Last night I was perusing the news on my computer and woke up to a documentary about Al Capone; he was on his way to federal prison. I was surprised to learn that he was released when he had completed his sentence. When he was living out his final years in Miami, Francis Drake was suddenly voyaging south through the Celebes and his ship got stuck on a reef. ---Alan
[Video] Sir Francis Drake [Click] 1.5 hours; very educational biography and highly recommended. It seems that I was misinformed about his capture in the Indian Ocean of a Dutch merchant ship with a cargo of spices. —Alan
There is an evidently unconfirmed report that the Severomuysky Tunnel on the Baikal Amur Mainline railway has been reopened. There are multiple reports that a bomb placed on a bridge on the bypass route (which has steeper grades requiring helper locomotives and a lower speed limit) exploded underneath a passing train, but it is not clear how much damage was done. ----Alan
The original Trans-Siberian Railway (completed under Nicholas II) goes around the south end of Lake Baikal; I gather that it is less well suited to big heavy modern trains, so not much freight goes that way. The Baikal Amur Main Line (including the Severomuysky Tunnel) goes around the north end of Lake Baikal and was far more challenging to build; it wasn't completed until near the end of the Soviet Union. Large parts of it are built over permafrost on top of peat bogs; if (or when) the permafrost thaws it will become impassable. ----Alan
We're in the thick of home renovations. I have set up shop in the hallway (the only open space at the moment) and have been painting baseboards. Meanwhile, Wil has been ripping out carpet and pad, vacuuming and laying down the underlayment for the new flooring. We begin putting in the flooring tomorrow!!
puddle, do you mean a picture of the carpet we're tearing out? We aren't putting in new carpeting...we're putting down Honey Mead Oak luxury vinyl plank flooring. It looks like wood, but it's entirely waterproof...and best of all, it's not hospitable to dust mites and whatnot. Yay!
I can post a photo of the old carpet or the new flooring, but it won't be a whole room's worth without furniture...because our place is small enough that we don't have room sufficient to remove everything from any one room. Instead, we're doing half a room at a time, then moving the furniture into place. Ha! Tight squeeze in places right now, but we're managing.
Palestinian student shot in Burlington now paralyzed from the neck down, mother tells CNN From CNN’s Khalil Abdallah Hisham Awartani, one of three Palestinian students who were shot while walking in Vermont is now paralyzed from the chest down, his mother Elisabeth Price tells CNN. She had previously shared that her son may not be able to move his legs for the rest of his life after a bullet became lodged in his spine. Price told CNN that she established a GoFundMe page to provide financial support for Hisham "as he prepares to move into this next phase of his life – recovery.” “It's been a gut wrenching and difficult six days, but it's also been a remarkable and awe-inspiring time – first to watch Hisham and his two childhood friends meet this experience with resilience, strength and even deep concern for others (for each other, for their parents many miles away and for thousands of their people suffering under a brutal military bombardment) and, second, to see and feel the incredible support from all over the world, including messages of love and support from many of you,” Price writes. A 20-year-old junior at Brown University, Hisham was coming to terms with the “very long road he has in front of him," Price said. She said her son was scheduled to be released from the hospital next week and he will go on to receive rehabilitation care. Price also told CNN that Tahseen Ali Ahmad has been released from the hospital and his mother has now joined him after successfully obtaining an emergency visa to travel from Ramallah in the West Bank to the United States.
Note: According to Joshua 6:1–27, the walls of Jericho fell after the Israelites marched around the city walls once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, with the priests blowing their horns daily and the people shouting on the last day.
Certainly a revelation like that, on top of everything else, ought to bring down the current government--- but whether or not it actually will I can't venture to say. ----Alan
Last night I was perusing the news on my computer and woke up to a documentary about Al Capone; he was on his way to federal prison. I was surprised to learn that he was released when he had completed his sentence. When he was living out his final years in Miami, Francis Drake was suddenly voyaging south through the Celebes and his ship got stuck on a reef.
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DeSantis Had to Order Bible on Amazon for Swearing-In [Click] Couldn’t borrow one from the Florida state library?
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Lots of choice comments, including a portmanteau that holds promise: "scampaign."
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Didn't even have a dusty one at home, eh?
Delete[Video] Sir Francis Drake [Click] 1.5 hours; very educational biography and highly recommended. It seems that I was misinformed about his capture in the Indian Ocean of a Dutch merchant ship with a cargo of spices.
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[Video] Joe Blogs: Russia Seizes More Foreign Assets as Putin Signs Decree to Seize Russia's Second Largest Airport [Click] Sounds pretty un-bright to me. Big investors include Opec sovereign wealth funds.
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There is an evidently unconfirmed report that the Severomuysky Tunnel on the Baikal Amur Mainline railway has been reopened. There are multiple reports that a bomb placed on a bridge on the bypass route (which has steeper grades requiring helper locomotives and a lower speed limit) exploded underneath a passing train, but it is not clear how much damage was done.
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I had to look it up. Apparently this bridge is in northwestern Buryatia, Russia.
DeleteThe original Trans-Siberian Railway (completed under Nicholas II) goes around the south end of Lake Baikal; I gather that it is less well suited to big heavy modern trains, so not much freight goes that way. The Baikal Amur Main Line (including the Severomuysky Tunnel) goes around the north end of Lake Baikal and was far more challenging to build; it wasn't completed until near the end of the Soviet Union. Large parts of it are built over permafrost on top of peat bogs; if (or when) the permafrost thaws it will become impassable.
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It won't be long before it's impassable, then.
Delete‘I left the cinema, walked home and announced I was moving’: films that made people emigrate [Click]
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We're in the thick of home renovations. I have set up shop in the hallway (the only open space at the moment) and have been painting baseboards. Meanwhile, Wil has been ripping out carpet and pad, vacuuming and laying down the underlayment for the new flooring. We begin putting in the flooring tomorrow!!
ReplyDeleteMerry renovating!
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I vote you post a picture of the rug-- no furniture or things like that, just the rug, down.
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puddle, do you mean a picture of the carpet we're tearing out? We aren't putting in new carpeting...we're putting down Honey Mead Oak luxury vinyl plank flooring. It looks like wood, but it's entirely waterproof...and best of all, it's not hospitable to dust mites and whatnot. Yay!
DeleteI can post a photo of the old carpet or the new flooring, but it won't be a whole room's worth without furniture...because our place is small enough that we don't have room sufficient to remove everything from any one room. Instead, we're doing half a room at a time, then moving the furniture into place. Ha! Tight squeeze in places right now, but we're managing.
Those new-fangled imitation wood floors look very good, and are super-durable.
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As much as you can with the new floor down and as least furniture as you can do. Sorry, just nosy LOL~
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Palestinian student shot in Burlington now paralyzed from the neck down, mother tells CNN
ReplyDeleteFrom CNN’s Khalil Abdallah
Hisham Awartani, one of three Palestinian students who were shot while walking in Vermont is now paralyzed from the chest down, his mother Elisabeth Price tells CNN.
She had previously shared that her son may not be able to move his legs for the rest of his life after a bullet became lodged in his spine.
Price told CNN that she established a GoFundMe page to provide financial support for Hisham "as he prepares to move into this next phase of his life – recovery.”
“It's been a gut wrenching and difficult six days, but it's also been a remarkable and awe-inspiring time – first to watch Hisham and his two childhood friends meet this experience with resilience, strength and even deep concern for others (for each other, for their parents many miles away and for thousands of their people suffering under a brutal military bombardment) and, second, to see and feel the incredible support from all over the world, including messages of love and support from many of you,” Price writes.
A 20-year-old junior at Brown University, Hisham was coming to terms with the “very long road he has in front of him," Price said.
She said her son was scheduled to be released from the hospital next week and he will go on to receive rehabilitation care.
Price also told CNN that Tahseen Ali Ahmad has been released from the hospital and his mother has now joined him after successfully obtaining an emergency visa to travel from Ramallah in the West Bank to the United States.
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A world away from the West Bank, Vermont shooting victims and their families face new grief and fear
NYT reporter says Israel knew Hamas' attack plan over a year ago; Document outlined, point by point, exactly the kind of invasion; Israeli officials dismissed it as aspirational.
ReplyDeleteIt's code name was “Jericho Wall.”
Note: According to Joshua 6:1–27, the walls of Jericho fell after the Israelites marched around the city walls once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, with the priests blowing their horns daily and the people shouting on the last day.
Certainly a revelation like that, on top of everything else, ought to bring down the current government--- but whether or not it actually will I can't venture to say.
Delete----Alan