paul A. Johnson died in 2010 he left a collection of about 3,400 pencil sharpeners which are now displayed at Logan's Pencil Sharpener Museum. Plan your trip for Father's Day weekend to enjoy the annual Washboard Music Festival. (Logan is home to the Columbus Washboard Company, our nation's only extant producer of said implements.) My bucket list has exactly one item.
an enviable lifestyle
There is this critter, a salamander, that lives in cold water in deep caves in the Dinaric alps. It's called the olm, which is fun to say, and it lives its whole life underwater in the dark. It eats sparingly, sometimes going for a decade between meals, and it spends a lot of its time just relaxing. It's very good at swimming but that's not what it mostly does. It mostly rests, as I said. I like to think it has a rich inner life, that sober contemplation on being a blind pale aquatic amphibian is all the olm needs.
Sound and fury.
The author and critic Damon Knight generally gets credit for introducing the term "idiot plot" to describe a story that can only be sustained because the protagonists are idiots. If they weren't, the story would be over. Like Superman, where, if you think about it, the moment Clark took off his glasses to clean them the whole secret identity thing would collapse although I myself wear glasses and so far when I remove them nobody has ever said, "Who are you and where did Dave go?" So here's the challenge: Try to construct a non-idiot plot explanation for human history.
spores are yellow-brown and distinctly warted.
Commonly known as the tapioca slime mold, the species Brefeldia maxima is a nonparasitic Amoebozoan that looks, as you may have intuited from its name, like a slimy layer of white goo. It goes through a lot of interesting life phases, as do we all, but I want to highlight what they call the plasmodial phase, during which the whole damn thing is a single cell which can be like a yard across and weigh up to 40 pounds – a pale, brainless, soggy mass. They are most commonly found in forests after a rain, and in the United States Senate.
Bloody Kansas
Should I be upset that more people take off the day after Super Bowl than do Martin Luther King Jr. Day? Should I bother mentioning that by simply moving a space we can have a Sunday devoted to the Superb Owl? Or that adding a space can turn a well-known chicken franchise into Pope Yes? But that's not what I want to discuss. I want to point out that although there's a lot of loose talk about how terrible it is to be led by a stupid person there is little historical evidence indicating that smart people do any better.
Never ate the silica gel, though.
It was years ago when I first stepped over that bright line, and then there was no going back. I removed tag (under penalty of law), and began a life of unapologetic transgression. Before long I was leaping before I looked, putting all my eggs in one basket and then counting the chickens before they hatched. I went looking for trouble, made mountains out of molehills, put the cart before the horse. Once I judged somebody before I'd walked a mile in their shoes. And lately, I have been attributing to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
The low-down on the load-out.
When I'm not writing the bestest little blog in the whole wide world, sometimes I am a bass player, generally defined as "someone who likes to hang around with musicians." And I've made what I believe to be an important observation. People may be willing to accept and even embrace those with different skin tones, cultural heritages, political views, food preferences, hair styles, or intoxicant capacities. They can even coexist in harmony with those whose spiritual practices diverge broadly from their own. But everybody believes, deeply, that they know the one and only correct way to wrap a microphone cable.
Predictions for 2020
Nostradamus quit college when they closed the university due to the plague. Then his wife and their children died of the plague. So he invented a pill to cure the plague, which didn't work but then neither did anything else. Later he wrote 942 four-line poems which prophesied our current world with astonishing accuracy. Here's one:
"The sister's brother through the quarrel and deceit
Will come to mix dew in the mineral:
On the cake given to the slow old woman,
She dies tasting it she will be simple and rustic."
Let's see their so-called Science try to explain that!
Screw it. Here's the OED's 100 most common English...


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Makito is Majuro's marathon man
January 13, 2023 by Journal
Makito Murai mid-way on his Laura-to-Rita run January 7 in Majuro. Photo: Giff Johnson.
WILMER JOEL
A Japanese man ran the Majuro equivalent of a marathon — the 30 mile distance from Laura to Rita — this past Saturday. The run was timed for his birthday.
Makito Murai, 41, who is from Tokyo, Japan, completed a six-hour Laura-Rita run as a way of saying farewell to Majuro.
Murai's "supporter," Matthew Loreto, trailed him in a vehicle until he finished the marathon.
Murai, who works for Marshalls Japan Construction Company as an assistant manager, lived in Majuro for three years with his wife and two children.
"It's so long — I couldn't imagine that it would be that long," said Murai to the Journal describing his run with shortness of breath.
As part of his training, he often runs from his house in Long Island to the end of the airport to improve his endurance on the weekends.
"I will miss leaving the beautiful sea and the wind," he said. "I don't get weather like this in Japan. I was very busy in Japan, but here was not so busy in this quiet place. It is good experience for my family."
He wished he could have more time to visit the outer islands. The only one he ever visited was Arno. Murai leaves on January 18 for Japan to start a new chapter in his life working for a construction company and hopes to establish a business career to "export (supplies) from Japan to Marshall Islands."
Arno, Japan, Laura-Rita run, Makito Murai, Marshalls Japan Construction Company, Matthew Loreto, Tokyo
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Over 170 breeds will compete from 27th to 30th May for the ultimate 'Best in Show' prize and for a chance to take part in the world's greatest dog show, Crufts.
The show is one of 37 Group and General Championship Dog Shows licensed by the Kennel Club throughout the year which enable dogs to qualify for next year's Crufts.
Each day will host different breeds of pedigree dog, which are divided into seven groups. On Friday 27th May, visitors can see the Terrier and Toy groups being judged, followed by the Gundog group on Saturday and the Working and Pastoral groups on Sunday before the Hound and Utility groups take place on the Monday. The seven group winners will then compete for the prestigious Best in Show award at the climax of the show on Monday. To find out which group your favourite breed is in, please visit www.thekennelclub.org.uk/breedhealth.
Good Citizen Dog Training Scheme testing will be held throughout each day, and spectators are invited to bring along their dogs on the day to take part, with no need to pre-book. Anyone wishing to have their dog tested must remember to bring a poop scoop bag, their dog's basic grooming equipment and ensure that their dog is wearing a collar and lead with the name and address of the owner on it. A fee of £2 per dog will be charged, with all money donated to the Kennel Club Charitable Trust.
Any Variety Good Citizen Dog Scheme Stakes will also be held each day. The Stakes are open to all GCDS Bronze Achievers (as of show closing date) and the prize money is 1st £50, 2nd £25, 3rd £10 and 4th £5.
Dog lovers of all ages are welcome and young dog lovers will particularly be in their element at the show with Young Kennel Club Stakes classes taking place.
Bath Canine Society Secretary, Ben Ford said: "Bath Canine Society held its first dog show in the Wells Road in Bath in 1877 and received an entry of 562 dogs. About 60 years later the Society held its first Championship Show.
There will be a dog crèche at the entrance of the show for all non-competing dogs. The area is run by the Boxer Rescue Society and all proceeds will go directly to them. Entry and car parking is free making it the perfect day out for the whole family. Strictly no dogs are to be left in cars.
The Kennel Club Good Citizen Dog Training Scheme is the largest dog training programme in the UK and encourages dog owners to recognise the responsibilities they have in owning a dog. The scheme incorporates all aspects of domestic dog ownership, including general health care, grooming, basic obedience and control exercises.
Over 2,000 training organisations participate in the scheme, which in turn has produced over 350,000 proud recipients of Good Citizen Dog Training Scheme awards.


I'm asking $35/doz plus $8.75/doz shipping and handling, which is cheaper than we sold them for in 1997! Please message me if you have questions. Thank you!
Are these port orford cedar?
No, they're made from yellow poplar, which is not actually a poplar. It's in the Magnolia group. Strength to weight ratio is similar to POC, but it's twice as tough.


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import argparse
from hexdump import hexdump
from n64_cart_dev import N64CartDev

def byte_swap(input):
    output = bytearray(len(input))

    for i in range(0, len(input), 2):
        output[i+1] = input[i]
        output[i] = input[i+1]

    return output

def main():
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
    parser.add_argument('rom_file', type=str)
    args = parser.parse_args()

    n64_cart = N64CartDev()
    n64_cart.open()

    print(hexdump(byte_swap(n64_cart.read(n64_cart.CART_ROM_ADDR, 128))))

    print('Dumping ROM...')
    n64_cart.read_to_file(n64_cart.CART_ROM_ADDR, 0x800000, args.rom_file)

    print('Verifying ROM...')
    n64_cart.verify_from_file(n64_cart.CART_ROM_ADDR, args.rom_file)

    print('Done')
    n64_cart.close()

if __name__ == "__main__":
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Every Tuesday you will get special prices with your ESNcard! Come and join us when we kick off the semester together with a party in Travel-Shack!


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The LoCoMotion project was co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union
Much of the excitement surrounding the potential of MOOCs has been due to the explosive rise in the number of people with access to the internet – 3.2 billion registered internet users in 2015, compared to just 400 million in 2000 (International Telecommunications Union, 2015) . Increased access to the internet means increased access to MOOCs, and in this context, MOOCs have been heralded by many as having the potential to revolutionize technology-enhanced learning – scaling up access to affordable educational opportunities for everyone on the planet.
The cost of actually producing MOOCs was identified by the LoCoMotion project group, as a barrier which would prevent the majority of educational institutions from participating in the expansion of education through the MOOC medium. While many MOOCs are available free of charge to participants, they cannot be produced for free. In 2013, the most widely promoted MOOCs were reported to cost anywhere from USD 45,000 to USD 200,000 to develop (Peterson, 2013) – beyond the budgets of most institutions.
The project group believed that if these high costs of producing MOOCs could not be overcome, the majority of institutions could well be excluded from developing MOOCs for their needs. They would be excluded from using MOOCs to cater for minority languages, specialist topics or topics that change quickly over time, and could eventually develop an over-reliance on MOOCs produced by big-brand, big-budget institutions rather than having the possibility to develop MOOCs themselves that are more relevant to their needs and contexts.
The LoCoMotion project aimed to develop and disseminate methodologies for low-cost MOOC production. By investigating and verifying the cost-effectiveness of a range of low-cost MOOC production techniques, it aimed to increase the capacity of institutions to develop MOOCs and reduce the barriers they faced in relation to the affordability of developing them. The project thus set out to contribute to an increase in the development of MOOCs in Europe, improving the sustainability of MOOCs, and increasing the range of topics available from those of general interest to more specialized audiences, minority languages and topics that change quickly over time.
Five European institutions took part in the LoCoMotion project.
Institute of Technology Sligo, Ireland (Coordinator) – a higher educational institutional with over fifteen years' experience in online distance learning using low-cost development methods, and experience in MOOC production.
The Technical University of Delft, the Netherlands – a university which is very active in Open Education, being a key member of the Open Courseware Initiative in Europe and active in the production of MOOCs for Coursera and edX;
The University of Girona, Spain – a university which is active in the development of MOOCs and has run training courses on "DIY" MOOC production;
The Fachhochschule Bielefeld, Germany – active in the rapid low-cost development of e-learning content; and
Bath Spa University – a university with extensive experience in distance learning and e-learning research.
The core activities in this project included development of a 'primary' MOOC by the project team; development of 'secondary' MOOCs using low cost approaches; and identification and dissemination of low-cost methodologies for MOOC production.
The MOOC, called 'Making MOOCs on a budget' was designed using direct instruction, constructivist and connectivist techniques to actively engage participants in testing the recommended methodologies for their cost-effectiveness and to collaboratively identify others. The MOOC was delivered 3 times, to a total of approx. 1,000 registrants.
Ten secondary MOOCs were developed by the partners of the project using the low-cost techniques promoted by the project,
An extended virtual symposium was held over a 4-week period which provided an opportunity to engage with leading figures in the area of MOOCs and technology-enhanced learning.
Dissemination of low-cost approaches to MOOC development took place through more than 50 insitu/online presentations.
The team collaboratively developed a low-cost MOOC development guidelines tool based on the experience of the project, and published it as an open source document for ongoing updates.
Long term benefits
The Making MOOCs on a budget MOOC will be available indefinitely beyond the end of the project here on WikiEducator as a support to people who wish to make low-cost MOOCs in the future.
All materials produced by this project are freely available for re-use.


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Birchcanoes
Canoe Building Process
Types of canoes
Canoe building at home
Over the past few years I have tended to neglect this website, and instead put a lot of content, photos and commentary on the Birchcanoes Facebook page. This has worked well, but often when guests went from the Facebook page to the Birchcanoes.com website, they were disappointed by the out of date content. The trick now will be for me to maintain the Facebook page, while no longer neglecting this site, so I am going to start a blog, which might intermittently chart our progress These will be roughly in date order, but I plan to do two soon: one will be about our current situation, hoping to be building canoes again shortly, and another is planned to be a sort of history of Birchcanoes to date. As canoe building progresses, I might add additional blog posts and photos, if people agree, but I doubt this will detail every canoe built.
Getting ready for the Easing of Restrictions
Our workshop has not had any canoe building courses since last October, and we are hoping to start back on 29 March as per Boris's timetable, with residential guests staying in the cabins from 12 April. The workshop has not been idle however, and has sometimes been very busy, with such jobs as cutting gunwale strips, making laminated paddles, and making and mending wooden sledges being examples. The result has been the usual accumulation of mess, and the arrival of all sorts of bits and pieces which have cluttered the place. So getting ready to open up again has taken some doing. Planes to be sharpened, new blades to be fitted to saws, new bits of kit to have homes found for them, the list goes on. A key change has been making more of a space for canoe building in our lean-to, somewhere past canoe builders from a few years ago will perhaps recall.
The lean to is now home to a camp kitchen which fills the end nearest the river. The other end used to get the westerly wind swirling round it, and occasionally driving rain would make it pretty unpleasant. So I have put in a temporary wall on the south-westerly end, which has left the place considerably more weather proof. Coupled to that I have extended the roof somewhat, and added a drain to catch any rainwater flowing in from the yard. Since these two changes, the floor has kept dry despite some significant downpours.
The lean to has also had a new bench made for it ( a work in progress,but quite useful. Lights and a radient heater, shelves, a cupboard or two, and a wood store have also been added. It is still open on the East side, towards the field, so potentially ideal for socially distanced canoe building in the summer months.Inside the workshop itself the benches have had one of their regular make-overs with fresh polycarbonate tops, so allow the canoes to be built on them without being scratched by lumps of resin on the original surface. More space has been made, so there is either space for 3 canoes to be built at once, or 2 canoes in a more socially distanced manner. Mostly we will do the latter.
Our next canoe builders have been wanting to come since last July, so it will be lovely to be able to fulfil their hopes as our first canoes of the 2021 season. Who knows,there might even be some photos of their build to show you next week!
The history of Birchcanoes
Lorem We often tell guests that we have been building canoes since 1993, but it goes back further than that. We built a plywood rowing boat back in 1991, and in fact the story goes back further still. When I was about 7 I found a strong wooden packing case and tried to make it into a houseboat. I had grand ambitions, and could imagine it floating happily down the nearby River Dove. It must have been much smaller than my memory of it, because we eventually made it into a bogey (a go cart). When I was 15 my best friend from school made a canoe at home with his father. I was inspired. Later he married my sister, and one day on a visit I was leafing through a canoeing magazine of his when I encountered an advert from Selway fisher "Build your own canoe, send for plans". I sent for the plans for the Beaver, a surprisingly complicated boat for a first build. The Vale of Belvoir is nearby, so we called it the Belvoir, so as to laugh at all the people mispronoucing the local name, which is itself a mispronunciation of the original French.
The children were at primary school, but were bright enough to loft the plans to full size, and we cut the panels out using a jig saw, and stitched them together using copper wire, in the true Mirror dinghy style. This was our first experience of polyester resin and glass fibre ( we used car repair stuff).
We built the Belvoir from 4mm Birchply and painted it with green fence paint.
On the water Belvoir was remarkably able, easily paddled, and lightweight. We had a lot of fun with her. She is still with us, albeit retired from active duty.But what we had not reckoned on was the impact building her would have on us. We had learnt about stitch and glue. We had learnt about the fun of building a canoe as a family, and the fun of taking that boat away with us on holiday to the Lakes, and even on the sheltered waters of sea lochs on the West Coast of Scotland.
So we started to consider other designs, and there followed a fascinating time, making tiny canoes for the kids from sheets of DIY plywood. Our own designs, utterly lacking in finesse, utterly lacking in awareness of what boats need to make them stable. We made our first longer canoe in around 1994, and a friend asked if he could come and make one with us. The rest is history.
In 1995 we bought the old redundant railway station at Brooksby, then a pig farm, and took on a project which will last me the rest of my life, and potentially the rest of the kids lives! We were disappointed that the river which runs by the property was a roaring torrent, and we warned the kids that it would be out of bounds. The roaring torrent continued for weeks, convincing us that the river was in fact of no use at all for our canoes and we continued to drive off to the Grantham Canal to find suitable places to paddle. But then the river subsided again into its normal state, which is how it flows for around 300 out of 365 days a year. Quiet, peaceful, clear, with fish to watch, and a stretch of nice flat water for about 350 metres upstream of where we established our landing stage.
By 1998 we had it ready to move in, and we soon repurposed the pig farm mill as our workshop. We still only did occasional canoes with friends, but I was beginning to realise that there could be something worth marketing. The Dot Com boom had taught us the value of a snappy title, but canoe.com and such like names had all been snaffled. Using two words was the thing. The canoes had all been made using birchply at that stage, and outside the workshop there is a glorious brave birch fighting its way into maturity out of a crack in the old platform. Birchcanoes it was.
We were still a long way from today's lovely canoe design. But we were inching forward towards knowing enough to design it. That is a story for another post.
" If you look for a really happy person, you will find them building a boat"
Beran Wolfe
Spring and Summer 2022 Canoe building
We are very flexible regarding dates for canoe building, paddle making and other events, but the following dates are currently available ( as of 18 Dec 2022--- please check with me to ensure your chosen date is still available before making arrangements.
Monday 18 April to Saturday 23 April 2022
Monday 2 May to Saturday 7 May 2022
Saturday 14 May to Saturday 20 May 2022
Tuesday 21 June to Saturday 25 June 2022
Tuesday 5 July to Saturday 9 July 2022
Monday 11 July to Saturday 16 July 2022
Monday 18 July to Thursday 21 July 2022
Please note, you can opt for a 3 day or a 6 day option within these dates, to start on a date of your choice. In some case, arrival earlier than the first date shown might be possible, do let us know what you would prefer
Text me on 07922 164061 or email me at jclohesy@gmail.com


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Foot Found in Yellowstone Hot Pool, but Case Is Still Murky
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — A missing man whose foot was found floating in a Yellowstone hot pool had no suicide note in his car — though investigators have found his laptop computer, notebooks and handwritten poems, according to National Park Service documents released Tuesday.
The law enforcement investigation documents posted online offered new details but no solid clues as to how Il Hun Ro, 70, of Los Angeles died — and how his foot, still in shoe, floated away — in Abyss Pool last summer.
Yellowstone officials didn't immediately return an email message Tuesday asking about any new developments in the case. Park officials said earlier they didn't suspect foul play.
More than 20 people have been killed by Yellowstone's geothermal pools, geysers, mudpots, steam vents and hot springs, according to the park's website.
A park visitor was first to report the black shoe to a tour driver Aug. 16, although park officials earlier found two shoe soles — size 9 or 10 — in the pool Aug. 8 and 12, according to a park ranger's report released Tuesday.
All names and other identifying information were redacted from the documents.
Investigators used a relative's DNA sample to identify Il from human remains in the shoe. The documents didn't describe finding any other remains after a search of Abyss Pool and surrounding area but did note apparent "fatty tissues" floating in the 140-degree Fahrenheit (60-degrees Celsius) pool in the West Thumb Geyser Basin.
Investigators sampled but didn't conclusively identify the substance in their released reports.
It remained unclear whether Il was traveling alone and exactly when he went missing. Investigators determined ll stayed at The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, about an hour's drive north of the basin, on the night of July 30, according to the documents.
Il's Kia Niro crossover SUV was eventually the only visitor's car left parked near the Abyss Pool. Inside, investigators found a variety of items including a wallet with his driver's license and $447, a photo album, notebooks and a book of poems with handwritten notes, according to the documents.
The poems and notes weren't written in English but a language redacted from the documents released Tuesday. Investigators using Google Translate found nothing suggesting a suicide note, according to their reports.
One of hundreds of thermal features in the world's first national park, Abyss Pool is 53 feet (16 meters) deep. The pool's constant circulation prevents it from erupting like Yellowstone's famous geysers.
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TASTE ON T.V.
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Armetha Pihlstrom
Terance "Tajee" Quilens, Sr.
February 11, 2021 Tasteavision Media News
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