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Ho-Lee Crap! I went into our local Bed Bath and Beyond for potholders today and there was commotion just by where I was so I looked over and there was a little 5 y/o man lying on the floor. I walked over to see if they needed help only to discover the 5 y/o had been stabbed in the stomach with a knife by his 3y/o little brother who just picked up the knife off a shelf!
It wasn’t a very deep wound and his mother was holding pressure. I stayed with them until the first EMS arrived. As I was leaving the store the parking lot was being filled with cop cars more ambulances, and fire trucks!
I’m sure the little man is going to be fine, but beam the poor little fella some good healing energy anyway! AND some for the little brother who I'm sure was just playing and didn't really intend to kill his brother and probably feels pretty awful about it all!
It wasn’t a very deep wound and his mother was holding pressure. I stayed with them until the first EMS arrived. As I was leaving the store the parking lot was being filled with cop cars more ambulances, and fire trucks!
I’m sure the little man is going to be fine, but beam the poor little fella some good healing energy anyway! AND some for the little brother who I'm sure was just playing and didn't really intend to kill his brother and probably feels pretty awful about it all!
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Golly! Good wishes beamed (or zoomed, as I used to say before...y'know).
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Good news story
https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2021-09- ... /100423910
Three years after the Indonesian island of Lombok was devastated by earthquakes, a team of Australian and Indonesian charity organisations have set up Asia's first sustainable and earthquake-resistant school on the island.
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SDN 4 Taman Sari was built with recycled plastics broken down into granules and mixed with wood fibres
It was built in less than a week could last for more than 100 years
The elasticity of the blocks makes them safer than traditional construction materials in earthquake-prone areas
https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2021-09- ... /100423910
Three years after the Indonesian island of Lombok was devastated by earthquakes, a team of Australian and Indonesian charity organisations have set up Asia's first sustainable and earthquake-resistant school on the island.
Key points:
SDN 4 Taman Sari was built with recycled plastics broken down into granules and mixed with wood fibres
It was built in less than a week could last for more than 100 years
The elasticity of the blocks makes them safer than traditional construction materials in earthquake-prone areas
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I have some work to catch up on today, but that’s ok.
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Is she thinking of May Day or is she upset some people got a paid day off? Hey lady, it's not just government offices that are closed. So are the banks.
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As a political-economist, Marx picked up and ran with Ricardo's Labor Theory of Value. I guess anything honoring "labor" is suspect to some minds - especially those tenuously tethered to reality.Slim Cognito wrote: ↑Mon Sep 06, 2021 1:55 pm Is she thinking of May Day or is she upset some people got a paid day off? Hey lady, it's not just government offices that are closed. So are the banks.
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This is new to me, and needs some fact checking. But, my gut says it is all true. Damnit.
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Glad you were there to offer comfort and aid.MsDaisy wrote: ↑Sun Sep 05, 2021 3:03 pm Ho-Lee Crap! I went into our local Bed Bath and Beyond for potholders today and there was commotion just by where I was so I looked over and there was a little 5 y/o man lying on the floor. I walked over to see if they needed help only to discover the 5 y/o had been stabbed in the stomach with a knife by his 3y/o little brother who just picked up the knife off a shelf!
It wasn’t a very deep wound and his mother was holding pressure. I stayed with them until the first EMS arrived. As I was leaving the store the parking lot was being filled with cop cars more ambulances, and fire trucks!
I’m sure the little man is going to be fine, but beam the poor little fella some good healing energy anyway! AND some for the little brother who I'm sure was just playing and didn't really intend to kill his brother and probably feels pretty awful about it all!
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According to Snopes, much, but not all, is true.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2020/07/29/ ... -rushmore/
"Hey! We left this England place because it was bogus, and if we don't get some cool rules ourselves, pronto, we'll just be bogus too!" -- Thomas Jefferson
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Thank you!Maybenaut wrote: ↑Mon Sep 06, 2021 9:56 pm
According to Snopes, much, but not all, is true.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2020/07/29/ ... -rushmore/
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If I can’t reach a website because of ‘rate limiting’, does that mean the site is under attack?
I can’t reach PayPal.
I can’t reach PayPal.
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My first thought was "open window"...
But this the fogbow and so I should not spread falsehoods without knowing the details..
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-09/ ... /100445588
A Russian government minister, who once served in President Vladimir Putin's security detail, has died in the Arctic while trying to save the life of a film director who fell into a river.
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Yevgeny Zinichev was in the remote city of Norilsk to oversee training exercises in the area
He died after trying to save a filmmaker who stepped on a wet rock and fell from a cliff
Vladimir Putin says the loss is "irreparable" for him
But this the fogbow and so I should not spread falsehoods without knowing the details..
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-09/ ... /100445588
A Russian government minister, who once served in President Vladimir Putin's security detail, has died in the Arctic while trying to save the life of a film director who fell into a river.
Key points:
Yevgeny Zinichev was in the remote city of Norilsk to oversee training exercises in the area
He died after trying to save a filmmaker who stepped on a wet rock and fell from a cliff
Vladimir Putin says the loss is "irreparable" for him
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Internet is out. Only way to waste time is on my phone, using my data.
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Coming from a science-nerdy family, I appreciated this graphic.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/202 ... /100448016
If lockdown wasn't incentive enough to grow some facial hair, the hypothesis that humans evolved beards to protect themselves from punches to the face has been tested, and its findings awarded an Ig Nobel Peace Prize.
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The Ig Nobel Prizes are awarded yearly for unusual scientific achievements
Research into transporting rhinos, bacteria in chewing gum, and breathing was recognised this year
The prizes were presented to the winners by genuine Nobel laureates
The Ig Nobels celebrate science that "first makes people laugh, and then think", and are organised by US publication the Annals of Improbable Research.
Ten prizes are given annually for legitimate research in areas like psychology, acoustics, economics and physics.
This year's winners were awarded a $10,000,000,000,000 bill from Zimbabwe, and a PDF document that can be printed and assembled to make a three-dimensional gear with teeth (the gear teeth are pictures of human teeth).
The Ig Nobel Peace Prize was given to a trio of scientists in America who found that human beards protect vulnerable regions of the facial skeleton from damaging strikes.
If lockdown wasn't incentive enough to grow some facial hair, the hypothesis that humans evolved beards to protect themselves from punches to the face has been tested, and its findings awarded an Ig Nobel Peace Prize.
Key points:
The Ig Nobel Prizes are awarded yearly for unusual scientific achievements
Research into transporting rhinos, bacteria in chewing gum, and breathing was recognised this year
The prizes were presented to the winners by genuine Nobel laureates
The Ig Nobels celebrate science that "first makes people laugh, and then think", and are organised by US publication the Annals of Improbable Research.
Ten prizes are given annually for legitimate research in areas like psychology, acoustics, economics and physics.
This year's winners were awarded a $10,000,000,000,000 bill from Zimbabwe, and a PDF document that can be printed and assembled to make a three-dimensional gear with teeth (the gear teeth are pictures of human teeth).
The Ig Nobel Peace Prize was given to a trio of scientists in America who found that human beards protect vulnerable regions of the facial skeleton from damaging strikes.
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https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2021 ... de-picnics
Lavish picnics and family feasts might not be the first things that come to mind when you think “cemetery”, but from Pagans holding silent dinners to Victorians dining alfresco among the gravestones, England’s food traditions have long been shaped by death – it’s only modern sensibilities that steer us away from celebration. But, as part of Heritage Open Days, Friends of Wombwell Cemetery in Barnsley, South Yorkshire has revived the tradition.
Established in 1994, Heritage Open Days is England’s largest festival of history and culture, and gives visitors a chance to look around some of England’s most historic places. This year’s theme, Edible England, will feature almost 4,000 events, including picnics, tasting tours and performances. The entire programme, which runs from 10-19 September, is free, including access to many sites that usually charge for admission. And for the second year running, there will be virtual tours and online discussions running in addition to the live events.
CemeTreats & Funeral Feasts at Wombwell Cemetery, which runs on 17 and 18 September, will include a talk on funeral traditions involving food around the world, followed by a chance to take home recipes to try out. There will also be an opportunity to learn about the history of Wombwell, with information provided by the Wombwell Heritage Group.
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As heard at recent Funeral Dinner party - "Is dried coffee creamer usually this chunky and hard to blend?"
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“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
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“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
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The world needs a gorilla Covid vaccine
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I’ve been wondering where Anonymous has been. Did they do anything of note during the Orange Regime?
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“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.” ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace