BS: New news *not* about the virus

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 21 Oct 23 - 10:21 AM

I am liking this trend of celebrities not telling us when the split up. I never cared anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 15 Oct 23 - 09:37 AM

If that asteroid-supposed-to-be-like-early-planet has water and organic (carbon-containing) molecules, why is that not taken as showing that these appear naturally early on in planet formation? I keep reading they think it shows things *brought* those *to* our early planet.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 07 Oct 23 - 01:53 PM

Argh. Israel.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Nov 23 - 12:38 PM

Iceland declared a state of emergency regarding an impending volcanic eruption.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 08 Nov 23 - 04:27 PM

How a Melbourne recycling program is using old hotel soap to solve a global health problem ... A decade after Soap Aid's inception, boxes of used soap from 250 hotels across Australia and New Zealand come to a warehouse in Melbourne's south.

Some soap is yellow-brown, cracked, and filthy. Others are pristine and in their original wrappings.

Phase one includes manually and visually checking, and sorting what is not salvageable.

The rest is checked by a metal detector and scraped clean by hand.

"I check up to 200 kilograms a day," shouts a worker proudly over the whirr of machinery.

Then, soap that is deemed to be reusable is dumped into a machine for a multi-phase process to treat, smash, strain, and then re-mould the soap ...

Mr Matulick said Soap Aid supplied 2.9 million bars of soap to communities in need across the world, including remote and regional Indigenous communities in Australia ...

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Nov 23 - 07:11 AM

He won't be fried, but he's going to the cooler.

Who could buy his magic beans and not expect they were fake?

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 03 Nov 23 - 10:12 PM

Bankman fries?

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 02 Nov 23 - 05:56 PM

Australia's fashion waste is a growing problem, but these scientists say they have an answer It looks and feels like children's playdough, but this colourful clay being made in a lab at Deakin University in Geelong, is actually old clothing.
For the past five years, scientists at the university's Institute for Frontier Materials have been trialling different methods to figure out the best way to recycle Australia's growing textile waste.
Now, they think they've found a way.
"What we've discovered is that we can take waste textiles and grind them up into really fine particles, which we can then use as a pigment to re-dye new textiles," Emma Prime, Deakin University's strategic research manager, said. (read on)

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 27 Oct 23 - 06:18 PM

wikipedia on tree kangaroos

video

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Oct 23 - 02:49 PM

I recently learned about tree kangaroos. Yep they live up in the trees.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 25 Oct 23 - 08:38 PM

We have a Speaker!

Pourvu que ça dure, as maman Létitia said (avec son accent corse) about her son Napoleon.

I am reminded of Speaker-to-Animals, the not-so-docile Kzin.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 24 Oct 23 - 05:37 PM

Orphaned eastern grey kangaroo joey fitted with prosthetic after losing part of tail awww, so cute! so clever - bloke who makes prosthetic limbs for people has a go making one for a roo cos it can't balance & hop about properly.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 22 Oct 23 - 09:36 AM

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Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Oct 23 - 11:27 AM

Mrrzy, it also means less red meat to chum the news cycle waters. Now if Britney Spears had just decided to not add to her 15 minutes of fame with a book and kept to singing, the news cycle wouldn't be so odd this weekend.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 21 Oct 23 - 10:21 AM

I am liking this trend of celebrities not telling us when the split up. I never cared anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Oct 23 - 06:27 PM

Yes, the Poland parliamentary election
shows a turn from right towards center.
A big deal when you are part of the EU,
and a big relief for the other nations
as well as Poland's more moderate citizens.

After what happened in Central Europe
before the last world war,
it is to be hoped that Poland will stay moderate now.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Oct 23 - 05:29 PM

A Jupiter size planet with orbiting debris that may make 4 more moons.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Oct 23 - 03:55 PM

It does look good for Poland. A light spot considering so much gloom in other areas.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Oct 23 - 01:23 PM

On the whole, the news from Poland looks good.

Subject: RE: SEX CHANGE
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Oct 23 - 12:26 PM

Sex change in ocean species is fairly common. Shrimp, oysters, parrot fish, clown fish, and many others are all born one sex and become another.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: keberoxu
Date: 15 Oct 23 - 03:53 PM

I don't know where else to note the developments in Poland.
The parliamentary election today bears upon
Poland's relationship with Ukraine,
and indirectly on its longstanding position against Russia.

Where would Lech Walesa stand if he were still alive, I wonder?

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Oct 23 - 01:36 PM

We had about 80% of the eclipse here, it was eerily dim outside for a while and lovely crescent shadows on the front path under the baldcypress.

In 2017 we had a total eclipse pass over North Texas and it was quite an event on a nice day so those of us on campus got out and looked at all of the ways crescent shapes could appear as sunlight shone through all sorts of natural and manmade orifices.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Oct 23 - 11:13 AM

Suppose planetary debris with amino acids, water, and organic molecules, and perhaps DNA or RNA, then that would be the debris that the Pan Spermia theory proposes.

On the other hand the Earth may have become an original womb of life without a headstart from previous bacterial or viral life.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 15 Oct 23 - 09:37 AM

If that asteroid-supposed-to-be-like-early-planet has water and organic (carbon-containing) molecules, why is that not taken as showing that these appear naturally early on in planet formation? I keep reading they think it shows things *brought* those *to* our early planet.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 13 Oct 23 - 03:55 PM

Enjoy your annular eclipse, yanks. I don't know exactly where any of youse live so I don't know who if anyone will get the full view. Someone in Texas, huh!

We had a total eclipse in Cornwall on August 11 1999 just after 11 am. Here in Bude the coverage of the sun was 99%, so we drove to Sharp Tor on Bodmin Moor (half an hour away) where we had to hike to the top. The cloud miraculously parted for a few minutes and we were just about the only people in the country to see it from the ground. The shadow rushing towards us across the countryside was scary and stunning, black as night and very chilly for a few minutes, and we saw Baily's beads, the diamond ring and the corona.

Another time in the spring of 2015 I was in hospital when there was a partial eclipse with most of the sun covered. It didn't go dark but it was strangely dull despite the clear blue sky. I made a makeshift pinhole camera out of cardboard with a safety pin, and had all the beautiful nurses in the ward crowding round me to see it . Ah, science can be so rewarding! :-)

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Oct 23 - 11:52 PM

Here's an interesting reversal of fortune:

A California judge has quashed one of Sonos's legal victories against Google – and the $32.5 million royalty payout that came along with it – declaring Sonos's patents at the heart of the matter were the unenforceable work of a "pretender" attempting to "punish an innovator … by delay and sleight of hand."

Judge William Alsup's order [PDF] invalidating the two patents at issue vacates a jury verdict from May of this year. The jury had found Google had infringed one of the patents, which concerned managing groups of smart speakers in a multi-room space.

Essentially, in this particular case, Sonos said the ability to group together Google Nest and Home smart speakers in your house or apartment – specifically, allowing gear to belong to more than one speaker group – infringed its intellectual property, and it demanded royalties. Sonos is also known for its multi-room speaker kit.

Unfortunately for Sonos, Alsup, a federal district judge in San Francisco, concluded after some investigation by himself that the two patents – 10,848,885 and 10,469,966 – in question were unenforceable based on a doctrine known as "prosecution laches." The rarely used laches defense is applicable when there is an unreasonable and unexplained delay in patent prosecution despite opportunities to do so earlier.

The patents in suit stem from an application made way back in 2006, Alsup explained, "but [Sonos] did not file the applications for these patents and present the asserted claims for examination until 2019." Sonos linking its 2019 patents (used to challenge Google in court) to that earlier 2006 application was spurious, the judge concluded, and was done only to claim a prior date before Google's allegedly infringing products came to market in 2015.

Summing it up:

Sonos was trying to punish Google retroactively by reaching into the past and connecting patent filings made over a decade apart.

"This was not a case of an inventor leading the industry to something new. This was a case of the industry leading with something new and, only then, an inventor coming out of the woodwork to say that he had come up with the idea first – wringing fresh claims to read on a competitor's products from an ancient application," Alsup lamented.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Oct 23 - 08:01 AM

The future of home building appears to be 3D digital printing of everything except the roof. print your house

Subject: RE: BS: News about halloween COCKTAILS
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Oct 23 - 05:56 PM

ENCHANTED OOZE
Enchanted Ooze is an edible glitter slime martini made with muddled pear and house-made green simple syrup. The outcome is a light, clean, fruit forward drink, far less ominous than its disturbing title.

Ingredients:
2.0 oz House-made pear infused Tito’s Handmade Vodka
2 Slices muddled pear
0.5 oz Egg whites
0.5 oz Midori Melon liqueur
0.5 oz House-made green simple syrup
Wilton Edible Glitter
Mist of Absinthe

Method:
Muddle fresh pear (2 slices). Add egg white, melon liqueur, green simple syrup and pear infused vodka. Shake hard with ice and pour into a martini glass. Pinch of glitter and two sprays of Absinthe.

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KOFEFE

Kofefe is a revenge drink suitable for divorcing couples or horrible bosses. The outcome is a disguised disgusting drink that is sure to peese. Not suitable for minors.

Ingredients:
3 oz. Stoli
1 oz. Kalua coffee liquer
1/2 oz Galliano
splash of lemon juice
as much urine as you think best.

serve over ice

Subject: BS: Chocolate Colonialism
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Oct 23 - 12:29 PM

One and a half million children work in Chocolate Plantations for little or no pay. Chocolate beans that make about 500 chocolate bars get the farmers only $80.

The fair trade for coffee growers allows the farmers about 20% more for their crop. There is room for improvement for farmers, for sure.

Fixing the child labor problem will make your chocolate more expensive.

source: CBS Sunday Morning

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 07 Oct 23 - 02:04 PM

The EU and the US have immediately condemned Hamas and sided with Israel. That's disgusting. I don't like what Hamas are doing but I'm not going to forget the dreadful things visited on the Palestinians over the last few decades, and, more specifically and relevantly in this instance, to Gaza, which get a free pass from Israel's chief ally. Two and a quarter million civilians blockaded into a stinking ghetto, deprived of proper medical care and even of decent drinking water by the Israeli regime. It's new news and it's bloody bad news. Sickening.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 07 Oct 23 - 01:53 PM

Argh. Israel.

Subject: RE: DECLUTTER * Health/Home Ecologic-Innovation *2023
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Oct 23 - 01:42 PM

Cat Bohannon has written a book called Eve, how the female body drove 200 Million Years of Evolution. Her work can be overviewed in Scientific American, Science Magazine, and an NPR interview that aired on today's date. This Guardian link misses the mark but does not have a paywall.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/30/how-women-drove-evolution-cat-bohannon-on-her-radical-new-history-of-humanity

Until 1999 women were left out of most drug trials so even over the counter drugs have been a gamble for women who respond differently.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Oct 23 - 11:30 AM

This beautiful area was the gem of Iroquois and Mohawk Indian land.
https://nystateparks.blog/2020/01/07/state-parkland-expansion-touches-colonial-native-american-history/

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Oct 23 - 10:30 AM

This scary story seems to have resolved itself overnight.

Craig Ross Jr. charged with kidnapping 9-year-old Charlotte Sena from Moreau Lake State Park in Upstate New York

Last we heard there was a huge search for the girl snatched from her bike in a large campground; lucky for Ms Sena she seems to have been kidnapped by a not-very-bright kidnapper who was pretty easily detected and brought in. Anyone who watches the police procedurals knows he should have worn gloves when handling a ransom note he stuffed into the family mailbox in the wee hours.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Jan 23 - 04:32 PM

and hospitals.

BTW Pense has classified documents at home, Not to be outdone Santos claims "I have some too!"

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Jan 23 - 10:29 PM

Large and small. They all have a theme of some kind in patterns or colors. Her sister is a quilting master with a special oversized sewing machine, not just a long-arm machine..
The project has brought me to various places like churches, catered upstairs bank boardrooms, schools, Jains temple, assisted living complexes that are surrounded by horse pastures, city hall, Jo Anns and homes. I am surprised at the volume of fabric donations.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Jan 23 - 08:54 PM

That's nice, Don! What kind of blankets does she make?

I have a basket full of "crumbs" that are small pieces of fabric leftover from all of the masks I've made. Lots of different fabric colors and patterns. I am interested in learning to make crazy quilts, but it might be easier to offer these pieces to people who quilt seriously and would use them more promptly that I will.

My daughter took up crochet years ago, but during COVID she really upped the output by crocheting squares during ZOOM meetings. She makes them into blankets and I think those are donated.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Jan 23 - 08:00 PM

The Linus project [blankets for disasters and births (or both)] has grown to overwhelm our house. I deliver them about four times a week but wy wife's time expenditure of time and effort is ten times mine.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Jan 23 - 10:41 AM

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/19/tech/amazon-smile-shut-down/index.html

Amazon is shutting down its “Smile” charity donation program as the company cuts costs and rethinks its strategy.

The Smile initiative will shut down by February 20, [2023,] Amazon said in a statement Wednesday, explaining the “program has not grown to create the impact that we had originally hoped.”

Amazon Smile donated a small percentage of sales made on eligible purchases to a charity that shoppers chose. In total, $500 million has been donated since its 2013 launch, with an average donation of less than $230 per charity, the company said.

“With so many eligible organizations — more than 1 million globally — our ability to have an impact was often spread too thin,” Amazon (AMZN) added. Charities enrolled in the program will get a one-time donation “equivalent to three months of what they earned in 2022,” Amazon (AMZN) said, noting that charities will still be able to accrue donations until the program closes.

They want higher profits as they lay off 18,000 employees. The charity I chose has received a lot more than $230; I look just now and the number is $203,459.44.

https://smile.amazon.com/charity/my-impact?ref_=nav_cs_smile. If you've used the program, you can see how your charity stacks up.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 06 Jan 23 - 02:41 PM

Ooh someone figured out the dots on the Lascsaux cave paintings!

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Jan 23 - 11:13 AM

Donuel, that boat looks like one I read about last year that was seized from one of the Russian oligarchs.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 06 Jan 23 - 08:25 AM

That [Ameeican] football player woke up.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 03 Jan 23 - 09:13 PM

The Ritz Carlton yacht: "unsinkable", and they use --- no, *boast* --- of using Artificial Incompetence in their nav .... Is the captain called Hugh Briss?

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Jan 23 - 06:25 AM

War is a horror ain't it.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: The Sandman
Date: 03 Jan 23 - 05:05 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh-oCpEnIq4...

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: The Sandman
Date: 03 Jan 23 - 05:03 AM

The Russian state broadcaster, RT, is back on Youtube this morning!
The tide in the US is turning: Google has quietly allowed RT news back on it's platform. It would seem the Twitter files are having an effect, as they proved the US government was engaged in unconstitutional suppression of free speech by outsourcing the censorship to private media companies, social media platforms, etc. To be clear, this media censorship in the west has meant that most ordinary people have no idea how corrupt the Ukraine is, nor of the devastating effect of Nazism not only having spread there, but being officially endorsed. The general public in the West does not know to what extent free speech was suppressed there through brutality and people being 'disappeared' and murdered.
As to the US government's unconstitutional activities in regard to censorship, the mainstream media is remaining quiet.
It would seem this is being hushed up and brushed under the carpet in order to avoid public outrage and any risk of investigation, prosecution, or government inquiry.
I now wonder if all other private social media platforms are quietly releasing themselves from government intrusion? Will FB will let this post stand? Indeed, is there a new clandestine government directive that is attempting to right the wrongs?
In any case, the likes of Sputnik, an RT spinoff that provided a platform for many western dissident journalists, is not yet back online in the West.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh-oCpEnIq4...

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Manitas_at_home
Date: 02 Jan 23 - 11:49 AM

Well, that's not going to keep the rain off!

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Jan 23 - 10:32 AM

The Ritz Carlton has been launched to sea. For an ultra-Ritzy luxury cruise with accouterments that far exceed any other yacht or cruise ship. They have canopies like hummingbird tongues on toast with caviar smoothies or dolphin fin soup with gold dusted croutons. The Celeocanthe filet is to die for. The beds have a magic fingers option attached to real escorts. The Navigation is run by the most advanced AI system and is powered by nuclear power pod engines.
The Ritz Carlton yacht

You will notice no life boats because it is unsinkable. The runabout is for the captain.

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Mrrzy
Date: 02 Jan 23 - 09:23 AM

They seem to have caught the Idaho murderer

Subject: RE: BS: New news *not* about the virus
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 01 Jan 23 - 10:44 PM

headline in today's paper - MUSK FIRST PERSON TO LOSE $US200B