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Maybe not really news, but this vid made me smile: The crane which refuses to leave its human saviour
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They should have killed it and ate it. Venison is good. Plus the food savings could help to replace the broken window. See? I am a problem solver.Leave a comment:
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See what happens when a deer smashes its way through a New Brunswick household
Deer breaks into Hampton home through window, makes giant mess, bounds back to the woods
The forestry department asked Ray O'Donnell if he was sure.
Was he sure, that is, that a deer had broken into his house through a window, knocked over all of his wife's quilting supplies and was running around in the basement?
O'Donnell — keeping his distance from sharp hooves — was quite sure.
On Wednesday, he and his wife, Katie O'Donnell, had just minutes earlier returned to their home in Hampton, N.B., from a grocery shopping trip.
When they saw the broken window, they thought someone had broken in.
But when O'Donnell saw a deer in the basement, though, he quickly told Katie to cancel the call to the police.
They called the forestry department instead.
"This normally doesn't happen," O'Donnell said he was told over the phone.
O'Donnell's son and friend came over to help contain the situation — and to record the mayhem on a a phone video.
When someone from the Department of Natural Resources arrived, O'Donnell said he had a big stick and seemed to know what to do with the deer, which O'Donnell described as a large doe.
Eventually, the deer ran up the stairs and out the door, running back to the woods.
"It took off — you wouldn't think anything was wrong with it," O'Donnell said.The O'Donnells see deer all the time near their home, though he pointed out they don't usually break into their house. Still, the deer are common enough that they're careful while driving, and even sometimes see them come close to their windows.
"I don't know what they're looking for," said O'Donnell, who's lived in the area for more than 30 years.
He'll be looking at deer a bit differently now, he said. Surveying the damage, O'Donnell was able to retrace the animal's path of destruction.
It broke into Katie's sewing room, knocking over fabric and quilting fabric — though, thankfully, leaving the sewing machine intact.
O'Donnell was surprised the animal didn't break its neck coming through the double-paned, vinyl glass window.
'Uncommon but not unheard of'
The deer did cut itself, though. A pool of blood sent a rug to the garbage can, and O'Donnell's daughter-in-law arrived later to bleach the floor.
The deer ran out of the sewing room, somehow ripping up trimming on the door and leaving a dent in the wood.
In a statement, the Department of Natural Resources said Hampton has a fairly large suburban deer population, so deer are common around homes in the neighbourhood.
"These incidents are uncommon but not unheard of in New Brunswick," it said.
The statement said there was minimal injury to the deer.
Despite the damage, O'Donnell is finding humour in the situation. Since the deer's tracks came from across the road, he jokingly accused his neighbour of chasing the animal into his house.
Still, he's not hoping for any more intense wildlife encounters.
"You have to be very careful around here," he said.
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Apparently, Whiskey fungus has been observed since the 1870's. I guess it just needs the right conditions.Originally posted by PLATO View Post
Interestingly, the county Jack Daniels is in is a "dry" county...so no free samples on the tour. You can however take time to fully inhale the vapors coming off of the vats. That is certainly an interesting experience if loiter for a few minutes.
It has been years since I was there, but I didn't see any fungus. The distillery has been there for a long time. I wonder what is just now causing a fungus issue?Leave a comment:
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Interestingly, the county Jack Daniels is in is a "dry" county...so no free samples on the tour. You can however take time to fully inhale the vapors coming off of the vats. That is certainly an interesting experience if loiter for a few minutes.Originally posted by BeBMan View Post
Whiskey fungus has adapted perfectly and found a way to get free whiskey. Whiskey fungus could be smarter than we are...
It has been years since I was there, but I didn't see any fungus. The distillery has been there for a long time. I wonder what is just now causing a fungus issue?Leave a comment:
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A Jack Daniels building project is to be halted after a neighbour argued she was facing a plague of whiskey fungus caused by escaping alcohol vapours.
Christi Long, of Lincoln County, Tennessee, claimed her property was coated in the fungus, which appears as a black crust on surfaces.
It is a growing issue for people in the area, her lawyer told BBC News.
The fungus, which consumes ethanol fumes, grows on surfaces near bakeries and distilleries around the world.
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Whiskey fungus has adapted perfectly and found a way to get free whiskey. Whiskey fungus could be smarter than we are...
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I can't seem to find any Dilbert cartoons in Ukrainian.
How odd.Leave a comment:
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3.8% doesn't seem to large. The guy does seem to be very into food and food processing right now. He only owns a small less than 1% share of US farm land but he is still the largest private owner of farmland in the US, he keeps buying and supporting vegan meat alternatives companies, and now he is in beer too.
I guess with the projected food shortages (Ukraine, Russia, the fertilizer shortage, and retarded "environmental" laws designed to kill off independent farms) big profits will be made.Leave a comment:
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Bill Gates continues his humanitarian efforts by buying a stake in beer production:
Bill Gates buys stake in Heineken Holding worth €883m
Wondering if BingChatbot will be amused?
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Royal Navy F-35 pilot tells of ejecting seconds before crash
The pilot of a British fighter jet that rolled off a Royal Navy aircraft carrier has spoken of his relief at managing to eject from the £100m F-35.
Speaking soon after the incident in November 2021, the pilot, known as Hux, recalled having only seconds to react.
An official investigation concluded the sudden loss of power on take-off was probably caused by a cover being left on one of the aircraft's jet intakes.
His story is included in a BBC series called The Warship: Tour of Duty.
The documentary also reveals how the Royal Navy's HMS Queen Elizabeth ship was harassed by Russian aircraft and how it played a risky game of hide-and-seek with the Chinese Navy.
The Royal Navy pilot spoke to the film-makers shortly after he was rescued and was still suffering from cuts and bruises caused by the high-speed ejection.
He describes how the jet suddenly lost acceleration: "I tried for emergency power - that didn't work, then I tried to slap on the brakes - that didn't work either… so I kind of knew it was going to roll off the ship."- Investigation after UK F-35 fighter crashes in sea
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As his parachute activated, he says he saw the sea beneath him "and then a second later I could see the flight deck of the ship starting to appear beneath me".
He just managed to make it on to the deck - by a few feet - before being pulled to safety. If he had not landed on the carrier, he risked being dragged under the 65,000-tonne warship.
Leaked video from the ship's on-board camera showed the moment the F-35 fell into the sea.
An official investigation concluded that the sudden loss of power was probably caused by a blockage - a cover mistakenly left on a jet intake.
The aircraft - the most advanced stealth fighter in the world which is operated jointly in the UK by the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force - was later recovered from the sea bed to ensure it did not fall into the wrong hands.
Chris Terrill, who filmed the documentary, said the F-35 crash was "a shock to everyone", but said the response of the ship's company was "as immediate as it was extraordinary".
"An aircraft might have been lost but there was a pilot, a shipmate, who had to be saved," he said.
"Training kicked in but there was an extra energy and urgency to the sailors' execution of their emergency procedures. It was terrifying but inspiring to see."
The six-part series follows HMS Queen Elizabeth's eight-month, 49,000-nautical mile voyage to the Pacific Ocean and back last year.
It shows how the carrier was harried by missile-armed Russian aircraft in the eastern Mediterranean. F-35 jets are seen intercepting them to stop them getting too close to the carrier.
The documentary describes it as one step down from real combat. In the operations room a warfare officer suggests putting the Russian aircraft in their sights for a "theoretical kill" to warn them away.
F-35s are also put on standby when another ship from the carrier strike group, HMS Defender, has an even closer encounter with the Russians while sailing in the Black Sea.
In the South China Sea, HMS Queen Elizabeth engages in a game of cat and mouse with the Chinese Navy.
A Royal Navy frigate and helicopters try to find a Chinese submarine before it is able to get close enough to take a photograph from its periscope.
It is the kind of image that could be used for propaganda purposes - showing how easy it would be to target a large ship. But the submarine is successfully located using sonar before it gets too close.
Warship also tells the story of life on board during one of the Royal Navy's longest deployments during the Covid pandemic, where at the height of the outbreak about 400 sailors - more than a quarter of the crew - were in isolation with either confirmed or suspected infections.
Watch episodes one to five of The Warship: Tour of Duty now on BBC iPlayer. Episode six is on BBC Two this Sunday, 26 February, at 21:00 GMT.
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My understanding is that high speed rail in Spain has been just a money pit and financial disaster.Leave a comment:
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